Guild Wars 2

So it occurs to me that a simple way to buff pets and add value would be to make all Pet F2 skills which are also vocalizations function as blast finishers, much like the Warhorn 5 skill. This would mean that any Roar, Screech, Howl etc would thus be a Blast.

This would be an easy way to give a very slight bit of love to Rangers, and may also cause some people to use pets they otherwise would not, which are currently rarely if every slotted.

It wouldn’t increase pet diversity I think, people would just lean towards pets they already would use. So Example Ranger: instead of lynx and tiger maybe it’s lynx and jungle stalker, and instead of smokescale and stuffed animal bristleback it’s smokescale and wolf.

It would be a nice start for overhauling some of the useless pets though. Make the polar bear roar a blast finisher and cut both the cast time and recharge in half. Then make it be able to attack while moving.

I don’t really think we are in such a need of blast finishers anymore.
We are now in possession of 5 sequental blasts on a support build. And that’s just enough if you ask me.

If pet cast times and mechanics are fixed to realistic numbers (not like Jungle Stalker’s 3sec cast time that will go on full cooldown if interrupted), that’s all I’d really need.
I don’t want new stuff. I want mine working and user-friendly.

This has nothing to do with the many other problems Rangers have, which should definitely be address, nor anything opened up by HoT. As I said, this is just a simple and easy way to add value to legacy pets, and grant a Blast finisher to ANY Ranger irrespective of their weapon loadout or trait setup. I can’t think of any reason not to do this.

Anthrage.2519:

This has nothing to do with the many other problems Rangers have, which should definitely be address, nor anything opened up by HoT. As I said, this is just a simple and easy way to add value to legacy pets, and grant a Blast finisher to ANY Ranger irrespective of their weapon loadout or trait setup. I can’t think of any reason not to do this.

I do.
They’ll ignore the important stuff because of this buff.

What? I’m a realist. I’ve seen them do this over and over. They wouldn’t miss this chance. As I know them they’ll nerf the SmokeScale and Bristleback again as a compensation.

No, I don’t want those blast finishers. Sorry, but I don’t. I don’t want stuff that I don’t need.

How exactly would this change cause them to ignore other things? If this were the case I would agree with you, but I don’t imagine it would be very difficult at all to grant finisher status to these existing skills.

In any case, your opinion is noted.

Anthrage.2519:

How exactly would this change cause them to ignore other things? If this were the case I would agree with you, but I don’t imagine it would be very difficult at all to grant finisher status to these existing skills.

In any case, your opinion is noted.

“Once upon a time, there was this amazing Ranger fellow who really liked the class despite it being generally hated.
… One day, he decided he wanted better and so he to tried his best to reach out for the mighty gods who created his main class. He asked them to give the forgotten and hated class some love.
He did everything he could to explain how essential and core problems everyone had and how we keep being hated because of that… But no one listened.

He became very frustrated. He eventually dedicated himself to create a website for the only purpose of getting attention to the class he cared for. He gathered every single detail of being pushed back by the gods themselves and published it.

And eventually, the gods answered his desperate call. However, it was not what he expected. After all his prayers and cry-outs, all he got was:
Too busy with HoT."

The End.

Based on a true story.