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Some of the most annoying 1v1 fights I’ve had were against other Rangers. Not to say I lose to them more than other classes, but unless the weapons, traits, and utilities match up is the worst for one person then it can take a while.
If conditions weren’t limited on big targets in pve they would be much more viable. It doesn’t matter on trash, but on any boss, champion, world event target, or veteran karka it would be nice if the cap was higher. As it is if you don’t stack condition dmg then adding any is counter-productive on these targets.
It depends where you define your mouth ending and your upper esophagus beginning.
But…I only have dollars. I need change to give them change!
They should make some NPCs that follow you and spam “Spare some change?”
“I need about tree-fiddy…”
Its the Loch Ness Monster!
They probably got suckered in with one of those suspiciously low price travel deals. Then nobody told them how to get back, they aren’t allowed over by the nobles, can’t leave the beach, and nobody told them how to use the asura gate. So they drink.
Eventually the Consortium will hand them a bill they can’t pay for all the food and drink that wasn’t included in the upfront cost, and they’ll be forced into indentured servitude for generations.
That’s just eccentric.
But that beach is literally about 100 yards from skelks looking to eat your…well, they want to eat you.
Granted, it probably isn’t the most stupid thing a man has ever done to get with a beautiful woman.
But that also doesn’t explain why Kasmeer is there. Either she went there to knowingly risk her life, or she went there because Faren is a creepy stalker and she’s hoping he’ll get killed.
Never met Faren before this event, but he came across as a flake. But maybe he’s aware enough to know that he’s a flake, so he’s trying to shoo you away.
Not that its really working, because when you talk to Kasmeer she’s very indifferent to his existence.
Though they’re both probably crazy for going to Southsun for recreation,
Possibly. Just be cautious.
Southsun is a pain. It seems like everything hits harder than similar mobs anywhere else. Karkas are incredibly annoying, and the stupid drakes pull then stack confusion. My own personal gripe is that its just difficult to get around. There are no roads and after all this time I still haven’t fully mapped it.
Putting a pet in Southsun might make me go there. I would enjoy the game far more if the entire area got nuked, but then with my luck I’d have to deal with 300ft tall radioactive karka.
As has been said before, it depends on your gear, your build, and where you want to play it.
In general, if you prefer suing sb and sword you might not get as much benefit from higher crit chance and lower crit dmg than someone running lb and gs, which are slower.
Having said that, move things around, try different weapon setups and builds and see what works for you. If you find something you like, then you should try to compare damage/survivability/utility to other builds and see where you might be lacking and how you can make up for it.
I’ve never seen this in PvE or WvW. But I’ve also never seen people run away from my pet.
The problem I’m seeing that now WvWvW doesn’t have culling, the pet and the player can still see you even when your really really far away. If the pet is far enough away from the player hes essencially (out of combat.) because the player is leashing.
When that happens, rangers can just sit back and use artillery for example, while there invincible pet tanks 2-3 players (its using all its buffs+out of combat regeneration.)
Its really not fair, if you think otherwise then you should really rethink balance.
It would be useful for you to read what has been said here, and also use some common sense.
If a pet is attacked, neither it nor the ranger are put into combat. But if the pet does attack, regardless of the distance between it and the ranger, both are put into combat.
If 1 pet is taking on 2-3 players then the players are absolutely kitten. Even with full bm and buffs (which only last a few seconds, unless there’s someone buffing the ranger constantly), there’s no reason it should take that many people to kill a pet.
The comparison to warrior banners is nonsensical. Meaning that it makes no sense. The two aren’t remotely similar.
I’m not entirely against a leash range for pets, but it would have to be quite large.
If you send your pet to attack someone and it solo kills them, that says more about the other player than about your pet.
1v1 pets are useful and fairly good. I’ve heard people complaining about them, but mostly because they are actually good. This is the first time I’ve heard someone say they are OP. Though even in 1v1 avoiding a pet isn’t that difficult, they can’t attack while moving so just step away at the right time.
If I turn off autoattack and autotargeting, I still end up jumping around all over for seemingly no reason. With auto-targeting off I should only attack who I have selected, but instead I lose control of my character.
Some people seem to do very well with sword, and I feel great for them. But there seems to be something I’m missing if I can’t stay on a slow moving target without pinballing around.
I’d like to see it happen, but I also realize that if it did myself and many others would complain that they put effort into this when actual profession and gameplay issues were far more important.
How do you get full stacks of might and vulnerability on a ranger? Or are you saying that you need support from a group to get that dps? You don’t specifically state either way, but your post seems to suggest you’re solo doing this sort of damage.
And just a wild assumption, but I’ll guess that whatever you were attacking didn’t move around alot.
It feels to me, and has for a while, that PvP is the main concern for ANet. Rangers might be balanced, or nearly so, in PvP but I don’t play it so I can’t say.
But increasingly it feels like any PvE and dungeon content is just thrown in as an afterthought, and the patch reflects that.
The patch was better than I expected, but I did’t expect much so surpassing that mark isn’t impressive.
Just overall I feel disappointed. For now, at least. As usual, I hold some slim hope that there will be substantive improvements in what the community sees as the primary issues with our profession.
Even without rewriting the pet AI, just making the 3 autoattacks instant cast would be an improvement. Just for my own curiosity, across all professions how many melee-range attacks have a root and an animation delay?
Saying that you’re going to use your pet to apply immobility or fear or knockdown is nice, right up to the point it gets chilled, or immobilized, or just outrun…or misses.
Now you’ve made me worried.
If pets are made able to hit more reliably, our dps will increase on mobile targets.
Will ANet see this as a reason to decrease the damage the ranger does to compensate?
Now Robert is going to quit ANet and change his name, maybe move to Bangladesh or Mongolia.
I figure by the time we get to the point of asking about axes he might be too drunk to drink himself, so we’d need to help him.
And also have a stomach pump and an iv. And its merely coincidence that alcohol can also cause amnesia. Really.
Not going to help Rangers at all if he dies of alcohol poisoning.
“No, here, have another shot…and what were you saying about rebalancing mainhand axe?”
I think the point is that while they may separate pve, wvw, and pvp, at the moment pve and wvw have the same skill effects.
So we cannot know if they plan to change how skills work in wvw in the next patch Jon talked about, or in some subsequent patch.
At this point I think its safer to assume that they aren’t going to separate wvw and pve until we know when its going to happen.
Blind is counted as a crowd control skil? Weakness and vulnerability? None of those do what I would consider “crowd control”. That usually means slow, stun, fear, knockback, knockdown, etc.
I suppose its just a bad tooltip unless chill/cripple/immobilize are counted as crowd control, and those cause the mob to gain Unshakable, which reduces the effectiveness of blind, weakness, and vulnerability?
If all pets have attacks that cleave, so in theory we might at least do higher damage to the 3 targets we do manage to hit, then the discussion would be different.
Completely apart from the overall effectiveness of pets and sticking strictly to the greatsword cleave issue, giving cleave to more pets would put us in a better position than we are now.
According to the wiki marsh drake’s f2 just bounces, no homing involved.
I prefer the greatsword to sword, and generally prefer it to mainhand axe. But if you’re in a group I can’t help but think that warhorn buffs increase overall dps much more than me changing my weapon.
As a somewhat related question, has anyone ever noticed mh axe hitting multiple times on large targets? I was at Mark 2 Golem last night and while waiting for weapon swap to come off cd I saw more numbers popping up than I could account for. I’m sure some was my pet, and there’s adds during the event, but I’m not really sure.
I think part of the issue is that while reporting someone stalking you might resolve the problem, it wouldn’t be possible with the system as it is.
I agree that its rather disturbing that people I’ve never met or even spoken to can follow me through all my different characters without my knowledge.
Adding someone to your friends list without their consent is somewhat acceptable, as long as I have the option to remove them later or appear offline at will. If I cannot block people from seeing my information, then I should have the ability to deny it to them preemptively.
I’ve heard of successful condition builds, but never played one myself so I can’t speak to their effectiveness.
I’m sure that your preferred playstyle comes into this. Do you use rampagers for increase on bleed and the occaisonal poison, or do you also run traps? Do you prefer PvE, PvP, or WvW?
You realize that the game is balanced around sPvP and tPvP. Peoples’ complaints quite often come from the fact that the spvp and tpvp participation is fairly small compared with the rest of the game, and strengths in one area and playstyle don’t necessarily transfer to the rest of the game.
Yes, its completely unreasonable for anyone to expect you to actually support the things you’ve been repeating over and over. So now you’ve proven that a ranger can be immobile and plink for substandard damage and not get hit too much, was that ever an issue?
Yeah, standing skill and spamming autoattack is so much fun…
Anyway, there is no much kind of foe what won’t be at your face within seconds.
Risens…. BANG lot of HP gone.In PVP? They lock you and kitten you.
In WWW? Same. You’re free frag in the eyes of ’em.
To be fair this is PvE, why play a PvP based style when there’s no particular reason?
But thats key to the point. 1500 range with a longbow (unique to the ranger) is one of the core mechanics of the class. Its one of the things that make a Ranger… a Ranger. Plink away at long range whilst using pets to support the group.
It is the synergy that was created for the weapon and playstyle. It is why you have access to craploads of utilities in pets that you can easily manage from long range. With pet management you can be DPS to Support with no problems. Can switch up on the go.
Versatility of the Ranger.
Your definition of “support” must be something other than the one that’s in the dictionary. By my count you used the wolf’s fear twice, though I didn’t notice any particular effect. Your jaguar was stealthed once or twice…even though the stealth is the entire point of that pet over others.
I would suggest you go collect some more pets, a jungle stalker for might and red moa for fury, used on cd during fights, would support your group more than 2 fears over the course of a dungeon.
I’m not sure why you need feel the need to constantly talk about 1500 range. Yes, we’re the only profession that can use 1500 range with a longbow, but not the only profession that can use skills from 1500 range. This has been pointed out several times, but precisely what makes the ranger’s longbow so great compared with other professions hasn’t been explained.
During the defend event if you want to stick with a gs then you should be using maul and swoop just about whenever they’re up. Since you’re forced into close quarters, using x/warhorn would likely benefit the group as a whole more than the difference between the dps from the two weapons.
If you spend the 5 points into BM I would suggest you swap pets fairly often for the quickness, especially in melee where you don’t lose the time it takes your pet to run to the target.
I think getting the pet skills to hit on time would be troublesome. Otherwise my quick mental math shows promising ability to keep chill on a target permanently, and 2 targets for extended periods, before including traits, gear, or food bonuses.
Reality will almost surely intervene with perfect possibility, notably needing the skills on your mainhand of one set in the midst of some situation preventing you from switching and procing the sigil of hydromancy.
In WvW it would be entertaining to use, provided you can survive. With axe ricochets randomly chilling, throwing frost traps, sending pets to attack random people. Even if you don’t chose to perma-chill one person, you could go a decent way towards inconveniencing a number of people.
I have to say this is a refreshing change of pace. Constructive suggestions and a lack of rage. Its a wonderful thing to see.
I do have to ask, is there a cooldown on the sigils of ice? I’ve never thought of it, but does it proc on crits on secondary targets with the axe?
Even if its only in a dream-sequence, or a flashback, whatever, I would like to be able to see what the temples and various broken ruins looked like before it sank.
Go back in time, see the sights, buy awesome gear, and inadvertently do something that leads to the sinking of Orr in the first place?
What’s the next thread? “Loggin into the game is too easy/hard”?!
It is! I should get laurels for it too!
Maybe a stack of 250 for not tripping over my feet and killing myself in LA.
Yes, April’s monthly isn’t super hard, but it also isn’t really easy unless you normally frequent certain places. I’m never likely to finish the jumping puzzles on any of my alts, I just hate them that much, but its okay because there are other things to concentrate on. I’m not particularly trying, but I might get a few levels of the audio logs done by the end of the month.
One thing I do like is that when events and dailies promote going to lower level areas at least new players, or low level alts, don’t have to face the world alone.
Rangers do get stability on Rampage as One, 20 seconds on 120 second cd. Though I usually don’t need to use it for most of Orr, mobs attack my pet and I keep running. When I’m far enough away I switch out pets before it dies, first group of mobs leash and a new set attacks pet #2.
Though the only time I’ve been south of Shank’s Anchorage lately is when I ran the gauntlet to arah when I was really bored.
I like some of the small events in the pact-controlled area in Straits of Devastation. Undead control an area and it visibly changes, but if you get control back it changes back. If this could happen in Malchor’s and Cursed Shore it would be much more interesting. Uncontesting temples makes better loot drop from nearby enemies!
According to the wiki it is applied even if your pet is downed.
So you’ve answered your own question. Originally you wanted to know how sb’s bleeds compare to lb burst. Now you say you’re unlikely to ever flank someone. So in that instance the burst will be higher, because the sb can’t bleed.
Are you trying to compare the bleeds alone vs. longbow burst, or the whole of sb damage during a span of time? We can agree that counting on flanking someone during a battle is a poor decision, so it would be equally unwise to have a condition build based on bleeds from sb 1.
It is precisely because there are so many factors involved that I might come across as belligerent or nitpicky. I’m trying to nail down exactly what you’re trying to test. We can’t test “sb is better than lb” because, as we both agree, there are so many situations and circumstances effecting performance that its impossible to have one answer to such a broad question.
Even if we were to ask: “Given a fairly mobile battle, with a mid-number of players (approx 5 on each side), would the shortbow outperform the longbow?” this situation would be incomplete because we can’t account for the professions with us or against us, and how cc effects might change potential damage situations for a shortbow or longbow, or how terrain could give you an advantage with either weapon.
So I’m asking that you try to be a little more specific in what you’re asking, so we all know what question to answer.
No class can equal what a Ranger can do in PvE, but several can surpass it.
Now the question. Does the bleed damage from SB = to the same as the LB burst at point blank range?
I assume you mean LB 3 → LB 2 when you speak of burst dmg at point blank?
You would have to specify what traits you have when figuring this out. SB needs to flank to get bleeds, but do you have the trait for increased damage while flanking?
Does the person using the LB have the same traits, if so are they also behind the target?
And over what period of time? If you mean only during the time it takes to get LB burst off, then obviously LB will have higher dmg, that’s what burst means.
I would be curious myself if someone could come up with solid, explainable, numbers to present.
you still apply AoE burning from range with it
But it doesn’t, does it? The burning applies to one attack on one person, and the spirit MIGHT apply the buff to someone else. But “you” the player aren’t applying burning aoe, and the spirit isn’t applying aoe burning either.
Whether or not its viable isn’t really my issue, if it works for you then that’s great. But HOW it works, or might not work, does concern me.
AoE = Area of Effect, there will be 8 allies on the battle field, 2 of them i have direct control over 2 there is 0 control over, the other 4 can be yelled at over a voip on what to be doing. All 8 of them has a 35% chance (it’s hardly a small chance, it seems to happen the first hit you have the buff) to burn some poor kitten for 1s, that either = 8s of AoE on 1 poor kittener (has happenened many a times) or 1s -3s of AoE burning to each member of their team of 5 (normally what we’ll do)
Unless you’re counting a person as an area, burning from Sun Spirit isn’t AoE. The area of effect of the buff might be said to be AoE, but there is no AoE burning created here.
you still apply AoE burning from range with it
But it doesn’t, does it? The burning applies to one attack on one person, and the spirit MIGHT apply the buff to someone else. But “you” the player aren’t applying burning aoe, and the spirit isn’t applying aoe burning either.
Whether or not its viable isn’t really my issue, if it works for you then that’s great. But HOW it works, or might not work, does concern me.
So you say you can do “it”. But then your definition of “it” isn’t something that can be done. Whatever it is you say you can do needs to be an action, not claims other people make.
When answering a question, its good to make sure your response is actually addressing the question.
I won’t claim to be great at WvW, but lately I’ve been getting my own ingrained habits from previous mmos and had some success with it.
A big aspect to success, or at least a great help, is switching weapons. Not swapping between sets, but equipping the correct sets. Whenever I’m moving in WvW I use axw/horn and sb. If the fight is small and mobile I keep with that set. If its a seige, either side, or some area where there’s a convnient choke point, I’ll switch sb to lb. Similarly I’ll switch out some utility slots for traps, and my traits to make them targetable, and piercing shots for eagle eye. Dropping some combination of Muddy Terrain, Frost Trap, and Spike Trap will both slow your enemies down enough that Barrage has a good chance of hitting them for its full length, and also similarly make them better targets for everyone else.
Being able to target drop traps in front of your own keep, then drop Barrage on top of it is also fun. Granted standing up on your wall isn’t wise to do for long, but isn’t necessarily garuanteed death.
Similarly, when assaulting any keep in WvW if you can get to the base of the wall, your targetable traps can be placed so they hit people on the walls, and again follow up with barrage.
Aside from my anecdotal notes, just understand that ALL weapons and utilities are situational. Any particular build should be seen as a guide, or a suggestion. No one build will excel in all situations. So while you can’t change your trait points, feel free to change your trait skills between battles depending on what you expect.
I assumed it would be the pet’s attack. Otherwise “Shoot a web and immobilize your foe” would mean I am shooting the web.
Having pets that could give you effects as an F2 would be interesting though.
Though I’d also like to be able to attach traps to my arrows and launch them into a zerg.
Or even command a spider pet to climb up a wall and shoot from the ceiling.
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