Pet drop rate

[AloZero]

does farming in higher difficulty increases drop chance? like instead of Normal I farm on Hard difficulty. Does it even matter?

[Huillam]

No. The odds are the same no matter the difficulty.

[marleau.martin]

but farm the highest you can finish for faster kills

[Silberfuchs]

Higher ascension levels make it a lot easier to farm pets.

Players aren't expected to get many pets early on.

[Wesir]

One thing that could impact it is if you have autobuy set to buy "Fewer Potatoes needed per wave", since the pets are kill based and at the end of every area you have a wait timer before it resets it actively hurts you to reduce the number of enemies. I farm on medium if I can one shot everything since there are more waves before the reset timer triggers. If you're looking to farm pets it seems like you want to do it before completing the First Extinction challenge as at that point you can't turn off the fewer potatoes upgrade.

It took me like 3 days to get the pet out of 3-6 because it was 5 enemies per wave for 200 waves = 1000 enemies with the 10-20 second delay of doing nothing between every batch. I was basically doing my reincarnation runs and once the character hit the limit of how far they could go I'd park them in 3-6, usually overnight or while I was at work (8-12 hours).

[AloZero]

Yea I figured that if I dont upgrade fewer potatoes per wave, at higher area i would need 60+per wave so that would make me kill more per area. So yea just farm till you get the pet then move on and upgrade the fewer potatoes if needed manually :)

[Wesir]

I wish there was an option to turn off a challenge's buff, kinda annoying that if you mess up you have to wait until the next ascension.

[eXeZ|Gamer433]

Originally posted by Wesir:

I wish there was an option to turn off a challenge's buff,

I would prefer to get an option for the first 4 skull upgrades (on page 3) to deactivate their bonus (one option for every of this 4, not one option to deactivate all at once).
Pet farming is really pain in the... you know. This options would make it a bit easier.

[Wesir]

Originally posted by eXeZ|Gamer433:

Originally posted by Wesir:

I wish there was an option to turn off a challenge's buff,

I would prefer to get an option for the first 4 skull upgrades (on page 3) to deactivate their bonus (one option for every of this 4, not one option to deactivate all at once).
Pet farming is really pain in the... you know. This options would make it a bit easier.

yea that would be even better, the game already has the functionality to disable the lower health/damage since they reset when you go into a challenge. I'm at 500k out of a million on my 3-5 farm and because I don't have the extinction challenge done yet everything else is dragging on forever, just going to call it and deal with the slower farm so the rest of the game doesn't move at a snail's pace.

It was like 50 enemies for 200 waves (10,000) followed by a 15 second rest and is going to become 1,000 enemies :(

[Tower Dove]

you reduce respawn rate later on, meaning that there is less downtime. More waves = more reincarnation xp too.

[Jim Pickens (punkboy48)]

I really would advice against the tips given here. It was a big waste of time for me to dedicate myself for pet farming. Eventually you get downtime reduced, better pet capture chances and so on by progressing into better ascensions.
I Wouldnt call farming pets a waste of your time, but your ascensions are going to take much longer, for pets you most likely dont even "need".

[B&FB]

Originally posted by Jim Pickens (punkboy48):

I really would advice against the tips given here. It was a big waste of time for me to dedicate myself for pet farming. Eventually you get downtime reduced, better pet capture chances and so on by progressing into better ascensions.
I Wouldnt call farming pets a waste of your time, but your ascensions are going to take much longer, for pets you most likely dont even "need".

I agree 100%. Pets get way faster to unlock the more you do expeditions and get ascensions. I would farm kills on the lower levels when I couldn't get to the further levels and then farm kills for the next level when I could move on. And eventually you just get them all, and don't slow your progress into further ascensions.

[Wesir]

Originally posted by B&FB:

Originally posted by Jim Pickens (punkboy48):

I really would advice against the tips given here. It was a big waste of time for me to dedicate myself for pet farming. Eventually you get downtime reduced, better pet capture chances and so on by progressing into better ascensions.
I Wouldnt call farming pets a waste of your time, but your ascensions are going to take much longer, for pets you most likely dont even "need".

I agree 100%. Pets get way faster to unlock the more you do expeditions and get ascensions. I would farm kills on the lower levels when I couldn't get to the further levels and then farm kills for the next level when I could move on. And eventually you just get them all, and don't slow your progress into further ascensions.

I'm only on A2 and was trying to get the pets for the residue bonus, expeditions aren't an option and the downtime reduction is stupid expensive right now, only just got whack score brewing which should help it go faster.