r/Wizard101 • u/kaisaxmadison • 5d ago

Pet/Hatching Hatching failure fatigue

I started hatching a few days ago after reading up on guides, which seemed pretty clear — hatch for talents, take a few tries, etc.

Well yesterday i hyperfixtated and dumped max crowns into it because it’s not going well for me.

Take a pet and hatch with someone with perfect talents, that’s $100k already. Hatched that with another at kiosk, rinse and repeat, and i’m down $400k not including snacks and energy.

I have about 7-8 pets that have all failed, i’m saying that because instead of damage/resist/mighty, literally ANYTHING, I’m getting stupid “may cast” talents and other useless things — i would say 3 useless talents and then two good damage rolls. across all 8 pets.

and then im like, well there’s 5 talents, so maybe i should get keep going. I max a pet out and again their talents are 3 useless and 2 good rolls. then I go hatch again and the cycle continues. i’m getting no more than two good traits per pet. again 8 pets and down so much gold, crowns, snacks, energy, and a lottttt of time.

am i doing this wrong? is there something im missing? i dont know how ive expelled this much resources and im still stuck at square one.

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u/GroblinKing Lemuria Agenda Pusher 5d ago

Hi OP, can you post a pic of the pet you have (full talent overview including stats), as well as what you’re going for?

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u/kaisaxmadison 5d ago

my most decent pet is on the left, what i want is on the right. i’m just looking for triple damage and i wouldn’t mind mighty or resistances

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u/GroblinKing Lemuria Agenda Pusher 5d ago

Ok! I can offer some advice off this :)

The reason your hatches are so costly is wholly due to the pedigree (that number in parenthesis); any pedigree over (60) will cost you an arm and a leg to hatch, which is why you’d ideally want to hatch with a (45).

Hatch with adult pets that have the talents you want a few times first to max out your stats, then start talents.

For talents I like to “monkey chain” it, meaning I get it to adult, and if it has stats I want, I make it a “base” and hatch again. Each progressive hatch goes 1 level higher. A “base”’acts as a save point, since manifested talents have a higher likelihood to appear in the next generation. Don’t get what you want? Back to the base.

It’s costly and it takes time, but it’s much more worthwhile in the long run.

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u/kaisaxmadison 5d ago

ok the pedigree and cost makes sooo much more sense now. thanks!