Guild Wars 2

As a player you can dodge and strafe to avoid dmg from aoe attacks, however the pets don’t do this and die a horrible fast death because of it.

To help them survive at least bit longer I would give them a 40% dmg reduction on aoe attacks. This seems a lot, but that is roughly the % dmg you mostly can avoid by just moving arround, and if you are realy looking at where you run you as a player can even avoid more.

The wiki tells that teleporting/zoning resets it as well as logging out. Which is kind of stupid for a monthly achievement, should only reset if you die.

I to came to that conclusion yesterday. So I wasted a respec to free my 10 points to get that trait first. And it doesn’t help if the first minor trait is useless in most cases.

A basic petbar should be given to every class with pets/summons/turrets. This bar should have only the command attack. This command is given to all pets under the player control.

For the rest the pets should act like they are in a passive stand. Except for the ranger, they should get the control level they have now over their pet.

This should at least make the pet AI a bit more simpler for the none-ranger pets. And solving current bugs in the system.

Next to that a petwindow which gives an overview of the pets under the players command and their hpbar.