Guild Wars 2

I just wanted to bring up a couple of pets that have pretty insane cast times on their f2 skills or RNG associated with the skills. Hopefully it gets put on the radar and maybe we will see a fix to it soon enough.

Jungle stalker

- Mighty roar is a pretty solid skill and is sometimes used but the biggest thing that is keeping it down is the fact that the cast time is a whooping 3 seconds.

A solution would be to reduce it to 1.5 seconds cast time.

Pig family

- There is a pretty big RNG here. Randomly you will get an item to pick up and gain various effects. This, albeit fun sometimes, is pretty unreliable and thus will rarely see play in any serious build or competitive mode.

A solution would be to:
- the f2 places the bundle in the players hands right away
- each bundle is associated with a pet: Boar gets stealth, Pig gets plazma and Siamoth gets the fear skull ( as its the ugliest thing in the game hahaha)

• Whiptail and Lashtail devourer**

- These guys have pretty insane cast times on their skills. One has a 4 second channeling bleed volley while the other prepares for a poison volley 2.5 seconds and then tosses it.

Quite honestly a simple cut by 50% to the cast time is warranted.

Moas

- Well, this is not really so much about the f2 as it is about the really small AoE range of Harmonic cry. Of course the protection duration on blue moa is extremely short considering the 30s CD and could use an increase to 6s.

Perhaps I will add some more later. Discuss!!

All the pets, even the HoT pets is in grave need of a massive overhaul. Increasing the base movement speed of the pets by 50% would be a good start for our melee pets. Also, the pets aren’t reliable when they are dead, so giving them some damage reduction vs aoe damage, and changing our current condition cleanses so they cleanse our pets conditions as well, instead of throwing more on them would be nice (the problem with pets dying without any counterplay is not exclusive to pve, so the minion damage reduction from aoe should not be limited to pve, especially not for the ranger).

Pets need a complete overhaul from their code foundation to their design. Baffles me that they actually thought they could take PvE mobs and glom them onto a player as an effective unit. Bad design from the beginning, and there’s never been an attempt to correct it.

Lord Snow.3257:

All the pets, even the HoT pets is in grave need of a massive overhaul. Increasing the base movement speed of the pets by 50% would be a good start for our melee pets. Also, the pets aren’t reliable when they are dead, so giving them some damage reduction vs aoe damage, and changing our current condition cleanses so they cleanse our pets conditions as well, instead of throwing more on them would be nice (the problem with pets dying without any counterplay is not exclusive to pve, so the minion damage reduction from aoe should not be limited to pve, especially not for the ranger).

They are getting 95% damage reduction to AoE when not expressly targeted by creatures.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Upcoming-Global-Change-to-Player-Minions/5625354

Would rather see the Jungle Stalker’s roar changed to a pounce that gives the current stacks of Might like the Tiger’s pounce that gives Fury. At least it would DPS and buff at the same time.

Darieltis.4382:

They are getting 95% damage reduction to AoE when not expressly targeted by creatures.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Upcoming-Global-Change-to-Player-Minions/5625354

Sadly that won’t help at all in WvW where pets die instantly when zergs break wind.