ArenaNet:Skill feedback/Ranger/Animal Companions/Beast Mastery
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[edit] William Wallace Issue -- 05:27, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- Issue
- Beast Mastery/animal companions are more of a liability and a waste of attribute points than actually being useful. Animal companions only serve as a means to attract new players to the game and are eventually discarded due too: low damage even with additional shouts, all of your skills are blacked out if it dies, having to sacrifice five of your skill slots to actually make use of them, easily taken out by burning, dumb AI even with the user interface, healers mostly hate animal companions and will refuse to help them due to it wasting energy when in comparison to the other party members, and very slow attack time (once every two seconds).
- Suggestion
- Base the amount of damage off of what type the animal companion does (ex. if the animal does blunt damage, make it have the same attack time of hammers and do the same amount based on how many points you have invested into beast mastery - also keep in mind animal companions do not have the strength attribute so it will always be lower then an actual player using a weapon). OR When your animal companion dies, make it where only your beast mastery skills are blacked out and not your entire skill bar. OR Condense more of the beast mastery skills (having to sacrifice one slot to have a companion and another slot to res it is not viable) so it will trigger two different things. For example, make it where it's next attack has X amount of armor penetration and does plus amount of damage if the target is under an enchantment- will not be overpowered at all due to them having a slow attack speed. OR Introduce a rune/mod system for animal companions so you can customize as to what type of pet you want (making one type of rune making it deal more damage but has minus X to their max health or a rune/mod that makes them receive less damage but decreases their attack speed/or damage). OR Increasing the amount of skills that help your pet stay alive since the majority of them are very weak.
