Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing a ranger for a while now, but have yet to come across a pet with a higher power rating than anything else beyond a shark, despite that being what I want. Is that just not going to happen? Are there no other power-focused pets? If that’s the case, why not?

Drakes and dogs have about 300 more power compared to the other pets.

Remember the birds (not the moas, but the owls and so on) hit a target twice. If you really want to make a single target feel some pain, they’re the way to go.

feline and birds have the best damage!

*sigh* As they’re saying, yes felines have huge damage output and birds are also very popular for their ability to deal damage. Anyway, back to the question at hand.

I can only assume you want a high power pet for the reliable damage. But unfortunately, the shark has the highest power of any pet. The shark is also infamous for spending a lot of time not attacking and swimming about instead (so much so that the armour fish outdamages it). This means that, at least for underwater combat if something has high power it’s probably stupid (drakes suffer the same issue). However, for land combat the highest power pets are drakes and canines.

Drakes will provide you with AoE damage and weakness, a very sturdy body and your only blast finisher (which I believe is two blast finishers chained together), since the last patch, their breath weapons are also incredibly powerful if you can pin an enemy down in any way (previously you’d need to have locked an enemy down to the point where they’d be dead no matter happens to hit with their breath). Canines on the other hand have better control, with a cripple to allow themselves to reliably hit their target, a knockdown which they’ll usually try to open with (i.e. 2 second knockdown on pet swap).

Drakes I believe will offer higher damage output and better survivability, especially against multiple targets. But canines are more reliable due to their cripple and have a lot of control.