Breeding:en

Preconditions: trained pets

You need two trained Pets a male and a female, and a second Player (or Character on an other account), which must be a tamer too and who is capable of unshrinking one of the pets. Both pets must have a Level of 9 or above.

Breeding is a Feature of Vetus Mundus!

The use of it

If you have trained your pet to the max, but it still isn't strong enough for you, you haven't reached the end of the line yet! Now you can mate two pets, with will then sire two children and inherit their attributes to them.

The Act of Breeding

You look for a friendly player (or use an other tamer of yours on an other account, if you already have a male and a female pet of the same race), who is also a tamer and has a pet of the same race (e.g. Hiryu), but of the opposite sex. Then both have to meet at the Animal Breeder, who is hiding on Ilshenar (just walk through a moongate to Ilshenar/honor and then run to left around the mountain until you reach a second moongate on a small stoneplateau.). One of the Tamers now klicks the Button mate in the XP-Fenster and chooses the pet of his fellow. Naturally both of the pets have to be unshrinked for this.

Now the Breeder decides, depending on his day's form, weather he can accept the pets for breeding or not. The stronger the pet, the more difficult it is for the breeder to mate the pets, and chances are therefore higher that he cannot accept the pets right at the moment. If this is the case, you have to wait another twelve hours until you can try it again.

If the Breeder can mate the pets, he educates the owner of the pet about the modalities:

• The breeding at the breeder lasts 3 days
• The mated pets must wait at least 6 days, until they can mate again.
• The mated pets stay in the stable of the breeder until 3 days have passed and then await their return to the owner.
• The owner of the mated pet gets a pick up ticket for the baby-pets on which he can look up the exact collection date and how expensive it is.
• The fetching of the babys does cost a variable amount of gold. Breeding strong pets is more expensive than breeding weak ones, for the breeder takes a higher risk and he has to support wife and children after all.

He then attends to the pets and for the owner starts the time of waiting.

Attributes of the babys

The attributes of the babys depend on the attributes of the parents. The value of the babys attribute is the mean of the ones of the parents plus a random value between 1 to 3. (for mathematicians: (((valueMaleParent + valueFemaleParent) / 2) + x )| x={1,2,3}) The only exception here is the attribute armor rating, which seems to be not inheritable and always drops to zero at the baby. So yo better raise this one only, if you don't want to breed the pet any further.

The maximum level

The maximum level of a child pet derives from the mean of the effectively reached level of the parents, which, if needed, will be rounded down, plus a random bonus from 1 to 3. Two Hiryus with level 10 and maxlevel 30 will sire pets with maxlevel 11 to 13. Two Hiryus with one at level 13 and the other one at level 24 will sire babys with maxlevel 18 to 20.

Stats (Hitpoints, Strength, Stamina, Dexterity...)

This value is calculated from the mean of the parent's values plus a random bonus from 1 to 3. The mean will always be rounded down so parents with strength 100 and 99 will sire a baby with strength 99.

Skills

The skills of the baby-pets will be created random, as if they are spawning in nature. They are not inherited. If the parents of two cats have 100% Wrestling, Anatomy and Tactics each, the baby-pets will have 0% anyway. This does only apply to skills and not to stats, of course.

Skillcaps

The skillcaps wont be inherited also! So it is wise to save your pet-powerscrolls untill you have finished breeding your pet.

The end of the line

You can mate to pets as often as you want to, and you can mate the baby-pets as often as well. There is only one limit for the maxlevel and that is at level 60. If a pet has reached maxlevel 60, it can be breeded indeed and can also sire babys furthermore, but these pets will also have maxlvl 60.