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Guild Wars Guru · Jun 04, 2005, 02:56 PM // 14:56

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Thomasuwoo · Jun 04, 2005, 02:56 PM // 14:56

This attack is actually elite.

Tellani Artini · Jun 04, 2005, 04:37 PM // 16:37

I'm still wondering how you can possibly capture a pet attack. More specifically, how a mob could possibly use a pet attack for you to capture it.

Tellani Artini · Jun 08, 2005, 04:49 AM // 04:49

Captured this skill today. Apparently Thul The Bull, a summit ranger in Spearhead Peak (east central part of it), uses charm animal and a variety of pet attacks once an animal is charmed. Wait until you see a hostile "Pet - Elder Wolf", or "Pet - Black Bear" and be careful not to kill it. He might not charm until he's engaged in combat. He should use ferocious strike now, and you can see it under his name. An excellent skill for any pet build.

Cymmina · Jun 09, 2005, 10:29 PM // 22:29

Yes, very nice skill. With the June 8 SoC changes, you can now easily capture this skill, even if his pets are dead. Thul the Bull appears to only have 4 skills total: Ferocious Strike, Melandru's Assault, Troll Unguent, and Tiger's Fury.

With beastmastery of 6, this skill will give you +6 energy.

Thomasuwoo · Jun 20, 2005, 03:44 AM // 03:44

The adrenaline gain is very small. One strike at the most. with higher beast mastery this is actually a good way to keep mana up. Ironicly though it's very unsuited to the bear pet because of it's terrible attack speed. The amount of extra damge that this attack inflicts is also very noteworthy. Couple it with the 8 seccond recast time and it's almosty worthy to bring along to pvp. Unfortunatly if the pet dies it's useless. That means to realibly count on it you need to spend 3 slot for skills. One for Ferocious Strike, one for Charm Animal and one for Comfort or revive. Not really that much of an adavantage for that many skill slots.

Tellani Artini · Jun 20, 2005, 06:28 AM // 06:28

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Originally Posted by Thomasuwoo

The adrenaline gain is very small. One strike at the most. with higher beast mastery this is actually a good way to keep mana up. Ironicly though it's very unsuited to the bear pet because of it's terrible attack speed. The amount of extra damge that this attack inflicts is also very noteworthy. Couple it with the 8 seccond recast time and it's almosty worthy to bring along to pvp. Unfortunatly if the pet dies it's useless. That means to realibly count on it you need to spend 3 slot for skills. One for Ferocious Strike, one for Charm Animal and one for Comfort or revive. Not really that much of an adavantage for that many skill slots.

The bear attacks at the same speed as all the other pets. Any difference is just in your head. Much research has been done on this topic.

Now try combining ferocious strike with quickening zephyr and debilitating shot, and tell me what you think. You'll have an unlimited pool of energy to fire a debil every other shot, and the target will have to deal with increased casting costs and mad pet damage at the same time. Add another 5 energy pet attack and you can alternate between that and ferocious strike. Add another 5 energy bow attack and you can alternate between that and debil shot. You won't run out of energy. This skill may not be great on its own, but it's the combinations with other ranger skills that can make it superb. If you're just bringing a pet for this skill, you're not really using your pet to anywhere near its fullest potential. If you see your pet as "something I have to bring in order to use ferocious strike," that's totally the wrong mindset.

The more skill slots and attribute points you dedicate to your pet, the more effective it will be. Doesn't this make sense? Having beast mastery at 12 makes your pet do the same base DPS as a max damage bow. Combining that with a max damage bow at marksmanship 12 doubles your sustained DPS. Look at the pet skills, and you might notice that the pet attacks are twice as good as their bow attack versions for half the energy cost, in many cases. Ferocious strike beats marksman's wager by a longshot, and gives a bigger damage boost than any bow attack at comparable level.

Mr Jazzy · Aug 01, 2005, 03:35 AM // 03:35

id like to correct the location of this elite, its actually found in the WESTERN central part of spearhead peak, DONT listen to the person above. i would recommend using this attack only for a pure pet build.

super dooper · Aug 02, 2005, 05:07 PM // 17:07

No, it's actually the east/central of Spearhead.. look at your map ;P

Disoblige · Aug 05, 2005, 04:04 PM // 16:04

Pets are very easily killed Oo

Disoblige · Aug 05, 2005, 04:04 PM // 16:04

Pets are very easily killed Oo

Rajamic · Aug 05, 2005, 11:43 PM // 23:43

If you don't support them. If you bring this, Scavanger's Strike, and Comfort Animal, they become extremely durable (and don't have to slow down their attacks to self-heal)

Sep 11, 2005, 08:49 PM // 20:49

Hey Guys Since this is the Elite Pet skill I thought it might be good to show my idea for a minion Build.

The Minion Build is on my Forum at this site
http://knightsotlkotl.proboards59.com/index.cgi
Go to the gerernal Board then the build ideas!

I'd Like it if u guys told me any way to improve the build!

Sep 12, 2005, 06:43 AM // 06:43

*quote*
(***The more skill slots and attribute points you dedicate to your pet, the more effective it will be. Doesn't this make sense? Having beast mastery at 12 makes your pet do the same base DPS as a max damage bow. Combining that with a max damage bow at marksmanship 12 doubles your sustained DPS. Look at the pet skills, and you might notice that the pet attacks are twice as good as their bow attack versions for half the energy cost, in many cases. Ferocious strike beats marksman's wager by a longshot, and gives a bigger damage boost than any bow attack at comparable level***)

I dont think it is right to say that pet attacks are better than their bow comparisons. Take disrupting lunge and distracting shot for example. Distracting shot is porbably the fastest bow attack and with it u can very easily disrupt and oponents skill. with disrutping lunge, by the time your pet actually hits with the attack it will be too late. Also having a high rank in BM means u will hinder ur other attribute, especially if u want to use skills from your other profession.

Quiddler · Sep 14, 2005, 03:39 AM // 03:39

Disrupting lunge isn't meant as a timed attack. with the low four second recharge and low energy cost, it's meant to spam at an enemy caster to disrupt spells at random. beast mastery is an extremely underrated skill tree for rangers, in my opinion.

Linkusmax · Sep 18, 2005, 12:41 PM // 12:41

Yeah guys check it out

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28456&highlight=Ranger+Pet+build

I reckon pets can even be fairly viable in PvP

GW_1337 · Sep 25, 2005, 06:45 AM // 06:45

If we have Skill Images for the Site who can we send them to?
I love rangers and I think it would be nice if all the graphics were filled in.