Guild Wars 2

mazut.4296:

Raiding is not hard at all. All you need is practice. The hard part is finding group.

This is so true. Literally having a screen up on one side watching the LFG now as I type this. (Crappy timezone doesn’t help)

kiwituatara.6053:

Maybe try viper set? It’s better than zerker set for DPS and is great for both fractal and raids.

http://qtfy.eu/build/ranger <= possible best pve builds currently

Support isn’t generally as important in FOTM. If you really want to try support role in raids, Magi as a second set isn’t bad as they are fairly cheap.

I’m halfway through gearing up at the moment. I’ve got all ascended vipers except for 6 pieces (Substituted with 4 exotic rampager armors and 2 ascended rampager trinkets).

I tested the rotations with some cheap food, but I only came up to 20,500 dps (wayyyyy below the 33,000 dps benchmark….)

I hope it’s the gears…

Majic.4801:

All they see are dead maps, and that is the impression they will have of Heart of Thorns.

I don’t think that bodes well for anyone.

Wait…hmmmm, so HoT is pretty dead? (Yet to buy HoT here)

Roll Revenant?
Should I?

Hey guys, so I’ve been playing Ranger as my main since the launch day (beta even). I’ve travelled a long journey as a Ranger in Fractals, PvP, WvW, PvE, even eventually crafted my own legendary weapon (not bought! other than precursor).

Since the latest HoT did not do much to the Ranger class, and my only other lvl 80 main is a Warrior (which I heard is nerfed very badly), should I abandon ship for Revenant?

Yet to purchase HoT.

Regardless, this is the much needed GOLD for us rangers!!!

TheFantasticGman.9451:

Markmanship
+ Lead the Wind (long bow 3 traits in 1: Recharge, Atk speed, Pierce)

Skirmishing
Most Dangerous Game (gain recurring 6 Might at 50% HP)
Quick Draw (Reduce 66% cd time of the next skill after weapon swap)

Survival
Oakheart Salve (+ 5% less damage under effect of regen, shorter cd)
Bountiful Hunter (more dmg per boon)
Protective Ward (gain Protection and deal Weakness on getting hit, 12s cd)

Beastmaster
Minor: Pets move faster, deal more dmg, swapping and pet skills recharge reduced
Honed Axes (Winter’s bite becomes AoE, Axe skills)

The above interest me

Especially that Lead the Wind!!!!! 3 in 1!!!! Now I am wasting 3 traits for them.

IF I am not mistaken, the guys just verbally confirmed very quickly: ‘1500 range ranger? yeah……no, we’re not taking that away’

A very quick comment. In between discussion of warrior specs.

I missed the Ranger part!!! They’re talking about Warriors now. Can someone summarise please?

Anyone thought the same? :P I’d be super surprised if Arena-net doesn’t have a few Oculus lying around in their workspace (doesn’t mean they would be happy to implement it though…)

One more vote for peaceful areas. My main motivation to ‘escape’ to MMOs.

I still remember the days when I tucked away from reality atop a peaceful floating leaf in Ragnarok Online, and more recently in various ‘peaceful’ places in GW2.

“Lamborghini should retain the price and engine, but have the body of a Toyota Yaris”

If the above sounds logical to you, then yes, Legendaries’ styling should not be flamboyant.

I requested to join your website Just a bit about myself:

• Returning casual veteran; current clocked time 897 hours. I was very inactive for the past year until the announcement for expansion brought me back
• Mature player with real life commitments
• Main ranger
• I play almost everything (but not hardcore in any): PvE, sPvP, WvW, dungeons, and a bit of Fractal (F.level 11 only)
• Based in Australia; Server Sea of Sorrows

thefantasticg.3984:

I only use five pets: reef or salamander and river drake, jungle stalker, or red moa. I use pets for blast finishers and buffs. That’s it….

I usually run Jaguar/snow leopard + Red Moa (swappable for another utility pet. Ie. wolf in PVP, fern wolf for more regen, etc) for my regular dungeon runs, for that balance of pet DPS and utility.

But from your high level Fractal perspective, pets’ usage is only pure utility due to the difficulty in keeping them alive? I’ve only go up to level 12 Fractal or so… haven’t entered another for a year. But I don’t mind some insight from you Doesn’t this sacrifices a great source of DPS?

ARENA NET STAFF PLEASE DON’T NERF DIFFICULTY BECAUSE OF THIS THREAD.

Gosh….please. I find the new season is very satisfying so far, with interesting story and interesting gameplay mechanics.

I mixed them all until I couldn’t remember which is which..

From the travel journal of the lone ranger and his leopard:
06 Season of the Scion 1327 AE – Journal entry recorded at Dry Top

Definitely rooms for improvements still, but compared to the chaotic jumble of LS1, I prefer this, especially the story-telling.

How is this update ‘small’ for god’s sake, turn off your computer and get a life.

Wow, what you’re doing here is awesome. May I suggest posting the news on the ‘Lore’ section? You’ll get tons of interest there. Personally I am very intrigued by GW’s lores as well.

I’m completely in love with that place, really. Especially now with the Canthan decos addition

Personally I quite dislike the default GW2 soundtrack. After a while they get extremely dull and boring, not to mention depressing even…………………

After beta-testing Final Fantasy XIV, which I don’t like the rather boring gameplay, I combined the one godlike element from that game, its OST, into GW2 via custom playlist. The result is just pure epic!!! I implore everyone to try this!

The new Labyrinthine Cliffs is PURE OMYGOFFFSHHHH AWESOMENESS!!!!!! Pardon my temporary brain damage there due to awesome-overload.

Those little floating light boats are just…wow…..gives off that peaceful feeling. Imagine an entire sprawling Canthan city, coupled with serene BGM. I’d freaking stand there for hours just to look around.

Interestingly I’ve seen lots of SAO members running around in Sea of Sorrows. I took notice of the guild tag because I’m an avid fan of SAO myself.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

No, the dwarven means of refining metals had been lost to time.

I sense the backdrop for Legendary Armours!

Olvendred.3027:

A backpiece or weapon skin is one skin. Armour needs to be done differently for, at minimum, each race and gender: that’s 10 skins. That’s for each piece of armour, so 60 for a full set. Multiply that by 3 if the armour is going to be different for each class of armour (heavy, medium, light).

Armour also needs to be able to be dyed, which weapons and backpieces don’t.

ArenaNet CEO: “WHAT! But my designer team told me differently!”
*Runs to design dept “You lazy lot!”

Thanks all !!! As mentioned, I’ll hop on and off. Most likely I’ll run a lot of dungeons with you all. I need to watch all the dungeon cutscenes. I’ve watched NONE…oh wait… except one I think.

Brimstar.9036:

5.) Not enough ways to find out about LORE in game or look back on it.

Nick.6972:

Worst.
1. SAB
2. The story of “Living Story”

Kairos.7206:

5. This updates have nothing to do with Tyria lore and Elder dragons. Why create new villain in form of Scarlet, when we have 5 more dragons to fight with? Disappointing.

GOLD. These gentlemen deserve some cookies

Hi Konig, I’m quite interested in your guild LORE.

Over the past 400+ days since launch, I’ve always been intrigued by the beautifully crafted land of GW2. I loved almost all of the Vista and PoI. But it saddens me to see that there are minimal focus on telling the story to the players. The personal story idea was good, but it quickly turned bad after the battle on Claw Island, after my favourite character Magister Sieran died; having Trahearne to replace her is blasphemy. In the end, I couldn’t even finish my Personal Story, lost interest somewhere around level 76 story.

After that, I moved on and was distracted by the gameplay, speed running dungeons, champion farming, Trading Post flipping, stats building. I recently completed my first Legendary, Frostfang, and with the biggest goal out of the way, I started to get attracted by the lore again.

I’m curious to join your guild and see what it’ll feel like to immerse in GW2 stories. Nowadays I can almost never find people who are willing to do dungeons and watch the cutscenes…

*Note: I’m currently required to rep my main guild at most times, so is it acceptable that I hop on and off if I do get a guild invite?

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

I would put natural healing as BM last trait. It is huge surv. boost to your pet and heals you as well.

Natural healing only heals pet according to the tooltip?

Chopps.5047:

Damage / crowd control / boon generation and condition cleansing

Is the trio you’re looking for. There are no tanks in gw2. Not trying to be mean, just wanted to point that out since knowing it helps you build a foundation for understanding gw2.

By ‘tank’ I meant increased chances of surviving, not the typical hit-me-but-I’ll-still-stand tanks in other MMOs. Some may find survival stats like toughness, vitality and healing power unnecessary, but in my opinion, running without much protection for a long period of play time would not only creates stress on yourself, but on your party members as well should you get downed.

I know I can’t keep up above 80% of my form over a long Saturday and Sunday. With this, I can afford to fail 2 or 3 times at dodging without causing much trouble to my party. I have to say that not everyone will need this.

IMPORTANT: This post is not a professional guide. I wrote this, hoping to spark new ideas, and helping you and me to make Ranger a better class to play

Just want to throw my current build out there for further discussions. I have ran as a Ranger in my entire GW2 life (405 days since beta), and changed my build countless times. I am testing this at the moment: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMEQRBHPxG2IRVVdhlkFrlApLgpIROk3j0jWER/hSJj7KR2C-jwEBYfhGRECVEggAkyIQkIw5cYZPBJBKspRQlhBpOcas6aYaXIqXo6XwaYByebQz2cJFA-e

Summary:
The main focus of this build is to survive, support, but still deal reasonable amount of damage. My stat selection is a bit mixed; the three main focus are Toughness, Power, Precision (up to 40%), and the minor focus are Crit Damage, Vitality, Healing Power. My traits are 0/20/5/15/30.

Since a good portion of the equipment stats and traits go to survivability, in order to still deal an okay amount of damage, there is a huge focus on sustained Might for yourself and your pet. You get 30% extra boon duration, and Fortifying Bond buffs your pets. You still have to constantly call back your pet to avoid AoE or huge damage spikes from boss. The traits have a rather large focus on pets as well.

In this build, your Jaguar is 50% of your total damage. Meanwhile, Red Moa, Frost Spirit, Healing Spring, Axe #5 and Warhorn #5 provide the party support.

Weapons:
Axe/Axe
Axe #1 three hit chain is used to tag as many crap mob as possible and stack Power quickly via Superior Sigil of Bloodlust. It is also used in certain dangerous situations where it is impossible to maintain melee with boss. Axe #4 is great for pulling, and the damage is not bad. Axe #5 is a great projectile reflect skill, and it can also be used on combo fields to shoot out combo bolts.
Sword/Warhorn
This is my DPS weapon set, both Berserker stat. Once swapped into this, Superior Sigil of Battle will give 3 stacks of Might, and the Trait Furious Grip will pop Fury. I’ll usually pop Rampage as One and Quickening Zephyr, then summon birds with Warhorn #4 to quickly add Might, and finally burst with Sword #1. If your Moa is out, you can stack Fury as well. Sword #3 is perfect for dodging boss’AoE without creating DPS downtime, and Sword #2, pressing only once, can get you out of dangerous situations immediately. Warhorn #5 is perfect for party buff and blast heal for your party, or blast might if there’s a Flame Field.

Utility Skills
Frost Spirit – After trait buff, this will give about 7% damage boost, party-wide, throughout the fight.
Signet of Stone – A panic button for pets. Since you’ll want to keep pets up at most time, in emergencies where pet swap is cooling down, hit this to make your pet invincible for a whooping 6 seconds. When inactive, added toughness is always good for you and your pet’s survivability.
Quickening Zephyr – burst button.

I’m still in the progress of testing and refining it, constructive criticisms are welcomed!

I agree! The other cities are so dead nowadays Encourage more people to visit other cities

The self-root is simply terrible… I can’t dodge properly most of the time because of this

YumCHA.8706:

Then why are other profession’s that are allowed to use bows are better at it than Rangers? Why do they deal more damage with the bows compared to Rangers? Is it because they have more skill? But didn’t the Advertisement just say the Ranger’s are Unparalleled Archers? And Why are Ranger’s skill with bows seem pathetic in comparison to the other profession… This does not justify the statement of an ‘Unparalleled Archer’ because clearly the other professions can do better archery than Rangers.

There is some clear favoritism with Anet when it comes to designing Professions. That much is clear. Ranger is not one of them.

Totally agrees. Ranger NEEDS TO BE BUFFED.

Duplicated.4715:

Navzar.2938:

The precursors are one of the materials. So imo, they should be about as difficult to acquire as the gifts, which also require a lot of input. I don’t think is should be a ridiculous amount like 300g of course, but they shouldn’t be worthless either. Something like 50g worth, or a different method to acquire them that takes a good amount of time and/or effort just like the other components.

I wouldn’t mind even if it costs like 100g to get a legendary, but 300-400g? That’s way out of reach of probably 99% of playerbase.

Well, this doesn’t hold true anymore after yesterday’s event lol.

Probably the reason why ANet handed out precursors in those chest is to pull down the prices, but in doing so they caused a random 10% of the playerbase to become very rich.

Unfortunately I’m not one of the 10%. Sad, but what can I do, start raging like the other stupid kittens? Of course not! Do you get angry at those who won a lottery in real life? Or those who landed on a good business deal that worth millions? No. So grow up people and appreciate the free event.

By the way, I do agree with OP’s suggestion on giving out precursors via a long quest

But if they can’t dodge, they tend to die quickly during boss fights. It’s a chore to constantly calling them back and forth to somehow try to make them ‘dodge’ some AoE attacks.

Xilo.9567:

One time events make the world feel alive. Paying customer? There is more than 60$ of entertainment value in the game w/o the one time events.

I agree. Please have one time events in the future

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Hamskin.5386:

Was a close call, but i got the chest along with a bunch of others right before the server went down. Other i guess didn’t make it in time in this overflow.

Epic!! I wasn’t there, but I like the part where people shouted “Just die already!! kitten it”

phantomdust.4729:

Argh. When I saw people linking precursors and not knowing what they were I almost had a heart attack.

Precursors? Really? What about all the items and materials I’ve wasted over the months trying to get them myself.

lol!! Sorry, I lol-ed at this. I feel your pain.

New definition for ‘coolness’?
Still in progress, especially the gloves and boots.

Where is this on the map!? Seems interesting

I noticed that even after The Lost Shore update, Ranger’s pets are as useless as ever, especially in WvW and dungeons.

• They die almost instantly!
  This is really frustrating as nearly half of a ranger’s damage output come from his/her pet. Not only it doesn’t help in dungeons, I have to constantly monitor it, so that I can keep it alive for as long as possible.

• Another major issue is they don’t dodge the bosses’ area attacks!
  This is worst. A lot of bosses have major AoE attacks that can one-hit even players themselves. While skilled players can easily dodge them, pets just DON’T!!

• Slow responsiveness
  For some unknown reason, there’s always a few seconds lag between the command and action. The AI is seriously flawed.

Overall, I’m very happy with the game, and its quality. I find The Lost Shore update a nice bonus as well (unlike other kitten that can only complain even when it’s free). But major game mechanics like the ranger’s issues must be addressed as soon as possible.

Guys, if your expectations are that high, start paying $30 a month, or else please appreciate what ANet has done and stop complaining that much. They obviously don’t have to bring out new contents in such a short time.

Ok so 35 minutes ago I was saying it is ‘brutally hard’, I tried a few more times, this time there are less players around me, and they don’t randomly cast speed buffs anymore. I made it fairly quickly. So I think the main problem lies in the speed buffs, because an unexpected one will mess up all your rhythm. Probably something that ANet should look at (ie. disable all skills like the MK Tower)

Feels so good having completed that Skipping Stones!

I really like the quality of the maps, but this one is causing me so much pain XD Not to mention the players randomly cast speed buffs in the middle of the floating platforms, causing me to mistime my jumps.

This is brutally hard. I feel that, while making it challenging is good, ANet might want to look at catering for the general public. Mere 20% of skilled players among the whole Tyria population definitely do not represent the ‘general public’.

Hi there Tsukasa, I’m looking for a casual guild to join and I took a liking to your guild after reading the introduction. I will PM you in-game when I’m online, but just a little bit about myself:
I currently resides in Australia, which is only one hour difference from Japan, but I’m also an Asian. I can’t speak Japanese though… I kinda like a few animes and mangas, but only a few popular ones like Sword Art Online, Full Metal Alchemist, movies from Makoto Shinkai and Studio Ghibli. Due to my real life commitments, I can’t log in for an extended period of time, so perhaps 1 or 2 hours per day, or sometimes once every few days if I am busy. In the game, I’m a level 80 ranger, currently focussing on clearing maps for world completion. I am already in another guild at the moment, so I will be alternating between representing this and the other one. The reason why I still want to join yours is because my current guild is WvW, dungeons-focused and not too much of the social aspect, so I want to look for some new friends to chat to as well. See you soon, cheers

5 stars given for the serious efforts! Bots should just die a horrible death, aka perma ban!

Sounds like fun! May I ask which timezone the members generally belong to?

I second this. At the moment we can only use the search panel, which is fortunately quite responsive, but I still prefer proper segregation.

Hi, I’m currently in another server, but I may switch to Crystal Desert due to a higher server population. Since I am located in Australia, I am looking for an Oceanic/South East Asia guild to match the timezone.

I don’t mind being in a young guild, as my current guild is a bit too competitive for my taste, and I have real life commitments preventing me from dedicating too much to Guild Wars 2. I wish to know a few more details before deciding to make the switch to your guild. May I ask for the following details?

- Current number of members
- Any organised WvW, dungeon, sPvP? (It’s ok if there isn’t any at this stage)
- Active guild chat channel? Or using VoiP communication?
- Mature community? Like 20+ (Sorry, I ask this question because I had bad experience in a guild in some other games with people throwing nonsensical insults and personal attacks before)

Feel free to PM me if you don’t want to post the info publicly. Thanks Look forward to hear more from you