Guild Wars 2

I do agree here and there from reading several posts about Druid. If DMG or other stat base increments can be made on the staff skills then a lot more players would consider adding the weapon to their inventory. It’s great that these skills heal when used w/ or on fellow players nearby but makes the Long bow, in my opinion, more appealing to do burst damage and move on to better things.

The new pets reaction time is slow and unfavorable; a few times the wyverns F2 ability took longer to cast and misses the whole group of Mobs that are charging straight toward friendly npcs.

It maybe the new only source for main healing in this new content, high end raiding, but I refuse to just go basic cookie cutter and stand in the corner and heal people just to have it easy. This is me waving my middle finger in the air to that. As I did in Aion on my Chanter I’ve worked with various builds and ultimately learned to alternate between dps and to heal. It’s not that different from this game or any other typical MMO. People are mad and upset because what was known as a solid dps got a monkey wrench thrown at it because it’s not what they are use to playing. The mentality of “Druid is a Healer, period” and nothing else just goes to show how mundane and stereotypical people can be about “Heal/Dps hybrid-type Classes”.

I want to thank those that have responded with their replies and explanations.

After playing around in this Beta event Celestial is a lack luster in itself….nothing but a plateau gain. Zerker set is ideal to pump out a decent amount of dps I’ll probably end up making two Ascended sets once the expansion is fully released. One being a Knight set and the other being Zealot. This will also include updating or forming a new Longbow, Staff, and Greatsword since I see myself using more often while playing on my main. The Shortbow, One-handed Axe, One-handed Sword, Torch, Warhorn weapons I’ll probably will end up placing on the back burner. And on the plus side with creating new items if I find one that I don’t care for I can always share it among my other Med. Armor wearing alts or keep it in the Bank for a rainy day.

Well with the Heart of Thorn expansion just around the corner I am curious on what stat builds would be beneficial to accommodate Ranger to Druid. This includes armor, accessories, runes, and weapons. eg) Exotic->Ascended

To be honest I was rather surprised that this profession will have an assortment of heal based attacks. I was expecting Guardian to be more defensive/heal related than the Ranger. And since I really did not want to give up my main and start from scratch with a different profession and be irritable throughout the new content I rather learn on how to utilize and work with new changes that will be implemented. I would prefer people, who are reading and about to reply, not place one-liner responses but with an explanation of why this set up. In many games I’ve learned when constructing builds there is always a negotiation of stats; meaning focus on one or two and lose out on the latter. eg) high defensive builds will usually lack in the offensive department and vice versa.

Started out on Gates of Madness, during launch, and will stay on this server. I enjoy doing the PvP aspects of this game which includes arenas or WvW content and don’t mind mixing in some PvE as well. I’m currently in a one person guild to ignore random non-explanatory invites I kept receiving when I came back to this game. I have my own ventrilo server and have team speak downloaded/installed as well. I live in Oklahoma and my hours may vary due to being work related.

Past games that I’ve played or tried:
-World of Warcraft
-Aion
-Tera
-Wild Star
-ArcheAge

If wishing to know more information feel free to send me an ingame mail or a private message.