Guild Wars 2

Atherakhia.4086:

Durzlla.6295:

Zoia.3678:

Some broadcaster just said in chat they will start in about 40 min.

hmmm… nothing is currently going right now… for me anyway, so maybe they’ve lied to us!!

Kill them all!

I’ll grab my bears… That’ll show them that bears can do a hell of a lot more damage than a kittening cat can!!

it took me and my friends about an hour and a half last night… and it only took so long because one of our pugs kept having D/Cs and we wanted to wait for him because he was doing really really well…

Not to mention it’d probably be A LOT faster now that we know the mechanics instead of being like “ZOMG! What’s going on!?!”

Rutee.1058:

There is definitely such a thing as being ‘too tanky’; especially when you’re outranging most AoE to start with. I don’t worry about it since two of my three stats are damage and I’m usually close, but I’d start to worry if it were just one used for damage, and the other two self-defense.

I use clerics because the healing power helps my allies as well as myself (not that much granted), that or if i go with a more offensive build i’ll take magi and just make a build that boosts my pet up when i crit, and i do have zerker sitting there when/if i wanna use it…

Zoia.3678:

Some broadcaster just said in chat they will start in about 40 min.

hmmm… nothing is currently going right now… for me anyway, so maybe they’ve lied to us!!

tigirius.9014:

Knote.2904:

Turret cooldowns are way too long.

I don’t think any should be over 30seconds tops.

Personally they shouldn’t be above 15 seconds if we pick them up because 1: they weren’t destroyed requiring longer period to put them back together 2: how hard is it for an engineer to plop one down and hit the on switch.

I’ve been asking for that for months now it’s ridiculous the sheer lack of sensibility put into the process of this class sure it’s fantasy but cmon even fantasy worlds have physics.

What we need for turrets to finally be viable:

1. 90% AOE immunity
2. a trait whether grandmaster or not, that allows them to be mobile
3. faster CDs when we pick them up (mentioned above)
4. smarter attacks (which is on the way according to their Oct 15th preview)
5. the inability to tab target them (which means enemies must click target them directly to hit it)
6. the Mortar Elite should have 100% immunity to AOEs because it’s an elite duh, and it should fire by itself when we’re not standing in it.

Then turrets will be viable, there’s a sheer lack of understanding of the needs of pet classes in the balance of this game that goes beyond the engineer I’m afraid! Oh and btw these things are well tested in other games have been using them for years (cept the 100% immunity thing for elite) and it’s worked out very well.

Oh dear god… if mortar elite used only the auto attack (i mean cmon balance purposes) while not on it… oh i’d be in love!! plop that baby down somewhere and suddenly the extremely powerful team fight elite becomes a really good 1v1 elite as well!!

And i’d LOVE, my turrets to have shorter CD when i pick them up and go, i mean 15s on all of them may be -too- low, but i do think the CD should be lowered by at least half when we pick them up… i mean kitten… when your rocket turret dies you’re without it FOREVER.

PS: I’m almost positive they’ve made it so turrets now attack your target.

kiwituatara.6053:

Dungeon will be staying i think, rewards will be reduced.

Oct 15 is pretty much judgement day for my ranger characters. I think I’ve waited long enough~

Rewards will not be reduced, the living world thing is the only temp part about the content (well they said the instance may be change when scarlet is finally dealt with, but this isn’t even 100% on if that’ll happen.)

Sarision.6347:

Durzlla.6295:

Sarision.6347:

Running nothing but bears and longbow (and maybe even shortbow) in dungeons. Not only are you doing kittenty damage, you’re also not supporting your teammates nor receiving support from them.

False, except for the kittenty damage, that is true, having an AoE condi cleanse and AoE weakness + a damage sponge (bears can tank bosses like a mofo), not to mention it’s not hard to run in and out of long range to drop healing spring for your melee allies, you’ve got 10 vuln you can maintain by yourself, and an AoE cripple and a KB, not to mention your other weapon. You can also run spirits if you want (i run the elite spirit for the AoE rez, condi cleanse and heal), and then if you take Healers Clarity and Mercy Runes you rez people extremely fast, rez them to half health, and then gain swiftness so you can get back to where you need to be (or to another dead person) quickly, that and S&R and you’re a one man rezzing team.

Not to mention you yourself are tanky as hell if you’re going supporty….

The problem is, do Bearbows do this? Do they even take some of their time to run up to the melee to drop a Healing Spring or hell, even run up halfway to drop Frost Spirit (that is, if they even carry it in the first place). And sitting at 600+ doesn’t grant the rest of the party Spotter (again, if they even bring it in the first place).

Or hell, do they even do a single thing of what you mentioned?

Well i don’t use spotter because i see piercing arrows as much more viable than that… and i normally don’t use frost spirit because i think it’s over ratted… that and i value surviving longer over doing more damage…

As for the other stuff.. yes, yes i do run up to drop my healing spring because 95% of the time i don’t actually need the heal, and if i do i don’t need the condi removal more than a few ticks (which i can dance around in melee range to get) or regen because of how far i stand in the back…

You can ask any of my groups though, i’m ontop of rezzing people, i have no reason NOT to rez people, i mean kitten rezzing puts my armor at ~3.5k armor while rezzing, which makes me tanky enough to eat a lot of damage and not even be phased… like lupicus and his kittening Chi Barrage Dragon kitten kitten.

lordhelmos.7623:

Durzlla.6295:

Kal Spiro.9745:

This interests me greatly because as far as I understand LB has some of the worse DPS in the game.

Let me guess… some idiot who thinks warrior is the only way to play the game told you this right?

Longbow has AMAZING damage if you build for it, it has some really nice scaling with power and crit, not to mention that stealth in PvP (and PvE i’ve noticed) provides you with quite a bit of survivability….

The LB is only good if your in a teamfight and allowed to unload on a guy fightning someone else from max range. Combat in gw2 is fast paced and based on movement. Against a stationary target LB dmg is great, but it takes full zerker gear and max range to deal competitive damage. At close range, the.damage is so low that even the nonflanking shortbow beats it.

At max range your damage drops because 50% of longbow shots, including half.of rapidfire shot will miss a moving target.

So let’s recap the conditons needed to make it good:

-1200 or more range
-zerker gear
-target must be immob, afk, standing still, or fighting someone else.

For PvE, LB is.great. In pvp, too many planets need to align to make it work. You are better off with other weapons.

you clearly have not actually used a longbow in PvP if you think you cant land most the attacks…

Glovebox.5724:

I hate it, it is bad. Not only that but humans will be the best race to wear it… Always fits humans, why do we even bother with races now?

Uh…. if it fits humans it fits Sylvari too, just saying…

Sarision.6347:

Running nothing but bears and longbow (and maybe even shortbow) in dungeons. Not only are you doing kittenty damage, you’re also not supporting your teammates nor receiving support from them.

False, except for the kittenty damage, that is true, having an AoE condi cleanse and AoE weakness + a damage sponge (bears can tank bosses like a mofo), not to mention it’s not hard to run in and out of long range to drop healing spring for your melee allies, you’ve got 10 vuln you can maintain by yourself, and an AoE cripple and a KB, not to mention your other weapon. You can also run spirits if you want (i run the elite spirit for the AoE rez, condi cleanse and heal), and then if you take Healers Clarity and Mercy Runes you rez people extremely fast, rez them to half health, and then gain swiftness so you can get back to where you need to be (or to another dead person) quickly, that and S&R and you’re a one man rezzing team.

Not to mention you yourself are tanky as hell if you’re going supporty….

Kal Spiro.9745:

Durzlla.6295:

Kal Spiro.9745:

This interests me greatly because as far as I understand LB has some of the worse DPS in the game.

Let me guess… some idiot who thinks warrior is the only way to play the game told you this right?

Longbow has AMAZING damage if you build for it, it has some really nice scaling with power and crit, not to mention that stealth in PvP (and PvE i’ve noticed) provides you with quite a bit of survivability….

Well since I don’t know who posts what I really couldn’t say, but mainly I gathered that from reading this forum. Not that it’s changed my using a long bow. I enjoy the weapon and I don’t care if it does huge damage as long as I win.

Yeah i’m not a “TONS OF DAMAGE!” sort of guy either, i just like teh ammount of control and utility it provides… if only i could use it more freely for condis…

Kal Spiro.9745:

This interests me greatly because as far as I understand LB has some of the worse DPS in the game.

Let me guess… some idiot who thinks warrior is the only way to play the game told you this right?

Longbow has AMAZING damage if you build for it, it has some really nice scaling with power and crit, not to mention that stealth in PvP (and PvE i’ve noticed) provides you with quite a bit of survivability….

Kal Spiro.9745:

Scrotbag.9715:

Pegaasus.3280:

The funny thing is that I’ ve spent these last two days..duelling most of the rangers who posted comments towards me like : You can’ t play this class ^^ Learn to play and so on..^^
They were simply nabs ah ah who died so easily..
I won’ t write their names here to avoid being reported..but seriously..before writing such things..really learn to play your ranger ^^ ah ah))

I got dragon class in sPvP but asked Anet not to let it show and I got full ascended gear in PvE but transmuted all to low tier skins just so I don’t embarass people ingame.

Get a grip sunshine, this post is even more ridiculous than your first.

So you transmuted your weapons? I mean really, full ascended gear? What does that even mean? You’ve got jewelry and a backpack and weapons. Jewelry and the backpack are common place, and the weapons are craftable, so why would anyone be embarrassed? I put a lot of work into my backpack so I like to show it off. I haven’t bothered with the weapons yet, but unless they look amazing, instead of squirrely like most of the crafted weapons I’ll end up transmuting them anyway.

I’m just lost at what the point of this post was.

This post

Your Head

He said he had “Full Ascended” as in fully decked out ascended and was “Dragon Ranked” two things that are entirely impossible to accomplish right now (granted dragon rank is getting close to being done).

I’m still upset i accidentally deleted my witch’kitten from last year =(, i’d love to use that on my mesmer…

that being said are we sure this is the Halloween mask? If i’m not mistaken didn’t the patch notes say it was awarded for the first round of mad king says?

A Massive Headache.1879:

Andele.1306:

Narcemus.1348:

Wow, such an aggressive conversation that is not even on the topic, which is new ranger pet skins…

As per Zhaitan, risen are his minions, this doesn’t make him a risen. It would be like saying a necromancer is undead (when they are very much alive) or an elementalist is made of whatever element they raise into an elemental minion, which is absurd. Now, whether or not he is, is something that could be debated til everyone is blue in the face and we’ve gotten nowhere, but as to the “he raises them thus he is one of them” arguement, it just doesn’t work.

As to the topic on hand, I have no rangers atm, although it’ll be the next profession I get after I finish out my current 5 (guardian, thief, and elementalist remaining), so I really do not know what the situation on pets is.

All player necromancers that got all their elites in GW2 are undead, Lich form yo.
(For Zhai – http://images.mmorpg.com/images/galleries/formatted/152012/9fa389d1-c245-4216-a6cc-44b2d0443c1c.JPG)

For Bmoa and Rphoenix you really have to be stupid not to understand the concepts of evolution and what the Lazarus tax is on extinct animals (also no extinction means that we/a dominant and sentient pecies has no known record of a life form being… well alive anywhere anymore, not that they are deleted from existence and record).
By the way a species (that used to be “extinct” before they got discovered again) being bred and found nowhere else is something i gave you examples of above and is one of the prime things that state the rare status of it.

For a last comment before i send a few reports, if you read but dont understand whats written (or develop weird headcanon about it that makes no sense in any way), you might not wanna use what you read as a weapon since it tends to backfire.

Prove they’re endangered. As for the gargoyles, I’ll say again, those are not gargoyles. And what Konig said is true, the mists can create or recreate anything.

Also that link said clearly zhaitan is a dragon made of dragons with no hint or trace to him being undead.

Why aren’t they Gargoyles? because they don’t look the same? By that logic there are no Krait, or Oakhearts, or Gryphons, or Giants, or Jotun anymore too right?

And the Gargoyles aren’t “Extinct” we see them ALL OVER the Mad Kings Realm, not to mention they could all be on the kittening floating castle of mysteries for all we know, or in Cantha, or Elona, or Maguuma or anywhere we haven’t been to since GW1 or ever before.

All we know is that the Gargoyles Mysteriously vanished, and it seems to be all at once too, an entire species doesn’t just evaporate into thin air, i guarantee they used either some sort of magic to hide themselves/ teleport, or were summoned enmasse to somewhere.

@OP: I would love to be able to tame either form of the Gargoyle (or better yet both) on my ranger!

slaughterfest.6250:

Wow, thanks man. That’s exactly what I was looking for!

np, i play turrets quite a bit lol, especially in sPvP, gotta say that they put trap rangers to shame when it comes to guarding a point if you set up your turrets correctly.

The major flaw they have though is mobility, you can’t chase someone too far from your turret nest or you lost just about everything, so once you bunker down, you’re there for a while.

Chrispy.5641:

Kal Spiro.9745:

The passive is still no good. They will never make a passive utility that only works under specific situations.

What are our signets?
Run Speed +25%, this is always true.
Drop a condition every 10 seconds, this is always true.
Increase Toughness, this is always true.
Regenerate, this is always true.

Increase projectile speed, this is only true for two two-handers, one main hand, and three other specific powers of three other weapons. This is only true for two pet groups.

That’s too limited.

I thought about that at first too, but the only other solution I could think of, was go for the standard when it comes to signets….

Passive : Increases Precision for you and your pet. (which at level 80, is 180 extra Precision, if it follows what other Signets do.)

we could have all sorts of Signets that do that, or have something that affects something else for everything,…for example…..

Druid’s Signet
45 second cooldown
Passive : Improves Healing for you and your Pet. (180 at level 80)
Active : Turn all Conditions on your Pet into Boons.
Active (with Signet of the beastmaster) : Turn all Conditions on you and your Pet into Boons.

or

Trapper’s Signet
240 second cooldown
Passive : Improves Skill Cooldown for you and your pet. (10% faster Skill CD)
Active : Instantly recharge all skills on your pet (including F2)
Active (with signet of the Beastmaster) : Instantly recharge all skills (except Elite)

Don’t name it Trapper’s Signet, maybe “Signet of Preparation”, and i’d make it an elite skill, and drop the CD to 180s.

If i don’t stop playing ranger, then yes i will be using it once it gets the reveal, atm it’s just a little bit lacking, the reveal will make it great!

rpfohr.7048:

jcbroe.4329:

rpfohr.7048:

Enjoyable thread. I agree and think most of those changes are op.
I would like it if axe 5 forced you into a walk speed. No run speed.and the retaliation was replaced or removed by something not as strong.

I still dislike shouts. I won’t touch sickem till after buff but particularly the other three. None of them synergize well making shout build near impossible. A net should have tested in beta.

I think if the pet is going to gaurd a target area so be it. But I’d like it to be more of. Oh that pet is my ally and over there. Fighting near it is good. Thus I would like the cd increased to 60 and it pulse a powerful boob in the area. Either stability protection or retaliation

For example if search and rescue caused fear to everyone nearby the downed ally and gave pet protection I would consider using this.

Or if it was duration based. For 30 secs pets find near allies and res them.
I really try to compare this to other Rez skills. Yes banner is an elite on a long cd but its also aoe and inta Rez. For its cd I feel search should have one of those two aspects to it.

I made another thread with ideas about the other two shouts. Ill try to find and edit post

If I remember correctly, during the betas, rangers didn’t even have their last “shout” utility until like BWE3. Maybe it was sooner, but I could have sworn it wasn’t til BWE3.

Only search And rescue was in beta 3. Other shout descriptions were released but not until live could we use them

No, they were all there at the end of Beta 3, same with underwater spirits.

I’ve got the sacrificial knife and incense!

stale.9785:

Durzlla.6295:

Ragnar.1546:

I’d like to know that the time I spent on my ranger wasn’t wasted. Otherwise give me a token of regret and allow me to apply the current level of my Ranger to a new character of my choosing.

I did like my BM ranger prior to all the changes but it was just one blow too many and now my Ranger is taking up a character slot.

TOKEN OF REGRET!! I don’t care about fixing the class anymore, I want that wasted time back.

I would not be opposed to be given a “Token of we kittened up!” that rerolls your ranger into another prof…

Ele needs this same thing.

I’d argue ele is in a better spot than ranger, as the devs said in the last SOTG the main issue with ele is that everyone elses (warrior, thief, necro specifically) numbers are too high, and if they were brought down a little bit than ele would be considered in a very good spot. You know, since they’re not supposed to be high up in any one category…

The ele does need a total trait rework though…

A tip, Rocket turret and rifle turret are made of tissue paper, they are for all intents and purposes glass cannons so they should be in the back where they can take full advantage of their range. In sPvP this means to absolutely PUT THEM OFF THE POINT make your enemy leave the point to kill them, chances are they’ll die trying.

Thumper turret in PvE has a HUGE agro, if it’s put down enemies will bum rush it , use this to your advantage when saving your other turrets. In PvP this thing should be on a point , it’ll keep them constantly crippled and allow you to launch the poor kitten at a moments notice allowing you to always stay a step ahead of them if they’re Melee.

Flame, healing and net turrets are like the “adventurer” turrets they’re pretty squishy if focused but can normally keep themselves alive for quite some time. Flame turrets damage is great and should be place near the edge of a point in PvP (or in the middle of it depending on your style), it’s active will almost always be a more annoying blind than a thieves black powder and you can get a lot of defensive combos out of it via shooting through it, it also can be used as an AoE stealth when comboed with the thumper turret or blowing up any turret in the smoke.

Healing turret is my sacrificial lamb, I’ll normally throw that thing down to blow it sky high and knock people all over the place, it’s just such a low CD and there’s almost no reason not to drop it since the heal is almost always a good thing.

Net turret I don’t use very often because I like thumper turret A LOT more, but it’s good for keeping people sitting nice and still for your rocket turrets knock down!! That much I’ve learned from supply kit..

For me when I run turrets I normally go 4 turrets + heavy plating, rifle barrels (grandmaster) and Elite supplies + accelerant packed turrets. Elite supplies + supply drop turns your fortified location into a kittening death trap with 8 angry little turrets sitting there ready to focus fire the poor kitten who strolls too close!

Yeah, this patch is the last hope ranger will not be sub par to my engi and Mesmer who I’ve played significantly less but perform SIGNIFICANTLY better than my ranger…

And to all you people saying the ranger is complex… No, it’s not, this is one of THE MOST simplified pet professions I’ve ever played (and I’ve played a pet prof in every game I’m able to). Ranger is essentially on par with warrior with the simplicity of play, the only difference is you need to manage your pet and bust your balls (especially in PvE) to get the same (if not worse) results as a warrior purely because our pet isn’t balanced properly in PvE.

And dear god, in PvP it’s a nightmare, good luck getting that F2 off when you need it, sure I can take on some good PvPers and come out ontop but that’s purely because I’ve learned how to play around broken pet mechanics. IE: watch your pet and take advantage of what they’re doing instead of trying to get your pet to take advantage of what you’re going to do.

Ranger needs work, and I’m getting tired of waiting for it, they’re getting one last chance before I jump ship to engi or Mesmer, who surprisingly have much more useful and reactive pets than we do… Imagine that…

drop the shamans amulet and pick up a carrion amulet and the build could actually have some teeth while still keeping its trollsy nature… I’d totally change up your runes though, i don’t like those at all, try Nightmare runes or even just a bunch of flat condi duration ones to make the confusion and torment meaner…

Ragnar.1546:

I’d like to know that the time I spent on my ranger wasn’t wasted. Otherwise give me a token of regret and allow me to apply the current level of my Ranger to a new character of my choosing.

I did like my BM ranger prior to all the changes but it was just one blow too many and now my Ranger is taking up a character slot.

TOKEN OF REGRET!! I don’t care about fixing the class anymore, I want that wasted time back.

I would not be opposed to be given a “Token of we kittened up!” that rerolls your ranger into another prof…

I love it! The only thing i’m not a fan of is the toolbelt skill, it’s a cool concept, it just needs some loving… maybe if it crippled or shreded a boon, or applied a condi or something…

I think the throw mine skill is fine though, it only has like an 18s CD.. although i would love to see gadgets as a whole get buffed a little, because i feel they are pretty underwhelming when compared to kits, elixirs, and turrets..

SynfulChaot.3169:

Durzlla.6295:

SynfulChaot.3169:

Stand strong, Durz! Stand strong!

I’m trying!! I do like my Ranger… but my engineer and mesmer are just looking so much more fun since they’re not getting kitten in almost every new fight in PvE… and they have more trix and/or explosions…

PS: Does anyone know if the meta achievement for Twilight Assault will be staying after the 15th?

No clue on the meta thing. I think it will remain, as the achievements for the first update of each month tend to run the entire month. We’ve received no confirmation of it either way, though.

Probably safest to make sure you get the meta done, just in case. The dungeon achievements will stay for sure so no hurry there..

Yeah, i’m not really worried about the dungeon meta, just the temp one cause i do really want that backpack…

SynfulChaot.3169:

Durzlla.6295:

This pleases me! I’ve been putting off playing until i knew whether or not i should stand strong with my ranger or finally let my mesmer take over as my new main…

Stand strong, Durz! Stand strong!

I’m trying!! I do like my Ranger… but my engineer and mesmer are just looking so much more fun since they’re not getting kitten in almost every new fight in PvE… and they have more trix and/or explosions…

PS: Does anyone know if the meta achievement for Twilight Assault will be staying after the 15th?

This pleases me! I’ve been putting off playing until i knew whether or not i should stand strong with my ranger or finally let my mesmer take over as my new main…

I’m going to cry if Reapers Rumble isn’t in!! I’ve been waiting all year to play that game again!!

Soilder.3607:

Taku.6352:

Full zerker geared warrior with self buffed 8 stacks of might can crit about 10k with the Arcing Arrow. And the F1 burst skill ticks for about 1,5k on the same spec.

That sounds way too high to me mate. I know the skill is strong but you’d need like a base damage of at least 3.5k to get hits that high.

it really isn’t that high… seeing as how warriors can crit for +30k with their kill shot, and can 100% to nothing glass cannons with hundred blades, because you know… warrior is THE big number class, that seems about right…

Bro…that looks like a charr… it has a muzzle…

Tricare.2946:

Blink doesn’t clear immobilize, they just move locations and are still rooted.

immobilize is a condition, stun-breaks shouldn’t do anything to it, that’s fine, it’s the hard counter to stability.

Complaining about immobilize is the wrong way to go, if you want to complain about something, complain about the timed condition clear we have.

Oh and if you have sword/dagger on you have 3 evades that you can use while immobilized, so there’s always that.

Yeah but if you DONT have sword/dagger you’re just boned, and teleports are very good vs immob because by the time they get to you the immob is off and thus their burst won’t be undodgeable anymore.

jcbroe.4329:

@SynfulChaot;

While I agree with your list of why things would be okay, I just wanted to nitpick a little and say that Evasive Purity wouldn’t be able to remove fear, because you can’t dodge when you’re feared.

Just wanted to throw that in there, it isn’t something that makes the change any less powerful.

Same goes for Immob, AKA immobilizes would still be the death of you as a ranger…

efk.3427:

Immobilize is a condition, not a “stun” effect, therefore stun breaks should not (and do not) work. Condition removal effects, however, do. Granted, Rangers don’t have the widest array of condition removal, but they have options. The best, of course, is the healing spring.

You’re essentially saying “we have a 30s CD healing skill you can use to remove immobilizes.” Which is just stupid, we should not have to blow our heal to have the CHANCE of getting out of the immob (god help you if there’s multiple condis on you), our other condi removal options? A bear pets F2 skill (good luck getting that to go off in time), 2 passive condi removals that go off every 10s, and then activating our signet to pull all the condis onto the pet.

I mean I GUESS you could use our spirit elite, but by the time that thing goes off you may as well just be using it to Rez your kitten .

I would argue using the Bear is a MUCH better immob cleanser than healing spring, it’s better to use the heal for the heal.

Nope, Anet was dumb enough to make immobilize completely destroy the ranger… Worst part is I’m not even joking…

Ew, no… I don’t want my pet to having Cleric Gear stats… And all this would do is make it so you either 1) run soldiers gear 2) run zerkers gear or 3) run Carrion gear or you’re gonna suck.

Chopps.5047:

Those are peircing bullets lol; I love you guys

Well thieves don’t have piercing arrows because they either use a ground target or some fancy kitten bouncing arrows lol.

And then i’m almost positive warriors can have piercing arrows…

The sad part is I can’t control my eles pets, or my mesmers phantasms or move my engis turrets yet they all live longer and hit harder than my rangers pet all while I don’t get bonned with a “pet tax”

Why does this item suddenly mean there won’t be templates? If anything templates would help it sell more… Not to mention there’s this mythical land called sPvP where respecs and gear are free and templates would be much more useful in than PvE because you actually change your build more…

Leuca.5732:

Aridia.3042:

Leuca.5732:

Remove damage, half the vigor gain, and remove snares. Leave recharge alone.

Problem solved.

And it needs to stun target.

That would be in the OP section if you gave all my aforementioned effects along with it.

Make it only stun if you remove a CC effect, that certainly wouldn’t be OP, and halving the vigor and removing the damage would be PLENTY to make adding a stun and immob break non issue.

Engi Rocket boots is a kittening 16s CD when traited, removes immobs, crippled etc, is a blast finisher, and does damage, so…. How would ours be too strong? It’d be well over double the CD for a slightly stronger effect

1. reason I love playing my support ranger… Elitists don’t come within 2000 feet of me =D.

SynfulChaot.3169:

I dunno. There is one major balance change for mesmers. Other than that, though, we gotta wait until the 15th.

Uh…. What was this change?

TA F/U only required a spider Despawn on deaggro/wipe, or a cap on spider spawns (which there used to be). I’m absolutely furious that they removed it, she was one of my favorite villains… AND she was a ranger… RIP: only feared Ranger in GW2.

And yeah, with the original trait system they had traits like Dire Training: Pet damage increased by X, and things that gave boosts to swapping pets (mighty swap and QZ stayed), and then some that promoted a single type of pet, like Canine mastery where all there skills recharged 30% faster and were 50% more effective…

Granted this was WAY back when the trait system was ENTIRERLY different, but still…

PS: those numbers could totally be wrong, they were heard from a friend who attended PAX and tried ranger for me.

Player Character.9467:

The final boss is about dodging a telegraphed attack or just use projectile destruction/reflection utilities (and no, these aren’t limited to guardians and mesmers). It’s not impossible, it’s not even hard.

It was “hard” because they 1) removed the cap on spider spawns (not a big issue imo) and more importantly 2) didn’t despawn the adds on a wipe… if one of those 2 things were done (i’d prefer 2 than 1) then the fight wouldn’t even be that bad because it’d be really easy to try again.

I’m still kitten ed that the path was removed in the first place…

All of southsun was doable by low lvs (i did everything there on a lv 3 who ended up lv 30 by the end of the month), F&F was doable from lvs 10+ for the world content and as low as lv 1 (did the instance a few times on a lv 1 character, who got to lv 3 by the end of it) for the instance, dragon bash and Aether Retreat were done by this same character (who was now lv 35) and got EVERY achievement in that dungeon and took him to lv 45… the sanctum was done by the same character, got him to like 50… then everything but the gauntlet (which i had to use my main for) was doable by this character…. Then there was SAB which i literally run on a 100% naked character because clothing is for sissies in SAB!!

In short.. there’s been content for lvs 1-50 or so for the past however many months, let level 80’s get SOMETHING… not to mention if the instance is anything like the last 2 living story ones than you should be able to do it with a lv 1 character so long as you don’t suck at the game and can have allies help keep mobs away from you (because your armor still sucks even though your base stats are good).

Does this have anything to do with rangers? kitten no, but there’s no way i would have found this amazingness if you didn’t put it here!!

Expiatus.4210:

Holland.9351:

http://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-October-1-2013

DUDES! New hair!
But no knew medium armor hats. We need more leather hat diversity in Tyria.

Just sayin’

I agree with this statement but i am significantly more excited about the new hair styles than anything else lol…

PS: OP YOU’RE A LIAR!! There was no balance!!

Atherakhia.4086:

Durzlla.6295:

I really do wish we only had ONE pet at a time… the whole having 2 pets you swap between really lessens the whole Companion vibe…

Pretty much. It just reinforces the idea that the pet is nothing more than a DOT that can’t hit moving targets :/

When i first heard of the whole pet swapping thing i was like “Oh that’s pretty cool” because they sold it as a sort of “you can swap pets but it’s better to stick with just one!” sort of thing, and now we have this….

Why is it all the really awesome things about pets were changed? Like picking their skill set (including what skill was the F2) from a pool of skills, the whole evolution system… the original training system… the original beast mastery traits…

I really do wish we only had ONE pet at a time… the whole having 2 pets you swap between really lessens the whole Companion vibe…