Guild Wars 2

Now I know this thread has been made before, but I’m short on time. Can we please just get a perma-stow function for rangers? I often run into situations where I’d really prefer to not have my pet with me, whether I be in combat mode or not.

At the very least, it’d be awesome if my pet wouldn’t jump out when I take minimal fall damage because they think I need help fighting the ground. Especially when my pet’s set on passive anyways so it’s not like they’d help fight either way unless I manually told them to.

Rangers have been asking for this since the beginning of time… I guess the answer is No.

Well since you’re short on time – lets do this immediately

If Anet’s stance on the issue hasn’t changed since the CDI, no we will not see a permanent stow and they will continue to design content that the pet system is not good at dealing with, all the stating that options like flat aoe reduction is too powerful and giving the ranger the ability to bind a key to let the pet dodge raises the skill floor too much.

As pets work, at least to the develop’s standard, well enough in the spvp environment there will be no new development on the pets as it too much work and not a “low hanging fruit” type of issue.

In the meantime you can use tonics in pve.

oxtred.7658:

In the meantime you can use tonics in pve.

Wait.. what? Do the tonics remove your pet? Does this work in WvW? I need to go test this immediately. If this works I will be buying hundreds just for cloak and dagger thieves.

I think he mean some of the non-combat ones that can jump to be used for jumping puzzles.

Some permanent tonics remove your pet in pve. As i’m not playing ranger extensively I don’t know if it applies to everything but I can’t see why it shouldn’t. At least, the endless monkey king tonic ( what most of my guildies use) works. Probably the same in WwW, but it’s dangerous to go tonic in there ( as you loose some stats and reaction time)

Rialen.1524:

Now I know this thread has been made before, but I’m short on time. Can we please just get a perma-stow function for rangers? I often run into situations where I’d really prefer to not have my pet with me, whether I be in combat mode or not.

In that case the answer is easy: NO

When you have time search for the other threads about it and read the complete answers.

I was thinking more along the lines of the ascalonian mage tonic that lets you keep your skills. Haven’t had a chance to test it yet.

Here we go again…

I think they need to sticky some of Anet’s answers to the ranger forum, like “L2P with sword” “Pet is NOT going away”, “bears are for pr0s”.

For a gajillion time: Ranger is a PET class. No there won’t be a perma stow option. You can controll your pet with F3-F1. It’s also recomended that you use transformation tonics for trash skipping in situations like Arah orrian eyes or TA, so that your pet will not make a mess trigerring everything.

Please do not create new threads for issues that have been discussed SO many times over those 2 years…

Maybe if the designers would take all the profession in account when designing content we wouldn’t see as many of the problems that exist. That and reflect wouldn’t be the end all skill so often that they have to make mobs ignore it rather than finding a better solution.

I still think ranger pets and necro minions should “dodge roll” when the player does.