GW1/GW2-style Ranger pets don't have an equivalent in SWTOR.Ĭompanions are earned by progressing your character's main story (Class story and/or Knights of the. The sort of thing that is often *called* a 'pet' by *players* in other games (and this one) corresponds roughly to a 'Companion'. I suffer from extreme astromech droid minipet fatigue (I get four or five plus a bunch of non-astromech ones on EVERY SINGLE GDMF NEW CHARACTER I create), sadly, but if you are a new player, you won't have any yet.īeware: minipets are just cosmetic - they follow you around and do nothing else, well except that some of them make annoying noises. Those are *mostly* but not exclusively on the CM and in Cartel packs (and consequently can be sold on the GTN).īUT: When you are level 70, you get (if you are a subscriber) 'Command Crates', and they can drop a very limited selection of minipets.Īnd of course if you are a paying subscriber (7-day free subscriptions probably don't count), then right now you can qualify for this year's 'May the Fourth' astromech droid minipet.
There are 'minipets', as some people (notably a maniac called SteveTheCynic) call them(1).
