Guild Wars 2

There is no problem with this change. Use your F1, F3 and F4 abilities. Using F4 BEFORE the pet dies will allow a very short cooldown to a swap again. Use your healing skill to help heal your pet too, troll unguent is fantastic. I’ve never had any problems with this, even using pets that have lower health.

@Ryan, in response to asking which pets have the most severe delay or issues, I know this is going to sound whiny, however I’ve played 120 hours+ as Ranger and have played with all the pet varieties and none feel as responsive as you NEED them to be.

I play a lot of spvp and the fact that pet abilities do not act like any other profession abilities (for example the engineer, whose profession abilities all activate immediately) is very frustrating. As an example, when an ally is downed and is about to be finished by an enemy what I would like to do is have my wolf fear them away from my downed ally. However what happens is my ally gets downed, the wolf howls, but the enemy is already out of range. This is a common occurrence across many situations and abilities.

I will still continue to play Ranger as I love this class, but the pet abilities are such a vital and important part of the Ranger that they really need to be fixed. Personally I would like them to be insa-cast and perhaps increase the range on some pet abilities (I’ve been having a lot of trouble with the arachnid abilities).
Thanks!