Guild Wars 2

Who cares about balance, I want my pet to teleport to me instead of walking the long way around when I drop down a couple meters.

I didn’t pick Ranger to babysit a kittened pet, I wanted to be like Lone Druid and his Spirit Bear. Spirit Bear has a return ability in Dota; it doesn’t work if he just took damage, but I think considering how our pets are a bit weaker, it should just return them instantly. I don’t know how many fights I’ve lost in sPvP because my pet was halfway across the map.

I guess if someone thinks that’s not balanced, just make it so pets can’t attack when they’re a certain distance from you. Only if we can instantly return pets of course. Don’t nerf the pets without fixing them.

Another note, when I press F1 on a target that’s too far away, I don’t care. I want my pet to get in range then. In Dota, Spirit Bear is a melee unit; when I send him on a right click on someone, he doesn’t kitten and complain that they’re too far away. He goes until he gets in range. And if he can’t attack cause he’s out of MY range, then he just chases them.

TL:DR : Make our pets like Lone Druid’s Spirit Bear. Or at least not kittened.

Just swap pets and your pet will appear before you. Swap again immediately to get your original pet assuming you’re not in combat.

This is mostly for sPvP, where you’re mostly in combat all the time. You walk off a little cliff and your pet decides to take the scenic route. To an extent, WvW too, but I haven’t really noticed it being a problem, it gets to the point where you’re so far away the pet teleports anyway.

PvE, don’t care, I can drop combat pretty easily and swap.

A less ‘overpowered’ fix is to make the pet’s return run speed as fast as when you for example leap forward and it quickly runs to you to catch up.

EDIT:
Pets should be able to run down cliffs though. Let them take 50% fall damage, I don’t care, but it’s much better than having it run the scenic route that takes 5-10 seconds.

EDIT 2:
I do actually notice that sometimes when roaming in wvw and jumping down from a cliff, the pet sort of falls too and takes falling damage (sometimes even gets knocked down because of a long fall)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Bird-pets-1/first#post4010367