Guild Wars 2

Do melee pets have the same hit swing as a melee player would have by hitting more than one players? I know we can hit up to 3 players in our swing when we wield a greatsword/sword. Are pets the same?

If they do not, then why? I feel like rangers are only good with single targeting if pets make up most of our damage.

AFAIK it’s single target only. And they also can’t attack on their move. And almost all their F2 skills have long kitten animations that miss their target cos by the time the cast finishes, it’s attacking empty space.

It be great if the pet can hit people whatever is in their swing while in a big group. It would be awesome if they hit more than one.

Jagar Lance.5130:

It be great if the pet can hit people whatever is in their swing while in a big group. It would be awesome if they hit more than one.

Hopefully it’s one of those things in consideration by ANet when they fix and add more variety to the Ranger class

I agree Anet needs to check into it.

Samfisher.7942:

AFAIK it’s single target only.

Actually, this is the Drake’s party piece. Every pet type has something going for them. Bears are durable, able to take a pummeling, the dogs have howls that (generally) crowd control, the cats do damage, the birds do damage and boost mobility (they actually hit a target twice per attack, meaning they can do some brutal single damage) the moas are generally support orientated, and the Drakes can wallop several foes in one go.

What Loki said. I use a Drake in PvE for this reason; it allows me to stack mobs on the pet while it hits a group of them while I aoe them all down.

That depends on the class ranger pets bring a set of skill but damage wise is seems poor to ok compared to ours .But the skills they bring are awesome plus you can heal them even in the middle of a fight timed out right he can out last any mob.

Nico pets are more like meatshields sometimes their fight other times they’re off doing their own thing and they are more likely to die way before the mob does and won’t heal so after a fight the ones left will mostly die quik in the next fight waiting for a cool down to recast. But for flesh golem he heals after combat and I could go 3-4 mobs without break in combat .

I’ve tested his damage for a while and he puts out more damage than my neco with daggers keep in mind I trait him that way as while as myself . He would be the best pet in the game but he is dumb !!! Runs off all the time starts fighting with other players or just by himself . Thats why Im a ranger now at least our pets have some means of control .

Drake pets have AoE basic attacks (and if their specials actually worked they’d also have an AoE whirl attack, but they don’t use it at all), as mentioned. Though nowhere in the game does it actually say the attacks are AoE, so its not suprising you don’t know about it.

As far as I know, drakes are bugged and only use Bite. They don’t use Chomp or Tail Swipe.

Pretty easy to test. Have your pet fight a few mobs at once and notice none of them get hit except for the target your pet is on and the pet will never gain health from Chomp.

I agree that Drakes only use Bite and not Chomp or Tail Swipe, but they do still hit AoE regardless. At least I know for 100% certain the Ice Drake does, because I used it for testing a couple weeks back. They hit a small melee AoE with their basic attack.

If the others don’t, then thats yet another bug with the Drake line, that only certain ones AoE with their basic. I’ve only got an Ice Drake and a River Drake and don’t have access to the game until Monday, but I’ll test it out if no one else does by that point.