Guild Wars 2

Also, if I even have to reply to the person who thinks that you have to kill somebody(since node holding builds are designed to hold nodes and not die, instead of killing things) to hold a node, I’m going to get infracted.

Shiren.9532:

Daecollo.9578:

They need a 1200m leash, they follow targets way too far, its not right.

Once they get far enough they heal like they are out of combat if there master is.

Necromancer Minions leash, Ranger pets should as well. Otherwise out of combat regeneration needs removed.

You want the pet leash to be shorter than the range of their weapon?

A pet fighting a target will be in combat. They don’t get out of combat regen while fighting. What you are seeing is the in combat regen they have from a grand master trait and Signet of the Wild combined with the ranger heal which also heals the pet. Troll Unguent, Natural Healing, Signet of the Wild and Cleric’s armour can give the pet a lot of passive healing that might look like out of combat regen to ignorant people.

Don’t forget Carnivorous Appetite for crit heals. Absolutely nasty on cats.

@jcbroe,

That wasn’t an excuse, I have no need to toss out an excuse for anything – it wasn’t I that designed or programmed this game, lol! Just pointing at how the game works currently.

I get other rangers pets sent after me all the time – I deal with it, one way or another.

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The thing is, ever since the last patch came out, a minor crowd of ppl have been going wild on the forums about how OP the ranger is, which is funny since nothing of real importance changed with this patch for us, so I can’t really tell why the hell there’s been this major focus on rangers all of a sudden. A few ppl start being very vocal about this, and all of a sudden a lot of other players follow suit in ‘t r a kitten a l k of the month’, without even knowing what they’re talking about. It’s pathetic.

Tell me, what really changed for us rangers in pvp post april 30:th patch? So far noone has been able to actually point to anything that changed us to the “gods” some claim us to be.

The only thing that happened was that we had a looong list of changes (most of which were changes to our pets), and ppl go by the quantity of changes, and doesn’t even read or understand exactly what those changes means in practice.

Edit: God, what’s wrong with this forum? Can’t type anything without getting that ‘kitten’ all over the place…
Corrected some grammar mistakes…

OGDeadHead.8326:

@jcbroe,

That wasn’t an excuse, I have no need to toss out an excuse for anything – it wasn’t I that designed or programmed this game, lol! Just pointing at how the game works currently.

I get other rangers pets send after me all the time – I deal with it, one way or another.

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The thing is, ever since the last patch came out, a minor crowd of ppl have been going wild on the forums about how OP the ranger is, which is funny since nothing of real importance changed with this patch for us, so I can’t really tell why the hell there’s been this major focus on rangers all of a sudden. A few ppl start being very vocal about this, and all of a sudden a lot of other players follow suit in ‘trakittenalk of the month’, without even knowing what they’re talking about. It’s pathetic.

Tell me, what really changed for us rangers in pvp prior to april 30:th patch? So far noone has been able to actually point to anything that changed us to the “gods” some claim us to be.

The only thing that happened was that we had a looong list of changes (most of which were changes to our pets), and ppl go by the quantity of changes, and doesn’t even read or understand exactly what those changes means in practice.

No I agree. I was vocal about this stuff on guru back in around October, but nothing changed, and nothing has changed. The same build has been used since launch lol.

There is lots of rage going on about it, and my assumption is that the change took eles out of focus, so people went to the next thing that bugged them.

I just wanted to share my opinion because I’ve said everything I’ve said before, but it’s getting attention again and I wanted to reassert my opinion.

Also, I know you aren’t making excuses lol it was more of a general comment towards ANet.

But alas, I’m going to circle around to the point that the pet leash range was already acknowledged by the devs, so regardless of what goes on in this thread, they’ve already said they know and they’re looking into it. So we just have to rely on the fact that they made the game and they’re in charge.

As for the rest of this thread, it was nice that the debate at least went constructively. Ultimately we’re all just defending our opinions, but it was better than it turning into a rage fest.

Daecollo.9578:

Once they get far enough they heal like they are out of combat if there master is.

I don’t know about the healing Daecollo mentions here, but I can confirm that we can get out of combat while our pets are far away from us fighting someone. Funny I haven’t noticed this before.

Anyway, this to me looks like a bug. We’ll see ‘soonish’ I guess.