Guild Wars 2

I’ve just started practicing around with a ranger in unranked pvp (will be here a while) and have a question regarding the usage of “allie’s aid”. Say there’s an ally who’s downed, I don’t know, 1000 units away from me. How do I make this skill work? Do I just target him and then my pet stops whatever he’s doing and teleports to the ally? Do I have to press the revive key (and furthermore will it even show up at that range?) And can I let my pet do the work while I keep attacking and moving about? I haven’t really seen it used in pvp, I guess because my ally’s have died close enough to me that I help revive them myself. Anyway an explanation of how to “use it” from a neophyte’s perspective would be helpful. Thanks!

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I’ve just started practicing around with a ranger in unranked pvp (will be here a while) and have a question regarding the usage of “allie’s aid”. Say there’s an ally who’s downed, I don’t know, 1000 units away from me. How do I make this skill work? Do I just target him and then my pet stops whatever he’s doing and teleports to the ally? Do I have to press the revive key (and furthermore will it even show up at that range?) And can I let my pet do the work while I keep attacking and moving about? I haven’t really seen it used in pvp, I guess because my ally’s have died close enough to me that I help revive them myself. Anyway an explanation of how to “use it” from a neophyte’s perspective would be helpful. Thanks!

Allies aid and Search and Rescue (The shout) are different.

They only share the same name.

Allies Aid needs you to manually (Pressing F) res a downed a body, doing so will let you res the body with your pet hence it will be doubled in speed.

Search and Rescue (The shout) ports the downed to you, and resses the body with your pet.

Trait is no port, shout is port.

It also works best if you first get to your ally, swap pet, and start revive. This gives a really fast revive, even under moderate pressure.

What StickerHappy said, but I’d like to add I once managed to proc Allies’ Aid without triggering Search and Rescue on the player I tried to rez.
What happened was I started to rez an ally who was nearly up, and just as I pressed the rez button they got up. I heard the shout proc but there was no one to rez for the pet. So few seconds later when another ally went down they instantly ported to me and the pet was ressing them.

So you can port players from range with Allies’ Aid, it will just probably never happen as the conditions for it need to be just right.