Greetings fellow rangers and Anet!
First off I would like to thank Anet for their great work in implementing such a fantastic pet system. Rangers have an enormous amount of different pets to choose from, and I love it when I randomly stumble across a new juvenile animal during my adventures.
Up till recently I have always been a devourer kinda guy. Me and my old carrion devourer go a long way back, however since the devourer pet’s DPS nerf I have realised that spiders’ damage are now similar to that of the devourers! I could not resist the temptation for a new silky friend called Cosette.
I however realised that my favourite spider, the Canyon Spider did not have a tameable version, which to me is highly unfortunate.
So, I thought I’d reach out to the community and ask you guys what you think? Should we get Juvenile Canyon Spiders? As for their unique ability I suggest the following:
Tormenting Poison: Your pet’s next 3 attacks cause torment on the enemy.
For reference, here’s a link showing what the Canyon Spider looks like (beautiful, I know):
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Canyon_Spider
The reason why I chose torment is because if you look at the Jungle Spider for example, they have Paralyzing Venom, which is an ability you need to use in conjunction with Entangling Web (ideally you’d want to activate it after Web has been used and the target is inside/approaching its poison cloud). I am a big fan of this style of play where you have to make decisions based on a given set of conditions.
Torment works in a similar fashion; if your target is webbed and you torment the enemy, the damage will be reduced, so you’d want to do it after Web as well, however in PvP you would actually demotivate other players from moving around too much, especially when they are under pressure, so unlike Paralyzing Venom, you end up giving your opponent that difficult decision to make, resulting in more fun plays!
Torment, alongside Confusion are the only other conditions I can see that would work with a spider’s venom ability as well. It would be strange to see a spider that causes burning. I also did not choose confusion since we have the Reef Drake causing it, but of course that would work very well regardless!
I also apologise if this thread belonged in some other recommendations forum, I did not exactly know where to post this, so I thought I’d just post it where the most rangers are.
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