Guild Wars 2

I’m talking about the actual birds; Ravens, Hawks and Eagles. It makes no sense that they were given a basic attack as their F2 instead of, say, the Swiftness shout. The Raven F2 is at least mediocre with the single blind. It only sucks so bad because of pet issues in general keeping it from activating in time to actually stop a big attack.
The Hawk and Eagle though? It’s a weak bleed on like a 6 second cooldown! Do they really expect Rangers to micromanage their pet to such a degree and just spam the F2 key? Those pets are tedious as hell to deal with. Not only because of having to deal with the F2 they do have, but also because you have no control at all over the Swiftness boon.

Birds F2 attacks actually hit twice and can crit for a large amount, you know if they actually hit.

And with the inherent lag using your f2 abilities.. you can ‘feel’ like you have 100% uptime while spamming it. =D

Oh and by Large I mean by Ranger standards.

" also because you have no control at all over the Swiftness boon"

also because rangers cant have nice things

Lol. I love my hawk & eagle. They do an insane amount of damage and hardly ever die. My birds do between 1500-2500 or so of base damage per hit, not counting bleeds. The F2 does over 2800 base damage plus condition damage, and can be cast every 6 seconds. C’mon man, that’s awesome!

I actually have more a problem with the Swiftness, mainly because I’ll send my bird pets in, they’ll take like 2 or 3 seconds to cast that stupid swiftness before flying to the target.

Extremely annoying.

They like to stop in middle of combat and cast it as well.