LOL, nice. You don’t look bad. Never would have made that comparison if you didn’t make it for me. 
Alternatively, just look up a different armor. Find something that works for your big guy. If all else fails, there’s always a total makeover-kit.
Actually Southsun is a great place for small groups to farm, and larger groups to farm the queen, it is a fun frustrating place to go
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It’s only frustrating if you don’t have a reflect skill for the littler buggers. The bigger ones just take a bit of persistence.
You can dodge/strafe/interrupt them too.
The more annoying thing is the constant weakness.Clearing the center camp after killing the queen is a decent amount of extra padding for your loot drops. It has a high density of mobs so you don’t have to dedicate too much time for a couple of extra shells. Just make sure to pull a few at a time and not charge the entire group at once unless you also have a big blob of people with you of course.
Edit: Unlike the other world boss chests the one from the queen is not once per day (the bonus is still once per day). https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-June-11th-2013/2192806
That’s right. Dunno what’s up with PUGs avoiding the place, but when my guild and our allies come out to do this, we win big.
Great place to make money. Get people settler gear that wanted it. With ascended gear coming out, I imagine maybe that’ll bring people back.
I don’t share your sentiment (melee is niiiiice), but yeah. What you just said is on the mark.
Don’t let people tell you that you can’t use X in PvP. Do it to kitten em’ off, and then rub it in when you excel.
Actually Southsun is a great place for small groups to farm, and larger groups to farm the queen, it is a fun frustrating place to go
XD
It’s only frustrating if you don’t have a reflect skill for the littler buggers. The bigger ones just take a bit of persistence.
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What if 5 rangers in a part bring healing spirits? That is a lot of healing per 10 seconds
Except that the passive of the spirit doesn’t stack (or atleast any of the spirits we have now passives don’t stack). Well they do stack, in a way, but only maximum of 2, with 1 Ranger taking the spirit with trait and the other Ranger without trait, so there a 2 passives, 1 that can occur by 35% chance and the other by 70% chance.
Which is actually pretty interesting if it works like that. Two rangers, one traited and one not, with this heal in the party could be pretty amazing.
Party-wide heal skill worthy heals (not supporty heals—straight up heal skill style heal—that scales with your healing power!) within a range of 1000 on a 10 sec ICD for the life of the spirit.
It’s certainly a more gimmicky kind of heal, but an interesting one. Probably sucks the most as a solo heal. But most of the heals do compared to Troll’s on that front.
If you’re using spirits anyway, it’s just another perk.
With this spirit rangers can flood the field almost as bad as a necro MM or an engineer, with the perk of every one of your summons giving your party a bonus on hit.
That’s some excellent party utility. This healing spirit alone could give rangers a place in most parties.
Whoever was wanting for rit spirit spam of GW1 days, spirit support ranger says hello.
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At any rate, we’ll see. The live stream is later today.
EDIT: No it’s not. I don’t visit the forums enough, the announcement was from yesterday. Watching it nao. :P
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I’d swear my Male Asura Engineer has a single Female Norn guttural sound accidentally cross-linked. He has one grunt I am certain is pulling from the wrong set.
If you can find a reliable way to get that mismatched sound to play, like a specific skill or action, then do tell. Something like that should definitely be fixed.
For me this seems to happen when I’m talking to a merchant. Very, very rarely I’ll hear some other gender or race apart from myself say the “good bye” or “thank you” dialogue.
At first I thought maybe this was a cool new thing and the shopkeeper was bidding me good bye…
But when this happened to me recently, I was talking to the mystic forge lady in WvW and the sound was a male human.
I was on my male charr (though I do also play a male human). Not sure if there was a male human around me. /shrug
(Also, in WvW, the garrison mystic forge is still using the halloween mystic gorge skin. )
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I’m new to MMOs and GW2 (only been playing for a little over 2 months) and I was never big into video games to begin with. I chose to be a Ranger, because after reading what all the classes do, it was the one that really appealed to me. I love this game. I’ve had a fantastic time learning as I go, exploring, and I’ve been lucky enough to make some friends who know the game and have helped me out with armor, builds, trait suggestions, you name it.
Whenever I was asked what I wanted from a build, my answer was always the same; “I want to survive the fight”. I thought I was downed or died too often, whether it was WvW or PvE. I got better armor, weapons, sigils, the whole nine yards and I was still dying. I was dodging to the best of my abilities, moving in circles, back and forth, and I was still dying. Keep in mind that until I started playing GW2, WASD were just letters on the keyboard to me. I have improved greatly, but I will never be on par with a lot of the players in this game.
I got tired of being killed, hunted down and jumped by groups in WvW. I now play PvE exclusively. I still feel I die too much, but at least I no longer have to suffer being laughed at or my corpse danced on in victory. (not everyone did this, but it was embarrasing for me to watch)
Like I said, new to all this and when one of my friends explained to me what the regen reduction would do in terms of survivability (for myself) my first thought was “I’m dead in the water”.
I can deal with my pet (weird as it is at times), the weapons I can deal with too as I wasn’t around when the other changes to them took place. I play B/B only after having tried other combinations. I can even deal with being slightly “squishy” in terms of armor. (love my pimp coat and hat)
But having my ability to get out of the line of fire cut in half? Come December 10th, I’ll be spending most of my time wandering around solo and avoiding group events. And ultimately having much less fun. I want to be able to help others in a fight, not become another corpse on the battlefield.
If they’re dancing on your corpse, you probably sufficiently rustled their jimmies to warrant the response. Well done!
It’s not going to be the biggest hit in the world. If you’re exclusively PvE, even less so.
Come the patch supplement the trait with stamina food and you’ll be at where we are today, if not a little over.
You’ll otherwise benefit from everything else which will be a buff. If you’re rocking a survivalist/bunker set up, Bark Skin will be right up your ally.
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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.
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!
