Melee pets outside drakes don't cleave.
Because it’s not broken? They said back in Beta that drakes are supposed to be the AoE pet, and thus, the only pet to cleave, all the other pets “stab” the enemy so it’s only 1 target.
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Because it’s not broken? They said back in Beta that drakes are supposed to be the AoE pet, and thus, the only pet to cleave, all the other pets “stab” the enemy so it’s only 1 target.
And this is an inherent disadvantage because drake damage is inferior to jaguar, so this puts melee rangers far below the cleaving output of other melee specs.
I know your ranger is dandy fine in tpvp, because I also faceroll on any ranger in tpvp, but it’s NOT fine in pve.
Rangers are inherently disadvantaged at dps regardless of what spec you use.
Personally, given the pets available, I’d say that bears are the only other candidate for a “cleave” function. Have any of you seen an angry bear in real life? Hands down the scariest critter in north america, when it’s feeling uppity.
Every pet’s got their gimmick. The Drake hits several foes at once, compared to something like the birds which hit a single target twice.
On it’s own the drake may not be that impressive for walloping several targets, certainly not to a warrior. However, a drake and the ranger walloping things in melee makes short works of most things in PvE, which is why I usually have one out.
Personally, given the pets available, I’d say that bears are the only other candidate for a “cleave” function. Have any of you seen an angry bear in real life? Hands down the scariest critter in north america, when it’s feeling uppity.
Bears should cleave too, they need -something- to be taken for other than “tank”
And Drakes are amazing now FYI, me and Bubbles have been tearing things to shreds in PvE.
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
Do a dungeon.
The only pets I can take to a boss fight that may live through all the aoe spam are a moa or a bear due to the high hp pool. Maybe devourer as well.
Quite frankly all pets except bears should have the baseline hp of a moa. It feels like the pet I feel most balanced in survivability for its use (only the red moa, though — the others have completely weak f2 skills for dungeons — a 4 sec prot on a 45 sec cd is just dumb).
Using a jaguar is a waste — with health regen from Bm, the signet, and health on crit it STILL dies during the 15 second cd of pet switch, and no calling him back doesn’t work when he needs to walk to you through the circles of fire that promptly finish him off.
I’m just annoyed that the pets I could use for competitive DPS are nonstarters in dungeons. And bear DPS is atrocious — at least the moa brought me 15 seconds of group fury and the aoe heal.
The drake is inferior to jaguar for DPS, yet a warrior doesn’t have his starts switched from berserker to knights or soldiers whenever he wants to cleave. He hits hard all the time, but in a dungeon I must use the subpar pet so at least it lives.
Pet survivability on aoe field happy bosses is still bad — its ai still won’t reposition, and if you’re meleeing you can’t f3 it so it repositions.
(edited by Zenith.7301)