Guild Wars 2

Suggestion- the pet bar

• F2 is now a bar that opens up on the weapon slot that is usable for pets only called the pet bar. The current pet F2 skill is moved into one of the five slots. It is similar to deathshroud how deathshroud, engineer kits, and attunements.
• The pet’s 2nd and 3rd skill are now usable, now they use the slot on 1 and 2 on the pet bar.
• The current F2 pet skills is the 3rd skill
• Shouts are no longer utility skills. Instead, they are given by pet families. Bears, Drake, Armorfish and Boar gets “Protect me!”; Birds, Feline, Shark and Canine gets “Sic’em”; and Moa, Spider, Jellyfish and Devourers get Search and Rescue. This take up the fourth skill.
• All pets have “Guard” which will now take up the fifth skill. Guard no longer stealth or give buffs.
• Rangers can use these skills on the move.

Misc:

• F1 and F3 will still be attack my target and return. F4 will still swap pets or possibly revamp it so that it restores the pet to full hp since that rangers get better pet control.
• Most of the cooldowns will be a lot higher so that Rangers do not have to micro between pets and themselves all that much. All of them will be 20+ seconds. Except guard, which will be a 1 second cooldown.
• Shouts will be replaced by something else and Nature Voice no longer exist. I recommend Symbosis skills. Basically, it is like Rampage as One, whenever you hit, your pet gets buffed, whenever your pet hits, you get a buff. Other skills I recommend is “Forces of Nature.” This would be a Shaman kind of skill that uses Nature power as magic.

If ArenaNet ever feels that pet mechanic needs a revamp to have more control over the pet, I am giving this out as a suggestion and solution. I would like to have more pet control.

Spiders with Search and Rescue? Nah, keep shouts where they are

Rym.1469:

Spiders with Search and Rescue? Nah, keep shouts where they are

They’re backline pets, which makes sense.