Pets and summoned creatures

Pets can be summoned through spells, or gained by questing for a collar (wolf) or dragonflute (hatchling).

Spell-summoned pets are temporary, and can only be re-summoned every 6 hours when using skills learned before Level 40.

What they say about pets and their owners is true, at least with regard to karma — if you're red, your pet will be red as well.

As of Chronicle 1, any summoner under 40 got a major kick — summon refresh time is now 6 hours until you reach Level 40! Thus, even if you plan to go the summoner route, be prepared to spend many hours soloing, and get attack skills for just that. If the idea of fighting without a companion does not appeal to you, consider getting a wolf or a hatchling. They eat a lot of food, but your servitor buffs and heals work on them, making summoners the most effective quested pet owners in the game.

You can do quests to receive an item that manages a certain wild pet — a Wolf collar (when you reach Level 15) or a Hatchling dragonflute (Level 35).

Pets acquire skills as they progress in level, and those skills appear in your active skill window.

If you dismiss your pet, you'll have to do the quest again to get it back (or buy one).

Wolves and Hatchlings are expensive — you have to feed them, and feed them often, or they'll return to the wild. Using a pet increases its hunger, but it doesn't need food while "stored." And ever-better armor and weapons (to match its ever-higher level) costs more and more, as well.

To feed a quested pet, you must first put the food into its inventory slot, then click on the food. Pet food can only be bought from Pet Managers (P on town maps).

Quested pets act as burros. In other words, they can carry lots of heavy stuff for you (at least until they hit their weight limit).

Quested pets can wear a piece of armor and carry a weapon. But if the pet dies, both will be dropped.

You can resuscitate a dead quested pet with a Resurrection Scroll, but you only have a few minutes to do so.

Quested pets can't ride boats (but of course, you can store it away while in transit).

Pets consume soulshots if they're using a weapon that requires it, and have soulshot in their inventory.

To give a pet to someone else, give the pet's collar or dragonflute to another player.

Only a pet's master can resurrect it using a scroll or spell.

If you dismiss a pet while it's in attack mode, it will attack you. The pet will also retain whatever upper armor and weapon it was using.

Tamed pets follow certain commands: Follow. Causes pet to follow you. Name. Gives your pet a name. Attack. Instructs pet to attack your target. Stop. Voids all commands you've previously given your pet. Collect. Causes pet to pick up items on the ground. Return. Calls pet to your side. Dismiss. Permanently releases the pet back into the wild.

Temple and Shillien Knights can summon cubics, pets that attack, buff or even heal. To summon a cubic, you need to acquire and use crystals, as well as master different summoning skills (one per cubic type).

An attack cubic will only attack your own target, and is not capable of targeting on its own.

Cubics can't be hit!