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Posted by: Seth Moonshadow.2710

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OMG AWESOME!! I love the Wyvern pets!!!

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Praise Melandru!

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Posted by: Hexalot.8194

Hexalot.8194

I find Rangers boring but LOL… I’m going to roll one for that flying flame breathing fire dragon pet alone…

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Posted by: Just a flesh wound.3589

Just a flesh wound.3589

Can we ride them? Rangers need wyvern mounts.

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Posted by: Seth Moonshadow.2710

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Praise Melandru!

No kidding right!?!?! So can’t wait to charm my Wyverns Sorry, I guess I should have posted this on Ranger forum. Hype was too much to think though

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Posted by: Kirschsahne.2081

Kirschsahne.2081

Awweeeeeeeesome………………. i want new pets…..

A-Net i love you and i am one of the bitter Vets left behind a long time.

You guys made the absolutely right decisions….. kudos

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Posted by: Levetty.1279

Levetty.1279

Only good thing.

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Posted by: hendusoone.3504

hendusoone.3504

Yeah, I’m super excited about the fire wyvern. I can’t wait to play with it! Something I noticed in the video, though… it looks like the fire field starts in one location, and slowly expands as the wyvern circles, dealing damage starting in the center and eventually expanding outward. It looked like the start point of the field was from where the wyvern took off. I’m hoping that gets tweaked a bit… It would be way more awesome if the field started at the targeted enemy’s location, and expand outward from the enemy.

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Posted by: Jephiroth.3197

Jephiroth.3197

Just start the fire field, then suck them into it, then lock them down and commence the beatdown.

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Posted by: Randulf.7614

Randulf.7614

What other new pets did they announce?

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Posted by: Vennyhedgie.5369

Vennyhedgie.5369

Forget wyverns, we get the coolest enemies in the game as pets, Smokescales!

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Posted by: lordkrall.7241

lordkrall.7241

What other new pets did they announce?

Lightning Wyvern.
Smokescale.
Tiger.
Bristleback.

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Awweeeeeeeesome………………. i want new pets…..

A-Net i love you and i am one of the bitter Vets left behind a long time.

You guys made the absolutely right decisions….. kudos

We love you, too. Never leave again.

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Posted by: Randulf.7614

Randulf.7614

What other new pets did they announce?

Lightning Wyvern.
Smokescale.
Tiger.
Bristleback.

Ooh Tiger. Smokescale….oh the funsies!!

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Posted by: CandyHearts.6025

CandyHearts.6025

The new pets make me so happy.
The Druid playstyle also makes me happy. This works for me in situations that aren’t even HoT related!

This is a great day! And I can’t wait to use that adorable Tiger! The Wyverns! The Smoke Scale! Is it Oct 23rd yet?!

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Posted by: LanfearShadowflame.3189

LanfearShadowflame.3189

Its a toss up whether I’m going after the wyverns or the smokescale first.

Choices choices…

Don’t look at me like that. Whatever you’ve heard, it’s probably not true.

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Posted by: TheLastNobody.8319

TheLastNobody.8319

Wonderful new blood banks for my reaper! :P

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Posted by: Wuselknusel.4082

Wuselknusel.4082

Yay… At best this new pets will replace pets that were previously good, so that those will now not be used again. And at worst, those new pets will not be worth it and wont be used. So either way, pets are still underwhelming…
But atleast now they look cool.

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Posted by: Knighthonor.4061

Knighthonor.4061

OMG AWESOME!! I love the Wyvern pets!!!

You know what? a picture would be nice of these new pets…. just saying

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Posted by: LanfearShadowflame.3189

LanfearShadowflame.3189

OMG AWESOME!! I love the Wyvern pets!!!

You know what? a picture would be nice of these new pets…. just saying

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Adolescent_Electric_Wyvern
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Adolescent_Fire_Wyvern
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tiger

Here are the foe skins, the pets share them. There wasn’t a good one of the smokescale on the wiki.

Don’t look at me like that. Whatever you’ve heard, it’s probably not true.

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Posted by: BooHud.2681

BooHud.2681

I honestly cannot wait to get that Tiger.

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Posted by: Itzpapalotl.5802

Itzpapalotl.5802

OH.MY.GOD!!! They Wyverns are sooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOooooo cute!!! . I can’t wait! My ranger shall now be complete!

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Posted by: Torsailr.8456

Torsailr.8456

Am I the only one disappointed that I can’t have some pocket raptors as a pet?

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Posted by: Ehecatl.9172

Ehecatl.9172

I am gonna have fun with wyverns and dinosaurs. This is a glorious day.

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Posted by: StinVec.3621

StinVec.3621

It was mentioned in the twitch stream that the new pets are not only for the Druid elite spec, but “for all rangers” as well.

https://youtu.be/K2ZHhJQn0B8?t=1650

Irenio – “’There are new pets that will be available in Heart of Thorns.”
Rubi – “And this is for all rangers, not just the druid.”
Irenio – “That’s right. This is kind of the thing that all rangers are getting access to in the Heart of Thorns.”

This is confusing to me. How can it be “all rangers” if the new pets are only available in HoT areas for those that own HoT? It would not be for all rangers, it would be only for rangers that own HoT.

As the juvenile form of the pet needs to be charmed, a regular ranger would not be able to get them as the juvenile form would only be available in HoT-only areas.

@Gaile (hiya, Gaile!)

  • Is this just incomplete information given during the twitch stream by Rubi and Irenio or incorrect words used?
  • Do the new pets actually require HoT and the Druid elite specialization unlocked to get them, but once gotten they can be used by non-druid rangers?
  • Or is it as it came off as being – that HoT is not required to get the new pets as it was said that all rangers will have access to them?
  • And if they are available to all rangers, does this possibly mean that pact Tyria will be seeing Mordrem and the juveniles of the new pets for base rangers to charm so base rangers can charm them outside of HoT-only content areas?
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Posted by: Malediktus.9250

Malediktus.9250

Auto unlocking them would seem pretty immersion breaking to me

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Posted by: Bandit.8279

Bandit.8279

Yea, pretty sure the pets will have to be charmed in HoT content and the devs meant that you didn’t need the Elite Spec to do it or use them.

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Posted by: StinVec.3621

StinVec.3621

Auto unlocking them would seem pretty immersion breaking to me

Oh, I completely agree. This is why I am confused on exactly how they would plan to add them to the base ranger pet selection if the base ranger cannot enter into HoT areas to charm them. Their stating that base rangers “get them” too is throwing all kinds of confusion at me. I’m hoping for some clarification on it.

EDIT:
Modified my post to remove the auto-unlocking portion as I missed the part where Irenio said “they can acquire these new pets”, which would mean they are acquired and not auto-unlocked.

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Posted by: Drarnor Kunoram.5180

Drarnor Kunoram.5180

On a related note, the stream never mentioned what the Tiger’s F2 skill was. Could we get that info, pretty please?

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Posted by: Ehecatl.9172

Ehecatl.9172

To StinVec.

Remember that in SPVP all pets are automatically unlocked for all rangers, even the Hall of Monuments pets that you are suppose to unlock from GW1. It seems probable that the HoT exclusive pets will be available in SPVP but if you want them in the rest of the game you need to buy the game and go tame them just like everyone else.

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Posted by: StinVec.3621

StinVec.3621

To StinVec.

Remember that in SPVP all pets are automatically unlocked for all rangers, even the Hall of Monuments pets that you are suppose to unlock from GW1. It seems probable that the HoT exclusive pets will be available in SPVP but if you want them in the rest of the game you need to buy the game and go tame them just like everyone else.

Ah, that’s a very good point. Thank you for reminding me of that being the case for pets in PvP, Ehecatl.

I suppose saying the new pets are available to all rangers is not incorrect as they are available to non-HoT rangers, but only in PvP. Makes sense. I didn’t think of that.

If that is exactly the case, I hope I do not need to start mentally placing an asterisk next to information like this that they release - kind of like:
“And this is for all* rangers, not just the druid.”
* HoT pets only available in PvP for rangers on accounts that do not own HoT

Maybe I’m just sensitive to the words being used in these information dumps and I shouldn’t be surprised to see everything new as requiring HoT, even new ranger pets that we have been begging for several years to get. :\

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Posted by: Hexalot.8194

Hexalot.8194

To StinVec.

Remember that in SPVP all pets are automatically unlocked for all rangers, even the Hall of Monuments pets that you are suppose to unlock from GW1. It seems probable that the HoT exclusive pets will be available in SPVP but if you want them in the rest of the game you need to buy the game and go tame them just like everyone else.

Ah, that’s a very good point. Thank you for reminding me of that being the case for pets in PvP, Ehecatl.

I suppose saying the new pets are available to all rangers is not incorrect as they are available to non-HoT rangers, but only in PvP. Makes sense. I didn’t think of that.

If that is exactly the case, I hope I do not need to start mentally placing an asterisk next to information like this that they release – kind of like:
“And this is for all* rangers, not just the druid.”

  • HoT pets only available in PvP for rangers on accounts that do not own HoT

Maybe I’m just sensitive to the words being used in these information dumps and I shouldn’t be surprised to see everything new as requiring HoT, even new ranger pets that we have been begging for several years to get. :\

I interpreted it to mean you didn’t need to acquire the druid elite specialization to get the new pets… but that needing the expansion to get them was a given.

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Posted by: StinVec.3621

StinVec.3621

To StinVec.

Remember that in SPVP all pets are automatically unlocked for all rangers, even the Hall of Monuments pets that you are suppose to unlock from GW1. It seems probable that the HoT exclusive pets will be available in SPVP but if you want them in the rest of the game you need to buy the game and go tame them just like everyone else.

Ah, that’s a very good point. Thank you for reminding me of that being the case for pets in PvP, Ehecatl.

I suppose saying the new pets are available to all rangers is not incorrect as they are available to non-HoT rangers, but only in PvP. Makes sense. I didn’t think of that.

If that is exactly the case, I hope I do not need to start mentally placing an asterisk next to information like this that they release – kind of like:
“And this is for all* rangers, not just the druid.”

  • HoT pets only available in PvP for rangers on accounts that do not own HoT

Maybe I’m just sensitive to the words being used in these information dumps and I shouldn’t be surprised to see everything new as requiring HoT, even new ranger pets that we have been begging for several years to get. :\

I interpreted it to mean you didn’t need to acquire the druid elite specialization to get the new pets… but that needing the expansion to get them was a given.

That does sound most likely to be the case. Thank you for your thoughts on the matter as well.

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Posted by: Vayne.8563

Vayne.8563

As a guy who mains a ranger…color me excited.

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Posted by: Sirius.4510

Sirius.4510

I… don’t know. I mean, the new pets are cool and all, but there is one question that jumps out at me immediately – what happened to raptors? Griffons? Skelk?

There were a lot of requests for those.

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Posted by: Random.4691

Random.4691

YES MORE PATHING ISSUES !

Seriously just let go of the pets, you have yet to make them function as intended after 3 years.

In the end the idea of Druid could be great (and it is in general) but once again it will be the lack luster class because you refuse to acknowledge that pets are more of a problem than a solution.

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Posted by: Seth Moonshadow.2710

Seth Moonshadow.2710

OMG AWESOME!! I love the Wyvern pets!!!

You know what? a picture would be nice of these new pets…. just saying

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Adolescent_Electric_Wyvern
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Adolescent_Fire_Wyvern
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tiger

Here are the foe skins, the pets share them. There wasn’t a good one of the smokescale on the wiki.

Don’t forget this one!

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Juvenile_Bristleback

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Posted by: Pukc.6328

Pukc.6328

It was mentioned in the twitch stream that the new pets are not only for the Druid elite spec, but “for all rangers” as well.

https://youtu.be/K2ZHhJQn0B8?t=1650

Irenio – “’There are new pets that will be available in Heart of Thorns.”
Rubi – “And this is for all rangers, not just the druid.”
Irenio – “That’s right. This is kind of the thing that all rangers are getting access to in the Heart of Thorns.”

This is confusing to me. How can it be “all rangers” if the new pets are only available in HoT areas for those that own HoT? It would not be for all rangers, it would be only for rangers that own HoT.

As the juvenile form of the pet needs to be charmed, a regular ranger would not be able to get them as the juvenile form would only be available in HoT-only areas.

@Gaile (hiya, Gaile!)

  • Is this just incomplete information given during the twitch stream by Rubi and Irenio or incorrect words used?
  • Do the new pets actually require HoT and the Druid elite specialization unlocked to get them, but once gotten they can be used by non-druid rangers?
  • Or is it as it came off as being – that HoT is not required to get the new pets as it was said that all rangers will have access to them?
  • And if they are available to all rangers, does this possibly mean that pact Tyria will be seeing Mordrem and the juveniles of the new pets for base rangers to charm so base rangers can charm them outside of HoT-only content areas?

You can probably get them in wvw….

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Posted by: OtakuModeEngage.8679

OtakuModeEngage.8679

Forget everything else, WYVERNS!!!!! <3 <3 <3 … with that alone the expansion is worth it, hahaha <3

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Posted by: Iason Evan.3806

Iason Evan.3806

So the pet AI is getting fixed? If not, my Wyvern will die just as easily as any other pet in the Mai Trin Fractal when the whole floor is a death trap and the same will happen in other events that have similar mechanics. These pets look amazing. It all really amounts to nothing though if the AI that should have been addressed in 2012 isn’t ever improved upon.

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Posted by: sharkswithlazers.7632

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Do we know if it’s only going to be the orange and black tiger or if we’re getting the Alpine Stalker as well?

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Posted by: circuitnerd.5863

circuitnerd.5863

Definitely using the Smokescale. Did you see how much damage it did in the livestream? 9.5k damage during it’s shadowstepping attack. Not to mention it can evade like hell. Just like the ones in Verdant Brink. Super potent.

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Posted by: MokahTGS.7850

MokahTGS.7850

Is it just me or does the tiger just feel like the red-headed step child of the mix. It even got skipped in the reveal…

Personally I would have liked a raptor instead of a reskinned panther.

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Posted by: MokahTGS.7850

MokahTGS.7850

It was mentioned in the twitch stream that the new pets are not only for the Druid elite spec, but “for all rangers” as well.

https://youtu.be/K2ZHhJQn0B8?t=1650

Irenio – “’There are new pets that will be available in Heart of Thorns.”
Rubi – “And this is for all rangers, not just the druid.”
Irenio – “That’s right. This is kind of the thing that all rangers are getting access to in the Heart of Thorns.”

This is confusing to me. How can it be “all rangers” if the new pets are only available in HoT areas for those that own HoT? It would not be for all rangers, it would be only for rangers that own HoT.

As the juvenile form of the pet needs to be charmed, a regular ranger would not be able to get them as the juvenile form would only be available in HoT-only areas.

@Gaile (hiya, Gaile!)

  • Is this just incomplete information given during the twitch stream by Rubi and Irenio or incorrect words used?
  • Do the new pets actually require HoT and the Druid elite specialization unlocked to get them, but once gotten they can be used by non-druid rangers?
  • Or is it as it came off as being – that HoT is not required to get the new pets as it was said that all rangers will have access to them?
  • And if they are available to all rangers, does this possibly mean that pact Tyria will be seeing Mordrem and the juveniles of the new pets for base rangers to charm so base rangers can charm them outside of HoT-only content areas?

You can probably get them in wvw….

um…the new pets are HoT content…of course only rangers who own HoT can get them.

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Posted by: CETheLucid.3964

CETheLucid.3964

Is it just me or does the tiger just feel like the red-headed step child of the mix. It even got skipped in the reveal…

Personally I would have liked a raptor instead of a reskinned panther.

You’ll have one. A shadowstepping, smokefield making bundle of teeth and victory. Tiger was the first one revealed BTW.

Didn’t get the in depth treatment the other ones did, but Tiger was shown first.

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Posted by: Substance E.4852

Substance E.4852

Is it just me or does the tiger just feel like the red-headed step child of the mix. It even got skipped in the reveal…

Personally I would have liked a raptor instead of a reskinned panther.

You’ll have one. A shadowstepping, smokefield making bundle of teeth and victory. Tiger was the first one revealed BTW.

Didn’t get the in depth treatment the other ones did, but Tiger was shown first.

Smokescale is a quadruped that looks like it uses the same rig and sound files as the rockhound.

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Posted by: Eirian Direstorm.9748

Eirian Direstorm.9748

Ruby said several times how rushed all the guild chats were because of being done at Twitchcon and having to meet some kind constraint, so they were really just skimming a lot of stuff.

Regarding Smokescale; those are so much worse to fight than almost any other mob in the HoT betas. I think they could be really great pets, not only because they are tanky, but because they’ll blind your enemies. (If they have all their normal skills).

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Posted by: CETheLucid.3964

CETheLucid.3964

Is it just me or does the tiger just feel like the red-headed step child of the mix. It even got skipped in the reveal…

Personally I would have liked a raptor instead of a reskinned panther.

You’ll have one. A shadowstepping, smokefield making bundle of teeth and victory. Tiger was the first one revealed BTW.

Didn’t get the in depth treatment the other ones did, but Tiger was shown first.

Smokescale is a quadruped that looks like it uses the same rig and sound files as the rockhound.

Could have swore the tameable ones walked on their hind legs and had itty bitty arms. Seemed very raptorish. I could certainly be wrong.

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Posted by: Vennyhedgie.5369

Vennyhedgie.5369

It’s possible the new pets can be acquired on the new wvw borderland. Anyone with the base game will have access to those, and if I remember correctly, there was wyverns in there, as well as some other saurians, so it’s not strange they would be found there. Some pets can currently be found in the alpine borderlands.

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Posted by: tyler the wild.3245

tyler the wild.3245

I was hoping to be able to get a raptor or a T-rex !