Guild Wars 2

riku.2091:

As for pets, I know that as of right now, my pet is able to hold it’s own for a little while against mobs of its level or 1 level higher.

Dunno, back when I was level 21 I ended up fighting four level 25s and won.

If you just sic your pet on whatever you intend to attack anyway you are doing it wrong. Have it attack something else so that other thing isn’t attacking you. You just effectively sheeped one add.

Make sure you are taking damage at the same rate as your pet: if you take more, use hornet sting to disengage, if you take less, make it run around and see if you can peel some enemies off it. Once you are both at low health, use your heal (I use Troll Unguent because the total heal amount is insane). This makes the heal essentially twice as powerful. Then you can swap out your pet for a fresh new one.

The tank-pet-and-longbow strategy is much less pet friendly for exactly this reason: the pet is tanking everything and will die quickly.

My pets Invulnabear and Son Of Invulnabear have tanked more boss battles than most warriors I’ve seen (“oh noes, boss, gotta get out my gun and run in circles while clucking and flapping my arms”).

It doesn’t matter how long it takes to kill something if it cannot kill you back. Therefore there is absolutely no reason to go with a DPS pet on the second slot. When your bear nears 1/4 health, just use Trollface Unguent to heal it right back up to full. Swap out when it starts dying again. By the time your next bear is about to die, heal should be off cooldown. If necessary, use Signet of Stone to buy time.

This fails against bosses with AoE that needs to be dodged (ahem fire elemental cough) but then the only viable ranger strategy against group bosses involves a longbow and a prayer that no one will notice you are contributing nothing and only making the boss harder.

I’m trying to make a melee sword/axe ranger work by using two tanked up bears to draw aggro. It works except for the part where I have to switch to a bow against bosses and attack from orbit.

Anyway, that’s not the point. The point is that when I click on an enemy and press F1 my bear is supposed to run over and attack. What happens instead at least 50% of the time is that the bear 1/ stands there and does nothing; 2/ runs off at a right angle and eventually circles around to attack the enemy while collecting every monster in the zone; or 3/ runs past the enemy to attack from behind while I get aggroed on.

Clearly this AI is “special” and hard to handle. Is there a trick to work around these bugs and make a pet just head straight for an enemy no matter what? I’m pretty sick of getting in all sorts of trouble thanks to these issues when it should be so simple.

I’m a complete idiot and misspelled it. I don’t want to reroll… q_q