Thursday, July 10, 2008

What if ...

... The new pet talent trees will include all of the skills you currently have to tame a temp pet to learn? If you simply learned claw from a talent tree or the pet trainer and it scaled with level like class talents do, you could actually use your third stable slot.

Doubt that's how it'll work, but that would be awesome and Ideale could have another kitty and I wouldn't have to make and level, like, three more hunters (in addition to the four I actually play) to have all of the cats in WoW.

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What?

2 comments:

Cryptography said...

What if...

Regardless of the mechanism they chose for pet training, it wont be enough. I want a LOT of pets. 3-4 doesn't cut it!

Since their reasoning has been that its too much storage space to add more hunter slots, they should do something like this:

Put a "zookeeper" NPC in cities near the stablemaster. This NPC allows hunters to convert a pet into an item that can be placed in the bank. Cost could be something like 1g per time.

The item given in return is a token for a pet stored in the zoo. Hunters can swap out pets via the zookeper in a similar way to the current stablemaster, requiring either an empty stable slot, or no active pet.

However, the pet when traded to the zookeper, basically ceases to exist. All that is stored about that pet is name, loyalty level, current level (or exp, whichever is easier for Bliz) and the skin used. All skills/training points are lost. In return, you get a soulbound item similar to a mount that can be banked.

Later, you convert it back to a pet at the same zookeper npc, again paying a fee and requiring a spare stable slot or no active pet. You get a pet that looks the same, has the same name and loyalty level, but needs complete retraining and probably feeding.

KC said...

Two makes me sad. Anything more than two would make me happy, even if it is just making the third stable slot viable. Of course, if they were to figure out a way to let us bank pets, I wouldn't complain. :-D