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"Caster" Pets

Are They Really That Bad?

Almost all pets of the same level have the same base attributes. But some rare pets have inferior attributes. We don't know why, and we rather wish they didn't -- but they do. Because these pets have very high intelligence and spirit, we call them "caster" pets. Unfortunately, intelligence and spirit are not useful attributes for a pet. And all of the other attributes -- including health, armor, and DPS -- are lower for "casters" than for normal pets. So "casters" really are inferior creatures in all ways.

You can identify a pet with "caster" attributes in two ways:

  1. Before you tame the pet, the wild version of a "caster" will have a mana bar whereas normal pets do not. Note that some "casters", like nether rays, initially start with an empty mana bar but will drain your mana to fill theirs up.
  2. After you tame the pet, you can check its attributes against those of a normal pet (here) and those of known "casters" (below).

Of course, you can always skip all the fuss and just check Petopia before you go after a pet. "Casters" are prominently marked on all our pages in order to help you avoid them.

But how bad is it, really? There are some really gorgeous creatures that happen to have "caster" attributes. Can you make up for their faults with carefully-arranged abilities and talents? Or are they really just an utter loss?

After a good bit of research, it appears that the only real difference between "casters" and normal pets is their base attributes. "Casters" benefit from scaling, talents and abilities in exactly the same way that normal pets do. So it is at least theoretically possible to make up for "caster" attributes and end up with a pet that you can live with. It's not so easy, though. If you compare the base attributes in the table below with that of normal pets, you will see the following trends:

  • "Casters" have between 80% and 83% of the base armor of a normal pet.
    • At level 10, this is a difference of less than 100 armor and can be easily made up with 5 TP in the Natural Armor passive ability.
    • Even at high levels, you can make up the difference with Natural Armor, but it's going to cost you a lot of Training Points. At level 64, a Warp Stalker is almost 1000 armor shy of the base armor of a normal pet. That's 150 TP worth of Natural Armor.
  • "Casters" have about 95% of the base health of a normal pet at low levels, but this ramps down to only 80% of normal base health at high levels.
    • Missing out on 50 base health at level 20 is no big deal. Once again, you can easily make this up with 10 TP in the Great Stamina passive ability.
    • But at higher levels it's a lot harder to keep up. A level 43 Fire Roc needs an extra 343 health to match the base health of a normal level 43 pet. That would require Great Stamina (Rank 9), which costs 150 TP and isn't available until level 54 anyway.
  • Unfortunately, I haven't yet worked out the exact differences in DPS. It is likely, however, that the base DPS of a "caster" pet is again only about 80% of normal base DPS at high levels.

To sum up, pets with "caster" attributes are fairly viable at low levels where the differences in their base attributes are relatively small. And you can help make up for their faults for a number of levels just by keeping up with the passive pet abilities Natural Armor and Great Stamina. But at higher levels, you'd have to spend all of your Training Points on these abilities and you'd still fall short. So if you really absolutely want that very special "caster" pet, you might give it a try -- but be ready for a challenge.

"Caster" Attributes by Level

Level Strength Agility Stamina Intellect Spirit Power Armor Health
5 24 22 25 22 24 28 105 98
6 25 23 26 23 24 30 150 115
7 26 23 26 24 25 32 205 131
8 27 24 27 24 25 34 268 148
12 31 26 36 28 29 42 479 230
15 34 30 48 32 32 48 566 301
18 39 33 59 36 36 58 653 377
19 40 33 63 36 37 60 684 404
20 42 35 67 38 38 64 712 433
21 44 36 71 40 39 68 741 464
22 46 36 75 41 41 72 771 498
23 47 38 79 42 42 74 800 533
24 49 39 83 43 43 78 829 571
25 50 40 87 45 44 80 858 610
26 52 41 91 47 46 84 887 651
27 53 42 95 48 47 86 917 690
28 55 43 99 49 48 90 946 732
29 57 44 103 51 49 94 975 773
43 86 61 160 72 69 152 1958 1373
44 93 62 164 73 70 166 2082 1426
60 129 85 234 101 96 238 3075 2442
61 132 88 239 106 99 244 3316 2515
62 133 90 243 109 102 246 3555 2590
63 136 92 248 112 105 252 3795 2665
63 136 92 248 112 105 252 3795 2665
64 138 95 252 116 108 256 4036 2740