Guild Wars 2

When my pet dies, it seems like there is no way to revive it ?
Am I missing something?

Pet swap.
pst2shrt

+1 for Esplen (I believe the default key binding is F4)
when you’re out of combat, it will slowly heal then revive
sometimes my pet dies dies (corpse on the ground, option to revive fallen ally when you walk near it :P) when this happens, I usually pet swap. If you move far enough away from it, it’ll teleport to you and start healing.

If you use Healing Spring with your pet inside the AoE, it will heal up quickly.

They removed that feature after the last Beta Weekend Event prior to game launch. Sometimes I wish they would have left it in.

Ranger here,

The trick is to do a quick pet swap, I believe that is the way it was designed, I use a bear for good damage mitigation and a spider if I need to use something ranged to avoid damage around the thing I’m killing.

Liet Talen.7284:

They removed that feature after the last Beta Weekend Event prior to game launch. Sometimes I wish they would have left it in.

Actually, no, they removed that feature after game launch, not Beta.

But as ppl said, pet swap is your only choice now.

There were a lot of issues with the pet revive function when it was in. At first it worked like reviving players, including the icon on the map, and a lot of people (both rangers and non-rangers) got annoyed with the fact that they’d rush across the map to help a fellow player only to find it was someones pet which they hadn’t bothered to swap or revive themselves. Or the pet would wander around the battle and people would find themselves reviving it when they meant to loot or revive another player or something.

They tried restricting it so you could only revive your own pet, but that didn’t really solve the second problem – people kept hitting F intending to do something else only to find that right at that moment their pet had wandered in range and now they were stuck reviving it.

Personally I think creating a seperate revive function which didn’t use the same key would have been a good compromise. But I also think there is no good reason to spend time reviving a pet in combat when switching effectively does the same thing instantly, and out of combat they heal very quickly anyway.

Admittedly some traits give bonuses to pets which are lost on swapping, so there is a slight downside, but that’s easily avoided by picking something different (like the traits which give bonuses when you do swap).