Guild Wars 2

stowing pets and gaining from it…now that opens up a whole can of new ideas and i wish it had been thought of earlier.
you stow a pet and your skills are altered based on the type of pet you stowed, kinda like you become infused with the pet’s spirit. stowing a bear buffs up your melee abilities, gives you some defense as well. stowing a jaguar gives you more hit-and-run type abilities. stuff like that.

This is the best idea I’ve seen, that compromises the no pet option while keeping the spirit of the mechanic alive. I would love to see this happen.

For those that say pets are the thing that makes a ranger a ranger…pets make a ranger a beastmaster which is only one of their trait lines. Not every ranger has a pet…some are scouts, snipers, masters of nature spirits, experts at setting traps, and solitary hunters. The fact that I didn’t have to have a pet in guildwars and could focus on marksmanship instead made the ranger my favorite class to play….I haven’t even bothered to play one since beta because I don’t like playing a beastmaster, and that’s what is offered in the current incarnation of the “ranger.”

One thing that has really set Guildwars 2 apart for me is the personal story lines based on the choices at character creation. I’ve enjoyed plaything through them and have created many an alt just to see how they progress. What I would like to see is more options for these. Not necessarily entirely new options, but tweaks to the existing ones. Even if you choose to play a dark character, there seems to be no dark story line. For instance, you choose street rat in the human creation and then orphan. Reading through the orphan text, you were adopted by a loving couple. You then become the hero of Shaemoor by volunteering. Where is the “I’m going to save my own skin” option or “I’m a noble, but wouldn’t be caught dead with Faren because he’s a pretty boy and all I’m interested in is power”?