Guild Wars 2

Sorry if you already know about this, but after posting it on a Thief thread, someone mentioned not knowing about it before. Figured I’d post it here on the ranger forum for anyone who didn’t know this:

I am not sure if it works with all tonics as some change you back when you take damage, but I own a Cat Tonic and works just fine with it.

With the Cat Tonic/any tonic that you can take damage and not be kicked from the tonic to your regular form…you effectively perma stow your pet for dungeon skips. While you are in the other form, your pet disappears and will only show up when you press the 6 key to revert back to your original form. You can be stealthed while in this form as well, so you can easily do the skips without your pet showing up when you take falling damage/whatever.

Warning, be careful when taking too much damage as the tonic locks you out of skills! I know 100% that the Cat Tonic works while in combat as well, so I can get out of the Tonic form, heal and go back into it to stow my pet again. I don’t know about the other tonics, maybe someone who has others can test it?

Aye, useful to know, but I’ve never found it necessary.

When Passive works, if you just put your pet on passive it won’t put you in combat if it gets hit.

If you are worried about pet pathing, use swap pet. You’re usually only worried about that pathing when avoiding combat anyways so you have practically no cooldown on pet swap in those instances.