Guild Wars 2

I must admit. I can see absolutely no reason to ever own a mini pet. Other than the “o that’s neat” moment when you first see one, what possible reason would there be to purchase them? It seems like others must feel the same way, because, to date, I have not seen a single mini trailing along behind a player in game.

Here’s my suggestion. There is a combat ring for mini’s already in Lion’s Arch. There is also a Moa race track. Why not give mini’s skills that could be useful in a pit fight against other mini’s and/or skills that would allow you to stand on the side lines and race them against each other. The race in particular would be quite cool! And then there would be a reason to collect mini’s.

You don’t see the mini pets trailing behind very often because they disappear whenever you go through a portal! So it is a hassle constantly bringing them back out.

Also, they are account bound, but you don’t get one for each account. You only get one. So you either keep it in the collection page and forget about it, or you put it in one characters bag, and the others don’t get to use it. In other games I have played, account bound meant all my characters got it.

I agree; I see no reason to get more at this point.

Considering how empty many of the zones are now, my little skritt buddy is the only one I have to keep my Charr warrior company a lot of the time.

They ran rampant in GW1, many a festival you would find yourself with the a message stating there were too many miniatures in the district. My guess is nobody has found anything they want to bother showing off yet. If character birthday presents function the same as GW1 and give mini’s, then you’ll likely start to see considerably more of them.

I don’t ever bother taking my HoM ones around anymore. Constantly having to re-enable and without invisible bags (afaik) I always send them back with my materials, why oh why? If I had a right click option to lock them enabled and to stay in my bag I might actually use them and buy some too. I don’t know how much invisible bags are but I’m not buying one just so that I don’t keep posting my minis back to my bank. Would be nice to have two mini slots on our character screen at the trinkets (like the weapon swap and selected mini is always following the player).

i’m going to guess that you can’t lock them enabled because similarly with GW1 where you could only have a certain amount of them per district, if everyone locked them it would cause a problem and overload the limit of minis out at a time in a district.

Well, nobody forces you to buy them if you don`t want=)
But I will agree with other posts, I like when I have someone running with me all the time, the only annoyance is to take it out of backpack every time I travel.
Maybe I`d like if they were more interracial, like sit, help you mine or chop with mini pickaxe/axe, maybe even shoot or try to kick an enemy(without dealing dmg of course), not just mindlessly follow you.

JamrilGelantara.9827:

i’m going to guess that you can’t lock them enabled because similarly with GW1 where you could only have a certain amount of them per district, if everyone locked them it would cause a problem and overload the limit of minis out at a time in a district.

Overflow for minis? :P

Paul.4081:

I don’t ever bother taking my HoM ones around anymore. Constantly having to re-enable and without invisible bags (afaik) I always send them back with my materials, why oh why? If I had a right click option to lock them enabled and to stay in my bag I might actually use them and buy some too. I don’t know how much invisible bags are but I’m not buying one just so that I don’t keep posting my minis back to my bank. Would be nice to have two mini slots on our character screen at the trinkets (like the weapon swap and selected mini is always following the player).

yeah i kinda agree on this one. its very anoying that your mini will always disapear if you use the quick option to deposit all collectables. would probbably better if there was a way to actually equip it so it would take a spot in your hero pannel and that way it wouldnt be send away each time. also everytime i enter a new area i need to re-equip it wich is also anoying. for my very small asura its awesome to have an almost as tall “chainsaw the skelleton” standing next to me. for me this has more priority than actually making the mini “usefull”. but yes it would be cool if your mini could do something. and with that i dont mean it has to fight in combat. being able to hold a few items would already be realy cool. maybe its an idea to give it the same effect as an invissible bag, so i could put my other exotic weapon set in there. or if you give him a stack of food he would make sure there will always be one activated. i gues picking up loot will never make it in the game since this makes it abit to easy for bots. but maybe it could run over to the mobs where there is still some loot and stand there with an big red ! over his head to indicate it. in huge fights with lots of mobs there is always 1 that you miss and i bet thats the mob that had my precurser shortbow!

another idea is to give him some items and he will sell those for you at the npc, when he’s back he will than automatically hand you over the money.

Toversletje.9345:

a way to actually equip it so it would take a spot in your hero panel and that way it wouldn’t be send away each time.

I vote for this one. Make a spot in Hero where the minis can be equipped like the ranger’s pets: when you click that spot it will open all your minis collection and it will equip any mini you have in there. If that certain mini is equiped on other character, it will automatically take it away form there and equip it for the current character

Minis should give small, almost insignificant, bonuses like 1% MF or Karma. It would be so small that it would hardly be game breaking not to have one, but still make it a little more attractive for people willing to get them. And the bonus could depend on the pet itself.
Or maybe make them collect loot for you so you don’t have to spam F all the time.

Azaziel.3608:

Minis should give small, almost insignificant, bonuses like 1% MF or Karma.

If minis had some benefits other then role-play they will become mandatory so they should be put in the game too without using the cash shop otherwise they will transform it into a pay to win.

Ronah.2869:

Azaziel.3608:

Minis should give small, almost insignificant, bonuses like 1% MF or Karma.

If minis had some benefits other then role-play they will become mandatory so they should be put in the game too without using the cash shop otherwise they will transform it into a pay to win.

C’mon Im suggesting something that is 1%, which means that if I make 378 karma (if I recall correctly) at a level 80 DE, I would get 3.78 ~ 4 more, so I would get 382 in total.
Is that really something mandatory or even pay to win? And even if it were, it would certainly be a lot less than the boosters currently available for purchase.

The minipet arena in LA is a planned “activity” (like Keg Brawl) for the future. So I believe you’ll see exactly that.

I think a lot more people would use minipets if they weren’t affected by the “Deposit All Collectables” button. The only reason I don’t keep one with me is because I want to be able to use that feature.

You could always put your miniature into an invisible bag, that way it isn’t put into your collectables when you deposit them all