Guild Wars 2

Since the +Healing power and + condition damage on pets are merged.

Would pets still have 0 condi damage and healing power to begin with?

If it did, it will still suck.

Who knows. Heck, they didn’t even mention for Ranger whether they’re doing the whole “baseline merge” thing they’re doing with most other profession mechanics where half the old profession numbers go to the baseline with the other half in traits, and I didn’t see anything that increased overall pet stats in the traits except for that one trait in Nature Magic (for some reason).

Though I think they did skip a few Ranger traits, so maybe the stats are in there somewhere.

Sadly, they seemed to be having a fit of delirious laughter during the Ranger segment so they didn’t seem to explain stuff quite as well as others.

Electro.4173:

Sadly, they seemed to be having a fit of delirious laughter during the Ranger segment so they didn’t seem to explain stuff quite as well as others.

Yup. Not to mention, there were a fair amount of minor of traits kept the same that had potential to be merged or functionality added. That starting segment where it was basically, “Ranger – No change!” <insert laughter>

I really hope we do get some improvements to pet. Customization and AI wise.

I really hope so too. After seeing the changes to the Beastmastery line, not much has improved. There’s some improvement, but not so much to where I (personally) can say that I would be selecting it as a specialization outside of a niche build.

Whats happening to pet stats now that theyve gotten rid of beastmaster trait points.

“Pet Attribute Bonus is an attribute unique to ranger that improves pet attributes. It is increased by the trait line Beastmastery. Each point spent in this line grants +10 to each of your pet’s primary attributes.”

I think they are rolling it into the pets as a default, as it isn’t that great of a power increase and they are doing that with all the other stats from trait lines.

Fortunate we get anything of use as the devs time and time again have proven not to know how to work with the ranger class.

If they are rolling the stats into the pets, it would be nice. Would make sense and give Sharpened Edges and Rending Attacks more use since only birds and cats are the only ones with the precision to take advantage of it.

Other pets have roughly a 25% critical chance while porcine have an abysmal 10%. By rolling the stats in by default, it would beef up that by 15% across the board – assuming they just add 300 stat points to each attribute.