Guild Wars 2

Right now I only have two the feline pets, the jaguar and the lynx. I was wondering what feline pet has the best damage.

I ask this because today I was testing the two cats out letting them attack and kill the same mobs and noticed the lynx was critting for higher damage amounts than the jaguar. If I remember to I can try to fraps it tonight, will be a borning video although could show the results I was seeing.

Jaguar. Their stealth crits are fantastic.

The cats’ maul skill does a double attack. Easy to see in videos, hard to distinguish in the combat logs. The second skill seems to do roughly 2x the damage of a regular attack. So if one cat crit on its maul and the other didn’t, you could mistake that for it having higher damage. The crit numbers also have a distinctive graphic which will show up in the video.

In practice, I haven’t noticed a difference in the autoattack damage between the jaguar and lynx. The jaguar gets the edge because when stealthed, it’s guaranteed to crit for (at least) 3 attacks. The lynx’s F2 takes too long to activate – it basically loses 2 attacks while using it, mostly canceling out the extra damage it does. And it can miss if the target moves.

The other cat that’s worth looking at is the jungle stalker. Its F2 is also slow, but gives 5 stacks of might for 10 sec to everyone nearby. In a dungeon setting, that’s probably much more useful than the jaguar’s stealth. It’s on a 30 sec cooldown so roughly 30% of the time everyone can have 5 stacks of might (adds up to +175 power and condition damage at level 80). I just need to test it to figure out the range of the buff.

Thank you, I will have to look into this some more this weekend. I had been sending them out for the test with out their special abilitys.

I also noticed that my pets were not keeping aggro today, tried the cats, three drakes, some bears (oh my) and the mobs would eventually come after me even tho I was doing no healing or attacking and was at a far range from them for the most part.

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I also noticed that my pets were not keeping aggro today, tried the cats, three drakes, some bears (oh my) and the mobs would eventually come after me even tho I was doing no healing or attacking and was at a far range from them for the most part.

Unfortunately some mobs are just hard-coded that way – to ignore the pet after they reach a certain level of hp. They don’t want you standing safely in the back plinking the mob with arrows while your pet does the tanking all the time.

In the ranger tip thread, someone posted about swapping between devourers (they have a knockback skill) and using longbow’s knockback to keep mobs away from you until they’re almost dead. Might be worth a shot.

Lynx are good if you like to stack bleeding. I alternate between Lynx and jaguar for my feline pet, depending on the situation. Not much use for the other ones sadly.