Task Bar Hero Pet Farming Calculator for Unlock Time

The five base-game pets in this calculator each require 5,000 defeats of a specific monster. The selected pet determines the target monster and eligible stage list. Your current kill total determines how much progress remains, while the selected stage contributes an estimated number of target monsters per clear.

Runs are rounded up to a whole clear. Kills per hour come from the same stage-density and clear-time inputs, making it possible to compare a dense stage with a faster stage on one practical unit.

The per-clear values are community/datamined estimates stored in a versioned local snapshot. They are not live counters and do not guarantee that every clear produces the displayed number. Spawn composition, completion behavior, deaths, movement, and future patches can change the observed result.

The selector keeps all five kill-based pets in one place because the user task is the same for each one. The target monster, reward, and useful stages change, but the run-count calculation does not.

The three DLC pets are not included because they are purchased unlocks rather than monster-kill targets. A run calculator would not answer their acquisition task. A stage appearing first in the selector has the highest estimated kills per clear in the snapshot, but it is not automatically the fastest unlock for every account.

Monster density answers only half of the time question. If one stage is estimated to contain twice as many target monsters but takes more than twice as long to clear, the lower-density stage can still produce more kills per hour. That is why the calculator asks for a measured average clear time instead of declaring one universal best stage.

• Choose only a difficulty and stage the party can clear repeatedly without frequent deaths.
• Time several complete runs from the same start and finish points.
• Enter the average, not the single fastest result.
• Test another accessible stage with its own average and compare finish time.
• Prefer stable observed progress when two estimates are close.

Players have reported that Fire Elementals can appear less frequently than Bats or Giant Flies and questioned why the same 5,000-kill requirement applies. Those reports establish the problem, but individual anecdotes do not establish one universal spawn rate. The calculator therefore uses a dated reference snapshot and keeps your clear speed in the equation.

Enter the kill total shown for the selected pet's target monster. If the total is already 5,000 or higher, the remaining runs are zero. The tool does not detect progress automatically and does not read a save file or the running game.

Recheck the input after a long farming session instead of projecting an old estimate indefinitely. If observed kills per clear differ materially from the snapshot, the time result will differ as well. The estimate is most useful as a baseline that shows the scale of the remaining task and helps compare accessible stages under one method.

Use the Farming Calculator when EXP or Gold per hour matters more than one monster target. Use the Rune Planner before committing Gold to the global tree, or the Cube Calculator before committing items to a Synthesis chain.