Guild Wars 2

Sevans.4619:

Trash build, trash player, trash video; OP has a knob, not actually a Princess. I want my money back.

You’re such a meanie Sae q.q

Crapgame.6519:

I doubt that. But has several others already said with the other video highlight reel – better player and Soulbeast brought nothing to the table. GS/LB, etc. The Princess would more than likely still have won all of those fights because of his/her skill.

Now had those fights used melee / dagger it would be a different story. But again, everyone is more or less agreeing that it is a train wreck Still, thanks for taking the time, effort, and energy put into the video. Good job (outside music but that is subjective, right )

Train wreck is a little harsh, don’t you think ._. .

StickerHappy.8052:

Wait.. During my [WIND] days.. Hepatolith was a guy….

Oh I still am. My gf just calls me a Princess cause she thinks my sense of Style is better than hers…. so I went with it x)

Moods.9631:

Careful posting power builds, the meta crowd might get offended :P

On a more serious note, looks fun, looking forward to 22nd

Well yeah, while definitely fun and a fresh experience, I think most of the flaws brought up in the ranger forums, especially in fluidity of gameplay are justified.

SeranusGaming.7362:

The OP is my mentor, hero, inspiration…

Well, except for the “Barbie” theme song.

Ohh you

Obviously not, that’s MY theme song :P

Heya guys o/
I think I got a few nice fights over the Weekend, and hope you enjoy (=

https://youtu.be/2CislKw3StU

Build:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATRjEqQDL2yCmsAXLEmEKfyrgMvDgHfCO5VpbF-TlCBABAcEA4f/hNeEA5pLQ/LAAWKr6SpSmqBUpqPnpEkUARM0

Soulbeast: Bottom/Top/Bottom

bug
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Substance E.4852:

Feels really solid.

Gonna enjoy WvW reset tonight. Dolyak Stance is incredibly good.

IT WORKS for you?

Smoke Assault doesn’t seem to be an Evade while in Beastmode

okay, i rewatched the stream and there’s one Thing i noticed:
Beastmode does not count as Weaponswap. They enter Beastmode in combat and neither Tailwind nor Furious Grip or Quickdraw. (they use skirmishing Line, as seen at 1h13m10s)
So there’s still hope for it to function as a petswap, because if i’m not mistaken, they don’t use any petswap traits.

Pip Squeak.3418:

LughLongArm.5460:

Aquamarine.3698:

Pip Squeak.3418:

Aquamarine.3698:

Well, my blast finisher from this trait works.

Tried it repeatedly in the PvP lobby, nothing.

I guess you were trying to blast the smoke field created by smokescale…

This

Why would I not do this?

Because Pet swap removes the Smokescales Smokefield

cafard.8953:

mistsim.2748:

Aveneo.2068:

Some of you may not remember JP’s antics but the infamous shortbow firerate nerf where his explanation (excuse) made no logical sense

oh, I remember.

Ah, the “animation fix”… Still doesn’t hurt as much as the infamous “Pet Leash distance increased to 2000” patch note. I don’t think they hate any class, but I’m still very bitter about that pet leash nerf. WvW used to be glorious with proper hunting pets, but since the range inconvenienced Conquest…

My personal Favorite has to be the “Nerfed Shortbow range to 900 so Longbow sees more use.” patch

Substance E.4852:

It’s reasonable to assume the one video shows her using the dagger on either a zerk amulet or some other power build based on the damage of worldly impact.

If that is the case, then I doubt the dagger will outpace sword in a power build even with near perma quickness from the trait and dagger 3.

I guess we’ll find out in a week here though.

It’s Pretty Safe to Assume she uses a 4-Stat Power Amulet + a Power Mainstat rune. She hovers over Crippling Talon for a second and it shows 594dmg and that’s pretty much the setup you get that dmg with (=

InsaneQR.7412:

Diak Atoli.2085:

With respect to Path of Scars, it already does as you suggest.

As for Sword being the go-to power DPS weapon, which sacrificial altar would you like me to use?

I only saw that they fixed the projectile. Is it ground targeted now?

It’s ground targeted for a few years now, but the Radius is more than just meh.

Sevans.4619:

Thread should be retitled “Hello Rugged Growth!” I love this trait.

What are you guys doing to keep your protection uptime high?

Well, we already talked about that, but i just thought about Rune of the Grove for some Extra Healing.

Durzlla.6295:

Good god, I think mine is like 800hp/s, I might need to think about dropping Nature magic for WS… that’s just so good

Just how did you pull off that number o.O. According to my Calculations that would require over 2k healing power

Yes the Base heal is lower tho and i have no idea when it would equal out as i havent done the math yet.

Edit:
After testing: Scaling seems to work correctly I have no idea why i thought it was better.
But it’s heal is a flat 80hp/sec lower than the tooltip says

OGDeadHead.8326:

Tooltip seems to show a higher healing value than what’s actually applied?

Yep, noticed that as well, Tooltip shows higher base Healing, and oddly enough worse Scaling than it actually has.

Holland.9351:

What about signet of the wild active?

Nope. Just Entangle and Ancient seeds.

And Edit: It also pulses Vulnerability

I pinned it down, it triggers on Every tick of Entangle and Ancient Seeds atm
Not with Muddy terrain or other bleed skills tho, just roots

Sooooooo i feel like some unintended PoF-stuff sneaked itself into this patch, and it seems to appear whenever you entangle someone. It’s certainly not alot of dmg but some lightning Visuals caught my attention and i checked my combat log. Anyone else noticed this?

Tusk.3846:

still broke as of latest necro fix patch

yup

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Durzlla.6295:

…Also, Empathetic Bond is a 50% Condi duration cut on you, which is pretty fantastic tbh, now pair that with some melandru runes and you might forget what a condi is…

I can’t log on so I couldn’t check for myself… I was really hoping it was 50% but also thought that was too much to dream of… It’s really good then. I bet that gets nerfed, since you will be able to stack -95% with that GM, Runes and food, effectively removing condi from the game for Ranger.

I just discovered that Taste for Danger adds vitality as well as scaling the Expertise from it, how much Vit is it?

It’s not sadly, it’s 80/20

Neutra.6857:

Hepatolith.6389:

Nafets.1238:

Came here to say the same thing; staff 3 is broken with pet fields; it can’t be intentional since it’s a blast finisher in a combo field.

Yeah it’s broken because staff 3 acts as a pet stow now for some reason, and combo fields of swapped/stowed pets will be gone. So yeah…. pretty kittened up there.

Although in PvP and WvW this with condi transfers to pet act as a big condi clear.

That is the + side of this bug… feature whatever it’ll end up as :’D

Nafets.1238:

Came here to say the same thing; staff 3 is broken with pet fields; it can’t be intentional since it’s a blast finisher in a combo field.

Yeah it’s broken because staff 3 acts as a pet stow now for some reason, and combo fields of swapped/stowed pets will be gone. So yeah…. pretty kittened up there.

Earix.5684:

I really like what they did with SoR and SotW. However, I already have Soulbeast in mind where Bear Stance and Dolyak Stance will cover condition removal and stability.
For a core Ranger, yes some of the changes may suck.

I think they suck most for Druid, for core these are phenomenal changes imo.
MM/WS/NM with signet of the hunt and Dura Rune gives insane Durability on top of great condi cleanse, Movement speed, an automatic SoS procc and unblockable dmg for yourself and pet.

If that works for Soften the Fall too… That means i can cleanse 4 Conditions by Pooing my Pants and slow Enemies? \o/ what a time to be alive

As I’m on EU ankitten ot able to play atm, I have a Question:

Do the Lesser Muddy Terrain and Lesser QZ still count as Survival-skills? Or do they belong to no Category and won’t trigger Wilderness Knowledge?

Aomine.5012:

How’s it useful in PVE when mobs that requires high dps have like 3 million HP?
It’s way worse than trait that gives 20% bonus damage when target is below 50%, which works on 3 million HP pve mobs.

Well, it all depends on how it’s implemented. If it’s total HP…. it’s going to be bullcrap in PvE, but if it’s %based (which is more likely imo) it’ll be a really good trait overall.

Tenal.1546:

I’m maxed out in MP right now with 193. I don’t care about resetting them with this new Vendor NPC just to get the War Gliding Mastery. Any idea how much this new Gliding Mastery will cost in HoT MP?

You’re gonna need World Ability Points and not Mastery Points to get the WvW gliding, so no worries (=

First build will probably struggle alot vs the current condi-Reapers because you don’t want to be in melee range there ever, and Condi Chronos will probably give you a hard time as well. Other then that you’re good to go with that build as far as I’m concerned

Wondrouswall.7169:

Wonder what the coefficient on the strike is. That number looks just a bit behind the lightning strike from sigil of air – which is pretty kitten good if you ask me.

Well, as long as the Wiki didn’t get Hands on Information we don’t have, the damage number they have is for Marauder/Demolisher Amulet + Power Main Rune.

safka.8514:

1. How many good weapons/builds do we have? Can I be a melee ranger?
2. Do people still see rangers as a burden in dungeons like back in the beginning?
3. How are pets? Do they scale with my gear now? Was pathfinding/ai improved? Are they generally a pain to manage?

Anything else you might want to tell to a new ranger?

1. if you don’t Aim for THE best build for every gamemode, Ranger has lots of Builds atm, probably the highest count of viable builds at the moment. Yes you can!
2. nope They don’t, well specced rangers are welcomed Afaik.
3. They,re still meh, clunky and all. Nope they don’t. A little, but still bad. In PvE they got AI’s got a 90%? dmg reductin if they’re not directly targeted, in smaller PvP fights they are really helpful actually, in WvW zerg… still dead most of the time.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

I was thinking more something like this as a hybrid, with the elite being One Wolf Pack and the eSpec heal or something depending on what it is.

depending on how Companion’s Might (especially the “basic” attack bleed from pet crits) and the 150 p/v/t/prec and 300 fero is altered for Soulbeast, i think BM would be superior to skirmishing, but it’s all just speculation for now, Heal would be Bear and Free slot Dolyak. And yeah Offhand i wasn’t sure about, might as well change it to Torch or axe even.

LughLongArm.5460:

That’s why I think its an hybrid weapon. main hand sword will be better for dps on zerk gear, but with the new stat combo option(main-power/main-condi/minor-precision/minor ferocity) Dagger have the potential to be damage king.

I was just reffering to the Power argument (=, i feel it’s strongest in a hybrid spec aw… Theorycraftet something along these lines (of course this template expects us to get a boost out of the bonus-stats for pets trait ), and just replace Viper with the new stats.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJgYjitsgJLESEqPAS2ZuvgR/EGRaA-T1xXABroNYW1fGWJ3fHBAAUOQ6+DWrEMAACQIzZGYoDdoDdoDtbez28m3sUAit1C-w

borya.2964:

Lazze.9870:

I doubt the power damage scaling of the dagger will be that impressive, but you can always hope. None of the GMs being directly related to conditions is kinda weird, when the dagger is mostly all about it.

SHAME that you can’t pet swap while in beast mode. Well, from the looks of it anyway.

Obviously power builds won’t use main hand dagger, but we still have LB, GS, sword and warhorn. And i was mainly thinking about pets skills with good direct damage, the leaps and hard cc you’ll access. Just think about Takedown and Smoke Assault from Smokescale with a melee soulbeast etc.

Well, from what we saw on her Video (expecting the Weapondamage to be correct and all), the Dagger Powerscaling is really bad. She Moved her Mouse over Dagger 5, where the Tooltip said 594dmg, that’s about what Marauder-Amu + Power Main rune give, and According to the Screens we have AA is somehwere in the 300 dmgwise (we can hope for high Attack-speed i guess?, Dagger 2 is about 50%dmg of Maul on twice the CD, and 3 is the double leap, which would be stronger than swoop if you land both.

Durzlla.6295:

Levetty.1279:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nflQFIFnpVo

Shows of the new skills, no description or tool tip and cuts off the UI but looks like dagger has 2 leaps in a row and we finally get some AoE and accerss to new skills form the pet. Also I think I saw a Dolyak fusion.

Oh my lord, if I can tame a dolyak this xpac this will be THE best xpac

I guess that will be just one of the Stances.

SeranusGaming.7362:

Oh, and I don’t know what you think about the blue dragon pet you can get with HoT but I use him as my primary pet now. His damage + massive CC just comes in handy when I want to make sure my burst lands.

I tried it, and i liked it, when it did what it should, but i figured there are 3 possibilities

1) some weird bug that make it charge in any direction it feels like, just not the target
2) i’m too stupid to use it
3) my E-Wyvern alone is mentally challenged and does this

SeranusGaming.7362:

@OP,

Well, thanks to you I’ve gone ahead and changed over to the dark side. I dumped some coin into rebuilding my stats for my Ranger and while she doesn’t have full ascended trinkets yet, it’s pretty amazing so far! I’m using the same build now for WvW, PvE, and a variant in PvP. In each game mode, the build excels and I have to admit, it’s really funny to watch how people will completely give up on you once you start using the stealth to your advantage.

As for PvP, it’s quite nice getting top damage as a Ranger while still pushing out some impressive healing. It’s even better in small WvW roaming groups were you can sit back and nuke people and then quickly heal up your team.

Thanks!

And there i thought i was deLIGHTful ha,haha, ha
I’m glad the build works for you (=, but i fear it won’t work once you get to some higher Elo in PvP, cause it’s neither fast enough to go and decap nor is it made to fight on point as alot of it’s potential comes from positioning with lb.

Yes, in a small roaming group this build can be a pain to deal with, especially when you are with people you know and trust (mind you, we barely ever Voice-com when we roam together), it has enough durability to survive some focus-fire, and enough dmg output to pin down your groups target once they stop focusing you.

Colly.4073:

Hmm…I get “this video is unavailable”

Yeah it may be, that it is unavailable on mobile devices, because of a song i put in a friend insisted on. x)

New Video up o/
I will just keep using this Thread, so i don’t spam topics here x)

https://youtu.be/DNWuGZuGVfw

So, we all know that the Range on Hilt Bash is kinda weird at times, but did anybody else notice, that Hilt Bash range still gets affected by movement speed? Didn’t they “fix” that years ago?
Just 3 short clips as proof:

https://youtu.be/G8rijcrIebk

How i feel, when not on my ranger

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

• Anyone here care to review this build?

I enjoy trying to min-max and I’m just curious if there’s anything I could do to further improve the damage here.
I have almost exactly 100% Precision with Hunter’s Tactics, Spotter and Fury. 2,821 Power after using a heal skill from the food. +10 damage above 90% health and 237% Ferocity with all Cruelty stacks.

Don’t worry, I’m 100% aware of the risks this kind of build has. Just curious if I’m missing anything that could further boost my damage, or if it would be more effective to go for different rune/food/sigil choices, etc.

Above 90% Health, probably not, but depending on how reliably you can stay above the Threshhold, you could consider going with Ranger Rune, Sigil of Force instead of Accuracy, + Bloodlust sigil will result in ~2% more dmg than Cruelty sigil with that setup, and ~2.5% less dmg compared to yours above 90%.

SeranusGaming.7362:

Your Ranger vids are the best! I subscribed to your channel as well.

Thanks a lot <3

Colly.4073:

Nice vid and play, do you still use the LB/axe swd build with healing power? If so can you repost the build because the thread that had that build seemed to disappear.

Appologies if it wasn’t you that posted that build.

Keep up the good work.

Yeah they used to move the Threads to Community Creations.

Sure thing (=, here you go.

The following, is the one with skirmishing:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAT8XjEqQDL2yCmsAVLWYEM4m6UtryEuOaBgmx1GIEUi0PD-TlCGQBA8hAAgLAwBOCAuZ/hpoEsQqBQElVKRpCl0NEIVfIFgZatA-w

This one is with Naturemagic and Defender Rune:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAT8XjEqQDL2yCmsAVLWyEMnDXCox1ksCAHA4ZaPdoWy0OD-TFDGABFqGgTKDSSJC37PMlSQK1NcwRAAgLAQgq+E9BBgIlWF8AAIFgZatA-w

Krispera.5087:

You’re absolutely right ! Shows my lack of knowledge about WvW mechanics. My bad !

No offence taken (=

Krispera.5087:

I totally understand the thoughts behind your build. It’s a well balanced one. It reminds be of the old Regen Ranger tank/bunker before HoT.

At the same time, Troll Unguent and passive Regeneration you get from traits are enough to cover your CA generation without using Staff. Which is refreshing to see in the sea of people making videos of them camping staff with a Bristleback doing the job.

I played staff for 2 years straight and eventually got sick of it so no more Staff for me.

Zera.8907:

Awesome job as usual!

Thank you very much (=

Krispera.5087:

I’m craving Ranger videos. Thank you for your contribution Cayline/Hepatolith !

Only thing I noticed, is that 3/4 of the video you have the Outnumbered buff. Overall, good fights and rotations.

Don’t you think you will be better with Marksmanship or Beastmastery over Nature Magic ? Marksmanship for LB trait and unblockable pet on Swap ?

Wilderness Knowledge already covers your condi clear, so Evasive Purity can become redundant. Instinctive Reaction can be replaced by a more reliable Zephyr’s Speed and Protective Ward by Wilting Strike (minus Protection). At the end, I do understand it’s a personal choice.

I see you want to have a higher boon duration of Regeneration and Protection, with all the synergies coming from other traits.

Well, as the outnumbered “Buff” doesn’t offer any benefits in a fight, I don’t really see a Problem with that

And yes. Dmg-wise MM or BM would definetly give me a boost, but often i’ll find myself in situations where i value the (passive) defensive boost of NM more, simply because
a) in the group we run i am the target most of the time and
b) it complements a more reckless style of play in even numbered Situations
So as you said, personal preference. x)

Heya guys o/,
Just a few attempts of mine to bring Piece to my kingdom

Hope you enjoy (=
Critique, as always, is greatly appreciated.

Roaming #7:
https://youtu.be/30pl2Tuj2Zo

Roaming #8:
https://youtu.be/DNWuGZuGVfw

Build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATBjEqQDL2yCmsYhTwgbpz0eazwqvFAcCcDgDXJPLN-T1CHABqt/wTKBR4CAMwhAAIlV9p6TRKVgUXA/PAgAVDAgjAApAMTrF-w

Heya Guys o/,back with a new Vid

Hope you enjoy (=

https://youtu.be/EsOFla7V_nc

Build:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATBjEqQDL2yCmsYhTwgbpz0eazwqvFAcCcDgDXJPLN-T1CHABqt/wTKBR4CAMwhAAIlV9p6TRKVgUXA/PAgAVDAgjAApAMTrF-w

Fluffball.8307:

It did to stop heals, that’s how I tested it the day it became a trait. There is no reason an interrupt should not work on NPCs. Especially if the game literally says “interrupt” when you do it.

really? In that case it’s bugged since HoT release. Didn’t use it much before, but i can’t remember interrupting guards heals with it.
Oh and i don’t say it shouldn’t work on NPCs. I just stated that i don’t remember it doing that at any time.

I don’t think BW ever worked on Guards tbh…

Terrahero.9358:

For this reason i carry around a pile of salt, which i then proceed to link back at them.

I usually mail them a Humiliation Dye. Far more fun imo

Little Howl.5231:

Yes, no dubstep/techno music,yoga pants, sparkling wings or barbie doll warriors allowed.

I really wonder who you speak of there.