Guild Wars 2

Dear ANet.

Not sure if there’s a topic like this already, haven’t seen one but… Would you please consider to make the pets dodge/evade when the character itself does? (Atleast for PvE. Almost never played PvP so I have no idea how it would affect that aspect of the game). When your pet dies, it’s a huge dps loss. A great example of this is Tazza in SE path 1. Your pet dies all the time, even though you use dodges or evades to stay alive yourself. Your pet dies. And you get punished by doing a good job evading the AoE’s. Another example is our beloved Giganticus Lupicus.

I have to say that i LOVE the changes for the ranger that you made (again, it’s great for PvE atleast. Seen a lot of players whine about rangers being OP in WvW/PvP. But keep it like this for PvE. Please.)

But… Please ANet, make this happen. My panther is tired of dying now.

Pet have a hard time as it is keeping up with moving targets if they dodge when I do then they will never hit their target.

One pet death isn’t the end of the world. Don’t automatically switch pet because one died. If your just evading keep it dead and swap when you are resuming your attack.

Totaly agree with you for pet dodge

Serraphin Storm.2369:

One pet death isn’t the end of the world. Don’t automatically switch pet because one died. If your just evading keep it dead and swap when you are resuming your attack.

Ha. If I use the F2 and send it off to attack (because it’s on passive otherwise) and it dies, it stays dead until it revives itself through me getting OOC or I need the other pets F2. My pet can’t stay alive long enough to do damage most of the time anyway in fractals so there’s no real point in it from a damage prpsepctive so I only use it for the F2 to buff me and the group. Yup. Fire it off and forget it.

And can’t you go into one of those useless for PVE trait lines and get the trait that causes the pet to gain protection upon dodge or end of dodge or something? I don’t waste my trait points on the pet so I don’t know which one it is.

Your pet is a weapon if you don’t trait for it wont be good. Every class has trait that affect it class mechanism your not required to trait into it but don’t complain when it sucks.

thefantasticg.3984:

And can’t you go into one of those useless for PVE trait lines.

15 3 in WS gives your pet protection at the start of your dodge roll.

Re: effect on PvP, dodging for your pet in PvP/WvW wouldn’t do anything other than randomly save your pet from time to time. People probably aren’t going to waste an important dodge having their pet avoid something when you could just recall or swap pets and keep your endurance.

I am loving the visual of a fire drake doing a somersault though.

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Your pet is a weapon if you don’t trait for it wont be good. Every class has trait that affect it class mechanism your not required to trait into it but don’t complain when it sucks.

Other classes trait into weapons since the traits are found in viable trait lines. Traiting into beast mastery is a significant dps loss and doesn’t prevent my pet from getting killed.

I would be happy if they just gave the pet evade frames when we dodge (like distortion) without making them actually dodge. Yes I know logically it doesn’t make much sense that they should be missed for just standing there but then again it’s a fantasy game and not much about it makes logical sense nor is it supposed to.

Veydar.5017:

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Your pet is a weapon if you don’t trait for it wont be good. Every class has trait that affect it class mechanism your not required to trait into it but don’t complain when it sucks.

Other classes trait into weapons since the traits are found in viable trait lines. Traiting into beast mastery is a significant dps loss and doesn’t prevent my pet from getting killed.

traiting for defence is always a dps lose. A dead pet is a 30% damage lose pick your poison.

Simple:

Add a 3 seconds cooldown to F3 (Recall) and give the pet 3 seconds of evasion/invulnerability and then you can safely save your pet or make it evade a big attack (F3 → F1, pet still attacks)

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Veydar.5017:

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Your pet is a weapon if you don’t trait for it wont be good. Every class has trait that affect it class mechanism your not required to trait into it but don’t complain when it sucks.

Other classes trait into weapons since the traits are found in viable trait lines. Traiting into beast mastery is a significant dps loss and doesn’t prevent my pet from getting killed.

traiting for defence is always a dps lose. A dead pet is a 30% damage lose pick your poison.

How does traiting prevent my pet from dying to Lupicus AoE for example?

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Pet have a hard time as it is keeping up with moving targets if they dodge when I do then they will never hit their target.

Having dodge effect on pet while you dodge yourself does not mean that the pet has to actually have the full duration animation.
It may as well be something simple like 1 second distortion effect on pet when you dodge.

This is one of the buffs i have asked and hoped for ranger pretty much since the release of the game.