Guild Wars 2

Some of you probably already know this, but for those who don’t try this: the next time your pet dies, use a tonic and exit out of it.

I’m pretty confidant in saying Anet didn’t intend for this, but heck – when you need that condition removal from Empathic Bond, it comes in handy.

Sweet didn’t know thanks for that

What “tonic” are you talking about? Intention? I will take anything, rather than this nothing patch that didn’t help us at all….

Before people go crazy it should be pointed out this is rather obviously an exploit. I doubt it’s a ‘banable’ exploit, but it’s an exploit none the less.

This also isn’t much different than entering/exiting water and/or breaking the surface of the water to force your pet to reset, F2 skills included. It’s an exploit too, but it’s an exploit that I (and others) reported back in BWE2, and BWE3, and just after launch, and then I gave up caring.

Basically anything, including some boss mechanics, that make your pet/ability bar to disappear will reset your pet completely.

It can also act as a permanent STOW as long you dont need to jump

I mean, I understand why the revival of pets was removed after a month the game was released. It was really cumbersome to revive pets at a snails pace during combat, unless you were accompanied by a zerg who constantly mashes the F key.

Truth is it’s not only tonics, but pretty much what Unspecified already stated; using Spicy Pumpkin Cookies, for example, will refresh your pet too.

I guess I’m guilty for using this exploit, but I’ll be honest – when I do fractals 40 with my guild the last thing I want to be is a liability to my fellow teammates. Rangers are a handicapped already with their low DPS, lack of variety on stun breakers, broken traitlines… need I say more? I hate it when my pet instagibs by Agony, consequentially reducing my DPS by 30% – and there’s literally nothing I can do about it. Until now, that is.

@diamond: I agree with you. However, using these tricks allows people to think that nothing is wrong with pet health, because look, there’s all these rangers that never have a problem with pet health. Moreover, it will increase the already bad image of rangers that the bots gave us.

So in the long run, using these unintended mechanics hurt us more than people realize.