I think having a better pet system is what most rangers are seeking right now. In all honesty, I don’t think petty changes like reveal on Sic’ em is what we were looking for. Instead, we should focus on what really needs to be improved on.
So we have asked for more control over our pets multiple times and Anet has rejected the idea every single time, claiming that the learning curve is too great for new players. I think that is untrue. If new players can’t handle an F-skill bar thats a little more complicated than the one we have right now, what do they have to lose? Their pets will still operate the same way as of now and other players will also have the option to reach a higher skill-cap. Win-win.
We also need to push for better scaling of stats. A large chunk of damage comes from our pet and our direct damage scales badly to our power stat, especially with the ascended gears being rolled out. The stats on those gears do not affect our pets. Why do you think apothecary BM builds got popularised so well? Because those stats scale towards rangers the same way they scale for other classes, thus, having the least disadvantage stat-wise. Please find a way to balance this issue rangers are experiencing.
There are also many other changes I’d like to see in rangers, but I guess we’ll take it one step at a time and start with the ranger core mechanics. It would also be wonderful if we could get some response from the Devs since the ranger community have been mostly upset about the recent changes. Thanks~
specially when you try to use the special ability and it doesnt feel like doing it, no matter how many times you spam it, or then it uses the ability but stops midway through, or when you tell it to attack something and it doesnt, or when for example with the drakes cone special attacks you tell it to use the attack and it just some how turns around and points mouth towards empty space with no mobs….. >.>
Wut?! Missleading title… thought the “please work on it” was directed to the player mentality, instead it’s the same getting old banging on the wall.
“I can’t do it and can’t make this work therefor THEY must redo the whole thing to accomodate my needs and whims”
Seriously it’s getting very old An, luckly the course of decisions are in good hands i mean i’ve seen people giving the idea of removing the pet, the OP wants even more control… i sure hope they don’t pay too much attention to forums.
I just hope these “suggestions” And other times outright “demands” never get passed the “letters to Santa” category.
I’ll be home at 6:30ish Greenwich meantime, you have the Gamertag, let’s see if my twitchy fingers match the reasoning of my ideas, but just an FYI, i won’t be comparing genitalia size or spit distance, that’s where i draw the line.
In fact let’s make this an open invitation. Not just SPVP but Pve and WvW, i’ll even mark my pet so you can see how many times it dies and how i work with him.
Edit: also, bring fraps and we’ll be widening the audience, my vintage pc barely runs gw2 so thanks in advance.
“Pets need to be removed/perma-stowed/bound to BM”
“We need more control over the pet”
Go figure.
I don’t see the issue, or the irony.
Improve pet – Attacks while moving, better AoE resistance, removed delay from F2 skills, pet health bar by the Rangers, and more variety of pet personalization (colors, armors, things that make it look unique).
Perma stow pet – While pet is stowed the Ranger get a small percentage of stats from the pet, a small increase in dps power, maybe a new F2 skill to compensate from not having a pet out.
Make it so you cant stow pet in combat, and can stow pet if both are on cooldown.
I don’t see why these two ideas can co-exist. They compliment each other, as well as open doors to more builds.
“Pets need to be removed/perma-stowed/bound to BM”
“We need more control over the pet”
Go figure.
I don’t see the issue, or the irony.
Improve pet – Attacks while moving, better AoE resistance, removed delay from F2 skills, pet health bar by the Rangers, and more variety of pet personalization (colors, armors, things that make it look unique).
Perma stow pet – While pet is stowed the Ranger get a small percentage of stats from the pet, a small increase in dps power, maybe a new F2 skill to compensate from not having a pet out.
Make it so you cant stow pet in combat, and can stow pet if both are on cooldown.
I don’t see why these two ideas can co-exist. They compliment each other, as well as open doors to more builds.
The whole skill tree would need to be redesigned. That being said, I think people would be less against pets if they worked a little better. I for one love the pets. I just wish there was more control over them. For example F2 working. Also, being able to choose my F2. If I could have my fern hound auto cast its heal, and give me control over the leap…I would be so happy.
The other issue is pets should scale off the masters stats. That way you could solve this ascended crisis.
Its not overly complicated.
I can understand how people want to remove the pet….but thats not likely.
It’s quite simple… when I push F2, .5 seconds later my dog should howl.
I could ignore the fact that the shouts suck, the pet can’t hit a moving target, my pet is often dead within 10 seconds even when left on passive from nothing but stray AE that didn’t even target the pet in the first place, that my damage is reduced by 25-40% just because my pet exists, so many traits exist that only impact the pet, etc. I could ignore all of this if the F2 ability at least worked!
I don’t know why they won’t let you perma stow your pet , in big fights all it does is insta – die. I also would love to see ranger’s be able to control there traps more so we could pop them ourselves instead of waiting for someone to set them off.
I don’t know why they won’t let you perma stow your pet , in big fights all it does is insta – die. I also would love to see ranger’s be able to control there traps more so we could pop them ourselves instead of waiting for someone to set them off.
Or make them like thiefs shadow traps. When you activate theifs shadow trap before someone goes over it, it grants you regeneration. Maybe not exactly like that. But say you place fire trap, and you activate it, it makes your next 3 hits grant burning. You place frost trap, your next three grant freezing., etc.
Wut?! Missleading title… thought the “please work on it” was directed to the player mentality, instead it’s the same getting old banging on the wall.
“I can’t do it and can’t make this work therefor THEY must redo the whole thing to accomodate my needs and whims”
Seriously it’s getting very old An, luckly the course of decisions are in good hands i mean i’ve seen people giving the idea of removing the pet, the OP wants even more control… i sure hope they don’t pay too much attention to forums.
I just hope these “suggestions” And other times outright “demands” never get passed the “letters to Santa” category.
give pet the ability to scale damage with ranger power, youl all soon run cripple and lockdown trust me… None of you would rage against the pet AI if deadly damage via pet was viable with a few stunlock and cripple.
Crystal Desert, The Darknest Community P.E.T.A.
BM: I want to present you my lovely jingle bear mia
If pet had voices: Mommy, I did it! :3
If a business admits about 18% of it’s users (in this case Rangers) are not functioning correctly and they are not going to fix it, all the other issues in this forum become pointless.
This needs to be the single driving issue for Rangers. Literally every thread in this forum should be about fixing the Pet Mechanic. Even if we ignore our pets, stow as often as possible, don’t trait into them, whatever, it is still the only significant issue.
If we cannot use this forum to succeed in obtaining equal gameplay with the other classes, then why are we here?
