Guild Wars 2

Bump for the many players who want a petless ranger. 1200 range warrior/DH longbow won’t cut it. Aspects can just remove the pet entirely and give a compulsory buff coinciding with said Aspect. Make it happen ANET, at least for ONE aspect.

Sweet looks like a petless ranger to me! Hopefully the new aspects allow you to stow your pet which provides a buff depending on the Aspect. Why because archer archtypes don’t need pets.
PETLESS RANGERS CONFIRMED.

anduriell.6280:

Jahman.1625:

Yea no, simply put, no other proffesion has close to the same ranged playstyle that a ranger has, dragonhunter included. So unless they change some other proffesions ranged weapon to 1500, there are always going to be players who want to play ranged without a pet and are left hanging.

Engies and eles has a range of 1500 units.

Engies have it on their elite kit which recently had it’s damage nerfed.
Elementalist get 1500range on Icebow ? Unless something changed and staff also get s1500…

Maybee are simply that in they give you the likeness of the Animal spirit/pet you sacrifice.
i.e. Bear aspect gives you some sort of armor/protection boon.
Wolf gives you some utility.
Cougar gives you damage.
Raven give you _.
At the cost of your pet of course…

Yea no, simply put, no other proffesion has close to the same ranged playstyle that a ranger has, dragonhunter included. So unless they change some other proffesions ranged weapon to 1500, there are always going to be players who want to play ranged without a pet and are left hanging.

You all make solid points about aspects and what we have seen this and that. But really, we all know if they wanted to Anet could make a petless ranger viable without too much trouble. I’m aware that I am most likely beating a dead horse but I can Dream kitten it.

Hopefully not. Playing pvp and WvW I love the playstyle of my ranger, without the pet. As many have said the pet is generally worthless for the game types I play. The long range archer archtype has always been my favorite class to play, And Anet has done a great job with it.
That being said , many many rangers find the pet to be more of a hinderance than anything else. And it would be better for everyone if we at least had the OPTION to play petless.
And to all those who say bla bla bla the pet is to tied into the class/trait design, it’s not hard to rewrite those traits, especially considering most of the ones in question buff “you and your pet”. Give Rangers an option to play petless and you’ll see a resurgance of the class.