Guild Wars 2

ok, not sure if this has been proposed before, so here we go

To start with, I was a massive fan of brawls in GW1, and the closes to a “brawl” you can get is by morphing into another mobs and getting a king tittle, quite fun during hollowing and such. I used to love (as a ranger) just matching pets vs other ranger and bet on who was going to win.

however, what if, we took this to the next level.

Since mini pets are getting a update on how they are being handle, what if we could set Minis to fight each other, just for the fun of it, like, i would love to see Rytlock bashing up a quite and fluffy Quaggan (D: somewhere a quaggan just cried).

heck, you could even set up a gambling ring/pit fight to match up pets xD

those are my 2 cents, welcome to expand on the idea.

As a ranger, those 5 points on beastmastery just became useless. The rare ranger burst when down the drain, and screw support ranger. Adios the days when u had those epic quickrezz that saved the team fight by a milisecond or that quickstomp that rally some1 from your time.
GS and LB just became totally useless, why? Because there is not point using the most freaking slow weapons on the game without bloody quickness. That is what happened to ranger, we just became next to useless.
As for quickness as the concept, I really don’t mind if the take the WHOLE quickness from the game, BUT what really kitten es me off is the kitten nerf to complicated things. they might as well had laughed at ours faces.
But what tops it, it’s the little warning/information of this nerf. It just came out of nowere, like they felt like nerfing it without considering the actual situation of the PvP arenas. There was no compensation for the nerf, when warriors and rangers rely heavily on quickness due to they utilities/position on team comps.
They are killing this game slowly but surely. I still got to see a update that makes me smile and say “well done anet, you nailed it”.

Warrior – Frenzy
Rangers (sigh) – QuickStomp, QuickRezz, Bleed Stack up
EDIT: not totally relevant, but GS is just stupid without quickness

as a ranger that runs a bunker build for the lolz, shortbow is cool stuff, but the autoattack doesn’t even scare glass cannons bc it has no significant condition damage (unless u r running 30 on wilderness and a shamman amulet) or does anything above 300 attack when running a defensive build.

as for the LB, well, it offers point black shot to kitten people off ur point and barrage, to eat aoe damage (but u will be rooted, so use it with quickness).

as a matter of fact, couple of days ago, i had to fight Cruuk (thief). annoying as hell with his stealth. i could do little about the situation, bc he was steal-thing every couple of seconds and neither I or my pet could do a thing about it. I reckon if I had had LB instead of shortbow, I could have done way better defending the node.

Taruvoyant.4318:

Quick question… How are rangers stealthing in WvW?

Yesterday, I fought two different rangers (both using great sword and short bow, wolf and jaguar/lynx). They were solo with no chance of anyone else being around. They were continuously stealthing. Disappear and, two seconds later, reappear in another location. There was absolutely no lag. I get 40+ FPS in WvW.

After I killed one of the rangers, he waypointed and came back to fight me about 10 more times (I was tucked away outside of his waypoint keep). This particular ranger was also able to teleport and use more than one knockdown while in the downed state.

I’m a ranger main and have no clue how this would even be possible under these circumstances. Am I completely missing something?

next time, report them as hackers. that is a hack that has been running for quite a while now in WvW. bc its such a huge place, people use fly, teleport and speed hacks to get to places faster.

as for the stealth, rangers only gain 2-3 seconds stealth every 30 seconds. not possible to do it more freq than that. as for the Rune of Infiltration, it has a 90 seconds cooldown. think in that time frame.

i can see the problem with underwater rezz since there is not a way to stomp a player and pets give a considerable amount o healing,however, in solid land? i don’t see the problem.

for starters, Lick Wounds (the one that pets heal) is on a 20 seconds use. if u have not killed a ranger/stomped a ranger on that time, what were u doing?.
secondly, pet can be knocked-back/fear off and it will stop “lick Wounds”.
third, pets get glitched on slopes/irregular terrain and don’t heal what so ever.
fourth, AoE kill pets like no tomorrow, there goes lick wounds down the drain.

as for 1v1 downstate? well, yh, we kinda have the upper hand on those xD the only class that can actually kill us is a Venged warrior. those suckers have invulnerability and can’t be rupted. but, so what? we have the upper hand in 1v1 downstate, but what about the rest?

Exarthious.5792:

No, they give you the illusion of balance, nothing more. There is a reason you’re not going to Vegas, to compete brother. I doubt GW2 will ever enter into the eSports arena remotely close to games like League of Legends, or Starcraft 2. Those are the game I play when I want REAL competitive play.

1 ) i don’t expect to go to vegas with guild wars 2 any time soon, only a dreamer will do that. GW2 is no were near e-Sports, and the community knows this
2 ) LoL and Starcraft 2 are over populated with a solid barrier of established teams that have play the game since day 1, and few people have been able to shine (outside the stablished circle) in the competitive world. u need to dedicated ur living days to play the game at competitive lvl, i have a social live
3) PvP with no racial classes is to distinguish PVE/WvW, bc devs now that it won’t be called PvP if they allowed those and the extra equipment slots. it won’t be fair, and it won’t give the sense of balanced. that is why u have 5v5 people, to make it competitive enough, without being a 8v8 zerg feast hot join.

*as blast finishers with maul
torch>maul=might
fire trap>maul=might
but then again, ele fire fields and blast are not op at all xD

Exarthious.5792:

Lelouch.8452:

Exarthious.5792:

Lelouch.8452:

Exarthious.5792:

You do know I can kill the Raven in less than 2 seconds, right? He might hit me once, while I teleport to avoid his damage, while running Omnom Pie to counter the damage you do from the Life Steals.

Running Sigil of Purity on my sword, and shortbow, with Sigil of Generosity on my dagger, I don’t ever notice conditions. Your traps are utterly worthless.

I lol so hard, of course, PvE, end of discussion xD.

PvE? I’ve leveled 7 toons to 80 in WvW alone, and the few times I’ve done sPvP, I had to hear how I was hacking when I wasn’t.

I have roughly 11k kills on my Thief account, with less than 100 deaths.

But I’m ok with you thinking I’m bad, even though you’re giving bad advice.

sorry, but WvW is not competitive gameplay >.< there is nothing competitive about killing scaled and under armored players or zergs for that matter. anet got it wrong including WvW as PvP. and hot join? were u have under r10 feast time?

Yeah because them having to nerf so many abilities, and disallowing racial abilities so you can cope with a watered down version of the game for sPvP is competitive? You do sPvP because you can’t be bothered to level a toon, and because they make the PvP for it easier for you to cope with.

I’m glad you’re having fun with a nerfed, weaker version of the game.

because it’s COMPETITIVE GAMEPLAY xD and do tournaments/paid tournaments (lol, wut, free gems xD)

Exarthious.5792:

Lelouch.8452:

Exarthious.5792:

You do know I can kill the Raven in less than 2 seconds, right? He might hit me once, while I teleport to avoid his damage, while running Omnom Pie to counter the damage you do from the Life Steals.

Running Sigil of Purity on my sword, and shortbow, with Sigil of Generosity on my dagger, I don’t ever notice conditions. Your traps are utterly worthless.

I lol so hard, of course, PvE, end of discussion xD.

PvE? I’ve leveled 7 toons to 80 in WvW alone, and the few times I’ve done sPvP, I had to hear how I was hacking when I wasn’t.

I have roughly 11k kills on my Thief account, with less than 100 deaths.

But I’m ok with you thinking I’m bad, even though you’re giving bad advice.

sorry, but WvW is not competitive gameplay >.< there is nothing competitive about killing scaled and under armored players or zergs for that matter. anet got it wrong including WvW as PvP. and hot join? were u have under r10 feast time?

edit: and better advice than saying give up ranger or run away when u see a thief (if u see them) or resign when u get killed by one.

Exarthious.5792:

You do know I can kill the Raven in less than 2 seconds, right? He might hit me once, while I teleport to avoid his damage, while running Omnom Pie to counter the damage you do from the Life Steals.

Running Sigil of Purity on my sword, and shortbow, with Sigil of Generosity on my dagger, I don’t ever notice conditions. Your traps are utterly worthless.

I lol so hard, of course, PvE, end of discussion xD. There is no point on talking about competitive gameplay in PvE

Exarthious.5792:

^^^^^

I would kill that guy 100 out of 100 times.

Traps are useless against us Thieves because we will just Cluster Bomb you if you plan on sitting inside it. If you move back, we will dodge through the trap, causing it to do zero to us. Your pet gives us the best possible target for CnD because he can not dodge it.

Rampage as one is nice, against other professions, but as a Thief, I am not trying to CC you, and I know bad thieves run Basilisk Venom, but good Thieves do not. Thieves guild is a MUCH better elite to be running.

Also something to know, Entangling Roots is worthless because Infiltrators Arrow, Shadow Step, and Infiltrators Strike allows us to teleport out of it with ease.

If you ever face a Sword/Dagger Thief who also uses Shortbow, you’ve faced a good Thief, and you will never win that fight.

this is why, u cover field with the traps, and u don’t stack them up, they can be dodge. another reason to place fire field before spike trap xD

another reason why i don’t use Rampage as one, i use spirit, bc Thief Guild is OP in 1v1, but self rez is even more op xD. no need for stability when lightning reflexes avoids stuns/damage that follows

i can mitigate roots as a ranger by just spamming the dodge abilities on the swords xD

and that is why I run shortbow with high crits/bleeds and ravens, bc theifs think that cluster is more powerful than a raven with 11k crit damage. xD i love that part.

i should make a guide about this, bc, tbh totally honest, a ranger should not die to a thief, unless u get absolutely jumped by a thief and u stood stand still.

Why and when should u die to a thief?
1- When you are in combat with half health and get heart-seeker spammed/one shoted by back-stab.
2 – When u r running 3 traps and entangle.
3 – When ur stun breakers r out of CD and u have no way to avoid the whole rotation of basilisk venom>backstab.
4 – When u stand still and get hit by cluster bombs.
5 – Thief Guilds (elite)
6 – When u get outplayed
7 – Misplaced traps

What!? All of that is true?

1- The less health u have, the more damage heart-seeker does, and backs-tab can crit for 9k-11k more or less and that is without factoring haste on thieves.

2- Why on earth r u running 3 traps on PvP when 70% of the players do stuns/stunlocks and can kill u in under 1 second? Signet of Renewal and Lightning Reflexes are VERY viable utilities instead of poison/freeze/cripple traps. U already have cripple and poison on short-bow, learn to use them >.<

3 – For starters, if u run 3 traps, u should die by all means, well deserved. U get stunned by eles, warrs, mesmers, and thiefs, u deserve all of it. 3 traps is a PVE thing to aggro mobs and kill them super fast. In PvP, 3 traps should only be used when u know that ur team is going to be there for u, or* STABILITY* is given out, or u r timing ur RAMPAGE AS ONE for TEAM FIGHTS/1v1 and not Moving from point to point.

4 – U r a ranger, with a ranged weapon, and pets, yes, pets. MOVE, AUTO ATTACK *and USE UR PET*. if the thief is out of the point, no need to stand on the point and get hit by AoE. ur pet becomes an annoyance to any glassy builds out there.

5 – Well, sorry, but this is a legit reason why u should die in 1v1 against a thief, he poped the elite and out healed you. that elite can turn the table when fighting a thief.

6 – kitten right, u got outplayed, learn from your mistakes.

7 – Placed the traps on u, basic stuff to fight a thief. they open with steal most of the time, so they eat ur traps. u will still die if they used the backstab rotation and u have no stability or way to break stuns, so u need better strategies. After the open up, try to cover ground with traps instead of stacking them up on one spot

NA, Ranger, Lelouch.8452 (Midori Ryuuk), Free Tournaments, 1v1, 55 QP (not enough to be qualify as a paid helper xD which could play more freq)

evilapprentice.6379:

P/D. Pee/Dee. Pistol/Dagger. Attrition spec (its right in the title). 0/0/30/20/20. Condition damage, not direct damage.

Even if you’re keeping a target on point, both teams are down a player, and the enemy team is holding the point. Advantage, other team.

wut? we have a node, they have a node, big team fight going on, one of they player is at the back node (forced to be, e.i mesmer, crucial in team fights) and we have ours at the team fight. how is to their advantage? if they have anything below a bunker on the back node it’s easy for a bursty thief with a real sense vs which class he can fight and which one to avoid.

>.< if the thief knows he can kill the back node player, a free kill/cap. if he can’t, bc it’s a bunker or simply too much for him to handle, he can peel off and go back to the team fight and call 1 at back node, still leaving a situation of 1 player to dis advantage.

a thief doesn’t need to kill to be effective. it seems people don’t get the concept of stalling. If a thief can keep a player on the node (i.e mesmer/ranger) or more than one for that matters, it means that your team is fighting without that mesmer (timewarp lol) in a team fight, or that ur team is having a 3v5/3v4 somewhere else. plus, u know that u can’t leave that point, bc there is or there is not a thief in stealth somewhere.

plus, what the hell, u r saying d/p does not damage? have u tried doing the smoke combo field and heartseeker through it? u get next to infinite stealth and can re engage whenever u want. and regen/condi removal on stealth is not op at all u can even get might when u r in stealth. u can’t get burst, bc u hit and stealth, and if u have thief guild (elite), kitten it, if u r not a bunker, u r a certain death, there r few elites that can pale that one in 1v1

u find urself in a pinch, short-bow and infiltrator arrow away. or just cluster bomb the point for 2-3k crit hits 5 times >.&lt

and thief vs ranger? get real, a good thief should not loose to a ranger. he just need to shoot with a sb and when u get low (half health or less) just come at u and backstab. nub thief r the ones that rush at a ranger with vasilisk venom from the go, for that reason they die 70-80% of the time, they get immo by traps, burned/poisoned, and pet kd the kitten out of them.

did i mention heartseeker+haste before stealth runs out and the glitched stealth animation? or the times cluster bombs hits 2 times ? nvm

I find the 500 glory gain after tpvp to be pointless after r40. u need to get so much glory to rank up, that is absurd compared to the effort of winning. A tournaments takes roughly 45 mins (without queue times, waiting time etc) that is far too long to get 500 glory after 1st place chest (if u get it), considering that u could next to double the amount in hot join in half the time.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Jaguars F2 sucks? It’s the best pet ability in the game for quickness burst, at least when you’re in melee range a lot like I am with sword. I would love other pets being as responsive as the jaguar, and not attack the air when doing a quickness swap with activated F2 ability right away.

that was my bad, it was a typo. I mean to say the jungle stalker, which grants 5 might. i hope that u agree on that xD

I’m impress, it seems my joke is kinda catching up. I’m Murasaki Ryuuk (NA) u might know me, or not xD never mind that. I have been running this back node bunker ranger for a while now, and I came up with few combinations on how to run a regen/protection/hibrid back node ranger, with high survivability in 1v1, and probably 2v1 doing it smartly. by no means I say that u r as good as a guardian/ele with bunker set up, but it’s quite fun to play.

GS – S/D – Pure Regen
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNAR8YjEV91JWWWg2Bi2DN1fM9UEr07UMK/XyjGC;TsAgzCmouxcj4G7Nubk3s+Y8xuBA

Pig Pets is underrated, however, I made a post several days ago about PvP pets, and which ones are actually useful. (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/PvP-Pet-Guide)

F2 – Forage (Pig)
Seed Pod – Grant regeneration to yourself and nearby allies.
Egg – Restore health and initiative. 2182 healing
Elixir of Heroes – You become invulnerable (3s)

F2 – Forage (Warthog)
Gunk – Throw gunk at target area to inflict a random condition.
Venom Sac – Cover the area in a poisonous cloud.
Scale – Throw the scale to bleed and poison your foe.

Pig heal is not a joke, specially when u put that water-field down and u see the regen skyrocket, on top of healing-spring as well. Plus, people usually are not looking for the drops or even know that they drops.
And the Warthog, he can put pressure on the node with AoE poison, which can stack up for up to 20-25 seconds xD ridiculous amount, but u can try it for yourself.

And well, since u going for the whole defensive set up, GS over any other weapon any day.

A/T – S/D – Protection
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQRAnf8YjEV91JWWWg2Bi2DNZeM9UEr07UMK/XxbVA;TwAg2CmoAyAkAI7OOgk7s+Y8xuhpAA

This build is about mitigating damage with hightoughness and loads of protection. I mean LOADS. the 2 seconds protection on dodge last for nearly 4 seconds, and u have so much vigor that u can have protection nearly all t he time up. pet grants even more protection, and wolf is a way to mitigate damage with fear.

weapon set up is to enable the condition damage, and keep people off the node with the massive radius torch 5 has.

SB – S/D – hibrid
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNAV8YjEV91JWWWg2Bi2DNZeM9UEr07UMK/XwkK;TwAg2Cmouxcj4GLQubkAt+Y8xuhpAA

this is a mix, pets are up to preference. any question will be awnsered.

http://www.twitch.tv/midori_ryuuk

main is ranger :L i rarely find some1 streaming ranger. and gasmask main is warr xD lolz

Survival Pets
Not exactly my preferred type of pets, but hey, I’m here to help.

Bears vs everything else
It seems that everyone that think bunker pet think on bears. Don’t get me wrong, they have kitten loads of health and that defy pain guarantees to make them live through pretty much everything.

Brown Bear & Murellow (yh, freaking murellow xD)
(Bear) 1 Condition Removal (25 secs) on F2 Ability on 25 seconds CD
(Murellow) Poision AoE (2 ½ secs) on F2 Ability on 35 seconds CD

Well, that is it for bears. One single condition removal and the other one does poison, to punish people trying to take your precious node while they fight you. The rest of the bear are little use in PvP, but keep reading xD

And a pet class that people don’t expect to see in PvP or for that matter in PvE, Pigs.

Forage (search for a useful item) on F2 Ability on 40 seconds CD
Bleeding (7 ½ secs) on passive skill on 12 seconds CD
Knockdown (3 secs) on passive skills on 40 seconds CD

So, what is special about this class?
The F2 for every pet will be different, so this is what each one of them can drop every time you use their F2 ability. They appear in order of what I consider useful in PvP

NOTE
The opponent can pick up this drops as well, since they are consider environmental weapons, however, they don’t even know what the pet does, and they won’t be playing attention to it.

Forage (Pig)
Seed Pod – Grant regeneration to yourself and nearby allies. 190 healing, water field.
Egg – Restore health and initiative. 2182 healing, 6 initiative.
Elixir of Heroes – You become invulnerable (3s)

Note
Bottle of Rum: You receive invulnerability (3s) / has never dropped for me :L

Forage (Warthog)
Gunk – Throw gunk at target area to inflict a random condition. 900 range, 153 damage, Combo field: Ethereal
Venom Sac – Cover the area in a poisonous cloud. 10s poison, 900 range, Combo field: Poison
Scale – Throw the scale to bleed and poison your foe. 10s bleeding, 20s poison, 10s weakness, 900 range, projectile combo finisher (20% chance), 255 damage.

Note
The fields actually last far longer, and the conditions can stack up up to 30 seconds plus.

Forage (Boar)
Skull – Strike fear into nearby foes. 3s fear, 600 range
Rock – Throw a rock to daze your foe. 900 range.
Bone – Stun your foe. 3s stun, 170 range.

Forage (Siamoth)
Plasma – Gain all boons (10s protection, regen, vigor, might, fury, swiftness, aegis).
Feathers – throw a handful of feathers to blind nearby foes. Stealth yourself. 3s blind, 3s stealth, 120 range.
Tuft of Hair – Blinding Tuft: Throw a handful of feathers, vanishing in stealth and blinding nearby foes. 3s blind, 3s stealth, 120 range.

Condition Pets

Spiders or Canines?
Most people kill out that Spiders are better than Canines, but I leave it as an open discussion. The truth is that both have plus and cons, which I’m going to indicate next.

Black Widow & Jungle Spider (probably the best spiders in the game atm)
Stuns (2 secs) on F2 Ability on 45 seconds CD.
Immobilize (3 ¾ secs) on passive skill on 20 seconds CD.
Poison Field (3 ¾ secs) on passive skill on 20 seconds CD.

*Juvenile Wolf & Krytan Drakehound
(Wolf) AoE Fear (2 ½ secs) on F2 Ability on 45 seconds CD
(Hound) AoE Immobilize (2 ½ secs) on F2 ability on 20 seconds CD
Cripple (6 ¼ secs) on passive skill on 20 seconds CD
Knockdown (2 secs) on passive skills on 40 seconds CD

Why canines when they don’t even do conditions?
Well, the thing is, the abilities on canines are huge assets if they r used wisely. AoE fear can be used to prevent your own stomp or teammates stomps if the opponents don’t have stability, then u jump in and quickness resurrect the down teammate. Plus, on pet swap, if the Knockdown ability of the pet is off CD, that is the first move they will do.
So, ikittennow this and time it well, people r going to be eating your traps while they lay flat on the floor. And the immobilize, well, u immobilize them and throw traps on them xD end of it.

So far so good, however, canines can be countered hard (fear and KD abilities), specialize if the opponent has stability, or a way to mitigate damage (mist form, stealth, block from guardians, etc).

Why I don’t like spiders?
For starters, because they attack in form of projectiles (ranged). Projectiles from spiders r easy to be avoided, u don’t even need to be playing attention to dodge the immobile, stun and the poison field is a joke, since they use the skill when they feel like using it. As for abilities, compare them yourself vs the canines. Because canines’ abilities are AoE, you have higher success rate on actually getting someone with the F2 abilities

People ask me from time to time which pet is better for what and what not. So I took a couple of hours to make this guide to clarify few things about every pet that is actually useful in PvP.

DPS Pets

Birds or Felines?
These pets are the pets with the highest DPS output, due to their high critical chance. Pretty much guarantee 1k+ or just under every time they hit, which can lead to a high DPS output if opponents don’t bother with your pet, which is a huge plus when they crit for 5k (yh, it can go even higher xD) and they don’t even know what hit them xD

Note: Birds have higher health than felines, with the same crit chance and power.

Black Raven& White Raven (preferred bird pets)
Blind (6 ¼ secs) on F2 Ability on 18 seconds CD.
Vulnerability (15 secs) on passive skill on 8 seconds CD.
Swiftness (10 secs) on passive skill on 20 seconds CD.

Note: For some reason White raven has less health than Black Raven. I think this is due to the fact that White Raven is mean to be a Hall of Monument Reward (GW1 related).
Note: Ravens seem to attack empty air sometimes, but this is actually that they are using their passive skills.

Lynx & jaguar
(Lynx) Bleeding (25 secs) on F2 Ability on 30 seconds CD.
(Jaguar) Stealh (6 secs) on F2 Ability on 30 seconds CD.
Bleeding (12 ½ secs) on passive skill on 20 seconds CD.

Why this selection over the other birds and felines?
Eagle and hawk only do a miserable amount of bleeds, which amount next to nothing.
Owl (6 secs) and Snow leopard (8 secs) do chills, which some people could find practical depending on the opposite team, otherwise, meh, up to preferences.
Note: tool tips on the game say 3 secs and 2secsx2 respectively for this pets, which is not totally correct.
And the Jungle Stalker, well, the F2 sucks hard, u need to be in range of its skill to get the might (we all know that pets love to wonder even without enemies), for some reason the cast get interrupted if u move and the cast time takes forever.

Necro can counter TW like no tomorrow. If I see timewarp, use plague and run into TP. I have traited it so every time I blind some1, he gets chilled as well. So, TP? Plague>blind and chilled to the kitten xD

Davinci.8027:

@Lelouche. I don’t see you anywhere in paids, so I don’t see why you should be talking about meta or NA vs EU etc
You’re trashing your own community when you’re not in even a position to give any viable input.

@That pic: Dom’s super DPS Hammer/Staff build + Powerr’s longbow warrior are too op.

input? not to use the broken meta, be creative, that it what changes the game. And u fully know were the meta stands in NA at the moment, so don’t come with that.
paids? Midori Ryuuk, ranger, don’t have a fix team to run, plus, living in EU doesn’t help with the timezone
the pic? it seems the builds were not op enough (just teasing) or did not fit with the comp, keep being creative, nothing against it.

Banjal.7328:

Why use birds?Cat’s are the the best DPS pets.

lol to that xD raven’s burst is in a 14 1/2 (traited) seconds cooldown xD if u have warhorn (u don’t even need it, but fury/might is handy) and quickness on swap, I don’t see cats being a shadow of raven’s damage. and the best part, u r tanky as hell and regen is out of the roof. plus, raven’s blind, cats don’t xD

Braxxus.2904:

A pretty sure-fire solid foundation would be:
Guardian Bunker (there’s a few variant builds here)
Mesmer far point/portal-bomber/general kitten the other players up guy (cannot go wrong with 20/20/0/0/30)

After that a fairly excellent selection of characters for the other 3 slots:
D/D Ele 0/10/-/20+/30
Necro – Not sure here I don’t have enough experience on mine. However I did have moderate success fooling around with a well build
Thief roamer (a really well played ranger also meshes well with a d/d ele and a necro)

and this is why EU takes the kitten out of NA, the same old meta ( guardian, mesmer, necro, ele, thief/warr). All the top teams use that broken composition, be creative.
We rolled 2 warrios, ranger, engi, guardian in paids, and ask any of the top players (QTs, Pzs, Rayteks team), we gave them a hard time, they won in strategies, but we took the surprise on them and lost the games by 100 points and less. Just bc a comp is a joke, doesn’t mean it can’t work, u need to make it work.

and something to amuse, to show another broken meta

Walorx.5129:

Well ranger is easy to play so… can you be the best at something that takes no skill? Spam traps, press 1, gg.

gosh, sounds like spam 2 haste on thief

Natural, don’t waste ur wise words with this guy, he clearly has not play a ranger or has no idea how to use pets xD

NaturalPortman.9562:

Lelouch.8452:

Self proclaimed best Bunker ranger NA xD jk, but seriusly, I might have owned u sometimes (Midori Ryuuk)

I’m so pro that I don’t need traps

I don’t use traps either xD

Self proclaimed best Bunker ranger NA xD jk, but seriusly, I might have owned u sometimes (Midori Ryuuk)

I got a few as well, all around the patches of the games

it seems that people forget to mention that u the actual amount of paid pvp as decrease (at least in NA servers) and the teams that win in the region (mostly 4 main teams) are the ones getting the actual sweet rewards from paid tournaments. The rest, they need to struggle to obtain those tickets and to loose xD.
if u get real, u need to spend 4-6 hours a day in a game (as u said) to have the amount of tickets to scrape 1 (max 3) paid tournament , without taking into account how long those queues are.
and the forge? hope u r having a joke, slivers rarely drop, plus, u what about the glory that u need to spend to get all the freaking dust u need for crafting? and that is without taking into consideration how many times u need to convert (1k glory every-time) to get the mats u lack.
and the region bug? lololol, u waste a week stuck in a region without chests (been there, done that, I feel for you). Reported several tickets, posted in bug forums, asked question in the forum, and not single answer to this problem.
apparently, u need to have the same amount of tournaments won from your original region (EU/NA) on the new region in order to get the chest rewards, then again, this is what people have told me, no official response.

it seems they forgot to tell u that it only removes conditions when the pet is alive, and in range xD
it’s kinda useless when u r standing on a ledge and a necro decides to spice u up with condis and ur pet is wondering around in the melee, u will need to heal up. just like Signet of Renewal, if pet is not in range, ur conditions won’t get removed.
evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R4iaVjMOTQ&t=12m35s
That is why point holders rangers use that triat and signet, since u r guarantee to have ur pet in range and free of condis pretty much every now and then. triple dip with trait, signet of renewal and healing spring.
my recommendation, stick with lightning reflexes, u will avoid pretty much any sort of burst (thief/warriors with their stuns) and any marks/wells/kd ele that comes at u. plus u get that nice 10 seconds vigor regen.

well, I just transferred from NA servers to EU, and after finishing several tournaments, I’m not getting any sort of rewards. I could swear this has been reported several times, and has not been fixed at after so many patches?

:D picture time, and good game btw, you nearly had us

As it goes, few people have commented that once they transfer from one region (NA) to (EU), they don’t get any rewards for finishing PVP tournaments. This has put me off, since the rumor goes that u need the same amount of wins to start receiving the tournament chest again. I have not confirm it myself, since i don’t want to be stuck on EU for a week without getting my chests >.<, plus, it’s quite hard to get 700 tournaments wins all over again xD

1) I can’t say is not a good build, however, u r become totally useless in tournaments in my opinion. it looses the best utilities from a ranger (traps) and the support factor in team fights of range support. A trap ranger can easily outclass any warrior, thief glass cannon ele and guardian out there hands down, no need for this melee nonsense with s/d-a/a. Any good player will counter melee ranger, is not hard.

2) And u might want to consider the traits in beast mastery, U r going to be swaping pet every 15 seconds, pet rarely will die on die on 15 seconds no matter what, unless u r standing right below burst, and either way, they have passive regen with the last trait i bet u can be more than effective in 15 seconds.
Swap Compassion Training (IV) for Mighty Swap (VI) and u will see your pet actually kill things, plus, sword gives might to your pet, making it a super silly burst with pet along (and they do freaking kd as well) 3 might on swap and who knows how many more with sword autoattack and quickness

3)U r going to be swaping pet every 15 seconds, no need for the cripple upon F2 use, by the time the pet is done using the skill, u r going to swap it out, plus, wolfs cripple anyhow, and sword does cripple as well. Your are better of with swaping Intimidation Training (IX) for Commanding Voice (V) or Speed Training (I) , u want to use those F2 as a way to keep people on the edge and the KD alone on ur pet with the quickness on swap is just op.

4)I have seen something like this in youtube, a ranger roaming with s/d-a/t beating the kitten of people in WvW. Cool with scaleting and all of that, try in a tournament, u won’t keep up.

5)If u want to slow down the enemy, good for u, but i can bet u won’t keep that node defended for long, since u rely in dodges and evasion from sword to avoid burst, specially against any shatter mesmer, condition necro, even condition thief (quite popular at the moment) and a trap ranger like me, u won’t out heal the amount of conditions and burst.

nldixon.8514:

Same here. I’ve never lost to a bunker Guardian one on one either. It can sometimes take a while to kill a good one, but I am in (literally) zero danger of dying unless my mouse dies (wireless mouse is bad) or I lose consciousness.

of course u won’t loose to a bunker guardian, they don’t freaking do any damage, they stale people and keep a node secure, u will out damage him, eventually, even if it takes 5 mins.

no need to add freaking elite with long CD and short duration to reveal stealth. Rangers have pet, pets should be given the ability to autoattack stealthed players. Don’t come to me saying a canine class pet would not be able to do that. 1st, the ability will limited to a pet class, secondly, it will stop somehow the thieves sneaking in a corner between the rocks just waiting for people to leave the node. But hey, AI in the pets sucks, so don’t wait for such things xD

Traps effective way to reveal stealth? meh, a thieve with short-bow or steal in range can overcome pre-laid traps, stun u, back stab, heartseeker u, u name it, before u r dead or close to be dead, and even better, he won’t even feel the condition damage by the time he is done with u, and even better still, he can blind/stealth while downing u, so say bye bye to any counters.

as for the rest, u need to be a good ranger to at least even have change to play with a team in tournaments and stand ur ground vs stealth mechanics. teams don’t like classes that can’t stand up 1v1 vs thieves, as for ranger players, there is a few that can do so.

however, I still don’t see how giving A CLASS a way to hard counter ANOTHER class core mechanics, will fix the problem. There still engis, guardians, warriors, eles, thief themselves without a way to counter stealth mechanics. Is not fair in any way shape or for to have such system

no need to add freaking elite with long CD and short duration to reveal stealth. Rangers have pet, pets should be given the ability to autoattack stealthed players. Don’t come to me saying a canine class pet would not be able to do that. 1st, the ability will limited to a pet class, secondly, it will stop somehow the thieves sneaking in a corner between the rocks just waiting for people to leave the node. But hey, AI in the pets sucks, so don’t wait for such things xD

Traps effective way to reveal stealth? meh, a thieve with short-bow or steal in range can overcome pre-laid traps, stun u, back stab, heartseeker u, u name it, before u r dead or close to be dead, and even better, he won’t even feel the condition damage by the time he is done with u, and even better still, he can blind/stealth while downing u, so say bye bye to any counters.

as for the rest, u need to be a good ranger to at least even have change to play with a team in tournaments and stand ur ground vs stealth mechanics. teams don’t like classes that can’t stand up 1v1 vs thieves, as for ranger players, there is a few that can do so.

for starters, this is a hot join build, he had said it several times now. So, he won’t stand a chance against any more than a decent warrior on tournaments with that build.

in the other hand, i can assure you, as a ranger/necro/warrior, u don’t stand a chance in tournament, a glass cannon warrior would out dps you with closed eyes and any incapacitating conditions (cripple/freeze/blind) with totally screw you over hands down. not to say any noob thieve heartseeker spammer with probably eat u while u r not even playing attention.

JonathanSharp.7094:

Keep in mind that Thieves can’t just stealth through a trap, or a necro well, or a necro mark, or a Guardian bubble, etc. Thieves should be all about stealth and landing the perfect blow at the perfect time, but I think organized teams have found a LOT of ways to deal with them.

In pub games this is obviously harder to do than in an organized game, so I totally agree with you there.

well, it takes something like 2-3 seconds for the thieve to “break stealth” (just watch videos,u see them beat the kitten out of players abusing this “bug”), and if they pop elite, their are kinda useless since those minions suck in all the traps/wells :L

well, not sure if someone said it already. But, it seems, to me, that every time that i get the loading screen bug, its related to a thieve stomp. not sure if it’s because the quickness stomp or invisibility, but it’s always after their stomp that i get the bug

well, it’s not like it hasn’t happened to me before. I go like “Rank ## Ranger lf group” nothing happens. Then I go “Rank ## Necro lfg” and pretty much got a group within seconds.

Am I the only one that thinks that skills should have different effects depending on the game mode your are playing? (PvP – WvW – PvE )

In GW1, some PvP skills had slightly different effects compared to PvE. The differences tended to be in damage, cool-downs, duration, etc. Basically, the same skills, but with slightly different variations.

Anet doesn’t seem to realize that some people actually only play 1 time of mode, and don’t give a kitten about the rest (like me xD) and get very piss and drop the towel after skill changes which are either drastic or useless

The forums are saturated with people that find game play very unbalanced after updates, since they are trying to change skills across the board to fit 3 different game modes. It’s unpractical when you actually look at it in detail. :L

Am I the only one that thinks that skills should have different effects depending on the game mode your are playing? (PvP – WvW – PvE )

In GW1, some PvP skills had slightly different effects compared to PvE. The differences tended to be in damage, cool-downs, duration, etc. Basically, the same skills, but with slightly different variations.

Anet doesn’t seem to realize that some people actually only play 1 time of mode, and don’t give a kitten about the rest (like me xD) and get very piss and drop the towel after skill changes which are either drastic or useless

The forums are saturated with people that find game play very unbalanced after updates, since they are trying to change skills across the board to fit 3 different game modes. It’s unpractical when you actually look at it in detail. :L

Fix the traps ASAP! that is a waste of a update. to no update anything useful to nerf the probably the only good build for ranges, traps

I knew about the block bug for the mace, a bit frustrating when I pop 100b and it hits nothing xD By all rights, they should drop dead with 16k+ damage combo, but not. And yes, it seems high end teams (r40+) are using the Svanirs runes more than often. Not just in Paid, they are a joke in Free. Specially now with the 2 guardians or 1 guardian/1 bunker ele combinations; they are hard to kill, or takes time in 1vs1 but next to impossible with this exploits. Several of them, as already mentioned, they use those precious seconds to just, top up their health when they are next to dead.

Gungnir Grimm.7123:

so basically chuck it into a zerg and it will hit the last couple targets like a truck? I find that funnier than I probably should.

yep, that is why it’s silly in WvW, u won’t have much luck with in in tpvp, perhaps in 8v8, but outside cluster of targets, it’s very unluckily to get the same results

Yes, it’s possible. I was in the mist, with a 30/30/10/0/0 warrior build. i stood in front the cluster of heavy golems, and let bladetrail hit themts. I was hitting pretty much 2k increase per targett. My first target got hit my 1k or so, and the last by 12k.
So yes, it’s possible to get hit by that much. I think there is a trait that affects the performance of bladetrail. so, if u are fighting a minion maste, and decide to hit bladetrail and hit several of them, u will see them drop xD

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Bladetrail-huge-damage-BUG-all-info-how-to-replicate-it/first#post677523