Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone

I’ve played the game since release and I’ve now tried every class except one – Ranger. My reason for not even giving it a try is pretty simple: I hate bow+pet based classes.

Anyways I’ve grown a little tired of my main character (guardian) and wanted to spend a little time leveling an alt; the problem is that at this point I’ve already tried all the other classes so it doesn’t seem as exciting to start a new character.

But the Ranger is totally fresh and new in my eyes – it might as well be a newly release class. However, I don’t even want to bother rolling one of they have to use a pet – I hate pets. I think it’s kind of cool that Ranger’s get a pretty wide assortment of weapons and aren’t forced to be bow/gun ranged DPS like they are in most games.

How relevant are pets to the class? If I wanted to complete forgo using a pet would I even be able to do so? Would I still be viable?

“How relevant are pets to the class? If I wanted to complete forgo using a pet would I even be able to do so? Would I still be viable?”

You can’t get rid of your pet, you are stuck with the thing.

Crap…That’s disappointing.

Atheismo.5164:

Crap…That’s disappointing.

Is for me as well.

You can’t get rid of them, and they generally don’t work well. Hopefully those issues will be addressed, but there’s no indication that will happen anytime soon.

Pet’s important.

Figuring out how to get your damage from your pet is IMHO critical to playing the class in any pvp context. And some pets are better than others.

Dogs have fears/roots/splits + KD – their f2 abilities have range to cover their delay in cast time. This makes them functional and disruptive. A reason they are a favorite.

Cat’s – have an incredible crit rate and a few of them have f2 leaps to get on a target or change elevation downward. You need to use traits or preferably a utility like muddy terrain weaponskill longbow barrage to keep their damage on a moving target reliably and they are squishy to melee aoe.

Birds – Have great damage uptime with their 300 range auto but can be hard to keep alive if you aren’t specced in beastmastery.

Drakes – great aoe damage potential but only the river drake has an easily usable f2 in PvP also tend to want a muddy terrain/barrage snare system to keep them on target.

Moa – meh – never put enough work but a buffing not DPS pet.

Spiders- their bolts are a little slow but they can add important debuff benefits stun and immobilize in 2 versions. Long duration poison(Which classes you mainly need it on unfortunately strip quickly) and immobilize in another.

devourers a tough ranged DPS pet that makes a pretty good arrow shield to stand behind again bolts are a little slow on a moving target.

Bears – tank condition stripping and I’ve seen a few rangers using them as really good ranged damage bulwarks.

Boars – Buff creators with a KD.

Thanks for the responses guys, feel free to ignore this thread now – I have no intention of rolling a class that requires a pet.