Mother Duck - Gathering Hope quest

[FroBodine]

The quest instructions seem to be missing an important piece of information.

It says to gather some stuff so I can build something to make my Wompat larger.

What am I supposed to gather and build, please? I must have missed it when they first told me about this, and the quest instructions don't explain it completely.

Thanks!

[Zordah]

That's the one I am currently doing - You are to make a garter for your wompat (made at the skin station I believe).

What you need to gather are the Wompat essences from the big Wompats

[FroBodine]

Ok, thanks! I see the garter now. Holy cow! 120+ flatstones and some Sterling Wompat Essence, whatever that is. I have no idea where to find Wompat Essence. I have killed quite a few big wompats, but no essence drops. Maybe I'm not killing the ones big enough!

This looks to be a long term quest. I love this game!

[Zordah]

Yeah you need to kill the Sterling ones - large black coloured ones

[Almea]

Originally posted by FroBodine:

Ok, thanks! I see the garter now. Holy cow! 120+ flatstones and some Sterling Wompat Essence, whatever that is. I have no idea where to find Wompat Essence. I have killed quite a few big wompats, but no essence drops. Maybe I'm not killing the ones big enough!

This looks to be a long term quest. I love this game!

Discoloured enemies will drop an essence of their species when they die. Both Flatstones and Discoloured enemies become more common further out.

[Man_CRNA]

This seemed to be one of the grindier quests. Lots of flatstone required for it. gotta kill the darkies though.

[darknitej]

Is the garter worth making?

[Man_CRNA]

Depends on what you mean by worth it. Some people like to level up all the pets, to them it's worth it. I loved having a higher dps creature early on in the game. But as soon as I hatched a glutterfly, I switched to it because I prefered the dot damage it did over the flat damage of the wompit. When I got the tartil, I stopped using all previous pets because the I loved the fire damage ticks and wide aoe. So, yeah I wanted to make it. Besides that, the wompit is the first creature you can get to level three, and you'll have to have the garter for it to be level 2 first anyways, so I'd do it.

[ehyder]

I used the wompit all the way through the Savanna and even into the Bawg. The level 3 Wompit is a solid hitter for straight physical damage, and the toughness buff is nice. I combine the wompit with the appropriate elemental damage on Flux as needed. Will try out one of the Bawg pets now that I have found a few of the eggs.

[Man_CRNA]

How do you know pets buff you? I had no idea that pets gave any kind of buffs...?

[Zordah]

Look at the creature in your compendium - at the bottom of each entry is the buffs from having a domesticated one