I know a few of these are out there but recently I found the need to know how much it would cost to level a pet to a decent HSD, what would be the cheapest way to do it and how long it would take.
I guess I will first start by giving some simple facts:
Mystery Island Training School
Can train your:
Strength/Defense/Speed: at twice your level
Health points: at triple your level
You can only train Strength/Defense/Speed if no other stat is more than double your level.
E.g. A level 20 pet with 48 HP, 28 Str, 34 Def and 32 Spd must have its level raised to half of the highest stat (48 HP) before you can train other stats.
Below is the table that explains pet level, codestone cost and the time each course takes to complete.
The Swashbuckling Academy
The other beginners training academy is the Swashbuckling Academy. This is cheaper but has downsides when compared to the Mystery Island Training School. These are as follows:
1. The Swashbuckling Academy can only train HP/Str/Def/Spd at twice your level. The difference here is the HP being limited to twice, not triple as in the Mystery Island Training School.
2. The Swashbuckling Academy trains at a significantly slower pace.
3. The Swashbuckling Academy only trains to level 40 and thus 80 of each stat.
However, if you are willing to wait the extra time, you will save 50%+ on your training costs (at the cost of losing around 50% of the speed).
Below is the table that explains pet level, dubloon cost and the time each course takes to complete.
The cost of training with dubloons and codestones
Having prowled through various resources (Neocodex, TDN and Jelly to name the main three) and doing my own research (scoping shop wizard and trade prices), I came up with an estimate of the cheapest way to train a pet from the basic stats of:
Level: 1, STR: 10, DEF: 10 and HP: 10
To the end of normal codestone training:
Level: 250, STR: 500, DEF: 500 and HP: up to 750 (750 HP not advised if you plan on going onto red codestone… 590 is sufficient so you do not pay more in red codestones later).
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Stat increasing items
Below are lists of items that increase your pet’s stats. I have used the shop wizard/trading post for the cheapest prices. Some price are well above their ‘actual’ value (namely the ones worth 300,000 or more are usually over price online – especially the ones ‘worth’ millions)
Neggs
Pros: Instant
Cons: Expensive, hunger-limited
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Other Stat-Increasing Items
Pros: Instant, No hunger-limitation
Cons: Expensive
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Thanks to these people/sites for their data
http://www.neocodex....aining-methods/
http://www.neocodex....-cost-analysis/
http://www.thedailyneopets.com/
http://www.jellyneo.net/
http://www.neocodex.us/
http://www.neopets.c...n=12109&week=96
Big updates 11/10/2011
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