Guild Wars 2

Ranger is currently holding world record for fastest cof time of 5:27

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Ranger-VS-The-CoF-World-Record

The idea: In home instance there is a trainer mode where one through five people can face trainer enemies that prepare them for any given dungeon. Once a dungeon path is unlocked and conquered, that dungeon path’s bosses can be fought in the time attack.

There is a leaderboard for time attack and different catagories for every possible team composition from one player up to five. So that the 5 theif team can have a record to beat, as well as the 3 war/1 mes/1 guardian team or the war/2 ranger/2ele team. The single engineer has a record to beat. So there’s a multitude of records on the leaderboard so that every possible team composition can have a unique record on the leaderboards, from solo to foursome, 5 person party of rangers or 5 necros, if you want.

What do you think?

I just want to take this moment to thank ANET for making gw2 a better game for all players, even if they don’t know it. Like this fellow, Conan, here.

Friggin guang. He’ll show up.

Brought to you not by me, but by the evil geniuses over at DnT. Just…wow: 5:27

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Ranger-VS-The-CoF-World-Record

>:) don’t miss reaction at the end

For those who can’t watch, team comp was 2 theives, ranger, mesmer, warrior.

Seems low, I usually have around 120% crit damage and I use burst from SOTW traited 25% increased damage so I do see bigger numbers than 7k, usually over 10k I think.

How not? You run longbow/greatsword with the valkryie build. It’s better now because before, if the initial burst wasn’t enough, now you’re in melee range with longbow. That used to be a death sentence. Because if you miss point blank shot, if it’s blocked, or if they use stability, you’re basically screwed. At least now we have two defensive options on the longbow instead of just one.

Ya, maybe, Xsorsus, I don’t know…some have said I’m easy to please. I don’t wan to say SOTW is bad in dungeons because it’s not—regen for pet is great. Just wanted to clear that up for anyone who might be reading.

Atherakhia.4086:

Chopps.5047:

Nah, zenith, marks/skirm/nature magic ranger is a strong, bursty build and plenty of people are using it. I’ve ran rampager, zerk, or valkryie for the last month and am having lots of fun and winning battles in wvw. I lose some too but that’s when I get outplayed or countered.

The problem with these bursty builds is they’re only good when looked at with the ranger in mind. It’s no where near the burst nearly every other class is capable of and those other classes have other advantages on top.

Burst is the problem with this class more than anything imo.

How much do you think a Maul hits for in a typical valkyrie build?

Xsorus.2507:

Dutch, its broken right now, but even if it wasn’kittens probably still not a great pick if you use Signets, all 3 of those Signets will do far more damage then gaining opening strikes again I imagine.

though you’re in PVE, so you probably don’t need the Signet Actives as much.

Meh, sotw cooldown is too long it’s not worth it. I only run signets with SOTB for stone invuln on my first pass through a new dungeon.

Top DPS and group boons for dungeon content is something like 20/30/0/20/0 or 20/25/0/25/0 or 25/30/0/15/0 with spirits.

I not bullkittenting dude. Spirits are good in dungeons IF you take Vigorous spirits, which, you should because fortifying bond is a MUST in dungeons to overcome aoe limit on boons. Boon sharing is only way pet reliably gets boons.

Dutch Master.7208:

Xsorus.2507:

Stealth is incredibly poweful.

Having Stealth is a direct damage increase for you on a Ranger

Because every second you’re not dead, the more damage you’ll end up doing.

I really hate this argument
I am talking about damage here. “Burst” damage.

If what you said had any relevance then we would see CoF speedrun groups wearing soldiers gear instead of berzerkers.

You want a tier 1 DPS build for cof? Here ya go—no longbow! You don’t need longbow here, at all. This is basically what I do in fractals 48 and it’s huge DPS. It’s permanent 25 might stacks on pet. It’s sick.

20 (spotter) / 30 (companion’s might) / 0 / 20 (vigorous spirit/strength of spirit)/ 0

Sword/warhorn and axe/axe with sigils of perception and strength.

Full berserker

Quickening zephyr / frost spirit / optional

Stalker / optional (gap filler pet)

See the thread Mighty Ranger High Level FOTM for more details.

So you tested longbow in the same amount of time it takes me to eat lunch and, after your thorough testing, it simply wasn’t up to your standards?

Not even stopping there, think about apothecary builds with torch and warhorn on swap. Hey! How about some AoE frost armor after my frost trap pops? >:)

The only place I can think of where instant 10 stacks is better than current rapid fire/hunters shot is in dungeons versus a boss.

But who cares? You’re probably using sword/torch (all zerk stats) with axe/axe (that just got retaliation).

If your non PUG dungeon team can’t max out vulnerability without longbow, you got serious problems, budro, that go way beyond your vulnerability stacking.

wish.1027:

So when WvW was up, I killed a bunch of rangers with longbows, same old same old, I didnt even notice the stealth.

So…you beat a bunch of players? Wow, congrats. Want a cookie? How about an arrow to the knee? You don’t see me bragging about how the only way guardians can beat me is to hammer me off a cliff, do you? That’s because boasting is a sin in the Church of Jedsus and Saturday Feints.

You can have your opinion it’s just that you are on your own. Even Burnfall is excited over these changes and he’s the most hilarious and over the top debbie downer on the forums.

Nah, zenith, marks/skirm/nature magic ranger is a strong, bursty build and plenty of people are using it. I’ve ran rampager, zerk, or valkryie for the last month and am having lots of fun and winning battles in wvw. I lose some too but that’s when I get outplayed or countered.

Dutch Master.7208:

Kasama.8941:

Longbow got more damage in the june patch.

how do you figure?

How do we figure? Where have you been, dude? Longbow has been one of our highest DPS weapons since the huge longbow buff just last balance patch. Everyone who’s good understands this change: because longbow has little defensive control or mobility, you’re screwed if you skirmish with it. That’s why the stealth works and why you are getting all worked up over something they’ve already given you.

Well…I am pleased. How about you guys?

Drtrider.6314:

Oh good, the whole community whines about stealth, so they just start handing out a classes’s unique mechanic to every other profession. When does my thief get my shatter phantasms?

SOMEONE CALLED IT!! INCOMING QQ, TURN STARBOARD! STARBOARD! HEAT SEEKING TEARS HEADING IN MY DIRECTION!

With today’s patch, this build should be even better. What’s your thoughts? Have you tested a similar build? What do you do to make it work for your playestyle?

T_T I’m just so…happy!

0.o

Today we hunt!

No! I don’t want some random RNG stat bullkitten. Give me a full refund in laurels for my golden lotus with magical infusion and a full refund in gold for my Errol’s set with magic find runes. I also want a refund for yakkington’s ring.

I have over a month’s laurels and over 20 full FOTM pristine relics invested in magic find gear. Thanks for asking for everyone like myself to get completely screwed over.

New rangers let their pets die a lot. You should play with me obal, and use my high level fotm build.

Envy.1679:

Chopps.5047:

But this notion isn’t new. It started at launch from people with inferiority complex and now it sort of has a life of it’s own. Why do you people care so much???

found the lion’s arch commander

I do not own a commander tag…

Mkalafut.1273:

There is a search function as well as a huge topic already about this. This will likely be merged into that one, but really we’ll have to wait and see. I’m excited about the new changes.

Care to explain why mobs melting so fast they cannot be tagged is exciting?

Another issue is the fact that magic find is preferable in open world chains because people melt them so fast. Really it does lead to cooperation because more people tag more mobs that way.

I have golden lotus with a magical infusion as well as full exotic magic find gear and superior runes. I do a ton of DPS in my normal gear so I always figured I was helping other players by toning my own down while also boosting my magic find.

I’m concerned ANET will go too far; no one was wearing magic find in dungeons. I think the whole “zomg magic find affects ME and makes MY experience worse” thing was always overblown. When you have 100 people swarming the Lost Shores instigators, does it really matter if everyone has on magic find? No.

Don’t make me buy my own mechanic. Purely cosmetic maybe.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Chopps.5047:

I run everything on high with 1920 by 1200 resolution and I get between 45 and 60 FPS. I am running a pretty solid system for those stats: i5 2500k and a foot long radeon board (I think it’s the hd 6770 but I’d have to double check to be sure and I’m currently afk).

and you’re saying 45fps is the minimum you’re achieving with a below mid range gpu when others with a 680 play at 15fps in wvw zergs?

Ya, sorry, let me be more clear. I actually have the HD6970 so it’s not below mid range, as far as I know, it’s pretty good. It’s a couple years old but I knew it would get me through to 2014 so whatever. Also, I was talking general play. In wvw, I run settings on low. The issues with wvw latency are well known and the best solution I’ve found is to just run on low settings besides things like character count. Turning off ally/enemy nameplates helps a lot too. Also: relax, you’ll live longer.

Heiltdo.2891:

Me likes, me wants.

No you don’t.

Heiltdo.2891:

Yes, while rangers don’t get that dumb reflect wall/feedback skill, they are still useful and competitive, unless you’re trying to play a WoW hunter, if so, shame on you.

Yes they do…Whirling Defense is a reflection skill.

I have over 10 unique armor sets for my ranger. GW2 needs more armor, sure, but in this game you have to play to look good. I think you need dungeon armor.

I think you would like Caudecus manor exotics. Check out the dungeon vendors to see what you like.

Burnfall…my archnemisis. We meet again.

In all seriousness, I’m pretty sure the meteor shower was already nerfed after a video came out of two or three ele’s keeping an entire zerg off a choke by chaining the shower.

This was about 6 months ago so if anyone has a link or more details please post.

._.

Kill all the waves of spiders then don’t aggro more…

But…but…the valkryie build….I don’t want healing with spirits…and….

Sigh

Can someone else explain why not? I’m about to go play with my Nature Magic line the way it is and be happy thank you very much!

She is the LOVE asura—what is LOVE? Baby, don’t hurt me…

Hamfast.8719:

Many people now have Commander tags because it’s a cheaper way to say “Look at me!” than waving around a Legendary weapon.

See what you think of my solution in an earlier post:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/SUPERCHARGE-the-Mini-Map/first#post2407453

No, we all pop them during guild missions. There’s nothing wrong with it in principle since you’re not affected. The only issue with the commander tag is the lack of funcionality that it gives. Hopefully Anet addresses that and might simultaneously give you the option to turn their display off—if only to stop the irrational QQing.

But this notion isn’t new. It started at launch from people with inferiority complex and now it sort of has a life of it’s own. Why do you people care so much???

I’m just saying, it’s dumb to complain about when others use it for guild missions. Yes, it helps for every party lead to have a commander tag—especially when everyone is trying to find where everyone is going whether it be a bounty, puzzle, or rush, we find “tag spamming” invaluable and a huge time saver.

People also use them for leading meta event chains such as Hydra Queen or the many metas in Orr. Yes, there are many large guilds that use the tags in pve. In fact, out of all of the two dozen people in Strikeforce (some of them massive pranksters) that have tags, I don’t know a single one who pops it just to troll/show off.

Zig Barsinister.4925:

There seem to be far too many people displaying commander tags for no reason. Is there any chance that you could change the commander tags to only appear if you are reporting to the commander or at least have the option to turn them off so you don’t have to see them on the map? It is pretty easy to come by 100 gold now and so many people seem to be just showing off.

Guild missions

/end thread

I would like to be able to set secondary and tertiary targets so I can cycle among a subset of chosen targets easily in a large group. Thank you for your time.

Prosperity and happiness? Or stability and happiness?

…anyone complaining about this is QQing because they did jump puzzles for their gift of battle. Well, cry me a river. I did those JPs for Bolt too. Who cares? Now I got more badges for more gear. If you don’t like them, delete them. Stop ruining everyone else’s fun. The day’s going to come when you don’t get any more chests. The day will come when you wish you never deleted those badges. Go call the wahmbulance.

This is proof that no matter how good anet is to us, someone is going to complain over it. No matter what.

Go to bread shini…oh wait, it’s morning

Valkyrie massive Maul build

My only thought is how I’m going to both stop playing hardcore and get ascended on my ranger (work/grad school/extracurriculars) Challenge accepted!

I always wanted a basilisk for the stun ray. Muahaha

Vote gnashblade!

Don’t be a fool: vote Gnashblade. He’s a capitalist of high esteem.

If open world champions get better loot drops like they say, gold find will still be nice. I think ANET does care—they know how much dedication gets 20 laurels. I’m pretty sure we’re going to get hooked up.

This. The eternal thread—the eternal question it seems. I’m of the opinion that ranger is powerful but many will disagree. Whatever, they’re wrong :p