Guild Wars 2

Many have stated here about us needing more control over our pets and the small problem of “Y U no dodge the red circle of death!!”.

I propose a very simple solution – a pet mechanic that is opposite to “protect me!” shout.
This time instead of pet taking damage for you, you take damage for your pet!
You would be able to activate and deactivate at any time, just like commands to follow or attack target.

What’s the point of it? Simple. If you facetank, point is a swift and humiliating death. But if you’re evading/blocking/reflecting at the time pet would get hit, then you’ll negate those blows that pet couldn’t, saving it’s kittened rear. Though a great gamble for ranger himself, it would still be an epic help against pet’s love for dying in red circles.

Just give pet aegis when player is dodging as a 5 point trait to beast mastery. End of the problem. They already did it with the protection on dodge roll so why not?

Because evade protects from any number of blows for it’s duration, while aegis blocks just one single hit, given it’s not ublockable.

My idea offers protection for pet by having you deal with it, and with that the reflection/blocking and evades that you have and pet doesn’t. All that under your full control. It’s not perfect, but it’s a start.

solution is that both pet and master should be invulnerable on dodge simple

This idea is dumb. I already have to heal myself in order to heal my pet who is taking damage. Now I also have to evade, wasting my endurance, for my pet.
No, thank you.
However kyubi’s idea is neat. Upon your dodge your pet gains an aegis. If this aegis gets pope , your pet gains protection and/or regen for several seconds.

on alpha you already evade its only natural that your pet gets invulnerability when you dodge.

kyubi.3620:

on alpha you already evade its only natural that your pet gets invulnerability when you dodge.

This is one example out of so many others. Especially if you playing with bows your pet will soak up much more damage than you will.
Same with positioning. If you get behind an enemy to evade his next attack, your pet wont.

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

This idea is dumb. I already have to heal myself in order to heal my pet who is taking damage. Now I also have to evade, wasting my endurance, for my pet.
No, thank you.
However kyubi’s idea is neat. Upon your dodge your pet gains an aegis. If this aegis gets pope , your pet gains protection and/or regen for several seconds.

Let’s see…when you dodge roll (which is endurance waste, is it not?) pet gains one measly block vs AoEs that usually do few nasty hits in very short time. Some defense! Since i main a guardian i should know!

My idea let’s you choose if you wanna cover it’s rear or not. You’re not forced to “waste endurance” if you don’t like.

Accually it gets better. You don’t have to waste it if you do too. If damage is directed to you, then evade does not have to mean using dodge at all! There are quite a few weapon skills with build in evade, that need no endurance:

Sword: #2 & #3 skill
Dagger: #4 skill
Shortbow: #3 skill
GS #1 – third hit of chain gives 1 sec evade
GS: #4 – block & counter or 3 sec block vs projectiles
offhand Axe – #5 – projectile reflection

ulitlity: Lightning Reflexes – a dodge in a can.

All of those defensive moves now available to save your pet, most of them evades without even looking at your endurance bar. Now you wanna trade all that defense capability for measly aegis?

As for protection for pet – simply equip “Guard” skill. 10 sec protection + stealth for it, with 15 sec cd. 2/3 protection time right off the bat. And you can make cd shorter with beastmastery making it 10 outta 12 secs. Any boon duration onboard and it can get near 100% uptime.