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At certain levels (stages of growth and experience), your neopet will gain certain powers. These range from the ability to hide to shooting fireballs or flying! Every couple of levels your neopet will gain new abilities.

How to Gain Abilities:

If you want a new ability for your neopet to use in the Battledome, you must do the following:

1. Check AND remember the current level of your neopet by Viewing Your Pets. There’s a link provided above.
2. Find an ability that you have not worked that is at your pet’s level or below.
3. See whether it is under which of the following categories: Light, Dark, Earth, Air, Fire or Water.
4. To the type (light, dark, etc.), add faerie to the end. For example: Fire => Fire Faerie.
5. Look for that type of Faerie. You can use the Magic Shop to buy one for 400 Neopoints, but they are very difficult to get, so many people just use the Shop Wizard. If you are patient, you can use the auction.
6. Once you buy the faerie, go to your inventory (area of where your items are). Click on that item. Then, select from the drop-down bless (your pet’s name). The faerie tells you that it had granted your neopet with an ability. If it just says that the faerie just flew away, then you did not meet the level requirement for that type of ability. Unfortunately, you have lost your faerie and you will need to buy another one.
7. Now you need to activate your ability, go to “Activate Abilities.” From there, click on the abilities you want to activate. If the image is animated, then it means that it is activated. If the picture is not moving and it is not animated, then that ability is not activated. To de-activate an ability, click on the image. You can only activate a maximum of eight abilities.

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