Actually, Ecologists get it too. Yay cow immunity.

Yes. He said Ecologists get it, so Halamir said it was the Hunting skill that gave it so both Trackers and Ecologists get it.

Oh, right. I forgot what the prerequisite was for Ecology

That's nice. But a decent rider shouldn't have problems bumping into cows. Also lower the cost on balancing, or make it more useful. Balancing is not very useful for a 120pt skill

Forget riding, a decent walker shouldn't have problems bumping into cows.

I have a theory that they go out of their way to bump into you. Cow's are evil like that.

I can't find a copy of that one where the secret agent cow is looking over a burning Chicago.

<-- sad panda

Huzzah! That's my phrase!!

I like the one where the farmer walks in on the two cows who are looking over a butchering diagram of a farmer.

And here I thought it was the sheep's doing. I could give you an in depth psychoanalytic perspective on your posting but then you might want to kill me. I love Freud. Freud is your friend, if you do not believe in him then you are in denial (a joke the psych students had when I was an undergraduate )

You'll be okay.

Denial!!

I don't deal with your weirdy stuff. I'll stick to my geography/geology.

Some things I've come across that could use adjusting would probably be the rate of regen and the amount you empath for. With some of the skills having a significant cost, it becomes unfeasible to use them after a time except in special cases since if you do use them on a regular basis, your animal will run out of mana/ego. The regen doesn't go fast enough to cover this sufficiently, so some of us would probably rely on beastempath to get the amount back up. The problem with empath is that it recovers such a small amount that you're using pretty much a bunch of your beast balances just on the beast recovering. I found that empath was restoring about 300 mana to my horse, which is 1/5th of the amount of reflections. While that may seem decent enough, that means you're spending 50 seconds just to recover the amount of one reflection. Empath should probably not cover the entire cost of the higher skills, but it shouldn't take near a minute to recover 1500 mana when your beast has 10500 mana total. I'm thinking it should be improved to about 600 h/m/e per empath, which seems reasonable enough, especially considering the h/m/e is taken from yourself to restore the beasts.

I agree.

And please upgrade balancing! Right now it is completely useless.

Enchantments for Beasts? Potions for Beasts?

Jewelry for said enchantments on beasts?

Saddles, bridles and fancy monogrammed horse blankets for the beasts?