Guild Wars 2

Lol at your signature, Puck.

The interrupt text was probably covering up the problem. I kept seeing the text and thinking everything was working, and it wasn’t until I started playing tons of WvW again that I noticed they were still gaining health.

What’s the point in playing any game? If it’s fun, do it. If it’s not, stop. You’re thinking way too much.

BW was my standard operating procedure on camps, it saved about 15 seconds or so. I have not played WvW super intensely for a few months out of staleness, so I can’t say for sure when it changed.

Fractal farming is not the only way to get gold in the game, and that is an indisputable fact. You may prefer doing it, but it’s absolutely not the only way to get gold. In fact I have about 1.5k gold at the moment and 0% is from the horrible boring grind of fractals.

It did to stop heals, that’s how I tested it the day it became a trait. There is no reason an interrupt should not work on NPCs. Especially if the game literally says “interrupt” when you do it.

Just as a low interest update, I posted this in the bug forum. I can replicate it 100% of the time so I doubt it’s lag. Heal used to stop, we get the interrupt text and the heal no longer stops.

I’ve tried this on several pets. You get the interrupt text 100% of the time, but the heal doesn’t actually stop. It used to stop.

I’m not sure when the change happened. I was a regular WvWer for a long time then took a break for a few months until the patch came out.

Ballistic.2570:

Fractals are the only way to get gold by just playing the game and not through a farm.

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Not even close to true. I understand what you’re getting at but this is the worst possible advice you could ever give anyone ever. Also for me, fractals are a chore and things like WvW where you earn 10g/hour or whatever are fun.

For WvW, everyone will tell you to get on a tag, but that’s only like a quarter of what the game mode is. If you’re like me, you prefer to do small group or solo stuff. You can announce that in map chat like “hey I’m putting up a catapult at the southwest tower, someone cover me” and so on. Or just run around killing stray zerglings trying to get to the enemy commander, which is ridiculous cost effective to the server.

You’ll have a more noticeable impact doing small scale stuff, but if no one is in the zerg, it’s fun and important to get one going.

Zenos’ answer is much better than mine; after I read trailblazers my mind got stuck in cheaper condi altneratives. But a power ranger is infinitely better for open world* and WvW if you ever get into that.

*Because it’s more versatile than condi ranger.

Longbow and power-based armor is all she needs. If she really wants to go more in depth:

https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Ranger_-_S/A_LB_Spotter

That’s for group play, so you could change utilities for more quality of life.

Dire, carrion, or rabid are all decent choices for super cheap tanky gear, and you can take the same gear into WvW. Apothecary is another option if you’re thinking WvW ever.

The downside is you miss out on the condi duration, but that’s not of much concern for open world stuff.

I’m not sure how experienced you are with the game, but tanky condi builds do pretty badly at tagging enemies for loot if you wanted to do mostly zerg stuff, and you also contribute next to nothing since your condis don’t have time to tick. With carrion at least you could use the power autoattack of the axe to get tags. Condi tank is fine for solo play though.

If you’re really struggling with a particular character, you could make a post in the profession forums. There may be something important specific to a profession you’re missing (i.e. if you never swapped attunements as an ele.)

But ya, as was mentioned, open world PvE is meant to be incredibly forgiving. You’re meant to experiment with everything and learn the profession so when it comes time to use it for real you know what everything does.

If you’re talking about FrouFrou’s video thread where jcbroe hysterically obliterated your opinion piece by piece, she plays EU.

It’s not ideal, but since dungeons are so easy you’d be fine although perhaps slightly annoying to some vets. For open world no one cares what you run so that’s fine.

Offhand axe is 100% power, and mainhand axe is typically used as condi due to the 2nd skill, but the autoattack does power damage. So I’d concentrate on berserker (power) armor, which is pretty easy to get. You may already have it since you said you’re returning. That also meshes with a “honed axes” trait that gives you axe skill cool down reduction and a ferocity bonus to both axes.

For PvE you’d probably want to pair it with either greatsword or longbow. GS for movement and some pretty decent burst damage, LB for safety and easy tags in the open world, or burst in dungeons.

PvP, you’re not going to do well at all with a core ranger using whacky weapon sets unless you’re really experienced, and even then it’s going to limit you.

WvW should have had stat swapping at rank 0. It’s a sandbox mode where building a new sand castle costs like 1k gold plus PvE grind a lot of the time.

At this point every WvWer except the newbies has full ascended gear in whatever role they picked, we just can’t change roles. Need a simple amulet change like PvP or similar system.

Longbow is a staple of WvW druids and rangers.

Or did you mean double bows (LB + SB)? Sometimes people post double bow builds here, might be able to find one via google. It’s not going to be a good build, but you can probably make it work.

Canines aren’t amphibious. Maybe they’ll add a yellow labrador pet in the next expac that will be able to swim.

Coming from someone that is absolutely terrible at JPs, this is not a hard JP. And in the off chance you run into another character, there is a great chance they’ll ignore you. I’m not sure how much of the JP it covers, but there is also a mechanic to stealth so they’ll leave you alone.

If you still feel like it’s too much, just go in with a competent mesmer buddy.

Cadence.6431:

I just want a raptor pet super cute

There is at least one NPC is Orr with a pet raptor. I’ve always wondered if that was something they thought about adding at one point. It probably doesn’t make sense anymore because the HoT pets are new animals with better skills. A raptor is just a reskinned moa.

Everything he’s typed in this forum for like a solid year has been blatantly wrong, it’s like arguing with a rotting dead fish in a tree, trying to explain to it that water is good. It’s already decomposed.

Brb, off to go find a revenant or necro to lose a 1v1 to….

It’s also worth pointing out that necro is inarguably the worst profession to roam on in the entire game. And that’s fine, because they’re a staple of zerg fights (and team fights in PvP.)

Necros have an unusual way of being balanced that perfectly suits them to larger scale fights.

If you want to roam, either get some buddies or accept that you’re entering the world of thieves, rangers, and mesmers, which excel at 1v1 or small scale fights. Conversely those 3 professions are bad or have to run extremely specific builds in zerg fights.

ALL players in a competitive environment bring skills that allow them to survive an attack (and if they don’t they’re either don’t understand how to play yet like you, or just bad players.)

DPS is the least of your concerns when fighting humans. ALWAYS take at least 1 stun break and as much condi removal as is realistic. It’s not all applicable for necros, but blocks, invluns, blinds, evades, reflects, etc. are all important.

I can pretty much guarantee you, as a ranger main, that the entire right hand side of the skillbar of every ranger you’ve fought has been dedicated to defense. If your bar isn’t looking similar, you’re probably going to get slaughtered.

Druid hard counters reaper more than any other counter in the entire game, what the heck are… oh just nevermind.

henchmen.1856:

Fluffball.8307:

I have a 1 year old that I prefer sleeps rather than is up at like 3 am. If the PUGmander can’t handle that, kitten em.

headphones exist for a reason. no one is saying you have to talk.

The way my computer is set up it’s not possible without buying wireless headphones. I’m all for organization, but I’m not spending 50 bucks on this. At some point you have to say “this is a kitten game”.

SkyShroud.2865:

Fluffball.8307:

SkyShroud.2865:

Fluffball.8307:

Warlord.9074:

That being said sure a Druid can put out heals, but a druid doesn’t heal better than a tempest and lacks the cc and utility of a tempest so ya.

It was my understanding that a druid heals more than a tempest. I guess it’s arguable if giving up what a tempest brings is worth it, but anyone not wanting a druid in their PUG frontline party is a complete and utter idiot. It’s not like these types of differences mean anything when you account for player experience and skill.

This isn’t pve raid, this is wvw where people do moves and do spread. Tempest heals much better in the given situations while giving more than what druid could bring. It isn’t arguable, it is a fact, is the same reason why some people would want magi tempest for matt raid.

I’m not talking about raid healing builds, what am I an idiot?

Read.

I said you can argue one way or the other whether giving up a tempest is worth it, but a druid can heal more. That’s the point, it’s not that important. Not wanting a frontline druid in a PUG is just ignorance.

SkyShroud.2865:

Fluffball.8307:

Warlord.9074:

That being said sure a Druid can put out heals, but a druid doesn’t heal better than a tempest and lacks the cc and utility of a tempest so ya.

It was my understanding that a druid heals more than a tempest. I guess it’s arguable if giving up what a tempest brings is worth it, but anyone not wanting a druid in their PUG frontline party is a complete and utter idiot. It’s not like these types of differences mean anything when you account for player experience and skill.

This isn’t pve raid, this is wvw where people do moves and do spread. Tempest heals much better in the given situations while giving more than what druid could bring. It isn’t arguable, it is a fact, is the same reason why some people would want magi tempest for matt raid.

I’m not talking about raid healing builds, what am I an idiot?

I have a 1 year old that I prefer sleeps rather than is up at like 3 am. If the PUGmander can’t handle that, kitten em.

Ya it is the point. You’re taking it personally when it’s almost certainly not. How are you not taking this personally when you’re getting upset?

JessieAngel.6254:

So it’s ok for a commander to ask people to join the squad when he has no one play for almost 2 hours and when he finally has the people he wants he labels us as junk and kicks you from the squad lol. and they wonder why people don’t play WvW

Squads are for organizing boons. If you’re not in the squad you are probably a gank and don’t need boons. If a melee unit runs in with no squad support they’re going to die, if you’re running a thief, you have zero need of stability or resistance, etc.

It’s not insulting to not be in the squad; its a practical issue. Get a grip people, stop taking it personally.

Also anytime anyone whines about you being on a specific profession in WvW, I reference them to the fact that you can literally run around in T1 in zerg v zerg fights 100% naked, as long as you’re on the commander and using dodges appropriately. Paying attention is far more important than any other factor.

There was a great video about 4 years ago of some dude on BG back in its prime fighting in a blob v blob fight naked in the middle of siege to prove that point.

Jeez, sounds like you got a real loser on your hands. Might be worth documenting everything like Illconceived suggested, in case anything escalates.

Warlord.9074:

That being said sure a Druid can put out heals, but a druid doesn’t heal better than a tempest and lacks the cc and utility of a tempest so ya.

It was my understanding that a druid heals more than a tempest. I guess it’s arguable if giving up what a tempest brings is worth it, but anyone not wanting a druid in their PUG frontline party is a complete and utter idiot. It’s not like these types of differences mean anything when you account for player experience and skill.

I am not entirely sure what you’re asking. Anarii summed up your armor question in a way no one is going to disagree with.

Also use anything at your own risk. The moment someone decides to put a keylogger in a DPS meter and steal like 2 million accounts….

SarahGobbi.2319:

You dont even need to be in a squad to participate….. I never join a squad, unless they invite me on their own terms. Other than that I just look for the tag on the map and follow them around as if I were a part of their squad

The point of the squad is mostly to make sure the boons are being distributed correctly. If you’re not playing frontline, it’s not a big deal to not be in it, especially if you’re in TS.

Thieves and non-druid rangers don’t need to be in the squad. Just follow around the outskirts picking people off, it’s not an insult, it’s just your role.

If you’re a zerg druid, let the commander know and he can put you in an appropriate party.

Did no one else hang on to their tourney tickets for like 4 years? I was half done with the precursor on day 1.

I guess that might be the case with everything queued. I thought that only happened near large zerg fights though?

Can we vote on favorite dev and make all the others feel bad (cuz Linsey wins)?

Condi mesmer in PvP is not a good matchup, if that’s what you’re talking about. The greatest strength of druid is being annoying though, so hit your dodges, camp staff when appropriate, and leave when appropriate. You’re going to have to rely on teammates as a non-glass druid.

It’s almost like there is more than one person with an opinion playing GW2.

Yes your map was empty as were all HoT meta maps and every other map of mild importance. Your map is the only one that matters.

Anyone been having this issue recently? It seems pretty repeatable to me, I usually interrupt their heals but not anymore.

Eggyokeo.9705:

conquest build works fine (quite well) for roaming and small groups

I use a lot of different builds power, healing, condi, glass they all have strengths and weaknesses you just got to get use to them.

Anything other than full nomad heal druid is beyond useless according to andy. Nevermind that the build he linked is based off the conquest build. And also he doesn’t even play anymore.

Straegen.2938:

Fluffball.8307:

I can’t say this has been my experience at all. Last night I spent about 3 hours doing very little other than fighting enemy zergs. One server does not equal all 40 servers or however many there are.

I have been on both T1 and T4 on the US servers this week (don’t care about loot). T1 and T4 both seem to be suffering from PvD syndrome. I have friends in T3 that say the same thing. Maybe T2 or EU is different.

If you have a server that is still focused on fighting other zergs and succeeding in finding opposing commanders that don’t run, let me know which server. If it isn’t locked, I will xfer when my lock expires… I just want good fights.

I am on FA, we had some fantastic zerg v zerg v zerg last night. Hours and hours of just slamming into each other. Good stuff.

FA used to be known as “the fight server” back in the day, but I don’t know if that’s still a server identity with all the server linking and new people and transfers and everything. I’ve been neglecting the mode the few months.

I can’t say this has been my experience at all. Last night I spent about 3 hours doing very little other than fighting enemy zergs. One server does not equal all 40 servers or however many there are.

The min-maxing is barely even a concern with cele, since druids get great use out of every stat. But anywho, way off topic.

@Bearshaman, ascended cele armor was the best decision I ever made for WvW. It lets you do basically anything, and just customize with trinkets. It was like legendary armor stat swapping.

Oh cool, that sounds like some awesome free food for WvW roaming. Burning OP!

With the new free food in WvW rewards, I’ve been looking at a lot of food I haven’t normally played with. Does anyone know the burn duration on spicy veggie chilli? The wiki doesn’t list anything.