NORD, post: 2582, member: 16 wrote:

To be fair, being able to grant your toon with med/offy buffs on the fly no matter where you are is motivation for everyone to get the buff bot, regardless of BM being part of their build.

Agreed, and my purposed change would only make it more useful not only to BMs but also to big groups (like WB groups).

Pawtism, post: 2581, member: 1142 wrote:

Agreed, in no way am I endorsing or suggesting that pets get all player buffs, just the groupable ones they can normally get now. Perhaps as a way to avoid the issue, but still solve the problem, we can make the Evolve Buff Bots just affect group (including a pet that is out)? They already have the buffs I'm really talking about (Doc and SL mainly). It would motivate more BMs to get one.

To be fair, being able to grant your toon with med/offy buffs on the fly no matter where you are is motivation for everyone to get the buff bot, regardless of BM being part of their build.

NORD, post: 2576, member: 16 wrote:

Agreed. Pets, especially BM pets, are already so powerful and we don't need that to be pushed over the edge by unintended buff transfer and/or situations where players can stack multiple of the same buff on a pet.

Agreed, in no way am I endorsing or suggesting that pets get all player buffs, just the groupable ones they can normally get now. Perhaps as a way to avoid the issue, but still solve the problem, we can make the Evolve Buff Bots just affect group (including a pet that is out)? They already have the buffs I'm really talking about (Doc and SL mainly). It would motivate more BMs to get one.

Edit: As an example, I click the buff bot (mine, or someone elses), and when it applies the buffs to me, it also applies (if applicable, obviously there is already something in place to prevent overwriting longer buffs) to anyone in my group (in the area), including my pet (same as if I'd casted them myself). Would be useful at things like WB too, where instead of someone having to pop one and everyone clicks it, whoever pops it can click it and buff the whole group. A bit like the flags work now (with the extra step of a click on the bot, but I think everyone would be ok with that).

Rezec, post: 2575, member: 1 wrote:

One of the reasons we do not currently do this is that there were horror stories from Prophecy were the BM pets copied every buff from their owner, including some that were not placeable on them before and made them very OP. So we will tackle this carefully.

Agreed. Pets, especially BM pets, are already so powerful and we don't need that to be pushed over the edge by unintended buff transfer and/or situations where players can stack multiple of the same buff on a pet.

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