World Spirit Animal Idea | Part 1 Of The Verda Series

Hello! I've been told that most players don't really appreciate province ideas. I've decided to try something new; rather than creating an entire province of my own and suggesting it, I will build it up bit by bit, and members of the community can help me develop it if they wish. I know the developers won't really consider this, at least not anywhere in the near future, so I believe I have plenty of time for this project! I will start with the first major thing about this region; the spirit animals. They will be the most unique part of the entire province.

Spirit Animals
What are spirit animals? Spirit animals are like a special pet that follows you around. There are 5 different spirit animals, and they will each give a buff to a single stat and have secondary effect. Choose wisely; once you select your spirit animal, you cannot change it.

Types of Spirit Animals
There are 5 spirit animals:

Spoiler: Spirit Wolf

The Essence of Strength in Animal Form

The Spirit Wolf provides Earth defense, melee damage, and Strength. Below are the base stats at level 1.

• ✤Earth Defense +10 Max 20
• Melee Damage +15 Max 30
• ✤Strength +5 Max 10

Spoiler: Spirit Pig

The Essence of Defense in Animal Form

The Spirit Pig provides Fire defense, extra health, and Defense. Below are the base stats at level 1.

• ✹Fire Defense +10 Max 20
• Max Health +100 Max 200
• ✹Defense +5 Max 10

Spoiler: Spirit Chicken

The Essence of Intelligence in Animal Form

The Spirit Chicken provides Water defense, extra spell damage, and Intelligence. Below are the base stats at level 1.

• ❉Water Defense +10 Max 20
• Spell Damage +5% Max 10%
• ❉Intelligence +5 Max 10

Spoiler: Spirit Ocelot

The Essence of Dexterity in Animal Form

The Spirit Ocelot provides Thunder defense, extra melee damage, and Dexterity. Below are the base stats at level 1.

• ✦ Thunder Defense +10 Max 20
• Melee Damage +5% Max 10%
• ✦ Dexterity +5 Max 10

Spoiler: Spirit Rabbit

The Essence of Speed in Animal Form

The Spirit Rabbit provides Air defense, extra speed, and Agility. Below are the base stats at level 1.

• ❋ Air Defense +10 Max 20
• Speed +5% Max 10%
• ❋ Agility +5 Max 10

When do players receive their spirit animal?
Players will do the quest that unlocks the spirit animal really late in the game. The quest will be an endgame one, within the last 15 levels available.

Leveling Spirit Animals
Spirit animals just wouldn't be animals if they didn't grow and improve. Spirit Animals improve with every passing day. As spirit animals improve, their supporting effects increase as well. Improvement patterns can be found in the spoiler below.

Spoiler: Leveling bonuses

As spirit animals level up, they help you by giving you more power. The upgrades are as follows:

• Elemental Defense is increased by 1 per level
• Stats (Defense, strength, etc.) increase by 1 every second level
• Secondary bonuses (health, melee, etc.) Increase by 10% every level. (example: +10% health per level *10 levels means the pig will give up to 200 health.)

Spirit animals gain experience to level up. Every 5 minutes of playtime adds one experience point to the Spirit Animal's experience, and every dawn adds 4. In addition, soul points can be spent to add 10 experience to the Spirit Animal. A maximum of 2 soul points can be spent per day for this purpose. The experience required to level up for each level is listed below.
(NOTE: Experience is only gained based on playtime after getting the spirit animal and only for the spirit animal that belongs to the playthrough; the spirit animal will not gain experience from playtime on one of your other classes.)

Spoiler: Experience requirements

Level 0 -> 1: 50 exp

Level 1 -> 2: 55 exp

Level 2 -> 3: 60 exp

Level 3 -> 4: 65 exp

Level 4 -> 5: 70 exp

Level 5 -> 6: 75 exp

Level 6 -> 7: 80 exp

Level 7 -> 8: 85 exp

Level 8 -> 9: 90 exp

Level 9 -> 10: 100 exp

What do you think? Should I continue the Verda line, or should I stop now?

 

The idea by itself seems to be fine (I'm not the best judge in this case, since I'm not up to date on what stats are good), and it avoids a lot of common problems similar suggestions tend to have.

Despite that, the context of a province isn't really something that will ever work out. If you want to continue making suggestions that were originally meant to be in the province, that would probably be fine (if they're all this good), but an actual province isn't a good idea.

 

Many of the ideas will have some lore connected to them. Ultimately that lore will all be the lore of Verda. I I actually try to design a new province, it will be after giving suggestions like this, and it will combine all of them. I will leave these as standalone suggestions for the time being.

 

Won't work; Provinces in general are simply too big and just don't fit into the lore well. Hell, even Corkus was added mostly as a meme, and it required some pretty drastic alterations to the original suggestion to even fit as a side storyline.

 

Eh, just developing the ideas are fun for me. Do you have any thoughts on the spirit animals themselves?

 

Ice Bear does not feel chicken should represent intelligence. The cow should represent defense because of wynn's touroto which is their equivalent to a cow and also having insane element defenses. Ice Bear thinks maybe the pig could represent intelligence because pigs are thought to be quite intelligent for an animal. Ice Bear also feels the fire spirit animal is underwhelming with +200 health it really isn't much compared to a straight 5% spell damage boost, also +15 melee damage should be for dexterity and +5% should be for strength.

 

COMMUNISM

 

Ice Bear says capitalist pigs "ARe ThOuGht tO bE InTeLLiGEnT"

 

You sir, you win my vote.

 

Spirit animls would actually be a very nice idea for the game to implement, currently, the game can feel quite lonely at times as players are spread out and many other RPG's include these kind of mechanics.

I don't believe that they should be linked to a province, they should just be in it (possibly with a quest to introduce them at like level 25?).

 

The chicken being intelligence was actually kind of a joke. Anyway, does anybody else agree with this? I'll change it if three or more people agree with you.

 

Well, that should be fine, just be careful: if you really must make lore, it can't be anything that affects the already existing lore significantly. The lore is already enough of a mess, and that stuff should be left to the people making the actual lore.

 

Unfortunately that probably means my idea of a land that is untouched by the corruption (Not based on Bloomi; I had the idea independently) won't work; it gets its light directly from the realm of light, as the light from the realm of light is reflected off of the mirror realm and directly into the land.

 

Is that some of your lore?


Anyway, the idea is... ok, I guess, but I don't really like it. You should definitely make it so you can change your animal, but overall I dont like the idea in general. I'm not sure why, I'm sorry, so I can't explain it, I just... Don't like it. Sorry.

 

Yes.

That's fine. People not liking ideas is natural. I just don't like the ones that are jerks about it, so you are fine.