Guild Wars 2

Already posted many times, here I post 1 more last time.
Use Siamoth as pet, keep feather/tuft in your hand.
The easiest way is simply stealth + back/flank maul, target will not see the animation until it land.
Of coz there is more combo related to stealth which can ensure you more and secured damage, use your imagination to create your own combo, it’s not that hard and it rocks in 1v1. Just remember — Siamoth is your best friend for GS maul build.

If the incoming patch note is true, enjoy.

Would be nice if the enemy doesn’t kill me before Siamoth decides to put RNG in my favor and the enemy let me pick up the feather without me being killed.

Use it before head. Once siamoth F2 rdy then just use it, You can keep feather/tuft in your hand for 30 seconds. I am not using siamoth as my pet in combat, I use Juguar(me +juguar = both stealth). There is only 10 second window that you don’t have it in your hand.
Go try it a few times then you know how to use it. It’s not that hard.

runeblade.7514:

Would be nice if the enemy doesn’t kill me before Siamoth decides to put RNG in my favor and the enemy let me pick up the feather without me being killed.

It also gives a 40 second cooldown if Siamoth doesn’t give you a tuft of feather.

Let me give the conclusion, this is not the solution. It barely works. You might as well just suck it up and use Maul without anything.

You could just use hunter’s shot’s 3s stealth on hit, switch to gs and maul that way.

CRrabbit.1284:

Already posted many times, here I post 1 more last time.
Use Siamoth as pet, keep feather/tuft in your hand.
The easiest way is simply stealth + back/flank maul, target will not see the animation until it land.
Of coz there is more combo related to stealth which can ensure you more and secured damage, use your imagination to create your own combo, it’s not that hard and it rocks in 1v1. Just remember — Siamoth is your best friend for GS maul build.

If the incoming patch note is true, enjoy.

Another good combo, if you land the pull is to have axe offhand out with your other set and pull them in with Path of Scars and quickly swap and maul. With hydromancy sigils firing off, I land maul just about every time with that combo.. although, landing the pull of path of scars on a moving target can actually be quite difficult. Although I’m not using a maul multiplier build, so s/a may not be viable for most gs users.

Tbh, running Boar is just better. Assuming you want to land MoC Maul, you can get 6s stun, 9sec fear or 4 sec ranged daze just with his drops. Not to mention, Skull is affected by all necro Terror traits and doesn’t have any cap on duration. Why run some short stealth if you can already have longest CCs in the game ?

Rym.1469:

Tbh, running Boar is just better. Assuming you want to land MoC Maul, you can get 6s stun, 9sec fear or 4 sec ranged daze just with his drops. Not to mention, Skull is affected by all necro Terror traits and doesn’t have any cap on duration. Why run some short stealth if you can already have longest CCs in the game ?

With Moment of Clarity you can double the duration of stun/daze items from boars.

urdriel.8496:

Rym.1469:

Tbh, running Boar is just better. Assuming you want to land MoC Maul, you can get 6s stun, 9sec fear or 4 sec ranged daze just with his drops. Not to mention, Skull is affected by all necro Terror traits and doesn’t have any cap on duration. Why run some short stealth if you can already have longest CCs in the game ?

With Moment of Clarity you can double the duration of stun/daze items from boars.

…And I’ve listed already doubled durations

Rym.1469:

urdriel.8496:

Rym.1469:

Tbh, running Boar is just better. Assuming you want to land MoC Maul, you can get 6s stun, 9sec fear or 4 sec ranged daze just with his drops. Not to mention, Skull is affected by all necro Terror traits and doesn’t have any cap on duration. Why run some short stealth if you can already have longest CCs in the game ?

With Moment of Clarity you can double the duration of stun/daze items from boars.

…And I’ve listed already doubled durations

Sry, MoC xDD

But in a fight it is really hard to do, first wait til your pet activate f2 skill, move to the item and get it , perhaps item should appear in your hands when you use pet f2.

When they updated MoC I spend a good 15-20 mins trying to get a skull to test the fear duration with, swapping pets constantly to use all the pigs F2. I never got a skull, ragequit the idea and havent used them since.

RNG is never the solution. Ever.

so do clowns appear during this circus act to do some decent damage?

it is seriously funny how players have to jump through various hoops and be under specific circumstances to do certain things during combat.

And what happens if your enemy has half a brain and understand that he can pick up your Porcine’s Forage items?

How would one deal with blind-spam, which honestly are the ultimate bane of single hard hitting attacks like Maul, on a profession with little to no active condi-cleansing?

It’s cute to think it’s a L2P issue, but it’s just not. Power rangers aren’t viable for a plethora of reasons. No easy cheese safety nets without speccing 30 points into certain traitlines, lack of trait synergy (Two Handed Training in NM, really).

And to also consider that Hunter’s Shot has it’s own set of problems. It’s not some initiative-based stealth combo like thieves have. If your enemy is smart, they would count down the last time you stealthed and make sure to dodge or left-to-right side strafe to avoid the next stealth on hit, or better yet just outplay the Ranger by accurately predicting a Maul from stealth.

Moment of Clarity is nice, but it’s just not a good trait for the Ranger class. If we had something similar to our GW1 counterparts with some sort of short cooldown ranged interrupt like Savage Shot or Distraction Shot, sure. I’ll go for it. But in GW2, our CC is so heavy on the cooldowns and the Porcine pets are such a poor choice for overall utility and damage, it’s just a for-fun build when you’re bored out of your wits playing against bads in hotjoin.

Cufufalating.8479:

When they updated MoC I spend a good 15-20 mins trying to get a skull to test the fear duration with, swapping pets constantly to use all the pigs F2. I never got a skull, ragequit the idea and havent used them since.

RNG is never the solution. Ever.

yo have, Warthog,boar,siamot and pig, only boar give you skull.

Swagger.1459:

so do clowns appear during this circus act to do some decent damage?

it is seriously funny how players have to jump through various hoops and be under specific circumstances to do certain things during combat.

I think that having to do multiple various things to achieve worthy goals is good, very good. In Dark Souls. Yet we’re only profession which has to do it in entire game.

Would be nice if GS#5 had a longer leap on it, only rarely seem to get a stun out of it. That would make maul easier to get too.