Charm Animal Utility

Perkunas

Perkunas

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Aug 2006

In my own little world, looking at yours

Only Us[NotU]

E/

I don't know about using the charm animal skill. I like the idea of more control over my animal, stay or attack, but I would also like more control over my henches too. I don't need Stephan or Little Thom to go rushing thru a mob to get to my target on the road below me.

vergerefosh

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Sep 2006

Englishmen Don't Drink [Tea]

W/R

/signed

Dalimoor_Kalkire

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2006

[DoA] - The Darknights of Ascalon

R/

/signed - I love it. =^_^=

Ilithis Mithilander

Ilithis Mithilander

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

Testing Eternity

E/

/signed

this would give a little more control over the beastmaster's pet which is needed.

chichory

chichory

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/W

/Signed
Removes the need for another bar like the hero ones to fill up your screen.
Also actually gives a use for the one skill in the game that never needs to be pressed (besides the one time taming i mean)

Kuldebar Valiturus

Kuldebar Valiturus

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2006

Garden City, Idaho

The Order of Relumination (TOoR)

R/

I like my pet, the Black Moa, but I don't find Ranger Pet's all that useful.

They die a lot and only attack what you are attacking. More and more I end up leaving the outpost without a pet but with more points in Marksmanship.

If only a ranger pet was equal to the desire of being able to rely on one.

Tide to Go

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

I War Torn I [Torn]

N/Me

I love it

remember we still need to make charm animal a capture signet too, like i said, that thread has died :C

cmdratz

cmdratz

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

Fruor Amicitia Conamen Effectus [FACE]

R/Mo

Quote:
Originally Posted by Undivine
Give commands to your pet via the Charm Animal skill.
  • You target an enemy and use Charm Animal - Your pet attacks that target.
  • You target an ally and use Charm Animal - Your pet attacks that ally's target.
  • You target yourself or nothing and use Charm Animal - Your pet yeilds and returns to you, ignoring the attacks of enemies until he gets to you or you issue another command.
Your pet, by default, does not attack until you issue a command in this fashion, allowing you to pull without your pet ruining it.

Easy and simple control with 1 button without having to painstakingly create a GUI for pets. Charm Animal just sits in your skillbar doing nothing. Why not give it a practical use that will make pet builds more viable? Perhaps we could rename it to "Animal Ally" or somesuch.

I have suggested this before, but not in its own thread. I know many people have suggested a whole new pet window to issue commands, but I really don't see that happening, as GUIs are a pain to impliment, whereas this requires much less work.

I think it's a winner.
Target Self, Use Charm: Pet attacks your target
Target Ally, Use Charm: Pet attacks ally's target
Target your already-charmed pet, Use Charm: Pet returns to you, Even when far away.
With that important revision,
/Signed
[Edit: chichory, if you don't like the pet bars, resize the party window...right?]
Best regards,
Chris. Dratz

divinechancellor

divinechancellor

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2006

Limited Liability Company [LLC]

E/

Great idea... never thought of that lol... charm animal does NOTHING at the moment!

Edit: Hah whoops.. forgot my Signature of Approval (tm)
/signed

dgb

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Sep 2005

Mo/Me

Signed but only if they rebalance pets when they do it. Currently they do ridiculous ammounts of damage, but are balanced because it can't be controlled in any reasonable way. This would remove the control problem, allowing them to be brought down to reasonable levels.

MirageMaster

MirageMaster

Banned

Join Date: Mar 2007

EU

LOL pets rule! if they nerfe pets whole beast master thing will be useless.
/signed
Now to have beast master weapons.... only skill tree that dont have any modefiers and weapons.
And a new skill i'd like to see.Pet attacks from half the casting range with a huge jump,target is knocked down and dased with damage something like unexpected strike with assasin.

Alaris

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

R/N

/signed

Keep the same normal mechanic if the "charm animal" is not pressed, otherwise add these functions. Nice idea.

Neon Ciaren

Neon Ciaren

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Nov 2006

Ardent Adversary

A/

/Signed

I love the idea. I would like to make an addition though if you were to charm wild animals. Make it so that you must have at least 3 ranks of beast mastery or so to charm a different animal in the area. I know in kamaden there is a group of like 8 flamingo's and I think it would be wrecking in an early area to charm all of them at once. *Phear the Flamingo Army*, This way if your lucky with a LvL20 Animal, you don't keep cappin them if they stay alive from your healing skills, IE. UW Spiders at most of the status.

Hengist Meldanash

Hengist Meldanash

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

UNI

W/E

Quote:
Originally Posted by Neon Ciaren
/Signed
I love the idea. I would like to make an addition though if you were to charm wild animals. Make it so that you must have at least 3 ranks of beast mastery or so to charm a different animal in the area. I know in kamaden there is a group of like 8 flamingo's and I think it would be wrecking in an early area to charm all of them at once. *Phear the Flamingo Army*
QFT (during test week-end of Nightfall):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znXGchXre_A

/signed also

Heng.

Ruby Lightheart

Ruby Lightheart

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Jul 2005

Clan of Elders

R/Mo

I seriously doubt anet will make this change. While I love the idea..it would be more reasonable for anet to combine the Charm Animal and Comfort Animal into one skill so that it takes only one skill slot. This would then free up a skill slot for us to use one of the pet skills. They could however...allow you in options the choice to have your pet auto attack whatever your first shot hits or pause attack until the 2nd shot hits target.



This is how i imagine it would look..with an additional utility icon on your inventory screen and how the pet attack options would appear. The charm pet would be equiped like a weapon or a piece of armor is and could only be equiped if you are a ranger primary or secondary.