Guild Wars 2

I’m a competitive PvPer in this game (I’ve been flown to Boston and won money competing in GW2) and just went through this debate. Did I want a TN with 120hz refresh rate or an IPS with 60hz refresh rate. I ended up going with an IPS because I wanted the games I play to look the best and new that 120hz wasn’t going to make a difference in the way I play. + When j eventually upgrade I could just use my IPS as a little TV. Since getting my IPS I have been amazed by it. I went from like a 2005 4:3 monitor to a $250 2560×1440 IPS, the difference was amazing!

Its situational. You have to use whatever skill is appropriate for the right time.

I think I heard condi ranger puts out the same DPS as power ranger in PvE? Did I hear that? Am I crazy?

I will tonight, working on a 1v1 power build!

It needs to heal the pet. It’s literally making ranger less viable.

I think the best 1 v 1er on point is s/a gs ranger. Can’t do as well in a team fight as d/d ele though.

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P.s. phantaram played ranger and kicked ass!! Haha

Imma just save this for future lols.

Power ranger is pretty low skill floor, I think Hiro’s build ^ is a really good one to go to right off the start.

Cele necros are nothing to be feared by. Remove burning speed evade frames! Change burning on ring of fire.

In practical team play, I think dragonhunter currently has the edge over ranger. The sole reason to take a ranger is to fill a position, specifically you might take it to bring reveal. That is because most top teams run stealth and will stealth rez their fallen teammates. The ranger could have a niche role by applying reveal… unfortunately the precasting nature of sic em makes the whole endeavor a rather risky procedure. You need to apply the reveal as late as possible for maximum effectiveness… but if you are too late it won’t work. Therefore, if you want to counter the stealth rezzes it would be better to take an engi… but lock on only affects one target with a long icd… so not great. The best way to counter that stealth rez then is to use the reveal trap on a dragon hunter. It applies to everyone, can probably fill the refuge, + the dragon hunter can have stab and a teleport to make sure it gets on top of that body in time. That being said, I wouldn’t use the longbow on that build. Then, “will dragonhunter be a better LONGBOW ranger?” No. “Will it be a better ranger?” Maybe.

I guess that’s what happens when you only do team queues. Maybe we shouldn’t have merged solo and team queue together?

Yes.

Don’t you think you will only be paired up with people in the same tier, and mmr won’t factor in as much? That way losing a bunch means you won’t win any easier. You also will have a hard time getting to the top this way since near the top, losing drops you tiers.

I’m gonna get hate for saying this… but MAYBE gs s/a melee ranger. I don’t think it should work and would laugh at anyone who says it would… but it seems to work.

I literally threw that Asura together in about 20 minutes, and just had berserker armor boxes from PvP just lying around. The build I was playing with was in no way optimized.

I’m not sure why it cut out after 5 min or so for you, it does seem to stutter or “freeze” at certain points though. Not really sure what to do about that, it is probably my internet connection during the stream.

I do really like MM, Skirm, and BM. It offers everything I want, better CC and damage with MM (MoC), Skirm provided condi clear in terms of HS and great synergy with quickdraw, fury on swap is also great. Then BM is just too good not to take with how strong BW is.

I originally considered storm spirit before taking spike trap in my build. I would be too afraid that it would randomly die from cleave or get blinded during its cast time. Its just not something I want to deal with.

That’s actually not the knockdown, that’s just a pet skill the canines have. I think it looks just like an auto.

The reason I had + condi duration food on was because I made that character last night, went through the leveling chests, picked the buffet of mushroom pizza and put it out and ate from it at one point. Giving me + condi duration. The food was worthless haha.

Yeah!

I was asked to stream some power melee ranger game play in WvW. As most of you know I play lb/gs power ranger in PvP. It was a nice change of pace. After a pretty lonely few hours of roaming and setting up an asura for technobabble I threw together this build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNQQNAsXRnMqANsgluB2CCctgh/gaLiMIA4PIs3gPN+hh/iJqqC-TlCGABJcEAQ4EAgiKBTpEkIlXts/AJq7AwDA4SlIFcIAAA-w.

To jump to some action:
http://www.twitch.tv/eurantien/b/681186133?t=3h13m20s

For some context:
I’m not sure how but this thief and I kind of got into a grudge match. He kept jumping me so i pulled out the lb and we went back and forth a bit. Then when I felt satisfied I had killed him enough (i know I know, shame on me) i swapped back to s/a and gs and dealt with the thief some more. Afterwords some more people showed up and there was quite a bit of dueling that went on for the remainder of the stream, mostly vs a mesmer. Take a look if you’re interested. Was my first time really running s/a and gs besides in the lobby of the mists, it was a pretty fun set up!

You should tell people your build. I have never hidden the builds that I have run and have never had anyone run them the same way. People will always tweak a build to their personal play style, but the thing I bet people are most curious about is your armor. You hit very hard and have like 4k more hp then normal and that’s interesting. By telling people your build they don’t have to start from scratch they can see, “well if I want to do as much damage as Mike, then I need about this much power, precision, ferocity but I don’t think I need that extra hp, soo I’ll go for X instead”. Saves people a lot of time and energy but they still get to “make it their own”.

Taunt should be unblockable. No skill should go through evades. Looking at you binding blades!

The evade is during the channel and you are speeding up the channel. Quickness might allow you to cancel cast it more times than normal though.

Mantras did feel strong, but at the same time I felt like it was always justified. With such a long a cast time it felt like there was counter play. If I can’t interrupt an almost 3 second cast time, I deserve to be punished for it. Adding on the full CD might be a little too much.

Healing Spring still doesn’t heal our pets.

Sol.4310:

but yeah first ranger world to get a team that allows them to play Ranger lol.

There have been many teams with rangers on them….?

Congrats on the win Talgo.

I run something similar, but you currently have no condi clear on this build…

Spirits are independent of the ranger with their own stats. This is why the storm spirit could hit (way back when) for 3k per activation despite the ranger only having like 1k power.

He is a thief that’s been playing ranger. So he isn’t a prominent ranger.

He runs 6 in skirmish, 6 in wilderness, and 6 in BM I believe. I know the first 2 are right for sure.

Then the issue isn’t the distance.

Counterattack → maul works…

Odds are, if they don’t go as far, you will proc moment of clarity on the counterattack and will use the extra damage on the weak hilt bash. Hilt bash range should be increased. There is no reason to shorten counterattack. Just increase hilt bash so that it can synergize better with every skill, not just counterattack.

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Eurantien.4632:

New player vs new player: pew pew ranger = OP.
Veteran player vs veteran player: pew pew ranger = Free kills.

Who do we balance for?
Do we balance around the idea that people should be able to learn to play?
Or do we balance around the idea that people cannot learn, and are forever casual?

We simply don’t.

Other successful games, such as Dota 2, balance around the veteran, top tier, players. Should the same not be done here?

New player vs new player: pew pew ranger = OP.
Veteran player vs veteran player: pew pew ranger = Free kills.

Who do we balance for?
Do we balance around the idea that people should be able to learn to play?
Or do we balance around the idea that people cannot learn, and are forever casual?

Just have a warrior drop their rez banner for you…

I’ve grown to enjoy how it functions. As a trap it can be laid down and used later for leap finishers and condi clear for when I need it. The issue at hand, is that when you lay it down while moving it gets left way behind you. This is somewhat ok, the problem is that often times you barely move, get immob’d and are just outside of the healing spring range. My suggestion would be to increase the triggerable AoE of the laid down trap and also to fix the fact that it doesn’t heal your pet when initially laid down, like it should.

Mesmer: Evade the damage, invuln it, blind it, whatever. Wear them down. Interrupt their long channeled heal. Or run. I believe this fight is in the mesmers favor but can definitely be won by a ranger (assuming equal skill). If they aren’t using mantra the fight should be easier since they won’t be able to sustain if you miss the heal interrupt.

Necro: This is probably a build issue. I just CC the kitten out of them. I think ranger should win this match up.

I do.

In PvP today there were several times where I would swap to my pet and the pet I swapped to was already dead…

If you have healing spring, you could take oakheart salve for that reduced damage. I would test to see what use that condi damage on your pet is… Before poison master (when applied by the pet) scaled off of your own condi damage not theirs. So I don’t see the point of that trait. Also, due to the relatively longer nature of poison, and your reapplication of it. Would it be more useful to use a different rune set that provided some speed bonus? Then you could drop SotH for something more survivable? Then… if you have so much poison anyway? Wouldn’t it be better to use useful pets? Murellow? Gross!

I never fight on point.

They are on my armor!

Swap in healing spring (Yes, I know. Deal with it). Trait for traps. Maybe through in poison trap? The issue I have with these poison oriented builds is that they don’t feel as if they have enough cover condis, maybe reapplication is enough?

Sure, but what it especially does is track your target. The other drakes (except marsh) don’t track your target, this makes them less useful in PvP. What you could do with the river drake is cast the F2, maybe on one side of the node and then you stand on the other side of your target so they are imbetween you and the drake. This will force them to look at you, they will be in front of the drake and with their back to it. This makes it much easier to land the damage.

Ok Kehlian, as others have mentioned, sometimes the secondary effects are worth more than the F2. For PvP if your pet is low
You could heal it, swap it, or just pull it out with F3. Bears don’t offer much for PvP since players aren’t actively targeting your pet.

Because of this bears and decourers (the tankiest and least useful of the pets in terms of damage and abilities) makes them frowned upon for PvP.

Next question, are some pets in a species more beneficial than another?
For example, what does the river drake due that the ice or fire drake does not?

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Why not the polar bear ? Have you some more interesting choices ?
Chill and weakness is a pretty good DPS dumber for the foes

Several. I would like you to go through the pets and figure out what each of them offers. If you are saying you want chill and weakness, well there are already better options for that (for PvP) besides the bear.

Lose the polar bear for sure.

Innovation is key, fresh perspective is often what we need. OP might not make a new meta, but he might do something that gives one of us the spark for an idea. In our age and cynicism we often overlook things that someone else might see. I wouldn’t have made it to where I did in the PvP scene without a little help from an old thief friend. He knew nothing about ranger but he had some insights I had to consider which ultimately effected some tweaks to my build. The same can be said for some of the forum posters I was dead set on RaO, being stubborn, it took me some convincing to take entangle but that was the clear choice in the last meta. Point is, let him do what he will. Something interesting might come out of it.

Says that link doesn’t exist…

If I rerolled I would pick Asura. If you like power ranger, technobabble is just too good.

Someone mentioned once the idea of these 2 skills flipping until used. I really liked that idea. I also agree that cast time for the dodge roll sucks!