More Pet items

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speakeroo

Dalayan Elder
Helllo all,

It is Jeanval again. I was wondering if we could have more pet items for the primary/secondary. From my experience, there are already very nice items in existence. Some I have not yet gotten, and others hopefully some day. There are some very super and hard to get items like the animation weps, or the timeless scythe, and djar items form PoF that are found along a raid. There's also some nice weps you can get from groups, Renu's Harasser, claw weapons, war worn shield, emberflow pet items. There are some that a clever brave pet class can farm solo, ikild weps, or weps/armor from lower level named mobs while farming bounties. Then mage summoned gear and gruplok collar of course. There are weapons that can be bought, like those from the giant fort in ToE.

My suggestion is to add some weapons that fill the gap between raid acquired items, and group acquired items. The easiest implementation would be the bounty systems. You could could have a couple types of pet weps, an offensive proc (a strong DD), a defensive proc (stronger rune/ac buff), or a life tap (probably the most popular) , and have 3 tiers. Each being bought by rank 3, rank 2, or rank 1 bounty tokens.

The other idea I had, is why not make these strong pet weapons trade skilled. At present, people will us potions to add hp, or resist that stacks for raids. People use augs. Why not be able to trade skill strong pet weapons, to help increase dps for the raid, or make pets more sustainable by giving a life tap, or for the group outisde. Maybe a pet wep that procs a dispell just for fun. At present, I do not know of any specific pet items that are trade skilled. By pet items, I mean a none/none race/class. Though, I do remember the fun of giving a low level pet a mithril halbred and watching the rediculous dps at level 35. ( I think that got nerfed with the changes to pet weps)

Let me know what y'all think.
 
I think there are plenty of weapons readily available. The summoned blade of power is crazy good and probably better than most lower end obtainable weapons. The ones better would most likely be citadel, emberflow, raid zones, and potentially some of the ej but even those more often then. OT would still use weapons of power.
 
I have to agree with Shimone here, weapons is not a problem.

What could be cool is pet gear in more places than Emberflow and PoFire.

Maybe with stats similar to summoned (or a wee bit better in high tier zones) but with resists that match what is casted in the zone you are killing. I am mostly thinking raid zones here.

This way you can make your pet survive the fights in there better. But still not overpowering for other zones.
 
I honestly think weapons are not too big of a problem. We are hoping to continue adding pet weapon drops to new zones as we go, as well as armor drops.

I am not against adding some tradeskill recipes, though. Unfortunately TS systems are a bit on the backburner now.
 
Again the biggest problem with pets is not thier dps it is thier survivability, between ae's and not getting heals they die more often than not these days.

Also, it was suggested to combine pet health an strength and think this is an amazing idea especially because the highest item for comp health as a pure caster is conglo mask. There are at least 2 better masks than that one and 2 tiers of content without seing the focus. I understand sacrifices are to be made, but with the recent changes to pets hps can we either get more companion health focuses thrown in across the tiers on things like custo ring or shanre gloves or maye even Ghana braver, gloom belt, taeshlin 2.0 bracer, etc or combine focus effects of strength and health, or even better do both.
 
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