Guild Wars 2

Kaamau.5341:

I mean when I farmed for poison mastery, it was tough, but I just explored and did events on the way. I feel like a lot of the complainers are trying to rush the content.

I’m fine with the mastery “grind”. I find it slightly excessive, but it’s not that important, especially now that they’re reducing the story requirements. I also enjoy the content that gives me the masteries.

What is unacceptable is that I’m locked out of elite specs on all my alts basically indefinitely. I haven’t even finished the traits on my main, and my alts would require several weeks of grind to get their elites fully unlocked.

The smoke scale is not really a PvE pet in its current form. If it gets its smoke field back it will be. But currently the burst it does, even with 25 might, isn’t very good compared to a cat. Cats are DPS monsters, they just don’t have the flashy skill to show it.

To get this out of the way: We want more control over our pets, and you guys already know that. Ideally we could hot-key several of their skills. Moving on.

Since the smoke scale got changed so quickly, I thought maybe this suggestion would not entirely break the code. It would be a massive QoL improvement if we could select which skill other than autoattack is used on the F2. This shouldn’t cause any balance issues, since taunt has a CD and birds already have a very fast recharging F2.

Some examples of why this would help:

• Smoke scale fiasco.
• Birds. If you’re a beastmaster you probably want lacerating slash as the F2. In most other situations you want to control the use of quickening screech.
• Drakes. I would rather control the blast finisher tail swipe than lightning breath. In most cases, the utility of a pet is more important to control than a damage skill.
• Bears. A WvW zerg ranger might prefer to control defy pain instead of poisonous maul or etc.
• Moas. Red and blue moas might be better off controlling harmonic cry.
• And so on. Shark fear, jellyfish field, fern hound knock down, spider immob instead of weakness, etc. etc. etc.

This would be an excellent baby step to giving us more pet control, and would make pets incredibly more flexible.

Anything as strong (or inconvenient) as a smoke field must have better control than might stacking. You can’t just use smoke fields all willy nilly and get good results

Even if they use it most of the time after such and such skill, I’m tired of trying to plan around the AI decisions.

Man this “anet just nonstop kittens all over ranger” campaign is getting old. SURELY SOMEONE at anet realizes this isn’t just ranger mains whining and can see why this is BS.

+1000

I thought I was a relatively hard core player, but I have not yet even unlocked the traits on the elite spec on my main which started with world completion and has something like 3k hours on her. So I haven’t been using it at all, because why would I do the content with a weakened character?

I thought this would be a pretty straight forward process and pretty much ignored all discussions prior to launch, but this current set up does seem excessive. There is no way I’m going through all this on my alts. Maybe I can use the WvW method, I haven’t messed around with that yet.

Shirk.6421:

Daredevil rune for GS, neeeeeat.

Daredevil runes, Cav or Valk armor, energy/int sigil on 2 greatswords, quickdraw, and just roll around crit mauling everything in sight?

“Sic ‘Em”: The effect from this ability is no longer removed when you give your pet another command.

Both are legit QoL things that have been brought up tons of times. Maybe some day, but Anet hasn’t said anything as far as I know.

The pet stowage is extremely situational. 99.9% of the time you want the pet out doing things.

The community feeds on itself. People who don’t have the slightest idea what other professions’ skills do hear other players yelling about skill 4 on the LB, and continue the trend. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been yelled at for using LB skill 4 in a dungeon when I was using a sword.

People are kittens, I rarely play with others and often have map/say chat turned off.

Wooden Potatoes made a video of him in a party with 5 trap rangers and a guild banner in front of the enemy spawn. The humanity of 15 traps all at once….

Uhhh, extremely long story short, we have never really had a “role”. I think that’s why druid is so insanely specific in it’s role.

Listing anything other than that would be a huge thread on it’s own.

Jaymee.1560:

I seen this on GW 2 Girls FB page yesterday!

Thanks for traumatizing me, never write the number “2” anywhere near the word “girls”.

Full traps are not really viable at the moment. All your utilities go to waste if someone just refuses to fight you on point, and why would they if you have it full-capped?

I think 1 trap is pretty much the limit. Spike is nice for the KD, and flame is nice for the high damage.

Toolbox and Khael, it’s because the ranger forum has been swamped with people asking for nerfs to ranger, which has always been objectively weaker than other professions in a lot of ways. We’re all on edge at this seeming campaign of ranger-hate that has inexplicably flooded us.

The reveal is only six seconds. You’re probably using it a the wrong time when the thief doesn’t want to stealth to begin with, then when he wants to your revealed has run out.

vespers.1759:

I have found glass longbow to be one of the weakest power builds in the game for roaming. Can’t stand playing it myself. I will get absolutely murdered by pretty much everything.

Fixed that for you. Tons of people roam in glass LB and do extremely well. IMO it’s ranger’s best roaming build, even better than condi regen.

Raven.9603:

LOL. There is no such thing. You are living in a dream. No one is well rounded in meta. Everyone is brought because of some specific thing they do better. If you can’t do something better than everyone else, you are being carried by people that pity you.

• warriors are brought because banners are what spirits should be, and because they have might.
• druids, sadly, will only be brought if they have some must-have buff OR are the best healers IF healing is really needed (nothing suggests that its needed yet).
• Engi’s will be brought because they are the highest single target dps and there WILL be mandatory condi phases.
• Revenants will likely be brought because every mouth breather will play one, sword will likely provide the 2nd highest single target dps when inevitably there arent enough people willing to put up with the engi’s stupid @#$ rotation making it too much of a burden to stack engi’s. Also because the buff uptime provided for more rare buffs like fury or prot.
• ele’s will be brought because they are the highest aoe dps.
• either A guardian or A mesmer, for quickness.
• maybe a thief or reaper, IF a boss has an execution phase.

thats it. no one gets invited unless they are a special butterfly who does something mandatory better than everyone else. WOW coped with this by having class specific buffs that were so strong that class AND spec variety was mandatory. Anet, who have rarely ever designed a dungeon that can’t be cheesed, dont want you to be “forced” to wait for a specific class or spec so they ashew the buff model, which just leads to stacking the most optimal classes. well rounded people need not apply.

Despite the anger, I like this post.

Holland.9351:

Let’s first wait and see if Druid is going to be wanted in any content at all.

Just a few more days till HoT releases. There is going to be added a whole heap of new content that needs time to settle and for people to figure out.

Maybe come back in a month from now before giving your feedback, since you really come off as a troll. We’ve had a lot of those lately.

“Pls nerf druid even though no one has ever actually used it yet.”

Brace yourselves, laddies, we’re going to be getting a LOT of ranger hate on this forum if druid is in any way viable.

Sina.9208:

Ty for posting on the ranger forums, welcome!
How about looking at warrior banners & PS first?

Haha! Made me legit laugh out loud.

kitten that was some good stuff!

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I thought transforms just ignored all sigils since you can’t proc things like fire or air in them, but I just tested rampage with geo and hydro sigils. They procced both going into and out of the transform. So it would make sense CA works the same way.

I think it’s a transform which means sigils don’t exist while you’re in it. Can’t believe I didn’t think to check that though.

Daharahj.1325:

If you want quick draw procs use tonics instead.

That’s pretty clearly a bug if that’s still working.

Dadnir.5038:

I don’t know if I understand you right but if you equip 2 same weapon, these weapons will share their cool down.

He’s got quick draw, so swapping weapons will reduce CDs. It’s why people run axe/torch + axe/torch for max condi damage.

Edit: Oh you figured it out.

It’s hysterical this comes up. You know for a kitten fact that people are going to instantly claim druid to be OP. It’s going to be a community rage moment the instant a ranger exists in HoT, regardless of anything.

Justine.6351:

Fluffball.8307:

I would be shocked if scrapper isn’t nerfed slightly upon launch. GS is in a completely acceptable spot and some of the new espec stuff is clearly OP.

On the other hand: Anet.

Is it OP or balanced for HoT raids?

I dunno. I’ve given up guessing at this point. I made Grouch rage quite a Twitch stream last night because I asked him why there was 1 ranger out of like 30 tournament teams across NA and EU. He thought “but there is 1 ranger” is the answer. I just don’t even know anymore.

Why do you care about qualifying for leagues if you don’t have a team? I mean I want soloq back as well, but I don’t get what you’re saying.

I would be shocked if scrapper isn’t nerfed slightly upon launch. GS is in a completely acceptable spot and some of the new espec stuff is clearly OP.

On the other hand: Anet.

Because it has an evade in it. It is insanely defensive, GS is a defensive weapon on all but 1 skill.

I think he means WvW is the only area where everyone can get new pets, if they are available to people who didn’t buy HoT (since they can’t go into the jungle.) I could see the new pets being capped in the new BL.

Someone made a video and posted it on this forum of a match I was in. That was pretty neat, like looking for yourself in the crowd on tv.

Someone told me it was an alpine wolf. I didn’t even realize different races got difference starting pets since I’ve only ever made human rangers. :O

You could watch the tournament games on GW2’s twitch. They probably even have past broadcasts saved there. I’m pretty sure they at least saved the world championships.

It’s definitely intentional, I’m just not sure they realized how important it would eventually become. That’s probably why champion’s dusk is made flat.

Puck.9612:

Every pet that can currently be found in WvW is also on the PvE maps, the new ones can work the same way.

I’m pretty sure wolves are only in WvW?

Deleena.3406:

IMO main hand sword to me feels like a (High skill=just to make it work) kinda weapon.

It is to an extent. Thus this thread.

Easy to use in low pressure, difficult to use in high pressure, clutch in extreme pressure. It’s not a family friendly weapon but it does add value.

TheFrighteningFrenchFry.3275:

No offense but anyone who tries to defend the sword auto attack should really try out doing lvl 50 fractals with it and then post a video of it. Then we can discuss the video and point out why it shouldn’t be the way it is.

No offense but you should really try WvW roaming with sword and show how amazing it is. It has strengths, dude, that’s why these threads are always stupid.

Also, I’m not a huge PvE player, but maybe someone like yelloweyedemon can show you how he uses sword in PvE. I can use it in all the dungeons, I stopped doing fractals out of boredom. I used it in level 80 something fractal back in the day but its a different system.

Wondrouswall.7169:

Think you missed the section of Castaliea’s post after “tricks.” It’s true that every profession has wield little “tricks” that need to be learned, but Sword is not one of them: It’s a workaround.

I mean we go in circles. The sword gives movement that probably wasn’t intended. You can dodge CC using the autoattack. Both sides go back and forth, we all know the arguments. Sword UNARGUABLY OFFERS ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES. No one is going to convince anyone else so these threads are useless.

Castaliea.3156:

You should not be making a weapon work. You should not be dedicating yourself to learning “tricks” which amount to nothing more than workarounds for a faulty design and claiming that it makes “skill”. It does not.

Every profession has weird little “tricks” that need to be learned. ALL video games are about learning and using the mechanics that are given to you in ways the developers did not intend. That’s how PacMan was beaten.

Sword tricks ADD to the abilities of ranger. Even if you despise the weapon, it still gives you the ability to do some really weird and crazy things.

I occasionally find a PUG that we just wreck face with, and we’ll play some other game together. That’s why. People want to play with other good players, not bad players. Not complicated.

Yup.

Aomine.5012:

You’re referring people who dislike sword as immature right? That’s the most biased and illogical assumption I’ve ever seen.

Wow you went from 0 to 100 in no time. Calm down buddy, this isn’t reddit.

My hypothesis is based on boxing. I’ve been boxing for 20 years, sunk dozens of thousands of hours into practicing how to fight hand to hand, and I just can’t react the same way a noob 16 year old boxer can. Some guy with no experience will come in and slip my punches and I can’t slip his, so I have to rely on thinking it through. Slipping is far and away the better choice, but I can’t do it. See the metaphor with sword? If you can dodge a .25 second tell CC in PvP, maybe you prefer GS.

Frost trap is kind of garbage. If you want the chill a better choice would be the sigil that chills on crit. You could lose the energy sigil on the LB since that’s your offensive set, not defensive.

Damage immune pets would be hella OP in PvP. I like the suggestion that’s been brought up a few times about pets in WvW getting DR based on number of enemies around or something.

Sweet.

Prophet.1584:

I wonder if we’re going to have to completely kitten our dps and go full heals or start getting all the blame when raids fail

One of my GWAMMs in GW1 was a monk. Brace yourself for some rage if the party wipes. I actually quit one of my long term guilds in that game because of it, and I was an outstanding kitten monk if I may toot my own horn.

So random thought. Here is something I posted a while ago in the PvP forums.

Fluffball.8307:

For example ROM can chug a bottle of rum, be talking to viewers, and still dodge skills out of the corner of his eyes that I never even saw. I simply don’t have the reaction time to do what he does and have to get by purely on me having played a lot. And that hard caps me to a certain level of play. I know when a ranger is probably going to use PBS and be ready to dodge it, but I can’t just be doing something else and miraculously dodge the KB if I’m not waiting for it.

I wonder if people who like sword are just used to “planning ahead” rather than fast twitch, instinctive dodge type of players. And taking it further, I wonder if there is an age difference involved? Maybe most people over 25 likes sword and most people under dislike it. It would be interesting to see some numbers.

My current PvP build uses quickness and the sword autoattack to burst people down. It’s not something I just plop down, I wait until I feel safe.

Aomine.5012:

Let’s hope our next specialization lean toward aggressive melee fighting style, with Dagger doing massive damage. Then I can finally use off-hand at will w/o clinging to both of the awful choices ranger has (axe = weak dps, sword = clunky mess)

My point exactly. While I disagree with sword = clunky mess, a dagger mainhand or melee specialization would make me very happy. See, everyone wins.