I've gotten several mutated with 4 of these high tier skills but they're usually mixed with dogshit ones/crafting ones so yeah haven't gotten anything particularly good.
I've been setting up my breeding farm, takes a while to even really get started but finally done with like getting the bronchios or whatever maxed for the 100% alpha eggs, the weird cat for 75% double eggs, the other dino for 50% breeding speed and the new bird for 40% hatch speed(although it's not active yet cause the saddle needs the next tier of ingots I can't make yet). Now I need to figure out what pal I actually want in my team and max them out. And I'm only doing condensing so far getting perfect passives is a whole other can of worms I'll get to later on.
Sounds like we're doing the same thing. My breeding base is rolling and I've got the Grintale and Dynamoff tiered up, but that reminds me I need to make the Braloha saddle. Also the Broncherry Aqua gives a 45-55% chance that every egg you pick up is an alpha, which you'll want for your combat pals...
I haven't looked at what is "meta" and whatever is meta is probably too hard for me to capture but my first good passive combat crew is going to be:
Ophydia: Gives player soak ability (Is buildable at level 72 or 74 which I didn't know before I made this plan, I'm level 66 now...)
Elgrove Cryst: Gives player ability to freeze soaked pals
Muffly: Increased chance to catch frozen pals
Yakumo: Duplicates pal passives
And then whatever flyer, possibly Beakon which changes player attack to electric, but I'll probably just get a fast flyer and stick with it. If I'm in tough content I might swap one of the above with Silvegis which I just tiered up this morning and haven't really tried (Improves shield). I figure that'll help me catch some of the tougher Pals with great stats.
There's a bunch of good info out there about Pals but somehow nobody has made a 1.0 spreadsheet that nerds can use to sort their own data. So I combined a bunch of different info into
Code:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XRG_iO0K1IUvkCJs39uQOXjXTR74wLdYi3w5Z18XGFY/edit?usp=sharing