Guild Wars 2

The pet will attack even if it is set to avoid combat. I have it avoid combat so I can control where the pet goes, but now it just runs away a bunch.

Same for all of the rangers after patch. Game has tons of bugs and this will take some time to fix.

Its annoying indeed and makes the pet close to useless at all.

This bug is a major handicap for ranger characters as it renders enemy kiting almost impossible. Also you are not healing if your pet is attacking even if you are not, so this is a major handicap to health regeneration for ranger characters. The pet will always attack on your initial hit so to switch quickly from one target to another, it is hit- guard-avoid combat for each new target! Truly terrible.

Actually i found if you use recall (f3) the pet won’t attack as long as you don’t change target even if it’s on aggressive mode. So there is at leas that, and is easier to push F3 than look for the button on the screen.