Guild Wars 2

Suggestion: Allow us to add equipment to our pets. I want Cringer/Battle Cat from He-Man.

There has never been any hint from A-Net about us removing pets, so let’s work on improving them.

Let’s give them some armor and maybe even some sigils/runes that we can socket. Give our pets some big time flare. Unlike the other classes, these are permanent companions. I could care less what happens to my engineers turrets or a mesmer’s clone. But when my Norn says that “Your Death will be avenged” I get kitten .

I know that there have been complains about allowing our equipment affect our pets, but this will allow for more customization!

Discuss.

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I would like to use my pet as a pack horse and carry more supply around in WvW. That would be nice.

Unfortunately what your suggesting is a massive undertaking. Not only would it take a long time to implement (design issues, implementation, UI) but the amount of balancing needed for this would be absolutely astounding.

To balance, pets without equipment would need to be substantially weaker. Or.. even worse.. they will make the RANGER even weaker to compensate for the fact that pets can use equipment.

I would rather see it go into another direction like
1) Pets will not automatically deploy when entering combat
2) A signet that passively gives +X% damage while a pet is stowed
etc.

I realize it’s a profession mechanic, but pets are very .. obtrusive and we’re forced to use them 100% of the time whether we’re specced for it or not.

How about giving the pets collars? One slot only, and with different bonuses on different collars.

Spiked collar for retaliation.

No. Just no. This game does not need Tim Taylor balancing, pets don’t need more stats. Adding more power to pets will break the ranger class, and it will be nerfed into the ground again. Rangers can already have a really tough pet, who hits hard – if it hits. In the meantime they themselves can be tanky.

I need to put armor for my pet spec same as body-type of player armor.

But I agree with nagymbear.5280 .

BTW need pet stomp…year am serious lol

Absolutely not. The pet already means that the ranger is balanced around it always being up (which in reality is laughable). Basically any improvements of this type mean that the ranger needs to be balanced accordingly, and that just can’t happen with how underwhelming weapons and utility already are.

We need smarter pets, better management and more accessibility, meaning more of a guarantee that we can keep calling new pets in when others go down. If we’re going to be balanced around a pet, we should have access to entire families in combat to make sure we have a working mechanic at all times.

Cosmetic equipment? Sure.

Stats based ones? No, for reasons already mentioned.

Pet damaged needs to be scaled back for builds that are not BM. More power needs to fold back into the ranger toon.