Guild Wars 2

Try to forgive me for bad wording.

Suggestions for possible Quality of Life (QoL) changes concerning pets in WvW and sPvP.

Dead pets following the ranger

“The Problem”
Currently a dead pet is following the ranger on every step and is still visible for enemies. We as rangers have no control over the pet in this state (well it’s dead) and we can’t use stealth properly, because the pet is giving our position away.
Especially in WvW I’m in this situation a lot, that my pet is hit with cc and dies, it gets killed by a thief (this does happen quit a lot actually) or I accidentally send it into the fray (the passive-mode-bug drove me crazy a few weeks ago).

“Possible Solution(s)”
1. Should a pet die in combat let it stay down where it died (same thing that happens with a player). With one difference: the pet can’t be revived physically it will just lay on the ground with no interactions.
2. Maybe it is possible to use the “stow”-function for this. Pet is invisible but the pet-commands are still visible to swap to the second pet. (not sure if I could explain what I’m having in mind)

“Discussion”
We all know that it is not only hard to control the pet “perfectly” but pretty much impossible with all the different issues concerning ai/pathing/… . I have to admit that it is somewhat a learn to play (l2p) issue but it is often enough out of our control to keep the pet alive. A ranger is getting punished enough for letting his/her pet die (less damage, crowd-control, boons, …) and shouldn’t be punished even more.

Time it takes for pet to revive out of combat (ooc)

“The Problem”
If a pet dies in fight and the ranger goes out of combat, it takes a “huge” amount of time to passively heal up the pet to full until it’s “alive” again.
We can circumvent this by using the stop-option to stow the pet and call it out again or switch pets (if not on cooldown). With this we are able to revive the pet and have it full health “instantly”.
In my opinion this is pretty tiresome.

“The Solution(s)”
1. After getting out of combat the pet should instantly be alive at 100% health.

“Discussion”
Pressing “stow” and “un-stow” after a fight and a dead pet is pretty much a routine for every ranger. It would be nice to “not have to do this anymore”.

Thanks for reading and please keep the discussion civil.

Edit1:
Added the physicall revive section (thanks to Sebrent) to prevent confusion.

Agreed. When the pet dies, it should be dead on the floor, like so-

As long as it doesn’t require me to physically rez the pet like a player like we used to have to do … great.

Sebrent.3625:

As long as it doesn’t require me to physically rez the pet like a player like we used to have to do … great.

Thanks for pointing that out. I will add this into the original post to prevent confusion.
Of course I’m not suggesting to change the revive ability back to how it once was.

You know what else would solve your problem? Perma-stow.

Yea…I noticed in the heat of a major zone event last night that my “dead” bear was limping along beside me. I tend to run open world stuff with a bear and a spider which suits my play style well. Occasionally, I’ll swap out for wolf and spider or a bird…just depends on my mood.

I also look around to see if other rangers are using different pets so that we don’t have a field of bears out there…lol that is funny.

Pffft … have a field of bears out there … it will make it look like the farm bots have resurfaced in-game that used to be all over the place when the game released :-p