I’ve spent a considerable amount of time killing that chak solo and didn’t get the Master ap after killing all of them!
That took me a while, so I don’t want to repeat all process again with a chance to recieve nothing.
BTW:
this is a quote from reaper forum, concerning the only nerf reapers had. DEV speaking.
To provide some context on this change:
We felt that Blighter’s Boon was providing too much survivability, especially with the amount of boon output that Heralds and Tempests can provide. (This is especially true in WvW and large PvE Zergs). I did like the interaction this trait had with your allies, but boon application from allies is too broad of a category for us to reasonably balance in all modes of the game.
We considered a lot of other possibilities for this skill including adding an ICD, limiting the procs to specific boons, limiting the number of procs from allies, but the majority of these types of fixes ended up taking agency and control away from the reaper which we felt wasn’t optimal.
Ultimately we felt this change helped to make the trait more specific to some builds rather than the best trait in all situations.
EDIT: It seems like there is some confusion about the reasons behind the change. Even though I use PvE and WvW as an example, we think it’s providing too much in all areas of the game, PvP included.
Do u feel any difference between this and the “investigating”?
But mostly I was mocking the preposterous melodrama being dished in the post I quoted.
So you’re quite mediocre at mockering.
I didn’t mean this specific skill – I talked about everything that happened to ranger during last years. You may regard my thoughts as “prepostreous melodrama” but this is just how I feel after being gutted for 3 years. And finally when I thought that Ranger will have a decent place in the game – they gutted it again. With this dumb pet, with silly nerfs to CA, with nerfs to traits and nerfs that are to come.
Going to be investigating this. It may require some change to Smoke Assault, since the active skills are intended to be a little stronger than the passive skills.
Wtf are you investigating? Is it hard to understand that u just ruined the class completely? The class which was already in a bad spot? Is it hard to understand? Does it need to be investigating? Are you Sherlock or what? Maybe deduction will work for you? Let me help. If the whole ranger forum is blasting with rage, frustration, annoyance and hatred that means that YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS kittenING CLASS. I don’t care if I use swear words because I payed my hard-earned 50$ for this kitten, where I just can’t play the class I want cause it is being nerfed to oblivion every kittening day and I even can’t complete the kittening story because of bugs. TONS OF THEM.
So what needs to be investigated? I have already investigated everything and came to a conclsusion – **** you and **** your game.
Their task is to create something that is fun, but also balanced. They’d want to distance themselves from the community so that the passion of the players doesn’t influence their design decisions. It can be easy to give a class too much because it would be cool.
But they nerf us every time after ppl cry on PvP forums. Is that called “players don’t influence their design decisions?”. Definitely no. The do influence by every single crybaby who just doesn’t want to make something new in order to overcome some problems that Rangers can offer in PvP. So they balance the whole game around that kittenty pvp, seeing their nevertheless poor pvp as a competitive E-sport. But it is not E-sport, cause it is kittenty. And while u try to make it that way u severely damage other game modes, especially PvE which the vast majority of your players actually play.
I will probably give up on this game and will highly reccomend all my friends not to buy it because of kittenty design, total imbalance, constant unnecessary nerfs and bugs.
If u read it Anet, that’s how u loose your money. When a person like me, upset with your strategy ( since original GW2 ) tells all his friends not to buy your game. Maybe with calculations about how much money u actually loose in your mind, you will one day work better.
He is reading this forum actually. And seeing all the negative feedback in the ranger section, all the complaints and issues, he ( they ) continues to heavy-nerf this class giving nothing back. Not a single buff. Even those that we recieved are actually REVERSED NERFS THAT HE ( THEY ) STEALTH-IMPLEMENTED ON RELEASE.
kitten , that’s not the way you balance things. That’s not the way you treat your customers. That’s not the way how business must be done.
OMG, on my 6th try Mordremoth made me struggle with his will ( i am a sylvari ). My teammates turned red and he turned green. I died, used rift and nothing changed so we couldn’t kill him. Yet another bug to this kittenty mission. IT IS BUGGED FOR THE kittenING 6TH TIME! kitten YOU!
I am realy greatful that u took away some of the nerfs that u personally implemented without any discussion with the community. That is brilliant. Great job!
But on the other hand I would like to ask you a question. Or whoever is responsible for LL nerf. How can you nerf a skill by 400% just after a week since release? It is not 5-6 sec CD. Not 100-200% nerf. This trait is now 4 ( FOUR ) times worse than it was before. That is not the way you tweak skills. Every single controversial skill or trait has to be carefuly tweaked in order to maintain perfect balance. Or at least trying to achieve it. But nerfing it by 400% means that you just don’t have any clue about what to do. This GM trait is completely worthless now, like many other traits that rangers have. What is the point of implementing useless traits or nerfing current ones to the point where nobody uses them? Maybe we have different approach to the problem? But what twisted logic is behind all this decisions and ranger nerfs during the recent days? Is there any other profession that was nerfed so hard? Maybe rangers were to OP on every aspect of the game? And that is considering that ranger has always been one of the crappiest classes in the game.
Now I thought that with change in meta and a strong need of healers in end-game content, druids will realy shine and rangers at last after 3 years of waiting will find their place in this game. But silly nerfes ( and I believe that more are to come ) destroyed the spec completely. Well done.
I dont think there are any spoilers story-wise. In fact, I’ve only mentioned several names and I assume that everyone knows that Mordremoth is a final boss already xD
Seriously, in current state this mission is just a joke. When u make a story and try to make it an epic one, you just have to double your attempts while working on the final mission. Cause u know – that final mission always leaves an aftertaste – if the story was bad but the final mission was brilliant – u can say that story was pretty good. But when the whole story is great and it is spoiled by final mission – then you will remember only frustration, believe me. Nothing good will be remembered.
1. Canach bugged during the last phase. Die and restart didn’t help.
2. Pale Tree bugged during last phase. It dissappeared and her minions began to spawn infinitely and run towards the center of the room. Die and restart didn’t help.
3. Couldn’t get in the air during the last fight. Not every air flow seemed to work. Die and restart didn’t help.
4. While 4 ppl died, the last one alive soloed final boss. But the final blow had to be delivered by story opener and story opener just couldn’t get back into the fight as well as the rest of us. So we just watched from the top without any opportunity to get down. Die and restart didn’t help.
5. Every said bug just destroyed the whole attempt cause in order to get things done we had to restart the whole mission. It was done in different groups and different setups. I may just have a bad luck but that doesn’t deny the fact that such bugs are actually there.
Oh my dear God! I rarely post on this forum but after several tries being unable to comlplete the last story mission i am absolutely kittened. THAT IS NONSENSE! Seriously! When u make the last mission like that it is a shame. U cant properly respawn there when in a group, Canach bugged 2 times, Pale tree bugged 1 time, Mordremoth itself is bugged to oblivion! We just could not complete it in party and in solo. That is frustrating and annoying. Why on Earth would u release a game where strory is so bugged? What were u fixing in the last patch if it’s still absolutely broken?
I am realy raging right now. Usually I do enjoy the game but I don’t remember any mission in original GW2 to be so buggy. It is supposed to be the end of your journey, not the end of you actually playing this game.
Thank you, Irenio! That has to be done, now it is just atrocious. And please consider returning shadowscale f2 stealth cause it realy brought tactical mobility to the game and now it is just not fun, considering 50% damage reduction it is double nerf of a useful pet. We don’t have many useful pets so please do not spoil this one.
I’m starting to think that the guy in charge of ranger’s balance must be bipolar…
All devs in charge of ranger’s balance were always bipolar. And this one went even further. What an idiot u must be to make such gamewise silly decisions?
Hell, that is a realy solid post, the OP did. Very informative, logicaly structured and reasonable.
I think that somebody in Anet should have had such ideas.
How to solve the problem? Make it instanced. That will allow people not to rely on random PUGs on turrets, but on qualified players. This will allow proper scaling and will wipe away a lot of irritation and tension on servers.
Personaly my guild iddQd from Seafarer’s killed him 3 times in a row, but I understand that this is impossible for less organized and smaller communities.
So I hope that ANet will do something about it – in current state hardly anybody will try to kill him in a week or two.
Guild iddQd drom Seafarer’s Rest have beaten him twice in a row guesting on Gunnar’s Hold server and after that on SFR overflow. So it is possible to do on overflow, however you do need a voice chat like TS.
Guilds from Seafarers Rest – iddQd, Xaoc and TimeKeepers guested GH in an organized raid. We were like 100+ at least. Had out zerg spread on both legs while great guys from GH cleared his fingers and ressed downed people.
I am realy proud to inform you that guilds from Seafarer’s Rest – iddQd, Xaoc and TimeKeepers have killed Tequatl guesting on server Gunnar’s Hold. This was a tough fight, we tried like 7 times and finally we did it.
Special thanks to GH native players for their help and awesome Finger Killing Sqaud lead by Jackaray. Guys, you were hilarious!
To summ the things up I would like to say, that maybe there are many flaws in this fight and it may be very challenging while the reward is just silly. But when you finally kill it – NOTHING in this game gives you such a feeling.
In PvP it is a huge nerf. So i don’t know what are you talking about.
No it’s not, it’s only a nerf if all you did was maintain your spirits 100%, if you summon them as you need them (like I do because I find constantly summoning the stupid things annoying) its a buff, a pretty hefty one too I might add.
Obviously it is a nerf. If my spirits managed to live till their 60sec death I could recast them and have 100% uptime. And now I even can’t precast them, cause I’m losing precious seconds. So you will be without spirits for 25 secs ANYWAY. And that’s it. The earlier they die the less this nerf is obvious ( it can even turn into a buff ) but ONLY if your spirits die early in a mess. If they live longer then 35 secs that is a nerf, whether you accept it or not.
And even more – you forget that spirits can now be CC’d. That means that your elite spirit can be interrupted right before ressing you or your teammate going into full 30sec CD. Great news and not a nerf, ofcourse!
Topic title may look like some sort of skill xD but that’s just embodiment of my frustration.
We can discuss for many hours how they should have fixed spirits, how could they habe broken the ONLY viable tpvp ranger build and how the worst class in the game constantly gets nerfed.
But one question realy bothers me a lot – WHY THE HELL did necros recieve a spvp-only nerf? Our spirits have been OP in PvE or what? I realy don’t understand the logic behind all this. I refused to give up for 10 months and now my patience is broken. I will either reroll or quit playing. I just can’t see how everything more or less viable in my favourite class gets cut to the ground.
I find the notion that whether one build is viable is misleading. A wooden stick is viable in the hands of Tiger Woods, for example. Instead, you should focus on whether you do well with it with your playstyle. Then, figure out how that ties into what your team is doing. And most of all: experiment. You will find many misinformed opinions on the forums in terms of build viability.
By the way…no mention on Protect Me with buffed pets????
I didn’t mention Protect Me here because this post is specifically targeted at berserker rangers, many of whom (myself included) opted to play around with other builds after the quickness nerf. A berserker doesn’t need protect me, traited SoS is a lot better and running both is overkill.
Interesting…you should tell that to no life kripparian and see what he says considering he does just that (runs protect me). Why would you run both though? That’s an odd suggestion to say the least.
Kripp? Do you mean that ages old video on youtube or he is still playing?
So that is true, Zenith.
And now i adress to Chopps – my man, the thing is not about your survival in CoE. The thing is that other can do everything BETTER than you.
Well, I am not a fanatic of that church, but not a heretic either. Rangers are certainly not a top tier in PvE and WwW. Simply denying it and wearing red glasses is not the best idea.
Well it comes down to a basic question, when you are playing ranger class, are you the ranger or are you the pet? The more they buff the pet, the more the pet is the class and the more the ranger is supporting the pet. You are not a ranger with a pet, you are a pet with a ranger.
The problem with “fixing” pets first is that it skews heavily how they will fix the “player” after.
If you wanted build diversity, the effectiveness ranger for the pet should be heavily gated by the BM trait line. At 0 BM, the ranger pet should be about as useful as a mid range necro minion (maybe with some utility that you can pop 1-2 times per combat). At 30 BM, the pet should be beast mode beatdown kinda like the BM/Bunker builds we are seeing now. Likewise a ranger who doesnt spec into BM shouldnt just outright be functioning at 70% efficiency because they didnt want to pay the pet trait point tax.
I agree with you, however it is quite hard to achieve it cause the whole machanics must be overhauled. No one will do it ) So just enjoy your pet – you will have to be a pet with a ranger as long as your pet can kill things.
Well it’s not the problem to survive in any kind of dungeon. And my pet also rarely dies from agony with my 45 AR. But it’s all about the effectivness of ranger. It is not viable for speedruns, it can’t contribute anything to the team, it’s dps is lackluster. So basically the group doesn’t benefit from having a ranger. So you can dodge and evade with tons of vigor as much as you can – no one will appreciate it unless you can provide them with something useful, not only yourself. Surviving with ranger is quite easy – it is abcense of utility that hits us hard.
I believe they refuse to understand what the real problem is. % of hp won’t solve it. I agree that recoding pet AI may be a difficult task but spirits…all they need to do is just make them something like banners or give them LOTS of armor. Their buffs are not so OP so the spirit can’t be invulnerable. With such an attitude we could add SOMETHING in dungeons for the group. And now I have to keep and eye on my stupid pet and keep an eye on my stupid spirits trying to control the character at the same time. That’s awkward. Not that I am noob and handle all this stuff – NO ONE can properly manage those spirits in dungeons. They will die anyway no matter in 2 hits or 3. That is a problem that must be adressed. Simply tweaking numbers just won’t cut it.
Rangers were quite decent in pvp before the patch and now they’re even stronger. I like those changes for my catmaster build, cause it realy makes me a recon to consider with. Faster Sick’Em, more healthy cats, responsive F2, signets buff – this is fantastic.
As Robert Hrouda said – this patch hadn’t fix all our problems but it is a step in the right direction. Little love to LB and spirit redesign – and ranger will become what it is intended to.
Chopps, anyone one this forum consider you serious for a while now. Just play the PVE, my man, and try to avoid this forums cause you’re bringing just 0 usefulness here.
I do think the signets have too long of a cooldown for the active benefit. I run with Signet of the Hunt because I like the speed and it has a really short and useful cooldown. I can pop it a few times depending on the combat situation, and the tradeoff from passive to active works well – when I want some extra pet damage, I don’t need the speed boost. And it’s short enough that it’s handy and strategic.
I feel the same way with the Thief speed signet and it’s blind. Very handy tool to have at a decent time and passive cost.
Then I look at the other Ranger signets and I have to believe it’s a typo.
You don’t need to sacrifice your speed for pet damage buff. Active effect of SoH works around 16 min. So just precast it before fight and you will have pet attack stronger still enjoying the speed buff!
Hell, all this time I had a feeling that something is wrong with this class…that something’s lacking…but I couldn’t find the answer and it just tore my soul apart.
And now i know it! Exactly! All this time I was dreaming about the jellyfish skin because it will drastically change all things! Thank you Jon for such a wonderful gift. I highly appreciate your hard work and all my family thanks you.
It is more than viable in spvp. I use a catmaster 0 10 30 0 30 bunker build variation with GS and SB. Being something like a dummy which distracts and opponent, while my cats do the job. I’ve tried lots of different builds and this is my favourite so far )
Does mod make something else except deleting unfaithful posts and topics? How long a topic like this must be on the first page for you to understand that the ranger community wants it to be sticked?
I found out that showing only player names in settings helps a lot with tracking the real mesmer!
Nevertheless i hate them. Especially if there r 2 of them.
Choko, any ideas dealing mesmers? Their constant illusions decieve me and i loose sight of the true mesmer so does my pet. I just have biggest problems facing them. Maybe you have some working suggestions?
