Guild Wars 2

I don’t know about everyone else but I think the ranger actually has a pretty good mix of downed skills… when they work. I’m getting pretty tired of losing winnable situations because I get downed, activate lick wounds for a sure revive, the skill activates, my pet comes over… and does nothing and I die. The Lick Wounds skill is probably the most important skill on the downed ranger bar imo and that it doesn’t work over the half the time (from what I’ve experienced) is unacceptable. Anyone else seeing the same phenomenon/frequency?

Yap happened a couple of times to me on the road.

This is a well known bug, that when you and your pet are not on the same altitude it sometimes doesnt do anything. So far I just experienced it with my drakes… all other pets worked for me, but maybe I’m just lucky.

Also the devs. said they know the issue too and it’s on there to-do-list. Since the next month may be hold a new ranger pet-system, they may fix that problem too with it.

I was still in a phase of messing with my build and trying out some new stuff. Basically it was encouraging bird or cat use. So, I decide to trust a kitten feline because birds just don’t do enough damage and don’t attack anywhere near as fast. We’re fighting a random troll bonus boss and it’s wrecking our team. But I can get back up and when I do we’ll wreck it.

Just walks over and stands on my crotch instead of helping me up. This is why I hate cats.

agreed needs to be an immediate priority for fixes, cannot tell how many times I have a condition on me, roll away from combat, call my pet over, and it stands over me doing nothing until someone comes along and finishes me off.

Really same topics over and over. They are looking into it. Knowing there is a problem (pets not ressing is a symtom of a problem) and being able to fix (cure the syntom) it is not the same.

When have they ever fixed anything…

Thought I’d mention I also lost a very close fight against a guardian due to this. Downed him first, he downed me shortly after, barely managed to kill him first, which I was hoping I wouldn’t have had to need to if “Lick Wounds” worked…

this bug happens ALL the time, its not just a sometimes thing; its about 90% of the time. And I’m talking only about when the pet is alive; i wouldn’t expect a dead one to heal you.

Also, I’ve noticed a few times that it did work that, even when the pet is killed, it continues to heal. This effect I find is consistent. Similarly, I’ve noticed that it when it actually works it will work when u and the pet are on different points on the z-axis (one higher than the other and even los each other).

Interesting note: I play pure dps (for the underpowered challenge of it) but when I’ve played a bunker/beatmastery build this downed ability worked 100% of the time. I have no idea why.

Of course this is a major kittening bug and should have been fixed LONG ago but what I am asking you guys is: have you learned any tricks that get this spell to work consistently or at least a higher percentage of the time (and don’t say “make sure your pet is alive first”; we went over that n00b)?