Guild Wars 2

So how would fellow rangers feel about being able to set the pet’s F2 to auto attack independently to the ranger’s auto attack?

Customization is good.

I have often wanted them, especially on the raven, eagle, and hawk.

I was using the Eagle at the time when I thought it would be convenient to not have to worry about manually using it.

I’d much rather have more direct control over my pet. Access to the other abilities (I don’t need a bird casting swiftness , that takes forever to cast, in combat every chance it gets) and the ability to tell them to move to a ground targeted spot. Not like guard with its 1 second cast time and a cooldown, just a simple move here so your not in a death circle. Some people will say just call the pet back to you to reposition it, but the problem arises when the bulk of the circle is between you and the pet and having them move 2 steps in the opposite direction would save them.

If were supposed to be “the pet class” then let us actually use the pets. Give people the option to turn on auto cast for abilities if they don’t want to micro and rely on the ai (which is pretty much as smart as a rock) but give those of us that want the pet to be useful the ability to make it useful by being better.

I hear ya. There are F2 skills that should be one of the automatically used attack skills and there are attack skills that should be F2.

Much of the following I just finished typing up in a different thread…

I use the naga with the 12 button grid under my thumb. I rebound the F key commands to Shift+# commands. We currently have F1, F2, F3 and F4. We could easily use Shift+# and have up to 12 functions (including “-” and “=”) for our pets.

I too would like to see more control. A go here and/or guard that spot command. An actual revive. Our pets are weak enough to get stomped in less than 10 seconds. Having to wait out 14 seconds before you can save your pet or else face a 60 sec CD is BS. The pet is designed to be far too valuable to the class to have it be so useless.

You’re pet is about to die, swap, 14 sec CD. Your pet dies before the CD is up, you swap and face the 60 CD. That pet dies in less then 14 seconds and you are now doing 30-40% less dps than every other class for 36+ seconds. Total BS. I’d much rather have a command to rez the pet like I would a player.

Also, boons and conditions on our pet should be displayed above the pet’s command bar. That info is important when it comes to pet management.

Edit: Left something out.

GW1 mobs would run out of the effect of an AoE. If our pets did that on their own, it would be great. As true as calling them back and having them run through more AoE is, calling them back when you are within melee and in an AoE yourself is also useless. Sometimes you can stay and take the punishment no problem but your pet can’t. What are you to do? Back off just so your pet doesn’t die?