Guild Wars 2

Entangle is useless to some and invaluable to others. I had a good opportunity last night to use it in one of it’s more useful ways, as part of a flanking attack on a small group. See the short video here.

Note two important aspects of a useful Entangle – attacking from the flank where the all-too-obvious casting animation is not seen by your targets, and applying a condition before the Entangle so that it is not first in the condition stack.

Entangle is often a ‘for effect’ tool, but when used appropriately, it can be pretty effective as well.

Ah, you learn something new every day :P.

I’ll probably use it with the poison or chill trap now. Fire is more dps than the spike trap and the spike trap provides the same stack of immobilize and bleeds that would be removed in the first round.

Maybe I’ll finally take chill over poison, it’s hard to decide because chill has such a long cooldown compared to the other traps (12 seconds on fire for instance muehehehehe)

Wow, nicely done. It would have been perfect if you also had a River Drake using it’s F2 skill. I will remember this move.

Thanks. I do use drakes once in a while, but I am hard pressed to run with anything but Wolf and it’s Fear and Knockdown, or the Red Moa with it’s heal and Vulnerability, which stacks up to 22 with Opening Strike and Longbow’s Hunter’s Shot.

Rangers in my opinion are a finesse class…we can do great things, but it requires us to pull of very exact attacks, combinations or stacking. We have some truly great stacking potential with our powers and pets, it would be greater still if they are worked as designed or were not unreliable as some are…but yeah.

Veyr nicely done. I have to say I love entangle. I know in theory its easy to get out from, and usually people do escape in around 2-4 seconds, but it still throws people off long enough to get the upper hand and as you demonstrated in small battles it can easily throw off their entire team. Even if its just a few seconds of them being destracted and unable to move its enough for you to win the battle.