Guild Wars 2

So what are you enjoying so far? My list goes (from PvE only)

I can now give 30s of AoE Fury, Might and Swiftness from the start of battle. I will personally have 13 stacks of might and 6s of Quickness. Cool.

Remorseless is cool. And LOYT is a lot better than I expected. I really like the changes to the Beastmastery tree, makes the pet so much fiercer which is nice, since I like my feathered friend. “Guard!” is also pretty good without a cast time. Near maintainable Prot and my direct control for the pet. QZ and Troll Ungent no longer hate each other.

The bad? 9s duration on RaO

new quick draw is really fun, just need to get used to remembering I have it.

Quickening zephyr. I never knew how much my ranger needed super speed in her life until now. And like OP said, no more problem with troll unguent

To be completely honest, none of it is exciting. I immediately knew what’d work and what won’t as soon I logged on. I’m just hoping that Druid brings some interesting options in gameplay variance.

So, already made a thread for this in bug forums but do any of you guys have the Quiver of a Thousand Arrows? I chose mine with zerk stats, but after the update it was somehow changed to Celestial.

I’ve been playing around with Remorseless and BM builds, as well as the new traps. Loving all of it. The damage we can put out is incredible for how tanky we are.

Kind’a miss the toughness on the Valkyrie amulet though. I end up with a lot of vitality but no armor… Makes me uncomfortable.

Troll Unguent is now the best heal by a significant amount. Quick draw is fun. QZ is pretty much required now. That’s about it.

Sena.2761:

So what are you enjoying so far? My list goes (from PvE only)

I can now give 30s of AoE Fury, Might and Swiftness from the start of battle. I will personally have 13 stacks of might and 6s of Quickness. Cool.

Remorseless is cool. And LOYT is a lot better than I expected. I really like the changes to the Beastmastery tree, makes the pet so much fiercer which is nice, since I like my feathered friend. “Guard!” is also pretty good without a cast time. Near maintainable Prot and my direct control for the pet. QZ and Troll Ungent no longer hate each other.

The bad? 9s duration on RaO

The good? I have no idea.

The bad I can’t figure out anything about the new system, not the traiting and not the “training”.

It couldn’t be more confusing.

Absolutely nothing at all. It’s terrible all around. I’m shelving my Ranger until they ever fix it. She’s my main too – I’m sort of heartbroken tbh.

MashMash.1645:

Absolutely nothing at all. It’s terrible all around. I’m shelving my Ranger until they ever fix it. She’s my main too – I’m sort of heartbroken tbh.

Agree. Agree. Agree. Agree. Agree. Agree.

Enjoying it a lot after a bit confusing start. I’m just constantly lolling at the combat log and how amazingly my pets are doing. Maul, quickness, remorseless and pets hammering things.. I’m having good time on my melee build, haven’t tried longbow or anything else yet tho.

Quickening Zephyr is my favorite skill in the game at this point.

Quick Draw is just amazing.

Please Anet never take these 2 things from us <3

Anyway, I’m having so much fun in PvP running around with superspeed +lb+gs, not even doing that well with it but the fun-o-meter is off the charts.

BW is amazing. And now that sic ‘em is a viable skill, I’m slaughtering thieves wholesale. They all plop down a black powder and just keep heart seekering through it to no avail. That probably won’t last long, I’ve already run into quite a few rangers using RT, although most seem to still be using Guard as their shout.

Once the other professions get their kitten together will be the final verdict though. I ran into a thief who was very close to 1-shotting gaurds in WvW. No idea what he was running, but it was terrifying.

Fluffball.8307:

BW is amazing. And now that sic ‘em is a viable skill, I’m slaughtering thieves wholesale. They all plop down a black powder and just keep heart seekering through it to no avail. That probably won’t last long, I’ve already run into quite a few rangers using RT, although most seem to still be using Guard as their shout.

Once the other professions get their kitten together will be the final verdict though. I ran into a thief who was very close to 1-shotting gaurds in WvW. No idea what he was running, but it was terrifying.

Early today I ended up in a 1v1 with a thief. Poor thing caught my drake’s Tail Swipe for 9K damage! She lost 90% of her health from one hit from my pet. The whole battle lasted about 6 seconds, and half of that was the thief trying to get some distance to heal. Even a weak rapid fire was enough to end that.

Our pets are definitely threats again.

Am I missing something? Are spirits no longer mobile (as I can’t find the Spirit’s Unbound trait anymore).
:/

I’m not doing nearly as badly as I expected I would, but then I run condi/bunker/support PvE build, since I really only ever play solo or with guildies, and I loathe dungeons. On the upside, thanks to Windborn Notes coupled with the shout trait, I have gained permi-regen and permi-swiftness, also really digging the AoE version of chill thanks to Honed Axes.

A few things I don’t like is the reduced radius on bonfire and Healing Spring, though for me those skills tend to be blast finisher fodder anyway to provide area might/healing.

To me though, the best thing in this patch was the upgrade to quaggan tonics… being able to jump, backflip and dodgeroll in quaggan form (which I spend more than half my time in anyway) makes vistas/JP so much easier for my fat, Norn patootie!

I would say the BM line, because making Loud Whistle base is just great. Then I realize..there is no choice to stop at the base traits, as you must use the entire line now.

That’s my main problem with this entire patch. The power creep. It’s like the meta just switched to bunker regen condi ranger…because you will melt things and are going to need all the toughness you can get with the level of burst some classes can output now.

Like:
1. Lead the Wind (for obvious reason)
2. Refine Toxin (That extra poison is gold when sniping afar, it basically directly hitting ele and War hard before even engaging. Makes me able to drop spider )
3. Whole BM line (Never know I’d like the new BM so much. Weakness and CC spam to mess up foe’s rotation is so useful)
4. Quicken zephyr (Super Speed + Quickness is such a great combination. It almost ensures the foes can’t escape!)
5. Survival Knowledge (obvious reason)

Things that I’m disappointed:
1. Quick Draw (4 secs is really too short. It forces me to use up RF quickly, making foes easier to counter me. It’s even harder to use with Barrage. You have to finish channeling b4 Quick Draw expires)
2. Off-hand (radius..)
3. Spirits (active skills are slow as hell, radius super small w/o trait, immobile, worthless in PVP/WVW. What’s your promise Anet!?)

Looks like you need to use QZ with QD to make it better, that sucks, 4s is far too short a period to take advantage of it, if you need to finish the cast before it expires. Stupid.

Welp, guess it’s worth mentioning that Fortifying Bond got stability aswell.