Guild Wars 2

…and you press Steal and it just… does it…?

That’s what should happen when I press F2 on my pet, no long animation for a wolf fear and then they’re out of range (if it even works at all), no flapping around and around and around before my bird bothers to attack, it should just work.

You can’t have a PVP game where burst or CC randomly might, kinda, sometimes, sorta’ happen. I get that you don’t want pets pointing and shooting and locking onto targets and hitting like trucks, totally unavoidable, but if we press F2 we should get F2.

Simple.

I wish birds would skip casting swiftness and just attack. That whole fly over → swiftness cast twirl → flap → flap → flap routine they do is just asinine.

The shadow step portion of steal is actually glitchy and will sometimes not move you at all if there ground rises slightly. You can also steal complete rubbish, such as a stone from an earth elemental. Use that and it’ll get thrown and reflected back onto you and knock you down.

Part of the slow F2 activation is when the pet moves within range of the target and then does the skill. This makes sense for an attack but is silly for an F2 buff. The pet can also sometimes want to finish its own attack skill even if it again means chasing a target.

Won’t happen. The dev’s think any buffs to pets will turn rangers into unstoppable engines of destruction in pve.

Warriors can fear aoe on demand but we, sadly, will not be able to no matter how much sense it makes.