Guild Wars 2

When fighting a thief, he’ll always go to cloak and dagger you to get stealth. That can be avoided, and you can defend yourself against that. But there is no way to control a pet like that!

When a thief fights a ranger, he can keep up 100% stealth.
And there is nothing you can do to stop it.

So please, remove the pet as a target for cloak and dagger.

No.

Because how the pet mechanic works and how it’s tied in with everyday PvE… it would demolish C&D in PvE. Also the thief is blowing A LOT of his initiative striking your pet with C&D, especially with the recent nerf.

AlexRD.7914:

And there is nothing you can do to stop it.

You can stay close to your pet and attack towards it. If thief tries attacking the pet chances are you will hit him. Having pets that have aoe skills at F2 work too, eg wolves with the aoe Fear. Another option is to run around and spam F3. Your pet will follow so if the thief tries attacking your pet you will be close enough to bring him out.

xPraks.5096:

AlexRD.7914:

And there is nothing you can do to stop it.

You can stay close to your pet and attack towards it. If thief tries attacking the pet chances are you will hit him. Having pets that have aoe skills at F2 work too, eg wolves with the aoe Fear. Another option is to run around and spam F3. Your pet will follow so if the thief tries attacking your pet you will be close enough to bring him out.

The pet tends to keep a distance from the ranger. If I am measuring the distance on my screen in centimeters (CM), it is 3.5CM when stood idle and at least 8CM when running around. Also if you run, say forward, then veer backwards the pet has a 1s or so delay before it will follow you. So i really don’t see how you can keep it “close” to you when the pet is always at a perpetual distance (never stood right next to you.)

Also, I don’t get why WvW is classed as PVE when it is clearly a massive PVP environment. As such, these so called “nerfs” to a thiefs, specifically, C&D, don’t take affect in WvW. WvW being where most thief players hang out.

Most times of the times, i will be at range with my shortbow, kiting the thief (really hard to do since he has shadowstep, heartseeker and steal), and my pet will be trying to kill him at melee range.

So what does the thief do? He sees that he can’t reach me after blowing his cooldowns, and he’ll C&D to go to stealth and close the gap between the two of us. Or he’ll run to regenerate his initiative.

Either way, my kiting will have been for nothing. What will happen next is he’ll approach me with his initiative full, and backstab and heartseeker the kitten out of me. If i kite him, he’ll just use the pet for C&D and restart the cycle.

Besides, what i’m asking isn’t for C&D to be disabled for all NPC Animals, only the ranger pets, because i think that using the environment to your potential is something everyone should do.