Pet System

How to get a pet:

Through regular game play, the items needed to start the pet quest will be dropped by monsters. Either the Pan's Flute or a Drake Egg will start the pet quest. After acquiring one of these items bring them to the Lorraine in Randol and she will give you another quest. You will acquire the pet by finishing the quest given to you by Lorraine.

Pet type	Quest name	Item Name	NPC giving the quest
Get a horse	Pan's flute	Pan's flute	"Lorraine" at Juno village
Get a dragon	Secret of Drake's egg	Drake's egg	"Lorraine" at Juno village

After completing this quest your item will be replaced by a Lvl 1 Pet Icon. This will appear as an item in your inventory. You can either double click on your pet's icon, or drag and drop your pet's icon into your equipped accessories slot. Your pet will only appear next to you outside of cities or dungeons.

Types of pets

There are two types of pets; ‘horse’ and ‘dragon’. One character can have up to 2 pets regardless of type but a player can summon only one pet at a time. The Horse starts out as a ‘Pony’ and grows in to being a ‘Horse’. Finally the horse grows into a ‘Knight Mare’. The Dragon starts out as a ‘Hatchling’, grows into being a ‘Drake’, and finally it becomes a "Dragon’.

Controlling your Pet

A summoned pet follows its owner automatically, so there is no need to direct your pet to a location. As an owner, you can only control the skills and social behaviors which are either learned or automatically acquired at each level. Behaviors are different for each pet type, and can be checked and used in the pet information window. You can use the pets basic skills, such as pet item pickup, which can be found in the general action window of your character (atl+a). If your pet is trained as a mount, while you are riding it, your pet is controlled the same way as controlling your character.

Raising a Pet

Fighting and Death

Your pet grows as your character fights and gains levels. Your pet cannot attack during a fight, but it can be attacked by other monsters and characters. Therefore, you must pay attention to your pet, defend your pet, and take care of it.
  - A hit on your pet will always only take 1 vital point. When its vital points become 0, the summoning of your pet is cancelled and will be sealed (the pet icon will remain in your inventory). When this happens, you cannot summon your pet for a period of time. If the vital points are reduced but not sealed, they can be recovered by feeding your pet magical herbs you gather from the farms located on Iris.
  - Sealed time depends on the pet level; 1Lv ~ 20Lv = 5 hours (game time); 21Lv ~ 40Lv =  time); 41Lv ~ 60Lv = 17 hours (Game Time). Summoning is blocked during this time.
  - A sealed pet can be released, if a character hunts for this amount of time. Killing monsters of a lower level than the character is not considered a hunt.
  - Also, you can pay Nas to the Pet Trainer to release the seal immediately. The required amount of Nas increases as the level of a pet increases.

Skills and Training

A pet has levels, and it can level-up by acquiring experience while the owner fights. Leveling-up gives a pet a ‘technical point’, which it can use to learn skills through training (1 point per level). Your pet can learn skills from the Pet Trainer in Juno, within the town of Randol. Passive skills will apply to the pet and the character who summons the pet.

Compatibility and Hungriness

When a pet is summoned and spends time with the character its compatibility level increases. The more time the pet spends summoned, the hungrier it gets.  You can check your pet’s hungriness and compatibility level while your pet is summoned in the pet’s status window. These values play the following roles:

Table 1 - Hungriness value and compatibility value

Hungriness value (Yellow Bar)	When a pet is summoned (place in the inventory slot), it will get hungry. A pet will stop moving if its hungriness becomes 0.  Feed your pet mining products (perfect stone, flawless stone, quality stone, imperfect stone, and flawed stone) to make it less hungry (higher level products are more filling).  To feed the item to a pet, just double click on the stones in your inventory window while the pet is summoned.
Compatibility value	Compatibility is decided by how often and how long a pet spends time with its owner. It increases while a pet is summoned, and it decreases while it is not summoned.  If it is decreased, the efficiency of acquired passive skills decreases.  This can be recovered by feeding it charged products (alpha wave, beta wave, gamma wave, epsilon wave, zeta wave).
Pet vital (Red bar)	A Pets Vital Points can be recovered by feeding it: herb flower, herb thorn, green herb leaf, herb stem, or yellow herb leaf.

Mount training

A pet is a baby when it is summoned at level 1, and it grows larger when it reaches level 16. When the pet’s level is 31 or higher, it can be trained as a mount by the Pet Trainer. This training allows the pet to have its final growth spurt into an adult. This transformation will make all the acquired skills reset, but will put all of the technical points back into its skill point pool. Moreover, further leveling-up is blocked.  Therefore you must choose wisely when to train your pet into a mount. Pets trained as mounts will provide faster movement, and bring about chances to learn new skills and techniques.

Table 2 - Comparisons in skills of a pet versus mount

Pet	Increase power	Increase owner’s attack power
	Increase armor	Increase owner’s defense power
	Magical power	Increase owner’s magical offense power up
	Magical defense	Increase owner’s magical defense power up
	HP UP	Increase the owner’s maximum life power
	MP UP	Increase the owner’s maximum mana
Mount Animal	Crying (horse)	Ridicule enemies to fight
	Offensive hauling (horse)	Improve the attack power of party members
	Defensive hauling (horse)	Improve the defense power of party members
	HPMP UP(horse)	Improve the owner’s life and mana
	Dragon roar (dragon)	Curse enemies to decrease their attack speed and moving speed
	Dragon bless (dragon)	Attack enemies with wide range flame
	Dragon poison (dragon)	Attack enemies with wide range poison
	HPMP UP(dragon)	Improve the owner’s life and mana

Unique items of pets

You can kill your own pet to harvest unique raw materials from it. The raw materials are acquired randomly, and a higher level pet generates higher level raw materials. Bring these raw materials to a Pet Trainer and he will make Pet Unique Weapons and Armor through combining the materials. Generally, materials from horses make unique armor of each class and those from dragons generate unique weapons. Moreover, pet unique armor has two types of combination materials. B type materials (high quality material) have higher success rate on combining than A type materials.

Table 1 - Pet unique weapon (raw materials)

Class	Name of armor	Combining item 1	Combining item 2	Combining item 3
One handed knight sword	Dragon Flame Sword	A dragon toenail	A Dragon wing	A Dragon cuspid
Two handed knight sword	Dragon Sword	A dragon wing	A Dragon cuspid	A Dragon eyeball
Large titan sword	Dragon Blade	A dragon cuspid	A Dragon eyeball	A dragon horn
Titan Axe	Dragon Axe	A dragon eyeball	A dragon horn	Dragon skin
Healer wand	Dragon Wand	A dragon horn	Dragon skin	A dragon tail
Healer Bow	Dragon Bow	Dragon skin	A dragon tail	Dragon blood
Mage Wand	Dragon Stick	A dragon tail	Dragon blood	A dragon heart
Mage Staff	Dragon Staff	Dragon blood	A dragon heart	A dragon ruby
Rogue Dagger	Dragon Dagger	A dragon heart	A dragon ruby	Dragon tendon
Rogue Crossbow	Dragon Armletbow	A dragon ruby	Dragon tendon	Dragon backbone
Sorceror Scythe	Dragon Scythe	Dragon tendon	Dragon backbone	A dragon toenail
Sorceror Fallarm	Dragon Rod	Dragon backbone	A dragon toenail	A dragon wing

 

Table 2 - Knight mare armor (pet unique armor) raw materials

Type of Armor	Required Material	Combining item 1	Combining item 2	Combining item 3
Unique Helm	Material A	A horse’ s hoof	horsehair	horse tendon
	Material B	horse ’ s mane	A horse molar teeth	horse tendon
Unique Shirt	Material A	A horse molar teeth	horse blood	horse tendon
	Material B	Horse skin	horsehair	horse tendon
Unique Pants	Material A	A horse’ s hoof	horse molar teeth	horse tendon
	Material B	Horse backbone	horse blood	horse tendon
Unique Boots	Material A	horsehair	horse blood	horse tendon
	Material B	horse backbone	A horse’ s hoof	horse tendon
Unique Gloves	Material A	horsehair	horse blood	horse tendon
	Material B	horse’ s mane	A horse’ s hoof	horse tendon
Unique Shield	Material A	A horse’ s hoof	horsehair	horse tendon
	Material B	horse backbone	horse blood	horse tendon

Area Restrictions for Pet Summoning

Pets cannot be summoned to all areas in Iris, but is not visible in villages, towns, dungeons or siege areas even when summoned. You still can still check the status window of a pet, and even though it is not visible, the skill effects are still applied.

Table 1 - Regions allowed summoning a pet

	Summoned Region	Village	Dungeon	Personal Dungeon	Field
Pet	Possibility to summon	Can Summon but not Visible	Can Summon but not Visible	Cannot be Summoned	Can Summon and is Visible
Mount	Possibility to summon	Can Summon but not Visible	Cannot be Summoned	Cannot be Summoned	Can Summon and is Visible