Guild Wars 2

+1 for the OP’s suggestion.

Fluffball.8307:

Ofir.2405:

Its hard but I found a build that works quite well.

Since I can’t multi-class at a high enough level, I’ve been swapping amulets regularly. Mender for reaper heavy teams, paladin for rev heavy teams, marauder/berserker if they have like… 2 tempests and a druid. I’m kind of leaning towards marauder as the default…

I’d love to get some scrapper or revenant games in but I’m just not good enough to not set myself back 10 tiers.

Yeah, I know how you feel. Right now I am in part 4 for the legendary backpack and I need to complete in it 3 proffesions achievements, but I dont want to go back to the start in diamond. I will just wait for the next season so I will finish it with my War and DH at amber.

Yep, currently working on getting to legendary (right now I am in tier 3 in diamond). Its hard but I found a build that works quite well. Also gz Fluffball and gl on getting to legendary!

Edit: spelling.

+1 pls fix this.

anduriell.6280:

This is ridiculous.

• to generate AF you are locked in Staff. Regen ticks will not be able to fill your bar up fast enough if you are alone with your pet. And you only get AF is you heal. So if you are taking damage.
• Staff is a shameful weapon that do no damage.
• Other professions have many means to fill up their bars.
• We lose all our AF after dead.
• We need to fill up the full bar to be able to use CAF.
• We get full damage and have 0 output damage when in CAF. dead meat.
• the only skill in CAF that do damage root us for 3 seconds (pre and aftercast) while we are soaking in enemy damage.

I don’t mean we should start with full AF, but at least fix first the disgrace that is the AF

You forgot the 10 seconds cooldown on CA.

Right now the AF icon bugs is the more annoying thing for me.

+1 , pls fix it. This stops only after using the avatar form but it is really annoying untill I use that form.

Now that I wont be able to quick stomp or quick res I dont really see the point in taking Zephyr’s Speed. I used it mainly for these things and now its kinda useless. I would take Beastly Warden but the raduis of it is so low and doesnt work well at all with bristleback or smokescale. Hope they will take another look to this trait now that it got its “value” way down.
Regarding the other changes for ranger – I am a bit excited , though I want to save my final judgement untill the actual balance update.

Man not only that but they fixed the “bug” with Bristleback health but didnt even look at its problem with landing any of its attacks.

hahaha this is a joke. We get a buff and everyone happy just so we could get a huge nerf 2 days after the buff. AN really likes to mess with the rangers feelings. Just as I thought WHaO is any good (because of the regan) and SOTW is even better now they are just garbge. Especially because you gain AF based on healing ticks so getting you to full health with WHAO is just useless. I wonder how hard it would be to gain AF if we didnt have TU.
Lets just call CA the legendary form and call it a day.

Revert the solar beam change pls!

bumping for response from the devs

Just submited a ticket about this, and reported on it in the Legendary Prec Crafting Bugs thread. Hopes this will be fix asap.

Bashing Bauxite Alchemicals event inside Jinx isle is bugged , making it impossible to compelte Twilight I crafting. The agents just wait outside the door, saying that we need to destroy the defensive cannons even though all of the cannons are destroyed. We cant open the door, and thefore cant finish the event. Anet PLS fix this asap because this event has been bugged for a few days (for all I know , it might have been bugged for a longer time).

Same, I have experienced the same issue described in here. Pls fix this and at the same time the problem with quickness stomping.

Koja.5169:

Surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but while the burst output of Smoke Assault was lowered, its dps in PvE probably remains pretty much the same.

The cooldown was reduced from 24 to 16 seconds, meaning the Smokescale can use Smoke Assault 50% more often. A reduction in the number of hits from 7 to 5 is only a damage drop of 29% per cast unless the damage of the individual hits was also reduced. That results in a dps increase from Smoke Assault of about 7%.

The pet will spend effectively 50% more time using this ability if it’s activated on cooldown, resulting in an opportunity cost vs. using one of its other auto-attacks, so this slight increase in total Smoke Assault damage over time is probably a wash insofar as overall dps is concerned.

I don’t think PvE players should be worried about that change (though Smokescale dps has actually never been particulary good — stick with a cat or a bristleback). PvP players, on the other hand, were pretty much shafted.

It was reduced to 16 second only if you take beastmastery trait line. Otherwise, its 20 second CD.

Edit: not sure if it was 24 seconds with or without beastmastery. If it was with that trait line then you are right.

Same here I have 100% world completion, and I had this isuee yestarday when I explored all of Southsun Cove. However, my friend who didnt have 100% world completion did get the rewards for doing 100% southsun cove. I have reported a ticket on it. I also have the same issue for Drytop.

It seems that everyone who have unlocked 100% world map cant get the rewards for completing other maps that doesnt count for the 100% world map. (i.e southsun cove, drytop, SW, and the new HOT maps).

Unholy Pillager.3791:

Ofir.2405:

+1 I would really appreciate a list of the druid changes post BWE3.

They gave a list of improvements to Celestial Form. They left out a minor detail, though: you can’t actually get into it anymore!

Their list included only part of the changes , that felt solid for them at that time. I dont think its reasonable we need to find what has changed with the druid. Instead they can easily give us a list of ALL the changes of the druid post BWE3 , just like every other elite spec had.

I know that AF gain got a nerf and CA is now at a really bad state. But how does the healing power now scale with the druid? Irenio said base healing got nerfed but it should also scale alot higher with healing power. I didnt have the time to test it out, can you confrim if its really scales high with healing power? I hope that at least our healing is in a better place, even though currently CA is so bad.

+1 I would really appreciate a list of the druid changes post BWE3.

Same here… no weapon skin or collection unlocked. PLS anet give us a fix..

I invested Hero Points into Druid in the pvp lobby but I didnt get the staff skin or the collection of it. This bug is confirmed by others as well for all Elite’s.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Safari Tank.6238:

Just to clarify, you mention minions, spirits, and turrets, but this does NOT include Ranger pets, correct?

Ranger pets are included.

Finally! TNX

Is that includes ranger pets? (fingers crossed!)

Its a freaking video game, not everything should make sense. You kitten die and return back to life after a moment, how is that possible? same goes for your pets. For all I care the CC can transfer to the dead pet, because its just a video game. Now stop acting like you really want to make things as they are supposed to be because its clear that you only want rangers to be even weaker than they are. And I am sure the same “problem” already exists in other classes.

Taverius.8645:

A more important issue is that the Tiger leap does not, actually, grant fury.

Actually the tiger leap does grant fury , but in a really short raduis. If you run to where the tiger will leap you will get the fury , but if you stay in place when the tiger leaps you wont get it because you are too far away. The fury radius should be increased by alot.

Since there is another Druid Bugs thread in here : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Druid-Bugs/first#post5576677
maybe you post your list in there (or copy over here the other bugs listed in the other thread) or instead offer a merge by a mod?
Its better that we will have one single Druid Bugs thread that Irenio will know to visit it when he wants to fix the druid bugs ( Personally I prefer your thread to be the main thread since you are willing to update the main post with all the bugs that people will post them in here).

This is the “Instinctive Reaction” trait in Nature Magic trait line : https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Instinctive_Reaction

Is it possible to swap this trait from NM with another trait in the druid traits line? People keep complaning the Druid doesnt have any dps boost (I wont argue if the druid should or shouldnt have some dps boost) and this trait could satisfy a lot of players if being placed in the right spot. For me it seems reasonable that this trait will be in the druid trait line and it could really encourage people to actually invest in Healling Power and still have some power (not nearly as full breserker stats but still reasonable dps). I think people will be happier if this trait would have been in the druid line and personally I dont see any problem with a swap like this (I dont usually take NM trait line so I cant tell if people are using this trait at all).

What do you think about this suggestion?

Bump so Irenio could see and fix druid bugs from one thread that is related only to bugs and not a full 14 pages druid feedback thread that sometimes contains druid bugs.
Anyone who experienced bugs with druid is welcomed to post them here. Hopefully we will have one organized druid bug thread.

What thats totally not OP since it can be evaded and blocked and CC’ed!
Jokes aside it will probably get nerfed untill the launch of HoT, but it still made my day
I wished it was in PVP so we could see their responses in the chat XD

“In general the Celestial Avatar form’s base heals feel a bit too high and heal coefficients didn’t feel rewarding enough to go with healpower stats. The heals themselves seemed to be working at decent values, so I’ll be tweaking the base heals down and coefficients up some in order to better reward selecting healing power stat combos as a druid.” – Irenio

I think the smokescale is fine (maybe a slight 5-10% nerf but no more than that) . The guy in the video used 2 skills( sic them – +40% dmg and SOW – +25 dmg) in order to get to that amount of dmg. Also, the guardian had plenty of time to dodge/block ect to avoid some of this dmg.

When I tried puting some loot from my beta char to my account bank and then relogged with my main char it didnt work. The loot wasnt in the bank in my main char. Not sure how it worked for others but for me it didnt.

I tried something simillar to this build , but it has no stabillity and only 1 stun break. In group fights i got rekt because people saw me using druid and focuesd me with so much CC it didnt take long to kill me. I would suggest using SoTP so you will get that stabillity but i still think druid pvp (dps) builds are just not worth it. I am alot better with having both WS, BM and MS than MS WS and Druid. Also, the pet will be dead even faster without BM trait line, so yeah.. base ranger (for me) is more viable to PVP.

Zatoichi.1049:

have to say, very little I like about druid in pvp.

• Celestial form is too weak against cc and the mega burst classes, and makes u a target
• the heals aren’t substantial enough and you don’t feel powerful when your in celestial form.
• the glyphs are too small of radius and do only one small thing, elite is terrible.
• struggling to find where druid fits in with the offensive ranger, I don’t think it does *
• druid appears to need staff to be effective do to needing healing to build bar
• staff is neither power nor condi, just utility/heal
• its supposed to be a support class, but I don’t get nor give boons for being a druid
• does nothing to buff the pet, even though it takes up an entire trait line.

I agree with you with the parts i left in the quote, espically the one regarding weakness againts CC. Also, I think Druid has more of a healer role than a supoort one, but i still think it should have more boons and condition application.

Kailee.8790:

Ofir.2405:

Look at some of the screenshoots , I wouldnt want to mess with a creature like this XD
But its scary in a good way

its not scary… I found the big lug to be super kitten adorable when supersized…. I squeed with the joy of a fangirl

Then its scary how much this creature is adorable , ok ?

Look at some of the screenshoots , I wouldnt want to mess with a creature like this XD
But its scary in a good way

Generally i really love the druid. My main concern with it that it doesnt have any Stability whatsoever and only 1 stunbreak (and which can be only achived in AC). Players kept CC’ing me to death before I even had the chance to heal my self. Also I think staff skill number 3 should have evade. The dazes druid have are really powerful and I love it (even though its REALLY rare to put them on the enemies since most of them have stabillity and everytime I used it they evaded, but when they do hit it almost game over for them).
Also, I think the healling glyph skill should have some boons on it since its useless compared to TU.

P.S : Can you pls enable the new pets in PVP? I really dont understand why they are disabled in pvp in the first place.

Pls AN dont fix it! its such adorobale and yet so scary

NeroBoron.7285:

Perma quickness, fury, protection, regernation (insert any boon here) rangers in pvp.

GG AreaNet
Sometimes I really think you don’t test and/or think about changes you make.

Seriously the OP just said not to make this thread into another fair or not thread. 15 sec quickness is not perma. Also, you need to sacrfice alot in order to get this boons (which btw has a counter and I am suprised you are not aware with it because of your name). Now pls go cry at the eles fourm where they can give (almost) perma boons to the all group.

iztrem.9243:

After more testing you can have 100% uptime of Quickness / Fury / Protection / Vigor / Regen / Swiftness by your self, you only need to spam WHaO after enough stacked duration.

Tested with water rune and apropriate build.

Pretty fun in open world PVE, i don’t thing this can be easly done in Dungeon / PVP or WWW.

Its just what i said. You can only do that in PVE and it takes some time. Even if you do it in PVE ONLY you (and your pet which no one cares about it) get it- no team support. In the meantime ELE is capable of giving boons to the ALL team.Also, you cant even do it easily in pvp since you need to wait a bit in order to get this stacked up and when you do it you waste all of your skills. And on top of all that you basically waste most of your utillity skills and therefore risk your self (also you waste your heal skill) just to get a few boons that players can counter it (signet necro for example).

People see a good buff to rangers and suddenly cry its OP without even looking into the problems this buff has. Now pls go cry about eles and mesmers, ranger forums is not the right place for crying OP.

Edit: Forgot to mention I dont think I will even use this build. I dont want to put me with risk of having no condi clear and a useless skill (guard me) just for some boons. SOTP + QZ + WHAO is enough for me (same goes for pets – I still think that pets like birds and wolf are better than a blue moa).

Also this issue (almost) only concerncs PVE and maybe WvW side. You need to some time in order to get a full stacked up duration of boons and that is just not possible in a pvp match (in 1 mintue that you are not fighting in pvp can mean game over). So maybe nerf it only in WVW and PVE but keep it like this in pvp.

I like it how when rangers get a buff all the ele players who are used to being in the top are immediately crying. Dont get me wrong I agree this skill can be OP but most of the times its not. You risk givig up on your healing skill + you sacrfice alot of skills for creating this build. However, I wouldnt mind AN nerfing the quickness stacking (and maybe protection) with this skill, as long as they dont nerf the cd on this skill. Stackable swiftness and regan is nothing new (or special) to rangers. Also might stacking is not only possible with rangers ( I have seen engineers with 25 might for more than 20 seconds).
I have always used WHAO as my main heal skill and I dont want this skill (like cd) to get nerfed just because we got boon aplication with it, I would rather AN to nerf a bit the boon aplication than the skill it self.

Dude its a baby dragon, he doesnt need bigger wings (IMO) and I find it perfectly fine. Be happy that you get this awesome pet even if it doesnt have the most realistic size. Why do people have to complain about anything..

Upgraded TF2 Medic.

(and I’m lovin’ it!)

Bumping.
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Gaile Gray.6029:

Hi,

I’m sitting at the San Francisco airport right next to a Irenio. We’re just flying back to Seattle from TwitchCon. I apologize that a moderator merged this thread. That is not what we want. As soon as I get home I will try to undo the merging but it’s going to take some time.

I am very sorry this happened and apologize to you guys here on the forums and to Irenio because I know he wants to read what you have to say. We’ll get it tidied so that he can read your feedback. Thanks for understanding.

Thank you so much Gaile! its great to hear you are willing to help on this problem, have a safe flight!

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

General thoughts

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• Love the throw back skill and trait names!
• The new pets look just amazing.
• Does not seem to be a lot of synergy with the other Ranger trait lines, there is some there when you look for it, but not many stand outs.
• No aspect has any synergy whatsoever with pets. This very much needs to be addressed.

Staff skills

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Solar Beam

• Great that it is not a projectile. Could have a short cripple on it.

Astral Wisp

• This could really benefit with something that interacts with the pet, “Pet attacks against this foe deal 10% more damage”. Or _"Pet attacks against this foe apply Poison for 2s".

Ancestral Grace

• Would be better as a straight up teleport or if invulnerable during the travel time.

Vine Surge

• May be quite difficult to actually use tactically.

Sublime Conversion

• Looks excellent. Could this possibly be a Light field so that the projectiles actually combo and give regeneration?

Glyphs

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General

• Glyphs could really do with more utility such as boons, stun breaks or blast finishers.
• Range possibly a bit small.

Glyph of Rejuvenation

• Could do with a boon
• Could do with more healing, its quite low when compared to Ranger’s other heals. Although with all the other healing, some other utility could be better, like Resistance or Breaking Stun and removing conditions.

Glyph of Alignment

• Cripple duration too short

Glyph of Equality

• Possibly shave a few seconds off the CD? See Mantra of Distraction/Power lock

Glyph of Tides

• Looks solid, but has potential to be a troll. Possibly change the Knockback to a launch for Ancient Seed synergy. Good CD and damage.

Glyph of Empowerment

• Perhaps a bit too short a duration for the CD. Without the trait it is only 2.5% party damage increase. Perhaps party-wide Quickness would be good on this, or increase the damage.

Glyph of Unity

Celestial Transform

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General

• The skills look nice, but there are no boons whatsoever and very little damage, I’d suggest adding at least some minor AoE damage so people can get credit for tagging in PvE. Probably the most important change that could happen is to add damage to the CAF skills, purely for PvE and for triggering sigils and on-hit effects.

Cosmic Ray

• Difficult to use a ground targeted skill as an AA and remain mobile. Ask engineers about Grenade kit carpal tunnel.

Seed of Life

Lunar Impact

Tidal Surge

Natural Convergence

• IF this skill is a root channel, does it have to be?

Traits

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Celestial Being

• Astral Force on damage perhaps too low, can’t be sure as yet. Perfect place to add pet synergy, make pet damage also add to the Astral Force.

Live Vicariously

• Possibly apply this heal to the pet as well, help solve some of its survivability issues.

Natural Mender

• Possibly too difficult to maintain the buff while not in a large group. Could also benefit to swap this trait with Natural Stride so that healing Druid is not the only effective way to play it, if you are not rolling with a group or doing lots of healing it is a wasted trait, whereas Natural Stride in its place would be of massive benefit. See Time Marches On from Mesmer.

Druidic Clarity

• looks very solid

Cultivated Synergy

• Possibly add a boon to this trait as Druid has none, short Resistance maybe? Even a Random boon for 10s would be amazing.

Primal Echoes

Celestial Shadow
Provide the buff to the Druid on entering CAF and on both Druid and allies on exit. Or split it to Stealth on entry and Super speed on exit for both druid and allies. Or perhaps just increase the duration.

Verdant Etching

Natural Stride

Grace of the Land

Lingering Light

Ancient Seeds

• Could be made to work with Knocked back foes for synergy with PBS/Counterattack, although glyph of the tides may be OP then?

Druid FAQ

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• Will CAF skills work with Quick Draw?
• Can Druid generate Astral Force while in CAF like you can generate life force in DS?
• How long does CAF last for and under what conditions does it drop?

New pet FAQ

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I completely agree with you, especially about the part of Astral Gace staff skill that needs to be invulnerable, I mean whats the point it if you can be CC’ed and knocked back during the skill. Also, about Ancient Seeds trait – doesnt it already work with knocked back foes?. And Just a few extra notes:

First of all, most, if not all, of the radius of the traits and some of the staff skills (and even Glyhps as you already mentioned) are really low. This mens people need to stack up together – which in most scenarios is not possible. I suggest the radius should be higher, according to tests during the next BWE.

Moreover, I suggest adding maybe Pierce option to the staff skills (basically to the 1# staff skill that it will work with – Solar Beam). Since it will work only with 1 skill I dont think its OP , and if it is then this option can be added to a specific trait, maybe Primal Echoes.

I hope Irenio will listen to the feedback and tips in this thread (I have great hope he will since he listned to us so far).

Seeing the new pets I am really intrested in checking them out in all game modes. I am not sure if I should replace them with my old ones (for example my wolf for pvp).

What do you think about the new pets?

P.S I really really love the new Wyvern pets especially the Fire Wyvern with it’s EPIC fire abillity. Game Of Thrones anyone?

Irenio said there are going to be some changes to the core ranger class. He said he looked over the past weeks about the concerns in this forum and he addresed some of them. The changes will be tallked about in the Skill Balance segment later in twichcon steam.