New Skill - Pet Handling

[coral egret]

I've put a lot of thought into this idea and concept. I really think with the right team this could drive the player base to be more active in-game and maybe even increase the player count.

Basically, to avoid Nintendo or anything, it's just * Pet Handling *

Once players receive a pet, they can now duel it against other players' pets. in a designated area * like adding it into the duel arena *

Each pet will have it's own unique fight style with attacks * etc range/mage..etc * You can level that respective stat to 99 just as a core skill, so now, My vorki can level it's mage to 99, if that's the style it fights with, each pet only has 1 skill. - You can win untradeable cosmetics for your pets with so many wins and of course a cool cape at the end, but I think for the cape you have to get 3 pets to 99.

Which now means players are driven to grind bosses for pets, so they can try the new skills, maybe new players will see an add an try the game just to try that.

Players are worried about the perfect 24 skills, No worries, this will be added underneath the total level an you click to open its interface as you would any other skill

this is a rough concept but again with the right team this could be such an amazing skill!

[modern goblet]

Pets are intentionally solely cosmetic, and anything departing from this is very very bad, whether for flooding the market with uniques that are more common than pets or shifting the time to complete bosses drastically up for people that previously were not pet hunter but now must

[frigid sparrow]

have you seen the new skill pitch idea that was polled called Taming?

https://oldschool.runescape.wiki/w/Update:Adding_A_New_Skill:_Introducing_Sailing,_Taming_and_Shamanism#taming

[somber portal]

God no… we don’t need the pet system to incorporate elements of Pokémon

[rapid nimbus]

This would be incredibly detached from anything else in the game.

[coral egret]

nope but would love to see it happen, I have played rs for a little over 20 years, my account is also that old, I feel like my opinion matters, not everyone has to agree, but you can't deny the fact that it would drive the player base to actually play the game more! everybody would wanna grind for a pet, ima check this out right now!

[coral egret]

Understandable but that's also a really nice way to take a break after them long boring grinds on other skills, the biggest thing is it would drive more people to grind for pets an actually play the already existing content

[rapid nimbus]

grinding for pets isn't fun for most players its a terrible idea to make it anything but cosmetic

[graceful whale]

If taming becomes a thing I'd much rather it be tied into that space and keep current pets purely cosmetic