Guild Wars 2

After seeing somethings on my ranger, I can understand SOME issues people might have with the ranger’s down state but the big picture scenario is also important.

Before they fix anything to negatively affect the ranger’s down state, they need to fix the positive stuff.

1) When you call your pet to heal you (Lick wounds) it needs to work. It doesn’t always. Heck it feels like I’m flipping a coin if my pet will save me.
2) Pets need to use their F2 ability on command and not IF you woke up on the right side of the bed, crossed your pinky fingers up at the sky towards the sun, chant something in latin, and then hop six times on your left foot and 2 on your right towards your wardrobe. I switch to my wolf when people try and stop to use the howl of fear but he just sits there, whether I command him to attack or fear … (Maybe he actually just hates me and wants me to die?)

Things that I can agree need to be fixed is underwater related. 3 guys were attacking me underwater in sPVP in my downed state. I had 19 stacks of bleed on me too. I still came back to life. Now maybe that has more to do with underwater damage being low but come on … I hope all rangers can agree this shouldn’t happen.

Also, I’ve noticed the whole “Kill the pet” thing doesn’t always work. I’ve had downed pets heal me anyway.

I’m fine with our down state being looked at IF they look at all of it. Otherwise, keep it as is because currently its balanced in the fact that “Half the time you’re amazing and the other half you’re terrible”

If the thief is worth their salt you wont kill him.

Would be useless. Even with max fear duration and if marks magically started hitting downed players you would get rupted.

If you want to stomp effectively, then your option is to take 30pts in reaping.

If you want to fake it, then you have a chance with Well of Darkness and/or Dagger #4 and or Staff #4 on top of a Dark Field (and pray that some dummy or pet triggers the mark).

There is also the S.Walk/Wurm combo for a tele-stomp. It burns 2 stun breaks (that almost no-one run together) for one stomp, which I think is kinda silly. Or you can Plague Stomp on a ridiculous long CD.

There are some things that I don’t think Necro is ever going to be likely to get, and good stomping ability is probably one of them.

Auesis.7301:

Also coming May 14: Thief reworked in to Assassin! Stealth slowly phased out as there is no need for it, and the glory days of A/x return!

Pff. I wish. Instead we just get kitten for the umpteenth time.

Lol, because being able to steal 2 boons and hit for 2/3 the damage of backstab with a single skill is “horrible”.

Having the only true stunbreaker and condition removal in a single weapon skill is also “horrible” … not to mention it can teleport you to a location up to 1,200 range away.

Thieves are spoiled with great skills and all I see is complaining from them about how “weak they are”. If that was the case, Thieves wouldn’t be so common in PvP.

This can all be found on dulfy.net but I wanted to post it here since a lot of people are struggling. All credit goes to Dulfy and those that helped contribute. Be sure to send them your thanks for all of their hard work.

Hidden Rooms and Upgrade Locations

http://dulfy.net/2013/04/01/gw2-super-adventure-box-guide/

All Baubles – World 1, Zone 1

http://dulfy.net/2013/04/01/gw2-associate-of-baubles-super-adventure-box-achievement-guide/

All Baubles – World 1, Zone 2

http://dulfy.net/2013/04/02/gw2-bachelor-of-baubles-super-adventure-box-achievement-guide/

All Baubles – World 1, Zone 3

http://dulfy.net/2013/04/02/gw2-master-of-baubles-super-adventure-box-achievement-guide/

GS is more damage based and Hammer is more control based. It really depends on your playstyle.

You should have all weapons and use what is best for the fight you are ab to go into.

Durzlla.6295:

because regardless of what you guys say i’m not changing it, it WORKS.

Aka, no matter what anyone else says the build is amazing and works great. Constructive criticism or comments in general need not apply. Quite a lot of the people who have responded have been around the ranger class for a while now and offer good strong points but you dismiss them as dumb and naive. I’m all for trying out new builds and theorycrafting, but creating a build that can do with a lot of improvement and calling it good, when it really isn’t, shouldn’t be something to adamantly defend.

Just because a build can work in a certain situation doesn’t mean it is good, any class on any build can do that, the trick is trying to improve them to their best potential possible and frankly a ranger with low cc, low damage, low survivability and no condi removal is far from ideal.

…and you press Steal and it just… does it…?

That’s what should happen when I press F2 on my pet, no long animation for a wolf fear and then they’re out of range (if it even works at all), no flapping around and around and around before my bird bothers to attack, it should just work.

You can’t have a PVP game where burst or CC randomly might, kinda, sometimes, sorta’ happen. I get that you don’t want pets pointing and shooting and locking onto targets and hitting like trucks, totally unavoidable, but if we press F2 we should get F2.

Simple.

But protection and bark skin only work on physical damage. You have no cleansing, none. What do you do when a necromancer drops wells or marks on you? Die? What if you fight a bunker/condition engi? Trap ranger? You stand no chance. The lack of stability coupled with no condition removal mean you won’t be able to sit on a point for any extended period of time regardless of your health pool. My trap ranger focuses on keeping 100% up time on burn and poison on my target to drain their health and keep it low while maintaining vigor, protection, more evades, condition removal, combo fields, and near 3000 armor. The other issue is that not only do you have no resistance against conditions, but a terribly low armor rating means you are kitten near glass cannon which opens up practically any build with damage the ability to defeat you. While not tested, I doubt bark skin and protection stack linearly like you think. I’d say it is a sequential implementation, example below.
Hit for 1000 without protection and bark skin
Hit for 1000 – 63% = 370 <- How you assume it works.
Hit for 1000 – 33% = 670 – 30% = 469 <- How I would assume it works.

Plus bark skin only works on the last 25% of your health pool. I would think because of this you would surely run troll unguent as a burst heal will put you well above that limitation. Lastly, I guess I can see why you want the fernhound. Using its F2 as a way of “removing” damage conditions. However, the effectiveness of this is reduced by poison and since you cant remove any conditions, yeah you know where I’m going.

I’m done. Take my critique or don’t, I care not.

I’m going to have to agree with Proxydamage on this one. It sounded like an interesting build until i opened it. You are extremely squishy in every respect. Low armor and no resistance to conditions whatsoever. I see no point in the fernhound. Hyena would have some decent synergy with the sun spirit but you are so weak that I would never want to 1v1 in this build. Your only hope is to sit far back and pray they ignore you, which they won’t as soon as they notice you have zero defense in both skills and actual defense (entangle doesn’t count as it is WAY to easy to evade if the enemy is mildly intelligent). This build would be mildly strong at applying conditions with allies (assuming the spirit lives) but is countered by everything. To say it is weak is an understatement. However, I will say that at least you thought about it and it is genuinely stronger than many builds I’ve seen posted here. What I mean by this is that most rangers run trash builds and you have the potential to create a decent build if you work a little more on it.

Obviously I am fairly strictly talking about PvP (WvW included). I give 0 kittens about PvE builds.

Quick note: Traited Flame trap has a 50% up time on burn applied to foes (6s burn, 12s cd). If used with torch skills, you can maintain 100% burn on foes, especially those with little cleansing like this build. Sun spirits burn up time fluctuates horrendously due to the percent chance to proc combined with 10s icd.

Daecollo.9578:

You guys do realize I posted this on April first, right?

However I do find guardians kind of ridiculous at the moment.

So you’re back-pedaling while using April Fools but your past quotes always point towards wanting to improve warriors or complaining about the guardian’s pros vs the warrior’s cons.

I still think you are still trying to find the class that can do everything and excels in it.

Elementalist’s forum is that way —-—>

Or maybe you should try to overcome the popular belief that warriors are underpowered and need buffs and find what suits you. I play both and I understand the difference.

Its stunning how little you understand either class.

I’m only going to respond to this from an sPvP perspective, because I can’t say much about the other game modes I haven’t played in months.

Axe is not really an option in any build except (possibly) a minion master, which I don’t consider good use of the profession in sPvP anyway.

Direct damage (even traited) doesn’t come close to any dagger build with comperable power/precision/crit, so if you want to go power it is a poor option.

Vulnerability is applied more effectively by Focus #4, and the 7s duration vs. 5s didn’t make a difference, because by the time you stack 10 vulnerable with the axe it is either removed or someone bursted you to death, or the target has kited you because your range sucks and so does your mobility.

A-net’s opinion of the axe isn’t really relevant. Objectively, it is a weapon that there is no reason to use with the possible exception of a hard bunkering minion master (not really viable anyway) that has tons of sources of damage from minions, but no power to deal his own damage (thus buffing the damage of the minions is preferred).

I play my ranger exclusively (I really don’t like alts), and while I do fine in dungeons I do get the feeling that we don’t really bring anything to groups. Our dps is lacking, pets are just useless (either you have problems with f2s working, cough wolves cough, they die before they can do anything, or a combination of the two), our support specs don’t really help either…

One thing I can say though, is that I do prefer the aesthetics of the ranger skills over all the other classes and the feel of the ranger skills is definitely good (I just wish you could use dodge to cancel out of sword 1…).

I was in a party with almost all warriors once for AC and they downed everything before I could even attack =_=’

Well, to answer your question a bit more directly; we bring nothing to dungeon runs that isn’t sub-par and done better by another class. I mean you won’t really ever hear “Prefer a ranger” in looking for group messages…

EDIT:
Oh, oh! But, according to anet we are good at open world! Those easy mode enemies, and super zerged events where it doesn’t really matter if your class is good or not!

- the fact that #2’s bounce only works at midrange and closer is counterproductive to the concept of the weapon. I can choose between doing less dmg with skill #1 and maximizing my bounces (which is fun!) or I can stay at range, but then skill #2 is rather bad.

Eh, no.

You use 1111 when the target is at range, and you use 2 when your phantasm is spawned (it will bounce off the phantasm and back to your target), OR within 600 range of you.

If the target is in melee you hit 5 and then continue, or swap to your other weapon set.

GS2 is not counterproductive to the concept of the weaponset — your mental concept of the weaponset is misaligned.

Natural Vigor
Wilderness Survival adept minor (5 pts)
+ 50% Endurance regeneration

Zephyr’s Speed
Beastmastery adept minor (5 points)
2 secs quickness on pet swap

These two traits are just beast, they’re of paramount importance to all rangers and I don’t think any build can afford to do without them. No matter what or where you play, 5 points should always be invested into WS and BM.

I’m posting this because I keep coming across builds that neglect one of these traits. If you’re new to the Ranger class you should note the importance of these two minors, but if you’ve been around for a while I’d be curious to hear your logic behind not picking these up. The only thing I can really think of is Master’s Bond conflicting with Zephyr’s Speed. Anyone care to comment?

TL;DR – All ranger builds need 5 points in WS and BM for endurance regen and quickness

You need to learn how to play.

Disclaimer: Not intended as a hate or whine thread. Please review/comment objectively.

Am I alone in sometimes wishing pets could be “turned off” entirely? Seriously, in my opinion the pet should not make/break the profession. In the original Guild Wars it was often rare to even see a ranger with a pet outside of Jade Quarry PvP (even having a pet active took up one or more of your eight skill slots). We were trappers, interrupters, and professional aggro pullers/manipulators. In those things we had legitimate strategic purpose as a class. We had a solid range of diversity that I’d really like to see again.

When I see dev posts here in the ranger forums, most of what I see is “we’re aware pets need adjustments and this is where we’re focusing.” Why? I grieve because I love the profession, it easily being my favorite; and yet I can’t always find a group for dungeons and fractals outside of my guild. To make it worse, this is often for good reason, my pet. They run ahead and draw aggro if not properly watched and maintained. Mine is usually placed on docile the entire time unless on a boss where at least they can soak a few hits for me or someone else. Which comes to the second part, pet survivability. Most of them dying within a few hits in direct enemy agro. Amidst a slew of other noteworthy (mostly AI based) issues. I won’t even touch upon pets in PvP arenas like WvW, because doing so I believe will broaden the scope of the conversation beyond its necessary limits.

Again, I’m not trying to troll or toss another “oh woe is me” post here. I want legit opinions on this. Why is something that should at best be an add-on or perk completely defining the ranger class? Me, I’d be perfectly happy being able to stow the pet away if I so chose (outside of combat only of course, as the option should not be allowed during to prevent any sort of infight stat manipulation). In doing so getting all my own damage output returned to me directly instead of being consolidated between two entities, and maybe having something cool like one extra bar on my endurance for one extra dodge or something.

Thoughts?

Had no issue with my thief in frac30+.
Signet of Malice+Omnom pie+sigil of blood still equals at least 650hp/s.
Blindspam/evade prevents damage altogether.

Changes just made full glass cannon much harder to play, now you’ll have to rely on some defense to keep up.
I have 2400 armor 15k health while still hitting like a truck, and healing/blind keeps me in the fight.

I hope they don’t bring in inspection. I carry around a full set of Berserker gear for when people ask me to “Ping” my stats, but I am always wearing my full Magic Find set because I want more money.

WvW that’s why.

Well, that didn’t take long.

Wow…before the patch people complaining about how kittenty those world event rewards were, now some of you are complaining how good it has became?…

seriously?

The rewards are right where they should have been from the beginning.

No. It’s great now. Lower rare and ecto prices are fantastic. Stop whining.