all other animals outside of snake/ferret seem pretty bad to take on travels, am I missing something?

[BDtetra]

horses are fast but can easily get stuck, and being ridable is kind of tedious and doesn't out weigh the problems when you can move fast anyway.

wolf/boar/monkey are all too slow and never keep up and share the same problems with horse.

sure you can summon them to you but doing through the menu is kind of tedious and the pets can pretty easily die if they get stuck in a weird area/climate.

[bunny de fluff]

It is just how it works, sadly. Just tame a lot of snakes for attacks.

[FentaRino]

eagles can track people, and you dont even have to carry snakes for their effects, what do ferrets do?

[pardalmadgod]

ferrets help you find buried treasure the start making a glowing circle effect the closer you are to the buried treasure.

[BDtetra]

well snakes and ferrets both help you in battles without the burden of waiting for them to catch up to you at top speed, they always will join battles because they are "on" you when you enter a fight. Eagles are nice but i don't see a reason to get multiple unlike these two.

[lher]

Originally posted by BDtetra:

well snakes and ferrets both help you in battles without the burden of waiting for them to catch up to you at top speed, they always will join battles because they are "on" you when you enter a fight. Eagles are nice but i don't see a reason to get multiple unlike these two.

It is very helpful to tame 3 type of animals in the game to use Beastmaster inner kungfu. You get an extra move for each type of animal up to 3 move. Some players may not need it, but it can be very helpful in harder fights.

[FentaRino]

Originally posted by lher:

Originally posted by BDtetra:

well snakes and ferrets both help you in battles without the burden of waiting for them to catch up to you at top speed, they always will join battles because they are "on" you when you enter a fight. Eagles are nice but i don't see a reason to get multiple unlike these two.

It is very helpful to tame 3 type of animals in the game to use Beastmaster inner kungfu. You get an extra move for each type of animal up to 3 move. Some players may not need it, but it can be very helpful in harder fights.

if you have the karma thingy for having unlimited animals + the +10 vigor per animal thingy, you can get some nice stacks there

[terror923]

You get poo / eggs (chicken) / meat / feathers (eagle)/ venom from tamed animals.

[FentaRino]

you can also put the monkeys to beg, i need to get a monkey army, and send them into the city to beg

[Arc]

Begging is actually outright overpowered with monkeys. You just dump them down, ignore them entirely, come back in a few days and they'll have like 3 treasure maps + a ton of misc items and then you can just make them do it again with no actual cost, cooldown or interaction needed. That's per monkey. They grind the skill constantly until told not to and NPC's seem to be basically incapable of ignoring begging.

Originally posted by Dan:

Originally posted by lher:

It is very helpful to tame 3 type of animals in the game to use Beastmaster inner kungfu. You get an extra move for each type of animal up to 3 move. Some players may not need it, but it can be very helpful in harder fights.

if you have the karma thingy for having unlimited animals + the +10 vigor per animal thingy, you can get some nice stacks there

I mean I guess you technically could but since you need 10 pets for even 1 karma you're likely to just give the game slowdown from having too many entities around long before you get any amount of vigour that's actually meaningful.
100 being literally nothing for even a half-decent character.

[BDtetra]

utility sake there are different benefits for each type which is why I specifically stated "to take on travels". Begging monkeys are fine but you just don't make them follow you and leave them at towns

[bunny de fluff]

You can take a lot of dragon with you, but at one point it is overkill.

[FentaRino]

Originally posted by Arc:

Begging is actually outright overpowered with monkeys. You just dump them down, ignore them entirely, come back in a few days and they'll have like 3 treasure maps + a ton of misc items and then you can just make them do it again with no actual cost, cooldown or interaction needed. That's per monkey. They grind the skill constantly until told not to and NPC's seem to be basically incapable of ignoring begging.

Originally posted by Dan:

if you have the karma thingy for having unlimited animals + the +10 vigor per animal thingy, you can get some nice stacks there

I mean I guess you technically could but since you need 10 pets for even 1 karma you're likely to just give the game slowdown from having too many entities around long before you get any amount of vigour that's actually meaningful.
100 being literally nothing for even a half-decent character.

You dont need them to follow you, they just have to be retainers, i abandon the pets on a random mountain and rack the benefits

[Arc]

That still makes them exist in the world.
Its one of those skills that seems like it'd be good but like 99% of the game wasn't balanced with how strong you or sect leaders and above actually get.
100 pets would STILL be a drop in the water in terms of vigour and slower for chi than just hunting giant frogs and the like. Just running new worlds and doing quests would also give permanent stats faster than this.

[bunny de fluff]

Originally posted by Arc:

That still makes them exist in the world.
Its one of those skills that seems like it'd be good but like 99% of the game wasn't balanced with how strong you or sect leaders and above actually get.
100 pets would STILL be a drop in the water in terms of vigour and slower for chi than just hunting giant frogs and the like. Just running new worlds and doing quests would also give permanent stats faster than this.

You cannot redo the quest for tiles that you already did in a new world.

[SweatyVermin]

They are OP asf with the bionic skills that multiply based on tames.