Guild Wars 2

Actually, I think you pretty much addressed that better than I was going to. I think it’s a bit ridiculous to just remove something like that. It seems a bit important to have to revive your pet.

As a ranger, your pet is your unique thing that stands out from all the other profs. The Bow isn’t really unique anymore (A crossbow would be… Just sayin’ …). So the only thing left is the pet. Removing the only real responsibility you had for the pet is just dumbing down the Ranger as a whole. Instead of everyone defending or switching places or changing something in their strategy during a fight to help the ranger with his/her pet, now you’ll have to switch to another pet. Throw another animal out into the field. If reviving is really that bad for some people, just make a food item of sorts that higher level cooks can to revive pets, or heal them.

So your pet dies way to quick when fighting bosses?
How about maybe trying on some ranged pets then?
Adapt to the situation, dont hope the situation will adapt to you.

Removing incombat ress is fine, it adds a new skill level to rangers thats all.

Just found this gem of a thread. Can’t stop laughing when I see people argueing that they lose DPS because they can no longer spend 20 seconds doing exactly 0 dps during a fight while they are rezzing their pet. I’m sure, once you have rezzed that precious pet it will make up for the UNBEARABLY LONG TIME IT TAKES TO REVIVE A PET DURING COMBAT.

Jup, you guys sure understood how this class is played.

Also, sorry to break your bubble, but balance changes like this are often done with pvp in mind. And rightfully so. And in a pvp scenario, accidentally starting to rezz your pet when you just wanted to stomp somebody or rezz a teammate was about one of the most horrible things that could happen to you during a fight.

ArenaNet was absolutly spot on with that change. And I’m already getting somewhat confused at people being able to actually WHINE about this.

It feels a little like dumbing it down or hand holding because they are worried players will get confused by it? I was confused when they introduced this change as it was impossible to confuse the dead pet from a living one due to the dead status symbol. Maybe they changed it for balance reasons?

Ombra.6741:

Ranger is dead profession, whereas i have high lvl ranger i dont play it

Don’t think ranger is dead at all.,
if u play a ranger right u will do alot of dmg PVE wise and Mega Burst PVP wise…
with a lot of pet management between the jungle stalker and red moa i outdamage everyone in my guild.

At this time (lvl 80 full exotic – berserker’s stats) i run a Short-/Longbow spec with the utility skills

- frost spirit
- sharpening stone
- Quickening zephyr
- Rampage as one

At the 1500 range with longbow i get my rapid shots up to 11K dmg within 1,5 seconds while using zephyr
When enemys get closer to you just swap shortbow and start flanking them.

At this point i think Ranger only can get better since the class feels somewhat broken it is defenitly not.
When Spirits getting buffed (and believe me they will be) then the real fun begins.

Just my 2 cent’s tough…
Yvilthi

I liked the change. It sucks when you accidentally start the animation to rez your pet when you want to rez your teammates and/or pick up loot.

I didn’t like the change where they put the pet on a 20 second cooldown if you switch your pet out of combat. I know why they did it (prevent spamming buffs), but they should’ve put the F2 skill on cooldown (if you used it), not the swap.

Psychrome.9281:

Ombra.6741:

Ranger is dead profession, whereas i have high lvl ranger i dont play it

i disagree completely and i am not sure where you are getting your information from, Ranger is actually very commonly played and i see them all the time in Spvp but i guess since you are making global statements like these you probably didnt understand the ranger class as well as basic argument tactics. i am level 80 now and still love the mechanics and abilities of the class and in Spvp i find that while thieves and mesmers can eat me up one v one i can hold my own and win most of the time against anyone as long as i dont make mistakes

From my opinion. I have 80lvl ranger and 19 rank pvp but i play for thief becouse i can kill that rangers for some sec. Thief is op. Ranger is so easy and has too many bugs as well.

Sortis.3485:

We should have a decision on what pets to use, as of right now the decision is No pet, 2 bears, or dead pets. This along with our final 2 trait lines is class breaking, we need these things fixed so that the Ranger actually has choices.

We do have choices, it’s just that defense is so much more powerful against bosses than offense that anything that leaves you more vulnerable in exchange for what amounts to killing the boss 1% faster is useless.

Why do you want a decision on what pet to use when you along with everyone else will just look for the next best pet again and use that? There is no reason in this game not to use the best profession, best build, best pet and best items. The game does not reward you for deviating from the beaten path even though it easily could (increased event rewards if your build does not match the standard build etc). Being a unique snowflake only makes you farm slower and also makes fights harder for other people during group events, which means you hurt both yourself and other people because you’re a hipster.

I know, “choice” in RPGs usually just means “the best build is hard to find” but after a couple of weeks at most people will figure out what the best build is. There has never been an RPG with real long term choice and there will never be. The only reason RPGs even have skill points and let you build your own character is for those first few enjoyable weeks of discovery where no one knows yet what the best build is.

Do what i do. I always have a pet that can tank as a second pet option (polar bear or brown bear)to swap. my first pet is always a dps pet like snow leopard or lynx. if my pet health is low, i have two option call my pet back or swap it for the tank. and since my pet get health back from the damage there do i hardly swap my pets.

I use a jungle spider and a carrion devourer and never have a problem. They are both ranged pets and I kite around them. If you keep the mobs focus on /you/ then things will never be a problem for your pets.