Guild Wars 2

Being able to keep them at home.

A few suggestions to the pet:

Swappable skills. Pets have one skill. Nothing to choose. But you have different builds. Swappable skills (only very few and only for F2) would give each pettype more options. At the same time, if you give identical skills (like stealth foal all felines), you can still reduce the amount of skills AND you can choose better between pet-“skins”. I mean my ranger has no magical looks but I often play with support pets, my aggressive cat with might and my defensife dog with regeneration, but really, I cant stand stand the unnatural look of a plant-dog! At the same time I like my Black moa, but the daze… after it depends on my pet, it is only a random interrupt and I would prefer chill, fury or protection!

Effects depending on deeds would better for traits than depending on pettype. Bestmastery, master traits, They are great, but they loose 50% of their strength, if only one pet is effected. So instead of saying xyz are affected, abc not, make a trait, that affects abcxyz, but grants abc an effect, xy another effect and z again another one. for example sharks, felines bleed on crit while canines and spiders cripple with CD for the cripple.

Also overwork the F1-4 skills a bit, at first the modes: The passive pet still attacks, but will stay in your melee range (it will attack only, so far it dont have to move further than maybe 200 away from you, especially spiders and devourers have their strong points here). The pet prefers your target, but will attack any foe in range, so far there is one and you are in battle. Pets will not attack, before you enter battle and hit a foe, even if an aggressive foe is in range. The active mode targets one foe and your pet will only attack this foe, following it up to 1500. There is no need for a full passive pet.
F1: locks your pet onto your current target. the pet enters the active mode. F1 swaps to a skill to command your pet back to you and the pet enters passive mode. now you can locks your pet onto another pet.
F2: pet uses his skill like actually. If the pet is in passive mode, it will move out, attack, and comes back. If the attack has no need for attacking (like granting a boon), it will not move to the foe.
F3: heals your pet. It actually is a bit hilarious, after all you and your pet are demaged seperately and if you heal your pet, you risk to have no heal for yourself. the skill could be chooseable, if F2 should become a chooseable skill. If your pet is downed, it will run back to you, F3 will swap to a skill to rezz your pet.
F4: swaps your pets.

Also the traits could change slightly:
Markmanship:
Minor Adept: Your first hit after entering battle is always critical. Recharges after killing a foe. (the missing recharge makes the effect incredible weak against champions and long duration fights).
Minor Master: Opening strikes inflict vulnerability agains foes with more than 90% health.
major Grandmaster: Your new pet gains opening strike after swapping.
Nature Magic:
Major Master: Your pet and you gain 3 stacks of might (10s) when they are activated
Major Grandmaster: You and your pet gain 3 seconds of quickness when you swap pets

Beastmastery:
Minor Master: Pets get enlarged when you reach 25% health.
Minor Grandmaster: Your pets have natural health regeneration.
Major Adept: 10% of your Healing Power is converted to Power. (So far you do not have massive Healing Power, this Trait is really weak.)
Major Adept: Shouts last longer
Major Master: Pet swapping recharges 20% faster.
Major Master: Effect on swapping to your pet depending on the pettype
Major Master: Effect on critical hits of your pets, depending on the pettype
Major Master: your pet gains a boon instead depending on its type the next time it would be disabled.
Major Grandmaster: Shouts apply Regeneration (10 seconds) and Swiftness (10 seconds) to Allies. 360 degree radius.
Major Grandmaster: Your pet has a bond with you that increases its attributes each time you kill a foe. When it is defeated (not when it is deactivated), the bond is reset.

Also there should be really an option to play without pet. You can put your pet away like actual, but this time it will stay away during the battle. Under these circumstances, your mechanic changes slightly:
F1: Summons your pet. It has lower UI and bahaves like a summoned ally (like Mistfirewolf). The summoning lasts 60s and recharges 150s after pets death. Summoning the pet activates swap-traits. F2 and F3 go on recharge together with F1)
F4: You swap your “pet-controle” (no swap effects and no recharge time). You can summon, command and heal the choosen pet, you can summon your second pet at the same time. For example, you choose a feline, summon it, you swap and summon your second pet and command it (F2). you swap back to command your first summoned pet. While summoned, you can see the health, Through swapping, you can decide which pet is healed (F3) and see, which has low health. If you swap without pet, you can see at least the remaining recharge time.

Gorrila. F2 would be a banana throw that daze target.

An elephant or a mammoth, F2 would be trample anything and everything in it’s path with kitten knockdown for the few that survives this massive hitting 100% crit skill, that’s right were going blobhunting baby!

I have another pet wish. I wish pets would turn on their owners, those Rangers that make every attempt to shun them, rework them, and get rid of them. The Pet would just run away, probably after using its skills on the player, and leaving the player completely undefended. Then the Player has to go find a new pet to charm!

An Asura…

I want that Champion yellow elemental rock dog the centaurs got locked up

One wish: a pet system that actually works in WvW – including the ability to attack up to and down from walls with ranged or flying pets and the ability to move while attacking and hit moving targets who are not evading.

Griffon for me also, always loved the snow ones.
Any other choice would probably be: Phoenixes, Raptor or basilisk. Maybe crabs.

Juvenile Quaggan … make it happen, ANet!