Guild Wars 2

Why are HoM animals weaker than normal ones? We worked so hard for our points and the rewards just aren’t rewarding.

Look here:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Widow

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Juvenile_Jungle_Spider

over a 1000 less vitality

and all the other animals are weaker too
so i wanna know why and if they’ll change it because i really like the white raven

There’s been posts like this in the past… And no resolution yet.

I’d imagine they couldn’t care less since they figure all the GW1 players have already purchased GW2.

why only pets? I found armor skins, except gloves, even worse…

Lucky: The issue is, with skins… You can apply them to any gear.

The pets should just be “skins” for another existing pet, but they’re actually weaker stat-wise.

Lucky.3298:

why only pets? I found armor skins, except gloves, even worse…

That’s subjective whereas pets being weaker isn’t

Evrae Altana.1295:

Why are HoM animals weaker than normal ones? We worked so hard for our points and the rewards just aren’t rewarding.

Look here:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Widow

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Juvenile_Jungle_Spider

over a 1000 less vitality

and all the other animals are weaker too
so i wanna know why and if they’ll change it because i really like the white raven

Black Moa and the Rainbow Jellyfish have the same base attributes as their equivalent forms.

White Raven and the BW Spider are the HoM pets with a lower vitality.

To me, it looks like someone got lazy and just copy-pasted all the attributes (or typoed vitality) down the line for the lower two (Raven/Spider) since they are at the end of the HoM rewards.

Because if they were good then good ranger pets would be exclusive to those who played GW1, and they don’t want that. It’s the same deal with racial skills.

Minos.5168:

Lucky: The issue is, with skins… You can apply them to any gear.

The pets should just be “skins” for another existing pet, but they’re actually weaker stat-wise.

oh got you, thanks and sorry I have not seen from right point.

draakdorei.9436:

Black Moa and the Rainbow Jellyfish have the same base attributes as their equivalent forms.

White Raven and the BW Spider are the HoM pets with a lower vitality.

To me, it looks like someone got lazy and just copy-pasted all the attributes (or typoed vitality) down the line for the lower two (Raven/Spider) since they are at the end of the HoM rewards.

My guess was that ArenaNet had set vitality to a certain value initially, but then decided to buff the non-HoM Raven and Jungle Spider. (and, simply, forgot to change the values for Black Widow and White Raven.)

I honestly don’t see why they’ve been so silent on this issue, unless there’s simply nothing they can do to fix it. Which would seem to show poorly on their capability as developers.

I mean, what if they decided a certain ranger pet was too strong or too weak? Shouldn’t they be able to buff/nerf the stats as needed?

Hmmm I noted stats and skills of all pets (including HoM ones) a few months back when I was on my ranger. I really am not sure why I missed this, gonna have to test it in game soon. If this is true I would say draakdorei.9436 would probably be correct, an oversight and nothing more.

Either/or let’s keep this on first page or “liked” so it gets the attention it needs.

Writetyper.1985:

Because if they were good then good ranger pets would be exclusive to those who played GW1, and they don’t want that. It’s the same deal with racial skills.

No, it’s not the same, this is an entirely different situation.

The pets in question are significantly weaker than the pets they’re intended to be clones of. So why would anyone ever bother to use those uniquely skinned pets if they’re not identical in stats to more common pets?