Guild Wars 2

Why does the hunter pet health pool reset when they swap the pet in combat???

excellent question

Why do engineers skills change when they swap kits? Why do your weapon skills and cooldowns change when you swap to a different weapon?

what is this hunter you speak of?

BobbyT.7192:

what is this hunter you speak of?

Ranger player that won 200 matches.

Why they can use F skills while downed since no other class can use any skill except those on the downed bar?

Lots of questions around….but no answers, hey karl, js? Can you hear me?

Because the pet you swapped out is out of combat.

Because they are two different pets, why would they share a health pool…?

jcbroe.4329:

Why do engineers skills change when they swap kits? Why do your weapon skills and cooldowns change when you swap to a different weapon?

Though kits aren’t the engie’s class mechanic.

Back on topic, That’s why pets are better left ignored. Even though that is hard too.

Why does the pet that followed you at the opposite side of the map magically disappear when his master decide to change pet or becomes a torpedo when asked to come back making it virtually impossible to deal with it while he harass you for free?
Like seriously, there is no reason for the pet to run that fast back at the ranger, if he did or didn’t wanted the pet to follow a target to the end of the universe, he should pay the price for it unless he pet swap.

Why does those pet actually disappear and where do they come from, if it’s magic then why does the ranger only limits him/herself to 2 pets?

The list goes on.

jcbroe.4329:

Why do engineers skills change when they swap kits? Why do your weapon skills and cooldowns change when you swap to a different weapon?

Haha, what a terrible rebuttal.

DJSkittles.7196:

jcbroe.4329:

Why do engineers skills change when they swap kits? Why do your weapon skills and cooldowns change when you swap to a different weapon?

Haha, what a terrible rebuttal.

Actually that is fairly accurate.
Why does an independent pets health go to full when you remove a low HP pet? – because its a different pet
Why do the skills change when you swap kits? Because its a different bundle
Why do your weapon skills/CD’s change when you swap? Because its a different weapon

Mauricio.1932:

Why does the hunter pet health pool reset when they swap the pet in combat???

I think a better question would have been to ask something like “His pet only had 10% health when he swapped it out, after 20 seconds he brought it back out and it had full life… why!?” and the answer to that is because the pet has been out of combat for 20 seconds and has regenerated to full HP

And many rangers keep saying…oh if you want to counter us you just have to l2p and kill our pets….

yeah…sure…

lol

Archaon.6245:

And many rangers keep saying…oh if you want to counter us you just have to l2p and kill our pets….

yeah…sure…

lol

as a ranger I’ve never said that it’s a waste of time..

if you want to kill a ranger.. it’s all about cc denying heals and thinking on your feet..

trying to spend time killing a pet we can swap out just before it dies to stop the longer cooldown is a waste of dps…. everyone knows it..

it more about saving your burst.. grind them down wait for heal interrupt burst like hell while you know his heal is on cd..

Why is an ele’s effective health so huge?
Why is invisibility so broken?
Why can mesmers kitten out clones?

Truly these are the greatest mysteries of our time.

I played my ranger for the first time in Weeks this morning. Holy kerplunk they have boosted the nuts off it over the last few patches.

BM-Ranger is a weird build. You can compare it with 2 npcs, one makes dmg and the other one evade,dodge and heal himself up. Nearly as tanky as a ele but far more dmg (through conditions) compared to its sustain. I can accept it just because a ranger has absolutely no support for other teammates (besides spirit-rezz / roots)

L2P Jeez. You guys want everything easy, and you won’t rest until everything that is good in this game is nerfed and we’re all left with bad abilities and horrible class mechanics.

**So picture this scenario:
The ranger pet is 40% of the ranger’s damage, even more so if you focus beastmaster. So, the genius opponent just focuses the pet down. In less than 10 seconds, the pet has fallen to 10% health. Then the ranger swaps pet. But the pet still has 10% health!! You being the extreme pro that you are just kill the pet. Now the ranger deals no damage and loses. What a noob! haha!

For real now, the only way to effectively kill a pet is wait for the ranger to swap pet on his own. Then you’ll have 16-20 sec to kill the pet if you really want to. That will trigger a 1 minute cooldown on pet swap to his next pet. Though this is possible, i don’t recommend it as its a lot more effective to just kite the hell out of the pet.

AlexRD.7914:

L2P Jeez. You guys want everything easy, and you won’t rest until everything that is good in this game is nerfed and we’re all left with bad abilities and horrible class mechanics.

**So picture this scenario:
The ranger pet is 40% of the ranger’s damage, even more so if you focus beastmaster. So, the genius opponent just focuses the pet down. In less than 10 seconds, the pet has fallen to 10% health. Then the ranger swaps pet. But the pet still has 10% health!! You being the extreme pro that you are just kill the pet. Now the ranger deals no damage and loses. What a noob! haha!

For real now, the only way to effectively kill a pet is wait for the ranger to swap pet on his own. Then you’ll have 16-20 sec to kill the pet if you really want to. That will trigger a 1 minute cooldown on pet swap to his next pet. Though this is possible, i don’t recommend it as its a lot more effective to just kite the hell out of the pet.

Every class that is able to kill the pet in these 16-20 secs can’t hold the fight because of conditions. Even when you can manage this there’s still a ranger left with tons of def and evades.
In conclusion: Ranger is best 1v1 class, but worst teamfight class.

jcbroe.4329:

Why do engineers skills change when they swap kits? Why do your weapon skills and cooldowns change when you swap to a different weapon?

I didn´t mean that! What I was asking was why the first pet I was damaging resets the health when he swaps twice.

MiniAchilles.4617:

Because they are two different pets, why would they share a health pool…?

You did not understand my point.

Mauricio.1932:

jcbroe.4329:

Why do engineers skills change when they swap kits? Why do your weapon skills and cooldowns change when you swap to a different weapon?

I didn´t mean that! What I was asking was why the first pet I was damaging resets the health when he swaps twice.

That’s actually a fair point. But that’s more of a logic thing than anything else. Like asking where an engineers backback suddenly appears from when a kit is swapped into. Or when an elementalist summons a minion, where does it come from.

My best response (besides saying it’s like a pokeball lol) is that when a pet is swapped in combat, it goes on a cooldown. That cooldown could be thought of as a heal of sorts, where one of the action swaps which pet is active, and the other heals the now inactive pet and puts it on cooldown.

Beyond that answer, you’d have to get a devs response :/

Mauricio.1932:

MiniAchilles.4617:

Because they are two different pets, why would they share a health pool…?

You did not understand my point.

apparently everyone did, except for me.

Logically speaking it would follow that, like other AI elements in PvP, if the ranger is still in combat after swapping out a near-dead pet, that the pet should retain it’s previous HP level once being summoned back, since most pets don’t regenerate health at all unless traited, and certainly don’t do so until out of combat. This would allow for actual counter-play to the pet reliant builds and force rangers to actually use the pet wisely and keep him it on a shorter leash rather than just set it to attack and forget about it. Rangers already have the means to keep up their pets, now they just need a reason to do so.