>>2015898
Now is a good time to mention some psychos mass fuse cheap pets until they hit a fusion count of 9999. This is because the game has damage and stat maluses the more people are in a pet's party, and doing this shoves the nigga straight to LV1 max level. Fixing this means you have to fuse a lv60 nigga into him and he now becomes like, lv30 max or some shit, then doing it again and again, gradually, until his ass gets back up into the hundreds. Long fucking process. All of this requires you level them back up each time, the fusion materials too once you're actually fusing leveled pets into him.

.....oh my fucking god, christ, what am I doing.

So anyways, the rule is, fuse higher level shit into your pet. It's their CURRENT level that counts. Lower level shit will lower the max level and fuck you up in the long run, unless you're intentionally hitting 9999 fuses, which is fucking yourself up except on purpose because Asobimo.

With that in mind, keep Affinity at 100. It grants an EXP bonus when you do. Supposedly it's like 1000%. There's guides for leveling pets comparatively quickly.

When it comes to acquiring pets, ones off the CB are usually fine. Ones you find at home get recruited with your character's level as their max. Wild caught pets can be used for 9999fuse fodder. Their max is also related to yours, fairly certain.

I feel like I covered mostly everything. I just want to fucking sleep. If nothing else, you can make a support pet with little investment because the bar is incredibly fucking low. There you go.