Guild Wars 2

… a mechanic where pets could revive us if downed/defeated? I think this would make the ranger class a lot more popular and useful. I’m not talking about a Phoenix Down sort of effect, but to have a healing rate of, say, half the ranger’s normal healing rate?

After all, there have been cases where a dog owner has had a heart attack and, in what it thinks is the act of defending its master, the dog has prevented medics from helping its owner. And yet, in GW2, as soon as you go down, the pet just… abandons you?

A second wondering of mine took me to the idea of fighting stealthed enemies. If a quarry just disappeared in front of a searchdog, the dog wouldnt just shrug its haunches, say “Rye Ron’t Row. Shraggy” and give up. Wouldn’t it at least stay in the area till the next clue was found? So why can trained pets not stay where they are till the enemy de-cloaks, and then resume it’s attack?

Just a thought…

They can revive you if you’re downed. The 3 skill brings your pet to res you.

lol u mean that skill which only works on flat groud? ye, that skill is good if it works, otherwise it makes us inferior to other classes when we are on some cliff or stairs, stuff like that.

Ah, at the time of writing, I had only experienced defeat through falling (I always complete non combat zones to build exp). Lick Wounds is indeed very useful. Is it supposed to work even when my pet is downed? :o

GuzziHero.2467:

Ah, at the time of writing, I had only experienced defeat through falling (I always complete non combat zones to build exp). Lick Wounds is indeed very useful. Is it supposed to work even when my pet is downed? :o

If your pet is downed at time of use you revive your pet and he comes rushing over to save you, my guildie also swears that the pet will keep rezzing even after he’s been downed (like with S&R) after lick wounds has been used AND the pet can be knocked back, launched, KD, risen, or sunk and not be interrupted from rezzing (will be delayed but will run back to keep rezzing) however if he’s stunned or dazed he stops.

PS: I can neither confirm not deny what my guildie has said.