Guild Wars 2

Currently pets can easily gain vigor boon from the ranger, for example through the use of the fortifying bond trait. However the pets dont dodge so the boon does not do anything for them. My suggestion is to make the vigor boon useful to pets by doubling the CD count down rate on F2 skills while the boon is active. So for example if the ranger used an F2 skill with a 40 second CD and then gave the pet 5 seconds of vigor the F2 skill would refresh in 35 seconds because for 5 of those seconds the pet’s F2 skill was cooling down twice as fast.

I think it should give pets a 20% chance to dodge incoming attacks or something like that

Grok Krog.9581:

I think it should give pets a 20% chance to dodge incoming attacks or something like that

No because that would make them OP tanks in single target stuff, when what is killing them is aoe dmg. The question is why do they even take AoE dmg in the first place when they have no ability to dodge attacks or play on the mobility of this game.

A real fix is disallow ranger pets from taking AoE dmg in pve period.

Most bosses have AoE, via cleave effect, a spread shot, or whatever. Complete immunity would be more OP than 20% dodge chance.

I’d be fine with a 50% AoE damage reduction. And if 20% is too much it could be 10-15%