Pets

Pets are available in game from level 1.^[3]

Pets are usually small creatures, but there may be scaled-up variants of them in-game.^[4]
There may be emotes associated with mounts and pets, such as petting, hugging, or playing with them.^[5]
There won't be auto-looting pets.^[5]

There is going to be cool, cute, interesting pets that are available; and some may feel very fae-like.^[6] – Steven Sharif

Pet types

There are three types of pets in Ashes of Creation.^[7]^[8]

The intention is to make each pet slot unique, so having 1 cosmetic slot, 1 item pet and 1 class skill pet.^[8] – Steven Sharif

Cosmetic pets

Cosmetic pets were available for purchase from the cosmetic store.^[10]

Cosmetic pets can be summoned from level 1.^[11]

Cosmetic pets, since non-functional from a gameplay perspective, can be summoned at lvl 1.^[11] – Steven Sharif

Combat pets

Combat pets (also referred to as Item pets or Universal combat pets) may be acquired by any archetype.^[12]

Combat pets generally have a horizontal progression, not a vertical one. Unlike Summoner summons, combat pets do not increase a player's power, but instead require a sacrifice from the player.^[13]^[14]^[12]^[9]^[15]

It’s important to note, combat pets are primarily horizontal in nature. Where as class pets (like summoner) are a very vertical mechanic.^[14] – Steven Sharif

Combat pets may be tamed from certain creatures in the world.^[16]
Combat pets are categorized by class and will adhere to a simple trinity structure (Tank/DPS/Support).^[9]
- Tank pets will maintain threat against enemies independent of the pet owner.^[17]
Combat pets will also be categorized into different rarities.^[9]
Combat pets may not be able to be summoned in certain dungeons, instances or other spaces.^[18]

It will participate in combat. It will allow you different options sometimes, but it won't necessarily increase your power and... you'll be sacrificing something for it.^[15] – Jeffrey Bard

Pet progression

Combat pets will be levelable and will have gear available to them.^[19]^[20]

Combat pets will incorporate some of their owner's power in a way that keeps the power progression horizontal.^[12]^[9]^[15]
- Power is delegated to the pet when it is summoned and returned to the player immediately when the pet despawns.^[21]

Summoner summons (Summoner pets) do add to the summoner's power when they are summoned.^[12]

Gear is not available to Summoner summons.^[19]

Combat pets, which can be acquired by any archetype- and this is essentially an item that exists within your backpack- you cast the item to summon your pet. When it is summoned it's not intended to be a vertical gain of power, because when you make combat pets a vertical power gain, then it becomes a no choice solution: you must have a combat pet if you want to play efficiently- you must have a combat pet; and I wanted to steer clear of that because the way I wanted to approach combat pets was more of a horizontal power choice; meaning: depending on the type of encounter you're facing, depending on the threat assessment you have, a combat pet might be relevant, or it might not. One combat combat pet might be more relevant than another combat pet and that's part of your gear acquisition, your item chase to attain this more comprehensive selection of combat pets that you can have available to you and can be summoned in the event that you want to engage an encounter with a different aspect of your power curve: Not vertical, but horizontal.^[12] – Steven Sharif

Pet drops

Mounts and pets are dropped by world bosses on a very rare basis.^[22]

Naming pets

Mounts and pets are able to be named by players.^[23]

Summoners may be able to name their summons, but will not be able to change their creature type, which is part of the nameplate above the summon.^[24]

Cosmetic store

Ashes of Creation cosmetic store.^[25]

There is going to be legendary cosmetics that can be earned and achieved in the game through the game systems, but that's going to take a significant amount of effort and work; and those cosmetics are going to be on-par with the cosmetics offered in the marketplace... What that does is it provides additional revenue to the company so that we can continue to fund the development of content as well and bridge the divide that not having a box cost would have and not having any pay-to-win mechanics whatsoever.^[26] – Steven Sharif

The Cosmetic store enables players to purchase Cosmetics for use in Ashes of Creation.^[27] The cosmetic store offers limited time, limited quantity items to help sustain game development.^[28]

Equitable cosmetics, both from a quantity and quality standpoint, are achievable through in-game means.^[28]
Nothing in the cosmetic store will be pay to win.^[29]

Nothing in our shop will ever be pay to win as we believe this practice greatly hurts the MMORPG genre.^[29]

Cash shop cosmetics will offer a diverse selection of unique looks.^[30]

I want to incentivize purchase in the cosmetic shop for sustainability of what expansions we have intended, since we are not a box cost. I want to incentivize purchase by offering limited items: limited time, limited quantity, so you have confidence that when you purchase them, they won't be offered later on in some other way.^[28] – Steven Sharif

All cosmetic store items will be non-tradeable.^[31] There will be no gifting mechanism for cosmetic items.^[32]

I don't want cosmetic items that can be purchased from the market to be transferable... because it is in a way a transfer of money for potentially something in-game.^[32] – Steven Sharif