Petpets Back in the Battledome?

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Officer 1BDI · #1 Post by **Officer 1BDI** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:15 am

I went into the battledome with Capi to fight an easy opponent so I could fully heal her without spending NP via a victory. The first thing I see when the battle begins is her petpet, Muco!

This is a huge image; I'm sorry. That's why I'm thumbnailing it.

The first screen shows the start of the battle with Muco, and tells me I can select him from the drop down menu to join in the fight. I did, but according to the second screen, he did absolutely nothing.

This is the first time in over a year that I've encountered this. I know this was once a (relatively) common occurance that was done away with before I even started playing Neopets, but I was wondering if this appearance tonight was a bug, or if TNT is perhaps rethinking their position on petpets in the battledome?

Katherine · #2 Post by **Katherine** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:20 am

Wow!I'll go try it now with my L2 petpet.What level was your petpet?

Officer 1BDI · #3 Post by **Officer 1BDI** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:29 am

He's only level 1. I stopped labbing him because I want to get the Mazzew avatar. That might explain why he did jack squat in the battle, though. :oops:

Katherine · #4 Post by **Katherine** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:38 am

My level 2 petpet didn't apper in any of the 5 battles I did.

Officer 1BDI · #5 Post by **Officer 1BDI** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:42 am

Well, I know that it was a rare occurrence even when it was a functioning option. I just tried one of my other pets, and her petpet failed to appear too.

It probably WAS a bug, but I wanted to see if anyone else had run into this recently.

Rakumel · #6 Post by **Rakumel** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:51 am

Yeah, that did happen to me recently, actually. I was battling against Inflatable Balthazar to heal Drilax, and lo and behold his Phish was there. It was either level 2 or 3 at the time, and just out of curiosity I tried it as an option, but it didn't do anything. I knew it was an option once a long time ago, and that it got disabled, so yeah...kinda surprised to see that again. I'm guessing it's a bug. *shrug*

Sigh · #7 Post by **Sigh** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:00 am

*looks at the screenies*
cool! my friend just had this happen and he did like 1 point of damage. and i don't think it's a glitch, i know it USED to be possible... think they're bringing it back? that would be cool

Jacob · #8 Post by **Jacob** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 1:44 am

ah...so it was done away with. this article in the IDB had me wondering. Was the information right though? That your damage was multiplied?

Bellagio · #9 Post by **Bellagio** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:21 am

Yeah, it's happened to me a few times lately. It didn't seem to do anything, but next time I'll pay more attention & see if it makes a difference.