PVE: mostly lynx.. SOOOO much damage and vuln is really nice and polar bear for tanking. Sometimes in dungeons I use moas and hounds for heal or knockdowns. Another note about the Lynx is the F2 leap skill is great for moving things as it reorients on the target as long as they are still in rage.
Thing is the other “pet” classes have the ability to “stow” their pets until needed. What I mean is they have the ability to call the pets and banish them whenever they want. the ranger on the other hand is effectively tied to the pet being there whenever they take damage or are in combat. there are points in the game where this is not preferable in my mind, namely one area where you must do a jumping puzzle around mobs. the pet constantly aggro’s the mobs and pulls you into combat, not to mention being in the way while jumping.
Rangers do too! omg I am going to say it AGAIN the pet bar cosists of 1..2..3..4.. 5 this is the one you want and 6 being the pet icon.. click #5 and VOILA! you are now a ranger without a pet.
agree 100% why does it need to be removed at all, except death I agree there but when we gain a buff stack like from sigil of perception it stays on us even when we swap the weapon or port.. this should really be the same situation for the pets buff.. sometimes you cannot control your pet enough to keep it alive and swapping it is a way to save it and you should be rewarded for the good management and not punished.
and im just going to apologize right now for that terrible run on sentence >.< just cant get my thoughts out in proper english =P
I wish the pets were something we could chose to not use. Their overall ineffectiveness and constant micro-management are a burden. I wish they were a Trait we would spec into, similar to GW1.
the option is there >.< just stow the pet! thats why they added it like in bwe3. People I think like to complain for no reason.
@Ryan thank you for responding all three of my normal pets do this regularly. I use the rainbow jellyfish, lynx and arctodus.. actually now im using polar bear over arctodus and he does it too. I also have used moas(2-3 colors) and krytan hound in dungeons and they were also offenders. I think its just the mechanic not specific pets.
Another big issue however that is linked is the pets sometimes just will not attack or respond at all. They arent dead or on passive but will not attack. Mostly this occurs with turrets and such but happens at least 2-3 times a day with normal mobs that are exactly like the mob before and after it.
Great job so far, those are some of my pet peeves too.
I’ll continue on with some more…
Weapons
Axes
2 – cone bleed has times where if fires just to the right or left of hand rather than center cone which it does sometimes as well. But the off center makes the shotgun affect of landing max bleeds very difficult to land sometimes. (I use axe/warhorn approx 80% of the time and have never seen this occur)
Horn
Sometimes the birds that are summoned are massive, comparable to oak hearts in size. (specifically on sparks and something else.. gah cant remember perhaps trolls?)
Traits
Spotter also affects you, only active during combat, and shows as might buff rather than spotter, all lacking from tool tip.(it is supposed to affect you so its just the tooltip that needs updating)
Pets (all these need to be added to the list!!)
Don’t grow in size as they level. (I know not a real bug but it should be fixed. They are too dang Small!)
Pets will sometimes just stop auto attacking and sit next to the mob not doing anything. Happens quite often for sharks but also happens for other aquatic and terrestrial pets.
Pets have extremely hard time hitting moving targets due to ramp up animations on all atk and auto atk.
Pets cannot follow over cliffs etc. They will run around grabbing agro of everything on the way. (they used to in beta)
my updates to the post are in bold.. sry its sorta hard to see. To OP thank you so much for the list!
just stow thekittenpet(thats why the button is there!).. why does it have to be permanent?!?!?! Click the button whenever it comes out like on death or loading. I pretty much agree with Riku.
Lynx for damage, love the amount of damage going out and the extension on bleeds as well as the vulnerability, also the high precision is great for my build.. I use the pet gains health on crit trait in Skirmishing. I used Arctodus for a tank until yesterday when someone told me the Polar Bear has more power.. promptly switched.. the maul is nice but doesn’t make up for the power difference.
Water pets: almost always the rainbow jellyfish.. that aoe and aoe regen iskittenamazing.
Axe/warhorn is my favorite.. love the buff and the aoe bleeds as well as being able to hit so many mobs at once. I like the longbow for single target damage and the aoe but usually the axe is better for aoe since it has no CD on the aoe, so ill usually start with barrage and the swap to axe even though I would rather have the buff up for the barrage.
Water: ALWAYS harpoon gun.. I just do not like the spear abilities.
Power, Precision, crit damage, vit.. in that order. Power is self explanitory I think. I use the rune that has a 65% chance to bleed on crit for my axe so crit is important.. then crit damage because of those crits and because it happens to be on both my preferred
armor/jewel “types” (Valkyrie/Berserkers or ruby/beryl) and then vit because no one wants to be a glass cannon.. not REALLY! lol
1. I like them but meh.. can live without a visual quiver.
2. I personally like the “duster jacket” look but it needs to lay flat on your rump.. end of story I look like Im a 350 lb I’ll just say big butted woman from behind and a normal sized woman from the front.
3. I like greatsword.. I don’t think we need another ranger weapon.. I mean we have 3!
4. Why is this even here there IS a stow option.. if you dont like your pet play another class or put it away… In case this is news to you there is an icon that looks like a play icon pointing down between your passive/agressive button and the pet icon.
edit: my only real issue with my ranger is the bugs where you pet wont attack things or the F2 just will not go off..
Our party could not enter Cadecus Manor either together or at all.. basically we tried to go in, got in but 3 in one instance and 1 in another(the 5th wasn’t in the zone yet). We all zoned out got into the same overflow, this time none of us could even enter. We all went to Dragonbrand and two of us ended up in one instance, 2 in another and 1 unable to enter at all. Whenever I say that they could not enter they got a pop up and when clicked nothing at all happened.
This happened at two different times today approximately two hours apart, although the example given is from the second attempt.
I had two tickets from 8/29 and 8/31 where no one helped me and they were closed without fix or response.. this is pretty unacceptable. It would help to actually READ the report before closing them.. or in my case changing someones password!
its happening I’m assuming with all instances as my party couldn’t get into story mode CM, one of the group hadn’t done story mode at all.. we entered many times and were either unable to enter or when we did alone or at max 3 out of the 5.
adding this to this thread as well, this is also a ranger pet issue. They do not always attack even with our more control and being able to “force” them to attack.. they wont. Its mostly environmental objects like turrets but it happens to regular mobs as well.
I have never had dialog do this but I often get a hyper sound bug with walking sounds.. usually this happens in big fights or in personal stories.. like all of a sudden me walking on ground that has a very light cover of water sounds like booming splashes through my speakers or on dry land like a heard of elephants are running right outside my window… although.. it is funny when this scares the cat
I just thought of another issue with pets.. they sometimes refuse to attack a target.. most of the time its a turret or structure but sometimes this even happens on a normal mob like yesterday it happened a couple of times on risen mobs on land in the middle and last Orr zones
please fix this the patch did nothing or it made it worse.. oh sometimes if I stop everything and click the icon and hold it down it works… and no I don’t normally click it but pressing F2 down doesn’t seem to have the same effect.
ummm I am trying to be helpful by saying that your comment makes no sense. I am guessing that you are using an online translator that just is not working.
This has been driving me nuts.. the F2 thing makes me scream IRL.. we died and almost died a few times today because I was so busy trying to get the jellyfish AOE to work that I didn’t realize I was being owned by risen farmers or something similar >.<
and no im not wasting a fine xmute stone on a yellow =P