Whats the point of buying pet stones with baal power?

[player144]

As opposed to just buying L.Clones?

[Fel]

If you are getting enough baal power to get more than 500 light clones per day, it can be helpful to at least grab the first 100 pet stones for 100 baal power (the most you can get without increased costs).

Getting the best food can also be a good way to spend at least a portion of your baal power.
If you have the refrigerator, you can stockpile a lot of mighty food for all of the challenges where you can't get baal power (so that you never have to feed them anything weaker).
If you don't, you can get exactly what you need to feed your pets mighty food for the current rebirth.

Light clones are a bit circumstancial since there are a lot of challenges where they won't be of any use but it's definitely a good idea to get a good amount of it when you can afford it since there is no such thing as having too much of it, no matter if it's for UBv4 or spacedim.

[player144]

So it just seems to me that the value of 100 pet stones is close to worthless (considering item campaigns f.e., or am i missing something?

[Fel]

Depends on how you play, 100 pet stones once a day is definitely not much, especially if you have 10 good pets running the item campaign.

If you manage to get a stable strategy that allows you to rebirth frequently while still getting a lot of baal power, you can quickly run out of resets for the light clones even if you don't reset at 500.
On the other hand, the cost for pet stones resets every time you rebirth, meaning that you could in theory farm a decent amount of pet stones that way (on top of getting a lot of GP and possibly CP).

In most cases though, the somewhat cheap 100 pet stones are more or less a way to get a bit more, because at the end of the day you need very large amounts of it and even small amounts on the side pile up after months.

It's up to you if you prefer to get a bit more light clones, food or pet stones but it only really impacts your light clones when you are not getting far into the p baal.
Once you reliably get beyond p baal 50 (or even 100) the 100 baal power will be negligible either way.

[muljostpho]

There are better options to spend BP on. You're not mistaken about that.

The pet stone option is kinda just there because it had been there for years before the spacedim feature and its light clones were added to the game.

And it wasn't even necessarily the best option back then either. That was pet food.

Outside of light clones, pet food, and pet stones, the other options that exist for BP spending are very situational and temporary benefits (which means that most will forget about them or ignore them). If you don't have the "one click UB fights" setting turned on there's an option when manually starting a fight with an ultimate being (planet tab, UBs subtab) to spend BP on bonuses to your attack / defense against it, but it only applies for that one fight. (When your clone cap gets up high enough those fights are trivialized and won't need any boosters. Plus you end up automating them for the crystal factory instead of dealing with them manually.) And there's a menu in the TBS feature to spend BP on its levels. (This is subject to losses on rebirth just the same as any other TBS levels you've got.)

Where you're most likely to bother with spending any BP on pet stones is at the end of a rebirth with a few spare BP that you have left after spending the rest on light clones (after you've bought enough light clones without resetting their price for it to not be possible to spend it all there). It's about as meaningful as putting a single penny in the tip jar at a restaurant, of course. But... I don't know, it's a penny that was going to fall out of a hole in your pocket if you tried to walk out of the restaurant with it, I guess. (EDIT: Or you can limit yourself to just buying the first 100 like Fel talked about.)

What hurts the pet stone option for BP is that... Well, I think the dev specifically didn't want it to be a better source for pet stones than the item campaign? He set it up with a pretty hefty escalation of cost which insures that not too many can be purchased in the same rebirth. And then later when light clones were added, he used the same method of cost escalation there but he gave it a more forgiving rate and something that can be a more flexible system for resetting the price.

[player144]

So, what im taking out of this is, that first of all it's sort of a legacy feature, as well as a way to turn in redundant BP into something of value rather than going to waste entirely... Would that be a good estimation?

[Fel]

Pretty much, unless you are desperate about farming pet stones (but it's not really a good thing to farm like that).