Glorious Alpha Two Testers!
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
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You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Pet Utility
I've seen these types of pets personally.
Pets that follow you around doing nothing. (Meh)
Pets that follow you around giving a passive buff. (Oh god no!)
Pets that are your mount. (S'okay.)
Pets that fight. (Yus!)
I am hoping for utility pets on top of combat.
Shoulder pet that has a field of view, not AoE, that a hidden shiny is seen will race down and try to dig it out drawing your attention to it.
A digger/burrowing pet you can set to guard your crops from pests that dig and burrow.
Flying pet you can send off into the air looking for things, depending on your animal handling giving you more communication with it so you can send it to find ore, plants, cities or.. players and cry out their position to you.
Pet who's saliva has special properties that can slow or stop bleedout or infection.
For the population of Necromancers a pet that can find fresh corpses for them to do nefarious things with. =P
I want pets to be complex, indepth, and having the choice of which one you have to be more than Does this pet do the most damage? Runs the fastest? Gives the best Buff?
I'm tired of simple. Most of the simple/easy games I run across get boring in 30d or less.
Pets that follow you around doing nothing. (Meh)
Pets that follow you around giving a passive buff. (Oh god no!)
Pets that are your mount. (S'okay.)
Pets that fight. (Yus!)
I am hoping for utility pets on top of combat.
Shoulder pet that has a field of view, not AoE, that a hidden shiny is seen will race down and try to dig it out drawing your attention to it.
A digger/burrowing pet you can set to guard your crops from pests that dig and burrow.
Flying pet you can send off into the air looking for things, depending on your animal handling giving you more communication with it so you can send it to find ore, plants, cities or.. players and cry out their position to you.
Pet who's saliva has special properties that can slow or stop bleedout or infection.
For the population of Necromancers a pet that can find fresh corpses for them to do nefarious things with. =P
I want pets to be complex, indepth, and having the choice of which one you have to be more than Does this pet do the most damage? Runs the fastest? Gives the best Buff?
I'm tired of simple. Most of the simple/easy games I run across get boring in 30d or less.
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I hate the look of having animals/cosmetic critters following everyone around..makes the fantasy world look like a dog show...plus when pets had combat skills in Archeage they were so underpowered it was pointless, and having pets with useful combat skills would just be unfair to other players or force them to join said dog show...*shudder*.
Pets that loot can be helpful for lazy people (also me). I'm having problems thinking of many useful purposes for them.
- Bless did the whole pet skill buffs that also allow you to upgrade them to higher tiers/looks. Interesting enough if not a bit too RNG.
- WoW eventually did the whole battle system which was alright but for people that worked hard pre-pet battle to collect pets.. it kinda made ours a bit more insignificant.
- Aion had a simple pet system that allowed them to hold some extra items or alert you to enemies and some other banal things
- FFXIV added a minion strategy game. Tons to gather from tons of sources.
- RIFT, ToR, and ESO; iirc, are strictly vanity items.
Don't get me wrong... I'm an avid collector and I will be gathering as many as I can and will enjoy every second of it. If they have bonuses, awesome, if they don't I'll still be collecting them.2c
Just as I like to know what costumes and gear other players are using, I like to see the pets each player chooses to own.
In Bless Online, it's fun whether I'm seeing lots of people with pets and mounts common to the region or with pets and mounts from exotic locales I haven't visited yet.
I think we know that some mounts will have abilities that we can use in combat, so I expect the same for some pets. I don't expect the abilities to be as complex as flying pets that can look for stuff from the air for you.
Since there will be breeding, I hope we will be able to breed traits such that we might be able to get the abilities of a specific cat into a cockroach if that's what we really want.