Lunar and Shadow beefalos

[ShadowDuelist]

This is more of an open question, should beefalos get a lunar and a shadow aligned mount, granting them planar damage/defense + some related skill depending on the alignment chosen, with the new materials? If so, how would that work?

[Well-met]

great idea, Yes.

[MadMatt]

Bad idea, no.

[Antynomity]

Yes.

[MagicalStorm]

Yes, definitely. The aesthetics that I could do with that...!

[Pet Rock]

I think new tameable mobs with planar damage/defense should be introduced as a result of the rifts. Saddles and beefalo equipment should also be generalized to account for such new creatures and avoid inventory overcrowding.

Any new content from the rifts would be awesome. I'd like to see them affecting the world more.

[BezKa]

Depends on the implementation, but at the very least more beefalo skins would be awesome.

[Ohan]

14 minutes ago, Pet Rock said:

I think new tameable mobs with planar damage/defense should be introduced as a result of the rifts.

If only… 

[Cassielu]

I want it to be anti-knockback or "plane entity" protection...planar defense is of no value to beefalo, they don't have armor with.

[Evelo]

No but only because I don't like beefalo riding in the first place.

[bloopah]

4 hours ago, Ohan said:

If only… 

I really wanna ride a big moth. Either that or an alligator.

 

[Dextops]

4 hours ago, Ohan said:

If only… 

Life could be a dream (honestly I want the entire scrapped grotto biome added to the caves that’d be my dream come true)

[Baark0]

As skins? I wouldn't mind, I think a nightmare throne skin for the war saddle would look amazing, as for combat purposes though, I'm not sure. Beefalo are capable of incredible amounts of damage if you feed them spicy food and eat a volt goat jelly yourself, bonus points if you are playing wendy and attack cancelling. The damage is so high in fact that wendy with a war saddle ornery beefalo can stun dragonfly and even get a scale just by attack cancelling. On top of that, beefalo aren't really affected by planar damage, as they have no innate protection other than having 1000 health and small regeneration. 

Now of course, the beefalo wouldn't get the damage modifiers since they're dealing planar damage, which I don't really see an issue with, however because of how planar damage doesn't really affect beefalo, you'd essentially be making all the planar armor sets pointless. You could argue that beefalo make all armour mostly pointless, and while you'd be right, I feel in the case of planar armour sets this shouldn't be the case, I mean the whole point of these armour sets is specifically to protect from creatures with planar damage, and regular old beefalo do just as good of a job.

This isn't mentioning that a lot of newer mobs are knocking players off of beealo nowadays, specifically brightshades and the shadow squid thing, and an unmounted beefalo locked in combat is a very bad situation to be in. So unless klei decides to remove the knocking off mechanic (i wouldnt mind, means i can fight werepig on a beefalo) it'll probably be very dangerous to take beefalo into future combat encounters.

[Masked Koopa]

Perhaps they could add an armour slot to beefalo, and a new saddle that adds planar damage to them?

[Brago-sama]

How about shadow/lunar tendencies.

Aside from the obvious added planar damage, it could have other cool effects like maybe a lunar beef glows when its hungers filled, or maybe shadow beef ... i have 0 idea what shadow beef would do lol but you get the idea // Oh i got one, how about after so many hits, it spawns a shadow hand close by that it can simply walk by to heal some hp, just like fuelweaver.