Comfort animal and downed state in Guild wars
November 8th, 2011 -- Posted in Guild wars 2 | No Comments »“comfort animal” – I thought the standard rez skill that everyone has (which works on all players and npc’s), works for pets as well, so that the “comfort animal” skill is never absolutely required just for the rez? “Comfort animal” does more than just rez – especially the healing and the condition removal may be essential to keep your pet alive and fighting. And yes, if your pet is down, healing him with this skill will actually rez him. But as far as I know, so will the standard rez skill. I may be wrong, though, as this isn’t something I’ve tested when I played the demo. And if I am wrong, then I agree with you… that would be unfair… anyone can rez just about everything in the game without taking up a slot, but rezzing your pet would always cost a skill slot. That would definitely not be right.
Downed state – I think the idea is that calling your pet to you is the damage doing part. Having your pet by your side should both double the amount of damage you can do, and it could make your pet take the additional damage instead of you. But I admit that it is kind of weird that all other professions have at least 1 direct damage dealing skill in there, and rangers appear to not have that.
Come to think of it, regarding comfort animal and rezzing, I believe you are right. If you can rez anyone at any time, including npc’s, then they’ll probably make it so that you can rez your pet the same way, and maybe even anyone could rez your pet! Or, maybe that’s going too far.
Regarding the downed state, maybe there’s just no need to keep doing damage if you just have your pet come and rez every time. But that’s a huge advantage for the ranger, in pve at least where you can’t be stomped, as you’d pretty much always get your rez accomplished. Ranger ftw for the mad solo adventurer!
Curious to see if the Ranger’s downed state and his pet end up.. well.. Do mobs aggro your pet while he’s rezzing you? What if they kill the pet? Especially with some classes that dish out some decent damage in their downed state, which means they could kill something, potentially die again but kill another, rinse and repeat to victory.. If Captain Bacon squeels and runs to your side, only to be picked apart by the group of mobs.. Well, are you screwed?