Long story short, my pets keep falling unconscious and I have less than 1k gold to keep healing them. I have no idea what to do, I've heard some advice but I still can't figure out what to do. Any tips from people who've gotten past the quest, or are at a higher level?

1. if you aren't in battle, pets heal on their own over time

2. if you do missions, you can get a steady stream of gold, and mission satchels can give elixirs, potions, and draughts for healing your pets. The Healers in town are generally considered as Not Worth It (coughscammerscough)

3. if you're in Faerina's Shrine, you can get your third petslot unlocked in Sanctuary of Saerielle

4. looking at your party, I can see why you're having battle problems
> Shadow and Earth are both primarily Tank elements (slot 1, designed to take the brunt of enemy attacks)
Most parties consist of a Tank, a Healer, and an Attacker

> your pets have all of one lv20 uncommon disciple relic between them equipment-wise. Equipment is a LARGE part of a pet's stats. (uncommon equips are Garbage, by the by)

> Tank elements are Earth, Water, and Shadow, sometimes Light
Healer is Light, but sometimes people use Water Buffers instead
Attackers are Air and Fire (though a Shadow could potentially be used as one, they really are a tank usually)

> Tanks get Assassin or Illusionist equips (Assassin, str/agi, for Water or Earth, Illusionist, int/agi, for Shadow or Light)
Attackers are Myrmidon (str/dex) for Air, and Evoker (int/dex) for Fire
Light Healers are usually equipped with Evoker, or a mix of Evoker and Illusionist

There is a healing "hack" you can use to recover cheaply:

1) Remove pets from your party

2) Go to stables and click "revive pets". They should revive for just 100g each!

3) You will still need mushrooms/potions/etc to actually heal (or just wait), but the cost is much less since you don't need to revive first.

Hope this makes the healing a bit easier! Also, in the sanctuary of sarielle, you can save up and get a third party pet slot. This should make things much easier! I like to use light as my third pet, just for the heaing. But I also use air (as my second pet) with that.