the ultimate beastmaster!

im thinking something like say

"Beastmaster"
energy cost 10
cast time 2
recharge 10

Heal your animal compainion for 10..72 health, and revive fallen companions with (fixed at) 25% health. Having this skill on your skill bar will allow you to have your pet with you at all times.

meaning, its just comfort animal a tad bit weaker, and while after using charm animal for the first time, this will hold the pet in your skill slot. idk, doesn't seem that overpowered seeing as you still need a good self heal, attacks, and probably buffs/stances.

also, great find, i was trying to see if there was any new developments earlier, so thank you for that post.

and finally, to put it to rest, yes, i was annoyed with yet another person telling me what and not what to post yet again on guru, but only because it seems like every post someone makes, someone acts as though they know better, and whether or not they do, they say it in a very rude mannor. maybe i was over-defensive, and for that i'm sorry. again, i saw the guy's bar turn green out of no where. we had a zb monk, me (with my enraged lunge build, not my poison set), a spirit rit, and an axe tank. the other team didnt have rangers, had a necro, monk, dragon slash tank, and a dervish. now unless one of them had a poison move, or the necro had self poison/disease moves like flesh, no one in this 4v4 had any way of even having a poison move, which is what led me to believe that that was what it could be. all i said in the op was that i thought it was cool, and i would think it'd be nice if all pets could have special abilities, which is what this op was about, what type of special abilities should pets have. one skill for keep up/rez/heal? a mini skill bar just for them? a control bar for them? that sort of thing. so again, no hard feelings, its been a hard week for me ;p

edit:meant to say enraged lunge lol

I would be a lot happier if we just had a way to have our pets retreat on command (for instance under the charm skill). Controls like those of heroes would be fantastic, even if it were just the different modes (fight, guard, avoid).

But it must not become overpowered, and stay workable from the user-interface and that might become more difficult when heroes have pets.

I think Penguin-Boy and Mr. Blue Avatar just need to agree to disagree.

As for the Charm Animal thing...I would like to see an elite version of this. Perhaps something like "Beastmaster's Bond" - "Charm target animal. If you have a pet, your pet is healed for 50...150 health and loses one condition and one hex. If your pet is dead and in range it is resurrected with 10...60% health" - 15 energy, 1 second cast, 5 second recharge. That would be pretty sweet...being able to amalgamate Charm and Comfort animal into one elite skill.

That's what my ranger is hoping for in Chapter 4.

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A-net said something about making Pet Controls on the last Dev Update.

The arguement that a pet has the ability to inflict poison randomly in incredibly rare instances is like saying that a sword attack will cause deep wound every once in a trillion attacks. Theoretically it's technically possible since no one truly knows the game mechanics save the designers who actually constructed it, but considering how rare the occurence, how unreliable the evidence, and how unlikely that this actually is, there's not much point in making this argument unless you have rock hard evidence.

Quite frankly, it's a hell of a lot more likely that there was a flaw in perception than this actually being true.

Personally, I think this rumor was started from a combination of flawed perception and wishful thinking, but if I ever get poisoned by a rat, I'll be sure to let you know.

i love the idea for that elite Celestial. that's really all i'd want for my bm sets. one reason why i love bm now, is because when i dont feel like thumping, or intterupting for my guild/ha, i can stand on a cliff in the etnarian keys, shoot a guy with and arrow, and watch my pet run around killing people in ab while im so far from danger. last night i tested attacking someone from a hill, then hiding to see how long the pet would fight him.. he stayed till the guy died (enraged lunge build) and came back after, never touched except once by an AoE attack. if there was some sort of "come back" or "sickem" control bar, that would create a whole new world for this underused attrib line lol. ot's cry is kinda lame, especially in ab where thumpers pets go crazy and people start to freak out hahaha.


edit: i keep saying "feral lunge build", its an "enraged lunge build"... sorry, i JUST started using bm. i used to thump for my ha/gvg team, back then i only had like 4 bm skills lol

also, im getting a lot of people saying this build is just "ok" or a "general" bm build. i understand that, but please post a build too, so i can see what i can fix or make better. i use this build, and i have another post in this forum area witha enraged lunge build


call of haste
pred bond
brutal strike
pred's pounce
feral lunge (sub rez)
enraged lunge
comfort
charm

15 beast
13 exper

so if you guys play bm for fun, drop a build or two.

When I was in the middle of a battle, my pet bear stood up and said, "Only you can prevent forest fires!" I was so stunned I forgot to screenie it.

I like running enraged lunge on my pet as the elite. Not a fan of Heal as One in pve as healers will take care of your pet and they get no dp anyway.

..pets do get dp bro

geeze dude, you're pretty rude, and sorry? i didnt see that you said pve, just like you obviously didnt see the previous post talking about how i was probably wrong about the plague bite. i know that pets dont get dp in pve yet, just a mistake in reading your post. try not being such a jerk when you post, no one likes a sarcastic know it all.

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I like to have some bow added into my beastmasters, and even without many attacks, it's still damage and utility. With (major) runes three attrib lines can be brought up to
Expertise 13 (but 9 would suffice often)
Beastmastery 13
Marksmanship 12
Skills for general PvE are along the lines of:
Charm and Comfort
Call of Protection and Call of Haste/Predatory Bond/Symbiotic Bond
Enraged Lunge and Predators Pounce
Read the Wind and Distracting Shot.

I am currently training pets for my ranger and monk heroes, I though it would be fun to have a small big party. With multiple pets, only one player/hero needs to bring Revive alongside Charm as the monk heroes are more then adequate at healing the pets.