Custom Pets

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AGE OF SOSARIA: THE CUSTOM PETS WIKI

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Welcome to the definitive guide on the Age of Sosaria Taming Ecosystem.

Unlike standard shards where everyone runs around with the exact same

Greater Dragon, our shard features a highly customized, deep meta built

into three distinct tiers of custom pets: Rares, Legendaries, and Exotics.

Here is exactly how the mechanics work, how to find them, and what they do.

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SYSTEM MECHANICS: THE SPAWN RATES

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Rares and Legendaries do not have their own spawn locations. Instead,

they seamlessly hijack the spawn chance of standard creatures in the wild.

- THE RARE ROLL (5% Chance): Every time a standard tameable beast

  (like a Cu Sidhe, Drake, or Rune Beetle) spawns in the world, there

  is a 5% chance it will magically mutate into a "Rare" variant.

- THE LEGENDARY ROLL (1% Chance): Every time a standard tameable beast

  attempts to spawn, there is an ultra-rare 1% chance it mutates into

  a "Legendary" variant.

Exotics bypass this system entirely and are acquired exclusively through

endgame Loot mechanics.

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TIER 1: THE "RARE" TIER (Quality of Life)

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Rare pets exist as massive quality-of-life skips for standard Tamers.

They are not mechanically different from their standard counterparts,

but they spawn with heavily bloated base stats and skills.

- The Niche: Skip the Macro Grind.

- What it means: Taming a Rare Rune Beetle essentially gives you a pet

  that is theoretically already trained to level 3 out of the box. It

  possesses higher health and pre-capped skills compared to a wild bug.

- Who has Rares? Nightmares, Fire Steeds, Dragons, Drakes, White Wyrms,

  Cu Sidhes, Giant Beetles, Rune Beetles, Hiryus, and Swamp Dragons all

  have a Rare variant.

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TIER 2: THE "LEGENDARY" TIER (Meta-Defining Shifts)

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Finding a Legendary is a monumental event. Unlike Rares, Legendaries

completely break the rules of normal Animal Training. They have

customized control slot costs and intrinsic perks (like immunities and

built-in armor ignore) that they shouldn't legally have!

1. THE LEGENDARY LESSER HIRYU

  - Base Slots: 2

  - The Niche: The Physical DPS Benchmark

  - Intrinsic Perks: Natively spawns with 'Armor Ignore'. When combined

    with the Hiryu 'Grasping Claw' ability (which shreds enemy physical

    resistance), training this from 2 to 5 slots yields the most lethal

    independent physical beast in the game.

2. THE LEGENDARY NAJASAURUS

  - Base Slots: 2

  - The Niche: The Toxic Brawler

  - Intrinsic Perks: Natively spawns with a mathematically perfect 100%

    Poison Immunity. When fighting bosses that spit lethal Poison AoEs

    (like Malakar), this snake is the mandatory tank.

3. THE LEGENDARY OSSEIN RAM

  - Base Slots: 3

  - The Niche: The Hybrid Boss Leech

  - Intrinsic Perks: Inherently possesses Necromage and LifeLeech. It

    will constantly sustain its own health pool via powerful leeching

    bites while firing necrosis magic into bosses.

4. THE LEGENDARY FRENZIED OSTARD (Chocobo)

  - Base Slots: 1

  - The Niche: The Glass Cannon Sweeper

  - Intrinsic Perks: Spawns exactly at 1-Slot and possesses the

    'Frenzied Whirlwind' splash-damage ability. Pouring 6,000 custom

    training points into a 1-slot mount turns it into a hyper-fast

    clearing blender.

5. THE LEGENDARY TRITON

  - Base Slots: 2

  - The Niche: The High-Seas Bruiser

  - How to Find: Only drops when rolling standard Tritons during deep

    ocean Leviathan encounters or high-end SOS Bottles.

6. THE LEGENDARY GREATER DRAGON

  - Base Slots: 5 (Locked)

  - The Niche: The Unbreakable Physical Wall

  - Intrinsic Perks: Near immunity to Fire damage, immense out-of-the-box

    base HP (1200+), and native Bleed/Armor Ignore. Cannot be trained further.

7. THE LEGENDARY POLAR BEAR

  - Base Slots: 2

  - The Niche: The Pure Defensive Tank Project

  - Intrinsic Perks: A completely blank slate starting at 2 slots,

    designed to have 4,500 training points injected directly into making

    it an unbreakable wall.

8. THE LEGENDARY NIGHTMARE / BAKE KITSUNE

  - Base Slots: 2

  - The Niche: Magical Hit-and-Run Mounts

  - Intrinsic Perks: Excellent base Magery and Intelligence. Designed

    specifically to be trained into 5-slot mobile harassing units for PvP.

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TIER 3: THE "EXOTIC" TIER

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Exotics do not spawn organically. To tame one, you must find an

"Exotic Summoning Crystal." These incredibly rare crystals only drop

from Champion Spawns or Mythic Bosses. Smashing the crystal safely in

your backpack releases a completely randomized Exotic beast into the

world for you to tame.

Exotics are completely unnatural creatures that fill purely magical and

utilitarian holes in the taming ecosystem.

1. THE EXOTIC MANA-WISP

  - The Niche: The Arcane Battery

  - Intrinsic Perks: This pet deals almost zero physical DPS. However,

    it constantly pulses a radiant magical aura that directly restores

    chunks of Mana to you and your party members during combat.

2. THE EXOTIC GREATER DRAGON

  - The Niche: The Hovering Artillery

  - Intrinsic Perks: Locked to 5-slots. Its physical strength has been

    severely crippled, but it spawns with nearly 1,100 Base Intelligence.

    It hovers on the edge of the battlefield dropping massive spell

    combinations onto bosses.

3. THE EXOTIC RIDEABLE DRAGON

  - The Niche: The Field-Sweeping Mount

  - Intrinsic Perks: Capable of triggering massive AoE elemental blasts

    when dismounting, heavily damaging grouped-up mobs.

(Note: Countless other bizarre Exotics like Manticores, Gryphons, and

Shadow Spiders can also randomly hatch from the Summoning Crystal!)