Pet exchanging ..

Minky · Post by **Minky** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:45 pm

Wouldn't it be like, totally awesome, if you could turn in 30 Mares to get 1 perfect Mare, in the hue that you were after (base hues that the animal is spawnable with)?

I ask this cause taming pets to get perfect stats over and over and over and over (well, you see where I'm going) is annoying to no end.

I'd like an NPC Animal Switcher that gives out a quest to turn in XX# of a pet to get the same one with perfect stats/hue. Even if it takes upwards of 100 to get there, it would still be better than needing to possibly tame possibly thousands to get that. There could even be a gold value associated with it.

Please don't read this as me heading towards pet dyes, I'm not a fan of that system, the base hues are fine. Though, 1 mob-family should have a few other colors selectable: The Dragons (sans the White Wyrm). Going with Tolkein's ideas, there were Red, Blue, Green, Black, and like 2 other colors (the typical brown works).

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:57 pm

Minky wrote:Wouldn't it be like, totally awesome, if you could turn in 30 Mares to get 1 perfect Mare, in the hue that you were after (base hues that the animal is spawnable with)?

I ask this cause taming pets to get perfect stats over and over and over and over (well, you see where I'm going) is annoying to no end.

I'd like an NPC Animal Switcher that gives out a quest to turn in XX# of a pet to get the same one with perfect stats/hue. Even if it takes upwards of 100 to get there, it would still be better than needing to possibly tame possibly thousands to get that. There could even be a gold value associated with it.

Please don't read this as me heading towards pet dyes, I'm not a fan of that system, the base hues are fine. Though, 1 mob-family should have a few other colors selectable: The Dragons (sans the White Wyrm). Going with Tolkein's ideas, there were Red, Blue, Green, Black, and like 2 other colors (the typical brown works).

It's an interesting idea but defeats the purpose of searching for the perfect pet. Just like artifacts, you can't just say (I don't want these 15 taskmasters, I'll trade them in for a God's Wrath). The quest idea on the other hand, would be a lot more feasible. You could turn in so many of a certain type of pet and get some kind of taming reward (Pet bonding deeds, tamer scrolls, tamer recipes, perhaps even items to boost a current pet's power).

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:14 pm

Seer Death wrote:
Minky wrote:Wouldn't it be like, totally awesome, if you could turn in 30 Mares to get 1 perfect Mare, in the hue that you were after (base hues that the animal is spawnable with)?

I ask this cause taming pets to get perfect stats over and over and over and over (well, you see where I'm going) is annoying to no end.

I'd like an NPC Animal Switcher that gives out a quest to turn in XX# of a pet to get the same one with perfect stats/hue. Even if it takes upwards of 100 to get there, it would still be better than needing to possibly tame possibly thousands to get that. There could even be a gold value associated with it.

Please don't read this as me heading towards pet dyes, I'm not a fan of that system, the base hues are fine. Though, 1 mob-family should have a few other colors selectable: The Dragons (sans the White Wyrm). Going with Tolkein's ideas, there were Red, Blue, Green, Black, and like 2 other colors (the typical brown works).
It's an interesting idea but defeats the purpose of searching for the perfect pet. Just like artifacts, you can't just say (I don't want these 15 taskmasters, I'll trade them in for a God's Wrath). The quest idea on the other hand, would be a lot more feasible. You could turn in so many of a certain type of pet and get some kind of taming reward (Pet bonding deeds, tamer scrolls, tamer recipes, perhaps even items to boost a current pet's power).

Sure you can, it's called the roulette. So how about a pet roulette

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Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:16 pm

Seer Death wrote:
Minky wrote:Wouldn't it be like, totally awesome, if you could turn in 30 Mares to get 1 perfect Mare, in the hue that you were after (base hues that the animal is spawnable with)?

I ask this cause taming pets to get perfect stats over and over and over and over (well, you see where I'm going) is annoying to no end.

I'd like an NPC Animal Switcher that gives out a quest to turn in XX# of a pet to get the same one with perfect stats/hue. Even if it takes upwards of 100 to get there, it would still be better than needing to possibly tame possibly thousands to get that. There could even be a gold value associated with it.

Please don't read this as me heading towards pet dyes, I'm not a fan of that system, the base hues are fine. Though, 1 mob-family should have a few other colors selectable: The Dragons (sans the White Wyrm). Going with Tolkein's ideas, there were Red, Blue, Green, Black, and like 2 other colors (the typical brown works).
It's an interesting idea but defeats the purpose of searching for the perfect pet. Just like artifacts, you can't just say (I don't want these 15 taskmasters, I'll trade them in for a God's Wrath). The quest idea on the other hand, would be a lot more feasible. You could turn in so many of a certain type of pet and get some kind of taming reward (Pet bonding deeds, tamer scrolls, tamer recipes, perhaps even items to boost a current pet's power).

Actualyl thats a really good idea, turn in 15 doom arties for the one you want, that would be amazing.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:19 pm

dprantl wrote:
Seer Death wrote:
Minky wrote:Wouldn't it be like, totally awesome, if you could turn in 30 Mares to get 1 perfect Mare, in the hue that you were after (base hues that the animal is spawnable with)?

I ask this cause taming pets to get perfect stats over and over and over and over (well, you see where I'm going) is annoying to no end.

I'd like an NPC Animal Switcher that gives out a quest to turn in XX# of a pet to get the same one with perfect stats/hue. Even if it takes upwards of 100 to get there, it would still be better than needing to possibly tame possibly thousands to get that. There could even be a gold value associated with it.

Please don't read this as me heading towards pet dyes, I'm not a fan of that system, the base hues are fine. Though, 1 mob-family should have a few other colors selectable: The Dragons (sans the White Wyrm). Going with Tolkein's ideas, there were Red, Blue, Green, Black, and like 2 other colors (the typical brown works).
It's an interesting idea but defeats the purpose of searching for the perfect pet. Just like artifacts, you can't just say (I don't want these 15 taskmasters, I'll trade them in for a God's Wrath). The quest idea on the other hand, would be a lot more feasible. You could turn in so many of a certain type of pet and get some kind of taming reward (Pet bonding deeds, tamer scrolls, tamer recipes, perhaps even items to boost a current pet's power).
Sure you can, it's called the roulette. So how about a pet roulette

Interesting prospect.

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Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:22 pm

Id like a hp poition for some of my pets, the problem is you would have to set caps for every pet in the game and have it check to make sure it doesnt go over caps. lol

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 3:50 pm

Nosferatu wrote:Id like a hp poition for some of my pets, the problem is you would have to set caps for every pet in the game and have it check to make sure it doesnt go over caps. lol

Stat potions would be an awesome addition but there would definately need to be caps on a per pet basis. Rather not have 5k jackals running around.

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:32 pm

if you guys did that, make it something incredibly silly like turning in 100 pets for 1/100th of a perfect pet. That way people might work all day to increase the stats on a good pet, then tame one that is even better.

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dprantl · Post by **dprantl** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:13 pm

No, but seriously. It could be like a cave. You let the pet go inside and if it comes out alive, it would come out perfect and in a rare hue. The chance of it just dying would be quite high. Of course, it wouldn't be an actual cave, just an NPC standing by a hole charging a bunch of gold for the chance.

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:16 pm

dprantl wrote:No, but seriously. It could be like a cave. You let the pet go inside and if it comes out alive, it would come out perfect and in a rare hue. The chance of it just dying would be quite high. Of course, it wouldn't be an actual cave, just an NPC standing by a hole charging a bunch of gold for the chance.

I like that idea. I have a few special chickens I would love to get perfected and special hued.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:24 pm

dprantl wrote:No, but seriously. It could be like a cave. You let the pet go inside and if it comes out alive, it would come out perfect and in a rare hue. The chance of it just dying would be quite high. Of course, it wouldn't be an actual cave, just an NPC standing by a hole charging a bunch of gold for the chance.

That idea is rather "out there" but I am intrigued. There's probably a simpler method to boosting pets, like stat potions of some sort.

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:42 pm

bring back the chance at the holy grail of tamables... the 1 slot 110 phys resist yellow yoshis... That alone would make me play a tamer again.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:16 pm

Then we'll be forced to make all boses have 5x hp and increase the AI intensity on all mobs to make up for it.

I remember back when they were 1 slot, they'd take a DF down in literally 1 minute, if even that.

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DOCTOR THUNDER · Post by **DOCTOR THUNDER** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:21 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:Then we'll be forced to make all boses have 5x hp and increase the AI intensity on all mobs to make up for it.

I remember back when they were 1 slot, they'd take a DF down in literally 1 minute, if even that.

you would not be FORCED to do anything. If it weren't for blood oath, my archer could take down DF in almost the same amount of time.

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Plastic Man · Post by **Plastic Man** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:24 pm

lol They dont do it in 1 minute now. I know people still have some 1 slotters and ive seen them fight a DF, its hardly 1 mintute or less with 5 one slot yoshis.

But yoshis aint worht crap as a 2 slot pet, I mean who honestly uses 2 slot yoshis for anything except dickin around for the hell of it now?

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:23 pm

Plastic Man wrote:lol They dont do it in 1 minute now. I know people still have some 1 slotters and ive seen them fight a DF, its hardly 1 mintute or less with 5 one slot yoshis.

But yoshis aint worht crap as a 2 slot pet, I mean who honestly uses 2 slot yoshis for anything except dickin around for the hell of it now?

Well at least now we see more pets then people trailing around the familiar pack of 5 yellows or that one massive wyrm. Variety is good.

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Plastic Man · Post by **Plastic Man** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:42 pm

Ya just saying anytime somethign gets so nerfed that no one uses it at all ever again is prolly a case of TOO much of a nerf. Not always a big deal, but it can be depending on whats getting slapped with it. I mean if it was a skill nerf so bad that no one ever used it again youd hear no end to the bitching, seemingly minor things like pets usually just get the axe and are never redressed to have usable playability anymore, which IMO is a shame.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:45 pm

The idea with yoshies too is they can be used by non tamers if they meet the requirements of that type. For example yellow yoshis can be used by anyone that has GM tactics and GM of any melee skill.

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Death · Post by **Death** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:50 pm

Red Squirrel wrote:The idea with yoshies too is they can be used by non tamers if they meet the requirements of that type. For example yellow yoshis can be used by anyone that has GM tactics and GM of any melee skill.

Thought they could also go over the phys limit, thus actually healing themselves a certain percent from melee damage.

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Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:30 am

DOCTOR THUNDER wrote:bring back the chance at the holy grail of tamables... the 1 slot 110 phys resist yellow yoshis... That alone would make me play a tamer again.

woot for having 5 that own

i love my yoshis

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Plastic Man · Post by **Plastic Man** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:36 am

If you were shape shifted into the ostard animal form would they gain pack bonus off you?

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Tom · Post by **Tom** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:13 am

I still have those one slot ones

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:26 am

Seer Death wrote:
Red Squirrel wrote:The idea with yoshies too is they can be used by non tamers if they meet the requirements of that type. For example yellow yoshis can be used by anyone that has GM tactics and GM of any melee skill.
Thought they could also go over the phys limit, thus actually healing themselves a certain percent from melee damage.

That too. So physical damage will in fact heal them a bit.

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Minky · Post by **Minky** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:13 am

Fair enough, but I'm correcting those that were saying something else. I wasn't talking about trading in 1 item to get a different item. I'm not talking about taming 100 horses to get an ancient wyrm (that's for the taskmasters >> wrath comment). I was talking about turning in x# of 1 item to build a perfect item.

It'd be the same idea as crafting 100 runic weapons to get 1 that was "perfect" for you.

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Nosferatu · Post by **Nosferatu** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:20 am

why do you need a perfect pet anyway? unless it can have 100%+ of each resist or a certin resist, 40 hp here and there and 40 str really dont matter... tbh

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