The community was first made aware of intended Pet Rebalance on 22nd November 2022, when the Age of Sorcery: Chapter 2 was released.
This also marked the release of the controversial nerf to cats an canines. The thing is that while Pets have always underperformed in comparison to Thralls, this differential has become more glaring, and perpetuated into a yawning chasm of difference. And at this point in time, Pets are simply not viable as combat followers, and they have been more or less relegated to glorified garden ornaments and Role Play items. The issue is that we were first told of the planned Pet Rebalance some 1 year and 2 months ago! So my question/suggestion is this.
Could we please get the Pet Rebalance finished and implemented into the game?
Many players are tired of leaving their Pets at home, and would like to see them made viable in actual combat situations.
I have about five or six animals at 20 that I have to constantly debate about deleting. I leveled two Sand Reaper Queens recently and theyāre just very large decorations at this point.
Thanks @Rust. I have a similar dilemma. I would really like to take my Tiger, my favourite companion out adventuring with me again someday. However, I am not game to take him anywhere aside from the River biome, maaaaybe certain parts of the Jungle biome anymore for fear he will get absolutely melted. Honestly, I am not even game to set him to guard outside my base anymore, as I am not convinced he would survive an encounter with a wandering corrupted creature.
Pets need WAY more than a rebalance. They need to be rebuilt from the ground up to make them worth using for anything other than looks. But, like everything in this game right now, it will take forever because they have almost no one working on this game.
It breaks my heart to get lucky with tiger cubs and having a nice big white tiger with red glowing eyes named Chairman Meow only to have him sit around in my base getting fat.
What makes the whole thing even more awesome, is that FC is selling a lot of pet reskins in the bazaar.
Besides RPāers, who is buying skins for useless pets anyway?
Itās so weird and out of touch.
The damage of sand reaper queens is still pretty good against living creatures which can be poisoned.
Frost giants are still pretty good against humans, simply because they can knock them down.
Frost giants and sand reapers are basically the only pets i would still consider useful.
Even in boss fights.
But i donāt even bother with anything else.
They are still no competition for a zerker though, what is just lame. They take the same amount of time and effort a pet requires.
If you like pets go play a game developed by people who care about fun. It involves pals and world full of them.
Having weathered years of Funcomās broken promises it was clear to me from the moment they said āweāll make pets betterā that they would absolutely not. They have much more important things to work on like destroying server performance and ruining combat.