Guild Wars 2

I love to do jumping puzzles but when you have to take falling damage or land in water or something like that you always have to wait a few seconds before you can get rid of your pet, which loves to be in the way when trying to get onto small pillars or something like that.

Am I missing any better solutions for that problem? Wouldn’t it be possible to keep the pet stowed when set to “Avoid Combat”-stance?

After Valve has announced Steam OS today I see quite a big trend moving towards gaming on Linux and thought it was the appropriate time to ask this question again.

I myself keep my Windows-installation for the sole purpose of playing Guild Wars 2, all of my other games I want to play are playable using Linux. I’m aware of previous statements denying a native client, but it doesn’t even have to be a native client. The current one is just not usable using Linux because of major framerate issues, even if you use quite powerful hardware. So if it could just be made a bit more Linux-friendly, I would be very thankful.