Suggestions for Revamping Herding
Herding will be a secondary skill to Animal Taming. Each 20 points of Herding will give the character an extra pet control slot. Meaning that at GM Herding the player will have 5 extra control slots for a total of 10 control slots. This will allow a Tamer to be able to control 2 five slot pets. I know that this may bring some balance issues so I also thought of a negative for doing so. Trying to control two 5 slot pets will be hard in that unless the pets have pack instinct they will be harder to control. This will also make the pack instinct of some creatures viable again with the new Pet Revamp.
For example if you have 120 Taming/Lore and you have one Greater Dragon you can control it fine, but if you have 2 Greater Dragons you would have trouble controlling them similar as if you only had say 110 taming/lore. (not sure on balance here as I only play my tamer sporadically)
Also as a secondary benefit all characters with Herding will gain stable slots according to skill as well. I would think that 1 slot per 20 points would work here as well. This will give a tamer an extra 5 stable slots.
So that the tamers don’t have all of the fun I think a secondary use for the Herding skill in conjunction with taming portion would be to use the herding skill in a similar fashion as the old enticement skill. You could “herd” animals to a specific location to make it easier to kill/tame. This might also help those who like to do events. If you could herd 15 greater dragons to a certain area and do an event to kill them all that would be great. I was thinking that this portion of herding might work in conjunction with Music skill as you have to get the creatures to follow you somehow!
Let me know your thoughts or any issues you see.
Thanks.
Lord Viro LS
Herding will be a secondary skill to Animal Taming. Each 20 points of Herding will give the character an extra pet control slot. Meaning that at GM Herding the player will have 5 extra control slots for a total of 10 control slots. This will allow a Tamer to be able to control 2 five slot pets. I know that this may bring some balance issues so I also thought of a negative for doing so. Trying to control two 5 slot pets will be hard in that unless the pets have pack instinct they will be harder to control. This will also make the pack instinct of some creatures viable again with the new Pet Revamp.
For example if you have 120 Taming/Lore and you have one Greater Dragon you can control it fine, but if you have 2 Greater Dragons you would have trouble controlling them similar as if you only had say 110 taming/lore. (not sure on balance here as I only play my tamer sporadically)
Also as a secondary benefit all characters with Herding will gain stable slots according to skill as well. I would think that 1 slot per 20 points would work here as well. This will give a tamer an extra 5 stable slots.
So that the tamers don’t have all of the fun I think a secondary use for the Herding skill in conjunction with taming portion would be to use the herding skill in a similar fashion as the old enticement skill. You could “herd” animals to a specific location to make it easier to kill/tame. This might also help those who like to do events. If you could herd 15 greater dragons to a certain area and do an event to kill them all that would be great. I was thinking that this portion of herding might work in conjunction with Music skill as you have to get the creatures to follow you somehow!
Let me know your thoughts or any issues you see.
Thanks.
Lord Viro LS