Fey - Open lock

[legionetrangere]

Howdy

Since this is a feedback section, I thought on humbly pointing out my view about the open lock skill on feys.

In my time of playing, I have come across very few toons with arcane classes that have other than fey familiars. I'd say the majority of those that take fey do so because of the open lock skill (which is very good, I agree). This leads to the situation where there is 0 diversity. People just rather go the open lock route.

I have heard the justification for it being "Its not always easy to find a rogue to open chests/doors, specially on my time zone". That's probably the case with every class with the expection of rogue.

I'd suggest removing/lowering considerably the open lock skill on the few familiar, but this is not a suggestion section so I'll stop at the feedback

These are my humbly thoughts on this particular issue, thank you!

[Itikar]

You might find merit in reading this thread: viewtopic.php?f=37&t=28775

But in general this is an issue that is known to the developers, but not on the priority to be addressed.

In the meantime... pixie rules.

[Hazard]

I'd rather see other familiars get a buff than just flat nerfing pixie, or if pixie IS nerfed replace the lost skills with something else. Confusion on CD? Something cool and pixie-ish.

Make them all useful!

Most familiars have absolutely no use outside of looking a certain way you enjoy (Eyeball/Beholderkin for me, is my favourite by far).
It would be great if they all had at least 1 super-power on a CD that scaled with every wizard/sorc level. Something thematic to the familiar.

OR, go the other way and make them all useless in fights.
Have them be more like the NWN2 familiars. A kitty cat that gives +1 uni saves to the whole party or whatever.
Just have them be cute things.

I agree that pixie is just too good of a choice atm. I'm so sick of all the pixie familiars. I have so much respect for people who use something else. You are immediately a better wizard/sorc in my eyes!