Guild Wars 2

I am a level 80 Guardian, ever since level 30+ my Guardian skills and bugs are just terrible, half of the time my Symbol of Swiftness doesn’t even work, my Leap of Faith just sends me completely miles away from the selected target, in general, skills VERY unresponsive and has forced me to stop playing him altogether, especially in Orr.

I hope this gets fixed in the future then I will continue, in the meantime, its reroll time.

You killed Tybalt yet let Trahearne live?! enough said.

Is it m or does Trahearne have NO personality or anything…he really is a walking log.

As the title says, this is my 3rd alt that this has happened to, does anyone else have this problem, if so, how did you go about fixing it, IF it can be fixed.

Thank you.

And a Sheep, where its F2 ability is explosion with aoe dmg.

A fluffy cute white.. KILLER RABBIT WITH BIG POINTY TEETH!

swiftpaw.6397:

Atish.4351:

Stow your pet before the attack. see if that works and bring him out again after he launches his attack.

This, also if you have some competent players in your group, for example, a Mesmer who uses feedback, just call your pet back, and the Mesmer’s feedback bubble will block the projectile so he doesn’t get pulled in. Same applies for Guardian with shield of the avenger, just make sure the shield is between your pet and the boss at the time of the pull, then send it back in. there are of course a bunch of other skills, including Stability that will prevent a pull supplied by classes around you.

Note: don’t send the pet back in straight away, wait for the boss to do his whirl after the pull, and then you’re good to go.

Agreed, there are many ways you can avoid losing your pet, its just most rangers ignore their pets once they fight and don’t realize by losing your pet you lose a chunk of dps

Stow your pet before the attack. see if that works and bring him out again after he launches his attack.

So for us in UK its 5am tomorrow…lol

I was thinking of something like interchangable collers with dog tags that could be used as the stats increase lol

Avigrus.2871:

Wait till you get the risen mobs that pull you…. running through Cursed Shore trying to reach a skill point and being pulled everywhere by Scorpion clones… most annoying thing ever.

The worst ever, what was ANET thinking..does get annoying to be honest lol

I don’t mind anything else, its just he mentioned about pets be able to hit moving targets..thats enough for me since I’m a kiter

Casty.9743:

Atish.4351:

Well if this patch turnes out a complete fail, then I shall simply make my guardian or warrior my new main. and just give up on ranger

probably should anyhow, those 2 classes will always be better and bring more than a ranger.

True, but lets hope this patch can change my mind once and for all about having confidence in Rangers

Raven.9603:

mob aggro as you get higher considers the health and toughness of available targets, in addition to who is the first to attack them. contrary to the above poster, mobs target the weakest, not the strongest.

if you are weaker than your pet (tank pet) or your group mates (warriors, players with good amounts of vit/toughness), the mobs will zero in on you every time.

+start wearing some toughness/vit gear
+whenever possible, stand back and send you pet in to get the first strike
+if pet fails to get aggro, swapping pets has a pretty good shot at peeling
+learn to use a melee weapon, some risen move too fast to kite

can’t argue there, nice one dude.

Well if this patch turnes out a complete fail, then I shall simply make my guardian or warrior my new main. and just give up on ranger

Hope you on about us in the UK for that time?

Ok here something new and fun thats never been done in an MMO and since this game likes to try to be unique, how about making our Ranger pets to have to ability to wear pieces of armor made by crafting or Karma vendors, etc..this would be easily implemented and each piece of armor can improve pet mitigation, damage output or even vitality..what do you guys think?

While we’re throwing out stupid ideas about pets, why niot have the ability to wear armor, yea thats right, I want to see my Yogi bear in plate gear! :P

Ethics.4519:

I like the walking honor badges one. I’m a ranger at heart but this profession pisses me off in this game. It’s class defining mechanic is the pet which is absolutely atrocious. AI aside, there’s no love for the pet. All we have is a name that doesn’t even work.

My favorite I saw in LA was “GLFM Fractals lvl 10 pref a ranger….. said no one ever”

Haha…sounds about right, especially the…“erm, don’t you have another class?”..attempting to get into a dungeon XD

I think us Rangers should have a bag full of brains, so we can throw them away from us so the Risens can go agro that instead while you run of laughing.

Screw Rifles, Bows or even Pistols, Ranger would own everyone with SLINGSHOTS! Yea baby >:)

Daemon.4295:

Cloud.7613:

Agadar.4931:

neverborne.4736:

• For PvE leveling rangers complaining that these changes won’t help you, that’s because the ranger is already very balanced for PvE, if not overpowered.

Oh god, my sides! Lord have mercy upon them! I cannot stop laughing!

Lol, I cried a bit laughing, I thought he was telling the truth about everything till that, haha. xD

Guys….. Ranger is VERY strong in PvE, what are you talking about? Do you actually play other professions? My main is a ranger, but I have a thief, warrior, ele, and guardian, and I assure you leveling a ranger is far, far, easier. Why do you think bots are all rangers? Easiest profession to keep alive. It’s not about the damage output, it’s that pets hold aggro marvelously well against trash mobs and are tough to kill in basic PvE (unlike in dungeons). The pet + range mechanic works extremely well, any other profession is getting constantly aggro’d and attacked by anything around them while a ranger can turn on LB or SB autoattack and go take a nap.

Dungeons are another matter entirely, other professions are more effective depending on the specific dungeon. Essentially, the Ranger is the undisputed king of solo PvE but is less effective in group play than other classes.

Hahaha..this made me giggle, “It’s not about the damage output, it’s that pets hold aggro marvelously well against trash mobs and are tough to kill in basic PvE”
Clearly he hasn’t been to Orr then XD

Beardmonger.4692:

What about drake pets never using their abilities? (tail swipe, chomp)

I’m guessing they can do it on the move hopefully.

Oh and one more thing Jon, bring some of Black and White gameplay in this game with the pet options like taking it for a walk, playing with it, making it bigger and stronger as levels increase..lol I know, too much.

JonPeters.5630:

I made some changes to improve pets hitting moving targets in this upcoming build. I wouldn’t expect those changes to light the world on fire, but they have improved. There is more to be done in this area still but feedback on how much this upcoming change helped, once it is in, would be great.

Thats it, thats all I love to hear, pets hitting moving targets. Thats all we wanted MOSTLY done, thx Jon

That happened to me too on my ranger, the shark decided to swim on land, but this happened after patch only in LA

I don’t mind much about the bows dps even though it would be nice to have it buff, but I wish MOSTLY..like many, for the pets mechanics to be fully redone, because the way things are…its getting very hard to try to do Lost Shores and Orr solo due to pets inability to do anything useful, for example kiting, pets CANNOT attack moving targets while YOU are trying to kite and stay alive, and once backed into a corner or have multiple roots and snares on you, you’re pretty much dead and I find melee to be really pointless, that’s my opinion.
So HOPEFULLY, this upcoming patch can improve the pet mechanics a little or something.

Ps. I’m talking regarding PVE only since I refuse to even bother PVP or WvWvW with a Ranger.

I watch these vids just to cheer me up, I have an 80 Ranger too..so the “I’ve been there and seen that” is just irony at its best

Same here, I just finished the Retribution story mode lvl 59 and just a second before I could finish it completely, the game crashed and have to redo it all again.

Hahaha…and the Devs say Rangers are in a good place, clearly shows now doesn’t it? lol

Bad enough we’re having dps problems with ranged, but extending the ranged on the weapons alone does NOT help us in forced close quarters combat in dungeons and pvp, etc….seriously , rangers cannot dish out enough dmg with melee weapons let alone ranged…yep, you messed up YET again.

Master’s Bond DOES NOT WORK AT ALL….another great help that ANET NEEDS to sort out.