Guild Wars 2

so we have had a lot of posts about favorite tank pets. what is your favorite ranged damage pet?

I love cave spider as far as ranged pets go. Combined with a few traits this F2 ability recharges 20% faster, applies cripple(trait), weakness, vulnerability(with additional vulnerability from opening strike), lasts for 2 hits, and has 50% longer condition duration.

I love skill synergy and maximizing affects like this. I can’t wait to hear what other people do with theirs! ^.^

There are really only two pet families capable of ranged attacks: spiders and devourers. That narrows down the list quite a bit.

I like the jungle spider, personally. A stun, an immobilize, and a poison combo field. What’s not to love?

Carrion devourer would be my second choice.

Appearence-wise, I like the Spiders better. Skill-wise, I’d probably lean towards the Devourers. While the Spiders’ immobilize is great for a ranged pet and they do good damage with their basic, I’m not a fan of their style of F2 (not that they’re ineffective, but its boring that they don’t even really have an actual attack for an F2, just a little buff) and the poison field doesn’t last long enough to actually use and has major accuracy problems. I like the Devourers’ ability to poison with basic attacks, and the tunnel escape is also pretty nice. Their F2’s are cool as well.

I guess overall, picking one specific ranged pet… I’d go with the Whiptail Devourer. Looks the coolest of the devourers with all the skills associated with the group, and the F2 is nice, 6 stacks of bleed. Looking forward to the point when I can spec the “Pets do extra condition damage” perk with that one.

EDIT: Oh, one nice thing about the spiders though is they seem to have longer range. Against something like the Champion Giant that spawns in the 17-25 Charr / Norn area, they’re better at staying out of range and not getting killed.

Black Widow !!!

Brown Bear, because of F2 ability.
Black Widow for DPS and conditions.

Jatari Thundercloud.3794:

Black Widow !!!

Black Widow has the same skill set as a Jungle Spider (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Spider) – so you only need that one because it looks good.

It says the vitality of a Black Widow is less than Jungle Spider but I imagine that would be a mistake in the wiki.

I personally I like using:

- Lashtail devourer: decent auto attack and F2 dmg, evade (retreat) and a knockback for melee
- Jungle spider: 2s stun on F2, 3s immobilize, poison cloud

dzeRnumbrd.6129:

It says the vitality of a Black Widow is less than Jungle Spider but I imagine that would be a mistake in the wiki.

It isn’t. It is a HoM pet reward from GW2 which they made have lesser stat points for no reason. Since they have the same skill set it basically says “Hey, thanks for playing GW1 so much, here is an drastically inferior pet with the same skills as a different one:)”. Which doesn’t even give us unique pet skins, just unless pets.