Pretty much, but if your want my advice don’t use a short bow for PVE too many classes with bleeds..it doesn’t work too well. I don’t know much about PVE but i wouldn’t use a shortbow.
Cripple for 2 seconds and 3 stacks of bleed – 20 second cooldown.
Chill for 1 second – 5 second duration for a potential 5 second Chill – 24 second cooldown.
Reduces movement speed by -66% and skill recharge rate by -66%
Grants a combo: Ice Field
– Frost Aura reduces 10% damage for 4 seconds and inflicts a 1 second Chill when attacked.
Frost trap looks a lot better to me for a non traited Trap build.
Frost trap…dropped? It’s one of the best slot skills we have though. I’m the opposite of you because I can’t figure out why anyone would take muddy terrain or spike trap when they could use frost trap instead. Do you want to blast frost armor or give a tiny damage spike? Do you want some crappy cripple, or do you want them to have to suffer longer cooldowns on abilties as well as move slow? The choice is obvious to me because it’s a combo field. Rangers can blast it themselves now.
For someone who played a Ranger so long you haven’t a clue.
Cripple for 2.5 seconds and 3 stacks of bleed – 20 second cooldown.
Chill for 1.25 seconds – 24 second cooldown
So cripple lasts twice as long and does damage and recharges faster. That’s why people prefer spike trap. This assumes your opponent isn’t completely stupid and moves out of the trap once triggered.
Well, it’s not that I don’t agree. It’s that you’re wrong. Players are valuable—not professions. Teamwork and reliable allies are how I rank the value of other players in Strikeforce T1 wvw zerg/roaming.
Regarding your other comment about “it’s not learn to play”, anyone who has spent a great deal of time with longbow immediately recognizes how the new hunter’s shot helps. It is indeed people not knowing how to play that leads to the QQ.
If I gave you an improved wrench to loosen a bolt but you’ve never actually used a wrench before, the new features won’t make sense. “Why do I want this” the naive person asks, “I just need more torque” when in fact it has a mechanism that’s better than just more torque that the naive user knows little about.
I know you and I aren’t going to agree, that’s fine. I’ve been playing MMO’s for 20 years and all of that was spent playing this same style class. It’s not a L2P issue ‘for me’. It’s just not fun. I make the class work, I’m successful with it in PvE and PvP/WvW. It’s just not what I want and while the developers seem interested in improving this class for the first time in about 5 months I figured it was time to post on this forum again for a change.
Don’t worry, in a week the red will disappear and so will I. I completely recognize I’m being selfish and biased. It’s just I love this type of class and this is the worst implementation of this type of class I’ve ever seen and I want it to be better.
What sort of change were you looking for if you don’t mind me asking?
Ranger Chopps, don’t get too serious with Conan. Like most people, he hates changes and does not want to work with it for a day or two to improvise. That is why people like us exist, Chopps.
Sorry, I got a little excited. I like to boast when the rare opportunity presents itself.
Just made me think your more of a kitten than before. Seriously.
Thank you, I’ll take that as a compliment. That’s what I’m going for.
Ranger Chopps, don’t get too serious with Conan. Like most people, he hates changes and does not want to work with it for a day or two to improvise. That is why people like us exist, Chopps.
Sorry, I got a little excited. I like to boast when the rare opportunity presents itself.
Just made me think your more of a kitten than before. Seriously.
Its not the shot anyone really complains about. People can’t see past the shot…but Longbow is still a fairly poor weapon. Its damage is fairly low and the burst is so easy to avoid so killing anyone with it a chore.
Yeah after the SB range nerf nobody is forcing us to play longbow…
Apart from that though, I dislike having to build up a vuln stack on my target and stealth is cheesy (I read this somewhere in another thread) but it’s not like this patch was the end of the profession…
A lot of ranger refuse to or dont know how to keep thier pets alive. Giving fuel to the notion that we do less damage. Some ranger refuse to master the 1h sword or melee in general adding to the fuel that we have less dps
1h sword mastery – 1111111111111111111111 sounds difficult.
Watch the video above…that’s all he does.
Just scrap the vulnerability and increase the damage of the skill or give it a useful conditionj instead. 3 stacks of vulnerability is nothing, you just nerfed Maul for no reason.
Rapid fire – Hunter’s Shot – Remorseless – Weapons Swap to GS – Resets 5 stacks of vulnerability – Swoop – Quickening Zephyr – Hilt Bash – Signet of the Hunt – Maul = Murder.
Seems like it was really smart update, who the hell wants conditions on power weapon. You can’t be that clueless you don’t see why they change the GS into more of power weapon stepping away from stupid conditions on the GS.
Most players who run GS are running it with a Power build and not a condition build, if your running a GS with condition build then I’m dumb found. Even if you trait 30 points to get 300 condition damage that next to no damage.
30/30/0/10/0 build with LB/GS with Might stacking which rather easy on a ranger now you can get easy 20 stacks of might dealing one hell of massive Maul.
Don’t view GS as a primary damage tool.
It’s a nice defensive sidearm anyway with block, bash and swoop.
There are some trappers who run it in wvw. They will prolly use warhorn now, tho
Actually seeing you mentioned it…did the change the block with great sword…because i used it today and didn’t get a knockdown….was fairly annoying. However it might have just missed or something…but i was fairly sure i got it.
RNG on damage shouldn’t be a big issue as its not each hit that matters, its the average. So no it wouldn’t change balancing. It would just make the game a little bit more boring.
So if given the choice of a weapon that did 1-10 damage or 5 damage on each hit. I would take 1-10 everytime.
Lol dude even if an ele did take that skill, which would not be a good idea for several reasons, you aren’t going to be in fire attunement long enough to see 20 seconds of burning being stacked on one target or some other fantasy scenario of fire and brimstone. Even if you did eles don’t have skills that proc multiple attacks at once in scepter or dagger, like Pistol Whip or Hundred Blades.
I have never leveled an ele past 10 and i know of at least one.
If you trait warhorn you remove 2 conditions every 12 seconds along with free removal of cripple/chill/immobilize. On top of this you can trait to get free shake it off every 20 seconds if you have 2+ conditions. Even more on top of that you can trait cleansing ire to remove max 3 conditions with full adrenaline bar.
Hope you don’t mind me expanding on this.
Berserker Stance removes all conditions and stops them being applied to you for 10 seconds…possibly 12 if you trait stances.
Signet of Stamina removes all conditions.
Restorative Strength – Removes chilled, immobilize and weakness on heal.
Mobile strikes – Any movement skill removes immobilize.
Yes ranger passive play is out of control they spawn multiple pets then turn invisible or run away and leave them to kill you. Although not to worry you can kill the pets if you want, that wont stop them doing 3.5k+ damage on you in the first hit though now will it?
Oh wait that’s Mesmers….Phantasm spec the height of skill.
The engineers 1500 range AoE grenades always hit, its Ranger its kitten…
If the target is moving? Engineer isn’t going to hit anything with grenades at 1500. He would have to predict the where the person would be like 4 seconds ahead.
the “report” in game of “immunity” over the engies head is a BUG, as is the reduction of >100% condies to 0%.
AR was nerfed in the last patch because Anet knew that it would be a hard counter to the new condi meta. the notion that they screwed it up and didn’t do that properly ought not be a surprise to you.
So, what is the difference between “immunity to newly applied conditions” and “conditions applied lasts 0 seconds”?
really?
immunity = immunity
the poor wording of the trait makes it sound as though it fully reduces the duration of conditions.
it is meant to subtract “100%” duration (ie the base duration before buffs), thus, you could still potentially get a tick of bleed or burning off.
yes, that is bugged right now and you see “immune” in game.
Except you don’t get a single tick. That’s complete garbage and its been proven with the warriors berserker stance that reduces conditions 100%. They do not get a tick and neither do engineers.
I am the same, guildies have all done it. Not interested in doing it again. In fact all story modes should be solo…trying to get some people to do them with is pretty tough going.
Medium armor as it stands is horrible. Its got by far the most boring sets in the game. The vast majority of leather armor is a leather trench coat like design, or a chest piece with some sort of tail skirt thing that has no real point to it. The human t1 is a great example of crap armor nobody is going to wear. http://www.gw2armor.com/human/female/c1/medium/display_looks.php
It doesn’t even look like armor.
Medium armor appears to be mostly leather but that’s fine and i am not asking for it to be realistic either. What i would like is more variation and nicer styles, some very basic designs aren’t even in the game like a plain leather cuirass (like a roman would wear).
All of the leveling sets look like civilian clothes pretty much and nothing like armor at all. They would be better fitted to light armor than medium. You call that armor…looks like a commoner.
Example – http://www.gw2armor.com/human/female/k2/medium/display_looks.php
How about a non mask helmet? Shock horror! Perhaps a full helm? and lets not do one that cuts characters hair off eh? Really variation should be stupidly easy for you at this point as its not like you can’t take idea’s from real life old armours.
It doesn’t have to be realistic but more variation is needed badly.
Sorry but the clothing thing isn’t a problem, if you like male styles that much roll a male. There are some real issues with armor, especially medium armor that they are all ugly coats….but your just complaining every armor isn’t tailored to your own taste which is nothing but whine.
There’s plenty of non revealing female armor if you can’t find it your not looking hard enough. IMO half the male armor you linked looks stupid…thigh high boots on a guy? really? ROFL.
On Engineer – There’s more than one build and if you choose to run without a stun break who’s fault is that? Engineer has plenty of them…hell even elixir gun has one.
You shouldn’t need a certain class setup to be successful…if your running a team with friends who are all different classes or mostly different then that should be enough.
do you see basketball having /resign? baseball perhaps? or any timed sports?
They have to go through the regulations and let the time expire.
there is no room for rage quitting in e-sports.
I don’t see them killing each other either.
Resign is a part of e-sports. When a player knows hes lost in SC2 generally he will quit because the game is over and there is little point in dragging it out.
Charging in with a dodge is about the worst suggestion anyone could have made. Really and what you think would happen when the dodge end in the middle of all those marks and the necromancers start attacking? Even if it was 3v3 or 3v4 charging into that is a suicide option.
