Premium Pets.... for the uninitiated.

[JMacClear]

Hail Friends.

 

(Thx by the way for all the valuable advice hither so far.)

 

The Pay to Win Vendor sells a number of "premium pets" if I can use that terminology. Perhaps they are properly called something else - I am just too new. 

 

These Pets cost about 1MM Influence and there are a number of selections : Wolf / Shadow Wolf / Panther spring to mind as potential RP choices... however the selection is fairly extensive.

 

I went to the Homecoming Wiki to read / learn / study them. However these pets seem to have Red Links - ie. no further information. 

 

Questions: 

 

1) Are they as durable as other pets based on archetypes that have power sets to summon ? 

2) Given that a archetype I am playing may not have a power set to heal / buff them - are they quickly 'fodder' in a battle? By extrapolation would a Blaster / Defender / Sentinel or some such type benefit from them or are they simply best to 'add quantity / quality' to a Mastermind ? 
3) Do 'complimentary' powersets work to heal  or buff them. ie. Say I have a Rad / Rad Defender - does the party buff powers of my Defender also  aid my pet as if I  was my 'own task force' ?

4) Do they affect the challenge rating of a mission ? Am I effectively a 'hero / sidekick of two' with such a pet?

 

I may choose to experiment with it for RP - character concept - in any event however, I am reluctant to spend 1MM influence for a 'nice to have' as all my Superheroes are in the 15 - 25 range. I have a lot of Crafting expenses planned and facing me 🙂 

 

Is there an info link I have overlooked ? I could not find anything specific in the forums here. 

 

Thank you once again for all your sage wisdom.

Edited February 17 by JMacClear

[tidge]

I believe those are simply vanity pets; they will have no effect on gameplay.

[Maelwys]

If they're listed here-  https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Vanity_Pet they're cosmetic only.

There are a limited number of pets that can buff you - see https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Veteran_Reward_Powers#Combat-Buff_Pets
They can be aggroed and have extremely low HP and die to a stiff breeze; but can provide a useful buff to recovery (for example) at low levels.

 

The "useful in combat" ones are https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Signature_Summon
It's 10,000,000 Inf for 5 charges (so 2m "per summoning") and their full power listing is here

[mistagoat]

You can also head over to the test server and give yourself as much inf as you want so you can buy stuff to test it out.

[srmalloy]

On 2/17/2025 at 6:14 AM, Maelwys said:

There are a limited number of pets that can buff you - see https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Veteran_Reward_Powers#Combat-Buff_Pets
They can be aggroed and have extremely low HP and die to a stiff breeze; but can provide a useful buff to recovery (for example) at low levels.

You can also consider them to be really ablative armor, because they will completely absorb a single non-AoE attack when they die, which makes them useful for the first exchange when you're entering combat.