Guild Wars 2

Since patch already released yesterday and next patch won’s come in a short future, I think it’s time to let something come to the surface (to let more rangers enjoy for a bit before it changes).

Yes as ranger you can have all kinds of builds, wearing all kinds of gears getting all kinds of status killing all kinds of ppl, but none of these make significant change for your server to win a battle. However, there is one skill.

GUARD.

Why this skill?
I give 2 samples here:

1, some of rangers already are using:
“Someone from SM is trebbing our keep, but none of our necro or ele can reach it since its location is hard to get! what we can do?” the Answer —- is GUARD.
“The enemy is build a cata but we don’t have time/supply to build counter and we don’t have enough number to push out! what we can do?” the Answer —- is GUARD.

2, few rangers know and fewer ranger use it:
“We took bay for more than 1 hour, and swiped out all mesmers, but enemy still get in lords room without breaking either wall or gate, how the hell they get in?” the Answer —- is GUARD + rescue (sry, you leave a mesmer’s corpse on the wall un-guarded)

There are more usage of GUARD especially in WvW, use your inspiration and you can make significant change to your server even you are only lv20.

Hope you enjoy to be a ranger in WvW.

Holy crap thanks for the tip with the guard + rescue.
Will use.

I heard it’s an exploit to utilize Guard to do this. Please be careful when you do stuff like this.

Where did you heard about it to be consider as exploit? (although many times after I use it I will hear some complain in forum about hacking taking castle blah blah blah)
We are just using the legit tools Anet gave to us. I am sure Anet know this for very long time but none of dev ever claimed that this is exploit.
But well, I agree that it might be changed in certain future patch. That’s why I choose to post it right after new patch released to give us some time to enjoy.
I will not use it personally for sure as long as any dev stand out and say this is an exploit.

Ryan.8367:

I heard it’s an exploit to utilize Guard to do this. Please be careful when you do stuff like this.

Well…..

If walls and gates are up, there is supposed to be now way into an enemy fortification. Using “guard” bugs your pet and allows him in.

This isn’t “using tools” at your disposal. It’s simply exploiting an issue that hasn’t been resolved.

Good tip though on the guard + rescue. This accounts for a lot of mysteries in WvW :j

Kellnor.5428:

Well…..

If walls and gates are up, there is supposed to be now way into an enemy fortification. Using “guard” bugs your pet and allows him in.

This isn’t “using tools” at your disposal. It’s simply exploiting an issue that hasn’t been resolved.

Good tip though on the guard + rescue. This accounts for a lot of mysteries in WvW :j

Only use it for spiders/birds and you are good to go because spiders can climb walls and birds fly in. Hell can even add cats cause my cat can climb like it’s his job.

Pigs, too.

Spiderpig, spiderpig, does whatever a spiderpig does…

Kellnor.5428:

Well…..

If walls and gates are up, there is supposed to be now way into an enemy fortification. Using “guard” bugs your pet and allows him in.

This isn’t “using tools” at your disposal. It’s simply exploiting an issue that hasn’t been resolved.

Good tip though on the guard + rescue. This accounts for a lot of mysteries in WvW :j

Given that I can fall off a cliff and survive but sometimes my hawk will die… I think Anet can give us this one.

CRrabbit.1284:

Since patch already released yesterday and next patch won’s come in a short future, I think it’s time to let something come to the surface (to let more rangers enjoy for a bit before it changes).

Yes as ranger you can have all kinds of builds, wearing all kinds of gears getting all kinds of status killing all kinds of ppl, but none of these make significant change for your server to win a battle. However, there is one skill.

GUARD.

Why this skill?
I give 2 samples here:

1, some of rangers already are using:
“Someone from SM is trebbing our keep, but none of our necro or ele can reach it since its location is hard to get! what we can do?” the Answer —- is GUARD.
“The enemy is build a cata but we don’t have time/supply to build counter and we don’t have enough number to push out! what we can do?” the Answer —- is GUARD.

2, few rangers know and fewer ranger use it:
“We took bay for more than 1 hour, and swiped out all mesmers, but enemy still get in lords room without breaking either wall or gate, how the hell they get in?” the Answer —- is GUARD + rescue (sry, you leave a mesmer’s corpse on the wall un-guarded)

There are more usage of GUARD especially in WvW, use your inspiration and you can make significant change to your server even you are only lv20.

Hope you enjoy to be a ranger in WvW.

Actually this will not work as Rescue is only for downed players. Stomped players are referred to as defeated and none of the rez type abilities work. Not sure how you have done this or are you just playing thoerycraft and have never actually done it.

Seeing an official response on WvW Guard would be nice. Sending your pet someplace you can’t go (up on top of a wall) feels exploitive. Sending your pet someplace you can go (down from a wall) feels better, but the pet “flying” through the air always feels odd. Sending your pet someplace you could get to eventually (up on top of a hill), but the pet taking a straight-line flying shortcut to get there feels odd.

I’ve sent my pet down from a tower wall (cloaking it with Guard), and then told it to Sic’Em (range 3000) enemy catapults and arrow carts, taking them out from inside the tower. Felt pretty powerful to be doing so much damage at such a range from such a position of safety. Is that an exploit or a just a nice combo?

Moddo.7105:

Actually this will not work as Rescue is only for downed players. Stomped players are referred to as defeated and none of the rez type abilities work. Not sure how you have done this or are you just playing thoerycraft and have never actually done it.

S&R works on fully defeated players, not just downed.

^ Search and Rescue revives dead players as well as downed. I also would like to hear a dev say “yep this is your skill use it!” I don’t like the idea that someone could be banned without warning one day for using it.

While I was farming for ore, a player fell from the cliff overhead onto a ledge next to me. When you die from a fall, you do not enter Downed state – you are fully defeated. I switched a utility and sent my pet up to revive him, and it worked.

Search & Rescue can revive a defeated player: Confirmed!

This has been mentioned time and time again, and we’ve never gotten a response from ArenaNet on the subject so it would be absurd to face a ban over this. I’ve never tried it myself, but I wouldn’t consider this an exploit and I’d have no problem sending my pet into a keep with Guard. All the more so because I use birds.

deepwinter.9015:

While I was farming for ore, a player fell from the cliff overhead onto a ledge next to me. When you die from a fall, you do not enter Downed state – you are fully defeated. I switched a utility and sent my pet up to revive him, and it worked.

Search & Rescue can revive a defeated player: Confirmed!

I’m pretty sure you are right, and I recall having similar experiences using SnR in the past. However recently, I have been unable to get it to work on defeated players (tried on 3 separate occasions).

Come to think of it all of my attempts were in WvW, so maybe they killed it in there to prevent the mesmer res thing…