Guild Wars 2

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

samanosuke asakura.6240:

if you become one with your pet shouldn’t fresh reinforcement be a base thing ? …

It should either be base or made a minor trait and not competing with Unstoppable Union.

The thing is, if you really want to take advantage of Fresh Reinforcement, you already need to take Nature Magic, otherwise you hardly get any effect since a lot of the boons you get will not be on your pet.

It also needs to place the boons on your pet when you exit beastmode, otherwise entering and exiting the mode is just handicapping your pet and you are better off rarely ever using the mode, or just camping it 24/7.

agreed a lot of stuff doesn’t make sense in soul beast. oh well i hope they tweak it a bit more.

if you become one with your pet shouldn’t fresh reinforcement be a base thing ?
worldly impact as leap doesn’t make a lot of sens either.

i was roaming this evening we could use some more cleanse or some traits buffed against condi

worldly impact doesn’t make sense as a leap finisher.
i hope this get changed to blast in the future.
you slap the ground really hard so how is the a leap finisher?

my 2 cents

ok my good friend check in game mail in hour i am sending you a small gift put that on your warhorn or sword. and use dura runes if you worry about condis keep them but believe you don’t need troopers with that set you can evade and stealth.

Let me start with i suck at eng and grammar.
Now that we have that out of the way.

I was wondering if we should still play core ranger what is good for?
Actually why would we still play vanilla ranger? Sustain ain’t that great compared too druid and probably soul beast.

core Ranger lacks on some points i won’t summaries all of them, because some are opinion related .

So i was wondering will we ever see a core specialization, a trait line that only ranger could use. One that we have already in the game perhaps.

wouldn’t that help in build variety and balancing?
That way we would see more core professions use their core classes bring more balance through out all the specialization. ( i was not only thinking of ranger alone fyi)

the current specialization just feel like an upgrade from ranger(or profession x) to something else. well, this is my way of thinking atm.

why not see them as profession’s that chosen a different path?
And keep core profession’s alive.

My point being, wouldn’t it help with what i summed up before such as.

-balance
-build variety
-different rolls within the class (healing, dps, control)

i was wondering how you guys feel about this. that we have a specialization called core ranger.

p.s any grammar tips are welcome ^^ i suck at it :p
also don’t worry i am not offend if you correct it down below.

hmmm i don’t have that problem sounds gear related to me.
could you share your build ?

other thing i noticed is cd on beast mode or stupid long.

hi,

after watching the video of peachy, i noticed that we get the last 2 pet skill.
and new third one.

for example enter beast mode with wolf we would get crippling leap and brutal charge.
could someone confirm ?

i don’t know what you are looking for when you say 1vx.
are looking for something like this ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzjf_Fy-vJA
or do you want be able to kite and kill them meaning a more tactical approach.
the build in the link is condi should still work if you tweak it a bit.

I would like to see moa with more healing power as base stat and the range on that skill improved. The f2 skill needs rework and shorter cd pink moa being the best example 1,5 daze cd 30 sec :p also cone attk. NEIN NEIN NEIN

Bacon I mean porcine
Forage

I just put this one skill apparently some forage don’t have the same effect then other forage look it up. the f2 skill is just to random and weird to use. To random for me to even comprehend

8 legged freaks of nature (Spiders)

• Black widow spider: Paralyzing Venom
• cave spider: Weakening Venom
• Aragog: Deadly Venom

spider always been my personal fav black widow especially problem is as mentioned before the range compared with bristleback is short

thing that looks like dragon but isn’t it (wyvern)

• electric wyvern: Lightning Assault
• Toothless (fire wyvern): Consuming Flame

havn’t played with them engough to judge them

• Bristleback: Spike Barrage
• Smokescale: Smoke Cloud

Those are good pets they hit their moving targets with their atkk.

So there we go I didn’t go in to much in detailed explanation I am hoping you guys can post your feedback,down below

imo in general have the problems.

• Cool down too long
• Range on spiders,devourer too short compared to bristleback
• animation too long drake being a good example
• Stop >stalk>pounce on moving target doesn’t work
• Range on support skill on pets to small example: ‘harmonic cry’ on moa
  *pets vs pets are unfairly balanced example red moa vs tiger
  or other example alpine wolf,polar bear,owl even if the dps is higher or range is greater they seems unfair.

• Hyena: Howl of the Pack
• Scooby Doo: Intimidating Howl
• Akela: Terrifying Howl

I never once complained about k9. but they do lack something like most they can’t hit moving targets that well. And whats up with stop ? pounce
while attking a moving target it misses a lot. in fact all the pouncing pets not only k9’s.

My personal fav was wolf before hot it was very popular in pvp because of the fear but the cool-down imo atm is too long to be competitivecompared to other pets.

Alipine wolf and all other pets with chill on the skill have too long a cool downs to be effective. Hyena is meh for me.

Devourer

• carrion devourer: Poisonous Cloud
• Lashtail tail: Rending Barbs
• whiptail: Poison Barbs

compare the basic attk with bristleback one and you know my opion,
spiders,devourer lack range only 900 on base attck ?
F2 also only 900 range.

Drake
*ice drake: Frost Breath

• Marsh drake: Insect Swarm
• Reef drake: Sonic Shriek
• River drake: Lightning Breath
• Salamander drake: Fire Breath
  
  drake are incredible static and slow. you don’t even have to waste a dodge to evade the attk its not pet i would use to pvp with
  CD again I think goes every pet even if I didn’t mention it they too long cast time also too long,

Meow

• Baghera: Stalk
• Jungle stalker: Mighty Roar
• lynx: Rending Pounce
• Snow leopard: Icy Pounce
• Shere khan: Furious Pounce

stop>stalk>pounce

Moa

• Black moa: Dazing Screech
• Blue Moa: Protecting Screech
• Pink moa: Dazing Screech
• Red moa: Furious Screech
• White moa: Icy Screech

imo: moa has very powerfull skill but the range is to short to be potent the skill is called Harmonic cry

I was reading an old forum post

and our dear beloved Dev said this

Josh Davis.6015:

Great thread, thanks. Good feedback from OP and the subsequent posts.

Tipper.6973:

Haven’t had a chance to read every post yet, but I really think ANet needs to look at the pet abilities. So many of them are underwhelming with ridiculously long cooldowns.

Especially if pets are here to stay as a mandatory part of the class.

Is there a similar thread to this one but for pets – ideally somewhat current? Looked over a few pages but came up empty handed. Would love to take a look.

so before we go on with this forum post a small disclaimer. i suck at grammar and i am not an native speaker and even if i was I would suck at grammar. xD

so here we go:

fyi this post is writen with my imo

Bears

• Arctodus: Rending Maul
• Black Bear:Enfeebling Roar
• Brownie: Shake It Off
• Murellow: Poison Cloud
• Santa claus best friend: Icy Roar

looking over the bear skill what picks my interest is how long the cool downs actually are.
40 sec in most cases way too long. if I had to pick the baddest one, i would the black bear enfeebling roar : 10 sec weakness and 40 cd, all tho polar bear ain’t better either some dps 3 sec chill cd 45 sec.

Birds

• Eagle: Lacerating Slash
• Hawk: Lacerating Slash
• Hedwig: Chilling Slash
• Raven: Blinding Slash
• White Raven: Blinding Slash

with birds I am I am happy cd are good their dps are good I can’t complain,
cd are good dps is good.

Hounds

• Alpine wolf: Chilling Howl
• Fern hound: Regenerate

yeah why not all though i was think more like the current setup for scrapper.

we have scrappers stomp and rez enemies with their gyros.
pets can already rez people with use of a skill all though the range is nerfed (i hope they balance it 900 range someday)

anyway why can’t pet stomp enemies with a certain cd ???

p.s my eng suck i hope to read some opinions down below

-reward tracks
-stabi change
-alpine borderlands

-close eotm get those people back in wvw when there q on all maps open up eotm for that server.
fuse NA an EU for night cap kitten maybe?

bump bump bump it up

yo peeps,

the druid lacks boons atm for me.
what do you guys think about party stabbi in general.
as it stands today only the guardian brings party stabbi wich a shame.
if the druid would acces to that druid would be very loved in wvw and maybe pve.
(i am more wvw kinda guy.) with druid as a daze ,healer + party stabbi i think.
we can be useful as a front liner witch is not really the case atm.
ofc i talk about one boon and others could hopefully be applied as well.
so that druid gets his place in the meta hopefully.

second point that annoys the kitten out of me is the way the druid holds staff as if its gone whack someone with his stick. druid is caster of nature it should handle the staff as caster.

well this my 2 cents. have good day.

i realy hope the glyphe get party stabbi this is something the could really use in wvw to make it an interesting proffesion to use in wvw and overall. and plz plz a stun break.

wvw related and pve. plz plz since lauch i am begging; praying to the gods make pets survive and useful in big encounters. or let at least let the ranger use pet spirit so we can use the f2 skill in their stead.

fun fact i was bugged yesterday and had no pet i felt lonely.

wvw

i noticed the beam on auto attck isn’t really visible. dps too low on auto attck.
also instead 3 target make it 5 pls.

suggustion other ideas

-auto attck like that of gaurd a cone with powerfull sun ray.
-second attk on staff have a toggle activate whisp around healing allies toggle whisp burst and dps foes around the whisp.
-ancentral grace add dps when coming out off it.
-vine surge target 5 dps a bit higher.

i compared this skills to existing skills ingame mostly guard.

zealot’s embrace = vine surge
orbe of light = nr2 skill on staff
wave of wrath= auto attck druid.

spamming the forums as i go :p and notice things

druid looks amezing atm i happy with it.

the thing that annoyed me right away is how the druid handles the staff like a freaking gs or hammer isn’t druid suppose to be the mage of nature?
ihope we can hold the staff like guard does.

other points the druid is healing spec.
opinions here might divide i like how it is all though reading some comments here some skill in celestial mode need some dps add to them.

glyphys i was testing them reading them testing back and forth.

glyphs lack range and depth.

with depth i mean some are really weak in my eyes
glyphe of the tides would nice combination with a break stun.
one of the glyphe would be nice have some stabbi on it. rangers lack this asswell (its own stabbi)yes i know signet of the wild and elite shouts both big cool downs.
if druid will be support type we need glyps with immediate acces to support.
its time another class bring party stabbi in this game.

at least this what i think. not gone make a long post i hope anet does something with out opions.

last thing this is more a ranger problem for the past 3 years.
pets arn’t worth nothing in group content plz do something about.
cheers i am gone test more druidy stuff

i don"t care what we get aslong as there is more group play with druid

well its wvw and i do roam alone so yeah pu is the best option.
fighting camps while some one else is coming to deff can be hard.
1v1 ?? for 1v1 there is os for that and i didn’t see any bow.
but yeah maybe i should go pu full zerk and roam with 4 other people.

ty for reply though.

this is my first Mesmer video
enjoy

Nicknobreak.7543:

And then there’s THIS GUY! Seriously, who the heck let the OP in here? Stay out of the Ranger forums and don’t come back. Go back to praising Robert Gee for buffing Mesmers to God tier, or thanking devs for cooldown reductions for shield skills. You’ve probably never played as a Ranger a day in your life.

how do expected to keep reading the forum when you got a skritt like this around.
i you wanna flame go do it against a barque grill . if you read the post i stated that i have played ranger over 3.7k hours. proof that you didn’t bother reading and are here just to flame. just clicking on your name and reading first 10 comments says enough.

didn’t know it wasn’t allowed tbh the petition thing.
but this situation is messed up too. no reply from anet etc.
their silence is what irritate some people.
and if druid is a flop i think the ranger forum will explode with rage. those frustrations are building up it seems i might exaggerate but some of those topic.nurn with anger

group support might come with druid. at least i hope. yes i guess people with rangers as their main are stubborn people i got 3.7k hours on ranger :p. my point was all this QQ ain’t helping anet doesn’t react to our post its like talking to a wall. perfect example is the ranger increase on offhand weps. it was mentioned before patch and now after patch still no feedback at all.

no i have been reading but after 10 topic same people same problems over and over again.
how many ranger are there and how many rangers complain here.
some scream ‘ranger nerf in their title doesn’t really appeal to read yet another nerf threat with same result or comment over and over again.
atm we are just arguing among our self. with no feedback of anet at all.
we don’t even if they take are suggestions or not.
that grouch post i am not even sure he made it he didn’t deny or acknowledge it.
if somebody had time he would make petition with all the problems and argument on it lets sign by ranger’s and send to anet.
those are the problems. those are the arguments. those people signed and agree.
just like you would in the irl

yo guys,

all i do is reading ranger is nerfed yadiyada and blablabla.

we have always been the underdog and i made peace long ago.
but if that much of you complain about it.
how come no one made a petition???
if this works and few thousands playerwill maybe sign it.
and maybe you will get anet’s attention.
under one banner we might actually achieve more then complain 1by1.

p.s
the ranger is fine for me is fine though only couple fixes for me. but seems to me that people have more problems then i have with ranger and honestly i am tired of reading ’ ranger nerfed topic again’
i rather see a helpful ranger community then whinging one that’s what we are doing right now. whining, qqing i don’t read any good argument only QQ.
pls at least say why you think its wrong.
its like saying ‘the ice cream is not good.’ well why isn’t it good? constructive comment will help a lot more then saying it is not good.

so please make a petition sign it make your arguments.
so that forum can breathe a bit more. hopefully we can see more videos and builds this way.
sincerely yours Samanosuke

a swordman with use of stances every stances would act as a kit. the ranger gain different able ties . for example one stance would focus on blocking evades the other would send out cutting wave to counter kitting. an other stance focus on mobility.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDt4QDeMzc4

i made vid to show how i use guard that it doesn’t need to change. while doing that and playing pvp i wondered if the majority of rangers knew all this small tricks i use. so here is a small vid. i doubt it will help exp players.
also if you wonder what build i use let me know. i was too lazy to put in youtube discption.
the vid is from impressive so don’t be disappointed ^^
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LI0MNBU-UI

made small vid it was intented to show how i use guard it ended up in small pvp tutorial for rangers.
still there is a very good example how to use guard.
the same method can be used pve (bearbow)

Tragic Positive.9356:

Asakura, I personally am aware of the perma regen use.
… But you seem to have overslept a patch or two.

Conditions do stack now – resulting in close to double the damage a Condition spec can pull off. Power Specs now hit harder as well.
Which makes regeneration much weaker boon itself. Making this build weaker by nature.

On live servers – you are going to die in 10 seconds instead of 6 with this build. That’s all there is to it. It’s not immortal like it used to be. Your proof is more than 1 year old.

this isn’t proof this is an example with the use of guard. and like any build it depends who is using it. every idiot can play ranger and spam 2 on lb. same for this build you can spam the regen out of it and not pop signet of the wild. anyway pointless of arguing further i explained to the best of my able-ties what i wanted to say. if i have time later today i will make a video within pvp using this build and post it here.

nope can’t agree with most of you guys. the skill is fine by it self its defense a loction.
and telling me there no viable build guard with resounding-timbre is wrong.
and heck not gone pop heal as one just because its gone do same as guard its a heal skill that provides roughly 6k hp
guard + signet of the wild with a healing power 1100 heals 298+126 (apothecary)do the math yourself.
secondly it protect an area believe or not it will start attacking thief out of stealth before you realize it was out of stealth.
the second he is out of stralh pet will look for it.
you guys are complaining about the shout with the least probs atm
it can always be in proved the small cd goes well with runes of trooper or perma swiftness and regen and its shout meaning its also group support using with resounding timbre.
its not because some u can not use a certain skill or doesn’t agree with some that therefore it is bad skill
for example 75% ranger use lb out of that 75% 60% can’t even use a lb decently they forget they
if you want rework shout fine . ‘protect me’ ’sicke’em’ ‘search and rescue’ have too long cd all though in the case of search and rescue i do understand all these shout have bigger problems then guard does atm.

in closing and saying this more out frustration
if the ranger community keeps complaining about everything we will never achieve anything to improve the ranger. we are all over the place.
5% complain about one problem while the other 5 % complain about something else.

videos with use of guard.

disclaimer
i speak 4 different languages srry if i made writing mistakes

guard doesn’t need rework your think only about the skill not the combinations brings with it. meaning perma regen perma swiftness we could this even before the the patch. guard is fin how it is rework the other shouts agreed but don’t touch guard. for the kitten
sake of it

if this true its very good news

yeah i have seen it was too lazy to change it xD my mistake geo and ene on both edited
anyway interesting puck. but i got use to that build btw how much is your regen ticking ?
also gone leave this here the good old days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NqNjAFHGiI

ahh your hp is actually higher then on the build editor btw it should be 18k
but the wvw gives you more health. yeah i just confused myself xD

well your bound to face that again you can heal upfront did that once in duel thief high burst started with healing dodged the rest he was of his pace after that ended ding mistakes and killed him.

anyway i will give you the build i used for past few days feel free change it how you want

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRAsf3YnEqA9CiVsAusAUtgBMhqX2ONA+bYVrYPxXgHH-TFiHABtpVIOlgrpLIJlfIq+DAnEAQ2fIgnAApAgZsF-w

you can swap every thing around to your liking i chose eb becauuse for the simple reason 3 condis every 10 sec. wilderness for me has more purpose in other builds that i use

beastly warden doesn’t really work for me so i took zephyrs speed instead it helps to use any skill faster and activate you pet skill faster
natural healing helps your pets to sustain it self longer, swap that if you want ( i am considering it too)

as for the rest i wanted stay as close too old build as i could.
and like i said swap whatever you want. if you use rather undeadrunes takethem ^^

doesn’t take away that regen still viable if you can’t dodge burst its not the builds fault its players fault trapper btw is like mentioned very good

now i think about your talking about koroshe build aren’t you?

well yes it still viable alll though i use an other rune and lightng reflex and i swapped the offhand weps to dire for vit overall still good. i do miss offhand training. but be warned burning guard will mess you up burning stacks is too op its kitten but then again dodge alot use your evades spam your condis and you will win against a burning guard

well atm testing balancing numbers with build with healing power and this trait might be the key to this build i only wish we had a gear like zealot but instead of precision fero.

its a shame that some rangers don’t care about this.
3 offhand weps got nerfed people don’t seem to realize this
the worst thing i don’t mind that the range on the throwing being nerfed.
dagger4 ,bonfire, whirling defense, those are the skills that needed that little extra range increase.
to me its big nerf i don’t use the stupid pew pew meta and not having anet respond to this and previous topics.
also leaves disgusting taste in my mouth. it only confirms what i was thinking anet doesn’t really care what we say unless it is said everywhere on the web media. anyway now i am gone QQ in a corner from my room while eating ice cream.

greetings from a disappointed ranger

i am bit worried that we lost off hand mastery (range increase)
i would be happy if we could get an official response.

that’s it cheers

i agree with you guys wouldn’t you rather wait. and see what druid might give us?
but like i said i agree i liked my dual condi remove as melee ranger.
but nothing is final atm i am waiting for the druid see what i will bring us as well as the new skills. but pure ranger wise its pain in the kitten .
but so far nothing is final.

jesus crist so much QQ i agree with guy above here there is alot more synergy.

there no longer a full line trait investment for lb because it will become basline you got alot more options. ohh and one other all this stuff isn’t even final they might change and the bonus stat you get from those line are gone. so why are you complaining about all my builds are still there and i made even new one. stop QQ and just work with it. “You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.” Bruce lee quote

why bow?? i dislike using a bow. too much trait investment. so i guess i am one of the few ranger out there who goes rather melee then using a bow. don’t get me wrong use one here and there. and after patch i might pick it up again. ah also my weps of choice is gs.
i run with melee in wvw. do die fast ? nope i play as a ranger in and out of combat to not rally my enemies. getting off topic here.
1th autoattk on ranger passive evade
2th.mauloffensive attk
3 th leap ( i use to get in out of combat leap to the comm)
4th block skill. someone using ac np block the ac pew pew)
5th skill is a pain in the kitten tbh almost never use. it but people that try to run away get my hilt bash in the face.
( i would like a better range on hilt bash would be awesome.)

hmm i hope your right lazze. btw you think they will take a look on the shouts as well?

yeah noticed this as well. i hope they do that range increase for all the offhand weps.
btw with baseline those that you don’t have to trait for the range on your weps of so awesome if not till me i am wrong :p
anyway offhand weps with offhand training are so good stalker strike(dagger 4) that extra step in duels i use as gap closer/evade i am one those few who stopped using a longbow a while ago and went melee ranger i have seen traits that i like in the new set up. anyway not gone babble any longer plz anet increase the range range on offhand weps or gives that trait back melee range’s will be very great full for it. cheers

Asakura

ps i want to see those spirit and traps changes and our elit spec cheers.