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DogEye
10-07-2006, 09:58 PM
this results from me thinking a bit too much, and it is a concept but nothing to start a war over... the fact is i noticed there are a few druids do complain about not having a strong summoned pet in game, but the argument goes that druids are freinds with nature not enslavers of nature. Well my idea is interesting and would give druids a slightly new style of play. make druids a "plant" pet. it would be a pet with no mobility at all... however it would have a use in the form of an aoe effect. (i got the idea from the cave lotuses in fungus grove) so the pets i've concepted would be...
a mushroom with aoe spores that will stun anything near it every 10 seconds or more...
a loutus that will summon an aggressive mob to it every 10 seconds or more...
a poison sticker that will aoe damage every 6-10 seconds

all of these "pets" would be permitly rooted, and would not have/have very weak melee attacks, and with druid's power over nature it would make since that they could force a plant to grow faster then mirical grow... but it would likely change how a druid would play because of how differant thier pet would be... not to mention they would have to think about where they plant it... it would die apon zoneing for obvious reasons or if a mob suddenly decides it doesn't like flowers anymore or untill the druid wipes out a bottle of roundup...

well don't know if it would work or if soe would concider it... it is a concept though.
HyfighStereo
10-10-2006, 10:45 AM
That's a really good idea. Kudo's. I think another alternative could be one that provided a HoT every 10 seconds or so that lasts maybe 3 ticks... That would be helpful in a group situation.
Zapp Branigan
10-10-2006, 12:56 PM
Or you could play DAoC where the Hibernia Animamist class already does this.
DogEye
10-10-2006, 01:12 PM
Or you could play DAoC where the Hibernia Animamist class already does this.
oddly enough i never played DAoC or ever seen it be played... it doesn't surprise me though... many times i get an idea then something exsactly like it comes out a week later or has been out =/ meh as they say great minds think alike... which in some cases disturbs me cause i know how i think.

i was also thinking we could irritate druids by makeing them forage for the regent to summon one of these plants, which would be okay since all druids get forage. they could put the regent which would be some sorta seed in all outdoor zones and indoor zones which supports plant life. =P you know just to poke at the ones that have been complianing...
HyfighStereo
10-10-2006, 02:09 PM
Crazy, I've never played DAoC either. I was going off of the description of a Shaman AA already available in EQ.

The foraged idea is funny. I'm sure they'd want to make it dropable though so that rich druids could just mooch off the people who are willing to take the time to continuously forage in those zones.
Wolf
10-16-2006, 09:23 PM
Or you could play DAoC where the Hibernia Animamist class already does this.

Or play WoW post Burning Crusade where the Druids will get those tree's (Treants? I can't spell)
KaiTenSatsuma
10-17-2006, 06:49 AM
alot must have changed in EQ in the past few years for druids to have pets.

Cant solo kite hill giants anymore?
HyfighStereo
10-17-2006, 08:21 AM
Cant solo kite hill giants anymore?

Oh, they can. Theres just better ways to get experience and money now...
DogEye
10-17-2006, 01:42 PM
alot must have changed in EQ in the past few years for druids to have pets.

Cant solo kite hill giants anymore?

Druids get an AA pet(i think), they always did get a bear but the bear was never really good enough to be called a "pet"... as i mentioned in my first post this is an idea i had and has not been implimented nor do i know if SoE would concider my idea.

as for HGs, SoE nerfed them a long time back... you can still kite them and get plat if you wish but there are several other places that, as mentioned, are better and less crowded.
KaiTenSatsuma
10-17-2006, 05:13 PM
Druids get an AA pet(i think), they always did get a bear but the bear was never really good enough to be called a "pet"... as i mentioned in my first post this is an idea i had and has not been implimented nor do i know if SoE would concider my idea.

as for HGs, SoE nerfed them a long time back... you can still kite them and get plat if you wish but there are several other places that, as mentioned, are better and less crowded.

mm, but there arent really that many people playing anymore huh?

last time i played... was when verant still owned it.
Joshua412
10-23-2006, 06:44 PM
I like my bear pet.