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“No but seriously, the end game is PvP based.”
oh i sure as hell hope not…
@Excretus, This section of the forum is bout players helping players. Although you have the right to have a negative opinion bout the game, it is not helping the OP. These kind of remarks should be in general game discussion.
his comment was about the topic of this thread: a hard time telling when attacks are coming due to various game elements.
also, by your criteria, the OP also had a negative comment.
don’t be a feminine hygiene product. or go ahead, just do it at home.
for now, let’s just work on the permanent stow ability. i could care less about loss of power. i simply want to have a choice with my pet. and, a small bit of an easier time on the weirder jumping puzzles. and the immersion that i am actually a Master of Animals.
(p.s. i hate the name “Ranger” for this class because MOST people think it means they attack at range. a Ranger is not just a distance class. in fact, a true Ranger would be proficient with a variety of weapons, just like any other “fighter” class would be.)
You do not seem to understand how much time and effort it would take for the devs to start working the math and rebalance a class to compensate for not only the removal of the DPS from the pet, but also adjusting trait lines etc. You can sit there now and say “Oh just give us 20% increased damage” and think that is going to solve everything, but it is a LOT deeper than that.
the exact amount of time it took to put it in the first place.
You:
IF Arena Net decided to forgo what they have envisioned for the ranger in favor for making a “pet-less pet class” viable then how long do you think it would be before you or someone else that would support this play style would be back on the forums saying “WTF Arena Net I love the Ranger as a class but I decided to go petless and most of the trait lines either have something to do with pets or do not benefit me playing without one, we need some love too!!”
Me:
completely irregardless to this discussion. this would be objected and sustained in any court of law.
You:
That aside, no matter how you slice it, making a change from a pet class to a viable non-pet class is going to take developers time and effort to balance, even if they gave the perma-stow option right now. There are other things in the game that NEED attention, things that are in place with the direction they are going, that deserve the focus more than trying to rebalance away from what they wanted the class to be.
Me:
wrong. sit down. also, this is mostly opinion. thrown out.
You:
It may not be the answer you want, but yep, at this point it really is “tough kitten, the ranger is a pet class deal with it”. There are MANY other classes that offer you the play style you are EXACTLY looking for that do not have pets, try rolling one of them. If you do not want to do that, then as has been suggested before, use a small pet like a bird, put it on passive, and deal with the loss of that DPS.
Me:
EXACTLY…? okay, troll. which class offers me the play style i am EXACTLY looking for that don’t have pets?
this is where I point out the flaw: so, you’re telling me that the Ranger is simply one of the other classes, exact in EVERY way BUT for the pet? Wow. So… Is it the Mesmer class? No? Hmm… Oh! Thief!!! Wait. No. Warrior? Um… wait no. NONE. NONE of the classes are an EXACT match for the Ranger.
You:
That’s the only two choices you have, stamping your foot and demanding to be able to play “the way I wanna play” is most likely not going to get you the results you want.
Me:
Awesome advice, brah. You should take it.
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Preface:
I IN NO WAY CONDONE A “pet-less ranger”. I SIMPLY WANT THE CLASS TO WORK AS INTENDED.
A Master of Animals that can’t keep a pet in the cage is not a Master of Animals. Fin.
“didn’t want to waste resources”…
so they let a monkey program the pet naming feature? why even bother allowing one to name a pet and then not allow them to save it? I would have saved all the resources and just not allow them to be named.
As a supposed Master of Animals we should have enough control over our pets to permanently put them away (i.e., cage the pet).
This is not a debate about the versatility or lack of the pet in PVE, PVP, WVW, or just standing there doing nothing.
This isn’t about “i like bows but i don’t like pets” or your opinion that I should roll a warrior class.
The pet mechanics are HORRIBLE. Absolutely atrocious.
Did you know that when you stow your pet and take fall damage, the pet automatically activates? Why? No. Do not give me your opinion or smart kitten comment. Explain to me why my pets activates when I take FALL DAMAGE.
Did you know that you are FORCED to select two pets for your slots? Yeah. That’s really handy. You know what else? If I have my 2nd pet active, and then stow it, and then one of the MANY MANY (mostly useless) criteria for activating a pet happens, that it will pop out the 1st pet. Yeah. That’s a nice feature of the class. To have your pets totally disregard your commands really makes it feel like I am immersed in the role of a Great Master of Animals.
And the best part is a reminder of how… stupid? Is it stupidity that got us to this point? Or maybe it’s laziness. We’ll leave that for now and just move on. The best reminder of how screwed up the system is when you are trying to do a jumping puzzle, fall and take 1 POINT OF DAMAGE, and then notice your (1st pet in the selection! Not the pet you had out 13 seconds ago) pet is sitting there. Yeah. Well, I’ve decided. It’s both stupid and lazy, and a number of other things.
The real kick in the teeth is the countdown timers on the swap pet/stow pet abilities. Swap pet I get. But stow pet? Why? Why a timer on that skill?
The pet mechanics need to be addressed. It is ruining my enjoyment of the game.
And, no. I don’t want to reroll a new class. If it is determined that these are functioning properly and/or they are not going to be changed, I won’t roll a new class. I’ll sniff once and wipe away a tear for the three hours I worked to pay for the game and then uninstall it and move on. Maybe there is a publisher out there that doesn’t release alphas/betas as a full game.
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No. I do not want or even care about an “increase in power when my pet is stowed”. I am mature enough to realize that if I CHOOSE to put my pet away, that I am CHOOSING to give up any and all bonuses (and for the love of anything, the annoyances).
oh I forgot to mention:
the pet pops out when you move in and out of water, too.
did it ever occur to any of the Devs that we might not want the pet out all the time?
forget the stat increase. just allow us to stow the pet…
“But you can stow the pet!!!!!1”
Sure. You can put the pet away. But it pops back out automatically when you attack, get attacked, or even take damage. Yup. You read that correctly: “or even take damage.”
“Well gee-whiz, Cap’n Flummox. I sure do want my pet to help me when I am getting attacked!”
Sure you do. We all do. But there is no reason in the world for the pet to come out when you take 1 point of damage because you fell off a cliff.
Why does damage make the pet come out of stow?
Why does FALL DAMAGE make the pet come out of stow?
This is THE most annoying part about being a ranger: My lack of control over my pet. I am supposed to be a Master at Controlling Animals, yet I can’t even get the thing to stay in it’s cage when I tell it to.
Let’s rub salt into the wound, shall we?
If I stow my pet to do a jumping puzzle because the pet is totally useless here. In fact, it’s not useless. The pet is a detriment to performing [most] jumping puzzles. And now the salt: I stow my pet, start a jump puzzle and fall off on the 2nd jump. I take 1 point of damage, and now my pet pops out. Awesome (that’s sarcasm there). Now let’s retry this puzzle. I’ll just stow my pet again (thanks for the hotkey, btw)… Oh what’s this!!! There is a timer on the stow pet command…?!?! Wait… what?! Seriously… What the senufo is this about?? A TIMER on Stow Pet???? Are you senufo kidding me?
The pet needs an ability to “call” and to “cage” the pet. Not just have it be an annoyance to me for reasons I do not need it for. Such as a jumping puzzle.
And for the love of whatever you believe in, change the “pop pet out on [any] damage” option.
I am a Master of Animals and I expect my pet to stay in the cage when I tell it to.
My experience with MMOs is EVE Online and WoW, for the most part. I never really followed the hype of the game and I never played the original. So I know almost nothing about the game, the lore, or anything. But I went out and bought it and installed it. Discs are back in the case and it’s now downloading whatever updates that didn’t come on the first press…
The Journey begins.
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