Guild Wars 2

This is about the animation on when u swap pets.

Today ist like “POOF” changed… Doesnt look very good, nor convincing…

Whatabout if the pet that u swap to coult “etner” in a more good looking way, like “comming out of the shadows” like the rock dog from the Ogre-rune does (for canines felines, Moas, bears ).

Some other pet classes could use other ways like:

Birds could come flying from above,
Spiders could also come lowering itself from above.
Drakes could spawn like salamanders, from the ground.
Devourers could come crawling up the ground.

The pet that is “leaving” could leave the same way… into the ground or the shadows or up i the sky etc… Or maybe run away really fast and disapearing in a cloud of dust or leaves

This would look mych better lorewise and aesteticly. This could be used during that second it takes for our pets to react when its been swapped. There is Always a Little window when it just stands there doing nothing… right after u have swapped TO it.

Thoughts?

The different animations you suggested would cause different “cast times” and therefor technically be a nerf to certain pets etc.

Its a nice idea don’t get me wrong but in terms of both the gamers and developers priorities this would be very low, if considered at all.

Don’t mean to shoot your idea down but that’s how improvements/fixes vs polish/aesthetic’s tend to work.

Or just maybe make the pets react immediately after they get swapped instead of idling around for few seconds…

Taku.6352:

Or just maybe make the pets react immediately after they get swapped instead of idling around for few seconds…

You really think the pets are idle after swap because the devs want it? They get idle because the time the server take to check the state of the new pet, the target and start the AI, it takes a few seconds.

A new animation would only make the pet swap and then attack even longer, making pets even worse than they already are.

In a perfect situation those animations would be awesome, but the way the game works it would be terrible.

Neoheart.2750:

The different animations you suggested would cause different “cast times” and therefor technically be a nerf to certain pets etc.

Its a nice idea don’t get me wrong but in terms of both the gamers and developers priorities this would be very low, if considered at all.

Don’t mean to shoot your idea down but that’s how improvements/fixes vs polish/aesthetic’s tend to work.

lets be honest, the pet isn’t doing kitten for the first 5 seconds of them being summoned anyway… this would hardly change a thing.