New Pet Models

[Bethany]

Weren't all pet models supposed to have been changed? My Tellurian Soldier Adept 3 looks exactly the same as before the patch. Can anyone shed some light on this? Thank you <div></div>

[Xalmat]

Some pet models look the same as they did before, depending on rank. Most pets however look different.I can tell you right now that Adept 3 Soldier is changed graphically. If you don't see a difference, you should turn up your texture quality.

[Bethany]

I just returned to the game very recently so i'm a little fuzzy, how do I raise the texture? Thanks <div></div>

[Sarkoris]

<DIV>Any pics of your new pet models guys. Your brothers over at the necro forums are curious how you fared.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Here is a link to how our models stepped up:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=30&message.id=15393" target=_blank>http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=30&message.id=15393</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>About 3 or 4 posts down you will find pictures of the warlock, scout and fighter masters for 48,52 and 60 pets.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As expected those below 40 are a bit underwhelmed by the "new" graphics, seeing as how they got the previous models, even at higher spell versions such as Master or Adept III.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sark.</DIV> <P>Message Edited by Sarkoris on <SPAN class=date_text>12-21-2005</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>06:35 AM</SPAN></P><p>Message Edited by Sarkoris on <span class=date_text>12-21-2005</span> <span class=time_text>06:39 AM</span>

[ClawHammr]

<DIV>Anyone have pics of Magi, Hunter, Myrmidon  Adept 3- Master? I wont get EU LU until later tonight</DIV>

[Wildmage]

<P>my thoughts from a lvl 49 conj most of my pet are at adept 1 quality except for the lvl 20 fire pet.</P> <P>the lvl 10 centipede looks interesting.  Fire pet app something hehe forgot to look, maybe app 4 looks very nice flaming balls of lava, 24 earth pet is now grey stone golem instead of pinky adept 1 quality.  first air pet is now only weidling one spear and is gassy. second fire pet still flaming gas but now has a wizarding staff.   The third earth pet is now a rumbler (adept 3), personally I miss the grape ape, and his animations are less than perfect compared to what I was seeing from the golem and huuptic models.  the second air pet on the other hand is very nice, ghostly armor and dual weilding large spears looks very good.  </P> <P>and now my gripe.  lvl 49 adept 1 fire pet is now the six armed lady, I want my gargoyle back!</P> <P> </P>

[Gaylon]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Malbi wrote:<BR> <P>my thoughts from a lvl 49 conj most of my pet are at adept 1 quality except for the lvl 20 fire pet.</P> <P>the lvl 10 centipede looks interesting.  Fire pet app something hehe forgot to look, maybe app 4 looks very nice flaming balls of lava, 24 earth pet is now grey stone golem instead of pinky adept 1 quality.  first air pet is now only weidling one spear and is gassy. second fire pet still flaming gas but now has a wizarding staff.   The third earth pet is now a rumbler (adept 3), personally I miss the grape ape, and his animations are less than perfect compared to what I was seeing from the golem and huuptic models.  the second air pet on the other hand is very nice, ghostly armor and dual weilding large spears looks very good.  </P> <P>and now my gripe.  lvl 49 adept 1 fire pet is now the six armed lady, I want my gargoyle back!</P> <P> </P><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>It's LvL 48, but I agree I'd like the gargoyle and the grap ape back too. All of my pets are adt 3 up to my lvl of 48 and I'm not feeling proud of the work it took to get myself to lvl 48 or the coin I spent to get these adt 3 pets. I actually just bought the fire gargoyle last night and was running around showing it off. Now I get the old eight armed lady and I feel cheated.</P> <P>Dragonsfire</P>

[ClawHammr]

<DIV>Thats crazy they took out the Gargoyle - I have the Master Magi and it was the 8-armed lady.....ok for me because it was different and showed I had a Master pet - But is it any different than the Adepts now?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>

[Exanth]

<DIV>Heres a pic of the Master 1 Aery Hunter :d</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://tinypic.com/iwt7bn.jpg" target=_blank>http://tinypic.com/iwt7bn.jpg</A></DIV><p>Message Edited by Exanthos on <span class=date_text>12-20-2005</span> <span class=time_text>03:13 PM</span>

[Gaylon]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Exanthos wrote:<BR> <DIV>Heres a pic of the Master 1 Aery Hunter :d</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://tinypic.com/iwt7bn.jpg" target=_blank>http://tinypic.com/iwt7bn.jpg</A></DIV> <P>Message Edited by Exanthos on <SPAN class=date_text>12-20-2005</SPAN> <SPAN class=time_text>03:13 PM</SPAN><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>Yeah, the only new pet models I even come close to liking is the Air pets.</P> <P> </P> <P>Dragonsfire</P>

[Wildmage]

<P>ahh yes 48 hehe my mistake, yeah they flipped the lady and the goyle, the gargoyle is now the master version <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></P> <P>ahh now I see the trend with the air is the higher version is more and visible till we get a ghost ninja</P>

[Bethany]

Ok, so Tellurian SOldier Adept 3, is there supposed to be a graphic change or not? I spoke to a couple of Conj's in game and theirs look the same as pre-patch, but Xal said they look different. What am I doing wrong? How do I raise the Texture like Xal mentioned? <div></div>

[Ellestil]

<DIV>Honostly I am underwhelmed. At level 60 and all pets at Ad3 I logged on to find this.....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The earth pet changed from a giant black rock pile, to a small gray rock pile with green moss on it. It now comes up to my stomach instead of towering over me. Not very impressive for an Ad3 version.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The fire pet changed from the big flaming gargoyle to the smaller version of our fire illusion spell. When I say smaller, I mean halfling sized.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The air pet is now ghostly but no longer changes weapons randomly, it is always two spears. It also loses its ghostly form rendering at a distance and looks like a squire instead.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Add to this the fact that BP and EV are broken and you can see why I logged off in a bad mood today. I was looking forward to the update being great for petters, instead, I feel we took a step back in pet designs and got some bugged spells that weren't broken before.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Necro pets on the other hand ( 50+ ) looked pretty tight. The tank pet looks better than most Fabled Gaurdians lol.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ellestil 60 Conjurer</DIV>

[Wildmage]

<DIV>I know the adept 1 tellurian soldier IS differant, at least in color pre LU18 it was pink with blueish veining, post LU it is now grey with greenish veining. structurally the same with new coloring.</DIV>

[Magele]

<P>The tellurian soldiers just have a different color is all...they made them look more like stone.  Not a very big change at all.</P> <P>Personally I don't like the changes at all...because the only players that seemed to be rewarded with improved pet graphics are 40ish and up....and ultimately pets below that level the graphics were either barely changed or even nerfed to adept/apprentice level.</P> <P>Another half-arsed job IMO...but I guess now we have more incentive to just crunch levels up to the higher tiers to have a somewhat interesting looking pet.</P> <DIV>/bored</DIV>

[Bethany]

Yes, my Igneous Apprentice Adept 1 was reverted to it's App 1 model, very idiotic chnages. I wish I knew what they were thinking when they made those changes. <div></div>

[Mouadieb]

i have cast every adept 3 pet I have and they still look the same as they did before the update.  Am I doing something wrong? I tryed the air pet, earth pet and fire pet.  /shrug <div></div>

[Gaylon]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Mouadieb wrote:<BR>i have cast every adept 3 pet I have and they still look the same as they did before the update.  Am I doing something wrong? I tryed the air pet, earth pet and fire pet.  /shrug<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>If this the the case Mouad I'd be happy about it if I were you. At this point I'd cry with joy if my pets looked like they did last night!!!</P> <P>Dragonsfire</P>

[Fhenix]

Ugh nooo!!! I just dinged 48 yestarday, and I was strutting around with the gargoyle pet and now I have that wretchid, HORRIBLE, ugly beast of a 8 armed women as a pet that looks exactly like our illusion!  >_<   So now I have to dish out the money just to get the gargoyle back.. Not happy.  I saw the new level 52 pet, HORRIBLE.  Air pet isnt impressive at all either..  I have to know, do they get other peoples opinions before they do things like this?!  Who actually thinks that these pets are as cool looking as the Necro's pets..  "Ohhh i know what the conjurors will look, how about the , stone golem pet...... BUT.... wait for it....... IT WILL BE SMALLER!! AND HAVE GREEN MOSS On it!!!!!  omg, they will give me a raise for this!" honestly >_< <div></div>

[Magele]

Aye I agree...the Necro pets do look much better.  Just started one...already bored with my 27 conjuror.

[ClawHammr]

<DIV>Does not sound good about the Fire Pet (Magi) models - I guess it will be cool having the Gargoyle and everyone knowing its a Master - I actually liked the 8 armed lady but the Gargoyle is cool too-  I guess it goes back to Conj having the "Good" lore though , I sort of thought the lady fit that better than a gargoyle/demon creature.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Air Pet (Hunter) is definitely an improvement, at least the Master - I have Adept 3 so will have to see</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If the Myrmidon was reduced in size and now only the Master is the giant one, I guess that makes sense. Master pets should be bigger and better , ive always said that. </DIV>

[Kanili]

WHY WHY WHY did you have to change my magi pet graphics. Lookjs so stupid now He looked great before grphics where amazing NOW stuck with this stupid sitting gennie idiot looking pet. Why do you guy change stuff when NO one wanted it changed. Never did I read a Post OH please please change the graphics on a  very expensive pet 3 spell.YES angry.

[RedRockCandy!]

<div></div>Fellow Conjuror's, if you are as dissapointed as I am with LU 18 please go to the Art and Sound forum and post in the thread I have made there letting SOE know you do not like the new models. Maybe if we combine our efforts we can convince them that this change was not needed and that we should get our old pets back. I hope they dont look upon us as "whining" as its so popularly put, but simply as commenting on our disgust of what they have done. On another note.... who in the art department approved this crap anyway? <div></div>

[Morphemic420]

I am very dissapointed. My Tellurian Myrmidon Master 1 has exactlly the same graphic. [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] Soe<div></div>

[Imxsi]

<P>I finally manage to buy a Master pet on the 19th, Tellurian Juggernaught, check it out and go to bed planning on a big parade the next day. Wake up on the 20th and its a frickin Cave rumbler! I'm running around and they're all over the place. That is plain stupid and caught me totally by suprise. What a waste of all that plat.</P> <P> </P> <P>Mamut</P> <P>50 Conj</P> <P>Najena</P>

[fodder6]

Use group earth elemental if you have it. Fixes that problem<div></div>

[Imxsi]

<DIV>That would be good news, I'll pick it up and give it a try. Thanks!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mamut</DIV>

[Coastwatcher]

Since the Class boards are gone, and I'm eventually going to have a Conjurer, here's a Summoner checking in. The Tellurian Recruit (App II) model is now a centipede instead of the bug/beetle . A big centipede, of course, not actual size. :smileyvery-happy: <p>Message Edited by Coastwatcher on <span class=date_text>12-21-2005</span> <span class=time_text>10:35 AM</span>

[Xalmat]

<a href=http://eq2.eqsummoners.com/viewtopic.php?t=439 target=_blank>http://eq2.eqsummoners.com/viewtopic.php?t=439</a>Every pet model for every pet spell for every rank that I can get a screenshot of is in that thread.

[Imxsi]

Well I tried the Earth group illusion as Fodder suggested and the Tellurian Avenger Master still looks the same as the Adepts. I hope this is just a bug....

[fodder6]

All the group illusion does is hide what they look like. Just makes the rock snake look like the old mudman. Nothing more then that. I havent adjusted to the new pets yet. And this is my way to just have it the way it used to be <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />Its not a fix. More a band aid<div></div>

[Gaylon]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> fodder650 wrote:<BR>All the group illusion does is hide what they look like. Just makes the rock snake look like the old mudman. Nothing more then that. I havent adjusted to the new pets yet. And this is my way to just have it the way it used to be <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /><BR><BR>Its not a fix. More a band aid<BR> <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>I don't plan to ever get used to that gross looking thing. :smileywink: I'm going to get to lvl 52 ASAP and try to ignore it until then. Really what was going through their heads when they picked these models.</P> <P> </P> <P>Dragonsfire</P>

[RedRockCandy!]

<div></div><span> <blockquote><blockquote> <hr> </blockquote> <p>Really what was going through their heads when they picked these models.</p><div></div><hr></blockquote>Absolutely nothing.</span><div></div>

[EshamBlm]

Well I am not a conjurer yet, but I am a 15th summoner. I have an adept 3 Tellurian Recruit and he went from a big spider to a centipede. I guess that's the case with everyone? I sure did like the spider. He just seemed more intimidating. <DIV> </DIV>

[EDofEDs]

<span><blockquote><hr>Xalmat wrote:<a href="http://eq2.eqsummoners.com/viewtopic.php?t=439" target="_blank">http://eq2.eqsummoners.com/viewtopic.php?t=439</a>Every pet model for every pet spell for every rank that I can get a screenshot of is in that thread.<hr></blockquote>Xalmat... I love you...</span><div></div>

[MuscularBeav]

My app II tellurian recruit went from a scarab to a centipede.  Despite its new name (which does not show up on the spell, just the bug) "tellurian follower", it failed to follow me twice in Antonica tonight.   I noticed that the notes said something about how pets do not inherit the characteristics of their type, so maybe the problem is that my pet used to be able to fly, which is why it never got stuck or lost.  Now it can no longer fly.  I don't know if there's a connection or not.  But I hate the centipede regardless.  I wasn't crazy about the scarab, but the centipede is disgusting. There are already so many problems with this game, why oh why do the developers focus their energies on idiotic things like this -- and manage to break something with every patch while they're doing it?  I'm really fed up with SOE.  <div></div>

[Dessellion4]

<EM>If you think the patch sucked or is extremely buggy, why weren't you testing it on Test server and ironing out the bugs before it hit Live? You have no one to blame but yourself for it being pushed to the Live servers in its current state.</EM> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Xalmat, although I have no real gripes with the patch I just thought I'd take a bit of issue with your statement above.  I never blame the testers on Test for not picking up problems since I'm aware that even when you spot them SOE might not have time to correct the issue.  In fact I don't expect Test to fix anything and am just happy that certain people put a lot of effort in for no reward.  And there is my gripe.  Not with Test but with SOE.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Like everybody playing the game I have paid and am still paying a reasonable amount of money to SOE.  What am I paying them for, is it just to maintain the servers so I can continue playing the exact same game again and again?  Or should I expect them to be providing new content?  For the amount we pay I think  the latter is the answer.  SOE developers and programmers get their wages and do a pretty good job of devising and providing the new content.  But they should also be the ones held responsible when they make mistakes and push content live without proper testing.  Why should I blame myself for buggy content because I do not spend hours on Test?  I did not ask for patches or new content to be rushed to the live servers.  I am happy to wait a litle longer and it is SOE, not Test, who should spend more time and resources ironing out the bugs</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In the latest patch the problem with the drums in the one and only quest was so in your face that it defies belief that SOE failed to spot it.  So please, stop suggesting that unless you test you can't criticise.   </DIV>