Perfect World’s upcoming MMO Battle of the Immortals breaks one of the unwritten and of questionable logic, yet universally fundamental rules of MMOs: Pets don’t aid in combat. For some reason or another, the idea that any pets that are not part of a summoning spell, should be vanity pets that do not give an advantage, in some effort for fairness. Personally, I have never fallen into the idea that having a pet that aids you in combat would somehow make you overpowered, and it is good to see Perfect World breaking the mold with Battle of the Immortals.
In Battle of the Immortals, as announced this week, players will have the opportunity every now and then to capture their fallen foes as pets. These pets are afforded their own abilities to aid in Player vs Environment and even player vs player combat. To further this stray from the norm, mounts will also receive the same treatment, allowing upgrades to give different abilities.
I am a rabid collector of vanity pets (and I will not sleep until I have every action figure in Champions Online), but I think it is time we threw away this misguided belief that pets with benefits would somehow overthrow the balance of the game, especially when that game already has classes that can summon items, or hunters who have their own pets they can tame.
The Battle of the Immortals closed beta starts in less than a week. Head over to massively and grab yourself a key while they still have some!
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