Guild Wars 2

Anet is looking for solutions to pets getting smashed in dungeons, including implementing a pet dodge button. So I thought why not just give us griffons. Rangers want them as pets, their art is completed and they already have an innate evade ability.

Just make it their f2 ability the evade and put on a 1 second cooldown. They can’t do anything when evading so it’s not like a spamable evade would be op as long as NPCs drop their aggro when the pet evades like how stealth use to reset theif aggro.

A gryphon pet would be awesome indeed. To make it harder to get, put it on a mountain or somethign thats annoying to get up perhaps.

Or a raptor pet. They are already there, and even have an undead form you have to kill. But it would be nice to have one about at least.

i was just thinking about this.

ogre pet whistles have a random chance of granting a griffon pet

They said their looking for solutions? If so it’s great to hear their finally taking care to us Rangers, it’s only been months >_>

OP There are many pets I would love, and griffons would be awesome. I want Rock Dogs too =[

Griffons, Rock Dogs, Raptors, Dolphins. So many creatures who don’t have a juvenile version for us to tame.

Plated Behemoths
Skale
Skelks

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Yes, I would like all of these pets added to the pet menu at some point. I just thought griffons would be ideal test in light of the Robert Hrouda thread where he said

“-A button that makes your pet momentarily not take damage. A sort of “Dodge” button for you to control. This is mainly due to us making sure players know how to use their dodge-roll or damage mitigation skills, which pets don’t have, and don’t always know how to escape properly when recalled without a direct pet swap. (NOTE: This is a springboard idea for pets being able to avoid damage)”

Because griffons already have a working dodge. It would just be a matter of hooking that up to f2 and playing around with the reuse timer. Could do the same thing with whiptails by switching around their burrow ability with their poison dart volley.

Better and easier to test it out with griffons before spending countless hours doing all new dodge animations for every other pet out there.

I was doing part of the Norn Personal Story and there is a mission where you use an Axe to fight a Jotun King and one of the skills of that Axe summons a griffon to fight alongside you, it would be awesome to have the exactly same model as a ranger pet.

Griffons would be awesome, but I don’t think they’d be much of a solution to the pet dodge thing. Sure, Griffons have a dodge, but they’d still need to move back into melee range to actually attack, and unless it was the F2 skill they probably wouldn’t use it intelligently.

Devourers have a dodge ability as well (and they stay at range to boot) but they’re hardly a solution to the problem either.

A pet isn’t going to solve the issue. Not to poo-poo on the idea, I definately want more pets (completely new pets, not just reskins of existing pets ala the Reef Drake). Griffons are up there, but my personal top choices are Wind Riders, Raptors, and Skales.

While Griffon pets would be really cool, if they were the only pet with a usable dodge ability, they’d overpower every other pet, and I’m pretty sure Anet doesn’t want to alienate all other pets.

i wouldn’t mind charming an abomination…

I don’t think we have any pets with a defensive f2 ability yet anyway. Some have utility like regen and one of the cats gives might stacks, but none are purely defensive. So it would be a good area to explore that doesn’t threaten the use of current pets. Griffons with a f2 flying evade on a moderate cooldown would be super great awesome.

edit: we could add the whole griffon family and give each a different kind of evade + something unique. Like owl griffons could evade + chill near by enemies. Eagle griffons could evade + knockdown their target. Hawkeye griffons could evade + weaken, etc.

But if thats too much trouble, how about just swapping one of the whiptails current f2 attacks with its burrow ability?