Guild Wars 2

moved from suggestions to here
Hello Guildwars2 Community, I’ve played many MMOs and I always play the Ranger/Hunter type class (or Proffesion). Let me start off by saying I love love LOVE the pet system in Guildwars 1. It was great! You go out, find a animal in the wild. Then tame it, and bring it to the Zashian place. You got to see your collection populate the island. Now I am not saying Anet needs to do this for Guildwars 2 (though it would be nice (-: ). But with any MMO I love to explore, and with exploration comes discovery, and what is better as a ranger/hunter than discovering a new animal companion every now and then along your journey? At first when I played this game in the Beta I was fairly disappointed that you could see a list at the very start that has all the animals that you can “charm”. I would rather that not be there. But that is ok, that can stay. My idea is that these pets can stay listed (or just a handful). They can be organized under a “starter” listing, such as the first dyes you start off with, except you don’t start off with them. You just know what you will encounter on the starting of your journey. When Anet adds new pets into the game nothing will show up under the pets tab before you charm them. So you have to discover it yourself, rather that be at the end of a jumping puzzle, instance, DEs, etc The possibility’s are endless with guildwars 2. Once you charm this pet, a slot will appear on the tab. Just as it does already. This way the discovery will stay intact with the pet collecting. I really hope they do something like this. Please share your thoughts, and ideas in the comments, I would really like to hear what you guys think on the current system of collecting pets and how it can be improved. Thanks guys! PS. im sorry if it runs on, I wrote this late.

I would love this idea.

Except there’s one major, glaring issue that prevents it from ever happening and having an actual effect. PvP.

All pets are automatically given to you in PvP. Not just listed, but usable. Part of keeping the playing field completely level and independent of PvE, keeping it entirely skill-based and not “Who has the best stuff”. So even if Anet were to hide the pets from you in PvE, they’d have to put them into the PvP listing, so everyone would know right away anyway. At most, you could try to avoid going into PvP to try and keep it a secret, but eventually someone is going to mention it in map chat or something anyway.

I thought of this as well, My solution is one of two things
1. They could not include the anything but the first set they list for you (pretty dumb though)
2. They could have separate section under the pet tab for a type of animal. then further group them on abilities. Then as we collect different skinned pets with same abilities they are added into your pvp collection.
I also didnt like how the HoM pets were added into PvP for everyone. Kinda took the fun out of having them )-: #2 could solve this I believe.