Guild Wars 2

On the 23rd I was like a lot of rangers, I was somewhat disappointed in the changes to druid. However, since stepping back, looking again and really thinking about builds I’ve started playing this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAW8fn0rCFsiVsCmsAEtiFMBDum2THqOLuFwjrZZ1pCAlsrHA-TZRHABQVG42HAQAHEAAOCACcBAAA

This build gives effective 1v1 capability and strong team fighting, with excellent team support and incredible personal survival. Important notes are: druid rune isn’t on gw2skills yet, I’m still tweaking small things like pets and sigils, ambidexterity and shared anguish are both good and I’m debating and testing between them, quickening zephyr is a placeholder but works well.

With the methods that have been discussed in other threads (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/How-To-Astral-Force-Generation for example) it’s easy to get CAF in the duration of a fight, and I somewhat feel like the outrage yesterday was somewhat of a knee jerk reaction.

Feedback and whatnot is welcome

With only a few days left until HoT I’m curious about what builds you are all going to be testing first for druid.

As a purely sPvP player I’m going to be trying this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAW8YjMqQ5K2tCurAVLWYEM4m6Vtr2Mu2AZAmCwlLAUyK6C-TZhHABPVGw2LAwL7PAwBBIgnAAA maybe swapping out a trap for something else, such as glyph of alignment for example. It’s pure theory crafting as I was moving to uni during BWE3 but, seems to have the same 1v1 and point holder/contester as trap ranger, but makes up for the trap rangers current somewhat difficulty in teamfights (not saying it’s useless in them), with the support options.

Let me have ’em :P

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They said that they couldnt so anything like remove the gems and add the items manually as they weren’t on sale anymore, hence why I’m wishing for this.

For the 3 year anniversary sale, could we have a steam style encore sale on the last day, where a bunch of items go on sale again. I, and a fair few people I know, missed items we were really looking forward to for various reasons (I personally missed the only items I wanted because my ultimate edition gems didn’t arrive in time) and this idea would, I’m sure, appease this kind of annoyance in many people.

I bought the Ultimate Edition of HoT specifically to pick up the Black Feather Wings, Rox’s Quiver and Rox’s shortbow, which went off of sale about 3 hours before my gems arrived. I’m going to university in less than a month and the ultimate edition was a lot to spend. Is it worth making a ticket to see if Anet could manually remove 1700 gems from my account and add the items through mail or however, given the circumstances in which I missed them?

I’m upgrading to windows 10 soon, does gw2 work fine with it?

That’s probably the most likely thing, part of it is I want to make kudzu but feel that in pvp, druid is gonna outclass power ranger so I won’t use it :P

With a lot of the elite specs the 3 traits in each category have given it 3 distinct options, for example the berserker, as wp said, has condi, dps and “unstoppable” lines.

This got me thinking, that for druid, I’d like to see a power, condi and support option. The condi is fairly obvious, using “vine-based” nature magic for poison and bleeds, the support, similar to that just for healing and buffing allies but the power option was harder to think of.

The final thing I could come up with would be giving a lot of lockdown and general cc for synergy with traits such as moment of clarity and predators onslaught. I was wondering, would anyone else like to see druid have options for power ranger, and how would you like to see it? (assuming we get staffs and glyphs)

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Jo-g;1sE-u-d2cDV-0;9k2A;1YZb;0257136247;4LBl6I;1ZF18ZF185x

This is what I’m using for sPvP

And quick draw maul and rapid fire hits like a truck, shame there are so many other classes that do it better ;-;

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Gildos.8460:

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Gildos.8460:

mistsim.2748:

Remorseless doesn’t have any internal cooldown, so each time u proc it by getting fury, u get a crit and damage bonus. now u just gotta figure out how you can get as many fury procs as possible.

i like using 3 shouts and 2 survival skills with this build. but for zerging id probably slot more signets. QZ is too good though.

Using this I can get a lot of fury procs, as I get it every 15 seconds for changing pets and every 9 for changing weapons (although you obviously dont change weapons every 9 seconds)

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Jo-g;1sE-u-d2cDV-0;9k1E;1YZb;0257136247;4LBl6I;1Z;55K

Might want to look at those numbers again mate. Just saying.

whats wrong with them?

I’m not trolling or anything but weapon swaps are 10s, not 9. You just don’t see the 10 when it starts counting down. Also, pet swaps are 16s and Clarion Bond has a 30s CD unless you take Windborne Notes which reduces it to 24s.

oh oops, yeah, point still stands that I get a lot of fury so a lot of opening strikes, and using two canines means that brutal charge basically always crits if it hits, which is pretty powerufl.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Gildos.8460:

mistsim.2748:

Remorseless doesn’t have any internal cooldown, so each time u proc it by getting fury, u get a crit and damage bonus. now u just gotta figure out how you can get as many fury procs as possible.

i like using 3 shouts and 2 survival skills with this build. but for zerging id probably slot more signets. QZ is too good though.

Using this I can get a lot of fury procs, as I get it every 15 seconds for changing pets and every 9 for changing weapons (although you obviously dont change weapons every 9 seconds)

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Jo-g;1sE-u-d2cDV-0;9k1E;1YZb;0257136247;4LBl6I;1Z;55K

Might want to look at those numbers again mate. Just saying.

whats wrong with them?

mistsim.2748:

Remorseless doesn’t have any internal cooldown, so each time u proc it by getting fury, u get a crit and damage bonus. now u just gotta figure out how you can get as many fury procs as possible.

i like using 3 shouts and 2 survival skills with this build. but for zerging id probably slot more signets. QZ is too good though.

Using this I can get a lot of fury procs, as I get it every 15 seconds for changing pets and every 9 for changing weapons (although you obviously dont change weapons every 9 seconds)

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Jo-g;1sE-u-d2cDV-0;9k1E;1YZb;0257136247;4LBl6I;1Z;55K

alvarez.3159:

I tried to run a similar build with crusader’s ammy. Went into Nature Magic instead of Skirmishing though, which lowered the damage quite a bit but the survivability was pretty great.

Was considering that but preferred the higher damage, still deciding between berserker and marauder though.

Have been playing some condi but dont like the lessened survivability from before, as it was my main build. I feel what I linked above will become my main.

Crapgame.6519:

I can say doing some solo roaming in WvW with my former trap build I was going down rather quick. Too quick. I’m not sure how much of that is just bad luck or some classes being a bit over the top. For all the Guardian whining in their forums they seem to be hitting like a MAC truck

Yeah I was going down very fast in pvp too, and guards still hit hard thats the thing. Shame cause condi ranger was my main build, but, the one I linked earlier will probably become my main build.

new quick draw is really fun, just need to get used to remembering I have it.

I feel like condi ranger has had its survivability lowered possibly too much with a loss of a decent chunk of HP and about half the amount of condi cleanse it used to have. Possibly just my opinion though.

pretty decently, I have spotter do I not? Still deciding between berserker and marauder trinket but working will in my 5 man team as team fight dps.

For pvp I’m running this: http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Jo-g;1sE-u-d2cDV-0;9k1E;1YZb;0257136247;4LBl6I;1Z;55K for the time being

So I feel like condi ranger may have lost too much survivability, as its lost a lot of hp and has about half the condi cleanse it once did. I’ve switched to playing ranger using this build http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-Jo-g;1sE-u-d2cDV-0;9k1E;1YZb;0257136247;4LBl6I;1Z;55K

What are you all running in pvp?

Again this ins’t a complete build at all but, I’ll be starting with it to see how it goes:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-J73V;2FFx-r2NEF-0;9;4Z_b;0057137158;4Vw07T;1fwmAjwmA2E

Ranger most likely still won’t be a top tier class though.

edit: not a beastmaster build, just a variation of condi sorry

Ah yeah didn’t think about the condi cleanse for power because currently power ranger really only uses signet of renewal. Mainly only care about the condi in all honesty, but put the power build here for completions sake. But yeah I agree quick draw would be better,personally prefer the bm traits I had,can see the value in yours though, condi build pets are often pretty squishy though, so a taunt may not be the best.

I have been thinking a lot about what changes will be made to ranger builds once specializations come out, and opinions on what I came up with would be great (just trait wise, gear probably wouldn’t change much). Have been mainly focusing on pvp.

Power Ranger: http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgUB3AKkBWg~

Condi Ranger: http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgUFvAJUA5g~
Assuming you are using axe/dagger and sword/torch you’ll be able to build up potentially ridiculous bleeds and protect them with a decent amount of other condis.
(For Trapper obviously just take III and VI in skirmishing. I feel druid may well end up as the 3rd trait line).

Edit: Changed builds with suggestions

so I’m awful and accidently deleted the original place… Apologies here it is again:
Part 1 and 2 of a series of articles featuring 10 tips for new pvp players. on the Academy Gaming website:
Part 1: http://academygamingnet.com/tips-for-new-players-part-1/
Part 2: http://academygamingnet.com/tips-for-new-players-part-2/
An article about map specific tips has been written and will hopefully be published pretty soon.

As to the comment about splits, It seemed like rotations was a better term to use in an article focused on new players.

No problem at all

the rotation of players, so 1 – 4 – 0 would mean 1 person to the near point and 4 people to the mid point. As it says in the article that notation means near – mid – far.

All these people complaining about solo and premades and I’ve never one seen someone say that you have to have a solo queue player with a 4 stack.. Yes it’s an issue if it’s all solo players on 1 team and premades on the other,but does anyone have evidence of that the case, people can be in parties and on some form of void without you knowing..

Engineer is, similar to warrior, is a less “fantasy class” for want of a better word, as in they don’t have magic centric themes around skills. When anet were originally releasing information about the game they said that hammers and maces were going to have a focus on interrupts, which is true for mace for warrior, and hammer for for both warrior and guard.

With the popularity of perplexity on engineer is it wise to give them weapons that will provide more interrupts, as a mace shield engi could have possibly 4 interrupts on weapon skills alone, especially with the movement on shield 4 now.
And say you run 3 kit condi, with tool kit, bombs (big ol bomb for interupt) and elixir gun or nades, there arent many condis you are losing out on, especially with say, shrapnel and incendiary powder traits. And the extra interrupts should more than make up for the loss of concussive shot.

I roam on my engi a lot and have a set of perplex gear, I know everyone, myself included wants new weapons, and a solid melee choice on the engi, and even though mace or hammer is the best choice thematically, I’m dubious about it for the reasoning I gave.

TL; DR mace or shield will give engis loads of interrupts which might be bad due to perplexity