Guild Wars 2

So I had suggested this in another thread but I’d like to hear some feedback on this.

ATM pets have two different states: avoid combat and guard. My suggestion is to give them a third state, which will be more of a middle ground and helps to not reduce dps where not needed. I don’t have a name for this state but what I think it should do is…

…and thats it! (Trying to use elipses properly)

Ok anyways what I actually think it should do is allow pets to avoid aoe circles on their own. There have been some other suggestions such as dodging with the player and having it built directly into the AI but I that can work as more of a nerf in pvp where aoe doesn’t always do 1 hit kills or incredibly fast kills. Plus dodging also leads to a loss in dps when you have no need for the pet to dodge. This new state is intended more so for pve as you can probably tell.

Also just to let you know this is not intended to ignore things like kholers pull or longer attacks such as 100b just aoe.

However I would also think it helpful to make your pet flank your opponent (Possibly on a 3 second timer) but I think this could be a little OP in pvp so not sure about that.

I don’t think it’ll work well in practice.
If they gave us the ability to explicitly Flag pets ala gw1 the whole issue would be removed or at least significantly reduced.
“Guard!” doesn’t even work well enough.

ensoriki.5789:

I don’t think it’ll work well in practice.
If they gave us the ability to explicitly Flag pets ala gw1 the whole issue would be removed or at least significantly reduced.
“Guard!” doesn’t even work well enough.

Flagging would not remove the issue. Pets can already be recalled and in pve that would probably serve the same purpose assuming you are ranged. If you are melee obviously flagging would be essential. Guard for me at least is not very useful in pve and guard is probably there instead of flagging to not make pets op.

Edit: Thanks for the feedback.