Make pets useful please

So I have these pets & I'd like to buy some more, but they don't do anything.

Why not?

Why can't we have the pets do useful shit for us, that doesn't break the game & isn't p2w, for example:

- why can't pets break containers / open chests for us?
- why can't pets pick up currency items? (scrolls, alts, chaos, etc)
- why can't pets pick up cards? or essence? or generally things we are ALWAYS going to want to pick up.

That's one way to go for sure. Lots of games have done this, we have pets for as low as a dollar I think in the shop, get them in supporter packs, and even as rewards for season play. So really no excuse for everyone not to have a pet, or easily be able to acquire one. Shouldn't think there would be any whining about this.

We could go another way though:

- Why can't pets highlight rare / uniques etc for you? like jump on them and start biting their head with a pulsing effect to highlight where the dangerous mob is in the giant pack of things trying to kill you. Doesn't actually do any damage, or anything else but highlight the mob and make it look like it's doing something besides just walking around sniffing flowers.

This is just me spit balling off the top of my head. I am sure there are tons of ways pets could be made useful instead of just animated decorations.

If you're too lazy or too busy to think of ways for them to be useful, I am sure we could open it to the community as an event / contest. Can reward MTX, points, etc. Costs you nothing, and we get useful QOL updates.

+1 I hate pickin up currency. My flying ghost child pet should be picking it up in between spasms rather than just offering much valued fatal frame flavor.

Because pets are not pay to win, they are purely cosmetic.

And they will stay this way, if you want to buy clear advantages with real money, please go play some Chinese game, they love that apparently.

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Fruz wrote:

Because pets are not pay to win, they are purely cosmetic.

And they will stay this way, if you want to buy clear advantages with real money, please go play some Chinese game, they love that apparently.

You can’t argue p2w if GGG didn’t give you a default pet that does something. All they would have to do is add some sort of pet functions and then announce that all new or existing accounts without a pet get 2 pets by default that do those same functions. The feature would continue to remain purely cosmetic.

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cgexile wrote:

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Fruz wrote:

Because pets are not pay to win, they are purely cosmetic.

And they will stay this way, if you want to buy clear advantages with real money, please go play some Chinese game, they love that apparently.

You can’t argue p2w if GGG didn’t give you a default pet that does something. All they would have to do is add some sort of pet functions and then announce that all new or existing accounts without a pet get 2 pets by default that do those same functions. The feature would continue to remain purely cosmetic.

In such a case, then yes, it would not tbe p2w.


I think that we have enough things in the game that reduce the amount of input needed to play the game, and that it's already more than enough, so I'd rather that they don't go down this road more (like the recent skills that auto-target and desetroy everything without the player needing to do much).
My opinion, of course.

I hope they never think about implementing this...
I would rather see some more incentives to play in grp (like huge drop / xp benefits but higher monster life and dmg) and then make the loot system to just be Free for All.

This 2k18 WOW-Style Loot Balance is so boring and you still get frustrated if someone get's the exalted orb in a poorjay rota and not you, make it FFA as the only possible setting and we can have fun again picking up items and deal with the big "SHIT I WAS TOO SLOW I NEED TO IMPROVE MY PICKUP SKILLS" Feeling like back in d2...picking up items was a core mechanic of grp gameplay and the fastest always won, ofc ;)

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LouiX wrote:

I hope they never think about implementing this...
I would rather see some more incentives to play in grp (like huge drop / xp benefits but higher monster life and dmg) and then make the loot system to just be Free for All.

This 2k18 WOW-Style Loot Balance is so boring and you still get frustrated if someone get's the exalted orb in a poorjay rota and not you, make it FFA as the only possible setting and we can have fun again picking up items and deal with the big "SHIT I WAS TOO SLOW I NEED TO IMPROVE MY PICKUP SKILLS" Feeling like back in d2...picking up items was a core mechanic of grp gameplay and the fastest always won, ofc ;)

Or... or, and hear me out here, you can try being the group leader and set your loot allocation option to it. Not everyone likes loot ninjas, and them being forced to deal with it was the reason GGG added allocation options in the first place.

Also, what does any of this have to do with the OP? We're talking about whether pets should be able to collect certain items and break containers or not.

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As for the OP, I disagree. As much as I'd like my golden kiwi to pick up currency, that would come off as P2W. The only way I see this happening is if you can earn the pet through challenging content.

That would be pay 2 win.
Not gonna happen dont argue about it.

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MrsDeath_ wrote:

That would be pay 2 win.
Not gonna happen dont argue about it.

Yeah. Strongly against it.

But auto pick up can be ok.
On different base tho.

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John_Ra wrote:

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MrsDeath_ wrote:

That would be pay 2 win.
Not gonna happen dont argue about it.

Yeah. Strongly against it.

But auto pick up can be ok.
On different base tho.

I would like to say no to that too.
Im against all automated actions in an arpg. I think players should make desicions and those desicions must have consequences.