Why X Familiar is Broken Thread

[Drizzlin]

Lalaith Va'lash - 2/15/2007  3:26 PM    

Drizzlin - 2/15/2007 6:19 PM I think this has been the best post here. Of all things, getting upset about a pixie seems so minor to me. Anyone who says "i don't want a rogue, because I have a pixie" is wacko.
  Are pixie's stronger than the other familiars? I would say no, they just have a unique ability to be able to pick a lock or disarm a trap. Other familiars in the game are more of extra summons. I would rather put time and energy into v3!!! I am not saying this topic should not be discussed, I just see it as a very minor issue and even a bit blown up to some degree. A final suggestion to everyone making a post, can you put if you actually play/played a wizard and what familiars you have used? I personally have only done the Pixie, pseudodragon, and spider.

 Maybe? Maybe not. But they have somthing going for them, as they are the only familiar I've ever (in two years of playing) seen actually used for somthing other than flying around Hlint. To me that says a lot, but that is just me.

 I don't like to use a familiar period. When they die, it stinks =P. As far as seeing familiar's used, I travel with level 17+ wizards all the time, and the only PC I play on layo is a wizard. 90% of the time I see a familiar come out, it is as an extra summons going through the Rift (where magic can not be cast once going in) or as a last ditch when things are going bad. Cassandra on that note, uses her summoned cat all the time for simply hunting. I don't know what to suggest to you without it sounded the wrong way...maybe travel with some other wizards/sorcerors, and get out of hlint =P.

[gilshem ironstone]

Drizzlin - 2/15/2007  3:19 PM

A final suggestion to everyone making a post, can you put if you actually play/played a wizard and what familiars you have used? I personally have only done the Pixie, pseudodragon, and spider.

I have and I really like the panther and the hell-hound

[EdTheKet]

Brac'ar Fireface, wizard.
Familiar for 2o levels: Ghane, a hellhound
Since WLDQ a pseudodragon picked up from the plane of fire during WLDQ

[Rayenoir]

Yardislan Echron, fighter/wizard
Familiar since beginning up to current:  Phenylphthalien, a faerie dragon

Tre Maakli, sorcerer
Familiar since beginning to current:  Lethos, a bat

[Filatus]

Daeron Stormcloud, wizard focussing on abjuration.
Familiar: Arto, a raven.

[Fatherchaos]

Dur'Thak ShadoWolf: fighter/wizard addle cove
Familiar: Nix Styx, Imp. Been with him since the begging of the wizard career. I've had many great moments with the more vocal abyssal side of Dur'Thak through the mischievous Nix

Dur'Thak actually refused to take the pixie familiar as he would be more likely to try and squish it than feed it.

[Drizzlin]

The reason I asked about the familiars, is because I felt that the majority of the complaints are coming from people who do not even use familiars/have them. I just found it a bit interesting.