test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Make petbuilds viable and empower pets.
diggot
Posts: 309 Arc User
I've wanted to test a pet-focused build for quiet some time so i created this theme yesterday.
https://aesica.net/co/herocreator.htm?v=38&n=Darkness%20petbuild&d=156710VWYOPN0s1071L000L108L30GMA03LE05L800LG0aLI03LQ03LF0CLD00LB03LK04OT000ckq3TLG0DFo11V1u1y0000&e=
Currently L28 with maxed out AoED, max Horrow and 3/3 points into spec-savage. Yet my Horror pet is barely doing any damage
and if it wasn't for me also damaging the enemies, it would take forever to kill anything, and if i didn't have any healing,
my Horror (which is suppose to heal itself) would be dying repeatedly.
We have no gear that increases pet damage or health directly, only indirectly through specs, and we only have ONE option for spec
to increase the power of pets. Overseer doesn't count because it doens't contain anything specialized towards pets.
And not only are pets devoid of damage, they have no armor/defense to speak of and will die fast if mobbed by
more than 1 enemy of equal level.
We need to have petfocused builds viable and be able to RELY on pets for either damage or healing, depending on spec,
our pets should be the primary source of damage if we spec for them to be damage, and similarly as healers .
If we are focused towards pet-damage spec, our pet(s) needs to be able to do enough damage on their own
to enable the player to get credit on cosmics, and pets should be able to gain the benefits from the player's block-defense,
otherwise they are just cannonfodder for Cosmic AoEs which will 1shot all pets.
Now you can say "spec into the AoE defense of 50% resists to AoE, but that then becomes a MUST have and
greatly reduces the options for the player speccing into anything else.
Just give the pets the block-defense bonus from when players blocks, simply as that.
Another point of petbuilds being utterly broken is that the player can't really buy any endgame gear
that has the same impact on the player's performance but on the pets. You can spend 1500SCR and 750GCR
on a full set of Distinguished but that still won't improve pet performance much, if any at all.
A player with a dps-pet focused build should be able to rely in a single pet to do enough damage
to reach credits on cosmics, doens't matter if it's a fast or slow cosmic.
0
Comments
its been suggested a thousand times, and seems easy enough. there's tons of existing in game models and easy to make ideas without having to swap skeletons for animations.
otherwise you bring a build to endgame where it has no place being at because it's underperforming.
Another thing that's very important to improve on the pets is their survivability on the cosmic fights
and stop them from being 1shotted by the AoE's but giving them the defense bonus from the players
block when blocking.
Because we don't have any gear that directly increases the performance of the pets,
my suggestion is that pets has 200% of the stats of the player. For example.
30% crit chance becomes 60% crit chance.
100% crit severity becomes 200% severity.
A player's 8000 health becomes 16.000 health on the pets.
If a player has 300 Offense, the pet gains 600 Offense and has it's extra damage based on those numbers.
If a player has 400 Defense, the pet gains 800 Defense, and it's extra damage resists are added.
When the player Blocks, the pet gains the same amount of damage reduction as long as the block is channeled.
The damage of the powers on a dps-summon should be that of a dps-build, meaning for example,
a Void Horrow's melee autoattack should be hitting for the same damage as an unarmed player build,
while at the same time having access to "blast" attacks which are considered the main source of damage.
This would mean that in this case, a Void Horrow would be Auto-attacking while using the Blast attack.
My Char is now L40 with R5mods in full Merc gear.
R3 Void Horrow.
R3 AoED in support role with 465PRE.
And my Void Horrow crits on L35 basic mobs for 600 dmg.. that's very underperforming,
it should be twice that with an additional 0. Maxed out petbuilds should have their
pets do the same amount of damage as dps-player does.
Epic Stronghold
Block timing explained
That makes SO many powers utterly useless, as well as the entire commander spec which might as well be
removed totally from the game in that case. We have SO many pet-summons, powers that atm are just a waste of slot.
Like i said ingame. We are superpowered heroes and we can summon pets using our powers,
but our pets are useless ?, think about that for a moment.
Epic Stronghold
Block timing explained
I do agree on this also, but then you're better off using a frag grenade or poison DoT or Bleeding, those at least not get canceled, unlike pets that die, and you have re-summon time too. I am better off using ANY DoT ability than any pet right now, honestly.
Just what is it with MMO's having issues with pets, they not avoid AoE's and at worse aggro things they are not supposed too, they should NOT count as units at all, as much people may not like it and just should be a visual DoT by now with abilities, but not targetable or damageable.
People are free to give other options tho, I am open for it. I would welcome GOOD pets, them at least having the Sidekick treatment with higher HP and such.
I'm still of the opinion that a character who's specifically built around pet-damage and boosting
petbonuses while also being built around keeping pets alive, should be able to rely on pets for damage..
A build in Support-role should NOT do more damage than maxed pets supported by damage aura.
Otherwise why bother having pets at all !?.
Being able to make a build depending on pets for damage is NOT overperforming,
so their reasoning is deeply flawed. If i build a FF specifically for supporting my pets and increasing their
damage using auras and spec's , the pets should do enough damage for endgame.
Yes, that sounds absolutely horrible. A step backwards it would be.
That's just bad development, taking the easy way out.
Yes. I'm not arguing for or against improving pet builds, only saying that players don't necessarily get what they are imagining once they actually do get the dev's attention on an issue. I well remember all the screaming from players who had sunk real money into kitting out their favorite vehicles only to see them nerfed, once the devs hand noticed some issues.