Aggressive Hippopotami LVL26 in Arbor Bay (HM)

I am vanquishing this area at the moment.

Ventari's island with the sylvari tree is surrounded by huge groups of hippopotami. They are hammer warriors and use enraged smash.


OK, if this is already well known, please delete... I think it is new, I never saw them in normal mode.

PICS PLEASE!!!! I Saw them too, but when ii went back to screenshot, I couldn't find them!

I think there tameable, as I remember they were level 15 when I saw them.

Here are the Hippos!



All level 26.



Hippos, fullscreen



520 foes, Arbor Bay hard mode. Something was odd. I had a spawn of 4 packs of some 20+ Cryptwings near a chest. The number is some 150 higher than the one on the Wiki. And the (ressed) Simian is still alive after I vanquished (?).




And one more, Hippo in closeup, only covered by Jin.

yea, I conquered the area too. I really thought they were level 15 though. and charmable

Would be cool to see Charmable Hippos for once.Nj on Vanguish of the area.

That's normal - pop-up enemies only count when you trigger them, so you can still find pop-ups after an area is vanquished. And resurrected creatures only count the first time you kill them.

So are they charmable?I bet they arent Just like the spiders in pre*twitch*

Nope, not charmable. Wouldn't really be fair to have a level 26 pet now would it?

You can't charm the level 15s either.

In the Nightfall preview there were Hippo's that you could indeed capture.Unfortunately they were removed for being "Too Complex".Srsly.

Actually heres the reason why the removed it on the Guild Wars Wiki

Basicly it was removed because Anet couldn't simply reskin it and throw it into GW:EN as "new content".

hah, they remove the hippo from nightfall for technical reasons and now they show up in eye of the north... not charmable of course... what gives? Y_Y

Making something into a pet and making it an attackable NPC involves different systems. As far as I remember, the hippo had complications as a pet. If you're really curious, search around for some previous discussions. Let's just not start another Anet hate-fest.

You mean something like this?

Oh by the way,this post is a part of this thread.

Yep, like that. I'm saying this isn't the only thread to have been made on the subject (or contain posts that veer off into the WHYY ANET WHYYYY?! direction )

I saw them in that area as well. Arbor Bay was not an easy area to vanquish. I had 20+ Incubi spawn in one spot just as others in this thread have said. They're annoying little buggers in HM.

It's such a tease...

Hippos can be very aggressive. But you shouldn't hit them.
Leave them alone so they can multiply. They are endangered.

Let's hope they're not all male.

Yea I had one of those Hipopotomuseses.. lol I was really sad when I got in there after it went gold and it was gone ;( lol I just want to say Hipopotomuseses.. lol Glad to see its used again, but not too surprised its not tamable. Same with the Panda from Factions was lost to PCness... Actually I am wondering what will happen to the polar bear once it goes on endangered list...

I don't think it was removed because they can't reskin it. I think it was removed because the model used is different from every other pet, and so when loading both a Polar Bear and a Black Bear, the model is the same. Or a Moa Bird, Flamingo, Strider, Crane all use the same model. Same with Stalkers, Lynx and I THINK the tigers. So in PvP when loading each model you only need to load 6? (Bird, Bear, Flightless Bird, Lizard, Cat, Wolf). The hippo's model is so different to the others it added pressure they didn't consider worth the addition, (my understanding anyway).