Guild Wars 2

Pets are using their pet attack skills in either a nonoptimal order or use no order at all. I think it would be great if they were used in a more logical fashion.

Canines for example will always try to use their Brutal Charge knockdown first. What it should be using instead is Crippling Leap. With out some movement impairing effect hampering the target, Brutal charge usually just hits thin air. Also when using a wolf I find that I usually really want to use F2 Fear and don’t want to fight with an AI that wants to use a knockdown.

Spiders appear to have no set order at all. Nothing quite like having a spider spit out a pool of Poison Gas then use Entangling Web to immobilize a target that has by now intelligently moved out of the prior used AOE. Spiders set order should always be immobilize followed by AOE poison as they both share a 20 second recharge.

The Shark needs to have its F2 Feeding Frenzy replaced with its Fear skill. Feeding Frenzy is a skill very like a warriors For Great Justice. You always want to activate it when ever it is off recharge. Having a 2 second fear on command is far more useful then its weak Frenzy attack.

These are the most glaring examples that I can think of. I know they will not make pets intelligent enough to not use a knock down vs a foe with stability or be helpful and use a AOE healing ability when you need a heal (cough birds Harmonic Cry).

I know that the Devs changed it once so dogs would always knock down first. But I firmly believe that Knockdown first policy needs a relook as it is just not as synergistic as using a cripple first. This change up would not interfere with stomp interrupting. It would just mean you would need to call out the dog a bit sooner. Sort of like the skill it takes to set up a Nature’s Renewal self rez. Or the dog could be made smart enough to use a knock down against a stomp lol. One can hope right!