Guild Wars 2

So the actual smokescale is the example to every other pet the ranger have perfomance wise.
Can Aney make the other pets better so we can use them efficiently?
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• Utility Shouts are placed in functions F1 to F4. Being:
  -> F1 : Attack my target, pet get +20% speed bonus while this command is active. This is to make the old pets to hit the target consistently
  -> F2 : Defend me: pet go back to the ranger and only attack if the ranger is attacked.
  -> F3 : Guard: Pet go to ranger location and guard that place attacking anything in range.
  -> F4: Search and Rescue: Pet goes to the closest downed player and try to revive him. Pet revive at 1/3 actual speed.

• New utility shouts work both for the ranger and the pet:
  -> Sick’em works like the mastery nuhoc stealth detection. You and your pet will see invisible players and be able to attack them for a brief time (8 seconds?). Pet gets the 40% damage increase for 8 seconds.
  -> Guard will grant protection for you and your pet. Pet also get stealthed.
  -> Protect me. I don’t like the i give my damage to the pet. Instead the shout could be reworked to pet to any transfer any condition to the pet instead for 10 seconds. Reduce the CD of this shout to a third (30 seconds). Pet is not disabled while this effect is active.
  -> Search and Rescue: Pet will go to the ranger and apply constant healing for 10 seconds same fashion as the downed skill Lick Wounds. If the ranger goes down while this effect is active the pet enter automatically in that state, no need to wait for the CD.
  
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To give more rewarding ranger-pet relations pets should have an pet trait line where the ranger can choose some aspects of the pets.
Traits in BM and NM that affect only the pets like Beastly Warden, Wilting Strike, Natural Healing, Go for the Eyes and Invigorating Bond should go to the Trait Line.

• Would be amazing if each pet family could have a different trait line with some different traits. For example spiders would not benefit from Beastly Warden or any short range trait.

New traits in BM should be like Companion’s Might or Zephir’s Speed, traits that benefit both ranger and pet.

Every family pet should have 4 kind of skills

• Basic Attack
• Defensive skill
• Burst damage skill
• Utility Skill.
  And allow the ranger to place which one of those he wants to have in the F2 placeholder.

I wouldn’t mind to be locked up in one pet at a time (not to be able to swap pets) if the pet system shows to be sturdy and make pets desirable enough. It would make every ranger even more different because you should choose which kind of pet you want/ game you play: tanky? DPS? ranged?
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