To Zap or Not To Zap? by Potebrigitte |  |
One day when you were wandering around Neopia you stumbled upon a piece of
the Secret Laboratory Map and you were so excited! But then you though to yourself,
"What should I do with this?" You have a lot of options and I’m here today to
tell you that you might not want to toss it into you store immediately. Why?
Because I’m going to tell you what it does and give the pro and cons of the
coveted, mysterious, fickle Secret Laboratory Map.
First things first, what does the map do once it’s assembled? A lot of people
can answer that it allows you and your pets to go to the Lab Ray. But what does
that mean? What the Lab Ray does, besides scare your pets, it is changes one
of your pet’s features and you get one zap a day. What can it change, you ask?
Well, anything, and that’s the beauty of the beast. It can up any statistic,
change the species to any other, including the limited edition pets, change
the colour to anything including Faerie and Fire, it can even turn your pet robotic.
But with all good things comes a catch and it’s this: the Lab Ray can lower
your pet’s statistics. That’s why I advise getting a completely new pet before
making the plunge, because while it can up stats faster than a racing Poogle
it can also take away a few Dubloons worth of hard work. Getting a new pet and
using the Lab Ray on it also works better because either way, good or bad, it
was all the Ray and none of your Codestone horde. Plus you aren’t attached to
the species or colour of your new pet, so if and when it gets changed to a new
species you don’t start saving for a morphing potion to change it back.
Have your heart set on the Lab Ray now? Time to go shopping! Hopefully you’ll
have a few pieces stashed away from random events or good trades, otherwise
the whole Secret Laboratory Map is going to run you about 75,000 NP on the open
market. But for those of you who have to go buy the whole thing at once there
is still good news, when you turn the Secret Laboratory Map into to Lab Ray
access you get 10,000 NP back and that’s doubled, so the cost is back down to
55,000 NP.
At this point you’re probably still wondering if it’s worth it, and for each
person it’s different, but in two weeks of once daily zaps my new pet gained
23 separate status points. If I was training him with Codestones that would
have cost 80,000 NP, and if I was using Dubloons that would have cost 46,000
NP, since he started at level 1. Of course in that time my pet changed from
a girl to a boy, yellow to green and Kougra to Chomby, but I’m flexible so that’s
okay and well worth it for me. Give it time and the Secret Laboratory Map will
pay for itself, you just have to ask yourself if your pet is worth the initial
cost.
If you want to see day by day Lab Ray results go to PoteGuineaPig’s pet
page where I record the ups and downs of the Ray. |
