Guild Wars 2

Let it stay stowed even after the ranger takes/deals damage. Even better: while stowed give ranger traits a boost by 30% (basically removing the % reduction due to balancing of having a pet).

Flavour: Let ranger shouts bring the pet out from stowed status.

Traits: Remove the wordings on the Beastmaster Master traits that require the use of specific types of pets. Just let all types benefit from it. E.g. Pet attack cause bleeding on crits, etc. instead of just drakes, feline, devourer and sharks.

Pet survivability: Pet dodge rolls when Ranger does, to avoid boss AOE together.

I’m with you on the first one. I like to stow my pet for jumping puzzles so it doesn’t wind up on top of me and I have to stow it again when a jump or a fall gives me even a tiny bit of damage.

I agree, fix stowing. If you don’t want a pet out you shouldn’t be a Ranger, so disallow it entirely.

They’re not going to do it. It’s been a year.

Kal, Ranger as a profession shouldn’t be tied to clunky, broken AIs. We should have a choice to use a bow without being a short-range stealth class or a heavy-armor class that is literally disallowed from using lighter armor.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

They’re not going to do it. It’s been a year.

Kal, Ranger as a profession shouldn’t be tied to clunky, broken AIs. We should have a choice to use a bow without being a short-range stealth class or a heavy-armor class that is literally disallowed from using lighter armor.

I agree, we shouldn’t be stuck with clunky AI. They should fix the pets, so they function more consistently and effectively across the board. This has nothing to do with perma-stowing, nor should it.

Kal Spiro.9745:

I agree, fix stowing. If you don’t want a pet out you shouldn’t be a Ranger, so disallow it entirely.

I love pet classes. I play them almost exclusively. But my class is irrelevant in a jumping puzzle, so I’d like to be able to turn the little guy off so I can see better. I have enough trouble having made a gigantic Norn and getting the camera stuck in caverns.