Guild Wars 2

Guys… what if… wait for it…
When you dodge, your pets also gain evasion. This way the pet won’t die to ridiculously easy to dodge AoE attacks, like Tazza’s Mind Stab or the Wraithlord Crusher’s hammer attack. Also works for Jade Maw’s beam thing, so if your pet swap is on cooldown, you won’t lose a pet for sure.

Huh? What do you guys think? Nothing game breaking for PvP, very easy to code, nice survivability buff to the PvE department.

so…you want to dodge and watch as your pets stand in one spot and have some huge laser or blast hit them square in the face, but really it’s gonna say “evade”? hmmmm

Been suggested many times, and discussed to no end. While possibly easy to code, it could cause all sorts of issues, gameplay-wise. Requiring the player to dodge to save the pet, especially when not in the same place, is probably not a good direction to take the profession. I do think something needs to be done, though. Increased health pools on pets was a good start.

One of the simpler suggestions would be a short pet evade instantly on pressing F3 (with ICD), so you can recall the pet and actually have it avoid the thing you were trying to get it to avoid by recalling it.

RWinter.1680:

Been suggested many times, and discussed to no end. While possibly easy to code, it could cause all sorts of issues, gameplay-wise. Requiring the player to dodge to save the pet, especially when not in the same place, is probably not a good direction to take the profession. I do think something needs to be done, though. Increased health pools on pets was a good start.

One of the simpler suggestions would be a short pet evade instantly on pressing F3 (with ICD), so you can recall the pet and actually have it avoid the thing you were trying to get it to avoid by recalling it.

This, please. Beyond the fact that we desperately need something like this, I just really, really want to see a drake do a barrel roll.