Guild Wars 2

While I’m happy with the recent changes to the Ranger profession, one thing that has bothered me from the beginning is the fact that Ranger pets stay ‘juvenile’ forever and never grow, learn other skills.

Suggestion: I understand a pet levelling mechanic is a LOT of work to ask, but it’s something I would love to see implemented. In the meantime, some new pets would be greatly appreciated.

Lastly – why do all four pig variations have the same skill, and how does the warthog not have a charge?

The pigs all have the same special skill, but they dig up different things (with some overlap). And all pigs have “Brutal Charge” as their longest CD ability. It only has a a 300 range, but comes with a 3 sec knockdown.

Having to level a pet, while adding depth to the class, would be a pain in the kitten .

I don’t want more pets I want pet outfits such as some cool battle pig armor or some thing to dress them up and also once you tamed them remove the Juvenile title from the name also I don’t expect the outfits to add any stats that would be a balance issue Im looking for skins to deck out my custom battle big.

No offense, but this has to be the lowest low priorities imo. We have pets that can’t hit moving targets. F2’s that simply make no logical sense in their implementation. Horrendously rediculous casting animations. Pets simply don’t work. Adding more features shouldn’t even be on their radar.

To be honest, ANet needs to sit down and ask themselves if pets will ever function properly in larger group settings. Because if they can’t get pets to work there, they need to start thinking of things to replace the entire system with. They should have had this discussion 2 years ago in fact.

Simply removing “juvenile” from the pet names would be nice. My dear fern hound has been with me since I awoke from the Dream during head-start and, despite having been to Orr and back, he’s still a juvenile?

I’d actually like for pets to work more like they did in GW1. Sure, it’s more work, but I enjoyed raising my pets and seeing them grow to become more powerful, and having different roles depending on how I raised them.

Sagramor.7395:

The pigs all have the same special skill, but they dig up different things (with some overlap)

No overlap – that’s a mistake on the wiki. Warthog is all conditional damage (2 of 3 being fields) — no fear.

Ehecatl.9172:

I’d actually like for pets to work more like they did in GW1. Sure, it’s more work, but I enjoyed raising my pets and seeing them grow to become more powerful, and having different roles depending on how I raised them.

A lot more work. In GW you had 1 pet. In GW2 you’ve got like 40. I really don’t want to raise every one of them. Not to mention that the role your pet filled in GW was based on how you raised them. In GW2, it’s based on which pet you choose. This way, you’re not stuck with that awesome Dire Wolf that you don’t want to give up but can’t tank very well. Now you just swap out your jaguar for a pig and you’re good to go.

Well if you can have a battle pig i expect my eagle to turn into a pheonix this is a long awaited prestige pet for all true ranger.

Role filled by pet can indeed be based on how you raise it cept as a swift action out of battle you can make it dire, playfull or old.

Regardless Pets hardly have any depth to it right now and could use more customisation for the animal love.

P.E.T.A. ftw!

kyubi.3620:

Regardless Pets hardly have any depth to it right now and could use more customisation for the animal love.

How exactly?

True, we don’t have pet evolution like in GW and WoW. But what we get instead is a variety of 40 different pets to choose from and any 2 to swap between at a time. Each pet family has general similarities (stats, 3/4 skills) and then each specific pet has an individualized skill. There’s a lot of depth as far as variety goes. I’d rather that than spending hours raising a pet to adhere to a single aspect, only to be limited in the future.

It’d be sweet as hell to visually customize our pets, but then we’re getting into problems with PvP/WvW. I suppose those customizations can be inactivated for those game modes, so-as not to hide which pet you’re using. You gotta admit, pet armor would inhibit an enemy’s ability to tell which pet the ranger is using. But then we’d get the QQ from 2/3 the players who say that feature excludes them. And they’d be right.

I think everyone will agree that it was a terribly lazy oversight to not allow pet names to be saved. I’ll give you that one for sure.

How else can Anet add depth to the pets?