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I've seen Wild, Natural, Amazing and Rune Pet Eggs selling for millions in Gold in the AH - which is ridiculous!

350,000 Gold is the Maximum you should ever pay for a merging pet egg. Here's why.

Wait .. first .. You can level your Primary Pet to the Maximum Level in just one day !!! (more about that later)

A knowledge of Pet Egg Basics, described here is assumed.

Most Pet Eggs are merged into your primary pet to increase its experience and training points. The merging egg, the Reagent, is destroyed. The higher the level of the primary, the more experience it needs to level up, making higher level eggs more in demand and thus more valuable. This includes Wild, Natural, Amazing and Rune Pet Eggs.

What is the maximum price you should ever pay for a "Reagent" pet egg? Consider another way to gain pet experience is by feeding [Miller's Special Cake]. One [Miller's Special Cake] is received each time the quest "An Easy Lay" is completed, but most people need to buy more. They are available from any Pet Hunter at a cost of 3,500 Gold. Each [Miller's Special Cake] gives:

+10 Experience Points (XP) vs 1000 (max) from feeding a same level pet egg
+1 training Point (TP) vs 50 from "merging" a pet egg (100 for Rune Pet Eggs)
+5 nourishment

100x[Miller's Special Cake] will give the same experience (1000) as "feeding" a pet egg of the same level. It is important to understand that if you feed [Miller's Special Cake] beyond 100% nourishment you STILL GET the increment for both XP and TP! Therefore, the maximum value of any pet egg used as a merging reagent can be calculated as

350,000 Gold = 3500 (cost Millers Special Cake) x 1000 (Max Merge XP) / 10 XP

for TP the maximum value is

175,000 Gold = 3500 (cost Millers Special Cake) x 50 TP (non-Rune merges) / 1 TP
350,000 Gold = 3500 (cost Millers Special Cake) x 100 TP (Rune merges) / 1 TP

The exceptions to the above are Rune Pet Eggs, Holy Pet Eggs and occassionally Magical Pet Eggs.

> Rune Pet Eggs may be worth double other Reagents because they give double Training point boost (100 vs. 50) when merged with a primary pet. Rune Pet Eggs may also be merged with any other type of primary, but the same may be said of [Miller's Special Cake]. Regardless, the maximum value of a Rune Pet Egg is still 350,000 gold.

> Holy Pet Eggs are mostly used as primary pets, not "food" for merging. Therefore, they command the highest prices and have an entirely different pricing stucture, based on supply and demand, which I will not cover here.

>Magical Pet Eggs are similar to Holy Pet Eggs in that they are often used as Primary pets by people who cannot afford the exorbantant prices of Holy Pet Eggs, but because of their lower stats are not considered as good.


Max Pet Level in Just One Day - Here's How

Have you figured it out yourself yet? It's very simple ... Keep feeding your primary pet [Miller's Special Cake] until your gold runs out. Now there IS a limitation .. the 10,000 Training point cap. You will lose all additional TP if you exceed the 10,000 cap. Not a good thing since TP are used to increase your primary pet's secondary (passive) skills and Aptitude.

However, if you can get enough Golden Eggs then the problem is solved! That is more difficult now since Golden Eggs became bound items; putting the Botters out of the Golden Egg business. Still 10,000 TP equates to 100,000 XP for "only" 35,000,000 Gold. I didn't say it was going to be cheap! How many pet levels is that? Finally, you may be able to use your imagination and figure out another solution, which I will not discuss further, but you can post to this thread.


Love those Macros

Too lazy or too boring to feed all those [Miller's Special Cake] to your primary pet? The solution is a Pet Feeding Macro (Can be used for anything that is edible by your pet but best used with Miller Cakes). This and more useful macros can be found at http://forum.us.runesofmagic.com/showthread.php?t=65697

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Code:
/script for i = 1, 99, 1 do FeedPet(#) end

Step 1) Change # to the pet slot of the pet you want to feed.
Step 2) Open the Pet Menu and Click on the Feed Button.
Step 3) Select the Food you want to eat.
Step 4) Click on the Macro and watch your pet gobble an entire stack within 1 second.

Greatly speeds up the process of feeding your pet especially when you want to level it up in a slightly cheaper fashion.

Lower Level Pet Eggs for XP-Boost

You may (should) ask "What is the MAX value of lower level pet eggs as reagents?" It depends on the RELATIVE levels of the AGENT (primary) and reagent pet eggs. You should know that for any merge

Pet XP Increment = 1000 / (AgentLevel - ReagentLevel + 1)

Example: My agent(Primary) is 30 and my Reagent(food) is 27
Therefore. the Relative Level difference is 3 (30 - 27)

Pet XP Increment = 250 = 1000 / (30 - 27 + 1) = 1000 / 4

Using a similar formula we can calculate the MAX-Value of a lower-level Reagent pet egg

Max Value (for XP) = 350,000 Gold / (AgentLevel - ReagentLevel + 1)
Example: same as before
Max Value (for XP) = 87,500 Gold = 350,000 Gold / (30 - 27 + 1)

Here is a little table to simplify

Relative Level / MAX Value (for XP)

0 350,000 Gold
1 175,000 Gold
2 116,666 Gold
3 87,500 Gold
4 70,000 Gold
5 58,333 Gold
6 50,000 Gold
9 35,000 Gold
13 25,000 Gold
19 17,500 Gold
34 10,000 Gold

In practice, I pay up to 20% to 70% less then the value in the table for XP.
But what about TP?


Lower Level Pet Eggs for TP-Boost

For TP-boost alone, I use an entirely different standard, which I call the
"Price Maintenance Standard". Although some less charitable may call it
the "Cheap SOB Standard" ;) The reasons why I NEVER pay more then
10,000 Gold for a Reagent Pet Egg to boost my Primary's TP are:

1. If I pay more, it will only encourage the gatherers/suppliers of pet eggs to raise their prices. But there is also a reason to not go too much under 10,000 gold.

2. The cost of a Huntman's trap, required to capture a pet egg, is 8,000 Gold. If pet egg gatherers/suppliers lose too much Gold each time they capture a pet egg (while hoping for that elusive Holy Pet Egg), it will erode their incentive to keep gathering/supplying me.

3. The resulting cost to me is under 200 Gold per TP (10,000 Gold / 50 TP),
far lower then the 3,500 Gold-per-TP using [Miller's Special Cake].

Disclaimer: Obtaining sufficient pet eggs for TP-boost using the "Price Maintenance Standard" does require patience and FREQUENT checking of the AH.


Educate Others

You may be able to get overpriced pet eggs in the Auction House (AH) at a reasonable
price. When you see a pet egg in the AH for more then 350,000 Gold, politely inform
the seller of the reality of RoM economics by sending them in-game mail like:

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Name (copied from AH)
Subject: WTB Your Pet Egg in AH
Text: Please read http://tinyurl.com/petegg
WTB your level ## <element> <type> pet egg for ###,### Gold.
If interested, send COD mail.

Obviously, before sending this mail replace the ##, <element>, <type> and ###,###
<Element> would be Dark, Light, Earth, Water, Fire, Wind or left blank for Rune.
<Type> would be Wild, Natural, Amazing or Rune.

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If there are any errors or omissions, please post them and I will make corrections.

Quoted from "xploid;526399"

i pay only 200k for 1k exp and it turns out to be pretty smart...

xploid makes some good points. So, I added a section on "Lower Level Pet Eggs" to the main post.

Added a short url pointing to this post, http://tinyurl.com/petegg
and a new section for anyone who would like to

Educate Others

You may be able to get overpriced pet eggs in the Auction House (AH) at a reasonable
price. When you see a pet egg in the AH for more then 350,000 Gold, politely inform
them of the reality of RoM economics by sending them in-game mail like:

Quoted

Name (copied from AH)
Subject: WTB Your Pet Egg in AH
Text: Please read http://tinyurl.com/petegg
I will buy your <pet egg type> level ## pet egg for ###,### Gold.
If interested, send COD mail.