Ranger Pets

[flom]

Any summonable pet that retains the same rank as the caster/ranger ought not hit like a mob does. I.e. A ranger with 5 ranks on a pk target shouldn't have pets whose attacks are unblockable because of the disadvantage. Same goes for a necromancer's golems. Zombies should keep their power because of the difficulty of obtaining them.

Just noticed this while battling someone. They did next to 0 damage while their pets worked me over pretty well and I had to retreat.

[Vanisse]

[Ozaru]

a lvl 30 ranger is going to destroy a lvl 30 illusionist necro so on

get to 50, things are a bit different . There is a reason why mages have high escapes, protective shield word sanc fly and so on.

[Ergorion]

I think Vanisse's idea of having ranger pets have a set level is a good one. Rangers have a ton of warrior tools at their disposal and I do think the pets make them a bit buff.

[flom]

what i'm talking about is the hit chance & block percentages. I think they're treated like mobs, which get better treatment (they hit way more) than players do. You can block every attack from an enemy player and get rooked by higher ranked pets.

[Arishel]

I always thought that the tame skill should replace Beast Call. Tame creatures from the wild, much like an illusionist gains dupes, necromancer gets zombies. Tame should work like that in my opinion. The tame could last for a certain amount of time, but then the animal would become feral again after a certain amount of time.

The argument to this would be from some, but what about berserkers rage? Tame is the one thing a ranger will always have advantage over a berserker, depending on who's playing both, of course. If tame is changed to the way above, then I guess the ranger has to fear the berserker like everyone else and just avoid him while raged.

That's just my 2 cents from reading the mention of rangers.

In reality it's just like charm person, except only useable on animals.

[Stephen2_Aust]

Am quite sure Dav recently said that ranger pets don't get level diff to-hit bonuses as players do.

[flom]

He might've. I don't keep up with every post across the boards.. my understanding was that mobs of all kinds (charmed, zombies, npcs, etc.) all get hit and block chances based on their ranks. Players get no such bonus but instead play with the block chances of the mobs and other players based on their stats, ac, etc.

[Andrael]

just be careful those pesky bards... your little critters will be eating you for din din if you try something funny with them and they are high enough.

[Davairus]

Its okay, I was wrong about the mob level in defences thing.

Yes, I believe ranger pets used to be kept a lower level, for example a bear would be 40, a panther 35 and those were fixed. I am not sure if or when they became the same level as the ranger, but that's a considerable upgrade.

Rangers are a tough nut, they have basically dirt+herb, lots of damage, but on the other hand, no lag skills. That obviously depends on whether we call dirt a lag skill. If we do then maybe we are talking about dirt and not ranger pets, because those pets would hit a lot more vs a dirted target.

[Erlwith]

idk. at higher levels killing people of lower levels is supposed to be easy if you're a ranger with lvl 50 pets or not. maybe i didn't read the complaint closely enough