Do they ever work? I've probably used like 10 of them without any success.

They do work, but the success rate is not very high, though I'm not sure what's the exact number, since there is a random factor involved. I have personally gone way over 10 traps before a successful catch before.

Some things to improve your chances of success:
- lower the health of the pet you want to catch
- use better traps to catch (you unlock more types of traps with each region)

these are especially important when you eventually reach the lost grove. In that zone, each failed attempt to catch a pet makes them more desperate, which stacks up buffs that increases damage dealt to your party.


But generally, I'll say it's not really worth catching pets, unless you see one you really love.

Other cheaper ways to get pets would be the scale shop (nurture to get scales), and using the advanced search to find pets on sale (you can choose species, gender, traits, price range)

Thanks! Yeah it just kind of seems like a waste of money. I did see a couple sylesti I liked but the traps scared them away. Maybe I' try again when I get higher level traps

note that it would be a pretty bad idea to hoard pets at your level here, since you may not have enough money to buy space and pets that you like may be released :P

They only work on common or uncommom sylesties.
They also have a higher chance of working if the pets health is lower.