Advanced Pet Hatching

Understanding the Mechanics of Hatching

When you hatch your pet with another pet you are in a sense combining their talents. But it isn't just a random selection of talents between the 2. The first thing to remember is that when you see a talent on the list, it's pretty much stuck on that talent slot. When you are hatching 2 pets with some duplicate talents, like say both pets have Spell-Proof, it can sometimes mix things up. Unfortunately, its not perfect.

With these dragons as an example, you can see the 2nd talent of fire giver is an uncommon talent, just like the unknown talent of the other parent. In this case, the baby could get fire giver, or the other unknown talent, whatever that is. The same goes for the 4th and 5th slots.

In the 6th and 9th slots we know it did not pass down the right talents and this is how you know if a pet is even worth training. In the 6th slot on Jasmine is Fairy which is uncommon, Roxy's 6th is a rare talent. The new baby dragon has a rare talent in the 6th slot so it did not pass down Fairy.

The same might have happened in the 9th slot but that one is a little foggy. In the 8th and 9th slots, each parent has the same rank talent but the baby has the talents reversed. For me, I don't want to waste my snacks on a this pet. First of all, it did not get Fairy, and it might have lost fire dealer as well. It's ok to be picky. If it's obvious that the pet didn't transfer over the talents you wanted, trash it and rehatch.

One of my "Pet Guru" friends told me that you put the pet with the talents you want on the right hand side. Because that first hatch didn't get Fairy, I tried this same hatch again only flipped the 2 dragons. This time all the talents were in the right slots on the baby but it still didn't get Fairy. Because both pets have almost all the same trait ranks in the same slots, it's very possible that both pets have a lot of the same talents since I know that they are connected generationally.

Getting the Bad Traits Out

If you've spent any time at all on pets you've had the same headache as everyone else. Pets get bad traits that never seem to go away.

I might hatch these 2 pets to try to get Fairy on this double resist, double damage pet. You might have noticed the bad side of this hatch is that the Fairy pet has a selfish talent. In this case, it is in the same slot as the epic trait Spell-Proof. When I do hatch the 2 pets and look at the baby's talent slots, I can see right away if the talent in the 4th slot is epic or rare. The same goes for the fairy in the 6th slot.

As far as weeding out the bad stuff, you want to hatch with a pet that has what you want in the same slot as the talent you don't want. You want their talent to replace your bad one. This is essentially what would happen in the above hatch with Spell-Proof replacing crafty. Ideally you want their good talent and your bad talent to be different ranks. That way it is obvious that you either passed down the talent or you got rid of it. You don't want to waste your snacks on a maybe pet if you can help it.

Hatching to Get a Specific Pet Back

I've heard many theories and tricks you can do in the hatching screen to try to get back a certain pet when you hatch 2 different species. I've tried them all many many times and there is still just no rhyme or reason to what pet you get back. At this point I think as long as you can get the talents you want on a pet, even if it isn't the pet that you ultimately want, just train it up with the talents the way you want them, then work on duplicating those talents onto the pet of your choice.

Some pets are more dominate, meaning that it is more likely you will receive that pet back. In my experience, the pets with single blades such as the beasts, wintry elf, carnation pixie and some others are very dominate.

Here we have my storm beast work-in-progress. As you can see, the only talents we can be sure it transferred over are the ones on the original beast. It didn't pass down proof and only time will tell if it passed down pain. The previous hatch between Misty and Tasha got a rare talent in the 2nd slot, which was another of those weird mess up things. It turned out to be Mana Gift so that was the end of that pet. There are 2 rares on the new pet and if this baby gets mana the silver lining is that I will know which slot it is really in. We won't know which pet, although I suspect it's on the beast not the pixie. Knowing which slot is very important because then I can get a pet that has something good in the same slot and hatch Mana Gift out.