Dancer Archive

Message Edited by FuschiaD on 10-20-2004 08:59 PM

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kirah_ashlin wrote:

Sure, but what about the shedding?

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And you know their breath would be terrible...

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DaBudo2 wrote:

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Doriana wrote:

...By far my most popular pet "props" are my trio of rasps. I generally give them patrol points throughout the cantina and have them fly around while I dance...

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I just had to say that's a clever use of the patrol command. I've been CH for over a year, and I've never found any use for that command But that's a great use of patrol - almost like pets were meant to be used by entertainers.

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There's a bunch of stuff you can do with it!

You can set up area patrols like the birds flying around, or small scale patrols right next to each other to make a sort of pet "dance," (though column formation is much easier for that) you can name 3 low level pets (LiveMind), (BuffsIn) and (TheCantina) and have them patrol outside the cantina door togther, etc.

If you're factional and overt and paranoid about attack you acn group a pet and use it for an "alarm" by having it patrol an area -- then if it dies you know someone overt is likely nearby to have killed it. Only works in "safe" zones where there are no potentially aggro NPCs and if the overt in question gives in to their gut reaction to shoot the red dot first and ask questions later.

You can (I THINK, I haven't fully tested this) set a patrol point on a person. I need to try this with my birdies -- instead of setting a point on the floor, set it on group members so they fly around all of us. Not 100% sure it works though.

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Vorpaks wrote:
Pets whose tricks focus on us or on a target of our choice would be nice - like a bird who will swoop around you in patterns while you dance.

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Well, when I was master CH and Master Dancer, I had 3 agrilat rasps that I used in my act. While I did Lyrical or Formal, they would flock and follow along with me and change direction beautifully. Having the /wedge and /column commands in a macro also added to the random "flocking" effect.

The problem was that you have to do it while they're young cause as the rasps age, they fly higher and higher. At age 0-3 they fly around head height, but at full grown they're flying in the ceiling of the tallest buildings, and waaay beyond the scope of any cantina.

Wokka-wokka

Been a few days since someone replied to this...

I myself usually pull out my Bearded Jax, and so really like the idea of either dancer-specific pets, or dancer-specific actions for pets. Hmm...I should rephrase that. Entertainer-specific pets/actions.

I won't pretend to know anything about the coding of the game, or how difficult it would be to impliment anything/everything said here, but all the ideas posted here so far meet with my approval. Not much I can contribute to what's already been said. I too use patrol points with my pet. Added to that, I use a macro involving the /tellpet command to have Jadeyes (my jax) do a little "dance" as he patrols either around me or around the cantina. I've gotten quite a few compliments on him, and I think pets really do add to the entertainer experience. Especially the dancing ones :-D

I do want to emphasize my desire for SMALL pets. No larger than a grrcat preferrably. Not only are small pets cuter, but they're less distracting/annoying. And lag will be less of an issue :-) I know I had an experience the other day in which someone pulled out their kimogila in the entrance to the cantina. It was not pleasant.

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• Smaller versions of big pets. Cantina sized Rancor anyone?


• More cute pets. Some don't think all of them are adorable like me....ok not all of them. But I would collect them all.


• Clothes for pets. Nothing fancy, bells, saddles, hats.


• Pet flourishes. all they do is turn in a circle.


• Increased healing to wounds and or BF. and since BEs already get Wounds with clothing I'd rather BF.


• Pets to dance for musicians. Like a command for the pet to listen to someone. (i.e. /target self, and /listenpet)

That's all I can think of.

Clothes for pets!

Good one, good one.