There is one case where I will use Balth Pts to get a specific level. Since it is only theoretically possible to level to Elder with something, and my monk wont be able to get the pet I want him to have to Elder, I will use points to get that one. I have almost every pet unlocked already and many to level 20.
There was at somepoint some kind of change that made it harder to charm with heroes, and so my plans to get elder white tigers on all my ranger's heroes were terminated. Each of my characters had a single theme pet. That changed, now they each have a theme area, like creepy crawlies on my 'Sin, cats on my Ranger, white pets on my Para, black pets on my monk, etc.
If leveling an elder pet was not so near impossible I wouldn't bother, but I will once it fits the budget.
Zaishen Menagerie
Fitz Rinley
Imaginos
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There is one case where I will use Balth Pts to get a specific level. Since it is only theoretically possible to level to Elder with something, and my monk wont be able to get the pet I want him to have to Elder, I will use points to get that one. I have almost every pet unlocked already and many to level 20.
There was at somepoint some kind of change that made it harder to charm with heroes, and so my plans to get elder white tigers on all my ranger's heroes were terminated. Each of my characters had a single theme pet. That changed, now they each have a theme area, like creepy crawlies on my 'Sin, cats on my Ranger, white pets on my Para, black pets on my monk, etc. If leveling an elder pet was not so near impossible I wouldn't bother, but I will once it fits the budget. |
Miss Puddles
I'm a little miffed that you can't put previously charmed pets in the menagerie.
Otherwise it's pretty decent. I like that your heroes' pets count as well.
Otherwise it's pretty decent. I like that your heroes' pets count as well.
crazybanshee
I like it, it gives me something to do, and allows me to change pets out if I want to use a different one for some reason. I believe it's account wide? So I can cap pets on all my chars and when they finally hit 20 just put them in. It's kinda neat.
Boondocksaints
If you level the pets using the Menagerie, do they still grow in size?
kazjun
It's damn nice, and just wandering around the island and seeing where each type lives is awesome. This is probably the best bit of the update actually.
BrettM
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If you level the pets using the Menagerie, do they still grow in size?
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Tender Wolf
All I can say is FINALLY! I've been wanting a pet storage location for the longest time. I'm capping all the animals and adding them, but I'm having my heroes do it - each hero will have a ranger secondary and charm a different animal and then I add it in there. hehehehe
I doubt I'll buy the pet unlock pack; training them will give me something to do. And I can always take one out and do missions or something with it to train it as well. I just want them in there more than training.
I doubt I'll buy the pet unlock pack; training them will give me something to do. And I can always take one out and do missions or something with it to train it as well. I just want them in there more than training.
Craywulf
I have question...is this pet unlock only available to the Ranger class? I only ask this because no where on the Guild Wars Zaishen Menagerie page does it mention Rangers. in fact it leads you to believe it's available to all your characters.
Apollo Smile
Any character can make their secondary Ranger. Therefore any character can enter.
Craywulf
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Any character can make their secondary Ranger. Therefore any character can enter.
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I hope they allow all classes to have a pet in GW2, but of course the Rangers should be better at it by having Beast mastery attribute and its skills.
Starsky-sama
I dont really play the game anymore, but I had time to explore this feature.
it's purty nice.
Spent some time getting all the pets today. [ more like "runs" ]
So, I only had 3 pets to start with that I already had lvled up. (My Giant White Moa[war main], the auto max 20 Black Moa [discovered a few of my heroes had it and cashed it all in lol], and My Giant Blue Crab[Rit/main])
I used 3 heroes all the time to save time and it was nice to see the variety of pets we had at each hunt. 8)
Now, the only ones Im missing are:
-Rainbow Pho - pretty sure im not gonna grind for titles just for it. [probably not going to be doing any zcoin quests either]
-Moss Spider - I might get it through the traveler eventually (or not if I dont feel like collecting stuff for npc)
They look really nice all together in one place w/ minipet versions of themselves.
/bravo Anet, the setting/scenery is pretty awesome. maybe add some other features to it down the road? perhaps?
It was fun capping the pets with my heroes, it was funnier when I would accidentally kill them before charming. [hench or hero accident]
/me enjoyed it while it lasted.
/g'day.
**add: too bad you couldnt show it to a friend(s), but I guess if you could like the HoM, ppl would complete the capping of pets by sharing each other's menageries, so that would ruin the feature.
***add2: a good friend of mine ran me for the black widow. mission accomplished. moot moot!
it's purty nice.
Spent some time getting all the pets today. [ more like "runs" ]
So, I only had 3 pets to start with that I already had lvled up. (My Giant White Moa[war main], the auto max 20 Black Moa [discovered a few of my heroes had it and cashed it all in lol], and My Giant Blue Crab[Rit/main])
I used 3 heroes all the time to save time and it was nice to see the variety of pets we had at each hunt. 8)
Now, the only ones Im missing are:
-Rainbow Pho - pretty sure im not gonna grind for titles just for it. [probably not going to be doing any zcoin quests either]
-Moss Spider - I might get it through the traveler eventually (or not if I dont feel like collecting stuff for npc)
They look really nice all together in one place w/ minipet versions of themselves.
/bravo Anet, the setting/scenery is pretty awesome. maybe add some other features to it down the road? perhaps?
It was fun capping the pets with my heroes, it was funnier when I would accidentally kill them before charming. [hench or hero accident]
/me enjoyed it while it lasted.
/g'day.
**add: too bad you couldnt show it to a friend(s), but I guess if you could like the HoM, ppl would complete the capping of pets by sharing each other's menageries, so that would ruin the feature.
***add2: a good friend of mine ran me for the black widow. mission accomplished. moot moot!
belladonna shylock
Umm, Apollo just said any class can have a pet. You just copy and pasted what was said then ignored it. That defies logic.
To restate, Charm animal skill is available for all classes that have secondary ranger. Rangers get no additional benefit from the skill over another class.
To restate, Charm animal skill is available for all classes that have secondary ranger. Rangers get no additional benefit from the skill over another class.
Zahr Dalsk
What I've started to do:
Decide on a pet to get.
Find areas it lives in.
Scout out for locations with accessible res shrines that have such an animal nearby.
Re-enter alone.
Death level (low health low armour, with a high set for when it reaches 20).
???
Profit!
Decide on a pet to get.
Find areas it lives in.
Scout out for locations with accessible res shrines that have such an animal nearby.
Re-enter alone.
Death level (low health low armour, with a high set for when it reaches 20).
???
Profit!
Starsky-sama
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What I've started to do:
Decide on a pet to get. Find areas it lives in. Scout out for locations with accessible res shrines that have such an animal nearby. Re-enter alone. Death level (low health low armour, with a high set for when it reaches 20). ??? Profit! |
just cap the black moas w/ your heroes. rinse repeat. lol
(^*ye I was just joking about how you mentioned Profit!)
Zahr Dalsk
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just cap the black moas w/ your heroes.
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Garreth MacLeod
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All you should need is a L20 version of the pet in any evolution then just grab the L15 version that you want and train it the rest of the way. I've done that on my Black Moa to get a dire version.
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Nessar
I already capped most of the pets for the Menagerie. I like it so far..Its nice to see all the animals in one place for once
Btw it seems lots of people are capping the phoenix at the end of factions. If you're gonna cap it w/ a pug, better bring some speed boosts
Btw it seems lots of people are capping the phoenix at the end of factions. If you're gonna cap it w/ a pug, better bring some speed boosts
Cirian
I just added the ones I had: rainbow phoenix; crane; white tiger; wolf; Meladru's stalker and black moa. I'd like to get that moss spider, but I'm not sure if I'm going to fill the place by capping the other pets... maybe. I guess it's something new to do 
It's nice just to walk around the place, it's quite pretty.
It's nice just to walk around the place, it's quite pretty.
IlikeGW
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To restate, Charm animal skill is available for all classes that have secondary ranger. Rangers get no additional benefit from the skill over another class.
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Qing Guang
Well I was already planning to have each of my Monk's heroes cap a different pet. Now I can put them in here when they're done, I guess.
Kudos to ANet on this part of the update. I took a look around here yesterday and it's beautiful; reuses Shing Jea art, but in a good way. I love how they blend that scenery into the more forested area up the hill. Really, really gorgeous; I wouldn't mind leaving my pets here. Gogo Battle Isles Wild Animal Park!
I do want to know, though, because it was rather poorly explained - do you actually have to give up your pet to the trainer to see it in the Menagerie? I talked to Emryd and told her she hadn't seen my Jingle Bear yet, and she said she'd added a level 5 Jingle Bear, but I couldn't find it. And if you do have to actually release it, can you get it back? The exact same one? I'm not releasing my little FuFu unless I can get her back; if that's true I'll just have to wait until next Wintersday and cap another bear on another character.
Wiki claims if you put an animal in your Menagerie it will have babies - really really? That's cute. Do we actually get different (or at least smaller) models for the babies?
This may end up convincing me to make that ranger I was thinking about (if I buy the extra slot) a Beastmaster instead of a BHA interrupter... just to be different, and because White Tigers look so nice and she'd be able to get one early.
Kudos to ANet on this part of the update. I took a look around here yesterday and it's beautiful; reuses Shing Jea art, but in a good way. I love how they blend that scenery into the more forested area up the hill. Really, really gorgeous; I wouldn't mind leaving my pets here. Gogo Battle Isles Wild Animal Park!
I do want to know, though, because it was rather poorly explained - do you actually have to give up your pet to the trainer to see it in the Menagerie? I talked to Emryd and told her she hadn't seen my Jingle Bear yet, and she said she'd added a level 5 Jingle Bear, but I couldn't find it. And if you do have to actually release it, can you get it back? The exact same one? I'm not releasing my little FuFu unless I can get her back; if that's true I'll just have to wait until next Wintersday and cap another bear on another character.
Wiki claims if you put an animal in your Menagerie it will have babies - really really? That's cute. Do we actually get different (or at least smaller) models for the babies?
This may end up convincing me to make that ranger I was thinking about (if I buy the extra slot) a Beastmaster instead of a BHA interrupter... just to be different, and because White Tigers look so nice and she'd be able to get one early.
Nessar
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I do want to know, though, because it was rather poorly explained - do you actually have to give up your pet to the trainer to see it in the Menagerie? I talked to Emryd and told her she hadn't seen my Jingle Bear yet, and she said she'd added a level 5 Jingle Bear, but I couldn't find it. And if you do have to actually release it, can you get it back? The exact same one? I'm not releasing my little FuFu unless I can get her back; if that's true I'll just have to wait until next Wintersday and cap another bear on another character. Wiki claims if you put an animal in your Menagerie it will have babies - really really? That's cute. Do we actually get different (or at least smaller) models for the babies? |
Shemsu Anpw
You only have to Give it away to tamer if you want to tame another.
StormX
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And if you do have to actually release it, can you get it back? The exact same one? I'm not releasing my little FuFu unless I can get her back; if that's true I'll just have to wait until next Wintersday and cap another bear on another character.
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You don't get the exact same pet back.
You can ask the trainer to spawn animals of the same level/evolution of your previous pet, and a flock of them will appear, so basically your pet is gone but you have the option to charm a new one that is exactly like it.
Qing Guang
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You just talk the tamer & the animal will automatically spawn where it's supposed to. Although I had to rezone for it to do it. And yes the animals have babies, but it's a shrunken down verison of the bigger animal. Which makes the baby wolves look deformed imo...
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Lol at the mini-pets that aren't minipets. So much for the idea of cute little fluffy moa chicks... guess we'll just have to get the minipet of that one. The baby bears'll be cute though. Little Jinglies everywhere... ^__^
LeoX
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The baby bears'll be cute though. Little Jinglies everywhere... ^__^
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Sounds cool haha, I'm gonna go give it a check now
BrettM
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You can ask the trainer to spawn animals of the same level/evolution of your previous pet, and a flock of them will appear, so basically your pet is gone but you have the option to charm a new one that is exactly like it.
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Edit: If you add a Black Moa to the Menagerie, you WILL see a bunch of fluffy moa chicks. The progeny of other moas are obviously beyond the chick stage.
MithranArkanere
I gave each of my heroes a different pet:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...nArkanere/Pets
But since most of them were under level 20, I got the pet unlock pack anyways.
Now I'm only 5 pets away from filling the Menagerie.
Ah... completion feels so god when you are crazy in the coconut...
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/User:...nArkanere/Pets
But since most of them were under level 20, I got the pet unlock pack anyways.
Now I'm only 5 pets away from filling the Menagerie.
Ah... completion feels so god when you are crazy in the coconut...
Sword Hammer Axe
Raises hands: I've already put in every pet (except the spiders, but including rainbow phoenix) and half of them are already lvl 20 so.... yes I plan on using it :P
Nathaniel (Was 'ere)
I might remake my Ranger.. Pets were the only reason I really played him and after a while the same one bored me, so I delled him. But this gives me a reason to remake him and give my pets awesome Pokemon names! xD
Fay Vert
I can't see me ever using the place, not what I (or anyone else) wanted for multiple pet choice. They just didn't listen and prefered to give us a another grind content feature instead.
Pistachio
I like the idea of the Menagerie, and even the pet unlock pack to an extent. What I don't like is being able to essentially buy the exotic animals, even if it is hard to earn the coin for it. I worked hard in the Underworld to get my Black Widow, as I am sure there are those that worked hard for their Black Moa, or Rainbow Phoenix. Now there's a way out of the usual journey, and somehow that just doesn't sit right with me.
Celestial
I -love- the idea. I often cap pets that I already have on other characters (for reasons unknown to myself; perhaps I feel the pet 'fits'?) and tire of having to train them again or death level again. And, now I can give my character I feel that would go well with a certain pet (in this case, a phoenix) and yet didn't finish Factions.
Additionally, I can, for instance, charm another phoenix without having to do the Imperial Sanctum again. Maybe it's not that hard, but I find the mission annoying. ^^
Pets always meant a lot to me. When I impulsively decided to get rid of the first pet I ever charmed, I cried. I laugh now thinking of it, but I really was upset at that time. xD
Except, as stated above, I don't like that people can basically buy the exotic animals. I won't be buying any pet unlocks at all, because when I fill the list up by myself, I can feel a sense of satisfaction that I earned it in some way. I don't have anything against people who buy the animals, but I feel that it takes away a sense of accomplishment; basically, to me, they're simply robbing themselves. But, eh, each to his own.
Also, the Menagerie is beautiful. I love Shing Jea Island, and this really pleased me.
I'll be charming every single pet and training them to lvl 20 so I can unlock all the tiers. C: I love pets~
Additionally, I can, for instance, charm another phoenix without having to do the Imperial Sanctum again. Maybe it's not that hard, but I find the mission annoying. ^^
Pets always meant a lot to me. When I impulsively decided to get rid of the first pet I ever charmed, I cried. I laugh now thinking of it, but I really was upset at that time. xD
Except, as stated above, I don't like that people can basically buy the exotic animals. I won't be buying any pet unlocks at all, because when I fill the list up by myself, I can feel a sense of satisfaction that I earned it in some way. I don't have anything against people who buy the animals, but I feel that it takes away a sense of accomplishment; basically, to me, they're simply robbing themselves. But, eh, each to his own.
Also, the Menagerie is beautiful. I love Shing Jea Island, and this really pleased me.
I'll be charming every single pet and training them to lvl 20 so I can unlock all the tiers. C: I love pets~
Qing Guang
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Mini Jingle Bear without having to shell out 1000s of ecto!!11!
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I do think letting people unlock prestige pets is kind of cheap (and I even stand to benefit from this!). I mean, even though you can unlock elite armors for PvP you still can't use them on PvE chars. And they really should fix that bug that lets your heroes tame the Rainbow Phoenix... that really cheapens it. Unless it's only possible if you capped it in the Eye, in which case a hero with the RP could be the new status version.
vaxmor
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I can't see me ever using the place, not what I (or anyone else) wanted for multiple pet choice. They just didn't listen and prefered to give us a another grind content feature instead.
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Chicken of the Seas
Kinda sad that the jingle bear is all by itself, that it has no family Anyway, aside from that my zoo is filled with all the "common" pets, I just need to re-get my phoenix and black widow. Also gonna wait to get the moss spider, and I have the rainbow phoenix in my HOM but i'm busy evolving my jingle bear on my main :P I wish the menagerie had some point towards gw2...
Anyway, aside from that my zoo is filled with all the "common" pets, I just need to re-get my phoenix and black widow. Also gonna wait to get the moss spider, and I have the rainbow phoenix in my HOM but i'm busy evolving my jingle bear on my main :P I wish the menagerie had some point towards gw2...
AngelWJedi
my zoo is nice and full! my ranger capped all the animals with the help of her heros on the second day. 
she also had the black widow, and my main had the rainbow phoenix. so the only thing missing is the mos spider. i still havent decide if i wann get it by unlocking it or just wait to be lucky with gifts. 
its to bad you cant charm the pre moss spider or pick up the babies and hugs them. they are so cute!
she also had the black widow, and my main had the rainbow phoenix. so the only thing missing is the mos spider. i still havent decide if i wann get it by unlocking it or just wait to be lucky with gifts. its to bad you cant charm the pre moss spider or pick up the babies and hugs them. they are so cute!
Obrien Xp
Does it actually look full when full, all I'm getting so far is 2 types of wolves and the black moas sitting in a cave, there's only 2 white tigers walking around why aren't there more to make it look full
Lonesamurai
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Does it actually look full when full, all I'm getting so far is 2 types of wolves and the black moas sitting in a cave, there's only 2 white tigers walking around why aren't there more to make it look full
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two normal tigers and cubs
three Black Moas and chicks and about two or three of each other animal I've unlocked and most have babies...
Starsky-sama
question.
everytime I go in there's only 1 crane and it has minipet cranes. anyone else got 2 in there after handing in.
probably not a big glitch, but its funny to see every other parent animal came in 2s or more.
(except for the jingle and the phoenix)
everytime I go in there's only 1 crane and it has minipet cranes. anyone else got 2 in there after handing in.
probably not a big glitch, but its funny to see every other parent animal came in 2s or more.
(except for the jingle and the phoenix)