🥚 Task Bar Hero Pets & Companions

What are Task Bar Hero pets and companions?

Task Bar Hero pets — also called companions — are permanent party members that contribute passive bonuses and active abilities without occupying a hero slot.

Pets — also called companions — are permanent party members that contribute passive bonuses and active abilities without occupying a hero slot. Because their effects apply on top of your existing team rather than replacing part of it, they are one of the cheapest sources of extra power in the game.

This database lists every companion with its abilities, passive bonuses and the role it fits, so you can compare candidates before investing the resources it takes to unlock or level one.

Which Task Bar Hero pet should you use?

The Task Bar Hero pet worth using is the one that covers your team’s weakest link: a defensive or healing companion when clears fail, an offensive one when clears are merely slow.

Start from the weakness in your current team. If your clears stall because the team dies, a defensive or healing companion stabilises the run; if clears are slow but safe, an offensive companion shortens them. Because companions stack with hero buffs, the right pick is usually the one that covers a gap rather than the one with the biggest headline number.

Companion bonuses also matter for idle farming specifically: a pet that improves drop or gold efficiency earns its keep every hour you are away, which compounds far beyond what it contributes to a single boss attempt.

• ▸ Pick the companion that covers your team’s weakest link
• ▸ Defensive pets for unstable clears, offensive pets for slow ones
• ▸ For AFK play, value gold and drop bonuses over burst damage

Unlocking and upgrading companions

Companions are unlocked through progression and events, and each one has its own separate upgrade path.

Companions are unlocked through progression and events, and each one has its own upgrade path. Because a partially upgraded companion is usually outperformed by a fully levelled earlier one, it is normally better to finish what you already own before chasing a new unlock.

How do you unlock and upgrade Task Bar Hero pets?

Companions arrive through progression and events, and each one carries its own upgrade path, which means a new unlock is rarely an upgrade by itself. A partially levelled companion is usually outperformed by a fully levelled earlier one, so the honest comparison is between the pet you can finish and the pet you can only start. For most accounts the better play is to complete the companion already in the party before chasing a new one.

Upgrade value also depends on what you are doing. Companions that improve gold or drop efficiency pay out on every hour of idle farming, so their value compounds in a way a combat-only bonus never does. Companions that add survivability or burst are worth their cost during progression pushes and boss attempts, where the run either succeeds or fails, but they contribute nothing while you are asleep. Matching the companion to the activity, rather than to a ranking, is what makes the investment pay.