While I am far from the biggest Palworld expert out there, I have at least started hitting achievements on Steam telling me I’m further along than 90-95% of players. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with more basic advice, and here’s a tip that I wish I knew from the beginning, as it would have saved a lot of frustration in my attempts to catch Pals in Palworld, both big and small.
- Right away, you will get the Pal Daedream, who acts as a turret that will reduce the health of wild Pals to 1, and no lower, perfect for catching.
- Soon, however, you can buy the Ring of Mercy, an item you wear that gives you the ability to reduce Pal health to 1 without killing it.
- The problem is twofold. Either you have to burn ammo or durability on Pals, sometimes way more beefy than you, to get them down to 1, or you have to rely on your summoned pals to fight them, with the risk that they do too much damage and kill them.
- What I was told that is brilliantly helpful here is that if you are mounted on a Pal with the Mercy Ring, that Pal will not reduce the catchable Pal’s health below 1. So, the play is to often do that with your favorite ground or aerial ride, then hop off, immediately suck them back into their ball, and then start throwing your balls at them for your best chance at capture, given their 1 health. This saves much, much frustration.
Of course, no guarantees. Low catch probability will burn balls. The enemy is alive and obviously can still kill you, as you will be its only target with no allied Pal summoned. But in most encounters in the wild, this is going to be a big boon to your catching fortunes, allowing you to rack up Pals and in turn, XP and materials very quickly.
Some additional early game catching tips:
- If you’re short on Materials, putting Vixy in a grazing farm can have her dig up Pal Spheres.
- Status conditions help make Pals easier to catch, from Poison to Shock.
- Make sure your spheres are keeping up. I try to keep the ones I’m using in the 30-40% range as anything below that is going to burn balls and materials a frustrating amount. If you want to play that odds game, however, go nuts.
- Find Lifemunk Effigies. They glow green, and dozens are hidden around the world. They will increase your capturing power the more you turn in.
Not the craziest tips here, but for lower levels, definitely some info I thought you might be interested in. The mountied attack I think is the best thing I’ve learned throughout all of this, however, and was not immediately apparent at all.
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