Guild Wars 2

Oh! Then there was a misunderstanding. Sorry too.

I still don’t fully comprehend the chart, even after your explanation. Hope it’s because of the language, not my intellect, lol.

Anyway I want to keep my enthusiasm towards what’s comming, so won’t be reading forums as much for a little while. We’ll see in a few months how it goes. Hopefully the cleansing will be ok with soulbeast and everything what’s comming our way.

I missed your former post with the numbers Jcbroe. I read it now. Since english isn’t my native language I’m having some trouble understanding everything you’re saying. I also don’t understand the index of your former post pointing out cleanses before patch and after patch, I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. Anyway, I did not mean to be disrespectful towards anyone, also the people which I should respect like you’re saying. And yes I’m mostly talking from a PvE-perspective, I usually tend to say that, I forgot now. There’s probably a lot of players I should respect which are far better than me, especially in PvP. Never meant to disrespect all of them mighty allknowing rangers.

Maybe best for me to lay low for a while on forums, seems I can’t handle all the saltiness while I see so many possiblities, I wasn’t specifically referring to you, I was referring to all the bitterness in this post while I see a ton of options. Off “feeling” all excited about what’s comming, bye! Good luck on “thinking”, sorry if I also misinterpreted the title o/

Thank you Mistsim, seems you pointed 3 out.

Sorry fluffball, I was trying to make a point about the immense whining of rangers about the old passive SoR, while we got so much in return. About the 3 new condi clears, it wasn’t meant literally.

So we lost a passive 1 condi clear every 10 seconds. I’m really in awe people were so fond about it. How much condi’s can you get on a player in a few seconds? You don’t even have to have a condi-build up, let’s say at least 3 conditions, with whatever profession. I can not imagine that 1 condi clear every 10 seconds was a life saver for all of you. If it was, then I’m really wondering what you were playing against lol.

And then still. Yes, we lost that 1 condi clear every 10 seconds.

About that 1 condi clear every 10 seconds…

We have

skills
Healing Spring (traited)
CA seed of life
CA glyph of alignment
bear stance
dolyak stance

traits
druid clarity
verdant etching
natural stride (somewhat)
evasive purity
wilderness knowledge
empathic bond
shared anguish (somewhat)

Brown Bear Which possibly will be interesting again with Soulbeast, along with other tanky pets?

Hope I got them all.

So. That 1 condi clear every 10 seconds… Really?

And about all the whining, what did we get in return?

SoR: A reduced recharge from the active by 10 seconds. Recovering health constantly (proc CA?). Resistance for 2 seconds >>when pet takes conditions from allies to themselves<<.

Read patch notes for everything else we got in return. Look at SotH, remember what it was? Look at all the traits.

Soulbeast we got in return! Which is awesome, try making some builds with the new traits, beastmode, and the the stances. The options, combo’s are endless.

buff to power ranger Power ranger was very low on damage. We all asked for a buff to power rangers, and we got it.

PoF!!! And already in september! And we can play it this weekend! Everyone thought it was going to be released in like october, november.

And still some of you guys focus on what we lost, while we got so much in return, wow, just wow, guild wars 2 life must be very hard for you, always looking at it that way. Of course it’s good to keep Anet sharp, pointing out things that really need to be adjusted or improved, but I feel this is getting ridiculous. Be happy just a little, you can do it!

Why do a lot of you keep staring at old passieve SoR instead of looking what kind of alternatives there are now? It’s like SoR was the only cleanse ranger had? While we had a ton of other cleanses and now we have even more. We have a 1000 options via other skills and traits to cleanse ourselves which are a million times better than old SoR, that 1 condi-clear every 10 secs. Really guys? Falling over that? I’m tempted to give 100 gold for the first person that can name 3 types of condi clears pre-patch we already had, and three new ones. Then we can all hold hands and sing a happy song!

Prophet.1584:

haven’t posted in here for a while but the amount of negativity is deafening. I get that some people’s builds got changed with this since the use of some utilities changed but all in all this was a great patch. Power ranger got buffed, condi ranger didn’t get nerfed and healing druid didn’t get nerfed.

Condi druid was in the top group in regards to dps already. power ranger should move up the pve chart and druid is still druid, no one got anything that would take our place.

pvp/wvw builds are going to have to change but that should have been obvious when they mentioned trait/skill changes to force people to choose more defensive stats if they want to be defensive and vice versa. I extended a 5v15 in wvw last night on my druid without being in healing gear. my group still lost but we took out most of the enemy group.

Rangers have always had to adapt to anets changes, this is one of the few times those changes weren’t flat out nerfs and SoulBeast is going to be a further buff to all builds.

Halleluja. Thank you! Didn’t feel like it this time. Glad someone else did.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

So,

• SoR lost it’s passive condi clear, one of our best sources.
  “The active effect now grants resistance to your pet for 2 seconds when they take conditions from nearby allies to themselves” in conjunction with PoF Bear stance, I can see good options. Also, we have a ton of other condi clear options.
• SotH got turned in to a crappy version of Warrior’s Signet of Might, but with a longer CD.
  So you liked the old SotH better? Did you ever use that? I think it’s way better than what it was.
• SotW no longer grants stability, half our sources of it and no longer has the additional speed or damage on active. Immob on active is utterly useless considering how many sources of immob we already have. Passive regen for AF generation gone for ferocity…
  SoR has passive regen now. Check the new traits for new resistance or stability sources.
• Brutish seals granting fury gives it synergy with Remorseless, but who really needs more Fury applications for allies? Nobody.
  From a PvE end game perspective, rangers are less bound to tiger this way, which is nice for Soulbeast’s beastmode.

Overall, pretty terrible changes, imo.
I think otherwise

Excited because of many reasons.

- I really like that it’s nature-themed, because I’m really into that.
- Melding with your pet seems like a creative alternative/‘fix’ for people still disliking the pet AI.
- I can see better zerg/blob fighting build-options in WvW because of melding with your pet, instead of your pets dying all the time.
- I was hoping for dagger main hand or sword off hand, so I’m really happy with dagger main hand.

Dagger being condi focussed doesn’t mean you have to play dagger main hand to play soulbeast, just like you don’t have to play staff on druid to play druid, right?

From a PvE, primarily raids perspective: I’m guessing and hoping either ranger will get buffs to it’s power builds, I don’t think it has been unnoticed by Anet, it just only takes some time for Anet to react accordingly to it. Or maybe even power builds will become more on par with condi builds in general and not only rangers, by either buffing power or nerfing condi, not sure.
On the other hand, raid fights tend to last long compared to other fights in PvE, so it’s not a big surprise condi has the upperhand here, so following that line I’m hoping for a buff to powerrangers.

Ider.1276:

You see, every time you swap a pet it drops all the boons. Soo I don’t think that the dynamic gameplay of swaping in and out of beastmode (by the way, the name is stupid).

Purely a matter of preference, and maybe because I’m not a native speaker. I think beastmode sounds awesome! And a little bit funny because of some inside very bad jokes me and some friends make

I have let the idea of soulbeast sink in for a bit. I have to say I’m extremely happy with the choice anet made on where to go with ranger’s next specialisation. There were other options, this one was my favorite option which I stated a few times in the past. Not into the direction of firearms or something else, but true to nature, even with dagger as main hand. I feel I’ve been heard, I hope the majority of the rangers (all rangers, also outside official forum readers) will feel the same way.

Edit: also, the discussion about nature themed or not fitting ranger reminds me of this post a while back. Good points were made as well: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Firearms/first#post6349240

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/New-Ranger-Elite-Specialization-the-Stalker/first#post6460939

So kappa, it was a very good idea indeed!

I really like the idea of soulbeast, can’t wait to play it.

lolled at aleksander suburb’s post. I also had the feeling warrior was OP and got attention and finetuned a lot more than a ranger. I got that less since HoT.

agree to most of what’s already said, in PvE:

- make power druid/ranger more on par with condi druid/ranger
- make glyph of unity more viable
- dagger off hand more viable in pve, seems hard to come on par with torch in pve
- improvements to some pets would be nice, the tanky pets are hardly ever chosen in pve. I can’t see a solution here though.

off topic: Heimskarl Ashfiend! Wow, it’s been ages since you were on the forums, correct? I remember u posting frequently on ranger forums, providing helpful info

Couldn’t we agree that it would be good to come up with a lot of arguments, also financially, which would make tengu a new playable race?

The only arguments I have is:

1. I would really like tengu as a playable race
2. I have the feeling a lot of other players would like to as well.

Swell, but that won’t do it xD. I’d leave it to others to come up with other and better arguments, since that is not my strength atm. Maybe a poll? I don’t know.

Loseridoit, thanks for the tips, it helped. I always had pretty low FPS while my specs seemed OK for GW 2. Overclocking my CPU did help a bit.

And thank you Swift too, ARCdps had me really on an all time low FPS, removing it helped.

Hi all!

I can’t get my FPS higher than around 35 FPS, when I’m standing still in Lions Arch Aerodrome. It drops significantly when many things happen on screen

I’ve read all the tips from players on the specific graphic options in guild wars 2, I updated my video-driver, uninstalled as many background programs as I can, my energy-settings on my pc on performance etc, but I can’t seem to get my FPS higher then 35. Weird thing is, or maybe not since I’m not a computer-expert at all, it doesn’t matter how high or low I set my graphic options, I got it on 1920 × 1080 (highest option). If I put it lower, nothing happens.

Here are my details:

Intel Core I5 2500K @ 3.30 GHZ
Intel MSI P67A-GD65
Geforce GTX 970 (I had a worse gpu before some years ago)
4 × 2 GB DDR 3 RAM
Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ, 1TB SATA-300 7200 rpm
OCZ ModXStream Pro 700W
DirectX 12
Windows 10 64 bit

Monitor: Samsung P2470 HD

Now some further information I really don’t know what it means but I hope it helps:

Running GW2 now, minimilized typing this,
my processor is at 70 -75%
my memory is at 65%
at source control it says my memory has 100 errors a second.

If you need more info to find the problem and crank my fps up, let me know.

Edit, maybe handy to say in what graphic options I’m running gw2:

Full screen 1920 × 1080
Refresh rate: default
Frame Llimiter: 60
Interface Size: Small
Full screen gamma 1.00
Settings preset: Choose..
Animation: Medium
Anti-Aliasing: FXAA
Environment: Low
LOD-distance: Low
Reflections: Terrain & Sky
Textures: Low
Render Sampling: Native
Shadows: Medium
Shaders: Medium
Post Processing: Low
CharacterModel Limit: Low
Character Model Quality: High

Ambient Occlusion: Off
Best Texture Filtering: On
Depth Blur: On
Effect LOD: On
High-Res Character Textures: Off
Light Adaptation: On
Vertical Sync: Off

Ha! awesome shadowpass! You should start hiring employees for this thread.

Don’t have any questions for now, just wanted to say this is a really nice initiative

Pff Anduriell, wow, really? You were the one posting pvp 1v1 or 5v5 builds for ppl asking zerg-builds like a year ago, which I pointed out back then already.
It’s all good helping fellow rangers out, but not if you don’t know what you’re talking about and stating it as if you know all.
In my oppinion Fluffball hasn’t said anything false or wrong.

WondrousWall, that’s kind of a bitter post, which definitely doesn’t make it not true. That last statement about most dangerous game made me laugh though haha.

So that makes you a bit less.. perfect?

Too bad, not fun for you. It’s probably best to join a raid training guild if you’re new to raiding, look for them in the ‘looking for’ subforum or on reddit. You can also join raid training runs in the LFG in game.

We’ve got all damage-conditions covered by our pets, except for torment. That one is still missing, so I’d like a pet that gives torment to enemies.
As for cc conditions, I believe we’re still missing slow and taunt for out pets. That would be nice as well, same goes for the missing boons our pets cannot provide yet.

Somebody else already mentioned it, but I’d also like an elite trap.

A Dagger Main Hand and/or Sword Off Hand.

As for other professions as well: If the leaks are correct, Warrior would get Spellbreaker which resembles Paragon from Elona, I think by the looks of it. Which is awesome. I am hoping the elementalist would get a elite specialization that resembles Dervish, because I think it would fit elementalist most, allthough it doesn’t look like it atm looking at the leaks.
Dreaming further, if we would go to cantha next, I’m hoping either the guardian or the ranger will get a elite specialization that resembles the ritualist, allthough I can imagine revenant and necromancer being able as well, assassin for thief. If we close the circle we would go to old tyria next ^^

I think it would be a great addition for new people to learn raids, check out new builds, or just to watch and enjoy if you’re eating your lunch. Yes they can already check youtube or twitch. But a spectator mode would be a nice addition I think, something that would be quicker to access than twitch or youtube.

Didn’t realise there was a balance patch comming up.

Last 2 years or so I’ve been raiding primarily. From that perspective, I think the balancing is alright. Shortbow got major buffs in one of the latest patches so didn’t expect it to have even more buffs.
Torch is too bad, but to be expected maybe looking at how popular condi ranger is in raids.
But maybe it opens up offhand dagger now?
I wonder how sword/dagger + shortbow would do now with poison master, ambidexterity or refined toxins and a poison oriented rune, like superior rune of thorns and superior rune of orr.

Since they are moving towards elona, I’m now having high hopes the next big step will be to Cantha. Hopefully we’ll see something back from the assassin or ritualist too then, like the warrior’s spellbreaker resembles paragon. Also wondering and hoping they somehow will implement (elements of) the dervish too.

I’m very hyped about this leak. The new elite specs, elona (gw 1 yay!!!), mounts.. I’m thrilled.

Soulbeast reminds me a bit of this post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/New-Ranger-Elite-Specialization-the-Stalker/first#post6460939

No, only 20%.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil Sigil Interaction part.

anduriell.6280:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Bast Bow.2958:

https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Ranger_-_Stealth_Trapper

That build is just awful against anyone with half a brain.

@Op, there really isn’t a good condi build for wvw anymore. The last decent one (crit bleed) took a random nerf on the most recent balance patch.
Ranger condi builds really require you to be on top of your opponent and for them to be locked down, but most of the professions either have a passive cc immunity to ignore things like spike trap, or they have stun breaks on a really short cooldown. All the other roaming professions can easily shrug off immobilize.

well said.

Hm ok. Haven’t really looked at it and assumed it was fine. Most metabattle PvE builds are fine.

Big Kiss for little anduriell

https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Ranger_-_Stealth_Trapper

Hey Fluffball. Totally agree with you here. I’m really loving the game since headstart but up untill this point I’ve only ever put 10AR on 1 or 2 trinkets, ever. I think AR is overly complicated, even now. I can’t get myself to figure out how many +1’s I need to get a total of 149 or something AR. I know there are ppl who wrote it down somewhere but then still. Why is it that way? You need +9’s and +7’s together or something to get maxed out AR. Weird numbers. It needs relatively too much of my attention and time to figure out how I put enough AR on my characaters to play fractals.
In these last 5 years I think I’ve thought like 100 times to look into AR, put it on my gear and start playing fractals and every time I think “naaahh, too much work, I’ll just clear some more raids again but on a different toon, do wvw or a meta-event”

Then again, the logic off what the dev says makes sence to me too

http://qtfy.eu

Thanks qT!

Site looks very nice too

Seeing what game modes you play, sword/x and shortbow is perfectly fine for a condition based build. You’re not playing high level fractals, raids or duelling on a high level for now so you have much more room to experiment and don’t need to squeeze out that last 0,5%.

Sword has poison, you can add more conditions via traits, sigils and runes. Have fun!

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

Had eggs and bacon for breakfast.

Discuss.

Haha!!

1. Yes. Sw/wh traited I use occasiobally, like on KC or sab. More a matter of preference than a matter if u kill the raidboss yes or no.
2. No I use the healing glyph in most raidfights. I use traited healing spring at sloth and sometimes at sabetha when I’m not on flakk shot.
3. Yes there’s a better rotation for in celestial avatar.Kinda dependant on where you want to land your heals. Near you: #4, #3, back to #4, if it’s on cd drop a #2. Not near you: #3, #2, #1’s if 2 and 3 are on cd. Try to end your celestial avatar with a #2 so when it pops u proc your CA-bar again.
4. Tiger always for fury uptime. If you need CC: electral wyvern or daze moa. Blue moa if you want more or other protection than stone spirit and a heal. Sylvan hound for regeneration thus faster CA-bar filler.
5. There are fights like sloth I don’t use spirits if we do wall tactic, sloth has a lenient enrage timer so we don’t need the dmg from the spirit and because of the movement of the raidgroup spirits don’t have much effect. Most other bosses I tend to predict where the fight will take us or where we will be most and place them there. Like last fases on VG I tend to place them in the middle.

These answers are about wing 1, 2 and 3. Cleared those tons of times. Wing 4 killed only first 2 for now, just so you know

Hey Justine, nice to see u in another subforum

Yeah janthir sounds good too. There’s a lot of undiscovered space left to explore if you press M.
I also really liked the story and feel of elona and cantha, so that would be great too.

Ah shoot! Didn’t realise that.

Well thanks for clearing that up.

A canthan hint by evon gnashblade?

New items in the BLTC. https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/roxs-pathfinder-outfit-and-celestial-rooster-glider-available-now/

“If you believe canthan legends, ….”

Please Please Please Please!

I use traited warhorn also, occasionally in raids on berserker build.

First initial thoughts on this: very creative and very cool! I am pro dagger main hand as the next weapon, as 1 or 2 other options.
Allthough I would’ve thought transforming into animals(spirits) was kinda covered in game, I still really like this concept.

Agreed with post above

I see you’re talking about casual pve, dungeons. Since that is where you play I would definitely not say full magi. It does heal most compared to all other healing builds but you certainly do not need that in casual pve. If you ever want something to kill yourself because you’re pve-ing alone or your allies are not around, it will take you ages.
I’d go zealot’s or a mix of magi and berserker seeing the game mode you play and your preferences.

Full magi is for t4 fractals or raids, not casual pve

About 2, 3 seconds.

1: You summon the spirit of nature.
2: You activate it, or you wait for it to activate itself and go on cooldown. In both cases it takes about 2, 3 seconds for the spirit of nature to sacrifice itself. You’ll see it doing it’s animation, slamming the ground and reviving allies and curing conditions

You can also revive yourself if you time it right

Druid is in demand when playing raids yes, ranger not so much, there are rare cases ranger can be played in raids but druid is far more popular in case you would have to choose. WvW, roaming or zerg, I don’t know since I haven’t played that for some time now.

As for staff in PvE. Yes that can be viable. But imo every weapon is viable in PvE. PvE is rather general though, if you mean HoT meta events you can play just about anything, if you mean raids and/or high tier fractals, staff should definitely be one of your options.
As for the feeling, you should really go for staff because it feels different then classic ranger. It’s developped around healing, but you can make it lean towards either condi dmg (viper’s) or raw dmg (zerker) by playing around with runes, sigils, traits and utilities.

Yes of course!

Healing druids being most popular in raids. Condi druids and zerker druids being used as well

Then we both can be rebels. There’s rare occasions like at KC I take wh and windborn notes when playing zerker.
I meant the standard healing build though

Wondrouswall.7169:

Not to mention everyone can dodge more with Vigorous Training – and for those comps that use a Herald – more uptime for them for that extra 2% damage per unique boon and 1% for us (not that it matters) if Bountiful Hunter is slotted.

Yes exactly. That’s why I prefer it.

Thanks

Hi all

I’m running vigorous training since raids started, but meta builds say evasive purity. I don’t see the benefit from evasive purity, I don’t get blinded, crippled or poisoned that much, and when I do I usually tend to cleanse myself, or being cleansed, rather quickly. I think the vigor for allies that vigorous training offers, is better. Am I missing something important?

Yeah I know about the WvW food… I WvW’d a lot up untill raids came out. Because I never played anything else than WvW, I usually played even, gold-wise, because of the expensive food. That’s not good.
But, since a year there’s been changes to the WvW reward system, which is better at least.

Still, whhhyyy uuuu nooo cheaper furious focusing crystal! https://imgflip.com/s/meme/Y-U-No.jpg

I don’t know how to correctly add a harmless picture in text.

Ok. I didn’t realize that. 2 gold 20 silver for a sheet of charged ambrite is a bit over the top imo, then you don’t even have 1 furious tuning crystal yet. Add to that a vicious fang and 2 piles of crystalline dust.

Also you can only get a charged quartz crystal once a day per account if you want to make it yourself.

Is there any way making this could be made less expensive and/or less time-gated? This is getting out of hand imo, and it still is popular food for raiding druids.

Joxer.6024:

Its like talking to a wall…..I’m out, you win.

Indeed. Very dense.
Problem is there’s new victims taking the bate in these forums every now and then which keeps him going and saying the same things over and over again.

And after some time anet closes the thread because they also see it’s going around in circles, same discussion ending with only a few ppl all talking to walls and still don’t know how to listen or know when to stop making a fool out of themselves and making the forums an unpleasant place for other players.