Guild Wars 2

Lvl 40. So far I have only been using my pets for their #2 skill and the “protect me” slot skill. What else should I be doing with them. I do dungeons and a little wvwvw.

Thanks

Oh yes Ivr been using search and rescue some.

A handy one to know is that Drakes have a Blast Finisher in their attack skills (the ones you don’t control), and they like to use it early in a fight. So if you need it during a fight, swap pet to the drake, and it’ll use it almost immediately. With the healing spring water field, that’s a nice aoe healing that adds to the heal and regen. With a mesmer’s ethereal field, that’s chaos armour for the whole party, etc…

cafard.8953:

A handy one to know is that Drakes have a Blast Finisher in their attack skills (the ones you don’t control), and they like to use it early in a fight. So if you need it during a fight, swap pet to the drake, and it’ll use it almost immediately. With the healing spring water field, that’s a nice aoe healing that adds to the heal and regen. With a mesmer’s ethereal field, that’s chaos armour for the whole party, etc…

Thank you for this advice, even though I did not ask the question I found this response very useful. ^^

At level 40 you can have your pet tank for you pretty well, just let him attack first by sending him against mobs with F1. Some pets to consider, cats/birds for nice damage, dogs for knockdown, bears for being tanky, drakes for aoe damage, spiders/devourers for staying at range. Depends on what you want though. At level 40 you won’t have access to much traits and stats, so I’d just go with dogs, cause their knockdown is nice, or bears to tank for you. Run full power gear with longbow and greatsword, or sword/dagger and greatsword if you want more evades. This is for open world pve btw (i.e. map exploration, leveling, farming). I don’t run dungeons much.

As a contrary opinion:

Get two pets. Preferably ranged ones. Use them to draw out enemies and distract foes. Getting mobs and opponents to waste time and cooldowns on the pets.

Swap them constantly for the positional advantage:
Pet goes in, does a hit or two, swap it for the other one as soon as an enemy has peeled off to attack it.

I will often hit f2, and then swap the moment it has gone off, and repeat.

Tank for your pet, rather than having it tank for you.

I like devourers for this as they apply condition pressure for me, and burrow to avoid attacks giving me another second or two of time to get the swap handled.

Your pet can be used to revive you (#3 on downed) as well as others (one of the utility skills). So if you’re getting really low or someone else is getting really low, that’s a good time to trigger a pet swap so you have better odds of success on the revive when it comes time.

Kichwas.7152:

Tank for your pet, rather than having it tank for you.

He’s level 40 and tries to run dungeons, don’t think tanking is a good idea, no offense.

Keep it coming guys thanks. Note it is story mode dungeons only for this hunter till he is 80. He has done ac and cm a few times now. Ive done every path except for Arah so he is not going in totally cold.

Thanks again for the info.

Slither Shade.4782:

Keep it coming guys thanks. Note it is story mode dungeons only for this hunter till he is 80. He has done ac and cm a few times now. Ive done every path except for Arah so he is not going in totally cold.

Thanks again for the info.

Ranger

Have you read the pet guide?