Curse

Epinephrine · Feb 01, 2006, 03:27 PM // 15:27

Tired of this.

Yes, when I activate Call of Haste, Call of Protection or Otyugh's Cry I want a little monitor area showing me that these skills are active on my pet. It's not a huge deal normally, but with skill recharge affects like Oath Shot, Serpent's Quickness, Quickening Zephyr, skill recharges from killing a boss and so on it can be hard to tell if a call is currently up or not.

I'd also like a little icon showing the attack currently loaded, that disappears when the attack is used; I'm used to the timing of my pet's attacks, but when he's chasing someone for example he doesn't always get to use the attack as soon as I thought he did - and I lose line of sight, so I can't tell that way. For finishing off the fleeing foe it's nice to still be able to trigger pet attacks and not have them oveerride one another, wasting energy.

Wouldn't mind a conditions/hex monitor for my pet either, so I could tell at a glance how badly he was suffering. Then again, until we get the ability to control pets (Heel! Sit!) it could be too frustrating... hmm, what does my pet have on him anyway? Oh, Price of Failure, Spirit of Failure, Spiteful Spirit and Empathy! Stop attacking, boy! Please? Pretty Please? I can't afford to heal you and rangers get jack to remove conditions and hexes off their pets...

Oh, and antidote signet should clear conditions on your pet when used. After all, it's not an overpowered skill anyway - just change it to say the ranger and his companion. That or have Comfort Animal remove a condition per use as well as heal. What kind of ranger knows how to instantly cure himself of conditions, but leaves his pet to die slowly?

fallot · Feb 01, 2006, 04:37 PM // 16:37

I think we should just get rid of the pets and give rangers a new skill line that can incorporate some of the useful BM skills. That or give R or /R a pet GUI where you can monitor all of the details of your pet and give him some basic commands.