Guild Wars 2

I seem to be having a problem with this. Most of the time when I command my brown bear to use Shake it Off while I’m in combat, the skill fails to activate and instead goes on a 5 second cool down. Yesterday this happened 6 times in a row in WvW attempting to remove a large stack of bleeding. In WvW, I keep my pets on passive so they’re not running off. The pet was standing next to me and not attacking while this was happening.

Is there a known cause for this, or is it just random?

This is a glitch that has started recently. I’ve had the same thing happen with other pets F2 skills.

In the last week my Jaguar has not failed to stealth or Wolf to fear.

I wonder what other pets might be affected.

It is totally random. Sometimes, I deselect a target, call my pet, hit F2 (say I want a wolf fear beside me while my allies and I run), and the pet turns back around to bite an opponent not only completely ignoring the command to perform the F2, but also not casting it where it was needed (or even casting it at all). Other times if you move ever so slightly before or after pressing the F2, the pet will cancel itself and the F2 will be placed on a 3-5s cd (can’t remember the exact number), so you must stand completely still and have no recent targets to guarantee the F2 activates when chosen. Pet’s like jaguar have the (near) instant cast F2 skills that can’t be easily cancelled by the above mentioned methods, but it does happen on occasion if you pay attention. Note I said near instant cast. It appears it isn’t instant cast as the jaguar always stops for a very brief period of time when the F2 is pressed, cancelling any attempts to attack as well.

Edit: Forgot to mention that hitting the F2 skill more than once in about half a second will lead to it being placed on the 3-5s cd if it didn’t activate in that period.

Jaguar f2 seems to work reliably still. The wolf fear not going off has been getting me killed a bunch in wvw.

There was another post on pet f2’s being less reliable since the last patch.

Its not a new thing. It’s been around since launch.

That usually happens (to me) in zerg warfare when my bear gets interupted by crowd control.

i think skills that don’t use a target are unreliable to use while the pet is moving

lupercaleb.6041:

i think skills that don’t use a target are unreliable to use while the pet is moving

This is an issue I have with pigs and moas as well as bears. Walking away interupts the pet (since pet is leashed to you) initiating a soft cooldown. This must be a bug.

I’ve been having this issue as well. Imo, it has been more pronounced since the last update.

My fern hound also can’t seem to perform f2 while I’m moving. I have to literally stop to use it. It sucks when you’re running with a large group and end up missing all the speed buffs.

This has been a problem since launch. Pet skills are just unresponsive in general with the ones that work being the exception.

I cant count how many times I need to press F2 to get my Drake to use its breath attack. I usually consider myself lucky if the Drake is then able to hit a target standing still without looking in the opposite direction. I suppose any pet in general has this problem, though. To get the pet to use F2 you need to press the button multiple times or almost hold it for a full second then release the button.

I have had times where moving caused the pet to interrupt itself and put the skill on full cooldown as well.

Its alright, though. Rangers arent that reliant on pets.