Guild Wars 2

I have tried to go beastmaster routes with traits and skills, but as it is, it always fails due to the bugs with pets.

The F2 ability doesn’t work half the time. I mean I have to hold it, mash it, hit it with a hammer, hit it a million times, and then it won’t work, and sometimes it’ll just go on cool down, and then sometimes it works. Because of F2 not working appropriately, you cannot make a viable Ranger build in pvp incorperating pets, and even in pve it is very difficult. Please fix this soon. It was my understanding that hitting F2 was supposed to que up the pet’s next action to be his F2 ability.

The targeting is sometimes bugged, especially with flying pets, but I will hit F1(normally in a fight) and he will not go to attack a target or he will just keep attacking the target he’s on.

This isn’t a bug, a lot more of an annoyance, but can players prioritize other players when rezzing, or remove the quick F command to rez pets and have to click them and target them to rez them? There have been many times I meant to quickly rez a teammate up, but couldn’t cause pet was in the way, and we both ended up dying because of the time it took to deal with my stupid pet in the way while I could have saved him and we were both fighting and surviving.

If these three things could get fixed, then Ranger Beastmaster build would be viable and I think seen in competitive play.

If you read the patch notes for 8 or 9 sept (not entirely sure which), you will find that these issues should be resolved now.

- The pet can no longer be ressed by using F
- The pet does it’s F2 skill ‘the moment’ you tell it too.

The other issue, with targetting using F1 i am not sure about, if it’s still a problem i would suggest reporting it as a single issue, esp. if it is only a problem on certain foes…

Arghore.8340:

If you read the patch notes for 8 or 9 sept (not entirely sure which), you will find that these issues should be resolved now.

- The pet can no longer be ressed by using F
- The pet does it’s F2 skill ‘the moment’ you tell it too.

The patch did not fix it. It still happens.

I posted a similar thread an hour or so before this one went up. The recent patch didn’t fix anything, in fact I’m pretty sure that – at least with my Murrellow – the F2 skills worked better a couple of days ago.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Murrelow-Pet-s-F2-option-often-does-nothing/first#post38017

Well honestly I really want it fixed because I want to make a beast master build for pvp, but until it is, its impossible

This has been driving me nuts.. the F2 thing makes me scream IRL.. we died and almost died a few times today because I was so busy trying to get the jellyfish AOE to work that I didn’t realize I was being owned by risen farmers or something similar >.<

It seems that especially during combat, the F2 skill does not activate after you hit it. If its an aoe attack skill, I press F3 then F2. Works for me most of the time lol.

Arghore.8340:

If you read the patch notes for 8 or 9 sept (not entirely sure which), you will find that these issues should be resolved now.

- The pet can no longer be ressed by using F
- The pet does it’s F2 skill ‘the moment’ you tell it too.

The other issue, with targetting using F1 i am not sure about, if it’s still a problem i would suggest reporting it as a single issue, esp. if it is only a problem on certain foes…

The patch did nothing, it still doesn’t work half the time. I’ll press it a couple times then stop and the pet will activate it like 3 seconds later, doesn’t exactly help when a giant swings his hammer at you for 3k when I’m trying to get my raven(s)-I use two-blind off.

I’m having the same issue, i confirm that the patch did not fix it at all.

please fix this the patch did nothing or it made it worse.. oh sometimes if I stop everything and click the icon and hold it down it works… and no I don’t normally click it but pressing F2 down doesn’t seem to have the same effect.

I too have noticed that the patch did not fix the problem with F2. Sometimes my pet will use it and other times I have to press it a half dozen times before he thinks about using it and by then the mob is usually dead. Please fix this.

I just thought of another issue with pets.. they sometimes refuse to attack a target.. most of the time its a turret or structure but sometimes this even happens on a normal mob like yesterday it happened a couple of times on risen mobs on land in the middle and last Orr zones

bump for attention, please

Lets get these posts under all one thread. Hop In RANGER PET’S thread and repost some of this stuff there. we have a list of ranger pet bugs going on. Plus it will make it easier on the devs if its all under one post

I have played ranger all the way to level 59 and I love the class. The problem is pets don’t respond half the time, the f2 skill just doesn’t work. There was suppose to be a patch to address this,but it is not helping. I am worried I might have to give up a class I love due to the class mechanic being a liability. Hope it didn’t sound too much like a rant just frustrated.

Pets are bugged beyond what i would call minor issues. I am a level 80 Ranger and i am frustrated since pets are essential for us.

1. F2 does not work the way it should. It’s completely bugged, some pets will never respond to it at all unless they are out of combat.

2. If i send my pet to attack target A, but i switch and attack target B. The pet will change target to my target B. This is complete rubbish. The pet should stay on the target i designated until i tell him otherwise or the target dies.

3. Pets do not attack certain targets. They just stand there like idiots.

The patch did not fix it. My Jellyfish in particular are still hair-tearingly unresponsive. F2 only works reliably if it is the first action of a fight. Once they start auto-attacking, forget trying to get them to actually use their special attack, they just refuse most of the time (it averages 5-15 tries before it’ll be successful).

See also: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Ranger-Pet-s/

In my opinion, the pets are worse than they were 2 patches ago. My bear pet with 15 points into beast line was tanking champions. Today he cant tank the champion i have been killing all week.

I used to use my bears as a semi tank in dungeon before 2 patches ago. For some reason they are getting slaughtered now with no change in skill set up on my part. I mean the ranger pets are trash before.. now its just getting ridiculous.

My biggest fear is they will try to “even” us rangers out again when they think they have pets fixed like they did in beta.