Look at that URL… “TA_NextHero”. Most likely a TA rework, maybe a new path (Temporary, only for the living story period, probably 4 weeks) Including “A new hero” which is the person on the picture, Caithe’s daughter
Every teaser image of the following patch is called “next hero”, so nothing else there. TA might be Twilight Arbour or may not be it. I hope it is.
I’m not against people sharing their accounts, but it is prohibited bye the EULA, so I wouldn’t come complaining to the forums if I were doing it. Just saying.
Why do you even play if you don’t enjoy it? Just leave for some time and come back later if you want. Right now, the only thing you are doing is getting in the way of people who do enjoy the game.
I’m not against handing badges with the chests, but I think it’s been done in a absurd quantity. I’ve got 300 badges. I’m not gonna rant about how I got my 500 for the legendary just killing people because I suck hard at JPs, because I had fun getting those badges anyway, but the main problem is that badges have a very limited use in the game.
Im actually really dissapointed that every rank gets the same reward… i mean i get it thakittens just for fun but they just COMPLETELY annihilated the purpose of winning. winners should atleast get a little extra of something imo.
You don’t. The higher you place, the more quartz crystals you get. I was noticing this yesterday.
No longer true. The patch tonight apparently removed the Quartz crystals from Sanctum Sprint entirely. How are we even to reliably get 25 per day now? Mining at the Bazaar yields about half of that, and the rest? (Finding kites is not reliable, considering how buggy they are and difficult to even find one that works.)
This is my favourite patch since release. The new map is amazing, and the achievements are a blast. The only thing I dislike is not having more crystals to get.
So.. Rangers got shafted? Haven’t rangers been complaining since day one? Who makes these decisions?
I haven’t really logged in since the first day or two of dragon bash so I don’t know whats going on.
They halved the normal damage of our pets by at most 50%. Since our overall damage output relies on the pet for 30-40% of it, you can see what they did…and this is happening to a class that was already not really wanted in dungeons and was kinda subpar in WvW.
I main a ranger and the changes have been bad but, which pet’s damage has been reduced by 50%? Because I can see a 50% percent damage reduction in a jaguar skill with 20 second CD, reducing a lot its burst, but not so much the DPS.
I agree we are bad in WvW and dungeons and this patch is only making it worst, but spreading misinformation won’t help.
I play ranger and I’m not bugged by the pets nerf. The problem is that it is a flat out DPS nerf on the ranger because they are not putting that damage back in the ranger (something a lot of rangers would appreciate). This would tone down BM bunkers and buff power rangers, opening some new build options and making a lot of people happy. I want to try a power based ranger, I want to be able to use longbow in sPvP, I want the option to choose between a pet that supports me or a pet that needs my support (and probably would go with the first one), but the straight DPS nerf (a field in which the ranger does not excel) won’t make this. If pet damage is being nerfed, then skills multipliers and base damage of the skills should be checked.
I hope this patch notes are fake. The pets nerf should be compensated with son damage buff to our weapons, that is if they want rangers to play any other thing different from trapper or BM bunker.
So this morning I go inand play 3 tournies. First one was ok, though the queue was about five minutes or a bit more, but it’s a weekday during the morning, so I think that was fine. Second one the queue was much shorter but we faced a pre made. Ended up losing 500 to 494 and only because we lost total coordination at the end, so I don’t think this was bad either. Then I play my last one, queue was around five minutes, and this happened:
Just play a ranger, they too OP right now. Look at this screenshot.
“Too many guys doing nothing”
“Whats the point if we cant even hold a point”
Good amount of damage, good amount of survivability, fast downed self rez (always win the downed fights 1v1), good amount of range, good amount of mobility.
BM has been strong since day 1 release. the most powerful upgrade this build received was months ago when pet AI was updated to initiate attacks at closer than max attack range.
the buff to SoWild mildly increases teamfight potential, since your jag can assist on focus w/ stab + stealth with the Regen close to active again by the time the Ranger is engaged directly.
of note, zero Rangers made it to Finals in MotM.
But they did make it to the semi finals. Plus Symbolic for Paradigm wasn’t playing. Could have been an different outcome as the sub for Symbolic was making poor decisions. IMO the only thing making Rangers OP are their pets ability to deal huge damage while the Ranger kites and keeps himself alive. They shouldn’t be able to bunker + deal massive damage, there should be a trade off similar to every other class.
BM bunker specced ranger has almost zero group utility, I think that’s a trade off.
Can you state any competitive (or trying to be competitive) game in which builds are secret? And even if your build were secret, anyone with a basic knowledge of the class will know what you are playing i a matter of seconds.
I agree with the necessity of an unranked 5vs5 in some way, because hot join is not useful to test builds and professions, so if I want to really test something I’ve got to go to tournies and screw my team because I don’t know well what I’m doing.
Yeah sending pets kilometers away to dmg treb is very common you just need someone to put target on it (Or you can target yourself from ct) and just send it without even moving…easy and effective….if pet is going to die just swap it rinse and repeat you can send fresh pets all the time and eventually treb is going down sooner or later…skills involved? absolutely nothing.
You can’t send the pet to attack anything further than ~1600 from it, so you must get near the trebuchet yourself, send the pet to attack it and then leave. If you swap pets you have to repeat, a team mate targeting it is no use if the pet is nowhere near it.
They need a 1200m leash, they follow targets way too far, its not right.
Once they get far enough they heal like they are out of combat if there master is.
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1. That’s a ridiculously short leash. A traited longbow can shoot at about 1800, you can’t make the pet leash shorter than that. Anyway, the pet won’t start attacking anything that is too far.
2. A ranger won’t leave combat if the pet is attacking, and the pet won’t heal if it’s being attacked even if the ranger is out of combat.
Rangers needed buffs no doubt. Did the devs take it too far? I don’t know. But what I do know is that I’m encountering a buttload more rangers in pvp these days. That tells me that something is up. Must investigate more.
I’d like to know which buffs are these that have gone too far.
Also ranger is the only class that can´t benefit from standing on highground because then the pet can´t do anything when you are ontop of keep and the pet does more damage than the ranger usually.
1. It certainly feels the slowest, especially when you have swiftness activated, but your pet [who trails behind you] is still in range of enemy abilities and in the course of being struck – forces you into “combat” which then slows you down to a crawl regardless of swiftness. If a foe can strike your pet, they can prevent your escape.
You only enter combat mode when your pet attacks, not when it receives damage, so if you set it in passive you won’t enter combat mode.
