Guild Wars 2

I am very happy for the increased response time. So now that it is fixed, Ranger should now get to the issue: Pet F2. It is very important since they are our Mechanic.

The problem with the Pet is that it is very imbalanced. Very few pet F2 skills are decent, everything else is trash and garbage. The best of the Pets is the wolf.

You might say, “nerf wolf and be done with it.” However, it is not fixing the problem. The problem is that there is no utility, no burst, no support, no control, and no synergy among the pets. I feel that almost every single pet needs to be brought up to the wolf’s level. I feel that this is worth power creeping.

I believe the best way is to reform the pet F2 skill. No need to buff damage or armor. I feel that it is fine for now. It promotes synergy and active combat.

I will make a list of ideas later, but I wanted ANet to know that pet F2 skills needs a big change. Chill pets are the biggest offenders.

So, define “garbage” ?

What makes the skills garbage?

If you wanted anything fixed, you sure are going about it an a manner counter productive to do so. Unless you explain anything in applicable means, all your doing is broad complaining with no reasonable input on the matter.

The biggest issue i have with F2’s is their appallingly slow cast times in many cases – 1.0 – 1.5 secs. These slow cast times are rarely justified by the strength of the effect.

But on ranger i’d rather see a balance pass over the weapon skills and utilities before trying to better balance the pet F2s.

dancingmonkey.4902:

So, define “garbage” ?

What makes the skills garbage?

If you wanted anything fixed, you sure are going about it an a manner counter productive to do so. Unless you explain anything in applicable means, all your doing is broad complaining with no reasonable input on the matter.

Are you going to ever use Alpine wolf for the aoe chill? I will assume no because it is garbage.

Krytan Drakehound aoe immobilize is far superior than that garbage. It has less cooldown and better snare.

dancingmonkey.4902:

So, define “garbage” ?

What makes the skills garbage?

If you wanted anything fixed, you sure are going about it an a manner counter productive to do so. Unless you explain anything in applicable means, all your doing is broad complaining with no reasonable input on the matter.

The F2 is garbage if…

• Your Krytan Drakehound finally catches up to a fleeing enemy, you hit F2 and by the time this skill channels, the enemy is leaving the AoE range.
• You getting Stombed and want your Wolf to fear the enemy away but your Wolf reacts too slow and you die.
• You are using a Drake’s F2 and the Drakes needs that long to channel until your enemy passed your Drake.
• You are using Brownbear to clear conditions but your Bear runs to your target first instead of activating his F2 immediately.
• You’re using Jaguar’s F2 so he would hit his target but he is still not able to do so.
• You’re accidentially hitting F2 and F3 at the same time, which puts your F2 on cooldown.
• You hit F2 and all other skill your pet was currently performing go on cooldown.

Unrelated to F2’s:

• Moa “screams” at buildings, trying to apply vulnerability.
• Canine jumps at a target with Aegis or Stability up.
• Your pet needs 20 seconds to walk around a cliff you just jumped off.

With the recent change to pet health, I find my pet dead before this new response time has taken effect. I counted 5 seconds between pressing the button (of which I had previously pressed it) and the cast starting. By the time this happened he was dead.

runeblade.7514:

dancingmonkey.4902:

So, define “garbage” ?

What makes the skills garbage?

If you wanted anything fixed, you sure are going about it an a manner counter productive to do so. Unless you explain anything in applicable means, all your doing is broad complaining with no reasonable input on the matter.

Are you going to ever use Alpine wolf for the aoe chill? I will assume no because it is garbage.

Krytan Drakehound aoe immobilize is far superior than that garbage. It has less cooldown and better snare.

Its kind of hard for me to take you seriously when you keep calling everything Garbage without defining what ‘Garbage’ is.

Maybe you should explain how Immobilize is a more valuable condition than chill is, and having 2 seconds of AOE Immobilize on a 20 second cooldown is better than an equally weighted 3 seconds of AOE Chill on a 30 second cooldown.

Anyone has this problem?

My Juvenile Fern hound F2 skill goes in full cool down (25s) when it self-interrupt/ cancel its skill.
However, my Juvenile Wolf F2 skill only has 5s cool down for interrupted/ self-interrupt.

Also, we all know that Fern hound F2 Regeneration heals 130Hp/s.
However, when deactivate Fern hound, Regeneration only heals 5Hp/s.

Is it working as intended™?

Porcine “Forge” is actually frikkin’ amazing, lol. The pet itself isn’t so great but the knockdown comes in handy quite often, as it seems to act very similarly to the wolf in that it will often either make it’s first attack a knockdown, or it’ll knock someone down mid-heal. As for the F2, tuft of hair, feathers or plasma = stealth or all boons. Pretty decent IMO.

But I do somewhat agree that pets F2 abilities could be reworked or at least improved a bit. The majority of them don’t have much use at all. Still, play around with your pets abilities from time to time, you’d be surprised which ones are more useful than you might have first thought.