Guild Wars 2

I was on my noob engi roaming through the borderlands with a 3-4 group of random players when we met this ranger. OMG. Really impressive. Hell, to say he was good is not enough. He killed us all while his hp still was above 75%.
My main char is a ranger so i checked the log to see what exactly he was doing and to my surprise i saw that his pet (eagle or raven, i’m not sure, but it was a bird) was attacking me for 3-4,5k. The lowest hit was 2k. (btw i have +/-1700 taughness and +/-2200 armor)

I don’t know what build this guy was using, but i tried to “reproduce” it on my own ranger with pathetic results. My pet’s damage is not even close to 3k (4,5k is pure abstraction). In the best case it causes 2k-2,5k a few times in a row with Beastmastery 30 and Master’s Bond.

Any idea how to make a pet hit so high?

High BM specs with birds can do quite a bit that I’ve seen so far, yeah around the 2k a hit+. Also Sick ’em should help a bit if he runs that.

Signet of the Wild gives 25% bonus for 12 seconds.
Giving the pet 25 stacks of Might is possible in some situations.
Full beastmary traitline adds both damage and crit-chance.
Masters Bond built up over time in WvW can add significant damage and crit-chance.
Pet’s Prowess adds 30% crit-damage.
Bountiful Hunter can add 5% damage when pet has a boon.
Also, the eagles/hawks have a pretty short cooldown on their F2 attack skill.

My cat has hit someone for 5k, but I was using Rage as One and Sic’em. This was back when Guard let your pet up on walls and I was running with 4 other beastmaster spec’d Rangers clearing out enemy walls of towers and players. Amusing times, lol.

“Oh, I’m safe up on the wall … oh God, 5 cats!”

Did the player swap? He may have been using Master’s Bond. In any event, a well trained condition / beastmaster ranger is a formidable foe, indeed.

Just last night with a similar build I was able to destroy a yak and hightail it out of there with Swoop and SotH. The party of 5 SoR guarding it must have been livid because they couldn’t do anything to stop me, although, I don’t feel this build is OP I just think those players needed more practice fighting rangers.

Ok, this is just a raw theory, so feel free to correct me if i am wrong.

I’ve been testing different builds and skills in different situations and when it came to pet damage the upper limit was +/- 2,5k.
However some attacks are double attacks. What i see on the screen is, for example: 2x 1800. Now the problem is, that i can’t see the damage done by the pet in the battle-log. Is it possible that it is summed up? That what i see as 2×1800 the attacked player sees as 3600? This would explain everything.

11k

hehe Was on an Warrior with his Quickness Ability

9.4k Maul on the heavy golem, was after the stealth nerf last patch too.

heavy golem dead in 2.7 secs

If the ranger wiped your 4 players in wvw then you all sucked badly. Learn to beat other classes by playing them.

My guess is he stood in healing spring whilst you tried to hit him and he evaded your attacks.

Meanwhile you all totally failed to realise the pets were the damage- drag them out of the spring and cripple/stun/cc them or just dodge the pet attacks – not really that hard. If the pet is hitting you for 3-4.5k damage get the hell away until it loses whatever boosts and boons it has on.

I feel it’s unfair for pets to show up in your combat log when it doesn’t show up in mine >.<

Manekk.6981:

I feel it’s unfair for pets to show up in your combat log when it doesn’t show up in mine >.<

yeah rangers have no idea what pets are doing combat wise..

and if anything we need to know that more than other classes