Summons Pack

[Tianie]

I recall someone saying that they would be adding new things to the DDO Market.
I was thinking of things they could add, and thought of this.
Say for $14.99 you could get this.

Summons pack:
Get an item, say a summoners stone, that summons a critter, that levels with you.
Have a choice which comes with the pack, say starting with 10 different critters (I would want an earth elemental or stone gargoyle).
You also get access to a new enhancement tree.
This tree can not take normal enhancement points.
You start with say 1 point you can put in it. with a tome for +1 and +1 more you can get for DDO points.
Then have an item that is a very rare drop in all chests that will add points you can spend in this tree.
Have this item tradable in the auction houses.
Have all this stay though TRs.
You could even add rare summoning items as drops in chests or as $4.99 packs in the DDO market.
Now this tree would be to enhance ALL summons and add customization to them.
I think this would be fun.

[SpittingCobra]

Since we already got pets that don't do anything, why not make it so you can level up your pets and provide them with something like what your talking about instead?

This would give you both the Gargoyle and the Earth Elemental choices... along with many other fun ones :D

[droid327]

So....monetized DDO pokemon? :D

I'm all for improving summoning as a playstyle. But before any work can be done expanding summoning, there needs to be a comprehensive AI overhaul. Anything else you do will be pointless if the AI is just dumb, unreliable, and usually more of a liability than an asset. You cant compensate for that just by throwing bonuses at it.

If and when that ever happens, we can look at how well pets/summons/hirelings work as-is, and then address what changes to scaling and support they need to further improve the playstyle.

I would probably not support the idea of making summoner an add-on outside of the usual 80 AP, though. That's just power creep, because it comes with no trade-offs, its just pure added efficacy. I like the idea of being able to have a permanent, equippable hireling you level up/TR with you and customize with enhancements...but not adding full-on summoner gameplay to every single build.

[archest]

not sure what is going on with the adventure packs that were free for the summer?
ok so the expansion packs are gathered together for a pack deal.
up to not including Sharn.
they still have class and race sales options in game store.
I have all the other packs thank you for the coupon I had at least 1/2 before it.
are there going to be any multiple adventure pack sales or availability soon?
those pack offer epic levels between 21 and 31 which FTP doesn't offer any epic quests except for 1, a level 25.
on a 2nd or 3rd life, how many times would you have to play the same quest to level?