Guild Wars 2

With the exception of Frost Spirit. It seems that there is bugged that it has no internal cd.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Jacks.5367:

Still cleric gear is very underrated. Why? Healing spring no bonus stats at lvl 80 regen for 2340 in 3 sec. Assuming that you with full cleric gear (no rune, trait or weapon or accessories that give healing power), your regen for 3042 in 3 sec.

I think it’s kind of urghh. When running dungeon. If you can kill it fast, you will have less worry about healing.

Compare this:
Sword full chain deal 639 in 1.5 sec. Again with the same assumption above you go with full zerker armor, you deal 858 in 1.5 sec. When it crit, dependin on the chain, you will deal 166% of the base damage instead. You can take down the boss about 34% faster (not including crit).

I am not gonna give the whole equation but you probably already get my point. The faster the fight the better it is.

Well done, you’ve successfully described the state of the game. Support and Control don’t matter, only DPS. Being able to sustain yourself through alpha shots is nice, but if you just killed it faster you wouldn’t have to. That is, in fact, how GW2 functions right now.

Sadly it is true to the current meta. I didn’t say that support and control didn’t matter. But it is plain stupid to get any gear that boost healing power. Ranger is no mean a class that is good in doing what you call “support”. Nike has probably listed what other class can do better in term of “support”. Ranger as it is it’s pretty bad. All they can do is hit and hit and hit. This is the reason why most people don’t want Ranger in dungeon run. Because the only way they can do to contribute is damage. If they are even suck at it, then the whole ranger class is pretty much pointless.

+1 for that trait. I will definitely take this.

Actually I am running 25/25/0/20. With all the damage trait (I think you know which). But if you can run and hold onto gs forever. I will not mind to take sacrifice to 20/20/10/20. That 10 point is just for pure survivability. That additional 5% burn damage is alright to forego for 480 toughness when your hp is about 1/3.

You probably already know this but gs skill 1 is channeling. While using skill 1 (which you gonna use it all the time) you gain 380 toughness. Yeah. I am pretty sure you already know this. So I am just gonna keep quiet about it.

Eh… I am talking about piercing shards trait. This is probably one of the best damage trait. Beside if you use GS skill 2 and some fire trait, when you are wielding gs, you have about 30% damage output to burn and vulnerable enemy. The earth attunement is for survivability.

Yeah while at it, I was a bit off topic. =)

The charges and duration are just to limit the OP of the conjure weapon. Just think about this. If you can run GS on water and earth attunement at all time. DPS + survivability!!!

Anet said that you can play any role in the game. If you really think that running full cleric gear and be “support” class is what you do best then so be it.

Also do you mind sharing your current Ranger build?

I think this will need a more solid verification but I think they share the same internal cd.

Typically if you run bird, the first thing they will do is to cast swiftness. Even when you swap them halfway. However if you use 2 birds, the 2nd bird will take quite a while before using it again.

Haha. You are not the only one. I have been playing elementalist for quite a while as well and still not getting used to launching the full combo. D/D elementalist required quick finger.

But after a while, you will slowly get used to it. Even now I still occasionally miss churn earth + lightning flash combo. But I have decided to remove lightning flash.

Recently I watch glitchboy in twitch.tv and decided to go for arcane lightning trait and just rotate 2 arcane spell instead. So now I have less combo to worry about.

Yeah. It kind of saddened me that the most awesome animation of the legendary is only viable to ranger and thief. If only icebow can shoot unicorn….

Actually ranger has this natural voice trait that has 10 sec regen whenever you use shout. But again there is really no good shout skill other than sic’ em and guard. The other 2 shouts has way too long cd to take advantage of the trait.

But anyway healing power is totally dumbest stats that you want to invest. Unless it is from trait (which can’t be helped), it is totally waste of silver to spend your money on.

Anet has make this game such that anybody can be any role. But they make such that your healing power has about the same coefficient as any other stats. So by pumping 315 healing power in gear, you get additional 700hp in 18 sec. Unless there is class that primary focus is healing, dealing massive damage is more sustainable then being “support” be it in wvw, pvp or dungeon.

Durzlla.6295:

Well for starters it’s not actually 10% damage increase, and being able to apply 10 stacks of vuln on 2-3 targets (usually more due to guardian pull) to be blown up by everyone’s cleave is better than +150 precision…

And I hear the only way to provide support is to make people do more damage right? Condi removal, “healing”/reviving, and making it so enemies don’t kill your team TOTALLY doesn’t count at all…

PS: seeing as how I’ve cleared just about everything in PvE like this, it is viable, just not meta.

Hmmm.. It’s not 10%? The last I check the only things that is broken with frost spirit is it has no internal cd. Also you deal 2-3 stack of vunerability which is 2-3% more damage to 2-3 targets is way better than 10% more damage? Are we trying to reign for championship? Cause I am kitten sure that if you are talking about ranking, definitely the lower the better.

Also +150 precision gives you about 7% crit chance to party of 5. If you are running full berserker + fury, your crit chance is about 70-80%. Every 10 hit, 8 crit. I am not sure if I may have get my priority wrong in this game. Oh wait, your 2-3 stacks of vulnerability is definitely. No. It MUST be better than my 150% damage output.

Also you using cleric gear don’t give that much support. Healing spring is good but you don’t expect that every boss dungeon allow your whole party to just chill and auto attack at your healing spring for the entire duration. Also the last I check, healing power don’t make you revive faster nor it gives additional 3 sec for 1 tick of condi removal. Healing spring is only good when it is first being cast. The additional regen and condi removal is just bonus.

PS: Clearing everything in pve with your cleric is possible. It will just be long and pointless. If you use your cleric gear can run dungeon in 30 min. Me in my berserker can run in 10. Oh wait. In this case the lower the no the better. Please stop trolling, it’s kind of sadden me that you talk like you know your stuff but you ain’t.

I will love to see moa do devourer retreat (if the skill change). If not then I will love to see bird do slash on drake stats. It’s about ~300 power difference. So it’s gonna be interesting.

Well. If that’s the case, I think Anet should consider to remove the part “your pet grow larger”. As it is pointless. Like literally. Since there is really no direct benefit from it. Anyway I don’t really take this signet other than for it’s hp regen. If you need stability, rampage as one has better duration.

Still cleric gear is very underrated. Why? Healing spring no bonus stats at lvl 80 regen for 2340 in 3 sec. Assuming that you with full cleric gear (no rune, trait or weapon or accessories that give healing power), your regen for 3042 in 3 sec.

I think it’s kind of urghh. When running dungeon. If you can kill it fast, you will have less worry about healing.

Compare this:
Sword full chain deal 639 in 1.5 sec. Again with the same assumption above you go with full zerker armor, you deal 858 in 1.5 sec. When it crit, dependin on the chain, you will deal 166% of the base damage instead. You can take down the boss about 34% faster (not including crit).

I am not gonna give the whole equation but you probably already get my point. The faster the fight the better it is.

Necro is not even pve oriented. Most necro build is based around condi. In dungeon, condi deal the least damage to boss as it can’t burst due to no crit. I have not seen power-crit oriented in my dungeon run yet so yeah maybe just me.

Anyway I am more jealous of white raven then the black widow. T.T

Luimes.4281:

Holland.9351:

Luimes.4281:

Yes exactly my point, I hope this get’s looked into by the devs.

You must be new.

You must be wrong.

You’ve been trolled. Lol. Anyway I think signet of the wild is under the category of morph. When necro in death shroud or ele in mist form they are unable to ress players or interact with object.

Pet boon oriented? First I heard. Are you going looking for style to buff your pet with boon?

If you are then you may not want to look at ranger rune. You can go for 2 rune of water, monk and travel. This will give you a bonus of 45% boon duration. And you may want to look at “Guard” since it will grant your pet additional protect. Also with fortifying bond, whatever that applies to you applies to your pet. So if you gain 5 might, your pet gain 10. You gain protection for 2 sec, your pet gain 4 and so on. So you can actually get perma fury on your pet with warhorn.

Depending on your idea of useful. Necro, ranger and engineer are pretty much at the lowest tier when running dungeon. Thief is just slightly above them since it has aoe stealth which is useful for some speed run in dungeon.

If you are looking for fun and casual play, explore the world and solo the game, any class is fine. In fact, I will recommend you that. Once you have farm plenty of gold from casual play, you can just create another character that may be on demand, i.e. warrior, guardian, mesmer.

RNG = random number generator. I think typically when people talk about rng is about drop. Like the chances of getting certain item is like 2%. So when you kill a monster, the game will generate 1-100 and only when it roll 1 or 2 then you will get that drop. Something like that.

I don’t really read the above the thread. But here is my advice about ranger. Ranger is easy to play but hard to master. It can deal lots of damage since you and your pet are doing it at the same time. Most of their trait kind of useless or unrelated, you will just end up using a few of those. When you progress further you will understand what I mean. About the utilities skill, this will be depending on your play style so I won’t say they are useless.

However their 2 elites, entangle and spirit of nature, are a bit under power. Spirit of nature maybe slightly useful for support. But trust me on this, when you run in world, you not gonna summon this. When you run in dungeon, it’s probably good to revive your ally but the cast time is too long and it may or may not be able to do what of requires from it since he will get one-shot by the boss unless you trait. But I will leave you to judge since this is my opinion anyway.

Hey guys, do you all know if Twilight Arbor reset time follow the dungeon timer? Or this will be a unique since it’s living story?

My party completed it at 8.15pm yesterday night. 15 min after the daily reset. But was thinking of running it again to complete the achievement but it will be too time consuming if there is no reward and token.

Hmmm.. Ranger’s pet is the one of the most efficient here. Aside from skill that can use retaliation.

Be it aggressive or passive. I like to put it on the aggressive since once they dealt with one elemental they will move to another one. Beside having your pet locking 1 target will make you have 1 less worry of ele. Once you reach the next turn, just call for the next target.

Rathore.9348:

These numbers look about right, given your assumptions. I would suggest adding DPS values for the other two Longbow ranges, e.g.

Longbow – Long Range Shot (1000+ range) – 1,481 DPS
Longbow – Long Range Shot (500-1000 range)– 1,070 DPS
Longbow – Long Range Shot (0-500 range) – 823 DPS

There’s a big difference between a well-played Longbow and a poorly-played one. Power builds should swap in and out of it constantly based on the situation. You do have stealth and point-blank shot to help maintain distance as well.

I have to agree. Power build longbow can deal a massive damage. Long bow at 1000+ range should deal more than burst shot (taking account of bleed).

And if you really want to take into real game play, it’s hardly anyone will actually use LB. Let alone the first skill. Normal situation, swap to LB skill 5, skill 2, swap out. Or if position is good (which is rarely) skill 4. Skill 3 is totally underrated (3s stealth and it need to be hit) and by the way, your pet can still be seen. So if you try to retreat, your pet follow.

Totally agree (except Healer’s Celerity which is very good when in dungeon fighting boss). But there are more like master bond, compassion training and agility training to add more a few.

It’s like the trait is not distributed evenly. Ranger don’t have to depend on their pet when they are downed half the time in dungeon or world event.

There are only 3 essential traits for traps, 3 for spirit, 1 for survival, 2 for shouts while the rest are for useless pets. Even for pet only 1-3 that is really useful. About 2-3 more for utilities. The rest are craps.

Sylvari! Seriously they are better looking as ranger than any other class. I really wished I can re-create my ranger as Sylvari but I am too lazy to re run as lvl 1 ranger again.

I have to be perfectly honest. Pet is really stupid mechanic but you really don’t have to rely on it.

So far I only play ranger and main it. I can’t go without 30 points in my marksmanship. Beside why do people keep saying ranger 30% damage comes from the pet.

If you take into account of the same gear as any other class. Ranger is dealing the same damage as any other class. If your pet is alive, it should be dealing 30% extra damage for you. If your comparing damage to warrior class then you will definitely lose since warrior is primary class that is supposed to deal tons of damage. Otherwise you can just call it wuss.

I only used to have the same mentality. Why higher level only? Then I realised this when I reach level 80. All the things that you do to reach 80 is just warm up.

The game only truly begin when you reach 80!

Well. The dungeon is really fun and annoying and frustrating and fun. If you have good players then it will be ok but if not then.. Hmmm..

Well.. Let’s just said pubs players should really know how to read the instruction. Running several times with players who just try to zerg through. Kill ooze(s) (ooze maze and 1st boss). Keep killing aether even told them to destroy the generators.

So overall, it was fun. Really.

I remember this is what actually happened to me in the past but strangely not today.

Earlier on, my leader just rage quit but the quest is still going on when we look for new player.

Could this be a bug?

Internal cooldown is bugged. With 99% chance to crit, superior sigil of blood only proc every 5 sec while the description state 2 sec.

Imho gs is actually not that great weapon for crit. The cast time the cd is just not viable. If you want power + crit to proc all the time. You should go for SB/LB and Axe/sword + warhorn.

SB is very good weapon for mid range to short. The cast time is almost non-existence and has relatively low cd. Your escape will be to concussion shot follow by quick.
But if you are going for power + crit, you will be very vulnerable with sb unless you trait natural vigor.

Anyway back to the main topic. If you want to dish tons of crit with 50-60% of crit chance (without fury), go for SB. If you have more power and about 30%+ crit chance, go for LB (trait piercing arrow). Burst shot deal 10 arrow and each arrow has 30% chance of crit. Barrage shot 12 arrows.

Actually with the recent patch, Spirit is much more viable. In PvP, it will be too long to take down the Spirit but, in PvE or WvW, your spirit cd is much lower. On top of that, your spirit, just like pet, can’t stand burst damage. So they are down pretty quickly.

Though in all honesty, I really hate the long cast time but asking anything more than that will make Ranger to OP.

I actually used LB/SB combo. This is very PvE. LB Rapid Fire dish lots of damage single target (you can hit multiple if you trait Piercing Arrow and right position).

PvE not including WvW. You can go for 30/30/10/0/0. Pump Marksmanship will increase your base damage and SB bleed. Skirmish will increase your crit damage and chances to crit.

This is what I take for my trait:
Marksmanship: 3/8/12
Skirmishing: 2/10/12
Wilderness Survival: 4

Gear you can focus on Rampager or Berserker or mix to have the balance of precision and power.

For pets: you can take anything you like. Bird and feline deal lots of damage. Bear is tanky and etc. You can do research on which pet suits your style.

Additionally, you can explore for Spirit build as well. The recent patch make spirit viable as well. 20 sec cd after they downed. Previously, the cd is 60 sec the moment they summoned. So if they are downed quickly, you will be very vulnerable.

Ranger is the only class that required less work in PvE. Just play around with traits. If you don’t like you can always refund the trait points/

Yeah. Achievement is only given when you port to the next zone. So you must wait for the timer to reach zero.

How I pass that zone:
First platform, jump at the very edge so that you can reach the platform above the barrel. Try to do it in 1 moment. Run, aim the edge of the pad and turn the camera to the platform above. After landing, just make your way to the platform above (approximately 3 platform).
Jump down to the platform below and make your way to the pad again. For this, I will slowly tap my way to the edge so that my character not bouncing anymore. It’s hard but with patience, you will reach the edge where you can’t bounce. Adjust your camera and move forward to pad, you will reach the platform above.

I am not sure if due to latency lag or intentional but the platform will make further when you are walking to it or jump onto it.

Good luck. Just be careful after crossing this path. There is bug that even you reach the checkpoint, once you are dead, you will be send back to the previous checkpoint (where the moment you are alive, you will lose 1 life).

I wish I can teach my 5 years old nephew gw2. But then again, I will probably be killed by my sister.

Great share though. =)

For those who found area 6 suspicious. If you are facing the hole down, on your left, the gatekeeper can be opened with flute (even though you can see that fist sign). I used this path to go out and get the key (which connect to the ice spike room).

On the other, the gatekeeper cannot be opened. If you can jump on the lips of the gatekeeper (beside the slanted), you are unlikely to be able to make them open its mouth.

For those holes which is right at the top, or places with holes, one of them can be reached but there is nothing inside. While the others are just unreachable. Since it’s right at the top and there’s no opening.

Well. This are what I have observed for doing countless hours of jump. Anyway, I think let’s just wrap this up. Until Anet respond, that 5 achievement point is really not worth the while. At least that’s what I felt. You can still get the kittene by just completing any of the other 13.

Yup. I’m officially sick of hunting bauble (without knowing if there is even one).

Dev is so slow in responding that it is kind of disappointing. We just need a simple answer “yes” or “no” but it seems like too much to ask.

Now that is impressive run!

Can the developer or any of the ArenaNet staff confirmed this?

I am starting to get sick of running world 2 zone 3 for hours each day!

bauble bubbles is awarded at the end of the chest each day per account in normal and tribulation mode. Alternatively you can just trade 250 baubles for 1 bauble bubble with Moto.

This shop is tricky. What I did is to jump near the waterfall (without touching it). The issue is when the door open, sometimes it will push you back.

Thedenofsin.7340:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Congratulations, you’re now learning what was mandatory in older videogames!

Congratulations, you’re wrong.

That kind of stuff was not mandatory in older games. If I needed an item to progress, I had to go get it. That usually meant running a dungeon or completing puzzles or what-not. I didn’t have to go grind out money over and over.

I didn’t have to grind money to get my weapons in Zelda, or my keys in Adventure, or my power-ups in Mario. This is just dumb.

You are obviously oblivion to Zelda games. You need RUPEE to progress. And mario does not have equipment. Please don’t put compare RPG games to Action game. Just both are 8-bit games.

KorKor.9452:

Azure Prower.8701:

The problem is you cannot dodge jump if you have latency issues as in playing the game from overseas.

Bit of an understatement really.. if you have even the slightest bit of off ping it often just fails. Doesn’t even cover if you have say dodge on your mouse and jump on your keyboard. I had that issue which never was one in any other game and to rework hotkeys just to do SAB tribulation mode. Not a fan of this mechanic… I mean it wasn’t even supposed to be around to start with but now it is.

I died many times in lag (so I believe I have latency issue) but I have rarely miss my dodge jump. In order to execute dodge jump, your timing need to be precise.

Cotheer.2806:

Elidath.5679:

Cotheer.2806:

AFAIK, w2-2, requires dodge-jump to get to the shortcut eagle.
I might be wrong, but that cloud is impossible to reach without it.

In infantile and NM, it doesn’t require dodge jump, though it does help. Didn’t try 2-2 TM yet so I can’t tell there.

Then i gotta try the normal jump tonight, but it always seemed a bit risky to do it.

That spot don’t require dodge jump. You can do a last sec jump. I did that all the time.

TM is not hard if you have seen how other people done it.

There are so many video guide to run TM in youtube now. If you have watched, then you can avoid all instant death traps. You just required a certain amount of skill.

If you love JP then it’s even easier. Infinite coin or not.

Can we get the dev to verify if this achievement is bugged or there are indeed more baubles that we are missing?

Here are the list of the baubles that we found
Blue – 41
Gree – 1
Yellow – 13
Purple – 6
Red – 2

Thanks

Yeah. Can we get verification if this achievement is bugged?

Total baubles found:
Blue – 41
Green – 1
Yellow – 13
Red – 2
Purple – 6

Thanks!

Well.. I spend a few hours on looking for the missing baubles but to no vain.

Can we get developer to verify if this is bugged or there are indeed more baubles?

Zaeon.3846:

CryxTryx.9208:

Here is where you’re wrong OP. He reached his target audiance. SAB is a game with in a game. Anet obviously gave him artistic licence to develop content geared toward players with a higher skill level.

Higher skilled players? LOL. After they added infinite continue coins, all “skill” requirements went out the window. Now it’s just a matter of patience and time.

Well.. There are always pay to win content though you still have to work for it to win.

Tbh it’s true that SAB is difficult and annoying (especially tribulation) but that was what make the optional mini-game fun.

There are many circumstances where I almost become like this kid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kIlsmQRIzM

I have been playing ranger class for about 1 week now and just reach level 60. My final predicament is Ranger class need to be buffed. You can only control 1 pet at a time and you are only able to cast only 1 of 4 skills (even you don’t get to choose which skill to activate). Even some of them has super long cd.

Here is the comparison to other professions:
Discipline trait can improve warrior burst recharge.
Virtues trait can improve guardian virtues recharge.
Tools trait can improve engineer tool belt recharge.
Arcana trait can improve elementalist attunement recharge.
Illusions trait can improve mesmer shatter recharge.
Trickery trait can improve thief steal recharge.
Soul Reaping trait add more life pool to necro death shroud.

And what do Ranger get for Beastmastery a total 300 pet attributes that is still useless.