Monster Ranch themed content

[MartaDemireux]

Back in the days of 1.0 there existed in the files the possibility of a monster taming/gathering class, as a Disciple of Land. I feel as though this could and should make into the game we have today. For the purpose of this, I’ll be referring to it as Shepherd (SHP) but it could be thought of as a Tamer or Hunter as well.

The SHP would be able to obtain monster drops without killing the target. They would also be able to Tame and Trap a wide variety of monsters which would be sent to a Monster Ranch.

This Monster Ranch could then open up a plethora of new content, including new jobs that otherwise have presented a challenge to add while keeping their original flavor!

Just to name a few:

• Shepherd: Collect items from monsters in your ranch similar to gardening.
  
• Beastmaster: Glamour your pets as monsters you have in your ranch (in the same vein as egi glamours).
  
• Morpher: Glamour your monster morphing abilities.
  
• Blue Mage: Glamour your blue magic spells (if they only give us 1 conal breath attack, we could decide to chang it to Aqua/Ice/Fire/Bad breaths if the proper monster type is in ranch).
  
• XI inspired Pankration: Battle your monsters 1v1 or 2v2 with other players’ monsters.
  
• X inspired Arena: Train with your monsters, level them up by defeating them in combat. Single-player content that eventually could become multi-player content when leveled high enough (FC events).

What do you think of this?

Would you enjoy this type of content?

What other ideas could you think of for this sort of content?