Passives

You’ve been grinding for three days. You caught a level-45 Jormuntide with Ferocious, Musclehead, Lucky, and Burly Body. Four gold passive icons. The kind of Pal that makes your Discord friends jealous. You dump every Pal Soul you own into its stats. You give it the best saddle. You ride it into a boss fight feeling like a god. Then you notice something. Your Jormuntide with Musclehead (+30% Attack) and Ferocious (+20% Attack) is hitting for roughly the same damage as your friend’s Jormuntide with only Legend (+20% Attack) and nothing else. Her Pal has lower paper stats. Yours has four gold passives. You should be doing more damage. You’re not. ...

You’ve been breeding Pals for six hours. You finally hatched one with four gold passive icons. You check the details: Musclehead, Ferocious, Legend, and… Coward. Coward cuts your attack by 30%, canceling out most of your bonuses. Six hours of breeding produced a Pal that’s weaker than one with three good passives and no bad one. You didn’t check the passive inheritance rules. You just kept breeding until the screen lit up. ...