Anet, thanks for finally fixing this CLASS MECHANIC breakage from a month ago.
And I appreciate it. But you know… something like this that really impacts a core mechanism like a ranger’s pets not being able to be set to avoid combat should not take a month to fix. In all areas of the game – WvW, dungeons, fractals, (open world pve), sPvP, etc.. rangers were playing handicapped for far too long. And although the communication from Anet to the ranger community was there, it was slow and not as continuous as one would have liked to have had it.
Hopefully, in the future, when breakage of this magnitude happens, we’ll get faster and more continuous communication and a quicker fix than a month.
But, again, thanks! 
-Sincerely,
What you describe isn’t a bug imo, most F2 are damage abilities, it makes sense that the pet would continue auto attacking and using its other skills after it executes F2. The way you seem to want it would be the pet just executing the F2 regardless if it’s a damage or buffing ability and then returning to you. For most of the damage abilities (and those are the majority) that’s just a waste of pets’ and your time. If it’s already in range to use an F2 on a target it might as well continue attacking it.
If the pet is on “Avoid Combat” then sending it in to attack after using one of it’s skills contradicts the term ‘avoid combat’. If I decide to manually press “F1” (Attack) then yes, I expect the pet to charge in. But the rest of the time when it is on ‘avoid combat’ it should do exactly that, avoid combat.
Because something has been ignored since release, I classify it as a ‘bug’ now as that is the only way to get enough attention to get this resolved!
Anet, thanks for finally fixing this CLASS MECHANIC breakage from a month ago.
And I appreciate it. But you know… something like this that really impacts a core mechanism like a ranger’s pets not being able to be set to avoid combat should not take a month to fix. In all areas of the game – WvW, dungeons, fractals, (open world pve), sPvP, etc.. rangers were playing handicapped for far too long. And although the communication from Anet to the ranger community was there, it was slow and not as continuous as one would have liked to have had it.
Hopefully, in the future, when breakage of this magnitude happens, we’ll get faster and more continuous communication and a quicker fix than a month.
But, again, thanks!
-Sincerely,
Exactly!!
And if it took a month to fix, they had the chance to impliment some other much-needed changes for the pets.
Simple things like being able to dismiss your pet in combat. And not forcing the pet to attack when it’s on “avoid combat” and you use it’s “F2” utility skill!
This is just a reminder that those ‘bugs’ are still overlooked.
(edited by Rentapest.6503)