Guild Wars 2

I created a Ranger a week or so ago, and now that I’ve played around with him a bit, I’ve noticed a couple of obvious improvements that could be made to the pet UI.

1) Give us a way to see the pet info screen you get from pressing K (name change, stats, abilities) for each tamed pet in the drop-down window without having to ‘equip’ them. Maybe a single click on the icon could bring up the window — allowing us to mouse over abilities and see their effects, or change pet name, etc — and a double-click could quickly equip the pet to the selected slot.

2) Show boons and conditions on the pet directly above the pet action bar. A ranger should be aware of his pet’s status without having to stop combat and select the pet. This would make ‘cure condition’ abilities, and boon abilities like the 1h-sword #3 that stacks might on the pet, much easier to manage properly.

3) This one is obvious and has been mentioned a hundred times, but I’ll reiterate since I’m on the subject of ranger pet UI: store each pet name created for each type of pet so that, even if it’s been 6 months since I last used a particular pet and have used 20 different ones in between, that pet has the same name that it had the last time I used it.