Recent content by ixxxo

As a big fan of UO magery system, I see huge potential in Necromancy to finally give Mages tools to be self-sufficient in PVE. Following are suggestions to get there and possibly smooth some rougher edges. If below changes would mean further balancing in PVP, I still think it's worth a...

What does '125 reverts to Adult' mean? Should we lock pets at lvl 124?

I have no major objection against current hunger system. Low quality food combined with resting (at times every 5-10 minutes which seems a BIT too much) is sufficient to semi-keep reserves at bay. My main issue is with how weight gaining/loss happens. There is no clear way understanding what...

This would be partial solution, but does not address the race/age/fatness change which might be necessary to have a decent second build.

yeah, but haven bandits are (significantly?) easier, I didn't have much success with 87 black bear compared to Nave bandits either (could 1v1 with heals at best).

I wish it was like this, post yesterday crash I tamed brown bear, that looked normal, said it was 125 (also HP and PPs were like it's max level) and was losing 1v1 with regular bandit even with my lesser heals. Yeah, it was possibly bugged (hitting for 11 only), but still, it was at least...

Oh man, I am getting lost already... thanks for correction.

This actually was not discussion meant to balance the pets. It's discussion about what essential features need to get inplemented before beastmastery is even worth trying (currently it's huge time sink and it's very easy to lose the pet).

Very interesting information. By the way, we tested yesterday, with brown bear attacking foot veela (admittedly with not maxed stamina, but still 125 dex speed veela) and it was not hitting consistently, but was hitting enough (50-70% of hits maybe?) even when sprinting directly from him. So...

If you ever tried taming, you would very fast understood that this is already in place. Try to tame lvl 80 Black bear and send it to fight young razorback. it will get absolutely destroyed. Tamed elder razorback hits for ~8, tamed BBear for ~11 with peak of about 30.

I'd honestly prefer this, so it's not difficult to balance same way for all. Don't tell me fat bear with dense fur has same slash resist compared to domesticated pig.

I so hope you are right (about domintors/tamers getting much love, not about some pets being OP). Pity that with current state of things, getting decent bear and manage to bring it back home is already harder than using it in PVP, we will have to wait a bit and see how this plays. Also...

There certainly should be certain PVP viability of pets (not necessarily same pets as those viable for PVE). And I don't mean being straight out OP, but should be usable, not killable before it has a chance to meaningfully contribute to the fight and should bring some utility (eg. brown bears...

Ghost scouts work nicely already. Would be best if ghosts didn't see animals or players and then it would be ok, right? Any large scale fight has ghosts on both sides, if they don't they are just giving up intel to the other side without getting any back.

What does this mean? You can block and parry them? Didn't work for me when I tried against wild bears/wolves.