Guild Wars 2

anyone else excited about getting…

- 2 condis removed
- super speed
- 5s quickness
- stunbreak
- fury

…with one utility?

I’ve been running Survivalist Builds since the introduction of ‘Survival of the Fittest’ in any modes and I absolutely love it.

Removing the healing efficiency debuff and adding the Super Speed buff is just delicious!

Also with the upgraded ‘Remorseless’ trait, it’s gonna be awesome.

About Remorseless builds, one huge suggestion: Invest in ‘Rune of Evasion’
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Evasion

You may want to apply 5 runes only so that you don’t waste your refreshed Opening Strike on the 6th rune effect though… Unless we can convince aNet to make the attack proc BEFORE getting Fury, that’d be PERFECT.

Guardian changes:
Tome of Wrath: This ability has been replaced by a new Shout: “Feel My Wrath!”
“Feel My Wrath!”: Grant fury for 10 seconds and quickness for 5 seconds to nearby allies. Cooldown 30 seconds.

They get aoe quickness party support on theirs. They could also spec in runes to make Pure of Voice (Allies affected by shouts have 1 condition converted into a boon. Shout abilities have their recharge reduced by 20%) convert a condi to boon. Our 2 condi removal will be when we are traited for it also so I consider this a fair comparison- although I see this trait as a necessity on almost every build so no more eb for more condi clear or poison master for giggles. Then look at that cd and party support they get from it. Ranger just always seems like such a selfish class to me.

that’s a pretty sweet rune set. ive also been running QZ on my LB builds. but this buff just makes is so delicious with GS.

singinggecko.5736:

Guardian changes:
Tome of Wrath: This ability has been replaced by a new Shout: “Feel My Wrath!”
“Feel My Wrath!”: Grant fury for 10 seconds and quickness for 5 seconds to nearby allies. Cooldown 30 seconds.

They get aoe quickness party support on theirs. They could also spec in runes to make Pure of Voice (Allies affected by shouts have 1 condition converted into a boon. Shout abilities have their recharge reduced by 20%) convert a condi to boon. Our 2 condi removal will be when we are traited for it also so I consider this a fair comparison- although I see this trait as a necessity on almost every build so no more eb for more condi clear or poison master for giggles. Then look at that cd and party support they get from it. Ranger just always seems like such a selfish class to me.

Actually the devs asked in the guardian forums about the change and i found them really nice and necessary.
The tomes were of the same usefulness as the spirits, and so weren’t used.
the changed the two tomes for a signet that heals allies and full heal allies in active and to a shout. the devs took the most used skill and apply it to the new one. And actually i love that change.

This kind of changes would be nice to see in the ranger, you know changes for better.

Lightning Stomps, Flash revives, or just a nice damage boost… With added evasion utility, gotta love that!

Remember that Super Speed while in combat mode is the speed of swiftness out of combat – you can distance yourself QUITE a bit (especially if you cleanse movement impeding conditions thanks to the SotF trait!)

singinggecko.5736:

They get aoe quickness party support on theirs.

yes they do, but they don’t get the defensive utility like we do (stun break and condi cleanse). my point was that the traited QZ is the ultimate utility – it does everything. and i see it being very strong in our power builds.

don’t get me wrong, a ball of guards spamming whirling wrath with quickness is going to be disgusting. but you wont need too many guards running this is a raid group, just one per party.

That is also an elite skill. 5 guard party with -20% to shouts = 25s of quickness every 24s… LOL all guard Meta inc!

i doubt and sincerely hope that quickness doesn’t stack in duration. they wouldn’t be that silly.

mistsim.2748:

i doubt and sincerely hope that quickness doesn’t stack in duration. they wouldn’t be that silly.

If quickness is a boon it should. No?
So medi-shout guard welcome. Now just waiting for the LB and i can forget all my QQing with the ranger.

As a boon it’ll definitely stack in duration, but there’s most definitely a duration cap

Quickness already stacks in duration.

1) Ya, very excited about the new QZ

2)Rune of Evasion is kinda crappy, they need to lower the the ICD on this one, pack is much superior atm.

3)couple of mounths ago they habe talking about fixing the quickness effect with skill chanelling time(like stomp, barrage, swoop, evade on GS AA etc..) If they also fixed that, its going to be amazing.

I thought Quickening Zephyr amazing already, then again, I thought icebow 4 was supposed to get nerfed, so what do I know? I guess Anet just want to keep driving it home that we should all be trying to play burst Rangers?

mistsim.2748:

anyone else excited about getting…

- 2 condis removed
- super speed
- 5s quickness
- stunbreak
- fury

…with one utility?

Yes, a lovely change, I couldn’t really justify taking it over a signet before, but now? All survival for me.

Combined with Quick Draw… Swap to LB, QZ, RF, RF… LOL!