Guild Wars 2

I don’t think stealth is a problem. Do I wish it was implemented differently? Yes.

I think the problem is the thiefs ability to pull of an 8k, 3k, then heart seeker the foe down. (For you pro players saying dodge the head seeker…. duh. But any competent theif will wait for you to blow your dodge or escape skill) all that said, if you make the tier mess up 2 times during the fight, they’re dead.

The buffed guards really bothers me. I shouldn’t be able to solo buffed guards. And a 5 man should have a pretty hard time with them.

An ascended chest would be nice. But I’d be surprised if we got an exotic.

Samhayn.2385:

Double team blah blah, better in open field blah blah, coverage blah blah, QQ blah, Ques blah blah, ZD, Irony, warchest.

/thread! Boom.

Edit: I may be drunk.

You forgot about blobs. The superior t1 tactic.

Asudementio.8526:

Fomby.4295:

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

I’d also like to point out that NOPE has run with 40 people max this week (without other guilds). 25 people being in mumble, and the rest being 100% militia.

You want to know something? Other than reset night I havent seen any mag. We were on JQBL and the only mag we saw were taking our stuff instead of a free T3 hills while we pushed into garrison all night.
I’m pretty sure most of the replies to me and asudem are just trolls, though, so I’m not sure why I bother.

Sorry we don’t have 24 hour coverage? Maybe transfer to a server facing your server, since they are apparently the bomb diggity. Oh wait, that would mean you have to fight outnumbered.

Bummer, there’s always fights for me when I log in.

We get plenty of that fighting JQ/SoR/ and BG.

Understandable, but now that the shoe is on the other foot, you can complain? Seems like a double standard to me.

Nickthemoonwolf.1485:

I’d also like to point out that NOPE has run with 40 people max this week (without other guilds). 25 people being in mumble, and the rest being 100% militia.

You want to know something? Other than reset night I havent seen any mag. We were on JQBL and the only mag we saw were taking our stuff instead of a free T3 hills while we pushed into garrison all night.
I’m pretty sure most of the replies to me and asudem are just trolls, though, so I’m not sure why I bother.

Sorry we don’t have 24 hour coverage? Maybe transfer to a server facing your server, since they are apparently the bomb diggity. Oh wait, that would mean you have to fight outnumbered.

Bummer, there’s always fights for me when I log in.

Hi Mr. Developer,

Please reduce the map population allowed. There should not be lag in a three way fight, much less in a two way fight! You get just two close to queue servers going at it nowadays, and it lags to timbucktoo and back. If the servers can’t handle this. REDUCE POPULATION!

Thanks

JaNordy.6149:

Windler.4815:

Butter.3024:

Sreoom.3690:

OMG. Play the frigging season before you whine about losing. Sheesh.

This is a horrible mentality, I guess it’s because you are on JQ so you kind biased

Really? JQ is a server that likes good fights. We get two days of solid fights out of the T2 servers. That’s it. Now everyone is either doing spvp or pve due to no one from the T2 servers want to get in. They’re done with this week. I’m assuming the way you’re kitten, that you’re from BG. That’s just the type of server BG is. They can’t fathom a server wanting good fights as long as they win. So how about you get off our d and know that we’re not the ones that created or wanted this mess.

Why did your server reject every GvG invite and not show up to any fight clubs? There are fights, you just choose to not go to them and hide in giant blobs. T1 tactics.

Night Shift fought Ark, so i know one guild from JQ did at least one gvg.

In that case, I agree with you. No. 2 could use a boost. But while I don’t think it’ll be a great 1v1 buff it should be good in group fights when you are able to get range.

You state that skill 2 is the main burst. However, if you stay at 1000+ range, auto attack does more damage per second. (I understand that staying at range is hard to impossible)

Typically once they close within 700 you should start with rapid fire and then maybe use 4 once they’re in melee range. Auto attack once or twice more, and then switch to sword/Greatsword until you can get to max range again.

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Anything that will down a player will kill your pet. Don’t put your pet in situation you the player wouldn’t want to be in.

Sure, but it doesn’t go both ways. Not everything that will down a pet, will down a player. And that’s not even taking into consideration the vast amount of survival skills most classes have.

Pets can not blink out of a ring of warding, they can’t activate renewed focus after popping f1-3 for a blind, heal, and aegis, they can’t mistform, they can’t death shroud, etc.

Karl McLain.5604:

Ryan.8367:

Nike.2631:

For those not familiar, Nature Magic X – Hulk Out (pardon, Enlargement) will now give a Beastmaster’s Signet Ranger 8 second of +25% damage, +50% speed, and stability when your drop below 25% health (along with Fluffy going similarly super-seiyan) on a 60 second or potentially 48 second internal cooldown. And if you’re running that trait combo odds are good you’ve got the signet too, so you’ve got a 16 out of 48 second uptime in seriously pitched fights.

That’s got all kinds of clutch potential.

Keep in mind you still can’t stomp players while this is activated.

It’s in the works that this is changing as well, so that you’ll be able to interact with downed entities while under the signet’s active effects.

Edit: clarification :P

Hooray!!!!!!!!!!! Finally!!!!!!!!

Nice Ranger Longbow changes, but can we get Barrage to tick less often but with more damage? It destroys you if you Barrage and then a guardian gives Retal to 5 people.

Not if it’s a high level. But that’s because it takes me a while to level things. So if you want to play it again ever, I wouldn’t delete it.

Usually things go in and out of being OP. It used to be beastmaster condi builds were OP. In spvp at least. Or backstab d/d theives. Or shatter mesmers. Now it’s stun warriors, condi necros, etc. WvW is kinda a different story, where rangers have never been good but other classes that used to not be popular now are, like necros. So maybe some day the ranger will be able to support the group there as well.

Humbolio.2174:

You think it’s a beginner guide because they never play the class and that’s all they know about it?

Hahaha, probably also the reason that it is not a PvP/WvW guide.

Any chance that y’all will be updating the TA armor sets with a glow? I would like that.

Not a fan of shouts, but if you’re using it for group WvW play. I can see how they could be useful. (When traited) I still think rescue should be a much smaller CD.

If going solo, I would replace it with evasive purity.

Also, I don’t like damaging conditions in WvW. So again if that’s what you’re doing, I wouldn’t focus on that (personal preference tho)

Jhughes.8341:

I suppose I was just kind of assuming Perma swiftness, I guess what I’m really getting at is the leaps/teleports of other classes. Basically I’m thinking of making a “scout” type build with my ranger for wvw.. And I wanted to know who was going to be able to catch me haha

Well, I would go with warrior for max movement.

• If people are in range and try to immobilize you, dogged march with food/melandru runes cut that down so it’s pretty much never applied. If you’re on a ranger, you can either pop sig of renewal or blow healing spring, if they get another immobilize off, you’re screwed.
• If they are in range for a stun or knockdown. Warriors can trait for an instant activation of balanced stance, so that stun doesn’t affect you, and you get ~6 seconds of stability. If that runs out and they try it again, activate actual balanced stance on your utility bar. Ranger? Unless you already have Rage as One activated or traited sig of wild activated. You have one way to negate this, which is to trait into shared anguish, with a 90? second CD. Otherwise you’re screwed.
• They have the same or more amount of gap closers. Sword 2, Greatsword 3 and 5. Bull Rush utility. Shield Bash? And easier access to perma swiftness.

I think ranger can be up there with thief/warriors.

Sword/warhorn, Greatsword, lightning reflexes, sig of hunt, and RaO?

That’s 2 leaps with a less than 10 sec CD. LR with a traited 32 sec CD. Swiftness for 15? Seconds. Swiftness for 20 seconds. And when swiftness is gone. 25% run speed.

Disclaimer: hardly play my ranger anymore, but all of this seems right.

Can’t go wrong with the t3 underboob. It is not unique, but nothing that looks good is. I do mix the boots, shoulders, hands, and helm tho.

kraftie.4765:

Comprissent.3856:

At least we now know SoS can’t beat mag when they can’t put up +695 on us all week long OCX

Pretty sure we’re against TC also, not just Mag.

Try again.

At least we know that SoS can’t beat Mag when they can’t put up a +695 ppt durning oceanic times due to TC also having a night presence.

Did I fix it?

Maguuma

1 & 2. I’m not concerned about decreased activity. Typically it’s a rarity to have 1 map queued on non reset night. With leagues that has jumped to two maps. (Yay more friends! Boo skill lag!) I doubt activity will decrease much, we maguumans are a hearty folk. That being said, I don’t know when we play you, so if it’s close to finals or big project due dates we’ll probably not be playing as much.

3. If they could fix skill lag, yes.

4. Meh, I felt like the butlust is pretty unimaginitive and feel like it was a lazy addition. The terrain is nice though.

5. Open field, You’ll probably see PYRO out and about and running into blobs two to four times our numbers. We might not win, but (if skill lag permits) we won’t go down easily.

Quality of fights: If we can find blobs about twice our numbers, I am typically pretty confident in coming out on top. And if even if we lose these fights, I would probably still consider them to be quality fights. But once you get beyond twice our numbers, it just gets annoying.
Our average numbers? Not sure. Probably around 25? Resets can probably get up to 35-40. …those numbers probably seem low to you…

Hopefully this has shed some light on your outnumbered foes.
Also, don’t expect to find many maguumans on during NA overnight.

It’s cute that you think there might be decent rewards given to anybody. Rewards will be terrible either way.

The Baws.5164:

It’s not the fact that they’re being over-populated due to them being T1 or the Season, it’s the Achievement-Hunters from PvE.

Even Tier 4 servers are getting it.

Doubtful. As of about an hour ago, Maguuma had 1 map queued, the others were open.

On subject. Sure give them free transfers to bronze league, but don’t give them free transfers back. They knew this was coming, for the most part.

It would be pretty sweet if it had a water field like ele’s healing rain. Or Ice bows number 4.

They both look good. Only downside is that it’s hard to see asura armor details. But they make up for it with quirky animations and pretty sweet t3 armor. (Better than norn t3, but then again norn t2 is pretty awesome)

And more/different colored target icons please.

I think it only applies to minions, like Spirits, Minions, spirit Weapons, Turuets.

style.6173:

The reality is this…. 5-9 would all have a better time fighting each other than 5&6 being in Gold and 7-9 in Silver. 1-3 needs to be by themselves. TC at 4 is a bit of an exception with not really belong in gold or silver. That may change though if the rumors of more bandwagonners leaving them for T1 later this week come true. Others have said this before, but the best league would be:

1. 1-3. No one can compete with these servers. We don’t need a league to tell us that.
2. 4-12:
3. 13-21
4. 22-24

Something like this.

Also, it’s still a terrible skill, so there’s that.

This was great, made my wait before going to class much better.

Theoretically, I would assume a power crit build with Greatsword + sword/axe. But it might be beaten by condi builds since some of our damage is taken from us and given to pet.

I don’t run numbers but I do remember someone else doing it and coming up with sword auto is the highest direct damage a ranger has. I just threw Greatsword in there for gap closing, and maul.

They don’t care.

I tried to get their attention about the subject for 2-3 weeks. Bumping up threads in this forum and in the bug forum. No response. You’ll be happier if you forget about it. Because it’s been known for almost a year, and nothing has happened.

Not WvW related but if they could make some decent looking medium armor, is probably buy that.

No, I’d give longbow a range of 2000, but apparently it “breaks the game mechanics” whatever the hell that means. Doesn’t make much sense how I can throw an axe as far as I can shoot a bow.

TooBz.3065:

Sorry, even with a title I can’t see any reason to play anymore. Getting rolled over for 7 weeks doesn’t sound like fun.

Sounds like you’re on the wrong server.

From what I’ve seen, my server and I would much prefer to be rolled over and be able to fight anytime rather than being the rollers, pvding during prime play time.

I’ll gladly take middle to last spot in gold league over silver/bronze and the top half of gold. I’ve had enough weeks facing underpopulated servers to even entertain the idea of playing in silver/bronze league. And if for some me reason my server isn’t in gold league, I’ll only be playing on reset nights, anything else is pointless.

I really hated beastmaster bond when I was a beastmaster. But even if they fixed it, the pet still sucks.

They’re stupid. Like super dumb, and they die in WvW.

SB works well with condition builds, and great with bleed on crit trait and sigil, so precision/condi/toughness I believe is the stat allocation. Trap builds.

Drawbacks and the reason I don’t do condi damage in this game.

• condition caps like 25 bleeds means you can reach a hard cap on damage
• condi caps mean if you have more than one person stacking bleeds, you’re losing DPS.

Zenguy.6421:

DevonCarver.5370:

The rewards for finishing 2nd in the Bronze League will be markedly better than the rewards for finishing 6th in the Gold league.

Don’t care, rewards will suck anyways.

I just want it to have a shorter cool down and not do damage. Breaking immobilize would be nice, but then it would have a longer cool down, which would destroy its usefulness of creating range.

Ikaros.7812:

They’ll be playing on the test server. Oops, never mind, just wishful thinking.

Good one. I shall give you 10 internet points.

Longbow is fairly hard to use effectively. And for the amount of effort, it’s not worth it unless you really like the way it feels. Like me!

Your goal is to stay as far away as possible. To do this I like to go 30/10/30/0/0 and pick up increased range and damage and spotter. Take reduced surviaval skills and grab lightning reflexes and quickening zephyr. Muddy terrain is nice too.

Auto attack at max range to open.
Once target closes range use 4 for pushback.
Auto attack again (if playing a thief you might want to use rapid fire)
Once they close again, use 3 for invisibility, about face and get away.
Auto attack
When they close range again, switch to Greatsword
5 to stun (if they have stability or invulnerability use 4 to buy time)
Land 2 for big damage
(If you haven’t used 4, do so now in order to buy time or land another big hit from the counter attack, be careful not to move after the kick is activated)
Deselect target and 3 to swoosh 1100 range away.
If they are still far away, auto attack
If they have closed distance 4 again.
Auto attack
Should be able to finish off most classes now with rapid fire, if not, continue the above rotation until they’re done.

Note: you will lose to condition necros.

While I agree with solrik, I’ll give you a pretty basic build that you can gradually modify once you get more comfortable with the game.

30/10/30/0/0

At the beginning, trait for signets for more survivability. Later, you can use the survival skills quickening zephyr and lightning reflexes. You can start with soldiers/knights gear at first and then switch in berserkers gear for more DPS later on. Use anything but feline/birds/wolves because they die too quickly.

I use this in pve because conditions are capped at 25, and when facing bosses like tequatl where you can’t crit, you can swap out the knights/berserker for solider gear for the same amount of damage and more survivability.

Also, reduce Barrage to only hit 4 people, but increase damage by 20%.

ilr.9675:

What would be the point of stowing the Pet??

It’s already permanently out of combat the instant it dies

I always assumed that if we could perma stow the pet, then the f2 would still be functional. So there’s that.

Also, I would like to be able to see my pet buffs/conditions without having to click on it.

Also, Rapid Fire should channel faster.

I want entangle to be on a shorter CD. 150s is kinda ridiculous for an elite that can be blocked and dodged easily. It’s not like the thieves Dagger Storm where it’s continuous, and it’s about the same concept.

• Dagger Storm: Applies bleeds and cripple while giving caster stability.
• Entangle: Applies bleeds, immobilize, and a very kittenty amount of direct damage. But is a one time hit or bust, and can be easily destroyed after the roots are summoned.

Other than that:

• I want Signet of the Wild to either be an instant cast, or apply its effects to 3 other players in a fairly tight range. Also, I want to be able to stomp while its effects are active.
• Get rid of the range requirement on LB or buff the damage.

I don’t always Zerg, but when I do, I prefer my guardian.