Curse

Shaggeh · Nov 23, 2006, 02:50 AM // 02:50

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You don't need a bear, you can get a crane or something.

I believe you missed the point entirely.

People don't need Crystalline Swords, they can grab Long Swords.

People don't need Ascended Armor, they can grab the non-Ascended variants.

People don't need gold weapons, they can grab a max blue instead.

GW is a game that, though everything in a field ends equal and balanced, there are many variations to account for personal taste. The bear's Brutal Mauling directly contradicts that, and keeps many people from grabbing the pet that they would really, really like.

Or would you feel better knowing that your weapon-of-choice suddenly takes a DPS hit in return for an extra ability that does absolutely nothing?

pingu666 · Nov 23, 2006, 03:28 AM // 03:28

could give all pets the skill, or do a mass replace of skill/pet

you could also update the skill so its the same as a normal attack

Curse You · Nov 23, 2006, 04:45 AM // 04:45

/concur

The main problem with Brutal Mauling is that is causes the bear to pause, stand up, use brutal mauling (which does nothing extra) then go back to attacking.

As well, I happen to know that you can interupt Brutal Mauling, causing a large gap in the bear's DPS.

I want Fuzy Wuzy (my warrior's bear) to have the same DPS as the other pets!

MithranArkanere · Nov 23, 2006, 03:51 PM // 15:51

Tey pu t there, but forgot about romoving it.

It's a vestigial skill. It's like having not working legs in a snake.

Epinephrine · Nov 24, 2006, 05:40 PM // 17:40

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Originally Posted by Phoenix Arrows

/notsigned

...ANet put Mauling on the bear for who-knows-what reasons, so live with it.

Brutal Mauling has a description in other languages (Spanish, for example) describing how it causes bleeding. Originally, it is supposed, it had this special attack. Presumably it was too powerful, or special abilities on pets were removed for some reason, but they left the blank skill there, taking up space and killing the pet's usefulness.

A more correct statement might be "ANet took away brutal mauling for who-knows-what reasons, and forgot to clean up their mess. They should finish it."

MithranArkanere · Nov 24, 2006, 05:57 PM // 17:57

Exactly. In spanis and French description it sas it causes 5 seconds of bleeding.

They removed that effect so PreAscalon noobs don't die so easily fighting them.

And they seem to forgot about it.

The have also Spellbreaker in PreAscalon. Should they keep it too in Shiverpeaks?

Vestigial, should be removed. And make Pet Attacks trigger anthems.

Wulfgast · Feb 28, 2007, 05:55 PM // 17:55

Whoa, is this seriously not fixed yet?

/signed and bumped, just to get Anet moving on it.

Alias Thrasher · Feb 28, 2007, 06:38 PM // 18:38

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Brutal mauling has been around since the beginning, and while it is sad that has become really obslete I would hate to see it go, why not tweak it instead, bring back the bleeding, or something to make it more effective, bring back the bleeding or something.

Praetor · Feb 28, 2007, 08:25 PM // 20:25

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Originally Posted by Alias Thrasher

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Brutal mauling has been around since the beginning, and while it is sad that has become really obslete I would hate to see it go, why not tweak it instead, bring back the bleeding, or something to make it more effective, bring back the bleeding or something.

Then people will start whining about how spiders should inflict poison, or rats causing disease. You have to see the slippery slope if you don't want to fall down it.

Diddy bow · Feb 28, 2007, 09:56 PM // 21:56

/signed
anet forgot skilll when the effect was nerfed :S

Toilet Oni · Feb 28, 2007, 10:03 PM // 22:03

/Signed

Brutal Mauling Sux and i want a bear^^

Puebert · Feb 28, 2007, 10:12 PM // 22:12

/signed

Bear is the best pet.

...Besides Panda.

Make it reasonable to bring! D:

Alias Thrasher · Feb 28, 2007, 11:55 PM // 23:55

i still say keep brutal mauling, just increase the attack speed and dmg to make it equal to other pets, i do think the bears are one of the coolest pets.

Eldin · Mar 01, 2007, 12:07 AM // 00:07

/signed

Either remove it or buff it. It's stupid. A bear wastes a few seconds charging this thing up just to do even less damage than he would in ONE normal attack.

legion_rat · Mar 01, 2007, 12:21 AM // 00:21

/signed for removal

still dont understand why it was there in the first place.

~the rat~

icedragon981 · Mar 01, 2007, 03:27 AM // 03:27

/signed for the removal of Brutal Mauling. I agree that all pets should be on an equal playing field with exceptions for damage type (piercing, slashing, etc.) and evolutions. (Hearty, Dire, Elder, etc.)

snikerz · Mar 01, 2007, 03:42 AM // 03:42

/notsigned

bears can benefit from paragon shouts now, ie anthem of flame.

bam23 · Mar 01, 2007, 04:12 AM // 04:12

/signed

sdagd

Wulfgast · Apr 20, 2007, 06:09 PM // 18:09

/signed again, just to remind the devs that this is still an issue, and probably a fairly quick fix that could be rolled out with another group of larger updates.

I don't mind if Anet wants to create pet-specific skills sometime down the road... but until they do, this skill should be removed so rangers can actually justify bringing along a bear.

Kuldebar Valiturus · Apr 20, 2007, 06:28 PM // 18:28

My feeling is that A-Net stopped working on an idea that would make each pet type possess a unique ability. Brutal Mauling is a vestigial organ left over from that aborted evolutionary branch.

Time to remove the appendix. /signed