Guild Wars 2

Budding ranger here wanting to know more about the Carnivorous Appetite trait.

Basically I am wondering is if it makes enough of a difference in pet survivability to be worth it (talking PvE dungeons only here).

Any info on the trait much appreciated.
Thank you!

For pets that crits a lot, it makes them able to take more punishment for sure, but if they’re the focus of a hard hitting baddie, I wouldn’t say it makes that big of a difference. The trait can be boosted somewhat with Compassion Training in the BM tree.

For maximum tanking ability for your pets, I would guess ways of giving them protection might be of a greater benefit. Perhaps a crazy build like this one:

http://goo.gl/SDj7z

With that your pet can gain protection through

- Stone spirit
- Guard
- When you dodge

Because of the Fortifying Bond trait, a dodge from you would give your pet 2+2 seconds of protection (+ any boon duration bonuses you might have, in this case at least +20% duration thanks to the points invested in NM for 2,4 + 2,4 seconds = 4,8 seconds of protection/dodge)

Stone spirit might grant it’s protection ability to you or your pet. If you get the buff, so will your pet, so that’s another source of protection.

Guard will grant your pet 10 seconds of protection as well when you use it, and with a 24 second cd (traited), that’s a rather decent uptime for protection for sure. Combined with the other sources, you should be able to keep the pet under protection almost indefinitely.

I’m not sure if runes of the earth and/or runes of the forge would further increase protection uptime…

Thank you for the answer, much appreciated!