Unlocking pets for heroes

geekling

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

Simple suggestion.
When you hand over a pet to a pet trainer, that pet gets unlocked for use by your heroes. You can select to use this pet, or well one with the same species, level and evolution, when you equip the charm animal skill rather than go out and charm individual pets for your heroes.

Or in other words, I can go out and charm a bear/rat/crocodile/flamingo, level it up, hand it over to the pet trainer to unlock bears for my heroes.
Then get a whole bear army by making them all rangers and giving them a bear pet.
I'd still have to charm another bear if I wanted one myself, but at least it'd just be two trips and two petleveling grinds. Not one for each hero.

tenshi_strife

tenshi_strife

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

in sardelac getting yelled at.

Angels of Strife[Aoc]

E/

wow.... that is a great idea. but make it sloted so you can only have like 3 pets unlocked so that you dont take up a ton of server space.

/signed

Dougal Kronik

Dougal Kronik

Forge Runner

Join Date: Aug 2005

Ontario, Canada

Glengarry Fencibles

R/

/not signed

Charming pets isn't just keeping a roster of animals for you and your heros.

gameshoes3003

gameshoes3003

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Would this mean that the pet the hero can get will start at level 20?

geekling

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by gameshoes3003
Would this mean that the pet the hero can get will start at level 20?
It would, as well as keeping the dire/elder/hearty evolution.

Although, myself I'm not to fussed about that. If it would mean that they get a pet at the same level as they are if they'd gone out and charmed one. That's fine too, I just want to be able to give all my heroes matching pets without having to go out, find and charm 11 bears/lizared/flamingoes/rats/crocodiles/whatever.

Rakeman

Banned

Join Date: Oct 2006

I like this idea. Having to raise pets for your heroes is what is keeping me from ever using beastmaster heroes... unless they get a Black Moa!

GODh

GODh

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

The Netherlands

BFTW and DLRR

/notsigned

It's not like i gonna suicide when this idea becomes reality, but to me capturing a pet and leveling the pet is part of the fun...

However, and this has been discussed before, i want to be able to choose another pet when i want too (like i can with my real ranger).

Maybe can make it like the "festival hat maker"... show a captured pet to that maker and he is able to "mate" it for you for your heroe(s)

tenshi_strife

tenshi_strife

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2006

in sardelac getting yelled at.

Angels of Strife[Aoc]

E/

^ whoa pets getting freaky >.<

but that gave me a good idea, how bout when you give a pet the the dude you can buy that pet back later. so you can have a few pets held on by him that you can buy and give and such. also you would be able to buy the pet for your heros. but when you buy it its gone so you cant have all of your heros have it, but you can train a pet solo *with dumb ai heros killing off the pet* and then give it to a hero.

geekling

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by GODh
It's not like i gonna suicide when this idea becomes reality, but to me capturing a pet and leveling the pet is part of the fun...
It wasn't really meant as a replacement, if charming each pet and leveling it is what you prefer.
Just as an option for those of use that, well... Don't think that's part of the fun, but just a chore.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Dougal Kronik
/not signed

Charming pets isn't just keeping a roster of animals for you and your heros.
"I'd still have to charm another bear if I wanted one myself"

Please read everything before answering.

It won't be for you, only for the heroes of the character.
You'll have to charm the pet, level the pet, lend the pet to the pet trainer, and you'll never be able to use it again, you'll have to get a new one, but your heroes will be able to use one.

You don't have to get each skill for them, they coe with all unlocked skills available, so this would be mostly the same.
You grind once, they get always the result.
You make another character, you still have to get the skills, but they already have them.

I still think that being able to 'trade' pets with other players and heroes would do the trick.
You could use each hero to save a pet, even if you don't ever use the hero , the pet will stay with him, thus being safely kept.
If you want to level it, you take i with you or an hero.
If you want to take another, you move it to other hero that has no one.
If you want another you have 'saved' in another hero, you take both you and the hero with Charm animal, talk to the pet trader and you switch the pet with the hero.

Easy as a pie, isn't it?

drakken06

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: May 2005

/signed

I like the idea of a pet roster, for both the character as well as the heroes. See what if you had a pet, but wanted to try out another "late game" pet but wanted to keep your old one just in case the new one doesn't fit your fancy. Therefore you won't have to do twice the work for no change at all. So this is a great idea. Unlocking evolutions was a creative thought too. So I'm TOTALLY for this.

assassin shaun

Academy Page

Join Date: Sep 2007

England

black wolf pirates [awoo]

A/

i like the idea, but anet would never do it, but they might allow u 2 trade pets to other players...

U Wanna Die

U Wanna Die

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jun 2007

W/Mo

i like the idea but it needs fine tuning. You need to make it more work to be able to do this. Maybe add a quest or have you hero level it from 15 or something. But I still like this idea.

/signed

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

Sounds like another idea to make the game easier than it already is. You want your hero to have a pet? Charm it and level it. It's not that hard.

/not signed

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

Quote:
Originally Posted by quickmonty
Sounds like another idea to make the game easier than it already is. You want your hero to have a pet? Charm it and level it. It's not that hard.

/not signed
And what abut PvP characters and heroes? They can't choose pet evolution.

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by MithranArkanere
And what abut PvP characters and heroes? They can't choose pet evolution.
Too bad.........

wraithe

Academy Page

Join Date: Feb 2008

N/Me

/signed
i like the idea and for my ranger i would of loved to have quick access to any previous pet i had charmed..wont happen in GW1

dont really care much about heros having them..

but pets are not that difficult to charm everytime i have wanted a change...

unless it is a spider and that really isnt that hard to get..

Kattar

Kattar

EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING

Join Date: Mar 2007

SMS (lolgw2placeholder)

Me/

Even with the massive thread rez...

/notsigned - level it like everyone else

Kanyatta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Guildless, pm me

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by GODh
It's not like i gonna suicide when this idea becomes reality, but to me capturing a pet and leveling the pet is part of the fun.
"Fun" is a relative term. Some people, most likely like yourself, feel that role-playing in video games is "fun". Other people, like myself would rather just play the game instead of grinding our pets.

/sign

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kanyatta
"Fun" is a relative term. Some people, most likely like yourself, feel that role-playing in video games is "fun". Other people, like myself would rather just play the game instead of grinding our pets.

/sign
OMFG! Now leveling a pet is grind? How pathetic.

Some people feel that role playing is fun, others want the game to play itself, with no effort.

Kanyatta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Guildless, pm me

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by quickmonty
OMFG! Now leveling a pet is grind? How pathetic.

Some people feel that role playing is fun, others want the game to play itself, with no effort.
OMFG! Now leveling a pet is effort? How pathetic.

killress

Academy Page

Join Date: Dec 2007

iMud

R/

/Not signed.

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kanyatta
OMFG! Now leveling a pet is effort? How pathetic.
So .... you are agreeing with me?

Kanyatta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Guildless, pm me

R/Mo

No, I'm saying I hate spending time on something I shouldn't. It doesn't take effort, but it takes time.

quickmonty

quickmonty

Ancient Windbreaker

Join Date: May 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Kanyatta
No, I'm saying I hate spending time on something I shouldn't. It doesn't take effort, but it takes time.
I see your point, but it doesn't take much time to jump in a wurm and kill some things in Sulfurous Wastes. Take three heroes with pets and get all the pets leveled at the same time.