Guild Wars 2

Summary of 171 responses:

• 95% of respondants think pets need to optional, removed or improved.
• 44% think pets should be optional or removed entirely.
• the top pet complaints in order:
  # inability to land attacks/too slow/bad AI (62%)
  # pets die too easily and/or need innate defenses (51%)
  # poor controls (31%) and lack of depth/traits/customisability (30%) about even.

So while this data is not bulletproof (by messing with cookies, you could vote multiple times), it does seem to indicate a clear consensus, which is consistent with the recurring theme of the crappiness of pets in the ranger forum.

The real question is, will Anet ever try to fix pets or make them optional? The druid in the HOT trailer had a pet but it’s not too late to change this?

original thread: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Ranger-pet-survey
survey: http://goo.gl/forms/43PhmcWDyd
results: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15P3giRBbyn2T1qVaBD4EkgswCzxUYCGZwJ5q5Wq2-x4/viewanalytics?usp=form_confirm

I’m in the very slim minority that’s never had problems with pets, but I responded that they need to be improved. Pets are a part of how the character works, and Anet has continually stated that that’s the way things will always be. With the sheer number of people complaining, there are obviously some egregious usability concerns. My playstyle only works because I’m weird about how I fight (focused on control), and everything else I’ve tried has made my pet near useless. There’s also very, very few pets that are worth using. It’s could most certainly stand to be improved.

I haven’t had too many problems with my pets, though I do fully agree that there are some virtually useless pets and that they could use a bit of an improvement.

Personally, I think the pigs would be cool if they had another option for their F2 ability. Maybe all the pets need a secondary F2? Could be interesting and offer more customization in playstyle, yea?

I’m getting a bit tired of feeling shoehorned into what pets to play to be ‘viable’ in other’s eyes. I like my bears (primarily Brown for that cleanse) and my River Drake for that bouncy lightning ball. I can’t seem to bring myself to play the DPS pets because of how tender they seem to be.

171 people out of thousands, upon thousands or Ranger players from all across the World … seems legit, that this is 100% accurate

anet should implement something like this in the game. Every week, there is a survery that anyone can answer if they want for a minor reward. That way, they would get a lot of feedback. They can even limit it to experienced players with like 500+ hours. Or limit it to unexperienced players with <200 hours to improve the “new player experience”

The downside to have a reward for doing a survey is people just click anything quickly to get the prize at the end.

It unfortunately provides very inaccurate information due to people seeing greed, rather than wanting to provide feedback to help the game overall.

Vepo.4208:

171 people out of thousands, upon thousands or Ranger players from all across the World … seems legit, that this is 100% accurate

If you knew anything about statistics… A sample of 171 in a population of only thousands would in fact be very accurate.

The biggest potential for inaccuracy would be the extent to which the population of forum readers differs from the whole population of ranger players.

171 people out of thousands, upon thousands or Ranger players from all across the World … seems legit, that this is 100% accurate

If you knew anything about statistics… A sample of 171 in a population of only thousands would in fact be very accurate.

The biggest potential for inaccuracy would be the extent to which the population of forum readers differs from the whole population of ranger players.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_%28statistics%29