Your Pet in the Battledome
This has been copied directly from my petpage and is here only temporarily.
Training
Training is of course very important in the battledome. The better your pet's stats are, the better you'll do in the battledome. The more hp you have, the longer you'll last in the battledome; the more strength you have, the more damage you can do; and the more defence you have, the better you can block attacks. There are many ways you can change the stats of your pet and all are listed below.
Training Schools
There are three training schools in Neopia, Cap'n Threelegs' Swashbuckling Academy, the mystery island training school, and the Secret Ninja Training School. In exchange for raising the stats of your pets, you muct pay dubloons or codestones depending upon where you go.
- You can train your stats up to twice your level.
- If any stat is past twice your level, you'll have to train your level before you can train your other stats again.
- Because the price of training increases at certain intervals, if possible, train to the fullest potential you can before bumping up to the next level.
- Payed for in dubloons.
- Only trains pets up to level 40.
- Courses take longer than in the training school.
- May be cheaper than the training school. Check prices.
- On your pet's species holiday, your pet gets free training for the whole day, but oonly if you're still under level 40.
- Payed for in codestones.
- Trains pets up to level 250.
- You can train hp to three times you level, but if you want to train something else, you hp can't be more than twice your level.
- Payed for with red codestones.
- Trains pets past 250.
Kitchen Quests
The chef will ask you for three or 4 food items. Bring them in time and you might get a stat increase. You can also win other prizes such as np or items, but stats are usually the best prize. The chance of getting a usefull stat is about 1/3. Of those, about twice as many points will go to hp as strength, defence, or level. These stats are also randomly distrubuted between your pets. So, these quests are best if you only have one pet.
Take the cost of training devided by 3 and devided by the number of pets you have to give you an approximation of about how much it's worth it to pay for kitchen quests. If the items are too expensive, don't do the quests.
You can do quests one after another if you complete them, but you'll have to wait for the time to run out before you can do another one if you choose not to do a quest. You can do a maximum of 10 quests a day. These include all type of quests on neopets as well as random faerie quests. It's a good idea to do as many kitchen quests as possible every day. If it's late in the day and you've only done 2 quests all day, you might want to pay more for a quest if it lets you do more.
Lab Ray
Once you collect all 9 pieces of the labratory map, you will be granted access to the lab ray where you can zap one of your pets each day for free. The lab ray can change your pet's species, color, give stats, and take stats. Over all, it gives more stats than it takes, but they're a bit lopsided. If you don't codestone train to supliment the lab and other meathods of training, defence will fall far behind and you'll get far more hp than other stats.
While having more hp than strength isn't necessarily a bad thing, if you ever want to train via the training schools, you'll probably have to train lots of levels first and you'll probably end up in a higher training level, so you'll have to pay more.
Given the current price of the lab map, it's still a decent investment, but it will take quite a while before it will pay off in training, but for high level pets, this is one of the only ways that they can train.
Faerie Quests
Faerie quests are randome events around neopets where one of the faeries will ask you to retrive an item for you. This is made more difficult because you are not allowed to use the shop wizard while you're on a quest. You can go to a Quest Shop or ask for someone to find shops for you that have the item you need. Then, go to the Faerie Quest page with the item to recieve your reward or to refuse the quest if you really don't want to do it. If you do turn down the quest. Make sure to return to the quest page later to make youself eligibly for quests again.
Each faerie gives you different rewards. If the quests are more expensive than the rewards, you might want to turn them down, but personally, I think that doing quests increases the chance of getting more.
- Earth Faerie - Feeds you pet
- Air Faerie - + 2 Movement Points
- Light Faerie - + 1 Level Points
- Water Faerie - + 2 Defense Points
- Dark Faerie - + 2 HP
- Fire Faerie - + 2 Strength Points
- Space Faerie - + 4 Levels
- Faerie Queen - + 1 Level, + 3 HP, + 3 Strength Points
Neggs
Neggs are by far the most expensive way to train, but they are the only high level pets can really train once they get past the level 250 other than quests and the lab. Or at least they used to be. With the new training school released, they are once again, the expensive alternative if you want stats fast. However, for the upper levels of the ninja training school. Neggs still may be a good option.
All you have to do is feed your pet these oh so expensive treats and you get more stats. Note: Only certain neggs give stats.
Other
There are a few other ways you can get stats in neopia.
- Random events
- Coltzan's shrine
- Ice scratchcards
- Deadly Dice
- Turmaculus