Encouragement– Or also known as Inspiration, this rappelz-item.com/tag/skill/">skill is a very short duration AoE that affects players and pets within the players party that will temporarily increase specific stats.
These are considered party skills that can benefit not only you and your pet but also your siege or dungeon party. The value of these skills is entirely dependent on what you will be using your pet for. They are not cheap job point wise so think carefully about these skills.
Card Ability/Belt Stats: The pets card ability passive gives a stat increase to the player when the creature card is equipped on the players belt. At a total cost of 4 job points, this passive is one which may not gimp your pets build.