Guild Wars 2

Any other rangers tired of how it only calls the pet over with current health unless it was dead? I mean if the skill can revive a completely dead pet shouldn’t it be able to fully heal it? It just seems stupid that the skill is better because you don’t keep your pet alive and gain no benefit if you actually keep him alive well at least while downed. Granted it isn’t that bad I only wrote this cause the situation in which it happened this time was really annoying but I would hope they would change it to fully heal/revive the pet and call them over to revive you.

It is a bit wonky. Ideally, it should do 1.5X healing if pet is “alive” or some factor of bonus.

I’m just happy if it makes my pet heal me at all, something wich still fails relatively regularly even after the supposed fix to this very problem.

Also your pet refuses to heal you if you levitated when you get downed. Like when ur on a crates it wont heal you and or when ur glicthed and ur character is only inchies above ground.

I was just wondering about this last night myself.. I mean what is even the point of the skill? I literally can count on one hand how many times I’ve been able to activate it.

I’m dead, my pet’s dead, yet this long cooldown starts which is more than enough time for 1 person to finish me off by straight attacking if i’m sitting in a bunker build. I rarely see the skill even available before I’m dead.

I much prefer Anet just removes it and replaces it with something with more utility, rather than a skill that can be used less than 1% of the time.

I like it, it’s not perfect, but comes in very handily sometimes. There’s a few tricks around it to help too:
- pet commands still work when downed, so hitting F4 if you had it available will give you a fresh 100%HP pet if you do it just before hitting 3.
- if you prepared for it and had the Wolf on swap, then F4+F2 will call the wolf to your side (with 100%HP) and cast the AoE fear, getting all the baddies away from you. Save your downed 2 for when they come back and interrupt the stomp as late as possible. By now, downed 3 should be available.

In addition to that, and so not directly linked to Lick Wounds, remember you also have F1/F2 available to send your pet at something low on HP. Good way to get a rally off an environmental creature if you can survive through one interrupted stomp, or to down your attacker if he is low on HP. And from there (both downed), i’d give the ranger as the winner… thanks to Lick Wounds.

If your pet is almost dead it make sense to switch out your pet before using lick wounds. You pet suffers what seems like sommoning sickness so if you swap and use lick wounds to fast it wont work.

Rangers down state is one of the best in the game you can actually rally even if your taking damage. Most other classes just delay thier deaths.

Press F4, then lick wounds.

I don’t PVP ever, so personally I’d say it’s one of the more useful downed skills that actually gives me a fighting chance, where as my Ele, while has a more ‘escape’ ability, you pretty much will die every time if you can’t get away in one shot.

The fact that it’s better to have your dead pet revive you (since it will be ressed to full health) than having your half dead pet do the same is pretty much a flaw in the mechanic and quite likely something that the devs haven’t fully thought through.

The possibility to change pets before using the ability (if not on cooldown) has nothing to do with this at all.

the skill is so freaking strong already, and you complain about it not beeing better? xD
are you serious?
1 Player can hardly down you by damage if you are ressurrected by your pet + you can still use Abilities of your pets to prevent them from stomping!
(with drake + wolve you have 3 pet CC’s + downed 2 mostly two times)

Aeri.5738:

the skill is so freaking strong already, and you complain about it not beeing better? xD
are you serious?
1 Player can hardly down you by damage if you are ressurrected by your pet + you can still use Abilities of your pets to prevent them from stomping!
(with drake + wolve you have 3 pet CC’s + downed 2 mostly two times)

What type of scenario are you talking about? In my experience, rangers are about as easy as it gets to stomp. Pets can’t attack and use their abilities while using Lick wounds.

Ofc they can, you just have to stop using lick wounds.
In fact, we are one of the strongest classes – when downed (sad but true)
Most classes can not expect to kill another player once they are downed (and their enemy not), but Rangers have the capability to deal a good amount of damage when downed through their pets while keeping enemies from stomping them.

Often enough my pet managed to down my (ofc already quite hurt) enemy and then I could you lick wounds to heal up.
Since you can use your 2 skill you can defend yourself from stomps in that time quite good.

I am not saying you are invincible, but you are a pain in the kitten for your enemy if you are able to controll your pets properly.

In PvP/WvW, with the proper pets (like Canines for the knockback) Rangers are a pain to stomp… but most likely to get stomped anyway unless it rally.

In PvE… my guildies don’t even try to heal me anymore during dungeons and fractals: either I’ll rez by myself (while keeping the aggro) or I will die from massive damage anyway. I usually joke that Rangers are never downed, we just tank from the floor.

And don’t get me started on 1v1 underwater fighting while downed.

So yes, this skill is quite good.