If our pet dies, can we use Feign Death, drop combat, and instantly bring out one of our 5 different pets in that short window of being out of combat in an Arena Match?
No, because you have to dismiss a pet before you can summon a new one. You also need to rez a dead pet before you can dismiss it. It's possible that allowing all of that in combat is fine since it would take so long to actually pull off and in the meantime you could just have rezzed your pet (or healed an injured one rather than dismissing it).
On the other hand, dismissal no longer affects happiness in any way since the new model is you can swap them more regularly. Your pets just have to learn not to get all emo about it.
Ok I get the fact that if our pet is killed and we could just FD and pop another one, it would make a pets death much less relevant than it should be, but for me, the idea of having to rez your pet, then dismiss your pet, is a rather time consuming and clunky sounding mechanic.
Currently on live, one just uses the call stable to swap pets over, and as one zones out the other zones in? Clean, easy, fast. The whole "you have to dismiss you pet 1st thing" really contradicts their theory of "you can just call you pets on the fly". And as for "On the other hand, dismissal no longer affects happiness in any way since the new model is you can swap them more regularly", Say what?
Does they really think that in live, we ever stopped and thought, Hmmm I don't think I'll dismiss my pet, I really don't want it to suffer a happiness loss. I'll just leave it out and hope it does not chain pull the dungeon when I jump down here. It's really a weak version of a "shit sandwich" as I call them.
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Hows to make a shit sandwich!
* Firstly you must have something that's not so savory, this can be either an idea, bad news, or something generally not overly pleasant that you wish to present to someone/s (this is commonly known as the shit in the sandwich)
* Second step is to wrap the shit in something else, aka. the bread. This is often needed to make it look better, disguise the taste, and make it a little more digestible. This "bread" is generally 1/2 baked ideas of things that are shiny and distracting. In order to make your sandwich, you will need 2 of these
*Third, you then need to wedged your unpleasantness (shit) firmly between your 2 shiny things (bread) creating a satisfying shit sandwich that is much easier to eat up.... Nomnomnomnom.
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WOW Check It Out ! ! ! Cool New Call Active Pets Ability ! ! !
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It's really just the same as call stable, but much more awkward and clunky to use
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You Will No Longer Have To Worry About Pet Happiness With Dismissing ! ! !
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Wow that sandwich tastes GREAT ! ! !
I do get the whole "swapping dead pets" for a live one with the conditions only of being out of combat, a little silly. But why can't it simply be that you can swap pets instantly while out of combat, with the condition that the pet must pet alive, would this not be much easier and far less clunky? (this is pretty much what it is on live atm, swapping the cooldowns for the prerequisite of your pet being alive)
So what are your thoughts?
I don't want to have to swap to a devilsaur in phase 2 of a fight, y'know? >_<
