Guild Wars 2

Just as the title says, I would love to see the pets completely reworked and made into a traitable option, or even a utility skill. Kinda like the engineer’s turrets, because currently the way the pets drop so fast they are already kinda like an engi’s turret. Then they could rework some of the weapon skills to have more of a “wildlife animal” vibe/animation like some of the ones we have now (warhorn #4 flock of birds, great sword #3 swoop, sword #3 serpent strike, etc.). That way they could keep the fundamental idea behind the ranger class, animals, wildlife, nature support, yada yada, but also have the option of pets and their support also (i’m going to be honest pets are sometimes useful in pve). When a pet utility is equipped it could be like 30% of power is transfered to pet or something. The pet could be set up like a signet, where if its in your hot bar they run with you like normal, will attack here and there, but if you activate it it will attack more and use it’s special skill. Those skills could get nerfed or buffed for the sake of balance. I don’t think it would be op because in the long run you would hav to give up a utility skill in order to use the pet. Everything would just have to balanced based on the change and there would be a lot of stuff to work out. This is just an idea and think it would open up a ton of new builds. This would also allow players that want to do dungeons and stuff where pets are more of a handicap than anything the ability to actually be viable.

I’m curious to thoughts on this from the community.

Pets are a mechanic, not a skill. Like the Engineer toolbelt. The Theif steal and Initiative. The Elementalist Atunement.

It’s not meant to be turned off, it’s meant to be always on and it’s supposed to be something the Ranger depends on.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Pets are a mechanic, not a skill. Like the Engineer toolbelt. The Theif steal and Initiative. The Elementalist Atunement.

It’s not meant to be turned off, it’s meant to be always on and it’s supposed to be something the Ranger depends on.

Well then it needs to be drastically over hauled or fixed because if your a ranger and you depend on your pet in a dungeon, or fractals, or wvw….you are straight up screwed.

Fact of the matter is pets are broken to kitten right now and every update makes them worse, so having the class “depend” on the pet pretty much handicaps the class by 30%.