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Radio53kip

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The problem

Imagine this: You have a fine legendary pet from the store and make well use the abilities they have. But after some time, you're growing a little bit tired of having the same pet out.

Sure there are a few other legendary pets but they may not be your taste. The game offers many other pets including boss and skilling pets, and new ones are regularly added over time.

You wish to make the switch to a different pet but quickly find yourself locked out of the abilities your legendary pet have. You shortly realize that you can make use of other pets whenever you want, but they will always be worse than your legendary pets due the lack of abilities . So what's the point in making the switch in the first place? Heck, why are new pets being released if they will always be worse than what a player can have?

Cosmetics over practical use

The main reason you would want to use a different pet is for looks. Now obviously this may cost you of the practical uses. We can compare this with equipment where certain good looking items do not have great stats and hence little reason to use them.

However for equipment, there exists Keepsake keys: keys that can turn equipment into cosmetics overrides. For pets, nothing like this exists and you're forced to use a legendary pet to make use of its abilities.
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15-Apr-2018 12:23:06 - Last edited on 15-Apr-2018 13:29:49 by Radio53kip

Radio53kip

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Proposed solution

The solution that I would like to propose to this problem is a General Legendary Pet upgrade . What does this mean you ask? It means that you can upgrade your account such that most (explained later why only most) pets will be able to make use of the abilities of a legendary pet, in order to make them equally useful. To clarify, the term upgrade used here has nothing to do with membership status.

Upgrading your account

The first issue that may arise is how to handle such an upgrade. Surely some users already bought a legendary pet so what would this mean for them?

In order to have your account upgraded, all you have to do obtain any legendary pet . You can buy one normally from the store or maybe obtain one in any other way (e.g. Twitch loot crate) This means that any player with a legendary pet is automatically upgraded.

The costs for a legendary pet may be a bit much if you already have one, but remember that you get 3 pets at once upon the purchase of one.

Upgrade's workings

How does the upgrade work functionally? Once your account is upgraded, any interface pet is able to use the abilities legendary pets have .

The amount of abilities that may be used simultaneously depends on the growth stage of your legendary pet, and this solution will be handled similar. The amount of abilities other interface pets are able to use is the maximum you can get on your account based on your legendary pets' growth stages . For instance, if you have a baby and an adolescent legendary pet, then your other pets can use up to 2 abilities.

Pets usable

This upgrade would only be limited to interface pets. This includes companion pets, follower pets, boss pets and skilling pets. The main reason is I assume difficulties for object pets. The use of pets to override familiars is unaffected.
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15-Apr-2018 12:23:14 - Last edited on 15-Apr-2018 13:47:02 by Radio53kip

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Animations and particles

Some abilities, such as forage and slayer finisher, let the pet perform an animation during its action. This may be troublesome for pets that do not have any animation fitting to perform that, notably follower pets.

To solve this issue, effects and particles should be sufficient to be used instead. When a pet wishes to forage, digging effects can be used to avoid animation issues. Similarly, attack effects and particles can be used to simulate a pet attacking (e.g. slayer finisher) if no animation is available. This provides a swifter and general solution rather than new custom animations made.

This solution could also be used to allow follower pets to override familiars. This is however a different subject for this thread and hence does not require further discussion here.

Conclusion

All in all this solution is proposed to provide an equal use between all pets and not make pets useless due their lack of benefits compared to legendary pets.

If you have any feedback for this, feel free to post it here.
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15-Apr-2018 12:23:18 - Last edited on 15-Apr-2018 14:00:26 by Radio53kip

Ladyolake
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well thought out and i do wish my other pets could be used as legendary.

I suppose this would be a programming nightmare though and i'm sure most people
would say dont waste the time.

I would support this though as long as it didnt break the game. The richest person is not who has the most. It is who Needs the least.

17-Apr-2018 00:25:13

Alioth
Apr Member 2011

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Support for other pets being able to use legendy pets but what if there was a type of bind system.

For example rather than owning just 1 legendy pet unlocking those ability for all in game pets what if it was a 1 - 1 ratio, like hypothetically I bind one of my phoenix egglings to my dragon wolf so the eggling can use the legendys ability's, but to change the eggling to say willow it would then take for example 5 hour separation time before I could attach willow to the dragon wolf instead.

This would mean that players with more legendys could have several other pets set as once where as players with only 1 legendy would have to wait a bit between switching.
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21-Apr-2018 12:20:20 - Last edited on 21-Apr-2018 12:22:29 by Alioth

Qwis7
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Ladyolake said :
well thought out and i do wish my other pets could be used as legendary.

I suppose this would be a programming nightmare though and i'm sure most people
would say dont waste the time.

I would support this though as long as it didnt break the game.

Because it would be a huge waste of dev time in my opinion I do not support for this,
but not only the time is the point.
Its also the use of it i mean just implant some function into summoning this way you make a skill more important.

in the end most players do not even use the functions, but go for the overrides and stick to yak steel titans etc etc.

21-Apr-2018 13:02:07

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