General Considerations

Consider these points before making purchases for the battledome.

1. Budget - How much are you willing to spend on each weapon. After allocating the budget, you can then search for the appropriate weapon to fill the slots. Note that expensive weapons are not always good and good weapons are not always expensive.

2. Species - Some species have cheap and good species weapons. Always check for species weapon before looking at the general weapons.

3. Opponent Type - Are you are going for 1-player challengers or 2-player battledome fights?

Taking these three points into account will help you make the best decisions for the battledome.

Offensive Weapons

Some important factors in selecting the best weapons.

1. Attack Icons - The number of Attack Icons is the power of the weapon, so you would want to get the weapon with the most icons. Some weapons have a range of icons, such as 1 to 4 Icons, for such weapons, you should take the average (if it is 1 to 4 Icons, the average is about (1+4)/2 = 2.5 Icons. For 2-player fights, the Icon Type will be of equal importance.

2. Attack Icon type - Some Icon types are easily blocked or avoided. For example, Earth and Physical Icons are very common, and there are many defensive weapons which blocks some amount of Earth / Physical Icons. Try to mix and match your weapons so that it does a few types of Icons. In general, try to have at least 3 Icon types for the 2 main weapons.

Use below list as a guide for Icon Type selection:
Earth and Physical Icons - Common: Most opponents will equip some item to block these Icons
Dark, Fire and Water Icons - Average : Some opponents will equip items to block these Icons
Light and Air Icons - Rare : Most opponents will not have much defense against these Icons

3. Block / Other abilities - These are bonus, if it doesn’t add too much to the cost, you can select weapons which blocks or gives other additional abilities. For secondary attack weapons, you will want it to have some Blocking abilities to compliment your main attack weapons.

Defensive Weapons

Below are important factors when selecting a defensive weapon.

1. Defense Icon Type - Some Attack Icon types are very common. For example, Earth and Physical Icons are very common, Dark, Fire and Water are uncommon, Light and Air are Rare. So when choosing Defensive weapons, select those which blocks the more common icons.

3. Defense Icons - The number of Defense Icons is the power of the weapon, so you would want to use the weapon with more blocking icons especially for the common icon types.

4. Attack / Other abilities - These are bonus, if it doesn’t add too much to the cost, you can select weapons which attacks or have other abilities.

Special Weapons

Below are important factors when selecting special weapon types such as freezing, stealing items. Points are not in any particular order.

1. Freezing weapon - The safest bet would be on items which will freeze 100%, such as Hypnotic Helmet or Freezing Potion. This will give you more control when fighting. However, these are very expensive and may not be within your budget.

2. Stealing weapon - If you want to use a stealing weapon, go for those which have better chance of success. Otherwise, you will end up wasting a lot of turns during combat. In general, stealing is more of a fun ability, most serious battlers will not bother to use a stealing weapon.

3. Healing item - Select one that is close to your NeoPet’s maximum health, if you have a budget constraint, buy the best one you can afford. Some species have special species healing item.