[Review/Suggestion] Addition of new tonics

[hugo.4705]

Okay, I will firstly consider that it's IMPOSSIBLE or NOT PLANNED to add any more races, personal story steps or additional starter zones.

 

I saw several threads recently speaking about tonics, and I thought It will be nice to have one big thread regrouping the wishes, suggestions and reviews concerning tonics and their current implementation.

 

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To begin with, let's have an overview of what is available as endless tonics:

-Air/Earth/Fire/Ice Elementals tonics.

-Mystery tonic (several animals but also the interesting golem, krait or icebrood elemental)

-Mystery tonic 2 (all kind of trees/bushes)

-Mystery tonic 3 (all kind of furnitures)

-Blue/Green/Pink/Black/Mystery Quaggans tonics.

-Halloween tonic (mobs from the labyrinth) + Associated mobs tonics like Wraith, Gargoyles...

-Gift Dolyak tonic well the Dolyak from wintersday. We also have Dolyak Calf from labyrinthine cliffs.

-Plush/Doll/Toy tonics from wintersday too: Princess Doll, Gryphon plush etc... so Infinitarium.

-Enchanted gift box + snowball tonics related to wintersday too. + snowdiamond

-Karka tonic

-Monkey king tonic

-All kind of mobs from silverwastes/dry top tonics (Mordrem Teragriff, Dust Mites...)

-Mystery cat tonic turning you into a random cat.

-Mystery dog tonic: same as before but with dogs.

-Guild Banner tonic.

-Fractal tonic, really expensive and hard to get.

-Infinite Aetherized/molten berserker/toxic krait all related to ls1.

-Ton of tonics related to HoT: 13! Mushroom, exalted and so on...

-The interface golem special tonic and wolf totem..

-Ley anomaly/Jade construct/Anomaly fragment/Slubling tied to LS.

-Choya pinata

-Tonic for PoF only 8 forms: sand lion,harpy, iboga.... but no hydra.

-The cool branded tonic with 8 forms: wyvern, minotaur, hydra, charr...

-Multicolored Ooze tonic and angry snowmen

-Mystery Fanciful cat/house cat/dog/choya/bear/fowl/djinn tonics all hosting several forms like the branded tonic.

-Bonus box/chest/angry chest tonics

-Skyscale youngling

 

Combat ones:

-Watchknight

-Kodan

-Miniature and embigenning

-Chaos (Arkk) hard to get too.

-Fury: Skorvald the shattered

-Awakened Archer

-Olmakhan sand elemental

-Watchknight mkII

-Shadow Warrior

-Smoke shaman

 

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So......

The first thing we see after looking at the list, is that we have way far more non-combat (idle) tonics than combat ones. Combat are more meaningful because they allow you to use your weapons while under transformation. Would be more than nice if all the non-combat ones are turned into combat at least the ones with which it's possible, like I would say Djinn, Branded or Aetherized....

 

Secondly, the diversity: Branded tonic is perfect, but it should be applied to other dragons as well, will be awesome to have Endless Risen Tonic, Endless Destroyer Tonic, Endless Icebrood Tonic. Mordrem are already covered with all the tonics but note they can be fused into Endless Mordrem Tonic.

 

The secondary races also deserve more love: Endless Grawl Tonic, Jotun Tonic, Skritt Tonic, Hylek Tonic, Ogre Tonic, Harpy Tonic, Centaur Tonic, Tengu Tonic, Largos Tonic.

Currently we only have more than enough quaggans tonics and kodan.

 

Oppositely, some are under represented with only one appearance by default like Awakened Archer Tonic. It should instead take in account all the possibilities: Awakened Human/Charr/Norn/Sylvari/Asura and in addition, awakened Canid/ Abobination both really stunning and interesting models unused. It surely require an Endless Awakened Tonic. Same can be said with Olmakhan which one is only a sand effigy, can be nice to be transformed into charr cub or a random olmakhan. The smoke shaman tonic was a really good idea.

 

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Now the suggestions:

-As said above, tonics for Largos, Tengu, centaur, grawl.....

-An endless golem tonic regrouping all the possible looks (Mark I / II, Hazmat Suit / Siege Golem/ Cube Golem)

-Child tonic, this one is very VERY VERY important for RP or fun: Turning yourself into a progeny/cub/child/sprout/juvenile norn

-Evil tonic: It create a link between all the dungeon, and could be sold for 300 whatever dungeon tokens: You can turn into one of the bosses from dungeon so Kudu, Baelfire, whatever!

-Baddies tonic: Turn yourself into a well known villain: Balthazar/Lazarus/Scarlet/Joko.... But ALSO from personnal story: Teyo, Steag Frostbeard......

-Organization tonics: One for each, example: Endless Nightmare Tonic will turn you into a random nightmare courtier between several appearances, same with bandits, renegades, svanir, inquest....

-Metal legion tonic?

 

A new kind of tonic called mobile weapon, like the dune roller in the new map, it turns you into a vehicle you can control and shoot at the other ones transformed, and you can win like costume brawl a little crown. Possibilities? Endless. Charr Dune roller, Siege Golem, Charr Machine guns........