Greetings,
Fairly new to the game and had not considered getting a pet until I read a build post about swashbucklers, I had no idea what they can bring to the game.

My question concerns the differences between a buying a pet with crowns versus building your own in terms of how good the pets are and if you buy one are the stats and abilities random? I understand the money versus time aspect, just not how the abilities are generated on a bought pet.

Thanks in advance for any and all information, hunt well.

Hello and Welcome,

Just to piggyback off what's been said already:

First Generation Pets received via rewards/drops/gold purchased/crowns purchased etc. all come with a set first generation talent pool, and gain a random talent/power via said talent pool after each level.

Morphed Pets are a combination of two pets. They can be a combination of any two pets and will gain a combination of their talent and power pools as well, but again still gain talents/powers randomly after each level.

To answer your question more directly: Crown pets usually come with one or two very rare and helpful talents/powers, which only gives them a slight advantage over pets obtained via rewards/drops/gold/ etc. (Although some very rare drop pets can come with powerful talents/powers). Its the combination of a variety of pets via Morphing that results in the strongest and most useful pets. Unfortunately, getting a pet with all the talents you want can take a while, as the talents/powers each new morphed pet gets is randomly selected from the parents talent pools.

Hope this helped a bit!