Guild Wars 2

I have been deployed for most of a year and played during leave, but I haven’t been in the game in the last 5months so wondering what, if any, major changes have happened now that I’ll be playing again soon.

I’ve looked over the forum some but haven’t seen a lot to answer my questions. I’m more than happy to do my own reading if there is a link or two that could help.

I saw something about a change to pet agro to combat botting but I’m not sure what the details are.

Is LB still poor damage and not worth using?

What about 2hd sword, did it ever get any improvements. I recall it being rather slow for the amount of damage it did.

I saw all the issues with the pet still but that was something I was getting used to dealing with.

Are there any new pets?

Well.
People still keep forgetting that ranger is heavily build around it’s pet rather then it’s weapons and dmg itself.

As You can notice, most of Ranger weapons are more Deffensive rather offensive to let you stay Longer in fight so Your pet can do more work for You.

-Exmaple Is Warrior GS vs ranger GS. WArr gs puts out more #1 dmg, But You in return get around ~1s evade on 3rd attack in chain. Warrior also doesn’t have 3s on move block with gs or daze. Also If You compare ( I personally did on Training golems in mists ) GS warr build with Ranger gs dps build – Using only #1 chain skill, ranger with pet kills golem faster. When you count other skills like #2/#3 for warr, golem goes down faster but remember that either in pve or pvp some skills are harder to execute and easy to avoid ( like avoiding 100b warr combo burst – simply block with GS#4 on ranger and ur safe) )

1 month ago I was like : kitten ranger suck, it’s kitten, pet is crap, weapon dmg is crap.

They I grabbed SB and GS gone full zerker 20/30/15/5/0 and Im really succesful.

Gs with SB provides enough of dmg from me and pet ( jaguar esp. ) is making huge dmg. While I can block, 2x daze ( sb&gs) evade with sb, cripple.

I run with quick zephyr/ trap/Lightnin reflex for okitten moments.

It’s really fun.

Reality is that The sooner You realize that Your not main source of DMG as player in ranger class and You accept partialy Fact that Pets AI is still broken in many ways Youll be really or should be really glad having a ranger.

it’s really fun class, just needs kind of getting used to it…

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Well.
People still keep forgetting that ranger is heavily build around it’s pet rather then it’s weapons and dmg itself.

As You can notice, most of Ranger weapons are more Deffensive rather offensive to let you stay Longer in fight so Your pet can do more work for You.

1 month ago I was like : kitten ranger suck, it’s kitten, pet is crap, weapon dmg is crap.

They I grabbed SB and GS gone full zerker 20/30/15/5/0 and Im really succesful.

Gs with SB provides enough of dmg from me and pet ( jaguar esp. ) is making huge dmg. While I can block, 2x daze ( sb&gs) evade with sb, cripple.

I run with quick zephyr/ trap/Lightnin reflex for okitten moments.

It’s really fun.

Reality is that The sooner You realize that Your not main source of DMG as player in ranger class and You accept partialy Fact that Pets AI is still broken in many ways Youll be really or should be really glad having a ranger.

it’s really fun class, just needs kind of getting used to it…

I was used to the pet having to be part of the equation for damage. I prefer to get in the mix and have the pet assist me more than rely on the pet to tank while I stand off. There were times when I had to swap to a tank pet, but usually I tried to work together with it.