When pets were granted abilities in Release 12, the game fundamentally changed. Now the acquisition of a good pet is all but crucial for success in RotMG, as they provide permanent and major boosts to your account.
They may be improved either with Fame or Realm Gold by feeding them items with feed power. Upgrading the Pet Yard to improve your pet also costs Fame or Gold. As such, getting a good pet without paying typically requires a fair amount of fame and decent (often untiered) feed items.
Until you find a pet with the perfect set of abilities, you should hatch all eggs that they find. There is a maximum limit of 50 pets, though you can always release common pets that you don’t need.
The most sought-after abilities are Heal and Magic Heal. They both give an unprecedented amount of regeneration; most damage abilities are middiling by comparison. Typically, Electric or Decoy are favored as third abilities. Ability order is important; the third ability is only unlocked at Legendary and takes a comparatively massive amount of FP to level up.
Common and Uncommon Humanoid and ???? eggs will always have either Heal or Magic Heal as their first ability. However, don’t let that discourage you from using or buying other eggs; there’s no guarantee that Humanoid/???? will have all 3 abilities you want, after all.
Drops from https://www.realmeye.com/wiki/pet-eggs.
Since DECA took control of ROTMG, drop rates across the board has been significantly improved. Rare eggs in particular; you still need to try to hatch many common eggs to find the pet with the ability that you want, but upgrading to Rare is still a lot.
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As of 2020, the Login Seer often (if not always) provides a Common Humanoid Egg after a few days of logging in. This is by no means a guarantee that the next month will provide an egg, but provides beginners an easy way to get either Heal or Magic Heal. This pet can be leveled up to L30, where it’ll still provide benefits until you fuse with a better pet.
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Eggs with rarity up to Rare are tradable. Even Rare eggs are not that expensive; they are tradable for potions, such as 1 GLife. Even if they aren’t of the same family, or don’t have the perfect abilities, getting a maxed rare will help with fusion later on.
Enter dungeons with the Pet Collector modifier. These have a chance to appear on dungeons with a grade of C and add a 25% chance for a specific type of pet egg to drop from the boss. Pirate Cave, Candyland Hunting Grounds, and Cultist are the dungeons with a chance to drop Humanoid eggs, whereas Sprite World, Puppet Master’s Theatre, Puppet Master’s Encore, Tomb of the Ancients, and High Tech Terror drop ???? eggs.
For information on the mechanics of feeding, see this page.
The fastest way to find feed power is spending real money, followed by trading for it if you have decent wealth. As of Exalt Version 2.0.0.0 (Aug 2021), UT items, which have high feed powers, were made tradable again. Historically, Wine Cellar Incantations were used to feed pets, but now many higher FP items are available.
In order to actually feed FP items to your pet, you’ll likely need fame. See the Fame Farming Guide for more details.
COMMON-200+
UNCOMMON-400+
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Players with copious amounts of account fame (100,000 or more) don’t need to follow this in the slightest.
Many decent FP items, such as Wine Cellar Incantations, are tradable. You can start by trading various stat potions for GLife, which you can then trade for Life (for a 1:4 or 1:3 ratio). Then, trade them for some aforementioned Wine Cellar Incantations, worth 500 FP. As they drop from so many sources, there will never be enough Wine Cellars to actually use as intended - don’t feel bad about feeding them.
An alternative is unwanted equipment, such as T13 Armor and the less desirable T12 weapons (such as the Bow and Dagger). They all have a respectable 435 FP. Candy Rings are 400 FP UT rings that can be traded and easily farmed manually, assuming you’re in a Candyland Hunting Grounds.
For newer players, Ancient Ruins is a great option to get 350 feed power options (Amber Encrusted Helmet and Sandstone Seal) pretty regularly. This can be run with equipment >T7 pretty easily, so is an option if you die consistently and don’t have a lot of gear in your vault.
The above items still service perfectly well for feeding rare pets. If you have the fame for them, that is. For players without much fame (or gold), certain UT items are preferable. Drops like the Cloak of the Planewalker and Mace of the Celestial Forest aren’t that rare and have decent FP. As the middle ground, advice from either Uncommon or Legendary still works perfectly well here.
At this point, feed costs might really start to get prohibitive. While the first few levels might be easy, you’ll eventually want to rely on two tradable UTs: the MMace MMurderer (1337 FP) and the Candy-Coated Armor (1000 FP).
The MMace MMurderer is a fairly rare joke item; it’s best to trade for it. The Candy-Coated is also tradable, but can be forged for 45 rare materials. Forgefire is a fairly valuable F2P resource; you’ll get 10 crafts in 12 days. Note that many of the ‘weaker’ items mentioned above still provide decent FP, and it might be more wise to feed them directly instead.
Once nearly impossible to get without spending money, max divine pets are now feasible for many players who have the time and patience to devote to leveling them. The minimum feedpower per item depends a lot on the player; while the 1000+ fp/item recommendation for legendary pets may still serve as a good baseline for divine pets, the player may wish to set their minimum fp theshold higher if they find themselves burning through their fame too quickly. Regardless, the player should seek out specific pet food items whenever the opportunity presents itself, through season quests, Login Seer and the Chef dungeon modifier. If the player can get their hands on duplicate skins, these can often (though not always) be exchanged for stacks of Crystals of Fortune, which can have very high fp. Besides these sources of fp, many exaltation dungeons have high-fp untiered items, though the player must choose wisely whether to feed these high-end items or use them due to their potency when equipped. Exaltation dungeons also have a high fame output that will help the player to feed their pet regardless of their desired minimum fp threshold, and should be run whenever possible to ensure a steady supply of fame.
For information on how to efficiently feed a pet using paid methods, see the paid pet food guide.
For information on the mechanics of fusing, see Pet Fusing.
When fusing, it is crucial that the player understands what they are doing, or it is quite possible that the pet will be permanently ruined. When fusing your pets, make sure that you get the message that the fusion is MAXED before completing the fuse; both pets must have the highest level possible for their rarity level for their first ability (30 for common, 50 for uncommon and 70 for rare), as the resulting pet’s first ability level will be the average of the first ability levels for the two fusing pets. The maximum level for the resulting pet will be 20 above the initial level.
For example, if you fused two common pets at levels 30 and 20, the resulting uncommon would be level 25, with a max level of 45. This is in comparison to the result if you fused the common pets when both were at level 30, which would result in a max level of 50. Do note that once you get to rarity levels with multiple unlocked abilities (uncommon and above), the level of the second or thrid abilities has no effect on the maximum ability level of the pet; only the first ability level will impact this. The second ability level of each fusing pet will only have an impact on the initial level of the resulting pet’s second ability, and will not effect the max level. However it makes the most sense to get the second or third abilities to their maximum at the lower levels when the feed cost is a lower amount of fame.
If you have a pet with a lower maximum level than the rarity level (below 30 for common, below 50 for uncommon or below 70 for rare), note that there is no way to fix the pet and you must start over with a new pet if you wish to improve your situation.
