Guild Wars 2

Reverse the swap please. Instinctual Bond is worthless. Since ALL pets have been made completely useless, there’s no reason to dump 30 points into BM tree for Zephyr’s Speed. Before the patch, rangers have guaranteed access to 2s of quickness to stomp but now they can’t even do that.

2 seconds isn’t enough for a stomp. 3 seconds is. It’s useful in PvP, worthless in PvE, and either way, a terrible grandmaster trait.

gawker.8340:

Reverse the swap please. Instinctual Bond is worthless. Since ALL pets have been made completely useless, there’s no reason to dump 30 points into BM tree for Zephyr’s Speed. Before the patch, rangers have guaranteed access to 2s of quickness to stomp but now they can’t even do that.

Sweeping generalization much?

Jaguar Burst is still a thing. I’m going to repost something I said in another thread:

jubskie.3152:

Jaguars still have ridiculously high crit chance while stealthed, its just not 100% anymore.

(2061 base precision – 822) / 21 = 59% base crit chance

59% base crit + 25% stalk bonus crit chance = 84% crit chance when stealthed

With 30 points in BM, thats an additional 14% for a total of 98% crit chance. I doubt a 2% decrease in crit chance is gonna be a big enough factor in Jaguar spike.

The Feline Maul skill was nerfed by 50%. It used to do something like 4k-5k damage, now it’s reduced to 2k-2.5k. But it is on a 20s cd and Feline auto attacks are untouched so Felines are still top DPS pets albeit a tiny bit weaker.

Atmost, you lose 3k~ or so damage every 20 seconds.

Also, 2 seconds of quickness is not enough for a stomp at all. See this thread.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Ranger-s-Confirm-Bug-Please/

Although I will admit, I’m going to miss quickness Barrage, quickness Rapid Fire, and quickness rezzing from petswap.

I was using the swap—>Stomp until yesterday, I start the stomp then I swap pet….Stomp completed way before the actual cast bar finished and it was 100% stomp…

Like I said in another thread, bye bye BM and forget your pets…

It’s worth pointing out that the trait Zephyr’s Speed now lists 3 seconds of quickness which would be a slight improvement for what it does. I haven’t test it myself yet but if it works that way then that would make it viable for spiking at least.

They could have added another on-swap buff to increase offensive potential and still reward rangers for speccing into the now-very-shaky BM tree. That said, I absolutely despise traits that have to do with being downed, as I don’t want to be downed and adding 5 sec of quickness to bad AI when I’m downed is pretty much useless imo.