Boss pets
Boss pets are pets that resemble miniature boss monsters. There are two broad types of boss pets – those unlocked by specific item drop by the boss in question, and those unlocked by other means.
Unlocking all boss pets is one of the requirements for the golden version of the Final Boss [Name] title.
Mechanics[edit | edit source]
The mechanics for the drop chance of the unlock item for boss pets released from 5 January 2015 are as follows:[1]
- Each boss has a base drop chance of the item, represented as . For example, General Graardor's decaying tooth has a base drop chance of 1/5000.
- Each boss has an associated threshold, which is a number . For example, General Graardor's threshold is 1000. This number relates to the total kills of the boss recorded in the player's Beasts tab in the Adventures interface.
- The thresholds are usually 1/5th of the drop chance's denominator multiplied by the number of pets. For example, the Dagannoth Kings have a drop chance of X/2500. One-fifth of 2500 is 500, but there are 3 Dagannoth King pets, so the threshold is 3×500, or 1500.
- This threshold modifier does not apply to Vindicta or the Twin Furies.
- For every recorded kills the player has of the boss, the numerator of the drop chance increases by 1.
- This is rounded down, so having 1999 recorded General Graardor kills is treated the same as 1000 recorded General Graardor kills.
- For bosses with a hard mode or challenge mode, the two kill counts are added together when checking the number of times the threshold has been met. Normal mode and hard mode kills are weighted equally; i.e. 1 hard mode kill has the same effect on increasing the drop chance as 1 normal mode kill does.
- For example, a player with 2464 General Graardor kills and 603 hard mode General Graardor kills has 3067 total kills, so their decaying tooth drop chance numerator is increased by 3, giving a drop chance of 4/5000 (1/1250) in normal mode and 4/1000 (1/250) in hard mode.
- The numerator is capped at 10, so the drop chance will no longer increase once the threshold has been passed 9 times.
In a mathematical format, the chance of receiving a boss pet on any particular kill is:
Where:
- is your normal mode kill count and is your hard mode kill count
- is the denominator of the base drop rate
- is the number of pets available from the boss
- This can be simplified such that () is the threshold value, everytime this value is reached in killcount is (), the chance of receiving a pet:
- This effectively makes each threshold reached change the pet base denominator to be where is up to a maximum of 9 times.
Boss pets unlocked by item drops[edit | edit source]
The majority of these pets were added in the boss pets update on 5 January 2015. They are all unlocked by obtaining a specific item drop from the respective boss. A server-wide broadcast occurs when a player receives a drop. When a player uses the item, the item is consumed and the boss pet is unlocked with the message: As you touch the artefact, a familiar face approaches you. Congratulations! You have unlocked the pet: <pet unlocked>.
Pets can be obtained while LootShare is active; however, they are not distributed via LootShare. Boss pets are always given to the player who would have obtained the drop if LootShare was not active. For the majority of bosses, this is the player who dealt the most damage in the kill.
Each of these pets can be examined (by any player) to display the number of kills their owner has against the corresponding boss. They can also be used to override Summoning familiars from the boss pets section of the pets interface. If used this way, the overridden familiar will also show the relevant killcount upon being examined, beneath the normal familiar examine.
Boss pets unlocked through other methods[edit | edit source]
Boss pet totals[edit | edit source]
Pet | 29 Jan 2015[21] | 18 Sep 2015[22] | 15 Mar 2016[23] | 4 May 2016[24] | 16 Aug 2016[25] | 25 Apr 2017[26] |
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Mallory | 114 | 1294 | N/A | N/A | 3752 | 5800 |
Barry | 241 | 1881 | N/A | N/A | 4749 | 7171 |
Ellie | 230 | 2095 | N/A | N/A | 4207 | 5440 |
Commander Miniana | 405 | 2454 | N/A | N/A | 5285 | 6759 |
Corporeal Puppy | 225 | 2041 | N/A | N/A | 5304 | 7292 |
Prime hatchling | 296 | 2392 | N/A | N/A | 4228 | 5465 |
Rex hatchling | 374 | 2592 | N/A | N/A | 4694 | 6132 |
Supreme hatchling | 327 | 2382 | N/A | N/A | 4168 | 5352 |
General Awwdor | 1011 | 5637 | N/A | N/A | 12700 | 15730 |
Molly | 95 | 1173 | N/A | N/A | 2485 | 3315 |
Shrimpy | 199 | 1688 | N/A | N/A | 3225 | 3520 |
Kalphite Grubling | 246 | 1739 | N/A | N/A | 3199 | 3639 |
Kalphite Grublet | 64 | 836 | N/A | N/A | 1719 | 2223 |
King Black Dragonling | 250 | 3581 | N/A | N/A | 7800 | 10346 |
Chick'arra | 679 | 4160 | N/A | N/A | 8890 | 12399 |
K'ril Tinyroth | 652 | 4851 | N/A | N/A | 11208 | 15237 |
Legio Primulus | 187 | 1187 | N/A | N/A | 2248 | 2790 |
Legio Secundulus | 201 | 1192 | N/A | N/A | 2246 | 2832 |
Legio Tertiolus | 171 | 1175 | N/A | N/A | 2186 | 2746 |
Legio Quartulus | 191 | 1202 | N/A | N/A | 2287 | 2820 |
Legio Quintulus | 205 | 1178 | N/A | N/A | 2185 | 2732 |
Legio Sextulus | 177 | 1171 | N/A | N/A | 2215 | 2776 |
Mega ducklings | 6269 | 15574 | N/A | N/A | 19909 | 23000 |
Nexterminator | 214 | 1627 | N/A | N/A | 3865 | 5588 |
Queen Black Dragonling | 515 | 3877 | N/A | N/A | 7983 | 10499 |
Vitalis | 182[27] | N/A | 489 | N/A | 591 | 720 |
Bombi | N/A | N/A | 640 | N/A | 941 | 1304 |
Krar Jnr | N/A | N/A | 1127 | N/A | 1953 | N/A |
Lil' Tuzzy | N/A | N/A | 871 | N/A | 1266 | N/A |
Ava | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1206 | 3066 | 5788 |
Nylessa | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1239 | 2974 | 5746 |
Lilwyr | N/A | N/A | N/A | 475 | 1363 | 3351 |
Greg | N/A | N/A | N/A | 432 | 1078 | 2707 |
Vindiddy | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1151 | 4025 | 10611 |
Rawrvek | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1104 | 3673 | 9716 |
Tess | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 483 | 1950 |
Reeves | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 362 |
Diddyzag | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 2039 |
Yakaminu | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1308 |
Ahrim the Bobbled | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1009 |
Dharok the Bobbled | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1058 |
Guthan the Bobbled | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 776 |
Karil the Bobbled | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1393 |
Torag the Bobbled | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 802 |
Verac the Bobbled | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 859 |
TzRek-Jad | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 4009 |
Update history[edit | edit source]
- ninja 1 February 2021 (Update):
- Broadcasts will now display at what XP threshold or kill count a skill or boss pet was obtained.
- patch 3 February 2020 (Update):
- Boss pets will now show the correct player’s killcount when examined.
- patch 29 January 2018 (Update):
- Pet examines now display the full kill count when a boss is prestiged.
- patch 9 May 2016 (Update):
- Boss pet objects are no longer destroyed on death. Instead, they can be reclaimed from Death with a reclaim cost of 8000 coins each.
- patch 4 April 2016 (Update):
- Boss pets from God Wars 2 now have a loot beam.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The Queen Black Dragonling and Dagannoth hatchlings were originally not planned to be released with the other pets, due to the Queen Black Dragon being "too big" and the Dagannoth Kings having old models and animations. Due to player feedback, they were included with the other pets.
- The original concept was to allow players to obtain the pets by either getting the item as a drop, or by gambling reaper points for a random pet. The latter idea was scrapped.
- For a short while after the update, players would get a notification in the chatbox upon login saying "Your favourite bosses can now be obtained as pets, so what are you waiting for? Get out and catch them all!" This is a reference to the Pokémon franchise.
- In the first batch of boss pets, all examine texts were plays on their larger counterparts' examines.
References[edit | edit source]
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