Guild Wars 2

Can we get them where we don’t have to have them pop out automatically in combat. I mean I’d like a system to when I “put my pet away” that it stays that way until I want it out as pets aggro everything in sight and they also don’t “track” right next to their owners. Even when in passive as people will suggest to use, they may not attack but they do still aggro enemy mobs around them towards you.

Pets are the core mechanic of rangers, fighting without a pet is very… unrangerish. Without the pet you will also lack that damage as the ranger damage is set with the pet in mind.
And honestly… I don’t seem to have problems with my pet agroing stuff it shouldn’t.

It’s a problem when trying to hot foot it through a zone to reach a specific point… as soon as you get hit the pet pops out and it slows you down for longer than if you had no pet.

There’s such a thing as being a ranger without one’s pet. The purpose of the pet is to provide extra dps or tank in particular cases, but a ranger shouldn’t be forced to have their pet constantly at their side, especially in the reference to above post “while hot footing through a zone”. However, I’m a Survivability build ranger and I don’t actually need my pet 100% of the time, so I’m just saying it’d be nice that when I put my pet away that it stays that way until I want it out….not when the game thinks I need my pet out. I mean should my pet coming flying out of thin air just because I dropped off a ledge further than “normal” range and it throws me into combat.

If you have your pet out when running through a zone, most the time he’s the one that gets hit and you’re not effected by it. Only time you get into combat is when you actually tell your pet to attack something, or you take damage yourself.

Pets just need a lot of work. Right now they are more of an annoyance than anything. The most annoying thing is when I stop my pet stops 30ft in front of me and pulls something.