Zaishen Menagerie Grounds

This article is about the explorable area that includes your unlocked pets. For the outpost that gives access to the grounds, see Zaishen Menagerie (outpost).

Zaishen Menagerie Grounds
Campaign	Core
Region	The Battle Isles
Type	Explorable area
Exit(s)	Zaishen Menagerie
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In a beautiful, lush new explorable area in the Battle Isles, the Zaishen Order runs a tight business breeding and training all the common and prestige pets from around the world for their clientele. There are a few ways you can start your own collection in the Menagerie. Bring any pet with you or your Heroes to the Tamer in the Menagerie Grounds. The Tamer will check your pet's evolution and unlock that tier and any lower tiers. Adding charmed pets to the Menagerie is absolutely free. You can also use Balthazar Faction or pay with Zaishen Coins and gold to have the Zaishen Order unlock and train evolutions of pets for you. This way, you've got several choices for unlocking all your pets.

— 4th anniversary content update

The Zaishen Menagerie Grounds is an explorable area where the Zaishen Order takes care of the pets you have unlocked on your account. Pets can be brought in from the wild, or purchased here and trained for you by the Order.

There are various climates in this one area that create the appropriate habitats for the animals.

Getting there

Go to the Zaishen Menagerie and talk to Gate Guard Hirvela for access.

Exits

• Zaishen Menagerie (south)

Unlocking

The Zaishen Menagerie is account based, which means that any pet you unlock will be available to all characters on that account, both PvE and PvP. You cannot, however, bring other players into your own menagerie, it is only for yourself and your heroes.

Emryd the Tamer will unlock your current pet companion at its current level and evolution tier and all lower tiers for that species. If you want she will also take your Moss Spider Egg and unlock the Moss Spider. If you want she will also take your current pet, release it, which lets you charm another one right away.

Helena (Zaishen Keeper) will unlock the next tier of any species that is already unlocked, or unlock the lowest tier of any locked species from any campaign you own, at a cost of either a combination of Zaishen Coins and gold, or Balthazar faction.

Charming

Wynn (Zaishen Training Captain) will spawn 4 identical animals of any unlocked species/tier higher than 1 on your account, letting you charm one.

You can search the grounds and find an unlocked species at tier 1 and charm it.

NPCs

Allies

Humans (Zaishen Order)

• 20 Master of Winds
• 20 Emryd the Tamer (Zaishen Pet Tamer)
• 20 Helena (Zaishen Keeper)
• 20 Hokusai (Beetle Designs) (only for accounts that have unlocked Racing Beetle)
• 1 Kun Shao (Zaishen Stable Boy)
• 20 Salome (Zaishen Physician)
• 5 Silavor (Zaishen Naturalist)
• 20 Wynn (Zaishen Training Captain)
• 20 Zaishen Handlers
• 20 Zaishen Trainers

The animals

Locations of all the animals in the Menagerie.

There are 7 tiers, with a level 20 evolved (non-elder) pet being the highest tier.

All animals roaming the grounds have a base level of 5, and as soon as tier 1 of a new species is unlocked the animal will appear in the grounds. Many pets will also be accompanied by baby versions, which are non-targettable and non-charmable. Wynn will spawn four of any higher tier you have unlocked on demand in her training pen, and this service is free.

Pets with the same skin but different names, such as Moa Birds and Striders, don't count as separate types. Pets with different skins but identical names, however, do count as different species. One example would be the red and blue Reef Lurkers.

The pets roaming the grounds are passive and, like normal pets, will become hostile (have their names turn red) when you try to charm them or attack them; however they will not attack you. The pets spawned by Wynn, on the other hand, will act like wild pets and attack as soon as you interact with them. The roaming pets still gain experience from player deaths and can be death leveled all the way to level 20. This will usually result in a Hearty pet, allowing you to unlock the highest tier for that species.

The menagerie

Each animal will only be present once tier 1 for that species is unlocked.

The training yard

Pet tiers

Tier	Minimum level	Evolution requirement	Unlocked pets
1	n/a	n/a	Level 5 unevolved
2	12	n/a	Level 12 unevolved
3	12	evolved1	Level 12 evolved
4	15	n/a	Level 15 Elder2
5	15	evolved	Level 15 evolved
6	20	n/a	Level 20 Elder
7	20	evolved	Level 20 evolved

¹ Aggressive and Playful (levels 12 to 14) or Aggressive, Dire, Hearty and Playful (levels 15 to 20)

² same stats as unevolved

Unlocking costs

Tier unlock	Coins1	Balthazar faction1		Animal unlock	Coins1	Balthazar faction1
1 → 2	1 , 100	1,000		Each common animal	1 , 100	1,000
2 → 3	1 , 100	1,000		White Moa2, Racing Beetle4	1 , 100	10,000
3 → 4	2 , 100	1,500		Jingle Bear2, White Jingle Moa4	2 , 100	20,000
4 → 5	2 , 100	1,500		Black Moa3, Phoenix3	3 , 100	30,000
5 → 6	3 , 100	2,000		Black Widow4, Moss Spider4	5 , 100	50,000
6 → 7	3 , 100	2,000		Rainbow Phoenix2, Panda4	15 , 100	80,000
-	-	-		Hound of Balthazar4	20 , 100	100,000

¹Pay either with coins or with Balthazar faction       ²Prestige Tyrian Animal   ³Prestige Canthan Animal   ⁴Prestige Exotic Animal

Notes

• The offspring of Black Moas use the exact model and size of a Black Moa Chick miniature.
• If bringing heroes, the Rainbow Phoenix cannot be found, even when registered, this is most likely to remove the possibility for heroes to charm a Rainbow Phoenix.
• There is no resurrection shrine in this area. As such, if you die from any reason (death from Wynn's summoned animals, Vampiric weapon, life sacrifice etc) and your party has no remaining resurrection skills, you will receive a message that your party has been defeated, and an option to return to the outpost.
• Animals created by Wynn in the training yards will automatically teleport back to the pen if they move too far.
• All animals of the same species are members of the same party and will thus share experience for the purposes of death leveling.
• Helena (Zaishen Keeper) will refer to a Reef Lurker (red) as a Lurker and a Reef Lurker (blue) as a Reef Lurker.
• The moss spider will not spawn immediately upon turning in your egg. You will have to rezone.
• If level 20 is obtained without a Hearty or Dire evolution, a pet can be turned in to Emryd and a level 15 Hearty or Dire animal of that type can be acquired from Wynn, raised to level 20, thus unlocking tier 7.

Trivia

• After a Lion and Lioness have been added, only one Lion with several Lionesses will show up, along with some cubs. This is very much like the natural composition of a pride.
• There are ambient animals in the grounds that are not charmable and are not considered creatures.
  • Gulls over the ocean.
  • Schools of small fish and a solitary large fish in the sea.
  • Turtles near the windmill and the marsh.
  • Flies over the trough.
  • Butterflies in the grass.
  • A cat on the farm crates.
  • A hawk that flies over Wynn's training ground.
  • Two frogs on a rock near the waterfall.
  • Small crabs on the beach.
  • A pair of dolyaks in the mountains.
  • A bunch of spiders in the marsh.
  • Water Buffalo around the farm.

Anomaly.On the grounds, when level 5 animals are attacked, they become hostile. However, (1) they do not attack the party and (2) sometimes, the other members of their species also turn hostile.

See also

• Pet Unlock Pack
• Animal companion

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