So after ranting to myself for a little bit over the ridiculousness of some people's posts recently (some of you may know who i'm talking about but i will say no names), i brainstormed up these ideas for a way to actually put our pets to use and make them something we don't just go
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People have wanted pets to serve some purpose since they entered the game and many ideas have been bounced around: making them fight with you, adding stats, etc. My idea is more similar to the adding stats idea but with a small difference to it. The pets would act very similarly to rings in the sense that they would add something to your character, however it wouldn't be stats, i'm talking about adding procs. The pets also are different from rings because they would actually be visible, they would cling to your character (much like the squid buddy in SL) symbolizing they are adding something to your character. The main ideas of these pets is that they would add certain procs to whatever weapon you are using (comparable to enchanting your weapon in a game like minecraft or skyrim) and slightly changing the blade/orb/arrow's look to reflect the proc that is in effect.
Ice Proc Pet
The idea of this pet is to add an freeze proc to your weapon. The pet would carry a bluish hue to it or look like some arctic animal and would make your weapon look icy
Blade: frozen look much like the ice swords in LE
Staff/wand: snowflakes floating off of it such as the Brain-freeze gear
Bow/talon: shoots ice arrows like the Shivering weapons.
The pet wouldn't add any damage to your weapon itself but with the added proc it would make enemies occasionally freeze in place or make it so classes can do combos that they normally wouldn't be able to do, like a bear using stomp on an enemy that is frozen would make a Shatter combo.
Fire Proc Pet
This pet would have a reddish tone to it or could be some kind of animal you would expect to live in "fiery" hot places (like a baby dragon or something), and as the name suggests would add a fire proc to your weapon.
Blade: flames flowing around the sword much like the flaming axes and swords in the plat store.
Staff/wand: fire particles coming off the end like the Burning Wand's.
Bow/talon: fire arrows/talons like the arrows launched by the Glyph Xbows and Orcish Bow.
Again the pet wouldn't add damage but because of the fire proc an enemy would occasionally catch fire.
Darkness Proc Pet
Darkness proc pet would add a darkness (or weakness, i always get them mixed up) proc to your weapon. The pet would be something dark/mysterious and maybe have smoke coming off of it and would add the darkness proc smoke around your weapon (such as the darkness proc two-handed swords in the plat store.)
Blade: darkness proc smoke flowing around the blade.
Staff/wand: black smoke puffing off the end like the shadow cave gear.
Bow/talon: black smoke puffing off weapon.
The darkness proc caused by the pet would sometimes cause enemies to be weakened (like they were hit by a mage's Weakness spell) and would allow certain classes to make combos they wouldn't be able to do alone, such as a bird using blast shot on an enemy that has been hit by the darkness proc (idk what the combo is called).
I have a feeling these pets wouldn't be that hard to make (tbh i think they could just port over squid buddy, change the color and shape slightly to reflect each proc, and implement it quite easily.) And of course players would definitely buy them, thus pleasing STS with money, and players with a pet that actually does something other than look pretty.
As always, post your thoughts below.
