Guild Wars 2

It doesnt use when i press F2 in spvp tournamesnt and is costing me so many matches.

that is all.

If you are trying to use it there are a few things that could be the problem.
1) The wolf is too far away from its target so it will run up first
2) The pets all have an ability queue exactly like character (huge flaw since we cannot control it) so it has to clear an ability before it will do its howl
3) Your target went stealth and if you don’t tell it to f2 immediately (less than .25s) that it will not allow you to use the f2 ability until it sits beside you and you remain stationary (if you move it will cancel your pets ability) this to me is a huge bug and needs to be addressed. Wolf should use ability at any point without being dependant on player movement. (most evident vs shadow refuge)

bumping, does no one care about this issue with one of the potentially most useful pets?

Would be nice if we had control of all pet abilities, not just their f2 :P

swiftpaw.6397:

Would be nice if we had control of all pet abilities, not just their f2 :P

God, this. I’d like spiders a lot more if I could control their abilities.

you have to stand still, wait 1 second for your pet to stop too then do an untargetted f2

MyGWAccount.7325:

bumping, does no one care about this issue with one of the potentially most useful pets?

I find it pointless to even bring it up when the developers thought the ridiculous windup on pet skills was a “good idea” in the first place.

Warriors can fart out an AoE fear at will but we have to wait 2 seconds (assuming it doesn’t glitch out) and by then the target will have moved out of range or the wolf will be dead because the zerg you wanted to scatter tore it apart like tissue paper.

Wanderer.5471:

you have to stand still, wait 1 second for your pet to stop too then do an untargetted f2

i think it should work when on the move, just F2 with no target at least and have it stop there and then use its still.

how am i supposed to get away when a group is chasing me? i want to be able to use my wolf like a wall and i believe i should be able to do this without stopping.

Would be great if our pets worked period, and then we wouldn’t be forced to use cc pets because they can’t keep on their target and do damage efficiently.

THANKFULLY the leap from canines covers great distance or i have no clue what would pet i would be using.

But yea, this needs to be fixed, along with our pets.

im noticing it more and more lately because i’ve moved into pvp/wvw and away from pve where its become more important

Hate to say it but pets are garbage in this game. Whats even worse is the devs dont seem to care very much about this class.
They need to give players the option of making a petless build.

i dont have an issue with it not activating (im assuming you mean normal wolf and not alpine – which i dont use), the only times ive tried to use it and it hasnt worked is because its been on CD (which only occurs whilst downed and i cant see whether its on CD or not)

-should also point out that stability and aegis would prevent the would prevent the fear (on my guard i always try to time my aegis virtue to mess with any interrupts i might get when stomping)

There needed to be more rng in the game.
Hence, sometimes the wolf will howl, and sometimes it will not.
Just hope for luck

Aye the fear really annoys me, I tend to play my bunker (tough-heal-condi) a lot, and normalliy use fear-entangle to land root on tricky oppents so i can get some condis up..

Yesterday i had a duel going on for 12 mins purely because he would stealth every single time i had him under 20%, and I was so close to getting him but fear failed Every time.

Linguistically Inept.6583:

-should also point out that stability and aegis would prevent the would prevent the fear (on my guard i always try to time my aegis virtue to mess with any interrupts i might get when stomping)

its an issue with the skills not even activating properly.

i will press F2 and the wolf will start the animation and then stop within 1second of time, then the F2 gui button will go into a short cooldown state and i’ll have to press it again to try to activate it. by then it is usually too late

if the ranger isnt focused on trying to activate the f2 ability than rangers will be wayyyyyy to powerful if we actually were attacking. Hence they made it a bit harder for rangers to do so just so we dont roll people.

MyGWAccount.7325:

Linguistically Inept.6583:

-should also point out that stability and aegis would prevent the would prevent the fear (on my guard i always try to time my aegis virtue to mess with any interrupts i might get when stomping)

its an issue with the skills not even activating properly.

i will press F2 and the wolf will start the animation and then stop within 1second of time, then the F2 gui button will go into a short cooldown state and i’ll have to press it again to try to activate it. by then it is usually too late

oh… i get that when i get impatient with a cooldown and spam f2 until its available (and a little bit afterwards) it seems the pets can interrupt their f2 with their f2 (it seems like old warr axe triple chop); its not limited to wolf

Almost all our F2 skills are broken or dysfunctional. You have to spam the hell out of the key to get it to work and half the time it doesn’t work anyway. Ditto for our other pet skills that cause our pet to stand still and go through a long animation before they attack. Add to this the fact the pets are slow as hell and take forever to get to the target, can’t hit a moving target and attack at right angles rather than going straight to the target. Pets are useless by design, that is the problem.

By the time our pet abilities go off the enemy is a mile away. One second is an eternity in PVP.

Listening to the devs talk about how the ranger is the “master of long range” or that our pets are “OP” in open world it is clear they are either utterly disingenuous or out of touch with reality, take your pick.

Yeah. F2 skills are horrible!
Even if the skill is actually activating the pets have a two second cast-time on many of the skills, which is the case for wolves.
Whenever you press the skill and the wolf actually uses its skills, the enemy is usually out of reach or its too late (using to interrupt stomps etc). The cast-time needs to be greatly reduced and that cannot be done fast enough!

With the wolves f2’s it tends to be more of a pathing disruption; the wolf has to stay within a certain distance of the target(s) and/or player and thus ends up canceling/ignoring commands. They need to set pet f2’s to the highest priority action or something, so that when you press f2 it doesn’t turn into a:

Pet f2 skill: Player Rage
Pet trolls the player until the player rages and puts a whole through their screen with their mouse.

maybe if the ranger dev’s/programmers took from the necro utility / pet skills our ranger pets might function better…

I’ve noticed it not work a number of times, I have to spam the hell out of the Hyena howl to get it to work sometimes.

I am pretty tired of being in a group situation and hitting my wolf f2 , nothing happening after 4 taps, then it just does a 2-3 second cooldown if you accidently hit it too much and i have to actually wait and be punished because the bullkitten doesn’t work at all initially. Please fix this, this is for virtually every pet not just wolf. It only works immediately if you swap + f2 at the moment and that might only be because the pet swap quickness.

“if the ranger isnt focused on trying to activate the f2 ability than rangers will be wayyyyyy to powerful if we actually were attacking. Hence they made it a bit harder for rangers to do so just so we dont roll people.”

Please tell me you’re being sarcastic.

if the pet F2 were fixed i think it would change the dynamic of so many fights both 1v1 and 1vMany…

has anyone ever tried to get this fixed?

feels like it doesnt work > 75% of the time now after i swap it out

bump for discussion lulz