So after coming back from a little hiatus I was ecstatic about the introduction of scroll sets while I was gone, and I was wondering if the same thing, or something similar could be done with weapons?
Why I think it would be useful
People with multiple battle pets could have a set for each one: I personally complete my BQs with 3 pets and they are all different tiers. My T1 completes levels 1-5, my T3 does 6-10, and my T5 finishes off 11-15. Obviously this means I switch my set around a lot, and it takes ages (especially on a phone), so having 3 default sets would be awesome.
Just like it's useless to bring healing scrolls along for opponents like Daemon, or freezing for Tide the same is applicable to our weapons. I have my scroll sets set up so I have a 'Non-freeze' and a 'Non-heal' set and I'd love to be able to do this with weapons too. Also, as the higher tier opponents often require the use of very specific weapons (with icons they don't defend against, shields against what icons they use, etc.), so I think this would be handy for the higher tier battlers too.
Lastly I think it would be handy for people who have large armouries (I have a nice hoard already, and I like to keep them), as scrolling through the list of weapons on the 'Choose Weapons' page for every battle can be a tad tedious. It could also be helpful for people with multiple copies of a weapon that have different mods as, as far as I know, only the Armoury and Mod pages show what mods weapons have attached.
Implementation Ideas
The Armoury page would be slightly tweaked to have the multiple sets displayed, and each weapon in the armoury would have a dropdown menu with options to add to the different sets (much like the ones in the Wishlist and Vault). I think being able to add the same weapons to multiple sets is a must; items like the humble Phoenix Quill or the godly Cronus Blade rarely get left behind, so the weapons shouldn't vanish from the main list after being assigned. Perhaps it could be set up like the pages for Scroll sets are now? Oh, and assigning a weapon shouldn't mean a page load, if at all possible?
The Challenge an Opponent page would have a different set of buttons / dropdowns under each opponent. Something like this maybe: Dropdown for Pets, Dropdown for weapon set, Dropdown for Scroll set (actually I'm surprised this isn't here already), a 'Choose Weapons' button, and a 'Fight' button. Maybe that's a few too many options, but I'd certainly find that faster than the Choose weapons page, plus it cuts out loading another page just to tweak a set or choose a different set of scrolls.
The Choose Weapons page. There's actually a lot I'd change here (loading this page with 40 pet images doesn't sound fun), but I'll stick to the minimum.
What I picture is something like this alongside the Scroll Sets options we have already:
Choosing Weapon set layout
Select Weapon Set
Here you can choose one of your (Weapon sets) (That would be a link to the Armoury)
Tarrant's Set (or whatever other name) [selection button] Tier 5 (if the pet selected isn't the right Tier it could say: Your pet isn't a high enough Tier to use this set, you must be at least Tier 5.)
Equip weapons by clicking them in the lower box and arranging them for battle in the upper box. [Box containing the weapon's you're taking] [Box containing your armoury list] (By the way, if these could be sorted by Tier that would be awesome ;))
Well I hope my idea makes sense, I personally think it could make battling a lot simpler, especially for those training multiple battle pets, but any opinions or input would be very welcome :)
OMG, yes, please. I have two battle pets on different tiers and I know I often ignore the second pet cause I find it too much of a bother to change weapons again and again. I can imagine it's even harder with people who are more serious battlers with more pets/big armories.
This is already going to be a thing, I believe was put in charge of this. Who knows when it will happen, but it's already an idea staff will implement.
thanks (:
Oh! And I even made sure to look at the board in the Battle forum too. Guess I should have scrolled some more huh, feel a bit daft now xD
Great to hear that it's being worked on though, so it will happen someday :)
"Soon"
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