Guild Wars 2

This is not topic to say how you hate nerf to pet dmg.

Hi.
As we all know, nearly all pets got their dmg nerfed. Has anyone already tested it? From my quick tests (I just got back home from 12h at uni, so I’m not able to do anything more :p ), it seems spiders (they got small boost, but more importantly, they weren’t nerfed) are very close to dog or drake (without F2) dps. Does the fact that spiders are ranged, make them somehow more useful now? I tested it on stationary golem and I belive their dmg would look even better against “normal” targets. Don’t forget it’s still CC pet!
Another topic are birds. F2 got heavily nerfed, but the auto attack looks interesting now. Need more tests on it, as I never used birds, and I don’t know if long animation is problematic or not (on the other hand 300 range )

Any more ideas?

Since I use 3 shouts now, I have group buff that gives perma swiftness and regen (traited ), a nice stun breaker that helps absorb all damage for 6 seconds, really happy pets with their protections/regens/swiftness, while not missing the pet damage all that much since I have sic em 1/3 of the time. I’m still having fun with it roaming on my cleric bunker ranger (have to admit I played traps past 2-3 weeks anticipating something bad to pets… but isn’t all that bad).