Guild Wars 2

Most of the time if I’m using the f3 command it’s because I see some big hit coming that I would rather my pet didn’t attempt to face-tank. Problem is very often he doesn’t get out of the way nearly fast enough and gets smacked anyhow. GW2 isn’t a game about straight up soaking hits, its about active evasion…which pets fail at. Adding a .5-.75 second non-removable evasion buff (with a reasonable cool down of course) would really help.

It would help in PvP too. Quickly press f3-f1 and the pet will ‘dodge’ toward an enemy like a player can. No more getting crushed by every stray aoe or getting gunned down long before they reach that bunkered up engi.

Best part is it requires virtually 0 work so even anet’s devs can handle it! Maybe…

That’s actually a really decent idea.

F3 should be auto dodge out of combat.

That’s a great idea. I’ve always wondered why fortifying bond bothered sharing vigor with pets, this could actually make it mean something,

We still can’t have our pets evade when we dodge so I wouldn’t hold my breath if I were you.

Well, this is actually a very smart idea! Grant pet a 1~1.5 sec evade period on F3 sounds perfectly reasonable.

It would be really lovely for the pet to dodge, but could the devs handle such a task?
I mean, it will probably take the pet 3-20 seconds to respond, or just fail, much like the f2.

The idea sounds great, this would allow us to actively allow our pets to dodge the said above things, as well as any Thief using dagger offhand for CnD. No more free stealth from ranger pets…

This has been suggested many times before, hopefully Anet will implement something – someday.
Adding a x seconds evasion to F3 with an icd of x seconds would probably go a long way to help getting pets out of harmful situations.

This sounds very reasonable, i wonder how much coding hours this would require though…

Edit: i’m all about active gameplay. Thus in my opinion the 71% buff on the wrong direction. I woudn’t hesitate to revert back the hp and up with this idea.

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This sounds very reasonable, i wonder how much coding hours this would require though…

Edit: i’m all about active gameplay. Thus in my opinion the 71% buff on the wrong direction. I woudn’t hesitate to revert back the hp and up with this idea.

If they only implemented this as an evasive buff to pets, I can’t see how this would be so hard to code for the guys at Anet. It’s not like it would need a new animation or anything really.

Why so you can hit f3, and your pet will dodge 5 seconds later?