kurth.3175

So I read up on aggro, earth pets tank much better than fire pets, thank you. :-) The switch cooldown makes it painful to spam pets in earth, and spam fire for attack though.

Ok, need to revisit my post by way of apology, I found the way resurrect dead pets as a soulbeast, no you can't swap, but merging with a dead pet brings it to full health instantly, no cooldown I can see, this is good enough for me to be happy with my ranger again.

I tried my first ele recently (newish player here), I only do PvE, prefer solo, but low-skill-level groups also (so far T1's, dungeons). I like ranged pet builds, and am limited to pwr (as I don't do ascended or anything grindy, griffin bordered on feeling too much like work FYI). With the new normal of shelter in place, this game as the most casual friendly mmorpg has a lot of potential to gain here in ways you didn't in the past - and I am only semi-casual). So I did staff + elementals, the thing I noticed most is elementals don't hold aggro anywhere near as well as my necro or ranger pets, even my mesmer does better there. Mounting killing the pets was also a big pain, and no pets underwater (seriously)??? I love the long-range nuking with pets tanking - my main reason for playing the class - lots of fun to be had there. I am one of your older players (meaning slower on the keys), high speed rotations with my face kissing the mob isn't really my thing, playing a warrior for long periods is simply exhausting to me, FYI.

I get this is a slightly old thread. I got here because I wanted to swap pets while NOT in beastmode. My first ranger I levelled up doing it continuously, and find I can't swap pets like I used to if I equip the soulbeast elite specialization, kinda annoying. Felt like I got nerfed for using the elite spec. I like to switch between ranged and beast mode, ranged got a nerf here for sure and I'm not sure it makes sense, it reduces the sustain of the pet mode a lot, like kills it almost completely. I could solo champions before by switching pets continuously. Yes it took forever for lack of DPS, and it only worked on a few relatively easy champions in Tyria , so it wasn't OP or anything. All that work to get nerfed at lvl 80 was not a pleasant surprise.