And so died the hope that shapeshifting might be one of the unrevealed ones.
That’s two for two in disappointing elite specs for ranger.
Considering how many different pets we already have and will get in the future, shapeshifting would have been too huge an undertaking to achieve visually. And why are some people so hung up on the whole shapeshifting thing anyway? I’m honestly curious here.
They want the game to sacrifice it’s identity so that they can play a ripoff WoW shrugs
Let’s not seriously pretend that our Druid wasn’t heavily inspired by WoW’s druid with it’s focus on healing and zapping moonbeams and lunar energy all over the place.
We even turn into a spirit wisp with our staff.
Are you sure it wasn’t DnD? Or literally any other Role-playing game even before the era of digital gaming that had Druids?
I’ve played DnD before, zapping moonbeams around wasn’t really what they did. Frankly, they didn’t do much of anything useful for a longtime compared to other casters.
Druids in reality have a huge focus on lunar cycles and astral bodies, so I assumed that’s where they kinda got the moon laser things from.
And as someone who plays DnD Druids quite excessively I can safely say they focus way more on transforming into things, summoning stuff, and then spells to utilize plants or the elements.
Kinda upset our Druid doesn’t do any of the non astral stuff with staff/human form glyphs.
I mean it’s definitely possible but WoW is the 30 million active player elephant in the room and lunar themes play heavily into their druid via the connection to Night Elf lore the class has.
It’s likely not the only influence but it’s hard to say that there was no influence either. I’d even go so far as to say the WoW Death knight probably helped shape what Reaper became (at least while wielding a GS).
Oh I’m positive there was at least a little influence for both of those from wow, however, WoW Druid uses moon stuff significantly less than our Druid, they’ve got like, 4-5 spells tops that deal with the moon and sun and all of them are offensive.
All their heals are more plant based/growth based.
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And so died the hope that shapeshifting might be one of the unrevealed ones.
That’s two for two in disappointing elite specs for ranger.
Considering how many different pets we already have and will get in the future, shapeshifting would have been too huge an undertaking to achieve visually. And why are some people so hung up on the whole shapeshifting thing anyway? I’m honestly curious here.
They want the game to sacrifice it’s identity so that they can play a ripoff WoW shrugs
Let’s not seriously pretend that our Druid wasn’t heavily inspired by WoW’s druid with it’s focus on healing and zapping moonbeams and lunar energy all over the place.
We even turn into a spirit wisp with our staff.
Are you sure it wasn’t DnD? Or literally any other Role-playing game even before the era of digital gaming that had Druids?
I’ve played DnD before, zapping moonbeams around wasn’t really what they did. Frankly, they didn’t do much of anything useful for a longtime compared to other casters.
Druids in reality have a huge focus on lunar cycles and astral bodies, so I assumed that’s where they kinda got the moon laser things from.
And as someone who plays DnD Druids quite excessively I can safely say they focus way more on transforming into things, summoning stuff, and then spells to utilize plants or the elements.
Kinda upset our Druid doesn’t do any of the non astral stuff with staff/human form glyphs.
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
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Can someone explain to me the sudden fascination with swapping dagger 4 and sword 3? They’re already practically the same skill, why should they be swapped?
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
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And so died the hope that shapeshifting might be one of the unrevealed ones.
That’s two for two in disappointing elite specs for ranger.
Shapeshifting will never be a simple trait, we may get an elite spec and get “kits” that shapeshift us, but there’s no way Anet is going to put all the resources needed for a player character to be able to shapeshift into every pet we can get.
Keep your hopes reasonable, we could get 6 shapeshifts if Anet is feeling generous and goves the “shapeshifter” espec “kits”, but more realistically I think it’d probably function more like Firebrands Tomes, where they’d get a set amount (likely no more than 3) useable without giving up a utility.
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
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I honestly dislike the bark skin change as itdiscourages marauder longbow play, and further promotes hybridtankyheal.
Could always take instinctive reaction and gain some healing power based on your power.
yeah its a good point but then we are locked in nature magic, and wilderness surv was good for its added utlity for longrange annoyance with poison every 5 sec, survival reduced cd+condi removal and u could now even get muddy terrain on heal (which now has pulsing slow for 10 sec onpoint). While this change opened up, it also closed some doors, but thats evolution i guess.
I mean I still can’t bring myself to drop NM or BM to pick up anything new for my Druid, even though WS looks so good now with the muddy terrain heal.
I really think base ranger is in a fantastic spot for build diversity now though, looks like you won’t even need Druid to bunker, or you can be more of a bruiser at the very least without saving the damage that taking Druid forces.
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
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Also, why do we have a ‘Swine’ family. Has there ever been a functional use for the piggies? If there is and I’ve missed it, I’d love to discover it. If not, maybe they could be removed/reworked?
Very easy to imagine an aggressive skill/use for a boar. A farmyard pig, less so.
EDIT: just thought about hyenas – just pep them up a bit to make them more useful in a burst damage scenario…
The pigs are actually probably my favorite pet family, they’ve got decent damage for being a tanky pet, and they have the knockdown to end all knockdowns (3s knock down that cleaves), and their F2 gives an insane amount of utility, I mean who doesn’t like an AoE fear, a 3s invuln, 2s stun, chaos storm lite, or every boon in the game?
The problem with the pigs are, 1) their F2 is very clunky since you have to run up and pick up the item, or call them back to you so the item is nearby, and even worse enemy players can pick up the item (they never do, but they have the ability to do so). And 2) their godly knockdown has a very large windup and it hasn’t “homed in” since beta weekend event 2 (the pig would literally chase after its target until the pig was interrupted or the channel ended), which makes it very hard for the pig to land it.
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I honestly dislike the bark skin change as itdiscourages marauder longbow play, and further promotes hybridtankyheal.
Could always take instinctive reaction and gain some healing power based on your power.
Yeah, I reckon throw in the Grove Runes with IR and you end up with 320 healing power and good coverage of Protection to fuel Rugged Growth, which is a decent gain. Can still play Marauder for sure.
Not to mention with runes of the grove if you’re using a LB that 6 set is disgustingly broken.
It’s triggered on the attacker when you yourself are struck by that attacker.
Whelp, just slot on LR and roll to kill range then xD
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Add 1 ammo when not full?
Trigger on first non ammo skill? It is already triggering on weapon only skills.
Ammo charges have CDs, so it would probably just work as is…
The CD starts after you use all the ammo charges not on first charge. Quickdraw activates on the first weapon skill activation.
Uh, no, it starts as soon as you’ve used a single ammo charge.
If that’s the case, It’s amazing.
I can assure you it is, one of my friends has been playing a spirit weapon guardian since the patch, and another is playing an Axe/Axe warrior with physical skills.
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I honestly dislike the bark skin change as itdiscourages marauder longbow play, and further promotes hybridtankyheal.
Could always take instinctive reaction and gain some healing power based on your power.
Yeah, I reckon throw in the Grove Runes with IR and you end up with 320 healing power and good coverage of Protection to fuel Rugged Growth, which is a decent gain. Can still play Marauder for sure.
Not to mention with runes of the grove if you’re using a LB that 6 set is disgustingly broken.
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I mean it DOES work with Fern Hound F2 now, so there’s that.
Apart from the fact that after 5 years F2 is still utterly unreliable and won’t go off when you want it to most of the time.
I’ve never had issues with the F2 not going off when I need it, the only time my pet doesn’t stop what it’s doing and F2 is if it’s out of range of my target, or it’s CCed.
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I would guess the best places to look would be your guild, or the heart of the mists, LFG might have some people looking as well, but as far as I know there’s no place dedicated for finding a team.
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Can someone see if this applies from Runes of the Grove and from Oakheart attacks as well? It may be a bug with all the skills that summon roots around the enemy.
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I met up with Irenio, who was heading into my area of the building to talk to me about this very bug. As it turns out, it’s quite a complicated issue and that’s why it took a while to address. But… it has been addressed, yaaay! The fix for this issue should be going out very soon, perhaps before the end of the week.
Naturally, for something this complicated, there are a lot of “layers to the onion” in getting it resolved, but it is very much in the devs’ minds, and help is on the way for our beloved, but lazy-seeming, pets!
Woohoo!! Thank you so much! Now Jolt is going to be eager to headbutt people again instead of groggily waddling into battle.
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I started the game from scratch yesterday , I’m at lvl 8 at the moment but I don’t have any issues like the one in the vids, I’ll report back at lvl 11 after testing F2, but maybe it’s tied to changes they did to some traits ?
So what you’re saying is… it only effects old characters lol?
I’m saying that maybe it’s tied to one trait in particuliar, without the trait there is no problem but with it the bug happens. To find this trait though…
Edit : Could even be a combination of traits. So it could be hard to pinpoint the exact source of the problem.
Well I know I run Druid/NM/BM and it still persisted when I swapped out NM for WS, so maybe it’s in BM or Druid?
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I started the game from scratch yesterday , I’m at lvl 8 at the moment but I don’t have any issues like the one in the vids, I’ll report back at lvl 11 after testing F2, but maybe it’s tied to changes they did to some traits ?
So what you’re saying is… it only effects old characters lol?
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@Shadefang I have no idea how programming works and won’t even begin to pretend I do, but I know I ASSUMED that QA version and patch version would be identical. So if it’s true it might alter then I’ll give Anet the benefit of the doubt because otherwise it would imply their QA team is literally just incompetent because I noticed the big literally within 2 minutes of gameplay.
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If Empathetic bond was a 50/50 split like PvE, it would be alright, just alright, not great, however in PvP it’s kittening hot garbage, it not only barely reduces condis on you, but in PvP our pet gives US 80% of its condi durations, that means if your pet runs through a fire field we’re getting 80% of that.
Rofl OMG!
If this is true, they (Anet) surely outdid themselves this time, and not in a good way! What a joke!
Yeah I haven’t tested it in PvP, but I was throwing my bear into all sorts of fields with it in PvE to see how it worked lol.
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The healing power gain for pets I believe was buffed since it’s now on instinctive reaction and gives them 7% of their power as Healing Power.
Edit: way overestimated the average power on pets, nope it was a straight up nerf for any of the pets (or Druid/ranger builds) that would actually benefit from healing power.
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If Empathetic bond was a 50/50 split like PvE, it would be alright, just alright, not great, however in PvP it’s kittening hot garbage, it not only barely reduces condis on you, but in PvP our pet gives US 80% of its condi durations, that means if your pet runs through a fire field we’re getting 80% of that.
Wait, so it transfers the opposite direction now too? From the pet to the Ranger? The pet that has no clue where AoE fields are and runs straight through them or just stands in them while attacking?
Priceless, it’s even worse than I previously thought. Who would actually look at that trait and think it’s fine to send out to a live game?
If it were a 50/50 split I’d be more willing to use it as a melee tanky ranger since it seems if you’re both in the same field or getting hit by the same attack you’ll both only be affected once, IE you both get by an attack that applies 18s of burn you’ll both only have 9.
But if only one of you gets hit you’ll both get 9 regardless. I can only imagine the bull kitten of getting hit by 80% of the condi duration from something my pet kittening stands in though in PvP/WvW
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
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If Empathetic bond was a 50/50 split like PvE, it would be alright, just alright, not great, however in PvP it’s kittening hot garbage, it not only barely reduces condis on you, but in PvP our pet gives US 80% of its condi durations, that means if your pet runs through a fire field we’re getting 80% of that.
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
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Found this in the hellhole that is reddit. You’re welcome for not having to go to that place:
[–]Anet_BenRilvald (Fractals) 15 points 3 hours ago
If your talking about the pet swap skill I don’t know all the details other than some code changed that affected ranger pet initialization timings. It looks like progress has been made in identifying the issue, and a fix is being worked on by the skills team.
Thanks for taking one for the team Fluffball
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LB rangers got a huge buff in the form of 6 sec unblockable.
The 6 sec of unblockable is pretty useless if you get tossed around all the time in WvWvW because you have no stability.
Just wanted to say that I never really used SOW as there are other utility skills that are just better for my weird play style(tanky core ranger which also got even harder nerfed once again).
If you’re a LB ranger you shouldn’t really be in range of people being throwing you around.
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I get to ditch my pet and have even more stuns for my lelthisisfun GS/LB ranger. Let’s see Deadeye compete with perma stun in your face arrow pwnage! 720 no scope bish!
perma stun? What have I been missing?
Essentially the plan is fusion ha, pet stun, into the F2 stun, in fusion, pet stun, into another stun, into like a foot or w/e
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Druid is definitely a viable healer, but I believe the fractal community prefers more damage than sustainability so they’d rather you play as a DPS build.
Condi ranger or condi Druid are probably your best bets, metabattle should still be a good source for the meta builds.
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Ranger still has 80% condi duration and the pet takes 20%?
So the ranger would only gain 20% condi duration reduction, which is alright I guess, but that’s not an equivalent trade to 4 condis banished to the nether every 10s.
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…Then throw in a Sigil of Cruelty for another 17% crit damage. 287% crit damage is quite nice! I wonder if Assassins gear is going to be better than Zerker for Power Ranger now?
Any chance you can take a screen shot of the tooltips?
Assassins has always benefited ranger more than berserker because ranger benefits more from constant critical than they do from more damage, our power scalings are horrendous when compared to others, so gaining 100% crit chance + flat critical damage is better for us than stacking power.
Well, does the Vicious Quarry trait give additional crit chance too? How much is it? If that is the case, then Berserker is better since you can still hit 100% crit chance with it.
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SoR I like, Sig of Hunt is great, the active is actually something I would WANT to take, and because it’s not on pet swap it means I can load up my pet with might and have them in position etc to lay down the hurt, and since I’m unblockable too I can root the enemy/hold them down for my pet to rip their face off.
Sig of the Wild has a great passive now, the active is… well, it’s not AWFUL, it’s a 4s Root, but we could just use muddy terrain for that, or entangle, or drake hound, or like 4 other sources on ranger for that… however the animation on the new active is fantastic, looks great, 10/10 on appearance, if only it were for a different skill.
And then signet of stone is as amazing as usual, nothing to see there.
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Druid staff doesn’t need more damage, the goal of the weapon is to heal/support, not kill things. And I fail to see how Celestial Avatar is clunky, it sounds like you just need to manage your avatar juice better and learn to aim.
If you fail to see how clunky CA is, then I suggest you be support Druid for our roaming team on BG… You can show us your flawless ground target healing skills on everyone zipping around… I’m also sure you’ll be able to have heals ready when we need it…
Do you also find the ventari tablet smooth? If so, you can try that too.
Edit- I don’t care what the goal is with staff, I care about a better weapon design for wvw.
Sorry that I just know how to lead a target? And unless you’re hoping into CA on CD or you just left CA when you need it again you shouldn’t have too much issue having it up when needed. Druid is designed to be a burst healer, not a sustain healer, that means you have a window of super amazing healing, and then a window of very little healing where you/others are more vulnerable to damage.
You’re effectively calling CA clunky because you can’t just use it at will and throw out those godly heals at will. Just because you’re trying to shove the square in the circle shaped hole doesn’t mean it’s clunky.
Edit: Ventari is hot garbage, not only because of the ridiculous cast times for minor effects, but also because it effectively has no heal skill, and it has absolutely no way of handling burst. If the 6 were instant maybe it’d feel less awful in the tablet moving, but it needs a ground up fix to not feel like a bunch of gears rolling in a dryer.
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
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Its a great buff to Power Rangers:
Rangers can now get 500 ferocity with any weapons or +680 with Axe equipped by using 2 traits + 1 passive signet. 1 trait gives 250 ferocity when you gain fury & fury now does 30%+ crit chance. Signet of the wild passive gives +180 ferocity & stack this with +250 ferocity from Axe offhand trait & its quite nice.
They can generate might just fine, new trait gives you might based on enemy health %, another trait now gives you might when ur pet does a crit hit. I tested it, in 2 seconds I had 9 stacks of might already from those two traits.
Then throw in a Sigil of Cruelty for another 17% crit damage. 287% crit damage is quite nice! I wonder if Assassins gear is going to be better than Zerker for Power Ranger now?
Any chance you can take a screen shot of the tooltips?
Assassins has always benefited ranger more than berserker because ranger benefits more from constant critical than they do from more damage, our power scalings are horrendous when compared to others, so gaining 100% crit chance + flat critical damage is better for us than stacking power.
They sing dark, delicious notes about power and family.
As their mother, I have to grant them their wish. – Forever Fyonna
…Also, Empathetic Bond is a 50% Condi duration cut on you, which is pretty fantastic tbh, now pair that with some melandru runes and you might forget what a condi is…
I can’t log on so I couldn’t check for myself… I was really hoping it was 50% but also thought that was too much to dream of… It’s really good then. I bet that gets nerfed, since you will be able to stack -95% with that GM, Runes and food, effectively removing condi from the game for Ranger.
I just discovered that Taste for Danger adds vitality as well as scaling the Expertise from it, how much Vit is it?
It’s not sadly, it’s 80/20
It must change on game mode then, I just pulled it up in PvE and it was 50/50 (didn’t have time to check elsewhere).
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