Guild Wars 2

What the topic says. When a pet is downed, its F2 ability (and F1 and F3 for that matter) is disabled. I suggest replacing a downed pet’s F2 with a short range channeled revive or heal.

In beta, downed pets could be revived just like players, and by anyone, resulting in many missed revives on players. To prevent this, the ability to manually revive pets at all was removed, in favor of an automatic revive that occurs extremely slowly while in combat.

Allowing the ranger to revive a downed pet faster with a swapped-in F2 ability would:
— prevent the aggravation of accidentally reviving a pet instead of a player,
— mitigate the issue of AOEs or boss instakills without risking AOE or other damage reduction balance problems,
— let rangers get their pet back if they are not being focused, without forcing their next swap to be 60 seconds or forcing them to leave combat mode entirely.

I could go on with scenarios and such, but I think this is mostly self-explanatory and would be a small but noticeable improvement in PvE, dungeons, and WvWvW.

Unless they have changed it since the last time I was on my ranger… you can revive your downed pet rapidly by swapping active pets. Once the short cooldown for swapping ends you can swap back and it will be fully revived.

However, the ability to use a skill to revive them would be nice still.

Panda.1967:

Unless they have changed it since the last time I was on my ranger… you can revive your downed pet rapidly by swapping active pets. Once the short cooldown for swapping ends you can swap back and it will be fully revived.

However, the ability to use a skill to revive them would be nice still.

If you swap out a living pet, the cooldown is 20 seconds. If the pet is downed, the swap cooldown becomes 60 seconds, basically forcing you to babysit the new pet in passive mode if you don’t want it to die the same way the first did, just so you can get your quick swap back.

hm… so they did change it since the last time i was on my ranger then… last time I was on my ranger I could have sworn the cooldown was 20 seconds reguardless…

It’s been a few months since I played my ranger.

Unfortunately, it’s always been that way, at least since launch.

I like this idea. It’s annoying when a champion foe can one-hit your pet and you’re left without one because the swap timer takes a while to recharge.

Exactly. The champion single-hit-kills, dungeon boss single-hits and AOEs, various things in WvWvW… there’s a long list of things that nuke pets too fast to react. And even if you do notice the tiny red bar going dark, it’s often not fast enough.

If the pet’s F2 would help it escape, the cast delay is too slow to actually save it.
If the pet’s being focused or is under AOE, F3 will often get it killed on the way back.
If the AOE or champ is inconsiderate enough to hit your pet when F4 is down, it dies.
Same goes for popping a heal.

I’m sure there are a lot of (difficult) things that could benefit pets, like a total AI rework so the pets aren’t too stupid to live. But failing that, a way to nurse Fluffy back to health would be great.

I guess I’ve made my case clear enough over these few posts, so I’ll just hope someone reads this. Thanks if you do, even if you don’t reply!

While they are at it they should do something about the inconsistent cast delay on F2… Sometimes my pet will use it’s F2 skill near instantly, other times I’m waiting a minute or two for it to finally trigger, sometimes still it won’t trigger at all… This only seems to occur while in combat, outside of combat it will always function within a few moments of hitting F2.