Guild Wars 2

just make nade skill 1 auto target …. im done with my broken fingers and keyboard !

still prefer full rabid or rabid + dire with undead rune

after a disappointing HOT i might consider the next one carefully….

it will never happen ….. because we have pets …..and others dont ……

YEAH CHEERS !! thx for getting Bristleback nerf again soon

there isn’t a point casting slime wall if you are dealing with melee enemies unless you plan to blast it

all your opponents doesn’t even provide a decent challenge except one of the daredevil

well that’s aint gona happen!

if SB is back to 1200 everyone will use SB rather then LB and history “might” reoccur

obviously you are not paying attention and don’t tell others to reroll many people here does play multiple toons.

stop making a fool of yourself by telling everyone each classes have different role to fulfill EVERYONE that play MMO know that’s the basic.

what i point out is skill that are obviously been OP that causing issues in WvW and why there’s nothing been done to it but when it comes to ranger everything is NERF almost immediately when someone complained Bristleback is doing way more damage.

Pet AI have been highlighted since CLOSED BETA its been 3 years what have Anet done about it? did you even participate in closed beta? do you know since then there was TONS and TONS of feedbacks

there was a time warrior was the most OP for awhile, then thief, mes, ele.

few classes were hold back such as engineer, nerco and ranger but now look at after HOT release nerco and engineer are improved alot but ranger just slightly better.

i am only asking a FAIR competitive game play, guess some people just didn’t check the history how ranger class was treated by dev and start pretend all know everything “teaching” others what to do…. nuff said i am done

soon people will say PETS AI are fine

i only agree to a certain point where ranger is at a DECENT spot but however compare to other classes ranger at the the lowest tier.

i already posted this already

DH Hunter’s Ward 45sec cd
Movement speed decreased by 50%; stacks duration. Crippled (2s): -50% Movement Speed
Maximum Number of Barriers: 5
Duration Ring Duration: 6 seconds

lets not forget BARRIER does KNOCKBACK too

Ranger LB Barrage 30 sec cd
Movement speed decreased by 50%; stacks duration. Crippled (1½s): -50% Movement Speed
Number of Targets: 5
Radius

in WvW one guardian with Hunting Ward could simply halt/trap a entire zerg team

how this is fair competitive gameplay?

there are tons of things i could list out but save me the trouble go search and read up the history. Been here since closed beta ranger issues never seen to be fix but always get nerf that’s what i can tell you “NEW” gw2 players.

Fluffball.8307:

I would never use staff in regular PvE anyway, I don’t think you can balance a PvP weapon around whether it has uses when fighting the shadow behemoth.

then you are not a druid who heal the whole entire raid / world boss/ zerg force / party member

but i do …. as a cleric druid i care for my buddies

SAVING LIFE IS MY TOP PRIORITY

yar yar when a pet is traited it gain SHADOW STEPS ….. nah this ain’t gona happen

Chrono Scout.3950:

Longbow needs more conditions. Long Range Shot should apply bleeding. Barrage should apply Bleeding and Torment in addition to crippled.

hell NO ! LB is a power build and should remain to be what it is …. the only thing is buff shortbow give it back to 1200 and dont require you to flank to gain condi damage

Fluffball.8307:

Tragic Positive.9356:

There’s Zero value in healing from #1, #2 or #5 apart from building up Astral Bar.
None these healing values have ever helped anyone in my raid, in my PvP party, in open world or WvW survive.

Are you being sarcastic? Skill 5 is crazy powerful, especially in WvW where everyone uses projectiles in the pirate ship meta. Crazy powerful.

And 1 and 2 add up over time, it’s basically like having regen on you only it stacks with regen.

skill 5 not really that powerful its still lacking

its not really that useful in PvE, sure you can use skill 3 and 5 to combo them but alone itself skill 5 is just mediocre.

in WvW yeah sure its good only if there’s a standoff compare to guardian barrier that knockback and nerco fear wall or even rev hammer wall that’s movable. slime wall just mediocre it should also provide 3 sec regen

anyway usually standoff people use AOE more often then trying to shoot through the wall

im not asking to OVER POWER the staff but at least provide a well balance gameplay

the whole staff skill need to be re-look at it expect skill 3 which was DONE IT RIGHT and thats the reason i am using it to replace greatsword

dont worry you are not alone

pre-HOT i was focus on playing condi engineer where i could dish out 20k burn damaging

after HOT im playing healing druid and i cant get back to my engineer !

Sandpit.3467:

I don’t know why you are complaining about it in this forum. Nobody from ANet ever reads the ranger forum.

everyone know but we just rant it out

Wondrouswall.7169:

EvilZombie.6801:

its not a bad weapon but it scale too badly on healing power, you can crit damage multiple times within 5 sec but you cant crit healing at all

0 healing power solar beam heal 80hp
1000 healing power solar beam heal 120hp

You make it sound better than what it actually is. I would love to have those numbers and scaling with Solar Beam vs what it currently is…

0 Healing Power Solar Beam: Heal 66hp
1600 Healing Power Solar Beam: Heal 114hp

nope i have 1020 healing power, i have been noticing my heal is about this

0 healing power solar beam heal 80hp
1000 healing power solar beam heal 120hp

dont ask me why i have been trying to figure out with the maths given but thats what i always see

Mr Pin.6728:

If I had my wish it would be a rule set in place that for every nerf a ranger receives they need 2 buffs, no exceptions. Make them really sit down and look at the numbers not the feels and figure out how badly the ranger underperforms and bring it up to the standard of other classes. There are multiple ways to do this and a variety of great suggestions on the forums but its difficult to get into the nitty gritty of it because after 3 years of playing the class I really don’t know what the developers want it to be. (It isn’t really great at direct damage, it isn’t really great at condi damage, its large heavy attacks like maul are hugely telegraphed, easy to avoid and don’t really hit that hard, pets don’t really do great damage, pets can’t hit moving targets, etc and so forth) Which is the beginning and end of my problem.

that’s what a ranger is “GOOD AT NOTHING” cheers mate 3 yrs only constant nerf and i wonder those “PRO RANGER” are seriously “PRO” or just only upload those video when they pwn newbies? or just staged to make them look good i really wonder

for a class that keep getting nerf and everyone been complaining, suggesting but nothing done …..BUT there are people who can perform wonder with it thats like JESUS playing video game

i don’t know anymore really guess time i switch back to Engineer

Fluffball.8307:

The staff is a solid utility weapon. 3 is good for movement, but it’s also a blast finisher and heals allies. 5 is amazing in team fights, especially since it doubles as a waterfield; I gift that thing to scrappers and they all know how to use it. 2 and 4 are meh, but I try to put 2 on enemy revenants and scrappers to help their targets. 4 actually isn’t bad if you’ve already CCed someone, I often use it as my choice for quick draw. And of course you’re going to be using the autoattack most of the time, so why not heal your teammates while you’re at it with some basic movement?

Staff is a good PvP weapon.

actually i know i just want to bash somemore about druid haha

its not a bad weapon but it scale too badly on healing power, you can crit damage multiple times within 5 sec but you cant crit healing at all

0 healing power solar beam heal 80hp
1000 healing power solar beam heal 120hp

anduriell.6280:

Leinhart.2981:

I don’t know if you noticed, but the amount of rangers/druids is amazing compared to the other classes.

They did a great job with the 3 new shouts. Let’s hope they can deliver the same for all the rest of the useless and broken beyond any actual use stuff.

Guard = instant death for pet !

Yeah sure Protect me is now my favorite shout but hell no to guard

there’s a reason why some guys will just tell you rollover to other classes

tempest are freaking OP, yeah sure you say about dodge but how about 3 vs 1

i have seen 1 warrior, 1 daredevil and 1 DH fighting against just 1 tempest …. guess what after 5min or so tempest won! yeah sure the guy is skilled water blast and etc dodging here and there but seriously 3 vs 1 and you still walk freely? that’s calling OP

no matter what gear or how skillful you can be that’s 3 vs 1

FOOD for thought

good suggestion but none of above will be implement or even read through!

you know why …. rhis is ranger forum been playing since closed beta so many people before you had suggested stuff none ( which i know of ) have been actually CONSIDER to improve the gameplay …. all i know is nerf nerf nerf

pet suggestion improve AI since CLOSED BETA its like 3 yrs or so we are still facing this issue until today … for the new players dont bother with suggestions anymore you can search the old post and see it for yourself

try cleric druid as long your opponent cant do BURST damage you can dance with him for more then 10min

or he got really kittened off and decided to walk away knowing that he have no way to kill you and you have no way to kill him …. unless you lure him to the nearest cliff and give him a good knockback

constant nerfing ranger/druid makes me wonder those so called “PRO Ranger” players who showcase their videos on youtube and talk alot of kitten how good the class are makes me wonder …… are they STAGED or smoking weed ??

Guardian Hunter’s Ward NOT OP ??? traps more then 5 people those who touch the barrier get knockback too specially in WvW. Might be cool and all kitten but hey barrier 6 sec thats too long plus there’s a knockback effect on it dafug OP as hell

a guardian could slow down the entire zerg with it

what druid can do? with that toothpick staff solar beam? kitten cant even hit hard on anyone or heal anyone fast unless you are cleric build but even you are cleric build solar beam doesnt heal that much unless you are always behind someone and STARING at their buttcheck !!!

seriously give some AOE regen tick to the surrounding area when using solar beam

staff skill #3 is only reason why i use the kitten staff its a good replacement for Greatsword !

now we all know who got Bristleback Nerf !!!!!

nope i dont like to record videos

i only wish they decrease the casting time of all pet skills and increase pets movement speed so they can catch up with them

i was chased by a warrior, the warrior is chased by my drake/cat… you see its a cycle warrior have hard time hitting me while my pet have hard time hitting him

so we ran ALOT ALOT of merry go-a-round until he gave up fighting me

seems legit to me

Crapgame.6519:

Suggestion? Easy.

Remove Rangers and Druids from the game.

hell no, now ranger/druid is so much better that i stop playing my engineer

Sublime Conversion also provide 5 sec regeneration buff 360 Radius

Euthymias.7984:

Landshark when?

King Shark ? then i would like to see Killer Croc and penguin

Aihara.6823:

Confirmed. If you have no luck to find this item in Tyria. Try wvw, I got it in Eternal Battleground only just killed one vet oakheart after trying tons of them in Tyria and Fractal of the mists.

i got mine at queensland after 1 kill

dual welding ranger not bad

1. Bulbasaur! Razor Leaf Attack
2. Bellsprout! Leech Seed
3. Gloom! Sleep Powder
4. Oddish! Stun Spore
5. Venusaur! SOLAR BEAM!!!!!

hey guys want to check with you does Astral Wisp increase DPS or simply auto attack will do ? i am trying to figure out staff DPS please kindly assist me thanks

actually what i feel is we need camouflage/stealth toggle on and off (with cooldown but must be standing stand)

it has been requested since from the early days

im not saying that your suggesting are not good enough what you propose good its alot better then the current version however i felt ranger have alot more offense options in term of offhand dps torch/ axe/ dagger already

let warhorn be a supportive off hand weapon

the main reason why i prefer it to be supportive weapon is because spirits are useless in WvW or most open-world events as you have to keep running around specially some in-game meta. By placing something like banner/spirit it really force you to position at a fix radius.

Supportive buff could be getting more Protection/Stability/ Vigor or copy the same as warrior warhorn cure immobilized while skill 5 remain as offense buff.

currently now with Windborne Notes the skill is 15cd ( its bugged) but hey it just made this skill usable with 15 cd !

im running a power build axe/warhorn supportive druid

its about time they looked into warhorn, i prefer it to be changed into more supportive skill for exmaple MOAR buff then damaging skill

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

EvilZombie.6801:

hi please kindly explain why use protective ward? since even you are hit range it will activate making worthless

anyway im using the second build probably the best for beastmaster druid

on Bones build the protecton uptime is 6.5seconds/15seconds and the weakness will protect vs stealth melee spikes weakening the following damage.
protective warden triggered + heal as one total time in additon to that if the pet has protection already it increases it to a maximum of 8seconds , or 6.5 after the heal as one cast time.

that triggers grants protection and then using heal as one Buffs that boons Duration while granting any regen ect ect , just using protective warden gives Heal as one a better Sustain recovery rate and a potentional change to gain Aegis too as the pet will be in combat most likely near Guardains or Auramancers.

arh thank you might replace Wilderness Survival for nature magic.

probably new build is NM BM and Druid since i focus more on pet

hi please kindly explain why use protective ward? since even you are hit range it will activate making worthless

anyway im using the second build probably the best for beastmaster druid

seems legit

sure why not…. now i can be walking healing totem

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

Does it matter?

That’s why forum exist for you to ask questions that you don’t understand, don’t be a kitten

tested but cant confirmed

does sigil of blood active even you have full health and strike a strike?

Fluffball.8307:

EvilZombie.6801:

staff = pew pew pew v2.0

Can you explain this sentiment? I feel like the “pew pew” meme nonsense is based on people thinking LB is an OP damage weapon , but staff is one of the least damaging weapons in the entire game.

i agree staff damage isn’t that high but i enjoy supporting teammates in WvW as backline using with Sigil of Incapacitation and sigil of water.

like i said skill 3,4,5 are amazing during WvW

its like torturing enemies killing them slowly

staff = pew pew pew v2.0

for me its better then longbow as skill 3 allow me to RUN away from zergs easily, setup water field combo and entangle

i always enjoy the game UNTIL toxic players came and said nub i hate you this and that you should do yourself a favour and check on metabattle.

yeah sure i cant play the game the way i want it, thx “SMART kitten ”

Stand The Wall.6987:

EvilZombie.6801:

everytime anything good about ranger yeah OP nerf it sure

lol no ones asking for nerfs its just a troll thread calm down.

im pretty cool, anything about ranger/druid at any point of time slightly better then any other class sure alot of people would cry out loud screaming at ranger/druid for being OP

you could said that im used to it after nerfing smokescale im like

everytime anything good about ranger yeah OP nerf it sure

as a proud owner of a charr ranger i want a human as pet or slave whatever you like to call

Hi, i have 40% base crit chance and my current LB is using sigil of air and fire

should i remove sigil of fire and replace it with sigil of accuracy

what is the optimal crit chance to procs sigil ?

For me Undead rune
PvE = full Rabid
WvW = rabid mix dire

Dardamaniac.1295:

EvilZombie.6801:

Tragic Positive.9356:

The build is pretty bad.
It’s goal is to help people back from downed state.
Nothing helps them stay alive, though.

So you will basically stay a CC banner at fights trying to get people up, without dealing damage, decapping or any other important mechanic.
At the end of the day, Guardian who will lock all enemies out will definitely stay better protector and objective controller.

The game of 500-100 lose was a nice demonstration of how useless the build is. If your team does everything right – there won’t be anyone to revive back up.

^^ truth hurts

in a short game just go for the kill pressure the other team

Truth? Wow dude its just a game, there is not such a thing as truth or lies..
We are just having a discussion. Its ok to disagree but come on guys relax lets add something to this conversation, dont be all like “I TOLD YOU THERE IS NO HOPE”

OP got raged when people disagree with your build woah! really mature

Tragic Positive.9356:

The build is pretty bad.
It’s goal is to help people back from downed state.
Nothing helps them stay alive, though.

So you will basically stay a CC banner at fights trying to get people up, without dealing damage, decapping or any other important mechanic.
At the end of the day, Guardian who will lock all enemies out will definitely stay better protector and objective controller.

The game of 500-100 lose was a nice demonstration of how useless the build is. If your team does everything right – there won’t be anyone to revive back up.

^^ truth hurts

in a short game just go for the kill pressure the other team

rabid gear with undead rune

moar condi damage