Guild Wars 2

A working one.

/15chars

Only possible to reach 25 stacks of vunerability.

And rapid-fire is not “serious damage”

My main gripe is the HP on bosses. Some of them are WAYY too high

Also another one to note is some silver mobs are just insane… Example Oozes in Arah, 4 conditions when they smack you with their regular attack, that’s just absurd.

An impressive video I found of a Warrior soloing Lupius, thought I should share

Rangers are pretty lackluster overall. So yes I think they need some lovin’

Don’t play the class

So after 4-5 hours of fighting Simin, we finally completed it, only for Randall to be glitched when we found the stone… unable to complete the dungeon.

The amount of bugs and glitches are astounding and need to be addressed, this is getting a tad bit ridiculous. Fix your stuff Anet

No.
Making a class counter a class’ unique mechanic is stupid and a quick bandage way of balance. The ranger needs buffs but not this crap that keeps getting rehashed

NaturalPortman.9562:

No one cares

15char

This is such an opinionated question…

First of all, you’re using the 2 worst weapons in the game.
Secondly, is this for dungeons? Open world PvE? WvW? Specify.
Thirdly, When in doubt, go with Knight’s armor with zerker jewelry and orbs
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The range doesn’t count the arch of the arrow

No it’s not the same as the endgame Ranger.

Endgame ranger is even worse.

Good Luck with that

cozzybob.9175:

Is it possible that pets already have the resistance we have, but it isn’t showing up in the menu? After playing around in the higher fractals with 5%, I feel like my pet lasts a lot longer than it did before… but it could also be that I’ve gotten better at manipulating the AI to avoid blows, or I’ve been lucky enough to heal them through it. If anyone cares to measure the numbers, I’m curious.

Pets are immune to environmental damage… IE: Traps, certain attacks, and such. Taking into account agony is environmental damage, they SHOULD be immune

Most of these changes are bad and you should feel bad

Did you just throw in a bunch of crap that doesn’t make much sense into the class? I don’t even think you rationally thought about these changes

1. Warrior
2. Guardian
3. Mesmer
4. Thief
5. Engineer
6. Elementalist
7. Necromancer
8. Ranger

600…

Experimenting hurts

Agadar.4931:

NaturalPortman.9562:

Agadar.4931:

NaturalPortman.9562:

Agadar.4931:

NaturalPortman.9562:

Agadar.4931:

NaturalPortman.9562:

Agadar.4931:

NaturalPortman.9562:

Agadar.4931:

NaturalPortman.9562:

signet of the stone doesnt need any changes, it’s already good. and signet of renewal is also extremely good doesnt need any changes. the only changes all of these really need is the cooldown, nothing else.

You’ve got to be kidding me. Signet of Stone and Signet of Renewal are both absolute garbage. As are all the others.

I think you’re just a bad ranger who doesn’t know how to trait properly. 5 second invuln for your and your pet is extremely good and the passive regen on renewal is insanely good if you trait into healing power.

And I know that you are a bad ranger due to your laughable opinion that our signets are good.

Not really, you are that typical player who cries about a classes shortcomings instead of actually trying to improve. "Oh look people crying on a forum about my class being poor, I’m gunna join in too because I’m not succesful with the class "
^ That is you sir.

You’re adorable.

Thanks. Remember Agadar, you gotta learn to use a weapon for it to be viable.

A for effort, but allow me to correct you: a weapon’s viability has nothing to do with the individual player’s skill.

Keep it up .

Go and check what you wrote, you didn’t quite write that did you.

Keep it up.

Are you copying me now? Aren’t you a cheeky one.

Thanks mate.

That wasn’t a compliment. But boy, we sure are getting off-topic.

Don’t waste your time. He’s a troll

NaturalPortman.9562:

Durzlla.6295:

NaturalPortman.9562:

Jay.3284:

NaturalPortman.9562:

Durzlla.6295:

Jay.3284:

I’d like to see a video of ranger bursting…
And another one bursting verse a good opponent…

I agree tbh… I haven’t BURSTED anyone… I guess 15 stacks of confusion/25 stacks of bleed in about 3 seconds could be -burst- but I don’t consider that burst…

I would do it but I really dont want to be the one to give away my build hehe

The lying is strong with this one.

I’ll gladly fight you and kill you in under 5 seconds if thats the proof youd want. but not sharing my build.

I don’t blame you, the second you post it on forums everyone begins copying it and then the counters start Rollin out… This is why I change my build whenever I see a similar build floating around popular places xD

Finally someone who understands. I don’t want this to be the new FOTM thing for rangers. If you want to figure out the build out yourself, play around with your traits for several hours like I did lol.

You can still make a video without posting your build…
Just sayin’

NaturalPortman.9562:

Durzlla.6295:

Jay.3284:

I’d like to see a video of ranger bursting…
And another one bursting verse a good opponent…

I agree tbh… I haven’t BURSTED anyone… I guess 15 stacks of confusion/25 stacks of bleed in about 3 seconds could be -burst- but I don’t consider that burst…

I would do it but I really dont want to be the one to give away my build hehe

The lying is strong with this one.

NaturalPortman.9562:

Agadar.4931:

NaturalPortman.9562:

signet of the stone doesnt need any changes, it’s already good. and signet of renewal is also extremely good doesnt need any changes. the only changes all of these really need is the cooldown, nothing else.

You’ve got to be kidding me. Signet of Stone and Signet of Renewal are both absolute garbage. As are all the others.

I think you’re just a bad ranger who doesn’t know how to trait properly. 5 second invuln for your and your pet is extremely good and the passive regen on renewal is insanely good if you trait into healing power.

And who in their right mind would trait in our healing power tree?

Were you even moving?

I’d like to see a video of ranger bursting…
And another one bursting verse a good opponent…

Getting a legendary great-sword on a ranger is REALLY not smart… or any legendary for that matter.

But follow what the heart wants

This is pretty funny and highly inaccurate. Also what “support” options do we have?

The way you’re describing your views of balance then it’s the Engineer that are THE balanced class.

YumCHA.8706:

Jay

No.
Making the ranger’s defining role as a counter to thief just seems lazy

You want to know whats truly lazy?

Anet designing this horrid profession only to have it bug left, right and center, without a care at all to fixing them.

That’s Lazy.

+1
Agreed. But it’d be lazier and just a “quick fix” to a mess that is this profession

The amount it takes dungeons seem fine and well balanced but Arah

I think 1hr 30 – 2hrs is too much to spend in one setting

No.

Making the ranger’s defining role as a counter to thief just seems lazy

Aurum.8793:

So basically direct damage builds are best for PvE. Drake pets are good for AoE, cats are best for single target, devourers for single target ranged.

For weapons and stats, I’m seeing Berserkers as best for damage. Weapons, it looks like Longbow, axe, or even possibly sword if you can do well with dodges. Maybe horn or dagger depending on what you want, but torch is bad since it relies on burn damage, which is rather poor when compared to other offhand abilities, as pointed out by Sleepy.

Traits I’m not to sure about yet. I know a lot of our damage comes from our pets, so having points in BM is understandable. But, if you want to be a glass cannon, wouldn’t it make sense to spec something like 30/30/0/0/10? That would maximize power, precision, critical damage, and would also give you the quickness thing when you changed pets.

But, on the other hand, the traits in those two lines are atrocious. One centers around Signets and the other Traps. Soooo…. here we are.

-Shortbow does more damage than longbow
-I’d recommend Axe over sword since you are a glass cannon
-Warhorn is one of our best weapons no doubt
-For Traits I would recommend putting atleast 5 wilderness survival for faster endurance regeneration
-Also putting 15 in BM can go a long way

And yes our traits are atrocious. Welcome to the Ranger class

Welcome to Gw2 endgame.
Enjoy!

Seriously Re-roll.

But if you won’t…
-Start doing dungeons
-Farm for exotics, hone your skills
-Hone your skills
-sPvP/WvW (I don’t suggest it)
-Work on map completion

You’ll now experience the plague of bugs and “usefulness” a level 80 Ranger has to offer! Congrats!

Aurum.8793:

I don’t really know how to spec anymore. My damage seems mediocre no matter what. I’m willing to try any weapon combination, different pets, and any type of traits. Also, this is for PvE, dungeons and stuff.

Reroll a Warrior. Your damage will always be sub-par.

But on the task of a ranger; In open world PvE I recommend cats for their raw damage coupled with a shortbow and traps.

DreamyAbaddon.3265:

Sorry, Ranger is epic and awesome and in PvE very Over Powered and amazing.
Anyone who says “Its bad” dont know how to play the class. Because (A) they either are not good at it or (B) never played it.

Are you even level80?
Have you even touched a dungeon?
Have you even touched sPvP?

1. Warrior
2. Ranger

3. Thief
4. Engineer
5. Necro

6. Guardian
7. Elementalist
8. Mesmer

Yes, the ranger is that bad.

There’s little to no reason to play it, other than you like pets. And also as reference, i’d prefer a necro on my team than a ranger, by about 10 folds.

Time + Efficiency + Just wanting tokens = Skipping mobs

Sol.4310:

@Jay, Record some PvP footage I want to see your skill.

And then as your defensive mechanism, you tell people to “Record some PvP footage”. Shall I just record footage of baddies also, then claim I’m a ranger god because I beat people who had little to no idea what they were doing?

Once again ill try and drill it through your thick skull;
I’m not insulting your skill level, only the level of the people you versed.

Limnage.9581:

Warriors have both shouts and banner builds
Engineers have turrets and elixir gun
Ranger has spirits
Necros have wells and multitude of condition draw skills
Thieves have venom share
Guardians and Elementalists are support gods

Rangers Spirits? Have you even touched this class?
Thieves with venom share?? They have better support options and you just say this?

I think you just don’t know your class. You need to just sit down, look at your traits and utilities and really learn your class. Stop mindlessly complaining about crap you obliviously don’t know.

xPraks.5096:

I don’t get what people are complaining about here. I fail to see what the problem is. Is it that the people he went against weren’t good enough to kill him? Well no kitten, that’s why it’s recorded. It shows Sol killing people. It’s a PvP video. What freaking MMORPG did you people play where everyone is equally skilled at everything. Sol obviously owned most of the people in the video and I see no reason on why you should complain about it.

The problem is:

1. More skill in a video = it’s generally better
2. The people he versed were all bad. IE not very skilled NOT HIM.
3. Sol’s OP implied he found this great effective way to play ranger
4. OP and several others are insulting when people say the people he versed were just plain bad.
5. White Knights still trying to say/imply this class is good, balanced and not awful; especially in WvW

You answered your question in an earlier paragraph.

Probably right. The programmers/devs have constantly shown huge faults and mistakes (Of course they are only human). But the disheartening part is they’ll know it’s a bug and just call it “Working as intended”.

INB4 fraction

Ranger; they’re SOOO good.

YumCHA.8706:

There is some clear favoritism with Anet when it comes to designing Professions. That much is clear. Ranger is not one of them.

This x100.

As negative as this sounds; Yes pick up a guardian

Temporarily shelve the ranger, and just dabble in other glasses. Get the feel for them, and if they really don’t suit you, stick with the ranger

No.

Because how the pet mechanic works and how it’s tied in with everyday PvE… it would demolish C&D in PvE. Also the thief is blowing A LOT of his initiative striking your pet with C&D, especially with the recent nerf.

Nice idea, but…. while you would have more “command” per-say over your pet, how would you call them off? Swap them? Make them attack?

You could argue to use Guard to make them attack, while protect me they will defend
But what about cooldowns? It would be a giant mess. While i agree Ranger needs SOMETHING, this isn’t it.

Sol.4310:

@Jay, Mate i deleted my post cause your a forum troll going by your history and there is no need for being negative, mate I clearly out played them.

So no more posts here please.

No duh you out played them. They were bad. That’s my point. People of equal skill would of made the outcome of the fights much different.

Edit: Also for future reference, don’t be so quick to label someone a troll because they have a different outlook on something than you.

Sol.4310:

Jay, care to explain how they are “generally bad” players. Clearly your a pro so lets hear it.

Be shame if your claiming due to fact I’m ranger and beating players they have to be “generally bad”.

0:51
- Thief spamming heart-seeker? Overall terrible play from the thief
- Ranger wasn’t a natural lvl80
- Mesmer wasn’t a natural lvl80
3:40
- Necro running around with staff spamming auto attacks and placing bad marks. Also he was undergeared or didn’t have a proper spec, virtually doing no damage on you with his axe
- Guardian seemed completely unsure who to target what to do. Using his healing skill near death, and overall bad decision making. Also getting kited pretty easily.
-Warrior barely looked at you. But his fight with the engineer was so one-sided. He was constantly kited and didn’t seem to have any idea what to do verse it.
6:13
-Same lackluster Guardian and Warrior are back with a new (Glass cannon?) Warrior rifle, and an staff Ele that didn’t do much
8:20
-When you killed the Ele, which was probably one of the only ones in your video portraying skill, you won the battle. The other two ran off (leaving the Ele to a 2v1 fight instead of a 2v3) constantly back-pedaling.

TL;DR

Majority of the people in the video you portrayed were playing like it was PvE.

crebosh.3548:

There you go folks…we are saved. We are no longer the most underpowered class. All we needed we to learn to play.

Most of the people he played were generally bad.

-Buy green version (Very cheap)
-Test it out
-???
-Profit