Guild Wars 2

I would just like to know what skill makes the ranger have this big of a AOE with this long of a timer?

and a Warrior have this fast of a cooldown on shield block?

These videos were made back when the game was in development, and were made for theatre purposes to show the mechanics of the class. The skills have changed much since then.
The Ranger skill used is no longer in the game (Spread Shot) and closest skill to it Poison Volley(Shortbow). The Fire AOE is probably an early version of Bonfire ( #5 Torch). It current does not have that big of an AOE. (if you want a very similar skill to that you would have to use Longbow on Warrior and use Combustive Shot)

For the Shield Block, the CD for it is a lot longer now :P

Edit: Added Warrior Bit.

it seems that spreadshot never made it to the ranger’s bow kitten nal. But the fact that it has 5 arrows in that fashion shot out it seems they moved it to the Ballista.

As for shieldstance. This skill is develloped from the gw1 skill where the cooldown was 15 seconds. They obviously decided that it would be too powerful that short when they later on developed it.

Thanks just wanted to confirm it wasn’t just me overlooking some traited ability or something b/c the bonfire from torch is lol at best.

I just checked the wiki for the Bonfire and to see if any traits increase the radius of the fire. It appears that it Offhand Training would give you something similar to the effect in the video. Although i dont think the radius is still quite as large.

“Off-Hand Training increases the radius to 180, though this is not reflected on the tooltip, and adds a “burnt earth” animation. "