Guild Wars 2

A standard ping sends an ICMP packet and waits for a response. Some hosts may throttle or disable ICMP packets which will result in packet loss and is why judging a connection based entirely on pings isn’t always accurate.

The resource monitor displays a TCP ping. When data is sent over TCP, the receiver acknowledges it. This can be used to calculate the ping. It can also be calculated during the connection’s handshake, but that only occurs at the start of the connection. TCP packets are larger than ICMP packets and take longer to process, so they will be slower. TCP packets can also be delayed, which will also affect it.

For a small example on affecting your ping times, use the command:

ping 206.127.159.153 -l 65000

(example of ~max packet size)

That was the first thing I did but after hours of (UNSKIPPABLE) dialog and failed attempts, I’m just breaking down and looking for help

Dem twlight ofc

Brazil is a surprisingly bad ranger player, he’s just really really good at PvE and it covers up all his profession-specific mistakes. :P His videos are good stuff.

SirKoroshi and Flopy the Rabbit on youtube are both worth watching if you like competitive rangers, although I think Koroshi more uses his rangers on twitch streams. He’s also not a ranger main, just a really good PvPer.

Will I bound to use flash wurm? or spectral walk? both of these are our only escapes as far as I know,and the flash wurm is kinda useless in wvw combat,we only got the spectral walk which is also not that great.Being power necro,I really cant avoid CC(except with dodges or getting stability via elite O.o) + cant really avoid pressure.

My question is,do you have tricks or ways to avoid constant pressure(for example getting 2 sticky warriors attack you or ranger from far) I just shout to my temmates help me im gonna get downed :[ I really dont know how to avoid pressure when it happens,cant escape!

+1 Account Bag slot. Could finally share my boosts easy.
+1 More Bodytypes. We need a Heeellll lot of customization…

>> Some more REALISTIC medium armor please?

I would buy the Phantom’s Hood instantly if they brought that back

I believe it’s a lettuce or some kind of a turnip.

Mesmers are broken. Kitten jump and hide everywhere. Their teleports and stealths are OP. Oh wait…

Prysin.8542:

HtFde.3856:

hertigknut.8475:

Gotejjeken.1267:

Wow, a topic about Ranger being OP. Seriously.

Anyway, LB is a terrible weapon IMO. But fear not, it will be replaced in a few months by the staff XD.

If you go powerbuild and stay behind in blobfights you can definitely down 5-10 ppl without a problem. Zoom in on a squishy ele and instadown him

Hm – only if you have an upleveled ele or someone running full berserker and someone who eats the whole load at max range … other than that you won’t *insta*down anything at full health with LB2.

But it’s nice for picking off already weakened targets and ’Sic’em’ is such a nice thing to do to a thief …

Fun Fact:
LB 2 does exactly the same damage in melee range as it does from 1970 range. Rangers have no damage boosters that scale with range, only one skill scales with range, and that is LB 1 (auto). Which scales for below 500, 500-1000 and 1000+.
LB1 does not get more damage from range beyond 1000 range. Eagle Eye gives a flat % boost, that boost is not affected by range.

Nods – the rest of my statement stays valid, however – LB 2 does around 8k in sPvP test area (zerker amulet, fire and air sigil). Now you can get higher stats in WvW but if you test all your builds in sPvP you’ll see it does not hold up to a well placed Steal, C&D, Backstab or 100 Blades – all of which are, of course, more difficult to land but do a lot more damage.

So – you cannot one-shot anything with it – even a kill shot rifle warrior, that should do about 15k-ish damage and can make that shot unblockable (+ bonus damage if traited for extra damage on boons) has a hard time one-shotting enemies at full health.

coglin.1867:

Neglect? Like all of the changes coming up in the expansion?

You mean adding another map the lower servers don’t have the people to cover? In addition to the already empty maps that are currently in…

SilverWF.4789:

I’ll just leave it here
http://youtu.be/CV2ardN2has?t=12m10s

Looks very familiar – especially the oh so helpless thieves that need way more buffs against any class. I bet they’d still complain if they had a 25 second immunity with a 26 second cooldown and go on about how unfair it is to have that 1 second in which they can be hurt … gasp.

You also got very lucky against the rather inexperienced pair (thief, ele) at Bay. That fight would normally go a bit different – but I think that “Hey, let’s just jump down there and kill that ranger” thief is one of the typical complainers. He messed up the whole encounter from the very beginning … when you pull a number like that you go sanctuary first (best out of sight so there is no warning), then (!) jump down and then it’s one dead ranger.

I think rangers are in a good place at the moment. I solo roam as a full berserker S/D thief and longbow rangers are free kills. In group fights, just focus on them first. Most of the time, they down themselves with reflects from Dagger Storm. It’s the melee/condition rangers that I have to worry about…

Sirendor.1394:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Sirendor.1394:

Tbh, they just need to nerf the dmg on rapid fire (not on longbow in general) and decrease the range of longbow to that of any normal long range weapon (1200), like elementalist staff.

Why exactly? If you are going to call for a nerf you need to provide an argument that holds water.

I think the arguments you are looking for are in this 5-page long thread.. to name a few:

• This is the only weapon+class that has such a far range and so much damage with it: it does not encourage strategic or skillful play, instead it encourages you to stand in your tower and shoot at enemies who have no alternative than to run out of your range.
• Since no other class has this kind of range it’s poorly balanced. Counters are either speccing to counter one specific builds, or relying on high mobility to get out and in fast.
• Rapid fire is a broken skill since it does not stop firing when an enemy goes stealthed, and people who go full zerk can shoot you to death with just using that one skill.

Many more arguments all over the thread, but I think you get the gist. Range is too far which makes it unbalanced when compared with the high damage. Therefore: nerf.

I said arguments that hold water. Each complaint you have listed has been destroyed by numerous people. Unless you can come up with a valid reason to nerf longbow I suggest you spend more time improving your personal skill and less time complaining.

alvarez.3159:

Staff is my wet rangerdream.

mugen.4763:

LB ranger requires no skill to play when ur in a group. 6 sec reveal at 2000 range, 3 sec stealth every 9 sec, 3k+ auto attacks at 1500 range and when u finally get to them 6 sec of invulnerability. Ofc you can dodge/block rapid fire but whats the point when the auto attack will hit just as hard in like 3 hits. And what about classes like mesmer that don’t have proper blocks anymore thanks to ‘fixing’ skills. Every class has cheesy builds but lb ranger is by far the cheesiest of them all. Bravo anet, you haven’t learned anything about balance in the last 10 years.

You mesmer ot thief? I know it hurs that the former mobile loot bags now can actually defend themselves … must be horrible.

What you’re decribing is the 1 vs 1 on open field which happens rarely. Most of the time mesmers or thieves join existing fights and then the situation is quite reversed but, hey, why talk about that – in those situatiosn the ranger is as he should be … another instant loot bag.

Mesmers can (a) blink which closes a decent part of the gap if you’re running s/x you can use F4 and sword 2 to avoid the rapid fire and if you run PU with scpetre sceptre block works nicely. Never mind reflecting bubble or traiting into reflecting glamour like veil …

Thieves … we-hell, they have to use their gap closers now to engage instead of keeping them in reserve for running away.

I can understand that the changes annoy Mesmers and Thieves … if’s a bit like a hot dog on your plate getting teeth and biting back … just ask yourself … what’s the use of a class if it has no chance to kill any of the others? Now that it can .. mememememe

And mostly from the troll class Thief and from people who are a kittenallenged to play Mesmer.

Edit: ‘Sic em’ on 2000 range makes no sense as they’ll be able to stealth when things get interesting – you keep that in reserve when they’re closer. And I never needed Sic’em for Mesmers … it’s my treat for thieves.

Gaining invisible requires your arrow to hit … quite different from the guaranteed stealthes Thieves and especially Mesmers have (decoy, torch skill, veil)

In addition to that becoming invisible is only half the trick – repositioning yourself makes the full menu. And rangers (unless they have GS as secondary) have almost no skills to reposition them. This is where thieves are unmatched and mesmers can blink, turn around – staff 2 and be quite a bit away from where they were when they became invisible …

Lol @ Ranger burst not being fair. When power rangers were getting blown up by thieves we got nothing but l2p and we did. We learned to track, predict and dodge invisible attackers. You can see RF. It is not instant burst. It can be blocked, reflected etc, even if your slightly late with your reaction you will still block most of the damage. L2P.

As for those people saying they shouldn’t have tweak their build or change a utility are severely lacking perspective. For the last 2 years thieves and mesmers have effectively nullified any other zerker build. (this is still true in sPvP) Rangers didn’t just have to tweak our power builds, we had to abandon power builds all together or fight an uphill battle.

All that being said, I would still rather face a ranger than any other class since I’ve put so much time into ranger and know the class in and out. Also, I rarely use lb and prefer the melee ranger. Have had great fun roaming the last few days on s/d, s/a celestial build.

Buy gems and transfer to T1. It’s the meta solution to all of WvW problems.

I wonder how much we still have to sit without the auction, the funny thing is that most everything is working fine, I got into a campaign group favorites

They don’t care about your solo dungeon runs taking 15 seconds longer

Pheppo.9286:

My mesmer would kill for such a rune!

My Warrior kills for free….

Condition/Regen Ranger is one of, if not the strongest dueling build there is. It doesn’t deal very high damage but it can whittle any build down and is durable enough to outlast even full bunker builds.

Ranger, if played correctly, is one of the stronger small scale professions. It takes a lot of practice but when you reach the epitome of what the profession can achieve, you won’t find many people that will be a threat to you.

However, on the flip side, Ranger can also be very punishing to learn since, as you’ve said, it has a rather steep learning curve. If you’re a quick learner you shouldn’t have much trouble but otherwise, I suggest you take your time, enjoy yourself, learn the in’s and out’s and you’ll be plenty satisfied with the reward.

On a side note, I roam with my Ranger more than I roam with my other characters. I have in the past won 1v4’s and once, mind you it was a very long fight and obviously not against very skilled players, won a 1v6. Ranger is totally capable of winning outnumbered fights but the more people you’re fighting the more melee weapons you’re probably going to want since they have built in evades. I prefer to use Sword/Warhorn and Axe/Dagger so I have evades on both weapon sets which allows me to be offensive while still able to be defensive if the situation calls for it.

Welcome to American education.

Just give the option to block all whispers from the enemy server for the people too scared of talking to people.

White swords +1, loved it

Here are what I would find realistic requirements for the final tier of the WvW achievements – based on my 4 digit hours I spend on different activities in WvW:

Realm Avenger: Kill 50,000 players (that equals tagging and destroying 1000 – 50 men zergs) – down from 250k kills
Yakslapper: Kill 3,000 enemy supply caravans. – down from 1m dolyak caravans
A Pack Dolyak’s Best Friend: Successfully escort 1,000 supply caravans. – down from 500k escorts
Repair Master: Spend 25,000 supply on repairs. – down from 1m supplies
Take Everything in Sight: Capture 10,000 objectives. (Eotm reactors and special objectives count towards this) – down from 1m objectives
Going Camping: Capture 2,500 supply camps. – down from 100k camps
It’s Quite Roomy in Here : Capture 2,500 towers. – down from 100k towers
All We See, We Own: Capture 1,000 keeps. (keeps take more effort to capture and less available in total) – down from 100k keeps
King of the Castle: Capture Stonemist Castle 500 times. – down from 25k castles
Stay Out!: Defend 3,000 objectives. – down from 1m objectives
Walls Get in the Way: Defend 500 supply camps. (Camps are tricky to defend and no walls you can repair for easy defense events, event often does not trigger even if you killed agressors) – down from 500k camp defenses
Stopped Them Cold: Defend 1,000 towers. – down from 500k defenses
Nice View From Up Here: Defend 1,000 keeps. – down from 500k defenses
Stonemist Stands Firm–Again: Defend Stonemist Castle 1,000 times. – down from 500k defenses

I think these requirements would motivate more people to play WvW – and more importantly do all aspects of WvW including dolyak escorts and defending. I expect with these requirements it would take about 2000 hours (= 5.5hours per day for a year) for the average player to max out WvW achievements.

Ranger is the class that gains the most from the surrounding. If you know what your opponent is able to do, you have easier time to avoid his dmg. When playing D/D cele ele, you can only focus on yourself and still win most of the fight because you need to land X spell to chain Y skill. Ranger has somewhat easy time landing burst but harder time with survivability.

So you must adapt your playstyle according to the enemy you fight.

Example:
-A ranger can’t fight a warrior in melee. Warrior dps is higheré So he must kite him.
-D/D ele has very high melee dmg but few gap closer, so its safer to stay in LB and shoot him down. For condi, its better to burst condi application when he swap out of water.
-Thief stealth: You can, and you should try to channel rapid fire as he enter stealth. It will follow him. And if you stay immobile you will always face him denying backstab.

So, a ranger never give the tempo in a fight (or rarely) if the enemy is fully aware of the ranger presence. Therefore, it is one of the class that benefit from stress control. Pressing the knockback or the stealth attack with LB when not facing the enemy cause the 2 skills to go on cooldown. And thats precisely what stress can cause you to do (along with #2 sword can make you go back in the fight if you double tap)!

You have also alot of micromanagement to do with the pet in order to maximize the class CC. And thats the hardest skill to get from all gw2 because of how pets ai are bugged. With some pratice you can pull off some nasty cc chain (aka hammer ranger: knockdown->knockdown->fear->PBS).

Finally, playing glassy spec seems really easy. And it is easy to do okay with it. But its HARDER to do good things with glass spec at high lvl. This is because you have no defensive mechanism or outplay possible. So thief and mesmer will always be the best for glassy spec because of the stealth giving them the element of surprise for their burst.

Everyone is able to SotW + RAO + QZ + RF someone that is unaware, but few are able to win someone that is fully aware of the ranger presence (same skill level implied).

I totally aware that LB buff was a step in the “noob friendly” direction. But the class needs gameplay change in order to work properly even tough they now have the most reliant DPS in the game atm.

You guys are forgetting, if someone is trolling you, you can block them….

It’s an important visual cue for PvP, WvW. It probably needs to stay.

It’s clear that you are a really terrible pvper keyboard warrior. First of all, you complain about backstab being around 2.7k. Well, learn how to position properly. Because that’s clearly a FRONT stab. Then you eat a full 18k from a ranger? Hey, here’s an idea for you. Dodge. My god. Isn’t that amazing? “But I didn’t have any dodges left”. My god, here’s an idea for you. Drop pistol 5 and heart seeker into it while shadow stepping BEHIND the ranger. OR! Shadowstep behind the ranger, drop pistol 5, heart seeker into it and return at the same time. “Too advanced for me, no can do”. Well…

LEARN TO PLAY.