Guild Wars 2

jubskie.3152:

matenji.3809:

Please check stealth nerfs if any.

How very pessimistic of you. Its not a real patch if there’s no ranger nerf, eh?

:/

Nowhere did I question this patch’s relevance; I was just merely stating what the community was in a huff about for the last week (i.e. ranger pets).

And when I hear the word pessimistic, I picture a lot of whining about how a patch fails to deliver on promised updates. So cheer up chuck, I did no such thing lol.

Please check stealth nerfs if any.

Coral Shot: This ability now lists bleeding dealt at different ranges. Bleeding damage has been increased from a maximum of 2 to a maximum of 4 at a range of 900.

Signet of the Hunt: This ability now displays a skill fact for the damage increase of its active effect.

Quicksand with Stone Spirit: This skill’s facts will now display properly

You’re better off using a different set of runes if you like the 6th skill, maybe Dolyak for Regen or Warrior for weapon swap.

If you haven’t already seen, Wiki has the correct numbers on boon share; it gives a fraction of the duration you would have received: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fortifying_Bond

Devona’s Rest is an awesome server, but it’s time to move on!

Where are all the friendly and knowledgeable rangers located?

jubskie.3152:

Good catch, yeah I wasn’t able to mention that. I haven’t really had that much trouble with conditions in dungeons, because Healing Spring is just really good for healing and condition removal. My Knight gear has Lyssa runes in them and that takes care of mass conditions that I get when I get zerged in WvW or I have too many stacks of bleed on me in dungeons.

As for trinkets, Celestial trinkets is really enough for me. I have 18k hp with them and I get a little bit of everything, including Condition Damage which is nice when I’m using Sharpened Edges. Thanks for the suggestion though and I’ll consider that when I want to get new trinkets

When you say celestial, are those the ascended kind?

Tricare.2946:

matenji.3809:

Tricare.2946:

Hey, quick fix for you.

If you’re on your phone and it says that. Copy and past the link into your web browser. Once you do that, look for the option to switch to “desktop” or “full site”. You should be able to watch anything you want then.

Make sure you’re not in your youtube app or whatever. It’s how I watch stuff on my iphone.

I have that Samsung Galaxy tablet but I’ll try that out. Honestly if youtube could be more user friendly…

let me know if it works

Confirmed that it works, at least on my tablet. Go to the youtube app menu, and then switch to desktop view. re-paste link in address bar and it will open the video, which can be finally viewed. stupid mobile!

If any of you guys have ipads/iphones, see if this applies to you as well.

Furajir.3815:

Thanks.

/15 char

good point \o/

“Grants vigor for 5 seconds when using Heal as One or Troll Unguent, and 3 seconds for each pulse of Healing Spring to allies standing in the radius of its effect.”

You’d need healing spring all the time to make this worthwhile.

Also Sebrent calculated our various boon durations from a post that Jubskie stickied in his Rangers Guide. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Data-Ranger-Boons/first

Here’s the image (taken from the above link) with Vigorous Renewal in various modes of duration, and the other Ranger boons as well:

Thanks Jubs! I enjoyed it and it’s actually similar to what I run now. I think the one thing you left out is healing and condition removal. Any thoughts on those? Since you run knight’s gear, I think You’re better off switching to Sentinel trinkets slotted with Beryl/Ruby jewels for that extra vitality to mitigate condition damage.

Troll Unguent is mobile and doesn’t require you to sit in a field; it’s also got a lower cooldown and the base heal over time is more than Healing Spring’s spike heal.

Healing Spring has condition removal over 15 seconds; produces regen for those standing in them; it’s also a water field for those who do blast finishers, netting even more AoE healing.

slingblade.1437:

I’m doubtful they do. I have not heard of any runes or sigils or anything that applies to the pet’s damage and suspect a lot of people have looked at that pretty hard by now.

You can share buffs generated by Runes with pets via the Fortifying Bond trait, but that’s the closest similar thing I can think of.

If only Fortifying Bond also shared boons with 5 people closest to you, too.

Puandro.3245:

If you add music the “owners” of that music decide if
A) allow your vid to stay up but they earn all the profit from the views.
B) if its allowed to be viewed on mobile devices.

Basically we have no real say on it unless we get picky on the music which i wont unless it is straight up blocked on youtube.

Yea messing with copyrighted music is stepping on a fine line as it is risky business. Glad that everyone’s vids is still up, though.

Tricare.2946:

Hey, quick fix for you.

If you’re on your phone and it says that. Copy and past the link into your web browser. Once you do that, look for the option to switch to “desktop” or “full site”. You should be able to watch anything you want then.

Make sure you’re not in your youtube app or whatever. It’s how I watch stuff on my iphone.

I have that Samsung Galaxy tablet but I’ll try that out. Honestly if youtube could be more user friendly…

Puandro.3245:

I lost it at the Thief with the Min pet.

Lol same here, had a great laugh!

Rangers, you guys rock. And your videos are amazing…

…when they can actually be viewed from mobile devices.

I was bummed that the day I didn’t have my laptop and browsed forums from my tablet, none of the newly posted videos didn’t have playback. The message was always: “The content owner has not made this video available on mobile.” Dunno why mobile has to have a big deal about these things..

I think this video provides the proper fix, but it might be temporary b/c these uploaded videos are so-called copyrighted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKndPcCXm0

Since these types of videos are primarily machinima (a film technique used to tell a story), always remember to give credit where credit is due (whether to the video game company or the musical artists). And it’s honestly better to use original music or those licensed under creative commons, especially in the case of disputed content.

Thanks, and future kudos for your awesome mobile-abled content!

Kaskade/Adam K

Can someone rephrase this? “Now strikes targets at a similar range to all other melee skills.”

Chopps.5047:

jubskie.3152:

Nice podcast, although I noticed you kept going all over the place. Not that it’s a bad thing, I can definitely feel your enthusiasm to get out as much info as you can.

You might want to draft out an agenda to keep you on topic or to keep the discussion going

I’ll take the blame for that. There’s so much depth to the profession that I love and it just kind of pours out when I speak. If they decide to have me back I will be much more organized. Thank you for the constructive criticism.

Actually Chopps, I think you did great. No offence to Bas, but there were a few times he said, “let me interrupt you for a minute there” in the middle of your dialogue, lol. Wanted to hear more from you!

Bas, I love your podcasts. If I could make a suggestion: could you lead the conversation at a guided and steadier pace? I’ve noticed a few spots where you would ramble on, and I got a little antsy when a few moments went by without Chopps’ input (“God, when will he let Chopps talk?” went through my head a few times). Granted, this was just in the beginning, and then I think nearing the end of the episode everyone started to chime in equal amounts, which is great. This is your podcast, so take this with a grain of salt.

Looking forward to your talk with Xsorus!

slingblade.1437:

It would be nice, but I’d be even happier if Rangers had more sources of boons/might stacks themselves that they could control, rather than random incoming stuff that hits the pet. I’d also like to see some of the boons that the pet gets via FB have an increase in duration. For example, right now pets only get 3 seconds of Fury, or 3 seconds of Swiftness via FB, which are quite brief, especially considering how often pets’ attacks miss.

Consider a Boon Duration build to increase that duration. Also, if the pet is standing next to you when you do #5 on warhorn, the duration is doubled. Here’s the wiki for pet boon durations:

Aegis 5 seconds
Fury 3 seconds
Might 10 seconds
Protect 2 seconds
Regen 5 seconds
Retal 5 seconds
Swift 3 seconds
Vigor 3 seconds

So pets get 3s of Fury/Swiftness with untraited boon duration. At 100% boon duration, this becomes 6s (big whoop). But if your pet is standing right next to you, they get 36s of Fury/Swiftness, even more so with Might. The shout skill Guard’s Protection boon lasts 20s for the pet (envious) at 100% boon duration.

I think Guard should be shared with the owner (10s stealth, 10s protection); the caveat is staying inside the aoe circle.

What if pets can share their received boons with us even from a distance? We can share boons with them that way anyway, so it only makes sense when they can do it also.

Regarding our SotH, 25% movement speed is pretty useful, but I like my utility slot reserved for a better ability. Currently I use sword/warhorn for mobility and distance, and coupled with Runes of Speed, who can beat 40% movement speed with 20% increase in Swiftness duration (other than a traited thief)? And, this speed is also applied to my party AND my pet (from a distance, using 15 points into NM).

Signet passives are great, but I like quick utility CDs, so unfortunately 120/96 CDs for a 6-sec/10-sec ability gives me heart palpitations.

This is a very awesome point. Anet gameplay designers and devs, please consider this in a future implementation. Letting a percentage of our own stats as well as consumable buffs transfer to our pets will really improve ranger. Whilst you fix the AI of the pet, this transfer of stats/buffs will raise its survivability in fights that usually result in insta-death.

You can get fury from Red Moa, might from Jungle Stalker, fury and might from weapon swapping (if you trait in Skirmishing), fury and might through Beastmaster’s Bond (a trait in Marksmanship), and newly added are the superior runes of altruism which give might and fury on using a heal skill.

Hello, I noticed you’re using an outdated skill builder. A lot of those traits don’t exist in the game or have been revised since beta.

How viable is this build in open pve and dungeons? Thanks for your reply.

Thanks for the link Zox. Funny because Rangers are the only ones that have 2 rez abilities, the other being Spirit of Nature.

It’s probably too late to join in now huh. ;_; Congrats to everyone who put in their battle scars for the day.

I’m guessing the rewards were only available to those who landed a few good hits on the enemy and weren’t disconnected? Congrats on the loot!

Psychrome.9281:

@Dante this is a big reason why i built this because i was sick of “IFS” i was sick of hoping my cats would do ther damage and i was sick of aoe destroying them. i was sick of people just casually strolling away from my pets even though when during testing with my friend just standing still my pet was the biggest contributor to damage. so i worked on the build to enhance pet uptime and pet actually hitting the target.

@Irie Healing spring is a great heal although in a Spvp environment for me and my pet to get the FULL effect of healing spring we have to stand within the circle of healing spring and that means my pet is either not doing damage or the enemy is attacking me in the circle. and it is very easy to get pushed out of it or people jsut run out of range and the pet leaves the circle and losing stacks of regen. in PVE i would probably use healing spring for combo fields and it is far easier to stand in healing spring due to monsters not having the smarts to run out of the heal area. even with troll ungent the regen from dwaynas procs more vigor while i have a more reliable and actually stronger heal, with the freedom to move anywhere i need to and my pet gets all of the heal as well being able to do damage where ever the enemy goes.

Hey man, you linked to Troll Unguent both in your skill build and your explanation above, but you talk about Healing Spring in this post.

Thanks for the input. It may be a lackluster skill, but I also wanted to bring it to dev attention because it wasn’t listed on the bug thread. And it’s not that I use it often; it’s just the one time I tried it I noticed it wasn’t working as it should. It’s actually not that bad when you have shouts traited, have compassionate training and have points in BM. It’s not really a skill for other builds other than BM/pet/support. Oh and it’s actually useful if you are rezzing a player because your pet is rezzing, too, so quicker rez time especially if you have runes of mercy and quickness.

This skill supposedly has your pet search for a dead player and revive him/her. However, what I found out in a dungeon is that sometimes it doesn’t work; the pet would just be standing on top of the player. Other times when I activate the skill while my pet is near me, it doesn’t go out to search and then the 85/68-sec cool down begins. Also does this skill still work if my pet is downed?

Is anyone else having a problem with this skill?

Jay.3284:

matenji.3809:

It’s Wed Nov. 14 in Texas, approaching 7pm, so I’m assuming you are the fortunate ones on the other side of the world enjoying Nov. 15 morning. Is this correct?

This doesn’t make much sense…

The OP brought up the 15th being ‘today’ yet it is still the 14th where I am. Just needing the clarification is all, thanks.

It’s Wed Nov. 14 in Texas, approaching 7pm, so I’m assuming you are the fortunate ones on the other side of the world enjoying Nov. 15 morning. Is this correct?

Don’t forget Nature Spirit

I don’t think he’s lying. A red moa’s furious screech + concentration training (pet boon duration increase by 30%), 30% increase in boon duration from max nature trait line, another 40% increase in boon duration from slotted rune combinations (superior water, superior and major monk), and you don’t even need offhand mastery. With a combination of berserker and valkyrie equipment, the guy can max his skirmishing line, with 10 trait points left to spend in power.

If possible what gears/weapons, runes/sigils, utilities, pets, and traits are needed/recommended to achieve this? I’m completing maps using my lv80 toon and sometimes wonder if I could take on that Champion Snow Troll in Frostgorge Sound, etc.

I currently run a crit/BM build with a focus on pet support. It’s a lot of fun but I freak out when I lose aggro and get chased by mobs around AoE circles.

And for those who are interested, I run:

• Full Berserker gear (all slotted with ruby orbs) and accessories
• 0/25/0/15/30 in traits
• Pet’s Prowess (plus 30% pet crit) and Carnivorous Appetite (pet heal on crit) in Skirmishing
• Concentration Training (plus 30% pet boon duration) in Nature
• Compassion Training (plus pet heals), Commanding Voice, and Natural Healing (regen) in Beast Master
• Signet of the Wild and Healing Spring for constant ranged healing and regen
• Double cats (Jaguar, Panther)
• Rage As One for elite skill
• A slotted sigil of strength or sigil of fire in Longbow (I’m torn between added Might (strength) for pet or AoE damage (fire), or if I should just slot a sigil of force/accuracy instead)

That’s like, less than 16k HP, and 2k power, and 45-50% crit chance with 85-89% crit damage (depending on level zone). So far this build works for taking on Veterans and very low level champions. It’s easy to stack might and healing/regen on my pet (I’ve swapped out 2 ruby orbs with 2 superior runes of water for the +15% boon duration to test). Next time I’m going to try Drakes to tank, perhaps switch to a shortbow as well. If you guys know of a better setup I’d love to hear them, as well as your thoughts and experiences.

Thanks!
Adam Kershen, Crystal Desert

whales on the beach….LOTS OF WHALES

Hey guys, just in case you missed JP’s most current posting on pg. 7:

The patch most definitely will have bug fixes for ranger. I fixed two earlier today alone. Realistically, however we can only do a patch every few weeks if we expect to make more than minor improvements so all the things I talked about will be in the next big patch which is about 2 weeks away.

Hopefully the most recent announcement on the next build on Nov 1 will contain such Ranger fixes: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/halloween/Halloween-Phase-4-Heads-Up/