Guild Wars 2

I’m new to ranger. Pet “guard” is really an aggressive state. They just attack everything. Why isn’t there a defensive stance that will make the pet only aggro on things that attack the player directly? It would make the the stupid animal much easier to control.

Also I wonder if Anet ever played around with diminishing aggro. Meaning that if something aggroed your pet but then went to attack something else you it would eventually fall off your pets aggro list completely. That would end some of the problems with you pet running off at the “end” of a fight.

Set your pet to passive,
Get used to attack/recall on pet.

They DO only attack things that attack you. Nothing agros the pets so if the pets are attacking it’s because something agroed you. As Justine said, if you don’t want them to attack at all then you need to set them to passive, or learn to jam F3 to get them to stop fighting and follow you. If you can make them stop before they actually hit something they won’t slow you down while you’re moving.