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Pet / Mount Combo!?!?!
Atli
Member, Warrior of Old, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
As an RPer, something that bugs me just a little is dismounting from my large bear mount and POOF, he/she just disappears. Furthermore, my mini pet just POOF appears when I dismount. So I understand the reasoning behind this- mini pets running at the speed of a mount behind your character would be weird and could add strain to the game.
What I would love to see as an option instead are pet skins that look exactly like my mount, so when I dismount, you might see the mount disappear and the pet appear, but it's the same creature, so the transition is minimal and I get to maintain the immersion that the large animal I rode in on is following me around! I've only managed similar feats with SWTOR Nexu Companion / Mount (similar skins).
While I'm not interested in this as much, a beastmaster might also really enjoy their pet and mount combo interacting... almost like an idle flourish- a momma bear mount and a baby bear mini pet could nuzzle each other, for example.
Would anyone else be interested in seeing Ashes do this?!?! Can you think of other ways you would like the mount and pet system interact?
What I would love to see as an option instead are pet skins that look exactly like my mount, so when I dismount, you might see the mount disappear and the pet appear, but it's the same creature, so the transition is minimal and I get to maintain the immersion that the large animal I rode in on is following me around! I've only managed similar feats with SWTOR Nexu Companion / Mount (similar skins).
While I'm not interested in this as much, a beastmaster might also really enjoy their pet and mount combo interacting... almost like an idle flourish- a momma bear mount and a baby bear mini pet could nuzzle each other, for example.
Would anyone else be interested in seeing Ashes do this?!?! Can you think of other ways you would like the mount and pet system interact?
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So mounts likely follow you around as a full-sized NPC mob, so people can attack it and potentially knock it out. This is how it was done in ArchAge, and as we all know Steven played a lot of that game. Defeated mounts had to be healed before you could ride them effectively. They'd limp and only have a tiny sliver of health.
I hope that's the case, but I wouldn't put too much faith on just the fact they have stamina. ESO has a stamina system for their mounts too, and they disappear, unfortunately. Still, we can hope yes?
While that may be the case, does ESO also heavily rely in trading commodities and transporting them? Not to my knowledge. AoC will have mounts especially for that task, which I believe we're currently calling 'mule'-type mounts. If you could just hide those in your pocket, then the resources they're holding would become very easy to transport safely. It wouldn't make sense for it not to be a live entity.
Formerly T-Elf
Bro, and make a badass opening cut-scene in the intro video for him and you got everything about WoW whipped with some added hype.
Let's just keep with the dragon eggs for now. But I think I can your see your imagining here. Like drop it and a little rumble and crack happens with pieces of shell flying up? That would be kinda cool.
@Karthos You could just throw them at your enemies
No i mean it would be easier to just throw the eggs at your enemies.
Like a monkey flinging poo!!
Exactly!
welcome to the ashes of creation forums ^^
Why thank you.
I'm new here!
Dude, I totally missed this! Thanks!
What was first, the Summoner or the Egg ?
You have some wierd kinks my friend c: