Mar 02, 2009, 04:59 PM // 16:59
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Fantasy Island
Guild: [Qtie]
Profession: R/Mo
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Increase usefullness of Minipets
As we get older, more and more minipets. Too many in my opinion. Why not have Minipets be like summoning stones with limited uses and they are gone. Various minipets with different skills and level.
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Mar 02, 2009, 05:10 PM // 17:10
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#2
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Mar 2007
Guild: Our Crabs Know True [LOVE]
Profession: R/
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We already have Summoning Stones, Assassin Support, and the Asuran Summons. This would make 1 person a 4 man army, and a team of 8 would turn into a 32 man army. Isn't PvE already easy enough? Not to mention that some of the mini pets would have hugely powerful builds (Mallyx, Kuunavang, Shiro, Kanaxai?) and some would do absolutely nothing (Panda, White Rabbit?). This would require significant time to program, and most likely the builds for ALL minipets would have to be the same to keep it 'fair' and 'balanced'. Not gonna happen with the people they have available for GW1. Although it has been suggested many times before, I'd be happier to see the mini pets pick up gold that drops, and maybe items.
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Mar 02, 2009, 05:30 PM // 17:30
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#3
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Underworld Spelunker
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo
Guild: Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]
Profession: E/
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I can only think of two uses now for miniatures:
- 1. Unlock Polymok pieces.
But since there is no PvP polymock, and PvE polymock sucks, I wouldn't bother about this one.
- 2. Exchange for other miniatures.
They could add an NPC that exchanges miniatures. You talk with the NPC, and depending on how many miniatures you have and the types of those miniatures, you get a value of points.
- Dedicated white: 1 points
- Dedicated purple: 2 points.
- Dedicated gold: 4 points.
- Dedicated green: 8 points.
- Not dedicated white: 3 points.
- Not dedicated purple: 5 points.
- Not dedicated gold: 8 points.
- Not dedicated green: 15 points.
And then, you can exchange miniatures based on that:
- Get another random white: 5 points.
- Get another random purple: 15 points.
- Get another random gold: 25 points.
- Get another random green: 50 points.
For example, you could use 5 dedicated whites to get another white. Or two not dedicated.
You could not use 50 dedicated whites to get another green, because you have only 45 inventory slots. But you could use 7 dedicated greens or 4 not dedicated ones.
You talk to the NPC, he removes the items from your inventory, and in exchange the NPC gives you another one different to any of the miniatures you gave (or even different to any of the miniatures in your monument of Devotion).
That way you could use all the repeated miniatures you got and no one buys to try and get another one you may miss.
The only exceptions would be the miniatures that drop from chests, CE and some promotions, those won't be acquired this way, but all the rest like Birthday miniatures could be acquired this way, by purchasing lesser miniatures from other players and trying the NPC... an having luck.
The NPC could be called "Toy Maker", and could also work like the Festival hat maker, just with miniatures.
Last edited by MithranArkanere; Mar 02, 2009 at 05:40 PM // 17:40..
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Mar 02, 2009, 05:50 PM // 17:50
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#4
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Fantasy Island
Guild: [Qtie]
Profession: R/Mo
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I was thinking only one pet per party at a time. And wouldn't "KILLER WHITE RABBITS" be the bomb?
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Mar 02, 2009, 05:56 PM // 17:56
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#5
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Atra esternĂ ono thelduin
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Madness Incarnate
Guild: [Duo]
Profession: W/P
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minipets should pick items up ;-) i'm too lazy to pick it up =P
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Mar 02, 2009, 06:29 PM // 18:29
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#6
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Aug 2006
Profession: Mo/
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Eragon Zarroc
minipets should pick items up ;-) i'm too lazy to pick it up =P
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Now that would be nice. I might actually carry a mini on me.
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Mar 02, 2009, 06:32 PM // 18:32
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#7
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Furnace Stoker
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Minipets participating in combat? Sounds really silly. Do you want them to have a significant effect or just do some almost unnoticable wanding?
Significant effect = nonono, because PvE is already too easy and there are too many summons and shit like that already.
Almost irrelevant but still doing a little dmg/buff/healing = could look fun but is that really worth all the work required to completely redo the way minis behave? Writing new AI and a ton of playtesting of every single one? Maybe fun but there are tons of more important things to do in GW that would take similar amounts of work.
Minis picking up junk - cool, but sometimes you don't want to pick everything but only some selected things, inventory space is very limited and there's trash not even worth salvaging. So the mini would need a few configuration options, I would most likely set mine to gold coins only.
Oh, and that idea with exchanging minipets at an npc is beyond horrible and just coudn't work in this form
There are more than 20 different minipet rarity levels, their colors often don't have anything to do with their rarity. Differences are beyond any comparison.
Also, dedicated minis are practically used up, so there shouldn't be a way to turn some back to an unded one.
If you really got hundreds of 1st year whites for some reason, sorry, don't hope to turn them into one or two rares, thats riddic.
The only way
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Mar 02, 2009, 07:00 PM // 19:00
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#8
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Aug 2006
Profession: R/
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/signed for making a minipet run around and sniff out gold coins and pick them up
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Mar 02, 2009, 08:16 PM // 20:16
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#9
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Nov 2008
Guild: Sacred Knights of Orr [SKoO]
Profession: P/
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Mini pets picking up items along the way....nice idea I would love my Kunnavang picking up the ectos that drop for me
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Mar 02, 2009, 08:29 PM // 20:29
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#10
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Imma Firin Mah Rojway!
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: At the Mac Store laughing at people that walk out with anything.
Profession: E/Mo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MagmaRed
I'd be happier to see the mini pets pick up gold that drops, and maybe items.
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I agree. Other than showing off there is no use for them.
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Mar 02, 2009, 09:24 PM // 21:24
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#11
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: WI
Profession: Mo/
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Then when people drop their VS's on the ground and minipets pick them up we can say what, it was the minipet don't blame me.
but anyway this is turning into another thread about having minipets pick up items i vote /close.
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Mar 02, 2009, 10:28 PM // 22:28
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#12
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: May 2008
Profession: R/
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Minipets already influence the enemy AI in PvE (the use-vs-foes-wielding-certain-weapons part) and such, don't give them even more power.
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Mar 03, 2009, 04:29 AM // 04:29
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#13
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Fantasy Island
Guild: [Qtie]
Profession: R/Mo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDragonmaster
Minipets already influence the enemy AI in PvE (the use-vs-foes-wielding-certain-weapons part) and such, don't give them even more power.
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Sry not aware of this can you elaborate?
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Mar 03, 2009, 07:58 AM // 07:58
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#14
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Savannah, GA
Guild: [MH]
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Quote:
Originally Posted by esthetic
Sry not aware of this can you elaborate?
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Minipets count as allies in many circumstances.
For example, ["You're All Alone"] will not affect you if you are near your minipet.
They also affect many Paragon skills, such as [Leader's Comfort].
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Mar 03, 2009, 08:09 AM // 08:09
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#15
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Banned
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mini pets that pick up gold ftw. best use i can think of for them it wouldn't harm anyone seeing as you can get any of the most common minis for very very cheep.
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Mar 03, 2009, 10:54 AM // 10:54
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#16
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Seattle, WA USA
Guild: Demon Dawg Knights
Profession: E/Me
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Quote:
Originally Posted by esthetic
I was thinking only one pet per party at a time. And wouldn't "KILLER WHITE RABBITS" be the bomb?
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LMAO! Killer White Rabbits would be AWESOME!
/signed to pick up gold
/unsigned to pick up anything else. Tho this would stop people from dropping items on the ground to show off.
/unsigned for damage or builds because they would then be enemy targets, we would need minipet rez skills, and agreed about too much rebalance of PVE.
However, they could just animate like they really are attacking. Then Killer Bunnies would be some funny stuff to see.
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