Guild Wars 2

Jay.3284:

Nice idea, but…. while you would have more “command” per-say over your pet, how would you call them off? Swap them? Make them attack?

You could argue to use Guard to make them attack, while protect me they will defend
But what about cooldowns? It would be a giant mess. While i agree Ranger needs SOMETHING, this isn’t it.

Sorry I didn’t explain this : the point is not to remove attack, back, swap commands.
these commands should be on other shortcuts (ctrl+F1 or 1…. whatever)

As for swapping I suggested ctrl² as ² is for weapon swap. THat way you coup swap eapons swap pet quickly for those effetcs on swap.

If changing these F1,F2… is a problem, mayber it could stay like this, but I see no point not letting us use the skills of the pets when we want

Hello,

First of all : i don’t hate my ranger at all. It’s a fun class, I like having always a friend ith me, I like the eapons we have.
I only have two problems :
- the lack of pet customisation/strategy
- the lack of flavor

As for the first point : I had this idea : allow players to access more pets skills : when i use a pet that can blind : i think it’s frustrating to see the pet use his skill on a mob that just use anormal hit: I’d rather see it on this big hit that is coming next.
So instead of the F1,F2, F3… that we have : put the pets skills here like this :

[img]http://www.elfique.com/gw2/idees/pet-controls.jpg[/img]

And for those who think : it’s too hard : just allow the player to put thse on auto-use.

Then, in order to have a more customised pet, I think it wouldn’t be bad to allow player to choose 1 skill in the pet screen : like this :

[img]http://www.elfique.com/gw2/idees/pets-skills.jpg[/img]

and I think that seek’em, protect me, guard, rescue them should be in this place. And why not one or two more that would be ranger flavored only skills like thorn shield, berserker pet… or whatever.

The free spaces in the ranger skills bar could be filled with new skills to add more options to the ranger :
- fire oil : your next hit will burn (with ice flame effects)
- Mimic : you copy the last skill used by your pet << and ith no auto skills you really have a way to use this stragegically (sorry not english speaker : does this word exist ?)

Last point : spirits : do they really have to look almost the same ? I’m sure that you can find something else than wood spirits : faery, dryades, fire-fox ^^ ?

So… I hope to see, maybe, one or two of these things in the game… one day ? (cross fingers)