Guild Wars 2

Pet swapping is getting some pretty nice buffs in HoT. Just in Marksmanship alone, Beastmaster’s Bond has good synergy with Remorseless. However, this got me thinking that there’s a potentially missed opportunity with Moment of Clarity, if it stays mostly as it is.

For me, I usually use a wolf and a drakehound. Obviously for the actives. However, they also have a knockdown, which I’ve come to appreciate.

Even though we can’t control it directly, the fact is that canines use their knockdown skill “immediately” upon swapping, if it’s not on CD. Simple AI can be good. I’ve gotten fairly decent at manufacturing knockdowns, roughly on-demand.

In fact, due to the weapons I use, I end up getting most of my interrupts via my pets, whether it’s from my wolf’s F2, or via knockdowns. Which brings me to my point:

Moment of Clarity does not currently trigger attacks of opportunity when my pet does the ‘rupting. Why should it not? It’s a relatively small thing, but I feel that skillful use of pets is precisely the kind of thing that should be rewarded and encouraged.

I agree. With overall few ways to interrupt it should definitely trigger on pet interrupts. The “interrupt” popup appears after all.

Aye, should count as an interrupt from the Ranger so as to interact with other on-rupt things like perplexity, for instance.

What they should if you ask me is:

Move Moment of Clarity to skirmishing.
Primal Reflexes from Skirmishing to Wildreness survival.
Oakheart salve from Wildreness Survival to Nature Magic.
Windborne Notes from Nature Magic to Marksmanship (warhorn is a power/boon offhand so fits both lines).

While that call of the wild on pet swap i’d move to Nature Magic or beastmastery – it doesn’t fit marksmanship theme at all – it’s pet reliant boon application.