When you think of familiars, you might think of Jr. Boogies or Big Spiders and nothing more. However, you might be a bit more interested if I had told you that most every mob in the game, including some bosses, have familiar cards that will allow you to summon them and have them follow you around like a pet, as well as fight along with you and give some boosting effects!
While some people are content with the few that are super useful, there are some who are collecting enthusiasts; going out of our way to grind/farm higher level mobs and even bosses just to get the chance to have theirs drop and show off around town. Lately, Nexon has decided it to make an odd decision of limiting familiars of newer mobs from the Arcane River and Dark World Tree, and even the new Omega Sector boss (Yes, really.
https://i.imgur.com/Cjj7d4A.png) to Gachapon only. The problem with that is that Reboot has no way to obtain these fams.
In fact, there are some that don't even drop at all, such as the Wolf Underling, which would increase the drop rate a considerable amount higher than big spiders or mutant ribbon pigs. Bosses, such as Cygnus (And her corrupted order of knights), Pink Bean, and even third job explorer clones are nigh, if not impossible to drop. Some are just straight-up locked away, such as Prison Guard Ani, Ifia, and the Silent Crusade fams, including the special bosses. (Also locked away are those amazing Sword Art Online familiars. I mean, who wouldn't want a grim reaper (
https://i.imgur.com/K47vSo3.png) or Skeleton-Xenomorph-Centipede (
https://i.imgur.com/iOP2Cn0.png)?)
What I propose are three things:
1. Booster Packs
This is a fairly simple one. Have a pack that would give out a random mob that would be rare or otherwise impossible to get, like Ergoth and Door Block, up to strange ones such as Coketump and the Randall Machine.
2. Bosses dropping Volatile Stamps
There's a system that allows a user to trade in 20 Volatile Legend Familiar stamps for a garaunteed legendary-class familiar, but it is/was only utilized in Legendary Booster Packs.
My proposal is that have the stamps be a rare-ish drop from bosses who have familiars (Not Zakum, VL, HT, etc) for those who opt-in for it (Or just have em' drop, I guess) to let players have an opportunity to trade them in (Doesn't have to be 20. Perhaps 50 to make em' work for it) to get one of the 30 or so Legendaries.
3. Just let them drop normally.
If creating and distributing familiar booster packs isn't in the best interest, then perhaps give Reboot the opportunity to obtain fams from the Arcane River and Dark World Tree normally as drops. I'd sure love to be able to have a Blazing Erda follow me around, or even one of those dapper-looking Dreamkeepers.
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I realize what I'm fighting for might seem silly to some, but there are some enthusiasts out there who like collecting familiars as a fun hobby, and I just hate the fact that we here in Reboot are locked out in a way from collecting newer ones.
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Too bad there are not many collectors around, so we'll likely never be heard.