I agree pet dragon abilities (PDA) should scale. Obviously not just as currently existing abilities levels but via some other mechanics as well.
- One mustn't forget pet dragon is only a complementary unit, and not main unit. Therefore his output cannot be as high as intellect output. You can see what happens when intellect is very high, mage is then unstoppable. Playing such game is fun, but only once. Simply because it does not matter what units are in your army, everything gets destroyed by spells - beats the purpose of the game replayability. The same would happen if pet dragon was allowed to such strengths. Note that it takes quite a lot of lucky RNG to get high intellect mage; there are very few pet dragon items, less room for RNG etc. Secondly, Intellect is a major factor for mage who otherwise is a weakling - att, def, leadership. However, warrior even without casting any magic spells or using pet dragon has highest chances to win battles due to superior att/def/leadership. Again, that is why PDA cannot be set very high. I am talking Crossworlds here, did not play Wotn much.
- PDA scale should be easily accesible to warrior, optional for paladin, and difficult to achieve by mage. Simple for example 3%/2%/1% PDA scale per hero level per class could do, but would be not the best way. It takes away a lot of fun from building your character. Currently you can via trading runes create any viable spec, like direct damage casting warrior etc, melee mage; not as strong as natural choices but possible. Therefore there could be some more skills in hero might tree concerning PDA, in lower half of skill tree. There is one empty slot at the moment and Revenge is kind of non-strategic (meaning percentage based) expensive skill. One new skill could scale the strength of all PDA, the other one - just one very expensive level - reducing casting time by one round (if recovery is only one round, you can use that ability twice per per round; up to some xxx limit). These are just examples. I suppose developers realized this long time ago. However, there are already 3 skills for pet dragon, with extra 2 that would be 5, and that might be too much for just complementary unit only. Especially the unit not allowed for boss fights... They shifted leadership in Wotn towards paladin class, which creates a room for increased usefulnes (if not dependence) of warrior on pet dragon.
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