Guild Wars 2

If your pet has a condition.

Change the subject line to “Your HUD should tell you…” and you’d be on to something.

OP wants ranger to be even more kitten

Is this a troll thread?

Clearly someone wasted their conditions on a Ranger’s pet. I haven’t done much pvp in this game but I have done plenty in GW1 and WoW. Mind you I am still leveling my ranger but as it is now, I am easier to take out than my fern hound is.

Which is why the pet is usually ignored. Kill the pet and ranger keeps on going, eventually bringing out the other one. Kill (not just down) the ranger and they are both gone.

Maybe it’s different with this game, I don’t know. I know that in this game the pet is about 40% of the ranger’s damage output. So I can see that being a decent reason except that you would have to take out their pet in less time than it takes for the swap CD to run out.

Except that in GW1 you actually had to place pet skills among your 8 skill limit. You needed one just to have the pet leaving you with 7 to mix and match accordingly. If someone was BM heavy in GW1, that was a very good reason to take out the pet. Yet, my pet was most often ignored.

Can’t your pet still die if they are swapped out with conditions?

Granted, maybe I was just two late, but the times I swapped out my pets in SE against the first boss in path 3, when they have the ton of bleeds on them, they still had HP before swapping but the cooldown on swap ended up being the long one.

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I would also like to add a mesmer turned my raven into a moa yesterday, it was a good technique cause I had to stop everything I was doing and roll around my livingroom floor laughing.

Daecollo.9578:

If your pet has a condition.

Would you mind at least stating why you think this?
Otherwise we might as well just ignore this and move along to more productive discussions.

Sebrent.3625:

Daecollo.9578:

If your pet has a condition.

Would you mind at least stating why you think this?
Otherwise we might as well just ignore this and move along to more productive discussions.

Because when you switch pets, it cures there conditions.

Daecollo.9578:

Sebrent.3625:

Daecollo.9578:

If your pet has a condition.

Would you mind at least stating why you think this?
Otherwise we might as well just ignore this and move along to more productive discussions.

Because when you switch pets, it cures there conditions.

Okay, now we’re at least starting with something.
Why is this a problem? If I have two pets, let’s say a Wolf and a Alpine Wolf (common for me) and the Wolf is out and you load him up with conditions, then I have to swap him out and now have the Alpine Wolf. You have just denied me an AOE fear.

If I had pets from different families, say a dog and a drake, you would have denied me the dog autocasts as well.

Additionally, without traits, after i swap my pet out, you have 20 seconds to kill the other pet. If you do that, you have now put my pet swap on a 60 second cooldown. With traits it’s 15 and 40? seconds respectively

Daecollo.9578:

Sebrent.3625:

Daecollo.9578:

If your pet has a condition.

Would you mind at least stating why you think this?
Otherwise we might as well just ignore this and move along to more productive discussions.

Because when you switch pets, it cures there conditions.

Well what about mesmers? Why should they get to freely destroy and recreate their illusions while they have conditions? I’m curious why you decided to pick on Ranger but not Mesmer or maybe even Guardian. You’d think allowing pet swap to heal up your pet would be the least Ranger could get considering they are the class with pets that are the least disposable and therefore most vulnerable to conditions.

I have to know firstly do you understand how pet mechanics work?

Next were playing or fighting rangers which prompted you to start this?

Swapping pets is typically not a threat because it is most effective to kill the ranger first unless the the pet is extremly squishy and you are not. Also with the quickness nerf swapping pets is even less threatening, plus pets can be pretty easily kited around.

I don’t think rangers need a nerf especially for their pets. Now if you could explain in greater depth why you feel this change is necessary it would help.