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thanks guys. Your links helped me a lot. I’m not fully up to date but that will come while playing the game.

Special thanks to smhtjoa and the youtube link. I enjoy videos over text

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Hi fellow gw2-player

I recently came back to guild wars 2 after a 1year break and I felt a bit overwhelmed on what happened during my break.
I’ve heard about the new expansion “Heart of Thorns” and beside that, various events occured and changed tyria.

Can you help me and filter out on what topic I should consider gathering information about? I don’t ask for updates itself although they are appreciated. I ask for topic suggestion on what I should focus my research for updates. Were there any game changing updates on classes, races and gear? Are there new content out there to enjoy? Any updates on the lore of guild wars 2? Where do I start in-game to pick up the story again?

The last changes I remember were the ascended weapons, the refugees on the kraka island and the part with scarlet and her attempt to destroy us.
I would be glad if I got any hints on what changed so I can get on refreshing my knowledge.

thanks in advance
regards troopa

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get on with vitality and condition damage (Carrion/Dire). Attack your foe with his strength. he has likely to few HP to survive your condition either unless he’s a carrion guy himself

And use Healing Spring, Empathic Bond and mayhaps BrownBear F2 skill. you can also dodge and interrupt him whenever you can (sword = evades / Shortbow stun + pet Knockdown)

Never really tested my build or this ideas in WvW or SPvP, though theoretically they should work.

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ok then here are your infos

0/10 (VI)/30 (IV, VII, XII)/0/30(II, I, XI)
shortbow and sword with warhorn
current stats are rabid

my final goal is to create an uncommon build which is good or near as good in nearly any situation WvW, PvE Dungeon and not and PvP.
the only thing i like to accept changing are the offhand weapon or the primar weapon for a specific part and changing utilities.
anything else should stay.

I meant to say i lack direct damage. for example huge champion where thousand players are and you have to use your condition?

i made a prototype of a possible build: prototype I
hope you can see it now

P.S: maybe it works now
http://de.gw2skills.net/editor/?fMMQNBMhV6EpiILrCyuCWLDItHai5desCKy7B61KiYF3lA-jQDBINCiUAQ0CA00g5QFRjtaqIasKZBSzATtKpKWwWdAeEweFJVKAImGB-e

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Hey everybody

I have a conflict with myself due the fact i’m rebuilding my ranger or better said i want to rebuild it.

status quo: Tyrian Survivalist
(the sigils might be wrong, can’t remember those)
based on a little pet use with condition damage. stacking might with “Rampage as one”

at one point of the game i thought this build is my build-to-be but now i’m not sure about that.

improvements wanted: I want to use my pet because it survives longer now. also i’m a bit addicted of condition damage.
My premier idea was to build myself to a condition (trapper) and use my pet for direct damage.
So far so good but the real problem is the armor. Because with only condition damage for myself i lack some damage and vice versa my pet lacks condition.

Possible armor attributes are Dire (to get as much survivability out as possible to outlive the foe) or Carrion (for more power myself)
Also the runes are difficult. My prefered runes are “Rune of the Undead”, “rune of Orrian” and “Rune of scavenging” and maybe “Rune of the Adventurer”

This could seem a really “unprofessional” build because it’s perhaps nothing common and a bit clumsy but that’s what i prefer.
Do you rangers have any ideas to improve my build? condition beastmaster. I’m open to everything but may react a little bit harsh because your improvement erases something i’m addicted to

regards Troopa

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Bug list from 15th oct

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the pet’s HP is not shown correctly, might be that I’m wrong.
should be 74% more health, right?

I think the 74%+ hp is only for minions (necro pets) and phantasms (mesm illus).

I confirmed that the hp has been implemented. I just solo Quaggan Champion with Jungle Stalker. Before the patch, 3-4 hit your pet down.

if it is implemented then the HP is not shown correctly in the pet dialog (k). And if just the necro minions were upgraded then it sucks because the minions are equally controlled (even less) than our pet and the patch note said “player-controlled”

btw, quoting more than 2 nested post (e.g. X said that y said that z was wrong) is not possible

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the pet’s HP is not shown correctly, might be that I’m wrong.
should be 74% more health, right?

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Hey Lashley

I hope I’m not too late but my guild is looking for some special members. You could be one of them!

Our goal is to have a strategical co-ordinated team and whilst playing we want to have fun. Laid-back and cosy gameplay with coordination and balance, that’s what we provide.

Our main activities are mainly dungeon runs (rarely fractals) and meta events like Tequatl.

We have already some member for that team but some special professions and people are still missing.
Hard truth: we’re not growing big and fast. we want to keep us small and proved quality.

sincerely Troopa, leader of The Technical Engineers [XOR]

PS: we’re located on FSP

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Shortbow. I haven’t used it since the nerf from 1200 to 900 range.

did i miss something? was it not always on lower range than longbow?

pets and shouts. that’s it for me, those 2 need improvements

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thx all for the help.
When it’s very time consuming I will think twice about it then.

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is the stuff to get the awards difficult to do? in a scale of 10 where tequatl is 9 where are they?

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Hello everybody

I was wondering me if I can get the HoM awards if I start playing gw1 right now. I never played it but the rewards are nice from the HoM

Is it possible to get the rewards when you already play GW2 without playing GW1 before release but would start now?
Is it still possible to link your gw1 and gw2 character?

would be nice to know
regards Troopa

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I do not wish to exchange servers, so pls do not contact me if your guild is from another server.

that’s probably why nobody is answering. rethink that and you will find one. I could you offer a place in my guild, called the Technical Engineers [XOR]. Unfortunately we’re located on the Far Shiverpeak. Though, for a dungeon run and/or fractal it’s no difference. for world events neither.

let me know what you think about your opinion now and we can talk a little bit, giving more information about us and etcetera etcetera.
regards Troopa

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for both skills i used no traits, no armor, no might and *no*sigils. i just used exotic berserker for both.
the damage written is the “skill-specific coefficient” on the skill tooltip.

sword
ranger: 222 – 222 – 258 | 258 – 369 | 258
warrior: 222 – 222 -222 | 276 | 553

longbow
ranger: 379 | 1580 (10x) | 168 | 337 | 2016 (12x)
warrior: 278 | 504 (3x) | 991 | 84 | 168

these numbers give you a value to begin your calculation and testing in the game. formula for the damage here
source gw2skills.net
I hope I understood your question correct.
Btw I don’t know if our pet does 40% of our damage but according to it’s “fix” number I think it doesn’t.

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Hi samuel

I can offer you a place in my guild. It is called The technical Engineers [XOR] and we’re located on the Far Shiverpeaks.
We are a casual guild. Everybody can join whenever he wants but most of our members are online around 7pm – 10pm CEST.

We often play dungeons but also other stuff like Tequatl. Whenever we’re playing together we try to get our work done in a tactical and/or challenging way.
For a more laid-back gameplay, what we really appreciate, we’re using a TS3 server.

for more information or an invitation, write me a PM (in-game or here) or just whisp me.
regards Troopa

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I never mentioned that i recently got to 80. Never think about something before you didn’t look close.

After leveling a ranger, an engineer and a guardian. I finally decide to try it with the mesmer

This gave me an impression that you leveled ranger/engine/guard and you decided to try the same with mesmer, aka leveling him to 80. Either I misunderstood you or your wording was very misleading.

yes i got lvl 80 with my 3 other chars but not with the mesmer. maybe both your and mine post were misleading. we can just let it be now

Troopa: “hey guys just starting a Mesmer any help appreciated!”
Everyone else: “here’s great advice to doing well with shatter build just like you asked!”
Troopa: “your advice sucks. This link sucks. Don’t tell me what to do.”

Wtf lol why ask for help if your gonna shoot everything down?

i asked for improvements not whole new ideas. Improve something does not mean trash the old stuff and do something new and if you don’t have something to improve my build idea be quiet, then.
if I can’t understand the link it’s my matter. I never said it’s bad I just asked for explanation because what I read out of it thought me wrong.

@all the others: thx for the infos and help

shattering assassin build 2.0
i have rebuild my idea a little bit. Maybe it’s worth to put the GS away too but i’m not sure about that.
what weapons should I use for this kind of build?

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.
@frifox: i can translate your post to “your idea is kitten try this instead”. isn’t really helpful.
though the sw/sw and sw/p idea could be worth thinking about. but i don’t like the pistol and sword off hand either.

Yep, pretty much. Since you mentioned that you just recently got to 80 I figured it would be to your benefit to first play around with a build that has all traits benefiting direct shatter damage with weapons that will also provide you one of the most DPS on their own, all with traits that lower skill CD to the absolute minimum -12 sec phantasms and more ways to generate clones than you could shatter.

I never mentioned that i recently got to 80. Never think about something before you didn’t look close.

@deathcon: your link wasn’t that much helpful since the first table is incorrect i believe. you do with 50% crit dmg more damage than with 200%?! this table doesn’t make sense at all but if it does would be nice to explain it. I can’t see through.

@Ansau: can you explain me the purpose of illusionary Persona?
I took desperate decoy cause of the clone not the cloak and i don’t have a full set of armor at lvl 22.
your other improvals are very helpful. I’ll think about them, thx

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generally pure damage like “mind wrack”. though “cry of frustration” would be also nice with its confusion.

about assassins… hmmm. Can you give me the numbers why i should change to berserker? I thought would be nice to have more precision.

@frifox: i can translate your post to “your idea is kitten try this instead”. isn’t really helpful.
though the sw/sw and sw/p idea could be worth thinking about. but i don’t like the pistol and sword off hand either.

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I want to mention mine guild as well.

It is called The Technical Engineers [XOR] and we’re located on the Far Shiverpeaks. We’re very casual and try to enjoy the game in a relaxed and laid-back way.
Our time is around 7-10pm when we’re online.

Whenever we play, happens the most time, we try to focus us on a good organized group with a bit tactic and combos combined. What we do depends on what is asked of us. Mostly it’s dungeon but also other Events like Tequatl atm.
on WvW we’re not represent cause of to few people.

for a more laid-back way to play we use a TS3 server to chat. It’s not necessary but useful.

if you want more information or an invitation whisp me or write me in-game a PM. you can also write one here.

regards Troopa

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good day mesmer community

After leveling a ranger, an engineer and a guardian. I finally decide to try it with the mesmer. I hope i don’t get tired to soon.
I’m not very used to the possibility and skills but i think i understand the most of them.

My goal for this mesmer, which is a tiny and nasty asura, should be getting much damage and others out of my clones/phantasm by shattering them. beside that i should do enough damage by my own.
I don’t want to fight with 4 on 1. I just want to create clones to shatter them again and again.

As a second ability should my mesmer be up for supporting team mates and annoying foes by cleaning them of applied condition/boons.

for my states i would go for assassin’s attributes to get more power and precision.
the sigils are “superior sigil of nullification” and “superior sigil of accuracy” the rune i thought can be the mesmer rune 5 times and one precision rune.

shattering assassin build
the whole build should be used in dungeons and PvE content.

i hope you can give me some useful feedback.
regards Troopa

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Hi thomas

I’ll also write something about us since i tried to whisp you unsuccessful.

We’re called The Technical Engineers [XOR] and located on the Far Shiverpeaks. We’re a very small guild with a reallife beside, so we’re more casual.

Whenever we play together, what happens the most, we try to challenge us and give our foes a tactical and hard game. But we look more for a laid-back way beside that.
We often do dungeons but also other stuff. It depends on what a member asks for.

We’re online around 7-10pm CEST/GMT+1 and use a TS3 server.

If you want more information or an invitation whisp me back or write me a PM (in-game or forum)

sincerely Troopa

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Hi schnibitzel

a limit is the highest possible amount so my small guild should be fit in it. We’re called The Technical Engineers [XOR] and are very small (on top we’re 5 member online at the evening). We’re more casual than hardcore and try to play in a laid-back way.

Whenever we play together, what the most time is the cause, we play in a tactical and challenging way. We try to generate a guild/team that’s perfectly harmonized.
We often do dungeons and also other stuff. It depends on what is asked of the member from a member.

For a more casual and laid-back way we use a TS3 server to communicate. We’re online around 7-10pm CEST/GMT+1 and located on the Far Shiverpeak. Transfer is not required but as long as you want to we can arrange something.

For more information or an invitation whisp me in-game or write me a PM.

regards Troopa

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#1 Skill on sword does NOT root you...

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Sword skill #1.1, #1.2, #2 and #3 are good but the leap of #1.3 is not useful in my opinion.
First; it’s said you can’t dodge after the leap for 1 sec. Do not know if it’s true but it seems very realistic to me. So this is really bad also for disabled auto-attack.

Second; an auto-attack where you have to disable the auto-attack to use it properly is no auto-attack at all. All #1 skills are auto-attacks per definition.

3rd; to stick, root (or however you’ll call it) to a foe there is no use of a leap to do it. if you can move freely while you do your auto-attack you’ll be near your enemie at once. You’re just lazy if you need a leap to stick to your opponent. An auto-attack chain does not need movements but your own movements with WASD

4th; the leap of the #1.3 is probably good for getting away but you can do that good enough with the other skills you have.

5th; the warrior’s and thief’s sword #1 is better because they can move freely during the chain. Ranger kicks and leaps, you can move when you disable auto-attack but you can’t move freely.

For sure, sword needs a long learning process to master it but that’s no reason to abbandon it nor declaring all critic to noobs.
I also use the sword and I never die because of the leap so you can say I’m pretty used to it. though it’s annoying

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Shouts: giving more pet control

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I like the way you’re thinking about the shouts but first i would recommend to await the new patch of october the 15th.

Perhaps the “Sick ’Em” shout is good improved and needs no further improvements after that patch, who knows.
But at all our ranger shouts need an improvements.

Maybe we could think of some suggestions. Remember not to much and not to less. A good balance would be more realistic

our shouts atm are: “Sick ’Em”, “Guard”, “Protect Me”, “Search and Rescue”
It would be nice to get more control to our pet through this shouts. Try to think of how you shout a command to your pet and it’s doing something special.

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Seems not to have a guild on Seafarer’s rest that fits you requirements.
If you rethought your requirements about the servers then whisp me or PM me (in-game or not)

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I’d very much like another stealth skill a utility would be nice, but can’t be implemented easily since every class has the same number. It would become a matter of what to remove. I’d personally rather see it on a melee weapon.
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What to remove? what about shouts? if the stealth skill would provide the boon also to your pet then it can be a shout. A weapon would force you to use it to gain camouflage as the longbow does now.


…However in light of this I would hazard that the proposed utility skill is, well kinda pants? 2 secs of stealth is far too short a time imo to be usefull. No real time to reposition, agro dropping would be nice but many many times AI will simply re-agro you when close to them.

And for 40 seconds, a 2 second skill time is a skill I would ignore. Even with the 3 condi purging. Primarily because signet of renewal draws ALL conditions from you and allies in 60 secs untraited. How about instead;

“Gain stealth and apply swiftness to you, your pet and allies”
Stealth: 3 seconds (player only)
Swiftness; One stack
Recharge Time: 40 seconds (or whatever = balanced)

This way it becomes a mobility skill, and a party based buff skill. Much more desirable imo.

You have to consider that the Ranger is not suppose to be a stealth profession, in the same light that the Thief and Mesmer are. That’s why the few stealth skills the Ranger has, comes with downsides to them. Hunter’s Shot needs to connect to a target before the stealth triggers, and it puts you in combat. Forage provides stealth from an improvised weapon, meaning you have to pick it up first. And ‘Hide in Plain Sight’ doesn’t remove the stun effect from you. Of curse a 3 seconds stealth skill with a party wide buff would be more desirable, because it’s simply more powerful, but it doesn’t fit with the way the Ranger applies stealth. It would be too accessible, and force the recharge time to be 60+ seconds.

@kasama: you hit a point. ranger != thief. So the “stealth” skill has to be more different. As saderic wrote it could be a real camouflage.Probably a survival skill (because it’s more a survival thing than a shout) and rearrange the zephyr to the shouts and remove the moste useless shout?

@lexandro: though the aspect of having less support skill than other have I would not recommend to give this skill a boon like swiftness for allies.


(survival/shout)Camouflage
applies camouflage and protection to you and your pet. both ends on moving

camouflage duration: 10 sec
protection duration: 10 sec
range: 120 sec

In this way you’ll receive protection for the duration because you cannot move or should not. also you gain invisible for others but remain in combat. isn’t that an idea like a ranger can use camouflage/stealth?

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“Gain stealth and remove three conditions”
Stealth: 2 seconds
Recharge Time: 40 seconds

I feel like this would be a fair stealth skill for the Ranger. The 2 second stealth means the Ranger won’t have stealth for too long, when combining it with Hunter’s Shot. And the condition removal pushes the skill more towards being used defensively.

would love this… especially so if it was a stunbreak/survival skill

could be a shout if it also affects your pet. *hint*shouts need improvement*hint*
but would be nice.
stunbreaker is too much i think.

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I’m using a BM/Condi"Trapper" build. Maybe this could help your imagination.
Tyrian Survivalist

but what exactly are you aiming for? condition damage and regeneration? or cond dmg + survivability?
the first build seems to be neither of it.

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Hi tom

Maybe you could join us, The Technical Engineers [XOR]. We’re located on the Far Shiverpeaks and are a casual guild (you’re not alone with work and classes). Online aroun 7-10pm CEST.

Mostly we do dungeon but also other end-game content. Whenever we play together we try to do that in a tactical and challenging way.

We have a TS and are using it almost every day. If you are one that can start a conversation you’ll hear response.
We’re just small but for that we want to know each other and also laughing with them.

Just write me a PM (in-game or not) if you’re interested or want more information.
regards Troopa

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Hey Dub and Wirinus

My guild is located on the Far Shiverpeak and is more casual.
We’re just a small guild but the important members are very active.

We do most of our time dungeons but also other stuff. Just that what we want when we play
Whenever we play together we try to do that in a tactical and challenging way.

We’re using a TS though but you could switch of your mic or just not join. We have also player that are not on it (sadly).

About experience. The guild is founded by 2 veteran player. The other members are new to dungeons or not new at all, kinda both.

write me a PM if you are interested or want more information.
regards Troopa

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Best Pet Names

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My raven is called: Mormont’s Raven
Spider is called: Spicy Mc Haggis
and my shark is called: Lennard
my reef drake has no name yet (any idea?):

but yeah, would be nice if the names are stored somewhere

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could be a survival skill just because its habbit is like a survival thing. Also in our trais there is camouflage give to us “Hide in Plain Sight”
But if this should be implemented which one has to be dropped of?

Maybe it’s an idea for a new shout sortiment that replaces the old but then i think shouts should support pets&player but maybe not.

All in all, it’s a good idea. Considering that a ranger/hunter needs camouflage in real life it would fit the ranger class well. But not too much stealth, he is no thief!

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Just all around bad, I understand you want to be able to dodge while auto attacking, I get that, but ruining the weapon isn’t the way to go.

Is it destroyed when the “leap” of #1-pounce is erased? then i think we should be able to dodge and the might and all the cripple on the sword is still intact. There is anyway no combo finisher in this pounce.

Everything else is fine.

…the solution would be not to rely on sword as a active damage output but as a disengager.

totally agree with you.

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I really miss a leap-on-demand on the sword.

It has two leaps, but one is stuck at the end of the auto-attack chain ….

pounce is not really a leap it’s only written in the text but has no combo finisher. But at all i’m happy with the leap “hidden” in the hornet sting i don’t need more.
3/4 evade would be nice for pounce, that or no movement at all so we can dodge

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This point and the pet system of GW1 makes me want to play it. I never did so if i could test it for a short time it would be nice. Maybe a friend of mine can give me a try session.

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I would just say let #2 and #3 be as it is and delete the jumping and kicking in the #1chain.
Because our character leaps and kicks he has basically no time to evade. Other classes’ sword chain does nothing like leaping i think, does it? (e.g. guardians GS chain)
Just a normal attack chain, that’s it.

P.S: for the #2 the evade activation should come immediately and not after 1 second

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I’m gonna just promote my idea again. Show the pet as another party member. It already is one. Just stick the pets portrait up there next to your other party members. Then you’ll see any condis or buffs on your pet. And Anet surely has the code to do this already.

Just my 2 cents

nice idea
But think of a group full of ranger… 4 ranger and their pet are 8 pictures and additional your pet too gives 9 and that’s for the large party interface is immense
That would be so if they would just add the pets to the party interface without modifying it so the owner sees it only

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Beastmaster + Trapper?

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Hi gotejjeken

If you want to try a BM-Trapper build you could probably do something like this
Tyrian Survivalist

This is my build where I’m aiming for. With the dire armor i get additional survivability and condition damage. Without condition damage traps are nearly useless. though i’m only using one trap at a time and 2 other utility skills. You can change those with skills that seems more appropriate to you.

I’m not sure what a BM build is based on but i think i’m close to it. and trapper for sure this is a trapper build too.

To hold your pet alive you need to have a look for it and fast reaction when it’s low life. The pet swap gives you 2 sec of quickness. “vigorous training” can be exchanged for the spider and canine trait.

regards Troopa

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and what would bring that? i might misunderstand you but this seems like a bad improvement.

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is there any possibility to make them listen AND reacting? for example don’t buy from the TP or write them in chats? just wondering if there is ANY possibility or are we just a victim of their arbitrariness?

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LFG, mature pve, vabbi willing to guest bst

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Hi sithdudep

As i can remember is Vabbi an EU server so guesting should be no problem. We’re the Technical Engineers [XOR] and located on the Far Shiverpeaks.

We’re a casual and laid-back guild founded by 2 veterans of GW2. We created it with the purpose of having not many but good and friendly player to do more end-game content with them and this content in a more tactical/challenging way.

I can imagine that you were missing something like our purpose while you were playing. I would have quit because of that if I didn’t had created a guild.

Just whisp me in game or write me a PM then we can talk better about the guild.
regards Troopa

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look back to your posted thread.
That’s my opinion on it. Why should we bring up some ideas for something that’ll never be changed?

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Dudes, 3 things have to be said

1) ANet does not consider this thread so your ideas will be watched by players but not developers. so it’s not worth the effort

2) Even if ANet would read this thread. WHY should it improve the ranger class according to your ideas. They didn’t improve the pet system why should they implement this ideas?

3) And finally. Your ideas are not the worst i’ve seen but they remind me of warrior and elementalist classes. If you want to bring new ideas up then bring something unique.

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seriously ?!? is that your prefered way?

Giving us a pet through an utility skill isn’t the solution. let it be as it is either.
Every other class has some F-keys skills. What would you put instead of the F-keys?

I would still prefer a better pet skill system instead of putting them to utility skills.
Without this ability the ranger is nothing more than a thief or engineer.

Only because other games have the pets not as A-Net has (I mean the F-keys and utility) does not mean A-Net need to make it equal to other game.
The way ANet thought about putting pets into the game was a great idea but the implementation was clumsy done.

I say: IMPROVE the current pet system with NEW F-KEY SKILL.

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uf… overlooked it. Thx for mention it but it’s still bad traited i think. Though i never used it maybe it’s right.

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any of these changes would kill off the current shout build FOREVER. Seeing as our current shout build allows us to grant permanent regeneration and swiftness to allies.

If somebody would use a shout build. Honestly you don’t use this skills they’re not even supported enough through traits. It’s just “Nature’s Voice” and that’s it.
Other classes got reduce CD and some more traits for it.

But overall it’s a great idea to improve our shouts. Then it’s maybe worth to create a shout based build.

@TheSwede: As for your ideas…

  • Sic ’Em; good idea, works as call of the wild for your pet.
  • Protect Me; kills the pet almost instantly unless your companion is a bear/drake.
  • Guard; change the protection to condition removal and let it trigger every 1(1.5) sec.
  • Search and Rescue; cond removal should be retaliation to ress more efficient.

As for the traits… add for god sake more traits for it. for example a cool down reduce. Maybe modify “Nature’s Voice” a little bit and perhaps something more (let your imagination free).

If this would be done then has the ranger an additional build type to the existing one (condition (trapper), spirit, BM)

This and a new pet control system would make the ranger more attractive for other players. Even I would change to a shout build to use my companion more effective.

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Ideal minimum stats for all-rounder build?

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If you’re going for condition damage combined with tankyness than you should try the new Dire stats out.
They would give you major condition damage and minor vitality and toughness.
With the traits in “wildneress survival” you can get additional toughness and condition damage.
For the runes… it’s at the end up to you.

I’m aiming for a toughness and condition build around traps and survivability. The only weakness i have with this is that i can’t do direct damage (e.g. to turrets or totems as far as they don’t suffer under condition)

And if you would prefer condition damage with power than you should probably use the Rampager Attributes

regards Troopa

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@RyuDragnier.9476: your idea is great but as expensive said it takes a lot of time to develop this. To round this idea up combine this with the actual pets. Could be worth to write a pseudo code about it. That would decrement their time to produce it as far as they don’t need to think about the logic anymore.

@Shinya: nice screens and nice avatar. i’ve been amused by this animations too. But there are some missing for bows and the other weapons.

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Reasonable changes to traps:
1) merge both trap traits into the 20 point slot for skirmishing.
2) create a 30 point skirmishing trait that gives allies a benefit from standing in triggered traps. Ex – 1 condi clear/pulse or aegis/regen/prot etc.
OR give traps an aoe aura like a combo field upon activation. Ex – fire aura, frost aura, etc.

That would be too much power for a trap build and traps with a boon… not a good idea either. Therefor we have their combo fields and those can give us auras etc.

3) remove the might from warhorn #5

That wouldn’t improve anything . give me any reason WHY it should be removed
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One thing that should be improved are the shouts. I think this would give us another build possibility. Any other classes can use every utility type and build up on it. We can’t because nothing seems to fit with shouts.

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Friendly mature guild on Desolation?

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Hey Incus

As it comes i have a guild that is looking for some friendly new player. We’re called The Technical Engineers [XOR] and are more a casual guild. Some of us are on aroun 7-10pm CEST and do stuff together.

We do often Dugeons but also other content like fractals, meta events, champion looting etc.
Whenever we play together we try to achieve a cooperative, tactical and qualitative game play as a team.
You do not need to bring experience for this. would be nice if you do but you’ll learn it with us if not

We’re very small and currently in our recruitment phase so if you’re looking for a large guild with many members online, you’re wrong here.
We take the game in a laid-back and cosy style and for an easier communication we use VOIP system (atm TS3)

check out our recruitment post for more information and write me a PM (in-game or not) if you are interested.

regards Troopa

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