Pets levelling

[Barney]

So, got a white bear about a week ago. got to level 58 or so with nearly 600hp.

Took a huge effort and time investment.

He got attacked by two scum and before I even noticed he was half health, and despite me G healing and trying to cast on the MA's they killed him without any real challenge or risk to themselves.

To me, this felt like my mega bear was utterly useless and my magery was no way fast enough or powerful enough to change the course of the battle.

So...why should I bother with having tank or dps pets? Seemed fun at the start but tbh it's feeling like a massive waste of effort.

Can we make training faster please?

Any feedback? Isit worth it in the long run?

I have domination to 97.

 

[Contorto]

People want to calm pets as over powered because their trash an don't know how to block attacks from creatures. But let ignore the MA that only need to kill a spiderling with their bare hands make a 100 bows out of it's bones, than tame a horse an they can suddenly solo kill everything in the game.

This shit reminds me of the fire arrows aids in Atlas, spec into armor crafting an guns get one shot by a naked with fire arrows, tame a rhino watch one naked with fire arrows one shot it, spend hours building a warship watch one naked with fire arrows sink it. MA is beyond broken right now it completely ruining the game, if your not running MA than your playing the game wrong. MA are two easy to kite out an are too effective compared to everything else.

 

[Jatix]

Pets suck in this because getting chased down by a fast thing that does high damage with infinite stam, is total garbage gameplay. When a game claims its 'skill based' the last thing people want is pets that just aimbot and take 0 skill to actually use. Which obviously sucks for people who want to use pets because they are cool.

The other day I got totally clapped by a bear. Couldn't run from it, cant out trade it cuz my gear sucked. and unless I'm mistaken and they changed it, you can only parry animals with a shield. I dont touch this games pve tho so no idea. But this is why pets cant be balanced properly. They are too cookie cutter, theres certain things they are amazing at then others they completely suck. and MA is the best counter to pets. So while MA is super meta pets that take time are a waste of time sadly. I'd save them for in a group, pve, etc.

 

[Emdash]

Pets suck in this because getting chased down by a fast thing that does high damage with infinite stam, is total garbage gameplay. When a game claims its 'skill based' the last thing people want is pets that just aimbot and take 0 skill to actually use. Which obviously sucks for people who want to use pets because they are cool.

The other day I got totally clapped by a bear. Couldn't run from it, cant out trade it cuz my gear sucked. and unless I'm mistaken and they changed it, you can only parry animals with a shield. I dont touch this games pve tho so no idea. But this is why pets cant be balanced properly. They are too cookie cutter, theres certain things they are amazing at then others they completely suck. and MA is the best counter to pets. So while MA is super meta pets that take time are a waste of time sadly. I'd save them for in a group, pve, etc.

Yea I think pets need luv, and it'd be easy to fix, just make it so that the pet only goes within a certain distance of a player, they can target it, set it on auto defend, auto aggressive... there are other games with pets in them lol.

doods still playing GW1.