Guild Wars 2

I would like to see an option that doesn’t involve pets all the time. In other words give us some of the extra power/hit points our pet have to our weapons/traits when our pet is stowed!!! Maybe add additional combat spirit pets that last a certain duration and can do certain attacks or aoe damage depending on there ability/traits that can’t be killed during combat. Maybe exclusively just for WvWvW as a badge perk or something.

As it stands now and we all know pets die in seconds in WvWvW and that’s where most of the action is these days. I like playing my ranger and currently use a trap build and only use pets for occasional buffs and condition removal because this is all it’s reliable for currently in WvWvW.

I see a lot of potential and possibilities with the ranger class if the dev team is willing to renegotiate it’s current state. Other classes just have to many utility/counters to what we have at our disposal currently.

One more thing, please consider increasing trap size from 50% traited to 75% and give us an additional knockdown/knockback trap. Thanks!

Robert Hrouda on perma-stow:

There have been some calls for perma-stowed pets, and while I have said this in other areas I will say it again here. I don’t think we will let you perma-stow pets – the main reason being we want the player to be interacting with the pet, and the pet to be part of the identity of the player. The role of ranger is to to have a pet in our game, and with that comes a bit of extra micromanagement that comes with the package. Right now the micromanage is difficult and more tools are desired, and I honestly feel that once we make micromanaging pets easier, more responsive, and better in general that players won’t mind that they don’t have perma-stow capabilities.

Thanks for the link!