Guild Wars 2

So it’s obvious that guild wars 2 has many mini pets, but frankly I find them more as a hassle and not worth the gems or coin to buy them. Besides the fact that they are cute or cool looking there’s no incentive to get them. I’ve spent a lot of money on them and I’m disappointed to the point i sold all but 4 or 5 of them….
I think i would be more inclined if:

1) they did more then just follow u around and looked nice. One thing i liked about the pets in wow was they were more animated and some even randomly threw spells at allies.

2) To have the ability to equip a pet like gear….. it’s really annoying how when ever you map change, or your pet gets too far away, or even some times just randomly if u have it out too long…. you have to activate your pet again!

What do you peoples think?

The mini pets are a perfect example of the change in Anet between GW1 and GW2.

In GW1 I viewed them as Anet’s way of saying Thanks for sticking with us another year and supporting our vision. For those that don’t know they were FREE then and given as a birthday present every year when your character turned another year older.

In GW2 … they are a reminder of why so many loyal customers from GW1 are unhappy with the direction we seem to be headed in. To me they have no value because they can be bought easily through the gem store.

interesting…. I never knew that; never played gw2

I bought a couple when I first started the game. The annoyance of them always being unquipped when changing maps or way points, the annoyance whenever I used the option to send collections to bank would send them to the bank, etc., eventually prompted me to leave the 3 I had in the bank. After some time I just sold them off.

I haven’t seen anyone with a mini-pet out in months. Absolutely bad design, and anet knows better, or should. It isn’t like they had 6 years with GW1 mini-pets to learn with.

See that’s another reason why they should make them equipable, so it also frees up inventory slots, and eliminates the reason to go to the bank when you wanna enable one.