Pets!

[Tallos]

Right, this is bit of a big one (as per usual), so sorry in advance.

Pets - Lets be honest, they need an overhaul, before level 65 they're near enough useless, they die everywhere, they get pulled away by archers, they kill a few mobs and they're gone... Fox's for your *0/*5 levels, pitiful for anywhere other than BC. How about a bump in their stats? They should be much more durable, at least for places like BDD/PT, I'm not asking for LaptasLegions that will clear Slaves without taking a shot, I'm asking for something worth unresting, lol.

Another big one, Tao's - Wtf is the point in a Tao being able to summon pets? Deva's nice and I guess once you're in a fight and your other pets are dead, having a Shinsu that hits for next to nothing (but can sometimes make players flinch) can be moderately useful, outside of that, they're crap though. Most other servers have new pets, I think they normally go up in 5 level increments (40/45/50/55 etc), something like that would make Tao pets actually worth summoning.

I think Silver said something about having a DarkDeva (might of been DarkHolyDeva, maybe change the name to DarkEvilDeva or EvilDeva?), I liked the idea of this, maybe have it around level 55-60 and have level 3 requirement being in the 64-66 area. To go with the whole unholy/evil side, the lightning bolt could be changed from blue to red (same one that's used my the Thunder-Zuma-Thingy from ZT).

Something that also ties in to this, Mirroring... Does anyone even bother to use it? I had it at level 3 on my Wiz with something like 70-130 mc and it was endlessly poor, considering the mana it took up and the fact it's a non-bookshop spell (semi rare), maybe up the damage % gained from the caster's mc?

Anyone that's going to come out with a "You're just doing this to make your gaming experience easier" please, just don't bother posting. I doubt anyone will deny that pre-65 pets are pretty much crap, so let's keep it down to real comments and not ones that're inciting flames please.

[Hoober]

Don't know much about the pet system in med rate, but I'll just talk about the tao pets.

Summoning pets is one of the trademarks of tao, I would say. But basically it's pretty much useless. Shinsu's damage is too low and when you go to higher level places, it's pretty much useless. Deva is good, but only for bosses, not lvling, as it tends to drag your mobs around, and you have to chase the mobs, and it doesn't attack if you don't get hit or you don't attack. So in the end, you won't see higher lvl taos using those pets but instead they'll use the pet system in game, the pet rental thing.

And that also means that higher lvl taos loses one of it trademark skills of summoning pets to help in hunting, which basically you're buying them that time. So it's like asking a warrior or wizz to lose a trademark skill like flaming sword or blizzard when they reach higher level.

[Daz]

Once shinzu is level 7 it's pretty good isnt it?

Deva is annoying when leveling lol, concentrating on a lure - deva kindly lures the boss of the cave :P

EvilDeva would be good idea.

And for the idea of the PetRentalNPC - maybe just lower all the pets in level? So pretend you get a Centipede at 40, get it at 30? (Example)

Daz

[Hoober]

Once shinzu is level 7 it's pretty good isnt it?

Deva is annoying when leveling lol, concentrating on a lure - deva kindly lures the boss of the cave :P

EvilDeva would be good idea.

And for the idea of the PetRentalNPC - maybe just lower all the pets in level? So pretend you get a Centipede at 40, get it at 30? (Example)

Daz

It's still pretty weak at lvl 7 tbh, probably can lasts a a few more hits from high lvl bosses, but if you're talking about doing harm to the boss, no.. not at all.

[Daz]

Nah I ment just generally killing mobs.

Daz

[Desire]

i think tao pets are great! mirroring is ****, and war pets r ****, but i think wars are getting a new spell soon called clone.

shinsu's hp is uber, and deva hits anything (good for pvp)

[Tallos]

Sarcasm? I hope so, anyway, lol. Warriors aren't getting Clone, that was my idea (a modification of Euro's original idea), I was hoping to get the coding for it from a friend, but it took him weeks to perfect and doesn't want to part with it, as it'd be going to a rival server... So unless we have someone willing to code it themselves, no, we're not getting that. >_<

Shinsu's hp is wank, compared to level 65 pets... You could be level 100 and it'd be exactly the same, lol. Deva is indeed good for PvP, but that's almost it, other than certain boss kills (ZT, that's about it?). If you see a Tao using bought pets (other than donated ones), something is wrong, Hoober put it how I was planning to (but couldn't find the words for) - It's their trademark skill and has been a huge part of their class since the beginning of Euro Mir, it needs looking at, badly. >_<

[Gridlock]

Yeah I think shinsu + deva needs to be beefed up a bit... shinsu needs to be very durable and deva needs to hit harder...

but you also need to downgrade curse and poison abit to 20 - 30 secs as they are really uber

[Tallos]

Fully agreed on Curse, it needs to have a duration cap of 20 seconds really, that alone is INSANE for against a Warrior, making them quite literally useless. Poison also lasts too long (on players at least) and does too much damage, it's good that Tao's have a stronger poison/slow than a Warrior with PA/Slow does, but Jebus, overdone just a tad - I think we've got the same stats as HR, as they've got 50 odd PA/Slow on there, whereas Tao's don't have a huge amount more sc than ours, not the same kind of gap that's between our Warrior's PA/Slow anyway, lol.