Guild Wars 2

Could swap the sigil of frailty for a sigil of impact, assuming your vuln stacking can be done by some other means

Wetpaw.3487:

Norn Druid (Melandru servant)

I’ll see your Melandru and raise you a Grenth

Aylpse.6280:

It has absolutely zero counter play.

And dont tell me power reaper counters it, it doesn’t.

By absolutely zero you mean every source of direct damage right?

Also druid counters ele pretty well with their chain cc’s.

Your games are all close. Maybe if you focused a bit more on the team win than personal score?

This is what I’m running in yoloq:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJARWnEqAtsgVsCmsCUtgl/ADetGXvrLFhMQAopfd72BjIN-TZBHABEcJAA4BAQ++DZXGIgjAAA

It’s trading the team condi clear for some personal survivability. Having LR available when the DH/chrono/tempest cluster Frak happens on point has made a huge difference though.

LR is one of the best stunbreaks in this meta cause it gets you out of the chain cc’s.

The 50% w/l adds an rng element to progression, and I absolutely destest that.

That’s the 50% win rate part of the algorithm. Did you lose any pips? Probably not because the system assumed you would lose.

It’s still crap tho…

I’m OK with it. Even if the gameplay isn’t the best pretty much all classes have a place.

Would like to see 90% of aoe spam removed tho.

Yawn……….

/15

Are you losing pips tho?

The system tries to keep your win rate at 50% meaning you will get a combination opponents you can beat, and some you probably can’t.

In 10 games roughly half of them would be matches you are unlikely to win.

So you lost the 5 you were going to lose anyway, and maybe you just sucked in the other 5.

Yhey need to remove the 50% win rate part of the algorithm – stop matching people of vastly different skill levels.

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Mcrocha.3891:

Ranger is in the best state it has ever had since launch. Fine in all three game modes. Can’t ask for much more than that. Obviously there are some things that could be improved, but overall the class is working well atm.

This. Especially PvP. Conquest ranger is amazing. So much more utility than its ever had before.

Can all the scrubs who have been here for 5 minutes, and feel the right to complain, just be quiet.

All I know is FA BL is a ghost town…

I think its the best its ever been but i role ranger, and ranger is more useful than ever.

I fully support this.

I have no problem with the amount of blind…its also the easiest condition to remove.

there is too much aoe spam already so doing something that would hurt melee is a bad idea.

The issue is the win-rate part of the algorithm.

If you have a win streak it will intentionally match you with crap players – this needs to go.

Sinister A/T has way better aoe damage than zerker.

I’d argue that it is much better in HoT content.

Yep, always empty maps for me. Its totally killing the game for me.

Seriously every HoT map I join is empty…

Which makes the content unplayable and levelling impossible.

WTF is going on?

Its grind of the north all over again

Shirk.6421:

I may sound dumb, buuuuut…

Why would you want to play a stealth trapper in pvp? Trapper can be very strong due to the aoe condis, but if you fight at mid they will mostly be cleansed within a matter of seconds while being solo on a point, there are better options for ranger. If you want to roam between points because of stealth and stuff, you’re still not gonna beat a thiefs mobility/execute potential/ress support. So for what would a stealth trapper be better at pvp than a normal trapper? Lose a point because you’re gimping in stealth too much?

I’m not seeing the viability either.

I really hope there are changes coming on the 23rd…

Noa.7490:

I don’t hate Trahearne as much as the voice acting, gawd! what an uninspired and uncharismatic bore!!!

I don’t get the hate for his voice acting… Are you American by any chance?

The charr female voices are 1000 times worse.

Gave this a go last night. Very fun. Awesome for farming scrubs and plenty of sustain.

Only changes I made were SoS for sotw, and zeyphers over bw.

The drake tail swipe on pet swap/activation is awesome. I can’t believe I’ve never tried that in 3 years!

If your guild want you to get it then they should pay for it.

I hope the ladders are there at least. Literally no reason to play at the moment.

Oh yeh forgot about sotp pulsing fury.

I guess that makes it a good alternative for entangle, which I really only wanted for the immob.

Remains to be seen but I feel like CA will be enough to keep you alive without SoS.

I was managing 2v1 just fine in beta.

Jojee.5671:

I must say that druid is the biggest letdown, a specialization so rigidly designed as a healer whereas the other specializations can be built in a variety of ways.
Specialization is redundant as it only brings healing.

Having just a healer play style that may only be quite useful in a raid environment, however, completely kitten and unnecessary in open world what already makes such spec quite pointless. Other than that, not a small amount of gold should be invested in order to craft ascended cleric gear.

Druid does not synergy well with core ranger, it is even could be said that it feels like separate mini class.

It would be great if there will be a second Avatar form which would provide damage. Some improvements towards raw damage, conditions or some utility would be amazing in traits. Just in general it would be amazing to build a druid as condi or power spec … not just a support/healing spec.

Some improvements to the core ranger should be made in order to make it more be desirable since it seems that whole intention is to make druid desirable, while any other ranger who wants to enjoy some raid content would be forced to craft a clerics ascended set.

I disagree. I think it can bring much needed support and survivability to existing builds.

It’s a decent trait line, and brings a lot of options for old traits like MoC.

I’d also much rather have druod than dragon hunter…

Did anyone try spirit druid during the beta?

They might be better now since all the Druid’s aoe heals will help keep them alive.

Can stack all those boons on yourself with whao as well.

Maybe spirit bunker will be a thing again.

Celestial avatar adds survivability to a lot of builds that never had any, such as traps and spirits.

You can now go Full offensive traps and still have celestial tto full back on if you need to heal yourself out of trouble.

The problem is that it won’t be the most effective druod build, not by a long shot.

@heim – great call on hydro sigil.

@dojo – there won’t be any consistent damage that is for sure. But 5 on-demand remoresless procs should be enough to deliver a 4-5k maul when you want it.

@tragic – I hope you’re wrong

I’m sure a condi settler/celestial version of this will be stronger, probably even meta. I mean a daze/ancient seed/bonfire/splitblade combo will be far more damage than GS can dish out.

But I do feel like Melee GS is more useful for soloq’ing now than ever before. You will actually be able to keep your team of scrubs alive whilst having a 5k maul to end a fight.

Needs a better name but this is what I am thinking for post HoT Power Melee:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJARWjEqQLL2xCmsAVLW+DM41ac9uu86yABgm+1tbHMi0A-TZBHABFcFA2Z/BAeAAZXGYgDBAA

2s daze on staff swap every 8 seconds.

3s hilt bash.

6s lunar impact.

3x immobs.

+225% Maul on weapon swap/hilt bash combo.

Lots of personal condi removal, + party healing.

Should be a legitimate point holder, with burst potential. Pretty much what I have always wanted from this class. Here’s hoping

The majority of skills are the same as they were on the 23rd.

Conditions are still stronger than they were.

The temporary burst meta only existed because everyone was playing glass whilst they tried new builds.

It’s way too early to be calling for nerfs.

This might be a problem if druid could do damage…but it can’t.

+1, i dont want any less charges

less tombs

lxghostxl.5097:

Q: entangle.. it is still dodgeable and blockable? just played some game and this is what I noticed.

Yes but I believe krait runes are properly again too, and the conditions get applied regardless.

I want GS/staff to be a thing but we’ll see.

If GS still doesn’t have the damage then maybe a/t.

Axe for the pet might stacking and torch for area denial.

All positive changes. Hopefully something other than pew pew will be viable soon.

Let’s just see some GS and shout changes next!

It’s a valid point imo. They’ve given ranger an additional mechanic rather than replacing the old one.

Maybe I’ll use gas mask and glorius armor and make my ranger a space marine.

In fact that is definitely what I’m doing

I’d argue that

celestial = stars = space = no life = no nature

But I have no problem with it.

Kehlian.4380:

no need for GS damage boost, the 1h sword damage is good enough for a DPS build, while the GS is more about taking punishment.

I’d want to see what they’ll be doing about pets AI !

I’m talking from a PvP perspective.

I’m feeling pretty good about it.

We’ve got all the support and survivability we’ll ever need now. I just hope we get some GS damage increases somewhere too.

Aomine.5012:

arnitheking.8427:

I was already maining ranger and i’ll definitely play druid being salty is ok and it can happen but hit a pillow instead of whining pls. The druid is really awesome, let’s hope it isn’t clunky

His post is more than just whining, and way more constructive than yours…

I share the same feeling with him.
I pick ranger because I like to be an offensive range force, not a healbot..
I could potentially pick Druid, but just for survival aspect of Druid and nothing else.
I’m not going to be anyone’s healbot because I hate that play-style.
I’ll stick with zerk and only pick Druid for mobility and condition removal.

But…we are already the one and only ranged damage class – you already have what you want?

The rest of us wanted a legitimate support spec, and now we have it. I fail to see how this is not win/win.

Anyone else notice that? Sounds like signets are turning into glyphs…

Pretty epic changes. Far more than I was expecting.

I imagine there will be a fair bit of balancing, otherwise this thing is a mandatory point holder in pvp.

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Sure you can use a 1h sword in a power build. 1h sword with quickness can destroy someone quickly add that with path of scar and its good game. Unless their are saved by a passive.

While people focus on damage it defense that makes the difference.

S/a is not viable in PvP.

Dueling yes, conquest no.