Guild Wars 2

Since this would be quite the major overhaul i dont expect to happen but still its nice sharing/discussing.

So my idea is something similiar to Death Shroud/Whatever wars have.

It would be called something like ‘Symbiotic Bond’ entering this state would then do the following.

-You and your pet have a shared healthbar.
-This shared healthbar would be your original health times 1.25 or 1.5 or another reasonable number.
-Your weapon skills would get added ‘effects’ depending on the family of the pet you have equiped. So for example if your pet would be a fire drake , your sword/longbow/axe etc #1/ skill would cause burning for a few secs while in ‘Symbiotic bond’, maybe add bleeding when you have felines etc etc etc. (This would be alot of work).
-Your Pets Skills would also get added effects depeding on the weapon you have equiped, for a example felines would get a leap added to one of their attack skills when you have a GS equipped. Bleeding when you have a shortbow(or something else) etc etc.
-Or maybe only the #1/autoattack skills would get added effects because doing all skills is way too much work.
-You get access to your pets full skillbar.
-All boons you get are shared with your pet (basically the fortifying bond trait), But also All boons your pet gets are also shared with you.
-All Pet traits (for example the 30% crit damage for pets) lose 50% of their strenght (so only 15%) but now also affect you.

Basically you can enter and exit this whenever you want since the potentially 200% damage you receive from having a shared healthbar is a great risk imo.

If the risk is too great you and your pet can share attributes which would be your own + a percentage of your pets stats added to it.

So would you have like to have seen this implented in the ranger class? Or have your own take on this?

I find it really weird that we have traits for ONLY our pet wouldve been better if they would be shared.

People come up with the most creative ideas for fixing the pet mechanic.

I agree that this will probably require too much programming to be implemented, and lore-wise, it might come off as being too close to the Norn ability to channel the Spirits of the Wild. The concept is fascinating, though, and I would have fun playing around with it on various pets.

I think these are some great ideas! Especially the added effect to skills.

Rangers primarily use the long/short bow and neither have many effects. When you compare the bow skills of a warrior and thief to a ranger its quite a let down…

I`m sorry, but most of this ideas is hard to reliase. And it`s a kind of “bicycle invention”.
Why just not look at GW1 Ranger skills and mechanism?
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/List_of_ranger_skills
As you can see, there are a lot of way`s to improve ranger`s abilities by stances, nature rituals and preparations as it was in GW1 and make rangers more much useful for allies.

I know they most likely (certainly) wont be implented hence why i wrote that in the first sentence of the thread.

The problem is that those type of skills dont even exist in any form in gw1. The closest thing to a preparation we have is sharpening stone and it kinda sucks.

Our block/Evade stance gone.

Our interrupts .Pratically non-existant. We were the spellcaster bane in gw2 , but the casters dont have much to fear from a gw2 ranger.