Wyvern Pet Abilities

[Stromgarde]

Seems there is much speculation as to ways to keep wyverns alive. I'm suggesting pet abilities, what do you all think?

1. "Stay" - (with increased healing range to match that of a WHM's range) This will allows DRGs to strategize the location of their wyvern keeping them out of AoE and therefor alive.

2. "Attack" and "Return" - This could allow wyverns to pull without... engaging, turning or super jump then turning, and then disengaging so the wyvern returns (huge waste of a super jump) Or the attack command could be used to move your wyvern to a new monster so the elemental breaths are not wasted when finishing off a mob with a WS.

3. "Retreat" - Maybe wyverns fly fast enough to get out of range of those AoE spells... no way to know for sure.

I'd like to see 1, I don't expect us to get 2 given the paper-thin nature of our wyvern's defenses, and how would you propose to implement 3? There's no anchor position for it to run to, such a command might well send it into a wall in an arbitrary direction.

[Pixiehawk]

how would you propose to implement 3? There's no anchor position for it to run to, such a command might well send it into a wall in an arbitrary direction.

Maybe send the little guy "behind" you so as long as you were facing the enemy move away from it?

[Stromgarde]

Maybe send the little guy "behind" you so as long as you were facing the enemy move away from it?

Consider the situation when you are fighting with your back to a wall to avoid WS knockback. Your wyvern would go through the wall, or more realistically, move about 2 feet then stop, still in melee range of the mob.

[Usukane]

Seems there is much speculation as to ways to keep wyverns alive. I'm suggesting pet abilities, what do you all think?

1. "Stay" - (with increased healing range to match that of a WHM's range) This will allows DRGs to strategize the location of their wyvern keeping them out of AoE and therefor alive.

2. "Attack" and "Return" - This could allow wyverns to pull without... engaging, turning or super jump then turning, and then disengaging so the wyvern returns (huge waste of a super jump) Or the attack command could be used to move your wyvern to a new monster so the elemental breaths are not wasted when finishing off a mob with a WS.

3. "Retreat" - Maybe wyverns fly fast enough to get out of range of those AoE spells... no way to know for sure.

Genius. This could be simple to implement, as the commands already exist for the Beastmaster class.

[Shakuzen]

Perfect. The Stay command being implemented into wyverns sorts out most of our problems, with the increased HB range it sorts out...all of our problems.

[Wenceslao]

i've always wanted to give comands like this to my wyvern

[Ophannus]

The ability to target who you want to use Restoring Breath on would be awesome.
Soothing Breath- Commands your Wyvern to remove a status ailment.(Remove Poison/Blind or Paralyze)

[Anucris]

how bout a new front flip type animation attack (back spikes) for a dmg(critical) + stun move.

also stay and targets for restoring is nice.

[Byxfluzba]

Longer healing breath range would thrill me to no end... With, or without the stay function. As for retreat, why not just make Super Climb /pet-able? No having to worry about it running away through walls in random directions like some sort of retard on crack.

[Stromgarde]

Longer healing breath range would thrill me to no end... With, or without the stay function. As for retreat, why not just make Super Climb /pet-able? No having to worry about it running away through walls in random directions like some sort of retard on crack.

I think you may be confused as to what Super Climb does. All it does is remove the wyvern from combat for a period of roughly 3 seconds, unable to act or be acted upon, while the player performs Super Jump. It does not affect enmity in any way, either. Perhaps you are thinking of something along the lines of Edward of FFIV's "Hide" command?