Guild Wars 2

I created a new topic just for this specific implementation of Sang’s Animal Spirit idea. LOTRO had a similar problem with the Captain pet class and was able to implement both pet and pet-less. Here is how ANET might do it:

1) Add a 3rd option to the toggle just after F3: Guard, Avoid Combat, Spirit Form.

2) When a pet goes into Spirit Form, it gets the same ghosting that the Ghost Strawberries from the Halloween event provided to players and uses the same AI as Avoid Combat (it stays next to the player).

3) In Spirit Form the pet does not attack and the F2 skill is transferred to the player.

4) For each different pet type, the player gets a particular set of boosts to his/her Attributes to compensate for the loss of DPS, aggro, attacking multiple targets, etc.

That’s it.

+1 for this idea. It works, there’s no real suffering for loss of DPS, it fixes quite a bit of the problems, and the only problem I could see is the amount of the boosts given, but that’s fixable easily.