Aether ring?

[grommile]

I just found an aether ring in the Newbie Ground.

What does it do?

[Tabris the Free]

I can confirm that it grows like a normal pet.

[luizpedronovak]

Mine is already at -241037 (it was -279510 11 days ago, so 38473 growth or around 3500 per day), so it seems to be a typo.

[muljostpho]

I think Aether's description lists growth campaign separately from the others because it gains different amounts from winning the "Delirious Essence" fights? Like the growth camp improves by some calculated amount while the rest get a static improvement per win? I can't dig up if any formulas have been stated anywhere though. I'm only finding an image Ryu posted of a spreadsheet showing what Aether's growth camp bonus will be for different amounts of growth and different numbers of fights won. Or something like that? I'm not sure if I understand the way the chart is laid out...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/722373188448682005/872830249275109406/beter.PNG

[sfnhltb]

Hmm, confusing, Octopus and Mole just show a -x% to y campaign which seems clearer. Especially as it seems to specifically compare "Aether decreases THE growth gain by x%" vs "Aether decreases ITS other campaigns gains by y%", which is why I assumed it was killing the entire growth gain not just its own. I was just assuming based on that description it was deliberately engineered so pretty much the only way to fix it was doing the fights to level up the ring.

[muljostpho]

I know I've seen it mentioned somewhere on discord that the fights scale how much growth they give Aether based on your current ChP, and that it's apparently scaled to where if you don't gain any ChP between unlocking Aether and doing the fights (and if we're ignoring growth gains that you can get along the way from feedings) it will take until something like the 50th fight (double the evo requirement) to get out of the negative growth. Or maybe that's the number to reach evo growth? 50 fights was given as a benchmark for something here.

EDIT: Aether's page on the new wiki mentions the growth gain per fight as 0.2 x current ChP. Checking my own numbers... Well mine has gained 38,643 total growth since I unlocked it (started at -94,971, currently at -56,328) but at a rate of 0.2 x 9,498 = 1,899 total growth per fight it will take me 30 fights to get out of the negatives from here. (I don't think my dungeon pets can handle that many of the fights though? They're capable of fighting things at around depth 2, difficulty 1 or 2. And 30 fights is probably late depth 2 / early depth 3?)

[Griede Starless]

the methiod i figured out was to run a full team with aether as the tenth and weakest in the growth campain, while also running another full team in the multiplier campain.
the benifit of the multiplyier campain being that it raises her rebirth multiplier as well.

reason i did this is i also unlocked undiine right before this so i kinda got stuck with2 initially aweful pets, and im still trying to find the shadow essence for undine...