Their is ONE thing that stops me wanting to make a Ranger, ignoring all the hate they get for being terrible and everything its not that its the pets! It is that simple, they are all very ugly and don’t really offer anything that great. I wish that Rangers were more like Hunters from World Of Warcraft, in that you could obtain rare and special pets so people would know it was a challenge to get.
For example. One of the patches for Cata released a set of 5 spiders all with unique cool looking skins. However each one was a VERY different challenge to obtain. They all required specific tactics to takedown and tame. It wasnt just oh press the tame button and be done like normal pets.
Example: Deth’tilac which was a kick kitten purple/ark skin. To obtain this one, you had to kite it around the whole area and even into other areas and stay at range as it could 1 hit kill you, You would use your traps to slow it down and give you time to revive your pets that WOULD die.
You would have to keep damaging it until it’s health reached below 20% and only then would you be able to start taming it but you will still need to lay down traps to slow it, remove your current pet and then start taming.
When i played WoW i spent more time hunting rare pets and challenging ones than i did pretty much anything else, sure i raided and such as well but i would spend WEEKS trying to get that special pet.
When i left i had ALL the Fireland Spiders, ALL the Spirit Beasts (some of which also required special tactics) among others.
I personally would love to see this sort of change, the current system is rather bland every pet looks the same nothing cool looking or anything to say “wow that is a cool skin, must have been tough to get”
In WoW you would also get Hunters that would let people in the area know if a rare mob popped up just in case someone needed it as well, it was a very good thing i think and something that GW2 is very much lacking.
Now i know many players here HATE World of Warcraft, but Rangers would you like a system like this introduced? If it meant being able to go out and HUNT for rare skins and such with them having a different type of challenge to them.
Now in WoW, these pets are neutral mobs and you do some times get people that will simply kill them so others can’t get them due to the way the system works here i think that could very easily be avoided.
Something like how it currently is, You began by going up to the rare skin one you want as it is a Rangers only thing no other classes can interact with it or anything. You start a tame and thats when the mob activates. You could have several different types of requirements to be able to tame such as:
1) Damage – You have to deal a certain amount of damage before you can try and tame this beast. Simple enough.
2) CC Immunity – You could have some that can’t be CC’ed so you would have to find another way to slow/delay them so you can tame this beast.
3) No gear – This is one from WoW and a great one i thought, If you go in prepared the beast will do even more damage. For example if you are wearing just 1 item (doesnt count weapons) the beast deals 10% more damage that stacks for the more armor and accessories you are wearing
4) Friends – You could have some that are immune to all damage, conditions and such until their friends have been dispatched. These friends could even have group buffs and such that make it so you want to kill them in a specific order.
Rangers, what do you think? Would you like something like this introduced?
