Nightmarian
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Hello! I suspect Rem took unreleased hero Yakuza's henchmen tech, but sadly neither Rem nor Graves is really a minion master like some of us hoped. However, I think there is still room for a full pet hero like lone druid.
I am a huge fan of pet classes/archetypes and have played a ton of them across games, most of them fairly bad, but the three best instances I've experienced were in MMORPGs ironically.
Personally, my favorite was the White Lion from the fantasy Warhammer mmorpg. It was a pet class that could summon a giant white lion and was completely reliant on it, so it wasn't just a detached ability bar. You can look up details on the class if you want some more nuanced understanding of how it worked. But one of the coolest features was that every ability you had was a dual ability that made both you and the lion do something.
I think dual abilities like this would work really well for a similar hero in deadlock, and with the alt activation system, you might even be able to use long presses or whatever to use the pet's abilities instead, but I think simply making each ability do something for both pet and hero would work too.
Something a bit closer to lone druid though maybe is my second favorite pet class, puppet master from FFXI. To describe it briefly, you basically built a puppet to fit any role then spent your time doing inputs to direct its actions, and were yourself mostly useless; the puppet was everything. But it could be a healer, tank, or dps if you wanted. Not all at once of course, but you could uses parts to fit whatever your party needed before you got going.
I think a puppet master hero would work very well here and be close to lone druid who could give items to his pet. In this case the puppet would have a limited amount of slots, maybe like head, body, legs, and each arm, and based on what items you put in these slots, it'd be able to fulfill different roles by changing its basic abilities and actions.
So kind of like a hybrid between invoker and lone druid, I guess.
It'd be a pretty unique hero who could be support, brawler, or assassin depending on how you build the puppet. Anyway, thanks for your time. Keep cooking with the heroes, they're all great!
Triple kudos to whoever came up with Rem, cuteness aside, what a wonderfully designed character all around, from voicelines, visual design, and gameplay!
I am a huge fan of pet classes/archetypes and have played a ton of them across games, most of them fairly bad, but the three best instances I've experienced were in MMORPGs ironically.
Personally, my favorite was the White Lion from the fantasy Warhammer mmorpg. It was a pet class that could summon a giant white lion and was completely reliant on it, so it wasn't just a detached ability bar. You can look up details on the class if you want some more nuanced understanding of how it worked. But one of the coolest features was that every ability you had was a dual ability that made both you and the lion do something.
I think dual abilities like this would work really well for a similar hero in deadlock, and with the alt activation system, you might even be able to use long presses or whatever to use the pet's abilities instead, but I think simply making each ability do something for both pet and hero would work too.
Something a bit closer to lone druid though maybe is my second favorite pet class, puppet master from FFXI. To describe it briefly, you basically built a puppet to fit any role then spent your time doing inputs to direct its actions, and were yourself mostly useless; the puppet was everything. But it could be a healer, tank, or dps if you wanted. Not all at once of course, but you could uses parts to fit whatever your party needed before you got going.
I think a puppet master hero would work very well here and be close to lone druid who could give items to his pet. In this case the puppet would have a limited amount of slots, maybe like head, body, legs, and each arm, and based on what items you put in these slots, it'd be able to fulfill different roles by changing its basic abilities and actions.
So kind of like a hybrid between invoker and lone druid, I guess.
It'd be a pretty unique hero who could be support, brawler, or assassin depending on how you build the puppet. Anyway, thanks for your time. Keep cooking with the heroes, they're all great!
Triple kudos to whoever came up with Rem, cuteness aside, what a wonderfully designed character all around, from voicelines, visual design, and gameplay!
