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It needs to be there to let others know you are in beastmode. For pvp reasons.
Raiding roles and builds are pretty defined but fractals is a lot more forgiving in that regard.
If you have the Living Story maps, you can get whatever trinkets you need pretty easily, I found Bloodstone Fen the easiest to farm for them.
Edit: Note the build editor traits are not updated as yet.
Thank you. Would a learning raid group or pug take a power druid or would they only take either a full healing build or condi build?
Hello,
I recently returned to the game and I was looking for a good build to start doing fractals and hopefully get into raiding. I was looking around and I saw a lot of condition builds but all recommending Viper’s armor which I am not close to being able to get. I don’t really enjoy main healing but wouldn’t mind having some off healing in a build.
Anything you guys suggest?
Thanks!
There are better roamer specs than LB/GS Zerker Rangers using HoT elites, but it’s up to you what’s comfortable.
Menders Druid is more a 2v2 skirmish damage support, with Staff/LB able to decap, and Staff/S+D holding points better.
I suggest watching gameplay by Frosty: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/152687366
He also has a Youtube channel with older content, but the mechanics and rotation stuff are still relevant.
Thank you, I will check him out. Also, is there any advantage to having auto attack off? specifically with sword.
Hey everyone, just recently got back to the game after a couple of years. I never got into pvp before so I am not very good. Is there a particular good pvp build you guys suggest I start with? I looked at metabattle but wasn’t sure if you guys had other opinions. Currently running LB/GS Marks/BM/WS. Should I really be using druid/staff?
It’s been removed because it served only to mislead newer players in a mode like conquest.
Although more we have people who judge based on top stats, while that is also irrelevant for some roles, e.g. a good thief that just +1 for the spike, downs the target and leaves to let his team clean up, maneuvering for momentum the whole game. He won’t get much if any top stats, yet he was crucial to a victory.
Ah I see. I just returned after 1.5 years so I guess it was changed a while back. Felt weird at first not seeing any points. Thanks for answering!
Hello. For some reason I don’t see any text when I finish a player or capture a point. Normally I would see a +10 +5 etc as battle text. Did I somehow disable this or has this been removed?
It’s called a legendary. If everyone has one then it’s not really legendary anymore. Only the people that really want it will go through the process/buy it.
Contested waypoints are the only salvation the waypoint system has. Waypoints are used excessively in this game, to the point where many of the community requested that as much as half of them be removed during the Dragon’s Reach update, because they cheapen pretty much everything in the game.
If not for contested waypoints, it would be even cheaper. Bosses like Tequatl would become extremely easy because you could just waypoint zerg it over and over again. This is why most of the contested waypoints exist to begin with.
Hostile zones are meant to be hostile. You are in the dragon’s domain. There’s no point in taking away challenge, immersion and sense of danger for all other players so you can save a minute or so on a glider flight. Approaching these maps knowing that you can die and have to start all over again makes you think twice about everything you do, helping you play better, and increases surrealism.
I’m saddened by how easy everyone wants games to be these days. :/
I’m sad that people think “just add more wasted travel time” is in any way related to it being a challenge. Adding things that are there JUST to waste our time and add neither challenge nor fun to the fight is just bad design. See also: Fear spam that doesn’t serve any purpose in the fight but to draw it out. Looking at you Claw of Jormag.
How about you try not to die? This way you don’t have to travel back? There has to be something to “punish” dying. It wouldn’t waste your time if you got better and didn’t die correct?
Yeah I was going to put this in the ranger forum but I know it would be beneficial for any class with minions. I played WoW and really liked seeing my pet’s damage in a different color. Buffs to your pet are felt more if that makes any sense.
Does anyone else think it would cool/useful to see your pet damage in a different colored text? Would really give you a better sense of what your pet is pushing out when you are both on the same target.
3-4 people is more a party of friends than a guild. Its called “Guild Missions” so of course there will be a requirement to have a number of guild members in the party. In what world is 3 members too much of a requirement?
You know you don’t have to play right? Usually when you are bored of something you stop doing it instead of complaining about it.
every new instance of fury procs Remorseless, which is an opening strike with +25% damage bonus. opening strikes always crit if you look in the marksmanship trait line. so if you have lots of fury sources, youre always doing max damage. in that build, u can get it while using LR, QZ, SotP, two-handed training in BM, or by swapping pets. this is why you don’t need any crit.
one other thing you could do is equip lyssa runes to get a nice 35% crit chance when u have fury, which is all the time. I think this is probably ideal.
Marauder is definitely a good amulet, but I don’t like it for this build. it has a lot less ferocity and it gives a lot less survivability.
Ah, I overlooked the fact that opening strike always crit. That make sense and ties the build for me. Thanks a bunch.
posted guide here.
http://intothemists.com/guides/5913-remorseless_valkyrie_bearsword
I don’t think I need a separate thread because remorseless has been discussed ad nauseum. people can just leave comment on Into the Mists.
I also wouldn’t mind if you helped me optimize it using combination of valk and cav stats for wvw. id use it for frontlining and roaming.
Hey Mistsim,
Sorry for the following noob question since I’m pretty new to this but you say the build does not need crit chance, is the on demand fury enough with it only giving you 20%? I run a similar build but I am using a maurader amulet. I lose out on the vitality but have 50% crit chance without fury. Thanks.
It has already been said but install Gem FX and Sweet FX. Depending on the settings it makes a huge difference and I could never go back.
A learn to play issue? forgive me for not being elite, but is not something very wrong when a lvl 80 warrior can be killed buy a normal lvl 11 mob? what exactly is the point in ascended and legendary gear if im down scaled this badly.
It does sound like a l2p issue. Why wouldn’t you want a challenge again in low level areas?
Any indication on group size required for capture mission?
Will they have to be in the guild to help?
We’re still debating minimum size, you can see a lot of discussion down in the guild CDI thread that’s helping us inform some of those decisions.
And no – you don’t need people to be in your guild to help you capture it. Bring friendly guilds to help you out, ask nicely in Lion’s Arch, etc.
Why have a minimum size at all? Is there any reason why you can’t let 1 man guilds do this? It seems like setting a minimum size just creates an arbitrary cut off for a guild and anything below that either isn’t a guild or not big enough for you to care about.
1 man guild? Where does it end? A guild is a group of players anything 5 or less shouldn’t be a guild honestly. I have a three person “guild” and I am more than willing to join a large one to accomplish something like this. Not everything in this game has to be handed to you. At some point some of the content should have different requirements.
There was something wrong with the fact you could throw “traps” in the first place. They were just grenades at that point. These are now actual traps you have to set down and predict enemy position. Ground targeting should never have been a thing.
If it’s not required to do anything then why complain about it? Just don’t get it.
They shouldn’t cater to a couple of buddies that have a “guild”. That’s not really a guild its your party with tags. This is coming from a guy in a three person guild as well.
This is relevant to my interests.
Thank you so much this is exactly what I was looking for. You are right about the weapon choices with BM bunker. I will definitely give those two builds a look. Thanks again!
So currently this is the build I use:
I do not have the survivability that I want or the damage output, have a hard time taking camps solo, etc. I used to run a condition build that worked a lot better.
Could I have some advice as to what to change, gear or traits. I guess I am looking for a BM bunker build that uses Sb/GS. Thank you.
well if you’re running with the sb you probably wont even notice the damage reduction that much, and the runes also have some nifty things like boon duration on them while still giving some crit dmg. I had ruby orbs on my armor and switched to travelers runes and I noticed like a 200 dmg drop, but the extra utility was nice in that it allowed me to either slot for some extra regen, some toughness, a shout, whatever the situations called for. I liked it.
Thanks for all the help, I really appreciate it.
should work pretty well. If ur not strapped for cash I would check out travelers runes to free up that utility spot signet of the hunt usually takes up. I love being able to have 3 utilities now.
Awsome ty for the tip. I wasnt sure if this build would work with all the changes since I left.
P.S do you find the extra utility to be worth the reduction in dps going from divinity to traveler?
I have recently come back from playing after a while and my current BM build for WvW and sPVP is
0/20/20/0/30
Full Knights armor w/ Divinity Runes
Berserkers GS
Berserkers SB
How viable is this build currently? Or suggestions for the current cookie cutter BM build would be great. I mainly roam WvW and zerg every now and then. Thank you.
I was having fps drops when rotating the camera and looking around. So I exited Xfire restarted the game and it is gone, tested it a few times and it was all xfire. Anyone else have a problem with the client?
My PvE build when running dungeon. It’s actually based on Brazil.
This is my WvW build. Slightly defensive.
I like both builds, do you find you are lacking enough dps to take people down with the WvW build?
Thanks for the serious responses guys. I appreciate the help.
I get it rangers suck but this whining is getting old. Just re roll, no need to come on these forums and keep crying about it. I am still interested in a build preferably with GS/Shortbow combination. Thanks.
So I am re-installing gw2 after being gone for 8 months and have no clue what big or subtle changes happened during that time. Could someone point me in the right direction when it comes to ranger builds that are viable right now? Mainly for WvW or PVE. Thanks in advance.
Yeah I figured, Im gonna have to farm up for rampagers since I only have full knights right now.
Any suggestions?
My build is 10/20/30/5/5. I mainly do WvW and I am debating on my armor and rune choices. Should I go:
1) Full Rampager + Superior Rune of Melandru
(1): +25 Toughness
(2): -10% Condition Duration
(3): +50 Toughness
(4): -10% Stun Duration
(5): +90 Toughness
(6): -15% Condition Duration; -15% Stun Duration
or
2)Full Knights + Superior Rune of Thief
(1): +25 Precision
(2): +17 Condition Damage
(3): +50 Precision
(4): +40 Condition Damage
(5): +90 Precision
(6): +10% damage when behind or beside your foe.
I have more toughness and crit damage with Knights but I am losing out on condition and stun reduction, is it worth it?