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Needed Buffs/Tweaks 2016

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Druid spec only:
- Staff #1: Heal max 3 target, deal dam max 3 target. So total 6 target at perfect position
- Staff #2: The wisp tralve faster, apply bleed each time it deal dam. Have option to detonate the wisp, deal 2-3 stack of bleed/1 stack of burn + 1s of blind + heal ally around target.
- Staff #4: Change to an aoe cast ? The current is slow cast, hard to use.
- Staff #5: Current works like project destroyer, the healing bolt is terrible and so random. It should convert the project into healing bolt and heal the ally that enemy target.
- CA #1 need to be rework. How about cast a chain to heal nearby ally ? just like chain lightning or cast a wave in front of you and heal ally ?
- CA #2 should remove 2 condi again. 1 from cast (self) and 1 more when standing on the aoe circle (ally).
- CA #5 add 0.5-1s knock down at final dam, the immobi is not nessesary.
- Glyph of Empowerment: In CA, reduce incoming dam by 10% to ally or increase ally boon duration by 10-15%. Because 25% more heal is terrible.
- Glyph of Unity: Transfer 1 condi (cd 3s) to each tether enemy. In CA, transfer 1 boon from you (cd 3s) to each tether ally. Max 5 target, Radius 600, 6s duration. Increase cd.
- Glyph of Reju also heal the pet.
- Rework Lingering Light, we dont need blind. Suggestion: Increade CA duration, reduce cd of CA skill by 20% and reduce incoming dam/condi dam while in CA form by 5-10% ? Worth a GM trait.

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Druid play advice

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- Replace wolf with bristback, use heal then swap the pet at mid cast to get more boon.
- GS is not a good weapon in teamfight, you should try longbow or sword/dagger or sword/axe.
- Change Signet of renewal to glyph of equality.
- I dont know your build but dont take Marksmanship. NM, WS or even SK are better.
What amulet do you use ?
- When you see your teammate get focused, use staff #5 then #3 to heal them, cast CA #3 (and #4 if you need more heal) and get out of CA.
- Dont use Strength of the Pack just for swiftness, save it to use in fight and burst with bristback F2. Cuz this is your only decent stability.
- Protect me can also save your teammate, use it then run into the fight, take a hit and the enemy with get taunted by your pet, save your teammate a bit. It works wonderful while you res/ stomp the downed.
- At small pts like home or far, If you are not focused, you can use CA #5 to apply slow. #3 to daze then #5 is a good combo.

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Druid stats for WvW

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- Roaming/ small fight: i run full cele. You’re good to duel with any foe, but lack a bit dps.
- Backline zerg: Full berseker/ marauder pew pew till you die from reflect or retaliation.
- Frontline: Like your current stat, but you need more than 3k2 armor to suvival with tag. 2k9 is a bit squisy, change SnR to Signet of Stone then.

Skirmishing Change

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- Sharpening merge with Hidden Bard. You must choose to go dps with Hidden Bar or support with spotter. No idea for new trait replace Sharpening
- Vigor Training: Gain edurance when sucessful dodge an attack. If you good at evading, you should get the reward right ?. I remember rev have minor trait that gain edurance when hit foe ?
- Strider Defence: 25% chance to reflect back project when in melee combat. Sword do 10% more dam. A bit lazy master trait.
- LoYF: Reduce 15% dam and condi dam or duration while moving, shortbow percing and cd reduce. Another lazy GM trait but fits with the name LoYF. And other non-shortbow builds can use it.
- MDG: How about add 1-2s quickness and 3s 3 stack might when under 50% HP, cd 5s.

I think Anet like simple, easy to use, more passively trait so they’ll igore the complicated ideas.

Shortbow Flanking Talk

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- Weapon: Shortbow needs the 1k2 range back. With only 900 range it will remain useless.

  1. needs 20-30% base dam boost. Flank bleed is ok, add more 1-1.5 sec duration.
  2. changes to an aoe poision bomb that give at least 2 stack of poision on 1 target and leave a poision field, unblockable. Ranger is lack of aoe since trap nerf.
  3. swiftness on hit is a joke, 2s superspeed is acceptable but the main problem is the leap back needs more range and should clean immobi.
  4. add 1-2s immobi if hit from behind cuz 4s of cripple is a joke. Pet hit change to torment is great, but i’m ok with the current bleed.
  5. add 1-2 stack of confusion if hit in front, 2-3 stack if behind. Actually without confusion it is still fine.

- Trait:
+ Sharpening merge with Hidden Bard. Havent had any idead for new adept trait.
+ LoYF: Change to reduce 15% damage and condition dam or condition duration when moving, shorbow percing and cd reduce. I know it’s boring to have this passive. But imo it fits the name “Light on your feet” and help the tatic hit n run. Also help other non-shortbow builds.

- Ultility:
+ Sharpening Edge: Base cd 30s. 2 stack of bleed each hit.

Stuck at Map Results

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Got stuck at Map Results when queuing. Port to LA, to WvW but didnt work, the Map Results still there, nothing happended. Then suddenly i got ported into the match when my teammate were outnumber 100-300. I decided to log out, save their pips but lose mine along with my win streak.
Hope you will fix it soon. And please do something with the hacker that teleport to anywhere in the map.

Suggestion: How to make sPvP balanced and fun

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Dear Anet, just before making new meta ap, events or fixing classes, simply wipe this word out of your memory: “ESPORT”.
That all.

Thanks for making this game more and more hardcore (adding more hard contents while nerfing all existing easy one). “No country for casual”.

Losing pips is horrible

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- Amber: lose = 0, win = +1, stay at tier
- Emerald: lose = -1/3, win = +1, stay at tier
- Saphire: lose = -1/2, win = +1, stay at tier
- Ruby: lose = -1, win = +1, stay at tier
- Diamon and above: lose = -1, win = +1, can lose tier.
All i want in PvP is reward (legend back) and having fun with teammate. But this current league make every teammate i have in every match, regardless we win or lose, feel bored, angry, tired. This is not fun and so much hardcore.

[PVP] Any dps build working?

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http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATWnUqAlsiVsCOsActglOBDelOT3pOBuAQh7pFk4WYlMtzA-TZBFwAEuAALOEAt2fAaZAAPBAA
I run this build. You can change sigil base on prefer. I win almost every 1v1 or atleast successfully decap. Your burst come from swaping pet and stack might. Enter CA for support ally, rip off condi or reset the fight. Ancient Seed work well with LB #4.

Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence

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Shards drop in 50+

Suggestion: Balls of Dark Energy

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It’s not that expensive though. Especially compared to other legendary items.
You only need to salvage like 2 ascended pieces for all 3 collections unless I’m missing something.

You need total 14 ball of dark energy and about 600 matrix. For collection, need 1,2,3 (total 6 balls) for each tier and 1,2,5 (total 8 balls) for crafting each backpiece.

Druids broken even without minstrel

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@glaphen.5230: My god, i told you if only look at the trait description then i can say thief is OP. There are huge diffrent between how skill shows and how it actually works.
- You cry about Ancient Seed: Most of time this skill didnt work. Because you need to hit dazed, stunned, knocked down, lauched enemy and the vine pop up like 0.5-1s after the hit, by that time your target can simply walk away and the vine hit nothing . Daze doesnt prevent you from moving and vine is single target. Also vine can be destroy by 1 hit from any melee weapon, wont last longer than 1s in aoe.
- You cry about Daze:
+ GS #5: 1.5 – 3s, cd 20-25s, single melee range 300.
+ SB #5: 1 – 2s, cd 20-25s, single – percie range 900.
+ Staff swap: 1s – 2s, cd 8s, aoe melee with 300 radius.
+ GoE: 2-4s, cd 24-30s, aoe melee with 300 radius, stun break.
+ CA #3: 2 – 4s, cd 5s, aoe range 1200 with 360 radius. Enter CA form has 10s cd
Most of druid daze is melee. Simply dance around and you will evade all of them. In CA form, druid has only 1 CC, cant deal dam and almost ppl enter CA for heal, not daze. If running nearly all of this then you have zero defence. Then what kind of OP you mean ?

Druids broken even without minstrel

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No thanks, classes need nerfs to fix power creep.

L2P then. Or i suggest playing reaper, scraper, chrono, dragon hunter. They counter druid well.

Druids broken even without minstrel

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@glaphen.5230: If you have time in forum, request Anet to buff your thief rather than nerf other classes. Only look at the trait description without actually playing it then i can tell you thief is OP.

@OP: Here are the answer from Anet for your druid problem:
- Reduce base heal from skill/trait/ultility => less suvival
- Increase cd by 400% on GM trait Lingering Light => less suvival, less support
- Decrease pet dam by 50% => less dps
- Remove Minstrel amulet, the best stat for a bunker build.
- Ignore tons of bugs on trait, skill, ultility, pet, ….
What else do you want ?

Ranger need a nerf etc

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Whenever there are big patch or update lauched, this title appeards all over the PvP subforum without waiting for a week. Seriously, WTF ? Ranger have been abadoned since the start of this game, nobody want the ranger in their party, this makes ranger feel like they play an offline RPG game. With HoT, things begin to go the same as the origin game: Ppl are getting used to thinking that ranger is always at the bottom and if something push them up, there must be a huge mistake. I dont know what logic is this. It must be stopped.
Sincerely.

Ascended Salvaging

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What ? So salvage ascended ring can also drop Ball of Dark Energy ? not just Stabilizing Matrices ? I brought a neck for laurel and salvage it, no Ball, just 7 +1 infuse. Lame me.

Elite Specializations Collections

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It’s a bug. You need to leave HoTM then unlock 1 more trait, you will get the weapon to unlock collection.

Ranger WvW Zerg Superstar?

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GWEN this GWEN that, while Rangers are dropping each one of them in zerg fights one by one. You can deal out 100k damage to 10 people and drop none as an Ele or Necro, or you can deal 50k damage to 3 and drop 3 as a Ranger. Dead people don’t do damage.

- Necro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZCfxE-_Hs
- Ele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDCc-Q3bQuo
Youtube for more vids.
Your argument just like a kid tbh. Why Ele or Necro cant drop ppl ? LB arrow is the easiest thing to be disabled in this game. Seriously, killing some careless Ele or Necro doesnt mean they are weaker than your Ranger. They have more aoe, more boon/heal, more defensive/escape utility with less cd than you and their mechanic always work whenever they want. That mean if play right, they completely outperform your ranger.

Yes i agree with you, our Ranger do well in wvw, but the word “superstar” is not belong to us at this moment, we are so far from it. Maybe the Druid will make us come closer but the anwser is in future.

Ranger WvW Zerg Superstar?

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To OP: Wake up mate, you dream too much.
I once like you, thought that the ranger is perfectly fine, just some l2p issue. Then i made a warrior and ele, things suddenly changed. If i say ranger is bad etc, you properly wont believe it, then you should experience yourself:
- As you play a blackliner, i suggest you to try ele or necro staff backline, same playstyle with your ranger: Deal dam in the back, reposition, CC, buff heal etc and then tell me how the ranger is better than ele or necro in backline ? Let’s drop something like: easier to manage, simplier playstyle, less button to press.
- I see you have a guardian toon, then how about play frontline for a while then ask yourself: What class would you prefer to have in your back: ranger, ele or necro ?

I bet every wvw commander will glady trade 10 rangers to 5 necros or eles for backline job.
Anyway, nice vids but your build need some change, check suggestion of ppl post above and enjoy the ranger class. Cheer.

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I am praying for good WvW druid ?

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- Ele/necro can aoe burst in range much better and cant be reflected.
- Taunt has small radius, and pet will be dead before casting F2 in zerg clash, even you stow first then engage in zerg.
- Trap cant be throwed and make ranger lack of Stability or cleaning condition.
- Warhorn has huge cd and doesnt provide any special boon/effect.
Yeah, Commanders wont refuse ranger but they prefer any other class.

HoT Pre-Purchase bonus question

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Hello, i bought HoT Ultimate last week. As bonus of the ultimate pack, i got 1 free char slot. But i do remember that Anet will give the old players 1 char slot as a gift if they pre-purchase any pack of HoT. So i think total i will have addition 2 char slot if i pre-purchase HoT ultimate. But atm, i have only 1 addition char slot. So is it a bug or sth else?
Thanks for help.

Realistic way to nerf Ele?

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I main ranger, have no problem with ele except:
- Burn: Too many burn, skills apply 3 stack burn need to be reduced to 2 stack, keep those 2 stack skills, also please look at the guardian and reduce the stack of burn.
- Diamon Skin: lol, just lol. I once fight a bunker staff ele runing this trait. Hell even you run a hybird build, you simply cant 1v1 the ele with this trait. Ele has many way to heal back and keep the 90% HP gap, then condition cant be apply on them. Unless you run power build, better call your teammate to 2v1. So i think this trait need diffrent ways to work.
- Stone Heart: Same problem, ignore crit dam ? Maybe decrease crit hit dam the ele takes by 33%-50% so ppl with high ferocity may have some chance.

To Supreme.3164:
- Ranger touch #5 Bonfire only apply 1 stack burn last 3s per tick. The tooltip shows the dam you take when you stand on the aoe for entire 8s which is never happen.
- Empathic Bond has the second name is Empanic Bond; Signet of Renewal is Kill-The-Pet button. They are useless when the pets go out of range or die which are usually happen, even with the brown bear and the cd to swap pet is like 60s if both pets are dead. And most important, they are not clean on demand. 10s cd is enough to be killed by condition burst.

- Tbh, it is not the ele OP, it is other classes like ranger, engi, nec,… (sorry no room for guardian or mesmer here) suck. So instead of nerfing the ele, just buff the ranger, engi, necro and everyone will be OP. Happy ending.

A Few Ranger questions

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1. Bear. Brown for 2 condi clean, Black for 10s aoe weakness.
2. Lb for raw dps, sb for condi build, axe for clean trash.
3. Berseker. If you want to play condi then try rabid, dire, sinister, rampager,…..
4. Some kind of this: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAR8XjUqQJLWxCuqAXLG2Dq92DgRnH4AeE+44IeaA-TpAVQAg9HqlBAA
Use Drake pet type.

Why Ranger isn't getting buffs

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If you observe the patch notes from the last 2 years, you will see ranger is one of the class which got the most buffs.

Just to list a few:

-longbow dmg buff
-GS dmg buff
-reduce dc on shouts
-entangle reduced cd to 60s
-reduce the cd on signets
-warhorn cd reduction
-axe might on autoatck
-countless trait buffs
-etc…

So you went through all the countless patch notes the last two years in detail to come up with that conclusion

I play this game since 2013. During that time I’ve read pretty much all class balance patch notes.

Yes, ranger is one class has been getting constant buffs, patch after patch. Compare the today’s ranger with the 2.5 years ago ranger. Now look at classes like thief, ele, guard, that are always getting nerfs….

I compared Thief, Ele and Guard from 2012 and 2013 to today.

They’re pretty much the same.

Thief got huge dmg nerfs on a lot of skills. You can’t crit on steal anymore. Watch those videos of people 2shoting players in 1 second before backstab nerf.

Ranger: buff after buff.

Yeah buff:
- Decrease sb range, attack speed to make lb more viable, that’s you call a buff ?
- Destroy pet after 2 weeks buff, also killing the BM bunker build.
- Who gonna use shout pre-patch ? They’re mostly broken.
- Entangle hardly hit, ppl dodge it so easy.
- Ye signet cd is a buff
- Who gonna use warhorn ? In PvE maybe lol. #4 meh, #5 still too long cd
- 3s of might in a condi wp for what ? stacking might for pet maybe ?
- The only 2 traits i thing got buff is Suvival of the finest and Read the wind. All other are meh.
- Dont forget they nerfed spirit so noone gonna use spirit again, in any situation.

So NO, i cant see the buff after buff you mean.

So, um, memsers seem brokenly OP

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Ye, learn to play. CC in steath then burst down in 1-2s. How did you counter that ? Predict ? LMAO. And i’m talking about tanky build with 3k+ armor, not some zerkly paper.
So here i am, a ranger willing to learn to counter mesmer. Teach me plz, just like we teach you how to deal with pewpew ranger., all the l2p guys above ?

How's ranger in PvP & WvW now?

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I agree:
- Nature magic + BM give us permant might, fury, regen, some nice heal, all are AoE buff for supporting backline from the pet. I always use this setup in zerg blackline. It’s much harder in frontline cuz the pet will die in a blink of your eyes.

I dont agree:
- Pet can only deal dam in small fight. In zerg, they simply are meatshield, cant live long enough to deal dam. So stack might on pet is meaningless.
- Spirit work well in defending tower/keep/castle, otherwise it’s useless. We have to move alot in zerg fight, that make us often miss the buff from spirit, also 1s of might every 3s is worthless. You can spread out to make the spirit cover larger area but so do the enemy, they will eat you alone. Protect ward is way better, give you more chance to suvive while reduce enemy dps. For me, Protect ward > Nature Vengeance in both roaming and zergling, oh well count PvE in.
- One more thing, just 1 shot from any source can take the spirit down, 1 more shot with Nature Vengeance then. Necro, ele AoE, sigil of fire trigge, etc… Who care risking their life to melee a spirit ?

How's ranger in PvP & WvW now?

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- http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fortifying_Bond
The boon duration is base on the ranger, not the pet my friend, so there are no 10s might from frost spirit buff and i dont think 3 stack of might last 1s is powerful. If you want to stack might to your pet, use main hand Axe #1 or sword #1 or Beastmaster: Companion’s might.
- The only viable spirit in PvP now is sun spirit, place it far away from combat zone and the support is nice for condi build.
- In PvP (I hope you talked about PvP, not PvE), 3 Rangers in the same team is properly not ending well. If you dont believe me, then join with your ranger friends to ranked arena and play some matchs. I did it, we had many funs but often losed.
- The team is based on how cooperative and supportive each member can provide. Ranger surely lacks of this.
- Yeah, i do agree there are so many bugs of the post patch ranger now, they make us become kitty. We have to wait till those bugs are fixed.

So, um, memsers seem brokenly OP

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Are people really kittening about the stun/daze effect? kitten bring stun breaker/stability/block/blinds/invul/etc. So basically when you’re stunned, you stand there and let someone burst you. You deal with it the same way you dealt with CC before. What changed? Did they introduced CC in this patch?

If the issue is the cooldown/precharge, I can kind of see the issue. If so, make it like the thief’s venom. You can precast it but it only last 30 secs then you have to cast it again. No ICD between charges and CD starts after cast just like venoms.

Have you ever be burst by mesmer ? It happened like 0.5-1s and even in steath so you cant see it. You must have the prediction level of gods to use those skill you mention above to counter mesmer burst. Do you know how fast the burst is ? 0.5s for 5k-7k dam on target have 3k5 armor.

Peak Performance and Rampage

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Just played a match vs a Rompage war. Each time he used that skill, the game became hide and seek, i tried to hide around and he stormed everything in his sight which is imo kitten.
But it’s 1 vs 1 and he’s a noob war. A decent war will cc you first then pop Rompage then keep cc you to dead. I havent had a chance to wake my char up.

Taunt doesn't let you target

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I’ ve a suggestion, taunt could be converted to condition like fear.

It makes sense because it’s designed like the fear opposite.

This could help, using an instant condi removal to remove it adding a better counter.

Taunt is CC like Daze or Stun. You need Stun break or Stability ?

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Snip

- Okay sorry for the last opinion cuz i got mad after 14 loses in a row while being the most active player.
- If you want permant swiftness, regen, you go Beastmaster. If you also want permant fury, might, you need both Beastmaster and Nature Magic. The last option is depend on what you need.
- Beastmaster is the best trait line atm for ranger, it support all of your build: condi, bunker, power, support; also make your pet aka ranger mechanic stronger and be more viable. If you say there are builds that dont need Beastmaster, i’d say try to use Beastmaster to these builds, you will see the diffrent.
- I dont compare Ranger to other class. I just build and play my ranger by the style i feel comfortable. And after 200 matchs PvP unranked/ranked + 100 hours WvW zerging/ roaming since 23rd June patch, i feel ranger suck.
- I also dont care Ranger get buff or not. If ranger get buff, they will be nerf in the next patch cuz the GW2 Community hate the ranger more than any other class. In their mind we are walking useless bags that shot them down in 1k5 range which require no brain to play and if we’re somehow strong, it must be a bug and need to be fixed. Ranger was, is and will never be a part of meta.
- Just fix the current bugs (Healing Spring, Off hand range/ radius/ condi dam, pet missing stat, ….) and i’ll be happy playing my ranger till the last second of this game.
- P/S: Cheer me, i just made The Dreamer (i made Kudzu last year). Long live the unicorn.

How's ranger in PvP & WvW now?

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This is what i think about the new ranger:
- PvE: Nothing to say, every class can do it.
- WvW:
+ Good at roaming (Suvival bleed, Trapper, Hybird longbow, …). You have no problem in flipping camp, tapping keep or killing enemy roamers.
+ Slightly average in zerg (backline pewpew is good, require you to know the
situation to re-position yourself otherwise you are a walking bag aka get in TS3 and listen to the commander, also provide teammate backline permant might, fury, swiftness, regen, even heal which are all valuable; in frontline, your pet cannot survive more than 3s in zerg clash and your only AoE is GS Maul, somehow 1-2 traps, OH Axe #5 is a joke dont use it => not recommend but still playable).
- PvP:
+ At this moment if you are a decent ranger, you can beat almost noobies (except mesmer cuz they dont require brain to be effective). Suvival bleed + poison, Trapper, Bunker regen, hybird longbow, … are all viable. Never ever abandon your pet aka every build should have Beastmaster line.
+ Against other class decent player, you properly lose so be patient and call your teammate for help, don’t play hero cuz you will get zero.
+ In ranked arena, if you have the highest pts in a match, that means your teammate are all noobs and 90% you will lose that match so dont be proud of it (Well sorry for this cuz i got mad after 14 loses in a row while contributing the most pts in the team).

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Ranger or Warrior? PvP & WvW(Roaming)

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You will regret picking ranger.

This.
Unless you have a very happy life and wanna try a hard, rage, hopeless one.

Bonfire ranger

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1 stack pluse each second, duration 3s. So max you will have 3 stack after 3s. Last 8s you get total 9 stack. Remeber the duration per stack is only 3s.

Why does shortbow suck?

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I hear every ranger whines that shortbow sucks. IMO, my opinion is 180. It is a great condi weapon for rangers.

Crossfire- Great condi weapon.
Poison Volley- Great condi burst.
Quick Shot- On-demand evade and swiftness.
Cripple shot- Soft CC to chase down enemies.
Concussion shot- Hard CC or interrupt.

Crossfire is the only condition weapon that requires you to flank to get the condition.
The duration is short, and there’s not much trait to increase it’s condition duration. Also bleeding is a very weak condition compare to burning and confusion

Poison Volley requires you to stand at point blank range to get decent poison stack.

Quick Shot is an ok dodge. (swiftness is to pet not yourself..), but nothing special. Ele D/D fire 3 does immense damage, leaves a fire field, AND dodge. This one is straight out inferior in every possible aspects.

Cripple shot is nothing special too. Low damage and just cripple. It’s not bad, but not good either. Many classes got those -33% soft cc too anyway.

Concussion shot: An ok interrupt, but CD is WAY TOO LONG. Mesmer can do the CHAIN STUN with MUCH SHORTER CD WITHOUT RESTRICTION OF WEAPON!

Basically SB is a weapon with the inferiority of all the other professions combine into one.

Poison volley- So what? Its quite easy to land it at point blank.

Quick shot- Lava font doesn’t have cripple and it is easy to dodge. Oh wait, why are we comparing skills of another class?

Cripple shot- A ranged shot with 0 cast time.

Concussion Shot- Engineer Flame jet can’t even daze.

You’re just trolling, arent you ?
#1: Hahaha let me laugh again hahahaha
#2: The only decent skill but you have to have many condi dam cuz posion dam is low. Also you have to get very close to use it effectively, otherwise it’s meh. High risk but not so high reward.
#3: The distance of retreat is too short, also you must hit enemy to get swiftness. It needs some effect like cure immobi/ cripple ?
#4: Hahaha why do we need 3s cripple with only 900 range, dam deal is almost zero ? 2 stack torment + pet next attack cripple enemy seem Ok.
#5: Huge cd, 1s daze is worthless. IMO 1s stun/daze + 2 stack confusion in front, 2s stun + 3-4 stack confusion in flank.

(edited by MadCat.9172)

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MadCat.9172

Trait Ambidexterity bug in spvp, not sure about pve or wvw:
- The reduce cd works but the addition 150 condi doesnt.
- It may work when you first select the trait (or just switch to Refined Toxins/ Shared Angunish then switch back to Ambidexterity) but will go away when you’re dead then respawn.
Can someone confirm this ?

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MadCat.9172

Tbh, if you play power lb, you go MM or go home. Other options is for hybird or condi build.
After patch, both condi and raw dam are stronger but our pets are not. That means they will die faster than before. Ofc pets have some new good utilities but that dont make them live any longer. When you swap pet, all the boon from previous pet gone.
Compare to the old ranger, new ranger is better i admit. But compare to other classes, the new ranger fall behind much more than the old one. That is the reason ranger suck now.

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MadCat.9172

I found out this trait is bug in spvp, not sure about pve or wvw. The reduce cd still works but addition 150 condi dam doesnt. It may work when you first select it (or switch to the other 2 traits then switch back to ambidexterity) but will go away when you’re dead => respawn.
Anyway, atm ranger is dead so such bug like this wont cause any problem, will it ?

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Nearly every single Ranger I come across. What tier are you in that Rangers don’t roam with LB? Let me know so I can queue up my transfer

LB roaming is for fun and some trolling.
Suvival condition or trapper with S/T A/D or short bow ranger is much much more powerful in roaming.

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- My God. As i say, RF is a counter steath skill. You have to deal with it. Those solution are pretty easy so i dont know why you still complain.
- Use some toughness or vitality then ? Or you think steath mechanic will cover you most of the time and just go full berseker is fine ? Well this is PvP, not PvE; you fight against smart ppl, not dumb AI.
- Thief has tons of mobility, teleport, interupt…. why dont you use them ? Just steath and get away, then come back when the ranger didnt notice you, the rest is super easy. Seriously, it takes you 3s to gap close 1k5 range, every class can do it.
- Last, dont say something is borken unless you play it first.

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Rapid Fire is a counter-steath skill. That is the “logic”. And it’s nearly the only effective skill in counter steath. Sick’em is much more ridiculous in countering steath, you should complain about it instead of RF.
Talk about steath mechanic, i cant even realize a pema-steath thief cause they live 99% of their life in shadow. How can such an annoying thing exist ?

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MadCat.9172

Not this guy again.
- Do you see any ranger in top of pvp tournerment ? No.
- Ranger must invest tons of trait to have decent condi clean. If they focus on condi clean, then they lack of dam output or weak of counter raw dam.
- 12s invul to raw dam ? That is Signet of Stone and Protect Me (if pet die or have low health which they always are, this skill useless). Waste 2 ultility slot, then what is the last slot ? Those ranger use both 2 skills will surely die by condition in 10s.
- Long ranger shot in close range is a joke. Rapid Fire is cancel automatic when target get behind and still have full cd. PBS only knock back for 1s, where is your stability ?. Eat full RF while out of evade ? dont see it coming ? If 1 vs 1 then you are noob, learn and practise more. If it happend when you fight other then it’s 2 vs 1, you’ll surely die, where is your teammate ? blame them, not the ranger. And please cry for backstab thief because you wont see it coming and it’s too fast to dodge.
- Entangle is easy to dodge because the pre cast is easy to see and predict. Have you ever got immobi by Warrior lb #5 then eat full of their lb F1 ? Entangle + Bonfire is a weaker version of it.
- Stack bleed on short bow require side/ back position, have only 900 range and the duration is super low.
- Last, what class do you play ? I only play ranger and warrior. If you think power ranger is OP then play it, i will play any class you ask, build from metal guide and still eat your power ranger like a pizza in less than 3 mins.
Please remind me if i miss any of your crying problems.