Guild Wars 2

So I see there are complaints about druid pets to begin with, but I’m curious about a couple specific questions and if Anet has actually said anything about it, or if they have taken the mysterious silence approach.

1) Pets unstowing automatically. Why is it like this? Why can’t this be altered? I hit stow pet because I want to stow my pet… I do not want it bursting out of whatever pocket dimension I put it in without my say so… This isn’t a problem in other MMOs I play, so what gives?

2) Autofire of pet skill. I get that most pets have skills you would want to manually trigger. But some don’t. Some it’s just a serious nuisance having to press it… I use a bird because I love it. (More power to Mr. Tweeters!) But why I’m having to manually tell him to bleed things every 4 seconds is beyond me. It’s a flat DPS skill, not something that needs intelligent timing.

I read the stickied thread regarding pets and it was very informative (If still a giant excuse post…) but I didn’t see anything on if Anet had ever commented on these things outright or not. Is there any hope at all of such things being changed? ESPECIALLY the first one?

Both are legit QoL things that have been brought up tons of times. Maybe some day, but Anet hasn’t said anything as far as I know.

The pet stowage is extremely situational. 99.9% of the time you want the pet out doing things.

Regarding your second point, with all the traits that activate on pet f2 skills you definitely want to have full control over when you use it. Having the taunt and blind randomly go off on a timer would suck really bad.

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Both are legit QoL things that have been brought up tons of times. Maybe some day, but Anet hasn’t said anything as far as I know.

The pet stowage is extremely situational. 99.9% of the time you want the pet out doing things.

Not to me. I find it distracting and annoying during any kind of jumping puzzle. I just want to stow it and have it stay there till I call him back. =(

That and I was trying to make my personal story a little more interesting by handicapping myself and removing a lot of my gear (my god is it a snoozefest baseline….) but I realized I can’t even do that to try and make it more interesting. My stupid bird can solo everything! And I can’t make him go away!

And my eagle doesnt blind. It just bleeds. That’s it. The raven is the one that blinds. I really don’t need to be manually inputting that. It’s clearly meant to be a flat high dps option that gives 0 utility and just outputs as much raw damage as possible. But using it as is is incredibly annoying.