Guild Wars 2

So I was testing out a new build when I realized that the pet was completely unresponsive for several seconds after pet swapping. I then left the match I was in and tried to see if it would respond by taking off the new zephyr’s speed trait thinking maybe the super speed bugged the pets AI. No change. Pet is still unresponsive for 3-5 seconds.

I attempted it on other maps as well and no change. PLEASE test and see if you are having this is as well. If this is a thing we need to get it reported asap.

Eh its probably not a bug, just them screwing over rangers more and more.

Yeah, I noticed this as well.

Yep, the pet will not do anything at all for a few seconds after being swapped. Not even if you command it to attack or use its F2. Has to be a major bug.

It actually seems to affect differnet pets different for me. Smokescale was unresponsive for 4ish seconds. Drake was only unresponsive for 2. Seems fairly reliable on there time too.

Yep, I was wondering what was wrong with my F2 not working.

Now if only quickness actually affected them, then they’d only be unresponsive for 1 or 2 seconds. One can only dream :/

Lets keep the snark out of the thread if we can >.< does anyone else have any more info on this. Anyone else getting this affect? Any places/situations/pets that seem to have it worse than others if so. Is anyone not getting this AT ALL (test please0

Happened to me. It’s roughly 3 secs each time you pet swap. Not to mention, staff 3 now dismisses your pet. So after each staff 3, you get a kittened pet for 3 secs. Impressive stealth nerf.

Great job ANET!

I experienced it as well. If you re-target first slightly faster than if you don’t, but quickness does not affect its attack whatsoever and the responsiveness literally causes toon deaths. Could not get a wolf fear off for what felt like an eternity…3 hits from thief b4 it went off after pet swap re-target and downed.

Kilrik.4630:

I experienced it as well. If you re-target first slightly faster than if you don’t, but quickness does not affect its attack whatsoever and the responsiveness literally causes toon deaths. Could not get a wolf fear off for what felt like an eternity…3 hits from thief b4 it went off after pet swap re-target and downed.

Quickness has been bugged since the start of the game, and never affected the majority of pet attack speed anyways, it only affects devourer, spider, smokescale, bristleback or wyvern pets.

This is gonna need to be fixed ASAP. Its close to game-breaking for us esp in PvP.

Its game breaking in every game mode hahaha. I just hope the devs have noticed

TO EVERY RANGER READING THIS. PLEASE FILE AN INGAME REPORT IF YOU HAVE THE BUG.

Also feel free to post in this thread with any new info you get on the subject.

Shadelang.3012:

Its game breaking in every game mode hahaha. I just hope the devs have noticed

TO EVERY RANGER READING THIS. PLEASE FILE AN INGAME REPORT IF YOU HAVE THE BUG.

Also feel free to post in this thread with any new info you get on the subject.

^ This. I already went and made a thread about it in the bug section. I linked this thread there too!

Let us know if you get a response in that thread*.

Pet F2 skills also go on cooldown as if they are suffering from Chill…

Also for some reason Astral Grace no longer combos with Smokescale’s Smoke field….

odd. it used to be this way a few years back and then they fixed it. someone no doubt reintroduced it accidently I’m sure.

ranger parked for now.

This bug is game breaking for druid play. Not playing druid in pvp or wvw till this is gone.

Blast on Smokescale’s smoke field does not work

Here is vid of what it does for me.
Its almost like the pet is loading in still for a few seconds until it actually loads in and then goes for the attack. If you look closely you will see the pet staying still until it loads in, then u will see the breathing animation on it when its ready.

I was honestly hoping everyone was over exaggerating this… but nope, got home, swapped my pet in combat and after my pets dial up kicked in and the fight was over it started listening to me again…

This needs to get fixed ASAP

I didnt think this was a big deal at first but it really is.
This needs to get fixed ASAP.

This is insane how this has not been fixed yet, you can’t play ranger atm because the pets don’t respond for up to 5 seconds after swapping to them.

I know I don’t want to play any PvP until this is fixed, and even high end PvE content makes me hesitant while I can quickly swap.

yea this is very very annoying, totally a gamebreaker for me in pvp. I cant play ranger right now

i noticed in WvW that ALL my pets have only 15.4k hp while i have 17k hp…plus i feel like my pets have no toughness at all..they die so easily.

I noticed in WvW that ALL my pets have 15.4k hp while i have 17k hp…feels like there’s more bugs for pets than we thought

Can confirm the delay here as well. On my tiger, bristleback & shark all same delay

This used a be a thing for a long time for rangers until they fixed it a few year back.

Looks like the server outage opened up a wormhole.

I can’t for the life of me understand how things like these happens, and onto live servers. How small is Anets quality assurance team really? I mean, really?

It’s not like it’s the first time either, and often it takes months, if ever, to fix.

Well, at least I’ll hold of buying the expansion until this is fixed, that’s for kitten sure.

Elcoyote solitaire.9052:

i noticed in WvW that ALL my pets have only 15.4k hp while i have 17k hp…plus i feel like my pets have no toughness at all..they die so easily.

Did you use Go for the Eyes? If so that’d explain them losing toughness

OGDeadHead.8326:

I can’t for the life of me understand how things like these happens, and onto live servers. How small is Anets quality assurance team really? I mean, really?

It’s not like it’s the first time either, and often it takes months, if ever, to fix.

Well, at least I’ll hold of buying the expansion until this is fixed, that’s for kitten sure.

Ironically buying the expansion may be more beneficial than waiting given the new mechanic of the soul beast.

Here. Pets unresponsive and Staff3 cancels pet skills now.

Swap then press F1 on your target, seems to work for me…

BloodMoonASURA.3564:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVblmpLRgvU

Here. Pets unresponsive and Staff3 cancels pet skills now.

staff 3 banishes your pet, it’ll lose all boons, condis, buffs, and heal up to full, and then be unresponsive for 4s when you finish the dash.

Yeah I noticed this while comboing smoke scale field + staff 3, it’s unresponsive and very buggy. Greatsword 3 leap for stealth doesn’t work either.

I have it as well. Big game breaking bug.

Durzlla.6295:

BloodMoonASURA.3564:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVblmpLRgvU

Here. Pets unresponsive and Staff3 cancels pet skills now.

staff 3 banishes your pet, it’ll lose all boons, condis, buffs, and heal up to full, and then be unresponsive for 4s when you finish the dash.

Yeah. The pet essentially ceases to exist during Staff3, which is interesting to say at least :o

Toughness is down from that change, which is drastic, the pause on swap is game breaking. And my natural healing isn’t working at all, so my pet has almost no heals. Even minor creatures are problematic for pets.

This is probably the only time in over a decade of playing mmos that I believe that rolling back a change is needed. The changes to pets need to be rolled back.

Edited to add this: The pet changes are the only thing I have found in the entire patch that was truly troubling. Actually A lot of good, some not so much. But pets are designed to be the bread and butter of the Core Class…

Been playing Main ranger since GW1. Now this is the first time i felt like i don’t play Ranger, but a Domestic pet owner with a bow.

You’ve got to be kidding me on the response time of pets now. Three pet mechanics that completely got destroyed by this patch.

Petswap = 3-4 seconds delay before the pet actually does anything. Which immediately nullifies any of the on-pet-swap bonuses. Rendering the pet completely useless.

F1 Skill = it takes another second delay for the pet to move

Ancestral Grace = SUPER DUPER BAD, how would it be that a pet magically dissapears and reappears from using the druid’s staff ability. Also: you can’t cast any of your pets special abilities while using Ancestral Grace. Furthermore -> it even interupts your pet’s autonomous special attacks which really screws up the game for rangers right now.

ArenaNet, you have dissapointed me deeply. I hope and expect to see this changed back ASAP.

Hidden Dragon.7523:

Been playing Main ranger since GW1. Now this is the first time i felt like i don’t play Ranger, but a Domestic pet owner with a bow.

You’ve got to be kidding me on the response time of pets now. Three pet mechanics that completely got destroyed by this patch.

Petswap = 3-4 seconds delay before the pet actually does anything. Which immediately nullifies any of the on-pet-swap bonuses. Rendering the pet completely useless.

F1 Skill = it takes another second delay for the pet to move

Ancestral Grace = SUPER DUPER BAD, how would it be that a pet magically dissapears and reappears from using the druid’s staff ability. Also: you can’t cast any of your pets special abilities while using Ancestral Grace. Furthermore -> it even interupts your pet’s autonomous special attacks which really screws up the game for rangers right now.

ArenaNet, you have dissapointed me deeply. I hope and expect to see this changed back ASAP.

And because of the vanish on ancestral grace, the delay of action happens as well as it doesn’t heal the pet.So now my Ranger and my Druid (my 2 Mains ) are as effective as wet noodles…

Been playing Main ranger since GW1. Now this is the first time i felt like i don’t play Ranger, but a Domestic pet owner with a bow.

You’ve got to be kidding me on the response time of pets now. Three pet mechanics that completely got destroyed by this patch.

Petswap = 3-4 seconds delay before the pet actually does anything. Which immediately nullifies any of the on-pet-swap bonuses. Rendering the pet completely useless.

F1/F2 Skill = it takes another second delay for the pet to move

Ancestral Grace = SUPER DUPER BAD, how would it be that a pet magically dissapears and reappears from using the druid’s staff ability. Also: you can’t cast any of your pets special abilities while using Ancestral Grace. Furthermore -> it even interupts your pet’s autonomous special attacks which really screws up the game for rangers right now.

ArenaNet, you have dissapointed me deeply. I hope and expect to see this changed back ASAP.

I filed an in-game report, hopefully they can come up with a fix today.

Durzlla.6295:

OGDeadHead.8326:

I can’t for the life of me understand how things like these happens, and onto live servers. How small is Anets quality assurance team really? I mean, really?

It’s not like it’s the first time either, and often it takes months, if ever, to fix.

Well, at least I’ll hold of buying the expansion until this is fixed, that’s for kitten sure.

Ironically buying the expansion may be more beneficial than waiting given the new mechanic of the soul beast.

Maybe this is their way of getting more rangers to buy the expansion. Then after we have bought it, they will fix this. :O

still broke as of latest necro fix patch

Tusk.3846:

still broke as of latest necro fix patch

yup

Please for all that is holy in the gaming world, fix our unresponsive pets.

Most importantly: undo staff 3! Please please please!!! You made any beastmaster druid absolutely useless by removing the pet during the staff 3 channel! Not only do pets lose all their boons, you also mess with every pet swap trait that you so just changed to have cooldowns removed, artificially increasing them if you staff 3 while petswap is off cd!

I made the Reddit post calling attention to it.

I don’t really have hope of devs actually reading the forums, as sad as that is…
I don’t even wanna see statements, I’d just be glad to know devs are actually reading and aware of the problems.

the new staff3 stows your pet during the channel which means it will never blast the smokescale’s smokefield. this is a huge issue and a massive nerf at a competitive level. i hope you will revert the skill because the form of RoTL is just trash since smokescale needs to be active for it’s smokefield to work.