Guild Wars 2

So to fix pets, I propose the following:

1) Move to 10 Second Pet Swaps Helps with a LOT of on pet swap abilities that really should be the basis of ranger utility. Think of the vigor. Think of the might.

2) Allow 4 Pets to Swap in a rotation 2x F2s and that would really help take care of pets dying as you would rotate them. Now the real basis of the pet is creating a “kit” of 4 F2 abilities you can cycle thru (yes some are buggy but that can get fixed overtime).

3) Reduce Cooldowns on F2 Single Target 20 seconds. AE 30 Seconds.

4) Reduce Cast Times on F2 Again a standard time for single target and then for AE damage/boons.

In short, having 4 pets you can cycle thru is like having a single engineer kit that you design what you want. It still provides damage BUT it now greatly increases the utility tied to F2. You also would have a LOT of utility buffs you could apply to a group pre-fight as pet swapping is then very fast!

Each time you would “click” pet swap, you would get the next pet in the rotation as opposed to being able to pick which one of the 4 you wanted next (that could be OP). So you have to think about both what pets and what rotation.

Very little for ANet to change to make this work. Sure it doesn’t make the pet better in terms of basic damage or fix pathing which are huge issues to tackle. BUT. . . it does give our pets more:

1) Ability to survive in AE
2) Group Utility (conditions, buffs, damage bursts, immobilizes etc)
3) Greatly improves “on pet swap” skills to give ranger much better function in groups and pve (I think as I rarely dungeon).

Option 2

Just allow the ranger to have 2 pets out at a time vs 1.
Cheap way to improve ranger damage.
You just need to have 2 pet bars vs 1
When you swap you would swap 2 for 2 (so each set would be swapped).
Now you probably would wind up with enough damage even with all the stupidity of AI.
You would have 2x the utility F2 procs which would add some real value.
It probably wouldn’t be terribly OP compared to other classes really

Thoughts?

Uh… What about No?

Well, let’s argument. 4 pets would be a lot and when you are skilled enough at managing them, they barely die.

Standardizing CD on F2 won’t help for anything. I would better see something like shout are channeled skill instead of cast skills. So a a 3 s cast time fear for 3 s fear become a 3 second channeled fear that apply 1s fear every second.
Swap CD, Cast time on F2 and cool down on F2 have already trait that do the Job.

No way, but if you must…

Tie 2 pets to each weapon swap. When swapping weapons, the pet will be swapped too without cooldown but it has the same percentage of remaining health as the pet before.

F4 could be either global or local for each set

Having the same pet for two sets, e.g. Jag/Spider – Jag/Wolf, will not cause the *Jag*uar to be swapped to the same Jaguar if the Jaguar was the active pet.

Guess what, I ran around with a zerg today and none of my pets died while I was close to the commander. I barely had to swap them

I think people miss what I was saying as it was not well worded.

You would have ONE pet out at a time
You could swap pets on 10 seconds vs 20
Instead of only being able to swap between 2 pets it would now be a 4 pet rotation.

The key concept that may or may not be missed is the idea of being able to effectively pull off 4 F2 effects every 40 seconds (essentially one every 10 seconds).
And, moving to 10 second pet swapping makes a huge difference in “on pet activation” traits (might and AE vigor).

Yeah, having 4 pets out at a time would be nuts.

Good news, that’s exactly what I understood.

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