Guild Wars 2

I noticed that the bear pets of the ranger not really use their special attacks.
The second skill “bite” which gives the bear some regneration is used really seldom and the third skill “Defy Pain” isn’t used at all.

I let a bear fight a Veteran Reef Rider solo which takes some times as you can guess.
The “Bite” was only used once during that ~5 minute fight and the “Defy Pain” wasn’t used a single time.

Looks a bit broken to me.

I believe that defy pain requires that you press the corresponding ‘Fx’ button on your keyboard in order for it to be used by the pet.

Nah, that’s not the F2 skill.
For brown bear that would be “Shake It Off”.

“Defy Pain” is one of the skills "Common to the bear family ": https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Juvenile_Brown_Bear

Didn’t all the pet special attacks after the first one get nerfed out quite a while back? I can’t remember the last time any of my pets used one over the past 18 months and the Fx buttons don’t work now beyond F1.

Well, if I compare it to the felines my jaguar uses the “Maul” skill after like 5 seconds and causes bleeding at the enemy and after 5 – 10 auto attacks it also uses “Bite”. Same for the spiders. You often see the poison fields. But the bears really seem bugged as they rarely use their 2nd skill and like never the 3rd.