Guild Wars 2

Galrond.5972:

Staff is great against meele enemies (1vs X is quite possible), but will get owned by every kind of ranged enemy since they arn’t forced to stand in you/your fields.

Also it is a great weapon to solo faceroll supplycamps.

Well this is just not true…. It’s harder, but you can still rock ranged, you just need to cripple/immob them to make them stay in your fields whether they like it or not.

Well not ANYONE can pick it up… Only ally’s, this actually makes it better though in more structured environments. In WvW I wouldn’t even think of bringing a pig, awful scenario to use it, a dungeon or s/tPvP as a bunker are both excellent places to use them!

lol that was awesome!! Everytime i see people play dagger dagger i always think “Omg that looks like so much fun!” and then i play it on my ele and i go “Omg… now i remember why i despise melee…” looks like i’m gonna bust the daggers out again though to see why i hate them xD

It absolutely buffs geyser and healing rain, it’s a fun trait to have (i love collateral damage and all sorts of AoE so this is essentially a MUST for me), however don’t stress over taking it or not because it’s not -that- good, it’s just really nice, especially if you like having really big AoEs, but there are some options that can be better.

Bahlol.6125:

yes it is possible to run staff in WvW.
now, about the guy taking on zergs in the beta, its way different now then it was back in the4 beta.
back then even as a lvl 2 ele u could do crazy dmg to everyone since everyone is low lvl, but now most ppl are lvl 80 with good gear so it a challange to take on more than 2 alone with staff, but i will say this, runnig staff with in groups it way better then DD, all the support and the AoE skills u have is worth doing staff rather then DD in a group.

Adding onto this, back in Beta a lot of people were just AWFUL at this game and the people who picked up quickly (like me, and a very small amount of eles in the beta) were able to just stomp everyone, i mean kitten, i went into 1v10s on my ranger and would kill all of them and that was with a broken pet, god knows what an ele would be capable of. (granted there’s no way in hell i could do that now unless they were all ridiculously bad)

I personally run staff, i find it a very powerful weapon all around, it has great damage, control, and support, dagger granted has more damage, and focus has more control/support, but none of the weapons have the range of the staff. Not to mention it has actual range (1,200 on just about every skill) which makes it very good for zerg vs zerg warfare of WvW.

Shinji.2063:

emikochan.8504:

Ah really good point Durzlla/Kirin , I’ve been d/d so long… I need to force myself to play focus more, the defence is really stellar.

But you are pay a very steep price for that defense. I can almost ignore a focus ele with the amount dmg they put out. They just arnt a threat.

lol bull kitten they’re not a threat, the last 2 skills in each attunement don’t make or break your damage output. Does dagger have some nice BURST skills? Yes absolutely, but you can set up burst combos with the scepter/focus and utilities, especially seeing that you can take purely offensive utilities should you so choose because of all the raw defense you gain from the focus.

Cempa.5619:

Durzlla.6295:

Cempa.5619:

Geewoody.2017:

Super secret tip:

If you want to make a healing and/or tanking build, use the pig. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Do elaborate, we know about the weapons we get from it and the amazing 3sec KD but what does that have to do with healing?

The PIG gives 3 items, healing seed which gives ~2k hp + a smaller healing spring, eat egg which gives ~4k hp, and Rum which makes you immune to all damage for 3 seconds (this immunity unlike a lot of other immunitys makes you immune to condition damage AS WELL, where most others you will still take burning/bleeding/poison/confusion damage should the condition already be present.)

…and I thought all 3 ‘pig’ pets gave the same weapon! Thanks!

Nope, each pig gives 3 different weapons, the warthog has condition based items (2 of which are fields), the boar has hard CC (an aoe fear, a HUGE stun, and a long ranged multi second daze), and then the siamoth has 2 stealth items and an item that gives you all boons for 10s.

Xsorus.2507:

Durzlla.6295:

Xsorus.2507:

I ended up getting 4 more hilarious videos, I was trying to do Drake and Wolf, but couldn’t get them to work as good as Jaguar though.

I’ll get a few more and release another one…Might take a while… finding the right area where I don’t get zerged while doing it is important ;o)

One thing to say about drake, it’s HILARIOUS to watch people get completely destroyed by a salamander drake because he’s invisible while casting his breathe attack so they don’t know where he is, or when they need to avoid it xD.

Yea, I need to see if I can get the Drakes to work good, sometimes its hard though cause people move…

Use it with guard, i’ve noticed less people will move out of the range when they don’t see the drake, especially if you make sure to position yourself infront of his mouth and they’re melee xD

However, drakes don’t have access to their 2nd or 3rd skill so after their F2 skill they’re kinda on the short end of the stick when it comes to damage which is depressing =(.

Xsorus.2507:

I ended up getting 4 more hilarious videos, I was trying to do Drake and Wolf, but couldn’t get them to work as good as Jaguar though.

I’ll get a few more and release another one…Might take a while… finding the right area where I don’t get zerged while doing it is important ;o)

One thing to say about drake, it’s HILARIOUS to watch people get completely destroyed by a salamander drake because he’s invisible while casting his breathe attack so they don’t know where he is, or when they need to avoid it xD.

Xsorus.2507:

slingblade.1437:

Testing a similar version (same exact traits, but geared for 1300 Healing Power) of this build and I have a question. My Fern Hound’s F2 regen tool tip says 13 1/2 seconds. On him it’s actually 18s (awesome), but on me it’s only 10. I’ve got 6 Sup Altruism runes. Why do I only get 10s of regen?

Pet Tooltips are based off your stats..He’s getting 18 seconds of it probably cause of Boon duration from Nature’s Line I imagine, you’re getting 10 seconds based off your actual Boon Duration. It wasn’t 13 1/2 seconds to begin with….It’s probably like 8 seconds to begin with… for him…But he’s getting double buffed by you..

Actually, the way boon duration works is the duration of boons is increased when applied by YOU, in short, if you have 100% boon duration (impossible but w/e) and you use a skill that gives 6s of prot you will get 9s, where as if someone else with 0% boon duration uses the same skill you’d only get 6s because they have 0% boon duration.

The reason his pet probably has 18s and he has 10 is because he has the 15pt nature magic trait which gives the pet the boon twice (once for giving it to himself, and again for giving it to himself via giving it to his owner)

Cempa.5619:

Geewoody.2017:

Super secret tip:

If you want to make a healing and/or tanking build, use the pig. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Do elaborate, we know about the weapons we get from it and the amazing 3sec KD but what does that have to do with healing?

The PIG gives 3 items, healing seed which gives ~2k hp + a smaller healing spring, eat egg which gives ~4k hp, and Rum which makes you immune to all damage for 3 seconds (this immunity unlike a lot of other immunitys makes you immune to condition damage AS WELL, where most others you will still take burning/bleeding/poison/confusion damage should the condition already be present.)

lol waiting for “Pets are OP!” to come flooding through our forums…

KirinDave.6451:

Counterpoint: almost all of the focus skills are powerful control utilities that can be used to help condition builds win attrition wars.

Going off of this, the focus is also VERY defensive, and as such can keep you in a fight for much longer than if you were to use a dagger, in addition to this it has a lot of anti zerg stuff due to all the defensive abilities (such as becoming invulnerable for 4 seconds, so many times that’s saved me!).

However if you wanna be super offensive you absolutely should use the dagger, no questions asked.

Tulisin.6945:

Trump.9803:

But here’s the kicker – he was at full health when he came out of stealth?? so he was able to stealth, setup his next burst and full heal all at the same time, wtf?

Probably has a lot to do with the fact that he used his heal skill to go into stealth, and he has so little HP that his heal skill alone will get him back to full HP. Doesn’t really take much when you’re capping out at 13K.

They can get more than that, or you can be like my friend who has 10k health and like 2k armor, sure he rips people to shreds but the second he fights someone smart enough to keep attackin him while he’s in stealth he gets destroyed.

How long will it take for people to realize that you don’t need a target in order to use most skills?

Ursan.7846:

Kasama.8941:

You can get a ton of precision/critical damage from your weapons, accessories, jewels, and runes, it’s not really a problem. Survivability in WvW is much more important then it is in PvE or sPvP.

Of course, but when the OP said a “set” I just imagined full Soldiers (weapon/armor/trinkets). Which is, again, you’re sacrificing loads of damage.

True you do lose a TON of damage (says the guy in gift givers armor xD) but my go are you a god amongst mere mortals when it comes to WvW, you can wade through battle dealing death to the inferior bursty people all around you, it’s freaking awesome!!

Ever since the patch I’ve yet to see it fail, same with S&R..

PS: I know I’m just on a luck streak, especially seeing as how the week before the patch it didn’t work PERIOD, not once, was totally BS.

Westpalm.7462:

Hello everyone, I’ve been trying to figure out a spec for WvW. I’m fairly new to the game and have been trying out these different builds in sPvP, which I am well aware, is a different beast from WvW. But, I have been trying to keep this in mind while using these different builds.

Currently I am running with a Trap Build and it is working very well in the sPvP setting, but I really have my doubts about how well it will work in WvW (except for perhaps keep/tower defense). Does anyone know if trap builds work well in WvW? or should I focus on running a more long range type build?

My friend runs a very prick like trap build (30 marks 30 skirm 10 BM) don’t know his gear, and he just puts them down on frequently traveled areas and waits for a victim to run through them. He says it’s amazing 1v1 and 1v2-3, I know he uses a longbow and a sword/dagger, and he won’t tell me what runes he’s running just that they have condi duration, but knowing his love for TA I’m going to er they’re nightmare runes.

Let me know if that helps any, idk how well it’s work from personal experience, but it seems to work really well for my friend.

Avigrus.2871:

papacooldown.9482:

A coordinated group of 10 anything will ‘decimate’ smaller groups walking by. Whining on the forums about this just makes you look foolish.

My point being, the class is so overpowered you now have a situation where this is happening.

I wasn’t complaining about the decimation part.

Foolish? I think not.

I did this with 10 eles in TS and we wrecked EVERYTHING we came across, even leveled a Zerg of ~25 people or so when they stormed our keep, does this mean eles are OP too? No, it means a group of 10 coordinated players will be able to wreck a larger group of uncoordinated minions.

@Matenzo, the thing with stone is it allows a pet that’s made of paper, like the jaguar, to go into heavy aoe and SLAUGHTER someone, I’ve also used it to fear a group of people off of a keep via my wolf while everyone was desperately Tryin to kill him before he got his howl off.

As for hunt, it’s really good in some builds (longbow + sword dagger for example) and then others such as yours, which has a ton of swiftness, not so much…

And as for sig of the wild it heals the pet for more than you, and it scales REALLY well with healing power on the pet, and the active gives him 25% damage increase + stability, so sic em is good in scenarios with a very mobile enemy(thief), where sig of the wild is really good against a less mobile but high CC enemy(guardian).

Panther Chameleon.8465:

Our Utilities are weak. Straight up. Certain utilities should be blended together like Protect me and Sick Em. Signet of Beastmaster and Signet of Renewal. Trap skills should randomly throw out two traps, so you don’t have to dedicate your entire utility bar to traps. SotH is weak, too.

Why the kitten would i ever want my pet that i just blew a CD on to make into a kiling machine die FASTER? That has to be like the DUMBEST suggestion ever… our utilities are actually fine, if anything i’d say remove the ICD on spirits, but other than that we’re in good shape.

NaturalPortman.9562:

Casey.9687:

eh anyone can set up an anti ranger build mate, thats why you were stupid for even suggesting a 1v1….so easy to build counter builds, if you took that build against a warrior or guardian they would stomp you in the ground. My build tho would destroy them

LOL, warriors are free kills and that isn’t a counter build. I’ve been using axe/axe forever. Take your loss and run off with it and stop embarrassing yourself. Oh and maybe you should stop shooting your projectiles when I’m using whirling defense?

A sign of a very intelligent and good ranger, will continue to fire their attacks at whirling defense/wall of reflection/feedback THE MOST obvious reflects in the game xD.

PS: 1v1 is most certainly a good way to test skill, you ever do sPvP or tPvP? a good 75 or so % of the fights you do are only 1v1, very rarely will you do anything larger than that and that’d be 2v2 at best, and if you wanna go grab one of your buddies me and natural can team up and stomp you into the dust.

Leuca.5732:

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

Durzlla.6295:

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

Rocklin.4106:

skittlebob.4850:

Finally, I’ve seen videos of ranger pets critting for 4k, but I cant seem to get that amount even with 30 BM and using a bird. How do you maximize pet damage?

get lvl 80 :/

if you are already, than i think you havnt even looked into any of the skills to maximize its dmg or looked into the pets skills …

but a friendly Protip: Pet’s tooltips are sometimes horribly wrong, you have to test them out individually and ravens are by far the strongest birds, their F2’s deal about twice as much dmg than the other birds.

Personal record was 14k on a raven F2 attack (not showing as 14k as its an attack that hits twice, but it was about 7.5k+6.5k)

I think that the strongest pet F2 skill is the Rending Barbs of Lashhtail Devourer , Am I right ?

THE Strongest is the salamander drakes Fire breath, however good luck getting that off in PvP… Highest i’ve hit hit with my salamanders breathe (i was downed and they were attempting to finish me so they didn’t move out of the way) was around 28k or so, granted that’s with 25 masters bond, 25 might and sick’em.

So salamander drake is the strongest amphibious / terrestrial pet , what about the strongest aquatic one The shark ?

Blue and Rainbow Jellyfish can easily crit on F2 for more than 5k without might stacks with 30 BM. They provide aoe regeneration with water field and a smoke field to blind their target’s area. They’re just all around fantastic. Red Jellyfish is a viable option if you don’t have access to Rainbow, but its F2 doesn’t do as much damage.

I thought rainbow and blue jellyfish were the same, not rainbow and red… and jellyfish are awesome in all the utility they bring, salamander drakes kinda only have 2 attacks they can use atm because they’re bugged still… Underwater their F2 doesn’t deal nearly as much damage so it’s hard to try it since UW and Land are different beasts… but salamander drakes crit for 28k when buffed, they can do 5k no problem (especially when you take into account the 5s of burning), however it is a lot harder to hit with when compared to the jellyfish seeing as how the jelly fish has a full bubble around it where the salamander is a small cone.

Xsorus.2507:

Blue Jellyfish have the best F2 far as damage is concerned..On Land it’d be Raven probably and Jaguar to some extent.

If you just want a high dps pet underwater you have the cats of course, but also the Armored Fish who has much DPS then the Shark…That’s right..You’re thinking “But my sharks damage is amazing”…his actual attacks are just awful……the Armor Fish can constant crit for 2k+ kitten near every hit if you keep fury up… and he’s pretty much impossible to kill underwater.

Underwater Sharks rein supreme for damage, and on land the Salamander Drakes F2 puts everything else to shame especially once you start buffing it up. You give that shark malice training and those bleeds will SHRED the enemy, plus sharks have THE MOST power out of every pet in the game, there is NO pet that has as much power as they do, so you start buffing their power up more via might or MB and they become a total killing machine.

@Person higher up, auto attack wise, birds and felines do the highest damage, cats don’t have that great of BURST damage but my god do they deal a ton of damage constantly.

Kasama.8941:

Glektor.2934:

ShinraGuardian.8053:

I’m about 90% sure you shouldn’t be able to get your pet inside a keep where you yourself cannot enter. I can see it getting out via the portal doors, but I do not believe it should be able to get in through doors you do not control.

Actually, Mesmer illusions, Thieves guild, etc. all can get up on top of walls from outside, as I recall. So, the way I see it, it’s fair game until they fix NPCs in general.

I can’t count the number of times a mesmer outside has sent clones on me while I’m on a wall, or sent them up top to attack cannons, etc.

Illusions were nerfed to only working if you have a line of sight to your target. Guard works regardless of a target, which is how illusions use to work. So Guard could be nerfed as well.

Um… illusions can still get inside the keep… and Guard didn’t used to do this, this was added to guard in the november patch. When you used Guard previously it used to have your pet RUN to the location, however now if your pet is unable to get to the location by running it just teleports, try it sometime.

lol um… you compared signet of stone to a guardian ELITE? I agree though that signet of stones CD is a little long, but still, it’s not -that- bad especially if you have it traited, it gives 2 people (when traited) complete immunity to damage, that’s pretty freaking good.

And signet of the wild does MORE than grant stability, it also increases the damage of your pet by a whopping 25%. As for signet of renewal it’s the SAME CD as guardians and it doesn’t kitten you over when you pull every condition from every single ally in the area onto your pet and can auto cure it by hitting F4, oh no, so bad rolls eyes. And warriors only cures THEIR conditions not their allies as well. And signet of the hunt actually needs to be reworded it’s next skill, not attack, use that thing on a drake breathe (you know after they’ve started the long kitten animation of charging) and watch the fireworks.

PS: As above poster have said i don’t think you’re doing signet builds right if you think our signets are bad, we have some of the strongest signets in the game, and the similar sigs to SotH all only do an aoe Blind or an AoE life steal (which is REALLY strong, which is why it has the CD it does), they’re all on equal footing when you compare it to the other 30s CD ones.

Xsorus.2507:

Glektor.2934:

Does Guard actually send the pets from inside the keeps to outside? If so, that would be a blast and I’ll have to do this Pet trolling is good stuff.
Honestly, it’d be nice payback from getting ganked by invisible thieves in the past. Nothing lames harder than dying to something you never see.

Yes, you can send it outside of keep and inside of keeps…

Pretty hilarious ability

How do you get it inside keeps now? I was trying to throw him up on a wall but he was just like “Lawlz do you see the size of that thing?” where normally he would be like “Screw gravity! I’m a pet!” and teleport up there.

awe extender.1908:

It will be a good class when Anet fix spirits, pet survivability (specially AoE) and clean up the trait tree (it’s to messy).

ps. I’m ranger all the way!

Edit:
As it is now, we can do a mix bunch of stuff that other professions also can do, but we do it less effective / poorer. In other words: Other professions can do what we do, but much better!
We need something unique for the ranger! And a pet alone is not enough!
Seriously, how many of you guys are “spirit” rangers? I’m not talking a build for a few hours or experimentally, but as a main build you use all the time?? I have only seen ONE “spirit” ranger during all this time.

Trap traits should be re-made. A ranger should be able to ground target traps at default (without traits) and it should not be in the skirmishing tree! Also range of traps AND ranged pets should be 1200!

is that lone spirit ranger me lol? And range on traps should NEVER be 1200, that’s ridiculous, and i don’t want the stupid target trap thing, i hate that, i like putting them at my feet with one click not having to click 30 times to get the trap to drop at my feet, where i want it.

However i do feel that the signet and trap traits should be swapped, especially since traps are supposed to “punish enemies who get close” which screams “Defensive abilities for marksman!!” and if they were in marksman that condition duration would be AMAZING, giving you a total of 130% increase assuming you have no other condi duration.

And as for the things we can do that other profs can’t, be in two places at once i’m built 30 BM 30 nature magic and i can quite literally defend two locations at one time due to how sturdy both me and my pets are, especially if i throw guard into my build. Another thing rangers can do that others can’t (besides eles because they’re crazy versatile) is be able to support, do damage, AND control all with one build, and do all of those REALLY well, other profs have to essentially pick one or two and that is it. This leaves them either unable to support their allies, unable to control their enemies, or unable to hurt their enemies which is pretty major.

However, a lot of people don’t see this strength because they’re to stupid to realize how to use their pet (as shown above by the poster saying we have no interrupts). Once a lot of the ranger playerbase figures out how to use ranger it’s going to open a lot of doors people are to afraid to even touch.

In a vacuum it looks like it works really well, i’d suggest getting some footage of it in live PvP. It’s hard to judge how something will actually work based on how it works against dummies.

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

Rocklin.4106:

skittlebob.4850:

Finally, I’ve seen videos of ranger pets critting for 4k, but I cant seem to get that amount even with 30 BM and using a bird. How do you maximize pet damage?

get lvl 80 :/

if you are already, than i think you havnt even looked into any of the skills to maximize its dmg or looked into the pets skills …

but a friendly Protip: Pet’s tooltips are sometimes horribly wrong, you have to test them out individually and ravens are by far the strongest birds, their F2’s deal about twice as much dmg than the other birds.

Personal record was 14k on a raven F2 attack (not showing as 14k as its an attack that hits twice, but it was about 7.5k+6.5k)

I think that the strongest pet F2 skill is the Rending Barbs of Lashhtail Devourer , Am I right ?

THE Strongest is the salamander drakes Fire breath, however good luck getting that off in PvP… Highest i’ve hit hit with my salamanders breathe (i was downed and they were attempting to finish me so they didn’t move out of the way) was around 28k or so, granted that’s with 25 masters bond, 25 might and sick’em.

Abaregi.1659:

I like doing this myself. Though i do not understand the OP’s title at all.
What does “being a prick” have to do with killing other players in PvP?
To me the pricks are the ones on my side not killing the other.

It’s kind a prick thing to do to assassinate some poor kitten on siege equipment while you’re sitting pretty outside lol. To me though, alls fair in PvP (so long as it’s not a hack/exploit xD), although many others seem to disagree…

Abaregi.1659:

Bad class for bad people.
Good class for good people.

Check any older mmo and look at the class whine over the years.
(it changes every week/month – bad people have no attention span)

It’s also because they all jump to whatever is easiest to play atm, for example, everyone is going from ranger to theif/warrior (warrior is significantly easier to manage then ranger, thief is easier for people who don’t manage their pets but can manage themselves fine), and then if those get nerfed or something else gets buffed they jump to that and etc.

Arekai.5698:

No it’s not viable.
Neither in dungeons, PvE or PvP.
It can’t do anything. If someone is finishing off a mate before you theres nothing you can do except that one longbow push back.
Other classes either cc the kitten out of that person or kill him in mere seconds.
Even the best builds available figured out by minmaxers are dogkitten.

They should just revamp the whole class. remove 90% of the skills (eg all useless ones) and make them good, also put them into the right subtree so you don’t have to spec over africa to get a small active buff other classes have built in in their lvl 5 passive.

Canines, swap canine —→ knockdown, you can do that every 15s, if you have a hyena you get 2 KDs. We also have shortbow, and great sword for interrupts as well, you can also use a black widow/forest spider have an essentially on demand stun, Devourers have a KB that they will use before they will use retreat, Black Moa and the Flamingo have an on demand Daze F2 (used that to save my kitten quite a few times while downed).

We are absolutely FINE, hell, we have more ways to keep people CCed while we are downed then anyone else because we have this miraculous thing called a PET! you should use one sometime!!

Braxxus.2904:

Cosmo.8176:

the other classes which can only dodge twice every 8-10 seconds

What?
Ele’s – perma vigor
Engi – perma vigor
Theifs – nigh infinite evades

Necros I have no idea, they seem to just facetank hard
Guards don’t need no stinkin’ dodges

Warriors – potentially have equivalent to perma vigor… kinda

• Edit: Mind you I’m not saying Ranger’s are bad off in the dodge/evade area. Just saying most classes have far better than the baseline dodging timers.

This is false with the exception to thieves…

A warrior can’t even come close to perma vigor they have sig of stamina, and gain 8s of vigor on stances (4s on frenzy), so you’re not going to be rolling around nearly as much as a ranger or thief who regenerate energy like a mad man.

Engi… they have 1 skill that gives vigor and that’s only a 1/3 chance and then they have vigor when they gain swiftness, which is only 5s and engis don’t have perma swiftness in combat, only outside (in combat would completely bone them unless they’re trying to run).

Ele, roll a staff or dagger ele and try to tell me that, ONLY scepter eles have the tools to maintain perma vigor and even then they can’t do it without gimping themselves significantly (incase you didn’t know staying in one attunement is a death sentence). that being said you can build a scepter/x ele around having TONS of dodging abilities (more so, or equal to a ranger/thief) but it forces you into a specific build and weapon set where thieves and rangers can use just about what ever they want apart from a handful of trait points.

And necros don’t dodge… ever, it’s awful, going from ranger/scepter ele —→ necro kittened me over so badly because necros are one of those plant their feet and destroy profs (kinda like guardians).

Mesmers on the other hand, they can build themselves to be pretty dodgy, but again, not to the extent of rangers or thieves.

Cactus.2710:

Durzlla.6295:

Hey, i’ve been D/Cing way to much, and i know it’s not my internets fault since i’m not being thrown off of skype, and this ONLY happens on GW2 and no other online game i play.

Does anyone know how i can fix this?

It might depend upon what you are running, and what you call a D/C. I get lots of Out-of-Memory crashes to desktop because I’m still running Win7-32bit with 4 gig of RAM, and that’s not enough to run GW2 reliably. I want to upgrade my computer anyway, though, so once I do that I’m expecting that particular problem to mostly go away.

There’s a lot of buggy code in GW2, though, and the game servers themselves have lots of limitations (in/out bandwidth in particular), Those things cause other types of disconnects that for the most part can only be avoided by not playing the game at all because ArenaNet clearly has no plan to fix them or even acknowledge them.

GW2 is a really fun game to play overall, but for me it’s now just a placeholder until another game comes out that gets it right, or is at least open enough to admit their issues and keep players informed about what they’re doing to fix them. ArenaNet miserably fails at that.

Well i have 8gigs of Ram, so that’s not a problem, mine literally say “Connection to Servers Lost” when i D/C

HolySoldier.3842:

I too am having the same problem. Only guild wars 2 D/c and no other game.

Yeah… like i just played smite and league for like 4 hours straight (3hrs of league 1hr of smite) not a single disconnect or internet related issue, get onto GW2 for like 1hr and disconnect at least 3 times.

Hey, i’ve been D/Cing way to much, and i know it’s not my internets fault since i’m not being thrown off of skype, and this ONLY happens on GW2 and no other online game i play.

Does anyone know how i can fix this?

Xsorus.2507:

Durzlla.6295:

Xsorus.2507:

Durzlla.6295:

Xsorus.2507:

Durzlla.6295:

Xsorus.2507:

They only used Tail Swipe before, How do I know? I timed it.

They swung every 3 seconds, which was the cast time of Tail Swipe.

Now they’re attacking far far faster then before.

and far faster then the current Tail Swipe cast time, It’s quite possible though Tail Swipe just doesn’t work now though.

This is false, if they were ONLY using tail swipe that would’ve been fixed immediately seeing as tail swipe has a 40s CD, has a BASE damage of 1.5k, is a blast finisher and a 360* AoE, their auto attack was just abysmally slow which is just how the drake pet roled even in Beta.

What the OP is likely getting confused with tail swipe is one of the drakes auto attacks, it will randomly use one of 3 animations for its auto attack, 2 are bites and the third is it turns to the side and slaps them with their tail, but that’s NOT tail swipe

A. I’ve never seen the blast finisher work period

B. The damage you see on the tooltip is not the pets actual damage, That’s simple to check, Look at the damage it lists right now…Now go remove all your gear, Look at the damage then, That’s the actual Delve of the ability. Yes Anet is that bad when it comes to tooltip information.

C. You can actually check what i’m saying right now, Have your pet Above land go beat on a mob, Time it…Now proceed to walk over to some water, and have the same pet kill a mob, Time the attack, You’ll see it’s 3 seconds, That was the same amount of time it took above land a patch ago..It’s been changed, the pet is attacking faster, and Tail Swipes cast time has been dropped (it was 3 seconds)

The blast finisher ALWAYS worked, that was the thing about it, and btw your gear does nothing to the pets tooltip, i should know, my gear has no power on it, and you do realize pets pause inbetween attacks right? all pets except i believe cats do this.

EDIT: Upon going into LA and having my drake attack one of the precise target dummies for a good 5minutes, he has yet to do ANYTHING other than his auto attack, you’re full of bull kitten, he’s not using his tail swipe, that is all.

To clear up any confusion go to this video, go to 2:40, the big mamma drake begins to use its tailswipe then. Again, what YOU are seeing is NOT the tailswipe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfph49mdiPY

Hmm, Weird doesn’t show the tooltip one sec i’ll find a better method

I’ll just read you the change, You can just check it yourself

1086 Power – Tail Swipe – 697 Damage
1141 Power – Tail Swipe – 732 Damage

As for the rest, Go bloody underwater and see for yourself.

I did… he’s not using it… it’s upsetting, i’ve only been using a drake since kittening beta, and i spend a good 50% of my time underwater…

That slow kitten attack he’s using is 3 second cast time, You can time it.. That’s Tail Swipe, It isn’t working as a Blast Finisher

But it is Tail Swipe, It was the same attack he was using above land till a patch ago, Now he’s using a really fast attack (and Tail Swipe is faster on land now as well, but it’s not working)

look, i just went underwater AGAIN, had each drake kill all 3 target dummies 3 times each, not a single kittening one of them used TAIL SWIPE they all used their auto attack
which is them slapping them with their tail while underwater, this was the SAME pre patch on land, but now they bite instead.

Xsorus.2507:

Durzlla.6295:

Xsorus.2507:

Durzlla.6295:

Xsorus.2507:

They only used Tail Swipe before, How do I know? I timed it.

They swung every 3 seconds, which was the cast time of Tail Swipe.

Now they’re attacking far far faster then before.

and far faster then the current Tail Swipe cast time, It’s quite possible though Tail Swipe just doesn’t work now though.

This is false, if they were ONLY using tail swipe that would’ve been fixed immediately seeing as tail swipe has a 40s CD, has a BASE damage of 1.5k, is a blast finisher and a 360* AoE, their auto attack was just abysmally slow which is just how the drake pet roled even in Beta.

What the OP is likely getting confused with tail swipe is one of the drakes auto attacks, it will randomly use one of 3 animations for its auto attack, 2 are bites and the third is it turns to the side and slaps them with their tail, but that’s NOT tail swipe

A. I’ve never seen the blast finisher work period

B. The damage you see on the tooltip is not the pets actual damage, That’s simple to check, Look at the damage it lists right now…Now go remove all your gear, Look at the damage then, That’s the actual Delve of the ability. Yes Anet is that bad when it comes to tooltip information.

C. You can actually check what i’m saying right now, Have your pet Above land go beat on a mob, Time it…Now proceed to walk over to some water, and have the same pet kill a mob, Time the attack, You’ll see it’s 3 seconds, That was the same amount of time it took above land a patch ago..It’s been changed, the pet is attacking faster, and Tail Swipes cast time has been dropped (it was 3 seconds)

The blast finisher ALWAYS worked, that was the thing about it, and btw your gear does nothing to the pets tooltip, i should know, my gear has no power on it, and you do realize pets pause inbetween attacks right? all pets except i believe cats do this.

EDIT: Upon going into LA and having my drake attack one of the precise target dummies for a good 5minutes, he has yet to do ANYTHING other than his auto attack, you’re full of bull kitten, he’s not using his tail swipe, that is all.

To clear up any confusion go to this video, go to 2:40, the big mamma drake begins to use its tailswipe then. Again, what YOU are seeing is NOT the tailswipe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfph49mdiPY

Hmm, Weird doesn’t show the tooltip one sec i’ll find a better method

I’ll just read you the change, You can just check it yourself

1086 Power – Tail Swipe – 697 Damage
1141 Power – Tail Swipe – 732 Damage

As for the rest, Go bloody underwater and see for yourself.

I did… he’s not using it… it’s upsetting, i’ve only been using a drake since kittening beta, and i spend a good 50% of my time underwater…

Xsorus.2507:

Durzlla.6295:

Xsorus.2507:

They only used Tail Swipe before, How do I know? I timed it.

They swung every 3 seconds, which was the cast time of Tail Swipe.

Now they’re attacking far far faster then before.

and far faster then the current Tail Swipe cast time, It’s quite possible though Tail Swipe just doesn’t work now though.

This is false, if they were ONLY using tail swipe that would’ve been fixed immediately seeing as tail swipe has a 40s CD, has a BASE damage of 1.5k, is a blast finisher and a 360* AoE, their auto attack was just abysmally slow which is just how the drake pet roled even in Beta.

What the OP is likely getting confused with tail swipe is one of the drakes auto attacks, it will randomly use one of 3 animations for its auto attack, 2 are bites and the third is it turns to the side and slaps them with their tail, but that’s NOT tail swipe

A. I’ve never seen the blast finisher work period

B. The damage you see on the tooltip is not the pets actual damage, That’s simple to check, Look at the damage it lists right now…Now go remove all your gear, Look at the damage then, That’s the actual Delve of the ability. Yes Anet is that bad when it comes to tooltip information.

C. You can actually check what i’m saying right now, Have your pet Above land go beat on a mob, Time it…Now proceed to walk over to some water, and have the same pet kill a mob, Time the attack, You’ll see it’s 3 seconds, That was the same amount of time it took above land a patch ago..It’s been changed, the pet is attacking faster, and Tail Swipes cast time has been dropped (it was 3 seconds)

The blast finisher ALWAYS worked, that was the thing about it, and btw your gear does nothing to the pets tooltip, i should know, my gear has no power on it, and you do realize pets pause inbetween attacks right? all pets except i believe cats do this.

EDIT: Upon going into LA and having my drake attack one of the precise target dummies for a good 5minutes, he has yet to do ANYTHING other than his auto attack, you’re full of bull kitten, he’s not using his tail swipe, that is all.

To clear up any confusion go to this video, go to 2:40, the big mamma drake begins to use its tailswipe then. Again, what YOU are seeing is NOT the tailswipe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfph49mdiPY

BlueprintLFE.2358:

Nurse.1085:

Lick Wounds feels like it matches the Guardian’s #3 in terms of healing power, except the Guardians #3 effects allies around them as well (so it might be a little less).

…Aaannd only ticks 3 times, the guardian heal ticks 3 times you guys are on par with the guardian but the channel is WAY longer. Now I know rangers have needed love, but this ability is way to strong ATM. It is almost impossible to finish a ranger underwater right now.

This is false, i killed an enemy ranger underwater this morning, you just obliterate their pet and then kick the ranger into the same grave, not that hard, and if you have an interrupt (my mesmer didn’t because i had already used vortex or w/e it’s called) then you can just use that and the pets just goes “Well kitten…” and then you can kill the ranger.

Xsorus.2507:

They only used Tail Swipe before, How do I know? I timed it.

They swung every 3 seconds, which was the cast time of Tail Swipe.

Now they’re attacking far far faster then before.

and far faster then the current Tail Swipe cast time, It’s quite possible though Tail Swipe just doesn’t work now though.

This is false, if they were ONLY using tail swipe that would’ve been fixed immediately seeing as tail swipe has a 40s CD, has a BASE damage of 1.5k, is a blast finisher and a 360* AoE, their auto attack was just abysmally slow which is just how the drake pet roled even in Beta.

What the OP is likely getting confused with tail swipe is one of the drakes auto attacks, it will randomly use one of 3 animations for its auto attack, 2 are bites and the third is it turns to the side and slaps them with their tail, but that’s NOT tail swipe

Beardmonger.4692:

I’ve yet to see my drake actually use tailswipe, unless there’s no obvious animation for it.

Trust me, it’s obvious, the drake spins around and then the ground explodes and if they’re in a field that element will fly everywhere as well, if you DON’T notice it you need to see an optometrist.

That being said I’ve yet to see my drake use it yet.

deepwinter.9015:

You’re drunk, Druzlla. Go home.

You lurk around these forums long enough that you shouldn’t have to ask this question. The majority of people don’t share your love of Ranger Spirits, which the Nature Magic tree caters to.

Rangers also don’t pop boons as frequently as other professions, so the minor traits are lackluster at best. While we can swap weapons for Frenzy and Swiftness, blow our Warhorn and gain Might through various means, each of these situations require different builds and are infrequent.

Were the primary focus of the Nature tree more appealing (i.e. if Spirits were more viable – and no, they’re not, stop your fanboy-ism) I’m sure people would be more inclined to try boon builds down this tree.

You do realize nature magic has major Synergy with both WS ad skirmishing yes? Not to mention that only 4 traits deal with spirits, and you can completely neglect them and still reap the rewards of nature magic right?

And actually spirits aren’t broken, I just did TA f/u path with spirits unbound to see how useful they’d be and I can say that they lasted at least 30s per use in combat, and most of the time they lasted the full 60, which is pretty kitten amazing seeing as how it allowed for perma swiftness and at least 25% uptime on protection for the whole group. I honestly have no idea what you guys are doing to get your spirits killed I mean, kitten, what other utility has the opportunity to be active 100% of the time, oh wait not banners or those stupid spirit weapons everyone wants.

Jay.3284:

Rottaran Owain.6789:

50% greater endurance regeneration, rolling for protection,

Wrong traitline

Read the whole post bro, he’s saying that those synergies well with traits in Natures Magic, i know reading is hard, but make sure you do it.

Well, i’ve been using this build in sPvP (i’m not completely redoing my gear for PvE) and it has been absolutely wrecking people in both sPvP and tPvP.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBjYDbEoqyOySwi1OQsKsH2jExoF5eIK/HqLu7kJ;T0Ag0CnoSykkIJbSukkJtgYAxBitGPIA

and spirits aren’t bad, they are just harder to use than a lot of people want to believe, you can’t just throw them down in the middle of a battle field and expect no one to kill them!! Although when you get enough people around you it’s possible due to the whole 5 person limit and minions being lower on the aoe priority list. The only reason i didn’t put frost spirit in the build (he originally was) is because i found lightning reflexes allowed me to use my dodges without losing my 10% bonus damage for very long, which allowed me to be defensive AND offensive with one skill.

tigirius.9014:

Other games made me have a closer attachment to my pets via their taming system. sometimes they were rare pet finds, sometimes i had to trap them before I could tame them, and sometimes I had to find a tiny baby pet feed it over a weeks time (a new daily) and it grew into a pet I could use in combat or a mount (not expecting mounts don’t worry)

My suggestion would be try to include these types of tames in the future or even revamp the one you have now (certainly not an immediate thing) and people will love this profession moreso then they do now imo.

Did you play SWG? because that seems like a very very similar system… I personally have nothing against how we tame pets atm, just go up and hit F it’s the total lack of them growing up that bugs me to no end!!

I want my little fern hound who has been by my side since lv 1 to grow up to be big and strong! I mean kitten, he has 30 points in him lol, and he helped kill Zhaitan, you’d think he’d at least be older then a Juvenile by now…

Jay.3284:

The Master and Grandmaster traits are AWFUL (They mostly cater to spirits)
There’s about 1-2 decent adept traits…
Kinda self-explanatory stuff if you’re have decent

well, you’re completely disregarding the minors, not to mention that the Master traits are actually pretty freaking strong…

For example, Enlargement, gives your pet stability, a larger hit box (thus taking more hits for you) and causes them to do 25% more damage when you hit 25% health.

So, the more i’ve been playing with the nature magic trait line, the more i’m not understanding why everyone else seems to despise it. It provides a ton of utility and can also turn you into a wrecking ball with the 15 and 25pt talents, sure the grandmaster traits are fairly meh, but the rest of them are pretty freaking powerful, which is ironic when you think about it.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Oh it is not too strong. You still have to wait 8 seconds when you first get downed before you can use it. In that time you can get taken out by almost everything easily. Now if you could use the skill instantly or within 2 seconds, that would be a different story altogether…

lol that’d almost be as OP as rangers down state in alpha…. Oh throw dirt gave blind (no damage, just blind), blind still prevented people from finishing you, #2 gave your pet full health, might, fury, and quickness (yes quickness), and then 3 had your pet rez you at a pace faster than a player…. that was fair and balanced (as you can see by it no longer working like that xD)

Polaritie.4851:

Durzlla.6295:

jkctmc.8754:

There is no possible way a Ranger could kill my Mesmer. I was killing level 80 Rangers by level 40 in WvW. For that matter any 2v1 situation where the second opponent is the Ranger, I’ll ignore the Ranger until I kill the other person, then easily kill the Ranger. The only time this is an issue is if I’m facing a D/D Elementalist, or a good Warrior at the same time I’m facing the Ranger.

Yes, but a lot of rangers are just AWFUL, I didn’t realize how bad a lot of them were until I started pugging with other rangers, my god… They’d spend the entire instance with a dead pet, and get downed at least twice each fight, I might as well have brought under leveled players…

Fight a ranger that’s actually good and they’ll wreck you.

In a dungeon – if the boss can off your pets easily, use ranged pets. Or pets you’re only using for the skill (Red Moa, Jungle Stalker, Blue Moa, etc. for buffing. Wolf for Fear, since it goes through boss immunity, Hyena can summon a sacrificial unit with half power every 20 sec… etc.)

hahahahahahaha, that’s cute, you think i’m having issues with the pets in instances, no it’s other rangers, will my pet die? Yes, mostly because he gets hit by some stupid gimicky move that i can’t make him dodge (Jade Maw you prick!!), but for the most part they keep chugging along doing their thing!