Hey, i post here a lot because school gets...you know, boring and such. But i had this idea for items that i dont necessarilly want, but i think would be usefull and especially fun. Here are a few ideas:
Sold "pets"
*they are sold from mercenary merchants in various zones
*they are nothing like mage/necro/bst pets, but they have a purpose
*they usually dont melee for any real dmg but have abilities
*they are single cast "summoning" type items
*they call forth various npcs
some ideas on this
*Mercenary Bard
^Bardic Summons
>Calls forth a bardic mercenary to aid you in your quests
The bard would basically be either a set race like maybe wood elf, and cast the super low lvl bard regen or maybe a super low lvl buff. I dont know if you would go so far as to program it to switch to a dot or whatever durring fights, but just regen should be cool for any melee I am sure, maybe add a super low mana regen amount too? whatever, it dones't have to be technical. Just a regen pet basically was what I was thinking of.
*Mercenary Drake
^Drake's Call
>Opens a portal to the "insert name of dragon home zone lol" and beckons forth a dake to aid you in your quests
This would need to be either a requirement to have ally dragon faction or be sold deep within the dragons home zone. it would make a drake pet sorta like wizard familiars and would do a DD spell like the mage/wiz aa pets on live, kinda fire spout spell hehe. The idea revolves around the dragons dd scaling with the summoners lvl...so i dont know how that would work. It would have to be really low dmg so as not to be to overpowering. The only other idea that I had was that it might cast another spell instead of a DD, maybe a stun spell? short durration of course, but you get the idea.
Oh yea, and there would have to be some sort of summons to go allong with the drake idea for Giant factioned people, maybe summon a big ogre or some such...i dont think the giant look is a global model /shrug.
Well, thats a few ideas that i think would be fun. keep in mind they would be super tweakable and that its just a toss out brain teaser for you guys, but as a long time eq player i would love this, as its kinda RPish. The only way it could be done of coarse would be that they were expensive. You couldn't have just one universal 500pp mercenary summons, so i guess they would have to be in various lvls and to prevent ubber twinks using higher lvl versions, they would have a lvl req? Also, the spells they used, or abilities would have to be tuned so as to be only a mild help or downtime alleviator so that gaming would not be unbalanced for the poor moneyless folks who couldn't buy them lol.
Well, see if ya like it at all :lol:
Sold "pets"
*they are sold from mercenary merchants in various zones
*they are nothing like mage/necro/bst pets, but they have a purpose
*they usually dont melee for any real dmg but have abilities
*they are single cast "summoning" type items
*they call forth various npcs
some ideas on this
*Mercenary Bard
^Bardic Summons
>Calls forth a bardic mercenary to aid you in your quests
The bard would basically be either a set race like maybe wood elf, and cast the super low lvl bard regen or maybe a super low lvl buff. I dont know if you would go so far as to program it to switch to a dot or whatever durring fights, but just regen should be cool for any melee I am sure, maybe add a super low mana regen amount too? whatever, it dones't have to be technical. Just a regen pet basically was what I was thinking of.
*Mercenary Drake
^Drake's Call
>Opens a portal to the "insert name of dragon home zone lol" and beckons forth a dake to aid you in your quests
This would need to be either a requirement to have ally dragon faction or be sold deep within the dragons home zone. it would make a drake pet sorta like wizard familiars and would do a DD spell like the mage/wiz aa pets on live, kinda fire spout spell hehe. The idea revolves around the dragons dd scaling with the summoners lvl...so i dont know how that would work. It would have to be really low dmg so as not to be to overpowering. The only other idea that I had was that it might cast another spell instead of a DD, maybe a stun spell? short durration of course, but you get the idea.
Oh yea, and there would have to be some sort of summons to go allong with the drake idea for Giant factioned people, maybe summon a big ogre or some such...i dont think the giant look is a global model /shrug.
Well, thats a few ideas that i think would be fun. keep in mind they would be super tweakable and that its just a toss out brain teaser for you guys, but as a long time eq player i would love this, as its kinda RPish. The only way it could be done of coarse would be that they were expensive. You couldn't have just one universal 500pp mercenary summons, so i guess they would have to be in various lvls and to prevent ubber twinks using higher lvl versions, they would have a lvl req? Also, the spells they used, or abilities would have to be tuned so as to be only a mild help or downtime alleviator so that gaming would not be unbalanced for the poor moneyless folks who couldn't buy them lol.
Well, see if ya like it at all :lol: