Even out the Steeds

[Rune]

hmm i thought of a way it could be done without nerfing anything..cause i really hate nerfs (any)

we also have to think about the work it will take the staff to make the changes we like to see
and whatever we cook up should be simple to make their work easyer

so heres my idea

make hp and base mele dmg min/max depend on slots like..2 slots 2k hp,double min/max mele dmg
3 slots 3k hp,triple min/max mele dmg

i really think this could help even out all pets and i hope its pretty simple to code (got no idea )
maybe some will say..but then all pets are the same ..well heck yes thats the plan so we can use pets of choice instead of being *forced* to only use nobles

id really like to hear what you guys think of this also comments from staff please

[Llexa]

well, you are totally not stuck with nobles, that's for sure... i personally don't like them, but that's just me. I like mules, and always will. So, that is an incredible option. also, if you ever want to try it out (even though i know the title of this post is about steeds) you can breed some really great hell hounds too (1 slot each i believe)

i will give you some other thoughts when i'm less sleepy g'night!

love,
Llexa

[Highroller]

Even out other stuff too. I now have maxed scorpions. Will have some for sale as soon as I get them bred out. ie think maxed frenzied ostard that can poison. And yes I agree a 3 slot pet needs enough special abilities to make them useful. Thats why I gave up breeding dragons. Well that and I got so many sterile ones it was hard to keep a breeding line going. For a sterile rate of 5%, I show an AMAZING ability to get MUCH higher rates than that in patches. With the fail rates we have, I had 12 out of 15 pairs of cu's fail in 1 run (last 2 attempts brought the average up had 9 fails in a row before I got 1 that didn't fail), and the limited number of breeds per pet I think that 5% sterile rate needs to go away. With my luck it could be .1% and I could still hit it at most critical point to totally hose my breeding line.

Yeah I have seen a series of rare mounts on another shard. They all spawned 1 time a day. They were trophy tames. Too many slots to really be worth breeding. They don't have to be in secret locations with low spawn rates and bad monsters around. Some things just for the challenge are always nice.

[Sorgon]

Woot gratz on getting maxed Scorpions! I cant wait to see them in action!!!! I still have weeks till i get close with my hellcats. I am thinking of upping my breeding #'s with my alts but so far just taking the 2 or 4 breeds a day to get them up. Hopefully soon we (as a shard) will have many more options for maxed pets.

Also as a side note for everyone Highroller sells the best Cu's i have seen even better then mine so keep checking his vendor for his stock, great stuff!!!! (shameless plug for ya )

[Undertaker]

will also depend on the pets attacking ability... cuz remember, a player can go upto 10 pet slots, i have 6 atm, an own 2 bio... one human an mongbat... haha... but if u have 10, imagine like, 10 noble steeds killin somethin... thats alot of ED

[KnitePrince]

Something to consider.. with the 2 by slots 2k HP and 3 slots 3k hitpoints idea... what about when they are bred and maxxed? perhaps keep the hitpoints str etc below 800, but allow them to be maxxed that high with breeding? just wondering how that would work, and if it is even possible to diferentiate between pets with the scripts that run the breedable pets?? if they can be set apart.. nothing would actually need to be changed except for the caps on critters like dragons and wyrms, Nightmares etc.. they stay exacly the same, but can breed to higher str and hit points? If thats the case. all pets that take more than 1 slot could be buffed without too much danger of uberness.
If the scripts do not allow for such a segragation then things will be more difficult.......

[TsiyaAma]

Sorry for the thread necro, but I was thinking about this, and one way to make the Nox's, fire steeds, etc better again would be to give the pack pets that take 2 slots a max str of 500 instead of 250 like the single slot ones.