Guild Wars 2

Problem: I do not believe I need to restate the pet issues in detail… in short, pets account for a decent percentage of a Rangers dps and in certain aspects of play (especially dungeons/fotm/wvw) they are just about useless leaving the Ranger with a significant dps loss.

Solution: Allow Ranger to stow (and lock) their pets so they do not auto-engage in combat. Grant a passive damage multiplier (10-25%) to a Ranger when his pet is stowed.

This would give Rangers the choice to opt. out of using a pet in certain aspects of play without gimping their dps allowing for a much more enjoyable experience and make them a bit more welcome in groups. Obviously using a pet would still have its benefits of slightly higher dps (situational) and the extra pet abilities.

They cant just buff pets without making us OP in many aspects of play, we all know that… so this seems like a very easy and obvious fix. Maybe it has been suggested 100xs already.. Im sure it has.

My 2 Copper

I’m not trying to pick on you but let me leave you with this thought: if it was that simple, don’t you think ANET would have done that? Clearly, the pet mechanic design choices run deeper than you are assuming. For the record, I have many hundreds of hours on this game and have learned to handle the pet. It causes me almost no trouble in that I can’t think of many situations where this matters a lot. Maybe you want to stow versus Jade Maw — I get that. And you can actually do this, just get out of combat and stow the pet.

If you are new to ranger, note that many of us forum visitors have been here since the beta weekends. This question has come up more times than you would believe and the answer never changes.

Why not contribute to some of the cool threads right now, like the greatsword attack analysis?

Really, we need a sticky on the pet stow discussion and we also need a NEW sticky on build advice for newcomers to the profession. I anticipate many more people playing ranger inthe coming months so we better be ready to handle a deluge of questions as the negative posts slowly fade away.