Nano Crystal (Servants Protection)

Ayria

This nano crystal was discovered smuggled aboard a shipment of food goods shortly after the orbital stations arrived. It was unsure as to what it did for quite some time but study of the code has revealed that it is, or was, a nano from the Mongo line. It seems though that this nano program was modified somehow and now instead of taunting the area it was cast on a target and caused that target to taunt monsters it was hitting. It stayed in storage until word got out to the pet professions; an on target taunt was just what they needed. A group did what they could do get their hands on the code and duplicate it; eventually getting an official license to distribute it provided they follow the Ofab vendors rules.

Nano Crystal (Servants Protection)

Gives your pet a chance to proc a taunt attack against enemy targets.

School: Medical
NCUCost: 20
StackingOrder:
Duration: 30 minutes
NanoPoints: 2000
Flags: NoResist CannotFumble, IsBuff
AttackRange: 20m
AttackTime: 10s
RechargeTime: 5s
Atk. Skills: BiologicalMetamorphosis: 50%
PsychologicalModification: 50%
Def. Skills: NanoResist: 0%

ToUse:
Self BiologicalMetamorphosis >= 700
Self PsychologicalModification >= 700
Target Must be Human Monster
Or (Target Has Charm Line running)
Target Must Not be a Psychosis Pet
Target Must Not be a Healing Pet

OnUse: AddOffProc Target 40% Servants Protection

OnUse: Hit Target Health -1 - -1 EnergyAC
TauntNPC Target 1500

Ayria

no one has any thoughts on my idea?

Atlasdreamer

I do. Most if not all MP's feel that their pets are hopelessly worthless at holding agro.
I am sure the Crats feel the same.

It would be lovely.

Norbal

I'm going to agree with Atlasdreamer on this, would be quite lovely.

Ayria

Proc % and taunt amount are still up in the air for me; I want something that won't outdo Mongo but can at least hold a monster on your pet instead of you because you decided to peak for half a second into the room.

crattey

I'd like it to not only be human mosters though; so we can use it on our charms. A agg buff for our bot would hardly be usefull as we do everything to prevent that from happening ;p

Taunt nano for charms would be sweet to have.

Ayria

Hmm, true. I shall change the req to include charmed mobs

crattey

Think they just fall under the Psychosis line.

Ayria

Psychosis pet is actually MPs mezz; i grabbed that from Masters Bidding as it too is a universal pet buff (engi, crat, MP) but only for attackers

Norbal

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ayria

Psychosis pet is actually MPs mezz; i grabbed that from Masters Bidding as it too is a universal pet buff (engi, crat, MP) but only for attackers

Aye, the "Or (Target Has Charm Line running)" is the correct way it'd work

And given the speed at which pets hit, much more then 40% chance @ 1.5k taunt per proc + dmg will reduce in an impressive amount of taunt (I just hope that said taunt would all be directed at pet, and not a certain % directed to MP like pet dmg is).

Anyways, bump for this idea.

Ayria

/me tries to learn hypnosis

...FC...you want to put this in the game....

Ayria

Someone debuff FCs nano resist so that we can land a charm and get this nano in game.

Ayria

Look around the corner for a second and getting agg from a monster I've never touched but my pet has dealt 10k dmg too. Pets need to hold agg better.

Ayria

Come on FC; one way or another you gota fix pets ability to hold agg

copperneedle

interesting concept, very much team oriented if it were enforcer only (perhaps even keeper or another so called 'tank' profession). Would be an interesting dynamic if an enforcer could make someones pet be the tank.

Ayria

Come on FC. Pets ability to hold agg is pitiful.

windcaster

ya mp pets hold agg like a wet noodle, more taunting would be nice.

Ayria

bump. i can stand at the edge of pet range (right before they start yellin there gona stop fighting less u move closer) while my pet deals 1000s of damage every hit and i do nothing and who does the monster go after? me, and they go after me till i kill them or they kill me. pets ability to hold argo is pitiful; may as well give us a cute butterfly for all the good they do

Ayria

bump. just failed an entire city raid because 1 (just one single alien) decided that it would ignore the ~1900 dmg per hit (both pets combined) to agg me 40m away doing nothing and then procced to hit me with 1k+ nukes till i died.

please, implement something like this or fix your argo system. i understand that pets share their argo with their masters but this is ridicules

kuznechik

1. Mobs are smart.
2. 1500 taunt is nothing. At least at tl7