While participating in prolonged group activities involving wipe mechanics or needing Battle Items, ZealsAmbitions recommends having access to Pet Bonuses to ensure you’re a reliable party member. The ability to repair broken gear (resulting from your repeated deaths) without ending the activity is convenient for your entire group. Additionally, you may not always know which Battle Items you’ll need in your arsenal, or run out on an alternate character without knowing. Pet Bonuses allow you to access your roster storage from anywhere, so at the Battle Station within a raid or dudgeon all of your characters can snag roster-bound Battle Item Chests out of your inventory with ease. Having access to whatever items you need is a huge perk for group and end-game content.
Pet bonuses can be accessed when you have active Crystalline Aura. If don’t want to buy Royal Crystals, no worries! You can use the currency exchange to swap gold earned through activities for Crystals, which can be used to grab Crystalline Aura via the in-game shop. Crystalline Aura also frequently shows up in free rewards for Prime Gaming members, so keep your eye out!
Below is a table of every offensive and defensive buff your pet can obtain in Lost Ark. The magnitude of the buff is also randomly rolled. Each reroll costs seven Crystals.
| Offensive | Defensive |
|---|---|
| Crit: +2-10% | Max HP: +1-5% |
| Specialization: +2-20% | Phy. Defense: +2-10% |
| Domination: +2-10% | Mag. Defense: +2-10% |
| Swiftness: +2-10% | Phy. Damage Reduction: +1-5% |
| Endurance: +2-10% | Mag Damage Reduction: +1-5% |
| Expertise: +2-10% |
Players that have the Crystalline Aura buff active can access additional benefits with each of their pets. Those effects are the following:
Pet functions allow you to gain access to many features that let you use them remotely. This can be done even in raids & abyssal dungeons. Crystalline Aura is required to gain access to Pet Functions. Benefits include:
Auto-Looting Items is a base feature of a pet which is available for free at all times. Press the cogwheel to set up auto-loot filters for specific item tiers, levels and ranks. Your pet needs to be summoned for auto-loot to be active.
Pet Effects provide you with a defensive and offensive buff that increases certain stats of your character. These buffs can be freely changed at a Pet Management NPC found in all major cities.
Offensive pet effects increase your combat stats by 10%. Meaning if you have 1000 swiftness and use a 10% swiftness bonus effect, you’ll end up with 1100 swiftness. Therefore, choose a bonus based on your highest combat stat allocation to benefit the most from this system.
Defensive pet effects can be tailored towards specific encounters to protect yourself versus physical or magical damage, or simply grant you extra HP. The 5% Max HP is widely considered as the best option here. This is especially true when paired up with support classes as many of their skills benefit from higher HP values, for example: Endless Protection, Wind of Protection or Shield.