Guild Wars 2

First Increasing the Hit Points on pets was just something they needed to do.
thank you Arena Net.

In this game where dodging out of the way of the mega hit is important to live.

Please give pets a dodge bar like players. I would not make the pet move like players that would just require to much time programing more animations…but instead just give the pets “Protection” for 2 seconds after you press their dodge button.

How about it guys any thought on this.

They already get 2 seconds of protection when you dodge, so you need a good timing for that, but even 2 seconds of protection won’t save the pets life often. And we are forced to go into the wilderness survival tree again….

Evade on F3.

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Shirk.6421:

They already get 2 seconds of protection when you dodge, so you need a good timing for that, but even 2 seconds of protection won’t save the pets life often.

U´re not able to pick up this trait in “good” PvE Builds. And a lot of Bosses don´t rly care about “Protection”. Lupicus Kick=Flying cat, 1 or 2 times…protection doesn´t rly matter.
SE P1 Last Boss same game. Red Circles=dead Pet. Only Bear´s can survive this a few times (if u´re healing them). But they deal so low dmg….no1 want´s a ranger with bear.

This is why I’ve continuously suggested just granting the pet aegis each time the Ranger dodges or evades. This way the buff could stay on the target until it’s actually used. A lot of the stuff that 1 shots pets is 1 hit only. The few things that spam multiple hits, just avoiding one, is often enough.

I honestly don’t see them giving us a controllable pet dodge on a key. They don’t want us controlling our secondary pet skills because they feel it would be too difficult for players. Can you imagine players trying to control when your pet dodges? Not feasible.

I did not even get into the problems of trying to control your pets dodge and also your own. An I know it would cause a lot of problems making playing a ranger less then easy….an that would put off a lot of players to the class. but with the current state of pets…a lot of players don’t like the class. you can’t choose to not have a pet and most other players don’t wont rangers with them they or just a DPS lose, sense a large part of a rangers damage is from the pet that is always dead.

The only other thing I think they need to do is give Pets a passive way to avoid damage…. its the large one hits that kill players that we have to avoid that kills our pets each time.

These threads are all too prevalent. Posting them in the correct forum would improve the chances of them being read by the appropriate individual, although I wouldn’t hold my breath.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions

While we dont get those, remember that the Ranger has access to several ranged pets. They may not be the best things around (to some players) but they`ll still be outside most of the nasty aoe`s.