Mioawara

I think many cool ideas have been brought up, but the thing that I think would be coolest would be a pet. They would not need to make it awsome either. Just something to add in some freaking damage and allow us to do stuff like pet pull and such. It would be fairly easy to explain given the way the epic story works out. We get the ability to "coerce" the epic chick into working as our pet. Make it look like the "forget the name" thing that eats the guards in the Qeynos portion. Make it ok enough that we might not have to search a zone for a passable pet for a change, when trying to slow greens or greys, but not so good that most high level zones could not yield better if we do the leg work. You know, reward us for leveling to 80.
Oh well. Would make me happy. I am a player of a pet class. It should not be too much to ask that I have a pet in the end game...

Linyen

sorry, but thats one of the worst ideas ive read =\

unless the pet does a considerable amount of dps and can survive AEs...

dont forget, this epic is supposed to have amazing effects...not another POS pet to pet pull with...puppetmaster is HORRIBLE enough...dont need another waste...

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Linyen Darkmoon`Rage, Leader of Deaths Door
Everfrost, 80 Coercer

"Because Im too lazy to betray"
Co-er-cer(noun) - To be coerced into thinking you will get anything exceptional.
www.deaths-door.com
Fix Coercers in 08' !!

JediJay13

Since coercer's epic looking terrible, a twig stick. Im curious what ur visual desire to have epic weapon on ur character.

I would like to have a long staff stick with an eye on the top. To match the class hat :-D

Mendanbar

Charm on epics is something that should pretty much never be introduced because it will NEVER be done properly. You'll either end up with mobs being too powerful, too weak, charm durations being way too short and causing the death of the raider + raid, or durations being irrelevant and scripts getting broken.

If coercers really want to have pets on a raid, maybe a more realistic solution is something closer to the hunter pet system in WoW, where you can charm a mob in a zone, choose to make it your permanent servant or something, and then take it with you and summon it at any time like a summoner. If you got multiple slots you could even work to find different pet types for uses :P

But honestly, bringing in OUTSIDE pets is more than likely the only way to let coercers have a pet on a raid and not fuck up the raid itself.

Daimyo

12% chance to cast based on hostile spell: Group version of perpetuality

Capture Mind: Clicky that casts "Capture mind" on foe

• The mind of a foe is captured allowing the coercer to summon a copy of the foe as a permanent pet.
• The pet will remain through zones
• The pet can be summoned via clicky until it dies in combat.
• Visually it looks like the foe but scaled down like puppet-master
• The pets abilities will reflect the priginal foe i.e. cast capture mind on a wizzy class and you get a wizzy pet etc (solo version etc)

The epic should look like the enchanter epic in EQ1.. a Snake staff (with a similar moving head) or a short 1 hand staff with an eye on the top.. which actually moves aound surrounded by inner blue glow)

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Linyen

again, the pet thing sounds horrible, only if it provides some bad ass utility or DPS will I ever be "for" anything like that...

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Linyen Darkmoon`Rage, Leader of Deaths Door
Everfrost, 80 Coercer

"Because Im too lazy to betray"
Co-er-cer(noun) - To be coerced into thinking you will get anything exceptional.
www.deaths-door.com
Fix Coercers in 08' !!

Senelin

If anyone is familiar with the Rifts universe, I'd like to see a Zembahk staff. Some sort of creature who's power we exploit for our own purposes.

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Daimyo

How about also, the pet is not affected by AE (being based on the mind of a foe) ... giving some usability in raids... but obviously doesn't punch out as much DPS as other classes pets. The pet could also be in ghost form to assume the mind is captured and not the actual foe..

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Mioawara

I agree it would need to be survivable. I would add, it needs some useful amount of damage. I would also add that it's pretty much worthless if it takes concentration, thus stopping me from buffing others. Still, I like the idea and it would not change the game in any meanful way aginst the encounters, while making us able to provide (safe) damage on raids and thus be somewhat more useful. <shrug> Like it matters. Nothing will change. They have not modded us in a possative way that I EVER recall. We should be hoping they don't fuck us up worse, not that they will fix anything. But hope springs eternal. ;)

Senelin

That's not true. Sonic boom didn't used to do damage. That change was the shining moment in Coercer history. And the removal of the buff rotation.

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