Faerie Abilities

Aethia's Ability Academy opened up for business on February 19th, 2013. On this day the old faerie abilities got replaced by a set of new ones. This change was part of the remake of the Battledome. On this page you will learn all about the new faerie abilities.


Weak Bottled Faeries
At Aethia's Ability Academy you can learn your pets new abilities. Aethia the Battle Faerie will help you to train your pets in exchange for Faerie Blessings. Faerie Blessings can be gotten from Weak Bottled Faeries. You can see all the available ones in the table below:

Weak Bottled Air Faerie	Weak Bottled Dark Faerie	Weak Bottled Earth Faerie	Weak Bottled Fire Faerie
Weak Bottled Light Faerie	Weak Bottled Water Faerie	Unidentifiable Weak Bottled Faerie

There are different ways to obtain the Weak Bottled Faeries:

Kauvara's Magic Shop restocks the faeries at rarity 88. The Almost Abandoned Attic restocks the faeries as they are between the rarity 80 to 99 rarity limit. The Igloo Garage Sale restocks the faeries as they are under the rarity 89 limit. The faeries are randomly given out as Battledome Prizes in any of the domes. You can win a faerie by landing on the magic potion at the Wheel of Excitement. You can win them as a reward for completing a Snow Faerie Quest. You can create them at the Cooking Pot by mixing three Fading Bottled Faeries. Which Weak Bottled Faerie you get is random. You can wish for a Weak Bottled Faerie at the Wishing Well as it may grant items up to rarity 89.

Getting Faerie Blessings
Once you've got yourself Weak Bottled Faeries you need to let them bless your pet in order to get a faerie blessing. You can do this by placing the Weak Bottled Faerie in your inventory. If you click on it, you will be given the option to bless one of your pets. Select the pet of your choice and a faerie will bless your pet. You will get 1-2 blessings.



The Unidentifiable Weak Bottled Faerie is a special one. While the Weak Bottled Dark Faerie will give you a dark blessing, you do now know what you will get out of the Unidentifiable Weak Bottled Faerie. The outcome is random, but it will always be only 1-2 blessings. They can be two different blessings, like 1 water and 1 earth.



If you then return to Aethia's Ability Academy, you will see that the faerie blessings field will be updated. Please note that you might need to click on the pet you've blessed first, if this is not your active pet.




The Abilities
There are 30 different abilities available for your pet. However, they come in tiers of 3. From each tier you can only train your pet 1 ability. That means in total your pet can learn 10 abilities. In order to learn an ability from a tier, your pet needs to be trained to a certain level. Tier 1 is available for all pets (starts at level 1), but tier 10 is only available for pets of level 500 (and up).

All abilities can be used when frozen by your opponent, even though you can't use the weapons (though this could be a glitch).

Below you can see all the available abilities. We are still testing to see what they do exactly.




Learning and Changing Abilities
To learn your pet an ability, you must first have enough blessings for your pet. You can see if you have enough by hovering over an ability. It will then tell you if you have enough or not. If you have enough blessings and you wish you train your pet with it, you need to click on the ability. It then gets a red border around it. If you then scroll down to the page, you can click on 'Train these abilities'.



You will then be asked if you really want to spend your blessings on the ability.



If you then click 'Yes, I'm, sure' your pet will have learned the ability and your blessings will be gone. You can see which abilities your pet has learned from the green border around them.

If you've learned an ability in a certain tier, and you wish to switch to another ability, this is possible. But, you can only have one ability of a tier at once. If you want to switch an ability, you will need to pay blessings as well, but only half the amount that it would've originally costed you.

Saving tip: some Weak Bottled Faeries cost more than others. The light faerie is a lot more expensive for instance. If you want to budget, it could be cheaper to learn another ability first, and then to pay half the amount of light faeries needed by switching.

You cannot learn or switch abilities while you are in battle. If things aren't going the way you planned, you're out of luck!


Old Faerie Abilities
If you are interested in learning about the old faerie abilities, you can visit the Magical abilities descriptions page on Neopets. The system used to be a lot different. Each faerie had 8-9 abilities. In order to learn an ability, your pet needed to be a certain level (as you can see on that page). You would then use 1 bottled faerie to learn the ability. These faeries are now called Fading Bottled Faerie. They are no use anymore, aside the fact that you can use them at the Cooking Pot to create the newer faeries.

Fading Bottled Air Faerie	Fading Bottled Dark Faerie	Fading Bottled Earth Faerie	Fading Bottled Fire Faerie
Fading Bottled Light Faerie	Fading Bottled Water Faerie

The people whose pets had learned the old abilities received a compensation for them from Neopets. You can see on the Neopets Abilities page if your pet had any. Neopets gave a compensation up to 62,000 neopoints for the old abilities. You got more neopoints if you had more abilities.


Future Developments
It appears that Neopets is not done yet developing the new abilities.

For starters, all the currently available faeries are 'weak' bottled faeries. TNT has also posted the following on their news "You may start finding stronger bottles that give out more blessings!".

Secondly, three of the wheels in Neopia, the Wheel of Excitement, the Wheel of Mediocrity and the Wheel of Monotony have results that affect the faerie abilities. On the Wheel of Excitement, the Light Faerie could formerly increase your ability level, whereas the Dark Faerie could decrease it. On the other two wheels the Earth and Light Faerie could increase your ability's level. The results of the wheels have not yet been changed.



The Radioactive Negg is supposed to increase the level of one of your abilities. But this also has not been changed yet.



Dailies that gave out bottled faeries, such as Tombola, Deserted Tomb and Fruit Machine are still giving out the Fading Bottled Faeries. Same goes for Keyquest, where you can still win the Fading Bottled Faeries from Bronze and Lead keys. The Space Faerie Vending Machine and Alien Aisha Vending Machine still give out the old faeries and so does the Neopets Referral Program. The random event still gives out the Faded Bottled Faeries as well:

Something has happened!
	Your pet has found a captured faerie!!!

We assume that Neopets will want to change these to the new faeries. This is also indicated by TNT in the Editorial.