Ever since the releasing wolves payout has been updated to include a guaranteed KBT at level 10, I've been curious about how other people go about training and releasing wolves.

Do you take one wolf or more on your team for campaign grinding? And what level do you release them at?

Personally, I've just been taking wolves that I was planning to sell for pebbles but that I'm unable to for whatever reason, and then attaching my lv10 colpach to them for some bonus XP. I then sometimes take the wolf and colpach duo for campaign grinding to level them up - with my main goal being hunting for WWs so I have something else to keep me occupied.

When the wolf gets to level 10 I release them for the 10kp and token. This process is really slow (about a week long) since I only drain a couple energy bars a day if I'm not settling down for a proper grinding session, so I've been wondering if there's a more efficient method of releasing wolves for money, since tokens aren't really worth it, even if I enjoy getting new WWs. What technique does everyone else use?

I have... a lot of wolves in training at any given time. Typically three dens worth, plus whatever new permawolves I added to my main dens.

All of my trainees have basidio toads, and I currently have a LOT of time on my hands so I'm able to bond with companions many times a day. I can typically take a pup to level 7 or 8 before it grows up. There's no reason to use the other companions that give XP, the fact that they take 2+ hours to bond with and still give less XP than basidios makes them functionally worthless, unless you have no other XP-giving companions.

The other thing I do is set a full campaign team, run them through their stamina to get them their ~20XP, then once they're exhausted I switch to another set of 5 and do the same to them. Usually I have seven minutes to wait before I can swap out my campaign team again, and that's easily filled with me doing other things on the site. But I don't consider the campaign to be a main trainer. I typically just use it to get my highest levels to 10 faster.

I also send my wolves on hunts. If I get a level 25 or 30 hunt, I try to put a low level wolf on there to get the 100 or so XP from completing it. I also have enough wolves to keep running hunts without needing to feed them, so I'm not wasting food points that way. They typically regain all their stamina over time before I need them again.

In my opinion, go with basidio toads. Their XP range is typically 5-27, they refresh hourly, and any other XP-giving companion (even the better tier ones) will still often give only 7-11 XP. Basidios cost 450 pebbles, they're dirt cheap and absolutely worth it.

@foxriddles I generally haven't been checking in a lot on Lorwolf since I have been spending most of my time grinding on FR. Considering this, the longer cooldown on high teir companions isn't really an issue for me since I might only check on my den 2-3 times a day, but I'll keep your basidio tip in mind for the future, thank you!

I never really considered just swapping out teams to take advantage of the free stamina instead of feeding them. That will make mass-levelling much cheaper than the 1 wolf method I'm using, I imagine.

Out of curiosity, do you normally grind in a specific area of the campaign? I find myself gravitating toward's Zanthous' free 'something?' encounter for free bones and also The Neck since the enemies there drop a lot of food but I haven't been paying much attention to whether there's anything more worthwhile to grind.

@minim

Grinding kinda varies depending on if I'm feeling like getting some extra fish/hunting trophies/ingots/seeds etc, but when I want XP I usually grind in the Black Hills in Icerun, aka the third area. The lapistrix are easy to take out and drop bones, and always come in a set of 3, and you can get WW encounters. The lapistrix don't have poison, so there's no time wasted on poison damage ticks. Otherwise I go to the third area in Goldsea.

If my den is full, I don't bother grinding anywhere except the Goldsea den, because I'm always on the hunt for salt, and grinding elsewhere risks failing WW encounters. The other dens don't have anything I need to grind for.

I've never been one to focus on food drops, partly because I just love playing with a full team too much to "waste" XP. I have enough rodills and foliums on my main wolves that I basically never run out of meat/bacon to cook, and having passive fishing going is a huge help.

I wish I knew how to grind faster, but with wolves getting 1XP/enemy no matter the area, it's difficult.

I've got 9 fodder breeding pairs and I spend a little over a week leveling the pups with Basidios or Kuzmas to lvl 7.

Once they hit lvl 7 I start leveling in the campaign. I use my main lvl 10 Kit with a Canictonis, and I attach a Lynx Point Lunaria to one of the fodder. Leaves me space for 1 more fodder wolf.

I almost always grind in Chillwind Pass because even if I start early with fodder at lvl 6 they can still beat the Simbur and Furmus with the lvl 10 companions and the kit, and I get way more from the loot alone than from releasing the wolves.

It takes me a little over 15 min for 2 fodder at lvl 7 if I can stay focused the whole time, but with the abundant trinkets, pebbles from Simbur, and 1wk+ break (sometimes longer if I'm lazy) between mass grinds I find I don't get burnt out from it. I personally love this system because I get my loot grinding done, fodder grinding done, find WWs, AND get a bunch of knucklebones through the whole thing.

I'll be revisiting this thread though to see if others have better techniques than what I've found!

I put Basidio and Kuzma on all my pups and passively level to adulthood, which can get me to Level 7 in a good week - then Level the rest through campaign and continued passive Companion stuff faster than if we were starting at 0.

I also have been doing the team swaps! It feels like a waste to feed fodder wolves so I just cycle them out team after team. I have soooo much food for leveling my perma wolves now lol