Is there a particular kind of pet that you would like to see added to the game?
I had my own little fantasy pet, but I discovered that something already exists in game that might just meet this.
Weakening Blow is a great ability for pet collecting, because it never drops an enemy’s health below one point, ideal for catching pets, because Weakening Blow will never accidentally crit and kill a pet. (Although, word of caution for new pet collectors: Weakening Blow does not prevent a potential pet from being killed by other means. So, if the pet you’re trying to capture happens to have a DoT on them, Weakening Blow will not kill the pet, but the active DoT will, if you’ve dropped the pet you’re trying to capture to one point. Before reducing a potential pet’s health to one point, make sure there are no active DoTs on the potential pet first.)
The problem is, Terrible Turnip, despite having Sunlight and Inspiring Song or Leech Seed, is a squishy pet; he just can’t stand up to opponents for very long. Certainly not long enough to just sit there for two or three turns while you throw the cage attempting to capture the pet. Snobold Runt wasn’t really much better, despite having the Humanoid Bonus of 4% healing for every time you did a damaging attack.
Yes, I’m aware that Superbark also never lowers an opponent’s health below one point, But that’s got a four round cooldown. If this pet has healing ability, he’ll be out of the capturable stage before Superbark cools off.
I thought a pet with Nature’s Ward and Weakening Blow would be ideal. You can beat a pet down, cast Nature’s Ward and, barring some really devastating attacks, you’re pretty much set, since Nature’s Ward heals each round for five rounds. You can throw the cage your two or three times, and resume attacking if the pet heals itself.
I used to work around the squishiness of Terrible Turnip and Snobold Runt by using Anubisath Idol to soften up the pets with Sandstorm and maybe a Crush or two before bringing in the Snobold Runt for the more controlled beatdown.
But it seems my wish has been granted already, in the form of Stemmins. Using Plant or Unleash Life along with Sunlight and Weakening Blow, plus the fact that he’s a giant bag of health as a H/H pet, this seems like the pet capturing tool I was looking for.
The only problem here is, since Stemmins is H/H, he’s also pretty weak and slow. It might take a while.
So, if you could create a pet for us, what would you make? Nothing ridiculously overpowered, please.