can i have your stuff when you quit
http://youtu.be/eVN8qQo3F6Y?list=PLDCvogxNKN3nmdmYoblp6T3Pz44t5bCI4
somewhere near the end
Waterfield every 40 seconds
That’s it. nothing else
If you going to be negative at least get it right it 30s at the lasts for 10s and clears condis.
Group play:
Spotter – party wide precision buff
Spirits – party wide – Damage, Burning, Protection, Swiftness, Healing condi cleanses and resurrection.
Party Wide Boons – Fury, Might, Protection, Regen, swiftness and vigor (most of these can be perma)
Pets – healing, condi cleanses, boons.
Solo play
Open would pve is a face roll.
Highest damage at long range.
Some wvw roaming specs are very strong
PvP
Strong home point and far point, can contribute to mid point
Strong resurrecter
General
Masters of soft cc and poison
@fluffball
I have a ascended celestial every thing, as i run a big variety of builds and experiment a lot so i don’t want to be limited by my gear also it seem to me to be the most future prof. When i made it i was pre-crit damage change so celestial gear on weapons on high crit damage.
when I’m roaming my GS is often the alt weapon for moving around and deference so the offensive stats are not that important. whilst i don’t use traps that much, sometimes flame trap, i do use sun spirit often. Between pirate runes and hyenas you can keep it up almost permanently.
All in all no big main reason just lots of little ones
I have ‘Force’ and ‘Air’ on my Zerker GS (PVE, and Glassbow) and ‘Generosity’ and Precision stacking on Celestial (general purpose roaming) and ‘Water’ and ‘purity’ on my pvt (exoitc) for zerging.
just use your zerker gear for that too?
You could get a set of tank trinkets (Pvt, cleric, knights even nomads) an add the amount of pieces that you see fit, that way you can find your own sweet spot and adjust for the situation.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Guide-PvE-Meta-Ranger
this is a good start for all things pve, work for almost all weapon sets
i have to aggree with fluffball, I think that you are over thinking this a bit to much. map completion is time consuming not difficult, so anything that you can do to speed things up is a plus.
through signet of the hunt on to our meta build and you are about covered. fall trait is also hand for traveling across country to you next objective.
here is an example of what i would use. use what ever the most damage oriented gear you already have zerker is best
It really depends on the game type you play and the gear you put it on.
For PVE in zerker gear ranger runes are a great choice. For WvW in tanker gear melandru runes are great choice.
also don’t just blindly place runes over the top of your mel ones, there worth a bit if you can salvage them.
The only build that could kill something with Nomad, is a beastmaster ranger, and that’s only because the pet doesn’t get it’s stats from the ranger’s gear. Even still, does anybody even have a full set of nomad’s yet? I wouldn’t waste the time for a full set, maybe a few pieces could fit into a build, but a full set is pointless.
That could be the one useful nomad build right there!
Oh wait the pet’s dead…
I like playing WvW on Expert mode.
And this lol
I start out at launch as a ranger through process of elimination.
- I generally don’t like playing casters
- Guards did not make sense to me
- I hate every thing the thief stances for (don’t like playing sneeky trolly classes)
- I didn’t want to play engineer as I’m an engineer for a living
I was left with Warrior and Ranger. previous games including GW1 I mained Worriers so i went ranger.
I continue to play Ranger because it is some much fun with a huge variety of ways to play it. I have invested so much time in to it and it the class the i understand by far the most. I’m about to start leveling my last class (engi) so I have at least played all others classes a little.
sylvari T3 is pretty cool. Whispers is also good as it TA armor.
A good choice is Asura for the technobabble trolling in WvW.
I don’t really see much of a reason to use shortbow over axe/dagger when the next balance patch hits.
daze/stun, attack rate, using two attack proc sigils, pet buffs, gap increase, swiftness.
there is a little more to the short bow then pressing 1 and going afk you just happen to have the option
There is no cheese. There is only a playstyle you think is easier than the one you like.
If you think other people’s “easier” builds are cheese, then you should start playing with suboptimal runes and amulets…just to be “non-cheese” to the max.
Eventually you can boast that you play naked, and everyone who uses a powerful rune is “cheese”.
Think about it.
i like this +1
You really only have two choices when it comes to picking a legendary.
1. The one that you like the look of the most
2. The one that you use the most
If they both happen to be the same weapon then all the better.
I have 2 legendary’s,
- Kudzu because its my favorite looking one, it gets use in open world pve
- Dreamer because i use it a lot in wvw roaming (my main way of playing the game) and i like the idea of killing people with rainbow pony paws.
Other than that i cant really help you pick
Made my kudzu over a year, but now i get a reason reasons to use it. I made it because it my favorite skin not because it my favorite weapon.
be careful Cecilia ranger is a highly additive class.
I like to keep a couple of passive condi clears as well as some active one on me at all times. the passive one are to get rid of long lasting incidental type condis (poison, cripple, bleeds, weekness) and to stop bleed stacks getting to high and the actives are for the oh crap I’m Immob/Chilled and lots of others.
i don’t like EP as its 3 at a time and not staggered and it hurts you pet i don’t like hurting my pet
So i have a short bow with both purity and generosity on it and a gs with generosity on it, i generally use one of those at any given time. some times ill equip SoR as well
My active condi cleanse is out of Healing spring, SotF + MT&LR, Elite spirit, SoR.
Shortbow is the cheesy part of spirit ranger.
Go s/d a/t or s/t a/d.
I disagree, shot bow makes the build easy ill pay that.
how is SB any more cheesy then A/T-S/D.
Short bow is:
- spam 1
- use 2 and 4 on recharge
- use 3 and 5 as needed.
A/T is
- spam 1
- use skills 2 through 5 on recharge
S/D is
- spam 1 (more so as you may have auto attack off)
- use 5 on recharge (4 also if you you want to keep poison up)
- use 2 and 3 possible 4 as needed
I will concede that A/D – S/T is a more active weapon set.
Now the only real question is – when the heck is ANeT going to implement the changes? I had really been hoping it was going to happen last week when the new content was released. Let’s hope it is soon.
just of the top of my head i don’t think these changes we be seen before sometime in October.
Reason 1: they are doing 2 classes a fortnight so:
ranger-engi 25/7;
x-x 8/8;
x-x 22/8; and
x-x 5/9;
Add about a month for the dust to settle and the forums to calm down abit your in October.
Reason 2: October is 6 months after the 15th of April patch, i think that i read somewhere that they plan on doing major updates twice a year.
On another note, do you think that each class is going to be given a reveal buff? i hope so, as it hopfully will mean people will bring other classes in to wvw roaming and i wont be fighting thief’s and mez’s all the time and the ones that i do fight my be less dependent on stealth
It depends on what you consider as cheese, just because a build is easy to play doesn’t make it cheese.
I consider a cheese build one that relies on something that is strong (often spam-able), a 1 trick pony if you will and is not very effective out side of this. If you face an opponent that is either a hard counter or has the skill to beat you one trick and you are useless that would be cheese in my book.
an example of what i consider a cheese build is a thief build that relies on stealth and back stab to kill you. one you lean how to face them they are no long a problem as they can not adapt ie if there one trick doesn’t work they’re useless.
so on that note i don’t consider all spirits build cheese, carrion amulate with forge runes is a little cheesy because of you dependents on protection to stay alive (boon rips and aoe will kill you easy enough), but other variations are less so i also don’t consider Hambow a cheese just a build that is overall strong and easy to play.
When i run spirits (i don’t do it that often) its celestial 0/0/6/4/4 and i don’t all ways get the sprites out and can win fights without using them. when I’m solo roaming i don’t get them out until i absolutely have to so my opponent does not realize that I’m playing a spirit until well in to the fight if at all.
I don’t feel like Sunless runes work well with Entangle. The immobilize neutralizes the effect of the fear.
Fear is not just about people running away its also and interrupt and a ‘stun’ of sorts. immob just means they are running on the spot.
I mostly play some form of beast master build, that is i almost always go at least 4 in BM and pick up some traits to buff my pet.
Some points on the OP’s build.
- BM#2 is almost useless for anything out side of map completion because you lose the stack any time you swap pets and should be doing that a lot.
- You garbed fortifying bond and pet’s prowess, good these some of our best pet buffing traits.
The thing about playing a beast masters builds is the one of you primary jobs is to cc your opponent so your pets hit more often. For you question about skill rotations ranger doesn’t not really have skill rotations (not in same sense as a necro or an ele) as our auto attack is our primary damage, the rest of our weapon skills are generally utility/situational based (some of out 2 skills are use on recharge types)
Anyway here is a quick build the i often use for yoloque and roaming
you can use any weapon combo that you want and change the amulet as you see fit
soo ummm, bump,
still needs to be sticky-ed
It depends on you situation.
If you only have 1 foe Hyenas have the fasts attack rate due to being able to call 2 (i never pay attention to whether the second hyena proc’s RaO) this pet is also good for sun spirit.
If you have multiple foes river drake is the best for proc’ing RaO use the F2 ability while RaO is active. The F2 ability pulses and bounces around.
on the Flip side the best weapons for getting might stacks on you pet is WH#4 (single foe), AXE#1 (Multiple Foes) and bows with piercing arrows
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I’m more thinking of the entangle buff the makes better in larger group fights, and we can free up another 2 traits point as we don’t need to signet trait.
i all was run melee in zergs as its safer and you get more bags. it also make your water field use full.
we can provide MT, entangle, spotter water fields and blast finshers(or whirls) and the axe is going to hit a little harder because we can free up some points to trait for it.
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after patch quite likely both on occasion
I’m going to try 4/4/6/0/0, axe/axe, celestial, signets, strength runes and sigils.
this was the first build that popped in to my head as i already run 6/2/6/0/0
and my Axe
It is use to place you pet in an area for it to ‘guard’,
An example would be is spvp for a home point bunker to place your pet using guard on the most likely attack rout, so it start attacking/cc someone well before they get to you.
You can also use this skill as away for your pet to scout for you in wvw. place them in a location that you cant see, and you can tell when some one is there.
in pve you ckittene guard to place you pet in a location where it wont disrupt what you are trying to do, run through mobs etc.
As to how useful the abillity to do this is, well….
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Will Ricochet changes REALLY make a difference? 3s might is nothing…
with boon duration, say from the NM line and some of runes it would be 4s, it would proc 10’s on you pet with fortifying bond. in a fight where there is more then one opponent you may be able to maintain 4ish stacks on you self and 10ish on you pet.
Do you actually get a 50% speed bonus from SotW and the current SotB? I thought that was for the pet only. It doesn’t feel like you move any faster, although you turn giant so it might be an optical illusion.
just tested i don’t thinks so, it looks when you pop it you keep moving at the same pace and your pet it trying not to run ahead. this in in ooc.
Enlargement just got buffed.
We can now achieve 40+ a of continuous stability (we can do this now but we don’t need to trait for it)
It was bad enough when you had a ranger auto attacking form a distance when you where fighting some one else, it now going to be unbearable
12s of inv with out traiting
6s of reveal yeehaaa
might stacking on pets with an axe is going to be great (companions might, mh axe signet of strength, fortifying bond) bye bye petting zoos. it will make honed axes a little more inviting too
I consider entanglement a big buff, don’t for get the extra condi removals from it. I never liked it before as you need to hope that you opponent had use there cleanse before using other wise it was wasted.
to many options to think about my mind is going in to over load
pitty we are going to have to wait 2-3 months for this
Welcome to gw2 and i hope you enjoy your time here.
WvW is highly volatile at the best of times being under-leveled will make it even more difficult. I would hate see you loose your enthusiasm for the game because you feel that you can not do anything in wvw because you are underpowered.
I would suggest you take the time to play through the game, learn how the class you have chosen plays and get to level 80. before adventuring to far in to wvw, but pop in some times a say hello!
When you get to level 80 the real fun can begin.
Cat’s – there attack animations or range could be a bit better so they connect a bit more
Devourers – i not to sure what needs to be different but i have never found a practical use them, where i want them over some thing else. the retreat skill can be problematic.
Pigs – there F2 could be rethought a bit, may be make it appear i you hand instead of have to see it a pick it up.
I would rather the pet be %40 of my damage and better ways to control them.
Pets are supposed to be like the limb of the ranger; an extension of one self. They a part of you, and more attention should be given to them.
Instead of nerfing Pet damage, they should allow us to micromanage their skills similar to heroes in GW1.
They should also add more skills which interact and take advantage of the fact Rangers can be in two places at once.
+1
Im guessing you both are pve’rs so of course ill meet resistance on the fact that pet should be a utility. You must not know how bad pets are in a pvp stand point and the only viable thing to come from them is their CC. Their damage is easily avoided by even the mediocre players.
I find it interesting that you where able to come to this conclusion based on the information you have been presented.
Heres an idea when I click stow I get my 30% dmg back. When I resummon it splits back to the pet. Problem solved doesn’t take up a utility slot. So in essence the stower is giving up the extra F2 that pet users get but I think thats a fair trade off to have total control over my dmg delivery.
Why 30% anyway? Do you have evidence that this is that amount that the pet contributes? base on what type of build and which pet? what about deference increases as well? a lot of our pets have defensive usages as well, dogs have saved my life just as much as i have used then to kill things as well.
If we where able to stow our pet for a buff, what would be our classes identity and uniqueness, the pet is a part of the class and what makes it different form that other classes. there are other classes in this game the don’t rely on a pet maybe you would be more suited playing that.
Problem is Anet is to lazy to put in the effort to code something like that apparently because im sure im not the first to suggest it.
it not that they’re to lazy they have stated many times that they don’t want to do this.
relying on AI to do all your damage is a terrible way to play a game. Like phantasm PU mesmers and turrent engis.
I would suggest that this is a matter of opinion. Think of other mmo that have the holy trinity an you are playing the healer of the tank, you would be relying on other people all together for damage, using this logic would this not be worst then?
Games do not have to be about pressing a few buttons and seeing big numbers flash up on the screen (i would consider this a passive style of play, but that my point of view). If this is the sort of game play that you are after you could play a worrier.
That level of passive play is disgusting tho and only about 10% of people want to play that level of passive
52% of all statistics are made up, i would like to know you source for the number.
How is a passive, when i need to use all 4 f keys and at least 2 of my utility, and well time use of my evades an interrupts to kill my opponent.
not every button you press has to be an attack button.
1 v 1 or small groups, ya, you’re going to kitten a lot of people off almost not matter what your build. Rangers are literally designed for that kitten. Oh boo hoo someone ran in to a thief, ranger or mesmer while they were roaming, take a friend.
lol.
The biggest difference between the thief, ranger and Mesmer is the no one like being beaten by a ranger and the best part about being a ranger compared to the other two is the most people wont run form you on sight.
But I don’t want use my pet as an extra utility button, i want it to tear things to shreds and I be the utility. I like to run build where my pet is the majority of my damage and i focus on cc so and keeping the pet alive so it can do the job that i want it to do.
But then you would lose all the benefits of using pets as a major source damage. If i didn’t want to be heavily reliant on a pet then i would play a different class.
Making this change to fix a problem with the way you want play would break the way I want to play.
hear’s my take on the original build it has the added bonus of “Expertise Training” to make the rendering mauls hurt even more as well as might stacking food (Dry top one would be better but could find it in the list) and sun spirit for more deeps
As you are only level 36 you only be able to use some of the things in the guide but use it as a reference point as you level up.
one thing to keep I’m mined though is that leveling you charter is a time to lean and experiment with different ability’s, so test out different things and see what they do.
and then i have a mostly finished celestial set which i plan to use for 99% of my needs because i’m too indecisive and i prefer jack of all trades styles anyway.
This, same reason i made one, that and i use to may different builds to rely on one set.
main set is ascended celestial and all my weapons are ascended celestial. I use this for the most of my wvw roaming builds.
I have a zerker set for pve and glassbow wvw (currently making an ascended set)
I have a cleric set for power bunker and support build (mostly use my celestial set for this now)
I have a apothecary set for condi bunker (mostly use my celestial set for this now)
I have a rabid set for bleed burst builds
I have a PVT set for zergingWhat kind of build do you run with all the celestial?
I chop and change alot, any of the more common builds that people run i just do it in celestial gear. I favor the short bow a lot and i usually have some point in bm, I’ve recently traded travelers runes for pirate runes.
hear are some examples
Sprits
bunker
Melee
EB BM Bunker
My Most used Build
main set is ascended celestial and all my weapons are ascended celestial. I use this for the most of my wvw roaming builds.
I have a zerker set for pve and glassbow wvw (currently making an ascended set)
I have a cleric set for power bunker and support build (mostly use my celestial set for this now)
I have a apothecary set for condi bunker (mostly use my celestial set for this now)
I have a rabid set for bleed burst builds
I have a PVT set for zerging
short-bow can be use with both power and condi gear (really good with celestial). With the short bow it’s a good idea to exploit its fast attack rate with on-proc traits and sigils with low cool-downs like, sharpen edges, companions might, blood/earth/strength sigils, omnom pies, ghost pepper poppers. Also works well with spirit utility.
hear is a build that will work in any small group content.
Items
Crafting—Huntsman:
Fixed the icon for Spiritwood Pistol Frame.
Fixed an issue that allowed players to spam transform effects by using aboveground transform tonics under water. These tonics can no longer be used under water.
Rune of the Privateer: Fixed a bug that caused the summoned bird to persist under water.
Updated the names of many items to be more specific to their weight class or item type.
Fixed a bug that prevented armorsmiths, leatherworkers, tailors, and jewelers from being able to craft Sheets of Ambrite.
Runes of the Privateer/Pirate: Parrot health reduced by 50%, normalizing it with similar summons.
its now in the patch notes