Guild Wars 2

Still die at the slightest hint of aoe. the new AI for melee pets doesn’t always work and they’ll stand in front of mobs not aggroed to them.

Spirits still die in a sneeze.

Haven’t tested double hp trait for spirits, but if in order to use spirits you need to devote 20 points into nature magic, they’re a garbage utility anyways.

Just remove the kittenec cd on pet death and it wouldn’t be such a pain.

Actually a flat 15 seconds would be great. This micro managing pet swap just to avoid a 1 min cd is BS. The pet goes in until it goes down, swap and rinse then repeat.

It’ll give use better quality of life and slightly improve our, much in need to be improved, dps.

Right now it’s; the pet goes in, is close to death, swap and rinse then repeat. If our pet happens to die before the 15 sec, to bad. Or simply reduce the 1 min to 30 seconds. We don’t rely on our pet to give us bonus damage, we rely on our pet to top up our damage to be on par with the other classes. While I understand punishing us if we neglect our pet, the punishment we recieve is massive.

Bet goes in, dies, we switch, and that pet dies. Now you’re stuck with the what…

No boon on swap every 15 sec,
No F2 ability,
kitten 40% of your dps,
Lost any additional conditions that came with the pet’s auto use skills.

After you switch, you are then faced with another 1m timer where you now have to baby your pet or else end up back in the hole again.

I haven’t played since the patch yet, but before it was a steep drop off between your tank pet being able to tank indefinately and lasting the 15 sec you needed it to in order to avoid the massive debuff.