I was recently doing some Battle Quests and it occurred to me that it'd be a totally awesome idea to be able to challenge another user to a fight with their pets. And maybe both the pets would have to be the same tier so it's not too unfair or whatever. I don't know, just a thought. You guys can elaborate on it!

It's something most of us want back.

Being the same tier could be a good idea, or at least close. A low T9 and a high T8 are pretty close in stats.

Oh has it been done in the past before?

Yeah I know what you mean. At least close in tier.

Yeah, it was a pretty old feature. That's why items like spectrum potions used to be battle items - in a double battle, a user could use a potion on another person's pet and change the pets color.

I think the feature would be cool! Though the potion thing... that might be a bit iffy. :P

Huh, wow I never knew that! I see now.

Haha yeah I wouldn't want my pet's color to be changed in battle! XD Do you know why they got rid of this feature though? I'm sure if they could re-enhance it (if it had issues), that'd be pretty cool.

I think the feature was scrapped because the server it was hosted on crashed entirely and all of the data was lost. It would still be nice to see it return though. I can imagine some weapons becoming more useful in PvP battling than in regular battling (Blackmoons war plate comes to mind).

Perhaps, if pvp is brought back, potions could only change a pet for the battle they're used in. This would make sense to me if the staff are still wanting to go the route of having certain abilities tied in with pet colour/species.

Or, hey, just remove the color potions from the weapons pool. They're T0, so I think they're gonna get ditched anyways. ;]

I almost don't want them removed, because I think they'd be kind of neat if they only affected a pet for the duration of a battle. They'd be kind of like the moves in Pokemon that change the opponent's type or ability, if staff are going to add different abilities based on a pet's colour. ^^;

I really hope they don't. I don't want the battle system dictating what color/species my pets should be. (I know there are a few species-exclusive weapons, but they're low tier and don't really matter so they don't count :P)

I feel like the whole ability thing could be really cool, especially if they found a way to balance it so every color has a fair shot at winning,or has cool abilities. I feel like that wouldnt want to make a user change the color then, because even though they will be different, they would be on par with one another. Though that is just me, a person who just started to battle ^w^;;

Wasnt there a level based enhancement in strength thingy there too ?

I'm not fond of the ability thing,my battle pet is Chibi,I won't change it to get something else x.x Could it be offered as a choice when you select your pvp set up?

An element-typing system that would work in conjunction with the pet colours would be a very interesting thing. But it shouldn't be used to dictate what weapons or items a pet could use. Instead, it should help defend them (ex, a DM pet would not take as much damage from Dark icons, a Wind-typed pet would not be strongly affected by Wind icons).

It would probably be an ultimate bitch having to learn more battle mechanics, but hey, the Tier system would be there to keep a T1 from trying to battle a T7.

So two T1's can learn the battle mechanics together while challenging each other, and the Battle Chat is a blood-free zone. So no one should ever feel shy about chatting there.

I think an element-typing system would provide a little more challenge and strategic planning. ...But I wouldn't see that even remotely happening, especially not anytime soon. One step at a time.

As for PvP, it'll probably come back at some point. Whenever the site recode goes live, PvP battles might finally be implemented once again.

Yeah, I can't really see major changes like a pet colour element system being implemented happening (at least any time soon), I just thought I'd remembered hearing about it ages ago. :p

I agree, it would kind of suck if you really didn't like your pet's advantages/disadvantages but didn't want to change them.

I dunno, I just feel battling isn't very interesting at the moment. The tier system made it better so that people couldn't just grab the best items and use them no matter what their pet's stats were, but the battle system is still rather uninspiring in my opinion.