I figured out Question #4. There's an egg icon underneath the image of your female pet that tells you when you can breed her again.

1: one is for in battle one is for out of battle.
2: i dont know the rate, but they regenerate helth over an hour or two if you let them rest.
3: part one: you have 24 hours from when they are able to hatch untill they actualy hatch on their own, so there is no way you can miss that window to help them hatch. Part two: eggs hatch after 72 maturity hours. You can speed this up with nurtures, every five nurturs bumps up the clock one hour.
4: most species recover after 7 days
5: we have a thing called a genetic tester. Many people are willing to test your pets for free, though you have to test your starter yourself.
6: no, use the map
7: about scales: you can o ly use them in the scale shop. They are not tradable and not sellable. About diamonds: you can buy them from other players using gold that you earn, go to the currency exchange under the trade tab. Some players may even make a trade with them.
8: you have to back out of exploring and go to your inventory to use them, there is no other way.
9: probably not. Krin does his best for us. That is so minor it would be a waist of time if krin had to do that. Just compair them yourself. Its easy enough.

^what kopes said

slightly correctly her answer for number 4 (i hope that's okay with you, kopes): regular species females recover after 72 hours (3 days), while fabled species recover after 168 hours (7 days). you can tell which species are fabled or not by going to the Generator and view the list of species, but eventually you'll remember them all :P

Thanks everyone for clarifying!

For the questions relating to egglings/nurturing see here
Regular species have a breeding cooldown of three days (so they're ready to breed again at exactly the point when an un-nurtured hatchling would hatch), while the Fabled species have a seven day cooldown.

The equipment is pretty easy once you get used to it
> What rarity/colour is it (Green = garbage, blue = okay, purple = good, yellow = usually the best, red = best)
> What level is it (generally the closer to your level the better, but rarity has a heavy weight- lv55 uncommon/green equips are worse than lv25 legendary)
> What type is it (Earlier on in the game there is equipment that has different names, but there are six basic types:
- Arcanist, pure focus on Int, good for Int mission pets, generally
- Assassin, Str/Agi, good for Physical Tank pets (Water/Earth)
- Evoker, Int/Dex, good for Magical Attackers and Light Healers (Fire/Light, could give it to a Shadow)
- Illusionist, Int/Agi, good for Magical Tanks (Shadow/Light)
- Myrmidon, Str/Dex, good for Physical Attackers (Primarily Air, could give it to Water)
- Ravager, pure focus on in Str, good for Str mission pets


on q5, Starter pets cannot be genetically tested, but technically do not need to be- all pets made in the generator (Starters/Essences) show all their traits in the genetics section from the start.

Thanks for clarifying. I'll definitely be keeping that in mind as I make my mission specific pets (so I can get some gold for that extra party slot and traps).

Can I get more genetic bits when generating pets or is it dependent on the essence type?

Also if the wild Sylesti has green stars instead of the normal white ones, does that mean it has a gene/mutation or is just really powerful compared to the others of its species at that level? I've only run into one, so I'm not sure.

If you click the link we had, to the Nurturing of Sylesti post, and then scroll up to post 3, the star colours and star numbers are explained there (man we really need to finish working on the guide so we can make a proper quick-link index to stick at the top of each post)

On Essences, all you need to know should be here

Compleatly fime by me!! I mostly breed Venes, which are Fabled so I just always respond with 7 days

Hiya! VERY new newbie asking a quick question: I'm on the troll cave quest thingy but on the map I don't see any "troll cave" (whatever it is) tab. What should I do?

yeah, i experienced that too a long time ago. i think it happened to everyone at some point, just refresh and exit out then come back for bit. it should appear eventually :P