Guild Wars 2

So, I have a question and maybe a ranger can answer this. I’m rank 17 PvP and I have played my share of matches. I recently have noticed a trend that I haven’t seen before.

When I, or other players, are on our treb, a ranger will send his pet (usually he’s at the clock tower) and his pet attacks us, which pulls us off of the treb. The pet doesn’t do much damage at all but he is as tanky as bunker guardian. The dog can heal more than I can put out damage. Now, typically you would just ignore such a thing, but you can’t. If you try to get on the treb and continue firing, one hit from this dog takes you off.

Is this something that is intended? Now, I do think that the ranger was very smart for doing this as it made our team have to have 2 people at the treb to kill the dog.

If there are any rangers out there that can explain what traits a ranger has to use to make his pet unkillable, I would be appreciative.

Edit: I have 8 character slots and have played all in PvP except the ranger. I don’t like them. The pet was the sylvari dog. Not sure if that matters.

There is something that makes the pet immune to damage for a short period of time. Along with a pet heal I’m pretty sure. There is also another skill that makes him bigger but I forget if that decreases his incoming or gives him more outgoing (I think it was outgoing), so yea there is stuff, along with different pet types that can make them harder to kill.

I mean I guess I have never really tried to attack a pet, since that is usually a terrible strat for pvp. Maybe they are all this tanky and I’ve never noticed. I just wish it didn’t pull you off the treb, otherwise I would just sit there and eat his dmg and pop out every once in a while to heal.

Well they aren’t that tanky. Signet of stone lasts 6 seconds for no damage, some of them get 2k+ toughness. Some of them go down easily. There is probably some traits tied into it also. SoS also grants them more toughness for passive not active. The bears have an endure pain effect also.