Guild Wars 2

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Moas are actually the third-highest DPS pet, after birds and felines. The gap is pretty big between felines and moas but moas are definitely one of the stronger pets.

Wait, what about drakes. I’m fairly certain they hit harder then the moa.

Zenith.7301:

Aphoticrain.8420:

I use the Axe on a crit build and I find the auto attack to be fantastic for multiple targets with high damage. While I wouldn’t be apposed to having a bleed on the axe I don’t find it necessary since the sb offers a sustainable bleed.

Not for aoe it doesn’t. And the sb is not a condition spec weapon flexible enought to run given it only uses a single condition with a very short poison. It has no chill, it has no weakness, it has no burning, and the very lack of burning itself discards it from any condi build to begin with.

You only run SB with traps.

Ricochet also does less damage than trick shot for aoe, and if you’re running a crit build with axe you’re running the wrong weapon considering the only skill you’ll benefit from is the autoattack as splitblade and the others receive greatly reduced power scaling coefficients due to having conditions tied to them.

I find the Axe/Axe combo pretty competitive. Speaking for just the main hand axe I find the chill/weakness awesome and yeah splitblade is a bit out of place but its not horrible. How much does trick shot average for? I wont say it is less unless I can actually compare it.

Yeah I agree the Short bow isn’t all that great but the axe doesn’t have burning either but if you have a long CD duration you can stack the bleed up to 9-10 stacks or so which is significant damage.

I understand that you’re saying there isn’t a lot of options for the ranger that keep up constant cd damage at a range. I guess the best way at the moment is to look to runes and sigils to do it. Plus if the Axe has a bleed wont it be the same as the sb?

jmatb.6307:

These are the kinds of posts that make me wonder if people have played PvP to be honest. I know what the signets do. When you total it all up, where you have constant regen boon, regen from the signet, passive and active condi clearing, 20+ seconds of stability, passive effortless condi removal….

Yes, a signet Ranger is lackluster alone if you’re just looking at the utilities. The meta builds for Ranger at the moment tell a different story though.

Alright I will agree to disagree. I’m not saying the build isn’t strong but I acknowledge that the people who use it are thinking and reacting like you would with any build. It seems to me that you don’t enjoy bunker builds and to each his own I guess. Granted I will say that the CD removal is a bit excessive but it offers a counter to the current state of conditions. Regardless the condescending tone that is seeping in and out of your words makes it clear that while you may acknowledge what other people are saying its your way or the high way.

I use the Axe on a crit build and I find the auto attack to be fantastic for multiple targets with high damage. While I wouldn’t be apposed to having a bleed on the axe I don’t find it necessary since the sb offers a sustainable bleed.

jmatb.6307:

Aphoticrain.8420:

jmatb.6307:

Phantaram.1265:

Completely agree with this. The perfect example of something that is nearly the complete opposite of being active is spirit ranger. Spam 1 on your shortbow and if they get close just activate all spirits! You’ve now played this class to near optimization grats. Skill needs to be a more emphasized part of the game. And if simple builds are to stay in, they shouldn’t be the strongest builds.

Yeah Ranger keeps getting lazier and lazier. If they aren’t riding their pet, they’re riding spirits. Signets and traits remove conditions better than anyone without having to worry about it.

When you don’t have to use your utilities at all and other professions have to bring Lyssa runes or certain utilities just to survive long enough to contribute there’s a serious problem.

Why yes rangers must be lazy for attempting and using builds that work or stand a chance in 1v1 and group settings. Balthazar forbid we are actually able to do or beat anything. Instead we should clearly just all use the pig pet and be forced to fight with whatever it drops in order to keep the fight “active” enough.

While we have a nice CD removal if traited for it, it still works on a cooldown so if your just spamming conditions at the start like confetti then I think its perfectly reasonable that it can be removed.

In terms of spirits. Kill them, then the ranger.

And I would disagree with the not using of utilities. Passive utilities have an active and have times when the active is useful at the cost of the passive (accept when traited on an ele) and I find it unlikely that most people running signets or spirits/minions and not using the utilities are succeeding on a regular basis.

Hyperbole much?

I never said Rangers need to be nerfed into oblivion. I just want them and any other spec that relies on passive bonuses to actually earn their productivity by using their utilities and weapons skillfully.

I can respect Rangers who run traps or power builds. They have to actually time their skills and utilities. They aren’t going to survive if they don’t.

But when you get empathic bond that requires no effort, signets that require little effort, and spirits that require almost no effort, and you can play better, because of the spec, than entire professions played by skilled players using a single target strategy that is complete garbage.

I played signet ranger for a little while and its a bit lack luster in my opinion it is by no means something that does not require skill. I have not played spirit ranger so I can’t really speak for that.

Signet Ranger has the option of 4 signets.

Signet of Renewal – "Passive: Cures a condition every ten seconds. Active: Your pet pulls all conditions from nearby allies to itself. "
With empathetic bond this is removing four conditions every 10s. If you are putting out sustained CD every 10s of removal helps mitigate some of that damage but there is gaps allowing for CD to take effect. Plus once the ranger hit the sigil to purge conditions they are pretty much open to CD damage.

Signet of Stone -“Improves toughness for you and your pet. Active: Your pet takes no damage from attacks”
This passive is pretty meh. It gives 100 toughness which really isnt that yay. The active however can be effective in BM builds or if the Signets are shared. However like many active skills timing is necessary to be effective.

Signet of the Hunt – "Grants 25% increased movement speed to you and your pet.Active: Your pet’s next attack deals more damage "
Movement speed is also a bit meh to me. Good for roaming I guess. However the active is nice for a spike.

Signet of the Wild – "Grants health regeneration to you and your pet.Active: Your pet grows larger, dealing more damage and gaining stability. "
So this can make for a strong addition to a bunker build but I think any solid burst and CD will eventually eat through the possible Regen. Active allows for another spike though its not drastic as Sig of the Hunt.

I’m trying to understand how you see these skills as requiring no effort to use effectively.

jmatb.6307:

Phantaram.1265:

Completely agree with this. The perfect example of something that is nearly the complete opposite of being active is spirit ranger. Spam 1 on your shortbow and if they get close just activate all spirits! You’ve now played this class to near optimization grats. Skill needs to be a more emphasized part of the game. And if simple builds are to stay in, they shouldn’t be the strongest builds.

Yeah Ranger keeps getting lazier and lazier. If they aren’t riding their pet, they’re riding spirits. Signets and traits remove conditions better than anyone without having to worry about it.

When you don’t have to use your utilities at all and other professions have to bring Lyssa runes or certain utilities just to survive long enough to contribute there’s a serious problem.

Why yes rangers must be lazy for attempting and using builds that work or stand a chance in 1v1 and group settings. Balthazar forbid we are actually able to do or beat anything. Instead we should clearly just all use the pig pet and be forced to fight with whatever it drops in order to keep the fight “active” enough.

While we have a nice CD removal if traited for it, it still works on a cooldown so if your just spamming conditions at the start like confetti then I think its perfectly reasonable that it can be removed.

In terms of spirits. Kill them, then the ranger.

And I would disagree with the not using of utilities. Passive utilities have an active and have times when the active is useful at the cost of the passive (accept when traited on an ele) and I find it unlikely that most people running signets or spirits/minions and not using the utilities are succeeding on a regular basis.

I love running axe/axe in a crit damage build. Especially with multiple targets. Like mentioned the pull is troublesome at times and you may throw your axe off into the distance without a return on it. However when it does connect the crit dmg off of it makes an awesome burst.

Condition Builds are effective and I know a lot of rangers like to run CD since it offers good survivability. I think most go Apothecary and I’ve done a mix of Apoth & Carrion. For the weapon set using GS I think it would be a bit of maul spamming so maybe try and add more sources of bleed an go for the sigil of earth if you do decide to go Condi.

I’m wondering if you keep fury up enough with the weapon swap and warhorn to be worth having the traits there?

Also you talk about adding more CD so I’m wondering where your damage in terms of conditions is right now?

At first glance it looks like a strong build. While I’m not sure I’d say this a difference maker in team fights (its strong as far as taking targets down and water field is always a plus) since there isn’t a lot of team based traits or utilities it certainly something that can hold its own.

I’m wondering why you took signet of stone?

hyjaxxx.1584:

Undean.9704:

The hyena pet currently only has 824 power at 0 BM, while all other dogs have 1718 power at 0 BM.

they probably do that because you get 2 of them with the f2 ability…and god forbid something actually be effective… hehe

“Hyenas share stats with other canines, except for having half the power, balancing the fact that they are the only pet to be able to summon another of its own kind.”

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Juvenile_Hyena

Not a bug.

“Passive attribute bonuses are increased by 20%; Signet of Resolve’s bonus is doubled, i.e. it removes two conditions every ten seconds instead of only one. "

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Perfect_Inscriptions

I also agree that CD is pretty crazy right now. I’m finding it hard to go into pvp without something that has crazy CD removal and even then sometimes its not enough to remove every condition know to man from your persons. I think currently dps is in trouble unless you can find a way to properly compensate for all the CD running around right now.

Brynna Stormclaw.9621:

Fun times during our ladies night! /wave to [CORP] from FA and the solitary [PiNK] TC member for coming to play with us!

Not entirely sure our yak made it in but it was highly entertaining!

How could we not join the color changing yaks. Made my day for sure.

Well as far as I can tell there is no such rune. Perhaps its Lightning Strike but I don’t know enough about the skill/sigil to say for sure.

That’s one painful Phantasmal Mage but if it is so then so be it I just want to know for sure so I can avoid (hopefully) getting hit with it again. (If it’s the Light sigil I think I’m out of luck)

Haha well if they could take the “strike” on strike a little less literally I wouldn’t mind their protest.

Can someone explain what this is? I’m curious about it since I got hit in WvW with the skill for 7k dmg. Its it a tally of clone dmg ?

Small groups can be effective as zergs if they stay spread out and avoid the zerg. If your enemy is in one place and they out number you, be in many and force them to either split or attempt to play catch up. The problem I see is that there is a tendency to try and keep whatever the zerg is after resulting often but not always in failure when that time could have been spent else where.

I did path 3 in CoF today and at reaching the end I was able to loot the chest but I received no tokens. I asked my party and they all received there 60 tokens. I tried leaving and entering along with re logging. I guess a few possible explanations for why I did not receive it is because I died right before the boss did or that I guested on another server to start the instance however regardless this still should not prevent me from getting tokens.

Skills, weapons?

Zanthrax.6538:

yes interpret you would gain stealth at the end of the bulls charge or evis leap etc…and as soon as you use another attack you’d lose said stealth….see pistol 5 dagger 2 combo for thieves.

Wouldn’t change much now that I think about it.

I’m saying to use a skill to go in stealth before hand for example a warrior using the axe/shield combination. It would be something like after throwing down the combo field —> Shield Bash (now I’m invisible)-→ Eviscerate.

It’s an interesting idea but being that is a smoke field what I think would happen is that the warrior would combo stealth. Bull charge someone. Beat the carp out of the with out them having any ability to see it coming or on the axe stealth combo/ eviscerate. While the blinds could provide some defense the smoke field would give another powerful offense to an already strongly offensive class.

I think if there are blinds implemented it shouldn’t be a combo field at all.

Truthfully I believe a warrior can survive if played well or if they really are running high damage to realize that is a kill them before they kill me gameplay and be prepared to be unable to escape if it doesn’t pan out.

yriafelc.6124:

I just don’t like that “Retreat” is really not just for retreating. Sometimes we charge in wvw and hearing the shout is annoying. Same for “Save Yourselves”, when my allies didn’t really saved themselves

I actually find this hilarious as you charge the enemy yelling “RETREAT”.

One quote here once in a blue moon on my sylvari is “ready to roll”. First time I heard it, it scared me.