Guild Wars 2

Where is my offhand +20% range?
I can’t hit anyone with dagger

Offhand Axe no +20% range is useless

Torch 4… sad, still cant hit a guy, and now out of range

Warhorn: skill 4 range was up to1200, now 900. skill 5 range was 900, now 600. And now I had to pick my mastery in Nature Magic…

Anyone has this problem?

My Juvenile Fern hound F2 skill goes in full cool down (25s) when it self-interrupt/ cancel its skill.
However, my Juvenile Wolf F2 skill only has 5s cool down for interrupted/ self-interrupt.

Also, we all know that Fern hound F2 Regeneration heals 130Hp/s.
However, when deactivate Fern hound, Regeneration only heals 5Hp/s.

Is it working as intended™?

Do we have a dev who plays Ranger here?

Moreover, when your fern used F2, you get Regeneration for 130HP/s.
However, when you deactivate your fern, you only get 5HP/s Regeneration.

IS THIS A BUG?

No one use Fern Hound?
I feel bad when the F2 gets 25CD with no effects

Why Anet didn’t make spike trap has a combo field? (e.g. Dark field)

And the trap effects (proc bleeding, immobilize…) should last 3s when ppl entering the trap.
(Same as the middle of EOTM spike traps)

Do we have ranger dev here?
Or anyone know this 25s CD for cancelling is working as intended?

It’s already 6 months.

I found my Juvenile Fern hound F2 skill goes in full cool down (25s) when it self-interrupt/ cancel its skill.

However, my Juvenile Wolf F2 skill only has 5s cool down for self-interrupt.

I want my fern heals me when it next to me, so i did not lock a enemy/target.
(If I lock a target, my fern will go next to the target and heals.)
However, when I started to move, the fern self-interrupted and follow me, and then the skill goes in full cool down with no heal effect.

Is it working as intended? (25s CD for self-interrupt)

Make it like Necro F1 when Ranger permastow pets
F1 - Transformation: To become as your pet, your skills bar = pet’s skill. (10s CD)
F2 - No such option when permastow
F3 - No such option when permastow
F4 - Swaps pets. (unchange)

How It Works:

• Similar to Necro Death Shroud, Press F1 to transform as your current pet.
• You will have 4 pet skills in your weapon skill bar. No 6 to 0 skills.
• You will have pet’s attribute in stead of yours.
• When you lose all you health during transformation, you will transform back as Ranger.
• Press F4 to swap pet for another transformation. 60s CD even if not defeated.
• Swap to another transformation when you Press F4 during Transformation.
• A minimum of 10% pet’s health is required to enter Transformation.
• Ranger cannot be healed while in Transformation, it only heals the current pet which in Transformation.
• While in Transformation, players cannot interact with objects. This includes picking up bundles, reviving allies, and interacting with environmental objects.
• Once you are in combat/ in Transformation, you cannot unstow your pet back.

Associate Risks
Anet programmer may not able to stow Ranger/ change Ranger into a pet.

Traits – Update the trait fact, for example

• Malicious Training – Increases duration for conditions applied by your pets/during Transformation.
• Pet’s Prowess – Pet/Transformation do more damage on critical hits.
• Fortifying Bond – Any boon you get is shared with your pet./ Any boon you get is remain when you transform, double boon duration while in Transformation
• Instinctual Bond – (New) When your pet is defeated, you gain quickness
• Stability Training – (New) You gain stability when Ursine, porcine, and armor fish pets disabled/ end of transformation.
• and so on…

Utility Skills
Shout – Now Ranger gains the effect as well as pets.

• “Guard” -> “Ambush”(New) – You and your pet teleport to a position. You and your pet gains stealth and protection for the duration of the skill. If you and your pet attacks or moves out the area, the effect ends.
• “Protect Me” – Unchange (your pet sill can absorbing all damage while permastow)
• “Search and Rescue”(new) – Your pet will seek out and revive a downed ally. You gains stability (5s)and 50% revive speed (10s)
• “Sic ’Em” – Revealed an enemy. You and your pet runs faster and does more damage.

Pros:

• Ranger gets triple health bar (LoL)
• Foes have to defeat your pets (Transformation) in order to kill you (Ranger)
• Full control in pets
• Now Ranger has benefit even they permastow

Cons:

• Lower dmg as before, as your pet is stowed
• Low dmg while in transformation (coz pet only has 4 skills with long CD and Ranger cannot use his weapon skills to do dmg)

Game Mode
PvX

Proposal Overview
Rework Opening Strike Trait as a Special Ability/Mechanics for Ranger instead of a trait

Goal of Proposal
To make Rangers weapon skills more and more useful in starting a fight

Proposal Functionality
Make this trait become a special ability to Ranger.
With this special ability, all Ranger weapon skill 1 will have a special skill when Ranger is out of combat.

Its very similar to Thief’s “Stealth Attacks”, but one is in stealth, another one is out of combat.

For example:
Sword skill 1:
Opening leap – Opening strike. Leap into the fight, crippling your foe.
Crippled: 5 s
Combo Finisher: Leap
Range: 600
Which can make Sword Ranger has a REAL opening strike, instead of walking slowly to reach the target.

Axes skill 1:
Cunning throw – Opening strike. Hit up to three foes with a single throw The first target is stunned, the second is Confused, and the third inflicts weakness.
Stun: 1.25 s
Confusion3: 5 s
Weakness: 5 s
Maximum targets: 3
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)
Range: 900
It is not too OP for the axe weapon skill set combo with any offhand weapon.
Stun = Ranger starts the fight first instead of the foe (With triat = 2.5s)
Confusion = the second foe may not want to take risk to attack ranger
Weakness = the third foe deal less damage in this opening fight
Which can show that who is the boss in starting the fight and in skirmishing

Greatsword skill 1
Bouncing Blade – Opening strike. Throw a greatsword to a target and bounce back to you, damaging the foe and giving fury to you.
Fury: 5 s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
Range: 600
Greatsword Ranger loves fury.

Short bow skill 1
Torment Shot – Opening strike. Shoot an arrow that your foe inflicts torment.
Torment5: 5s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
Range: 900
It’s more useful than vulnerability in using short bow, short bow is use for kiting.
This would be the first Ranger skill to apply torment condition.

Longbow skill 1
Penetrating Attack – Opening strike. The foe inflict vulnerability, the longer range deals the higher stacks of vulnerability.
0-500 range: Vulnerability4 : 5 s
500-1000 range: Vulnerability5 : 5 s
1000+ range: Vulnerability6 : 5 s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)
Range: 1,200
No differences but added the range condition.

It will be good to interact with related traits:
Opening strike always critical hits.
Regain Opening Strike whenever you kill a foe or gain stealth.
Pets have Opening Strike. (We can also make pets to have special opening skills)

Cons:
You have to use skill 1 in order to get this opening strike benefit.

Pros:
Ranger weapons are more and more useful to start a fight.
To become a special ability, it saves 5 trait points to get the opening strike trait,
and then Ranger can spend more trait points to get the related traits.
Can fill more new useful trait in Marksmanship and Skirmishing which related to Opening strike.

Associated Risks
Need a 10s Cool Down, even if the skill hit is miss,
or it will make Ranger spamming these skills.
(Just like Thief in stealth mode and spam his skill 1 when he hits miss until he hit)

I think we could remake it like this:
Game Mode
PvX

Proposal Overview
Remake Opening Strike Trait as a special ability to Ranger instead of a trait

Goal of Proposal
To make Rangers weapon skills more and more useful in starting a fight

Proposal Functionality
Make this trait become a special ability to Ranger.
With this special ability, all Ranger weapon skill 1 will have a special skill when Ranger is out of combat.

Its very similar to Thief’s “Stealth Attacks”, but one is in stealth, another one is out of combat.

For example:
1H Sword skill 1:
Opening leap – Opening strike. Leap into the fight, crippling your foe.
Crippled: 5 s
Combo Finisher: Leap
Range: 600
Which can make Sword Ranger has a REAL opening strike, instead of walking slowly to reach the target.

Axes skill 1:
Cunning throw – Opening strike. Hit up to three foes with a single throw The first target is stunned, the second is Confused, and the third inflicts weakness.
Stun: 1 s
Confusion3: 5 s
Weakness: 5 s
Maximum targets: 3
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)
Range: 900
It is not too OP for the axe weapon skill set combo with any offhand weapon.
Stun = Ranger starts the fight first instead of the foe
Confusion = the second foe may not want to take risk to attack ranger
Weakness = the third foe deal less damage in this opening fight
Which can show that who is the boss in starting the fight

Greatsword skill 1
Bouncing Blade – Opening strike. Throw a greatsword to a target and bounce back to you, damaging the foe and giving fury to you.
Fury: 5 s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
Range: 600
Greatsword Ranger loves fury.

Short bow skill 1
Torment Shot – Opening strike. Shoot an arrow that your foe inflicts torment.
Torment5: 5s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
Range: 900
It’s more useful than vulnerability in using short bow, short bow is use for kiting.
This would be the first Ranger skill to apply torment condition.

Longbow skill 1
Penetrating Attack – Opening strike. The foe inflict vulnerability, the longer range deals the higher stacks of vulnerability.
0-500 range: Vulnerability4 : 5 s
500-1000 range: Vulnerability5 : 5 s
1000+ range: Vulnerability6 : 5 s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)
Range: 1,200
No differences but added the range condition.

It will be good to interact with related traits:
Opening strike always critical hits.
Regain Opening Strike whenever you kill a foe or gain stealth.
Pets have Opening Strike. (We can also make pets to have special opening skills)

Associated Risks
Need a 10s Cool Down, even if the skill hit is miss,
or it will make Ranger spamming these skills.
(Just like Thief in stealth mode and spam his skill 1 when he hits miss until he hit)

I have a suggestion in remaking the Opening strike trait like this:
Game Mode
PvX

Proposal Overview
Remake Opening Strike Trait as a special ability to Ranger instead of a trait

Goal of Proposal
To make Rangers weapon skills more and more useful in starting a fight

Proposal Functionality
Make this trait become a special ability to Ranger.
With this special ability, all Ranger weapon skill 1 will have a special skill when Ranger is out of combat.

Its very similar to Thief’s “Stealth Attacks”, but one is in stealth, another one is out of combat.

For example:
1H Sword skill 1:
Opening leap – Opening strike. Leap into the fight, crippling your foe.
Crippled: 5 s
Combo Finisher: Leap
Range: 600
Which can make Sword Ranger has a REAL opening strike, instead of walking slowly to reach the target.

Axes skill 1:
Cunning throw – Opening strike. Hit up to three foes with a single throw The first target is stunned, the second is Confused, and the third inflicts weakness.
Stun: 1 s
Confusion3: 5 s
Weakness: 5 s
Maximum targets: 3
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)
Range: 900
It is not too OP for the axe weapon skill set combo with any offhand weapon.
Stun = Ranger starts the fight first instead of the foe
Confusion = the second foe may not want to take risk to attack ranger
Weakness = the third foe deal less damage in this opening fight
Which can show that who is the boss in starting the fight

Greatsword skill 1
Bouncing Blade – Opening strike. Throw a greatsword to a target and bounce back to you, damaging the foe and giving fury to you.
Fury: 5 s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
Range: 600
Greatsword Ranger loves fury.

Short bow skill 1
Torment Shot – Opening strike. Shoot an arrow that your foe inflicts torment.
Torment5: 5s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
Range: 900
It’s more useful than vulnerability in using short bow, short bow is use for kiting.
This would be the first Ranger skill to apply torment condition.

Longbow skill 1
Penetrating Attack – Opening strike. The foe inflict vulnerability, the longer range deals the higher stacks of vulnerability.
0-500 range: Vulnerability4 : 5 s
500-1000 range: Vulnerability5 : 5 s
1000+ range: Vulnerability6 : 5 s
Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)
Range: 1,200
No differences but added the range condition.

It will be good to interact with related traits:
Opening strike always critical hits.
Regain Opening Strike whenever you kill a foe or gain stealth.
Pets have Opening Strike. (We can also make pets to have special opening skills)

Associated Risks
Need a 10s Cool Down, even if the skill hit is miss,
or it will make Ranger spamming these skills.
(Just like Thief in stealth mode and spam his skill 1 when he hits miss until he hit)

http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Nature's_Prophet
http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Enchantress
LoL

Proposal Overview
Opening Strike

Goal of Proposal
To make Rangers weapon skills more useful

Proposal Functionality
With this trait, all Ranger weapon skill 1 will have a special skill when Ranger is out of combat.

For example:
1 hand sword skill 1:
Opening leap – Leap into the fight, crippling your foe.
Crippled: 3 s
Combo Finisher: Leap
Range: 600

Which can make Sword Ranger has a REAL opening strike.

It will be good to interact with other related traits:
Opening strike always critical hits.
Regain Opening Strike whenever you kill a foe or gain stealth.
Pets have Opening Strike. (We can also make pets to have special opening skills)

Associated Risks
Need a 10s Cool Down and if the skill hit is miss,
or it will make Ranger spamming these skills.
(Just like Thief in stealth mode and spam his skill 1 when he hit miss)
Or, dev is too lazy to make this change.

The wall skills are the problem:
Line of Warding,
Spectral Wall,
Veil,
Static Field,
etc.

These skills can affect a limitless amount of targets,
and cannot be evaded.

Most of the AoE skills have max. target of 5 people, and targets in block and evade state also counts.
Even Mesmer portal have max. target of 20 people (or uses).
It’s so imba

1.Ranger
No 2 and 3
Please remake ranger and make pets as a optional
enough for me in RAID, WVW and Dungeon
Because of pets, it makes rangers weapons very weak
(e.g. Greatsword 1,1,1 Power Bonus = 0.55, 0.55, 0.65)
(Guardian Greatsword = 0.8, 0.8, 1.2)

It just like:
If no devs play rangers, why design rangers like this ****?

I wish I could have a special bank tab to store most of my BLTC items
e.g. boosters, revive orbs, BL salvage kits , toys, town clothes, etc.

I do not have enough storage space to store my BLTC items.
If so, I could buy as many town clothes as I could.

1. Being useless in a team
2. Troll your teammates
3. Trolled by your pets (F2, F2, F2, F2, no response and go in full CD)
4. Keep nerf by Anet

Oh poor Rangers, your Goddess of nature – Melandru left you alone.

With no blessing of Melandru, no condition removal for Rangers

Rangers are weak in condition removal, LoL.

BTW, when can I have a REAL Ranger with no Pets?

Being useless is useful to team, because your teammates will have a feeling of superiority.
(e.g. Warrior: Oh yeah I carry the team !)

Also, if you made a mistake and made you team fail, you still could say “It’s normal, Ranger is designed to be fail.”

If you are a fan of pets, please play Necro, Ele, Guardian, Thief, Mes, Eng.
They both can summon stuffs. (e.g. minions, turrets, illusion…)
It’s still better than Ranger’s pets.

Better use up 1 skill slot than use up your profession skill slots (F1~F4) with a profession trait (Beast-master) that you won’t want to invest in.

Remake Stealth mechanic, then Thief will be adjusted.
(e.g. buff other thief mechanics again)

See also: Guild Wars 1 Assassin
Guild Wars 1 does not have Stealth mechanic,
Obviously Anet does not know how to make a balance Stealth mechanic.
LoL.

Anet please fix your Stealth system + Ranger pet system before u do anything in PvP

This is also a long known bug in PvP too, lol!

An exploit is going to fix, but a bug won’t.

Hi all, I would like to give my friend a surprise and send a gift to him.

However, I don’t know if he had already bought one.

If he did so, can the system allow him to click “Return to Sender” button?

I haven’t using the gifting system before, so i don’t know anything about it.

Thank you for your help.

Why I have no Ranger Signets passive in sPvP?

When you disable it, the signet problem solved.
And now you enable spec. mode, the problem comes again.

Great. Still not fixing this bug.
It’s 10 Dec 2013 now, Anet.

Heal as one GW1

Heal as one(30CD) – Shout. Break stun. Heal X(e.g. 4000) health. For 10s, your pet’s attack steal Y(e.g. 200) health, you and your pet gain Z(e.g 400) health for every pet’s attack. (Res your pet for 50% health if already defeated)

BM build is coming back lol
(-20%CD, gain regen. & fury for 10s traits)

Ranger forum: what is response?

Ranger is a bug (class),
So ranger don’t have bugs.

Nike.2631:

Nihevil.8024:

Nike.2631:

Get over it. No, really. They’re reducing the most overpowered 5 point trait of any class

Pretty sure there’s more overpowered 5p trait on different classes.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Critical_Infusion
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Vigorous_Precision

Do you understand how those traits work?

If you are out of range: no hits, no vigor. If you are stunned: no hits, no vigor. If you are blinded: no hits, no vigor. If you are blocked: no crit, no vigor. If you are fighting any of the hundreds of objects or bosses that act like objects: no crits, no vigor. If you hit but don’t crit, no vigor. If you are a condition damage build: low Precision, few crits, spotty vigor.

You have to gear for it and it has serious impact on which weapons you can use if you want high vigor uptime.

Pre Dec 10 Ranger~
Spend 5 points. +50% endurance refill rate come hell or high water. No check, no gear requirement, no counter-play.

oh your vigor boon only +50% endurance
lol

Weak.
Better use Healing Spring: Water field, Regeneration, Condition Removal.
Or use Engineer’s Healing Turret. Same function but has a better result.

Spending 1.5s to cast the spirit, and 1s init CD after cast, then the spirit spend 1s to start its action, but then it got interrupted by a hammer Warrior, and died in 1s is silly.

Xaos.3257:

The signet problem is not ranger specific. All classes suffer this. Its a known bug that
in a preview patch stated incorrectly fixed.

Thank you, but they still not fixing this in the 26 Nov Patch.

Poor ele doesn’t know how to counter.
Go to play ranger please.

Those are the right pets:

Armor Fish: Bite: Reduced the damage by 50%.
Eagle: Lacerating Slash: Reduced the damage by 50%.
Raven: Blinding Slash: Reduced the damage by 34%.
Canine: Bite: Reduced the damage by 27%.
Devourer: Twin Darts: Reduced the damage by 20%.
Drake: Bite: Reduced the damage by 27%.
Drake: Lightning Breath: Reduced the damage by 17%.
Feline: Maul: Reduced the damage by 50%.
Jaguar: Stalking: Critical chance increase while in stealth reduced to 25%.
Jellyfish Blue: Chilling Whirl: Decreased the damage by 33%.
Moa: Peck: Reduced the damage by 7%.
Pig: Jab: Reduced the damage by 25%.

**Patch Notes from 25 June

Never saw a Class that nerf the dmg 50%

@DiamondMeteor

Thank you for your explanation. Now I know that they don’t really care about rangers.
They only care about Black Lion/Gem Store and Living Story.

Or Anet thinks that it’s not important to a SPvP Signet Ranger?

Valentin.2073:

it happens all the time. i used to run a power build but that glitch makes the whole build nonviable.

They are not going to fix this?

No dev care about ranger?

Oh poor rangers.
Mesmers and guardians can gain 5s vigor when delivering a critical hit(5s CD).
(Dueling/Honor Adept Trait)

Dodging for rangers? No way
You can only gain 5s vigor when you are struck by a critical hit. (15s CD)
and using a healing skill
or Lightning Reflexes.

(or, when swapping to a moa, bird, or jellyfish pet. Who will use Beastmastery Traits?)

Rangers = meats
That’s what you likely to eat. (e.g. in WvW)

Ranger’s Signet skills:
When entering to Spvp room (already started/ hot join), the signets do not provide their passive effects. Even I am in combat, died and res.

I don’t want to change my skills then change it back to get my passive.
I use Signet Mastery and Signet of the Beastmaster Traits.

See also:
Ranger-Pet-Fern-Hound-and-Canines-F2
Bug-Ranger-s-Signets-in-SPvP

As you know, thief has a special ability called Stealth Attacks — These special skills replace the first weapon skill of the thief’s skill bar while in stealth.

So, I suggest ranger should remake Opening Strike, it should become a special skill replace the first weapon skill of the ranger’s skill bar while out of combat (and/or in stealth).

For example,
1H Sword Opening Strike – Monarch’s Leap (same as 1HS skill2-2)
Leap into the fight, crippling your foe.
Crippled: 4 s
Combo Finisher: Leap
Range: 600

Such that Rangers can leap into a foe to start a fight instead of running to them

Greatsword Opening Strike – Concussion Throw (mod from GS skill4-2)
Throw your greatsword, Daze your foe. Stun them if you hit from behind or from the side.
Daze: 1 s
Stun: 1 s
Range: 600

Slow projectile speed (as default), it won’t hit anything.

Short Bow Opening Strike – Confusing Shot
Fire an arrow. Confuse your target.
Confusion 5: 5 s
Range: 900

To make the emery feeling painful if they want to opening strike us.

Long Bow Opening Strike – Just keep the Vulnerability LOL

People like high dmg with long bow.

Other Opening Strike skills?(e.g. axe, pets) I don’t care.
I am as newbie as a Dev, I don’t play rangers and I just want to nerf rangers.

Here’s my simple idea to remake the opening strike – to make it more like starting the combat.

Thanks for reading.

Ranger’s Signet skills
When entering to Spvp room (already started), the signets do not provide their passive effects.

See also:

Guild Wars 2 Forum Ranger Bug Post

Eurantien.4632:

So that means… Moment of clarity:

• Boar rock: 2s daze = 4s daze
• Boar bone: 2/3s stun = 4s stun
• Boar skull (with 30% condi duration) = 8s fear (on a 120 sec CD or something)
• Asura: technobabble: 3s daze = 6s daze.

Brb… re rollin asura and using boar again.

Stun duration.

Make it like Necro elite skill – Summon Flesh Golem

All done!!
(In GW1, we have: Charm_Animal)

Now we can design a new Profession System for Ranger (F1~F4) (Yay!)

Fordel.3208:

When did the old trait exist?

BWE

Ages ago, Ranger’s trait:
Evasive Purity – Remove condition from you and nearby allies on dodge roll

But Now,
Evasive Purity – Dodging removes blindness and poison from you. (10s CD)
LOL!!!

Signet skills
When entering to Spvp room (already started), the signets do not provide their passive effects.

Anyone has the same problem?

Or… it is not a bug?
Did anyone find the same issue?