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Pets- How can one effectivley use a pet in battle, b) is there any way to control them...like make them defensive, offensive or stand ground?

I have a barbarian char, Warrior Primary, Ranger secondary and i was wonderin if u guys can take the time to post on here names and maybe pics of animals that are tamable...all level ranges.

So far:
Wolf- Avg speed, def and attack.
Melandrus Stalker- Fast speed, very low def, moderate attack
Moa Bird- ( any suggestions?)
Warthog- ( ???)
Lynx( ??)
Rumor: Spice dragon....

so plz help out guys, with info on these pets or new ones. tyu

Rune Lizard- desert
Bears- Shiverpeaks southern
Wolves- Pre sear and Shiverpeaks
Stalker-Pre sear
Lynx- Divinity
Moa (stalker)-Ascalon/pre sear
Warthog- Denravi has many.

Moa/Strider: well i sure dont have any stats or anything on it but with only 2 in beastmastery, my strider usually outlasts peoples wolves and stalkers that are the same level. He's just turned level 16, bless him.

You can't really set them to agressive/defensive etc. If you attack something, they will attack it (unless they really can't pathfind their way there) But you do get pet skills.

Charm Animal: you need this equipped to gain the pet, and keep it equipped to have the pet adventure with you
Comfort Animal: Heal the pet and also rez it when it dies (i think there may be others? not sure)

Then there are skills that you use to give temporary boosts to pets defense, or damage, or make them attack faster.

I wonder what pet are in those special areas that is unlock by the favor of god... Anet did say there are special pet for it.

oh one more thing... pet increase in size as they lv up... my partner's wolf is like... bigger than he is now lol

As I asked before, can you get the moss spiders (pre-searing)? there are some that are green name over in green hills area, they're nonviolent to you... Would be so badass...

Bear
Snow Wolf
Lynx
Dune Lizard
Moa Bird
Melandru's Stalker
Stryder

Bears and Dune Lizards are new. Bears have been there but have never previously been charmable. Dune Lizards can be found rather easily in the Crystal Desert.

spiders can't be tamed; if you try it then all you get is the message "That is not an animal"

... i was told there is a "normal type" of Wolf... not just the Snow Wolf....

where would i go about finding these "normal" Wolves?

Pre searing.. I can confirm this because i captured the normal wolf..
It um, Is the snow wolf without the "Snow" part to it..
Completely the same.

LOL. I love the "This creature is not an animal" when trying to tame something.

If that huge scorpian or Flying octupus thing isn't an animal, what is it? A rock?

Pets can be of great use. I use a Moa Bird and it is often ignored in PvP combat (Bad idea!)
It gets ignored in PvP because:
a) People want to kill a player and not waste time on animals.
b) It's a darn goofy looking thing that can not possibly hurt them!

But I use Pet Bleed attacks, so many enemy players do not understand why they are suddenly bleeding!

Also, be careful about your pet dying in combat. (Killing Pets in PVP can be handy because....) You loose all your skills for 8 seconds when your pet dies.
8 seconds is a long time in PvP to go without any skills.

They are monsters, not animals. The difference is that the monsters are magical beings, while the animals are all natural. That is how I make sense of the message, anyway

lol

Kind of a stretch, but ok.

Can anyone expand on this? I got a bear but i seen someone w/ one of those green dragons from the sanctum cay mission.

I had the cat, a lizard and a bear and the bear seems to hold his own the most, in terms of tanking, but his dmg doesnt seem xtra special.

Please ... someone ... find an 00ber pet!

What about dragons

I want a Hydra! They growl .. they have scales .. theyre surrounded by tamable lizards... damnit its just a big lizard!

Warthog! Warthog!
My Oink is a real life-saver as in ruins of Ascalon and Traveler's Vale.
Funny but many people haven't seen 'thogs before so everyone ask me where I got the pig

(There's one in Pre-Seared Ascalon, running arround)

True... what i find most annoying of pets is that they are always in my way... whether for moving or targeting... i hate it when a warrior is bashing in on me and i press C to target closests... and i start attackign with all i got and it seems i accidentally targeted a lvl 2 cat...

Well not taht extreme perhaps but they can be annoying...

I agree. Warthogs are great.

I picked mine up pre-Searing as soon as I got the skill.

just a quick question ...

do pets get exp from u finishing a quest? ... or is the only way for a pet to get exp is to kill monsters?