The ULTIMATE Familiar Guide in Diablo Immortal

[@michaelwhitt355]

Thanks for the PSA. .I melded a bunch because the game made it seem like I needed to..

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Yeah… sorry friend :/ but at least you know moving forward!

[@mTn-top_giver]

I only care for the pet to pick stuff up and yet I still have to go back and pick stuff up. Or just stand still and wait for them to pick up stuff, might as well just collect myself

[@Faerithm]

Yeap🫤

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

We have requested that they match the familiar speed to the character speed so they both go up proportionally.

[@mTn-top_giver]

@@MiseryHatesCompany I hope they do something. Or pets will just be something else to be sold for pt just like unbound normal gems. I had such high hopes for pets.

[@55hpmonk]

​@@MiseryHatesCompanytell them to add about 5x larger loot radius to the port it breaks my heart to see the poor little fuckers walking(not running) to pick loot up

[@jessewilburn3621]

Ya and even then they don't pick them up unless you stop and walk around the stuff dropped they don't really pick stuff up that good

[@michaelangellotti4773]

Thank-you. This is the video. This. You have explained so much. Just coming out and saying "don't do this" and why. I watched countless of videos, asked many a clan members and nothing till I found this video. Can't thank you enough. 👍👍👍

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

I’m glad it helped!!

[@Tommass79]

Thanks you saved me a lot of wasted resources and wasted time focused on unobtainium cheers!

[@sandraalcorn189]

Thank you!! I haven’t focused on familiars much. This explained it so well!!

[@thehyperkids9574]

Thanks so much! I’ve been so confused by the Pet process.. And I love the idea of selling to get better gems!! I don’t like to spend much in game so this is great❤❤

[@chubbypoulet]

Best video explaining Familiars and how to properly upgrade them.

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Thank you :)

[@GeorgeCooper-sf6nq]

I've sat for an hour and clicking every minute for 60 minutes. The shop isnt open as of yet

[@LaurethUK]

Contracts could be added as rewards from portal dungeons or from doing 7/7 dungeons. This could really help f2p level gems.

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Totally agee

[@henrytoler5023]

Maybe you content creators can ask the Blizz Devs why there are never and Familiars in shop . Watched it for an hour checking every 15 seconds just to see and nope never any in there ...

[@SimonBannow]

I'm still totally confused but thanks for the effort. Wish they'd make it more easy to understand, guess its designed to confuse making spending overcome that.

[@mangot589]

Agree 100%. If you meld, you may lose the familiar you really like. (Apparently. IDK,🤷‍♀️). I don’t want to even try. I don’t understand any of it. All I know is I like my little dude, and I’m afraid to do anything.

[@Hugh.G.Rectionx]

thanks for this. it seemed a bit confusing with all the terms they use. melding, conversion, pacts, empower, bonding....etc. not sure why they need so many different things just to say "level them up and fuse them together"

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Happy to help, and yes way too many new terms lol 😂

[@JacenAvencast]

Pets can trigger your lego gems, curses, and ancestral procs. So, aside from granting you powerful traits, pick stuff up, and give you remote salvage, identification, and armory, they also deal decent damage on their own, or grant a shield etc... So, while selling can be worth it, getting powerful pets and traits that stack is also worth it

[@Gennymoon2]

Thank you for your Vid :) I'm still trying to 100% understand Familiar Traits. In game, in the Traits guide, it says: You receive benefits from the active traits of your companion and bounded familiar. But patch notes says: Common Traits only apply to the Familiar they appear on, and Advanced Traits stack between your currently Select Familiar and Bonded Familiars. So if you only have common traits it doesn't stack between your equipped and bounded familiars? Or it does?

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

I believe they do stack, as long as they are all unique and not the same exact trait. If that makes sense?

[@ShimshonDI]

@@MiseryHatesCompanyanother poorly worded description by blizzard/netease. All traits apply as long as they’re active, whether on your companion or bonded. Common don’t stack of the same type, but advanced do.

[@robsutton3092]

I think you’ve convinced me that I don’t care about this. Much too complicated.

[@Zaheer98981]

Yeah just collect my stuff and do some dmg

[@philhearn4240]

As free to play just going to use the pet system to get more platinum. Already grinding enough with my legendary gems lol.

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Very good call!

[@Natocmdr]

Misery, I did not see you mention 1 important thing. You can meld any pet with any other pet. I have a yellow (main) I raised 3 blues not of the same race and melded 2 into 1 then 1 into another then used the 3rd to meld into my Yellow. When you open your meld window, if you do not have a level 30 in your inventory you can't meld. For instance you have no level 30 in your inventory, but you have several "bonded". Unbond the level 30s, then you can meld them with what ever. The higher the pet goes the more other pets are needed to meld.

[@Natocmdr]

After the bond is complete, you get to chose one of the 2 to be the "keeper" look at the stats on left under each pet, and pick the one with best stats.

[@Sasori0o0]

greetings from Argentina! my english is not so good as i would like but i will try to see and analize the video since y don't understand pretty much anything about familiars, thanks a lot!

[@waxore1142]

I dont like saying this but you are very mistaken about melding. it upgrades your passive skills. which is exactly what you have to do before upgrading any other skills or you will lose them when melding. it adds 1 higher level passive skill when you meld 2 fams with the same number of yellow stars. so if you dont do that first you will lose any of the random (3 purple) skills aquired. i have 11/11 skills all yellow and the 3 purple. thats the only way to get there and its not hard at all. I start out with gray fams. meld 2 with no yellow = 1 yellow then 2 with 1 yellow = 2 yellow and so on. only start converting 1 yellow pet with all yellow passives and any other lower lvl pet with all yellow skills to get one of the 3 purple skills. i hope you figured all this out by now. there is so many things your incorrect about.

[@xrisku]

Where do you get the conversion stones? Not one video has told us this.

[@outlier_lol]

thansk for the video. the music in the background is quite distracting, but i might be alone there. nice content

[@merdufer]

F2P and low spenders can forget about aberrants imo. Just keep converting until you get the remote access traits. That's going to take years at the current rate.

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

I would agree

[@bfam6066]

Thanks for this video but its all stlll as clear as mud to me. I have a couple of familiars and melded one as I had to for a quest but I'm holding off on really going deep into them until I understand them better. This I can see will help but it's alot to take in.

[@julienmartel2524]

great video. I'm not completely sure I agree about the NO MELDING strategy. I got lucky with a rare abberant with the salvage trait and a bunch of other good traits. Now, if I only need to upgrade it, isn't the cheaper strategy to actually meld ordinary pets increase their stats, and theeeeeen... use the "exchange attributes" option from Nisza to transfer the stats from the ordinary to the aberant to get the stats you want and activate your traits on the aberrant!? Does that make sense? would you agree?

[@Naggie_]

Melding transfers passive skills. Does not upgrade any stats. So if you're looking to upgrade (or "evolve" as the teaser and patch notes called it), there is no such way at the moment. The "Exchange Attributes" at Nisza completely switches the attributes between the two pets. What was on one pet now is on the other, and vice versa. And costs 3k platinum.

[@mercel2032]

I actually think that is entirely possible. Keep us posted if you end up going for it and what the results are.

[@Dorench]

I just want to do the tutorial, but one of the two the game gives you is 'warded' and won't let me meld.

[@SouLBRaK3R]

Ok, 2 questions, what we do with aberrant pet with good traits but bad skills, can we convert and keep the same traits but get new skills ? And can we turn 6 rare skull yellow pet to aberrant pet ?

[@Kbearr]

Great video! What’s the difference between aberrant and normal?

[@CaelumRagnarok]

i just suffer when see you clicking in the end pact button. Very nice video, is what i understand, but didn't know about aberrant evolve, that we only can combine them! thanks

[@chweesenglim9265]

Anyway thank sir for your video clip explaining on familiar . It really makes me understand on pet more better......etc

[@SeveN_TP]

So I've managed to obtain a Blue Abberant pet with 3 lego skills and 3 yellow skills, which obviously are inactive cus low stats. Now to raise its type to Rare or Legendary I need to roll it (convert) over and over with 2 other abberants hoping it will give ma a yellow/orange pet finally? Right? That's hell of a grind..

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Yes exactly, that’s the new grind lol 😂 that’s why I’m selling mine

[@ShimshonDI]

Skills should always be active. Do you mean traits? A clanmate said that the transfer attribute function from nisza will also transfer skills and iirc traits, so he says the strat is to get a cheap higher rarity “body” pet to transfer the good skills/traits onto.

[@3102nzain]

@@ShimshonDI transfer attribute well as the function stated only transfers attributes. Example you have a blue aberrant with 3 rare traits, 3 legendary passive skills and 2 rare passive skills. Now you also have a rare pet same species with 1 rare trait and 3 rare passive skills, what you can do is to transfer the attributes/stats of the rare to the blue aberrant pet which have better and more passive skills and inactive traits because of lower stats so you can have a better companion pet.

[@sphinxfpv]

Ive lost at least 10 legendaries from the remote ID. They disappear from inventory and never come back.

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Not sure I understand what you are referring to?

[@SH-sq6pz]

So this video was very helpful, but could still use a little clarification. So I have one ordinary yellow pet with three active traits and two grays with no active traits. Where do I go from here?

[@Soulslayer1229]

No, no, no, do not replace Starfire shard. You want to use Starfire and Maw together. Mad damage. They will proc each other.

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

That’s a good point!

[@henrytoler5023]

Grats .. Question for Devs . Why is the Loyalty Bonus such a joke ? It does not seem there is any increase for getting t by essences you chose ..

[@Zinnaerris]

Ive been playing around with the pets wuite a bit. I've been thinking about selling my higher ones for plat to level my gems. Its such a grind with so few contracts available weekly and for me the pets don't add a massive advantage to try to grind for the "perfect" pet setup.

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

I completely agree! I’m taking the same exact approach

[@Zinnaerris]

@@MiseryHatesCompany I just want a pretty cat pet that's pretty decent and I'll be happy. Lol I've yet to get a cat though.

[@3102nzain]

it adds significant value if you have a companion pet with good passive skills like legendary skills that can reset the cooldown of your characters skills example is if the pet reset the cooldown of a crusader's conjuration of light and make your whole party invulnerable again now think of all the toxic skills borrowed time, undying rage, etc crazy right?, a passive skill that prevents your character for being knockback for a specific duration of time... legendary makes it longer, a passive skill that heals you, a passive skill that gives your character a shield, and also a passive skill that can make you gain an undying rage effect every 70 secs. While on traits you will probably need multiple good bonded pets with advance active traits because they do stack up. This video only tells you about the ordinary traits yes ordinary traits don't stack but advance traits stack up, example multiple advance crit chance bonus is definitely a very good trait, percent reduce damage receive also is a good trait etc. I am not sure if this traits is affected by strife though but if not this is a lot better than legendary gems which is affected by strife and also the resonance bonus of legendary gems to damage and health is reduce in PVP due to stat compression. This guide could be better with lots of examples, scenarios and theory crafting but I guess its really hard to do it because saying something wrong can mess someone's pet which could worth thousands of plats. Giving advice is hard because you might get blame at the end and everything is really new.

[@Zinnaerris]

@@3102nzain Thank you so much for your insight. I do hear a lot about how handy it is for PVP. However I just do PVE. Do you have any advice for which pet and which skills would be worthwhile for a PVE only summoning build Necromancer?

[@3102nzain]

@@Zinnaerris for PVE I think the dessert rat looking pet can be good I think it has the potential to get offensive traits like crit chance, skill damage increase that will boost your characters overall damage. Yes for PVE you need to look for an all offensive advance trait pet. Because majority of the damage will be coming from your character not the pet so pet passive skills will be second priority only. Also of course the blue utility traits will always be good to any pve focus players extremely helpful traits specially the salvage

[@isyrc]

i lost 3 pets from melding before figuring it did about nothing - when pets were introduced in game they made u summon, level up and meld as a tutorial - why did they skip on converting i dont understand

[@agentcycy]

How about melding the same ordinary familiar and so on????

[@jorgejavier998]

Appreciate this bro.. save my pets for not melding all of them.

[@feliciahamberg6385]

Twice today I got 2 each. Usualy I don't even get them if I do see them, which is rare. I didn't think I got them at first and then I looked later. XD maybe they changed it because I have never had that happen. I should have kept the time to check..

[@MMOcritic]

I’m mad I melded at least 20 familiars. Not knowing what I was doing. :/

[@taevonnkjxl8204]

Literally the first quest made us meld

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Yeah it was very miss leading

[@shawnwager3287]

He almost pressed end pact.. oops

[@GooD4YoU98]

They need to add more ways to get it or make it where that lady sells per player, not a market bought out by bots

[@lennbantolino3892]

thanks for the very important guide for pets thumbs up

[@unclekira]

Made a massive mistake and melded 2 different familiars and failed to select the species with the salvage trait lol

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Omg…. That sucks!!! I’m so sorry!

[@JulianFranco-d7o]

Don't Meld- Sell your unwanted familiars You can make a sh* load of plat . Faming Towers at a certain time yields about 1 to 3 per day (RNG ) selling at avg of 1000 to 2500 plat per you could make 12 to 14k plat per week + the 300 you get for doing your dailies. This how a low spender like me gets to have all the whale gems almost maxed up

[@texajp1946]

Bruh, this is so confusing, even after watching vid I am still clueless

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Haha sorry, it is very confusing 🫤

[@texajp1946]

@@MiseryHatesCompany yea nothing against the vid, I learned a few things, just very complex

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

@@texajp1946 haha all good, I didn’t take it offensively

[@franculas]

Dunno why blizzard made the pet system this way. its boring and over complicated.

[@khaledmazhar]

Thank you for the video , but hard on my ADHD ... I need to see it 10 more times and write stuff down ...

[@stvnsd1139]

Great you tell me this right after I melded? 😂

[@dominykasvitkauskas3579]

Hello, which gem i should use power and command or bloody reach as a wizard?thanks

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Both are very good, if you are only going to be a wizard I would say deadly reach. But if you ever think you will switch classes so power and command.

[@mangot589]

My opinion. Power and command is a really good skill, I’m sorry I didn’t realize it WAY sooner. Like when I started playing this sooner. Which was when it came out. If nothing else, hold onto those in your stash as you get them while you decide, and get your second set of armor, and use them then.

[@LaurethUK]

At 3:05 you said bonding them, think you mean convert them?

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Yes good catch, I meant convert!

[@danmass7604]

Why not replace you 1 star gem for maw of deep

[@CMDRFandragon]

So this game gets pretty pay to win if you wanna max out? Im honestly lost in the 1400 currencies

[@Zaza36669]

I meld the cat by mistake how can I get it back 😭😭

[@chrisdatasiankid]

Can u increase the attributes of them pets???? How

[@jesseguertin1158]

Maybe sell them at lvl 30 and then and then flip the plat to grab pets with legendaries.

[@jtcustomknives]

There is a pet on my server that’s listed for 1.3million

[@benoitperreault1692]

could you make a condensed version??? like a step by step demonstration? without explaining everything? PLEASE, for all of us ADHD ppl who cant keep up with all that information PLEASSSSSEEEEEEE

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

I actually made a new three video series doing just that :)

[@ratatat9790]

Good vid but it'd be far better if you slowed down by about 10% imo ..ty.

[@NornRS]

I bought a pet from the shop for 6k Plat sold it for 16k in 10 min

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Nice!!

[@KabutoRyu]

Hm, i think i will focus on standards familiar instead of aberrant type, way too much for a familiar, way too little upgrades vs cost

[@kevinfisher8739]

Just sit at ah and snipe i have 7 rare right now

[@Venz9]

Converting gold is useless? Not the aberrant one

[@MatrixSeraph]

I converted three yellow ones and got 1 blue one

[@Venz9]

@@MatrixSeraph noted 😂

[@outsidein3206]

Godoone ty!

[@charliewatson1203]

I converted my rare pet with two blues thinking it would be minimum rare. Silly me.

[@Sistik123]

Free 2 play players at least right now you are better off leveling a blue pet to 30 then marketing for max profit.

[@garythompson8545]

I melded a yellow with an active trait and yellow skill with a pet that had a yellow skill and I inherited that yellow skill on my yellow familiar, so stfu

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

🤔

[@prabhunarayanasamy163]

Lmao. Game already has Auto Loot pickup option. We have been doing the same for almost 2 years. They could have just improved loot drop radius and auto pick up feature. Playerbase asked for something simple and they made something else. It's funny to wait for Pet to pick up loot. The most annoying part is not able to pick up orbs when farming with TH tree when Pet is active. This is the most retarted thing to be added to this game next to fishing.

[@AL-yr3dz]

I was sad when i convert I lost my cat but i got abberent so I am happy now 😂

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Haha nice! Which one was it?

[@chweesenglim9265]

Actually i want my pet able to restore my life when i am killing alot of monster farming at open world

[@kevinfisher8739]

I literally summoned almost 50 pets last week lol😂

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

How?

[@kevinfisher8739]

@@MiseryHatesCompany i have too many toons lol. 😆

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

@@kevinfisher8739 ah that makes sense! I was thinking it was impossible to do that from one character

[@kevinfisher8739]

@@MiseryHatesCompany thanks for the pointers been converting more since there is so much rng on these pets it's ridiculous

[@IvanV88]

Already did it

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Rip 🪦

[@LaurethUK]

WARNING DO NOT MELD :)

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

Correct!

[@Good_Commenter]

Familiars Tip! 1. Get 3 Fam(30 level). Do it conversion! 2.If you get 3 Traits(Salvager, Appraiser, Pcak mule), stop work! 3. That's enough

[@karazmatic18]

informative vid :) however this pet system seems shitty.. tbh

[@LucyWillis-j2e]

This game's "helpful" tips are often a bad idea. The up arrows on gear are misleading. Guess I miss the old PC Diablo games. Can't complain too much though, as I am playing this free on a phone.

[@henrytoler5023]

Is it true Familiars are limited time event ??

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

No they are staying

[@henrytoler5023]

Thanks for replying

[@SeveN_TP]

No.

[@xrisku]

My god, not all of us played pokemon. Every video made assumes we have some basic level of pokemon knowledge, but we don't. We need a guide for absolute idiots.

[@craigjohnson1898]

I'm now 9 minutes in to this video and still haven't got a clue what you're talking about. You're rambling on making no sense at all. How about starting with wtf bonding is. Then try explaining where/how do traits actually come from then how does one increase them if that's even possible.

[@stvnsd1139]

It’s not gold it’s platinum 😅

[@ronaldstorey3238]

Do not listen to this guy!@@ you can just exchange traits n get higher rare/leg pets! Come on man

[@damienresendez]

Explain please

[@kataklismoe]

LoL too late 😂

[@G00GLEIsTR4SH]

So strange all these "Content Creators" all have the same speaking style/facial expressions lol. My goodness everyone is brainwashed. 😂😢

[@MiseryHatesCompany]

lol thanks for the comment