Guild Wars 2

I have started playing GW2 again on a regular basis, and am trying to level my Rangers. I decided to charm some new pets.

I have a level 15 Norn Ranger with 5 pets from around GW2 launch (2 bears, 1 drake, 1 hound, and 1 snow leopard). I can stand right next to a Juvenile Raven in Wayfarer Hills, and no matter what buttons I push, or how many times I click the Juvenile Raven, no “Charm” dialog pops up. I tried Lashtail Devourers & Black Bears outside Black Citadel with the same result. No “Charm” option.

I tried “stowing” my current pet, but I cannot seem to empty any of the 4 slots in pet management no matter what I do. What am I doing wrong??? (I have a level 8 Charr ranger as well… no “Charm” option for that character either. The Charr only has the one leopard from character creation, so 3 slots are empty.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Not 100% sure (so don’t quote me), but I believe ANET changed/removed some pets in a few starter areas from being charmed, so some of them might still be named “Juvenile” when they are not supposed to be.

Even the Black Bear’s wiki page has been updated to list Blazeridge and EB as their only tamable locations.

Thank you for the response. I had gotten pretty frustrated, but the pet location guides I was looking at were probably old.

They suggest the starting areas for the juvenile raven, black bear, hyena etc.

I will do some more research. Thank you SO much!

Yeah, that’s the New Player Experience™.

New players having something else to do in the starting areas than press 1 was deemed ‘too confusing’. Hence no more tameable pets in those areas, no underwater combat, no ‘overly complex’ activities like Golem Chess in Metrica, no F1-F4 control or renaming the pet before level ??, no notification of skill points or vistas, no access to wvw or spvp until level ??, etc.

I fondly remember the magic of starting this game the first time, that feeling that there was so much to do and so few of it was locked. It was a major breeze of fresh air compared to most mmos early leveling killing 10 rats with one skill on the bar.

New Player Experience is … one is not aloud to call ANet staff stupid, so I won’t.

Well, at least this answers my question, lol.

Have to say I LIKED finding pets at early levels! I should have done more charming early on!

I have not been able to find any concise information regarding the new pet locations, so I figure it is just best to level up and try to find them as I go into new areas.
The interactive map still seems to be in development and does not work. I have sifted through a lot of guides today without finding what I was looking for. Time to go explore!

Happy hunting & thanks for the replies.