Pet Gathering Profession Bonuses
Learn how your Pet can benefit your Hero!
The Pets in Serendale and Crystalvale are getting restless and are eager to assist their Hero partners as they venture out on quests! Read on to learn what bonuses your Pet can offer during Gathering Profession Quests when fed and bonded to a Hero.
Preparing for Pet Utility
Feeding and Equipping
In order for their bonuses to apply, Pets will need to be bonded, or “equipped” to a Hero and kept fed with Pet Treats. To “unequip” a Pet, it must be abandoned by its Hero companion, which will leave the Pet sad and unable to bond to a new Hero for 24 hours.
More details about Pet Treats, Feeding, and Equipping will be released next week!
Bonus Reveals
Right now, all existing Pets have “mysterious” bonuses. With the release of the Hero’s Best Friend patch, players will be able to reveal their Pets’ Gathering Profession bonuses! This process will work similarly to Heroes rolling their crafting genes, and the details of the bonus will be shown on the back of the Pet card.
From this point forward, all newly hatched Pets will have their Gathering Profession Bonus determined during the hatching.
Pet Bonuses
A huge range of bonuses will be available to Pets, including those that apply to all quests as well as those for specific quest types.
Base Experience (XP) Bonus
Every Pet, when bonded and fed, provides a static bonus to the experience gained by the Hero while questing. Unlike the Gathering Profession Bonus, this XP Bonus applies to all quests that the Hero performs.
A Pet’s experience bonus is determined by its rarity as follows:
These XP bonuses stack with any other effects that provide bonus XP, including the Quick Study Power-Up and the “Efficient” Gathering Profession Bonuses detailed below.
Gathering Profession Bonuses
Every Pet has a Gathering Profession Bonus that is tied to the type of egg that it is hatched from. These bonuses are only active when the bonded Hero is engaged in that specific gathering quest.
Gathering Profession Bonuses have two parts to them that are randomly assigned: 1) the type of bonus itself, and 2) a “scalar” value that determines how effective the bonus is. Both of these are determined by the rarity of the bonus itself (e.g. 1-star, 2-star, 3-star).
Bonus Type
Each gathering profession has a range of different bonuses that can be assigned to a Pet, as shown in the infographic below. Most of these are consistent between bonus rarities, but some are only available to Pets with Rare or Mythic bonuses.
Scalar Value
The scalar value of a bonus determines the exact level of increase to the bonus itself. These values all fall within a specific range that increases depending on the rarity of the bonus. Note that the ranges for each rarity do not overlap, so a higher rarity bonus will be always be more effective than a lower rarity bonus of the same type.
Bonus Details
See the infographic below for details about all available Gathering Profession Bonuses and their value ranges.
Note: remember that an X% increase to the chance of an outcome is not the same as the chance of the outcome itself. As an example, a +100% chance of something means it is twice as likely, not that there is a 100% chance that it will happen.
We’re so thrilled for your Pets to finally join your Heroes on their adventures! Which Pet Bonus are you most excited about?
