Guild Wars 2

Hi all, I’m not sure if this has been happening to anyone else recently, but a few days ago i noticed that when i hit my pet’s F2 that it comes up with an AoE target cursor. now im not sure if this has been happening a while for others, just struck me as an idea if anet plans to use aoe markers to use different pet’s AoE (like wolf fears) or maybe even give us a new F option so we can use our pets knockdowns ect on demand? I don’t know alot about how anet patches clients and stuff so this could just be an innocent glitch.

Weird, doesn’t do that for me. I can’t really see any advantage to having a targeted lynx attack be ground targeted. Having the ability to trigger a leap combo doesn’t make up for the massive pain in the kitten that would be.

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Weird, doesn’t do that for me. I can’t really see any advantage to having a targeted lynx attack be ground targeted. Having the ability to trigger a leap combo doesn’t make up for the massive pain in the kitten that would be.

I agree. It wasn’t just for the lynx though, it was also the case with my dogs bears ect.. just thought it would be cool to set down where the pet should cast a potential AoE instead of it just sitting there and casting it.

Unfortunately that’s a bug. What causes it is when you have a human (probably any racial) skill in one of your utility slots. I reported this bug a long time ago. :| Try swapping Prayer to Kormir to a ranger skill and see if it still happens.

Guess you’ve become an undercover chinese beta tester. LMAO ^^

I think the game is confusing the functionality of the human racial skill as if we were an engineer.

The toolbelt version of this skill. (AOE Targetable)
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Blessing_of_Kormir

Note the positioning of the skill as utility 1. For an engineer, Toolbelt skills go like this
F1: Heal Skill
F2: Utility 1
F3: Utility 2
F4: Utility 3

Your utility 1 is Blessing of Kormir and if we were an engineer, the F2 spot is exactly where the toolbelt skill would go. Coincidence? I think not!

The above is probably the cause of the bug, whether Anet fixes it or not is up to them.

BTW, I advocated a proposal to change AOE based pet skills to be AOE Targetable. I think many players would enjoy the flexibility of such a change.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Collaborative-Development-Ranger-Profession/page/40#post3723087

Rangers, the only class that can justify using Prayer to Kormir (or most any racial that isn’t that ridiculous Leopard Form)

But, ya, AlphaK is right. Put it in the second utility slot and you will get a target any time you recall the pet. First time it happened to me I thought they made guard’s functionality a normal pet feature…

Even if it is a bug, I would love the ability to aim the AoE of certain pets. Namely drakes. I might actually be able to hit multiple enemies with that darn cone if I could aim it.