Guild Wars 2

Doesn’t seem like the trait should work with launch (spike trap) based on what it says.

I actually picked up some cooking tips…

Eurantien.4632:

Pet that grants stability. Pet that grants invisibility (or at least creates a smoke field). Maybe a steam pet could do that?

Finally! Posted this back in like January 2013. Wanted a smoke field for so long.

Nova Stiker.8396:

Trevor Boyer.6524:

Eurantien.4632:

Cause Druid has so much aoe stab to stop all the CC out there.
Am I right?

Exactly.
Just tried to explain this to them in two other threads.

RAMPAGE AS ONE.
RAMPAGE AS ONE.
RAMPAGE AS ONE.

My lord, do you honestly think Druids will take Glyph of Unity? HAHAHA! No. Rampage as one, 48 second cooldown, 10 seconds of stability.

If the druid isn’t using the glyph elite I don’t think it will be much of a healer then. I’d imagine guardian > druid at that point because of the extra support it offers. So yes.

A scary thing will be druid support ranger with glyph elite and NM. Pet helps rez, practically immune to poison, and prot + weakness when hit which would combo great with normal form glyph elite. But again, no stab in that case unless they run SotW but that is just for the ranger and not for teammates.

Cause Druid has so much aoe stab to stop all the CC out there.
Am I right?

Guys

Druid reveal week.

so happy

FINAAAALLLYYYY!!!!

That’s refreshing to hear.

It was a 4 hour tournament and everyone wanted it to be over. The admins tried to speed it up by implementing a rule that made the fights go faster (by making stalled match ups fight on alternative classes). I took advantage of that because there was 0 chance of beating that mesmer build. They couldn’t have known that would happen when they implemented the rule several matches earlier. Now that it has happened they know for the future. It was a free tournament, the admins are humans.

ReaperJr.5967:

That sounds good and all but doesn’t explain why alternate ruling changes which would definitely expedite the tourney were not even considered. (Etc banning inspiration and chaos from being used together on a mesmer, which would allow players to choose between playing their alt or playing a weaker build than they intended to. Instead, they were forced to change to alts no questions asked.)

This was considered and discussed in the map chat. It was deemed unfair to ban certain builds mid tournament by the admins. I think that would have been more arguable as blatant favoritism.

I tried to reach out to Kronos when he wanted to play mesmer vs my ranger and said that if he ran shatter (at least anything different so at least I had a chance) that I would personally allow it. He then switched back to ranger before that thought was explored any further.

ReaperJr.5967:

Eurantien.4632:

How was the tournament rigged?

The rude composure of some of the admins, I agree, was unprofessional and should be discussed internally among the the hosting organization.

Ruling changes were made favouring certain players more, basically.

It seemed ruling changes were made to increase the rate at which the tournament was proceeding which affected all players equally. Some just adapted to it better than others. The tournament lasted like 4 hours, and I for one expected maybe 2.5. I had plans and i’m sure i’m not the only one so I appreciate the effort from the admins to expediate the tournament with some of these rule changes. I guess because of certain players running very sustainy builds it weakened their playstyle but I think it was a necessary evil due to the obscene length this tournament was reaching. In fact, It would probably still be going on. Understandably, it was impossible for them to foresee that these changes were going to be necessary before the tournament began. Now they know for the future.

For future tourneys. I think the stalling rule is good so fights don’t last forever. It would be nice if there was a map that like forced a smaller fighting area. It would be nice if there was a rule that prevented someone from perma stealthing to stall, like you must be actively fighting (I guess in the future we have more reveal options so maybe this isn’t needed). It would be nice if the game was balanced or there were more restrictions so everything is at least beatable. The only thing that could beat that chaos/insp double mantra build was itself. Which I think led to a lot of the above issues.

How was the tournament rigged?

The rude composure of some of the admins, I agree, was unprofessional and should be discussed internally among the the hosting organization.

ReaperJr.5967:

Now my question is, why was the second scenario disallowed from happening? Why couldn’t Kronos play as Ranger against Eura’s Thief?

Edit: Post was directed to Demus, as for Eura, it doesn’t matter whether you heard Bear telling you to stall or whether you did. You stalled to exploit the rules.

Kronos should have been allowed to ranger v my thief, but as stated above. I would have swapped. So ruling will need to be implemented to deal with this. I stalled, yes. I just couldn’t figure out a good time to attack him. I wouldn’t necessarily consider my playstyle an exploit anymore than any other build.

I was not aware that Bear said that. I did have several (I assume twitch viewers because how else would they know) who whispered me with such advice. I guess I can’t really prove it but I was already on my thief dueling a mesmer friend and talking to another mesmer about how to deal with that potent inspiration/chaos mantra build when I received these whispers. The 3 of us then saw that after 3 minutes of no one dying the other class was forced to be used. We then came up with the idea to just stall the timer. Several minutes later I was whispered by the aforementioned viewers with the advice to stall. Little did they know I had already figured out what to do. In light of the information you presented I can understand your concerns but I don’t believe there was any favoring going on by the admins.

Yes, Kronos still won. He deserved the win. I could list a myriad of excuses as to why I lost, I didn’t retrait the right way, I was lagging, he broke all my focus and momentum by char swapping for like 5 minutes, etc. Regardless of those things I still did not perform well and he took advantage.

It is clear that there will need to be commendations for future tournaments regarding the issue of allowing multiple classes. If Kronos had switched to ranger to fight my thief, I would have swapped to ranger, if he had swapped to mesmer, I would have swapped to thief… What occurred was he fought with one of his classes and I fought with one of mine as it was implied on Battlefy that players must play class #1 or class #2. When that stalemated we were forced to our alternative classes which just happened to be class #1 for me and class #2 for him.

So you wanted the rules to be main v main and alt v alt when it seems to implicitly state class x v class x and class y v class y? In this case “class x” is the class you first fight with in the match and “class y” is the one you are not using at the time.

I think you idea is something to be considered for future tournaments though.

I think there is a misunderstanding here. I am a ranger main. However there wasn’t a forced main for this tournament. It says in your image of Battlefy that participants must play class #1 or class #2. That is what I did. Upon the first match up resulting in a timed out match I had to play my other class. I thought that was very clear which is why I thought it was funny that there was a scuttlebutt about it that led me to claim I was a thief main, it was a joke.

So? Everyone got 2 classes.

My apologies for signing up for the tournament before the 2nd profession was allowed and not officially signing up my 2nd profession when the ruling was changed to allow for a 2nd profession.

How was the forced alt use not followed in the LB finals? It was a way to prevent the tournament from lasting forever.

The tournament went very well until like the last 5 sets of matches. It’s just the nature of it that people can get a little salty when you find out that the restriction in place leave the tournament relatively unbalanced. Each tournament is a learning experience and I hope to see more in the future.

I didn’t see in anyway how the admins were setting up people to win.

cakeonroof.7385:

Eurantien.4632:

You are severely misinformed. Please educate yourself. What you are saying is not possible.

It sounds like he encountered a s/d or s/w with QZ, LR and SoS. Traited instinctive reaction, vigorous training and zephyr’s speed instead of bw

Perma quickness still not possible. Maybe all the dodges and evades just made it seem that way.

If that’s the case that would make sense that the ranger had a lot of quickness, but superspeed? no way.

You are severely misinformed. Please educate yourself. What you are saying is not possible.

Its better this way because you end up winning more tournaments and then you wake up one day, log on, and have like 4 llamas and 8000 gems all of a sudden.

It depends on what you like to do. If you are often in a 1 v 1 or small scale fights then remorseless is the way to go. You hit hard and your pets hit way harder. If you are good at skill cancelling your canine kds then you can save up a 5k kd which can be super helpful in a pinch. In a team setting (like a 5v5 PvP match) I prefer lead the wind because piercing arrows, faster autos, and cd reductions are helpful. + if I line up my arrows right and am hitting more than 1 target then I am greatly out dpsing remorseless. So for me, remorseless for 1 v 1s, LTW for everything else.

Some players have almost 10k games. Where do we draw the line?

bears → arctodus. Has a terrible f2 that can never land in pvp.
devourers → aren’t helpful.
any drakes that aren’t river or marsh, their f2s should never land in pvp and their condis dont do any dmg

If it’s a shatter Mesmer, for sure. If it’s a condi Mesmer… Good luck.

You should be able to block, evade, AND blind taunt.

I imagine it would be an unnecessary waste of server space to save 45 pet names for each ranger character. If they say they have sold 5 million copies of the game and we have seen stats before that ranger is one of the most popular classes (as in people have them) then we can almost assume that they would have to save 5 million x 45 names. Granted there are some people who won’t have a ranger or won’t name all their pets, but on the other hand you have people, like myself, who have 4 rangers. Its a waste of space, who cares? It shouldn’t even be mentioned in an article like this.

On another note, something that people never seem to keep track of is how the game is coded. Sure, spirits got nerfed. At the time ranger was the strongest class in the game for mainly 2 reasons: Nature’s Vengeance and the Storm Spirit’s independent stats. This made it very difficult to deal with Spirit Rangers because you could be tanky and deal a HUGE amount of damage. Unfortunately, the way Storm Spirit was coded it was too much of a hassle at the time to recode the whole thing because the coding for it was also tied into other mechanics in the game, I believe also pets, turrets, and minions. Changing Storm Spirit to scale off of ranger power would have probably affected those other AI as well. To top it off, spirit ranger was mobile, the spirits could move around and body block enemy skills and there was no way to separate the ranger from his spirits without (probably) eating Nature’s Vengeance. I often heard that it was proposed that spirits should have never moved in the first place, the way they worked in GW1, and also to remove Nature’s Vengeance. For the time being it seems they have done both. Personally, I prefer that spirits remain immobile and I am on the fence about Nature’s vengeance. My only gripe, and I believe what everyone should be complaining about, is the hp pool on spirits and how they die on activation. In the end, we don’t know what druid will be, maybe it will have spirit related traits? Who knows? I don’t see any reason to whine about this stuff when we really have no idea what its like behind the scenes (ie, difficulty in nerfing storm spirit because of coding).

I would say its the pet. Even without NM or WS ranger is REALLY strong 1 v 1.

As long as you don’t have to hold a node then I think so. I have found melee ranger beats everything, though Mesmer is tough. With a longbow mesmers are beatable. So if you can change weps before a fight then yes! Yet, my experiences are often not the same as others

5 doesn’t exist in guild wars at the moment. maybe like 4.5 exists.

They fixed the hole near blue spawn, however, if you jump along the top of blue’s wall you can get inside an area surrounded by an invisible wall.

https://youtu.be/tUCYv2Z78ww

You can make it by with just healing spring, you can also make it by with SoR and can always add in shout heal with soldier runes or runes of lyssa.

In fact I find We Heal as One, Strength of the Pack, soldier runes, and Signet of Renewal to be preferable to Healing Spring since the Swoop nerf.

I personally approve of the ban list for ranger. Taunt is broken. It unnecessarily goes through blind and evade skills. Moreover, NM and WS are the easiest trait lines for ranger to be successful. I don’t think any of these are needed with only dps ammys available.

Ranger was used in a WTS. It’s viable, but there just isn’t any reason to play on a team atm.

So go do hotjoin?

There is little reason to not run a marauder in PvP.

Is there anyway to see the old WTS vods? I have found bits and pieces on YouTube but I’m wondering if all the games are shown somewhere. Anyone know? looking for all 3 WTSs.

Found em: They all seem to be in the depths of twitch.tv/guildwars2.

Hmm, that’s pretty clever. Do mercy runes work if your pet gets the rez?

Just give access to the strongest alternative pet skill. Pets are amazing and without a doubt ranger’s synergy with his pet is what defines the skill level for this class. I can’t imagine every giving up my pet. It is an INTEGRAL part to how I play and that is how I imagine the ranger is supposed to feel. That being said it is absurd for us to be expected to control pet skills through use of F3 in order to maintain even the slightest shred of “viability”. It’s such an obvious change but is one that I have personally heard, “Do you know how overpowered that would be?” – Unnamed Dev. This was something that left me frustrated at the time. If that is the case, MAKE THE CHANGE! and then balance ranger around what you have done. Would it make the class easier? Yes. Would it lower the skill floor even more? Yes. And that is the unfortunate truth of ranger. On the spectrum it is arguably the strongest class for the true casual, yet the worst class for the veteran player. This is something that needs to be addressed. Who are we really balancing for? Yet all we can do is sit back and hope that druid can guide us down the path towards that ever sought, yet rarely found, “balance”.

Great, so much for my 4 ranger team.

Branden Gee.2150:

So, essentially what you are asking for is a way to have options like “Receive Whispers”:

• From All
• From Friends and Guild Members
• From Friends
• None

This seems like a reasonable feature request.
If Player A is on Player B’s friends list, but Player B isn’t on Player A’s friends list, how does that interaction work out?

Would this also extend out to things like mail?

(Please note this does not mean that this will happen, won’t happen, is planned to happen, and or not planned to happen)

PAPA GEEE!!!!!!!!

No.

Bounding Dodger: [&CP8HAAA=] / http://i.imgur.com/gyg3Hi5.png

3 base dodges
+ https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_Agility
+ https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hard_to_Catch

= 8 dodges
= 9.12k base damage.

I don’t want to die to dodge rolls.

3 years to “fix” swoop. Are you kittening kidding?

A suggestion that makes sense?!?!?! It’s like… Almost as good as being able to queue outside of the mists!!!

Does this work if I shoot a reflect with a projectile and hit a teammate?

Also reduces hunters call CD by 10s not 20%.

Just sayin, if you use em for the passive boons, 2 rangers can = perms prot and/or perma stab. Just got to put spirits in unusual spots near your team.

Duh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg