Guild Wars 2

Just a quick heads up. As of today’s patch, pets that have casting animations on their F2 skills (Fern hound, jungle stalker, black bear, etc) will now attack the closest hostile enemy when F2 is pressed, instead of using their active skill. In short, these skills can no longer be used in combat. Any chance of a hotfix on this?

The blind spam is awesome though :P

Oh hey, this bug is back again?

It seems to cycle back in like every six months.

Is the Lynx’s F2 working?

No F2 works

Edit: F2 works if you hold the key down :I
Edit2: This is weird, now it works on the second cast of F2

Tested this.. no pets F2 works now.

Edit… I have spammed F2 – have held it down… nothing works.

My Sweet Lily.1952:

No F2 works

Jaguar stealth does, however that isn’t channelled.

it seems fixed now, but only tested with spider, eagle, bear, and lynx.

i think what they did with the f2 is if you have taunt trait when you press 1 time it will dothe taun as a normal skill then you press f2 again and it does the actual f2 skill they kinda added like 2 skill whne you have taunt up thats how it works atm i think

Yeah, wanted to compare condi dmg and nothing

Although… the blind bug is pretty nice lol

tyinkz.7813:

i think what they did with the f2 is if you have taunt trait when you press 1 time it will dothe taun as a normal skill then you press f2 again and it does the actual f2 skill they kinda added like 2 skill whne you have taunt up thats how it works atm i think

If that’s true, that’s how we were all using it anyway. Could be a nice QoL.

okay i think i got it what they did is when you have taun they kinda synced it with the other skills of the pets wolf for example when youpress f2 it will go for taunt+knockdown then you have to press f2 again to do the fear same with birds as far as i have tested its kinda strange and good at the same time cause now we canuse the actual knockdown on wolf

Ok, the bug is with the trait go for the eyes, just switched it off and now the f2 is working.

i am 100% sure not that they did it this way with probably all 3 traits related to the f2 on pet which might be a good thing or bad birds are not a secure tant anymore so dogs might be better now cause you can use knockdows at will wich imo is great

There is no way they intended for us to be able to perma-blind someone and not have the pets f2 work.

its not go for the eyes. with or without the trait f2 almost never works. Sometimes it goes of after pressing 10 times and thats it

I tried every pet, not one would trigger, i turned off Beastly Warden…. still persisted.

Hotfix happened, problem is still there.

Ravens can spam his F2 without CD…they have perma blindness.

The problem is with the trait: Go for the Eyes.

deception.7239:

The problem is with the trait: Go for the Eyes.

Yup, it’s Go for the Eyes that does it.

Beastly warden is also bugged and when you use f2 the taunt goes of but actual skill does not, so you have to spam the button multiple times to get the skill to work. This is the exact same issue as go for the eyes, why has it been fixed but not b.warden?

So no ETA on this getting fixed ? i took the day off and have not gone back yet, no point for me since i am pretty much just playing my Ranger.

While you’re at it Irenio, I noticed White Moa uses it’s F2 right away rather then getting in range of the target first. Can this also be fixed? Not sure how many pets have this problem.

Hammerguard.9834:

While you’re at it Irenio, I noticed White Moa uses it’s F2 right away rather then getting in range of the target first. Can this also be fixed? Not sure how many pets have this problem.

Polar Bear does this also. While i want the fixes, considering all the other GLARING problems with pets that have been ignored for 3 years, i am considering this one of those minor problems .

After the Bug-fix, if u have Beasmastery, the F2 is still broken, making u have to hit in twice or more to cast the F2 skill. I have “taunt” and “go for the eyes” activated. Once I order the pet to attack with F2 the taunt goes of but not the F2. Making it cast F2 requires further buton-smashing.
It doesnt seem to have anything to do with "go for the eyes! as, when I changed that particular trait, nothing happened.

When I tested to take away the beastmastery line altogeather things woked properly.

I post the build I run that makes things bug-out.

Irenio CalmonHuang.2048:

Hey all,

We’re aware of these issues and have a pair of fixes in progress!

Good job on the whao change btw. Definitely put ranger more in line with other classes. Pls don’t listen to people crying for nerfs already. None of the new builds seem too good and are mainly a result of people fighting golems and thinking high quickness uptime would be godmode. It isn’t.

Anet said in last quickfix note:

• Fixed an issue in which the Ranger trait Go for the Eyes interrupted pet-activated skills.

However, pets still forget to use their F2 ability by the time they reach their target. Even withouth this trait. Hope Anet is aware that it’s still an issue after the “fix”.

Dojo.1867:

Irenio CalmonHuang.2048:

Hey all,

We’re aware of these issues and have a pair of fixes in progress!

Good job on the whao change btw. Definitely put ranger more in line with other classes. Pls don’t listen to people crying for nerfs already. None of the new builds seem too good and are mainly a result of people fighting golems and thinking high quickness uptime would be godmode. It isn’t.

Too late. They’re nerfing ranger back out of viability, without even giving us the courtesy of a dialogue on the matter. Meanwhile, elementalists and revenants can continue to stack more boons on an entire team than rangers can on just themselves, but that’s fine because double standard.

Maybe they ought to fix THIS issue first for once, before going ahead and nerfing skills. It’s not the first time they quickly go in and nerf stuff, and leave broken things in for months. Get your kitten priorities straight!