Pets for the tower

[Kung Führer]

So I have just unlocked it, I have read different tips about it here, but why this cat and fish pets are useful? I am equipping them and don't see any profit.

[J]

There is an upgrade, More Tower Rewards, which applies enemy resource drops modifiers at a reduced rate. Put another way, you get more of those crispy, crunchy Token candies from the animal-shaped pinatas in the Tower once you buy More Tower Rewards. Catto and Fisho both affect enemy resource drops, which means they'll help you find more Token candy from the pinatas while they're active. Later on, if pet slots are an issue and you want to try switching in a different pet, you might find swapping Crabbo in for Fisho to be beneficial, since Crabbo's damage bonus is so strong.
Hope this helps.

[Kung Führer]

Oh, so it's like with converter crits, I need to get the basic upgrade first. I guess this will be the upgrade in MLC, still a little bit afraid that the setback from MLC will be too much for me not to give up though. I mean, the first BLC was totally okay, but how much first MLC will speed up all this progress for me again? Everybody just writing about new level for towers here.

[erichathaway798]

Its an upgrade from the gold token shop. It's not too difficult to get.

[Kung Führer]

Yes, just unlocked golden tokens shop anc can see it. Thought it would take me longer to reach the boss, sorry for asking so early lol

[J]

Well, you're in luck where the More Tower Rewards upgrade is concerned; once you get 50 Gold Tokens, you'll be able to purchase More Tower Rewards from the Gold Token Shop. Gold Token candies are acquired by whacking "boss" pinatas, which are found on every 10th floor starting from floor 10. The floor 10 boss pinata gives 1 Gold Token upon a successful whacking, but the floor 20 boss gives 10, then 20 from the floor 30 boss, and so on.
As for MLC, it resets all upgrades in all third-tier shops, (those marked with **, as opposed to * for second tier or no marker for first-tier shops) as well as wiping all BLC. Fourth-tier shops (***) will not reset, and neither will your unlocked Unique Leaves, your Crafted Leaves, nor your counts for Artifacts, Equipment pieces, lifetime total earnings, (for trading purposes) and curse/crunch totals. (for the equipment pieces) Examples of fourth-tier shops include the Gems upgrade shop and the Mulch shop. You'll see a marked improvement in your ability to reach Tower again post-MLC, between your knowledge of the game and the boosts from equipment items, which remain in effect even if the equipment tab is locked. Most notably, Rings of BLC still give bonus BLC even if you can't access the equipment menu, meaning you'll make much faster progress.
Certain mechanics, such as artifacts and uniques, need to be unlocked before you can make use of them, however, but MLC also features upgrades that buff mechanics to make them permanent through MLC portals, which is quite handy.

ETA: Missed where the More Tower Rewards question was answered, whoops-a-doodle

[Kung Führer]

No no, thank you so much for all the advices!

[Tenzek]

Fish isn't useful at any point. The bonuses are so small that it does virtually nothing. Its damage bonus isn't like the crab's. Its 15% adds with some other bonuses that quickly make it negligible, and the 50% enemy rewards bonus is a quarter of what the cat offers. It's pretty much wasted space with lots of more useful options.

Monkey and Crab will help you the most early on. Monkey helps push leaves and improves your screen coverage to make sure you're hitting everything, and crab just does a lot more damage.

Cat helps you slightly with gathering tokens. It's not a lot, but it is significant early on.

If you have a 4th spot, the butterfly is probably best now. Owl to make heavier leaves for more damage might also be good. At least, it used to be before all of these new options. It might just be obsolete with crab + butterfly.

When you unlock the grail and the token converters, the monkey, owl and cat are all obsolete, but then the fish is even more obsolete than it was already.

[Kung Führer]

Oh, got it. Right now I just unlocked the 2nd slot from the tower drop, so I am going with a crab/monkey, also will leave mouse/cheese to farm the cheese overnight.
Should I start crafting some leaves? I did not touch them yet, somedoy said that it was more for the end game.

[Tenzek]

If you have craft level 2, then you can get global trade multiplier. As long as you're trading, this is always very useful.

[Kung Führer]

Roger! Have lvl 3 craft trade and upgrading it now with mulch too

[Kung Führer]

By the way, are there any tips on which tool to use in the tower?

[Kung Führer]

Also wondering whether should I buy x3 Mlc coins for my first MLC or free Borb Taxi, can't see how can I leave the Tower afk without the second one even if I got 20k Borbs from trades now

[J]

Originally posted by Kung Führer:

By the way, are there any tips on which tool to use in the tower?

My preference is the High-Tech Drill, though that's more to do with a lack of originality than with any merits to the Drill itself, besides the strong blowing power.

Originally posted by Kung Führer:

Also wondering whether should I buy x3 Mlc coins for my first MLC or free Borb Taxi, can't see how can I leave the Tower afk without the second one even if I got 20k Borbs from trades now

MLCx3 is definitely the go-to upgrade, if it's between the two. It'll be fairly quick grinding back up to Borbs from post-MLC, and getting the MLCx3 upgrade now also means you're getting the most you can possibly get from your current BLC. 1e13/10 trillion, iirc, is the recommended amount for a "Tower Floors" first MLC. Anything less just buys some "Home-Tower phase" accelerating upgrades and saves at least 10 M-Coins. Doing this, though, means you'd have to go up to floor 100 a second time just to be able to buy the ability to climb up to floor 100 a third time before you can scale the 20 extra floors that wink into existence when you tell the MLC Shop's invisible shopkeeper to insert 40 coins into the Magical Happy Fun-Time Box conveniently located at the entrance to the Tower.

[Kung Führer]

Thanks for the tip again

[Tenzek]

High-tech drill is meant for the tower, but it doesn't push leaves very far. That's why you need the monkey. As soon as you can afford the grail, it is far superior in the tower to other tools, and the monkey pet no longer matters.