Guild Wars 2

Gelltor.3015:

Okay so you’re complaining that your pet is weak because you don’t put any points into the trait for making him last longer/hit harder….?
And expecting your pet to dodge Aoe attacks is unrealistic,theres a “return to me” button there for a reason

Actually I have been using beast mastery. The issue people have been complaining about is that when you don’t have beast mastery, damage isn’t problem rather the fact that your pet dies so quickly in dungeons and pvp. Other classes don’t have an issue where a significant chunk of their damage can be shut out simply by tossing some AE or cleaving our floppy pet in two.

For AE… I’m sorry, pets should be able to dodge, or should auto dodge when the master dodges. Pulling the pet back doesn’t work well, it works sometimes but not well.

Given the game design I would expect pets to either auto dodge high damage AE every x seconds. Or better, your pet dodges when you dodge.

My intent here is productive thought… not foo food ignorant comments stating there is no problem. There clearly are issues with pets and how they function in boss fights, high movement scenarios (pvp) and lack of proper scaling.

I’m wanted to pose a number of questions which I think are fundamental to ranger pet problems. Please feel free to answer them or pose other questions in relation to why rangers and their pets (and dependency on pets) is rather broken right now.

1) Why don’t pets scale with gear?

2) Why can’t pets dodge massive AE attacks?

3) Why can’t pets hit moving targets?

4) Why were shouts released in such a broken state (and why are they still in a really sad state)?

Honestly, I love my ranger and I am having tons of fun playing my ranger. But I’ve started running dungeons and PvP and I can clearly see fundamental issues like the above making the ranger fall sadly behind other classes due to our lost pet damage due to the inability to reach targets quickly enough, ending up dead do to boss mechanics which are DESIGNED to be dodged, and horribly low pet stats (and consequently frail pets) when you are not using a Beast Mastery enhanced pet.

The sad part is, none of these issues aren’t new to other MMOs. There are just simple design problems of a pet class. I find it really sad they have not been addressed. The current pet state is similar to something akin to an 5 year old MMO… and that’s just sad.

I just read the lost shores crap on the website and now I THINK I get it.

Its a one time event? So the logic is to put the note there so everyone doesn’t miss it. I guess that almost makes sense. But for things like this you really should just put big bright shinies on the map, then put the notes in the quest log once someones character is in the ZONE.

I know I’m being moody, but I really don’t want to see world events like this in the future.

Especially since the event note is HUGE in my event window. And its not very transparent, it has a very dark background that isn’t seen through like the other events in my top right corner.

Sorry its just stupid annoying to the point where I really feel the need to complain rather than enjoy the game.

Does this not annoy anyone else? ;-( I mean seriously why can’t I hide this!!!

Every person playing the game DOES NOT need to see this on their screen from levels 0-80…

How do you overlook something this obnoxious?

It appears they hotfixed this in the later last nights patch, thank you!

I’m rather annoyed… I’m level 20 and I now have this stupid “Lost Shores” objective stuck at the top of the screen.

It’s freaking meaningless to me yet it sits there in my UI ALL FREAKING DAY LONG.

Serrious developers… did you think this through at all? This should ONLY show when you’re near the area (grumbles)

Put a fix in for this ASAP.

I’m seeing this with flame trap aswell… this should be hotfixed asap. This kind of bug is just embarrassing.

We need color dying for our hair accessories! Please and thank you!

The hair band seriously needs a dye ability…. the lack of this aggravates me!