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The coconut trees work. Why is there security on them? Will they make coconuts?
Shield meh. My mages do not use FC or DCI so not something I would use.
Orchids come in random colors It seems. Will be a point sink.
Wildfire Ostard:
It is supposed to be like a Bane. But a Bane is 3 slots.
Starting at 4 slots you can not do very much building.
Players want an over 100 skill in something besides tactics. Does not increase the value of the pet enough.
Ostard needs to be 3 slots. At 3 slots it starts off with lower building capacity than a Cu. But it can be built well. Remove the Magery and eval to make it 3 slots.
I think that spawning as 4 slots is too high, it gives not enough room to be able to customize it as one might want.
Also, it is unclear whether any of the stats is supposed to come overcapped and to what extent.
If so, this might make it an issue for a limited time Event to be able to get enough of these pets with the untrained stats that the Tamer might want (i.e. a good one....) especially, if its claiming cost will be set too high....
If it is expensive to claim, then the spawning stats range variability should be VERY small and pretty much all these Ostards spawn "moreless" with the same stats....
On the other end, if it will be reasonably cheap to claim it, then the variability can be set with a wider stats range as players will be able to get more and more of these until they get one which they like....
It is also not clear to me the point of a pet with the Pact Instinct spawning with 4 slots.... sure, if it remains untrained one might get another 1 follower slot pet with the pact instinct but, seriously, how good would this be ?
The Ostard is only good for bank sitting, needs two rounds to be a fighter.
Like the Ostard very much overall though, but just a vanity pet as it stands now.
The shield and shield recipe is not on Test yet, but am looking forward to seeing
how many doubloons they are as I like the idea of them.
higher starting stats.
People will want more of these orchids & thats a lot of clicking
Take the Gate at the Britain Commons.
It was my understanding that, due to players' extended requests for a Bane Dragons come back, these might have been introduced, instead, to be "Like" Bane Dragons but without taking away the Bane Dragon as an exclusive item.
Basically, like a [Replica] for those old items that is the same, but not "that" item, just a [Replica]...
So, I was expecting the "Bane" Ostard, so to speak, to be just as like and as good as a Bane Dragon, only of a different look....
It is clear that, as it is now, this pet is nowhere close to what a Bane Dragon is and can be trained to be, IMHO.
If we want to have these Ostard be as good as the Bane Dragon, to my opinion it clearly needs to be beefed up quite some to permit more training on it.
Within the Black Market Rewards listed in the Full Publish Notes, there is not shown the "Hook's Treasure Map" which does is one of the new rewards (150,000 points...).
What gives ?
They are no where near the intensity of a low % Bane.
Right now they have similar HP/Str as a Cu or Hiryu at 3 slots! If you drop them we would have to make up for that.
A Bane has the same stats and is 3 slots. Why cant they be the same?
Cheers MissE
1. The peculiar coconut palm trees look excellent! Fine attention to detail.
2. Hook's Shield:
a. Loving the Spell Channeling & +10 SDI !!!
b. Personally, I would much prefer Faster Cast Recovery instead of Faster Casting on the shield, here's why: for many spellcasters it's often optimal to activate the Protection spell, which cancels out Faster Casting. -- A lot of players, myself included, would probably want to swap the Vesper Museum Chaos shield for this, and most the value (for players like me) of the Vesper shield is the +2 FCR. -- If you're trying to keep it distinct from the function of the Vesper shield, maybe just make it 1 FCR. Though I certainly wouldn't complain if it had both FC & FCR.
b. Defense Chance Increase is usually sought by a spellcaster when he or she is a melee mage (which let's be honest, is rare in PvM) or PvP mage, which then cancels out the whole point of having FCR on it, because it's quite likely that either of these types of mages would want to run Protection so that their spells are casted uninterrupted. The vast majority of spellcasters do PvM, and from a ranged distance, usually behind pets or meat shield players, but of course there will be somewhat of a market for the shield to have DCI on it (I'm somewhat ambivalent about leaving the DCI on, but I'm not excited by it).
c. Why Resistance buffs here, when most players will get those resistances easily met through their suits? Feels like a huge waste of a few property slots. If you did feel it was completely necessary to keep one resistance on it, I'd be much more excited about it being physical resist, as it would help with compensating for the decrease in Phys. Res. from the Protection spell.
d. Properties instead of DCI or Resistances: something really tasty like: (1) more Int./mana or STR/HP, (2) more mana or HP regeneration, (3) damage eater property, (4) substantial Casting Focus % [like 10%!] (5) 10-20 Resisting Spells [as that's almost universally desired for spell casters].
3. Spellbook / Runebook Straps
a. Fantastic idea, generally well received from anyone I've spoken to.
b. As it stands now, they aren't named "spellbook" strap or "runebook," strap and this may create a lot of confusion and havoc for people wanting to buy these on vendor search without prior experience using them on TC1. Withholding that information in the title and just requiring players to know its function based on color feels a bit shortsighted and will create some frustrations.
c. Please, please, please make it so that after you disarm a spellbook it goes back directly into the spellbook strap from whence it came. As you are well aware a mage may toggle between several slayer spellbooks in a given context. How nice would it be to just have those spellbooks go neatly back into the strap without having to always manually put it back? [maybe there's some fancy way to get this to happen using macros or something that I'm not aware of]
d. Can melee characters get a version of this for weapons someday? How nice too, to have a weight reduction in that case. Most PvM melee characters carry an assortment of slayers too.
4. Ostard
Echoing others.. 3 slots would be best. Also would be nicer to get to chose magery instead of being stuck with it.
5. Someday... a mage staff that mages would actually want to use! Something comparable to holding a 50 SDI spellbook and Vesper Chaos shield. (Spell channeling, high SDI, FC/FCR, MR, etc.) - Or better yet, a means of converting spellbooks into a one-handed staff or a two-handed staff + some extra stats.
Thanks devs for all that you do, and continuing to try to improve the game and give us more things to collect. I'd love to hear what others think - whether agree or disagree. (hopefully this reaches @Kyronix and/or @Mesanna)
They DO need to be better to have the player base actually engage in grinding for them, we agree there.
Love the 10% SDI and the +1 faster casting.
I would change the Fire Resist to Physical Resist to counter the -10 from the Protection Spell.
I would also change the Poison Resist to a +3 mana regen and a +7 mana bonus