As an early to mid-level player, there aren't a whole lot of options for pets. Your options are pretty much limited to a rock, a fish in a bowl, or one of many flavours of cat. Sure, you could sit there and grind out a skill pet, but your average player only has so much time a day for OSRS, right?
Its fair to say that cats have some relevance in OSRS, and while that relevance is mostly related to a few specific quests, it gives you a reason to keep one around, mayhaps you've even become sentimentally attached after traipsing through the desert with it.
Personally, I like dogs as much as I like cats, and I'd be ecstatic at the idea of traipsing around Gielinor with a border collie or a labrador following me. But that said, Runescape added dogs back in the day and they didn't really do anything.
So while I'm here to make the case for adding dogs as pets to OSRS, I feel like there ought to be some functionality in doing so.
We know that Varlamore is on the way, and bringing with it a new Hunter area; this raises the idea of perhaps using dogs as companions in a new hunting method or minigame, possibly involving tracking. Alternatively, dogs could function as a more passive tool to retrieve drops for players (bones, crossbow bolts, etc) or could function as a new source of obtaining ingredients for herblore (dogs like to forage and retrieve things naturally, some even hunt truffles).
Ultimately, I'm wary of falling into the RS3 trap of certain pets becoming an unfair advantage/convenience, and while this is largely just me rambling about my desire for pets that go "woof", I do really think its something that could bring some sort of functionality to the game, whatever that may be.
If anyone else has any other suggestions, I'd be fascinated to hear them.
You got red on you.
06-Nov-2023 23:27:30
