Section 1 : Why Pet Training?



So why the heck would you train a pet? Level 1 or level 30 pet would do the exact same thing -- looting.

Then, when you think about it, your pet only lasts for THREE months, not forever. One day it'll just turn into a doll again, and life goes on. A friend told me, "I don't stay attach to things that disappear in 3 months'.

So, why would you spend time on it?

Well first, obviously you'd want the commands for pets. Getting your pet to do whatever you tell it to do can be fun (slavery omg).

Second, higher level pets have new commands to use, as well as new dialogues. Level 10+ pets can "talk", level 15 pets would say whatever you tell it to with /pet. It can give you tons of laugh during a boring boat ride, or even initiate conversations with friends or random people. "Hey what was that?" "What is the closeness for level 10?" It may sound stupid, but it actually works. I met a number of friends that way too. =x

Third, they're called "pets", not "looter", not "slave". It's our job to care for it, like a real life pet, even though it's simply pixels coded by programmers. In reality, pets like hamsters have short life span too, does it mean you should leave it starving all time, and not take care of it? In fact, it might've even be easier for Wizet's programmers if they made Item Pouch and Meso Magnet for characters, then you can loot the stuff yourself. >_> No dialogue whatsoever is even needed. But then, pets are here for us.

Overall, pets are here to provide another way for all of us to enjoy MapleStory. Instead of staring at your screen bored from leveling, you have something else to kill time. Instead of waiting to leveling at 100%, you can level your pet and be happy about it too.


So here, let's move on to training!

Section 2 : Training? How?

When it comes to pet training, people may simply think "spam". Here are a few options for pet training, and my tips.



Option #1: Pet Parks

You hear me, pet parks. It's the fastest way to level your pet when you have spare time from your own training. Oh look, a jump quest all over again. o_o''

Ludibrium Pet Park is preferred, as it gives 4 closeness from each time you do the quest. The Henesys one is harder to most of us and gives only 2 closeness each time.


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[ProtoTip#1] : Don't forget your commands while jumping!

Here's where I'd do commands during the jump:

___For level 10-19 pets :




Option #2: Commands




What?

For all you jump quest haters, commands are your hero. But.. WAIT. Please listen. You have a big list of commands... but which *should* you use?



For most level 1-9 pets : "Sit" and "iloveyou" tend to be the easiest commands to work, and each give 1 closeness. All the positive commands are good for pets at this level. The negative ones, such as "no" and "bad", works less often.


Pandas: Panda has three command that gives 2 closeness whenever it works -- "Chill / Relax", "iloveyou" and "Stand/Up/Rise". However, "Stand/Up/Rise" works more often compared to the other 2 commands. Know which to use now? ^_~

Credit goes to Kelli (TwilightWish), Enterprize-E, aznh4ny0u, and Cyndrin. =x




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For most level 10-19 pets : "Talk" works the most often, and gives 2 closeness for each one that works.


Rudolphs : Rudolph owners... you paid more at the beginning, so you're uber unique.

Rudolphs gain more closeness with "Merryxmas" or "Lonely/Alone" than "Talk", according to djflipstarx and Cyndrin. "Talk" gives only 1 closeness, unlike other pets. Thanks to both of them for this information. ^^"

Djflipstarx has a tip for all Rudolph owners:

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It's best to either do it in party chat (with no party, of course) or, if you do it in regular chat, to give your pet a name. Then you won't look as odd saying merryxmas way before December.


Pandas: After lots of in-game comfirmation, Panda's "Letsplay" command works most often, and give 3 clossness everytime it works. Wow, Panda owners are lucky. Thanks to a huge amount of people for helping me on this.



Huskies:

Global MS: When a Husky turns level 10, the "Hand" command becomes a 2 closeness command. It surprisingly works way more often than the new commands "Talk" and "Down", for Husky. o.O

MapleSEA: It's been said that "Hand" doesn't work in MapleSea. "Talk" is perhaps the best command to train your Huskies.



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For most level 20+ pets : "Talk" will still be the best command to train your pets. You may ask, "but don't you have a new command at level 20?" Yes, you do. It however works rarely and only gives 1 extra closeness compared to "talk".


Rudolphs (Level 21+) : Rudolphs have a new command "Go" at level 21 (Yes, one level late compared to others). It gives 2 closeness and works often, Cyndrin says.


Pandas: Cyndrin pointed out that "Sleep" gives 3 closeness when it works, and works *very* well compared to other commands.


Husky: There's one and only one good command -- "Hand". 3 closeness command + working often, what else can you look for?

Thanks Renee :heart: (fan!)

Good luck, this is a useful guide, I liked it. ;D

What a cute guide <333 The drawings were adorable [really adore your artistic abilities (:], and it was fun reading [beat training ><]. I think my pet's hungry now, hah.

Anyways, kudos! Loved your guide n__n

Thanks StarCrossed and Vocalized! I enjoyed writing all this too. Hopefully others who read it will like it too.. =3

AAAHAHH!!! I see me! I feel soo happy to be part of your guide! Mommy, the guide is really cute! ^^

HEHE..I'll train my dog! HERSHEY!!!!

Kiwicherry: "talk"
Hershey: "I don't know what you're saying, Bark Bark."
*slaps dog*
Kiwicherry: stupid
+1 closeness
Hershey: "Master scary, heeheeee T_T"

wow thats not a bad guide, closeness/level table=my god thanksyou!

This is a nice guide. I liked it. =O
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Very well done.

Cool guide, the paintings are great!

hey renee nice thread, I like your drawings =)