Category talk:Familiars
Along with the mysterious Whirling Maple Leaf, there are a few more familiars, or familiars-to-be, or placeholders . . . or something. The Mosquito is #1, and the last familiar in the list is Personal Raincloud (#31), and there is no #13. Next in the list are Clockwork Grapefruit, MagiMechTech MicroMechaMech, Flaming Gravy Fairy, Frozen Gravy Fairy, Stinky Gravy Fairy, Spooky Gravy Fairy. After #37, they're just broken images and no names. Any speculation on these? I wouldn't want to ask on the KoL boards, since I'm not sure how common this knowledge is. - Monochrome Jesus 03:17, 12 May 2005 (Central Daylight Time)
- I'd guess that most of those will be available post-ascension. Since Jick has implemented the hovering sombrero, I'm almost expecting the maple leaf to become available before ascension. There's been talk of the Canadia area for a long while now. Maybe you could list those others in the Ascension spoilers area... --jin 11:31, 12 May 2005 (Central Daylight Time)
I stuck all of the Tam, maypole and lips messages on the familiar pages. You're welcome to reformat them if you like, or move all the messages onto the items' pages. --Agent Lex 15:46, 6 Jul 2005 (Central Daylight Time)
Familiar data seems to be far from complete. Apart from the Leprechaun and BGF familiars, we don't have data on how the effects scale. A script that saves familiar attacks and allows them to be evaluated would be very useful. Then a setup on how to test familiars could be devised, according to what they do. (Does familiar always work; if not, how often does it do things on avaerage; how do actions affect combat; how does power scale with weight; do adventurer level or monster level influence performance of familiars...). A rats-head balloon might be useful to get more data about damage at lower weights. I'd be glad to help devising a setup for testing and performing tests.--Gorgolok 15:39, 13 Aug 2005 (Central Daylight Time)
- There's been some preliminary discussion of this sort of effort here: Talk:Data Collection Guidelines. If you have the script skills to do this, that would be terrific. --Gymnosophist 15:58, 13 Aug 2005 (Central Daylight Time)
Maybe this is a dumb idea or too spoilery or whatever, but it might be nice to have a page for mr. store familiars. I know when I was starting out I would've liked to have known which familiars were "ungettable" through adventuring without peeking.
