First I apologize if this has already been posted, I don't have a premium account so I can't search the forums, and no way can I manually search nearly 11000 threads just in suggestions.

Anyways, I just had a thought regarding BST's in campaign battles. Since there's very few areas where BST's can charm worthwhile pets for fighting with (honestly Vunkerl Inlet and La Vaule are the only places I can think of offhand, but then I am allied with Sandy), my thought was how about making some kind of jug pet that is either;

a.) a temporary item from campaign arbiters after you've obtained allied tags, or...

b.) a stackable item that BST's can buy at, for instance, a certain medal level with allied notes, can hold on to until use, but can only be used in campaign battles.

I'm not asking for uber-strong pets, but something useful would be nice in those areas with too weak pets, or with no pets at all (ie Eldieme Necropolis). And if possible something besides a crab would be nice too, lol.

Anyways, just a suggestion, but I hope you find it has merit.

I had forgotten about Passhhow, though I didn't include Jugner. The tigers in Jugner are passable, but low EP. When I listed places, I meant with DC-EM pets. Besides, I did say "places I can think of offhand", lol.

Being a mithra, I generally try to stay away from T pets, too many mischarms, too short a charm duration, but they can be very nice for campaign too. Unfortunately, as that list you linked me points out (and btw thanks for that link), there just aren't very many places that are decently BST friendly. In fact the only places listed as very friendly were the 2 i mentioned plus passhhow that I forgot, with jugner just behind with somewhat/very friendly.

I'm not asking for BST to be uber in all zones, but it would be nice if we could live up to our full potential in all zones, instead of just in four of them.

Back in the day I suggested offensive units have docile pets travel with them and stay outside fort range awaiting to be charmed. Their level would automatically adjust to the BST and if defeated, would retreat back to the outer line and basically be untargetable for a few minutes.

Defensive battles would have a "stable" of sorts spawn by the Arbiter, where if charmed, would grant a pet just like above. In both cases, however, you'd be restricted to taking one pet per every 2 or 3 minutes to keep potential abuse to a minimum.

Plan B could be cheap jugs bought with AN that also match your level, but they'd have to have some kind of Campaign latent applied to the pet so they don't wind up killing the normal market. If SE was sneaky, these would actually spawn as different pets depending on zone to keep inventory clutter down. Or they could just pick a specific pet type per nation.

I still quite like this idea. There should be a cheap allied notes alternative to consumables for campaign. Allied arrows, bolts, and bullets along with allied jug(perhaps a generic one that spawns a pet fitting of the zone in which is was called out).

If the chances were very high though that would leave BST very strong in some cases of campaign, especially if multiple BST get lucky and obtain 2+ pets. Perhaps have the odds of it scaled to the number of PCs or NPCs in the area, if it is already too crowded, less likely to get more than 1 or 2 pets, but if you are in an area with only a handful of other people, chances are you will see 3-5 instead of just one.

I suggest it partly so that crowded campaigns won't become ridiculously more crowded due to the increase in beastmasters wanting to play with the new jugpet item. Otherwise it'd shave an extra few minutes off the already short 5 minute campaign battles of crowded areas.

It would encourage beastmasters to not be totally alone but to not pile in with everyone else. Instead going to areas with some, but not a ton of people.

Edited, Nov 4th 2009 10:37am by AlexanderrOfAsura

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