Guild Wars 2

I’m not a programmer, but I would imagine it isn’t that hard to do, so whats the official, if any, ANet excuse for not having this bindable?

Let me tell you why in the most simple way possible:
Rangers are the pet class. We use pets.
If you do not like it there is 6 other pet-less professions to choose from, 7 if you do not consider illusions as pets.

Problem?

He means that “Stow Pet” button that exists on our screen and is clickable but can’t be key-bound.

I agree. I keep my pet stowed when doing JPs (as I’m sure everyone does) and when it pops every time you take some fall damage it’s annoying.

It would be good to have a keybind for stow pet, since if you have ’Zephyr’s Speed’, you’ll gain quickness as soon as the pet reappears in combat. Same applies to Mighty Swap and Vigorous Training. Not a bad way to start a fight if you ask me – 3 seconds of quickness, 3 stacks of might and vigor.

So yes, +1 for a keybind on stow pet would be really nice.

OGDeadHead.8326:

It would be good to have a keybind for stow pet, since if you have ’Zephyr’s Speed’, you’ll gain quickness as soon as the pet reappears in combat. Same applies to Mighty Swap and Vigorous Training. Not a bad way to start a fight if you ask me – 3 seconds of quickness, 3 stacks of might and vigor.

So yes, +1 for a keybind on stow pet would be really nice.

Bingo! We have a winner

Hehe!

Aye, a potential 12 seconds of quickness when entering combat is pretty kitten nice (zephyr’s speed x2 + quickening zephyr).

OGDeadHead.8326:

Hehe!

Aye, a potential 12 seconds of quickness when entering combat is pretty kitten nice (zephyr’s speed x2 + quickening zephyr).

You don’t need a keybind for that to work. I’ve been running a shortbow sword/warhorn zerker beastmaster in wvw, and worked like a charm. You just click it when you’re out of combat. Shouldn’t be a problem since you’re…. out of combat. Coming out of water? Just click it. I got used to it now, so even if a keybind would be introduced I probably wouldn’t use it.

nagymbear.5280:

OGDeadHead.8326:

Hehe!

Aye, a potential 12 seconds of quickness when entering combat is pretty kitten nice (zephyr’s speed x2 + quickening zephyr).

You don’t need a keybind for that to work. I’ve been running a shortbow sword/warhorn zerker beastmaster in wvw, and worked like a charm. You just click it when you’re out of combat. Shouldn’t be a problem since you’re…. out of combat. Coming out of water? Just click it. I got used to it now, so even if a keybind would be introduced I probably wouldn’t use it.

That’s true of course. It’s only a small QOL improvement. While not at all necessary, wouldn’t hurt either.

I’m guessing the reason there’s no option to bind the stow pet button (nor for switching a pet between Passive and Aggressive) is because the game is programmed in such a way that there’s up to 4 keys set aside for profession skills, and no more than that. And all 4 of the keys are already in use by more important things.

truth is they actualy dont care about it. Making anything related to the pet stow option is prety much the last of their priority. Theil get new pets out and fix the AI years before they do anything related to pet stow and thats witheout mentionning the pet itself is one of their already lesser priority. In theory dont expect any keybind to that until at least 5 year have passed.