Host of the Elements patch

[trevius]

If you can post a link to something that shows it is random at rank 3+, I don't see a problem with this submission. Looks like it goes up to rank 15 on Live now from the brief searching I did.

You mentioned you set a random chance for texture change on Rank 2 to give something for the AA purchase, but aren't the 2 extra pets that get summoned worthwhile for the purchase? From what I can see, it looks like the first 3 ranks summon 5/7/9 pets respectively. And for ranks past 3, it looks like it might just increase the duration of the pets from 30 seconds to 45, 60 and so on, but I didn't really dig too deep into it and really only the first 3 ranks are being discussed in this thread anyway.

I have no experience with this AA on Live that I can recall. Due to the conflicting information in this thread so far, I personally don't want to commit a change like this without some kind of proof. Maybe one of the other devs would know more about it, though.

My thoughts on this AA is that they would always all be earth elementals. My reason for that is purely to keep lag from this AA at a minimum. All of the other pets (with luclin models on) have effects shooting out the bottom of them, which probably cause a bit more lag. Popping out 9 fire/water/air elementals might be a noticeable hit on performance vs 9 earth elementals.

[provocating]

When I did play live, I had purchased all of the way up to level 3 Host of Elements. The only thing I got at each level was more elements, seems like it was 2 extra for each rank. But the skin never changed, it was always earth. Now they may had changed that after I quit the game, but when I played it was always the earth elemental.

[501st]

I mained a mage through lvl 80 on Live. The way I remember it was this:

There's 15 ranks at the moment.
Ranks 1-3 (When it's just adding 2 per rank)= All Earth elementals
Rank 4 (Pet Duration Increase)= All Water
Rank 5 (Pet Duration Increase)= All Fire
Rank 6 (Pet Duration Increase)= All Air
Rank 7-15 (Pet strength/level increase)= Random Elemental types

I may be a bit off but i have Rank 9 atm on Live and know for a fact as of that rank they are coming out each one as a random elemental type. I know it worked basically like that. I am a little unsure on which order the elemental types for 4/5/6 went as it's been 3 years but I'm pretty sure it was Water->Fire->Air.

So yeah as of right now the pets should be earth elementals.

-Danyelle

[provocating]

Wow, that definitely explains it then. I had no idea it went past level 3, but I quit at level 65.