@Kyronix
I hope this won't be too confusing, but these issues are tangentially related...
People want viable necro pets. There are pets with necro, such as dread spiders, that simply WILL NOT GAIN SKILL. This is silly.
I propose two- things to help fix some of this:
1) Any animal with necromancy (at any level) in its template is allowed to gain the skill normally, regardless of what other skills it possesses.
Skill gain in general:
2) Tamers need the ability to instruct their pet which skills to focus on when training them (skill training, not slot-raising training)
In fact, this could even be taken one step further to telling a pet what spell/abilities to use above 100 so that it actually gains at a semi-decent rate...but I'd settle for telling it to work on its low skills.
I hope this won't be too confusing, but these issues are tangentially related...
People want viable necro pets. There are pets with necro, such as dread spiders, that simply WILL NOT GAIN SKILL. This is silly.
I propose two- things to help fix some of this:
1) Any animal with necromancy (at any level) in its template is allowed to gain the skill normally, regardless of what other skills it possesses.
- Example: So a dread spider would essentially be a necromage (which fits with its starting out as a 3-slot)
- Grey out the "Magic" section of the training gump for such a pet
Skill gain in general:
2) Tamers need the ability to instruct their pet which skills to focus on when training them (skill training, not slot-raising training)
- Example: I have two drakes that suddenly gained Bushido and Ninjitsu, both at 0 skill. All their other relevant combat skills are already maxed, but Bush/Ninj are ~30 now, but reliably raising them is nearly impossible as the drakes would rather spam their other skills/special moves until their mana pool depletes.
- I'd like a context menu option ("Training mode" or something) on the pet which set it to focus on its non maxed out skills, instead of wasting its mana (and my time).
In fact, this could even be taken one step further to telling a pet what spell/abilities to use above 100 so that it actually gains at a semi-decent rate...but I'd settle for telling it to work on its low skills.