I don’t mean to be a Negative Nancy but “none”. The is spec is insanely boring. Haven’t played in like 2 weeks because it exists and that is depressing to me. I didn’t like druid, but at least is was a ranger. This is like a crap warrior.
Sorry for rant. Bring me home anet, do something, anything interesting for this spec.
There are mega servers so open world is always populated. Also world bosses are run extremely often by large or even map-capped groups. If you’re doing a more out of the way boss or event, just using map chat will get you some buddies 99% of the time.
So our spec is crap, has anyone played other specs like the guaridian one or non ele/warrior ones to compare to? Obviously there is balance to be done.
I’m insanely bored by this spec and won’t even play the rest of the preview.
Hypothesis: Because elite specs are meant to change the playstyle, they turn off players who chose the original profession UNLESS they are purely upgrades like tempest or reaper were, which didn’t change the class at all but merely upgraded them.
Because SB and druid are distinctly different, they are also incredibly unpopular amongst ranger mains.
The number of beastmode skills is kind of staggering. It’s going to take ages to sort through all that and figure out what I like. That’s a good thing though, assuming some of these are good skills. Edit: NM, these are just copies of the pet skills. Oops. Wasn’t familiar with the new pets to recognize that.
Mounts are not about being mounts, they’re about making “walking” fun. If you walk from the DR portal to Shaemoor, it’s more fun to hop over the canyon on a kittening kitten raptor than to putz across on your feet. Same result, one is more fun.
The concept bores the hell out of me. It’s pandering to the lowest common denominator, the pet class people who don’t want pets. Make the pet BETTER, not remove it.
Stupid fan service like the kitten quotes they sneak into Game of Thrones lately to cater to the kitten fan base.
Staff is ONLY for movement in world completion. Otherwise spam maul as much as possible when fighting. It hits five targets and does good damage.
You can get some exotic karma berserker armor for “free” if you need/want it. Although viper has enough power and precision it probably doesn’t matter much.
Also since I’m being quoted, what I was saying is I WANT difficult open world enemies, if they give me a reason to fight them. Drop mystic coins? Sure, I’ll fight the Coin Beast on my way to Dinglehop Oasis, even if it’s incredibly mechanically difficult.
I’m not convinced there is a reason to fight those INSANELY TANKY DUST MITES though. No reward and no challenge, just a waste of 10 minutes.
Exploration and lore were top-notch. That will wear off. Still EXACTLY what I wanted.
The lack of a map meta was weird. Bounties seem too random (are they?) or non-“telegraphed” to be a real ‘get me on this map’ kinda group thing, especially since they’re solo-able.
Everything mount related was perfect. The race and adventure were so much fun.
The condi ultra-high DPS benchmark is mostly about sitting in one place basking in your own bonfire. For literally every other piece of content in the game, power druid is better (and although I’m not a raider, I hear condi druid sucks when the boss is moving). Sword and GS and LB are much better in open world, dungeons, PvP, and WvW.
I usually find myself on here defending people who say condi is utterly useless outside of raids. Both can do anything to a very decent degree.
There are sand lions cub in the demo map, and they look like complete normal lions. So I dunno.
That’s what I was referring to. They look like they’re made out of sand/rock and not flesh. The other cats we have all use basically the same model with different colors, the sand lions’ have a new one which is very sharp, jagged, and shiny.
It felt awful at first, but I knew it was something I’d get used to quickly, and I did. After a short while riding it, the controls feel absolutely perfect.
It reminds of the classic study where people wear glasses that shift their vision 30 degrees to the side. At first they can’t even walk, but after a short duration they are not impaired at all. Only in the case of mounts, the movement delays adds something major rather than just being a hindrance.
took me a while to realize it and find the right builds, but Signets are very strong now. not only can u buff others, but we also easily gain +500 ferocity which is nuts.
Yup, I know it’s a hard thread to follow cuz everyone is all over the place. Ritualist Essence.9285 actually posted that its 680 fecrocity with an axe.
It might open the door for some sort of hybrid viper equipment with some zerker mixed in, with ferocity from traits and signet build on soulbeast. Dunno enough about the spec to speculate, but that could potentially be the 5-way damage stats we’ve never seen before. I’m completely talking out of my kitten but it will be fun to look at.
Why do a lot of you keep staring at old passieve SoR instead of looking what kind of alternatives there are now?
Fair enough; nothing we can do now. But it’s customary for the forums to rage against perceived nerfs. And this IS a nerf in some ways, even if you prefer the new way.
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!
SoR and EB changed (both for the worse IMO) and we didn’t gain anything. I relooked over the patch notes and didn’t see any new condi cleanses. Did we gain some I’m missing?
Edit: I am absolutely sure, I poured over the patch notes, we gained NO new condi removals. Your 100 gold offer is invalid.
It is weird to me because we had some of the best stability in the game before they nerfed pulsing stab and 60s CD on SotP and then SotW. I’d like to hear the reasoning behind it, that is for sure.
My thoughts exactly. It’s not like necro that has NEVER had things like evades or blocks or stealth or whatever, ranger has historically had good, even the best access to stability. And now we have basically nothing. It’s like core ranger has been redesigned with only nerfs.
I think too many people are making too big of a deal out of stab. The only place it really hurts, and this is if you aren’t in a good group is WvW other wise you can make do without it. I have run a stabless build for sPvP since launch, and while at times stab might have been nice, it never made it harder for me to survive. Ranger has a lot of survival tools along with a large health pool.
Well it hurts a lot of places if you play as though you are another profession with easy access to it. It definitely is a state of mind, and rangers can’t play the way tempests or warriors play. But your’e right, I usually don’t play with stab and do just fine because we’re used to it.
It’s weird the devs don’t want us to even have the option of stability with some give and take builds. It’s just “rangers can’t have stability.”
Found this in the hellhole that is reddit. You’re welcome for not having to go to that place:
[–]Anet_BenRilvald (Fractals) 15 points 3 hours ago
If your talking about the pet swap skill I don’t know all the details other than some code changed that affected ranger pet initialization timings. It looks like progress has been made in identifying the issue, and a fix is being worked on by the skills team.
That is a start. Keep in mind there was just a balance patch and a ton of stuff changed. But it should at least point you in the right direction. Luckily for you, LB pairs extremely well with staff for WvW/PvP, so you don’t have to use melee.
Every time jcbroe posts, he says everything I feel except he’s coherent and makes sense. He’s like the ranger forum’s logic angel sitting on our shoulder.
Its a great buff to Power Rangers:
Rangers can now get 500 ferocity with any weapons or +680 with Axe equipped by using 2 traits + 1 passive signet. 1 trait gives 250 ferocity when you gain fury & fury now does 30%+ crit chance. Signet of the wild passive gives +180 ferocity & stack this with +250 ferocity from Axe offhand trait & its quite nice.
It might open the door for some sort of hybrid viper equipment with some zerker mixed in, with ferocity from traits and signet build on soulbeast. Dunno enough about the spec to speculate, but that could potentially be the 5-way damage stats we’ve never seen before. I’m completely talking out of my kitten but it will be fun to look at.
You don’t need to switch away from LB for open world stuff, but melee hits more targets and faster, and open world stuff is VERY forgiving. I’d screw around with melee to try it out, but if you really want, just camp longbow.
Not everyone has the same typical playing scenario, seven. I’m absolutely sure you can imagine a situation where you’re in combat for well over 1 minute. And since you can’t choose what conditions are removed via passive nor active condi clears, removing 1 stack of vuln covering 10 stacks of bleeding is useful. In that hypothetical situation, the old SoR removes the vuln so you can clear the damaging condition with a light field blast, saving your condi wipes for more emergency situations.
There is no reason to post so aggressively because you prefer the new SoR. Everyone has a different experience.
Best skill in the game for 5 years, SoR, just got obliterated. I’ve lost any desire to play for a while.
What? Signet of Renewal just got a major buff. The passive condi clear never procced when you needed it, and the active just killed your pet.
You’re not realizing how MASSIVE this nerf was to our condi removal. Even if you’re running full shouts with trooper runes and using them on recharge (which is not very realistic), that’s still only an average of 1 condi removed per 10 seconds (or something, I’m not very good at math.) Not good.
SoR could very easily be timed; you may be off a second or 2, but you had a pretty good idea when the condi was getting removed and you wouldn’t need to enter CA or whatever to remove it.
SoR got absolutely wrecked.
Edit: And the active is basically unchanged. You still need to swap pets after using it. Neither way will kill your pet. It just gives you a short grace period to hit the swap button now.
The reason that boost exists for the most part is to let you play with friends in the expac. Another reason it exists is that some people are so experienced with video games that they don’t need a learning curve.
Someone is playing in tanky armor if you’re “constantly” dying to the mobs in BF. Just kill them for dang’s sake. Takes like 15 seconds to clear a node. I agree they’re annoying, but not even CLOSE to dangerous.
Auric Basin is probably the 2nd, and… perhaps Dragon’s Stand the third if you do the meta.
If you’re looking for complete easy mode, look for a “hero point train” in the LFG on the HoT maps. They’ll guide you through hundreds of points for free.
Edit: If by Magguma Jungle you mean you’re having trouble with verdant brink, check out dulfy.net for how to get to each point. It’s REALLY easy to get a ton of hero points there. You can easily unlock an entire elite spec in a matter of minutes.
Verdant Brink by far is the easiest. There are something like 80 points available by doing nothing but a channel. Nothing in core Tyria comes anywhere close to that.
You don’t need to fully complete the new maps for anything unless you want a new HoT legendary weapon or still need hero points for your elite spec. If the latter, you can use the LFG usually during prime time to find a hero point train. Those are free groups of people running around the map complete the hero challenges. If you consistently can’t find a train during your play time, feel free to add me and I’ll guide you through, or check out dulfy.net. You can fully unlock an elite spec using mostly channels or soloable hero challenges.
If you just want someone to play with, I’ve found just saying in map chat “anyone doing map completion” or something to that effect will almost always get you a buddy.
As far as currencies, just ignore them unless you want to buy something specific.
Some of the youtube personalities played the elite spec, so it’s done even if it needs modifying. It just seems like none of them gave a darn about it so we got no info. Wooden Potatoes didn’t even try it. The Peachy video someone posted yesterday ends with her looking at the GMs, which I guess is why that’s the only traits we know.
