Guild Wars 2

I’ve seen these guys swimming around since launch, but we have never been given a juvenile version to tame. Instead we get jellyfish, a shark and some very ugly thing from the bowels of the abyss.

We even have dolphin spirits, so I would really appreciate it if we could get a dolphin (and other creatures that already exist ingame but can’t be tamed for some strange reason).

I always thought they would have made a dolphin for sure, since the model is in the game and we even get the spirit ones… Was kinda expecting it to come with SS Cove, but eh no. That was a while back.

They could use the armorfish skills and everything, just swap the model. Can’t be that hard.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

They could use the armorfish skills and everything, just swap the model. Can’t be that hard.

This is true, but like our friend the Juvenile Marsh Drake, he would be much cooler if he matched his picture

Dolphins are amount the most violent and dangerous sea creatures (among other things I wont get into)

Trust me when I say the Shark is a safer option for a pet. Thats not saying much becuse the ocean is a horrible place filled with demon spawn that science has passed as “Wildlife”. If it doesn’t sting or bite, it most likely will suck your soul out.

@ Wondrouswall – You are right, Marshy would be better like that, dunno why they didn’t use that model.

@ Alypse – What?

I always wanted a rock dog

We had the spirits to swim with dolphins, but they’re being ‘buffed’ to be static.

I’d like to see any new pets. We haven’t got a single one since release. Maybe, they’ll surprise me with HoT.

Jaysin X.6740:

I’d like to see any new pets. We haven’t got a single one since release. Maybe, they’ll surprise me with HoT.

Reef Drake

Aylpse.6280:

Dolphins are amount the most violent and dangerous sea creatures (among other things I wont get into)

Trust me when I say the Shark is a safer option for a pet. Thats not saying much becuse the ocean is a horrible place filled with demon spawn that science has passed as “Wildlife”. If it doesn’t sting or bite, it most likely will suck your soul out.

Not saying dolphins are harmless (I know they’re not), but I’m still pretty sure you would be safer with a dolphin pet than a great white shark one.

It’s more that dolphins are surprisingly (to some people), potentially, dangerous; as opposed to sharks being predictably so.

Tigaseye.2047:

Aylpse.6280:

Dolphins are amount the most violent and dangerous sea creatures (among other things I wont get into)

Trust me when I say the Shark is a safer option for a pet. Thats not saying much becuse the ocean is a horrible place filled with demon spawn that science has passed as “Wildlife”. If it doesn’t sting or bite, it most likely will suck your soul out.

Not saying dolphins are harmless (I know they’re not), but I’m still pretty sure you would be safer with a dolphin pet than a great white shark one.

It’s more that dolphins are surprisingly (to some people), potentially, dangerous; as opposed to sharks being predictably so.

But dolphins murder and kitten for fun, while sharks kill for food.

Vizardlorde.8243:

Tigaseye.2047:

Aylpse.6280:

Dolphins are amount the most violent and dangerous sea creatures (among other things I wont get into)

Trust me when I say the Shark is a safer option for a pet. Thats not saying much becuse the ocean is a horrible place filled with demon spawn that science has passed as “Wildlife”. If it doesn’t sting or bite, it most likely will suck your soul out.

Not saying dolphins are harmless (I know they’re not), but I’m still pretty sure you would be safer with a dolphin pet than a great white shark one.

It’s more that dolphins are surprisingly (to some people), potentially, dangerous; as opposed to sharks being predictably so.

But dolphins murder and kitten for fun, while sharks kill for food.

Some do, but so do some humans.

They also show empathy and help other animals; not just members of their own species.

Judging them based solely on the behaviour of some young males is as unfair as it would be to judge all humans on that basis.

Most sharks kill for food, but some attack humans, even though they apparently don’t really rate us as food.

I don’t know about you, but I know I would feel far safer around a female (or in fact, virtually any) dolphin than I would any shark.

Not that I dislike sharks, at all – I’m just wary of them, in the same way I would be of a tiger, or whatever.

Most shark attacks on humans are mistaken identity and the shark stops after it starts chewing on all those bones, fish/seals etc don’t have bone/meat ratios like we do.

Tigaseye.2047:

Vizardlorde.8243:

Tigaseye.2047:

Aylpse.6280:

Dolphins are amount the most violent and dangerous sea creatures (among other things I wont get into)

Trust me when I say the Shark is a safer option for a pet. Thats not saying much becuse the ocean is a horrible place filled with demon spawn that science has passed as “Wildlife”. If it doesn’t sting or bite, it most likely will suck your soul out.

Not saying dolphins are harmless (I know they’re not), but I’m still pretty sure you would be safer with a dolphin pet than a great white shark one.

It’s more that dolphins are surprisingly (to some people), potentially, dangerous; as opposed to sharks being predictably so.

But dolphins murder and kitten for fun, while sharks kill for food.

Some do, but so do some humans.

They also show empathy and help other animals; not just members of their own species.

Judging them based solely on the behaviour of some young males is as unfair as it would be to judge all humans on that basis.

Most sharks kill for food, but some attack humans, even though they apparently don’t really rate us as food.

I don’t know about you, but I know I would feel far safer around a female (or in fact, virtually any) dolphin than I would any shark.

Not that I dislike sharks, at all – I’m just wary of them, in the same way I would be of a tiger, or whatever.

Aye female dolphins >>> shark> young male dolphin

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Most shark attacks on humans are mistaken identity and the shark stops after it starts chewing on all those bones, fish/seals etc don’t have bone/meat ratios like we do.

Yeah, that is probably true, but the fact that a large chunk of your leg may have been spat out, after it’s been bitten off, isn’t too much consolation is it? xD

Especially if you’re bleeding profusely and that is putting your life at risk and possibly attracting any other sharks in the area to have an experimental bite, as well.

Having said that, it is possible that if you had a shark as a pet, so it recognised you (and didn’t view you as food), it wouldn’t be much of a risk.

But, what if you accidentally surprised it, or something?

That’s how I feel about big cats – they’re lovely, but if you think of domestic cats, even the very friendly ones can occasionally bite and/or scratch and if that was a lion, or a tiger, that one mistake could be fatal.

Whereas, with dolphins, I think they would be less likely to accidentally hurt you badly and you would generally have more warning that you had a bad tempered/hormonal one (if you did) and the other, more gentle, ones would probably be relatively reliable.

Again, more like humans.

Tigaseye.2047:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Most shark attacks on humans are mistaken identity and the shark stops after it starts chewing on all those bones, fish/seals etc don’t have bone/meat ratios like we do.

Yeah, that is probably true, but the fact that a large chunk of your leg may have been spat out, after it’s been bitten off, isn’t too much consolation is it? xD

Especially if you’re bleeding profusely and that is putting your life at risk and possibly attracting any other sharks in the area to have an experimental bite, as well.

Having said that, it is possible that if you had a shark as a pet, so it recognised you (and didn’t view you as food), it wouldn’t be much of a risk.

But, what if you accidentally surprised it, or something?

That’s how I feel about big cats – they’re lovely, but if you think of domestic cats, even the very friendly ones can occasionally bite and/or scratch and if that was a lion, or a tiger, that one mistake could be fatal.

Whereas, with dolphins, I think they would be less likely to accidentally hurt you badly and you would generally have more warning that you had a bad tempered/hormonal one (if you did) and the other, more gentle, ones would probably be relatively reliable.

Again, more like humans.

Idk bleeding out vs drowning, call me a wuss but ive heard bleeding out is far more peaceful than gasping for your last breath.

Vizardlorde.8243:

Tigaseye.2047:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Most shark attacks on humans are mistaken identity and the shark stops after it starts chewing on all those bones, fish/seals etc don’t have bone/meat ratios like we do.

Yeah, that is probably true, but the fact that a large chunk of your leg may have been spat out, after it’s been bitten off, isn’t too much consolation is it? xD

Especially if you’re bleeding profusely and that is putting your life at risk and possibly attracting any other sharks in the area to have an experimental bite, as well.

Having said that, it is possible that if you had a shark as a pet, so it recognised you (and didn’t view you as food), it wouldn’t be much of a risk.

But, what if you accidentally surprised it, or something?

That’s how I feel about big cats – they’re lovely, but if you think of domestic cats, even the very friendly ones can occasionally bite and/or scratch and if that was a lion, or a tiger, that one mistake could be fatal.

Whereas, with dolphins, I think they would be less likely to accidentally hurt you badly and you would generally have more warning that you had a bad tempered/hormonal one (if you did) and the other, more gentle, ones would probably be relatively reliable.

Again, more like humans.

Idk bleeding out vs drowning, call me a wuss but ive heard bleeding out is far more peaceful than gasping for your last breath.

Most dolphins don’t drown people – in fact there are documented cases of them having helped people and animals to breathe, by taking them to the surface to do so.

I really don’t know where you guys are getting this idea that all (or even most) dolphins are hostile murderers from?

I know there was a documentary on British TV showing their darker side, but that is the point; it is a generally nice, empathetic, creature’s darker side.

As opposed to something like a great white shark, which is pretty much all darker (or, at least, totally non-caring) side.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_white_shark

Thought I should just add that that’s not to say sharks shouldn’t be equally protected, or should be harmed in any way, by humans.

They can’t help that they’re not as obviously sociable and/or empathetic as some other animals are (they’re fish, after all, rather than mammals, so you wouldn’t really expect them to be overly demonstrative) and they have just as much right to exist as any other animal does.

Are you guys talking IRL or just in game, because I doubt it would be possible at all to tame a shark under any circumstances, even if you had multiple generations of offspring over a long period of time.

Yeah, the drama with a shark attack, is it only takes a tiny bite to mortally injure us, although a lot of people survive, either way, it would not be a fun way to go.

Sharks are not particularly intelligent, like dolphins, but those instincts combined with that perfect symmetry make for a deadly combination.

I think a Dolphin is the way to go….

Dolphins have been documented to beat porpoises to death and then play ball with their corpses, and i dont have much other than hearsay for this one but I heard that they use their phallus as an arm to hold a victim and drown them among darker things.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Are you guys talking IRL or just in game, because I doubt it would be possible at all to tame a shark under any circumstances, even if you had multiple generations of offspring over a long period of time.

Yeah, the drama with a shark attack, is it only takes a tiny bite to mortally injure us, although a lot of people survive, either way, it would not be a fun way to go.

Sharks are not particularly intelligent, like dolphins, but those instincts combined with that perfect symmetry make for a deadly combination.

I think a Dolphin is the way to go….

Well, quite.

Vizardlorde.8243:

Dolphins have been documented to beat porpoises to death and then play ball with their corpses, and i dont have much other than hearsay for this one but I heard that they use their phallus as an arm to hold a victim and drown them among darker things.

But, if you started listing what some (especially) male humans do, it wouldn’t be a pretty read either, would it?

Wars, physical (and other hostile and/or highly inappropriate) attacks on women and children, serial killings, shootings, slavery, racism (and other isms), organised crime, cruelty to animals, endless unnecessary greed (even if it causes other people to suffer and die)…

The list goes on and on.

For everything you can accuse (some) dolphins of doing, you can almost certainly accuse (some) humans of doing something at least as bad (and probably even worse).

…and yet, you wouldn’t refuse to hang around any other humans, would you?

I mean, really, if it was a question of hanging around a random human male, or a random dolphin male, you would quite possibly be safer around the dolphin.

Assuming you weren’t a porpoise, maybe…

OK, let’s leave this here and discuss taming a dolphin as a Ranger pet shall we?

There are fresh water dolphins in the Amazon, why not in Maguuma/HoT? The model is there, we just need some skills for it, any suggestions? I’m thinking the Armor Fish skills would be perfect, so perhaps they can just swap the models around?

Tigaseye.2047:

But, if you started listing what some (especially) male humans do, it wouldn’t be a pretty read either, would it?

Wars, physical (and other hostile and/or highly inappropriate) attacks on women and children, serial killings, shootings, slavery, racism (and other isms), organised crime, cruelty to animals, endless unnecessary greed (even if it causes other people to suffer and die)…

The list goes on and on.

For everything you can accuse (some) dolphins of doing, you can almost certainly accuse (some) humans of doing something at least as bad (and probably even worse).

…and yet, you wouldn’t refuse to hang around any other humans, would you?

I mean, really, if it was a question of hanging around a random human male, or a random dolphin male, you would quite possibly be safer around the dolphin.

Assuming you weren’t a porpoise, maybe…

So… As I choose to interpret this…. Human pets gogogo? >_>

Stick a dolphin in a red wagon with a sprinkler on its back being lugged around with rope that’s tied to the players waist. Maybe have the dolphin with an implant that allows it to fire off hellfire missiles at enemies from the wagon while on land.

Sounds like it could work.

Killer whales aren’t whales, they are dolphins and killer whales are the second most efficient spieces when it comes to killing right after humans . WHY WON’T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!1!

Because we already have dolphins underwater? Spirits are dolphins underwater. The elite one is a whale

Zorby.8236:

Because we already have dolphins underwater? Spirits are dolphins underwater. The elite one is a whale

Totally, because spirits are pets.

Dark Saviour.9410:

Tigaseye.2047:

But, if you started listing what some (especially) male humans do, it wouldn’t be a pretty read either, would it?

Wars, physical (and other hostile and/or highly inappropriate) attacks on women and children, serial killings, shootings, slavery, racism (and other isms), organised crime, cruelty to animals, endless unnecessary greed (even if it causes other people to suffer and die)…

The list goes on and on.

For everything you can accuse (some) dolphins of doing, you can almost certainly accuse (some) humans of doing something at least as bad (and probably even worse).

…and yet, you wouldn’t refuse to hang around any other humans, would you?

I mean, really, if it was a question of hanging around a random human male, or a random dolphin male, you would quite possibly be safer around the dolphin.

Assuming you weren’t a porpoise, maybe…

So… As I choose to interpret this…. Human pets gogogo? >_>

:D

Guess you could have a new class with a human sidekick?

Might be quite interesting, actually.

FrouFrou.4958:

Killer whales aren’t whales, they are dolphins and killer whales are the second most efficient spieces when it comes to killing right after humans . WHY WON’T ANYONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!1!

I think it’s already too late for the children, sadly…

They would have already been killed by all the drakes, jaguars and bears constantly roaming the cities.

Killer whales are indeed one species of dolphin, but I don’t think most people think killer whale when they think dolphin?

They think bottlenose.

Killer whale/Orca dolphins would another nice option, as well, IMO.

Cant imagine it would be too much work to have both?

Both could share the same animations and have a similar ability.

Honestly, the Armor Fish is one of the best pets in the game but with a terrible skin (imo). It has perfect skills for a tanky Dolphin!

I’m sure nobody would complain if they just cut and pasted the code to change the model and made a new F2 skill icon.

Zorby.8236:

Because we already have dolphins underwater? Spirits are dolphins underwater. The elite one is a whale

After HoT, spirits won’t move anymore, so you won’t be able to swim with your dolphins. IMHO that’s a good enough reason to add pet dolphins. And orcas. We need orcas!

All I’ve ever wanted is access to the griffons as tameable pets, specifically the owl griffon