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December 10th Ranger changes

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Even with those GS additions I wouldn’t pick it over sword. With a sword you do more damage and have some cool evades and leaps. Add a warhorn and you can support the party and your pet, a torch and you add a fire field and damage and with dagger you get some good melee and ranged, defense/offensive skills

Greatsword could use damage increase, it’s kinda bleh compared to everyone elses. The fury trait is cool but it’s not like rangers have a problem with fury.

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December 10th Ranger changes

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Even though we wouldn’t do it now another shot at Greatsword to discuss

A) 1 chain NDA by giving Vigor.
B) Add evade to swoop…

Discuss?

C) Both.

The GS still needs a bit of a boost to its auto that isn’t defense based to be picked over a sword.

Summoned creature AI is a different can of worms that we aren’t opening for the same reason. Pets that delay F2 use isn’t some wait script we put into their skills it has to do with core AI behavior shared by all pets and creatures and how they decide tasks. Rewriting that has the risks of breaking millions of unknown things so we have up until now band aided the solution. It is something that needs addressing but won’t be addressed until we can kitten how and when we will test it.

This is really disappointing, couldn’t the skill be faked and come from the ranger instead as long as the pet is checked to be alive? Atleast until its figured out.

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December 10th Ranger changes

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Maybe sword chain 3 could get the evade from Serpent Strike and Serpent Strike becomes a Leap (the current animation would have to be changed). This way sword will have an on-demand leap forward and get the evade on auto attack (especially if you move the evade from greatsword to swoop).

I like this. The animation for sword 3 right now barely works, pretty sure everyone uses it as an evade as it only hits half of the time, if that.

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December 10th Ranger changes

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I’m glad sword is intended to work like it does, I like it but alot of people don’t and their only other option is axe which, uh, isn’t that great. Sounds like main hand dagger may be in the future for them?

Evade on swoop would be great, just make it break immobilize as well and you can replace it with nothing on main attack chain :P Only problem there being GS evade on auto is good for zergs and large groups, since our pet dies instantly Bond is gone and it helps avoid conditions.

EDIT: as for power rangers/signet, they’re strung by the need for certain traits, (beast master signet, emphatic bond, the way too many traits for bows)

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December 10th Ranger changes

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Some okayish stuff, still like to know their plan for WvW, condition removal and shortbows.

Really like Mighty Swap.

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Dec. 10th Balance Preview - Updated Nov 6th.

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Some great changes there, warrior could use a Healing Signet nerf but scale it better with healing power or something. I play one in spvp, I love how ridiculous it is but it’s probably time for it to go.

Some interesting changes for Ranger, particularity mighty swap and enlargement. Going 30 into Beastmaster has some great traits now.

Honestly if anet really want to improve build diversity on the ranger, they gotta getsome condition removal that doesnt blow a 30cd heal or at least combine some traits specifically in the power line. We’re stuck with 30 in wilderness for EB, go check out the builds in the ranger forum.

The previous balance preview said minions would be buffed in WvW. I thought this was being addressed in the previous patch but it looks like it was left out. Did we ever find out what happened with this? You guys gotta know how long they last by now right? Even a bear on peaceful dies almost instantly.

This may be outside the scope of this patch but any consideration for Ranger pets now that ascended weapons, trinkets and Armour are on the scene?

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10/25 JQ/ SOS/ Mag (Gold Season Match 2)

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Had a lot of fun tonight, thanks to Search and Seek (?) JQ guild. You guys should have atleast one guy with warbanner though, it’s great for ressing.

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10/25 JQ/ SOS/ Mag (Gold Season Match 2)

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Kinda boring the last few hours. I’ve been chasing JQ GS+S/W warriors around the map and that’s kinda fun, I didn’t know there was a spider champion north west of the map.

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WvW Solution: Alt Unfriendliness

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Looking forward to this so I can switch to warrior.

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Perplexity runes

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Saw a ranger using this last week, it wasn’t very effective but the initial uh, confusion of confusion stacks on me was, confusing.

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10/18: TC/SoS/Mag

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I think they just have so many players right now it looks like they’re grouped up. I’ve come across a few roamers but like others said if the fight lasts longer than 20 seconds 5-10 players will show up, that’s just gold league I guess nothing to get upset about.

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When's the nerf coming?

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Overflow situation has killed this event for most servers, some kind of solution to that would be better.

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"Maguuma" gets Teq down to 1-3%

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An FA guild guested to Maguuma and got him down to around 1-3% (Hard to tell with painterly Health Bar) Usually Maguuma has about 15-20 people doing it around prime time which the scaling doesn’t account for so they were a big help. Afterwards they went back to FA or more likely found an empty Overflow. Next Teq we got down to around 96% which I think is 1% better than usual so I guess they rubbed off a little.

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Unintended Monthly Achievement Rollback?

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So are people getting their monthly laurels post patch? Some of my guild mates didn’t and they didn’t complete it before the patch either. Is this related to the bug cause it aint mentioned in the notes.

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Monthly no longer gives laurels?

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A few of my guildies completed monthlies today and received no laurels, the laurel tooltip still says you get them from dailies and monthlies and nothing was mentioned in the patch.

Is this a new change or is related to the reset bug we’ve all had?

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Ascended weapon -- What stats for ranger?

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I use zerker in pve and settler in wvw so I’ll probably be lazy and get celestial if it exists.

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Predicted Change to Spirit Passives

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Am I the only one who’s happy they are stepping away from RNG procs?

I think it’s great, but it all depends on how long the icd is and if it’s triggered per player.

I also hope frost spirits icd remains as it is, it’s really handy and if it’s changed to be like the others I doubt we’ll see many spirit builds for awhile at least for group play.

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sPvP, balance, a little philosophy, and life.

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Skill Splitting difficulties.

Ah, rangers outside of spvp have been dealing with this for over a year now it’s nice to know why pvp changes have been infecting pve and wvw with no stop in sight.

Good to hear about the new game modes! Standing on a point can only be so exciting after awhile.

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Predicted Change to Spirit Passives

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Uh oh, I was starting to like using frost spirit. I guess we can hope they keep spvp nerfs only in spvp but I doubt it after a year of pve nerfs.

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Mini Mr Sparkles sold for $700.

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Another one in Europe sold for $600 (buy out price) in 3 hours.

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Can I wield a weapon like a female?

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There is, change your character to female. 350 Gems.

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[merged] Mini Mr. Sparkles

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Sold for $700 USD.

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Mini Mr Sparkles sold for $700.

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Sold for $700 USD.

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"Challenging" PvE Content vs Ranger Mechanics

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If people want to wait around while pets kill bosses more power to them.

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Spirit Rangers, prepare yourselfs for nerf

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Unrelated to spirit ranger balance those scores ain’t unusual if you’re just playing to score points and the opposing team is bad enough to feed kills off points (skirmish kills), luckily it seems they had one person capping for them.

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Mini Mr Sparkles sold for $700.

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I had a bunch of people message me about it after I posted about the third party website, ingame and on the forums. So I guess people are interested even though it’s account bound.

It would be kind of good to know if this will be available to everyone, in game or through gems. I sell alot of minis on the TP and I think the prices on some would drop if people can’t have full collections anymore.

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Issues with character art, weapons, or armor?

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Sylvari, Female, Ranger.

Furnace Reward Breastplate (Morro, Merchant in LA) , Fused Dagger (BLTC), Fused Warhorn (BLTC).

When weapons are unsheathed coat covers the entire dagger, coat covers 80% of the warhorn.

Both weapons are held at the same angle, it doesn’t affect other off hand weapons. Some warhorns are completely covered some only partial, all daggers are completely covered as far as I tested.

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Mini Mr Sparkles sold for $700.

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woops, i shoulda said it’s up for sale on a third party website

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Mini Mr Sparkles sold for $700.

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It’s up for sale now.

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Fused Weapons

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Opening the white kitten has a 0.2% of containing a ticket to trade for a fused weapon.

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Mini Mr Sparkles sold for $700.

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It’s account bound and can’t be traded. RIP collectors.

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Clockwork Chaos as I see it[screen shot]

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This is how I saw it.

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Mini Mr Sparkles sold for $700.

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Request: Anet, how to get Mini Mr. Sparkles?

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If I recall they did this last year with a clothing item, everyone hated it so they said no more of these types of things. Most likely this mini will be put up on the gem store for people who don’t live in Germany or can’t make it to [Insert Event] Until ANET confirm it is a mystery OooOooOo

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Request: Anet, how to get Mini Mr. Sparkles?

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1. Open up Guild Wars 2 and log in.
2. Select a character.
3. Press o.
4. Click “Redeem Code”
5. Enter the code you were given at Gamescon.
6. Open up the mail that is sent to you, make sure your inbox has space free.

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Mini Mr Sparkles sold for $700.

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Anyone know where to get this? It’s account bound so I’m assuming it’s either from a forge, reward or the store but I don’t see any mention of it in the patch notes.

Someone in LA said you could only get it from some game event in europe/fan sites which would be weird since anet said they weren’t doing that again iirc.

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Ascended Weps going to be Ludicrously pricy?

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50 Karka samples.

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Farming Dead-Eye an exploit?

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People weren’t banned for farming cof p1, if there was an exploit with dead eye it would have been fixed days ago.

His teleport didn’t work before the last patch, if that’s what you’re thinking of but that’s been fixed.

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Economy concerns

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The gauntlets do seem like they give a little too much gold compared to doing dungeons or something, I’ve made a lot of gold from doing that char guy and the sniper. Maybe make the silver reward in tier 3 like it is in tier 2.

To the people thinking it’s an exploit iirc the sniper was bugged or something (I’m told when he teleported he didn’t move) but they fixed it a few days ago. As long as you can use various fear, reflect and interrupt skills you can do a bunch of these fights with gambits on without dying, don’t need any cheats. I’m pretty sure if it was out of hand they could just disable it, remember that weird gun consumable that did a billion damage or whatever, that was gone in an hour.

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Salvage-o-matic artwork looks familiar

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Looks like one of those old slot machines you see in run down casinos.

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Mass reporting players at Shank Anchorage.

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Can you be automatically banned if enough people report you?

I was guesting in Dragonbrand (better pve commanders) cursed shore and apparently was mass reported for killing a cauldron (I wasn’t although had a day earlier as part of a guild event on maguuma server) I joked about trying to open the gates of arah to try to cool them down.

I was told this would mean I would be auto banned, but I had always assumed that actual humans checked each report. This is of concern as SFD guild has a weekly event where we cleanse orr (Thorrsday) and we’ve been to straights and malchors now we’re up to cursed shore and I don’t want to see anyone banned for completing the gates of arah quest.

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Completing events in Cursed Shore - bannable?

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I have some screenshots of map chat after our guild completed this today, I can’t post them due to the graphic descriptions of violence and coarse language displayed. The map chat in cursed shore is more corrupted than orr itself. Looking forward to a fix.

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The Shank Anchorage farm rewards failure

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Our guild completed this event while other players told us they’d hunt us down and murder us in real life if we killed a cauldron. Something must be done.

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Beating Liadri as a Ranger - Video

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Stone Spirit is also pretty awesome (well not for liadri)

For the subject seven fight I just plopped one down and auto attacked the main slime with sword slowly pushing it to the edge of the cage leaving a straight line of slimes behind me, quick win!

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Beating Liadri as a Ranger - Video

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I used shortbow and sword/dagger (just to dodge and kill the orb things) GS is also good to move to a safe spot.

30/25/10/5/0
Signet Mastery, Piercing Arrows, Signet of the Beastmaster
Sharpened Edges, Quick Draw
Wilderness Knowledge

If you use short bow piercing arrows is a must for this fight.

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"Challenging" PvE Content vs Ranger Mechanics

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I don’t often have issues with them in dungeons. I’d like to be able to stow them for a period then bring them out like a weapon switch or something if they continue down this aoe maze floor design seen in aether.

As for challenging content if they’re going to design fights like Liadra where my pet had about 5 seconds of offense before instantly dying (2 seconds of it was staring blankly doing nothing after switching it from the other pet that died at the start of the fight) they need some kind of allowance for rangers.

Sure I beat her but the pet played no part, If I wanted a no pet win I’d go warrior and use rifle/longbow.

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Basketball Axe Skin

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I feel a bball axe skin would be excellent and would really synergize well with ranger attack skills and especially the necro spinning axe move

cheers.

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Giant swimming tank next to LA bank

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For people with the underwater legendaries.

It’s only fair, right?

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Ranger Patch Notes - June 25, 2013 - Official

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New dungeon (specifically the laser screens) is rough on pets, flag them invulnerable to certain mechanics or something.

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Ranger Patch Notes - June 25, 2013 - Official

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Ugh, pet nerf wasn’t just spvp.

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