Guild Wars 2

Popped these on my Trap Set.

Now I can run with speed and 3 Traps.

Why are you guys crying? Is it really that hard to setup your spirits before a boss fight to a safe location and then re-summon in 25 seconds for the next fight? This is a buff for you pvers actually. This gives you a shorter CD. How about you l2p pve and be happy that the devs are doing a good job at balancing pve and pvp. Anet is actually losing a good amount of people from pvp because they give you guys priority. So how bout you adapt?

Also myself, when I pve I go zerkers for most gear and focus on traits that give damage. That seems to be best for group play. I can outdps almost anyone and I still have decent toughness. Think you guys are the noobs that give rangers a bad rap. What does a FULL spirits build give to a group seriously, before or after this patch.

So, this was a buff, you can now bring spirits along without spending a single point in NM and not be boned by their kittenty survivability, I’m liking this “nerf” I see a lot if possibilities appearing because of this…

Should have been a PvP only nerf. ArenaNet once again drops the ball.

Can we please just get rid of SPvP already? It’s destroying the game.

Solandri.9640:

histerico.6153:

Wrong ranger spirits now act like every other pet summoning skill and goes on cd when the summon dies

Great! So our spirits will now follow us around without us needing to trait for it, and they’ll actively attack/defend on their own instead of just give a buff?

They’ve essentially turned ranger spirits into warrior banners with all the disadvantages of guardian spirit weapons, plus the disadvantage of having to devote trait points to get them to be mobile like guardian spirits.

You’ve clearly never played a spirit weapons build…

Spirits are a combination of banners, minions, and turrets really.

PS: the more I check this forum the more I realize the ranger community can’t adapt at all…. Oh the irony…

In 1 week there will be a post “OMG TRIBULATION MODE IS SO HARD AND WHY DONT I GET A GARANTUEED SKIN SUCCEEDING IT???!!!!”

i was playing erotic games and got my head stuck in a kettle!

This thread is now gold.

Buffy.9246:

Boy SBI. You guys are sure turning into a Tier 2 server. Keep moving on up in ranks and face Dragonbrand, Maguuma, Tarnished Coast. SBI will be creamed by them badly and all your new transfers will prob leave you again…So watch out

Been there, done that. SBI was a former t1 server and on its way down had long stretches of just unwinnable matchups. I started WvW when all the fairweathers left and we had like a dozen people vs t1/t2 server zergs. We pretty much celebrated every time we captured anything. So no, we don’t need or care for bandwagoners, although I must admit they make excellent shields.

They always said our server was dead, our players are terrible, we have no organization, respond to calls for help with “what’s a borderland— is that next to Stonemist?”, our zergs have the attention span of a goldfish dressed in green zerker gear. All of which is patently false. Our zergs have the attention span of a squirrel and are dressed in orange zerker gear, we do know what a borderland is (caring is another issue), and we can stay together for about 15 seconds before someone kills a sentry. But most importantly, we are not dead.

We had the same matchup a while back that BP had just last week and I must say BP did very well as I understand as a server they never quit. I guess that’s something to pick up on. Going up tiers isn’t a reward. We know that already. Sitting in a queue and claiming you are the best because you can mash 1 is not our goal.

Epistemic.8013:

MokoToko.6890:

Tien.3865:

MokoToko.6890:

JobCreator.1956:

Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

My names not Joey… :s

Surely you can’t be serious.

I’m guessing you were referencing Joey from Pokemon, since I was entirely random during that whole post. Whatever, that’s just how I pictured it is all…

Also, apologies for the lack of spoiler alerts :P

Watch Airplane! tonight, eff wvw.

OH GOD HOW DID I MISS THAT?

I AM SO SORRY. Hahahaha.

MokoToko.6890:

Hopefully there will be more chances this week, because I would really love to see a 300-like story line where the 300 Spartans actually kill the 10,000 Persians!

Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?

Buffy.9246:

Hey Darkhaven. Little tip for ya. Let SBI server have SM and they will not defend their bl. Easy points.

This statement is very misleading, our EB crew is FAR different than our BL crew meaning SM has no equation to the matter, and is in fact a bad cop-out of not having SM on reset night against a “worse” ranked server, we also held what.. 3 of your towers for the majority of reset? and we didn’t even loose a camp even against several zerg attempts.

Some sort of progression for our pets might be interesting.

I’d rather not have to pay for two sets of exotic armor though. Some people mentioned that our pets could scale based off our armor and weapons, which seems fair enough.

I’m here to tell you right now. I don’t use GS, I use Hammer.

But even if I did….

1s nerf or even making Para sigil not work the way it does, won’t save even the average player.

Then they will just complain about Earthshaker etc.

It’s not the 1 extra second that putting us at the top.

For example, I had a necro tell me I’m op because of the amount of CC I had, yet he had no stunbreakers. And this is the IQ of the every day player.

Game isn’t balanced around 1v1’s.

If you’ve got an issue, heres a tissue.

Sorry.

Woooo your horses :P

Lets get them to fix the skills on weapons we have atm, before asking for new ones.

( would love a 2h Axe tho :P )

I couldn’t careless about how other classes view Rangers. As a Ranger I am free to do as I like. I look at the other classes and I see classes with gimmick abilities that have pigeon holed them into certain roles.

In wvw we don’t have a dedicated role. I feel that is our role if the other class are so valuable in their role then it really a shame to use the for anything else. Except with the way wvw is having more x classes in your zerg vs having more y class in your zerg really doesn’t matter. Because at the end of the day it comes down to the size of your zerg and the skill of the players participating.

The most notable of us Rangers show we can kick butt. In ever aspect of the game there are rangers that show us we can do it well. That we do make a difference for the better.

Some people cling to the old image of the ranger. I still hear people complaining about rangers pet aggroing. Ranger pets haven’t aggro’ed for two months. Your pet doesn’t put you in combat but it can keep you in combat.

Yes there are issue with the class but the biggest problem is how people play the game.
We have issue with how pet don’t scale at all in terms of gear quality. So we don’t scale well with power. But power isn’t the end all and be all. Power can be nice but there are draw back to it. However since most players glitch/exploit most pve content
being fragile is negated. With that said have you notice warriors and thieves are usually the first one’s downed.

Lots of people love guardians in a group, but if I never had a guardian in my group again it would be to soon. I don’t normally run zerker so I don’t need him to help me stay alive. Their damage is crap most of the time they pop their shield or wall of reflect all willy nilly. It’s the Dps is king notion that makes time warp and protection so sought after.

Some say the Queens Guantlet proves how bad off rangers are. I have no problem completing most of the achievements. Hardest achievement was the High stack gambler. In the end I did it will a beast masters build. Liadri was difficult not because of damage issues more because of the bad camera angle. I didn’t do the light up the darkness but in all my fail attempts damage wasn’t the issue it was me failing to avoid her clone once again due to bad camera angle.

I hear rangers saying this skill is useless and that skill is terrible. Not all skill are optimal for everything but each skill has it’s use. Some of them not so obvious. I you the ranger don’t full understand and appreciate the range and strength of your abilities how are the other classes to know what we are capable of.

We don’t have a cheesy OP mechanism that we abuse. We don’t spam terror or confusion or retaliation or stun lock people. For the most part when a ranger beats someone its because the ranger beat you and not some Op cheesy mechanic.

Katkon.3698:

Admittedly I am pretty new to GW2, but I enjoy the class tremendously. But, I only play to have fun, and couldn’t care less about the opinions of anyone else as it relates to my choices.

Well I hope you continue to enjoy yourself and have many fond memories!

Admittedly I am pretty new to GW2, but I enjoy the class tremendously. But, I only play to have fun, and couldn’t care less about the opinions of anyone else as it relates to my choices.

dank.3680:

Art.9820:

moutzaheadin.4029:

Art.9820:

dank.3680:

Art.9820:

KTDannyCZ.2910:

Yesterdays jazzy jazz goin down. I love watching the other servers ketten-talk but fail to back it up. Ignore the badness in this vid.. I forgot how to theef obviously

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUJGncVR-jo

Yea…. because everyone is very egocentric and we have this “weird” need & urge to record ourselves to show it off lol

Wow Danny must be like the first person to ever record himself playing a video game.. How very “egocentric” of you Danny, you must be a horrible person.

yup the thin line between sharing and showing off

Chris.4527:

Fun video of [One] trolling around, starring our morning crew.

You NSP guys are persistent as all hell!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JoVA0UL385Y

Now this is what I acknowledge as “recording for fun” lol, man now that I think of… I wish I had recorded yesterday’s NSP fail, 25 NSP against 10 of us in a T2 tower and they all died at the gate haha it was epic

KTDannyCZ.2910:

F5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5

Now you should learn something and actually include your failures but I guess you gotta eat, ego ego ego ego nomnomnom

Ill bite ole Arty boy,

Watching some of both videos. Dannys video shows reaction and skill vers other players. you have to think as you fight and know what your fighting or you fail.

Chris’s video shows nothing more then stacking up and mashing Aoe’s inside of mobs of red. Not caring what the situation is or reacting to nothing, just MASH MASH MASH.

Im not even sure i understand how people play this way. I like to read and react to people trying to use different builds and strategy’s in a smaller scale setting.

Step away from your zerg, you will learn your class and be a better player for it.

that is all , ty.

Haha because I zerg a lot buddy… you seem to know me very well! I think you missed where I said 10v25 thought…. or maybe just ignored it for convenience? oh well who knows…. but yeah the thing is that I have enoyed killing most of xoxos in wvw seems like you guys can only hold in bunker groups, so please don’t come here and act like you’re really skilled xD that is just hilarious when it comes to 1v1 you are awfully bad you are way to dependable of your bunkers builds….. but hey! in the end you guys manage to cap camps…. attaboy!

Lol Obsession you really should stop bunkering with that mega 15k hp… Honestly l2p Obsession quit hiding behind your bunker mesmer.

You should ask MEX about our 5v5’s last night that each ended in under 30 seconds.. Also ask them about the lvl 24 XOXO Ranger who beat their 80 necro in a duel…

Oh and if you want some 1v1’s I’m sure there are plenty of XOXO who would be glad to put their tbag where your mouth is.

Oh and @chris —-- LOVE YA!! Miss ya here on NSP!

For god sake. You just lost all respect I had for your guild…

First of all MEX is training out there, we have a lot of newcomers of wvw, we had at that day only 3 previous sessions. We accepted your challenge as part of our training.

Second we didnt had any mesmers in our 5 group (they going to sleep at that time), not even thief.

Third: You are probably good players, but you lack a lot as persons, you are just gaining the reputation of a bad joke, and an example of how not to be as guild/players in the field. Shame.

If you want to boast of something, defeat a veteran guild in gvg, not a bunch of newcomers in training process.

GabGar
La legión del águila [MEX]

I hereby officially announce the new NSP roamer new motto: “You are Bad and We don’t care”

Hopefully you just gave them idea how to fix pets

How dare ANet bring back SAB for those who loved it! Grab your pitchforks, folks!

Alas I havent yet found time.. tomorrow! I will try! I hope… if work doesnt take too long… :P

CRrabbit.1284:

lol, no stun breaker. you can at most cast 1 skill in front of zerg then be stun locked to death.

mistsim.2748:

if youre casting from 600 range, by the time youre done, the melee train is upon you. so youre still at melee range.

How the hell do you guys play? Stand still and take all the incoming damage to your face? The Ranger has more then enough evasion to move out of the way. You’re talking like the only reasonable scenario is a hundred foes, with +100% movement speed, vs. one imbecile Ranger. Let’s get back to reality shall we..

If you want more stun removal, then changing Muddy Terrain to Signet of Renewal, or Lightning Reflexes, wouldn’t make the build that much worse. And the build also has Shared Anguish.

How many have you heard say “ranger is only good at defending points in spvp but is an awful wvw zerg profession” as if the lord’s room wasn’t a point? Just more evidence that traps are essential. I love bunker/trap ranger in lords room and your commander should too.

Spirits are actually not too bad on front lines. I love watching the enemy eat a blind because they decided to spam aoe on my spirit.

Yeah wells are nice, yes we love staff ele’s, but the ranger brings something different: speed and control.

Ranger prepares and softens the enemy for the zerg

Case in point: In strikeforce, when we assault a zerg, I get ahead of the zerg by teaming with a thief and using SR. I leap into the middle of their pile with greatsword and just unload traps on them. I have stability so they can’t stop me and the traps are unblockable, chilling and poisoning them (movement negation, skill recharge rate negation, regen negation). It’s just GG

To survive the initial attack, use healing power gear or Soldiers or sentinel, although, sentinel is prohibitively expensive right now. Use RaO for stability so you can escape. It’s easy to drop traps and get out when you use these techniques, you might have to blow a condi clear for immobilize but thats about it.

What other professions can jump in and jump out like that? Maybe there’s one, but for ranger, it’s natural. It’s how we do.

Ok, I did miss it… And I am intrigued…. When I get home I’ll watch the video and give it a go… Thanks!