Guild Wars 2

Just wanted a positive pet thread!

They are fun and offer a huge customization choice in combination with your trait selections.
In addition to that they help you up when you are downed. They can either bring you back up or continue attacking enemies to help you rally. They harass downed enemies. They distract other enemies and if the timing is right you can swap out before they die and make all their efforts useless. They can add some very significant damage or conditions or buffs or even some control. Some even combo.
Pets are awesome!

Pets aren’t bad. Only the players. If you can micro your pet, then you’ll have an easier time.

That being said, they could use some improvements. Mainly the UI and AI.

I love my pet and I love to play with it, however, it does need some ui/ai changes + I would prefer if pets would have a more well designed use. Why not have pets that have a supportive autoattack that doesn’t even deal damage and doesn’t hurt anyone, but only buffs or heals for small amounts?
Well defines support/ dps/ tanky/ hybrid/ triploid pets, with definite purposes and differences. (Difference betwee Blue Moa and Pink Moa. Oh well… not really as if they are much of a difference. I want to be able to use pets in specific spots and so on. I want to be able to use a wide variety!)

So yeah =) Pets are awesome!

I was having fun yesterday with a pet-might stacking build.

0/5/0/3/6 – Companions Might, Fortifying Bond, Masters Bond
Jungle Stalker, Flame Trap, Warhorn

Fortifying Bond doubles all of the might that the pet gets, provided you’re in the AOE. So Mighty Roar grants 10 stacks, Warhorn#5 – another 2 stacks, Fire Blast Finisher +6, +3 Sig Battle & Fury = 21 stacks of might * Master Bond stacks + Maxed stat beast mastery. Top it off w/ sword auto-attack and QZ/SicEm for burst.

Obviously not “optimal” on a number of levels, but good for a laugh.

You have too much pride and delusion of grandeur to face the reality. Pets are terrible.

gawker.8340:

You have too much pride and delusion of grandeur to face the reality. Pets are terrible.

Only if the player is terrible.

It’s not Lone Druid’s Spirit Bear, but pet micromanagement separates the good from the bad. Like I said, just needs a little QoL changes to UI/AI.

Pet are the reason i am so attached to this class (well that and i love our weapon skills).

Ive been favoring the owl of late in SPvP and wvw roaming so much fun. almost all of my builds (aside for pve) have at least 4 points in bm just because mighty swap and vigor are so good.

It’s nice to see when I’m in downstate and the enemy has no stability, that my wolf will knock him down first, then I stun him, then my wolf fears him, then I switch to my drakehound, hopefully root him out of stombing range and knock him down once again and then my own stun is back off cooldown. That’s funny.
How I got into downstate is another story tho.

HHR LostProphet.4801:

How I got into downstate is another story tho.

Staying alive and stomping your opponent is more fun

On Topic: I wish we had a kind of animal pen for our pets. If you had enough of killing your enemies you can go cuddle with your pets in the pen. Give those pets you never use some attention aswell.

And besides that i love the pets i use. They can help you in a great way if you use the right one on the right build.

#RangerPetsDeserveSomeLove

I personally find pets fantastic. The only down point is that some pets are vastly better than others and their are to many carbon copies of pets and skills.

I want to see bear like diversity but across all pets. As in even though they are all urcine class pets their f2 skills arent just copies of each other. One is a field, one clears condi, 2 condi roars and one with an attack.

Bettwrt than howl how howl, venom venom venom, leap leap roar with a stupid long cast time, slash slash slash, breath breath breath breath 2 of which usually always miss, or RNG hero RNG hero RNG hero, or the angry birds.

Would be nice to have skelk pets.

Even if we negate the mechanical aspects of pets (like how they utterly melt when exposed to a zerg in WvW, or pathing up and down mountainsides the long way given their inability to jump over low ground cover).

Pet’s still come out lack-lustre compared to GW1, simply because each pet species has a distinct role, which means there is a relatively narrow band of “useful” pets. Your “pet” isn’t really your own, in a way that can can become attached to it. In GW1, I loved my moa, in a way it looked a little like kmy ranger, and i had a matching minipet, and it clicked.

But in GW2, i have a few pets I’ll use depending on situation, but none suit my aesthetic preference, i have no attachment, i use them as a utility, not a companion.

Ryuujin.8236:

Even if we negate the mechanical aspects of pets (like how they utterly melt when exposed to a zerg in WvW, or pathing up and down mountainsides the long way given their inability to jump over low ground cover).

Pet’s still come out lack-lustre compared to GW1, simply because each pet species has a distinct role, which means there is a relatively narrow band of “useful” pets. Your “pet” isn’t really your own, in a way that can can become attached to it. In GW1, I loved my moa, in a way it looked a little like kmy ranger, and i had a matching minipet, and it clicked.

But in GW2, i have a few pets I’ll use depending on situation, but none suit my aesthetic preference, i have no attachment, i use them as a utility, not a companion.

Very good post, that’s exactly how I feel. I don’t think majority of ppl are necessarily against having a pet. The problem is how pet mechanic was implemented in this game. Now they are trying to fix a few things, like f2 activation, but it’s simply not enough. I mean even if they managed to make pets work (which I highly doubt to begin with) it doesn’t really matter to me since the implementation of pets itself would be poorly designed anyway. I actually like the idea of having a pet but WHY should I be forced into choosing a specific pet (which I don’t like for example) for a specific role? Pets feel like consumables. No connection at all with my character. Oh and pet swapping? Really? That makes the whole thing even worse. Every time I hear my character shouting “I choose you” I wanna throw my mouse against a wall. This is not pokemon online.

I have a theory that GW1 players have a big advantage with pets. I had the mercenary pack in GW1, which meant I was manually controlling 8 characters and 64 skills at any given time. Controlling 1 pet with 1 skill is pretty easy.

Pets are terrible .. bad … they sux … Anet needs to fix this asap or they will lose ALL their players. Rangers are unplayable because of pets. The Ranger class suxs … Rangers are not wanted in any part of the game … Rangers sux in WvW, sux at 1v1, sux at PvP, sux in Dungeons, and even sux at PvE … and they sux because Anet have pets for noob players. Also Rangers need to get back the 30% dps lost from pets .. or is it 40%?, or is it 60%? … no, its 70% … yes, that’s it, we need 70% dps increase.

I demand that Anet completely re-design the Ranger class so I can sit at 1500 range and do melee level damage with my long Bow, and at least 4 of the longbow traits need to be standard (piercing, 1500 range, 5% dps boost, and RTW) all these should be STANDARD. Also Ranger should have highest mobility in the game, so if something goes wrong, they can get away better than any class. Anet has broken this Archer/Sniper class with their useless pets.

I have a 10,000 word essay on a Ranger re-design that Anet should use, please see link …

I also spam posted the CDI with over 300 posts that asked for more sniper pet-less options.

Pets sux …. I was the best ever-ever sniper ranged player in WoW , I could get 1 or 2 shot kills from range, and almost never die … and I could run away better than anyone ever-ever. This is what we Rangers need here … And someday when I lose 100 pounds and get down to only 250lbs, I will get a girlfriend, but I digress … Also need Thieves to be nerfed, no more stealth!, and warrior need nerf, no more passive heal, and Necros need nerf, no more D-Shroud and … well, anything and everything that I can’t deal with need nerfs. We MUST have these changes for game BALANCE. All I really want is BALANCE.

Pets … sux …………………………

this isn’t WoW..enough said, stop compairing this to a Different game Design. you troll^

I really do love pets. It’s enjoyable to try different ones with different builds. So many unique options and the pet traits really change things up. I just wish they ran a little faster by default. They seem a we bit slow sometimes…

KevlarZero.6849:

Just wanted a positive pet thread!

They are fun and offer a huge customization choice in combination with your trait selections.
In addition to that they help you up when you are downed. They can either bring you back up or continue attacking enemies to help you rally. They harass downed enemies. They distract other enemies and if the timing is right you can swap out before they die and make all their efforts useless. They can add some very significant damage or conditions or buffs or even some control. Some even combo.
Pets are awesome!

Completely disagree. Pets are absolutely useless! In fact, why is there no option to permanently dismiss the pet? It just just in the way limping around 24/7 on 0% hp not doing anything except looking sorry for itself because they cannot survive more than 1 hit from any mob.

Pets are also extremely buggy and only revive you some of the time. If your pet gets ‘downed’ while reviving you, it triggers the rediculous 30sec cooldown again. Sometimes the pet doesn’t even bother reviving you and triggers the rediculous 30second cooldown anyway.

F2 abilites are useless and have WAY too long cooldown. Also, if the pet is interrupted or you try ‘cancel’ the pet while it is mid-cast on an F2 ability, it triggers the full cooldown!

Also, why do we have to wait to swap our pets in combat? Since the pet is always downed, it’s a 60sec cooldown! So we get an F2 ability, enter combat, watch the pet die instantly, swap it, then sit trying to kite without a pet for 60seconds only to repeat this process.

I’ve tired using the ‘tank’ pets (bear etc) and they’re equally useless. They do no damage and die fast anyway.

For PvE the damage scales way higher than that of Pvp as its boss= damage of 5players . baiscly

and if your casting boons that target 5 people your pets going to get left out , you need shared boons for pet survival.
that 30second cooldown is punishment for poor pet management and its ot just clicking return ect , put on shared boons and dodge roll before you go down. then your pet will have protection for 2secs enough time to obsorb some damage and revive you up again. use your brain rangers arn’t on trick ponys where everything is done for you.
they will also have all the boons you get from your team mates passed onto the pet, that is pet survival and ps taking protect me as a skill is only useful if you Run Shared boons or it will be Good bye bye pet.

Glad you like the pets. That’s what drew me to Ranger right away.
It’s also why I almost never play Ranger anymore.

They have clearly established that the pet mechanic is broken and that they don’t know how to fix it.