Guild Wars 2

Why not make the first pet you get one that can’t be found in the world. 3 choices, each one changed or affected by Race, Personality and Starting group.

For example the Charr. Brute personality, Iron Legion. Any Ranger who is a charr would have a specific pet choice. Any player who has a Brute personality another choice. Then there’s the 3 groups for each race. You could have the same 3 types, less work, for each race or a unique one for each group depending on the history of that group. For example, the Iron Legion is unlike other groups. IT could start off with one of those machine critters on the Piory map. (can’t remember the map name. XD )

With the various history, personality and cultural devirsity you could have alot of fun designing each one without resorting to the static stats I’ve noticed on the pet families.

Yeah, so you get a class mechanic that is decided by your personal story, making character creation a mechanical issue, with no way of changing it. They barely pulled off racial skills by making them generally worse than class skills, they’d have to do the same with a unique pet. And "you start with a bad pet" is a bad idea.

Charzooka, enough said.

Why not, as long as those pets can’t be used in s/tPvP of course.