Just a reminder that you still owe us a completion of the animal companion project that left most if not all of them nerfed to the point of decorative items.
Also remember that sorcery’s summoned demons should be included in this as well.
Make pets great again!!!
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Good news is, Funcom cannot nerf character lore. Where my Exiles/Siptah character found and raised an abandoned Smilodon cub, and that cub grew into an absolute beast.
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Finding a way of reintegrating the witch doctor pets back in would be nice while they are at it.
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I don’t believe that they really consider pets to be anything more than a functional decoration with a ‘bite’ if you excuse the pun.
I know they’ve said their stance is that pets are sort of the lower tier of followers. But that doesn’t really make sense because of the way progression works. You need thraltaker to do any sort of taming. What they should do is merge the taming knowledges with Thralltaker and then make a statement about it.
To be fair I do believe pets need a bit of a health buff. But I don’t ever see them getting competitive damage compared to thralls. I do believe pets should either level fast (like demons) or simply come out at max level. Then they can have a bit of an expendable nature that isn’t punishing.
That’s my biggest gripe about the follower system in general is the time it takes to train something that can be lost in seconds. The second part doesn’t bother me, loss is part of the game. But followers are the only thing you routinely lose that has such an investment.
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AND fix the outdated pet food that gives boosts to agility instead of grit for armor.
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I feel like the fact that when even doing a Corrupted Authority build I still don’t give that a single thought really emphasizes how terrible these guys are.
In regards to another specific example I would love to see the Hyenas buffed. That cripple with an actual impact and HP pool behind it would be awesome. It’s far from the most necessary animal buffs but it’s certainly still far from ideal.
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But that’s something i absolutely don’t get to be honest.
FC is selling a ton of pet skins in the bazaar and battle pass, but for what?
Isn’t that bad business to sell reskins for pets which are useless anyway? 
Sorry i just don’t get it, if pets would be somewhat on par with fighter thralls wouldn’t that mean they could sell more?
Edit: nevermind the fact that we have to feed everyone of our followers individually , because of the broken thrall pots and pet feeder boxes.
That frustrates a lot of players as well.
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I don’t either. But I don’t exactly have a great idea to fix it either.
The system giving us pets is borked and has been since its inception. Like take out all the BS with how attributes work on pets and levels. Lets just say Pets come out at level 20, and have decent stats. How the hell do we justify them having similar stats to a thrall?
Getting a pet is as simple as running around naked and spamming E (or whatever the controller equivelent is) around cubs and then pick up a few. Then you take them and throw them in a pen with their favorite meat. One time out of 4 to one time out of 3 and you get a greater. Then you just have to level it.
Getting a thrall is quite a bit more involved. You need to find a named. If its not up, you need to kill until it is. Then you need to craft (or find a good weapon) and then you need to craft some armor.
Even when using Shadespiced meat, the animal is by far easier to get, en masse.
The trade off between pets and thralls was that pets had more damage and less armor (due to the lack thereof). But that won’t work now because if pets are squishier than thralls now… they’ll just die.
The idea I had to address the ease of getting pets was to introduce multiple tiers. Or rather one more tier. So you’d have something like wild, trained, and greater. Wild pets would be like T2 thralls in equivalence. These are the ones you find in the wild like you do now.
To get T3 equivalent Trained you need to find young versions of the animals in thrall camps.
To get T4 greater pets you need to find them in similar ways of T4 thralls, harder areas (maybe even find them in cages at the siege areas, or in cages in higher level purges). The effort for these are the same.
This would address the ease of use and newbie nature of obtaining pets. And allow them to be buffed up to be somewhat closer to thralls.
As a bonus thing I’d also like to see ‘T3’ pets use the greater skins. ‘T4’ actually be named pets (like how we have named thralls), and have unique looks and perks (like the named dogs).
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When they nerfed pets, we quit making and using them.
Out with the old, in with the new is their motto.
Mrs, Mrs Jones is really mad. She had lots of Sabers, and used them every day. Now they just sit there as guard cats.
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