War Pets are one of the most important late-game features in Call of Dragons, but also one of the most resource-heavy. They can significantly improve your march power in both PvP and PvE, but building them takes serious planning.
This guide breaks down how the War Pets system works, how to capture and train them, and common mistakes to avoid when building them.
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What Are War Pets in Call of Dragons?
War Pets are combat companions that you can assign to hero marches. Each pet brings unique skills, stat bonuses, and battle effects, depending on their type, rarity, and attributes. Once they are tamed, they can be deployed and act like a passive buff that improves your march. Buffs they offer vary from rage regen to troop healing or even AoE damage.
How to Get War Pets
You’ll unlock War Pets after progressing far enough in the Behemoth and artifact systems, typically around City Hall level 7 or chapter 9. To start capturing pets:
Unlock the Pet Lair in your city and zoom out onto the map to find War Pets. You can search for them under the “Darkling Legions” tab under the “Beasts” category.
Use Capture attempts to try and obtain pets from the wild. Unlike darkling legions, you won’t kill pets when you attack them. Instead, you’ll go through Behemoth-style encounters to weaken pets ready for capture.
Captured War Pets will appear in your Pet Sanctuary. Here you will be able to see their rarity, attributes and skills obtained from the wild.
Warrants & Pet Capture Limits
To capture a War Pet, you will need an in-game item known as a warrant. Warrants are limited to 2 free captures per day, but you can receive more through various methods. These include:
The Administrative Excellence policy when in a competitive season. You gain an additional 3-5 captures from this.
Various in-game events have warrants as rewards. These appear under the pet items tab.
The Pet Party event lets you spawn up to 5 War Pets of your choice with 5 free captures. You can also use Warrants for extra captures during the event.
War Pet Sanctuary & Enclosure
Once you’ve captured a War Pet, it will appear in your Sanctuary, which acts as your holding area for all active pets. However, you can only keep 7 pets here at a time, any extras will be stored in the Enclosure.
The Sanctuary is where you’ll manage pet taming and giving gifts to increase affection. The Enclosure functions like a storage area and doesn’t allow taming, so freshly captured pets cannot be deployed in battle until they’ve been tamed in the Sanctuary.
Moving Pets from Enclosure to Sanctuary
If your Sanctuary is full, newly captured pets will go straight to the Enclosure. You can swap pets between the two by removing a pet from the Sanctuary to free up a slot.
You can do this by selecting and deselecting the small enclosure button next to your Warpet.
Gifting War Pets & Affection Level
Each pet has an Affection Level, which increases when you give them gifts. Raising this level improves a pet’s loyalty, potentially unlocking small stat boosts or extra features.
Gifts can be obtained through events or daily activity rewards, and different pets may prefer specific types of gifts. You can gift a War Pet and improve their affection level by selecting them in the Sanctuary and pressing the gift icon.
Gift Draw
The Gift Draw system allows you to spend pet tokens for a chance to receive random pet gifts, skill cards or Regeneration Potions. You can obtain pet tokens by interacting with pets daily, cleaning the sanctuary or gifting War Pets.
While the gift draw is not the most reliable way to progress your War Pets, it’s a decent method to gather extra items if you’re actively playing.
Increasing Enclosure Limits
Your Enclosure has a limit to how many pets it can hold, but this can be expanded by purchasing Enclosure Expansion keys with gems. Each key costs 10 gems, though the keys required increases as you buy more expansions.
Managing your enclosure space well means you won’t need to release pets prematurely or skip over good captures.
Pet Attributes
Each War Pet has six possible attributes which work alongside skills that provide the following buffs:
Strength – Boosts physical damage (Typically useful for Infantry pets)
Intelligence – Improves skill-based damage (Typically useful for Mage pets)
Agility – Increases speed in various areas e.g. Rage regen, inflicting more stacks, march speed (Typically useful for Cavalry pets)
Endurance – Adds defensive stats, survivability and counterattack damage. (Typically useful for Infantry pets)
Luck – Improves crit rate (Usually for all types of war pet)
Spirit – Helps deal more crit and magic damage (Typically useful for Magic pets)
Regenerating War Pets
Regeneration allows you to re-roll a War Pet’s attributes. This is useful when you’ve captured a decent pet with the wrong stats for your march type, or if its rarity is below legendary. It can also help when your pet has too few skill slots.
For example, you may have captured a Sapphire Faedrake with a 1 star Painbloom, but you have low intelligence. This is where regneration becomes useful.
Keep in mind:
Regeneration is random. You cannot choose the rerolled pet.
You have a choice as to whether you want to keep the old roll or the new one.
You will need Regeneration Potions to do this, so stock up.
Note: You’re guaranteed an epic or legendary roll after 20 regenerations.
You can now automate the regeneration process and skip the animations until you land an epic or legendary roll to speed things up.
Pet Skills
War Pets can equip up to 8 skills at one time. Skills are divided into two types:
Rage Skills – Trigger when enough rage is generated, often causing damage or buffs. Each War Pet comes with their own unique skill.
Passive Skills – Provide constant effects like increased attack, crit, healing, or defense. These are usually universal and can be equipped to any pet.
Each War Pet comes with random skills after being captured. You can change or upgrade these skills using skill cards from your inventory or through the Skill Shop. Skill synergy is crucial, try to align pet skills with your march type and main hero setup to get the best results.
The table below shows the unique skills associated with each War Pet, as-well as their ideal march type:
| Icon | War Pet | Type | Unique Skill |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mossrock Aurochs | Infantry | Coil |
 | Sapphire Faedrake | Magic | Painbloom |
 | Moonbear | Infantry | Moonrage |
 | Shadow Faedrake | Magic | Shadow Hunter |
 | Golden Roc | Cavalry | Exuberance |
 | Venomous Lizard | Overall | Infection |
 | Shadow Manticore | Marksman | Barbarism |
 | Berserk Faedrake | Cavalry | Arrogance |
 | Night Roc | Marksman | Ravage |
 | Bruinbear | Infantry | Quickening |
 | Sand Lizard | Overall | Stone Aura |
 | Blade Manticore | Cavalry | Gleaming Blade |
 | Barbed Manticore | Marksman | Puncture |
 | Snowpeak Roc | Marksman | Concentration |
 | Seraphic Faedrake | Magic | Soul Source |
 | Stripebear | Infantry | Friendship |
 | Frostbear | Infantry | Frost Armor |
 | Auric Warhound | Cavalry | Outburst |
 | Thunder Lizard | Magic | Tempest |
 | Ice Lizard | Magic | Ice Core |
Skill Card Inventory
Any skill cards not equipped to a pet are stored in your Skill Card Inventory. You can obtain them from events, releasing pets, or the gift draw, and no matter how you get them, they’ll appear here.
The inventory is useful for holding onto cards you’re unsure about, or for saving them to sell later for Exchange Coins. Keep in mind there’s a capacity limit, but you can expand it with Books of Taming if needed.
Skill Shop
The Skill Shop is where you can use exchange coins to purchase new skill cards. It rotates periodically, so check back often. Purchase skills that match your pet’s strongest attribute or your hero’s march type. It’s also a good idea to purchase skills you are trying to level up.
Tip: Plan your War Pet build before purchasing any skills. Exchange coins are a slow grind for F2P players so purchase wisely. Check out our Call of Dragons War Pet Builds guides to plan ahead and see which skills you should purchase.
Pet Auction
A new feature to come to Call of Dragons is the Pet Auction. This is essentially another marketplace where other players can list ready-to-go War Pets that are usually already legendary, have good attributes and have the max skill slots.
Each listing in the pet auction is time limited. The majority of the pets on there cost a substantial amount of exchange coins, so the chances are a lot of F2P players will struggle to take advantage of this. However, if you have enough coins you can save a ton of time and resources rerolling and purchase a battle-ready pet.
Deploying Pets in Combat
To deploy your War Pets in combat, you’ll need to assign them to a Hero. Bare in mind that the primary hero in the march will need to be the one who has the War pet equipped.
Once assigned to a march, War Pets function as a passive enhancement. They appear on the battlefield visually but they cannot be moved or controlled like heroes, instead it is done through the hero. You’ll still gain all their benefits automatically.
Tip: Make sure your pet’s skills and attributes match your march type.
Check out our Call of Dragons Hero Tier List and Artifacts Tier List to find the best heroes and artifacts to use with your pets.
Common Mistakes to Avoid when Building Pets
Burning regeneration potions too early – Use them on pets you are 100% sure you are going to use.
Teaching the wrong skills – Skills need to work with the pet’s strengths and attributes
Spreading too thin – It’s best to work on the pets for your best marches simultaniously. It takes a while to fully max a pet out so it’s better to have decent pets for more marches.
Summary
War Pets add a whole new layer of strategy to Call of Dragons. When used properly, they can massively boost your power in both PvE and PvP. But they require careful planning, from capturing the right pet to managing skills, attributes, and affection levels. Focus on synergy with your heroes and unit types, and you’ll be well on your way to building a march that dominates the battlefield.
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