Guild Wars 2

I’ve started another thread about the smokescale itself, thinking to myself “Hey, it seems so much stronger than other pets, what’s up with that?”. Result? Forum Bashing.
However, thanks to the constructive users who replied to the thread, I think I’ve found a consensus between the differing opinions, and would like the devs to know it:

The AI of these new pets (despite some of the issues stated in the Druid feedback thread about F2 positionning), namely the Smokescale and Electric wyvern, feels WAY better to play with.
Why? Their reliability to get their few big attacks in, when you need them to, and without the usual delay most pet skills have. Instant activation definitely feels like it’ll bring up the skill cap for Rangers to make timely decisions in fights, and really fight alongside their pet.

And that, to the point of “Old Pets need to be able to fight this way”. Please make it happen!

Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Mirage

This, and the fact that 3 of 4 new melee pets have a mid range skill that enable them to quickly close in on their target on a rather reasonable CD

Sic em should really become a “teleport pet to target” effect. They can remove the damage boost from it all together if they wish. Sort of how Strike as one worked in GW1. Although in GW1 you didn’t need that skill, because Anet knew that if pets were to be any threat they need to be faster than players. So the base speed of pets was 20% over players and stacked with speed boosts, not capped at 33%.

I’ll leave these here as my statement on why ranger pets need to be improved:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBZtYUa-pLg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7DWcU3ULtw