Guild Wars 2

I know a few patches back they buffed the pets health pools. While standing in LA i noticed that my wolf had 25k hp. when i went to ebg, his health became 14.5k hp. do the health buffs not apply to wvw?? and if so, why the hell not they arguably need it more there than pve. I know someone mentioned this in a thread after that patch but it swiftly disappeared. Was there a dev response to this?

Because DPS pets with +25k hp would be OP. Or bears with +50k hp.

We all knew that pets only got the HP buff at PvE, and just as you, we have no idea why the buff was left from WvW.
We got no dev answer for that.

Taku.6352:

Because DPS pets with +25k hp would be OP. Or bears with +50k hp.

This is probably what they’re thinking. But it’s wrong. (Not that a huge health pool is the way to go to make pets viable in Zerg fights) AoE damage reduction or invulnerability would be best.

Fomby.4295:

Taku.6352:

Because DPS pets with +25k hp would be OP. Or bears with +50k hp.

This is probably what they’re thinking. But it’s wrong. (Not that a huge health pool is the way to go to make pets viable in Zerg fights) AoE damage reduction or invulnerability would be best.

No, what they really need to do is give us the ability to stow our pets during combat. And for heavens sake give me an F key to use for this purpose (and for the passive/aggressive toggle). This would go such a very long way in the “right” direction with the ranger’s pets.

AOE Reduction would be the best way to make Pets more viable in zerg fights

That way if they’re actually focused by single target attacks, you can kill them quickly, but mindless AOE wouldn’t do squat against them.

That’s generally out most MMO’s handle Pet Classes and PvP.

Taku.6352:

Because DPS pets with +25k hp would be OP. Or bears with +50k hp.

How ould those bears be OP, what would they do? Deal no damage even harder?