The bear warden - werewolf dilemma

mague

Hi,

this is not about vDungeons and not about PvP. Not in the first place at least. It is more about the daily overland, delve, open dungeon, anchor, geyser, mission, kill dragons and bosses gameplay.

First i want to say that i am very happy with the stamina bear since last fix.I use him all the time and even use weapons with the decisive trait for 40% more ultimates. My gameplay is using bear often.

I also like the werewolf. It is a surge of adrenalin problem solver. Its fun to play and also in a good shape for my gameplay.

The problem is, if i slot the werewolf the bear despawns when ever i switch bars. To use the werewolf then needs planning and that takes away the idea of adrenaline rush. Very bad when in combat and cant swap ultimate skills.

I so hope for a solution...

- Maybe allow us to put the werewolf into a skill slot
- Or do not despawn the bear if the other ultimate is werewolf.

It would be ok if the bear despanws when transforming. But not on bar swap please.

I am adding someone because i hope for a solution.
@ZOS_GinaBruno

UntilValhalla13

The bear is like a perma pet, and will always need to be double barred, because it literally won't exist if it's not slotted. Until they change that, (which will probably never happen, ever,) there's not a lot anyone can do about it.

Skullstachio

One way of looking at this: summon a pet to the field that remains while the ability is slotted, if the skill is unslotted (either through changing skills manually or bar-swapping.) the summoned pet despawns after a set period of time.

Kilcosu

not sure if you are on console or pc but the best solution I can think of for this is an addon like alpha gear to swap quickly between skill sets with a hotkey.

just swap the bars using it when you get to 300 ultimate for ww. only downside is you'd need to be out of combat for this

Xvorg

mague wrote: »

Hi,

this is not about vDungeons and not about PvP. Not in the first place at least. It is more about the daily overland, delve, open dungeon, anchor, geyser, mission, kill dragons and bosses gameplay.

First i want to say that i am very happy with the stamina bear since last fix.I use him all the time and even use weapons with the decisive trait for 40% more ultimates. My gameplay is using bear often.

I also like the werewolf. It is a surge of adrenalin problem solver. Its fun to play and also in a good shape for my gameplay.

The problem is, if i slot the werewolf the bear despawns when ever i switch bars. To use the werewolf then needs planning and that takes away the idea of adrenaline rush. Very bad when in combat and cant swap ultimate skills.

I so hope for a solution...

- Maybe allow us to put the werewolf into a skill slot
- Or do not despawn the bear if the other ultimate is werewolf.

It would be ok if the bear despanws when transforming. But not on bar swap please.

I am adding someone because i hope for a solution.
@ZOS_GinaBruno

WW sorcs want to tell you that pets + WW is imposible.

tsaescishoeshiner

Side note: Decisive does NOT increase your ult gain by 40%. It's a 40% chance any moment you gain ult to gain 1 ult

You earn 3 ult per second in combat, and 4 ult every 8 seconds (assuming perfect procs, which won't happen) from warden passives.That makes base ult gen 3.5/sec

So decisive applies once per second, then once per 8 seconds. Giving you a 40% chance for 1 ult every second and 40% chance for 1 ult every 8 sec. Or,

40% • 1 + 40% • 1/8
= 0.4 + 0.05
= 0.45

So it makes your ult gen 3.95, which is like a 12% increase. Not saying this to be nitpicky, just to expose Decisive for being a bit misleading. Still reduces the time between your bear punches by 2-3 seconds (but 40% would be like 8 seconds faster)

Gundug

I think from a balance standpoint, allowing combat pets with the werewolf transformation would be highly problematic. Especially with the pack leader morph. Way too many pets.

The other issue would be needing a second werewolf bar to accommodate pet skills. The werewolf skill line is designed around only having the one bar, and limited skill choices.