abracadabra

Wouldn't a good bard area peacing negate the dragon/beetle/bake?

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Deraj

EA's solution to imbalances and annoying aspects of the game (in this case, the negative effects of pet balls) is, as usual, to make the game more complicated. Timers, cooldowns, extra requirements.. what's the point? Devs, it's not the item itself that's the problem. Look deeper.

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JCtheBuilder

I don't think tamers would want the developers to look any deeper because the true problem lies in bonding and that there is virtually no penalty for a pet dying. The summoning ball nerf is probably more acceptable then having pets lose 2% of skills again.

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kingtony

good point when a pet dies you should wait a day before using again

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Magister_Returns

Absolutely - Make me wait a day after my pet dies before using it again.

Also, make PvPers who die to players wait a day before coming out of skill/stat loss.

Booyah.

JCtheBuilder

You joke but faction players have to deal with crippling skill loss for 20 minutes every time they die.

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kingtony

i have a tamer also and i didnt think it was a bad idear but hey this wasen't meant to be taken personally for i do not the power to do it

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Deraj

Take it a step further. I would argue that the very premise of taming is fundamentally flawed, such a revamp wouldn't occur in a million years (and given EA's pace on things, make that 5 million ). Does the fact that players have control over powerful animals... *and* the fact that pets have gotten significantly stronger over the years raise any eyebrows whatsoever? This problem is rooted in design. UO is like a 100-headed hydra. By introducing some petball fix, they're only chopping off a single head, potentially introducing a few more heads. They need to get to the root of the problem.

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That they built us and they died and you'll not be knowing why,
Save we stand on the bare plains of Wiltshire.

Magister_Returns

@JC:

Indeed. My faction thief has to survive statloss frequently, although that's more often due to carelessness around ogre lords...

My point was that a tamer's weapon is his pet. Not all of us have a stable full for 5xGM Cu Sidhe's that would allow us to keep PvMing when my KR client crashes...again...

That, and I was being a bit sarcastic. I think we should bring back statloss for reds, but I know I'm in the minority...