Guild Wars 2

I notice this mostly on world bosses, but have seen it a few times on regular mobs. I haven’t been able to replicate it on the test golems in the mists. But it always happens on the Golem Mark II world boss.

I position myself just inside longbow range (red bar under the skill just disappears). I can hit the target, my autoattack will continue firing at the target, so I’m definitely within 1200 range.

I hit F1 to order my pet to attack. I do not get a “your pet is too far” message, but the pet just stands there. I creep up a bit to about 600-900 range, and F1 works and the pet goes to attack. Or the mob hits the pet at 1200 range and the pet goes to attack.

Anyone else seeing this?

I’m pretty sure that the leash range is not correct. They said they increased it to 2000 but it seems alot more like somewhere between 1300-1600.
Would be great if AreaNet could check this and increase the range because its very low now.
What I mean is the range when you send your pet to the target – that should be 2000.

It’s been like that forever on the snow elemental boss in the snow fractal. I bet it’s the same reason. Melee pets only attack the elemental boss if I’m in melee range myself. They refuse if I’m using ranged weapons.

There are still a lot of pet bugs, old and new. One of the more annoying ones is F4 (pet swap) followed directly by F2 (pet special skill), which causes the pet to use its F2 without a target. It really makes you highly doubt that anyone at ANet is playing a ranger (especially outside of sPvP). I bet Robert switched to something else as well. It takes 1 fractal run to find several pet bugs.

No actually it was a RECENT NERF. We used to be able to order them to attack targets 3000 or more units away.

Where it’s REALLY kitten ing me off, is when it teleports my pet right back to me after I put it on GUARD. Therefore for certain Dynamic Events, I’m the one who’s leashed to the kitten pet (not the other way around).

Agreed something appears to be wrong with the pet leash and/or F1 command. I’ll be standing not far from a foe (not sure exactly how far) and press F1 and get a message that my pet is too far away. But then I take a couple steps and them I’m within axe range. This doesn’t happen every time and isn’t recreateable on demand, but when it does happen it is frustrating since I want my pet to run in ahead of me and start drawing aggro.