Guild Wars 2

As we all know the Ranger Pet attributes do not scale with the player’s equipment only the level of the pet, points spent in the Beastmastery trait line and for secondary attribute the various training/prowess major traits.
Now that more and more ascended equipment is being added to the game (with more planned in the future) how long will it be until the pet is effected by the player’s equipment or we are given the option to ascend the pets?

Why stop there?

Give pets armor too! How scary would it be if you were suddenly jumped by a wolf covered in SPIKES?

This will be a long term issue but at the moment the endgame is quite flat and pets that can fight vs exotics can also fight vs ascended.

Stooperdale.3560:

This will be a long term issue but at the moment the endgame is quite flat and pets that can fight vs exotics can also fight vs ascended.

The statistical difference between someone in full exotic and the same person with infused ascended trinkets is only 125 stat points in total (excluding agony resistance). That might be a bit different for percentage benefits, but yes. They get 10 more points per equipment for the major stat, 5 more points per equipment for the minor stats and 5 more points per infusion for any stat. Simply 25 per trinket

However… The back item provides them 34 major stat points and 19 minor stat points more, plus another infusion slot. For a total of 58 more stat points. Yes, it’s also impossible to get certain stat types as a back item too. So anyone using things like cleric’s has a bit of trouble

It’s also impossible to get certain stat combos as ascended equipment. So users of equipment like carrion will be always be behind.

Anyway. My main point is. Right now there’s only a statistical discrepancy between exotic targets and “ascended” targets of 183 points. The difference isn’t terribly clear since you can’t tell your opponent’s equipment, but with ascended armour and weapons pets’ll be behind by about three or four trinkets. They still won’t feel irrelevant, but they’ll start to randomly feel weak.

Honestly, I just wish my Norn’s wolf was bigger than an Asura’s wolf. No large nordic wolf is going to respect an Asura ;-) Likewise, no Norn is going to respect some little ankle-biter wolf :-p

Want me to buy more gems? Let me customize my pet beyond its name