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Bob_Harbeck

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  1. Interesting arguments. One guy says "My sentinel never dies" and then posts a picture of a build that's almost entirely dedicated to survivability. Ok. Another guys says "Pets shouldn't be immortal" and then posts a build and loadout that's almost entirely dedicated to healing pets. Ok. Call me crazy, but I don't think we should have to go that far just to keep companions alive. There hasn't been much significant change to the way they work since they were first put in the game. Every pet is essentially just a riff on the kubrow coding that's been in the game for nine years now. I know DE would much rather work on new stuff than fix old stuff that's broken, let alone completely overhaul entire systems, but this is one that I think warrants being essentially gutted and reworked from the ground up. I don't want to see my pets get scrapped, and I know nobody else does either, but the behavior and functionality needs some serious attention. Whatever your basic flavor is, it's generally accepted that "There's basically no other companion worth using besides _______." People use the Panzer because it just won't quit. There's a few other mainstays, but really, the situation now isn't all that different than before they unbound Vacuum as a precept from Carrier. Now, they can give that respawn ability to all the pets, and that will help, but it doesn't primarily fix the fact that most of pet breeds are pretty useless. This last year, I've basically just used Helios exclusively to backfill all the codex stuff I didn't have scanned, and while I was doing that, I set out to finally breed an omega bulky lotus kubrow. Took months, but I've got a blood line now, and... they're friggin' Huras. Great. Giant Kubrow that's bigger than my operator, looks awesome, and... it's the dog version of Shade. How. Helpful. You know what precept I pulled off of it because it wasn't that useful? Stalk. Now I'm running around with the one I plopped a potato on not because it's awesome, I'm doing it purely out of jaded spite. Hours, and hours, and hours into this goal and it's arguably one of the most useless breeds. Hey, I guess three out of four ain't bad, right? You know what could be cool? A questline with Master Tisonai where you "train" your pet to do whatever the hell you want, but for everyone's sake, please don't have that crap on POE. We have focus schools, why not a bunch of abilities and passives you can unlock for your pets? Sure, make it grindy, I don't care. In the end, I want the flexibility, and you do, too. Maybe the different breeds could have different passives, or stat bonuses based off a fixed base that aren't just a mod/precept/ability to keep from screwing those of us with hundreds of imprints and several dozen filled companion slots? You wanna have your kavat open lockers? Well, how hard would it be to have that behavior unlock as a reward instead slapping on a mod? Maybe you can work the incubator as a spinoff of the Helminth where you can pick and choose abilities for your pet to have, but only once you've bred and mastered one of those breeds? Say, you want a Kavat that will do Charm and Cat's Eye instead of Mischief, or Mischief and Reflect? Well, if you've already mastered both breeds, congrats, you can now choose to swap one out for another. I dunno, but I think a more elegant and robust solution is warranted here, as opposed to simply diddling around with how some of the mods work. Just thinking out of the box a bit, and that doesn't even start to get into the way pets charge into situations they are in no way capable of handling. Simply taking Khora's Venari "posture" system really should be universal to the other pets. I dunno about you, but I have unbound keys left.
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