Guild Wars 2

Title just to get the attention of devs wanting more ideas to nerf rangers as usual. In reality pets need to be updated.

Pets should be updated in many ways firstly
- ai is extremely incompetent and is barely able to keep up with moving targets.

-Pets should be able to be given more commands like press f1 to have your pet follow the target. This means attacking a enemy or guarding a ally

-Stowed pets shouldn’t magically appear in the air when you’re in combat if I stowed my pet I want to keep him in my pokeball for a reason

-Pets should remember their names. Does your dog forget his name every time you walk out of the room? Probably not so why does my battle wyvern or trained shark forget theirs? Afterall I stole them from their families when they were juveniles I’m their new mama now.

-Pressing f3 would bring the pet back to you but pressing and holding f3 would give you a aoe circle you can drop and drag anywhere within 1500 units of measurement whatever those may be. This circle would be your pet’s aggro radius and anything that enters it would be attacked

-Another stance I’d like to see added to pets would be the defensive stance. So rangers would have 3 options to put their pets in, passive which causes your pet to ignore you while you’re begging for help, defensive which means your pet would attack anything that hits him or you and aggressive would make him attack anything that comes close by.

Just a few qol changes I’d love to see rangers revive but instead we’ll probably get nerfed again

I see what you did there..

Pet Ai is linked with PVE mob AI. A dev said years ago that changing something for ranger pets would open a whole can of wurms.

Lévis.5489:

Pet Ai is linked with PVE mob AI. A dev said years ago that changing something for ranger pets would open a whole can of wurms.

Then delete the pets and start again. It’s obvious that in their current state they’re either BS overpowered or useless.