Pets, Pet Gnomes and Pet Rescue

Find and defeat Pet Gnomes in PVP to unlock a Pet Rescue event where you can save a pet in peril! The pets you rescue will give you special boosts and can sit on your Hero's shoulder.

What are Pet Gnomes?

Pet Gnomes are troops which enter your Ranked and Casual PVP battles on the opponent's side randomly, if you defeat one and win the battle, you will receive pet food as a reward and a pet rescue event will start for your entire guild! 

Pet Rescue Events

Pet Rescue Events can be started by:

• Randomly finding and defeating a Pet Gnome in Battle
• Luring a Pet Gnome into Battle using Pet Bait purchased in the Guild Shop screen and defeating it in Battle.
  
  • Note: If a player goes into a PvP battle with both Cursed Gnome Bait and Gnome Bait (for the Baited Pet Gnome), it will use up the Gnome Bait for Pet Gnomes first before
    using Cursed Gnome Bait. For more information on Cursed Gnomes click here.
• or during the weekly scheduled Pet Rescue Event.
  • Note: A random Pet Rescue cannot be triggered when there is an all-day Pet Rescue active in Gems of War or an hour before Daily Reset before a scheduled Pet event starts.

Pet Baits

• Regular Pet Bait: Will be automatically consumed in your next PvP battle.
• Cursed Gnome Bait: Is consumed in your next PvP or Explore.
• Dragonite Gnome Bait: Is consumed in your next PvP or Explore.

Pet Rescue Events

There are 2 types of Pet Rescue Events:

• Pet Rescues triggered by defeating a Pet gnome last for 1 hour
• Scheduled Pet Rescues are run by the development team and last 24 hours.

Note: You cannot trigger a Pet Rescue event while a Scheduled Pet Rescue is running.

Pet Rescues are available for your entire guild regardless of who found and defeated the Pet gnome. However, the event and rewards are played and given individually - in other words, you must complete the Pet Rescue for yourself!

You can find Pet Rescues in the Games menu on the World Map.

NOTE: If a Guild member rescues a Pet and the Event does not start, try opening the Shop, doing a quick Explore battle or closing and reopening the game.

Defeat the Pet's captors in 8 stages of the battle to win a guaranteed pet reward!

Each battle won will unlock a reward, which you can collect from the Rewards Tab. Each stage will give you Gold and a basket. Baskets contain random rewards such as Pets, Pet Food, Gold or Jewels for use in the Soulforge.

 

I've rescued the pet, what now? 

 You can find your rescued pets by going to the World Map > Troops > Pets tab.

Here you can equip your pet to your Hero. By feeding your pets you can level them up and raise their level cap, which increases the bonus you receive from them. Pets give different bonuses.

Pet types and bonuses

• Loot Pets: Give you bonus XP 
  
  • For example, Lucky
• Buff pets: Give you bonus stats to teams using the Pet's troop type 
  • For example, Wyrmling gives a team bonus to all Dragon Troops used
• Individual Troop Buff: Gives bonus points to all Skills on a single Troop
• Cosmetic Pets: No bonus. These Pets are specific to special Events run by the Gems of War team.
• PvP Pets: Gives you a bonus to troops that is only applied in PvP Battles within a single PvP Region.

Upgrading your Pet

Pet Mastery

 Every time you level up your pet it adds 1 point to your Pet Mastery.

• Every 5 levels gives you Gems
• Every 25 Levels gives you a Chaos Orb
• Every 100 levels gives you a Greater Chaos Orb

Increase Level Cap 

Increase the maximum Level Cap of your Pet so you can increase its level. You will need the Cost of cards required plus one more to increase the maximum level. The extra copy of the Pet is so that it can be in use while the other copies are sacrificed for the upgrade.

Level up your Pet

Feed your Pet any Pet food to increase their Level. Food with a star and a similar color will provide more XP for your Pets. Loot and Buff Pets will provide a Team or XP bonus at certain levels.  This bonus occurs for each Loot and Buff Pet at levels 5, 10, 15 and 20.

Tips

• Pets give you their Bonus even if they aren't equipped. Equipping a Pet to your Hero is purely for cosmetic reasons
• If you feed your Pet the Food it likes, it will gain more experience than if you feed it other food. The food your Pet likes will have a Star on it
• Scheduled Pet Rescues usually begin mid-week.
• Cosmetic Pets can still be leveled to increase your overall Pet Mastery
• Look out for other players who might start battles with a Pet Gnome on their team in PVP: Those are fakes!
• If you go into a PvP battle with both Cursed Gnome Bait and Gnome Bait (for
  the Baited Pet Gnome), it will use up the Gnome Bait for Pet Gnomes first before
  using Cursed Gnome Bait.
• Cursed Gnomes will reward Cursed Runes and not a copy of a Troop or Pet.