Guild Wars 2

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…

Do you have a ‘ranger discussion’ tracker or something? You are a one note song and a one trick pony of posting. I don’t anyone sees you unless someone even mentions the word ‘ranger,’ and you only then show up to pronounce doom.

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.

I think at this point you should take into consideration that pets are not some fancy addition to an otherwise 100% stand-alone class, but rather the fundamental core mechanic of the Ranger. So, when you’re working on the core mechanics of the classes in GW2, it’s only logical to add in new pets for the Ranger, which may fullfil different roles than the pets currently available. Your opinion is like saying: “Please work on a new and cool warrior specialization, but don’t let it feature new adrenal skills.”. Eh, doesn’t make much sense, right?

Yes, I main a Ranger and I don’t see why they wouldn’t add new pet species or whole new families even. I’m hoping for …

Griffons, Raptors, Tigers and Gorillas

It would be amazing if they add a new “family” of pets. Like Apes/ monkeys.

Monkey
Baboon
Orangutan
Gorilla

that would be really cool and would make me want to play my ranger more.

I’d like to see more plant-like creatures and pets to get back some of the plant variety from GW1.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Plant
Snake vines like Ibogas and Ayahuascas!
Flying spores like Jaracandas and Epiphytes!
Bettle husks like Aloes Seeds and Salving Cacti and Grasping Roots
Drake bushes like Dragon Lillies and Dragon Moss!
Basilisk bushes like Enchanted Brambles and Undergrowths!

Not corrupted mordrem. Plants. So far we only have treants, fern wolves and husks .

Starting with replacing the moa and the stalker for the Sylvari starting pets.

There should be at least 3 plant-like pets for those. There’s the fern wolf, se we need 2 more:

• One beetle-like
  http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/e/e9/Aloe.jpg
• And one drake-like
  http://wiki.guildwars.com/images/c/cd/Dragon_Lilly.jpg

How are they supposed to be together since forever if the sylvari was just born? They had to be in the dream too, and so they must have been plants too!

Why would you want new pets when most of the ones we already have that aren’t cats, drakes, dogs, or spiders are already useless?

I prefer they fix moas and bears and pigs and devourers to not be total garbage first.

Zenith.7301:

Why would you want new pets when most of the ones we already have that aren’t cats, drakes, dogs, or spiders are already useless?

I prefer they fix moas and bears and pigs and devourers to not be total garbage first.

The bearbow rangers tend to disagree that they are useless, just becouse they do less damage dont mean they dont have their use.

No, Bearbows are useless in 99.999% of content. I can’t think of one situation where it is actually useful in dungeons/fractals… Solo open world PVE… If you need something to hold aggro, I guess.

TakaYama.5394:

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.

Given the resources needed (as that has been the excuse in the past) to fix the Ranger I wouldn’t count on it. Best one can reasonably hope for is that one of the new Ranger Specializations profession specs replaces the pet… because they said they’d have to rebalance the Ranger if they did anything with the pet it just makes sense they’d do it with a Specialization vs. the Ranger it self. Which I think would be better anyway because then those who want to continue to play the Ranger as it, with the constant pet, can and if you want to Specialize to a new profession mechanic that doesn’t have the pet, you can. It’s really a win-win. That being said I’m not holding out hope that the Druid is going to be petless, but I am hoping that a future Specialization (perhaps in another expansion) will be petless so as to satisfy a good portion of the Ranger population that doesn’t want the pet.

Chimpanzee
Orangutan
Spider Monkey
Lemur
Giant tree frogs in assorted colours
Python
Anaconda
Toucan
Parrot
Quetzalcoatl inspired flying snake
Giant ant (red and black variations)
Giant termite
Giant tarantula

I would like, attacks on all of the pets to be a bit more useful. Like the forest spider has that aoe poison zone, or the lizard from the island has that tail sweep. I find that most pets really have no usefulness and are just basic attackers with abilities that make no real difference. I’d love for someone at Anet to go back through improve pet attacks per family and make fun news ones in the process of putting together this expansion.

it will be cool if ranger pets could wear armor , grow (I think my wolf has passed the juvenile stage long time ago) , and if we could ride them

We need Raptors.

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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…

Main necro popping in here with a big ol’ can of U WOT M8
Seriously though…. the only way in which rangers are broken is in spvp with a LB because it’s easy to dodge. Sb, as well as pretty much all their other options are quite viable and quite fun imo.
Not that necro is really horribly broken in spvp either, but i assumed that’s what you were complaining about because zerker rangers are pretty well valued in pve as i understand.

I tried asking if Green Moas and Scaled Drakes would be added as the one extra addition to their perspective families (since felines are having Tigers join). Any word on wether or not they will be part of the game?