Guild Wars 2

Elementalist should have a pet/familiar, just like the other 2 light armor classes have their own league of protectors.

What do you think the elementals are?

But yes, I would be nice if I could control my elementals like a ranger controls his pet.

Eh, controlling pets should be kept exclusive to Ranger, IMO. Those controls take up all of the Ranger’s class-unique slots, another class shouldn’t be able to have those controls “for free”. Plus, where would you even put them? At most you could make the summon skill into an “Attack” command for the duration of the summon, but there’d be no way to do other commands.

Lesser Elemental could use a power buff. They seem pretty weak at both attacking and defense.

But the biggest issue for me is the duration and the cooldown. They don’t last long enough, and the cooldown is just insane. You can’t rely on them at all because unless you’re going to wait a minute between every battle, they won’t even be available half the time. The cooldown could be cut in half easily.

I just want a third Elemental spell so that I can actually run somewhat like a summoner. I was thinking Elemites would be cool, summon four tiny elementals.

Nah. We have 2 Elemental Summons and that is enough imo. Pets aren’t a focus of the Elementalist Class.

I wouldn’t say no to being able to directly control our pets, but we don’t need more of them.

I’m ok if devs extend the summon duration or at least reduce the cooldown, but more pets would make us as oped as warriors.

oh wait…

i support “The Summoner” idea, would be nice to get some more element oriented summons, at least 1 more

but i highly disagree with pet control, as already said, it should be exclusive to ranger because its his F skill

My solution: Summons stay alive until they are killed, then they go on cool down.

I disagree with OP. An elementalist to me is an all powerful dude which can take on his army using only himself and his magic. A pet/familiar ruins that for me and i hate that the only really useful elite is elemental summon.

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My solution: Summons stay alive until they are killed, then they go on cool down.

This has been my idea too. Nice and easy little tweak, and I don’t think it would be imba at all. And outside of pvp balance it would help with the super frustrating experience that is ele in like the orr zones, land of endless agro.

I disagree with OP. An elementalist to me is an all powerful dude which can take on his army using only himself and his magic. A pet/familiar ruins that for me and i hate that the only really useful elite is elemental summon.

Pretty much this.

The fact Necros and rangers use minions/summons/pets is such a deterrent for me. I like my Ele pet-less tyvm.