Guild Wars 2

I haven’t seen a thread about this. But in the old Guildwars game when an expansion or new campaign were released there was a nice big list of new ranger animal companions that are released. So I was wondering if anyone had any hopes/ideas for what new pets they will hopefully add?
I am hoping that we will be able to get our hands on crocodiles and rats, even though neither was found in the maguuma jungle in the first game. But Hyenas weren’t found in Ascalaon in the first game either.

Impossible man.
Ranger is the most broken class in this game. After 2 years and half Anet hasn’ t fixed it.
My personal opinion is that they didn’ t put enough efforts to fix it.
So…I doubt they will add new pets for ranger couse they don’ t care about rangers and everyone knows it.
It’ s not stranger that in every point of interest episodes devs never use ranger…

Darkness.9732:

Impossible man.
Ranger is the most broken class in this game. After 2 years and half Anet hasn’ t fixed it.
My personal opinion is that they didn’ t put enough efforts to fix it.
So…I doubt they will add new pets for ranger couse they don’ t care about rangers and everyone knows it.
It’ s not stranger that in every point of interest episodes devs never use ranger…

There’s a point here. But i do like the idea of new pets!

Crab (plz)
Lion
Lioness
Rock Dog
Monkey of some sort
maybe a Wind Rider?

Darkness.9732:

Impossible man.
Ranger is the most broken class in this game. After 2 years and half Anet hasn’ t fixed it.
My personal opinion is that they didn’ t put enough efforts to fix it.
So…I doubt they will add new pets for ranger couse they don’ t care about rangers and everyone knows it.
that’ s why in every point of interest episodes devs never use ranger…

I would like a dinosaur for my lvl 80 personal story and map completed ranger. Or maybe new cats.

Shinya.2598:

Darkness.9732:

Impossible man.
Ranger is the most broken class in this game. After 2 years and half Anet hasn’ t fixed it.
My personal opinion is that they didn’ t put enough efforts to fix it.
So…I doubt they will add new pets for ranger couse they don’ t care about rangers and everyone knows it.
It’ s not stranger that in every point of interest episodes devs never use ranger…

There’s a point here. But i do like the idea of new pets!

Crab (plz)
Lion
Lioness
Rock Dog
Monkey of some sort
maybe a Wind Rider?

I loved my crab in GW1, by far my favorite pet. Also, maybe white tiger/tiger pet too.

I don’t get whats so “Impossible” about adding new pets, it isn’t exactly rocket science.

As for what I’d like to see, keeping to the jungle theme I wouldn’t mind some of these;
Snakes
Monkeys
Skelk
Skale
Crabs
Karka
Giant Beetles

If they ever do add more pets, i hope it isnt just reskins with a bunch of crappy abilities :/.

Give us some pets that we can actually bound our skills with. Like a phoenix that would create a circle of flame (Fire Field).

They don’t have enough resources.

Johje Holan.4607:

They don’t have enough resources.

What do you mean they don’t have enough resources? there’s animals already in the game they could use and new ones being included, what could you possibly mean?

I strongly suspect that if there were new pets, then the “druid” we saw would have had one with him. I also suspect that when the druid was made, they probably forgot rangers even had pets.

Don’t get your hopes up.

Attack Peakitten. Its skill could be slightly mesmery. Razzle dazzle.

The censoring just reminded me why this is unlikely to happen…

I’d like to catch a griffon

It would be nice if minion AI wasn’t complete garbage. Decided to mess around and go full minion on my necro. Most things I fought, half of my minions didn’t even attack. I don’t even get how AI is that bad.

Darkness.9732:

Impossible man.
Ranger is the most broken class in this game. After 2 years and half Anet hasn’ t fixed it.
My personal opinion is that they didn’ t put enough efforts to fix it.
So…I doubt they will add new pets for ranger couse they don’ t care about rangers and everyone knows it.
It’ s not stranger that in every point of interest episodes devs never use ranger…

Ralanost.8913:

It would be nice if minion AI wasn’t complete garbage. Decided to mess around and go full minion on my necro. Most things I fought, half of my minions didn’t even attack. I don’t even get how AI is that bad.

Sorry i couldn’t avoid. I have a necro and a ranger and i have to say necro is the most broken. Then the ranger.

But yes, you don’t have this kind of problems with other classes. All the traits/skills works as intended or understood.
Here we have a source of continuous disappointment from Anet.

About new pets, FIRST they need to rework all pets mechanics. Having the SAME pet with different skins is just really lame. We have to do an scavenger hunt for them, reward us with a different pet at least.

And once we are with it, please make the pets deeper with traits and customizable skills to improve our control over them, seen that the A.I. fixing is not going to be done.

Tyrannical.9348:

I don’t get whats so “Impossible” about adding new pets, it isn’t exactly rocket science.

As for what I’d like to see, keeping to the jungle theme I wouldn’t mind some of these;
Snakes
Monkeys
Skelk
Skale
Crabs
Karka
Giant Beetles

oooh yes! Gigant beetle!

All what ranger needs it … Legendary Llama Pet!

GW1 pets from the Maguuma Jungle and nearby areas:
a single Moa (looks red)
Warthog
Albino Rat (in dungeons)
Iguana
White Crab (most are in the Far Shiverpeaks, but one was in Arbor Bay, SE of the expansion area but close enough)

I personally would want a raptor, Shrieksy is a precedent.

As much as I’d like to see this I too doubt this will happen and not because I naysay but because of the track record here with this team. Just look at major issues in the game still untouched like the economy and rewards and PVE combat…all untouched problems that have plagued this game from the beginning that have never been fixed.

I’d like to see this happen but something tells me there will be a whole bunch of hype with very little substance coming.

Tyrannical.9348:

Johje Holan.4607:

They don’t have enough resources.

What do you mean they don’t have enough resources? there’s animals already in the game they could use and new ones being included, what could you possibly mean?

That’s what they say as a reason for why they don’t do something. And what it means is they don’t have enough staff to do the job properly. Their parent company, NCSoft, is a cheap kitten and won’t devote the resources necessary to do a good job.

Just like a lot of companies though. Why hire more people to do a really good job when you can “get by” with what you’ve got. Its all about the investors not the employees or customers.

I wouldn’t mind having a juvenile karka, but I think that’s not going to happen. A safer bet would be a pet raptor, because they’ve been in the game since GW1 and their attack animation is based on the moa bird screech.

Mustbeghosts.7043:

Attack Peakitten. Its skill could be slightly mesmery. Razzle dazzle.

The censoring just reminded me why this is unlikely to happen…

If they do, they might have to be peahens, or have the forum censor be less strict. I think there were male peahens in Cantha, so seeing them again would be cool. Not sure if it’d be jungle appropriate, but there’s lots to still see back there.

That said, I’ll be extremely disappointed if there isn’t at least 1 new pet in HoT. My ranger is eager to grow his menagerie, even if it’s just a new drake or spider, say.

Yeah, no, not happening.
I’d kill to have a tiger, a lion, a griffon, a crab, a behemoth… anything really, I’d even pay for them in the gemstore – but they’re so tight on spending resources that they will not bother doing something for a single class. The fact that it’s the ranger we’re talking about makes it worse, muuuuch worse.
They’re so careless, so oblivious, that they don’t even know some dungeon bosses don’t take damage from the pet, OVER TWO YEARS FROM RELEASE.
This is how much they care about the ranger.
…
I want a llama Q.Q

at least have a raptor as pet, it’s bin 8 years now and nether GW1 nor GW2 has a raptor as pet.

Johje Holan.4607:

Tyrannical.9348:

Johje Holan.4607:

They don’t have enough resources.

What do you mean they don’t have enough resources? there’s animals already in the game they could use and new ones being included, what could you possibly mean?

That’s what they say as a reason for why they don’t do something. And what it means is they don’t have enough staff to do the job properly. Their parent company, NCSoft, is a cheap kitten and won’t devote the resources necessary to do a good job.

Just like a lot of companies though. Why hire more people to do a really good job when you can “get by” with what you’ve got. Its all about the investors not the employees or customers.

Ahahhh, so not a fact, an assumption. A rather gloomy pessimistic one at that.

I for one think that it’s not really that much a push compared to, oh I don’t know, a whole expansion pack of content that miiiight just include new pets? (They did announce new creatures after all, and have been working on class mechanics too)

I want a pet sloth for my ranger.

When you summon it, it just lays there for a minute then fades out. During battle, it occasionally drops from somewhere above to land on the opponent for damage, then when it hits the ground it just kind of rolls away and fades out again. F2 skill is centered on the Ranger and puts all nearby enemies to sleep for 5 seconds or until hit.

((Jokes aside, I would like to see some of the pets suggested in this thread. Tigers, lions, raptors, maybe a fox or coyote… Honestly, at least one new animal for each of the pet types would be reasonable.))

Palador.2170:

I want a pet sloth for my ranger.

When you summon it, it just lays there for a minute then fades out. During battle, it occasionally drops from somewhere above to land on the opponent for damage, then when it hits the ground it just kind of rolls away and fades out again. F2 skill is centered on the Ranger and puts all nearby enemies to sleep for 5 seconds or until hit.

((Jokes aside, I would like to see some of the pets suggested in this thread. Tigers, lions, raptors, maybe a fox or coyote… Honestly, at least one new animal for each of the pet types would be reasonable.))

I want a giant pet sloth so that it takes forever to swing at the enemy….

Maybe some kind of ghost pet things? Since the spec is Druid. But I’d rathe see improvements in Pet AI. That would be enough

I still don’t understand what was so bad about gw1 pet system that they couldn’t bring most of it over. It was challenging and rewarding to tame new pets, and they had their own traits that you could manipulate.

This is your pet Tyrannus. That’s right. Your very own pet Tyrannus. It’s your pet. And a Tyrannus. Awesome. Tyranni rend their foes with powerful teeth, and can even swallow foes whole.

This would be great. But i dont think so, they would have announced it, like precursors

How about taming an Actual drake ? These “Drakes” in the game are nothing but rampaging giant geckos . Seriously i want a lil mini land dragon; Maybe a dire wolf, or sabbertooth tiger ? I want cooler pets kitten it , i mean one of your Drakes looks like sid the sloth ~coughs~ river drake . Or make it so we could make our pets bigger Example let us make our pet shark into a megalodon .

I really, really hope so.

We have gotten next to no new pets since the launch of the game (just the Reef Drake) and I’m hugely disappointed by that. I love me some pet variety, and there are so many creatures already in the game that we don’t have pet versions of (not to mention all the new creatures HoT will surely add). Wind riders, griffons, skale / shelk, crabs, fish, sea scorpions, grubs, wurms, raptors, hoofed animals like deer, beetles, the list of non-pets is very considerable. I remember back when I played Star Wars Galaxies, pretty much every type of creature in the game could be tamed in some fashion, and while hoping for that is probably a pipe dream for GW2, I’d still really like to see some growth in the pets available.

Now, that said, I do kind of understand WHY there haven’t been many added. Pets are in kind of a weird place where they apply only to one profession, and no other profession really has a counterpart to them. So any pets that get added is basically 100% catering to Rangers, and its not like they can really give other professions something else to balance it out as other professions don’t have any analogue to it.

But an expansion, where other professions are at least getting new skills and utilities and such to play with, that’s definitely a place where new pets can slip in without being too disruptive. I mean, its still catering to Rangers to some extent even then, but at least its not an addition to Ranger while everyone else gets nothing at all.

Jaysin X.6740:

I still don’t understand what was so bad about gw1 pet system that they couldn’t bring most of it over. It was challenging and rewarding to tame new pets, and they had their own traits that you could manipulate.

For some reason all of these devs out there think that those methods weren’t fun, even in the elephant in the room, Beast Mastery is terrible compared to it’s glory days in the past. Everything is homogenized now in games.

Jaysin X.6740:

I still don’t understand what was so bad about gw1 pet system that they couldn’t bring most of it over. It was challenging and rewarding to tame new pets, and they had their own traits that you could manipulate.

Leveling pets in GW1 was excruciating, for starters.

Also, there was nothing challenging about taming pets in GW1. You walk up and use Charm Animal, it was functionally the same as how it works in GW2 except Charm Animal had a ten second channel for no apparent reason.

I would love to see more ranger pets.

Here are a few that come to my mind that I’d like to see added:
dolphin
dolyak
griffon
llama
rabbit
ram (hey it’s year of the ram after all!)

Gotta catch ’em all!!!

Well I just went and watched the matt Visual interview with Colin, and he said that they will be going back and taking a look and changing some of the current professions. So That gives me hope that they will fix the ranger. And hopefully add new pets. I know that hoping for dire pets is out of the question really, but hoping for something new isn’t. They could even tie it into the mastery system maybe. I just really want a pet i can feel close too.

New ranger pet. Wyvern. Tamed after hunting them in the jungle using the mastery trait system. A man can dream…

I’d love to see at least two new pets pop up for rangers to use since they are going to have a specialization. Personally, I loved it when they released the reef drake with Southsun Cove. I still use that particular dragon very often for many different types of things when I play my ranger.

Who knows though? Maybe pets can even evolve with our specialization, which would be absolutely awesome if they, let’s say, gain a second skill that we can use. I’m excited to see the changes for the ranger most of all since it is my main character and my favorite class to play! =P

There is no reason to expect new pets. In GW anyone could have a pet because anyone could sub class as a Ranger and get pets regardless of main class. That’s not the case in this one. It would be irresponsible to add extra content that only one class can enjoy.

I’d much rather they make pets not completely worthless first.

If I had to guess, we’ll see one or two . . . maybe. Seeing how the only new pet we’ve gotten in the last three years or so is the reef drake, I’m not holding my breath for more than two if any.

I’d be happier if we could change around our pets’ abilities instead. I’ll make my own “new” pet, thank you.

But I ain’t holding my breath on that either.

Miltek.2104:

All what ranger needs it … Legendary Llama Pet!

Kal Spiro.9745:

There is no reason to expect new pets. In GW anyone could have a pet because anyone could sub class as a Ranger and get pets regardless of main class. That’s not the case in this one. It would be irresponsible to add extra content that only one class can enjoy.

While I do agree to some extent and fully believe that’s the reason they haven’t added many pets in normal content patches, I think there’s going to be enough content in HoT for everyone to enjoy that a bit of profession-specific stuff like new pets would be perfectly fine.

If everyone is just getting a few scraps of food, then its very noticeable when one person gets more scraps than the others. But if everyone is having a feast, then one person having a few extra pieces of broccoli isn’t going to be the end of the world.

There’s one other factor – like it or not, pets are part of the Ranger profession. All professions are getting a little expansion; it wouldn’t be unfair if in the Ranger’s case that meant access to new pets.

Raptors! I want a pet raptor, we know they CAN be tamed cos Ogres use them all the time. There’s even an asura npc (Kozzak) who has a pet raptor (Shrieksy).

Skritt and f2 skill is Finding shinies

No new pets, unless other professions also get new abilities and/or customization.

They added that goofy lizard with the southsun update I think? I wouldn’t rule out new pets.