Guild Wars 2

Ok been playing ranger a bit, and pet durability in difficult fights is a problem.

i see two solutions.
1) pets get vigor:
a) activated when using To Me command
b) one second of evade, as they move towards player
c) flash white, or something while invulnerable (visiual cue)
d) when vigor is expended, they behave as they do now when you call them
2)Total damage to Pet limited to 1/3rd of its health per second direct damage.
a) this means pets would take at least 3 seconds to kill with direct damage
b) this allows players chance to try to call back pet and not have instagib pets

I prefer 1 as its more skill based, but 2 is probably easier to implement.

As well as this i believe there needs to be a pet UI for buffs/conds whatever, as well, a now using skill would be nice, since we have no control, at least we can tell which skills they have used. (especially since the animations on pets are sometimes non distinct) a pet skill bar would probably be better (even if you have no control at least you can see what has been used and whats the cooldown) but i dunno if you guys want to add that much info/UI

heres an attachment with a quick rough of what im thinking for the addition pet info/vigor.

vigor is the buff that gives you increased endurance regen, i think you mean endurance throughout your post. Really like the first idea.

First idea is cool, basically giving a pet 2 possible dodges/2 seconds of evade on ‘To Me’ command would be great.

I think that it’d be really cool to make it so hen your pet has Vigor they have a % chance to evade attacks, you know… Because atm vigor is absolutely worthless on pets.

EDIT: Oooooooh you were talking about ENDURANCE… ok, that’s really BA and would make vigor actually not worthless for pets!!