Guild Wars 2

If a ranger’s pet gets killed because they just used it as a means of fire-and-forget, then there should be SOME sort of penalty for it if they allow it to die. Either something that actually costs anything (food or plain cash) or a time penalty (eg 4 minutes) until the pet can be used again. This is just silly.

That’s part of their damage. No.

There is a penalty. The pet switch timer is a minute instead of 10 seconds.

Proper pet management mechanics should be important, it’s just lame like this and doesn’t make sense. Just give rangers a dot instead of a pet → same result as this. Worst pet implementation ever.