Guild Wars 2

The way how this mechanic works like now is extremely annoying and I think hunters should be penalized for their pet dying in WvW. What happens now is they send hordes of animals as cannon fodder at enemy zerg and you cannot do a thing, because even if you kill those pests in a brief moment they send at you the swap animal. As it doesn’t bug me so much in matter of dmg pets deal since it is a joke, there is always a thousand of them running around the battlefield causing additional traffic and causing a UI garbage effect.

Either buff the pets and penalize rangers for losing his animal (shared hp, whatever) so they dont send them for a certain death just because his pet doesn’t do anything useful anyways or remove the pets from wvw giving hunters additional skill or buff.

At the present moment in WvW rangers’ pets seem to be very useless and their only purpose is to annoy enemy players since they neither def, neither attack, neither serve as utility.

Um, there already is a penalty. Half of your damage output disappears. When your pet is killed the cooldown to swap back to it is a minute, so if both of your pets are killed quickly you lose at least half your damage output for a minute. And continue to do so until they’re not getting killed.

When Rangers can choose to not bring their pet in favor of increased personal stats, I’m all for this.

This is one of the things that make rangers fun they are weak enough as it is no need to penalize them even more. think about other professions and their “pets” do they get penalized when the pet die? yeah they loose the dps from the pet and thats it.