At seventh level you're not exactly a master of anything. Look at skills for example, you're probably still "bad" at most things. I think people over-estimate their power, they happen to have the ability to summon pets, but they can't conjure up a 50th level dragon to hollow out blackburrow in a single breath, everyone's just an adventurer, and nothing is perfect.
In other words, I think Verant has done a good job as to what info players can and can't get numerically.
Craelius
----- Original Message -----
From: W.G. Rowland
To: EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] Just a thought
At 7th level conning a 4th level summon it's green no matter what level it is.. Yes you can find a lower level person and ask them to con it, but that's kind of pathetic.. I mean you're the master summoner, and you have to go up and ask a stranger to tell you how powerful your pet is?
WGR
----- Original Message -----
From: James Lecouffe
To: EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] Just a thought
Consider your. Pet that all the info you need. Green lower then you. Blue... 1 level lower then you. Black same level as you. yellow 1 higher then you. red... not like thats going to happen... 2 or more levels higher then you .
thats al there is to it!!! :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Shadow Panther <shdwpanther@...>
To: EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com <EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com>
Date: Sunday, May 09, 1999 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [EQ_Necromancer] Just a thought
Personally, I think the fact that:
A.) We have to petition it
and B.) We _have_ to have some sort of spell or something to see the level of our pet.
Is utterly redicules, anyway. They hamper the Necro class too much. Makes me wonder if they regret ever putting the class in, and are now trying to force players into other classes.
~Mysk
Not attacking _you_ or your idea, btw, just saying..
----- Original Message -----
From: W.G. Rowland
To: EQ_Necromancer@onelist.com
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 11:33 AM
Subject: [EQ_Necromancer] Fw: [EQMagicians] Just a thought..
----- Original Message -----
From: W.G. Rowland
To: EQMagicians@onelist.com
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 1999 9:26 AM
Subject: [EQMagicians] Just a thought..
Ok, several of our low level spells are broken or useless.. And there is talk that they are to be replaced.. It seems to me that a useful replacement would be a low level spell that gauges accurately the ability level of a summoned pet..
I mean we are supposedly the masters of our own trade, and yet we don't even know most times upon summoning a new pet what level it is.. This makes no sense.. I understand the point for randomness, but not for ignorance..
A simple spell that popped up a text message that gave at least the critters numerical level.. Would be great.. Better (but less likely) would be a quick gage of base abilities like given when looking at an item.. Personally I think HP, Atk, and AC along with level and maybe special abilities would be perfect, as it would put to rest all the debate over whether or not the different types of elementals are really different..
I'd love to see this go into effect.. As a programmer I think this would be one of the less difficult suggestions to implement (it's just reading info already in the system and reporting it through text.. No major mods needed).. I'm thinking a petition is in order.. But have no clue how to get one started...
Any ideas/comments?
Raij - 6th level Magician of Neriak
Ahiru - 5th level Necromancer of Neriak