Hey all!
Mostly bored so thought I’d bring up a little discussion about the Porcine pet family, more specifically focused on their F2 skills. The idea behind these skills is fun and some of the skills you can actually pick up are quite decent or even good. However, the time it takes to use it in the middle of combat is way too long, the need to root yourself to pick the item up and thus leaving you vulnerable, not the mention the fact the enemy could pick it up if they stunlock you, make most of these skills rather annoying to use.
Now, this could be fixed in a number of ways. A rather boring way to fix it would be just have the item appear in the ranger’s hand straight away. It’s a very straight forward fix and I don’t think it would take that much time to implement this (I could be wrong ofc). I also don’t think this would step onto Thief stealing, as we would still lose our weapon skills till we drop or use the item and there’s a time limit on how long we can hold these items before they disappear.
Another idea that I at least enjoy the concept of would be the following:
Forage: Search the area for magical truffles.
The idea is that after you use the F2 skill and the porcine has foraged, a Truffle (or maybe some other food) would replace the F2 skill for 1 use. Each porcine would have 3 different types they can find, but the porcines would all have a theme. For example, Warthog and Boar would focus more on offense while Siamoth and Pig more on utility.
A few examples of truffles, trying to base them off what they find right now:
Siamoth:
Truffle of Sneaking: Consume this truffle to grant 3s stealth to the pet and nearby allies within 240 radius. Blinds foes for 3s on use.
Plasma Infused Truffle: Consume to grant every boon to the pet and ranger.
Truffle of the Escape-artist: Consume to break stun and grant super speed. Affects pet and ranger.
Boar:
Rocky Truffle: Spit out the too tough to eat truffle at targeted enemy, dealing medium damage and knocking them down on hit.
Truffle of the Champion: Consume the truffle to gain 50% attack speed, Super Speed and gain an additional 100 attack range. Your next attack stuns the target for 3 seconds. (affects only the boar)
Grenth’s Truffle: Consume this truffle to briefly project an image of Grenth into this world, striking fear into goes around you! The closer the foes are, the longer the fear lasts.
Warthog
Disgusting Truffle: Consume to spit out disgusting vomit at targeted area. For the 5 seconds this area pulses random conditions to foes. Ethereal Field
Truffle of the Devourer: Consume to shoot a poison cloud at targeted area. The zone lasts 10 seconds and pulses poison every 2 seconds. Poison Field.
Scale filled Truffle: Consume and spit out the scale that was inside this truffle. Targeted enemy suffers bleeding, poison and weakness
Pig
Melandru’s Truffle: Consume this truffle to cleanse conditions and grant regen to allies near you every 2 seconds. For 5 seconds the pig becomes a walking water field.
Truffle of Heroes: Consume to make the pet and ranger invulnerable.
High Protein Truffle: Heals the pet and ranger and grants 10 stacks of might to allies that witness this.
I tried to base the skills off the forage objects that already exist in the game so most aren’t that creative. What do you think of this idea? Have any suggestions of your own? Leave a comment
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