Pet or Crystal slot

[MaceX]

I got lucky and got 30K pet stones in a lucky draw. Now I am trying to decide if I should get a pet token or add an extra crystal slot. This would be my first pet token and I only have 2 crystal slots so far. So what would be the better choice? I am trying to debate the better option.

[Fel]

It depends on how you like to play, but overall up to about +50% crystal power per rebirth seems hard to top.

That said, there are a few pets that can be key like FSM for CBC (and any other time you want to run god power campaign) or the hermit crab (the easiest blacksmith pet to evolve).

I personally would go for the crystal slot without even a second thought, but that's because I tend to prefer fairly long rebirths where building up crystals makes a lot of CP.

[Kitsunegari]

I agree with Fel, crystal slots will have a bigger impact on the longevity of your game. 3,000% boost (depending on level of crystal) to a stat from an equipped crystal (not to count the increased crystal power you get per rebirth) will always be more beneficial than the 300% offered from max pet equips (if you only had 6 pieces of equipment on, 50% X 6 pets). Since blacksmithing and dungeons take a long time to progress to become beneficial, you won't see profit for a long time.

[Thanatos]

How are you able to get those upgrades with only 30k pet stones?!

[Fel]

The 30k are only what he got from the draw so I had assumed that he had gained 270k before that (I mean, he posted in october about GP in UBC so it's not like it's impossible for him to have gathered that much).

[Darth Faber]

The draw will only give 300k stones, not 30k. I think They just forgot a 0 in the text.

[MaceX]

Originally posted by Darth Faber:

The draw will only give 300k stones, not 30k. I think They just forgot a 0 in the text.

You right missed a 0.

[calcnerdm]

I personally would do a pet. Pet => growth => better (and earlier) item camps => faster stones per hour which you have your choice on hpe to spend. Also more pet flexibility

[MaceX]

Originally posted by calcnerdm:

I personally would do a pet. Pet => growth => better (and earlier) item camps => faster stones per hour which you have your choice on hpe to spend. Also more pet flexibility

This is kind of why I was debating. Since I believe I read that you don't get pet tokens from lucky draws anymore just the stones equal to the tokens. I was stuck here trying to do the math on which was a better way to go.

[Fel]

It's really up to you at the end of the day, but even with 10 pets at 10 million total stats (tier 7, 1.75 multiplier on pet stones) and half of those having bonuses on item campaigns, it takes over two months of non-stop item campaign to get those 300k pet stones.

Even if you did not have enough pets to run both the growth and item campaigns, the increase of 1 pet would not make that much difference, you could probably get pets faster by clearing the first 2 UACs and/or going up to baal 66 (yes, it is possible to reach that high even without late game stats, it takes a while in a single rebirth after you reached your limit from climbng normally).
I mean, if you stick to "get pets early", those two make a lot of sense (it does block other things for a while but you get a decent amount of GP from both as well).

On the other hand, there is no alternate ways to get crystal slots (other than paying real money of course), and the further you advance the more you will notice how nice it is to not have to spend all of that GP on BS and CS (you still spend on BS, but you get a lot more than just what you get from GP).
When you start to leave GP to boost stats permanently, CP will also make a massive difference (I am currently multiplying the boosts given by GP by a bit over 18 to give you an examle).
There are 2 early-mid game challenges that heavily impact CP (CPC and GSC), CPC even more or less requiring crystal slots to be completed in a decent amount of time.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you can't chose the pet, as I said in my first post there are a few pets that are definitely worth an early pet token as well, but if your only reason is "to get pet stones faster" I would suggest taking some time to do the math and see how much of a difference it would make.

[Reaperrazor]

After my first UBC, I dropped over 40 free draws. By miracle I must have earned 2 300k pet stone drops. I bought FSM for doubled god power (that means atm I can have pets get me 20 gp every 10hrs at their current state) and bought 1 crystal slot.

FSM provides double gp gains in siad campaign AND provides a multiplicative boost to divinity generator based on its stats (so it multiplies on top of the Crystal multi, and still can work in challenges where you cant use crystals).

Long run, either of those 2 are great choices.