Guild Wars 2

Justine.6351:

and 3 stacks of bleed is nothing compared to burning which is another sepperate condition.

True, but that short imobilize is usualy enought to secure (not dodged) your maul and/or owl f2 witch hurts a bit more than 3 ticks of burning for like 412, also vulnerability from maul and chill from your owl cover those nice long bleeds …

Not the best gameplay, but i really enjoyed the video !
i remember your previous videos and your first video, witch wasnt so long ago and I have to say you improved your play quite a bit, but it hurts to see a ranger knocks back someone out of his own entangle

Keep up the good work, your videos are always fun to watch!
ps
as i noticed you really like traps, you might want to try spike trap for nice immobilize on top of bleeds and cripple, might be better than fire trap since you are using runes of mad king …

Now with such nerf to celestial gear, it should become real all stat equipment, witch mean it should also include:
- 1% boon duration
- 1% condition duration
+ 1% condition duration
+1% condition damage

that would add 6% for a full armor set.
Not too strong, but at least its something !

what are your toughts ?

Celestial getting hit hardest, we are talking more than 100% nerf in critical damage and only 6% buff to stats. Dont forget that celestial got ripped of magic find back then, without any compensations ! Enought is enought !

All celestial gear should get option to change stats once !

So with new patch celestial gear will have these stats; (current stats > new stats)
Helm
21 all stats, 3% crit damage > 22 all stats (1,5% crit damage)
Shoulders
16 all stats, 2% crit damage > 17 all stats (1,1% crit damage)
Vest
47 all stats, 6% crit damage > 50 all stats (3,3% crit damage)
gloves
16 all stats, 2% crit damage > 17 all stats (1,1% crit damage)
leggings
31 all stats, 4% crit damage > 33 all stats (2,2% crit damage)
boots
16 all stats, 2% crit damage > 17 all stats (1,1% crit damage)
back item
22 all stats, 3% crit damage > 23 all stats (1,5% crit damage)
ring
43 all stats, 6% crit damage > 46 all stats (3,1% crit damage)
earring
38 all stats, 5% crit damage > 40 all stats (2,7% crit damage)
amulet
54 all stats, 7% crit damage > 57 all stats (3,8% crit damage)
1h weapon
42 all stats, 5% crit damage > 45 all stats (3% crit damage)
2h weapon
83 all stats, 11% crit damage > 88 all stats (5,9% crit damage)

aww so my overpowered build 14/14/14/14/14 wont be posible anymore ?
sarcasm off; it was about time…

Game mode
PvX
Proposal Goal
improved Pets to acceptable level
Proposal Functionality
- base pet speed is base character speed +25%
- slighty longer range to pet attacks and/or very short distance leap on all pet attacks

(enemy will have to actualy have to keep an eye on pets to avoid being hit from it. With smart movement enemy will be able to avoid most pet attacks, with swiftnes he will be able to outrun the pet. At this time everyone is just ignoring ranger pets because they cant get hit from them in most cases anyways)

- pets cannot be damaged if they are not targeted
(I dont mind my pet to be killed very fast IF someone want to focus on pet, but that should not happen from randome cleave/aoe, again, this would force enemy to pay attention to our pets and not just ignoring it)

- improvements to pet response to commands
- all 4 skills pet skills should be controlable with assigned key

Associated Risks
-none

With those few small/(easy?) changes Id consider pets fixed.
I would like to hear everyones oppinion about pets being damaged only when targeted(pvp/www) or took agroo(pve).

hooma.9642:

… u know that this trait isnt so good like it sound. esp if consider.. we have nearly no fury source outside of bugged trait and horn and the low speed of longbow.

You dont have even slightest idea what you are talking about, do you ?
fyi rangers have top tier if not highest fury access across all classes;
Furious grip, Rampage as one, Call of he wild, Furious Screech, Beastmaster’s Bond

Furious grip alone is 50% uptime …

By Ogden’s Hammer, What Savings!

Another idea to improve power rangers mostly;

- Merge Tail wind and Hunters tactics and let it stay on grandmaster minor
- Add new adept minor trait – gain 3 stacks of might for 5s

Since we are talking about greatsword improvements, id drop my 5c

- Evade for duration of Swoop animation is great idea and I think it would be worh trading it for evade on Power stab, even more since we are going to loose 25% endurance regeneration from Natural vigor.
- tiny speed and damage increase to Slash/Slice/Power stab chain
- Would you consider bringing 3 stacks of bleeding back on greatsword (dont have to be maul) – why was this even changed ?
- Is there any particular reason that greatsword is without any damaging conditions ?

Pet topic:
- would you consider increasing Harmonic cry area of effect.
- Frenzied attack is only pet skill witch doesnt land EVER.
- how about slight reduction of cast times of pet skills across the board ?

Ranged topic;
- it seems you guys completly forgot shortbow while tweaking longbow, i dont mind its 900 range, but it would need some improvements too. and quick idea – change Poison Volley to be channeled ability.

coments would be aprikittened, special yours, Jon.

Solandri.9640:

Undertaker.7451:

for Barkskin, wilderness survival, grandmaster major trait, I would propose instead of 50% damage reduction below 25% health, changing it to 33% damage reduction to below 50% health, that would make it more competable to Empathic Bond.

If you adjust the damage reduction to keep its overall effect the same like you’re suggesting, changing the hp% where Bark Skin kicks in makes no functional difference. It just makes a purely cosmetic visual change to the rate your hp bubble drops as it empties. The total damage or time needed to empty it remains the same.

Dec 10 proposed: 50% reduction under 25% hp
(.25 / (1-.5) ) + .75 = 1.25 = equivalent to 25% extra armor

Your proposal: 33% reduction under 50% hp
(.5 / (1-.33) ) + .5 = 1.25 = equivalent to 25% extra armor

Generic: 20% reduction all the time
(1 / (1-.2) ) + 0 = 1.25 = equivalent to 25% extra armor

They’re functionally all the same. The only difference it makes is for traits and effects which kick in when you reach a certain % hp.

all true, but when im at 50% health i feel no preasure, when im below 25% i do mistakes, hence id take 20% damage redution over whole health bar rather 33@50 or 50@25…

Ision.3207:

Xsorus.2507:

The Biggest change Anet can do right now is removing bloody Signet of the Beastmaster and making that baseline.

Absolutely silly we have to invest 30 points in a line to get the same effect as everyone else.

+1

+1

for Barkskin, wilderness survival, grandmaster major trait, I would propose instead of 50% damage reduction below 25% health, changing it to 33% damage reduction to below 50% health, that would make it more competable to Empathic Bond.
If you feel and tests shows that is too strong, id suggest making it apply protection boon for x seconds, every x seconds when you are under 50% health threshold, as boons can be striped, stolen or even converted to conditions.

I would really like to get everyones oppinion on that.

Heres my ranger, recently updated her look …

Last time I checked, you couldnt dodge out of any leap, be it rangers gs2, warriors s2, you pick one. Why should be rangers sword be any diferent? To all you whiners, what you really should do is to go out, buy an expensive gift and send it over to Anet.

what would output more damage
45% crit chance and 66% crit damage or 50% crit chance and 50% crit damage

First let me say that sometimes i swap sb with gs and run all melle. I have over 1700 hours on raner only, and while almost everyone was keep crying about how ranger is kitten and broken, some of us was trying and made it work. I highly respect people like Nerva, Puandro, Ikiro, and many others, they never cried but trying harder and they have know how …

As promised im posting a build;
http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.0|5.1g.0|c.1k.h15.8.1k.h1|1c.71j.1c.71j.1c.71j.1c.71j.1c.71j.1c.71j|4t.0.21k.0.31k.0.21k.0.31k.0.2s.0|u40b.f1.5.0.k27|55.7|4i.4p.4r.4q.0|e

Zindrix.1750:

Those are nice stats. Which armor set/jewelry do you use?

see link above

Puandro.3245:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/

Use that and post your build for me and it will give me a better idea.

Also what do you plan to use this build for. I imagine WvW but you solo/small man/zerg?

solo/duo WvW, I posted a build above, including sigils, food, .. i use
btw, the other day i tested your cleric, pet sharing, boon duration build and its awesome, been on rampage without killed for whole afternoon,¸althou is nice, im trying to make some build that works for me myself …

Fjandi.2516:

Warhorn. You can trust me on that.

How come, mind explaining ?

Fomby.4295:

Greatsword

last time I checked, i wasnt able to use great as offhand weapon …

Manekk.6981:

Best thing about warhorn 4 is it will get your pet to 25might stacks in a split second with RaO it’s fantastic burst for a BM ranger.
I vote for the warhorn.

true and easily overlooked fact.
Now this is one of the comments i like to see more, thank you for that !

I hope this thread will have usefull tips and facts and conversation on higher level, I dont need to be told that say axe 5 is whirl finisher.

will post build tomorow when i get home from work. would do it now, but im just about to get some sleep…

Hey Puandro, thanks for input, but would you mind explain in more detail.?

I tested all 3 offhanders today and this is what i got out of it:

dagger – both skills are on fairly short cooldown, somewhat prevents them to run awa due to criple and helps my jaguar to hit more often, extra evade for over a second.

axe – awesome burst on path of scars, coupled with signet of hunt active it bursts at lest 6k, axe5 is very situational, had great sucess with it today, first time on thief spamming 222 on me while axe5 and signet of stone active, he just dropped, 10min later some random thief killedmhimself with his elite…

warhorn – i didnt noticed much diference from 1 stack of might and furry, very long cooldowns, only good thing about it was thakittens swiftness alowed me to drop signet of the hunt and slot sick em.

after all that, still not sure what would be best fit…

im running power build with 2200 power, 1700 toughness, 50crit damage, 55% crit chance, 400 healing power and 18000 health. shortbow and sword/x
i cant decide between dagger, axe and warhorn. what do you guys think would be best fit and why?

female lion, feline family, F2 pet runs and attack 20% faster for 10s
male lion, feline family, F2 grants 5 stacks of might and furry for 5s
grizzly bear, bear family, F2 grants 7s stability
black wolf, canine family, F2 vulnerabilty and weakness for 10s
bat, bird family, f2 poison and bleeding for 8s, remove blind
ferret, F2 jump – damage and blast finisher on demand

I got kicked out of the game at Jade Maw and couldnt log back in to finish my daily achivement. you own me a laurel, a prestine fractal relic and god only knows what would be in chests. Now, what can you do for me Anet?