I think that having pet snack vendors in worlds beyond Skull Island sell their respective better fitting world of origin and higher ranked pet snacks would make much more sense, because the higher rank, yet least common snacks should be sold in the correct worlds instead of all of them selling very common snacks from Skull Island and nothing else. I agree to that idea.

Also, I think that higher level enemies and bosses should be at least dropping some more higher ranked pet snacks from their correct worlds more often instead of only mostly lower ranked snacks from Skull Island most of the time, respectively. It gets very frustrating to grab very low level and common pet snacks from higher level enemies for training our pets to raise their levels and stats real quickly, I admit. Of course, we have the Crowns Shop's snack packs for that, too, but, the point is, higher level enemies and bosses from higher leveled zones in later worlds should be dropping higher ranked snacks, and maybe some occasional mega snacks, too, instead of very common low ranked snacks and nothing more. I also think that certain bosses in worlds should only drop mega snacks, too instead of common snacks. That would really ignite anyone's interests in farming bosses for higher ranked pet snacks. I really think that their loot tables may need some good adjusting to accommodate that.

Chrissy Th'Blesser on May 27, 2014 wrote:

Ratbeard has assured us that the snacks are added to the loot tables as a bonus. They do not replace the goodies previously on that loot table. They don't change the odds. For those times when you fought and used to get just gold, now you get gold and some snacks. The odds of the good stuff had not been changed.

I know that. I was referring to the worlds beyond Skull Island's many enemies and bosses' loot tables adjusted so that they would be dropping their respective world of origin pet snacks instead of the Skull Island snacks being very common, and select bosses having to drop mega snacks only instead of regular snacks, but other loot in their loot tables, such as gold and various Pirate gear, should remain unaffected.

Decius Duelmaster on May 28, 2014 wrote:

The pet snack vendors are there in case you run out of snacks and need something quick. You can't get a gourmet meal from a vending machine. But getting higher level snacks doesn't take much work. You can get them from bosses, pet wrangling, and the pet arena. If you feel like it there are the snack packs and mega snack packs.

All bosses have a chance to drop higher level snacks. I may look into adjusting the drop rate, but currently I am very happy with the rate that I see snacks being dropped in the game as a whole.
We can't always roll a 20 every time.

As for the amount of snacks you are getting, I expect each of you to get enough snacks to keep multiple pets training and leveling at a time. One of the benefits of our pet training system over Wizard101's is that you can train multiple at once, so I have attempted to make that the best and easiest way for you to train.

I can always turn down the drop rate of snacks over all if I see people maxing out on snacks.

You're right, Decius. The efforts provided to train our pets and obtain pet snacks are worth doing so. I just had my thoughts.

Decius Duelmaster on May 28, 2014 wrote:

The pet snack vendors are there in case you run out of snacks and need something quick. You can't get a gourmet meal from a vending machine. But getting higher level snacks doesn't take much work. You can get them from bosses, pet wrangling, and the pet arena. If you feel like it there are the snack packs and mega snack packs.

All bosses have a chance to drop higher level snacks. I may look into adjusting the drop rate, but currently I am very happy with the rate that I see snacks being dropped in the game as a whole.
We can't always roll a 20 every time.

As for the amount of snacks you are getting, I expect each of you to get enough snacks to keep multiple pets training and leveling at a time. One of the benefits of our pet training system over Wizard101's is that you can train multiple at once, so I have attempted to make that the best and easiest way for you to train.

I can always turn down the drop rate of snacks over all if I see people maxing out on snacks.

This morning I was working on my Swashbuckler in Mooshu. Zukoichi in Moomori Compound has a pretty extensively recorded drop list on the Pirate101Central wiki - he seems to drop a little bit of everything - and you reach him after a longish pre-quest. The snacks he's dropping have been rank 3 (Deep Fried Banana) to rank 7 (JuJu Fruits). This has been great.

However, you must admit that Captain Blood in Cool Ranch and Grohl in Aquila dropping Scrimshaw Swiss and Troggy Taffy really doesn't make much sense. I know we can't roll a 20 every time, but we shouldn't roll a 1 so often against a major boss at the end of a hard dungeon like Miranda, or in the highest level world we reach.

Okay - Medea gave us Fish Fingers, and Captain Pluton drops Golden Pineapple and Molten Lava Cake. This REALLY is getting frustrating! PLEASE, please take a look at the distribution of these rank 1 and 2 snacks that are all over the Spiral. Ask any player and they will say:

"Higher level worlds should provide higher level snacks."

Not everyone wants to send their whole crew Pet Wrangling just to have decent snacks to feed pets, which appears to be the ONLY way to obtain them other than buying packs with Crowns. I'd like to have some of my crew available for battle, and get my higher level snacks from that activity instead.

Thank you!

I don't know about anyone else, but I find it is the power points that are the hardest to max out.

A really nice compromise would be to have at least one low level snack of each type (desert, main dish, and side dish) for each world! I would love to be able to feed my Minotaur a level 1 main dish from Aquila, to get the 2 power points for the "love"!