Guild Wars 2

I agree; Anet should trust us to activate the skills exactly when and where we want them. The pet trying to be helpful usually makes it worse. Just do it NOW.

I am also saddened to learn I am not a skilled ranger because I always keep my pets on guard. :O

I’d say they need to increase the timer by about 5-10 minutes, but if they aren’t going to give us build templates, this really needs its own queue and then the timer can be whatever and it doesn’t have to match conquest.

1 minute is pretty tight to completely change your build.

No one in a PvP match is worth communicating with. Turn your /say and /map chats off and treat it like single player with realistic bots.

One time I ordered a sandwich at a restaurant and it didn’t come for 4 hours and I finally left without getting it at all. That chef must have been so incompetent chef if he can’t make a sandwich in 4 hours!

It seems like having 2 people on defense is enough to easily stall the enemy. Treb levels first wave of doorbreakers, and 2 people supporting each other can stop further small waves of NPCs even if the treb goes down.

The first outside guards are useless for everything except defeating undefended NPCs at the very beginning if the enemy goes for more supply or defense. I believe that is all they are meant to do.

Perma stealth lord. Sounds legit.

Aomine.5012:

I have all the weapon master completed
The most tedious one is definitely Shield.

Warhorn is probably the easiest but I’m not going to tell you why :P

I don’t play necro though. Leveled to 80 and then basically retired. Every one of those dead chickens was from Hunter’s Call.

I didn’t even realize I had that. That’s purely from level a guardian, necro, ele and mesmer to 80.

Extremely late night NA from what I’ve seen. So late you could probably find him when you’re awake in EU.

Maybe he’ll upload some of the streams….

I assume you mean open world? Just screw around and find the most fun build. Nothing matters. Open world is a good place to screw around with beast mastery like you mentioned. Master’s bond is probably the closest you can get to utilizing your pet as much as your LB, unless you artificially turn down your damage. Usually you wreck things before your pet can even attack as I’m sure you’ve noticed.

For dungeons, it sounds like you know enough about the game to be aware of the frost spotter build, with s/a?

One of these days, Hunter’s Call. One of these days.

By the way, can you tell what my favorite profession is from that screenshot. :P

It kind of looks like you took a mesmer build and put it on a ranger.

But you don’t have the clones and stealth to keep you alive. You’re going to get absolutely WRECKED with that since you no real defense of any kind.

The first step for any ranger build is figuring out where your condi removal comes from, because that dictates an awful lot of where your traits go.

Steps 2 and 3 are figure out what you’re going to do to threaten other people, and figuring out how you can stay alive while threatening other people.

Or you could use metabattle as a start.

Levetty.1279:

I want druid as much as the next guy but I ahve no idea how people are looking at this and thinking Druid is next.

It doesn’t fit any pattern. All the other specialization have shown the actual specialization. This shows something totally different. It’s anybody’s guess.

Sneakier.9460:

Ventari is a druid… or at least was when he was alive

Druids were ancient humans that became incorporeal. Ventari was a centaur. They lived in the same place and had similar values, but not the same.

Steve Fowler.1498:

Grouch and I were asked to talk about GW2’s competitive program at a local conference and if your interested you can watch here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLslqhBn3PU

Steve

1:20, Josh turns his back to the audience and stares at the ceiling. LMAO. He’s like can I BE ANYMORE BORED.

It certainly does look like Ventari, but that might still somehow be related to a druid. Ventari personally interacted with GW1 druids.

It would be an extremely weird reveal for a revenant unless it’s a transform skill, and even then it would be weird. To not even show a revenant in his cool new armor and blindfold with a unique weapon skin.

Third option, this is just teasing us about Magumma info and has nothing to do with specializations or professions.

LR to SoR is an awkward transition, but for most melee builds I think it’s the right one.

You’re definitely going to stand around stubbornly refusing to use your stun break so you don’t lose your condi clear, so get ready for that. But when you face that condi ranger you’re going to be glad you have it.

I wasn’t trying to be aggro, just pointing out you have a fatal weakness in the current version that will be fixed for the actual release.

I played the last beta. Everyone was running around like headless chickens. I think once people get more familiar with the mode they’re going to put humans in useful places. No more smashing through gates while no one defends.

I still think swapping pets is a better way of PvEing than trying to buff your pet into a tank, and you make yourself more effective at the same time, with better traits.

Heros also reduce direct damage IIRC. No matter what build you’re playing, eventually you’re going to have to deal with the hero.

Stronghold won’t be out before the trait changes have already come out, so you’ll have another full traitline to take condi removal.

I think your concept of fighting mostly NPCs instead of humans is wishful thinking though, and swapping pets is more effective for tanking PvE than investing in the BM line anyway.

I enjoy your videos FrouFrou. Good music, and team fights are somehow less braggy than individuals fighting.

I actually like a ton of people’s videos that are individuals fighting, I don’t mean to dissuade people from posting them.

That asura in the water using killshot was so friggen hard to see.

I also roam with no traited condi removal, but I use SoR + HS. I can’t imagine getting away with only HS on a melee build. Do you try to avoid condi players?

You can’t “verse” someone. Versus is not the plural of verse, it’s the entire word and it means “against”. Drives me over the kittening edge when people say “_ verse _”. That’s not a word! World VERSUS World.

Just put up your champ brawler title, bruh.

Recorded videos also feel weird to me. Like… you’re sort of bragging, fighting terrible people… teaching mechanics or tips & tricks feels incredibly condescending. I’m not sure what a recorded video should even be.

That’s one reason I like good streamers. It just is what it is. Ryan does a good job talking about his game play, and it’s just fun.

Justine.6351:

Fluffy weren’t you experimenting with vids? The only one I saw was (mirror!) your first test clip ;-(

I was. I feel like you have to record every second of playtime though. A lot of WvW is not interesting to watch at all, and then you have some incredible fight and you weren’t recording.

I also have no idea how to edit the final videos. I dunno, we’ll see.

Yes. Or the ability to attack while moving, either way.

My current WvW BM build is based around cripple which keeps the target eating the pet damage, but that’s pretty much the only way it’s possible.

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

I think 20% additional base run speed would be nice for our pets

Fact.

Edit: no, I am wrong. Faster attack speed. I don’t think catching people would even change anything, they have to attack once they catch people.

Ya the 1v1 and 2v2 events are solid for rangers, it’s the 5v5s that aren’t. But yes, goodluck, we’ll be routing for you.

Ya anet is in a weird place where the vocal minority of idiots think LB rangers are auto win, and in reality they are autolose.

At any rate, the trait changes are really going to shake things up.

The overwhelmingly best NA team has a necro. They use it they same way eura’s team did, in that they sort of base their build around him.

I wonder if anet has noticed.

Shadows Shooter on twitch. He usually has 0 people viewing which is a travesty. He’s the best ranger player I’ve seen streaming on twitch. I believe he posts here as “Ryan” or something, and he makes frequent appearances in Chaith’s stream as the enemy, which is where I first noticed him.

Hopefully he doesn’t mind the attention, but there are like… 2 rangers who post videos or stream.

I don’t like krait because extended bleed duration seems to get wasted a lot when condis are cleared so readily. It’s not bad, I just prefer utility or defense instead.

Energy has fallen out of favor, but I still think its OP and people are just being cawky (can’t spell the word properly). I don’t know how people can like vampirism runes but not energy sigils, that’s horse kitten.

Didn’t you post this 6 months ago and everyone told you it was terrible?

Just out of sheer boredom and curiosity I looked through your post history. This is the FIFTH time you’ve posted this exact same video, and every comment you’ve received has told you this is a bad build.

At this point you know should know it’s a terrible build and I assume you are trying monetize your youtube or something. Is this even your video?

I want it to work so badly. Brilliant idea for making pets strong, horrible execution.

1) It’s not possible for you to be experienced with PvP and not have noticed the weaknesses of a LB ranger. You’re spamming attack skills and thinking you’re doing well and getting attacked and dying. I promise you you’re not playing it at the level of someone who actually knows what they’re doing.

2) Most of us don’t even play LB ranger in PvP.

WhiteGlint.4897:

Mr. Fluff, what about this build? (stole from a “Gw Fox” video :P but with zerker armor)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAR8YjEq0yaHLGsQ1agDhq9K8BjA71NASAXDBA-TlRLgAvK9eU/Jb/BAdD0KD8VCSKA9UGB-w

Ya that’s the MoC variant I was referring to. As heimskarl shows, you can move one of the lines around, you just usually take 6 for EB or 6 for SotF.

Apparently, since you seem to know nothing about PvP. Why did you post here again?

Just FYI the game pairs you with people who have no idea what the kitten they’re doing. You’re playing a level 2 ranger against people who have never played PvP before.

Edit: That is assuming you have no PvP rank, I guess you could have 1400 games but it seems like you have about 20.

You want either healing spring for the 3 leaps (double leap on swoop if your target is inside the radius, and single leap on monarchs leap) or troll unguent for the sustain most likely. Take the traits I suggested with survival skills (LR, entangle, muddy terrain, signet of anything.)

Force sigil isn’t great for competitive, take air, fire, energy, generosity, mostly.

20660 while you can get it before the traits changes.

Barkskin and survival of the fittest. Take whatever traits you feel comfy with, like two-handed training, off hand training or martial training, etc. Typically bersersker based gear, add in some soldiers until you’re comfy. Valks, cavs, etc.

That’s the stock melee build everyone runs. There are a million other variants, especially including moment of clarity.

People will post specific builds after me, but that’s the overarching concept.

I listen to the in-game sounds for combat clues, but if I ever get around to making a video of gameplay, it would definitely be Brahm’s cello sonata 1 in E-minor. Especially when it “drops”.

https://youtu.be/9XiYrzsgWto?t=4m41s

I think it’s also worth noting that condis stack now. In the past you could clear 10 stacks of bleeding with a random SoR proc, and then just eat the poison and burning. Now in that same scenario you would remove the 10 stacks of bleeding and eat 10 stacks of poison and 10 stacks of burning. Condi removal seems to have gotten a lot more important from what we’ve seen.

Shadelang.3012:

Im assuming they did it on purpose. So as to prevent some builds from becoming nearly immune to condis. Such as the condi survival ranger build that exists in wvw atm.

There is a better solution though. For starters, if they insist on piling all the condi removal in a single line, the 3rd grandmaster would ideally be based around condi removal (remove a condi every time you apply poison, 15 sec CD added on to poison master.)

Another option would be to offer 3 or 4 lesser condi removals scattered throughout the trees, while removing the 2 grandmaster traits.

Those are off the top of my head and not meant as well thought out suggestions. But they’re better thought out than this weird solution we were initially presented with. I really hope our info is out of date and they’ve already changed it.

I’m holding off on theory crafting until we get the finalized traits and even gear stats, but things are looking very promising. Finally we’re freed from the burden of all our stats in purely defensive trait lines.

Sharpening stones is a barely acceptable skill on a condi build, on power it has no place at all.

You can use the sword purely for the movement and evades, and still make use of the offhand. That’s what most condi rangers do.

Bonus: If you use it long enough like that, you’ll probably eventually feel comfortable with the autoattack. It’s like playing music, Long-Short-Loong-Long.

I agree with everything Tragic and Egg wrote.

It’s completely personal preference, but I don’t think QZ is worth it. For your playstyle, it might be, but it’s not a burst-y build. Again, personal preference, I’d rather have muddy terrain, protect me, or any of the remaining signets.

I think you can do better than force on the dagger, too. A lot of people hate it, but if you’re the type that can stand using bloodlust, that can really bump up your LB damage. One thing you can do is tag along with a zerg, throw down a barrage, swap to the dagger with BL on it, then go roam with 25 stacks.

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