Guild Wars 2

The Vinewrath fight in Silverwastes usually splits up melee at south, reflect at mid, and ranged at north. Most rangers are using bows for this fight so end up at north.

The boss at north is Champion Morderm Dark Wing. At certain times in this fight, he’ll run to the bottom of the room, the floor will shimmer, followed by an attack which deals massive damage which pretty much insta-kills any player or pet. The only way to avoid it is to destroy one of the flowers to make it bloom, then jump on top of the flower. That’s fine for the ranger, but your pet can’t jump up there.

My pet somehow survived one of these attacks, and I’ve been trying to reproduce it ever since. I think I figured it out. If you hit F3 to call the pet back just as this attack hits, the pet will only take about half its hp in damage and will live. I’ve only been able to test it 3 times. I spammed F3, and the pet survived each time.

I’m not sure if it’s the spamming of F3 which reduces the damage the pet takes, or if the pet just has to be moving back towards you at the moment the attack hits (so you only need to hit F3 once).

I usually use a drake in that fight and it survives the full attack, or if I have SoS available I pop it, so I rarely have my pet dead in that fight.
I never tried the F3 thing, I may try it someday but since I’m melee, most of the time I fight Troll in the south.

I actually encountered the same thing. I used F3 and the pet took no damage, but I was unable to reproduce it since then. I’ll try spamming it next time since I usually park at north lane. Cheers for the info, mate!

I don’t think I’ve ever done this fight with my Ranger, but it seems to me that if you just switched pets and put them on passive (or used a ranged pet) while you were standing on the flower, your pet would also stay up there and survive.

Then again, that’s just theory. Now I kind of want to go test it…

We shouldn’t have to be doing anything more then any other player in that map. This is exactly the sort of damage that should be tagged- by a tag recognizable by ranger and necro pets as simply not existing. It’s not in the slightest bit fair that something that is supposed to represent a % of our damage thus making our damage numbers lowers without it on average is still being damaged by this crud at all- they should be as immune to one-shot boss mechanics as the weapons held by the other classes.

In other words- if you the player have moved your toon out of harms way for these special effect kills- then the pet should be too.

Recall should at the very least stow the pet for the time that the effect is happening.

Electro.4173:

it seems to me that if you just switched pets and put them on passive (or used a ranged pet) while you were standing on the flower, your pet would also stay up there and survive.

That’s the first thing I tried, and the new pet appeared on the ground under the flower. I didn’t test it extensively so maybe there’s a way to get it to appear on the flower.

Anyhow, I tried it again using a single F3 instead of spamming it. Once time the pet survived, the other time the pet died. So I dunno – maybe the F3 only protects the pet for a short while?

Next I want to see if this is some undocumented protection-like feature of F3. Maybe you can use it to reduce damage the pet takes from other big attacks.