Guild Wars 2

1. Why are my pets dying to randomdly thrown out aoe? Could we give them 50-90% aoe damage reduction.
2. Why do 70% of pets skills take 2s to activate? Aoe fear with 2s cast can’t move sure is hard to dodge… and even single target stuff can be really slow to trigger
This is just mind boggling on a class (or spec if bm) that relies on pets. And 45s pet swap sure is fun, second pet dies after 5-10s
Thanks

keep complaining. these are serious issues that have plagued our class since day 1, and little has been done about it. some improvements to responsiveness still have us with very unresponsive pets, and pet death is an even bigger issue.

i think part of the problem is that there might not be an easy solution. for example, giving pets damage reduction to aoe, then what happens when rangers send pets after staff ele’s? ele can’t use ice spike, lava font, meteor shower, earthquake, pretty much any non-autoattack becomes useless.

regardless of how tough it might be to come up with a good solution, it needs to happen. the class is not in a good place in wvw or pve-dungeon content (mobs one shotting pets that dont dodge).

id love to see a class mechanic that turns our pet into an etheral animal spirit. the spirit could effect our stats in ways proportional to the offense or defense of the pet, and we would retain the pet’s F2. certainly not as good as having a wolf to knockdown your enemy for you, but better than 2 dead wolves on a 60sec cd.

Some 1337 guyz will answer you to learn to play, to use ranged pets bla bla. In reality ye u can pay all the attention u want but sometimes u can’t prevent your pet from dying in aoe. That said experience is a good thing and with time you can learn to avoid most of your pet deaths. The devs said some aoe builds are bit over the top and they are working on it, hopefully this “work” includes our pets survivability as well.
Pet f2 skills are a bit unresponsive now, we have to live with it.

I was wondering what anet’s stance on this is

F2 skills should be instant. Either change the animation or make it faster! Are you listening Anet? Do you hear our cries?!!?

Pets also need a reduce in incoming damage from AoE.

They shouldn’t be instant for all of them I think. Or if they are cds should be longer.
I’m thinking about the aoe fear. That one would be really strong.
But on the other hand you have the moa for protection, but takes like 2 1/2 s to cast. pretty silly.
Either reduce damage from aoe, or improve our pet heals or just plain buff all pets health and armor

So you say your pets die to fast to aoe. Hmm that seems like a problem but then you have to consider the facts.

1. Are you using the right tool for the job
When picking a pet there are more things to consider than how much it crits or how much might it can give you. All of that is fine but it doesnt matter if its dead.

We know that on average melee has higher damage but there is a risk to using melee. you put your self in harms way. The same is true for your pet. Dont use a melee pet when what you are fighting can one or two shot you.

2. You have two pets that you can heal. you have skills like stone signet that can aid your pet in combat. While I would be hard press to use it on my pet that is a indiviual choice. Dont complain when you choose not to use the tools given to you.

3. What is your solution to the problem. Is the solution a balanced one. Can your solution be abused to the point its unfair to the other classes. For example: you want aoe reduction for your pets. How much reduction is good how much is too much.

Should your pet be able to take 50% of the damage a player would be able to take aoe wise. I think that would be way to much since you have two pets. Should rangers be able to send thier pets in to take out a treb or arrow cart and not have to worry about thier pets dies to either or the ele that is spamming aoe skills.

You can call your pet to your side at anytime you can switch your pets every 15 to 20 seconds. Anet has to do a balancing act. If I was them I would give your pets the aoe buff you request and do an aoe reduction to ranger aoe resistance.

I realize why anet doesnt respond to most post alot of it is either crazy talk or selfserving and most posters are not looking at the bigger picture. Even with legit complaints they cant always be fix right away there are other things that need to be addressed first.

Pet aoe toughness really shouldnt be on the todo list.

Once again people are viewing things only from thier own prespective. Pet attack skill a fairly big attack an like most big attacks they have warning signs so people can get out of the way.