Guild Wars 2

I love little vanity items like CS pets(Minitures in this game), and I tend to collect them, and the major reason I purchased the Deluxe edition pre-order was because of the rytlok mini.

I really want to love the cs pets in this game but they just don’t behave in such a way that makes them worth even trying to get and use.

I would really love the mini’s if they didn’t

1. Trail 15~20ft behind me and path around wherever I walked.(sometimes she’s even 30+feet away…)
I wish it would cling to my side, not right on my kitten , but just a few feet away and it didn’t follow the path that I walked. Instead I would love the miniatures just followed me almost at my heels offset to my side, and would always take the most efficient path to me, instead of walking in my exact trail behind me.
It’s not hard to do a collision avoidance behavior either so that they just walk around an object that would block their direct path to me. Auto pathing wouldn’t be hard at all. In the game engines I’ve worked with some even have it built in.
Edit: I just watched it in game, and the minitures do have object avoidence programmed into them.

Let me express just how bad this really is with not normal but Eyefinity Surround (32:9) screenshots.
http://i.imgur.com/ZbezE4c.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fkKIchR.jpg

You can’t even see it off in the distance with a normal 16:9 screen most of the time.

And, not as big of a deal because most of my complaint before was fixed but
2. I’m in the middle of playing through story elements and porting around towns and doing random stuff and every time I walk through an instance or anything in the story my mini disappears. Not sure if this is just a glitch because it doesn’t happen when I port around the map and walk into the instances around towns.

Number 1 is big though, it makes little sense to me to have a CS pet that trails so far behind me that it’s not even on my screen and I have to go looking for it to make sure it’s even summoned, or that it doesn’t even trail close enough that it looks like a part of my outfit.

I’d probably spend an obscene amount of money on these little things if Number 1 was fixed.
The trail distance is way too far, and their pathing makes it even worse, to the point where i regret spending money on my collectors edition to get the rytlok mini.

My CS Pet only appears to belong to me when I’m standing there idle/AFK, which is a big disappointment.

Not sure if it would make you feel worse, but you could have obtained the Rytlock Mini with just a DDE purchase.

I’ve no idea why the minis trail so far behind, it’s something that is often remarked upon; perhaps, one day, it will be addressed.

Good luck.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Not sure if it would make you feel worse, but you could have obtained the Rytlock Mini with just a DDE purchase.

That’s exactly what I did…appears that I confused the digital version with the real life version, i got the digital one.

Regarding 1) … at least the minis are better behaved than ranger pets. -_-

Yeah the distance at which they trail really bugs me. GW1’s mini’s stuck much closer to their owner and it was great.

Often times when I’m in a semi-crowded area I can’t even spot my own mini because for some reason it isn’t by my side… And of course the second I start walking around I just forget I even have one.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Yeah the distance at which they trail really bugs me. GW1’s mini’s stuck much closer to their owner and it was great.

Often times when I’m in a semi-crowded area I can’t even spot my own mini because for some reason it isn’t by my side… And of course the second I start walking around I just forget I even have one.

Yeah, this really should be fixed, it would make me more willing to go and collect them and buy a bunch more.