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Rally Ring would be easy. Make it a charging attack. The user throws his body against an enemy at high speed, closing the distance between both. Pretty much the same thing Taiku drums do.
Would need careful colision testing because of getting stuck. Any obstacle in the way would have to prevent the player from continuing their charge. Maybe it would be best to make the ring do more damage the further away the foe is, with minimal damage at nose picking range, to prevent people from triggering it while both them and the animated are hugging a wall. Too much at least.


Towns? uh... A bug catching net? I can't see how to not make that either a duct tape or a quicksand clone. Or a lasso Clone.
What about a flower themed thing then? How about this. A Combo Healing ring. 2 seconds cooldown. Everytime you hit someone with it, a bud grows further and further in their head, along with instant healing. The more you hit them, the more the bud grows into a flower, and the more you heal them. After 8 hits, they'll have a fully grown flower on their head and the ring will be at maximum healing potential. If you stop hitting them after 5 seconds, the whole thing withers and restarts.
Rage Ranks both make the flower grow more at once and heal you more. Best used to either make the first hit (Getting to a fully grown flower quicker) or to do a whole lot of burst healing, but that would either require someone else to flower your target during your delay, or you'd risk losing everything if you weren't fast enough. Also, just for fun there could be different possible flower species. Purely cosmetic, but would make for great screenshots.
I see that as a good ring to have to choose against Bandage. Also we'd be the first game to have gardening as a mean of fig-... There's so much you can do with garbage. You could make enviroment placed garbage bombs. You could make garbage automatons. You could make falling garbage blocks. You could make a "Salvage" or "Recycling" themed rings that do very few damage but have higher chance of getting loot or recipes from enemies if used as the finishing blow. (Not rings, gold or orbs)
I... Will let someone else do that one.

So you know where I'm coming from then.
I was thinking the FFTA version. Which ironically, is the one called Poach.

I would possibly not guarantee the drop but considerably increase the chances anyways.
But yes, people would certainly love something like this. And I mean it. Have you seen the recipe drop rates lately? Let me tell you, they're ROCK BOTTOM.




I also rethought the 8 times thing and got to the same conslusion. I suggested 8 "hits" because I was thinking of crew situations with more than one person using Flower. But now I consider that 8 times might be a lot to get to full potential, and the player would eventually already be fully healed at the point the flower finnally bloomed. Or maybe not.

Instead of answering this, it' easier to think ahead: Wish is also a very quick ring to cooldown (4 seconds) and it'll be rare the situation where 6 uses wouldn't have fully healed you already (late edit: I forgot about Meat. So yeah, maybe that is not true). Obviously, Flower would have to be slightly faster and maybe cheaper and less 'powerful', so hitting 8 times in a row wouldn't be much of an issue. But the whole thing has to be somewhat balanced. So it would be easier to make the budding stages be definetely worse than Wish, but the fully grown more time and stamina effective. This way, the first 5 hits wouldn't compensate the use of Flower over wish, but after the maybe 10th-ish~ hit, the healing potential would definetely be better and Flower would slowly be having an advantage.

On the issue of tanking, I'm still convinced classes in the current game is something people won't care much about, because global buffing efectively killed the need for the practice. Either we design the ring with the pretense of giving more benefit to a single target, or we pander to the current way things go and give it your alternative of AoE Heal Burst.
Personally, I'd go with the "Tank" one. I got two approaches for this.

The first one is both your wish to see tanking again, and all of what I said first above. I would much prefer to design the ring after tanking and making the whole thing be efficient mostly if one person is eating all the damage. Designing the ring to be efficient in a tanking situation would bring up many of those arguments on which is the better ring, like how people seem to hate diagnose despite the fact if it hits all 6 players, it's by far the best one, or how people can't for the life of them decide between Wish on everyone to keep each other safe, or bandage on everyone so everyone can keep themselves safe. As long as there IS the argument, and we can make there be one, then there will be groups of people using each thing, and that is a job well done. We can easily revive the usefulness of Hate generating rings with something like Flower.

Second... I'm thinking Papa Saw. People were lazy enough to spam Fire Rain and Diagnose and be done with it. If they got an AoE Heal burst, there would eventually be crews that would do nothing but target one person and emulate diagnose's effect by constantly healing said one person, this among other diagnoses if required. So yeah, it''s just a personal silly thing, but I'd rather not give them that benefit.

I like this idea :3 It reminds me of pikmin. Im kinda confused on plausibility though surprised

Is the healing ring an attack 2? Do you put a flower on there head, and when its sunny they get stamina or health faster biggrin ?

So zOMG! Moga's?

So a link from moga land to zOMG! and they do a quest, and after that they get a new Moga, thats zOMG! related?

Wouldn't it be easier to release a couple zOMG! Moga's into moga land, then lure them here with that idea?