TBH: Taskbar Hero Pets Tier List: Stop Paying For Bad Stats
Unlike your fragile heroes, pets in Taskbar Hero are permanent, indestructible money printers that you absolutely need to unlock in the right order.
When you first open your formation menu, you might assume pets work like traditional RPG companions where you have to carefully choose which one to equip. That is completely wrong. There are no slot limits and no trade-offs. Every single pet you unlock runs simultaneously in the background, stacking their gold, experience, and chest drop bonuses on top of each other forever.
While picking a terrible tank from my TBH Taskbar Hero class tier list will get your party wiped out in Brutal difficulty, ignoring your pets just quietly sabotages your economy. You want to get the highest impact pets running as early as possible so your rewards compound across those long idle sessions. Before you swipe your credit card for the DLC or waste hours grinding the wrong act, here is exactly what every pet does and how I rank them.
The Raw Data
Here are the hard numbers on what every pet actually provides and what it takes to get them onto your roster.
S-Tier (The Mandatory Grinds)
If you only focus on a few pets to start, make it these three. They provide the most aggressive scaling for your account.
Dragon
The Dragon is hilariously overpowered. Instead of specializing in one single resource, it just buffs everything. You get a massive 20 percent boost to common chests, 15 percent more gold, and 20 percent more experience all at the same time. The only catch is that it costs real money via the Supporter Pack DLC. If you plan on leaving this game running on your PC for the next six months, the Dragon pays for itself in raw efficiency.
Bat
If you refuse to spend money, the Bat is your absolute best friend. It gives a 10 percent boost to common chest drops and a 15 percent experience bump. You can unlock it very early by parking your team in Act 1 and letting them slaughter 5,000 bats. You want this running immediately so your heroes level up fast enough to survive the harder zones.
Dark Spirit
Common chests are great for crafting fodder, but Stage Boss Chests hold the gear you actually care about. The Dark Spirit gives you a 15 percent drop chance multiplier for those boss chests. Once you hit Act 2 and beyond, boss drops are your primary source of high rarity loot. Unlocking the Dark Spirit guarantees you pull more valuable items over a long farming session.
A-Tier (The Solid Freebies)
These pets are incredibly useful and cost you nothing but time.
Watcher
Rune tree upgrades eventually cost millions of gold, making passive income a massive bottleneck. The Watcher fixes that with a flat 15 percent boost to the gold you earn per kill. You get it by killing 5,000 Giant Flies, which is a very easy grind. It outperforms paid DLC pets in raw value without asking you for a dime.
Blue Golem and Burning Skeleton
The Blue Golem gives you a 15 percent bump to common chests, which means a non-stop flood of low rarity gear for your Cube synthesis. The Burning Skeleton gives a 10 percent boost to boss chests. It is basically the weaker little sibling of the Dark Spirit, but since pet buffs stack forever, you absolutely want both of them running at the same time.
B-Tier (The Paid Traps)
Before you throw your cash at the screen, you need to look at the math. These two paid DLC pets are mathematically inferior to things you can earn for free.
Butterfly
The Butterfly is the most offensive pet on the roster. It requires a real money purchase, and all it gives you is a 10 percent boost to gold per kill. The completely free Watcher gives you a 15 percent boost. Paying actual money for a strictly worse version of a free pet is a terrible financial decision. Yes, they stack if you own both, but the value proposition here is awful.
Sword
The Sword gives you 15 percent more experience. It is not necessarily a bad buff, but it lacks the dual utility of the Bat or the sheer broken power of the Dragon. If you bought the Supporter Pack to get the Dragon anyway, the Sword is a nice little bonus sitting in the background. But I would never recommend buying the pack solely to get this specific pet. Stick to the free grinds and watch your numbers go up.
