Guild Wars 2

me and another guild mate of mine decide to have fun with a necro and my ranger. He didn’t believe me about my pets not able to hit him moving so i hade him run in a circle with my jaguar chasing him it never landed a blow in the 2min it was chasing him. that was with a agility traited 30% increase to speed and with Sick em. So once you Dev’s Fix pets attack ability to hit enemies on movement we will be more viable in so many ways.

LOL. Why not use a ranged pet then.

@Dragin: Was the necro using any speed buffs, like from warhorn or staff? If not, that is really, really sad.

To be honest, I am not sure sick-em does anything. I’ve tried it and it doesn’t seem to help the pet close the gap on runners. Makes me wonder if the 30% pet speed trait is working.

If the ranger pet could get some work regarding AI, pathing, pet to hit and pet survivability, we would be a really solid wvw class.

AR Defender

he was not using any speed buffs just running in a circle. the melee pets could not hit him at all. and yeah pets need serious workings for a class thats supposed to do a good portion of our damage but they don’t seem viable and yes the 30% increase trait did not improve the pet at all so its not working as intended maybe change it to 30% haste increase for pets might work better.

haxi.9038:

LOL. Why not use a ranged pet then.

Yeah, delete melee pets……… or better FIX THEM.

It’s the same with ranged pets, someone literally has to be standing still, which is like, oh, ya know? Never.

really though in order for melee pets to be able to hit anything you need the be engaged in the fight, and using weapon attacks that give your pet the edge in the fight like crip shot, hunters shot, barrage, really any cripple/stun/swiftness/immobilize/ or chill to pet granting abilities we have on our weapon attacks. they are 100% useless in spvp on their own

The really amusing thing is you still get angry and/or whiny whispers daily to “fight without an OP pet” by some dumb kitten standing still getting kitten by your jaguar, if only they knew (I don’t tell them, the poor pet needs to hit someone right?)

I think the pet shares the same problem as mobs do. Any Champ that attacks using melee is dirt simple to kite around because they stop moving to make their attack.