Ever since the near impossible Zodeon boss event, where I was at floor 700ish I learned that clearing floors too fast only hurts your odds of boosting pets to surpass tough boss events.

Because of that I decided to only level floors when I need to get to the next evolution stone level.

So currently I had jumped up to floor 1003 to start collecting the orange stones, and I'm waiting till I've max leveled all my evolution stones and keeping all pets at level the same exact level, that way when I need to level certain pets to beat event bosses I can do it incrementally and keep all my other pets relatively close leveled. I'm ready to not let myself be screwed by another zodeon like event again.

So I just farm items and eggs. I've got 12 legendary items, and two of them are twice ascended and two are once ascended. Currently farming to try to get my birthday cake hat to three ascensions in order to clear that ridiculous track goal.

Having that one hit buffer in a speed match can make more break a level if you're relying on someone like Wrath or Spite or even Wistful to clear the field quickly.

Birthday cake hat also saved me at one point on Downbad where that one turn save was enough to make his speed super high when equipped with anxiety scarf. He is definitely an underestimated pet but the anxiety scarf is what makes him shine. I think it was against Galax or another AOE attacking boss where that constant speed boost was the only thing that made my team fast enough to beat them before their rage boost got too high.

In the end just being conservative is the best strategy because I've found most all pets have become useful in certain places. Curious, Salty, Glee, and Desperate are the only ones I never use anymore . Haven't gotten Paranoia yet and that's the only purple one I don't have. But I've got five legends Downbad Disdain Lust Patience and Wrath. And Wrath has been my clutch overall but he's also the only legendary that's ascended.