Guild Wars 2

This might have been brought up before and I know the chances are slim of this actually achieving anything but I wanted to try anyway.

There are many creatures in Guild Wars 2 that I think would be suitable to serve as a Ranger’s animal companion. I think these creatures have the added bonus that their modelling and animations are already done which should make them easier to add as animal companions. Now, I know that it’s not as easy as simple flipping a switch to make this possible. There would still have to be quite a bit of programming and especially quite a bit of balancing but still.. Below are the creature families I was thinking of. What do you think? Good idea or not? Am I missing any creatures you think would be excellent as Ranger pets?

Terrestial

Bat
Cave Bat
Cliff Bat
Frost Bat
Fruit Bat
Vampire Bat

Griffon
Eagle Griffon
Hawkeye Griffon
Owl Griffon

Raptor (might be amphibious)
Black Raptor
Crested Raptor
Eagle Raptor
Jungle Raptor
Vulture Raptor

Skale (might be amphibious)
Bog Skale
Brackish Skale
Ridgeback Skale
Skale Blighter

Skelk (might be amphibious)
Alpine Skelk
Jungle Skelk
Putrid Skelk
Reef Skelk
Shadow Skelk
Skelk Lurker

Amphibious

Crab
Arctic Crab
Coconut Crab
Freshwater Crab
Hermit Crab
Ornery Crab

Aquatic

Fish
Barracuda
Electric Fish
Gulper Fish
Spiketail Fish (might be better in the Armor Fish category)
Triop

As crabs were my favourite GW1 pets, I support this message.
Please give me back my Mr. Pinchy!

I agree, there are a lot of cool animals out there rangers should be able to tame. Maybe create a stable ability, or a limited amount of pets you can have on the side line. I’m sure this would cause confusion and complaints if you couldn’t catch them all and use them all. But given the choice of more creative number of pets. I think it would be nice.

Shorok.9706:

I agree, there are a lot of cool animals out there rangers should be able to tame. Maybe create a stable ability, or a limited amount of pets you can have on the side line. I’m sure this would cause confusion and complaints if you couldn’t catch them all and use them all. But given the choice of more creative number of pets. I think it would be nice.

I’m not sure I understand what you are suggesting.

Speaking of which, I half expected this update to include Arid Devourers to tame, like the South Sun update had Reef Drakes.

LLAMALLAMALLAMA

ANet needs to get around balancing existing pets before adding new ones.

cough llama cough

With ofcourse the ‘spit’ special ability.
-Blindness
-Weakness
-Fear (it’s very scary)
-Bleeding
-Poison
-Knockback (it’s super stronk, much wow)
-15seconds of evasion

I think its more than obvious by now that Arenanet doesnt care even a tiny bit for ranger pets, so i wouldnt get my hopes up

g e o.2589:

LLAMALLAMALLAMA

Haha, would be great but not going to happen unfortunately.

I think its more than obvious by now that Arenanet doesnt care even a tiny bit for ranger pets, so i wouldnt get my hopes up

Luckily I’m not that negative about Anet.

Since I never learned how to cut and paste peoples comments, Diovid. What I mean to say is. You have 50 animals to choose from, but you can only carry 30, got to pick and choose.

Almost want to say a Healing Signet Asuran Mace/shield/hammer warrior.

I disagree with barracuda as they would just end up the hyena of the sea with lower stats based on the worst A.I. in the game.

Out of stuff we could have I would like the eagle and hawk to be different pets not just a reskin.

Addition pets within the current families would be nice
Fern (insert family here) could be interesting additions especially with the focus on Maguuma.

I support this and have wanted this for a very long time.
Griffon, Basilisk, Skale and especially the Skelk I’ve wanted as pets for longer than I can remember. What I wouldn’t do to have a Skelk Lurker that could teleport to my enemy and steal a utility, omg…

What annoys me the most is that this is a legitimate suggestion to get some cool new pets (Griffons would be freakin amazing) but there always has to be an obvious troll saying they want something stupid… like Llama with everything. Its of course a stupid joke but it takes all merit away from the thread… Please if you dont have anything constructive to say, Dont say anything.

I just want adult pets, and the ability to equip them with pet armour.

Want Karka pet pl0x.

I’ve wanted a griffon or raptor pet since I first started my ranger. I was so surprised when I found out you couldn’t get one.

There are a couple in-game animals I’d add to the list, though:

Cervoids
Moose (as someone that lives in New England… you don’t mess with these)
Stag
Dolyak

Birds
Crane (I discovered a couple of these in a river in Kessex Hills being used as scenery, and immediately wanted one as a pet)

Canines
Coyote

I would love to have a griffon with their knockback and evade. It would be nice to finally have a pet that can dodge attacks. Other than that I would like a hylek or skritt.

In the existing creatures… I add 3 or 4 of pretty cool pet at your lists :

• Minotaur ( with the same size than mobs )
• Wind Rider (no matter they are be ugly ^^)
• Insect like Bee or Dragonfly

Has there been any ‘progress’ on this particular issue concerning pets? Or any dev posts about it?

Diovid.9506:

Skale (might be amphibious)
Bog Skale
Brackish Skale
Ridgeback Skale
Skale Blighter

Though I agree the rest would be nice to have, especially the Griffons, Skale will not happen, unless Anet completely ignores their lore from GW1 or pushes for their regression back into their primal state. Skale were actually “some what” intelligent and even had worshipers and followers. Even having a Lord and a “God” figure among themselves of whom they followed and worshiped.

Vyriis.6258:

Diovid.9506:

Skale (might be amphibious)
Bog Skale
Brackish Skale
Ridgeback Skale
Skale Blighter

Though I agree the rest would be nice to have, especially the Griffons, Skale will not happen, unless Anet completely ignores their lore from GW1 or pushes for their regression back into their primal state. Skale were actually “some what” intelligent and even had worshipers and followers. Even having a Lord and a “God” figure among themselves of whom they followed and worshiped.

Erm smokescale.

Although I completely agree. I don’t like seeing semi sentient creatures forever being removed from future participation against the elder dragons. It is their world too.

Skale, griffons, wind ridders are a big nono to me.
Oh and I really didn’t care to see drake pets either but whatever. Pretty much any species that has spell casters ;-(

Justine.6351:

Erm smokescale.

Although I completely agree. I don’t like seeing semi sentient creatures forever being removed from future participation against the elder dragons. It is their world too.

Skale, griffons, wind ridders are a big nono to me.
Oh and I really didn’t care to see drake pets either but whatever. Pretty much any species that has spell casters ;-(

I don’t consider Smokescale as part of the Skale family as they are saurian, which also existed during GW1, and were not sentient. Also its name uses “scale” referring to the body armor not its species.

Griffons I would be against if they weren’t already set up as a pet via the Ogres. With that said all I can see them as is a Feline re-skin. As both birds and felines have the same stats, save Condition Damage, they couldn’t really just mix the two to make them different that way. Suppose skill wise there are slight difference that can be played with, but not enough to really justify it.

Wind Rider I think would actually make a good pet as the land equivalent of Jellyfish. Can go many different ways with them. Could give us more condition, control, or even healing options. Similar to Drakes, which I am alright with, just with less defense and more offense.

Speaking of Drakes and their “Spell casting” nature. There are chemicals, that are naturally occurring, that can produce fire when combined (thus the reason for Salamander Drakes fire breath). Or they could produce one chemical and create a spark to ignite it, which creating electricity within a living organism is possible (see electric eel), thus producing fire. This could also explain River Drakes “Lightning Orb”, a conductive, non-flammable, gas electrified and expelled. And Reef Drakes is explained via it being a “shriek”.

Technically the only Drake that can’t be explained through natural evolution is Frost Drake (edit: could technically say it can produce liquid Nitrogen within itself, but highly doubt this to be the cause[and yes this is possible]). In which case I would point out this is Tyria and magic is naturally occurring in both sentient and non-sentient beings. And also Rangers are a “Nature Magic” class. Thus being partial spell casters. Thus having magical pets should be accepted. =P

Sorry for long rant.

Tl,Dr

Wasn’t even attacking you.

Justine.6351:

Tl,Dr

Wasn’t even attacking you.

Wasn’t saying you were. Just pointing a few things out is all.

Vyriis.6258:

Justine.6351:

Tl,Dr

Wasn’t even attacking you.

Wasn’t saying you were. Just pointing a few things out is all.

Ya that liquid nitrogen, compelling stuff.

I just current pets to be decent before adding more clunky, non optimized, pets that I care nothing about because the would be useless and good for nothing but looking pretty next to me in LA.