Guild Wars 2

Now when we enter beastmode we see pet turn into a green ball and shadowstep to us. Maybe we could have second special key which would make us shadowstep to pet so we could make either our pet shadowstep to player or player shadowstep to pet. CD would be shared of course. That would make positioning of your pet important so you could engage if you are merging with melee pet (especially new cheetah) and disengage by merging with pet behind you.

Thoughts?

A very neat idea actually. I’m sure there is some way it could be abused but I can’t think of it, but I like the idea!

That would actually have been pretty cool as the main merge button. Having the merge happen at your pets location rather than on the player would be an interesting conditional shadowstep, especially after Smokescales Smoke Assault.

To balance this out you could make it so that players could only enter Beastmode if the current pet is still alive.

With this utility, there’s more reason to pop out of Beastmode (for the combat mobility) even after they allow us to swap pets whilst in Beastmode (fairly confident they’ll change it to allow us to at some point).

You should post this in the feedback thread since the devs are a little more likely to see it. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Feedback-Path-of-Fire-Elite-Specialization-Preview-August-18-20

I was really hoping this would be one of the traits before the beta weekend.

Interesting idea, but I think the ranger is a cluttered with inputs as is. Just the pet and beastmeld use F1-5 and 2 additional keys for aggressive/passive pet and pet stow.

So maybe instead of another key to press before melded you would have to activate it after you meld, where more keys are free. Additionally, why not make it like a Shadow Return? This way you could meld before going in combat to create a retreat point.

So in summary:
Upon melding your pet would drop a point at its location (60 second duration, 2,500 range, breaks when meld ends, 45 second cooldown when used). An icon would appear next to the beast skills which could be bound to a key through options, and by activating it you would teleport to this point.

cute idea, but I don’t think it would be very useful nor worth the effort to implement.

Just ask for a teleport/shadow step instead. Like, just ask for pet f2 in beastmode and merge with a cheetah.

What if it was trait option?

No lie, but I had a dream with Soulbeast and it could do that. When I woke up was bummed out that it didn’t.