Many MMORPGs allow char­ac­ters to have so called “non-combat” pets. They serve no real pur­pose and sim­ply fol­low your char­ac­ter around once they’re sum­moned. A lot of peo­ple enjoy this lit­tle extra, how­ever, and the prac­tice has become extremely com­mon. World of War­craft, for exam­ple, seem­ingly has dozens of the things. Some of them can be pur­chased, while oth­ers are far more rare. Either way, they’re quite pop­u­lar and some Korean devel­oped MMORPGs revolve around them.

Many peo­ple don’t know that there are non-combat pets in LotRO. The most likely rea­son why peo­ple don’t know is that the abil­ity is restricted to only one class in the game: Lore–mas­ters. The other rea­son is that this abil­ity wasn’t added until Book 11, a while after the launch of the game.

In LotRO a Lore–mas­ter can only have one pet out at a time, regard­less as to whether or not it’s com­bat or non-combat. Don’t expect your lit­tle snake friend to dish out any dam­age .… Their sole goal in life is to be cute and impress your friends.

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