Guild Wars 2

Hey guys and gals,

Several times today while playing spvp, I swapped to my second pet only to have it be already dead. I didn’t see it mentioned in the compiled list over in the bugs forum, so I’m bringing it up here. Not sure what causes it, but in one case I distinctly remember coming off of respawn and my wolf was already dead when I swapped to it about 30 seconds later.

During the course of another fight, I swapped from my raven —> wolf --> raven —> wolf, and my wolf was already dead both times. Needless to say, twice swapping to an already dead pet was EXTREMELY debilitating, and this bug is game-breaking in some sense.

Has anyone else noticed this happening? I’m going to mention it to the bug thread as well.

I had this bug for years when using my snow leopard elite. It seems to be caused by transformations. If your pet is dead and you transform the next time you use pet swap after the transformation you might get a dead pet.
With transformations I especially mean transformations which remove your pet like norn elites or what happened to others lately – using a golem in WvW.

Here are two old topics which I made long ago even with screenshots but noone cared.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Ranger-dead-pet-bug/first
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Pet-bug-dead-on-F4-1/first

i had that problem with my wolf too
but in pvp with no transformation
its pretty annoying and always in combat so i cant reproduce the problem easy for the devs

Snow, that is exactly what I’m talking about. Wish I knew what was causing it!

If this happens even without transformations thats even worse than I thought. They will have to include some checks when switching pets to make sure the pet has 100% life. That would be the easiest fix if its hard to find the cause.

Happened to me yesterday while PvPing, twice. No transformation involved.