Guild Wars 2

The miniatures/vanity pets in this game are pathetic. I don’t say that lightly either. I love getting them in any MMORPG I play.
I bought the digital collectors edition of the game specifically for the mist wolf and the rytlock miniatures. Sadly i never use the dang thing because it so poorly designed. Which is really odd considering how well designed the rest of Guild Wars 2 is.

I think the miniatures need to be update because they are still rather unacceptable in my eyes.
Here’s the problems with them as I see it.
Follow distance: The miniatures follow way to far behind the player. They are suppose to be a show piece item, and if it isn’t peddling a long 2~5 feet behind your heels, its not even noticeable.
My miniature shouldn’t be trailing 20~50 feet behind me. It shouldn’t disappear off my screen and I have to look around trying to see where the little thing went.

Reaction time: kinda ties in with above, the miniatures should react fairly quickly to the players movements. at least trying to keep up, this would stop most of the long distance problem, but at the same time they shouldn’t take of 5~10 seconds later.
Movement speed, They are slower than the player, why doesn’t the script automatically match their movement speed to the players speed? They are slow enough to be reset next to the player after them running for 30~50 seconds(sometimes longer)
Pathing: They follow the path the player takes…not direct pathing like a ranger pet does. Why? This puts them even farther behind than they should be.

All of the problems above shouldn’t be an issue at all considering Ranger pets and how they follow the player at appropriate distances, and reaction times.
They shouldn’t reset if i change maps, go for a swim, ect.

Persistence: The miniatures disappear too often, like when changing maps, going into water, and many other instances. They shouldn’t do this. They should be very persistent, and ignore a lot of things that would otherwise cancel out their presence in the game.

Vanity pets are suppose to be a bit of flashiness you pay for, and the miniatures in this game do not perform this task even remotely successfully.

Just some input. It should be a relatively easy fix, but I’m not a game dev so i don’t know how hard it would be to modify the miniatures to fix the problems.

Not all minis disappear in water. They do seem to have pathing problems, as well as speed problems, sometimes.

But, I never worry about them when I’m moving, as I only really show them off when I’m talking with others. =)

Although their actions don’t bother me, I hope something is done for all those for which this is an issue.