Guild Wars 2

Flying Pets

I think it would be really fun, as a ranger, to have my flying pets glide along aside me, just for fun

Would be neat. Would also be a huge investment of graphics design and coding which would spawn bugs, probably will not make it into the game.

Until gliders, nothing in this game actually flew so much as “walked high above the ground” or leaped/launched. Your flying pets don’t even really fly as you would think of it.

With that said, the birds are animated to appear to fly. The wyverns are not because the GW2 versions of them don’t fly for long. The wyvern battles are made to mostly take place on the ground. The wyvern pets are a copy of that, and therefore they also stick to the ground.

As a compromise, maybe they could have swim animations and use that in the air? Though maybe the “flying” category of pets isn’t available for aquatic combat. I don’t play my Ranger/Druid enough to have memorized pet details.