Guild Wars 2

I recently came back to the game so I’m not sure if this is intended but if you use chilling whirl on one pet and then switch to the other the skill shares the skill cooldown. Hopefully this is a bug because it was frustrating to find that the time invested for the HoM rewards was negated by the fact that you can basically get the same pet without it.

HoM pets are merely skins for pets already in the game. Purely cosmetic. Just like the armor and weapons. =)

So that means although I can equip two separate pets they share 1 skill? That would be like having my skills go on cooldown before I can use them because there is another ranger in my party using the same weapon.

I know it’s next to impossible to get an official response on this forum but can I just get a “yes” or “no” on if this is intended?

I’m not sure if it is intentional or not, but let me provide a different comparison.
When you and another Ranger in the party are using a Shortbow, your skills don’t go on cooldown because they use them. However, if you use two Shortbows, using skills on one puts the skills on your other shortbow on cooldown. I assume these specific pets follow that same trend.

Also to keep in mind is that if you could use both at the same time, that would be a build that nobody could run unless they spent real money on it, which is something they are trying to avoid. All HoM rewards are cosmetic.

I “think” they fixed this for the other HoM pets, but as I don’t own GW1 and thus don’t have access to them I can’t really test it one way or another. The Wiki doesn’t list any of the cooldowns being shared except the Black Widow being shared with the Jungle Spider in PvP specifically. But it doesn’t say the Jellyfish share their cooldowns either, so wiki could just be missing that info.

Do you have the other pets you could test this out with? All of the HoM pets are “clones” of other pets (White Raven > Raven, Black Widow > Jungle Spider, Black Moa > White Moa) so it should be easy to test whether they all share cooldowns or whether its just the Jellyfish.

Electro.4173:

I “think” they fixed this for the other HoM pets, but as I don’t own GW1 and thus don’t have access to them I can’t really test it one way or another. The Wiki doesn’t list any of the cooldowns being shared except the Black Widow being shared with the Jungle Spider in PvP specifically. But it doesn’t say the Jellyfish share their cooldowns either, so wiki could just be missing that info.

Do you have the other pets you could test this out with? All of the HoM pets are “clones” of other pets (White Raven > Raven, Black Widow > Jungle Spider, Black Moa > White Moa) so it should be easy to test whether they all share cooldowns or whether its just the Jellyfish.

Checked it out. It is happening with all the HoM pets.

Thanks Tyler Chapman, glad to see someone is watching.

I’d like to see that unfixed. Why ?

Simple, HoM pets were only meant to give you style changes. Since you arenow able to equip “the same pet” twice, it gives you a functional advantage normal users can’t do.

Nretep.2564:

I’d like to see that unfixed. Why ?

Simple, HoM pets were only meant to give you style changes. Since you arenow able to equip “the same pet” twice, it gives you a functional advantage normal users can’t do.

Have you tried using the ranger F2 skills? It’s really some huge advantage when the skills take about 3 or 4 seconds to activate. Half the time they go on cooldown without ever doing anything.

When the game first came out, the HoM pets had their own timers.

About 6-9 months ago when there was a big pet patch, the HoM pets started sharing timers with the pet that they were reskinned from.

We thought that was a deliberate change at the time…so that people with HoM pets couldn’t have “2 of the same” pet active…(not that apart from the Jellyfish there was any real advantage to having 2 of the same skill sets on pets).