Guild Wars 2

So, the topic.
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The pet sometimes gets perma-chill on his F2, althou without visible “Chilled” condition. Happens in WvW, this time after the fight with ranger and necromancer, both pets got chilled in combat I suppose, and now both have the cooldown recharge slowed.

The only way to “remove” it, is to leave/re-enter the borderland.

Don’t own a HoT myself, nobody in-game can give a clear answer, gw2skills often misses cooldowns on trait descriptions, thus – here I am with my questions.

1. How long does it aprox do gain full “celestial bar” with damaging charging only?
2. Can you exit “Celestial form” prematurely?
3. Does “Druidic Clarity” has a cooldown?
4. Does “Celestial Shadow” has a cooldown?
5. Does “Natural Stride” works both inside and outside the combat?

Seera.5916:

ele’s can trait to give might when they attuned to fire

Just add the cooldown to that specific trait, case closed, no?

fluidmonolith.3584:

We can try to compare GW2 to first person shooters (FPS), which do not have weapon swap cooldowns. Disclaimer – whether or not GW2 should be modeled after some FPS elements is up for debate, but for this argument, we will assume that it should be.

Even in FPS, there is cost to weapon swapping, even if it’s not a cooldown. That cost is essentially a short ‘cast time’. While you’re swapping weapons, there is a brief period of time during which you cannot shoot or reload as your character is performing the weapon swap animation. I think it would be cool to remove weapon swap cooldown in GW2, but weapon swapping would still need to have a cost of some sort. I think the best way to do this would be to add a short cast time to weapon swapping (e.g. 1/4 or 1/2 sec). Of course, as others have pointed out, ‘on swap’ sigils would still need to retain their cooldowns. The warrior trait ‘Fast Hands’, for example, could reduce weapon swap cast time (e.g. from 1/2 to 1/4 second).

There, an amazing idea! There could also be a visual representation of the charachter’s swap weapons that are sheathed on his back/belt, akin to what we have now outside the combat.

Cyninja.2954:

- Having cds on weapon swaping seperates skills from weapon set A via timer from Skills from weapon set B

This is my point exactly, the whole purpose of swap cd is to block you from your alternate weaponset, even thou weapon skills have a cooldowns of their own, so in my opinion such system is awfully clunky and promotes nothing more than forced camping of weaponsets and virtually increasing the alternate set skills cooldowns by blocking access to it.

Cyninja.2954:

Combat options and diversity. Weapon cooldowns give more meaning and significance to swaping weapon sets. They also allow for:

- effects on weapon swap from traits
- sigil effects on weapon swap
- warrior mastery being able to skill into weapon swap cooldown

All of which add layers of decision and skill to the combat system.

All of the things you mention have nothing to do with the 10s cooldown on weapon swap button, almost every weapon swap trait and sigil has a cooldown of it’s own, recently warriors got 4s icd on Versatile Power, rangers have 9s cooldowns on both Tail Wind and Furious Grip traits. We could’ve easily have a sigil timer implemented, something like their icons with numbers until it’s ready again.
The only thing left afaik is the elementalists attunements procs like sunspot, wich could just get 7.5s cooldown to it, and criticals would instead reset the Lighning Bolt icd.

So after playing a long time on my ranger, guradian and a thief, I have tried myself a warrior (with fast hands trait) and was amazed how “right” it felt during combat. But my amazement was even bigger when I tried kits on engineer – it just feels so kitten fluid being unrestricted, and now going back to my other characters – I’m feeling crippled by the cooldown on weapon swap, thus the name of the topic.

The only “overpowered” thing I see without weapon swap on EVERY class in the game, is the skill “2” on weapons, wich most of the time has a very short cooldown – thus all such skills could be ramped up to 8-10s cooldown with appropriate buff in it’s effectiveness.

So how do you guys feel about it, any thoughts/responses are welcome.

P.S. I don’t know if such topic was brough up already, sorry in advance.

Con is that in pvp you won’t be able to kite and throw grenades behind you. :|

Hmph… Let me guess – new pets like wyvern and smokescale are in xpac areas?

Hello community! I haven’t kept up with the info on HoT release features, so could someone summ up what rangers gonna get (aside from elite spec), any goodies like ever-desired AI impovements or trait tweaks/changes?

Correct me if I’m wrong, I’m not a bwe player myself, but daredevil seems to be getting alot of thing that thieves craved for (even more after june 23 tragedy). I mean – more access to condi cleanse, short cd block AND a stunbreaker, reliable weakness access, even MORE cc with new elite (idk how reliable it is). Daredevil just seems a better choice rather than an alternative to what we currently have.

P.S. We had 3 dodge rolls before, now it’s either 2 rolls for free or 3 rolls for 50$.

You’ll get enough Hero Points by the level 80 to unlock everything. Try using the gear that has POWER stat on it (Strong/Berserker’s prefixes), get yourself a greatsword – it’s good for leveling, take any trait line for your liking – you’ll have enough time to learn pros of every of them LATER. Most damaging pets in pve scenario are cats and birds, canines are pvp oriented, bears/drakes are tanky – quite good for soloing stuff.

So I’ve been thinking about “new” Beastmastery traits, and how it’s almost a must-have in PvE (imo) and is represented as an enhancement of class mechanics, aka our pet. Now this particular trait caugh my attention of how much potential it COULD have. My thought is – changing the trait’s grade to Grandmaster (instead of Honed Axes for example), and making PET’S critical strikes grant might to 5 nearby allies.
Before you go “Durrrr, that’s just a dumbed-down version of PS warrior!”, yes, I know it’s the same (but less effective due to precision pets having no cleave), but then again – in current state pet brings nothing but personal dps to the party, ofcourse you can bring in some for soft cc but there’s so many faster and more reliable ways to achieve those. Such change would tone down the un-welcome-ness of the rangers in pve parties and add some party-contribution to the profession, except 7% crit and temporarily 10% damage buff. It also wouldn’t make too much noise in pvp/wvw, since pet almost never hits a moving target.

So, the topic. Anyone got the experience of playing such guardian? Any response welcome (pros/cons/general info).

Sweet lord, I thought this thing will be bugged forever!

So, what I imagine when I look at this GM trait, is a dev sitting in a room, thinking of how to make a ranger benefit more towards his party, and thinks – “…what if… that one spirit that is worth taking to dungeons… will be able to apply might to the party, therefore granting 33% uptime of 1 might stack…”, and then he actually implements it.

I mean come on, it could’ve reduced the recharge on spirits, it could’ve add an appropriate combo-field to each spirit’s suicide, but no – 1s boons each 3s is the way to go.

Might want to add another pet bug (occurs on WvW, I have no clue what triggers it), sometimes pet abilities CD is slowed, with timer appear in light-blue color without pet being chilled, the only way to fix it is to change maps (atleast only that works for me).

Stratos.9375:

None. Thief is not viable WvW anymore.
Coming from a main Thief player, the latest rebalance patch just destroyed us.

Any examples/explanations? Never dug deep into theives, so I don’t know what changed. :|

So I’ve recently got my thief to 80, now it’s in full zerker (duh) equipment. A day of “roaming” with Crit. Strikes, SA and Trickery went kinda fine. But from my experience – I’m VERY squishy, and when chained into a cc-bursts like guardians JI with traited VOJ for root, I go down in mere seconds (must be reaction problems :P ).

Now for the questions – what d/x power-based builds are “viable” and what rune sets are more suitable for glasscannon-ing/dueling/zerging?

Does the same rule applies to allies?

So, if I leave the circle before the refuge ends, I get myselfa revealed debuff. Was it always like that?

It goes for all the classes and it’s not even close to being a problem, so it probably won’t get “fixed”, ever. :|

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The entire WW accumulated around 72k damage on his claw. I do not know what the hell happened during that period, but the game kinda “froze” a bit after I used Feel my wrath! , and I wasn’t even >10 might stacks…

P.S. Why neither “! !” nor “[img][/img]” works?

There’s no ICD in WoJ trait, only limited by Virtue of Justic activations.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Clarion Bond has a 30s CD

No, it has the “cooldown” of pet swap. The cooldown of 30s is on the horn itself (wich is used as a tooltip.)

kitten ing, it was already answered.

Maybe because it’s a unique ascended armor (one that isn’t crafted)? You didn’t spend your money to craft it, right? I think it only applies to the prefix armors like “Zojja’s, Beigarth’s, Chroben’s…”

The cooldown reduction part is broken, grants 0% ability recharge.

Sol.4310:

We already have heaps of ways to removes conditions, don’t get why you require more.

This is why Ranger’s don’t get time of day from the Dev’s none stop stupid ideas that seem to be biased towards the players personal play style. Stop face tanking and learn to dodge and position yourself better its rather simple.

Starting to get sick of none stop Ranger balance/qq posts that are completely useless and have no value to them at all.

Wow, so sitting duck in your own waterfield and non-reliable signet that simply moves condis to your pet, is “heap ways” ?

So, now and after the patch EB is going to stay a GM trait, from the messages I’ve read it’s there for the non-survival builds such as trappers. But what if the mechanics get tinkered a bit, to 1 condition each 5s for example? Since the condition doesn’t just vanish away but transferes to your pet, I think that would made a good Master in BM. I know it’s really silly to make comparisons to other professions, but warrior do get the Brawler’s Recovery (1 condi cleansed on weapon swap) shifted to Master tier, with no drawbacks to the trait’s functionality.

So, what do you guys think? Would that be “too much” for the ranger’s condi clearing abilities?

For the love of… how can you NOT be fast enough to interrupt a 2.5s cast? You can also use any type of blink abilities and go behind the ranger to interrupt “break” RF cast. If you dodge AFTER receiving 2-3 shot of RF, you’ll mitigate the rest of the damage.

The only part where RF is dangerous, is when ranger gets you with your “pants down” or in the open area where LoS is unavailabe.

OP, you need to make yourself a ranger and try glass-bowing someone actually proficient with his class (even another mesmer), and then repeat what you’ve said. The only true claim of your is the range on the longbow, Entangle is telegraphed, pet is kitteny in it’s controls and reaction.

P.S. You can mitigate, like, 75% of Rapid Fire with 1 dodge.

Since noone actually answered my question, I’ll assume there’s nothing related coming for guard.

Althou necro/engi and mesmer have/will get a movespeed, note that they are mostly mid-ranged combat classes, whereas guardian is a melee-focused class, with 1 trash ranged weapon (and a bow incoming), it’s just frustrating to be the only melee w/o a base speedup. A class shouldn’t be bound to 2 runesets to be comfortable in fights.

Hello guys! Haven’t been following HoT update notes/rumors/etc., was there anything about guard’s mobility/movespeed/swift. sources that’s gonna be implemented/changed?

So, a basic question about basic 6/x/x/x/x “pew pew” build for WvW roaming purposes. I’ve been stuck with ranger runes for eternity now, thinking to, maybe, switch them for something else (Rune of the Pack seems appealing, and expensive.)

Feel free to explain your choices and/or recommend some of them.

Well, now I just feel kittenomeone who doesn’t use piercing arrows and never paid attention to patch-notes.

Did some tests myself – your arrow needs to hit atleast 1 target and the stealth itself is gained only after the projectile disappears.

So, I suppose “Lead the Wind” will be the choice for the LB rangers in pvp (atleast for me – it will), but then there’s this problem – if Hunter’s Shot going to pierce and hit second target, you’re gonna get revealed. That’s going to kitten up some pretty good setups/escapes.

Ranger is fine, for me – it’s the most comfort-zoned class with insane range on traited longbow. True what is said above, in dungeons people rarely accept rangers (that’s because 90% of ranger-players are simply bad.) In zergs you’ll basically stick to your longbow, perhaps you’ll like the axe, in mainhand, to tag enemies for bags. ;D

As for the build you’ve link, that’s the “glass” one, with defense mechanism being your own reaction time and knowledge of other classes. Pve and pvp needs to get used to as ranger, if you atleast want to survive the encounters.

T raw.4658:

Panncakez.1290:

You’ll be doing “very well” right up until you’ll get focused/your stone signet vanishes.

That’s any class tho. I find awareness of my surroundings and proper positioning mitigate most of my problems.

That being said there is some seriously good survivability in that build.

The moment you get chilled/crippled and focused down, none of your skills in 6/6/2 will be able to save you.

You’ll be doing “very well” right up until you’ll get focused/your stone signet vanishes.

Sooooo, this thing doesn’t prioritize yourself at all? I’ve tried running CoF p1 with mace for testing, popped PS to block the aoe explosion last boss does, it triggered the damaging part and yet I’ve got 2.5k damage incoming. I suppose it blocked someone of my party then. :|

Somewhere ~15-20 lvl, int’s no biggie in pve anyways.

So, if you get immobilized during falling/jumping/leaping, you’ll get stuck – your charachter will start clipping up and down, as if he was still mid-air, leaving you without access to any of your actions. This thing just brutally punishes in pvp, since you can’t do anything, except waiting out the immob. to vanish.

P.S. Pinpoint me to similair thread, if it exists, I haven’t found one myself.

As for weapons Greatsword / Sword + anything basically, is the best for leveling due to mobility and damage output, for the gear, as your level progresses, go for – Mighty < Strong < Berserker’s armor pieces/accessories and weapons (current meta for pve, kinda).

If you’ve just started the game, I’d suggest you postpond any crafting professions, since it takes lots of gold/grind to get mats required for it.

Ummm, with 6/6/6/0/0 (in future), you can get 10% damage during movement in Skirm. GM, and another 10% from Wilderness Surv. Master trait while you’re above 90% hp. You may even take Predator’s Onslaught in Marksman GM for another 10% against cc’d targets, since projectile speed is getting boosted as baseline.

I wouldn’t call it a “not so pew pew.”

Soooo, projectile speed buff is a baseline in upcoming trait changes, but what about “Eagle Eye’s” 5% dmg and 300 range increase, is it removed or a baseline aswell?

Hello community! Could someone, please, give me a link or post a spreadsheet with all melee greatsword AA chains, with their actual attack speed and coeficients.

Serraphin Storm.2369:

keeping the pet alive

I agree, it’s a requirement to be a decent ranger, but then again, pet commands are delayed, it cannot dodge, and most pvp pets have 15k hp. With that said, if you FOR EXAMPLE, try to res a fallen teammate from being stomped by utilizing wolf’s howl, it has a very high chance of getting cleaved in seconds, before even executing the command. Thing is, you don’t have a choice of reviving pet anymore, so either get out of combat (wich is ridiculous in spvp) or switch to your next pet (F2 of wich you may not even need at the moment) and receive a 1m cooldown. I think I could make more examples, but there’s always people that claim “pets are flawless, l2p,” so I won’t be trying to prove anything.

P.S. Funny thing is, that when we are downed, the PET can actually revive us, but not vice-versa, no.

So, in the horrible downstate mechanics that pets are in now (after they removed an option to manually revive them during combat), wouldn’t it be great if pets could rally via kills themselves, and not along with your rally?