Guild Wars 2

Currently thinking of:

- Spirit of Nature
- Fern Hound
- Moas (Harmonic Cry)
- Invigorating Bond (Nature Magic GM)

Personally, I think they should. What do you guys think?

At this point, I’ll be happy with ANYthing (besides spamming staff 1) reliably generating AF at a decent rate.

Yes, I think pets should. Having pet heals not generate astral force further pushes back the pets as being an extension of the class. Even Necro minions can be traited to siphon health to the player, so why the decision was made so pets don’t even have an option to, or by default, contribute to AF generation is beyond me.

i do , its Fair enough as we would have to give up the Other grandmasters , sun spirit(vigour) ect and protective warden for a Pet heal.

pet heals should also count as triggering Natural mender.

If AF will remain, there are a number of things related to pets that could help increase it. I’m not sure I would want it locked only to their healing, but from their attacks as well.

I was surprised that they didn’t tbh. Same goes with pet damage. There are many pets that have multiple strike attacks and that would probably help generation quite a bit.

What I’m most disappointed is that even with that I’m still stuck with a power build. I like my condi builds and I would love to be able to use conditions to charge it. I remember my apothecary bunker build that was great in pvp years ago.

It would help no staff builds. But it alone would not help enough because people would feel pigeonholed into what would no doubt be called clunky/trash/gimic AFG. Top it off with something about 2 pets wasted and not being able to achieve CF in 15sec solo.

If they did regeneration tics = AFG and your pet AFG idea coupled, that would be huge.

Edit:

Just thinking but with NM and/or BM, the fernhound would be a strong druid pet. Not only just for the heals and AFG over a duration of an appropriate 10-15sec, but also because it could potentially be used with ancient seeds.

I suggested after BW3 that the “natural healing” trait would change the “+450” healing part to something like – pets heals are considered as ranger heals based on the ranger healing power. This OFC includes the passive healing pets are getting from it(only the pet will get the heal, but it will be based on your healing power) and ya, with this trait, it should build AF together with the pet heals. Also many other ranger heals like regen, spirit of nature, sotw, sigils.runes etc…. should build AF.
In order to balance it, the AF build to be based on % of the total amount healed/damage and not per tic like it is now. They can add coefficients for AF build to make some heals to stand out compared to others(like TU/staff) .

This, regen, and condis (plus spirit procs because I hear they don’t) should all be a part of astral force generation. It would open so many possibilities to us and would solve the classe’s main issues.