Guild Wars 2

I’ve tried it when I am not even being downed. Fear and other F2 skills do not work most of the time.

But! When I AM being downed it’s imperative that it works – and even if I account for the “cast time” I get the skill off in plenty of time and it still doesn’t work.

WvW and the F2 mechanic are not compatible – there should be no cast time in WvW period.

This issue kinda counts for all pets, its broken in wvw

The cast time of the wolf(or like Offair said any pet) is terrible, there should be no cast time even in pve tbh.

It does “work” but it isn’t functional. Most of the pet skills are problematic since they frequently take upwards of 10 seconds to fire. Even then a player typically has to pound the F2 key relentlessly or the pet will simply ignore the request. Yet another reason the Ranger is considered weak in WvW… they truly have the absolute worst class mechanic.

Yeah… pet skills could be great if they worked… most have a ridiculous cast time… and many of then the pet dont cast while moving… useless in wvw.

A trick I learned, that will make it start to cast almost immediately (though it does not make the cast automatic) is to call the pet back (F3) then press F2.
F3 cancels the current animation, while F2 gets “queued” (and often “lost”) after current animation.
By cancelling the animation (F3), you can cast almost immediately F2.

Annoying workaround, but makes almost all skill launch when wanted…

Necromancer downstate fear doesn’t work either. Sometimes it goes off, most of the time it doesn’t.