Guild Wars 2

Considering the unlimited retaliation in high level fractals, itd be nice if our “main” abilities didnt do 3k dmg to us….rapid fire and barrage

Take a healer in your group, BAM, situation fixed

Healer for fractal really. Just pay attention and don’t rapid fire when retail is up. Better yet go condi

So much for the play how you want notion. Why does every design aspect of this game have to hate rangers?

Sandpit.3467:

So much for the play how you want notion. Why does every design aspect of this game have to hate rangers?

Doesn’t hate rangers anymore than anyone else. It’s designed to be a challenge. Just don’t be stupid reckless.

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Better yet go condi

This. Toughness scaling in high level fractals encourages running condi anyway.

CETheLucid.3964:

Sandpit.3467:

So much for the play how you want notion. Why does every design aspect of this game have to hate rangers?

Doesn’t hate rangers anymore than anyone else. It’s designed to be a challenge. Just don’t be stupid reckless.

It’s a mechanic that pretty specifically targets rangers. Sure, take other skill/weapon choices, but it kind of makes you wonder what the ranger profession is doing in a game that goes out of it’s way to kill the things that make the profession.

Sandpit.3467:

It’s a mechanic that pretty specifically targets rangers.

No. It does not target rangers specifically.

Sandpit.3467:

CETheLucid.3964:

Sandpit.3467:

So much for the play how you want notion. Why does every design aspect of this game have to hate rangers?

Doesn’t hate rangers anymore than anyone else. It’s designed to be a challenge. Just don’t be stupid reckless.

It’s a mechanic that pretty specifically targets rangers. Sure, take other skill/weapon choices, but it kind of makes you wonder what the ranger profession is doing in a game that goes out of it’s way to kill the things that make the profession.

every single profession in this game has a ranged option, how does this target rangers??

LB isn’t even our highest dps weapon..

i think what the OP means is that our dps comes from high rate of fire weapons because our damage by impact is very low in any weapon.
so something like retaliation that could be a challenge to a rev in sword (damage of the AA chain is 2K-2K-5K in clerics) actually can kill a ranger very quickly.
this affects not only RF but sword and shortbow as well.

however i agree that if your choice is ranger is because you like to play in hard mode. So you’ll have to adapt and forget the pewpew meta.

Just use A/D Sw/T and carrion. High Condi damage and relatively low attack rate. Even better, just run Healing Druid and don’t worry about attacking.

Edit: The old meta still works as well, Axe/T and T

Archon.6480:

Just use A/D Sw/T and carrion. High Condi damage and relatively low attack rate. Even better, just run Healing Druid and don’t worry about attacking.

Edit: The old meta still works as well, Axe/T and T

Haha Its one of those issues that not all of us can enjoy playing a condi build. Its similar to the fact that I have a hard time slotting druid in PvP even though druid builds are so kitten superior compared to non druid builds. I just don’t enjoy playing it as much as my primary build. And ultimately how well you enjoy your build is gonna be worth more than whether or not you clear the content as fast as possible. I could probably win alot more fights in PvP If I just bit the bullet and slotted druid. But I probably would get bored very quickly and stop pvping as I wouldn’t get that sense of excitement that I do in my current one. Its a matter of playstyle.

As to the OP. If its retal that hes talking about as I believe then the axe isn’t exactly a great choice either. It is still a high rate of fire weapon with multi hit attacks. Though with condi tis allright if you stop attacking for a bit.

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Healer for fractal really. Just pay attention and don’t rapid fire when retail is up. Better yet go condi

Pay attention? They always have retaliation up, considering they gain a boon for every crit and I crit 90% of the time, having ONE ability hit 10-12 times…so pay attention to what?
;)

Yes pay attention don’t rapid fire when your at 50% hp. 4k in retal damage or even 8k shouldn’t be enough to kill you. Be sure to heal before or after you rapid fire to ensure you don’t kill youself. Using food that life steals on crit. If you can’t do that then mango pie or use resounding timber.

Auto attack or stop attacking if your hp is to low and your heal is on cd. So again pay attention.

Well, according to another forum member, Rangers are dead and useless in any high level content due to their lack luster DPS… /boggle

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Healer for fractal really. Just pay attention and don’t rapid fire when retail is up. Better yet go condi

ive found having a healer in frac 75+ is actually helpful tbh. most people dont even know, because they just spam mossman, but yea, it helps. It barely slows you down actually, if anything it makes it less painful due to the nonsense type deaths that are (somewhat) inevitable

Higher factal have higher toughness every ounce of damage is important In the grand scheme of things there are very few situation that you cant rally an ally and the damage that will kill most players a heal wont save them.

The amount of healing doesn’t out weigh the damage being done and infact because your healing the party is taking more damage because the mobs say alive longer.

Life steal food should be more than sufficient to keep yourself alive.