Guild Wars 2

This is not official in any way, I would love it, however, if ANet would implement this in the Heart of Thorns xpac. =]
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GUILD HALLS
ZAISHEN MENANGERIE GROUNDS
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The Zaishen Menagerie Grounds would be a purchasable upgrade to the new Guild Halls that allow Ranger/Druids to train and level their pets.

The Zaishen Menagerie Grounds will have several NPC’s. Trainers for every unique zone type with a charmable animal (jungle, desert, snow, etc. etc.).

This Guild Hall upgrade would cost 150 gold and 20,000 influence points.
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Once you purchase the Zaishen Menagerie Grounds, those representing the guild will gain access to a new type of item. Eggs.

While killing enemies, Eggs have a chance to drop depending on what type of enemy you kill and what zone you are currently in.

These Eggs have 3 tiers: Common, Rare, and Legendary.
– Common Eggs are not bound and can hatch the basic charmable pets that can be found throughout the game.
– Rare Eggs are account bound and hatch a new variety of pets, such as lions and tigers.
– Legendary Eggs are account bound as well and hatch pets such as: Rainbow Phoenix, White Tiger, and Mordrem Hounds.
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Once the Zaishen Menagerie Grounds have been purchased, pets gain access to an experience bar and levels.
– For each level gained, the pet gains Attribute Points that can be assigned to any of the 5 main stats by the player (Power, Precision, Toughness, Vitality, Ferocity, and Condition Damage).

These Attribute Points can be modified at any time when the player and pet are not in combat.
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When the pet reaches the max level of 20, it will gain access to a range of new additions such as pet titles and new skins.

Pet titles can be unlocked through special challenges and will function similarly to unlocking titles as a player.
– Titles will include: Dire, Aggressive, Elder, Playful, Hearty, and more.

Skins will be unlocked as the pet levels up and can change the pet’s size/appearance to reflect their age and experience.
– Pet titles and skins will also be purely cosmetic and have no effect on gameplay.

I’m fairly certain the Zaishen order got wiped out when Orr rose, and the waning interest in Balthazar among humans contributes. That said, a menagerie ground done well would be very welcome. This also looks to be a fairly solid way to introduce rare pets that you theoretically shouldn’t be able to tame out in the wild for various reasons. They wouldn’t all be eggs, though – “puppy”, “Cub” and similar would also have to exist.

However, I don’t feel increasing the stats of pets directly this way is in the spirit of the game. It’d be nice to have them be more effective, but I don’t see it as being in the cards.

New pet skins though? I’m all for that.

The only other problem I’m seeing is that while Ranger is popular certainly, this’d be a guild section just dedicated to rangers. What would other classes get out of it?

yes i would appreciate that… even though only ranger can use pets in gw2…
i still loved hanging around in the zaishen menagerie with all those animals^^

The Menagerie was a more acceptable thing in GW1 because people could off-spec into ranger to be able to use Pets. In GW2, only rangers would have access to it.

Yeah, the nice thing about that in GW1 was that everyone could technically tame pets.

I’m guessing that there would be other upgradable parts of the Guild Halls that focus on the other professions.

I’m just hoping this is what will be implemented for rangers. =]