Guild Wars 2

Not sure if this is a bug, but recently I’ve noticed the pet hasn’t been attacking immediately after pet swapping, with about a 1 sec delay, and since I’m specced into the 2secs of quickness after swapping pets… this seems to be a bit of a dps problem.

This isn’t new. It’s always been the case that your pet takes 1-2 seconds to acquire a target and another indefinite amount of time to get to the target if it’s a melee pet.

If you’re ranged and using a melee pet the 2 seconds of quickness is totally useless for your pet. If you’re melee and using a melee pet it might actually use 1 second of that quickness.

This doesn’t even get into the fact that sigils may not be applied to a swapped in pet for up to 10 seconds, the general dps loss from a swapped in pet running to the target, or the fact that a swapped in pet can/will miss it’s F2 a lot of times because it will seldom appear facing the target but will leap/breath/whatever in the direction it’s facing if you don’t wait the 1-2 seconds for it to acquire a target. There’s other issues connected with pet swapping as well like lost boons/RaO/Master’s Bond stacks but none of this is new.

I noticed this too it make the trait almost useless to the pet. even when im right next to a enemy he takes too long to start attacking

Strange I guess I haven’t noticed it because I alternate between 5 max level chars, ranger included, but for some reason, it’s just become more apparent to me now. Ah well… I feel as though there should be this issue tho considering Mesmer Phantasm’s had a similar problem that was since fixed…

I think they should consider increasing the duration of the quickness buff on pet swap, for pets only, to 3-4 seconds, and keep the 2 second duration as is for the ranger, since quickness on pets that aren’t already in melee range are wasted (unless using a ranged pet).

Imagine you’re a ranger’s pet. You’re lounging around in the animal version of Valhalla or wherever it is pets go when stowed, enjoying a nice nap in the sun or maybe being amorous with your mate. Suddenly you’re ripped out of your comfy existence and materialize in the middle of a combat zone, where your master expects you to immediately and instantly fight whatever it is s/he has targeted. Wouldn’t you be disoriented for a second or two? =)

But yeah, please extend the duration of quickness on the pet to compensate.

Does it help to immediately press F1 and order the pet to attack? I dunno if it does but at least I do it every time just to make myself feel better. :\