Guild Wars 2

So I was playing today doing the spider queen in Kessex and as a couple of centaurs got brought into the fight one trampled my Drake into a stalk so boom dead pet so I swap the Fern Hound at my feet is also dead with the cooldown at the normal penalty for pet death. So I a few stalks later and this effect repeats itself dead pet apon swap. So long story short my Ranger waypointed back to the Grove to stay until I feel up to playing him again.

TLDR: I think they broke pet swap.

I noticed a few times my pet swapping in with very low health yesterday too (possibly dead and just regenerating if I swapped out of combat). Another thing I noticed was the pets health going up to huge numbers when recovering from being dead (the number would count up to nearly 100 000 and then drop down again), certainly something weird going on with pet swapping yeah.

Bran.7425:

So I was playing today doing the spider queen in Kessex and as a couple of centaurs got brought into the fight one trampled my Drake into a stalk so boom dead pet so I swap the Fern Hound at my feet is also dead with the cooldown at the normal penalty for pet death. So I a few stalks later and this effect repeats itself dead pet apon swap. So long story short my Ranger waypointed back to the Grove to stay until I feel up to playing him again.

TLDR: I think they broke pet swap.

… and why did you not submit a bug report?

Were you using the Mighty Swap trait?Maybe the update to the trait caused this.

Not any points in beast mastery. Once the fight was over I did notice the health numbers going up past the previous maximums as Psykewne mention. And as for the bug report call it general pessimism, but after Peters comment on the state of pet I doubt it would be looked into I might make a video of it later to send/post.

I haven’t been on to test, but if this is a real thing and you can get a video of it, definitely post it on the bug forums, and try getting it to happen (not sure then next time I’ll be in game) on the heart of the mists or a PvP match (go to an empty hotjoin) and then post it in the PvP forums.

It is just much more likely to receive a devs attention in one of the other forums.

So I tried to reproduce the bug in Caledon Forest to no success. This is leading me to believe that it must be some sort of interaction between the pet mechanic and the Champion Toxic Spider Queen event. If so then I doubt they will fix it as it may cause more bugs fixing it. It wouldn’t be the first time a fight mechanic poorly interacts with pets. My guess is somewhere in there my pet got cocooned and that just broke them for that fight. Will test it on that fight again sometime soon.

TLDR: Pet swap not totally broken, most likely just broken because of a combat mechanic. Further testing to be done soon.