Guild Wars 2

I think they are called walking ballistas.

omg anet how is this balanced pls nerf ballistas QQ

Now u have to be aware of rangers Mr Thiefy, no longer easy kills ;p

Offair.2563:

Now u have to be aware of rangers Mr Thiefy, no longer easy kills ;p

They are still easy to kill (even with the added invuln). The only change is that long range steal has become near mandatory. Once you get on top of them, they scurry like a person set on fire .

On the plus side they aren’t completely useless now.

You mean the long range shot that requires the warrior to stand completely still and is easily dodged? That long range shot? Yea………..I think the new class you’re talking about is the walking target dummy.

8k autoattack = opening strike crit w/ full zerk. 66xxx. prolly scholar runes, dps sigils. and YOU are full zerk too.

:O

you can prolly hit him for a 12k backstab.

Give that ranger a daggerstorm.
I hear rangers LOVE daggerstorms.

i thought rangers loved comando kitten storms …

Draknar.5748:

You mean the long range shot that requires the warrior to stand completely still and is easily dodged? That long range shot? Yea………..I think the new class you’re talking about is the walking target dummy.

LOL

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Long_Reach

Ran into a glass cannon thief last night in our BL. He was stupid enough to taunt 2 Rangers. I never did get my shot off, the wife was slightly ahead of me, one “Sic Em” and then Long Range Shot and the thief was dead, dead, dead. We take pride in our thief hunting abilities, especially since we can hear each other’s “Sic Ems” and time 2 of them in succession. Very few thieves will live through that.

Later as something totally hilarious we were at our southern camp and I was near the water/bridge when a thief stealthed in to backstab me! I just flipped into the water and the silly, silly thing was stupid enough to follow me in to get the kill, he wanted it so badly! Thief vs Ranger underwater? Guess who died?

Theftwind.8976:

Ran into a glass cannon thief last night in our BL. He was stupid enough to taunt 2 Rangers. I never did get my shot off, the wife was slightly ahead of me, one “Sic Em” and then Long Range Shot and the thief was dead, dead, dead. We take pride in our thief hunting abilities, especially since we can hear each other’s “Sic Ems” and time 2 of them in succession. Very few thieves will live through that.

Later as something totally hilarious we were at our southern camp and I was near the water/bridge when a thief stealthed in to backstab me! I just flipped into the water and the silly, silly thing was stupid enough to follow me in to get the kill, he wanted it so badly! Thief vs Ranger underwater? Guess who died?

Are you honestly trying to get us to believe that you 2v1’d somebody?

The lies on this forum, jfc

Why not? Come on over and we will do the same for you! Free of charge!

8k LRS…

You are either:

-Upscaled
or
-You took off all your armour so you could post a pic
or
-The ranger had 25 stacks of might, frost spirit, signet of wild, signet of hunt, all warrior banners…etc… (all current damage buffs in game)
or
-You’re very good at photoshop.

There, pick one!

Is this meant to be ranger qq thread? Because if so long range shot was not buffed at range…this kind of damage was possible pre patch…

You must be noob :|

There is this new thing called toughness. They introduced it the same time that they introduced long range shot. You should check it out, it helps out a lot.

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

8k LRS…

You are either:

-Upscaled
or
-You took off all your armour so you could post a pic
or
-The ranger had 25 stacks of might, frost spirit, signet of wild, signet of hunt, all warrior banners…etc… (all current damage buffs in game)
or
-You’re very good at photoshop.

There, pick one!

All my armour was equipped and fully functional. Hopefully I am level 80 by now. The first screenshot was outside a tower so I don’t know what buffs the ranger had at the moment. In the second he was outside SM and I doubt he had anything special like warrior banner or whatever.

Sube Dai.8496:

Is this meant to be ranger qq thread? Because if so long range shot was not buffed at range…this kind of damage was possible pre patch…

You must be noob :|

This thread turned into a QQ thread when people started to QQ over my lack of toughness. And handing out personal insults (gj).

Jim Hunter.6821:

There is this new thing called toughness. They introduced it the same time that they introduced long range shot. You should check it out, it helps out a lot.

too bad toughness is absolute garbage on thief, because they have nothing to support it with

So ballistas are finally useful…

I was lighting some people up this evening with my ballista hands.

8k.. to a single target? Pretty sure a spread-shot can one-hit-down a small blob.

Maybe he have blue or green armors. My max hit was ~6k on a not upleveled but mostly i deal 3-4k on light classes max.

eh i believe it vs a thief ill deal 12k with axe 2 on my necro reliably, in special scenarios i can see long range shot dealing 8k damage pretty easily. why are we whining about this tho? Warriors are still a playable class in this game after all

Draknar.5748:

You mean the long range shot that requires the warrior to stand completely still and is easily dodged? That long range shot? Yea………..I think the new class you’re talking about is the walking target dummy.

No. He means Long Range Shot.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Long_Range_Shot

That is, ranger’s longbow autoattack.

The guy who took those screenshots must have playing with a character with little or no toughness in gear and attributes.

The one you mean is Kill Shot.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Kill_Shot

Popping signet of the hunt could get you an 8k critical if you are specced glassy. It’s on a fairly long cooldown though. You can see further down the log a normal 4k crit, which is totally believable for a glass cannon ranger on a target with low toughness.

that’s a huge number that I don’t think I have ever achieved with my full glass, 6/6/0/2/0 LB build, and I am full ascended everything.

I would suspect close to 100% crit chance with Rampage as One, signet of the hunt and signet of the wild combined (+25 damage and +50% damage for next shot), specced to add might on activation was involved ,and maybe jungle stalker for pet for 5 more might, or perhaps you were interrupted and activated moment of clarity

that being said, this build is a troll build, even for a glassy ranger its even more super glassy cuz you really cant run around with it, throwing down all your utilities for a one-off hit, unless you are with a good group, and is really only decent from a tower.

you could use it while roaming but a single good dodge block blur blind ect will leave you sobbing as that thief gives you a red hot pecker up the kitten