[Pets] Journeys Guide

Recently we saw introduced into the game the ability to send our pet on Journeys. Once this was implemented in the game I decided to try it out and see what was available, how it worked and what could I get out of it.

So here is how it works. When you open your Pet Panel, if your pet is recalled, you can click on a new button located on the pet frame of each of your pets (in the picture, this is marked with a number 2). You can only send out one of your pets into journeys. This means there's no profit in being a Tamer.

Once you send one of your pets in a journey he disappears from the Pet Panel and shows up on the Pet Journeys panel. The Pet Journeys panel can also be opened with the Journeys button on the Pet panel (the number 1 in the picture).

All you have to do on the Pet Journeys panel is to select one of the available Journeys and click the OK button which is next to the Recall one. It isn't showing because I already have my pet on a Journey, as you can see from the green bar with the countdown timer at the top.

Once the Journey ends you will have another button show in the Pet Journeys which says "Rewards". Click it and you will get the rewards your pet collected during its journey.

To have your pet available to you once again (i.e. be on the Pet panel) you need to press the Recall button on the Pet Journeys panel.

That's it for basic interface.

Journey Requirements

All Journeys require companion points, at least one daily try available and a certain amount of time. Some journeys also require special items.

Companion points are specific to Journeys, this means you can only spend them by sending your pet on journeys. They have no other value, as far as I know. The amount of points each journey requires is listed on a column in the Journeys list. So use these wisely. You can get more companion points by:

• Trading Interaction points for Companion points. This is done using the exchange interface in the Pet Journeys panel. So keep that in mind when spending your companion points.
• Spiritual Whistle or Hick's Whistle. I haven't yet acquired one so I don't know exactly how to obtain these. I'll update this post once I find out more about it.

Each Journey has a certain real time duration. This value also shows up in a column in the Journeys list.

• Daily tries. This means you can only do this Journey this amount of times today. This value can be affected by your own daily tries on certain quests, such as Cooking Tutorial, God's Trial, etc. This is the last column in the Journeys list.
• Pet scrolls. These are a new variety of items and are required by some Journeys. There's the following scrolls available: Pet's Trial Scroll, Pet's Elemental Scroll, Pet's Fissure Scroll.
• Other requirements such as Explorer's Guild scrolls or Lionheart Scrolls.

Generating Interaction Points

This is a tricky one. First of all, interaction points are a per pet stat. You can check the amount of interaction points your pet has by checking the mood (marked in yellow on the picture to the right). You gain 1 interaction point every 5 minutes while your pet is summoned and only that pet gains those interaction points. This is pretty much a very good reason why you should have your pet summoned at all times.

How to do Journeys

I haven't tried them all but I've tried a few already. I will update this post as soon as I have more info on other Journeys.

First of all you should select your pet with the highest level, the best quality (between normal, green or blue) and the most Talent levels. This is because the time required for each Journey is reduced by a certain percentage based on these 3 things. You can check how much each thing affects the time of each Journey by hovering over each of the icons I signaled with the numbers 4, 5 and 6 on the picture above.

At least once a day you should do the Lone Adventure or Pet's Odyssey. I've tried the Pet's Odyssey and, just like it says on the tooltip info when you hover over it, it just gives a chance to get an Advanced Pet Essence when comparing with the rewards from the Lone Adventure. But, from my personal experience, Pet's Odyssey has a better chance to give good rewards. Here's my results:

• 4x Lone Adventure netted 6 Newborn Energy Potions, 1x Pet Elemental Scroll
• 4x Pet's Odyssey netted: 2x Pet Elemental Scroll, 2x Pet Fissure Scroll

As soon as you have a Pet Trial Scroll, a Lionheart Scrolls and 100 Companion Points don't even think about it. Immediately send your pet on a God's Trial Journey. The amount of experience is far greater than doing the run yourself, even with the Lionheart Scrolls and all.

What Journeys should I do on a daily basis

So, to sum it up, try to do the following Journeys on a daily basis:

1. Pet Odyssey or a few runs of Lone Adventure to get a chance of earning Pet Scrolls
2. God's Trial Journey. If you have the Pet Trial scroll, Lionheart scroll and 100 companion points (exchange interaction points if you need to) then do the God's Trial Journey. Plenty of experience.
3. Run Girl Run. Do this if you require Recharging Star Shards. It's 25 companion points, so you can't do this everyday unless you get a hand on some points on top of exchanging for interaction points.