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I love it. After leveling every class to 80, I started a ranger and now have not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 level 80 rangers because of animations and I just love the class that much. I highly recommend learning the class, but whatever you do DON’T use a longbow and a bear!
Or if you don’t give a kitten what the popular infamy suggests, bear does have it’s place. AoE weakness, AoE condi clears in melee, durable as the day is long?
Bad players are bad. Bears can be pretty awesome though.
But I think you mean: If you’re going to be LB/SB (and then never weapon swap), never move around, can’t dodge, don’t use your utilities, or you have this notion that you should never go melee ever, yeah.
Don’t pick bear. Smokey begs you. He’s tired of the negative attention. It hurts his self-esteem.
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I think champions should have built in zerk busting abilities. They detect how many players are approaching and unlock abilities accordingly.
You send 50 players at the thing BAM. 1 hits, zerg wide knock backs. Heck give ’um aoe agony.
>.>
:D
I… I like this idea! Maybe not so much 1 hit because LOLZERG, but, a mixed choreographed attack (different, random tells) that if you don’t dodge it, you’re done.
Besides that, golden. Make the zerg work for it. AoE knock backs and torment for all! 
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Ranger. Is. The. Pet. Class. That will not change.
You shouldn’t play a class hoping that they’ll change a core mechanic about it. That’s stupid.
That’s like me playing thief, hoping they remove stealth from the class. Or a mesmer, hoping they remove clones from the class.
If you hate the pet so much, you really should reroll a class you can better tolerate. I’m not being a kitten, I sincerely mean that. Your gaming experience will be a lot better.
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I really like my pet.
I’ve always liked the pet classes in other games, pets are awesome. The pets you can tame in GW2 are amazing and unique critters, the variety is incredible.
Best I’ve ever seen in a game. The F2 mechanics and the different rolls they can play, the different stats for the different species have endless potential.
I switch my pets around often, either on a whim, compliment my current build, or because I think a particular pet is effective for the current thing I’m doing.
It’s all good up until the AI… the AI is bad. Terrible. It’s barely tolerable on a good day, and just tripe and rage inducing on others.
Some days I can make my pet attack one target while I handle the other… and other days, when I tell it to attack one target and I take another, it inexplicably stops attacking the target I told it to attack and comes back to mine.
To be fair, when this happens, I had probably accidentally pressed it’s F2.
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Some background/pet quirkiness:
If you have your pet attack a target different from yours with F1, if you use F2, the pet will use it’s F2 on the target that you are attacking.
Not the one you originally told it to attack with F1.
Ironically enough, if you tell your pet to begin the attack on an enemy with it’s F2, it will attack with it’s F2.
But if you the ranger select a different target from the one you told your pet to use it’s F2 on…
It’ll stop attacking the target you selected for it, and attack the enemy you are attacking. However, if you select a target for your pet with F1, and you do not use your F2…
You can select a different target from the one your pet is attacking and your pet will continue to attack the target you selected for it until it’s dead (the target or the pet) or you call it back/swap it leaving you the ranger free to change your targets around while your pet focuses on the one you wanted it to attack with F1.
Now if you’re still with me, congratulations. You’re probably a decent ranger.
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Dear Anet, please take note of the above. The above situation with how the pet AI works is crazy.
It’s confusing, non-intuitive, and something you “learn” through a lot of trial and error.
If we can’t get a comprehensive pet AI redo anytime soon, would it be too much to ask that the current system be streamlined, tweaked to be more consistent and less… crazy?
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Proposed Hot Fix:
Let F2 skills “lock” a pets target like F1 does. The ranger can use their pets F2 on one enemy, and they themselves can attack another like how F1 works.
An additional function to using F2 to target with the pet would be to let it automatically use it’s F2 on recharge (F2 attack always has priority) on the selected target, that way you don’t change targets by pressing F2 (like how it works now).
It would fire off on the selected enemy automatically, until you called it back with F3 or pressed F1.
Using F1 works like it does now, and would double as a way to “turn off” the auto F2 attack.
Using F1 simply locks the pet to your selected target and does not activate this “auto F2” function that using F2 to target an attack would do.
Not pushing anything just works like it does now, attack what I’m attacking, attack what attacks us behavior… until you do push one of the pet commands.
Using F2 later in the fight simply works like it does now, it activates and your pet then “locks” your current target.
Pressing F1 locks the pet on a target like it does now, and does not commit the F2 attack to an auto sequence.
Pressing F1 or F3 breaks/turns off the “auto F2” function. As would swapping obviously.
This is good for non-offensive and utility based F2’s, though they could also be used in the auto F2 way.
Something like this works within the current framework of the current pet system and would be a godsend for rangers in terms of pet management.
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Also, Nike’s idea is awesome and something that should be considered in the event of a total pet AI redo.
Thank you players, devs, haters, for reading if you read. Appreciate the time. Sorry it got a little long.
Oh ok, there is no proof in his post, there is clearly a lack there of, and if we go with his argument, Anet has recently as in the last couple Quarters been quick to fix patch note and Tool Tip discrepancies. So the lack of then doing that points even further to it being a bug.
I agree with this, Anet have been quicker to fix these things than they used to be. Look, I’m not arguing for or against this being a bug or not, all I asked for was some official response on the matter.
For example:
FYI the unblockable portion is a confirmed bug. ANET did not allow rangers to use it during the most recent TOL.
I’d like to see the official info about this, if available. Don’t mistake my request for info as a for or against argument.
The best that can be found on this unless Devs stated on anything on Reddit for the ToL, Edit here is the Link
Well, as long as we’re being pedants about everything it should be said that this is not an official statement.
That’s a call by the tournament sponsors on account that the SoTW change isn’t a patch note, ergo, ‘unintended’.
The fact that the tournament sponsors had to make such a call means they don’t know if it’s intended or not and err’d on the side of caution.
It follows that if there was a patch note or mention by an official source as a change to the skill’s function, it likely wouldn’t have been banned from use.
Until we get official word, who’s to say it’s not simply an undocumented change? 
But seriously… most people here aren’t arguing the semantics of the change being classified as a bug. The change intended or otherwise, adds something new to the skill.
IMO, it’s on the level of a minor QoL thing. I like it. But I certainly don’t believe 8 seconds of utility on a ~52-60 sec CD is OP.
You sacrifice the passive on top of all that, and it has a huge tell. Literally.
A giant Mario coin pops up over your enemy’s head basically begging you “interrupt me!!” and failing that, you can tell the person is unblockable because they hulked out.
Failing all that, it’s in their status bar and counting to 8 isn’t very hard. You don’t have to agree with me and you’re free to argue it’s OP as it is.
But no one here except you is honestly arguing on the semantics of it’s classification and that’s a foolish place to make your stand because we simply don’t know.
Unless you’re going to follow up with official word from Anet, I’d suggest a more practical argument that isn’t grounded in baseless conjecture.
Ex-flame legion fellow who saw the light, realized flame legion is full crazy and <insert dramatic story here>
Found refuge in Ash Legion and slowly began to grow in prominence until disaster struck his warband… cut, game lore picks up here, print.
You’re welcome.
I’m an Iron Legion thief. Totally not an Ash Legion plant or anything. Perish the thought! Now, or you die!
Nah, just kidding. Let’s get you a shot of whiskey, on me.
Please keep making more outfits. They’re awesome. Armors would be nice too, though. Thank you! 
Sorry makes absolutely no sense, they changed the other dungeons but not this one. What is harder/different about this one dungeon/path that makes it harder than the others to change? NEXT
Because CoF farming didn’t really pick up until the AC changes?
CoF will get it’s changes shortly, and whatever faceroll run people come up with to take it’s place will be dealt with accordingly until everything is sorted. Savvy?
It’s not going to be a simple nerf they’ll do if that’s what you’re expecting.
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Yeah, cause nothing that happens in the world can be out of sync with the Personal Story. The truth is, Jennah is only around in instances, they can easily kill her off while preserving this.
Rurik and Togo both die in GW1, that doesn’t stop you from repeating missions which have them alive. If they can kill an Elder Dragon yet have his minions and champions still appearing in the open world, they can easily take out a queen who has little to no relevance to the open world outside of minor mentions in a handful of DEs.
That’s all well and good, but you forget that Rurik and Togo dying are part of their respective games stories.
If an add-on (Guild Wars Beyond) had Rurik and Togo all fine and dandy, that would be an impressive paradox to bridge.
Queen Jennah does not die in Guild Wars 2. She looses relevance as you continue your personal story, but she’s still around.
The dungeons expand on the games lore to that end. Queen Jennah is a very important figure in this game.
We’re even getting a living story dedicated to her! :P
At best, the queens life may yet be threatened. Maybe she’ll be killed off in a later game.
But she’s not going to be killed off as part of the living story of this games story without some impressive explanation and some serious in-game retcon, leading into said sequel or something like that.
It could be done, but short of something as huge as a sequel it would be a horrible, stupid idea.
Though, seeing as the majority in this thread don’t pay attention to any of that I’m sure many of you would be none the wiser… even happy about it.
Bunch of sick puppies, some of you.
We can get something interesting without killing off beloved characters, calm your bloodlust. Remember Tybalt.
PS Quit hating on Traherne. It won’t end well~ 
Hello, I’m posting about a bug with the Ascalonian Catacombs Longbow that you can purchase with Tears of Ascalon.
It’s in game name is called “Ghastly Longbow”. I see a lot of people refering to it (as I myself once refered to it) as the “Ascalonian Longbow”.
I figure maybe that’s why when I’ve reported this bug twice in game with the bug report feature, it didn’t seem addressed.
I figure I’d make a forum post and get everything as detailed as I can get it this round. It’s a pretty simple thing.
The Ghastly Longbow has an amazing glowing and particle effect at night and in dark caves like all of the other Ghastly weapons from the AC dungeon set.
It seems to work in stages. At dusk, the bow glows and the particle effect “pulses” on and off for lack of a better word. This works properly.
At night, the bow completely glows a ghostly blue hue and the particle effect is in full swing, a constant thing, like the other AC dungeon weapons.
It’s awesome. But here’s where the bug come in. You lose this awesome particle effect when you fire the bow… and it does not come back.
This isn’t consistent with how every other weapon from the AC dungeon works.
Now when you reload into an area and if it’s night, the glow and the particle effect comes back… until you fire the weapon again.
It’s a very irritating bug because the bow is so cool at night, but you can’t experience it if you actually… use it.
It’s a complete and total bummer. It’s still an awesome bow, it’s cool looking in general.
But the perk of owning an AC weapon for that awesome effect at night… you don’t get to enjoy that if you pick Ghastly Longbow.
It would be wonderful if I could get a dev answer regarding this issue. Some kind of confirmation this will be looked into.
I, and anyone who likes cool haunted longbows would really really appreciate it if this got fixed. Thank you!