Guild Wars 2

Rich Fuel.7253:

do not remove!1

OMG I LOVE THIS IMAGE! <3

Saving this for teh cute big cuddly beasties

Lorelei.7809:

Pleeeease! a vote to keep as is from me and hubby ^^

:D Yay! My hubby also likes it

latinkuro.7304:

as adorable as it is, it is also very annoying !
I can’t wait to not have this giant thing occupying so much of my screen !

its not annoying, its actually very amusing and brings a smile to a lot of faces….

sorry you see it as a menace, but a lot of us are in love with the cuddlebeast

Relshdan.6854:

Kailee.8790:

mistsim.2748:

Kailee.8790:

Using druid with full clerics…. dps is pretty terrible… 200-300 per tick on staff 1, healing on staff 1 is averaging 100 per tick.

are you talking about pvp? I wouldn’t recommend cleric’s for pvp, try celestial with heal runes. damage is not too bad, but the sustain is great.

Sustain isn’t quite the issue… Someone posted a thread informing the healing coefficient on druids…

With druid supposed to be a class hell bent on healing… everything scaling so low is just pitiful

purposely undertuned like every elite on it’s first beta, good thing we have more betas for tweaking and testing…..oh, wait

Exactly rels, its like I don’t see these other classes with a 1-5% scaling on power/toughness/vitality/condition dmg etc etc…

And why we don’t see things like that, because then their damage would be significantly lower values…

As a druid we already lack damage, and apparently the powerful heals.

All hail the adorable mega bristleback <3

Ofir.2405:

Look at some of the screenshoots , I wouldnt want to mess with a creature like this XD
But its scary in a good way

its not scary… I found the big lug to be super kitten adorable when supersized…. I squeed with the joy of a fangirl

Its true that the new pets are completely disabled in pvp

mistsim.2748:

Kailee.8790:

Using druid with full clerics…. dps is pretty terrible… 200-300 per tick on staff 1, healing on staff 1 is averaging 100 per tick.

are you talking about pvp? I wouldn’t recommend cleric’s for pvp, try celestial with heal runes. damage is not too bad, but the sustain is great.

Sustain isn’t quite the issue… Someone posted a thread informing the healing coefficient on druids…

With druid supposed to be a class hell bent on healing… everything scaling so low is just pitiful

For example, everything on staff heals for 5% or less of your healing power except staff 3 which is 100%

Photinous.4628:

These numbers seem to indicate that investing in healing power stats is totally not worth it.

Exactly, then it begs to reason “Is a healer even worth it?”

Its not scary, when I originally saw it i was like O.o “….”DDDDDDDDDDDDD YAY!!!!!!!

from the animation on staff 1, it feels like im holding up a staff like a sacrifice… just looks terrible

Using druid with full clerics…. dps is pretty terrible… 200-300 per tick on staff 1, healing on staff 1 is averaging 100 per tick.

With so much Healing Power, its really not feeling all that powerful…

Druid has substantially less damage than ranger and is fairly a ton more boring solo.
Currently in the beta i walk up to a mob.. hit staff 1, then alt tab…

Druid can sustainably fight but it takes a good couple minutes per 1 kill depending on what you are fighting

Please Anet, let us have this if nothing else… Druid heals are meh, the damage is minimal…

but the godzilla pet is the best thing we got and it doesn’t affect anything nor change stats.

I love the mega cute giant <3

Savish, I love this and pray it is intended… Else they should call it a feature because this does not break the game in any way… It allows us something goofy and fun to look at and play with

ChillyChinaman.6057:

nagymbear.5280:

Kailee.8790:

Ok after testing, healing druid is completely worthless in pvp.

Secondly, even with the movespeed bonus from traited druid skill, in addition to the signet for 25% more speed…. Reapers are outrunning you easily

Aside from that,… Staff 1 damage is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than a single AA on a bow by at least 2-3x minimally

What makes healing druid completely worthless? Poor healing power scaling, or healing not required in this amount in pvp?

Just wondering, how are we getting outrun with effective permanent swiftness? I don’t recall Reaper’s having move speed buff higher than 33%

Once you find out, let me know… I am still searching for that answer… Reaper is dashing happily with constant aoe spins while chasing you down…

And yes i have the 25% movespeed signet and the 33% skill and I also took the ability to roll cancel any mobi impairing conditions to test… yet still being outran

aydos.8259:

I see people talking about the Druid’s damage output a lot, but I thought a Druid was meant to be a healer.

I literally came back to the game and bought the xpack this week just b/c the game finally had an actual healer.

Problem is I am trying to test the viability of Full Blown Healer… and the marginal returns are kitten poor…

over 1k healing attribute… healing for 100-200 on our main staff skill

nagymbear.5280:

Kailee.8790:

Ok after testing, healing druid is completely worthless in pvp.

Secondly, even with the movespeed bonus from traited druid skill, in addition to the signet for 25% more speed…. Reapers are outrunning you easily

Aside from that,… Staff 1 damage is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than a single AA on a bow by at least 2-3x minimally

What makes healing druid completely worthless? Poor healing power scaling, or healing not required in this amount in pvp?

The healing from Staff 1, is about 100-200 per tick on a full cleric set + jewelry, the damage is about 200-300 per tick, each tick takes about 1.5 seconds

Ok after testing, healing druid is completely worthless in pvp.

Secondly, even with the movespeed bonus from traited druid skill, in addition to the signet for 25% more speed…. Reapers are outrunning you easily

Aside from that,… Staff 1 damage is SIGNIFICANTLY lower than a single AA on a bow by at least 2-3x minimally

Good to See You Irenio, Please don’t leave us alone for so long again…. we grow lonely and terrified when roy comes in trying to remedy things..

Would definitely love some static % dmg reduction on pets

Id have to agree they should share boons, but PASSIVELY NON-TRAITED If rangers have x% amount of their damage locked inside of a meaningless and sometimes often clueless AI, we already have one thing being a downside.

The Ranger and pet should have a seamless bond and grow equally as strong as their counterparts.

Why not give the healer 100% credit that matches any target’s contribution when healing them. Allow us to tag a wide audience to make us more inclined to heal

Bryzy.2719:

StinVec.3621:

Kailee.8790:

In other words, if ya go full healing… YOU GET NOTHING, YOU LOSE, GOOD DAY SIR!

+1

Never go full healing.

+1

m8 I think he just went full healing…

Not even once.

Mother of God… removes sunglasses

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

I made the suggestion that Lingering Light could fix this issue. Make it deal X% of the health healed as damage as a PBAoE around the Druid whenever they heal something. Also, make the damage scale with Healing Power, not Power.

Would love this +1

Photinous.4628:

Kailee.8790:

instead of boycotting, how bout lobbying specific developers for them to resign/step down peacefully?

That’s pretty low to ask people to give up their jobs just so we can enjoy a game more. I’m as frustrated as any other ranger, but not to the level of asking for this.

Im not asking such, its more of the pathetic idea they contemplated with boycotting a class… It won’t bring attention if nobody plays it. Just used another metaphor just as rediculous

instead of boycotting, how bout lobbying specific developers for them to resign/step down peacefully?

I believe hallucinating, if so… Can ya share whatever ya have… I need to forget about Roy and this super fast nerf

Dradiin.8935:

Maximum Potato.5923:

I don’t want to default to the whole “Anet hates rangers” argument – I think that mentality is asinine and whiny.

But it’s hard to ignore how quickly this was changed, especially when looking at things like the D/D ele and icebow, as you said. Anet certainly isn’t behaving in a way that treats all classes equally at the moment :/

Because of the past 3 years, it is a fact that the developers are hypocrites, and play favorites with the classes they enjoy to play.

I guarantee you that Roy dood does not play a ranger. I bet he mains as a Ele of Warr.

Or rev, or necro… anything but ranger

AgitatedFox.5287:

Kitty.1502:

Dradiin.8935:

Wolfey.3407:

Guys, please keep things constructive and classy.

You have ANETs full undivided attention, really… you do at the moment. I’ve talked to Gaile for a while last night and I can assure you she is not giving you lip service to make you feel better and forget about this.

I volunteered to help out this week and early next week to do reports for Ranger & Druid as well. If they would like, I will be more than glad to include Ranger & Druid into my weekly reports alongside PvP.

TDLR:
Don’t make kitten out of your selves, you have anets full attention, don’t waste it or use it to take a quick puck shot at someone.

Look i truly do appreciate you coming here and advocating restraint, for me if this was 3 years ago i would be restrained. It’s is 3 years later, i have been restrained enough, i have been patient enough, i have dealt with all the neglect and outright undeserved mistreatment, i do not claim to speak for others but i bet deep down alot of those of us who main Rangers are FED UP.

Do you think Warriors would be happy if there New Elite Spec line was to be a healer ?

If Roy up and decided Warriors might stacking needed to be nerfed just like he decided WHaO was to be changed so drastically, that the Warrior community would be happy and pleased ?

It is years and years of this type of treatment, and it falls squarely on the shoulders of the developers.

While i will restrain from outright vitriolic statements, i am no longer going to be passive and let this continue without making it understood.

Please don’t tell me to relax it’s just i game, i know that, but it is the game i decide to place hours of my time into, hundreds of dollars into. I can choose to do this with another game, i don’t i choose this game, and i chose the Ranger as my favorite 3 years ago, and not once on that day did i think how great it would be to become a healer. . . Noe is it exciting to be barred from joining upper tier content because my class is so unreasonably useless compared to others.

/signed This is exactly how I feel. 3 years of neglect is enough.

Thirded

Fourth, /Signed

Enough is Enough Anet =(

Or how bout adding in passive buffs for each type of pet, for example Bear would give toughness passively to allies around it.

In other words, if ya go full healing… YOU GET NOTHING, YOU LOSE, GOOD DAY SIR!

Agree with ya guys, “How dare you bring rangers semi close to the meta, you are fired!”
=.=

@OGDeadHead.8326 It wasn’t a buff, it was a bluff buff that wanted to be a buff but actually was bluff :p

The problem with being healbots is 0% contribution towards loot. If anything I would like to see them invert how contribution works, such as healing #’s = direct contribution

For example if Subject X has damaged Z number of monsters; and Subject F heals Subject X, F will get credit for everything X has touched

For Devs Reading this,

The main issue is how relatively fast you intentionally patch/nerfed the ranger in comparison to every other class who has had plenty of time to enjoy being rediculously overpowered.

Since you gave rangers less than 36 hours to shine, rangers will be expecting/demanding you to pull through and nerf anything similar/overpowered IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME, NO MORE LONG DELAYS.

You just issued yourself a challenge devs, either keep up with rapid patch/nerfs or sit on your hands long enough to match how idle you sit normally.

Im with Corpus Christi.2057 on this,

You may want to remove all healing by 99.9% and damage by equal, also remove the ability to group heal before Roy comes in claiming its overpowered and unbalanced.

Better yet, just hit that big delete button on druid because its becoming pretty evident that he likes to gut other classes that he was not necessarily in charge of making or bringing classes in line with another. Oh… Wait…

But seriously, 1 day to patch/nerf the ranger… fastest speed ever to fix an underpowered class to ensure it never sees the sun.

If Roy wants to test balance,

Why doesn’t he look at how spammable the dang necro is with that shield lifebar thing, at times I gotta do 3-4 FULL LIFE BARS TO KILL A KITTEN NECRO!

Aside from the necro’s abilities pretty much having life steal constantly on near everything.

For Rangers, instead of the problem with duo wielding 2 LB, how bout we have a handful of arrows per shot, like 10 or so… maybe 20… all individual dmg

About Animations/appearances…. will the Bifrost staff have a fully rainbow beam with the auto attack or no?

MusicMuse.5749:

The seed bloom is fairly easy and powerful, among other things I’d say that the way druid is looking now it’s going to be at least moderate at Condi cleansing in real situations.

As far as sacrificing dps? I don’t really see it. Sure if you are healing you aren’t damaging, but like I said it saves others from having to stop and do it. When druids are not healing they are still one of the best range dps, and a very good melee dps

but in that a problem arises, healing does not give you credit towards loot at the end. If you primarily focus on healing… you shaft your contribution towards the kill and end up getting less/none

Agree with Lord Trejgon on this

Agree with Chrispy, so many threads merged in here that its so derailed that the japan bullet train is towing a steam powered locomotive in georgia while somehow being IN A WHOLE FRICKEN ’NOTHER WORLD!

The merge everything that has the word “druid” in it IS NOT WORKING… STAHP MERGING

From the preview I would have to assume that the Guild Hall is instance based and not specifically on the map, which would be best.

If you only had X number available, then it should be a constant neverending siege.

If you take it, you have to defend it indefinitely… so on and so forth

else if it was not limited (instanced) then people would fight for a guild hall 1x and keep it forever

can I get a certificate of authenticity on your sources and prove that they actually have documented evidence that they have historical accuracy on their claims

Wanze.8410:

Blaine Tog.8304:

Wanze.8410:

There are no healers

Someone hasn’t been keeping up with current events…

As far as i heard, druids heal by dealing damage….

Actually your wrong, and sadly off by a landslide….

Druid pretty much 1-2 dmg skills w/staff everything else is heal heal heal, as for the glyphs and crap, heal buff slight buff, and no dmg

So all in all, they pigeon-holed the druid to exclusively heals, even priests in other games get more damage skills

I am a solo Sylvari ranger, sometimes duo with my significant other..

If its true you cant really PUG raids, then what the hell is the point in ever playing a single class that became dedicated to benefiting large groups only?

In other words, I am feeling punished additionally for not joining up with guilds I have no interest with. I play this game for me and my other, nobody else

Thz.7569:

Kailee.8790:

We asked to be in the meta…

What they gave us
“Come with us, sit in the corner over there, do your healing healing crap and we will let you know when you can leave. Oh and face the corner, and wear this dunce cap”

How did you get that from the livestream? What I saw was some good damage with a lot of support utility.

I was referring to how us rangers wanted to be in the meta. Rangers aren’t a healing class we were designed for mixed combat (ranged/melee).

Sure they brought us into the meta so they believe, but they threw that entire prior idea out the window and shot it enough times to make sure its dead

I agree with Atherakhia.

We asked to be in the meta…

What they gave us
“Come with us, sit in the corner over there, do your healing healing crap and we will let you know when you can leave. Oh and face the corner, and wear this dunce cap”

Seen better development talk from the developers of Duke Nukem Forever

If they want druid to be a healer, flat out remove all healing from classes not designated AND designed exclusively for HEALING