Guild Wars 2

if to be honest, we have one more useless Elete skill also after druid useless Elete skill.
And yes, Dolyak and Vulture Stance don’t work, and Shouts are useless also with SoulBeast!

Aquamarine.3698:

I notice you are using zealot, dire, and knight stats. Try to use some celestial to maximize total stats. Also try to use more quadruple stats. This is an example:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAT8fjEqQ5K2uCerAVLWcEMmAwkryBnUnqZVnO3HY0VyySD-TFjAQBeUphFfAAi4CAYKVV2wRAAAHEAQqEbR6GU3+D0UJorUGAR1KCAgAMchjwJcA38mDX4CX4kCAmxAA-w

Light on Your Feet with Long bow???

What’s wrong with you ppl???

plz… stop asking to BUFF elite traits… they are already MORE powerful then any line in any spec.

They should focus on BASE trait lines.

I hope that will not hapend. You offer Buff Berserker tree more?
It’s already out of control.
They should put ALL vanilla in line with “Elite”, but not buff “Elite” to make them more far away from Vanilla…

Spartacus.3192:

The one to Rule.2593:

I don’t remember them ever having a true pvp/pve split and i’ve played since release.

I remember them having full sets of pvp armor, but never a true split between skills like guild wars one had. Arena net has proven that the way they handle things, this just isn’t sustainable unless they split it. Because otherwise you end up with way underpowered/ overpowered classes.

Look at ele, it’s a god. Unkillable in pvp and almost twice the damage of any other class in pve.

Revenant, slaughters people in pvp, But is almost completely unviable for high end content in pve. This is a joke of a balance.

I know skills had different effects in pvp vs pve. For eg retaliation is weaker. Guardian Dodge roll healed for different amounts in pvp vs pve (i think they normalized it recently)

Also confusion do 50% damage in pvp and WvW

All 3. Start from shortbow, anyway you’ll switch them by cooldown.

It’s so funny to read how ppl cry that renenant are worsr dps in game and crap in pvp, and in next post say L2P to everyone…

Now i know who cry in /map chat about revenants.

Good wvw warrior are useing poison on swap. Why you can’t do the same?
Or you don’t use it, because it’s not in meta build?

Solution to win warrior. Just don’t eat all f1 skills and use poison.
If you eat 2 from 3 f1 skills, then you dont deserve victory.

Just include Signet of the wild/Dolyak runes or troll urgent(one of them) and you can totally avoid staff.

You can craft Viper and don’t think about bers.
Only fractal where you need Bers are Dredge fractal… for that case you can grab full bers trinkets. these will be pretty enough.

I can offer

PathOfScars > Splitblade
SpikeTrap>Splitblade

BTW seed has awesome synergy with skull-cracker warrior or GS/HAMMER warrior in WvW.

And BTW Viper will solve ANY problem with -% immobilize duration.

No mater how gr8 dps you’r outputting, Rangers dps one of worst in game.
You have to smash keyboard, look for cooldown manage procs and you’ll output maximum 22k dps.
while DerDev wil just hit 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 and output 30k dps.
and Elementlist output 50k dps… more than 2 rangers with best builds and ideal rotations.

That’s the balance.

If i’ll take, I’ll change SOTH to SOTW and take runes of traveler.
For every one who did not know that, SOTW generate astral force really good!
Check it.

it will take about 25sec to generate AstralForce from 0 to 100 with SOTW passive effect.

Gannicus.4132:

1. LB1 (Long Range Shot) -> Usually crits for 2-3k cause of signet of the hunt
2. LB5 (Point Blank Shot) + Quickening Zephyr -> Roots your enemy because of Ancient Seeds unless it’s blocked or nulified. Watch for warriors or guardians on this.
3. LB2 (Rapid Fire). At this point, I send forth my Smokescale. It almost always shadowsteps to your enemy and starts to chomp away. Other pets will usually make a slow run for your enemy, screwing this important step up. This is where you also hit your pet F2, so that Beastly Warden triggers, taunting your foe. This is the part where your foe is usually at 50% health or so and trying to heal. Hence, Beastly Warden will play an important part in interrupting that heal.

I hope that you know, that LB5 are Barrage and "Point Blank Shot are LB4.

No.
Cleansing ire + Scorched earth are cleaning 6 conditions.
And yes.
It’s a bug.
Just tested few times on my warrior.

Compare it to rev or daredevil AA and you’ll get 20-25k dps difference.

Why you start such topic???
If devs will see these topic, they’ll just nerf staff AA… even if it’s WORST DPS WEAPON in game.

Elessaria.9142:

I’m seeing quite a drop in FPS performance with the patch too, and have had a couple of the “out of memory” errors same as early HoT.

Out of memory error happens when you turn of Virtual memory in windows advanced settings. no mater how much RAM you have. 4gb or 64GB… you have to turn Virtual memory also.

Hello. Yesterday I was in Unranked and after the end of the battle both teams was dropped back to these battle.
We tried to switch Toons or close client and w8 for few minutes, but nothing helped.
We dueled there for few hours with different toons, then we went to sleep.

after 18 hours I have launched GW2 client and what I see?
I’m on same “Battle of Champions Dusk”…

Now after last game client update, all fine and all my toons are back in to Mists, BUT I don’t see that these problem mentioned in patch notes. So it it’s not fixed, what mean it can happened again with someone else.

Man had same issue, it may happened because of NVidia Shadowplay.
Turn if off and check again.
It may happened if shadowplay trying to write in to file, but some how can’t.

You can kill it as condi revenant.
Mace/axe sword/shield with mal/shiro or herald legend.
Try condi rev, and you’ll see that revenants are much more superior then most ppl think.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Sina.9208:

I think the Smokescale change is great.

No, it’s awesome!

Awesome you say? SmokeAttack was nerfed for about 40%

Substance E.4852:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

What Fluffball said. If the target is on a higher level, a lot of times the attacks go right through the target and don’t hit at all.

I’ve also seen this occur in PvE. I’ve stood on a ledge while a veteran bristleback shot at me. I’ve watched all the ‘spikes’ shoot through me, but not one hit.

So, apparently, it’s an issue with the targeting system and not just the pet or mob.

The attack works only on the X/Z axis and won’t adjust to elevation. It’s the same for Staff 4.

It’s GW1 all over again -_-

Same bug with warrior Rifle. Even Grass really often block projectiles from rifle xD

We have tested with warrior on WvW, he shoot me from 300 meters and all projectiles was – obstructed…

Was so much fun, when i can hit him on open ground from GS 2nd skill, and he cant shoot me in same time xD

Tragic Positive.9356:

Sol.4310:

It’s a decent pet, problem is vs melee unless you can CC them Bristleback has allot of problems landing any damage.

Also Sic’em + F2 doesn’t work when you use Sic’em if you us any pet skill E.g F1 it will cancel Sic’em effect on your pet.

Good combo is to use Longbow or Staff, pull range CC and unload your pets F2.

This has been patch-fixed and Sick’Em isn’t cancelled upon F2 use.

Sick em cancel f2, and you can just test other way.
Cast f2, look at numbers, then cast sick em and f2, and you see no damage wncrease.
Enjoy the fix from devs.

To OP, these new pet does not hit in pvp targets who are higher or lower than pet, and you don’t even have to move.

nerf wyvern! too OP!
I hope Irenio will totally ruin ranger, so i can play BDO and don’t even think about gw2.
You can do it!

foste.3098:

On the rending pounce and maul tooltip it states that 4 stacks of bleeds are applied for 10 sec doing 5.200 damage (520 dmg per tick), but after testing on the indestructible golem it turns out that they actually do 3.280 damage (so 328 dmg per tick).

This bug is probably caused by the increased condition damage pets received, the pet condition damage got increased but only on the tooltip not the actual skills (at least for the lynx not tested any other pets).

it affects on other pets too.

36-61 bleed tick with 1800 condition damage looks like too low.

Don’t change it if it lead to Smoke Assault nerf.

Stop nerfing THESE Class allreadY!
Irenio, you have ruined enough of ranger mechanics, so just don’t touch what was left…

As i understand, nobody want rangers, cause they bring worst team support and synergy, but in same way they don’t want to be focused and killed by one, that’s why they go on forum and cry for more nerfes.
Not because they want balance, but because they don’t want to meat rangers against them at all.

I think next what will be nerfed + Ranger Downed State, because it’s only part of ranger that left unnerfed…

Beware!

/shameAnet

Anet, STOP doing stupid decisions! You are nerfed rangers again that way!!!

Just ADD small damage portion + something like 10-100 damage from thief trap and it’s DONE!

You are just destroyed Cordition trapper ranger….

If i’ll say true about you and all what i think, i know i’ll get banned again, so i just want to ask: Can i get my money back for HoT?

Aura should not stack at all!
Aura have to only renew itself… Same as supperspeed.

Knighthonor.4061:

Because if this was possible, players could exploit to avoid pet getting damaged.

Atm Warriors can abuse it, because pet can’t dodge/evade F1 skills, so they 100% can clear condi+buff themselves from f1 against rangers.

Nice build.

But in future, will be really AWESOME if everyone who make new topic with new cool build will attach Video, when he show on practice, that these build are good.

Tragic Positive.9356:

Let’s think about AF for a second.
What a druid is supposed to be? It was developer-confirmed Healing specialization. Plenty of people were shocked, some disappointed some thrilled… But it was a good idea. A person dedicated to look for other people’s lives is a good thing. It also takes some skill-cap to predict the movement and hit the heals which is also a good thing to prevent it from facerolling PvP.

But here comes the but:
In BWE:

• You had hard time being a healer with DPS build and weapons. Which logically is fine. You had that situational “snap” button.
• You also were punished after leaving the astral form by depleting all the Astral Bar. Which forced you to think twice about healing people up or doing damage/utility.
• If you were smart, you could control your astral force so that you could look after people’s HP. If you failed – people died.

WHAT HAPPENED THEN
HoT came live and we got stuck up with a rare-to-be-used Astral Form. You cannot use it when you need to, you cannot build it quickly enough, you are forced to stay in for as much as you can spamming skills and you are forced to stay out of it for 10 seconds if you decide you need to Use Glyph of Tides to protect your allies.

And that’s absurd.

• You cannot be the healer anymore. You are a situational “snap” bot for organized content only. Where people won’t need you because your AF nerf made you worse than other healers who can constantly keep sustaining you.
• Druid cannot heal people anymore. He can only get them to 100% in 3 seconds and then randomly spam abilities without any needed effect.
• If the form last that long as in BWE, you could choose to activate it at heavy dmg phases to keep people alive during it for a cost of 10 sec punishment after it depletes (so people would die if you mess up the time window). Now it lasts 15 seconds that is not enough either in PvP or PvE.
• Glyphs are just horribly designed after this phase because getting into AF is so rare that you won’t ever use astral form for the secondary effect of the glyph. Punishments are way too harsh.

Astral form in current state indeed is a failure due to weak potential and mathematical reasons.
Astral Form should be a form that players can choose to play in or outside. We are supposed to choose when do we want to enter or leave the form. We should be ones to decide when do we want to use our secondary glyph effects, when do we want to start dealing damage or build back our astral force again…

But now leaving the form early is punishing, activating it isn’t rewarding, staying in the form till the end is a waste (since most goes to overheal) and using it requires huge amount of prediction and skill.
This just needs to be changed into something we want to use.

You know how devs will read your post…

Tragic Positive.9356:

Let’s think about AF for a second.

…
Bla bla bla…
…..
now leaving the form early(since most goes to overheal)

Oh!!! Yes! Overheal are not intended, so we should nerf overheal in next 10 hours, because it will brake our perfect balance!!!!
Other part of class looks like OK.

Eric.7813:

Removing AF degeneration would correct many issues with the druid.

No it’s not.

Anyway you have to firght in duel about 70-130sec to get CAF…

Lord Trejgon.2809:

I’m starting to think that it was actually good that I did not participate in any BWE – thanks to that I have not seen how druid performed earlier and that let me enjoy playing it now ^^

it was BAD in teamPvP in ranked on all BWE and now it goes Worse than it was.

is it possible to get money back for HoT?

played for 3 years my ranger and can’t handle these nonsense from devs… not anymore.

SqualZell.7813:

So I found out the hard way, in the Jade Maw Fractal (20) you can’t pick up crystals while in Celestial Form. I believe you just can’t pick up anything while in that form.

Is this working as intended? Or do I need to cancel it just to pick up something.

Yes, you have to!
Same as Elem in Tornado
Same as necromancer in DS/plague/leach form
Same as Engi/warrior in rampage.

I’m glad that I don’t play gw2 for next few months, so I don’t see that awful class design.

It’s ONLY for pve.
In pvp and WvW they will die same way.

Nike.2631:

Balance passes are still an ongoing thing but we’re not seeing a lot of changes to any core professions simultaneous with the release of Heart of Thorns. Ranger actually sees a little more than most with new pets becoming available.

Say thank, that they don’t nerf core ranger

Fluffball.8307:

Skip the scholar runes, they’re way too expensive. Rune of the Ranger is better and a lot cheaper. Also the dungeon meta is going to go away after HoT releases. Anet is in the process of killing dungeons completely in favor of raids.

Agree about scholar runes, but ranger runes are not the best choice for example for fractals…
I think OP have to focus on fractals instead of dungeons, because all money goes there in future (:

Daniel Handler.4816:

I was under the impression that shouts and commands interrupted sic em but sic em did not interrupt commands. Is this not true? Would your bird not receive benefit if you simply commanded it and then used sick mid animation?

it will interrupt animation and put skill on full cooldown.
If action did not started yet, then it will put it on 5 sec cooldown.
same with drake.
Just tested.
If you cast Sick’em tn the middle on F2 animation, then it will be canceled and goes on full cooldown.

Fille.1325:

Sic em is by far one of the most viable shouts in WvW.
Currently playing for a Hardcore WvW Guild.
Its really powerfull against other Focusparties who stealth up permanently. Just catch them in the 2-3 secs while they are not stealthed. Use that 2k range to reveal them, 1600 range Rapid Fire. gg rekt thief. As a Longbow Ranguh u almost kill him yourself.

kitten PvE.

more for that, you can apply Sick’em, then shoot 3-4 autoattacks, then shoot rapidfire, or if you use QuickDraw, then switch rappidFire +SickEm, then 2 AA and 1 more rapidFire, so you can use 2 rapids in 1 sickEm.

Panncakez.1290:

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

Yes. Maybe in sPvP too, but not 100%.

Panncakez.1290:

any goodies like ever-desired AI impovements or trait tweaks/changes?

No.

Tuomir.1830:

That’s why you use it AFTER F2, to stick the pet to the enemy (who, if a thief or mesmer, is likely to want to escape to stealth after being hit by a BM F2). Sic ‘Em is a pet command shout, all pet commands override each other, it’s nothing specific to Sic ’Em.

I want to empower birds, cats, drakes, spiders F2, not their autoattack, but i can’t.

Daniel Handler.4816:

Again why are people commenting in the revealed and not the 40 damage modifiers that stacks with other pet modifiers? And as far as I can tell sic em is not interrupted by anything other than guard which makes sense. Do people want reveal, which isn’t a role, so much that they would nerf beastmaster builds?

it’s interrupted by ANY shout(except heal) and by ANY button from f1 to f4.
So sick’em will be interrupted by F2 and as you know, whole BM tree are based on F2, F4 skill and shouts. So you can’t use ANY advantage of BM tree when you use Sick’Em.
That’s why it’s bad and wrong design.

mistsim.2748:

Chorazin.4107:

Key to supporting your group in WvW is condi control and boons which the Druid sadly lacks.

any good zerg stomping/gvg guild will have at least 2 guards in a squad. there’s your stability and condi control. put a druid in there for the heals and proft.

Every group in good wvw guild have 2-3 guardians, 1-2 warriors and 1 more man necro/mesmer/elem

hobotnicax.7918:

I uploaded a video of last nights WvW action. A little bit of everything: open field, chokes, being focused, pushing towards zerg, mid zerg fights… Hope this will shut some of you up with your “rallybot” & “lootbag” BS. Play it smart and you do well.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnxzw5VNr0o

If running in 40+ ppl zerg raid are smart play….
Random dodgeroll are smart play xD
80% of video enemies just run away.
And if even 1 enemy start to attack you, then you pop all cooldowns…

I didn’t see organized grous against you with god focus group. do you know what does it mean?
2man focuse grou can unload 24-29k damage in 1 cc.
I want to see how you will counter it.

As all say: “if you have 40+ ppl in raid, then every build are cool.”