Guild Wars 2

My latest ranger, 200g well spent on a level 32

200g Well Spent on a level 32 Character

Ken DeBoer.9268:

Wanze.8410:

NuclearBuddha.8641:

Mystic.5934:

not available on the TP

http://www.gw2spidy.com/search/zealot?rarity_filter=-1&sort_name=asc

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Edit: and

http://www.gw2spidy.com/search/keeper%27s/2?rarity_filter=-1&sort_name=asc

He is talking about the recipes from the Emmisaries form last year Pavilion, like Rune of Perplexity. They are account bound.

That was a big fail on Anet’s part. I missed one of the recipes last year and my inner completionist is crying.

Yeah, I was surprised that vendor wasn’t there when it patched. I really wanted the recipes to make those runes and sigils.

I would step back and take a look at how you play. I work, play for about 2-4 hours a night except on my days off (about 5-7 hours total for that day) and managed to get 4 legendaries (5 if i didnt want to get some foefire weapons). I dont farm much, I dont run dungeons everyday (last time I was in a dungeon was 8 days ago) yet I managed to get 4 in 1 year while you can’t even get 1? Learn to play efficient, learn to know what sells, heck, learn that you can get Crystalline Dust from Salvaging Ectos, one of the easiest T6 mat to get.

I DONT know your play hours/time but apparently you’re not being efficient enough to afford it. Kai is right though, if you have been playing this long to just make 1 legendary, what will you do AFTER to make it? Most quit because they cant find another goal to work towards. If you are having problems with 1 legendary, once you make it, you are out of goals because you wouldnt want to make another if you had to go through this again.

Like I said in my other post, I just want stuff to work, and work right. Many have suggested a great idea to solve this problem. Turn the original Tokens into vendor trash, make new tokens that will be delivered to all players that completed the Meta while updating the NPC to only accept the new tokens.

That idea solves everything and wont take too long I would hope. Best of luck to Anet on their fixes.

Andred.1087:

Nilkemia.8507:

It’s just discouraging.

Probably because Anet would much prefer you buy gems and turn them into gold.

Wont work if there’s none to buy from tp, lol.

I am about to start working on one for my mesmer, in all of my 3.6k hours playing, I’ve only gotten 2 Eyes from 1000s of Moldy Bags I’ve opened. They need to increase the drop rate on them because its kitten near 0% to get one.

Same with most here, I didn’t get my chest. My server placement is correct, my associated world is correct (never changed servers) yet didn’t get the chest. One thing I can mention, I got the meta in the first week. I’ve read through most of the posts before posting and many who didn’t receive theirs yet seem to have finish the meta early, like 1st to 2nd week. I did do all the achievements but that took weeks later since I didnt hop into EoTM the do the rest till later into season.

I dont care too much about not getting the chest BUT I do care about things working. Why can’t they seem to get kitten to work without bugging? I am sure there are tons more people who dont visit the forums or go to reddit who are in this same situation so the actual numbers could be much bigger. Like many said, this is the 2nd tournament, things shouldnt be bugging out with rewards the same way the 1st season went and they had 9 weeks to make sure everything works as intended.

Hey, wanted to share this AWESOME video i saw today, freaking epic. Rytlock been lifting some weights for this fight

http://youtu.be/GR-1bfQW6XA

This is the reason I never bother to name my pet. Until its fixed, not going through the effort to rename when I change pets depending on what i do in game.

For the rangers that only do pve and/or keep the same 2/4 pets, its great for them. I just wanna name my pets for some type of food, is that so hard to ask for? Apparently… lol.

The only problem I see with pets is ANet making new content that doesnt take them into consideration. Liadri is a perfect example, insta dead pet right at start of fight. Anet has effectively nerfed our class damage with the mechanics of that fight. Every class can retrait and use another build for that fight or any fight and be effective except us. We will still be stuck with ~30% of our damage reduced.

Zepher.7803:

if the price is too high don’t buy it.

the people willing to pay outrageous prices keep the price high. hold your ground and don’t buy.

never pay list price, if we could all agree to stop paying then prices drop….but that’ll never happen heh.

Heh, was just about to post the same thing. If the price goes too high, and no one buys it at that price, then the seller has to relist at a lower price. With so many people complaining YET still buying them at their current prices, sellers can just “Hmm, wonder if these suckers will still buy it if i raise the price by 200g?” and come out winning.

Funny you came up with this question 1 day before today. They just announced today that Bazaar and Queen’s Pavillion will be back on May 20th.

fishball.7204:

Ken DeBoer.9268:

Got tooth of frostfang from a chest in ACp1. Sold it because I hate the frostfang skin, but made the Kamohoali’i Kotaki with the profit. People laugh when they see that I made a legendary underwater weapon, but when the ghost shark animation comes up, it just puts a smile on my face.

Also the Shark aura is bugged so it shows when you are on land sometimes

Best underwater legendary evarrrr

I kinda regret making mine at first for my Ranger when found out that only 1 skill produces the shark animation BUT then I figure out how to bug the Aura on land at all times THEN the Wardrobe came in, super in love with it on all my spear carrying 80s especially thief since she crits 4 life.

“Come over here!” is best part of OH axe besides it being the best burst damage for ranger. The only improvement I would like to see with it is the ability to continue over a cliff/gap. I hate using it near one and it just drops off the cliff/edge. Would love to pull people off the edge on its return.

Sold most of my precursors to fund the other legendaries I wanted. Selling Dusk to make Kamohoali’i Kotaki, NO REGRETS! Now what to do with crappy Rodgort’s Flame… Make the Torch and sell it to fund Incinerator…

Vandiros.8375:

Oops miss to add run
x6 superior rune of the krait

The revised Rune of the Krait is awesome but to me, doesnt do well with Rangers since the cooldowns on our elites are too long to use frequently PLUS we are going to use Entangle which roots the enemy, so the Torment is kinda wasted IMO but its still fun as heck to play with it since its extra conditions for the enemy to clear poison and bleed ticks.

Wreck.2634:

Pretty sure that links to an ele build.

Wow, thats weird. Here’s the link again.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNMQNBHhVakRlyVbXxmFqWDIIErCa/G2yOJbbCpA-T1RAABA8EAET5HT7PE9pAAJ1fIUfQbKBBA-w

My most recent armor look, WvW set on my Ranger

I run a similar build for WvW. He might be using Rabid armor with Rabid Trinkets and weapons, if you are primary solo roaming, its the best build. I’m usually with the zerg. If running in the zerg, Dire Gear with Rabid weapons and Trinkets is best.

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhEmKbsR3wjDAhHEwQBTGdoh8gFA-jgxAYfAqAQyrIasF3ioxqrxUuER1A-e

Spike Trap stays on your bar, the 2nd trap can be anything but Flame trap has fastest cooldown. The 3rd utility skill can be anything to fit the situation, I normally have Signet of the hunt for movement speed and swap it out quick before initiating in combat for Signet of Hunt or Sharpening stone. You will be mid to front line in the zerg battle so be sure to use healing spring with warhorn 5 for the AoE Heal.

Empathic Bond can be swap for Bark Skin also if in zerg fights but cant be beat in 1vX fights.

They should have kept part of the old transmutation system to move Runes/Sigils onto a white/blue item so It can be salvage. When clicking on the Transmution Crystal, a menu should pop up asking if you want a charge or to transmute.

I can see why they did this, they did want to rebalance the economy so its a gold sink to purchase another set of runes or buy the extractor with gold or give them money with gems.

This is my new WvW Look for my Ranger

Fluffball.8307:

Surprisingly you don’t. What you need to do is break the C&D BS combo. This is where my first main as a backstab thief comes in to play. It’s friggen hard to get behind a player that doesn’t want you to get behind them. Like really hard. I have so much respect for the best thieves that can do it. And the best thieves don’t play backstab haha.

I got respect for them also. Usually my fights end up in a stalemate since they will stealth and reset. BUT there are times when I cant do a thing, like AT ALL. Im not talking about quick 3 hit kills too, I’m talking about that 1-2 minute fight where you cant do any damage and just get destroyed by the thief. I tip my hats off to those players. Last thief was from Kaineng, I mean WOW! Perma blinded and great condition removals.

Also like many have mentioned, If the thief is built for stealth, and they want to run, you will not kill them, unless they are bad.

Beldin.5498:

thehipone.6812:

It is all about kills per hour, the droprate on t6 mats are not that bad.

The droprate are however also very random .. sometime i kill 3 mobs and get 3 t6, and then i kill 100 mobs and don’t geht anything at all. Normally i look what i get in 30 minutes, since that is always when i have to refresh my food .. and it can go from 3 to maybe 12 in 30 minutes. Average is maybe 7-8 i think when farming Arctodus with Axe Warrior.

Yes, the droprates are RNG but the more the kill, the more dice rolls you get. This is the reason why people zerg SS, kill things faster to get more chance for items to drop.

Jocksy.3415:

The patch will not mess with most ranger’s builds, but allows for new builds.
Trappers will not be affected by it.

Ryan.9387:

You may want 10-30-30-0-0 if you like not dying to condis.

condi removal is not needed in all game modes

Dire is all you need

Here’s my Mesmer, just finished with her and 100% satisfied.

Biggest Pimp Ever! (Dont Mind my wonderful MS Paint SKills)

Once again, the only thing being mentioned is Damage (Ryu). There is more to this game than damage. Damage is KING in this game (pve) for speed clears but that is only possible due to the Stacking “exploit”. I’ve had fun on my speed clear runs but also fun on my PUG groups because it wasnt all Zerk. We didnt stack, and had fun using our class mechanics to complete the dungeon. It terms of damage, NOTHING beats 100B but thats again due to AI exploiting of stacking. IF AI was better, like a human, it would evade out of it. I kinda love the Toxic Nightmare Court, they almost play like a “human” and will evade out of a 100b time to time.

Ranger Design Philosophy:
The Ranger is a resilient profession that excels at skirmishing by drawing from nature to support themselves as well as their allies. Alongside their pet, they have some of the best single target and sustained damage that will whittle their opponents down.

To me, that seems pretty accurate to our design philosophy. Sword dps is great sustained dps, NOT burst but sustained. We got a good access to poison/bleed to whittle down and nature skills such as spirits or healing spring to support.

As for a thief in WvW, you technically are being defensive if you are use stealth to heal/break aggro even if its part of class mechanics/build/playstyle. Dont worry about it, I havent had many thieves kill me in WvW but I couldnt kill them too because they would stealth and run with their tails between their legs only to try and gank me again later (usually when Im fighting another person/group). Im not going to hate, its part of what makes a thief a thief and I do it also on my thief in WvW, lol.

Can we use some buffs, sure, never hurts BUT its better to not have it at all than have it only to be taken away (nerf) that hurts more IMO because people get too used to it.

lordhelmos.7623:

Himei.5379:

Lévis.5489:

Welcome to Guild Wars 2’s ranger. How they went from one of the most versatile profession in Guild Wars 1 to this abomination we have now is a complete mystery.

When did you start GW1? Rangers werent that great in the beginning also. Took about wha? 3-4 years before GW1 rangers were good?

I think the problem with GW1 vs GW2 ranger comes down to the Game’s engine/system. Interrupts were king in GW1 since cooldowns were much longer. In GW2, coodldowns, especially weapon skill CD are too short for interupt to be effective.

This is untrue. Gw1 Rangers had disrupting shot since day 1 and always had a key purpose as the most effective interrupter in the game. WoW hunters were a different story. It took several years for hunters to be balanced in wow, but the pet dynamics were much more complex in that game. Also, you would expect some lessons learned to be ported over here.

Yes, they had that skill since day 1 but werent a great class to play till later on in the game’s lifetime. As for the Bolded, clearly not. Just look at the QoL things missing from GW2 that was in GW1.

Lévis.5489:

Welcome to Guild Wars 2’s ranger. How they went from one of the most versatile profession in Guild Wars 1 to this abomination we have now is a complete mystery.

When did you start GW1? Rangers werent that great in the beginning also. Took about wha? 3-4 years before GW1 rangers were good?

I think the problem with GW1 vs GW2 ranger comes down to the Game’s engine/system. Interrupts were king in GW1 since cooldowns were much longer. In GW2, coodldowns, especially weapon skill CD are too short for interupt to be effective.

Let me give you an example of their OP in PvE. I took my level 20 Warrior into LA yesterday. Level 20 gear, level 10 trinkets and at most 10 trait points. I Went INTO the thick of battle, with axe/gs fighting massive amounts of vets/elites/champs and couldnt be taken down, my healing signet was outhealing all damage and was killing things fast (thanks to other players of course). I would not go down.

When I went with my level 80 ranger/ele/thief with full exotics, full traits it was a different story. I had to pull out time to time, heal up, blast finish water to heal or I will go down from condition damage, 1 shot from a Elite or AoE to death.

I dont understand how I can faceroll the event on a level 20 warrior but gotta play well on those other classes.

Am I asking for a nerf? Nah, they warriors, they do what they do best. I only joke to friends about them being too OP for PvE but some classes are better than others for some content. They got nerfed for WvW and PvP so balanced out.

thefantasticg.3984:

Zorby.8236:

Heal as One is terrible, Healing Spring is the only heal you’ll run in PvE ever.

Nah. Some encounters (i.e. not dungeons) I use TU. Just depends if I’m melee or not or if there are conditions are gonna have to be cleared.

In some situations, TU is better than HS but 90% of the time, HS should be on the heal bar.

lordhelmos.7623:

TL;DR

The ranger is a lie. The proposed CDI vision for the ranger makes no sense when compared to its current design. I feel like balance decisions for the ranger were just thrown out there with no direction. What is proposed in the CDI requires a complete redesign and will place the ranger in the shadow of a class that already excels at attrition.

Think of the possible reason WHY Ranger is the first CDI. Anet are probably stumped on what changes to make so they are asking the players, who has played rangers more than perhaps ANet themselves. Just suggest what you think we as a class needs to improve without making us too OP compared to the other classes and pray ANet implements that change.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

It’s not the profession that’s bad it’s the players.

You just bit yourself. You said that the class isnt up to par, then say that its not the class, but the player.

Rangers ATM are in a fine state. Give or take a few pet AI fixes and general bugs, the class is good. We are not suppose to be top DPS class, nor the top Condition damage class. Anet designed Rangers to be a skirmishing class, someone able to outfight another class and it shows, in PvP and Roaming WvW. For PvE, we are in the middle/upper middle in terms of survivability and damage.

IMO, stop trying to be something the ranger isnt designed to be. If everything was designed to be top damage, mind as well have no class besides a Warrior and no other class mechanics since they will all play the same.

Arran.9182:

Firstly, this isn’t a full damage build, this is all round which can be used for other purposes without having to pay to reset traits or buy gems for instant reset. The reason i do this is because i dont like to sit and wait for full berserker group, Berserker builds are completely useless unless you’re running a full berserker group, not to mention horrendously boring, as the bosses won’t die fast enough and you die from any and every hit. So no, this isn’t a high damage build, but it’s certainly not a poor damage build.

Reason why I made and recommend this Build. I HATE retraiting whenever I do into WvW so it allows me to just go in and play.

AND full Berserker is ONLY useful in FULL Berserker groups, if 1 or 2 players arent full zerk, you will go down because group simply cant kill fast enough. In a full zerk group, your comment on taking forever to kill and going down alot is a learn to play basis.

Secondly, Frost spirit adds 10% to one attack every 10 seconds, unless the tooltip is wrong, that’s if it lasts 10 seconds, which it rarely bloody does, sometimes they die the second you use them, which is nothing like a warrior using no banners.

Frost Spirit buff still lingers even after it dies. The recent cooldown changes to spirits made them better in dungeons. Their buff lasts for 10s, even if they went down 1s after casting it. 10s is enough time for a full party to use it effectively.

Even though I made and recommend my build, I DONT use it because I have a consistant dungeon party so full glass is better for my group. I recommend the build for rangers/players who cant go full glass due to not comfortable with it, lack the skill level (don’t take offense cause not everyone have same skill talents ex. Sports) or run PUGs alot.

DanSH.6143:

Never make an underwater legendary. Just never…
Although if you realy wann- NO. Never.

Sorry if you didnt like getting a underwater legendary but to me, its perfect for a ranger. With all of our weapon skills summoning animal spirits, especially Spear 3 with the shark, how COULD you not want a shark spear ALONG with a pet shark? BTW, I agree with not getting any underwater legendaries till after you get 1 or some of the others (this was my 3rd).

peakittenlady.1408:

While they have indeed added better/more effects to the underwater weapons (and a few of the other legendaries, in general) overall, the variation of effects per class is wildly unbalanced. As you pointed out, the warriors seem to have the most effects available to them for this spear, followed by necros. Every other class only gets 1-3 of this effect depending on class, skill used, and of course crit.

Yup, that is my general complaint about it. It’s stupid to not include the effect in the autoattack chain.

A warning to anyone making the legendary spear, Kamohoali’i Kotaki for their ranger. The amazing Shark animation on Crits DONT WORK for rangers for auto attacks the way it works for the other classes. The only skill that gives the animation is the 3rd, the shark leap and ONLY if it crits of course.

Ugh, why do some classes have most of their skills work for the animation like Warrior (dev fav of course) but only 1 attack for a class?

Just giving you guys warnings about it for people who are thinking of making it for their ranger and bringing attention to it. I might transfer over to my thief…

Sometimes it’s company that charges it. I know that Gamestop charge taxes on a Gem card when I buy it from them but Bestbuy doesnt at all. It’s not consistent enough, when it comes to Online, probably a different rule scheme.

Levetty.1279:

Anybody find it funny that in a patch that was supposed to make more builds viable through trait changes and adding a new heal that the only change that helped make new builds for Rangers was a bug that is getting fixed.

Pretty funny indeed. I dont use Eagle Eye so how much damage is it doing compared to having it and not having it?

My friends and I joke about the reward being only some blues, greens and pile of Bloodstone Dust because realistically, it’s about right. What I didnt expect was no Badges of Honor, no Blueprints and only 1 WXP potion? Tome of Knowledge is so useless for WvW rewards, those should be given as PvE rewards. Should have given us some laurels, badges and more WXP potions to help us rank up more to gain more skill points to better help our server.

Axe offhand in PvE is great. Path of Scars is our #1 Burst but suffers in WvW since 2nd hit wont hit over 50% of the time because players dodge/move versus a stationary AI. Whirling Defense isnt great in WvW also since you still take damage, so in a zerg, the damage you take will down you and you can only hope that the damage it did along with its retaliation damage downs and kills someone allowing you to rally.

Your build is typical meta but honestly, in WvW, no one will be afraid of you if you use PVT. If you are going for PVT gear, even glass cannons will shrug you off since your damage is a wet noodle. The longbow is a terrible weapon in WvW if you dont have a decent amount of crit chance and Crit damage. In small skirmishes like 5v5, you will be ignored 70% of time or be the first one focused. No matter the toughness, if you get focused, you WILL die since you have LB traits. I think its important to have Signet of the Beastmaster trait in Grandmaster if you go 30 Marksmanship for Signet of Stone Active and WS VI Trait for 20% CD on Lightning Reflexes/QZ avoid Burst and stun.

I prefer Cavalier trinkets. Doing simple build calc on IntoTheMist, full Zerk gear with Scholar Runes + 1 Ruby with Cavalier Trinkets Earrings and Rings + Zerk Amulet and Backpack + Zerk Longbow with Sigil of Accuracy along with your 30/25/15 traits :

Health 15082
Armor 2698 (with Signet of Stone) 2518 without Signet
Attack 3404 Power 2324
Critical Hit 44% Critical Damage 103%
Condition Duration 30%

No food/oils/stones were used. This will allow you to use the power of your longbow from max range and do good damage and enough armor to survive that burst of a thief’s Backstab and lets you go melee also.

This build can also go into PvE without having to swap traits and gear.

As for food, do whatever is best for situation. If in a huge zerg, -condition duration is best or vit, in small fights, +power/crit, etc.

*Oops I read your traits wrong (Its 30/25/0/15, not 30/25/15/0).
Health 16582
Armor 2368 without and 2548 with Signet

Nothing else is different.

Zaxares.5419:

I will have 10 Gifts of Exploration by next year (if the Living Story doesn’t put me on hold again). I would welcome a change where ANet lets me sell these Gifts to people who don’t want to map.

And that is why people buy and pay for legendaries. Most just dont have to drive/will to map complete again so they just buy it or pay a trusted source to make it for them.

I also commend you Zax, having 10 of them soon, you are dedicated.

Overthrust.2659:

Pets are fine I have been running them with no problems at all in lvl 1 fractals, L2p.

Indeed, they are fine. If you are building around you pet, especially in Fractals, then you might be doing something wrong. With the addition of the Molten Duo, and Mai to Fractals, our pets will be dead 100% of the time so take the best pet skill, they WILL die, swap when off swap recharge then spam that F2 skill for best effect.

Sina.9208:

I don’t think this is a real issue. Mai Trin is not a dps race fight at all, you need to destack her & survive, that’s all there is to it, there is little to gain by doing massive dps on her, maybe you can finish the fight 10% faster.. (my fractal lvl = 50)

Meleeing Mai is doable with a GS (maybe even sword, but I didn’t try that), although I found close range shortbow being the best for Mai.

On a side note a dead pet might be better here than an alive one.

SB and sword/axe or GS is best for this fight. SB and sword gives you the extra evades to survive the barrage intervals and Axe offhand is a nice reflect time to time when helping to res a person since it seems that she likes to aim her pistol shot at the person doing the res.

I actually found a use for my Howler, in WvW. I run Frostfang/Howler and the combined effects are perfect.

The Fog is just right but it would be cool to have the Omnom Ghost effects imo.

I dont know if any other server is experiencing this problem but The Ori and Anc Wood nodes on Ebay’s Malchor’s Leap zone keeps changing about ~2 days. From personal experience, this shouldnt happen. I know Southsun Cove is the only zone with rotating nodes. Usually the nodes reset on new patch so it is very strange.

It seems to be an isolated problem, (i’ve guest to about 4 other servers) and their nodes in ML has not change at all. Is this a bug? It’s not much of a problem since I can always guest to another server for accurate locations but it needs to be consistent across all servers.

Mogar.9216:

lol 4 sec revealed on 40 s cool down in the hands of a weak class. If you can’t learn to deal with it, you have some serious l2p issues.

They’re just crying because their “Get out of jail free” card was countered. As a ranger main (and loving my new 80 thief to become 2nd main) I have a hard time killing a thief in WvW. It is NOT because they kill me, It’s because when they are losing, they stealth and run for their mommies. I asked my friend who mains a thief, “how can I kill a thief?”, his reply… “If he’s a stealth build, you never can.”

Will I be using Sic’em in WvW when I solo roam? Nah. It’s only useful in 1vs1 situations and it’s hardly 1vs1 in WvW.

Terkov.4138:

If he stood at 1500, he failed not because he wasn’t in melee, but because he needs only 1000, which still gives max dps and also better options to support group.

After few years of hardcore WoW raiding, I’m fully casual here (yes, I do dungs with LB! lol), but ignoring it when your team clearly asks you to do/don’t do sth, is far beyond “playing as I want” imho.

And, as others said, it’s not only ranger issue.

It just seems like a ranger issue because we are the 2nd most played class. When it comes to dungeons, its all about teamplay, and this type of selfish attitude would get him kicked from my group. He could have been the worse player, dies alot and still wont get kicked, we’ll just carry him (i wasnt my best in CoE runs yesterday, good for my guild to carry me, haha).

Just like Terkov said, being at 1500 range is dumb. With the attack speed of lb, it’ll take the arrows even longer to hit the enemy, thus reducing your overall dps. Also being at 1500 range makes it harder to go res a party member if they are downed since you have to run all the way to them.

Dand.8231:

1 Copper.

I wish I was kidding.

This one really annoys me. You spent good money (gold or gems) on keys, then you get Heavy Bag of Coins only to get crap returns back. The Bags should have a higher minimum amount of silver/gold returned.

OF course you can, get to 5000 AP…wait? You used that one up? Well then get to 10k AP or 15K AP. Anet is giving them to you, even with a good amount of gold to boot. Stop being spoiled and either play the game or convert gold into 200 gems for hair change.

azurrei.5691:

It would be nice if the dungeon runes from the MF were account bound instead, however.

All runes are “account bound”, it just requires a bit more work.

Atherakhia.4086:

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shakes magic eight ball***
:: all signs point to yes ::

LOL, indeed. Guess we rangers gotta learn to adapt again, can’t wait for the challenge of keeping them alive.