Why not: A Tamer Spellbook.

[pgib]

Disclaimer: i'm a pvm tamer.

We have bard spells, why not a tamer spellbook?

1th circle

Animate bandage.
X mana, 1 bandage, allow the tamer to apply one bandage from some distance. Distance scales with veterinary+animal taming.

Ghost form.
X mana, the pet becomes a ghost like creature until timeout. Time scale with animal taming + animal lore.

Call for help.
X mana, same as "relog trick" (or power log as someone calls it). The pet is teleported where the tamer is. No places are forbidden (that is a useful ball of pet summoning).

2nd circle

Sudiva's blessing.
X mana, boosts the resistances of the pet. Scale with animal lore+animal taming. Not the same scale we get with vial of armor crapness (+1, really makes a difference, thanks).

Rage.
X mana, grants a (substantial) damage increase bonus (against non human-characters, so we don't introduce insta-kills in pvp). Lowers resistances. Animal lore + Animal Taming.

Sacrifice.
Kills the tamer, restores full health/mana/stamina to the pet.

I stop here but i could fill an entire 8 circles - 64 spells book. The book of wishes .

And you, if we (tamers) were granted such a blessing, what spells would you like to have?

P.S. a subliminal message: yes, I'd be glad to pay for a tamer expansion pack.

 

[weins201]

Ummmm

NNNNOOOOOO

Bad idea pets can be and alerady are VERY well equiped to handle themselves.

 

[Richwarf]

I also say no.

However, add a spell book if you like, just add it for the things we can already do if you real what one that bad to click on something....

 

[kRUXCg7]

I don't want spells, but I still like the pet-potion idea which I had posted in UHall a while ago (if you find the thread, please don't be angry at the clown who wrote the post - no offense meant).

We don't need spells, we need a good way to make unloved pets like the skree be more viable.

So the idea is:

• You take a strong pet like a Greater Dragon - or at least a pet with one attribute that you would love to see on another pet - like massive hit points from the Highlands Boura.
• You sacrifice your pet for a potion (GM Chef required, plus the new tinker-made item 'meat mincer').
• You apply your potion to a weaker pet which immediately becomes stronger - for maybe 60 minutes.
• Your skree could suddenly fight with 800+ hit points.
• It wouldn't be stronger than a Greater Dragon.
• While under the effect of a pet potion the required slots might be adjusted. A skree with 800+ hit points could require all 5 slots, just like a Greater Dragon.
• While the skree with 800+ hit points might be considered as strong as a Greater Dragon all in all. But it possibly could still be a little different from a Greater Dragon, act differently that is, as it casts more spells than a Greater Dragon and is still lacking in the melee department.
• Thus, we could have the long sought after diversity in pet usage.

Alchemy should also be involved in the process of potion grinding or even potion applying.

 

[pgib]

Anything is good for me but the idea of sacrificing a pet: how can that be "mutually beneficial"?

Also a thing i noticed is that the greater dragon is considered by many a powerful pet.

As I wrote in another post, it is not even close to be such a creature if we remember that in the old ages, when the tamer was The Tamer, there were only two creatures in the world more powerful than a tamed Dragon/White Wyrm. Just two.

Besides, i totally agree with the idea of letting us use our oldest friends (wyrms and dragons), be it by magery, lotions, growth or something else.