Aggressive Hippopotami LVL26 in Arbor Bay (HM)

I'm surprised they didn't put a boss there.

HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPO!

Or Rosie O'Donnell

Lawl, I can see it now. That or something like The Famished Hippo.

I think the Hippo's Hunger would be a great green hammer. :P

Well now that they ARE using the hippo, theres no excuse to say "we cant use this elsewhere".

Since they are using it as an enemy. They've reused other pets as enemies already (Raven, Wolf, Bear, Lynx, Moa, Warthog)

Not quite, Lyra. All the pets share skeletons with one another, as mentioned previously. And skeletons, as well as animations, are assets that may take quite the amount of resources if their number is large. The hippo's skeletal rig is unique, and is not shared with any other current pet. To avoid increasing the use of resources (such as system memory), the Anet team has decided to pull the hippo off the list of pets.

Just because a hippo now appears elsewhere in the world, still doesn't mean that it is now going to work with Anet's pet system.

This is, of course, only as I understand it and open to corrections.

I think the real reason is that Hippo pets while looking good in their natural environment, would look dumb elsewhere.

so why were the panders taken away? they would run the same mechanics as a Polr Bear or Black Bear!

as for a tamable hippo the idea was good as these creatures are africas 4th most dangerous

Panda I believe was removed in part due to political/cultural pressure.

As for a hippo looking dumb out of its environment... the same could be said about a polar bear in the desert. Yet there it is.

*sigh* Hippo was the one I really wanted in NF, but didn't find out about until after it was over, but got my dervish there as fast as I could, only to find they'd been replaced. Didn't get a pet for her until after she'd finished the game in the end.


Ah well, at least they're in the game. And Nechronius does have a point

How is it that the hippo was removed from NF for being endangered (cruelty to animals) BUT in GW:EN we have to slaughter them.

This is about 100% correct, and thank you for explaining this so that people understand monsters != charmable pets.

The hippo was not removed from Nightfall. Nor was it even handled as a "cannot kill" endangered species. Perhaps you are thinking of the panda, which we were unable to offer as a charmable creature because of legal issues in China.

Owned by teh Gailezor.

I want a pet amoeba.
Doo eet Gaile! Make it happen!
Tell the dev team it requires zero resources to manage!
Well maybe a special tag floating over it's name that says 'best pet evar'!

You kid, but in all honesty I would enjoy having a pet amoeba trailing blobbily after my ranger everywhere she goes.

How can it tail blobbily after you?!
It is too tiny.
It would probably sit on your shoe and jump off to attack enemies with it's insane amoebaishness ferocity.

Edit: I speeled amoeba wrong.

Hahahhahah, nice one.

Really though, I don't understand how having them as monsters is less server strain opposed to pets? I'd like to see some charts/percents/numbers anything to clear it up, show us what the true difference is.

Thats right it was not removed from nightfall! All you people that thought you charmed one in the preview event must be mistaken! Move along people, there are no hippo's to be seen here!

/end sarcasm

Honestly who cares if it is charmable or not? If they make it a tamable pet then you are just going to see tons of people have them. Just be glad that they put the thing back into the game at all and have yourself a nice little laugh every time you kill them!

Remove the Crab and put in Hippo's. I think that is not shared by any other pets... well except for the VERY CREATIVE different versions of White, Red and Blue Crabs....

-.-

and in the period between GWEN and Factions, about 1 1/4 year, the Phoenix skin was only used for Phoenixes. Can't we just add another skeleton for pets to PvP? Or as I said, remove the Crab skeleton lol.
Ofcourse we can think of different skins for reusing the same skeleton. Like a Purple Hippo with wings on his back. Rainbow Hippos could also be nice.

Hmm someone listed the different skeletons, but forgot a few I think. Also the Warthog isn't reused for any other pet, ever since Prophesies. Hippos and Warthogs could perhaps even use the same skeleton.

6 Cats (Stalker, Lynx, Lion, Lioness, Tiger, White Tiger) (these might have different subskeletons)
3 Walking bird (strider, Moa, Black Moa, White Moa)
3 Crabs (White Crab, Lurker, Reef Lurker)
2 Lizards (Dune Lizard. Iguana)
5 Wolves (Common Wolf, Snow Wolf, Black Wolf, White Wolf, Hyena)
2 Bears (Black Bear, Polar Bear)
2 Small walking birds (Crane, Flamingo)
4 Gliding Birds (Phoenix, Rainbow Phoenix, Raven, Mountain Eagle)
2 Rats (Jahai Rat, Albino Rat)
1 Crocodile (Crocodile)
1 Pig (Warthog)
1 Spider (Black Widow)

3 Hippo(Common Hippo, Purple Flying Hippo, Rainbow Hippo)

.-. what about the minipets?

You could effectively fill your bags with minipets and force other players to load TONS of models/skeletons/animations/textures. The minis are essentially the same, just scaled down.

1 more unique model won't kill the system. I dont buy it. Otherwise get rid of the baby moa.

I thought you can't use Minipets in PvP.