Guild Wars 2

I love the new WHAO change (copies boons from your pet to you) It is great synergy with existing class builds. However I am very hesitant to jump on the party parade with everyone else.

When you are in the perfect situation this skill will ROCK. You just popped your buffs, your hp gets low, and BOOM you now have full hp AND a shiny 25 stacks of might.
But how often will this perfect situation happen?

Remember that if you choose to either buff yourself with tons of boons or swap to a new pet and catch them up, you are using your HEAL SKILL! Sure its only 16 seconds of cool down (traited) but you better hope that those 25 stacks of might and 10 seconds of quickness wins you the fight. Otherwise you have to survive the next 16 seconds using only evasion and regen.

Guaranteeing yourself a ton of boons sounds OP, but once you realize how much you give up to get it its pretty balanced. Definitely some interesting game play changes so great job devs!

It’s good but I still think it will be able to be forgone. I considered going right for it, but after closer consideration of Bark Skin, I think I’d still get better overall use from TU. It’s a good change but I think there is still wiggle room. I think it was appropriate, I like the feeling of real decision making between builds.

Depending on how its implemented … potentially say hello to 15s Quickness

Perhaps shouts as a whole become more usable now. What I am thinking is the WS,NM and BM core ranger build, or NM, BM and Druid build.

Marauder amulet, trooper runes, jungle stalker and wolf, LB/GS or LB/Staff build. HaO, Guard, LR, SoS and Entangle/SotP.
The difference from the current prevailing build would be taking Resounding timbre, Pet healing and Zephyr speed.

So the opening would be thus:
- your start off with a wolf
- as soon as you tag someone with LB auto attack, swap to jungle stalker and use f2. This is 8 might to yourself and 13 to your pet off the bat.
- Then use guard to send the pet forward, give it protection and stealth it.
- Use HaO to copy might and protection giving you and your pet 21 might stacks and permanent protection.

Guard can be swapped into QZ for more quickness instead of protection.

Enjoy!!

I practically spam WHaO anyway. With defender runes and resounding timbre, the benefits are worth getting out there as much as is reasonable.

And if you’re going to use it in a cele axe build, if there are at least 2 targets you can be certain your pet has 25 stacks of might at any given point so you can be more judicious in using it.

Oh for the non-spammable RaO back…

Pop RaO: 30s swiftness/fury/stability
Pop WHaO: 60s swiftness/fury/stability
16s later: only 44s left of swiftness/fury/stability
Top up with another WHaO: 88s swiftness/fury/stability

etc

cafard.8953:

Oh for the non-spammable RaO back…

Pop RaO: 30s swiftness/fury/stability
Pop WHaO: 60s swiftness/fury/stability
16s later: only 44s left of swiftness/fury/stability
Top up with another WHaO: 88s swiftness/fury/stability

etc

Not realy, due to the way ROA works(pulses of small boon duration) u’ll get only a very small bonus from this combo. There is much more potensial synergie with skills like QZ, SOTW, gaurd etc…… We’ll have to c exacly how they will implemented this.

LughLongArm.5460:

cafard.8953:

Oh for the non-spammable RaO back…

Pop RaO: 30s swiftness/fury/stability
Pop WHaO: 60s swiftness/fury/stability
16s later: only 44s left of swiftness/fury/stability
Top up with another WHaO: 88s swiftness/fury/stability

etc

Not realy, due to the way ROA works(pulses of small boon duration) u’ll get only a very small bonus from this combo. There is much more potensial synergie with skills like QZ, SOTW, gaurd etc…… We’ll have to c exacly how they will implemented this.

I know, which is why i’m just dreaming about the old RaO, before it was turned into a spammable skill like everything else (Muddy Terrain, Healing Spring). I liked my long duration skills, they were part of the unique feeling i had on a ranger back then.

cafard.8953:

LughLongArm.5460:

cafard.8953:

Oh for the non-spammable RaO back…

Pop RaO: 30s swiftness/fury/stability
Pop WHaO: 60s swiftness/fury/stability
16s later: only 44s left of swiftness/fury/stability
Top up with another WHaO: 88s swiftness/fury/stability

etc

Not realy, due to the way ROA works(pulses of small boon duration) u’ll get only a very small bonus from this combo. There is much more potensial synergie with skills like QZ, SOTW, gaurd etc…… We’ll have to c exacly how they will implemented this.

I know, which is why i’m just dreaming about the old RaO, before it was turned into a spammable skill like everything else (Muddy Terrain, Healing Spring). I liked my long duration skills, they were part of the unique feeling i had on a ranger back then.

Another thing, stability only stacks in intensity now(atleast thats how it works with sotw and fortifing bound) so for the dream to become real, you also need to old stability mechanic back ^^