Guild Wars 2

I actually prefer it this way. I mainly do pvp, and I like to spec my ranger pretty defensively. The way things are now allows me to still inflict decent dmg via the pet. I can prevent pets from dies with pet swapping anyway. I see this as a major advantage as a ranger compared to other profs. I can basically go full bunker and still deal decent damage for example with a jaguar.

If pet attributes were linked, this would not be an option. Basically now you set your pets attributes by selecting f.e. a more defensive pet (like bear). You have more options since you can spec your pet and yourself differently. A definite bonus for us.

I can certainly see how speccing more toughness on your pet would benefit you in PvE though, with all the AoE/mob dmg, but i feel like this would not be the right way to go. If you wanted your pet to tank dmg for you, you’de have to spec yourself defensively and therefor speccing yourself damageless. Not the best solution in pve i think..

What troubles me more thou is the lack of condition dmg on pets. Since so many pets have f2 and other skills with bleeds (ie felines) but condition dmg for pets is always 0, so they end up doing 40 a tick… So basically your pets wont really help you if you wanted to go full cond dmg, since you yourself do like 110 per tick. No real way to spec condition dmg for pets as thing stand now.

So: Do NOT link or gear with the pet, but please make it possible for pets to do real condition dmg….