Guild Wars 2

JoshuaRAWR.4653:

My plan with replacing Masters Bond with shout mastery was to reduce the cooldown of Search and Rescue, depending on whether or not i felt the group needed it.

I do need help with the sigils & runes though, as i mentioned, i wasn’t sure what to use, so i just went with placeholders for the time being, any advice on what sigils & runes i could be using?

Aaaaaah ok, Personally, i’d probably go with either Sigils of Ice (2s Chill), Sigils of Water (healing), or Sigil of Frailty (10s Vuln) if your goal is to support your pet. I’d -probably- do the Frailty if you’re going for a damage build in PvE, if you’re in PvP the chill would probably be better.

And if you plan on reducing the CD on S&R that is totally worth dropping MB, just making sure you weren’t dropping it because you were thinking you wouldn’t be able to keep it up.

Bas.7406:

Durzlla.6295:

Bas.7406:

Only a few more spots needed. Let’s go! This Thursday 5:30pm PST/GMT-8

Chopps is still injured, but there are still open spots. You don’t want me breaking the ranger out for Thursday!

This event will be shoutcasted by our very own Daemonlasher

Isn’t there going to be one on Saturday as well?

Yes, But the Thursday one is closer. Once thursday’s event ends I will start hyping for Saturday.

lol alright, just making sure because i was planning on going to the saturday one xD

I always find it curious why people say Axe isn’t a good BM weapon… Axe/Dagger may be -the- best BM weapon set out there because you can keep them permanently snared…

That being said if you even wanna use a condi oriented pet shortbow is a must for giving it the 3 bleeding attacks on the cripple.

I’ve been told that by several people which i found concerning, because like many of you, i thought MF was one of the easier dungeons out there.

That being said, I’m now tempted to make a build that doesn’t utilize BM at all to see the difference, i’m a HUGE beast master/minion using person on all profs i play, so putting points into them and just decking them out is something i’ve always done in GW2.

And by being “Squishy” i should’ve said die all the time, very misleading, cats are most certainly made of tissue paper.

Bas.7406:

Only a few more spots needed. Let’s go! This Thursday 5:30pm PST/GMT-8

Chopps is still injured, but there are still open spots. You don’t want me breaking the ranger out for Thursday!

This event will be shoutcasted by our very own Daemonlasher

Isn’t there going to be one on Saturday as well?

Sebrent.3625:

I may have. I’ve thrown so much math around on these forums it’s hard to keep track of it and I refuse to make a thread to compile it all :-p

MB build? You mean BM?

nope MB, masters bond.

Why replace mastersbond with shout mastery in dungeons? Masters Bond makes it A LOT easier to keep your pet up (an additional 200 to all stats is quite amazing), not to mention that with proper micro and pet management you can keep that mastersbond running at 25 stacks pretty easily in all dungeons (with some exceptions like Jade Maw because he’s a kittenING kitten).

Overall i’m not really sure what you’re wanting from the build, you say that you want to be providing benefits to your pet via crit, but you’re not really doing anything of the sort, you’d probably wanna change your sigils and/or runes if you were wanting to do that.

So, I run a BM build, and my friend was telling me how cat pets are garbage and he challenged me to go through MF without having my pet die, so always liking a challenge I threw on the MB trait and did the dungeon with him, pet didn’t die….

I thought you guys said MF is the hardest instance to keep pets up? It was as easy as keeping my drake up so I have no idea what’s going on with you guys, ill be trying this in other instances too.

PS: Cat had 85-95% up time the entire instance.

Sebrent.3625:

garethh.3518:

Ugh, bad math is bad though….
I don’t really like nitpicking but you guys just seem to live on being slightly wrong…

100% vigor uptime from a trait would definitely be useful.
30~% vigor uptime is much short of that…

What your numbers didn’t show is that you net one dodge roll every minute from something like that… which seems a lil less impressive…

How was the math bad? It was spot on. How you feel about the numbers that result from correct math is your own business.

+ 0% Endurance = 5% per sec = 1 dodge per 10s = 6 dodges per 1 minute

+ 50% Endurnace = 7.5% per sec = 1 dodge per 6.6…s = 9 or 8.5 dodges per 1 minute (+3 or +2.5 from +0% Endurance)

+ 100% Endurance = 10% per sec = 1 dodge per 5s = 12 dodges per minute (+6 from +0% Endurance and +3.5 or 3 from +50% Endurance).

30% of 3.5 or 3 will net you that one additional dodge. If you combine it with other sources of vigor, though, such as Vigor on-heal and/or you have boon duration, the up-time on vigor increases.

You can’t just run around in a negative void. There are multiple traits and skills that can synergize quite well together.

Seberent was it you or someone else who came up with a perma Vigor trait for ranger because I know I saw one….

@Xsorus that was pretty great, every time I watch your videos I always want to WvW but never seem to get any good fights =(.

Btw, have you ever considered running a MB build? Those things are lethal.

faeral.7120:

OGDeadHead.8326:

Exactly what AI change are you talking about here?

i am speaking of pets automatically regaining their targets after a target drop, so they are effectively set-&-forget for ranged harass. this made the leash range a ridiculous situation, as a pet can perma-track a thief or mesmer with no effort at all, shadow refuge can’t shake them off teammates, etc. prior to this change you would need a teammate to set a target for you if they are out of your LOS to put your pet back on them.

i think they can hit the leash range by 1000, so we can’t actually have presence on 2 nodes at the same time while still being able to harass a runner.

also, the raven f2 does not telegraph at all. the big swooping animation is “Swoop” which can also hit hard, but the f2 is more like a quick lunging peck.

BM is a relatively selfish bunker, because they kind of have their own group synergy happening without any other teammates. as a result their team support is very low ( water field & sig of renewal are the biggest contributors outside of single target dmg ). they benefit the team the most when applying pressure away from the teamfight. the best counter to BM is to bring the teamfight to them ( so long as the team isn’t brainlessly funnelling dps into evades—stagger your attacks so one acts as evade bait while the other lands at the end of the evade—ideally cc ).

Pretty much this, but keep in mind some teams are designed to NEVER do team fights which can leave your attempts to force them at a disadvantage

The #1 thing gaining my love for Mesmer are the manipulation skills, “oh what lovely boons you have there Mr ele bunker! Let me just take that prot, regen, and vigor from you!” “Oh HGH engi with 25might? Don’t mind if I do!”

@Crossplay lol omg I do the exact opposite (bait a dodge with mind wrack) on my condi heavy build and then smack em in the face with f2

I main ranger (for now) may be joining as well because Mesmers are a lot more awesome than I originally though!

garethh.3518:

For PvP….
Should do roughly the same dmg but over 1.5s with a lil improved aoe range.
Possibly cut down the CD a lil and bump down the overall channel dmg by a bit.

A weapon skill with little other benefit but dmg shouldn’t be doing less dmg than the spammable… while rooting you… for 5 seconds… with a terrible aoe range…

That’s just all bad.
Oh and the axe #4 skill should be on half the CD, and do 25~% less dmg, for the sake of better gameplay.

Durzlla.6295:

And for your phantasms to be tanky that means you gave up a utility slot and quite a few utility slots for it, which again, we don’t need to do for WD, not to mention the CD on your phantasm I believe is 20s, not 10s, I’m not talking about their activation time, because phantasms are balanced around not doing anything else until their skill is off CD.

Don’t need to?
You mean can’t?

If there were traits and a utility that would make WD wrack up anywhere near as much dmg as a phantasm… a phantasm on a 1s cast… people might actually consider using axe offhand…

Oh, you mean that phantasm that can be completely mitigated through blocking, blind, evade, line of site, or interrupt? That if they actually -do- get summoned can simply be walked away from? Oh yup, sure am jealous about that!

And I’m quite happy I don’t have the option of traiting my WD skill to reflect because that’d mean it got nerfed! Not to mention there’s this amazing thing to make it tanky called “Gear”, and the fact we -could- do as much damage as it but we’d have to actually stand there and use the skill in glassy armor, and -still- be tanker than the phantasm can be.

Nope, lightning breathe did home in as a bug in some areas, marsh drake still does it he’s my second favorite drake (first is reef)

jewishjoyride.4693:

Is there any consensus on Magi’s stats for a bunker/regen/tanky build?

Cleric’s seems to be standard, and obviously more toughness makes your heals go a long way. You can however get a full set of magi’s armor and accessories from karma vendors, which would make it a much cheaper route to go. Unless of course it’s total garbage……

I run Magis with Cleric Weapons, and Cleric Jewels totaling ~2.6k armor and I wanna say 25k health, with 1300 or so healing power, 44% crit with my perma fury (24% without my fury), and 2390 attack and 45% boon duration.

I’m extremely tanky, and was able to face tank the blue MF boss for almost the entire fight (had to still jump over waves obviously) with my longbow + Sword/WH set up.

Do I do a ton of damage? Not really, I do a decent amount, bubbles cleaves through things like a champion though an that’s all that really matters but I can tank extremely well, am able to ignore a lot of boss mechanics due to my high health medium-high armor and my high regen, and in WvW I am not even bothered by people in 1v1s, they can’t touch me, and being a ranger I don’t give up very much damage due to pet.

For zergs I can run through them and attack people pretty easily but I tend to try to sit on a siege weapon because I find them more fun.

NOTE: I do -not- have a full set of runes (only 4 altruism) my jewels are greens, and my sword/warhorn are rare not exotic, you could absolutely get better stats than me by using a complete set of gear for PvE.

Ision.3207:

Beardmonger.4692:

If I ever do bring a drake into WvW, I bring Marsh. The F2 still hits the intended target at any angle (even directly behind the drake) at a 900 range. MUCH less of a hassle to manage than the other drake F2s.

However, successfully landing the river drake’s F2 once or twice has made me laugh hysterically.

Huh?

I’m somewhat at a loss on what you said. Are you saying that the Marsh Drake’s F2 attack, if in range and un-interrupted, never misses his intended target?

And if so, which other Drake sub-species would you rank as 2nd for most likely to fully hit his target with his F2 attack? Salamander Drake?

Marsh Drake is the only drake whose breathe homes in on the target, but as such he’s lacking in the raw power aspect, but that bouncing poison can be detrimental.

Lightning drake is secon easiest to land due to it also being ranged and having ~180 cone, then the ice drake because once they get hit they’re chilled and makes subsequent hits easier, then the salamander and reef drakes are tied.

In terms of strength however, it’s reversed unless the lightning breathe double bounces (bounces back to target)

Gaidax.7835:

Never seen staff Ele yet… I can imagine anything with good AoE is troublesome.

As for engineer, they are pretty easy. Turrets are really easy to counter – get Berserker out on one, it will usually whirl through all the turrets, then leap in the middle of them and Blurred Frenzy all of them. That is usually enough to get rid of most of them. After that it’s a field day on that engineer.

Null Field to counter condition spam.

What idiot places all their turrets right by each other O.o, I always put rifle and rocket ~1200 from the far side of the point (both on opposite sides) so they’re out of the AoE nonsense but can still pew pew their targets, only thumper/flame an healing should ever go anywhere NEAR the points…

You’re just fighting stupid engineers.

Chopps.5047:

Ljiona.9142:

Only if my warrior could get the exact same short-bow rangers get. It would be the best ranger ever. No kitten pet. 135% bleed duration with food, traits, and runes.

Rox got a pet and she’s still stuck with warrior shortbow.

I wish I could fire a poison barrage like Rox can…

@OP: rifle just doesn’t fit with ranger, they aren’t called “rangers” because they use ranged weapons, not to mention rangers lore wise (with the exception of charr) said “kitten technology!” And were supposed to embrace magic more heavily, yet we lost our ability to use staffs…

I can do the Saturday however, so I’ll be there for that.

I would love a main hand pistol! The. I can go Pistol/Torch like I’ve always wanted with my Mesmer!

Pyroatheist.9031:

Durzlla.6295:

One if my favorite scepter ideas (doubt it’ll happen) is make it so your scepter clones make a “lesser” clone from their auto attack giving you a total of 6 clones that can be shattered.

Too complicated. Keep it simple.

Not my idea I just enjoyed it. I would love my auto attack having an increased attack speed and applying 1 stack of 3s confusion though.

One if my favorite scepter ideas (doubt it’ll happen) is make it so your scepter clones make a “lesser” clone from their auto attack giving you a total of 6 clones that can be shattered.

Beardmonger.4692:

If I ever do bring a drake into WvW, I bring Marsh. The F2 still hits the intended target at any angle (even directly behind the drake) at a 900 range. MUCH less of a hassle to manage than the other drake F2s.

However, successfully landing the river drake’s F2 once or twice has made me laugh hysterically.

I was in a 2v1 yesterday, caught them both in muddy terrain + entangle and a sig of the wild lightning drake breathe, killed both of them right as they broke out of the roots xD.

PS: did I -need- to pop everything? No, but I really wanted that oricalcum node and didn’t want their nonsense stopping me xD.

HotHit.6783:

Here’s an added bonus for you, condition damage isn’t affected by % damage increases either.

It’s also not affected by silly things like protection, Barkskin, and other % damage reductions xD.

You sure have a knack for picking the Odd Thursdays I’m busy -_-’

You guys know that KDs aren’t everything in PvP yes? For example, drakes apply weakness for 5s, which means you take less damage (especially if you have protection) and they can’t dodge you as much.

naphack.9346:

Pet grabs the target and pulls it down

Exactly what I was thinking xD

Leo G.4501:

Durzlla.6295:

Mesmers doesn’t reflect without a trait, is placed literally right next to the enemy (not always a good spot), doesn’t stack vuln, and is interrupted (dies) after being hit by a single melee or AoE attack, where we do not suffer from any of those issues…

In my Phantasm build, pretty much all my illusions tank vet mobs without much though. Champs usually hit a bit too hard and they go down a bit before they’re recharged but they get their attacks off.

Another thing about Mesmer’s Warden, all its attacks will critical hit 100%.

Honestly, if axe 5 had the cooldown of the Warden’s whirl, I’d probably be perfectly happy with it. It can go every 9 seconds. If mine recharged in 10 seconds, I wouldn’t really care about interrupting/getting interrupted during the skill

Are all his attacks crits because of your inflated PvE stats or because that’s how warden rolls? Because my Mesmer has not had the same results.

And for your phantasms to be tanky that means you gave up a utility slot and quite a few utility slots for it, which again, we don’t need to do for WD, not to mention the CD on your phantasm I believe is 20s, not 10s, I’m not talking about their activation time, because phantasms are balanced around not doing anything else until their skill is off CD.

Wow… i’m the only one who takes a drake into WvW and a canine into dungeons lol? This is strange…

Granted i tend to take a drake + canine combo everywhere in the PvEish world (they compliment each other nicely) and just rely on one more in one area than the other.

Doctoris.2675:

Durzlla.6295:

My ranger, staff ele, and bunker turret engi have had no issues disposing of phantasm builds, you just wanna use a large amount of AoE or condis and they tend to fold.

Oh man, please, please record a video of using your staff ele to beat anything 1v1. I’ve cannot even fathom how a staff ele could beat any class in a 1v1, so I’m ready to have my mind blown.

Not sarcasm, seriously interested in seeing a decent 1v1 staff ele gameplay simply because I can’t imagine one.

How on earth are you using a bunker turret build to fight a Phantasm build though? The turrets’ AI are dumb as bricks and go for nearest target. The CC’s excellent and lots of fun and effective against single classes without additional summons, but I can’t imagine them ever targeting the mesmer enough over the phantasms that they can bring up every 12 seconds and illusions as well to be able to defeat them.

To the original topic— Mesmers in general are exceedingly strong at 1v1 scenarios (much like Rangers), but as part of their strength comes from the rather fragile illusions staying up for shatter setup and additional DPS, they become increasingly less effective the more opponents and AoE there are in a fighting area. Since the game’s balanced around tPvP and not duels at the moment, Mesmers will have an inherent advantage over other classes in 1v1’s.

The Staff ele is AMAZING in sPvP because almost all their aoes consume the entire point, especially if you take Blasting Staff, making it very easy to burn people down who don’t want to flee the point, not to mention they’re a phantasm mesmers worst nightmare (big AoEs that hit REALLY hard, which phantasms can’t avoid).

For Turrets i use rifle, rocket, flame (and healing) and the rocket and flame will just tear the phantasms apart most of the times faster than the mes can get em out leaving them weak and alone. Not to mention i’m quite capable of lighting the mes up with my poison, burning, bleeding, and confusion. shrugs it varies from fight to fight, some fights the turrets go kitten to the extreme and never even look at the mesmer, but most they tend to be good.

I’m pretty sure that those traits work different than the signet, as a few people have said the traits make a “new” skill available where as the signet just gives a buff, the signet can -not- work the same way as the traits because the signets buff needs to be removable when/if the mesmer activates it.

I’m surprised they haven’t made it so that when you make an illusion it resets the CD IE “casts” the passive and put it back on its 12s CD before it refreshes itself and then make the active strip the buff.

shrugs i’m not a programmer though so idk if what i just said is even possible for them to do or how difficult it is.

We are already the gods of underwater… that being said i want “Guard” to switch over to “Drown!” underwater causing your pet to sink the target for X seconds and dealing damage + bleeding over time, pet also sinks.

OGDeadHead.8326:

Axe 5 reflects projectiles, fyi.

lol tooltip has been wrong since alpha… shows how accurate those things are xD

jcbroe.4329:

From a pvp standpoint, the axe bursts bleeds onto a target better (shortbow has that flanking requirement). You have the potential to put 5 bleeds on a single target at a time, with a fairly low cooldown, long duration, and the ability to chill the enemy while your pet weakens them and attacks them for damage because they can’t kite when chilled.

Combine that with an offhand torch and you can get some serious condition pressure going on an enemy.

Combine it with a dagger on a BM build and laugh a horrible crooked and evil laugh as your opponent -tries- to kite your pet, key word is tries.

Ryuujin.8236:

Well, it IS a very long duration projectile reflection; especially with all these dredge lately and molten gunners you can pretty much shut down their attempts to murderise you while simultaneously damage them.

But there’s better things you could be doing with that time as well, making it rather situational.

Ironically mesmers get better use out of that skill through their phantasmal warden than we do; the warden attacks faster, with a shorter CD and the warden performs the attacks independent of the mesmer, allowing them to continue attacking while using the warden for shelter from projectiles.

Mesmers doesn’t reflect without a trait, is placed literally right next to the enemy (not always a good spot), doesn’t stack vuln, and is interrupted (dies) after being hit by a single melee or AoE attack, where we do not suffer from any of those issues…

@OP, i see nothing wrong with the skill… It’s a 5s reflect + whirl finisher (Whirl Finishers get stronger the longer they last because they throw more bolts), not to mention the CD is pretty low, especially if you take off hand training, and in PvP you can use it after someone swaps to their ranged weapon to ensure they can’t do anything to you for 5s without killing themselves which can give you a well needed break for regen to patch you up, or to reflect/interrupt a skill the opponent is castin cough KILL SHOT cough cough.

That being said, if WD was made into a 100% block for melee ranged too as well as still doing vuln and damage i would love the skill even more than i currently do, but i feel that’d be OP, maybe it could give 5s of protection, retal, and stability that are removed at the end of the channel?

Manekk.6981:

Durzlla.6295:

Manekk.6981:

If each tick is counted there then it must be someone with a large number of might stacks aswell as condition damage sigil stacks don’t think such high bleed ticks is possible on any spec alone.

They’d need 3490 condition damage, which i’m pretty sure is impossible unless there is a soldiers armor that has condition damage instead of power as its primary stat, in which case they -may- be able to if they use a Master Tuning Crystal, Runes of the Undead, +100 condition damage food, and have the full +250 from sigil of Corruption, but even then i don’t think you’d be able to get there…

Yep true enough I didn’t actually calculate anything I just assumed it wasn’t possible on any one spec alone without the aid of might stacks, sigil stacks etc just made a rabid spec with 25might stacks wich is probably the highest you can get, the calculator doesn’t automatically add the 250condition damage from the sigil but if we add that manually the highest possible condition damage for a ranger is 3065 so yeah those numbers have to be from several stacks of bleeds counted as one.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.0|c.1b.h5.f.1b.h5|5.1b.h5|1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719.1b.719|2w.d18.2w.d18.2x.d18.2w.d18.2x.d18.2w.d18|0.a1.u47b.0.u57c|2w.d|4j.4z.4o.4r.0|e

On a sidenote I wouldn’t want to be hit by someone with 3065 condition damage either, lol

Lol I think I’m going to make that build (or something similar) on my staff Mesmer and just go LOLOLOLOLOLZ! It’d be amazingly strong xD

Manekk.6981:

If each tick is counted there then it must be someone with a large number of might stacks aswell as condition damage sigil stacks don’t think such high bleed ticks is possible on any spec alone.

They’d need 3490 condition damage, which i’m pretty sure is impossible unless there is a soldiers armor that has condition damage instead of power as its primary stat, in which case they -may- be able to if they use a Master Tuning Crystal, Runes of the Undead, +100 condition damage food, and have the full +250 from sigil of Corruption, but even then i don’t think you’d be able to get there…

Keep in mind that a stack of 25 bleeds and a stack of 1 bleed both hit “once” every second.

1) If you’re using the Drake Breathe and being intelligent while doing so and locking down the enemy so they can’t escape (we’re assuming you’re in a competent team whose not going to KNOCK THEM OUT OF THE WAY!! flips table due to group last night) then the drake will win, if we’re going for no F2s, or on a highly mobile mob then the canine will probably do better, but not by too much.

2) I’d choose the canine, he has a lot of control and if i’m using my Fernhound also brings some support via regen, which imo wins out in a PvE environment over a blast finisher and some raw damage.

3) Drake easily, he’s sturdier, and deals AoE damage there’s no reason you -wouldn’t- want to bring a drake to WvW because you want both of the traits they bring for that sort of scenario.

My ranger, staff ele, and bunker turret engi have had no issues disposing of phantasm builds, you just wanna use a large amount of AoE or condis and they tend to fold.

My god was i getting my kitten pounded by them before i figured out condis hit them hard lol.

firebreathz.7692:

from a rangers point of view.. have you ever watch a pet try hit any half decent player? the fact pets have to stop every time they want to attack seriously gimps there effectiveness, all you comparing arnt taking into consideration that a hell of alot of the pets attacks miss..

I would love to see official data on hit rate of pets in pvp..

back on topic.. the reason for the nerf to ele with the orb was that being able to go from the top of the stairs all the way to the node.. was well OP

that being said ranger GS leap is boardline op but only if you take a signet of speed to counter act the slow effects otherwise.. i dont see how others are not just as good.. i think warriors could be amazing runners but i dont think it’s clicked for many how many rush type skills they have..

Clearly you’re not a very good ranger if you can’t manage to get your pet to hit the enemy, i’m pretty sure ranger has the most snares/roots in the game, you should have NO issue getting your pet to hit them.

For Example, Axe + Dagger + some condi duration = 100% uptime on snare, 1/3 of the time it’ll be 66% snare instead of 25%, then if you take sig of the Hunt, or have easy access to pet swiftness, or have the 30% movement speed trait that pet isn’t going to have issues.

Then you can use Muddy Terrain, or Entangle, or Concussion shot, or frost trap, KB shot into a wall, etc to hold them still even longer.

I gotta say, rangers are REALLY strong in PvP if you’ve figured out how to manage and support your pet.

Venereus.9473:

Other specs and professions simply didn’t use PI or any other racial skill because they actually have good profession utilities. Now Rangers are limited to signets, wich is kinda good since now I only have to micro the pet and can mostly forget about the utility skills.

Plenty of classes use Prayer to Lyssa, or Prayer to Dwayna, i’ve seen an ungodly amount of ranged builds use the Sylvari’s root skill to give them more CC, not to mention Engis like to use the norn utilities so they get more heals.

There’s PLENTY of profs that will use their racials to fill gaps in what their prof provides, Rangers are no different.

StoneWolf.7930:

MoGoW.1875:

ALL have a counter build, and the ranger?
Ranger is a Tank who can kill all no ranger in 1V1 (or maybe engi)

Ranger :
-Dodge with weapons 80% of the time
-Protection on dodge (endurance)
-Perma regen
-Terminator pet : TANK + DPS
-Best condition remove
-Big aoe burst on torch

Ranger >ALL.

perma regen?
aoe burst on torch? in a 120radius?
80%dodge time?

I must say you sir are a flaming idiot.
if you stand in the torch radius you need to quit playing. today.

We can have perma regen, there’s some perma vigor builds out there too which combined with GS #1 skill, which if you use only that skill and don’t miss a hit you’ll have 57% evade time, and a s/d you can absolutely dodge a good 80% of the attacks if not more…

And yeah if you’re dumb enough to stand in bonfire you deserve to die…

Swim.6830:

StoneWolf.7930:

Swim.6830:

StoneWolf.7930:

and the ele can be a better tank due to its mobility. where have a seen this before, you guys need to adapt like the ranger has.

Also, tell me how a ranger is better than an ele when the ele can decide when are where the fight happens?

How is a ranger more powerful than a mesmer?
How is a ranger more powerful than a necro?

ele has half of ranger mobility AT THE MOST… if mobility is same as tanking for you, then thief must be best tank in the game…

The thief has stealth, not mobility.

I stopped reading here. You clearly have no understanding of this game. My argument still stands.

Any ranger mind telling me how often their glass cannon pet actually dies in tpvp? Just curious as most oets got buffed…

In tPvP my jag will only die if 1) a glass canon bursts it or 2) I’m in a team fight against a heavy AoE team.

In both situations though it means a lot of damage is being funneled into my pet that could be funneled into a teammate…

I’m REALLY surprised they dropped the nerf hammer on RTL while carrying the orb yet Swoop and Hornet Sting + Monarch Leap + Lightning Reflexes and all other leaps were left the same…

PS: I play ranger almost exclusively.

Hey, are the Baby animals (each week of spring) going to be available for ONLY a week? Or until the end of spring?

Substance E.4852:

Durzlla.6295:

1) Throw your dagger causing a cripple (1s) —-> Throw your dagger causing Weakness (1s) —-> Throw your Dagger Causing 2 stacks of bleeding (6s), your pets next 3 attacks cause Vulnerability

2) Strike your foe with a poisoned dagger before rolling backwards evading and gaining vigor.

3) Gain Swiftness and leap at your foe before attacking with a flurry of attacks causing up to 8 stacks of confusion (1 per hit).

As OP as an unconditional, auto-attack ranged cripple would be, this would be a wonderful tool in WvW.

range was gonna be 600, and part of a chain, and last 1s, so it’s not like you’ll be able to keep it up 100% without speccing heavily into it, and even if you did you’d hardly be at a super safe distance.

1) Throw your dagger causing a cripple (1s) —→ Throw your dagger causing Weakness (1s) --→ Throw your Dagger Causing 2 stacks of bleeding (6s), your pets next 3 attacks cause Vulnerability

2) Strike your foe with a poisoned dagger before rolling backwards evading and gaining vigor.

3) Gain Swiftness and leap at your foe before attacking with a flurry of attacks causing up to 8 stacks of confusion (1 per hit).

Before Instinctual bond got nerfed TO THE GROUND I took it over Natural Healing because on the off chance i did get downed my pet would shred them to bits as they stood nice and still to “finish me”.

Tbh, i’d MUCH prefer if instinctual bond would give your pet a % of -your- stats making it so you could make, say a bear, do some decent damage, or a cat being sturdier, or hell, giving us the ability to boost ourselves to the moon in PvE like every other prof can due to them not having ~50% of their damage not scaling from their stats.

I’m not a huge fan of the idea of loosing my weapon abilities, i use my weapons to keep the enemy slowed down so my pet can catch up and eat them, or use my pet to slow them down/immob them so i can stay back and shoot, it’d essentially just make the trait even less useful if you ask me.

Arpheus.6918:

Oh this could absolutely be the reason. I know that it happened a few times after I came out of the water

Yeah, it’s a pretty annoying bug, probably the only reason i couldn’t keep playing my Norn Ranger, hopefully they’ll fix it because those shapeshift elites are just waaaaaaay too much fun.