Guild Wars 2

I will be fighting an enemy, the Bristleback will be happily auto-plinking away at the enemy from max range, I’ll hit F2 and the Bristleback will fire off a load of spikes that doesn’t connect. I’ve tested this against stationary world bosses like Golem. I’m thinking this would be an easy fix, maybe make the Bristleback run into range when F2 skill is selected while an enemy is targeted? I could’ve sworn other pets like the Ice Drake do that. But no, if I pet swap and hit F2 while at LB range but not pet range, Bristleback fires off spikes uselessly instead of taking a few steps forward and firing.

Not sure if related – I’ve also noticed that the spikes seem to have a bit of a spread? When closer, the Bristleback seems to connect with more spikes. If that’s the case – WHY is the auto-attack distance so far away?

Yes, it works indeed just like a shot-gun.
The closer you are, the more projectiles will hit.

If the target is far away – you’ll hate your life for ever creating a Ranger class.

This has been brought up a lot of times. Don’t expect any improvements or fixes. Just manually pay attention to your pets. We’ve always been the class to fight our own mechanics instead of our enemies.

Tragic Positive.9356:

Yes, it works indeed just like a shot-gun.
The closer you are, the more projectiles will hit.

If the target is far away – you’ll hate your life for ever creating a Ranger class.

This has been brought up a lot of times. Don’t expect any improvements or fixes. Just manually pay attention to your pets. We’ve always been the class to fight our own mechanics instead of our enemies.

I couldn’t find anything in the first 5 pages of forums and with the search function finding nothing for Bristleback…wasn’t about to go through 425 more pages manually.

Can’t really do anything manually to control Bristleback as telling it to attack just leaves it at range and can’t get it closer without running in and pet swapping. Oh well. Thanks anyways.

Its very simple, it works best with zephyr’s speed trait. You wait for the right time, swap to
Bristleback , press F2 and watch your targer hp going very low, combine this with we heal as one(jsut while the brits F2 is getting ready, you have like 1 sec dealy) for might boost on brits if you also have NM traitline. You can also do it after stealth from CA. Talking about improvments for this pet is ridiculous, its performance is way out of charts.

@SgtWantCuddles
It wasn’t a specific thread made about Bristle. It was rather a QQ reaction from a thief that got his but razed and some people (me included) brought this fact about Bristle’s unreliability from range.

The pet is dangerous with proper melee positioning. I don’t believe Anet’s gonna improve it for 1200 range as well. That’s why I suggested you to train a bit by manually recalling him to closer range and then backing away again.

Use your bristleback in melee range and profit. It may look like a ranged pet, but it’s in close combat that this baby really shines – both Rain of spikes and Spike barrage are really devastating up close.

Bristleback f2 is best used after swap in melee range. I usually hit pet swap, we heal as one, pet F2, then cover it with signet of equality, or a fast lunar impact, so opponents can’t use weapon evade.

Archon.6480:

Bristleback f2 is best used after swap in melee range. I usually hit pet swap, we heal as one, pet F2, then cover it with Glyph of equality, or a fast lunar impact, so opponents can’t use weapon evade.

Fixt for you.

Tragic Positive.9356:

Archon.6480:

Bristleback f2 is best used after swap in melee range. I usually hit pet swap, we heal as one, pet F2, then cover it with Glyph of equality, or a fast lunar impact, so opponents can’t use weapon evade.

Fixt for you.

Ah! Thanks!