Guild Wars 2

Alright, so, there’s a bug related to drakes that’s persisted since launch and it kind of irks me. I’m talking about the River/Rock drake thing.

See, as a human character, you can start the game with a river drake. Except, if you actually find what river drakes look like (you can find them all over northern kryta), your pet is a rock drake (which you can find in Plains of Ashford, among other locations). In spite of this, for whatever reason, your “river drake” has neither the appearance nor powers of other river drakes.

Why? This doesn’t make any sense. And to further obfuscate matters, the Mini River Drake Broodmother was released a while back. It looks like the rock drake broodmother.

WHAT IS GOING ON.

(Here’s an imgur album with details (image credit goes to the GW2 wiki)
http://imgur.com/a/xFRPQ )

Regarding the last picture that is not too unusual. Compare a tadpole to a frog.

Yah, I really don’t know what’s up with the River Drake pet. Why call it a River Drake but use the Rock Drake model? Why not just call it a Rock Drake if you’re going to use that model? Its not like the pet has a water-related ability (exactly the opposite, in fact), so it would make much more sense to just call it a Rock Drake.

I can hazard a guess that maybe they wanted to use the Rock Drake model because its a bit more unique than the other Drakes that Rangers have (both the Salamander Drake and the Marsh Drake are both spiked lizards, just like the River Drake would be, while the Rock Drake has a ridge instead of spikes). But again, just call it a Rock Drake then.

That’s not the only oddity Drake pets have, though. The Juvenile Marsh Drake uses the icon for the Scaled Drake in the pet window. It doesn’t use that model in the game world though, in-game it uses the actual Marsh Drake model. But what’s up with the pet window icon? I’ve heard mention that during Beta it actually used that model in-game as well but got changed for launch, but I can’t verify that as I didn’t participate in the beta. Maybe that’s what they did with the River Drake too, I dunno. Its all just messed up. And the mini Swamp Drake?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mini_Swamp_Drake

Yah. Seriously, drakes are just messed up all over the place.

Did they solve the Scaled Drake bug? its a bug persistent from the start of GW2