Guild Wars 2

I wonder the difference when you use Strength Of The Pack with pet out > then swap pet with Clarion Bond in marksmanship > and then Heal As One copying boons between you and pet > then eating your pet with Fresh Reinforcement which gives you the boons on the pet. Just curious about that.

Well at this moment you cap at 25 might without Soulbeast so might just be a waste for might, not to sure about the exact interaction when you get might when you already have 25.

And then a small rant on the longbow part:

Add to con: max range of pet abilities in beast mode 1200, you know because of all those weapons we have that use 1200 range… what the only weapon is staff which we cant even use without druid… so why oh why would they cap some pets at 1200 instead of 1500 with longbow.

Now you need to move 300 units closer (when on longbow) to use pet ability and then back again or just stay 1200 range, that somewhat defeats the purpose of the longbow’s 1500 range. This complaint is more for people who use longbow as their primary weapon.

Warlyx.6732:

not a fan of auras or sigils either , some rangers are going to leave beastmode , change pet , enter again even if the aura lasts 5s is going to be annoying , a green explosion and thats it ….no permanent auras or anything…, they are distracting ,+ kill my Outfit wars 2 , based around yellow , red or any other color but green

I love it as is… but if it really needs to change then sure… but leave it green and/or yellow, any other color does not fit the ranger class color, most of our abilities are green and yellow excluding healing skills… it would make no sense for any other color tbh

Soulbeast:

Make at least one pet fit the 1500 range of the longbow. There are 2 pets i think with 1200 range and the only weapon with that range is the druid’s staff and since you cant use both elite specs, i don’t understand why they are 1200 range instead of 1500.

+1 for swapping pets in beast mode. People who like swapping in beast mode lose 2 F2 abilities and whatever the AI like to use, thinks that’s a good trade-off.

Anyone else think its a bit weird that there is no pet abilities in beast mode that can match the longbow range, the longest range I’ve seen is 1200.
Luckily the max damage for the longbow starts at 1000 range but still, would be nice to stay at 1500 range instead of 1200

When i googled the error code i found a post from 2015 where they recommended a DNS flush and it worked for me

go to command prompt and type: ipconfig /flushdns

This is my current build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATTnUqAtCi9rAGsActgh9givgAeE+4ocf692DgzG-TBBXgAA7PK/6V/5RJYouAA-e

I use 2 longbows just for the lolz, it’s my favorite weapon.

It’s a fun build for me and is heavily focused on weapon and pet switching for the sweet boons.

Ah great thanks for fixing this

Can’t complete mission. Need to kill all Mordrem at the eastern gate but after killing them all nothing happens. The progress bar isn’t filling up the whole way and no boss spawning.

Haven’t used the game’s post processing for ages. I use sweetFX/Reshade for custom post processing, maybe you should give that a try.

There is a little more work to it but also a LOT more options to play with.

Burnout, from what country are you? I’m from South Africa and play with a 200ping perfectly fine, though I wont mind an Africa server. But doubt that’ll ever happen

The thing is… healing power is not bad… same goes for vitality and toughness. The only reason its so rare to see is because of OP ferocity. For example why play a sustain fight with random mobs for 10 seconds whereas with ferocity you can kill the mob in 3 seconds without taking any damage. (only an example)

Same with something like soldier gear… why take the survivability. The only reason why the zerker meta is so widely seen is because of how amazingly strong ferocity is.

Just think for a moment if its removed or maybe capped at 200%… then the rest of the stats won’t be so useless. With crit damage on x1.5 – x2.0 it won’t be that easy to shred through toughness or vitality, which instantly makes vitality/toughness/healing power so much more viable.

Even with the ventari specialization. Soooo much healing… yet in the end everyone will play shiro…

Speaking only from a PVE point of view… the ferocity stat is the real culprit.

This: "You wear Berserker’s Gear and expect to tank damage? " – yLoon

Maybe one day everyone will see that full berserker gear isn’t the “end all” choice…

I can’t really comment on the other weapons, been using LB/SB since game launch but like some said, some of the weapons is a little useless. I sometimes use GS but just for the movement of #3.

Before they try to balance the ranger, they should keep in mind the versatility of this class. I myself play the ranger to be an ARCHER… if I wanted to be a melee char I would have played a warrior. There is so many play styles for the ranger, if they buff one part the rest will fall off.

On the Rapid Shot thing… I mean come on… This game is not WoW-ish were you do a rotation an that’s it… you got to adapt in combat… each class do have multiple ways to handle RS. Its not OP… not saying L2P, but come on…

I think the main issues aren’t the skills themselves but the gear meta…“berserkers or gtfo”

just my opinion.

I would love to see Cantha again. That might be the perfect time for a new playable race so it will probably be in an expansion. And then maybe we can finally open that kitten ed Tengu gate in Lions Arch.

And about the cultural stuff… Cantha is more of a Japanese thing than an Asian thing, that is if you keep the Tengu in mind. (Tengu is part of the Japanese culture) So if someone reeeeeaaally wants to be kittened off, it would be the Japanese if they(arenanet) where to use all the Asian cultures.

Now if you want to go even further here’s a quote about the Tengu: “Currently, their only known location is somewhere within the Maguuma Jungle.” no way, is this not where we are heading with Mordremoth….

Take it as you will… an “expansion” might not be too far off…. assuming Maguuma jungle leads to the Tengu and they lead us back into Cantha.

Food for thought

Seems like they fixed the fps issue… after the latest hotfix my fps went back up to 60+

Just had a random DC though, but the lag seems less frequent now.

Same here… used to run between 55 an 65 fps… after the patch its 28 to 32… but I can live with 30 fps… that lag tho! At least 1-2 seconds…

Question, my fellow rangers. (sorry this might be long)

I’ve been a ranger from the start of gw2 and I have always used LB/SB. So obviously I want to build into these weapons.
Now I’ve been theory crafting a bit and came up with two builds that, in my opinion, works the best.

Both builds have 20k HP and 2.6k/2.7k armor, this is all I need to survive, never had any need to go beyond those numbers.

I spend most of my time in PVE, hardly in sPVP and sometime with the guild in WvW.

Anyway, off to the builds;

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNEQJATRjEqUxaDLGsw1ag9AZdgGFYnZUIXbrwKSA-TxBBABQt/QkKBB4BAYoOAtU+ZxFAYU1fCAgAszdGAWv6Vv6Vv6Zn7cn7cn7sUABKMC-e

This build is more focused on the ranger and not the pet. All that I’ll use the pet for here is stacking vulnerability with its auto attacks and slowing down the enemy if for some reason it’s agro change to me. I also use the brown bear if I need something tanky. But since I have no points in beastmastery, the chances of using fern hound and brown bear is high.

I have 70% crit chance and 90% when using rampage as one. I also use the sigil of frailty to stack even more vulnerability on crit hits. The longbow’s rapid fire also adds 10 vulnerability stack and with the reduced CD on the longbow skills its got an 8sec CD. So in theory I should have between 10 and 25 vulnerability stacks at all time.

Now this is where some “hidden” bonuses come into place:
- 10-25% damage increase to target.
- While I have a pet I get 7% damage increase with my runes.
- 10% damage increase when endurance is full.
- And 10% damage increase if I’m flanking

Keeping that in mind with my 70-90% crit and my ferocity that increase crit damage to 201%, I should do enough damage on my own without needing any points in beastmastery.

Now the second build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNEQFATjEqUxaDLGsw1ag9gaZA0AMzgR492OHlbFWpC-TxBBABQt/AAPAAtU+ZxFAANlgjq+je6ACAcAs+6Bg1Xf91Xf9Ge4hHe4hLFwoCjA-e

This build does have a lot more stats in beastmastery, though the ranger does have the capability to still do somewhat enough damage. I’ll use the same pets for the same reasons, but now at least the pet will stay alive ALOT longer with 6 in beastmastery and all the passive healing. I might change the bear to the fern hound with the group heal.

I though of changing the sigil of frailty to sigil of water, (30% chance on hit; heal nearby allies) which can add that little bit of extra healing to my pet. But then I’ll loose even more damage from my ranger.

So I have 60% crit and 80% with rampage as one. An with the longbow skills I should at least have above 10 stacks of vulnerability.

Now this builds “hidden” bonuses:
- 10-XX% damage increase to target.
- While I have a pet I get 7% damage increase with my runes.
- 10% damage increase when endurance is full.

Here I loose the flanking bonus and I have a 10% decrease in crit chance, so the vulnerability stacks will probably fall off a bit.

Now my ferocity did drop with 11%. So I did loose a lot of damage on my ranger, but my pet might make up for the deficit.

What build do you think is superior or anyone running the same type of builds?
Maybe some pointers?

P.S I have not tested the whole vulnerability thing and do not know if it even works as well as it should.

Thanks!

(yup, called it! was pretty long)

They just emailed this to me:

“I am transferring your ticket to our Billing Department for further assistance. Someone will be in contact with you as soon as possible.”

I don’t get it, what does the billing department have to do with this issue?

So… I wanted to play today, but haven’t play for a month or so, when I find I got hacked and someone else is playing on my account… I changed my email password, as well as my guild wars 2 password and added the authenticator…

Everything is fine now, I can log in and all… but that guy is still logged in and playing(or selling gold) and I can’t kick him via the disconnect button on the website, some page not found error.

Getting a little annoying… I did post a ticket hoping for help… but yeah taking a while.

Did anyone get a problem like this, or maybe have a solution?