Guild Wars 2

If you know you solve this easy, champs give loot ok fine but for winning the event to actually be profitable, give them more than what the champs drop, maybe special boxes with higher change to get exotics or precursor, but i mean real high change not those useless yellows or something like that. But seems like anet encourage the farming instead of winning the event so whatever,

i Lost almost everything last night in the forge (thanks anet) so today i did 1 invasion and went full champ farming, even when aetherblades were done, we still did the remaining ones. I got so much loot, like 30 boxesfrom champs, 10 more different kind but both exotic. Lot better than winning the event, even tho we won that invasion, the end reward is what 10 boxes overall? 5 which you pick and are not even exotic i believe lol. Not worth it, is more profitable to farm than try to win the event

I gotta agree, i love the loot and everything but even tho i follow the zerg most of the time one day i was at the fish in frostgorge and said fish up, lets go kill it in chat. Well they reply wait for the zerg, i was like well is not your champ, i have the right to play too as other people have and kill the champ whenever i want to. The result were insults, ignores, reports and calling me troll just because i wanted to kill a champ lol

I mean the event is good, the loot is good but sadly i think this is doing more to divide the community than is going it to unite it. People just have become mindless and greedy all of a sudden, kinda good subject and test for a social experiment at some university or something lol, people change with money and power, they’ll do anything to get it. The end justify the means…

With all the recent updates, pets are been more of a burden to play with. Most of the time my pet is dead, they take so much damage that they dont survive longer than the 20 sec pet swap cooldown. Even ranged pets while live longer somehow end up in a bad spot at the wrong time. What pet are you guys using or strategies to keep it alive, is it better just to leave it passive and lose all that damage, which is like 40% i suppose.

Which they fixed a lot of things wrong with pets in the next patch but it wont happen sadly and i doubt it will in the near future.

even tho this patch gave us good things like the wallet, IMO it did more harm than good. No one goes to the pavillion anymore, i dont see as much people in wvw in fact i just logged out because the game was deserted. Everyone is just farming champions, even tho i love the loot and i need a lot of it to get profit for my legendary but doing it is boring and is affecting other areas of the game. I think there are other ways to give players t6 mats and other things without recurring to this zerg champ farming thing.

so yea i think overall is the worse patch so far or at least one of them.

Durzlla.6295:

Chicho Gosho.6507:

I was told that you can stack 2 of the same spirits – one traited and one not traited. Maybe he was talking about that.

This you can do, I noticed it when I was running PvE stuff with a pug ranger who mid instanced saw me and my spirits + pet weren’t dying so he tried to mimic me…

If all they do is make it so they don’t stack I could care less…. If they nerf my kittening spirits though…

that would be and alright nerf i suppose, doesn’t affect spirit viability while it breaks the 2 rangers teams viability in spvp. That would be ok, i dont care of they stack or not.

I think they are going to nerf rangers more, probably this coming august 6 patch. Currently if you are watching the tournament livestream there is a team in NA abusing dual spirit rangers and people in the chat are complaining.

I think during the EU livestream someone asked Jon Peters about spirit rangers (he was around during the livestream) and well i think he did mention something but i didn’t catch it, too much caos ppl commenting, not sure. He did mention other things also for the patch non class related like lvl 1, 2, 3 graphics of spells or anything but whatever.

well see

I think things are getting a little better. The shortbow seems alright but its damage isnt so good, at least that is what i feel. is pistol/dagger good to use? i kinda like that more but i heard is mostly use for conditions and well once i reach more levels i want to build my thief for power and dmg (i suppose that is what thief do better right?) is it ok to use P/D in a power build?

OIIIIIO.7825:

Hi NemesiS.6749, I main a thief and would like to make some suggestions.

1. Try S/P, it is great for leveling since you get cleave damage and blinds
2. Keep Short bow as a weapon swap this will also allow you to do AoE Damage
3. Time your dodges vs mobs, they have a tell for their high damage skills
4. Build some Toughness and Vitality while learning to play thief as it will make it a less frustrating experience. As you get better and can hold your own replace toughness and vitality gear for more damage gear (In the End you will probably be Zerker- It’s GREAT!!)
5. If you have more questions for me feel free to pm or message me in Game

-Jeep-

well about the build, im just lvl 30 so there isnt much just 10 on power and 10 more on the crit trees. I have been reading sword is bad so that is why i havent try it much, ill go and buy one and see how it goes.

Currently i use D/D and D/P, going to buy a few stuff and see if i survive a little longer. I love the mechanic of the class and all that but so far is the class i had more trouble with, i lvled a mesmer to 80 and even tho they sucked the first few lvls until around 60 it wasnt as bad as this.

I am level 34 with my thief and i never had any trouble with other classes like with the thief, i die with 2 or 3 hits even lot one single lvl 32 pirate in Gendarran Fields, cant take SPs on my own lol. I am always dying

dont know what to do, this is probably not the class for me.

Narcemus.1348:

WoodenPotatoes, the man he is talking about is the one we are talking about and we are stating that the PC’s get plenty of chances to KILL the evil necromancer in GW1. I find it highly unlikely that Verata has anything to do with the movement of the castle or the creation of the elementals protecting the city. The creation of elementals is only seen as possible through Elementalists, which we believe uses a different division of magic than necromancers.

well to be honest i didnt watch the whole video, they are so dam long lol but i will later, is rly interesting.

WoodenPotatoes in youtube have nice videos, all i know is mostly thanks to those even tho i never finish them, they are loooong lol. I didnt even knew Rata Sum is an anagram of Mursaat. That video about asurans and mursaat was rly interesting.

Well i am not GW lore expert or even played Gw1 at all (even tho i wanted to, was always interested) but i saw a youtrube video of rottenpotatoes or something like that with the posible story about that castle. Apparently an evil necromancer, the most powerful ever live there, he apparently discover eternal life or something, he was kicked from the magic group for been evil or wanting to experiment with dark magic. The guy rly have nice videos about lore

when will the patch go live?

Its been going on for a while, first it was BM bunker rangers, then i read that spirits are OP and now thief crying because we got a 3 sec stealth lol

lol i guess not everyone can be pleased

yea looks rly good, i am liking that stealth shot thing, maybe finally after so so many months (since release) i can put the SB down, i will miss my Rox shortbow skin tho is pretty lol

no offense but all i have seen recently in wvw are necros, the aoe red circles indicator on the floor are infinite lol, people jumped the necro bandwagon and this was already expected. I have a low level necro so i am no expert in the class but if all of a sudden people started using necros in wvw is for a reason, because they were OP.

dont know if the changes will be good or enough because i have them tried but at least they are trying to fix the class so i think even if is not turn out to be that good, at least we know they are trying.

i beat that norn with mango pie when i had the chance, he is almost unbeatable.

Rangers are definitely not the best in wvw, i still use mine mostly but there is rly not much i bring to a fight, no AoE. Only thing i bring is spotter lol

I play my guardian sometimes and wow so much loot bags and i do so much more, in just a few minutes i earned many items, badges that take me hours to get on my ranger.

Manekk.6981:

Puandro.3245:

Elementalist are the best ones to make use of it. Guards can too and probably rangers if they use mixed weapons like sword/SB/GS.

Yes mostly I was thinking our 1h options, sword/axe/torch/warhorn it’s alot of both types of damage in those.

I already have full celestial trinkets so I’ll definetly try having the full armor aswell in terms of dps I think it will be really strong, probably end up a little too squishy for pvp though.

you think it will be good? I was thinking of getting a new set for a condition build with traps or some kind of condition hybrid and thinking of going with celestial but i don’t know

UrMom.4205:

ilr.9675:

UrMom.4205:

I was expecting nerfs to be honest

This is even sadder… but yeah I have to agree with it given current trends.
Especially after I just found a way to get ALL of my Boon-duration Bonuses over 50% (which is something I never found a way to do with my Dervish’s enchantments in the First game without COMPLETELY neutering it in every other way) and also extended my 10 lousy seconds of Swiftness from Nature’s voice into a full 17 seconds… I honestly expected to get about 2 weeks of enjoyment out of it before that’s stripped away just like everything else that’s ever been creative or viable about this class.

• Too bad there’s still a big Cast-Animation & delay on “Guard” while no other shouts in the game have a Cast delay b/c shouts have NEVER had delays. WTH is that about?? It’s literally the SHORTEST line that any class ever shouts

Yeah no kidding…i made a build last night that gives me perma might stacks…but i wont talk about it much cause i don’t want it nerfed…perma might?….what are you talking about….I was talking about the new weapon skins…………

Yea i was testing a build like that, most be similar to yours or maybe yours work better, who knows but i am kinda happy with it, works better than expected. I dont even have sigil of battle or any of those runes that buff might duration or something. so probably it can do better if i upgrade a few things.

also how does signet of renewal works with signet of the beastmaster? does i pass the conditions to my pet and then he send it back to me? or do i get all the conditions from allies? lol

If is that way seem kinda useless to have since i want to get cleanse from conditions not get lot of them.

yea i was thinking of going sword/warhorn since sword skill 1 also give might to pet and horn 5 but changing GS for it will be hard, i like GS. I also tough about adding sigil of battle, also beastmaster bond seem to fit well but i dont know what is more worth, signet mastery or BMBond. I honestly don’t think is that bad, sounds alright

I honestly trying to find a build i feel comfortable with, been trying that for long but with the recent patch well things have change. Most of my gear is knight (still need 2 armor pieces), have some cavaliers rings.

Traps are good but for wvw (which is what i play mostly) i think signet of the hunt is very helpful so reducing the traps to just 2 of them and without stun breaker, since traps don’t stunt break. Still i did good with traps in wvw.

Anyway i am going to try a signet build with Beastmaster Might, Fortifying bond so i get might every time i use a signet and my pet also get the might, with companions might the pet will get even more buffed. The build currently is 30/15/5/20/0, have anyone try something similar? is it viable? I have around 1900 toughness and if i change the 2 piece of gear i am missing i will get around 2100 (suppose that is enough or at least decent to survive some in wvw), around 46% crit change. A problem would be the lack of aoe (no piercing arrows) and SB is still my favorite weapon so that would suck but i suppose i can deal with it.

I agree, even tho i manage to beat the aetherblades dungeon with my ranger on the first days without much problem really but the last boss was a pain. Couldnt keep the pet alive much due to the AoE cannons and well the pet is stupid to just stay 20 feet away from me in the AoE blast area.

Southsun dungeon was probably the worse with people insulting me and quitting groups because i was a ranger and the pet activated the traps and such lol. Ranger becomes more of a pain with each patch and release pssss and lets not even mention other issues with the class, sadly i kinda refuse to stop playing a ranger even tho i have a guardian which is 1000000 times better. Maybe i am a masochist

Rangers been garbage or broken and even more with every patch. Its just hurts to log in to my ranger but i still do.

I haven’t use a longbow since the game released and i discover and found out it was and is garbage. I still have a longbow around but even with all the nerfs that SB have gotten to try and make people use more Longbow, i still like the shortbow.

Is kinda weird, trying to nerf a weapon to the ground so people go and use the other option or make it more appealing. This is probably the first time i see something like this happen in an MMO

Chopps.5047:

Umm…black bear gives a long weakness and weakness just got buffed. Also, protect me is a stun break now. Also, pet DPS is super low now anyways. Finally, condi builds don’t rely on pet dps.

Black bear aint that bad…in a zerg, brown bear does alright. Stability training in a zerg, for sure, if you want to get off that condi removal.

I hope that helps, sorry I disagree about bears. Are they great? No. But there’s not much great about ranger atm so what do you expect? Still, it’s one of the decent options out of many average options.

i am not a bear user and havent use one since the game released probably but i see his point. Pets dmg got nerfed so whatever why not use a bear instead, plus it can be alright with protect me i suppose (haven’t try it). Like he said there isnt anything great with rangers now so wth is not like bear users are missing much.

Aden Celeste.3650:

dodgerrule.8739:

Anyone whom assumes that rangers suck deserve to be burned alive. Rangers are what you make of us. We are meant for soloing, we can do things that other classes can’t, such as tanking a boss and having your pet dps him, or quickly switching to a pet whom is generally good and using him to tank while you quickly condition. Whatever you want to do as a ranger is possible.

What other class is able to attack while healing or resing an ally?

For how long have you been using a ranger? LOL

I suppose he is new lol, made me laugh. Dont know if he is really serious or messing around mmmm…

i have long time ago, have logged in like 2 or 3 times in the last 3 weeks or so and after the update it cost me just to log in and do the daily, is a pain to even use my ranger.

ask them if we should stay with the ranger class and hope for a better future or finally reroll a Guardian or something else. Seem like they are destroying rangers with every patch since the game released

I stopped playing and honestly i am not missing the game. Rangers are so mess up and our future is not bright. I am going to log in finally to try and do monthly and be done with it

the question is what to do now? My in game name is bowsome, aint so awesome now lol. never was anyway

so what to do now with my shortbow? What to do now with the ranger in wvw?

wait for me too…

People seen to forget that we already get punishes by confusion and now torments is added to conditions which will hurt rangers because we are so mobil. More nerfs plz

we get this nerf and to compensate we get 14% dmg increase to skills that are there for the utilities and not to deal damage. More proof that anet dont play rangers or have any idea what they are doing with the class. Steam summer sale is coming and i have lot of other games unplayed, i think is time to give a rest to GW2

I cant understand they decrease the ranger of SB and to compensate give 14% more damage to skills that are there for utilities so therefor the increase is useless. Seriously Anet have no north and this prove it, is over. Reroll there not much in the future for rangers

I hope this is wrong, wow i havent log in GW2 or forums in more than a week and this is the kind of surprise i get. Rangers becoming more nerfed with every patch.

that sounds good, the armor maybe. Crafting a pet seems kinda weird tho lol, unless is mechanical. They should inplement something similar to WoW with exclusive pet skins, like that Black Lion in Barrens or the other rare tigers you could get in certain areas and with certain spawn times per day.

Like many people said in the post, save yourself the trouble and dont roll one. I always play Ranger, Hunter like classes in MMOs and well i regret doing it once again on GW2. If you want to use ranged weapons you can roll a warrior which have better support, damage and better everything plus can use rifle or longbow. Thief can use shortbow, Mesmer have Greatsword as ranged and so on. Ranger traits suck, complete traitlines are useless, the pet? lol and the problems just keep coming, with the upcoming pet damage nerf and probably messing one of the few viable builds we have is not even worth the it. SAVE YOURSELF, pick another class and dont look back!

stopped reading when i saw the name Jon Peters, nothing good will come out of it.

if you want damage, reroll.

yet another reason to quit the Ranger class once and for all or the game. Even tho our damage is garbage now we are going to get pet dmg nerf lol and like always we wont get anything in return. Seriously i think this is the only game that go backwards, it get worse with every patch, they should roll back the patches to the beta build, things were probably better at that time.

another reason to use the shortbow.

Divine South Paw.5938:

Hi Valroth,

Just a question, if you were to get full ascended jewelry what stats would they be as I can see that you’re mixed emerald and cavalier, would you do 1knights and rest cavalier?

Thanks

well there is a calculator skill site which you can add trinkets, gear and everything so you can have an idea of how your character will be before wasting money. In my case armor knights with ranger runes, knight weapons, zerker ascended amulet and accessories n rings cavalier. you get like 2k toughness, almost 50% crit chance and ok crit damage

im using this same build kinda but with 30 wilderness. Dont have yet cavaliers rings but that is my plan. GS is awesome, just now invaders try to take the fort in wvw and i tanked there zerg like a bauss lol, i almost filled 2 bags with loot launching GS attacks, maul and everything. Plus the movility of GS 3 is awesome, cant live without it, SB is my fav weapon.

I am liking GS so much i am really thinking of getting twilight for my ranger lol.

yea aoe is kinda a problem, even more for me with shortbow. Traps are good but i dont use them so. In wvw is a pain if your planning to get marks, i used my guardian with staff in wvw and wvw love the aoe and i get a lot more with it than with ranger.