Guild Wars 2

Just add an extra description in the skill tooltip

“You might anger a lot of people if you use this skill irresponsibly”
“Every time you use this skill wrongly, a bunny dies”

and a long list of “do not use when…”

I brought this up in a less subtle way. More like a #inyourface thing and my post got infracted. Hope this approach works well for you!

I’ll just stick to topic;

2 drake pets is enough for a ranger to easily solo a fully upgraded camp + mercenaries (hylek/ogre/dredge) in 2 or 3 pulls, done before any of the guards respawn.

1 drake is enough for every other situation; those can even just be facetanked by a ranger without pets in under 1 minute.

scerevisiae.1972:

• the #2 ought to be the leap forwards
• the #3 ought to be the leap backwards
• serpent’s strike (the evasive roll currently on #3) ought to chain off the #2 forward leap.
• if the above changes were made, there wouldn’t really need to be the root/leap on the #1.

I don’t like that “improvement”

Sword two you already have two leaps you can use to make a combination of two leaps of either backwards/forwards, backwards/backwards, forwards/forwards, forwards/backwards…

Sword three helps me evade on a point where I don’t want to leap off somewhere when I fight people in cliffs/tight spots.

I’m not saying what we have now is perfect but the change proposed seriously gimps ranger mobility and usefulness as a PVP weapon.

being rangers, we have the luxury of knowing that we can technically just walk away from the entangle vines, but I still bring it because I always seem to find bad players who get stuck in it. ripley’s believe it or not!

tips for those new to ranger entangle

-condi duration runes/food would let u walk out of it, yes just walk
or
heal spring or remove condi with something (signet/bear) at the moment the vine pulsed…
or
time your evades so that it would end right after the start of the next pulse, then walk away…

and other power classes can just kill the vine and they’re free… or shadow step/teleport …

I wish ANET would make a much more competitive elite and not keep it as an elite that makes us pray that bad players get stuck in it

Doing some tests lately. Right now I’m trying to find where this thing best fits, notwithstanding it’s bad reputation currently.

The idea is based around evades from gs (means you’re evading half the time just auto-attacking), pair it with the gs4 block, and an extra 20% chance of destroying projectile would make you a boring thing to fight with when you’re up against someone who’s primarily ranged. I’m testing this using two sets, Superior Rune of the Defender with full clerics, and the same runes with combination of Knights/Berserkers/Valk-Serker trinkets and tested them with multiple food. The heals are great but then we will obviously be faced with the question, then go full melee or combination of melee/range? Until more people go around playing/testing it, this will still take a lot of time…

EOTM is PVE farmers map. Always have, always will be.

Abit lower than what the basic version originally costs and I’m fine with that.

For all the amount of gold they’ve been taxing us so far you would think that Lion’s Arch could once again attain its former glory…

I have a few to put on multiple camps +5 supply buffs for my server in WvW…

Sweet! call of the wild now syncs with healing spring. I always use it because of lower cast time, condi removals, is a burst heal and extra regeneration in my defensive rotation eg sword 2, heal spring, blast, sword 2 desired position, a sword 3 before or after these (all this gives me more heals than troll/heal as one which offer nothing but just health).

today while i was roaming in enemy borderlands an enemy said this to me…

what is a radar? i’ve never used any outside program in my life so I’m not sure what this is…

but I’m happy a mesmer with full stacks against me called a ranger using hacks, i guess I’m good

http://imgur.com/0rm3no8

The first time I’ve ever had any contact with an enemy was when some guy out of nowhere asked if I’d love to get it on with a pig (he wrote condescendingly as if I don’t speak English). I asked if we should have it settled outside, he gave an address to a house down under…

I won’t want to talk to an enemy unless it happens to be after a good fight or if I want to comment on the quality of the teabagging.

has 5000+ hours in the game across all characters and doesn’t have a star/map completion on any character…

Kilger.5490:

Dont knock poison trap. You might be thinking too much of spvp or 1-1. I like poison trap because it poisons a zerg (though youre right I use sword and marsh drake). Its also direct damage and pulses unlike spike trap, so good chance to trigger flame burst and it really spreads it around. I really like poison. It definately shows you who is packing the condi removal in a crowd. Its also on a low cooldown so works well with trapper runes.

Because of the weapon set that I’m using (no SB), I am also very fond of Viper’s Nest. I want to keep my evades for a situation that calls for it (to sync with a mesmer’s shatter burst etc, or the burst in the rotation of any other class) and not for just applying poison.

We can already get AOEs for torment (torment sigil), bleeds (in a trapper build just about every hit can bleed), burning (torch is way better and reliable than flame trap in keeping burning up; flame trap won’t be needed, and also pointless, if you use torch because burning doesn’t stack in intensity) and Viper’s Nest adds more to your AOE kitten nal. Because it pulses 3 times (traps can crit), in my build it also increases rate of proc-ing torments and bleeds from sigil/traits, all in a very short cool-down. It is, to me, the MVP of all traps. I have been playing trap ranger for 1 1/2 years now roaming in wvw, so if anyone wants to discuss it in PM, feel free to message me as I don’t like reading the forums much.

open world pvp…or at least a server with that.

cafard.8953:

And Mesmer GS5, and Guardians polluting fire/water fields with light fields, etc. But yes, it’s all about rangers.

Finisher will work on the oldest field. And when I put down my fire field again, I’ll just reposition it to avoid other fields, or not have any considerable overlap, and enough that it’kittenting the intended targets.

edit: it’s -letter h-itting the intended targets

Hi, only watched 1-2 minutes… you need to use the sb2 more often, always use when they don’t have poison on them because the skill has a very short cooldown. The poison cuts their heal/regen…

ok

the opening scene was cringy…

included was quite a number of you shooting from up inside a smc/tower/from a fortified area/terrain advantage… (this is not roaming…)

i notice a few fights you didn’t finish stomping, you were already low and another enemy came in, then the clip switches to another…

all i see in this video is pewpewpewpewpewepwewepew

pewewpepwepwepwe

sorry, watching it longer people will end up brain dead…

This… is brilliant!!

This used to be my GW2 experience scouting the map before the removal of white swords:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/p1UaLWO.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/jKk5Q8s.jpg[/img]

Now I’m actively tailing havoc groups/zergs, picking off stragglers, sniping their tails, communicating much more with people on the map, kitten people off because I keep following them… they get kittened off and leave more often lately.

Of course, majority (maybe 99%) don’t agree with how this works because they don’t like to do active scouting. But my wvw has gotten better lately.

Celestial GS/LB? You’d get much better stats with a combination of other sets if you want to keep your LB/GS. That Condition Dmg stat will go to waste. One reason Celestial stats is strong is that might stacks increase both normal and condition dmg. Total dmg output gained from sets that utilize both types of damage when you stack might will be far superior than anything with just one type (this is talking about single player and not party/big groups where you’re better off with power).

Or rework traps for underwater…turn it into a kit, throwable like Engi’s grenades…

I hope you know what it means for something to be broken…

and yeah, some underwater trap won’t hurt…maybe a fishing net or something to haul in whales…

I mean, seriously?
I am glad that there is a PvE, people like it, good for them. We got WvW for who likes it, and WvW who likes that.
Personally I am interested only in WvW. I couldn’t care less about PvE.
Now why do I HAVE to go in a PvE map to do my pet collection completion?
I don’t mind doing all kinds of things in order to do achievements, but those do not involve me having to deal with hormone-raging teenagers who don’t give a crap that you’re not there for their fun. And this no matter what time of day or night I try, I wasted hours trying to get the rest of the pets.
Can we please have the pets not in WvW in a regular WvW environment? I don’t care if you put it in a fully upgraded keep belonging to a server that’s ticking +695. Just not in a PvE environment? It makes no sense.

Rangers have been asking for this since the beginning of time… I guess the answer is No.

I don’t agree with the OP, but in the world, race, religion, and ethnicity stereotypes have fed and fueled the reason for certain countries to go to war and slaughter innocent people for “the greater good”…

Then why not dual torch like Hodgins? Burning autos!!

messiah.1908:

i am playing with LB +GS full zerk with trap rune and 2 traps spike and frost
nice for roaming and zerging if you in bad spot
dmg is nice
the traps are used to cc, stealth and reposition

Yea, this is the approach players will conclude upon testing (when we’re using Trap runes). From experience, anything other than longbow triggers reveal more often.

In theory you can almost perma stealth (3 traps, but not advised, and LB 3 skill). I think people would figure out later that throwing trap trait would add to the survivability (people/ pets/ illusions/ mobs closing in will always be in the radius of a point blank trap thus triggering reveal instantly) so it’s handy to have a trap you can throw just for the stealth (up a wall or anything). This playstyle of stealth, hit from distance, repeat, has a potential to one day turn into a cheese build…

Life won’t be fair to the rest if Asura are intelligent, cute AND sexy…

Before the patch rangers could still have done this albeit with a traited SoS…. suddenly it’s an issue… and called “double trolling”?

It’s perfectly balanced. The mesmer didn’t tie his long and rebonded hair; it interrupted his vision many a time. I guess this weakness comes with the attempt of his to look like a pretty lady.

As a trap Ranger for a year and a half now, Viper’s Nest has always been on my Utility Bar. I didn’t want to waste my evades for the sake of applying poison. Roaming nowadays we always bump into players/groups who have great condi removal though…

I usually either blast finish with a warhorn (sometimes I run Axe-Torch, Sw-WH), or evade with Sw2 first, viper’s nest, then leap back in (the weakness makes sense cause you’re jumping back into melee range). Just like people with common sense who don’t use fire trap when they already have Torch, there’s also some reason when Viper’s Nest I felt not necessary when I run shortbow as it has a short cooldown poison on the second skill.

Anyway, it’s fun running trappers, especially Celestial. Running full ascended celeses a month after they came out. Auto, auto, torch 4, spike trap, viper’s nest, axe 2, axe 3, wait for torch 5 when they run out of burning, swap weapon etc and with torment sigil, sigil of strength (I prefer this over battle since crit rate good enough to maintain 5-6 might stacks permanently if keep hitting), You have nearly every single condition on the your enemy in such a short time (not even using krait runes). Now with axe getting might stacks, my build will be rocking perma 9-10 mights if I just auto (with no runes giving might)…

Suggestions:

1) Make bosses less likely to move/get lured to corners/walls/pillars/stackable locations. Bosses should be the one dictating fights, not being lured to wherever players want to like a tame poodle.

2) Bosses move around more, never always a melee. Maybe they could be given the ability to kite players around, and also be able to teleport often.

3) Spike damage detection. It’s up to the developers how they intend to recognize this but if bosses receives damage that could only that could only mean that it came from exploitable mechanics, bosses may get an invulnerable buff at a certain percentage of their health. Depends on how developers interpret this, and what the numbers should be.

Sorry if this will make people spend a few extra minutes per dungeon run but we do know that we have to move forward by weeding out the silly things inside the game even if it means upsetting a lot of people.

What’s silly is when you press F3 the pet would walk back slowly like it just finished eating a moose.

You finally tried pvp for the first time? It needs practice… I’ve been only WvW-ing since launch (spvp when i get stale matchups), and all I do is fight people… and believe me plenty of other people do the same thing. I don’t think you can just get all the best equipment and then hope you do OK.

OP, why are you mentioning EOTM… it’s a PVE karma farming map. Those enemies there are not just SBI and CD, they just make up part of the many who share the same colors in this particular week.

This may be a legitimate suggestion as since they’ve introduced the Ascended tier, everybody else who’ve worked for that gear has gained abit from it… while part of the Ranger (not necessarily just the damage aspect), which is the pet, remains the same.

I still wish for Pet to be reworked. Imagine if Warriors or Eles lose a percentage of their damage for a certain time, and also their F1 skills and attunements, because someone can “kill it”. I can imagine the reaction. Rangers have long accepted this ridiculously unfair treatment to their class, just an acknowledgement that they’re doing something to correct this would be great at this point.

Was tempted to move from Trap ranger to trait into survival skills that remove condi for each survival skill being used (in addition to Emphatic Bond)… but in the end it just didn’t suit my style of play.

You’d probably want to kitten (wow! they censor the word uh-cess?) the fight before you jump in, I think you’d like to swap out a utility slot for Signet of Renewal sometimes (I’d have it if I see a fully stacked Condi Necro/Engi). I prefer healing spring so that works for me (I heal by sword 2 backwards, blast finish warhorn, leap finish sword 2, kite/dodge if needed abit in the Healing Spring for some more regen…) Then if I don’t feel comfortable I eat a -condi duration food in the middle of battle…

TBH, I feel when you improve condi removal management, you’d feel comfortable with what we Rangers already have (which I don’t think is as good as other classes). Example, some people panic when they get overloaded with all type of different condi and instantly use everything they have… the first thing people have to look at is the type that will be removed. If I see “cover” condi that will go away in 1 or 2 seconds, I will wait them out, then start using condi cleanses once I see that I could start removing the ones that kill you…(burn/bleeds etc) Although this is situational..I’d activate Signet of Renewal when I get Signet of Spite bursts by Necros. As for P/D thieves, get used to their rotation (watch how much HP they have before they stealth too, they sometimes like to milk the regen in stealth) so you know just about when to dodge the Sneak Attack… nothing much I can add unless you ask more specific things… Hope this ranger to ranger advice helps abit!

Guild Wars 2… also known as the Game of Clicks

I noticed it’s been too short to leap with sword two so I mostly sword 2 evade, drop it, if it triggers (if they get to me fast enough), I leap when I still can. I usually don’t bother unless I’m in a tight space.

Generally I’d get a feel of how they burst (how many seconds before the next rotation), then time it exactly when I swap to sword and evade.

As for Sic Em, remember they can use decoy so wait for that and use only while it cools down.

I’m tired of having to double click on them a few hundred times a day… Why not make a right click option on any magic find essence stacks -> Use All?

Maskaganda.2043:

Moa me and I’ll peck you to death!

True, everytime I meet any inexperienced Mesmer that Moas me as a fight starts, I proceed to just auto-atk them to death… this one happened a few days ago.

I think what the OP was asking for was something like this skin as one they use in combat (the one shown here’s town clothes, the winter fash). More feminine/asuraladylike, and not skimpy looking ones that let people take pantyshots of you at nearly every angle…

Why is it that when I read the new traits and changes for other classes I go “drooolll…” and when I look at Rangers, I go “it’s OK, we’re used to this” (I has a sad.jpg)

I have suggested about a year ago that they have a look at a few (very famous) sites that are known to distribute hacking programs for GW2; my post/thread was infracted. I mean, if they have a direct hold at all these programs people have been using rampantly, wouldn’t it be easier for them to see how it works and thus be able to better deal with it?

Asura chicks get all the babes! Ranger in Full Ascended Gear. Can’t see the Ascended Axe but it’s ugly so I don’t mind.

This is only from the PoV of a wvw roamer. Since axes have a a chance to hit a single target more than once, I’ve never used another ranged weapon. When 1 v 1, fight at areas with some mobs, critters, and more often than not, you’ll be hitting them for double damage. Remember to kite the mobs. More often than not, your auto will hit more than theirs, kind of weird thing to say but in practice it really is in a dynamic environment. While flipping camps, the supply depot is also considered a target so you can fight your enemy there and the axes will bounce to the depot and back again. Fighting rangers near their pets help too for obvious reasons and you’ll find that more often than not you’ll be the only one with a pet.

The axe 3 skill I consider a must for myself when dealing with melee classes. With so many ways for them to negate mobility issues, I don’t feel secure when I run out of dodges, and weapon swap is on cooldown. So I love the near perma weakness application.

I don’t use off-hand axe…

so…

Leveling, just go find any food (make sure cheap ones!) with some increase in damage, and go power route for stats, it’s a good idea since mobs take a fairly short while to die, and if anything your pet could become your meat shield. Open world PVE won’t prepare you for dungeons though…. (I exclusively wvw so you might want to ask dungeoneers about that)