Guild Wars 2

I would have been fairly happy if the current changes were made but pet abilities still refreshed on swap-out, and crossfire quickness actually worked. I thought maybe quickness as a whole, in the game, was being brought down to what crossfire has been for a while.

Now it looks like crossfire gets not even like a 25% boost from quickness. Christ. And I’m none too happy about pet cooldowns being messed with. I needed those!

Geesh.

And you thought the huge nerf wouldn’t also affect a skill that has been bugged for a long time now why exactly?

Because for a long time crossfire got a 50% boost from quickness instead of 100%. I apparently hoped that when they made -all- quickness a 50% boost, crossfire would keep getting, y’know, 50%.

seriously. wth is with this change: Ranger pet cooldowns are now properly preserved when stabled.

Friggin huge kitten to the ranger class.

Are you serious? The cooldown thing was obviously a bug. Nice while it lasted, but I never expected it to stay.

Nabrok.9023:

Are you serious? The cooldown thing was obviously a bug. Nice while it lasted, but I never expected it to stay.

Yeah obviously? I thought that swapping pets would, you know, reset them or something? Like give them back full health and such, and if they’re reset then perhaps their skills should reset just as well? Maybe?

Come to think of it, that must be a bug as well, so by that logic, here’s what we can expect with pets in patch soon to be released:

When you swap pets:

- They will return with what little health they had when the got swapped in
- All conditions they had, will still be there when they get swapped in again
- All boons they had will remain when swapped
- Hm, scrap that with the boons, that would be OP. It’s probably better to not allowing any boons on pets at all

I dunno, I thought it was pretty obvious the cooldown thing was a bug too..

I couldnt imagine that switching between my two pigs, constantly spawning things like elixir of heroes and AoE ethereal fields could be intended, with no CD whatsoever. To the extent that I avoided using it in combat (for WvW). Felt like cheating.

Still think Rangers need some effort put into them, but I always thought that was a bug from the moment I found out about it. Though, I didnt realize it was actually a universal pet problem, thought it was just the piggies.

Pet skills not properly staying on their cooldowns between swaps was a bug – we’ve just been lying to ourselves it was a “feature.”

#dealwithit

Tuluum.9638:

I dunno, I thought it was pretty obvious the cooldown thing was a bug too..

I couldnt imagine that switching between my two pigs, constantly spawning things like elixir of heroes and AoE ethereal fields could be intended, with no CD whatsoever. To the extent that I avoided using it in combat (for WvW). Felt like cheating.

We’re talking about different things here. The one you’re [probably] thinking about is out of combat swapping, grabbing tons of stuff from pigs or boon building. That I agree on.

However, when it comes to attacks from F2 skills, then this is a major nerf again to our class. I’m sure they can fix this somehow, but the way things seems to be done around here is nerf first and don’t think all aspects through before implementing said nerf.

An AoE skill applied by horrible AI during combat cannot afford to have this in effect. They need to reduce some recharges to compensate, or improve traits that affect pet skills.

Leuca.5732:

An AoE skill applied by horrible AI during combat cannot afford to have this in effect. They need to reduce some recharges to compensate, or improve traits that affect pet skills.

Well we can take the two traits in beast mastery, they might finally get some use now right? It’s like closing supermarkets to let people find out how good dirt and grasshoppers taste.

Nabrok.9023:

Are you serious? The cooldown thing was obviously a bug. Nice while it lasted, but I never expected it to stay.

That’s funny, because with all the other problems we’ve had for long, I figured it would be around for a while. But no, this one actually helps us, it has to go…