Guild Wars 2

This idea would (hopely) be approved by both pet lover’s and pet haters. First, you have the option to stow your pet. Stowing and un-stowing your pet CANNOT be used in combat.
When you stow your pet the following happens:
You have f1, f2, and f3 skils now.
f3 is pet swap. f1 and f2 are now based off of the pet and the effect is carried out BY THE RANGER HIMSELF/HERSELF.
for example if you have wolf equipped:
f1: howl at your foes inflicting fear for 2 seconds (shout animation)
f2: that canine pounce skill that has knock down. (copy warriors kick animation)
f3: pet swap

if you have river drake equipped:
f1: lighting breath (you shoot lighting from your location)
f2: tail swipe blast finisher (use warrior stomp animation)

if you have jaguar equipped (this is the fun part)
f1: stalk (gain stealth and the other benifits from the skill)
f2: maul

and so forth…. as you can see skills would be derived from the pet itself but the effect would be carried out by the ranger.

The trait line beastmastery would not change if you pet is out, but if your pet is stowed the attribute bonus changes to : (reduce cooldown on pet skills and pet swap by 1% per point spent).

if you pet is stowed, skill multipliers are changed to reflect the loss of pet dps.

Finally (apoligies for long post) I thought of a new trait
that would appear somewhere on the beastmastery trait line:
grandmaster trait:
Animal spirt: if you pet is stowed you gain an attribute bonus based on the type of pet you have equipped.
felines: bonus crit damage
bears: bonus toughness

and so forth..
thoughts?

You basically want to turn the ranger in to a warrior.

We are a pet class.

Stowing the pet and turning the class to complete easymode should not be an option. If people do not like the idea of having to protect yourself and your pet, they should not roll rangers, or change once they figured out they don’t like the system anymore.

Stowing the pet however should be an option, but at the cost of no additional benefit.

A warrior? I’m confused…
Your f skills would be replaced by attacks derived from the pet and the effect would be carried out by yourself instead of your pet. This would allow amazing synergy for many builds. for example: traits like moment of clarity. you could use wolf pets and have more access to interupts…

Rename your ranger-centered wolf fear to “Fear Me!” and your bonus toughness from using a bear in to “Thick Skin”, bonus crit damage from felines could be called “Axe Mastery”.

Like Yelloweyedemon said, rangers are defined by the pet.

Well if you use that logic, any skills from any class can be called anything. Fear isn’t universal to the warrior, neither is toughness or crit damage.
Hitler was defined by his cruelty, does that make it okay?

And demon, I’m not talking about large increases to skills multiplies or large increases to attributes, just subtle changes to bring levels to other classes.

law.9410:

Well if you use that logic, any skills from any class can be called anything.

That’s my point. Warriors already exist as a martial profession with all those attributes you want. If you make the ranger like that, why is it a ranger? Thieves use swords, but aren’t warriors because thieves are defined by stealth. Mesmers aren’t warriors because they use clones. Rangers aren’t warriors because they have a pet. Remove the pet and we are warriors.

I agree with your point Fluffball but this idea would seperate the ranger from the warrior because of two things:
1. If you don’t stow your pet, the ranger plays same as before.
2. If you stow your pet. You basically become a “utility” fighter, Each pet has unique skills so with two pets, you have access to a huge variety of skills to utilize on your f bar. (ok is starting to sound like an engineer haha but in a good way right?)