Curse

Bob Slydell · Aug 10, 2009, 10:45 PM // 22:45

So recently I decided to revisit using a pet on one of my old legacy 4 characters from prophecies years ago because of the cool new update buff (I thought it was fun to have a W/R with a pet when i was a n00b). So I grabbed Comfort and Feral Lunge and went out into the explorable area. The pet was lvl 11 and was literally kicking some lvl 18-20 asses with ease. I noticed that when I used feral lunge though that in the pet control window it looks like it functions like a buff. It lasts for 10 seconds and then ends, unless in that 10 seconds your pet attacks then he uses it and it ends instantly. So I noticed that it isn't worded like that in the description.

I was thinking this could be a new description:

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Pet Attack. For the next 10 Seconds the next time your animal companion attacks, it deals +5...29...35 damage. If it hits a foe who is attacking, that foe suffers from Bleeding for 5...21...25 seconds"

It doesn't NEED to be implemented right now or anytime soon... but maybe included in the next update in the small bug fix list.

Just a small thought.

Trenixz · Aug 10, 2009, 10:49 PM // 22:49

That's how all pet attacks work, if you reworded this one you'd have to reword all of them.

Reverend Dr · Aug 10, 2009, 10:54 PM // 22:54

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Originally Posted by Trenixz

That's how all pet attacks work, if you reworded this one you'd have to reword all of them.

As terribly implemented as pets are, and the horrible AI issues they have, and still fairly unused, is it really too much to word skills such that they reflect what they do?

Killamus · Aug 10, 2009, 11:46 PM // 23:46

It's worded correctly.

"For the next 10 seconds" - It has a 10 second duration
"The next pet attack" - The NEXT, as in, just one, instead of being worded "your pet attacks..."

It is a bit ambigious, but it's still worded correctly. A lot of people fall into this trap though, so maybe a rewording is in order.

Concise descriptions word it correctly, if I remember correctly. You could change it to that.

Bob Slydell · Aug 11, 2009, 12:03 AM // 00:03

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Originally Posted by Killamus

It's worded correctly.

"For the next 10 seconds" - It has a 10 second duration
"The next pet attack" - The NEXT, as in, just one, instead of being worded "your pet attacks..."

It is a bit ambigious, but it's still worded correctly. A lot of people fall into this trap though, so maybe a rewording is in order.

Concise descriptions word it correctly, if I remember correctly. You could change it to that.

That is my re-worded description.... anyways I didn't realize that this isn't the only pet attack like this.

MithranArkanere · Aug 12, 2009, 06:34 PM // 18:34

Actually, they don't trigger the next time the pet attacks, but more like in between attacks.

Pets usually attack once every 2 seconds. If you use pet attacks they'll attack faster.

So it's more like 'after the latest attack' than 'at the next attack.