Guild Wars 2

I found this video pretty fascinating. I was aware of all of these 5 tips in concept, however since I don’t play mesmer they were mostly new to me.

Apply the concepts to ranger and then post. Ready: Go.

We have it a lot more difficult than many of the professions in that our mechanics are… er, mechanically more simple. We don’t have teleports or “magicy” type skills.

At an absolutely basic level, the idea that some skills do 2 things is that hornets sting can be weapon stowed to be turned into a forward leap. This is not particularly useful in PvP that I’m aware of, other than for some whacky LB positions on Forest.

Stow weapon to cancel cast to bait dodges is good for very few skills on ranger since we are pressure fighters and don’t really have trump cards. You can use it for things like maul or entangle if entangle were still used. Pet control is the equivalent here and you can bait dodges for important PET skills since ranger skills suck. Eura was always harping on how you should bait dodges with brutal charge.

And sort of related, I’ve posted this move before a few times, but I’ve literally never seen someone use it against me, so I’ll repeat it here. If you are running double melee ranger you can get the stun instead of daze off a GS5 by using 1h sword 2, untarget, sword 2 (which throws you slightly behind the “target”), autotarget, GS5. It’s relatively easy to pull off and a stun is a lot more useful than a daze.

Fluffball.8307:

I was aware of all of these 5 tips in concept, however since I don’t play mesmer they were mostly new to me.

Lol yeah, especially tip #5 is a real pro tip!

I had a lot of uses with the mentioned cancel on sword #2.

Actually, all the nice things we had were nerfed or taken. I remember the GS#3 + Staff #3 when you could use it in air.
Then one of the tricks I constantly kept using was on Guard – well known. When you used it and swapped pets immediately – the debuff that harmed the pet from the damage mitigated went with him and the new pet stayed unharmed while providing the full 100% benefit of the shout.

And I remember some people not using this advantage, but… Letting loose of your camera-lock while executing attacks (mostly on LB) will always keep track of the target so they can’t get behind your back.

Dunno, we don’t really have a mechanically complex ability set. All of those things are niche tricks that people usually know about.

Shark cc for ancient seeds underwater,
https://youtu.be/1GvZMUyjsbY

Monarch Leaping, the 4th entrance to swc,
https://youtu.be/yplHkISciZU

That all I got.

Hmm, so are rangers really that much easier to play than other professions?

We need some game mechanics to abuse.

Edit: I think the biggest use of cancelling aftercasts on a ranger is doing hearts where you have giant actions like scrubbing graffiti.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Lol yeah, especially tip #5 is a real pro tip!

Well if you get it to work, you’re in excellent shape. Tough to do though.

Fluffball.8307:

Hmm, so are rangers really that much easier to play than other professions?

We need some game mechanics to abuse.

Well, it’s actually the other way round.
Rangers have to play without any mechanics at all against people who do have the mechanics and can still abuse them.

If that is not called proficiency or high skill-cap, than I don’t know what is.

Tragic Positive.9356:

Fluffball.8307:

Hmm, so are rangers really that much easier to play than other professions?

We need some game mechanics to abuse.

Well, it’s actually the other way round.
Rangers have to play without any mechanics at all against people who do have the mechanics and can still abuse them.

If that is not called proficiency or high skill-cap, than I don’t know what is.

High Skill cap is when you are abusing obnoxious overtuned stuff to wrekt noobs in wvw,
OP is when your op build gets wrekt by competent players in wvw.

At least that is the personal definition of most people playing the game.

Justine.6351:

High Skill cap is when you are abusing obnoxious overtuned stuff to wrekt noobs in wvw,
OP is when your op build gets wrekt by competent players in wvw.

At least that is the personal definition of most people playing the game.

Haha, yea, this sounds so correct.

I just remembered …

For GS users – turning back on the 3rd auto-attack “missing” it will open up 2 windows of Evade since it will be recast right after without resetting the chain.

You can precast search and rescue iirc.
Use staff 4 in the direction you are moving for clear.

I suppose cancel casting a pet F2 and still getting the taunt from BW falls under this as well.