Guild Wars 2

Anyone else notice that the dredge also dont de-aggro? WTF?

this happened to our group and was VERY frustrating, it was our 3rd fractal, and we were unable to progress to the end boss of this fractal or the final boss fractal.

Id also like to note that in dredge fractal, they have increased the number of dredge AND they dont de-aggro, meaning they chase you forever. This is a stupid change and both of these problems need to be adressed.

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• In the rescue the lab workers quest, it is possible to rescue them too slowly and have the mission fail/bug out. On two times we did a split (4 people doing the shield/lasers and 1 doing the rescue) in order to make the fractal faster only to have it bug out and force us to restart the entire shard since you cannot finish the fractal or reset it. This is a gamebreaking bug. Right now the solution is to do it as a group to avoid doing it “too slowly” but in a fractal with a non-linear sandbox design, it is a bit disappointing to have the ability to split and come up with creative solutions limited in that way.

This happened to us today on our third fractal. It was very frustrating for the group and needs to be adressed. in fact, all of these issues need to be adressed.

I would also like to note that on the Dredge fractal, mobs dont de-aggro, and this can be infuriating at times. please fix this a-net.

Search Brazil DPS Ranger on youtube. Both builds are good, and both are melee.

For dungeons, search on YouTube for Brazil ranger DPS build. Both of them are good. It uses sword/war horn like you said you enjoy in dungeons. He explains all the traits, the gear, runes and sigils. Personally I like to go with force over night/undead as I do a lot of open world content as well. Both his builds are viable. Personally I prefer the new one, but a lot of people prefer the old one. But they are both really good.

oh i completely skipped over the part that had vulnerability on crit. that would also make me happy, either one :P just need more vuln

I like the changes to the opening strike/remorsless traits. that sounds awesome. Also id like to add; Possibly remove the “regain opening strike on stealth” keep the regain on kill, and maybe add “regain opening strike on player on weapon swap” and “regain opening strike on pet on pet swap”. Maybe have this as a seperate trait? in master or grandmaster? that would make remorsless a lot more useful and available in longer fights, instead of just having them at the beginning of a fight. It would also synergise very well with all of the other opening strike traits in that line and make it a bit more viable.

what do you guys think?

I will concur with that, speed bonuses affect range pets a lot less than melee ones. Spiders and devourers don’t need the speed bonus to stick on target, since they shoot from range, so if you must run traveler, use these pets. If you insist on using melee pets though, travellers is probably not a good option.

Agility training does not stack with SotH.

Speedlight, there has been numerous tests done with the pet on moving targets with and without SotH and the DPS is reduced by around 50% without SotH active. This is on a moving target WITHOUT a speedbuff/swiftness so your pet damage would be decreased even further if your target has a speedbuff signet/runes or swiftness. Search the forums if you dont believe me.

oh yeah, the 100% crit chance is icing on the cake

i agree Taverius, that would be awesome. Personally, i dont particularly use the OS for the 100% crit particularly or for the “burst”, moreso for applying vuln to enemies, and we currently have no way to reset this apart from longbow #3 in long boss fights.

As for rune suggestions, depends what your after. PvE, Scholar is great, for WvW there are many good options. Ranger (prec), Dwayna (regen), Melandru (anti condi), Undead (condi), Fighter (Power, Toughness), Scholar can be good (power/crit).

IMO traveler isnt a good option for rangers currently. The reason being, with signet of the hunt you AND YOUR PET get a 25% speed boost, with traveler, ONLY YOU get the speed bonus, not your pet, so the problem is, your pet is super slow and cant keep up with a moving target in WvW or PvP, unless you trait for pet speed, which is a lost trait slot IMO. You could give your pet perma swiftness, but then you would also basically have perma swiftness, which would make the traveler speed bonus a bit redundant.

In PvE pet speed is a lot less important, but there are much better runes for PvE than traveler IMO, and i assume you are considering traveler for WvW.

i kind of actually really like the idea of regaining remorsless on weapon swap/ pet swap, that would work. actually thats an awesome idea its true that remorsless is currently underwhelming, and definately needs to be looked at. Its good when clearing trash mobs, but useless in drawn out fights.

ok new question, what if they removed the regain on stealth aspect of remorseless and changed it to regain opening strike on weapon swap for player and pet swap for the pet?

So I have been playing around with power builds a lot lately especially for dungeons and fractals, and I have been using the opening strike traits in the power line. Remorseless gives us opening strike on kill or on entering stealth and when using longbow, I often pop the #3 to gain stealth just to regain opening strike again.

However for most situations, I am not using longbow, I am using sword/x

In melee we don’t have any stealth options, and the only way a ranger can gain stealth unless a theif is in the party is through LB #3, which kind of limits the stealth part of the remorsless trait to 1 weapon… so what if stalkers strike on dagger gave 2-3 seconds of stealth instead of the poison but kept the evade? This would allow us to reapply vulnerability to our targets, and would also add a bit of extra survivability in melee. This would be great in longer boss fights where vulnerability starts to drop off after the initial vuln burst at the start of the fight. It would also make dagger a more interesting offhand and could have its uses in pvp and wvw.

It could also open up a whole lot of new build possibilities and different play styles.

I see this as also having some potential without even considering the remorseless trait.

What do you guys think? Personally I think this would be a great idea but I’d love to hear your thoughts

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Both of brazils builds are very viable in high level FOTM. Basically, eventually youll want full zerker/scholar runes, but if you dont feel comfortable or you feel a little squishy, try knights armor/scholar runes with zerk trinkets and weapons, and slowly swap to zerker armor when you feel more comfortable with the playstyle. The knights armor will let you take a few more hits, while still maintaining descent DPS.

Pets- Jaguar and Jungle stalker.

Basically the builds are 30/25/0/15/0, or 20/25/0/25/0 Just search Brazil DPS Ranger builds in youtube and you should find both. He explains them pretty well.

Youll want to bring spotter and frost spirit. These are the best things a ranger can bring to a group, in dungeons or in fractals.

As for weapons, it really depends on the fractal. Eventually, your bread and butter should be Sword/warhorn for pure DPS, but i also bring an offhand dagger if i need more evades, or an offhand axe if i need pulls or reflects. However! the sword/x has a bit of a learning curve and may take a little while to get used to, so practice with sword/x in dungeons until you get a feel for it, and possibly substitute sword/x with GS in fractals until you get used to how sword/x plays.

Regardless, for certain fights, you might want to switch to GS anyway, just because the Sword root/leap can be a disadvantage in certain situations, (eg, the platforms on the harpy fractal) plus the evade on the 1chain of the GS can help with survivability. You can do descent damage with Maul on the GS and the vuln stacks you apply with it helps the whole group.

Theres also a few fights where its dificult to melee or just better to range, so bring a longbow. (youll figure these out pretty quickly :P)

The biggest thing is to learn the fights, take it slow, and listen to your teammates or guildies. It also helps to be in voice comms with the people you fractal with.

Like i said, maybe start with knights armour/scholar, zerk trinkets and weapons, and maybe start out with GS/LB unless your confident you can handle sword/warhorn (in most situations), and slowly switch out to full zerker gear when you become confident with the playstyle and learn the fights well in fractals.

very similar to brazils build. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGtY69tcek or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGtY69tcek

Very effective build. Great DPS and group damage/crit increase. If you run with a half descent group who know what they are doing this is a pretty beast build. I will give your variation a try next time i do dungeons and let you know how it goes.

fair enough… i know its not an optimal build in any sense… just fun to use once in a while…. i usually run trapper or BM bunker for sPvP or WvW with A/D-S/T, so i know its good to have “blanket” conditions, which this build definately lacks.

This build does lack survivability as well… its kind of a duck in, combo, duck out kind of build. But anyway, theres plenty of “glass cannon” builds out there… some of theme with even longer cooldowns than this one… and people use them. I just thought id share a condition based burst build for a change, since most “burst” or DPS builds focus mainly on power.

It was just something i came up with theorycrafting, and it kind of surprised me that you could actually hit 25 stacks… and at 140 a tick… theres no denying kitten dies fast…

Obviously it’s easily countered by condi removal and reduction food/runes but the build was kind if for the lulz. You’d be surprised how many people you can catch off guard with it.

Ummmm… Ok. Well that comment was kind of pointless…

Hi,

So i was messing around with my ranger the other day and I thought to myself, i wonder how many bleed stacks i can get going if i really min/max everything…

And as it turns out, you can build your ranger to put out 25 bleed stacks in around 4 seconds, which just about melts everything. Ive mainly messed around in PvE and WvW with this build and it is a lot of fun.

With Rabid gear and full corruption stacks you can get around 140/tick bleeds. at 25 stacks, thats 3500 damage per sec.

This build mainly revolves around using sharpening stone, both from the utility bar and from traits, and using as many “on crit” bleeds as possible, and using the warhorns fury to boost crit (which in turn, adds more bleeds).

So enough messing around, heres the build and how it works.

TRAITS:

10/30/30/0/0

Markmanship: III

Skirmishing: II – IX (optional) – X (good for CD but also optional) (a friend suggested using the trap traits for the optional slots in this setup, havent tried or tested it)

Wilderness Survival: III – VI – VII

GEAR:

Armor:

Full rabid armour /w Undead Runes, Rabid trinkets-/w coral jewels

Weapons:

Rabid Axe /w Sigil of Earth – Rabid Warhorn /w Sigil of Corruption
Rabid Longbow /w Sigil of earth (optional)

UTILITIES:
Sharpening Stone
Lightning Reflexes
SotH

FOOD/MAINTENACE:
Rare Veggie Pizzas or koi cakes
Quality tuning crystals

BUILD IN USE:

Basically, you want to start out your rotation by popping Sharpening stone, followed by using Call of the wild for the extra fury (More crits, more bleeds). Immediately after, pop hunters call. Then wait for hunters call to use up all of Sharpening Stones stacks. Then Pop youre Axes Splitblade. By this time, youre second Sharpening Stone from traits should have procced. The tail end of hunters call should use up the second set of sharpening stone stacks. If not, switch to longbow to get rid of your secondary sharpening stone stacks by using rapid fire.

But basically, you should be able to hit 25 stacks of bleed using just the axe/warhorn… all in about 4 seconds.

so basically…. Sharpening Stone>Call of the Wild>Hunters Call>Splitblade = 25 stacks of bleed

Its important to note that Rare Veggie Pizzas are pretty vital to this build, as it extends the duration of your bleeds, allowing more to stack.

This build is a bit of a 1 trick pony, in the sense that, once you blow your combo, you have to wait for all the cooldowns to do it again, and it takes about 30 seconds to recharge… but it is a lot of fun watching theives melt with this build.

Side note: this build is quite good against theives since Hunters call and Rapid fire are both “channeled” attacks, which keep hitting the theif after theyve gone into stealth.

if you have any questions/comments about my build, feel free to ask.

Well axe 3 is a chill which is just as good as a cripple IMO, plus now with recent shortbow nerfs the axe and shortbow have the same range (900). Plus with dagger offhand you get another cripple and bleed on #5, so that’s 2 ways to slow them down on the 1 weapon set. Plus if you pick up offhand training in traits, it increases the range to 1200 for all you’re offhand abilities (so the dagger #5). This means torch #4 on sword/torch is also 1200 range, it also increases the radius of bonfire, and the length of the dagger evade.

Best bet for condi builds I’d say is either rabid or apothecary gear. and as for runes, if you want to go full condition damage I’d say undead. As for sigils, I’d say geomancy as it adds 3 stacks of bleed on weapon swap… But that’s just my preference.

My I suggest swapping shortbow for axe/dagger. Reason is axe dagger combo has more conditions than short bow, more CC and a built in evade… More survivability. In the end it all comes down to play style but I suggest trying it out. Also I would suggest dropping quickening zephyr as it is basically useless for a condition based build, and swapping it for signet of the hunt for movement passive, or something else… May I ask what gear/stats you are using, and runes? Might help out a bit with responses

It’s sup sigil of geomancy. It triggers on weapon swap. It inflicts 3 stacks of bleeding for 7 seconds and does a small amount of damage on a 9 sec internal cooldown

I had the same problem with my D6300… heres how I fixed it.

go to your router settings page, you can do this by opening any web browser. type “192.168.0.1” into the URL. It should ask for a username and password. by default they are…

Username: admin
Password: password

Then it should take you to the “netgear genie” page

Up top, you will see a “Basic” and “Advanced” tab… click on advanced.

then along the side, you should see more tabs/icons to click on. Click on “setup” then “WAN Setup”

Tick the box “Disable Port Scan and DoS Protection”, and UN-tick “Disable IGMP Proxying”

Edit: Also… make sure you click “Apply” after ticking/unticking the boxes or it will do nothing.

This should fix youre black screen issue… if not, send me a PM and i will tell you how to set up port forwarding for guild wars 2… Anyway… let me know if this fixes it or if it helps

Edit: Oh i didnt read properly and said you tried that… hmmm maybe try it again? make sure you click “apply” when you change the settings and let the modem reset, then turn the modem off for 15 seconds and back on again. worked for me without having to do port forwarding. if not, try forwarding ports 80, 443, 6112 and 6600

I had the same problem with my D6300… heres how I fixed it.

go to your router settings page, you can do this by opening any web browser. type “192.168.0.1” into the URL. It should ask for a username and password. by default they are…

Username: admin
Password: password

Then it should take you to the “netgear genie” page

Up top, you will see a “Basic” and “Advanced” tab… click on advanced.

then along the side, you should see more tabs/icons to click on. Click on “setup” then “WAN Setup”

Tick the box “Disable Port Scan and DoS Protection”, and UN-tick “Disable IGMP Proxying”

Edit: Also… make sure you click “Apply” after ticking/unticking the boxes or it will do nothing.

This should fix youre black screen issue… if not, send me a PM and i will tell you how to set up port forwarding for guild wars 2… Anyway… let me know if this fixes it or if it helps

Heres my ranger… finally have her looking just the way i want… i preffer mix and match to full sets. Temple hat and boots, T3 Human chest and gloves, HotW Leggings and CoF shoulders. just missing Nightmare Torch and im done! let me know what you guys think

YAAAAAY! back in! check your accounts people!

US: Yaks Bend
Banned message: Abusing in game Exploit
Ticket sent: Incident: 130418-000146

I tried to log in this morning and same thing. Account perma-banned due to “exploit”. I mainly play WvW and have never farmed/exploited anything in the game. I dont use macros, i dont do bugged events, nothing. I submitted a ticket. hopefully they will get back to me soon. Apparently its happening all over.