Guild Wars 2

I think many rangers have already notice.

Since February maintainence patch:
OUR PETS NO LONGER HAVE THEIR SKILLS CD FULLY RECHARGED UPON SWITCHING PET. (This includes F2 AND pet’s own skills)
Even worse, they made this change secretly without giving the patch(nerf) notice.

The original and intentional design (the developter said that before) is that after we switch out pet, it’ll be refresh like a new pet with full hp and all their skills ready.
Now after you switch out pet, you will find out that your pet’s F2 would still be in CD if the skill has not recharge already.

I also tested and notice that my lizards will occasionally failed to use their tail swipe as their first hit upon switching pet (Jan 28 patch, personally love this until this ninja nerf occurs), proving that the pet’s own skills do not recharge upon switching pet.

I understand that Anet is trying to fix an exploit that allows ranger’s pets to stack buff duration by switching between pets in pet screen (off combat only).
But instead of finding an alternative solution to deal with exploit, Anet would go so far to ninja nerfing the pet system itself…

I would like to see a response from the designer himself about this “ninja patch”.
I would also like to see you fellow rangers’ commence of whether this is a fair action or not: secretly nerfing something just to fix an exploit, and not bother posting a patch note and explanation of why this is necessary.

I hadn’t actually noticed this though until you said, it’s obviously not fair, but maybe it’s just a temporary fix.
Or its permanent in which case ill just /sigh

Yeah i just checked i see that you’re right.
But i dont see why they wouldn’t have told us, it’s obvious we’d notice and rage about it, i’m hoping they’re just using it as a temp fix while they make a better solution to the exploit. And agree, would be nice to hear from them to see what they have to say.

The F2 thing is actually tricky. It shows a cooldown but when you press F2 you will see that you can still activate the skill even if it still shows a cooldown.
So for now nothing was nerfed about the F2 skill. But we don’t know if this was only a first step to really introduce a F2 cooldown which would be bad.
Please give it a try. For me and others it worked. Just use F2 even if it is on cooldown and it will work.

This was already discussed before.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Stealth-update-pet-F2-skills

This is a UI bug, not ranger nerf

jubskie.3152:

This was already discussed before.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Stealth-update-pet-F2-skills

This is a UI bug, not ranger nerf

F2 may not have changed, but the pet still got nerfed.
Their own skills would not fully recharged from CD even after switching the pet.
Go try two lizards and switch it every 16 seconds and you’ll know what I mean.

Since they have fixed this as a global maybe they can revert the nerf they placed on pet swap out of combat (out of combat pet swap 0 CD like weapon swap out of combat) so we can prepare ourselves for fights by bringing out the proper pet. Please Dev