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Posted by: Chopps.5047

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I’m looking for 4 interested rangers (NA) to schedule a time to run CoF path 1 using ONLY pets (that’s the challenge). I will record this on fraps and post the video for laughs. Let me know if any of you guys are willing to try this! Why do it? Because we can!

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Posted by: Sebrent.3625

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I’m more interested in seeing than participating, but if you have 4 and need a 5th, hit me up. If I’m not already in the middle of a dungeon/fractal or tearing up WvW, I’ll come so this can happen.

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Posted by: SisiXuan.4178

SisiXuan.4178

So are we rangers just sit and watch or helping pets with swap signet shout heal spirit etc?
Would like to join .

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Posted by: Sebrent.3625

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Your best utilities for doing this would likely be Guard (protection for pet), Sick’Em (pet damage), Signet of the Wild (pet regen), and Signet of Stone (pet toughness). 3 of those 4 and the right traits will make your pet beastly.

For weapons, Warhorn is a “duh”. I think Greatsword as well since it’s #5 will give your pet a damage bonus for its next hit even if you just use #5 without hitting anything.

If you have 15 points in Nature Magic, Healing Spring would probably be your best bet in order to put regen on your pet… though if Rangers in the group have Runes of Dwayna and you have 15 in Nature Magic, I’d go back to Troll Unguent.

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Posted by: Chopps.5047

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Good question, sisixuan. The pets will do all the damage. Rangers are allowed to use utilities, heals, and any other skill that does not do direct damage (rampage as one counts but entangle does not). Warhorn might/fury is allowed but warhorn birds attack is disallowed. Does that sound reasonable? Any objections? I guess the most hardcore thing would be no ranger help at all besides calling targets and swapping.

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Posted by: Chopps.5047

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Your best utilities for doing this would likely be Guard (protection for pet), Sick’Em (pet damage), Signet of the Wild (pet regen), and Signet of Stone (pet toughness). 3 of those 4 and the right traits will make your pet beastly.

For weapons, Warhorn is a “duh”. I think Greatsword as well since it’s #5 will give your pet a damage bonus for its next hit even if you just use #5 without hitting anything.

If you have 15 points in Nature Magic, Healing Spring would probably be your best bet in order to put regen on your pet… though if Rangers in the group have Runes of Dwayna and you have 15 in Nature Magic, I’d go back to Troll Unguent.

Haha, yeah, just keep hilt bashing the air. Hey, what pets do you all think we should bring? If there was no ranger help AT ALL (we should try that too) then I think a red moa is essential for heals and buffs. Maybe a blue moa for protection and a hound for regen.

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Posted by: Chopps.5047

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Hey, I have a Sebrent question: does weapon sigil affect pet in any way? If so, which ones and how?

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Posted by: Sebrent.3625

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I’m pretty sure that weapon sigils do NOT affect pets EXCEPT for the ones that provide you a boon if you have 15+ points in Nature Magic or they provide a heal to nearby allies.

As far as pets go, I’d recommend the Devourer or the Bear. A Devourer is going to give you the best chance of actually surviving as it has the most toughness of all the pet families. If you search, there is a video of a guy soloing a tower champ with a devourer. Toughness + Healing = tanky.

The bear is a different story. It has the most vitality of all the pet families, by far. The bear has less toughness though, so it is more likely to need to be swapped. But since it has so much vitality, the idea is that you’d have more time before you had to swap it.

As far as best skills, the Bear does have damage immunity and a way to heal itself while the devourer has retreat skills, knockback, and range. The devourers will have the advantage that they don’t have to cluster up on the enemy where they can be easily AOE’d all at once, however, they will spend time trying to get out of melee when their burrow is up.

The worst thing that could happen here is that a Ranger has 2 dead pets. That would be worse than a downed player.

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Posted by: Unholey.3264

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I’ll go. I’d imagine a cat with QZ and sick’em would be needed for the gate control. And then probably a devourer or two to keep poison on the boss.

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Posted by: SisiXuan.4178

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How about GS#5 SB#4 AXE#3 etc, these weapon skills that grant buff to pet’s next attack?(They grant buff no matter they miss or not)
And is it allow to keep swap weapon with boundaries(elixir of hero),to grant pet infinite fury and swiftness by skirmish traits?

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Posted by: Chopps.5047

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I think we want to use a devourer or drake to pull aggro due to the toughness but we need a few cats in there right? Stalker gives might and jaguar is actually pretty evasive due to the stealth.

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How about GS#5 SB#4 AXE#3 etc, these weapon skills that grant buff to pet’s next attack?(They grant buff no matter they miss or not)
And is it allow to keep swap weapon with boundaries(elixir of hero),to grant pet infinite fury and swiftness by skirmish traits?

I’d say that’s fine so long as you don’t target anything while using those skills.

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Posted by: Sebrent.3625

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I’d recommend axe + warhorn for perma weakness on the enemy and perma fury/swiftness and some stacks of might on the pets.

Other weapon set being greatsword or shortbow is up to personal preference, though I think greatsword would be better so you don’t accidentally shot an enemy and because +50% dmg works for devourer and bear quite well while 3 bleeds doesn’t since pets have bad condition damage … plus if people take devourers and bleed-on-crit, you may get bleed capped (not sure how likely this is with 5 devourers)

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Posted by: Arashiookami.2896

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Hit me up in game. I would love to try this and I’m always up for the challenge. If I’m not in game send me an in game mail.