Fix the Beast Masters!

Just want to add my support to this thread. I had brought up my beastmastery build on another thread in this section:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=21310

I've tried to keep up with all the beastmastery threads and have a list of links to the topic I've been building from this forum:

Petstats
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=21526

Pet emotes
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=20453

Lack of Beastmastery foci
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=21640

Ideas for making pets better
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=21418

More discussion on pets
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=20401

Pet Problem, which morphs into a discussion on pets later in the game
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=21752

Pet Armor
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=22199

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There's been others, and I'm sure a search would deliver more hits as well. Let's hope infusion for pets is looked at somehow. I did notice one poster mentioned a dev said pets are on the list for an update.

Personally, I have now dumped my pet build and am running a modified flameslinger build atm, but I'd love to go back and try it again in the future.

thank you! thanks for the support! Let's hope this issued is adressed soon, since i'm not the only one having problems with my pet. XP i refuse to get rid of my pet so i'm basicly screwed ^^;

I don't understand why they can't just make pets naturally infused. I mean all the henchmen in the Southern Shiverpeaks are infused, even before you can be. (I have tested this in the first mission where there are patrolling mursaat you usually have to dodge). If henchmen have natural infusion, why can't your pet?

that's a very good question.

That sucks man. I know that it may be a bit of a pain, and from an RP point and PvE point it may be pain, but you may want to consider changing out your skill points for those missions you want to complete, or wait til A-Net does something about it. A-Net makes it pretty easy to change out your build.

I do hope that pets will get infused so that you don't have to deal with it.


Edit in : you may want to try and drop a line to the devs about this. This is a game-breaker for people who specifically want to stay with Beast Master.

hmm... any one know the best way to contact the devs ^^; may be stupid question

you mean this ?

http://www.guildwars.com/contact.html

i've contacted suport earlier so i'll let everyone know what they say

I would also request that certain ranger quests involving pets to be changed to that they doesn't require you to trade in pets you love. I had to do it to get hunter's shot loved my presearing Wolf!

I just posted a thread about getting all the ranger skills and I purposely missed this one because I didn't want to trade in my bear I now happen to have every beastmastery spell in the game and its kinda depressing knowing that its all useless.

ugh i got a reply from arena net. All they said is i should post my sugestion in the fan forums ::rolls eyes:: so basicly they don't really care.

Umm, of course they send that. They get flooded with millions of inane suggestions constantly, so they direct them to forums. They do come to read the forums though; we know this as we see Gaile and Alex around regularly, and sometimes they implement things that seem like they are drawn straight out of the forums.

yeah i get that,i'mjust bitter is all XP, so many people going 'omg make me uber' kinda things all over ^^; poor people that have to read all those letter. ::sigh:: just hope someone notices the poor pets. Starting to think i'm the only one that's gotten this far using a pet XP

ok let's keep the ideas coming! What else have people found a problem with with the pets?

hey all i prob wont post here at all after this cause i aint really into going to multiple forums(my email is [email protected]) if u got any questions on my build or anything.


but atm my ranger uses the beast mastery build. with all her skills dedicated to BM. her pet is able to take on 4 blessed griffons at once.( the war/monk birds that smite) the only hard part is somtimes getting agro off me but with max BM my heal with pet skills is enough to whipe all them out. also, this is going to be hard to say but ALL of the pets suck except for the elder black widow. i say that because ive used all of them and the black widow is just the best. id say next would be bear then warthog but thats just me.

my build uses no disruption just all dmg. im talking with support to get one of the skills working again cause it dosent. once it gets working i can see pets being great tanks.

I fail to see how hard it would be..

A piece of Armor like that of a Collar would be perfect.I Wouldnt even care if it wasn't even visible on my pet.

The Collar is a perfect ifea...

Unfortunatly, this reminds me of Final Fantasy XI Online. Those of you who've played it know what I'm talking about. There were 2 job classes, Summoner and Dragoon, that were by no means "gimp", but missing certain key things that other jobs had.

The devs were spammed with suggestions to improve the jobs for years, but alas, there still has been no major change to the job classes. Summoner only has one line of spells that are useful, and they don't get those spells till level 70 (lvl75 is the level cap).

I feel Beastmastery has so much petential, but has been largely neglected by the devs.

Well call of haste i believe is an enchantment or something, i certainly have not been able to determine whether my pet got it on and when it expires [so i can recast]. All i have is knowing it lasts for 30 seconds....

Feral Lunge i generally see the "bleeding" effect on my target. Being a Monk/Ranger i do not actually watch my pet as i'm (a) very far away (b) busy healing and watching red bars. So i dont really mind about "instant" effects, it's those enchantment ones. [I dont even think it shows a yellow arrow on the HP bar of my pet...so how do you actually know when it runs out??]

How hard would it really be to "storyline-ize" armor on pets? Honestly, not like it hasn't been done before. Look at actual history, there is armor made for everything: horses, elephants, bears, you name it its probably been there. Now actually scripting a piece of armor and making models and artwork that show when you put a new piece on your pet may be time consuming, but thats where the colar idea comes in. And your not alone, i've made it to the ring of fire with a pet too, however i can't rely on him anymore so i have to bring a few marksman skills to replace beastmaster, which leaves other skills cut short.

THANK YOU ARENANET!!!!! I'm going to test out the new update later, make sure it isn't bugged or anything. Thanks for listening guys!

wait, whats the new update?