Guild Wars 2

Ranger/Druid Staff

This is an idea for the staff on a ranger. The range of the attacks is 600, because we already got three 900+ (Axe, Longbow, Shortbow) and two melee (Sword/Greatsword) weapons. The idea is to have a power-based weapon with support.

Staff #1: Bird Hit/ Bird Bash/ Wind
Hit
1/4 sec, Range 600
A Bird hits your Enemy.
Bash
1/4 sec, Range 600
Another Bird hits the Enemy.
Wind
1/2 sec, Range 600
Wind hits up to 5 Enemies in a cone. Applies 3 Stacks of Vulnerability (5sec).

[The idea is that the player have to make the decision if he/she goes for the last attack in the chain or does something else. The Damage should be as high as Guardian Staff 1 attack.]

Staff #2: Nature´s Wrath
Groundtarget, 1/4 sec, Range 600, Duration 5 sec, Radius 240,(10x) 2,000 Damage, Cooldown 7 sec
A swarm of Insects does Damage in an Area.

Staff #3: Sapling of Life
1 sec, Duration 5 sec, Pulse every second, Radius 360, 10k Hp and 1,5k Armor, Cooldown 20 sec
Creat a sapling that heals up to five allies and gives them protection (1 sec).

[The Sapling can be targeted and be destroyed. Healing without Healing Power (just base Healing Power on Level 80) 200. The Enemy have to decide if he/she goes for the sapling or deal with the protection and the healing.]

Staff #4: Spirit of Raven
1/4 sec, Radius 600, Cooldown 25 sec
The Spirit of Raven appears and blind (3 sec) up to five Enemies and damages them.

Like on the Greatsword and Spear a green spirit is shown.

Staff #5: Vile Thorns
1 sec, Radius 130, 20k Hp 2k Armor, 20 sec Duration, Pulse every 2 sec, unblockable, Cooldown 40 sec
Cast a wall of Thorns on your location. The Thorns damage nearby Enemies, apply 1 second of immobility and 2 seconds of cripple every 2 seconds.

[Can be used to keep the Enemies form an area or to hinder them to enter through a small passage. Can be damaged with conditions.]

Thanks for reading.

Nice ideas. Going for more druid-like ranger would be very interesting!

the idea and concept is good. =) but honestly, i rather have them allow us to use rifle and pistols

I have no idea if the numbers are legit but I do like the theme and general ideas on abilities.

I kind of imagined a staff ranger having a combination of 300-600 range skills that go between aoe melee and slightly ranged utility.

Looks very cool. I like the ideas you have about summoning destroyable trees/vines.. quite interesting.

If only

“Natures Wrath” is the name of my black bear

Nice ideas, btw, I saw this in your history:

i normally don´t write on the forums, but now i just have too. Two Thiefs ganked about 20 ppl in the EB JP. Nobody could kill them. Perma stealth and insane damage. Both were s/p.
Can we pls see a fix for that? I really don´t mind if i get ganked once in a while, but this is going on for 2 hours now. They just won´t stop.
I managed to survive about 3 min alone against them but in the end i just couldn´t handle the damage.

You pumped about sick em?

If my ranger ever gets a staff, i want a skill set to wield it like a pure melee quarterstaff, Robin Hood style! I may even start camping bridges…

cafard.8953:

If my ranger ever gets a staff, i want a skill set to wield it like a pure melee quarterstaff, Robin Hood style! I may even start camping bridges…

Relevant quote from Men in Tights

Robin Hood: Kindly let me pass.
Little John: Uh, no. Sorry, but a toll is a toll, and a roll is a roll, and if we don’t get no tolls, then we don’t eat no rolls.
[Proudly]
Little John: I made that up.
Robin Hood: It’s very fascinating. But I’m afraid I’m going to have to hurt you.

Chopps.5047:

cafard.8953:

If my ranger ever gets a staff, i want a skill set to wield it like a pure melee quarterstaff, Robin Hood style! I may even start camping bridges…

Relevant quote from Men in Tights

Robin Hood: Kindly let me pass.
Little John: Uh, no. Sorry, but a toll is a toll, and a roll is a roll, and if we don’t get no tolls, then we don’t eat no rolls.
[Proudly]
Little John: I made that up.
Robin Hood: It’s very fascinating. But I’m afraid I’m going to have to hurt you.

I’m off already to craft some rolls.

I want staff and hammer so bad! When we do get new weapons, I really want some that have an optimal damage rotation like some warrior sets so we can stop auto attacking all the time.

Not the I don’t like your ideas, but here’s what I would like to see.

Staff 1:
AoE come attack, much like guardian staff 1. However, it will do less damage, but it will apply 1sec of cripple to 5 players.

Staff: 2
Some sort of mobility skill, either a leap or teleport. 900 range.

Staff 3:
Create a water field that heals allies not with regen tho, just a flat heal. Perhaps use the same animation as the theif healing tree that they steal from rangers.

Staff 4:
Create Muddy Terrain at your feet, will also clear 1 condition every second for you and allies. (Maybe take out immobilize from the muddy terrain.)

Staff 5:
Create a ground casted ring of thorns, same concept as guardian ring of warding. Foes can’t pass unless they have stability.

I would love to see a weapon around this range, not quite melee but not ranged would suit the ranger nicely and fill in it’s current gaps. I also really want to go in dungeons and groups and actually be able to support my allies. +1

I got one too

Staff 1:
Whack,
deals damage similar to great sword 1, but in a larger aoe around ranger

Thwack,
similar to whack

Whirl,
another whack with a whirl finisher.

Staff 2:
pole-vault,
use your staff to pole-vault at your opponent, knocking them down and moving behind them.

Staff 3:
Thorn Bush,
Create a thorn bush in an area around you. the bush cripples and torments enemies that walk in it.

Staff 4:
Uproot,
bring up roots in a line in-front of you, briefly immobilizing enemies.

Staff 5:
Oakheart’s anger,
a spirit oakheart appears above your head(similar to the bear in maul) and then you both pound the area infront of you, knocking down opponents and is a blast finisher.

I prefer skill2 to…

Staff #2: Nature´s Wrath > Master’s Warth.
Use staff throw your “pet” to target 400aoe range900 daze effect on direct hit.
And side effect is up to what “PET” you throw!!
Bear type : get launch.Throw bear to target ha!!
Dog type : get fear. you know dog bite hurt then…run!!
Pig type : get cripple.OUCH!!
Bird type : get weak. I don’t like smell of…
Spider type : get poison. Ewwwww.w..w…It stinky.
Lizard type : get torment. It’s stink!!
Devo type : get knockdown. It’s heavy!!
Moa type : get more daze and stun sometime. kungkittenbird kick em all!!
Jellyfish type : Umm…well if you fast enough immo…them.
Fish type : again…if you fast enough…valu and bleed.

Silverkung.9127:

I prefer skill2 to…

Staff #2: Nature´s Wrath > Master’s Warth.
Use staff throw your “pet” to target 400aoe range900 daze effect on direct hit.
And side effect is up to what “PET” you throw!!
Bear type : get launch.Throw bear to target ha!!
Dog type : get fear. you know dog bite hurt then…run!!
Pig type : get cripple.OUCH!!
Bird type : get weak. I don’t like smell of…
Spider type : get poison. Ewwwww.w..w…It stinky.
Lizard type : get torment. It’s stink!!
Devo type : get knockdown. It’s heavy!!
Moa type : get more daze and stun sometime. kungkittenbird kick em all!!
Jellyfish type : Umm…well if you fast enough immo…them.
Fish type : again…if you fast enough…valu and bleed.

I’m not sure how viable the idea is in practice, but I find the imagery of Animal Lacrosse hilarious.

Silverkung.9127:

I prefer skill2 to…

Staff #2: Nature´s Wrath > Master’s Warth.
Use staff throw your “pet” to target 400aoe range900 daze effect on direct hit.
And side effect is up to what “PET” you throw!!
Bear type : get launch.Throw bear to target ha!!
Dog type : get fear. you know dog bite hurt then…run!!
Pig type : get cripple.OUCH!!
Bird type : get weak. I don’t like smell of…
Spider type : get poison. Ewwwww.w..w…It stinky.
Lizard type : get torment. It’s stink!!
Devo type : get knockdown. It’s heavy!!
Moa type : get more daze and stun sometime. kungkittenbird kick em all!!
Jellyfish type : Umm…well if you fast enough immo…them.
Fish type : again…if you fast enough…valu and bleed.

Angry Pets (saved trademark)

Would love staff/druidic stuff, but I don’t think that will happen since the Ranger in this world is like 90% martial and only 10% magic.

I would love to have staff, but there are some good reasons why this is never going to happen:

1) Anet doesnt implement new weapons, they have enough work for balancing and fixing the old ones.
New weapons require new traits which requires even more balancing.
2) Ranger already has a pretty good weaponchoice, there is no real need to add a second one

Anyways, thats how I would love staff:

1)
3 Attack chain
1: Swipe (1/4)
2: Stab (1/4), Vulnerability (3stacks) for 1 second
3: Whirl (2/4) hit enemies surrounding you twice.

2) Windslash: A fast overhead slash, producing a cutting windblow. 600 Range, straight line. You and your pet gain swiftness for 5 sec.

3) Slam, 700 Range
The Ranger leaps towards the target area, slamming the ground in a 400 Range area.
Applies cripple(2sec) and daze(1sec)

4) Defensive strike
The ranger hits all enemies around him, blocking attacks and reflecting projectiles (1sek)

5) whatever

Your Staff #5 doesn’t seem too much different from the Longbow, except it adds the immobilize. I like the control possibilities it has, and that it would force players to stop and kill the thorns before they proceed. (I could see the possibilities in WvW, but in PvP, it might be way too overpowered in the form it is right now.)

I like your skill 1, 2, and 4 though

My staff idea from a few months ago. I had the idea that all 5 weapon skills change depending on whether your pet is alive or not(post is way too long to put here):::
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Ranger-Weapon-and-Skill-Building/2548779
(There are also 3 other Staff ideas from other people all over the place in that thread.)
(If you don’t like a Druid type weapon for Ranger. Do not, I repeat, Do not, click that link. You will be very disapointed!!!)

cafard.8953:

If my ranger ever gets a staff, i want a skill set to wield it like a pure melee quarterstaff, Robin Hood style! I may even start camping bridges…

The druid staff goes better with Ranger though. Melee staff would be perfect for Thief (in fact Robin Hood was the prince of thieves…) that is closer to martial arts, being a derivate of GW1 Assassin.

I like the nature magic staff theme, I’ve always said that the professions in game were enough to cover most possible archetypes, and my favorite example was always Ranger with staff, with already a trait line called nature magic, spirits of nature and utility spells calling on nature forces to summon springs and lightning and an animal themed profession mechanic, so we don’t need a Druid profession because the Ranger with a Staff can be one.

I have no idea about the numbers either but the idea seems interesting!

I’ve wanted Staff on Rangers for a while, tbh … and this thread’s got some darned interesting ideas.