Guild Wars 2

Azukas.1426:

Missed it what happened?

He just played thief is all, nothing more. They lost pretty badly.

Abjured running necro when no one thought they were viable, running thief when no one thinks they’re viable. Wakkey will totally be playing a berserker in pro league at some point just to give the middle finger to the community.

You don’t have to randomly walk in and join, I’m not even sure what that means!

Find a guild that has similar interests as you. If you want to run dungeons despite the gold nerf, you can absolutely still find dungeon guilds and make some good money and have fun. If you want to wreck PUGs in PvP, you can find that guild too.

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PvP, WvW, Fractals, and map meta-events are what most people do.

Also leveling and gearing up alts is a lot of fun.

If you’re in a guild, the list expands about a thousand percent. You can still do dungeons for pretty good gold if you have a dungeon group. Guild missions, etc., whatever, WvW 5 man group slaughtering PUG zergs, and so on.

The other starter areas are a good suggestion, but also remember that everything you do in GW2 gives you experience. So literally try everything. Try crafting, explore cities, maybe try PvP if you’re comfortable (you’ll get destroyed at first but maybe you’ll have fun), do jumping puzzles, try activities, and so on. You’ll feel like you level much quicker giving everything a try rather than just doing a single thing.

I can’t remember a time when SS didn’t trigger based on party members’ condi stat. I guess if everyone remembers it, it must have been like that a long time ago, but in recent memory it’s been based on individual stats. All of GW2 works like that, water fields, regen, guardian burns, frostbows, etc. All based on the “user”.

You can get rabid with dungeon tokens, so if you’re like me that’s completely free. Most of my alts are in dungeon armor.

I’m almost certain it’s always been that way?

PyrateSilly.4710:

I also paid $100 for the Ultimate. So did my husband and both our boys (ages 28 and 30) and none of us are regretting the purchase.

That’s pretty awesome your whole family plays together!

They actually seem to be able to crank out high quality maps at decent pace. Living story updates gave us quite a few maps and min-maps. I strongly suspect we’ll get some new maps in the upcoming living story.

HPs won’t be what holds us back, I just don’t see them adding 9 new “professions” anytime soon. Maybe in a couple years. We just had a massive meta upheaval with an enormous amount of new stuff for people to learn about, particularly in PvP. It’s way too soon for another.

If you enjoy using longbow, I definitely recommend going full glass. LB hits hard, but it attacks pretty slowly and it will be extremely frustrating to try to kill things in tankier gear like soldier’s. LB is super ridiculously easy to use, so even if you’re not the best player in the world you should be able to survive easily in full glass.

If you want to try condi, ranger is one of the best.
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Ranger_-_A/T_Condition

You can use rabid instead of sinister/viper. It’s a lot easier to get.

I think the point is some doofuses were laughing at Nike saying dungeons were decent gold, and then it’s claimed Arah4 takes 2 hours to run. DnT is really letting themselves go if that’s the case.

You don’t need to be a super leeto guild to make decent gold on dungeons. Last night I pugged all of AC and it took us like 40 minutes or so. Decent gold for sure.

Sure, you can have the old gold rewards for dungeons back. Just click the button.

DnTs druid:

Tragic Positive.9356:

Hybrids never had a real place in any game or any content ever. They are just comfortable to be played.

If you were to list the top 5 PvP builds of all time, at least 2 would be cele.

This thread is just a few posts down. No one knows for sure, but this build is my best guess for what will be needed.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Build-Druid-Dedicated-Support/first#post5760481

I find them all way too hard. I rarely even get bronze. They’re entertaining, but I’m really not very good at these types of arcade games.

Dunecoon.5134:

It’s crazy how everyone has different opinions on this, clearly no meta yet.

There never will be a meta for pets. Even before HoT people ran a huge variety of pets. Not even the wolf is taken by all players.

Dunecoon.5134:

Smokescale seems like it might be a better wolf (shorter knockdown CD), not sure how to take advantage of the F2 tho. Bristleback is another nice ranged option, but not sure how it compares to spider, (more damage, less CC?)

I think the wolf is generally better than smokescale, but I’ve been using the 2 of them. Use the smoke field for blinds with projectiles or stealth with some allies.

Cronie.1238:

what? Not sure if i understood…

Charr have like 1 armor out of 400 that don’t clip through their tail, horns, face, all of the above, or more. Anet does not test armor on charr, they just literally stretch it to fit the body shape. Everything looks terrible except cultural armor.

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This topic is absurd and I think you are being funny and saturn doesn’t get it.

Gathering is extremely lucrative, gather everything you see. Not just the flax farm, just if you see it, gather it.

Also open all the “chests” you find, like cargo.

Basically just run around picking up free gold.

Mulzi’s post and then you’re effectively done. The story doesn’t require high mastery levels. There are a very small handful of map completion areas that need poison mastery or leyline gliding if you care about that/don’t have a mesmer friend.

Every time this topic gets bumped I see the “real talk” and picture the OP as a 45 year old dude sitting in a chair backwards as he talks to 9 year olds about the dangers of healing.

You could also view the defeat of 2 dragons not as the success of your character, but as the success of 5+ entire species. Are millions of humanoids working together while wielding magic, information, and technology in the same realm of power as elder dragons or gods? More powerful.

Shannon.2645:

On a side note, if there’s any other advice anyone has for experiencing most everything the game has to offer before moving into the Mists, let me know please!:)
Im excited to jump into PvP after I scratch my completionist itch!!
Thanks:)

There is a LOT of stuff in the game, beyond simply map completion and story. It’s not impossible to see and do it all, but it’s not something you want to do before diving in to PvP. It’s more of a year or more long process. There are fractals, dungeons, jumping puzzles, mini-games, guild missions, achievements from exploring (beyond map completion), WvW, mini-dungeons, meta-events on nearly every map, and so on nearly indefinitely.

If I were you I’d dive right into PvP, and explore the other aspects of the game regularly as a mental break from competition.

The social survey bit was kind of strange. Even though I assume the middle option was intended to be “the middle”, it wasn’t worded that way. It went from sort of “I need to be at the center of attention” to “I only talk to people when I am forced to at gunpoint”. I don’t insist on being at the center of attention, but the middle option certainly didn’t fit me either.

You could accidentally stumble into the canopy without a chopper even in the beta.

saturn.4810:

Actually, I spend 80% of my time on the old maps (incl. fractals and PvP).

Some way to encourage me to go to the new maps would be appreciated Right now, the new maps just take too much effort and time to taxi in and finish the meta.

The new maps are just throwing money at you faster than you can empty your inventory. I upgraded my bags on all 9 level 80s I have specifically to deal with the avalanche of loot and mats. I think I’ve made 500 gold in the past 2 weeks. That’s my incentive to play the new content.

The T6 harvesting tools pay for themselves in a little as a single gather. I bought the perma ones for my main, and then forced myself to realize we’re talking about pennies here and use merchant gathering tools on all my other characters.

I think we should perma-ban anyone who has more gold than me, too.

This thread is ridiculous.

As long as you can buy gems with gold, I don’t see much value in complaining about petty purchases like that. I opened up a new bank tab with some leftover AP gems and 10 gold.

I love jumping puzzles in the game. I do have one plea to their creators: please remember that you don’t need to keep making them harder and harder and harder. I did all of the original JPs and loved them. However I have not been able to complete a single JP that has been released since launch. None of the holiday, living world, new maps, LA, nothing (except the skritt thing, but you didn’t have to jump for that.)

So while adding JPs can be awesome to find while exploring, consider adding JPs that aren’t outrageously difficult and frustrating to the point you want to do them on a mesmer.

I don’t mind the ones that are too hard for me because other people like them, but I wouldn’t mind some JPs along the same difficulty level as griffonrook run.

We already have more than enough reason to play HoT. I imagine most people have been playing absolutely nothing but 1-3 maps for the past couple weeks. That’s why I doubt anet is going to add dailies for it.

Dailies are ways to encourage people to move throughout the game, play PvP, WvW, different regions. There is no reason to encourage people to play what most of the population of GW is already playing. Dailies are not for you to get AP; there is a bigger goal in their existence.

They’ve very rarely if ever intentionally encouraged only playing one small section of the game.

There are millions of stories anet starts, players are fascinated by, and then anet abandons forever in favor of some nonsensical new story. I would be fine if old stories are not voice-acted, but still picked up or even acknowledged. People go wild every time anet acknowledges there is actually lore in this game, dating back a decade of our time, and yet anet refuses to use it. kitten knows why.

The expac story was clearly massively rushed. Nightmare Court gets special mention on a stream = 2 lines of dialogue in the actual game. What the cat??

Hmm, just did a totally non-controlled test and I think you’re right.

On another note, this is the most pain in the kitten test I’ve ever done in GW2, trying to get AF to test the kitten thing. No way I’m doing a controlled test several times of this.

stof.9341:

Fluffball.8307:

I honestly wouldn’t mind if they buffed snipers substantially. It doesn’t matter, the goal is to get you to dodge a single, massively telegraphed attack that a toddler could see coming. You’re not supposed to stand in it.

Increasing sniper damage 400% is fine.

Well if you actually played the game, you’d know that in the big events, 9 times out of 10 you get a line or two placed under you without any telegraph because only one player out of your zerk got the telegraph icon :o

And an Elite or Champion burn line is some pain.

I don’t understand your post. I do play the game, and considering that, the rest of it doesn’t make any sense. I killed two champ snipers just a few hours ago. Can you explain what you meant, considering that I pretty obviously play?

Just to get the obvious out of the way:

• You’re in a level 80 zone?
• Do vet warthogs have more toughness than whatever you’re attacking in PvP? Warthogs are one of the tankier pets.

I honestly wouldn’t mind if they buffed snipers substantially. It doesn’t matter, the goal is to get you to dodge a single, massively telegraphed attack that a toddler could see coming. You’re not supposed to stand in it.

Increasing sniper damage 400% is fine.

Tragic Positive.9356:

The build itself is inferior to others but his rotation opens door to a whole new era of ideas – and the build itself just makes use of that rotation.
If you look at it from these angles of view – it makes sense.

I just wish he took the replies with more ease and chill but well… Who am I to judge.

It’s not really a whole new era, DnT has had a druid condi guide up for high level fractals for a while touting that technique. I think they still recommend the regular condi ranger, but they have a druid version for whatever reason. I stopped playing fractals a good while ago because they keep getting more and more stupid, but from what I hear it’s nearly impossible to struggle with anything but damage these days. Apparently level 100 bosses hit less hard than the old level 50.

You did a bunch of HCs in the jungle on your guardian right? They are worth 10 points in HoT.

Pink Ninja Man.4375:

To be honest if you do land the ability with strength of the pack going you get lots of might. So it could be intentional to ‘balance’ out the ability making it harder to land. Just a though.

There are lots of other pets that can stack might up to 25 nearly instantly though. It’s not for balance reasons. Jellyfish whirls (whatever, first thing that came to mind), drakes, murellows, and so on.

And additionally, who’s to say you actually need healing food? It may be overhealing and condi food is fine. Power food might not be worth it.

Bonfire is a pita if the boss is moving though, and hopefully it is.

Without having checked the numbers, I suspect power is more efficient for a secondary function of a ranger over condi. The problem with condi is it loses massive damage boosts very easily. Not keeping the torch rotation up, not using condi duration food… just using healing food instead of condi food drops your damage about 20%.

I’m no math guy, so I’ll let others chime in with facts though.

Photinous.4628:

To be fair, I have only found the reaper skin to actually deliver. Chrono shoulders are okay too but the rest are kinda ugly as well.

The berserker helm isn’t bad. You can definitely make it work. It’s almost like a heavy armor version of tribal.

That is my guess as to the ideal build as well (like down to every single detail, kinda creepy ). It’s what I’ll start with and go from there.

I actually don’t think immobile spirits is going to be a hindrance, because presumably most of the raid will be spent on boss timers.

Ven Zehn.6573:

I imagine ranger will still take the roll of ranged DPS primarily in Raids

No way this happens, LB by itself is really bad damage and you run into the old dungeon-meta problem of LB rangers not sharing or receiving boons.

If ranged damage is the only way to progress, anet would have designed a pretty terrible fight. I wouldn’t put that past them, but they won’t make an entire raid wing dedicated to people plinking away at range.

Ok, one last try here. This is just life advice, not ranger advice. Every time you post, you make incredible, wild assumptions about an imaginary forum-foe. I honestly think you’ve combined every forum poster into one adversary, and I’m not being facetious.

When you read things online, start from a perspective of the writer not attacking you or even not talking to you. Many of the posts you’re responding to are other forum members talking amongst themselves.

I haven’t actually written a single post that was directed to you other than the one where I just addressed you by name. I’ve made no suggestions as to how to change your build at all. And yet you fill the page with invented criticism direct at you and ranting responses.

Try taking a few minutes between reading a post and writing a response.