Dominate Animal

[Spiffy Has]

Extend the time of Dominate Animal to turn/level? Three Rounds + Level seems a bit short

[Mort]

Your self-serving suggestions are getting dull.

[Spiffy Has]

I call them as I see them, Mort!

[Valo56]

Unless one spends their time looking around the wiki at all the different spells/abilities, it's unlikely that they'll think to suggest something for it until they play it. Especially considering how much stuff unique to EfU there is that is considered "FOIG." One wouldn't think to propose the Island Jaguar be brought up in strength to be on par with the other Animal Companions until they took it as a companion (it's really very weak in comparison, from what I saw), for instance.

It may be a self-serving suggestion, but if something is legitimately off, it's not like one should hold back just so he isn't biased or self-serving when he makes the suggestion when something is wrong or could definitely use improving on his character. Seems a bit silly to me.

But on topic, Dominate Animal is in some ways, better than Animal Empathy. It has a range and deals with a will save, and some high level animals who would be difficult to AE, or may even outright attack even druids/rangers, can be handled relatively easily with Dominate. It lasts for a fraction of the time as a result, however. That said, spending a spellslot on it when you can just use AE infinite times per day should result in perhaps a stronger effect.

[Heavyfog]

I support this suggestion, as I tried to have non-nature PC's herd boar while I was playing Chumbar using wands of Dominate Animal and found the effect to be greatly lacking and useless. The low duration of Dominate Animal gave maybe a minute of control before the animal would become unresponsive.  Animals are a small threat to PCs on the server as is, with run of the mill Leopards being one of the more dangerous because of their stealth and frequency of encountering them.  I support the suggestion of increasing the duration of the underused spell Dominate animal.  I can't see how this could unbalance the server in any way.

[Jasede]

I suggest my characters be given +3 to all DCs for all spells they cast, +2 to all attributes and a +4 circumstance bonus to all skill checks.

[Spiffy Has]

Still wouldn't make you any more useful Jasede.