NiteHawk wrote:No matter what you do no one is going to kill the pet before the player in PVP first. Just want to point that out.
In any situation, even if we buff pets to super mario with a star mode, no one will deal with the pet first. Having to deal with 1000 HP (three times), no one cares to do. Other stuff could come into effect to help rangers but they aren't honestly bad.
It's not about people killing the pet first and you're correct that that prolly wont really happen, especially since with the current state of the summon there's not cooldown (afaik) on re-summoning pets that die so if there was a pet so impactful as to be targeted before the player it'd be OP as fuck and would just be re-summoned and healed.
I'm just talking about giving them useful auras and a /protect type feature that blocks a % of hits would be a great one. They would help Rangers in 1v1's with the % based /protect feature or even a pet that buffed in an aura (affecting parties) str, agi, magic resist, AC. The big focus though is that they could be helpful to parties like Bards and make them of use for party vs party fights and PVE.
I feel like if they were ever the kings of 1v1 PVP they'd be OP since they have good utility but with the decent bow dmg they already have paired with some utility you could get from adding pet auras and things they could be better contenders and excel in party stuff.