Guild Wars 2

The boar class has a remarkably fun F2 set but it is clunky. 1) You have to dig. 2) You have to run over and pick it up and 3) it auto replaces your weapon so you pretty much have to use the skill right when you pick it up. It just is too much micromanagement in a fast fight.

What if it automatically replaced your un swapped weapon without your having to run over and pick it up and you then could swap to it within say 10-15 seconds and use the item?

Better still: Replace F2 with the boon/item that the pig picked up, thereby pressing F2 a second time activates it.
Think thief – think steal, that’s how it should work imho.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Steal

Agreed. Make it like a thief steal. But the idea is great.

The problem with it is, Porcines are meant to have group F2 utility in vision of ArenaNet. It’s just my observation and moving it directly to our F2, where it could be gamebreaking change for running Porcines, roaming or in zerg, it could possibly hurt group play (That’s theory because in fact nobody makes use of things your Porcine bring, simply because nobody knows about their “Sniff Sniff Snork Snork” ability, though they bring things like Plasma or Healing Seed). So my suggestion would be to indeed make their F2 more like a steal, but also make them drop one copy of item on the ground or make them possible to do so via adding it to their trait in BM.
Imho, they could also have reduced cd on knockback in exchange of shorter effect, but not neccesary change. F2 fix would be welcomed and definitly make me run Boar instead of Krytan Hound in one slot (3 sec invu on demand could possibly free up one of my utility slots (“Protect Me!”) for 1v1 or just add more surv when roaming+zerging. Also, 3 second Charge knockback…more good stats for shout…Good choice! )

This i can agree completely. Having to pick up the item that the boar salvaged with forage, makes little sense and a pain to pull off mid-combat. I can see it being able to be used by another character nearby but…. can you see another character expecting a forage activation so he/she can use the item it procs…

/vouch on the idea.

Like already mentioned make the F2 work like steal after that give pigs cleave on auto and done, pigs are now awesome pets.