Ranger Pet takes an active role in combat by providing damage or interactive skills for the player. During the character creation, each race offers three different pets, from which a ranger can choose one starting pet. Pet’s type determines which environments the pet is able to fight in: aquatic (underwater), terrestrial (land) and amphibious (can fight both on land and underwater). Rangers have two terrestrial and two aquatic pet slots. Amphibious pets can occupy either terrestrial or aquatic slots.
Each pet belongs to a species and each species belongs to a family which determines common skills and its general attributes. Each family has 3 common skills which are automatically used by the pet. Its species determines a pet’s unique skill.
Ranger Starting Pets
Asura: Flamingo, Jungle Stalker, Marsh Drake
Charr: Carrion Devourer, Jungle Stalker, Salamander Drake
Human: Brown Bear, Jungle Stalker, River Drake
Norn: Brown Bear, Alpine Wolf, Snow Leopard
Sylvari: Blue Moa, Jungle Stalker, Fern Hound
How to get a new pet?
A ranger can charm (by pressing F) only animals with a name in the form “Juvenile < pet species >“. Once you charm a pet, you can access the pet management panel (by pressing K) where you can rename your pet and view its statistics. To rename a pet, click on the quill icon to the left of the pet name.
A pet’s level always match the ranger’s level, so you don’t have to waste your time on leveling a new pet. If your pet is defeated, you can switch to another pet by pressing F4. A defeated pet that was swapped out will be at full health when it is swapped back in.
Pet interaction bar
A pet command / interaction bar is located above the weapon skill bar. The ranger has limited control over the actions of their pet:
- F1 commands the active pet to attack the current target.
- F2 activates the species unique skill of the active pet.
- F3 determines the current behavior of the pet.
- F4 calls the alternate animal to become the active pet with full health and all skills recharged. After swapping your dead pet the swap cooldown lasts ~ 40 seconds. Swapping a live pet in combat the swap cooldown lasts ~ 20 sec
Active — Attack what I am attacking.
Passive — Don’t attack.
Family: Bird – highest damage pets but long cast animation, increases movement speed by 33%
 Eagle |  Owl |  Raven |  White Raven |
Family: Boar – knocking your enemies down
 Boar |  Pig |  Siamoth |  Warthog |
Family: Canine – knocking down foes, slows the enemy’s movement by 50%
 Alpine Wolf |  Fern Hound |  Hyena |  Krytan Drakehound |  Wolf |
Family: Moa – healing, lowers the target’s defense
 Black Moa |  Blue Moa |  Flamingo |  Red Moa |  White Moa |
Family: Spider – immobilizing and poisoning your foe
 Black Widow |  Cave Spider |  Forest Spider |  Jungle Spider |
Family: Bear – high health, incoming damage reduction
 Arctodus |  Black Bear |  Brown Bear |  Murrelow |  Polar Bear |
Family: Devourer – ranged attacks, interrupting and poisoning nearby foe
 Carrion Devourer |  Lashtail Devourer |  Whiptail Devourer |
Family: Drake – AoE attacks
 Ice Drake |  Marsh Drake |  River Drake |  Salamander Drake |  Reef Drake |
Family: Feline – lowers the target’s defense, makes heavy damage
 Jaguar |  Jungle Stalker |  Lynx |  Snow Leopard |
Family: Armor Fish – stunning foe
 Armor Fish |
Family: Jellyfish – regenerating allies and blinding foes
 Blue Jellyfish |  Rainbow Jellyfish |  Red Jellyfish |
Family: Shark – fearing foe, striking multiple times
 Shark |
Thanks for the info. I didn’t really know what each of the pet families specialized in.
Could I get permission to use the pet images in a Guide?
Sure
Wow! Thanks for the positions
there isn’t the hawk…
Some pets were removed in the bw3, and I couldn’t find the hawk anywhere.
Iron Marches for the hawk.
The Hawk is in the Iron Marches way in the north east near the base of the waterfall
However the Salamander Drake wasnt in the Eternal Battlegrounds at the location Posted is there a timer on them? Do the regular NPCs need to be killed to get the Juveniles to spawn?
There is a cave in the straights of devastation that has 6 juvenile pets, i made the rune to it at lvl 10 and only died 3 times and was level twelve at the end of it. Its in the southeast corner with a Vista in the cave. There are no hostiles in the actual cave, but you get to charm 6 pets.
where’s the hawk?
Well i have a question- how the other pet skills can be activated? or better how can i switch them? Or my pet use them automatically?
Unfortunately, you don’t have control over “normal” pet skills.
The “Reef” drake needs to be added to the amphibious list, it came with the lost shores update.
Is a nice app showing a tooltip style comparison of two/three pets so compare stats and personalities too much to ask? Me love you long time if you find one I can link back to my guild site.
Suggested Updates for expansions onto the game would include more Aquatic pets and Amphibious pets, as well as a more Water-focused expansion onto the game?
Amphibious Pets would include::
Different types of Crabs (Hermit, Shell, and Lobster anyone?) Which would include Mid range Power, Low range Precision, High range Toughness, Mid-High ranged Vitality. Attacks would be a Basic attack, one that cripples the enemy(?), and one that causes Vulnerability in the enemy, and the [F2] ability would Block incoming attack (Hermit), Increases the toughness of allies (Shell) and Increases the Power of Allies (Lobster).
Increase Shark Numbers (Hamerhead, Great White {Replaces the regular sharks?}, and Tigershark). Same as the current Shark, with the [F2] either being like the Pigs (all have the same), or have each effect a different Stat?
Also: PLEASE ADD DOLPHINS!!!
Outside of increasing the number of pets, wouldn’t it be awesome if they made an Aquatic based dungeon and storyline for something? I don’t know, just thought it be cool.
Just my 2 copper pieces.
Changing my Shark Idea.
=> Hammerhead:: [F2] Frenzy! – Increases Attack speed and causes Vulnerability with each attack.
=> Arctic White Shark:: [F2] Frenzy! – Increases Attack Speed and causes Chilled with each attack.
=> Murk Water Shark:: [F2] Frenzy! – Increases Attack Speed and causes Poison with each attack.
=> Ghost Shark:: [F2] Frenzy! – Increases Attack Speed and causes confusion with each attack.
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With what was given, the sharks that inflict higher damage abilities with each condition will have a much higher cooldown on their F2 then others (so that the Poison shark doesn’t outdo the Bleed shark, the Poison shark might take 2 times longer to recharge his poison ability.)