Guild Wars 2

I have a theorycrafting question, primarily for someone who understands the inner game mechanics to effective Ranger build design and how it affects pet performance. The basic question is – how do Ranger stats and equipment impact pet performance?

For example, if a player stacks condition damage armor and trinkets, do pets benefit from for additional conditional damage? Or if a player stacks Precision (Skirmishing trait and armor), do pets gain additional critical hit chances? Or if a player stacks Power (Marksmanship trait and trinkets), does the pet gain additional power? And so on…..

Here’s my concern comparing other professions: If a warrior stacks traits and armor, it benefits 100% of the player (all damage and defense stats of that player). But rumor has it that the Ranger operates differently. With a Ranger, if the player gains armor or stacks stats towards one direction, it only benefits 2/3rds of the player since it does not affect the pet. If the pet is independent, unaffected by the Ranger’s stats, does that hurt the Ranger’s ability as a player? (functioning at less than 100% as compared to say, a warrior)

So I was hoping someone in the community (or even a developer who knows the game mechanics) could explain the relationship between Ranger builds and pet benefits with actual formulas or even percentages of how it all works.

I am curious about this thing myself. I tested the info display window and I can tell you that pet’s damage and condition modifies based on the bonuses from your equipment. But there is another thread on this matter and people seem to think it’s just a display bug, and the pets is 100% independent from its master, except for the related traits of course. It would be quite something if pets could receive a portion of master’s modifiers making rangers more valuable overall.

Pets are indeed statistically separate from you.

Pets are statistically wearing at least Exotic level armor
So unless you’re talking about the 8% difference Ascended gear gives you; gearing up is a case of you catching up to the pet, not the pet being unable to catch up to you.

More specifically, If you add up their stats they’re 6780-6991. Which is comparable to the Exotic stat spread of around 6790. (For argument’s sake, in sPvP putting on Soldier’s everything and taking toughness/power trait lines, without any major/minors/utilities that alter your stats).

Except for Bears, who I’ll never call stupid again because they’re apparently hacking the game in their spare time.