Rappelz Creature Guide

In-Depth Creature Guide
Beast Class: Pantera - Poultry - Tortus
Ain Class: Orc

Rappel: n. (French) Recall / Summon

The game Rappelz is named such because of its creature summoning feature.
You can tame, summon, raise, evolve and utilize the creature regardless of what job class you are.
This is an in-depth guide on creatures. Most of the data is translated from the Official Korean Rappelz Site and the guides are originally wrote by myself, to help the players get to know their creatures better and plan out which one would work best for their characters.
Special thanks to nevets1219, angelsarc, Martigan, and Phantasm who helped me with data and advice.

Disclaimer: Many of the skill names are incorrect, due to the fact that these are my own translation. If you know the actual skill names in the gpotato English game, PLEASE send me an e-mail.
The creature skills are completely changed in Epic 4. I have only updated the first 3 creature so far. More to come in the future.

Changes in Epic 4:

The creatures do not get thousands of JP like the players anymore. They will gain 1 point per level, and 2 points during overbreeding, which has changed the purpose of overbreeding entirely. The maximum level for each skill is yet to be determined.
The creatures now have entirely new set of skills.
The rarity categorization (basic, common, rare, etc.) has been changed from 5 to 3... yes, there were (supposed to be) that many before. Not much difference there really. All the common grade creatures such as Orc, Pixie, etc. are now considered as basic as well.
You do not have to go to a Tamer NPC in order to form a creature. You can access it any time from your menu.
The mountable creatures do not take up a Creature Control slot anymore. They are usable items now.
It is now much easier to level up the creatures, but they cannot level past the owner's level.

I. Skills

First, in order to use creatures, you need the appropriate skills. Any beginning job class (Guide, Rogue or Stepper) of all the race can learn these skills.

JLvl	Skill Name		Description
5		Creature Control	Allows you to control a creature. The higher level this is, the more creature slots you get. If you do not have this skill, you cannot have any creature, period.
5		Summon Creature	Summons the formed creature.
8		Creature Mastery	Increases the attack power of the summoned creature. The higher this skill is, the higher the increase in attack power.
8		Recall Creature	Recalls the summoned creature.
10		Creature Taming	Tries taming the monster. You need the proper type of creature card of the corresponding target and it must be used on a target at full health.

II. Taming, Forming & Summoning

1. Get an empty creature card.
After you acquired the above skills, it is time to go out in the field and start taming the creature you wish to raise.
However, even if you have acquired the Creature Taming skill, without an empty creature card you cannot tame any creatures.
There are 3 different types of creatures - Basic, Common and Rare.
You can buy any of the 3 most basic cards (Pantera, Tortus or Poultry) from the Merchant NPCs in any of the cities other than Trainee Island, but for the other rare cards, you must either hunt monsters or buy from other players.

2. Tame the right monster.
Once you have the right card of the creature you wish to tame, find the monster type you can tame for the creature (e.g. target any of the Roosters or Gallus if you wish to tame a Poultry), and use Creature Taming skill on the monster. The monster has to be in full health, or it will not work.
The taming skill will take a while to cast, and it is also possible to be attacked while you're casting the skill depending on whether the monster is aggressive or passive.
After your taming skill has been cast, the monster will start attacking you. Do not panic, as it is natural. You must kill it off, then and only then you will know if you have succeeded. If you are successful, the creature will now be sealed in your card. If not, your card will be destroyed and you will have to get a new card before you can try to tame another (cry with me!). You don't necessarily have to solo when you try to kill of tamed monster. If you're in danger, you can always get help.
At this moment, you still cannot summon the creature yet even if you have succeed. You must form it (Alt + Y) before you can summon it.

3. Form the creature.
Go to the menu and choose 'Creature Formation' (Alt + Y).
Now drag the tamed creature card onto an empty slot of the creature forming window. You only have 1 slot, unless you are a summoner class with higher Creature Control skill level. When you form a creature, its name will be randomly generated.
You will need to buy a "Creature Name Change" item if you wish to rename your creature to whatever you want. It is a cash item bought with gpotato, but some players will sell them for 500K.
If you already have a full creature slot and wish to remove it so you can form a new one, simply open up the same Creature Formation window, click on the existing creature, and click 'Cancel', then drag the new one onto now-empty slot.

4. Summon!
Once you have formed your creature, use the Summon Creature skill. Voila! You have successfully summoned a creature! If you have more than one creatures formed, open up the creature window (Alt + R) and select the creature you wish to summon by clicking on the icon of the creature.
You can only summon one creature at a time, but if you're a summoner class, there is a skill you can use to summon 2 at a time, but still for only a short amount of time. You can recall your creature back any time you wish by using the Recall Creature skill.

III. Controlling & Raising

Once you have summoned your creature, it will automatically follow you around wherever you go, but not necessarily aid you automatically. There are 3 default actions you can make your creature take on the action window (Alt + T) and one extra.

Creature Attack - Creature attacks target by itself. (Alt + Click Target)
Joint Attack - Creature and Characters attacks the target at the same time. Depending on the movement speed, one may start attacking over the other. The monster will first counterattack whoever attacked first, but will eventually attack whoever deals more damage. (Ctrl + Click Target)
Follow - You can leave your creature at one spot and not follow you. You must reactivate it to make it follow you again. (ESC x 3)
Move - Now this is not on the action window, but you can make your pet go anywhere by performing Shift + Click on any spot on the ground.

As the creature fights alongside you, it will also gain experience and JP. Yes, the creatures can use skills too! Their stats are permanently fixed however.
A summoned creature will gain approximately 100% of what you earn, but creatures that you own the card but not yet formed or equipped on your belt will not gain anything.
Open the creature window (Alt + R) and double click on the creature portrait to bring up the creature stat window. Here you can see your creature stats and also spend the JP in order to level up creature skills. To use active skills that only the creatures can use, drag the skill from the creature skill window onto the creature quick-slot bar placed right above your character quick-slot bar, and use it from there like you would with your character. The list of all the skills of specific creatures can be found on this site.

When your creature reaches a certain level, you can evolve the creature to strengthen it even further. When you evolve a creature, it will change its name and appearance, but will keep the current level and all the skills it has earned previously. It is similar to how characters change the job class.
The first evolution can take place at level 50, and the second at level 100, however you can overbreed them by leveling them further before you evolve them in order to pick up more JP and skills. It takes very long time to overbreed the creatures, so you need to be very patient, but it is definitely worth it to get extra JP.
To evolve your creature, talk to the Tamer NPC and choose 'Creature Evolution'.

IV. Management

If your creature dies, you can either revive it back at the Tamer NPC or with the resurrection scroll. They also lose experience upon death like regular characters.
When it dies, it will be automatically recalled after a few seconds. In order to revive it using the scroll, you must first resummon the dead creature (T-T) and select it by either Shift + Clicking on the body or clicking on its icon on the creature window, and then use the resurrection scroll from your inventory.
If you wish to revive it at the Tamer NPC, you do not have to resummon it to do so. Just talk to the NPC and choose 'Creature Management', select your creature name, then choose to revive it with either partial hp or full hp.
Any sort of resurrection skill will also work on the creature as well.

You can also equip your creature with item cards. To form an item card, you must combine an equipment item and a blank unit card which you can purchase from a Merchant NPC. Also, certain creature gets more bonus depending on which kind of equipment they wear. (e.g. warrior armor for Tortus and hunter armor for Poultry)
To equip an item card, open the 'Creature Formation' window from the menu. Drag your item card onto an empty slot for your creature and it's done.

You can do just the opposite as well, by equipping the creature card on yourself! You must equip a belt in order to do so. Just drag the creature card onto your belt slot to equip. Different stat bonus is given depending on the creature Card skill. The creature must not be formed in order for it to be equipped. If it already is, you must take it out of your control from the Creature Formation window before you can equip it. Because of that, the equipped card creatures do not gain any Exp or JP.

Usually you would want a fully-grown creature card to equip on your belt for stat bonus, and if you are currently raising one that is different from your job class to aid you better (e.g. a melee class having a healing/buffing creature), you would have to buy another one you need. That's where trading comes in.
You can trade the creature cards with other players without any sort of penalty. Despite the rumors, there is no loyalty factor or anything like that. They will have their full stat and skills up to the level you have raised them when you give it to someone else.

V. Mountable Creature

Mountable creature, namely Ornitho or Lydian, are not tameable, and can only be bought at Adventure Guide NPC. When you do the quest in Trainee Island, the Beginner Trainer NPC will give you one that lasts for an hour for free. Usually one costs 1000 rupees and lasts for 6 in-game hours (not a bad price if you ask me). They're about 3-4 times faster than running even with extra movement speed, so it is handy to have one around when you're hunting in places far from any city.
In order to ride it, simply double click on the rideable Creature item in your inventory. Do the same thing when you want to get off as well.
You cannot attack while you're riding a creature.

Well, that's about it for the creature guide. Thanks for reading such a long text-intensive guide down to this point. Scroll up for the links to the creature skill list pages or simply click here.