“Several lines of flavor text indicated more ranger pets were planned, none were added
The spotted beetle releases noxious gas in order to disorient enemies.
Pocket raptors normally travel in packs.
The spikenose beetle charges its foes when enraged."
Y’all just took ranger cruelty to a whole new level Anet! This is unbelievable! I hope this was an oversight? They must be coming in the next patch right? Right?
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They planned 7 Wyvern variations, used 3, and gave us 2 as pets. Seems as though we were spared.
Only one I would like to have from that list is the Spike-nosed Beetle, as its charge launches enemies behind it. A pet with that kind of F2 would make for some interesting cliff skirmishes; unless the Juvenile version were to receive a lesser-version of that (most-likely with all things considered).
Eh. I give no craps about pocket raptors. I’d rather have a normal raptor.
Seeing beetles be planned but not released makes me super sad, though. I’ve wanted a beetle pet ever since they first showed up in the Silverwastes (and there’s even a tease in the Silverwastes near the “Mystery Cave” area where you can find baby beetles). We need more bug pets.
Pocket raptors would have been awesome, but I honestly can’t complain about the selection we got. Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are amazing pets.
I couldn’t see trading out any of them for beetles or raptors. Well, maybe the tiger… but that’s IMO.
Pocket raptors would have been awesome, but I honestly can’t complain about the selection we got. Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are amazing pets.
I couldn’t see trading out any of them for beetles or raptors. Well, maybe the tiger… but that’s IMO.
SS was awesome till it got nerfed… Now its decent & still the best pet for sticking to people…
Wyverns are absolute bovine excrement who can’t hit a moving target whatsoever…
Bristleback was amazeballs & then it was nerfed but was still amazing… Then it got nerfed again… and again… and again… Now its only decent & nothing too special but still craps all over the vanilla pets. Then again the vanilla pets have never once been buffed since launch afaik & were constantly nerfed.
Honestly I’m glad we didn’t get more pets. They would have either been disappointing like the wyverns or nerfed into mediocrity. Anet refuses to give rangers the proper development time so my thinking is, the less attention we get the better because it’s usually something bad when we are looked at.
Raptors would have started out strong then whittled down into nothingness. Don’t get me wrong. Day one running in HoT and coming across those. I was like for kittens sake, that would have been a nice pet. Sort of like a cluster bomb
Then I said to myself, self, that is a bad idea…we can’t have nice things.
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Pocket raptors would have been awesome, but I honestly can’t complain about the selection we got. Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are amazing pets.
I couldn’t see trading out any of them for beetles or raptors. Well, maybe the tiger… but that’s IMO.
SS was awesome till it got nerfed… Now its decent & still the best pet for sticking to people…
Wyverns are absolute bovine excrement who can’t hit a moving target whatsoever…
Bristleback was amazeballs & then it was nerfed but was still amazing… Then it got nerfed again… and again… and again… Now its only decent & nothing too special but still craps all over the vanilla pets. Then again the vanilla pets have never once been buffed since launch afaik & were constantly nerfed.
Honestly I’m glad we didn’t get more pets. They would have either been disappointing like the wyverns or nerfed into mediocrity. Anet refuses to give rangers the proper development time so my thinking is, the less attention we get the better because it’s usually something bad when we are looked at.
I was speaking to it from an aesthetics angle.
Where do you get the idea I was arguing pet mechanics? Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are much cooler than two kinds of beetle and a pocket raptor.
I think they made the right call overall for the pets that we can tame in HoT. That said, the tiger pet is just a reskin of at least like two pets we can already get.
If it were up to me I’d have shelved the tiger for the pocket raptor (preferably) or one of the beetles.
Pocket raptors would have been awesome, but I honestly can’t complain about the selection we got. Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are amazing pets.
I couldn’t see trading out any of them for beetles or raptors. Well, maybe the tiger… but that’s IMO.
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I was speaking to it from an aesthetics angle.
Where do you get the idea I was arguing pet mechanics? Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are much cooler than two kinds of beetle and a pocket raptor.
I think they made the right call overall for the pets that we can tame in HoT. That said, the tiger pet is just a reskin of at least like two pets we can already get.
If it were up to me I’d have shelved the tiger for the pocket raptor (preferably) or one of the beetles.
Well for starters it was never mentioned once in entire post if we are only talking aesthetics, functionality, or both. As for aesthetics I’d agree Anet actually did a half decent job on the pets except the bristleback… That thing has a butt ugly face I just can’t forgive…
Pocket raptors would have been awesome, but I honestly can’t complain about the selection we got. Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are amazing pets.
I couldn’t see trading out any of them for beetles or raptors. Well, maybe the tiger… but that’s IMO.
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I was speaking to it from an aesthetics angle.
Where do you get the idea I was arguing pet mechanics? Smokescales, Wyverns, and Bristlebacks are much cooler than two kinds of beetle and a pocket raptor.
I think they made the right call overall for the pets that we can tame in HoT. That said, the tiger pet is just a reskin of at least like two pets we can already get.
If it were up to me I’d have shelved the tiger for the pocket raptor (preferably) or one of the beetles.
Well for starters it was never mentioned once in entire post if we are only talking aesthetics, functionality, or both. As for aesthetics I’d agree Anet actually did a half decent job on the pets except the bristleback… That thing has a butt ugly face I just can’t forgive…
There was nothing in my intial post to indicate I was arguing pet mechanics though.
I can respect your opinion and I agree with it for the most part in that almost every pet in the game outside of most of the HoT pets needs to be reworked in some way.
But I didn’t say anything to invite your opinion on the issue?
I mean, why did you quote me and go on a colorful tangent about pet mechanics? Just… kinda came out of no where with that. lol
