Hi, I need help understanding the diet composition and how the stars relate to how the stats change as they level up.

I just want a more comprehensive understanding on how this works so I can tailor each of my pets to what direction I want their stats to go in.

My pet example is:

For the people out there that use Diet Compositions, what do you find the most useful stat to increase? Like do you make all your diet compositions the same because there is a combo of stats that should be the highest to be a good competitor, or does it depend on the species of the pet, or it's individual stats? Does the animal's genetics have a factor if it's a gene that alters the stats?

Like how would you change the diet on this animal in particular and why. This animal has both green and red stats. And it's a Roc.

Hopefully this is easy to understand and I can pick someone's brain. :) Thanks!

I have a guide about pet diets and feeding here that covers the composition info if you want to take a look at it! Here's the link:: http://beastkeeper.com/thread/6131

Each star represents 1 pound of food; your pet consumes 18 pounds a day, and what this food is depends on how you distribute the stars among the various types. Each food type correlates to a different characteristic. When your pet gains a level it receives 6 new characteristic points and how you set the diet will raise/lower the chance that these points will go to a certain stat.

If the characteristic is red I would recommend lowering the food there, while raising it for the green ones. The green ones receive a boost already and using the diet to get more points there will make the most of this boost. Get it? The red/green colors are from certain genes, and you can check them out in the gene library under the Help tab to get an idea of which genes do what for your pet.

If it's a pet for breeding you should raise its strength since that is the stat that affects how many breedings your pet has. If it's a final product meant for battle, arena, whatever, that unfortunately isn't my area of expertise and I can't make any specific recommendations there.

Hope this helps!

yes, that definitely helps me some :) Thanks for guide!

I am looking to battle most of my pets. I would assume that Strength is also important for battling as well, since both defense and damage are affected by strength?

I made this a while ago just so I know what characteristics effected what. I should plop this into a little player guide while i'm thinking about it.

Strength                                Intelligence
Defence                                  Accuracy
Damage                                 Anti-Crit

Agility                                   Consitution
Accuracy                                Anti-Crit
Dodge                                    Defence

Courage                                Intuition
Damage                                Crit Chance
Critical Strike                        Dodge

And of course I did colors...because why not.

For fighters I have started to give lots a lot of strength, because it has both damage and defence, along with courage because crits are nice and more damage is always good. They usually never miss, but if they start to miss too much I will add in some agility or intell.