Guild Wars 2

I remember F2’s taking 5+ seconds to go off. I wish they could be instant, but it’s def a lot better than it used to be.

Hybrid build are one of the Rangers best perks. One of my guildies has a sick build that has something like 1800 power and 1800 condition. I’ll have to pick his brain to find out the details. I do remembering him saying something about some new runes that help.

I still don’t understand what was so bad about gw1 pet system that they couldn’t bring most of it over. It was challenging and rewarding to tame new pets, and they had their own traits that you could manipulate.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Druid_

According to this lore. Druids actually shed their mortal forms to become something more akin to treants. So some sort of shape-shifting wouldn’t be to far fetched.

segman.3560:

Play ranger, learn its weak points, problem solved.

+1
Lol this is great, Thieves have been saying this forever, whenever another class complained about them.

I’ll tinker with it, but I’m not really interested in that kinda spec. I’ve always envisioned my Ranger as more of a hunter/skirmisher/survivalist type. He respects and honors nature, but not in a spiritual sense. It’s a more practical view of valuing the balance of nature. It’s his home and playground, don’t abuse it, take more than you need, thank your prey for it’s sacrifice, etc.

So hopefully a future spec will fall more in line with that, but idk since the hunter type would make sense with a rifle, which i would love, but not sure how Anet feels about that.

RANGER HYPE!!!!

I started streaming the other day too.
twitch.tv/jaysin_x

also posted a new vid yesterday of some spvp
youtube.com/tw1jaysin

I remember a discussion (dev’s commented on it) in the CDI about Rangers being the master’s of poison because of their knowledge of the wilderness. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the poison master trait. That was a player’s idea that actually made it into the game in some form. Of course there’s a lot more work to be done, but at least that’s something.

No. I just logged in to see if the update fixed it.

Yeah…I’m still bugged.

I’m still bugged. If the wvw thing works then that would def suggest it’s an issue tied to the megaserver system, but I have to wait another fraking day to even try. It’s cool though, I have other games I can play.

My daily still has yet to reset.

Yep, same here. I finished it yesterday and it has yet to reset today.

Pets are def more responsive, and it’s pretty kitten fun. I ran a bunch of spvp matches tonight with guildies and that wolf fear was poppin off in a second or less instead of 2-10. I’m sure I was annoying ppl by clearing points, grabbin the cap, and saving myself and others from spikes. It just works, and it felt great.

I knew they were not serious when they didn’t assign a developer to the Collaborative Development Initiative. No offense to Allie.

Jski.6180:

I even talked about “AP” system to buy sieges in ESO i am talking about deploying it. There is no cost and that spells out right doom for rvrvr if you do not like sieges.

There is a cost. The siege health decays as you have it out.

Sol.4310:

Sad part is there Topic on Ranger balance is to late, not sure anyone wants to wait many month’s for the ranger to updated with 3 major AAA games coming out over next month or 2.

This is true for me. Not that I don’t enjoy GW2, just kinda lost interest since I see no clear direction with my fav class.

Thanks for the ideas everyone. I need a stack so I can make the ascended quiver. I have some already saved up, and I’m not in a big hurry, just looking to get a few daily to minimize the amount I have to buy. Thanks again for the suggestions.

So I just killed a lot of icebrood colossus, white moas, and the quaggans. These were at the farm spots that were recommended, I came up empty, so I bought 108 Heavy Moldy Bags opened them all and got nadda. I even experimented with different mobs in other areas where it’s listed as a drop, and still nothing.

Am I missing something? Did they lower the drop rate that much, or am I really that unlucky? Does MF have to be a certain level? Does anyone have a better way to farm them that they’re willing to share? PM me if you wanna keep it a secret, I swear I won’t tell.

You don’t even have to leave the spawn in EotM (where you are invulnerable) to complete the story and get your chest. Now if you wanna do the side quest for the lil asuran, that’s on you, nobody is holding a gun to your head and forcing you.

Edit: Sorry if that came across rude, not my intention.

Yeah I have a feeling the servers had to create a 100+ overflows of EotM in 10 seconds and was like nope.

Sorry bro, when it comes to dungeons/fracs long range just doesn’t cut. You’re too far away maximizing your dps to give/receive buffs. LB builds are more effective and fun in wvw. MH axe and SB are good range options that keep you close enough to allow spotter and frost spirit to help your group, which you should be running to give your group a 15-17% dps boost.

I have nothing to contribute, but I’m Important!!!

Amidoinitrite?

Meh. Some folks just can’t accept their own inadequacies. Let’s be honest here, performance failure with a class is never 100% the class design. The split of responsibility is debatable, but the player is always part of it. Maybe instead of blaming the class design, devs, etc. things which we have no direct control of, ask yourself “What can I do to overcome this?” Try new builds, pets, traits, sigils, runes and weapons. Find what you’re good at and strengthen it, find your weaknesses and minimize them, or better yet, turn them into strengths.

I’m not saying there are not issues with the Ranger. There are, and they do need some love. However, there are a lot of people that are successful with the Ranger. Look through the Ranger sub-forum, and you will find videos, builds, tips, and tricks from some excellent players. Rangers are nowhere near perfect, but they are far from completely broken and useless.

Couple different sets I run depending on my build.

There’s bad players on every class. It’s just easier to notice a bad Ranger not controlling their pet. People love to blame someone else for their failures. If you die it’s not because someone in your group didn’t do this or that, it’s you behind your keyboard, not them. Suck it up and drive on.

Yeah if I can’t kill you, then your not a villain, you’re a troll hiding behind the mechanics of the game. If you could flag yourself for pvp then did those acts, people would actually have a chance to stop you, which could be entertaining, otherwise it’s straight up griefing.

Thank you for posting this. I made a similar build(don’t have all the trinkets yet) last night after seeing this. I just did some roaming and my god it’s soooo much fun. I felt invincible, warriors were running, thieves were dying, 1v2, 1v3 no problem, didn’t always kill em but after I downed or spiked one or two they would just scatter. My Ranger buddy and I are going do some roaming later with this build, and I can’t wait.

kyubi.3620:

truth about the signet is it was nerfed post beta because ranger in beta where prety much like the current HS warrior are. You could outheal anyone just with the healing signet. I just wish they gave back the 300 per second and made this signet usefull for more then just the active again. This would give ranger a somewhat sharpened edge in pvp. This is one of the change that was done in beta that makes little sense now that we are down to behing reduced to this.

So they nerfed it on the Ranger cuz it was op, then gave the exact same power to the Warrior? I don’t even…

Sasajoe.1509:

ha if that is much to you tel me what do you think about this thief’s trait

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shadow%27s_Rejuvenation

I don’t really think this is fair either

Yeah wth? I just did a test on the build editor. Having Healing power over 1000 only gets us 125 a sec. I just don’t get it.

Just had a thought about our regen signet versus the warriors. Why the heck is there such a big difference? Without healing power our base regen is like 64 a sec but the war’s is 400?!(360ish after the balance change) Is it because we have other sources of regen in our traits?

Soilder.3607:

Heal as one really really realllly needs a buff. It is literally just a bland healing skill with no function whatsoever. I’ve suggested multiple times that it be modeled after Rampage as One, maybe something like this.

Heal with your pet, gaining protection. For the next x seconds, you and your pet grant health to each other when attacking.

I’d just like it if it cured a condition or two.

If they focused on making smarter mobs, like Amiron was saying, that would have a trickle down effect to our pets, since they’re tied to mob AI. More challenging and diverse PVE content plus smarter more reliable pets. Two birds one stone.

Yeah I could have a lot of fun with that MoC isn’t perfect but it’s not just the 50% damage boost it’s also got the 100% stun/daze duration. Maybe a bigger damage boost like 100% after a interrupt could give it that oomph it needs. The SB/GS traited have 20 sec cd on the #5 skills, so I don’t think it could be abused.

Or maybe have it apply after a stun/daze and just remove the interrupt entirely. That could be interesting…
sorry i’m rattling, it’s halftime lol

Idk I get a lot of use outta MoC. It doubles daze and stun duration’s. A 2 second stun/daze on Hilt Bash really helps me hit that Maul follow-up, if I do get the interrupt that’s just icing on the cake. Plus if you lead with SB #5, swap to GS and Swoop than follow-up with the above combo you get a nice burst which surprises the hell outta of a lot of ppl. As I get better at reading the other classes animations I’ll get better at actually interrupting, and man that is gonna be fun.

RexSilverton.9450:

You know what skill would be awesome for a final beastmastery thing?

Summon both pets at once. The second does not despawn, but when dead it is just that: Dead.

Yes please. Call it Protection of the Pack, triggers at 25% health.

Ltomato.8649:

Jaysin X.6740:

I’ve never had that problem. My 2 pets retain their names when I swap them. Only time I have to rename them is when I change them for different ones.

That’s what I’m referring to. Sometimes I think “you know what, a ranged pet would be good for this fight.” But then I think “well dang, then I’ll lose my nickname and have to do that over again.”

It’s way too annoying.

Oh, I got ya. My pet choices compliment my build so I don’t really change them out too much, but you’re right it can be annoying when I do.

Ltomato.8649:

Dalanor.5387:

You can name it. Click on the feather in the green box, left from the pets name.

edit: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Pet

Then, the moment you swap it to a different pet for utility, it loses the name.
That single fact makes me have to choose the two pets that I feel will offer the most in all situations. Having to rename your pet every time you swap it out is just ridiculous.

I’ve never had that problem. My 2 pets retain their names when I swap them. Only time I have to rename them is when I change them for different ones.

Just for the record, you can right click a party member and click join. This takes you to the overflow map they’re in. We used this a lot for the Living story, Teq, and really anywhere you encounter overflows. I imagine EotM will work the same.

Edit: Spehss beat me to it.

Great summary of Ranger issues. Let’s try to keep this at the top of the page.

They can fix it. They have just chosen to ignore it because it’s “too hard” to fix. Which annoys the hell outta me and makes them appear as lazy and uncaring. It’s cool they made a mistake, they’re only human, but to not even try to dig in and fix it makes them look worse.

Combos do have a lot more potential and I agree on expanding them. I would love to be able to proc two fields at the same time for unique effects, i.e. u drop a poison field and a water field on top of it then blast for Acid Rain, or something like that.

I think the downstate is fine, it adds another level of strategy, plus spiking ppl is so much fun, but I think once you’re dead dead you should auto respawn in 15 seconds.

Hahaha love it!

If you like to use the waypoints, than do your duty and escort a yak today!

Vaxx.3178:

Jaysin X.6740:

I said the mechanics were not great. Anet is aware of it, but they ain’t changing anytime soon. So we have to make do with what we got.

Right. So my point is, why do people keep bringing up l2p and micro manage, when there is not much to micro manage?

If pets took less AoE damage, could actually hit a moving target, and we had control over the skills, then yes, I could see it as a l2p issue. But its not.

Idk why other ppl bring it up, but I was simply saying we have to learn to play with what we’re given. Sure there’s not a ton to micro manage, but there’s enough to make a difference if we actively incorporate it into our playstyle. A dead pet is useless, and 2 dead pets really handicap the Ranger. That’s why I think it’s important to use what we have to always have a pet in the fight. Sure it sucks and sometimes there’s nothing you can do before ole Wolfy gets nuked, but it’s been like this for a year and Anet has made it clear it’s not changing soon.

Vaxx.3178:

Jaysin X.6740:

We know the pets aren’t perfect (or the tools we’re given), but if you’re not willing to learn how to micro-manage your pet to keep them alive, attacking, and their skills accessible, you might wanna roll a different class. Not that it’s easy, and it can be incredibly frustrating at times, but it’s absolutely necessary to get the most from the class.

This is the tired and old “l2p” excuse, trying to cover up failed pet mechanics. You don’t have much “micro-manage” abilities when our control over the pet is minimal.

It has nothing to do learning how to mico-manage a pet. In PvE, sure it aint hard. In WvW it is a mess.

1. We control one pet ability that has a delay. That is 1/2 kitten d. Do we REALLY need one button for attack and another for retreat? No. One button for attack/retreat, another for “tail swipe/leap/posion/ etc”, and one for swap. Being able to control what your pet does a little more makes more sense.

2. We have melee pets that cant hit a moving target due to world-wide pet AI. Ever run though a pack of wolves without getting hit? Yup, so do enemy players. Anet cant fix this because it would effect every wolf, drake, etc. Again, 1/2 kitten d.

The failings of the pet (and lack of control) is only one reason why this class is sub par.

I said the mechanics were not great. Anet is aware of it, but they ain’t changing anytime soon. So we have to make do with what we got.

We know the pets aren’t perfect (or the tools we’re given), but if you’re not willing to learn how to micro-manage your pet to keep them alive, attacking, and their skills accessible, you might wanna roll a different class. Not that it’s easy, and it can be incredibly frustrating at times, but it’s absolutely necessary to get the most from the class.

Durzlla.6295:

nagymbear.5280:

Sooo… fear is affected by condition duration as well as stun duration? Enjoy it while it lasts I guess…

It’s always done this with moment of clarity, but it seems I’m the only one on this forum who used a boar pet with moment of clarity before it got buffed to ridiculous proportions.

I’ve been trying this out since the 10th and I saw your SB/GS thread.
Soooo much fun once you get used to always grabbin a skull,kittenock when you can.