Why are Skrees 4-slot? Anyone find a niche for them yet?

[G.v.P]

I understand why they used to be 4-slot, but now all they do is cast Sleep and, possibly, Healing Stone. For a creature with 4-7 base damage, they ought to be a 3-slot at best, or their Mystic catalogue needs an upgrade. Devs, can you consider this change?

Sure, Sleep might rock dexxers without magic resist in PvP, but who cares? They can probably just use items so they still don't have to gain skill in what should be the most important skill in the game. That's what I get for living in 1999.

But anyway, even a Reptalon is like, "damn, Skrees suck for a 4-slot." In PvM, a Skree is mana drained in a few seconds and then it just spams Sleep even if what it is fighting resists it 100% of the time.

As a side note, taming a Raptor that disappears after it is tamed because it isn't the original spawn Raptor is annoying lol. Maybe make them non-tameable (just the extra ones you can't keep anyway)?

 

[sablestorm]

The description said something about fetching things for you that were out of reach. It also seemed like skree would require high taming, but then would obey anyone, which isn't the case. I wonder first off if the fetch feature is in the game and if not, if the skree got changed but they forgot to change the number of control slots it takes. Finally, I wonder if skree train up their mysticism and will be casting the higher level spells later on, which might be a reason for the high control slots.

 

[G.v.P]

The description said something about fetching things for you that were out of reach. It also seemed like skree would require high taming, but then would obey anyone, which isn't the case. I wonder first off if the fetch feature is in the game and if not, if the skree got changed but they forgot to change the number of control slots it takes. Finally, I wonder if skree train up their mysticism and will be casting the higher level spells later on, which might be a reason for the high control slots.

Ooo good point about fetching. Wasn't fetching an old command back in the day as well? Speaking of commands, if you guys tame any of the new pets make sure to say "Petname Drop" as a command, it'll drop all of the items the pet had on it. When a Boura could have that arty shield or a Skree a scroll you need, well worth it!

It be neat if the Skree could "fetch" eggs for you, even, for Medusa .

 

[Tina Small]

As a side note, taming a Raptor that disappears after it is tamed because it isn't the original spawn Raptor is annoying lol. Maybe make them non-tameable (just the extra ones you can't keep anyway)?

Agreed!!

 

[Lord Frodo]

Ooo good point about fetching. Wasn't fetching an old command back in the day as well? Speaking of commands, if you guys tame any of the new pets make sure to say "Petname Drop" as a command, it'll drop all of the items the pet had on it. When a Boura could have that arty shield or a Skree a scroll you need, well worth it!

It be neat if the Skree could "fetch" eggs for you, even, for Medusa .

Correct me if I am wrong. First the drop command only works on bonded pets and 2nd you need to rename your pet to a 1 word name to get this command to work.

 

[G.v.P]

Not sure on the bonded part but I think youre right about the one-name part :/