Guild Wars 2

I found myself in WvW.. i don’t normally jump into WvW, but i went ahead and gave it a try. As a trapper/condition ranger, it was difficult.. and it just simply wasn’t good for my ranger. Thieves were out of control, i didn’t die from a thief (my toughness and vitality are rather high), but they were almost impossible to kill because of how fast they were able to stealth out immediately. This particular thief was doing a relatively high amount of burst damage. I felt like this was overpowered. Therefore, i respec’d.. bought new gear, change up my stats, changed up my skills. And after careful analysis, i realized that they’re not OP at all if you use the right skills/weapons.

After some practice, i eventually figured out a way to counter them. As long as i survived the first few blows from a thief (as i have many times, being spec’d in toughness/vitality) that i would get out of combat, change my utilities to trap skills, and plant them whilst sitting in the middle of my traps. I did this because they were too quick to stealth out when they attacked me, that i couldn’t get a good hit on them being that i was mainly melee with this build (sword/dagger) with shortbow secondary. BUT when i did this, I noticed that everytime the thief thought he had a great chance at attacking me (because i baited him by being solo), he would hit me, i would dodge, and he would trigger my traps, disorienting and confusing him. This particular thief didn’t expect it, and so when i dodged, i switched to shortbow, stunned him, used Drakehound skill to immobilize, Entangled him, and moved in for the kill.

I used to think they were OP. Until i figured out a way around them. They’re relatively squishy when you can outsmart them. I don’t think they’re OP now, i just think they need to be tweaked a little. Like the one guy said, maybe when the culling issue is gone we can address this, because the culling could be a factor in the perma-stealth.

So in essence, I guess the whole “L2P” thing is true. Just learn how to play your class and outsmart them.

Well, it just happened to me again and i lost the loot right at the last second of killing Jormag. I’m simply staying away from Jormag until this is fixed.

A filter for light, medium, and heavy armor in the Trading Post would be nice instead of having to sift through to find what you need.

I have no problems with my ranger.. i’m a trapper/condition build. And i do heavy amounts of damage to groups. I have no problem with this class, except for one thing..

One thing i have to agree on.. that i have a huge problem with.. is my pet not rezzing me on surfaces that aren’t flat. There have been WAY too many times where i’ve hit that skill and nothing would happen.. i would even be stupid enough to read the description of the skill to see if it says anything about it, but nope.. must be a bug. Please fix that issue, it’s driving me crazy in situations where i have a lot of health on down, but can’t rez because my pet gets bugged whenever i need the rez.

Here’s my Charr Ranger!

Here’s a wonderful build i concocted for use in PVE mostly. Has some good PVP aspects as well.

http://www.gw2db.com/skill-builds/2767-evasive-ranger-trapper-condition-pve-pvp

I only ever get this bug fighting Jormag. Doesn’t happen anywhere else. 2nd time in two days, i fought Jormag yesterday and it happened.

Bugged on Ehmry Bay right now. Don’t know how long it was bugged for, but i’m trying to farm some lodestones.

So this is happening on Ehmry as well as almost every other server.