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I want to be able to "respec" my Veteran Buff Pet(s)

Electric-Knight

By Electric-Knight,
Posted on: 2012-03-09 17:13 in Suggestions and Ideas

 

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Far back in the mists of ancient time (ie. mid-2000s) I was presented with the choice of what are now Veteran Reward Buff Pets ... and I really had no idea what my choices were, what they looked like, how they worked, what they meant ... etc. So I just picked something and have now lived long enough with this game to wish I'd picked something else ... especially now that we have Lore Pets and I'd like to thematically (re)synchronize my Buff Pet to my Lore Pet options.

But I can't.

That's because almost everything else about our characters can be respec-ed into different choices, but any Veteran Rewards you pick from the lists ... you're stuck with FOREVER.

Any possibility of making it possible for us to "switch around" which Buff Pet we're using from Veteran Rewards? In the old days, where the Buff Pet was a Click, it was understandable not giving us access to ALL the Buff Pets (simultaneously) ... but now that they're run by Toggles and are all mutually exclusive with one another, is there really *still* a good reason to not give us access to ALL the Buff Pets and then let us pick and choose which one(s) we want to make use of one at a time?

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...

 

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Huh, I half assumed that you could make a new choice after doing a full respec... That's not the case?

I really don't use those pets (actually, haven't even chosen one on any characters, hah...), so I had no idea they wouldn't respec through a respec.

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Nope. By design, once selected all vet rewards pets and powers are permanent. They have nothing to do with respecs.

Good luck getting the devs to change this. I wouldn't mind making a change or two on a couple of characters.

 

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I also wish there was a way to change out vetreward selections... Aside from the obvious reasons as mentioned above, it would also open up the possibility to add new choices to the selection without snubbing people who made their choices long ago. Nemesis Staff and Blackwand are cool and all, but on some characters I'd happily forsake them in favor of the minigun and heavy pistol offered in on of the Praetorian arcs. Same with the Croatoa temp powers, or the dark melee attack+heal you can get in one of the Talos/IP arcs.

So many characters could be "rounded out" vastly better if I could give them a Heavy Pistol or Iron Blade as a vetreward, closing up a logic gap in their "gear" like any toon with a police/military theme, or my Shield/Super Strength gladiator. The Croatoa one's aren't too bad to maintain, since they last for 3 days of in game time, but even if I ever could O-zone back to the Imperial City Syndicate arc, that would be a real pain just for another 15 charges with the pistol.

Being able to do this via the rewards process would also free up the perceived need for a lot of requested power pools.

Dear NCsoft, if you go through with this shutdown you've guaranteed you'll not see another dime from me on any project you put out, ever.


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I agree with all that too.