Silly Idea for Pets

Silly Idea for Pets

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Posted by: Wasdclick.1764

Wasdclick.1764

I had a random little idea that I think would be really nice for Rangers, while giving everybody something in regards to their pets.

A decent chunk of people are really frustrated with pathing issues, a lack of teaming support, fragility, and a host of other things.

What if, as an alternative to animal pets, we could also go and find Spirit pets? Think something like Navi from Legend of Zelda (but silent). A small spirit that doesn’t participate in combat like an animal pet, but instead is sort of like a mobile buff machine.

Pets have 4 skills as it is now. Auto attack, special skill 1 & 2, and the F2 skill. Make the auto-attack a special buff that either gives stats, or static increases to the Ranger, designed to bring their base capabilities up to par with other classes (to compensate for the lack of damage dealt to enemies by the pet). The 2 special skills could be pulsing buffs or debuffs on timers, the more powerful de/buffs on the Ranger/single target only, or “weaker” de/buffs that affect a whole group. The F2 would be something similar, but controlled by the player, as a “burst” support skill. It could be straight-up damaging, like a fire spirit shooting a fireball, or supporty like a river spirit pulsing an AoE heal/condition removal.

Your two pets could even be one or the other. Start with a wind spirit for a burst damage opening to a fight, then hit your swap pet button to activate your dog and keep the aggro’d enemy away from you with cripples and knockdowns.

Just my random unwanted thought for the day.

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Posted by: thrice.9184

thrice.9184

Im all for ideas but Anet…. wont spend more money/time then they have to for new stuff. (I hope you dont take this as an offence)

Anet is a for profit, as such there only looking to build profit – In that thought pattern they’ll stick with there guns-sadly.

Awesome Idea tho, a damage-less buffer.

Ranger put into Retirement due to Anet Abuse.
9/3/13 rip

(edited by thrice.9184)

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Posted by: Wasdclick.1764

Wasdclick.1764

It’s not like it’s impossible for ANet to do this. Yeah, they wouldn’t be implementing this right away or anything… but bigger changes have happened.

Like the change to Hunters that took them from mana to energy. It took a lot of redesigning to do that, literally ripping out a core component of the class.

I don’t even think that this would be that hard of a change comparatively.
+ The static buff to Ranger stats is no harder to implement than a new signet or trait.
+ The two skills, as pulsing de/buffs, would be similar to Guardian’s passive Aegis every 40 seconds skill.
+ F2 would be F2…
+ For the pet, it’d just be a graphic effect centered on the player, so the spirit couldn’t be targeted, or even count as a pet.

I’m sure there’d be complications, but I don’t think it’d be that huge of a change. And I’m not even asking for this, I just thought it could be a cool idea. Maybe if people like it, ANet might think about bringing it in on an expansion or something. Weirder things have happened.