Guild Wars 2

With the introduction of all these new ascended gear, all professions now gain more stats. Of particular note is the power stat…
As some of you may know, power scales with a damage coefficent for each skill ie.) if u have 3000 power u will do 3000*1.12 for skill X. Since the design of ranger takes into account our pets as a portion of our damage source, our coefficent is lowered considerably as a form of balance. unfortunatly for us, this pet damage doesn’t scale with gear, the result is that the higher the gear grind goes, the more disadvantaged the ranger will be relative to the other classes. This probably didnt appear to be a problem from a pvp perspective as rangers and all other class has a static stat base and devs work around to balance the game… however in wvw this becomes a big problem…

What is ANet gonna do to address this problem? I can only see this become more of a problem as they release more ascended and legendary gear with more stats…

allow us to give food to pets.
Actually a friggin good idea, just make it so the food buff doesn’t go away on pet swap…

What is so stupid about this type of issue is dam MMO companies do not learn EVER. EQ had this so added pet focus. Then WoW had this and finally added pet scaling in. Common sense that it should be in game.
Don’t count on them adding it any time soon as this is a Hugh amount of work and Anet has such small staff they can not even make skins for all weapons in April Fools content.

I thought about it too… but on the other hand we can go tanky and use high dmg pets.
But tbh I think there are bigger issues (like pet standing in red circles or F2 delay), coz we don’t have new tiers of gear added all the time. I have best gear now and imo my pets dmg is still too high xD (compared to mine).

Yes the lack of itemization benefits for pets is an issue, it was predictable, it will become more important with ascended armor/weapons. At the moment the endgame itemization is relatively flat though, with even legendaries having the same dps as exotics, so the status quo is acceptable. If a ranger isn’t getting the same benefits from stepping up from rare to exotics as other classes then it’s frankly being masked by every problem that rangers face.

its a tricky issue to address … the easiest way out is probably to remove the pet and have it optional, and revise the damage coefficients… otherwise they would have to somehow scale the pets with our gear (like the AR update) but somehow make it so that it will not be over powered… (or they could also have pet gear, which would be interesting lol)