Guild Wars 2

Nice info. I completely agree with you Chopps. Kaineng’s Current match-up right now has us outnumbered everyday on our own BL and I must say, I did the exact same thing you did in your hills. Granted I died after a whopping 1.5 -2 minutes of 15v1 but that was more than enough time to allow my own zerg to get in and wipe the 15 or so SoS that was capping our hills.

My point is that traps are very effective to an unsuspecting zerg and 2-3 seconds of anyone not being cleansed is incredibly effective. Natural reaction to your life bar going down is to run for safety or use a heal and most people in a zerg run out to the edges and prematurely cast their heals thus making them less efficient without their heals and falling out of position.

Earlier on you guys kept saying 5 rangers would not be able to stop 5 perma stability frontline fighters, while that may be true to a degree, you’re forgetting that your own zerg also has “perma-stability” as well and the Rangers role in this is to not take out these frontline fighters, but to merely weaken or force the frontline fighters to use up their skills sooner than anticipated because they are not “expecting” rangers to be able to get in, drop traps, AoE, and still be able to get out (no other profession has this capability BTW) and we all know what happens when our skills are on CD while our enemy can still cast or attack. I only say this because a mesmer or necro will not be able to get out in front of the zerg, drop their AoE and run back, and even if they could, it certainly would not be easier or better than a ranger who will survive, and come back in 20 seconds to do it once more and pop their healing spring for the fontline fighters just to add icing on the cake

and yes, 1 ranger in a zerg may not make a big difference but try adding 4-5 and you might be surprised. When traited, food buffed, and sigil, my traps can lay down some hurt at 1800 condition damage even for 2-3 seconds so being unblockable is always a good thing.

TyPin.9860:

One has to be super lucky or has to inticipate pet AND enemy movement to pull it off effectivly. Why can’t it be, that the pet stops everything when u press F2. If it is a boon or smth, it trigger imidiatly. If it is a condition or attack, it attacks right away, meaning it runs to the target and does, what it’s supposed to do. Also the animation should be faster. Any decent half brained player can see the wolf howling and dodge it accordingly (I know it, I have fought rangers for months and months, without being troubled by them). Even when the pet is still executing F2, I want to be able to switch pet without the first pet canceling that ability.

I really like the idea that a pet F2 does not get cancelled when summoning a new pet but that may be asking for too much. I’ve come to accept that the Ranger is the ugly stepchild of GW2 and will always be ignored. No Cinderella story here so I’ve got to make the most of what I’ve got and sadly, our pets ain’t much, but I look at it as a a trait now.

“Beastmaster Tree – Grandmaster Trait – “As long as your pet is alive, randomy hit opponents for X amount damage.”

This mentality has helped me to accept that F2 will not improve and that I should learn to fight without it.

Dalent.9358:

DISCLAIMER: My Ranger is only 44, but I don’t see my concerns getting any better at higher levels.

It seems to me that my Ranger’s damage is split 60/40 with my pet. Now, I understand that as a pet class, my pet has to take away from my damage, but it feel like that’s too much of a split. I feel 80/20 would be more appropriate.

Also, it seems I don’t do steady damage. On my Necro, I can kill a level appropriate creature 1v1 in about half the time my Ranger can do the same. Granted Runes, Sigils, etc. would speed up the process, but I don’t think it would be to that degree.
I know Rangers don’t have strong burst, but unless it’s my playstyle (I run around Longbow/Greatsword or Shortbow/Sword+dagger), I find a problem when I can’t handle more than 2-3 creatures at once.

Can anyone give me an idea? Also, I do PvE. I haven’t gotten into Fractals yet, but I don’t enjoy WvW enough to do it often, and I just don’t currently have an interested in sPvP. So all my decisions are PvE based.

If you’re wanting to be able to take down multiple NPCs at once, i’d suggest you run with a trap build plus a axe/torch as your main weapons. This set up alone will melt mobs down fast. The axe bounces up to 3 targets and your torch #5 pretty much burns anything that steps inside.

Wolfaen.9461:

Can anyone suggest a good GS/LB build?

The build I posted up there can be run with LB/GS too. weapon sets will only change your attack or play style, for the most part, your traits will remain the same. Click on link and swap weapons to your desired weapons and see if it comes to something you want.

Tricare.2946:

This is a better build than ^ imo. Run full apothecary gear. you can swap off-hands if you want.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQRAnf8YjAVJ29VCWoWCiVBB1ewJzjpniYpeXB/D-ToAibU34uxcj8G7NDRWisDYGA

He wanted something viable for dungeons as well as WvW. The BM spec is nice for solo roaming and 1v1 or 1v2 but you’re almost completely useless in a dungeon boss fight. We all know our pets are better off stowed in dungeons so putting anything into BM trait would only be for the extra boost in healing while in dungeons. The knights/soldiers spec is more versed in power+defensive capabilities as well as providing the DPS to help your group.

This is an Axe/Horn + S/D build I use in dungeons, small groups or zergs, and solo capping camps. It works well and you crit fairly often with RaO and Horn#5. (Just don’t use them at the at the same time)

You can switch to Knights armor for added Precision, but that’s based solely on preference. I actually like the added HP + Power of the Soldier’s armor but with knights, you’ll get more toughness and precision. You won’t be glassy but you will still dish out good damage. I’ve come to really like have 2 stun breaks while run solo in WvW because you’ll need them quite a bit if you plan to run around by yourself. Just don’t go spamming them needlessly, only use them when you need to. I highly recommend you try to group up with someone or people because you’ll still be squishy to backstab thieves (but then again, everyone is squishy to them so no worries). Here is the build:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQRBHhxG1IRVkdllgFrlAYpQQ9aFyk94wCX0VA1Mm4kZSA-jkyAYsBRTQgJLQEGASEY2rIasF1ioxqYwUmER1ujioVDA-w

As much as I hate to admit it….yes, entangle does suck. I usually run QZ and Entangle after so it isn’t as telegraphed or dodgeable but even with QZ, entangle is too easy to escape from. We need an elite, that behaves more like an elite.

I’d like it if we have the Entangle vines as an armor that immobilizes and bleeds our targets as we are struck either by physical projectile or melee (kind of like retaliation). The vines will take the damage for us till it is destroyed or duration runs out. On the flip side have entangle do nothing but add toughness if the enemy never strikes us. This is a true nature Elite skill and oh the fun i would have with this

lmao BP guild [HK] 3v1 at your spawn in KBL and you think you’re good. Kind of funny that you even got downed by a ranger in a 3v1. All of a sudden, outnumbering your oponents 3-1 and you get the balls to “tea bag”. This almost puts a bad taste for your server as a whole but luckily your main guilds are still respectful adults who know the “term” gamesmanship. Too bad you didn’t come early enough to save your ele and ranger friends

Nice little 2v1 at golanta with the guardian and warrior, to the mesmer from [TEO] guild, way to laugh at a guy who just fought two of your server mates to a stalemate in a 2v1 with your NPCs helping and you come in while i got my CDs on full blast with your NPCs still attacking me and your thief buddy backstabbing me. Yeah, you’re really good. I applaud you for your bravery

Maladon.5760:

There aren’t very many unforgivable defeats for us over the past year but I’ll always remember SoR recruiting our already heavily diminished playerbase and then hitting the 8 or so of us who were left with 50-60 people at a time when we tried to flip a supply camp. This went on every night for a few matches then when we were finally gonna get rid of them they tanked a matchup so they could do it for another week before advancing to the next tier. So no, losing to BP isn’t that big of a deal.

Aside from a little chest thumping and trolling this matchup (and this thread) are basically unremarkable. No one from any of these three servers will remember any of the details of this match a week from now.

I will remember destroying 3 BP golems because their PUG zerg didn’t take out out our hot oil while attacking KBL Bay on Sunday…plus that gave me extra time to switch channels on TS and call for reinforcements

Needless to say, 5 guys from Kaineng held out long enough for reinforcements to come in against 20-30 BP. Again, no notable organized guilds were a part of this group so I’m assuming these guys were just bored and said “lets take KBL Bay for the heck of it” and yes, KBL Bay was upgraded then so it bought us a bit more time. Last night however is memory I would like to forget since i only saw map updates from my phone, but my guild mates painted a pretty good picture of the a$z rap1n6 they got last night.

Aeros.2046:

Well true. tbh, it has been pretty PvDoor lately. Where have you all gone? If you actually make an effort to defend the keeps, we usually can’t get in. At least not easily, considering we aren’t actually running huge zergs 24/7. Earlier in eternal we flipped the entire thing with about 50 people…by splitting into two groups of about 25 and hitting both sides of the map. This normally does not work, but it works awesome if nobody is home defending things.

You also gotta remember that Zergballs gain inertia the longer they crash into things and flip them. You gotta stop em before they become a full blown Karma Train. If things go well, friends tell friends, who tell friends to get on the map, the loot and WXP is amazing! It just snowballs. And people have so much fun they don’t want to stop, and so the train just goes on and on into the early AM.

This incidentally, is why the Hammer of God is brought down any time one of our keeps is flipped on BPBL. You come to BPBL, we want you to have a bad time.

well I’m still technically at work…I wish I could play more during the day but logging on to GW2 forums is distraction enough. With school around the corner i think a lot of our PUGs or daytime players are at school now lol (i’m sure its the same for a lot of you guys too, or at least it will be). I can’t speak for any other guilds, but my guildies are all older like myself and have to work during the day (at least have a set schedule) but once the weekend comes, it’s ON!!! (unless I’m traveling for work, then it’s on once I get to the hotel lol)

Aeros.2046:

tbh, the idea that we would even need to cheat to win this match up just does not pass the scratch and sniff test considering how easy its been for me and other commanders to get inside SBI and Kainengs keep with simple rams.

It can’t be that easy!!! at least let us have some face by saying you guys had to use golems

In all honesty, it’s a game people. You lost a keep, guess what?! It’ll be yours again in one week if you can’t get it back sooner

Till we meet again, have fun out there, and BP….stay the heck out of KBL lol jk, you guys are fun to fight against in all situations. SBI….you guys are so mean, play nice . Remember, no one likes a tattle tale

Seemore Bunz.7345:

BMS Is still a strong member of Kaineng! Must have been a in-game glitch…

Yeah…last time I look at current map on my phone. Almost kitten ed myself lol.

bradderzh.2378:

I haven’t seen any of them with green name tags.

I think my phone was just slow. Had me worried though lol

Hmmmm…just saw that BMS was on BP server now? When did they transfer? Unless I read the map wrong (on my cell phone) or stargrove was claimed by BMS and it was colored green??? Cant jump to conclusions yet.

Avatar of Belle.9623:

I’d also guess the chance increased since Kaineng has been steadily lowering their rating over the past few weeks. (Not an insult. Just an observation).

sheesh saying it like we’re “trying” lose on purpose :P

lol we’re actually just falling down to where we currently belong and unfortunately its at about tier 6 IMO. Keep in mind we’ve been fighting in tier 3-4 for the past 2 months or so with tier 6 population.

Runamok.9638:

Ohhh and we all know Kaineg only 50 man zergs. Never 49 or 53 man zerg. Only 50 man zergs. Next time I will screenshot and count the dots, there will be 50.

-One Angry Motha

Awesome! you rock Runamok.9638. Having dots will definitely make counting our numbers easier because if it doesn’t add up to 50…you sir have been lying

Jeknar.6184:

We just capped our Keep on EB… 5 minutes later we had orange swords on the empty keep… Kaineng don’t roll zergs? You used 25 people for an empty paper keep man!

So you’re telling me you captured your own keep back from us but couldn’t muster up the same10 guys to defend YOUR keep against 20 or so PUGs? Sounds like a personal problem if you ask me.

FYI i never said we didn’t zerg, i was simply implying that this 50 or so man zerg you guys keep seeing is a phantom cause I’ve not seen one all week. Anyhow, fishing stories tend to be exaggerated to make them more exciting so it’s understandable if you guys are seeing 80 man zergs in all BL

Ranger’s are the best underdogs. No one expects to be beaten by a ranger, so no one ever runs from a ranger (aside from thieves that fail to down you with their initial burst). On the flip side, NO ONE ever brags about beating a ranger either but flame you when they lose. As the neglected half sister of the GW2 professions, its always sweeter when you get to whoop someones @ss when you’re not expected to lol.

Bllade.1029:

I’m not placing blame, it’s just observations.

As far as the population gap goes. Yeah, theres a big one, but who cares that’s gonna happen.

Regardless, great fights thus far, you guys are a sight for sore eyes. I’ve got NSP bleeding out my ears, and you guys put their zerg fighting to shame. I mean seriously, you do. Their organized guilds, not to name any names, don’t even come close to the tactics some of your PUG ZERGS use.

Im serious too, i’m not trying to talk smack.

What I love about you guys is your zerging is actually strategic, I mean it’s actually thought out, planned and executed. NSP throws 40 people through a gate and think very highly of themselves. Not that HoD is excluded from that little equation.

You know what I would love to see? One of your pug zergs wipe out NSP’s guild zergs. I would pay gold and make a glorious video out of some footage of that. Anyways, HoD as a whole could take some serious notes from you guys; but I doubt we’ll ever reach that point. Cheers to an interesting match.

Thank you for noticing. This is a major issue we face while fighting in higher tiers and unfortunately, it’s something that has been on-going for our commanders for the past few months. As a server, we realized what our faults were and have worked pretty diligently to correct some of it. It’s nice to know that some of the training provided by CNB, BMS, and KA have started to bear fruit. Unfortunately, it has to be in the match-up against HoD and ET, but we’re trying to improve just as much as you are.

Thanks,

Jayw.1045:

…. thanks for the 50 man zerg again. Press 1 more.

Upload a screenshot please. I’m on Kaineng and have yet to see this mysterious 50 man zerg you guys keep speaking of. CNB hasn’t really tagged up since reset and they are the only guild that can push those numbers. BMS and KA usually runs around 10-15 guys with PUGs here and there.

Ajax always tags up in EB but no one ever follows him. I was on in EB last night from 10PM – 1AM PST but only had 15-20 people attacking HoD keep amongst 3 commanders that were tagged up. Make sure you’re not counting illusions, phantasms, pets, NPCs, etc cause I don’t think those count for zerg numbers. I’m sure we can probably push 50 man zerg during NA prime if CNB and BMS tag up, but not late nights like how so many of you are claiming.

Thanks,

To be fair Bllade, I solo roam all the time and the reason why no one wants to or prefers to solo roam is because we’re always out numbered. It may not seem like it to you, but our adaption is opposite of what you just stated. We don’t have as many small man or solo roamers as you’re used to seeing because we’ve been fighting against opponents where a 10-15 man group was considered “small” not to mention seeing 2 or more of these 15 man groups in our BL all day and night makes people wary of whats around the corner. In addition to having these “small” man groups roam and wreak havoc on towers, keeps, and anything they see, we also have to contend with their main zerg which can consist of 40-50 people. You guys are not used to seeing such numbers so running solo is only natural to your servers, for us, seeing you alone only means your teammates are baiting us. Our small groups (usually 4-5 man) are rarely consisted of random PUGs but of individuals who have played alongside each other before so are aware of each other’s playing style to a degree. Guilds like BMS have their coordination and experience from playing on top tier servers and only bring out the best in a group or zerg because they utilize communication.

I do agree with you that most our PUGs try not to stray too far off the commander but that is only because they know that there are benefits to stacking and that they have a higher chance of victory when they fight together. We don’t scatter because a single person will always fall to a group.

You can believe it or not, but this is our T8 WvW population. Most of the big guilds left us and went to higher tier servers so we really don’t have that good of coverage, but because we utilize communication and have commanders who listen to distress calls, it seems like we have better coverage than we actually do. Granted we may still have superior numbers to HoD and ET, I really do not believe that the gap in our WvW population is that big.

Now you just got me confused??? “it isn’t about how big your zerg is its all in how you use it” and “ET has had some decent sized zergs recently” Yet you want to teach our commanders? “Perhaps I should start up my Commander Tactics 101 class again”, from your statement, if you’ve had some decent numbers, then your superior commanding skills should wipe the PPT in no time…I’m not sure how WvWvW works but the last time I checked, the more PPT your server had meant you were doing pretty good or winning?

All this talk about a 40-50 man zerg in EB or BL or wherever is fun to hear and has me excited to think of the possibility of even generating those numbers on a nightly basis but there hasn’t been a single picture up to prove that. If you’ve been seeing decent sized zergs on your end then It sounds like you’re upset that our server actually responds to distress calls. If that is the case, then you sir have an internal issue you got going on, don’t blame it on the people/server that pulls together to win. I don’t know how it’s like in ET, but blaming people that respond from LA or PvE for your own lack of a response from a distress call is just outright mean

All I’m saying is I haven’t seen us run those kind of numbers consistently in a very long time but I have noticed that “we” (as in Kaineng) have started to respond with numbers to a distress call usually by leaving wherever we are at and going where we’re needed whether we’re in your BL, our NL, EB, or Open World. To put it plainly, you’re going up against an 80% PUG zerg that have about 15 people (most of whom are not even in the same guild) actually in TS listening to the commander. Sorry to burst your bubble, but if you’re not wiping that kind of zerg at every single meeting, maybe its time you re-take your “tactics 101” course. 50 man zerg or not, a half decently organized 20 man “group” could easily wipe that 50 man set-up but from the look of the maps, you aren’t doing a very good job at “commanding”.

Runamok.9638:

Commanded 5+ hours yesterday afternoon EST. kitten was boring as hell. First order was push out HoD and take back ET BL. Got everything upgraded. Moved into a blank canvas EB. 50 man Kaineg karma train going for hours and hours. ET had maybe 15 in EB. Re-cap our 1/3rd, get some siege up only to have 50 main Kaineg zerg finish karma training HoD’s 1/3rd and come back into ET’s 1/3rd. Lost our keep a couple times even with tons of siege. GG Omega Golem Wars 2.

Eventually ET got some numbers and I was sieging the kitten out of the inner keep. Killed more Kaineg Omegas and drove them back from our EB keep a couple of times. Then ET’s doldrum hours hit and HoD make the standard early EST prime push. You guys need to bring BC back, he would have 395794375+ Omega’s rolling in ET BL 24×7 with these firesale prices. We then loose all of EB and struggle to keep our kitten together in ET BL. Then ET primetime hits and we go about murdering fools. Last night was the best effort I’ve seen HoD during EST prime. Strong showing fellas.

-One Angry Motha [IoM]

50 man Kaineng zerg? Maybe I’m just not in EB enough but it’s been awhile since I’ve seen Kaineng have those kind of numbers, especially on a map that we pretty much own. Next time you see one, please take a screen shot so we can use it to motivate our PvE guys to join again

Is it just me or has HoD gone necro/guard crazy? All I see are necronguard duos now….fear stacking and immobolizingis not cool

Any who, was good to have a few throwdowns with you guys, but that duo is quickly becoming one of my “avoid solo confrontation”duos lol

Bllade.1029:

Noobie.1073:

I wanna give a shout to the 4 guys from HoD (sorry forgot your guild) who chased me down, downed me, let me heal, then fought me 1 at time afterwards. Great show of gamesmanship and your necro was very nasty…remind me to never meet him in a dark alley somewhere lol. HoD is alright by me

We were so sick of watching people stick to your commanders kitten , that when one did break off from the group and run solo, we jumped for joy! We said " DONT KILL HIM, HES ONE OF A KIND! Lets see if he wants to duel!"

:D

Lol I was just as surprised cause I was mercilessly hunted down all week

It’s pretty rare to find people who won’t jump you simply because you’re from Kaineng. There are a lot of us solo roamers in Kaineng but after we get jumped a few times a little payback in the form of even or greater numbers is always in order lol.

I wanna give a shout to the 4 guys from HoD (sorry forgot your guild) who chased me down, downed me, let me heal, then fought me 1 at time afterwards. Great show of gamesmanship and your necro was very nasty…remind me to never meet him in a dark alley somewhere lol. HoD is alright by me

Jeknar.6184:

katz.8376:

and as for Ajax… i thought he went to JQ. where is he now?

Kaineng

Ajax is up for bid. Kaineng will gladly pay the winning server to take him

Xom.9264:

If any Kaineng guilds would like to do some GvG with a lowly T8 guild [BS] (basic) we would love the practice fighting strong higher tier guilds, anything from 2v2 up to 15 v 15 would be great.

Shoot a send ingame or mail on the forums.

Have a great week of WvW everyone.

You should message CNB i think they are always looking for GvG. you’ll a lot of them on

Whoever that Bronze invader warrior from GoM was by south camp KBL, nice fight, but it got boring after a minute or two when we couldn’t put a dent on each other. I decided to stop and bow (while you were persistently attacking me) because i realized that this would be a very long and boring fight. Other than that, much respect to you Mr. Bronze invader warrior sir.

Thank you,
a lowly Kaineng ranger.

neiliam.8614:

Personally, I’m an objective-based tunnel-vision solo-roamer…and I don’t attack a person on my route to my next objective unless they attack me first…I always let them get 1st hit in. Heck, I’ve died to several groups protecting a Pack Dolyak wherein I don’t even attack the defenders…I die trying to just kill the dolyak, haha! I don’t care about dying anyway.

The only times I really go for 1st hit on an invader is when I haven’t completed the “Kill 10 invaders” daily. These are also the only times uplevels are kill-on-sight when I roam. Once I get my 10 kills for daily, I revert back to the former philosophy of next-objective-tunnel-vision, hehe.

However, occasionally, I will fail to resist my urge to troll people…which happens sometimes. And more often, it is to keep several people frustrated and busy trying to catch me while my server is attacking something important. Aka: if you see me trolling, it’s a very good idea to watch your map.

Same here, I am a tunnel visioned objective focused roamer. I am the most active WvW player of my guild and as such, I am usually roaming solo or in PUGs of 4-5 max. To be honest, I have not seen too many DH guys solo roam though I know they’re out there somewhere (mostly necros from what I’ve seen), but SBI does seem to have lots of warriors that like to roam so that’s always fun

I don’t really care about dying in-game mostly cause “it’s a game” but I do find it annoying when i’m trying to cap a camp and get rolled by a group of 5 or so roamers + the NPCs and they /laugh or /dance on me for not being able to get away

Overall, what I’ve enjoyed most about this match-up is the abundance of rangers, engis and warriors that are either roaming solo or in small groups. I was getting tired of the excess Thieves and Mesmers from previous matches. It’s been a fun week and i will surely miss this match-up.

Hats off to the Ele that I fought in Astralholme of SBI borderland…it was a good fight but got interrupted with that warrior getting in. You guys almost had me till a few of my server mates showed up. I didn’t get your guild name but if you’re on the forum, my hats off to you for being so tanky with so many condition removals. The fight was dragging on way too long for my liking and you probably would’ve beaten me had no one interrupted, but nonetheless, it was good match. Thanks!

Also had some nice little skirmishes on DH spawn in SBI borderland till that big group of 10+ came out and wiped my little PUG of 4 guys with one up-level guard. Not saying that we would win an organized match, but we did win a few matches against your PUGs. Good skirmishes overall and nice people too

torridstoic.7492:

I don’t know that mesmer and I wasn’t there for the Hills retake. I do know that neither of your servers swept particularly well in our BL tonight, since I hid out in Bay AND Garri for quite a while. It’s a shame that so much draaaaama happened tonight and we couldn’t rally a single decent force to port in at any point.

With that said, this looks like it will be a challenging week and I’m looking forward to it. Bring on the excitement! By the way, do SBI and KN have many roamers?

smaller PvX guilds will come in and roam once in a while for KN, usually when the NA prime commanders log off .

Had some good skirmishes with an SBI warrior and DH Ele by south camp in KBL. Whoever you guys are, good fights! Started the night with a nice fight with DH for Dawn’s Eyrie on KBL. Props to [Abyss] for coming out and fighting the good fight (I believe you were an ele) and holding out for as long as you guys did. See you all in the coming week. Have fun!

I’ve been using a similar build to this because i felt there were too many apothecary BM out there. Undoubtedly so, i came to really enjoy doing the extra physical damage that this build gives. The idea behind this build is to have might, fury, and swiftness up for prolonged periods (about 50 seconds) without sacrificing power to focus on nature magic. I haven’t tested this enough yet, but so far, i like what it can do in solo roaming and running with zerg. The most important thing to keep you alive are the signets, Signet of the Beastmaster is a must trait skill because with it, Signet of Stone makes you immune to damage for 6 seconds and Signet of Wild gives you 8 seconds of stability so you can run away or through opposing zergs. Try it out and let me know what you guys think of it.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlYDbEoqwOxSwi1OQseAoANo2jJZJMxKw/LeoEJ-j0yAYLBZ0GG9BmAhRiCUWsIasF3ioxqmBUMYKzFV7NY0qBA-w

1) rework traits to include more “interrupt” style build. (this is how we’ll be utilized in team play, dungeon, tpvp, etc)
2) re-work LB
3) More control over Pet AI

Snowreap.5174:

looks like this is going to be a great matchup.

alas, I am vacationing and I only have my laptop with me. so watching live streams is as close as I’ll get to playing for a few days.

-ken

which is why i downloaded server to my laptop…The joys of tehcnology lol

hyjaxxx.1584:

Ive been an Ele main since i started. and i rolled a ranger cause i was bored…well i got it to 80 a few days back and decided on making a build based off of the regen-bm which i call Condi-gen313 (Condition, Regen, 0-0-30-10-30) and i have never had so much fun!

its great for wvw and pve questing. the abilities are exciting and action packed and youre able to face any class 1 on 1 without feeling the urge to snap your keyboard over your head.

to make things sweeter…..thieves are no longer an issue with their crappy play styles.

Roll a ranger bud….just level it as fast as you can and enjoy your hard work after that.

BM condi-gen build is similar if not the same as Xsorus’s BM bunker build. It’s a very fun build to play but good quality thieves will always be a problem, if it’s a true 1v1, i’d say it’s 50/50 that you’ll take out a good thief. I use this build in WvW using chills on swap and spike trap with entangle and have been wreaking havoc on 1v1 with thieves…of course there are exceptionally well played thieves that just reset and have very good regen and that fight usually ends up being 1) interrupted, 2) 50/50, or 3) dragged out so long that we both just stop, /bow, and leave each other alone (yes there are some respectful players out there still)

I usually run a 20/30/20/0/0 when doing dungeons. Survivabilty is good and you have decent DPS with good chance to crit. I use all Soldier’s gear and trinkets with exquisite emerald jewels.

The soldier’s gear gets you to 21000+HP and about 2000 toughness (really helps). I run the shortbow with Superior rune of Fire as my primary because it fires quick so you’ll get off 1 1/2 shots for every 1 shot of anything else and the rune has a 30% chance to give off extra AoE damage when you crit. As my secondary I use an axe/horn combo with Superior rune of fire on Axe and Superior of Accuracy for horn to help with crowd control. This build is centered around surviving and staying out of direct contact while putting on decent damage. With this build I use bears because they have the most vitality and can stay alive longer than any other pet. It’s worked for me whether I am with guild mates or randoms.

link to build:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBlODbkoKuuvSwC1OQsUoHB1UwJzzew/C9oUe1USbF-jAyAoLBZySgICwZvioxW2KiGr6BTXSEV7PKiWNA-e

let me know how it works for you.