Guild Wars 2

Hey there ranger people, I still can’t help to wonder, is our pet choices in pvp(or even wvw) really really limited?

I mean yeah, we have a lot of pets to choose from but, would you even choose those options over the proven and common choices of:

Canines (esp dog and wolf)
Birds
Drakes (the River and Marsh)
Spiders

IMHO, I can’t seem to ever replace my dog and wolf, (I run them together) The CCs they give are so helpful when soloing or in teamfights, the KDs and soft CCs (fear and immob) is too great for me to even have a thought of replacing these two.

Birds, Yeap DPS great, spammable f2, (esp the blind) for secured stomps is really valuable, I would still choose my canines over them because of the swiftness they use, most of the time, those moments they use them are really not worthwhile.

Drakes, I think the main reason people use them is for the blast finisher and Cleave, Again, the other drakes f2 is crap, unless you wanna waste an immob for a crappy 5 stack confusion with 0 condition damage. The other two drakes, river and marsh, have a better f2 but again, the radius is too small, making it really to avoid unless CCed.

Spiders, this would be a close matchup against the canines, Long ranged, Durable, Soft CCs and etc. Altho does not do the same dps as other pets.

So my point is, playing in pvp, assuming equal skill against both teams, would you ever use bear, devourers, cats, moas, etc over the other pet families?

I mean for me, they should rework most of our pets skills and pet mechanics for the other pets to be even useful. Its such a shame that most of the choices you will get will be pigeonholed into certain viable pets.

And please, don’t even mention general pve, its so braindead as it is I think you can use any pet you want without a really really large drawback.

What do you guys think?

I think if they gave us the options to control the pets “4th” skill it would open up choices. We might see devourers being used to decap nodes, we might see moas being used because of their aoe heals, etc. However, as it stands I’d only argue that moa COULD be used by some under the right cicumstances in the current meta (however whoever did would have to make use of EVERY moa heal to make it worth it imo).

I’m with you. Drakehound and wolf are by far the best.

I use wolf and switch between snow owl and jaguar. The reason i use them is because I use sic em. Their f2s will crit for 3-4k. The jaguar will have more consistent damage though.

No you’re right, there is very little reason to run a pet that isn’t giving you CC.

Some people prefer drakes, and those people are wrong. Put a drake ranger +…. let’s say s/d thief against a dog/wolf ranger + s/d thief and we all know who wins. Drake survivability is a stupid thought when you can simply recall or swap pets. Ain’t nobody targeting your pet in PvP except that bunny in hot join.

I have many thousands of PvP games and the number of times my pets has died is like .001% of them.

Birds and cats are like “sort of” because the 1v1 damage of them is definitely annoying/intimidating. But you know what else is annoying, is a human player using skills intelligently and CCing for his team. So a cat ranger + s/d thief vs canine ranger + s/d thief, I go with the canines.

If you use a devourer, you’re just flat out wrong.

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No you’re right, there is very little reason to run a pet that isn’t giving you CC.

Some people prefer drakes, and those people are wrong. Put a drake ranger +…. let’s say s/d thief against a dog/wolf ranger + s/d thief and we all know who wins. Drake survivability is a stupid thought when you can simply recall or swap pets. Ain’t nobody targeting your pet in PvP except that bunny in hot join.

I have many thousands of PvP games and the number of times my pets has died is like .001% of them.

Birds and cats are like “sort of” because the 1v1 damage of them is definitely annoying/intimidating. But you know what else is annoying, is a human player using skills intelligently and CCing for his team. So a cat ranger + s/d thief vs canine ranger + s/d thief, I go with the canines.

If you use a devourer, you’re just flat out wrong.

Exactly, the CCs are too valuable for me to replace, I also agree that drakes suck, Yes, I would use other pets in HJ but ranked arena? I dont think so.

Again Drakes do work in niche builds, useful for blasting fields too, but the KDs and CCs are real game changers. Their f2 is horrid too, it requires variables for it to be even on par with the other f2s which you just activate no requirements needed.

I wish Anet would entice me to pick other pets too.

Bump, are we the only ones thinking this? /facepalm