Guild Wars 2

This is strictly opinion and all about wvw. Using any pet in WvW really limits the ranger in the aspect of movement and damage because the dang thing is like a ball and chain holding us back. When trying to run away from a Zerg that you initiated if your pet gets hit then you get slowed down. You can’t hit stow and recall doesn’t help much since it gets hit on the way back.

So that slows you down now on strict damage we all know part of our damage is in our pets. In WvW we switch targets so rapidly the pet looks so lost if its somehow still alive. It can’t hit the same enemy your trying to switch to therefore just running around. If we could stow this pet and get our full danger output to ourselves this would make WvW so much better since it won’t be holding you down.

Any WvW rangers agree or just me?

Bonus: the pets vs that class that just clones its self is usless, you switch non stop there and it doesn’t help at all.

To keep from being slowed down by your pet when it gets hit, switch it to passive.

This can be done at any time, but if you’re currently in combat, it won’t magically pull you out of it. Your pet doesn’t put you in combat when it gets hit, it only puts you in combat when it retaliates.

Also, if you’re far enough ahead, and the option is available, switching pets will break combat by itself.

If you keep switching targets, start using a ranged pet. It won’t have to run around so much.

Bonus: If you can’t determine which mesmer is real, you won’t be able to kill them, pet or no.

Wait. You don’t get in combat when your pet gets hit. You get in combat if your pet hits something.

Florgknight.1589:

Wait. You don’t get in combat when your pet gets hit. You get in combat if your pet hits something.

Indeed, also my thought..
And should you however be unable to stow it since it has hit something, just keep running away from the aggro.. If it goes down, you’ll break combat, so the pet will be back “Playing dead, are we?”. Or you can switch pet while running away, this will put the summoned pet next to you and you’ll be out of combat in no time..
EDIT apparently what Paken Kai mentioned also..

On a sidenote: I see so many people complain about their pets.. Didn’t they know the pet is something native to a ranger when creating their character? Mine has never bothered me at all, on the contrary.. Would be quite worthless without it.. Something to take the aggro for me while I hail down my arrows, I love it..

Just on a note on playing try to find the mesmer…
Since the last patch put your pet on the mesmer with F1, then even if he clones, invis’s or whatever the pet will still stay on him, because of the new npc stealth agro behaviour. So follow your pet

What would be really nice is if there was an assist pet function, so you could fire on your pets current target.

Currently if your pet tags a mob, and you target your pet you will hit the tagged mob. However, if your pet tags a mob, you shoot a differnt target then target to fire through your pet you will still fire on your previoud target not the pets target… er if you follow.

Anyway back on topic… I would like a perma stow button, but mainly just for jp’s.

Tribio.8531:

On a sidenote: I see so many people complain about their pets.. Didn’t they know the pet is something native to a ranger when creating their character? Mine has never bothered me at all, on the contrary.. Would be quite worthless without it.. Something to take the aggro for me while I hail down my arrows, I love it..

Some ppl thought it will be like in the first GW.

Speaking about running from zerg… I actually love to sacrafice my wolf to slow them down

Anyway, I wouldn’t mind perma stow. Devs already said (afaik) there will be no pet-less ranger, but what about perma stow with no bonuses? Just for JP or any other situation when we don’t want pet in combat (reason doesn’t matter).