Guild Wars 2

on paper it seems to be good dmg, but in practice it is really not reliable. Most of time a moving target will not get hit by either pet nor Grenade. So Anet step away from spreadsheet for a min and go play the game for a bit and will see Grenade dmg is only practicably for stationary targets.

Pets not doing damage to moving targets was mostly fixed this patch actually. Coupled with the speed increase to arrows the pressing issues of Rangers have been adressed, now they pretty much just need some streamlining of their trait lines and some adjustments to spirits and signets to have a decent variety of competitive builds.

Great point by the original poster that I think arenanet has yet to address. Most grenadiers have been assuming that the trade off for grenades doing good damage was that you never were going to hit the target 100% of the time.