Guild Wars 2

I’ve lost count by now to how many times bristleback and smokescale’s been nerfed.
Classic Anet – introduce powerful things in an expansion to make people want it and buy it, then start nerfing the new stuff one by one.

Justine.6351:

Please no…

I like the current sound cause it’s soft yet I can still hear it. I do NOT want some obnoxious “sci-fi lasers are cool!” sound spamming 3 times a second forever while in staff.

+1

StickerHappy.8052:

BUMP

I just find it crazy that all dh traps give boons ON TOP of their effects. And let’s not forget they get a stun breaker on a trap too, making a full trap bar feasible.

Can we get boons on our traps too when traited and atleast 1 stun breaker trap? This would be completely balanced because we are just streamlining them with DH

Fire trap = 2 might
Viper Nest = Vigor
Frost = Protection
Spike = Fury

Frost = Stun Breaker

While I agree, it may be that Anet thinks that we’re already covered in that aspect, not through our traps but through our spirits (which are, to some extent, traps as well).

Use your bristleback in melee range and profit. It may look like a ranged pet, but it’s in close combat that this baby really shines – both Rain of spikes and Spike barrage are really devastating up close.

I agree with Dadnir, +1

Artaz.3819:

Agree to an extent. Traits shouldn’t be required to make the Shortbow good

Exactly.

Having a trait remove the flanking requirement is to go about the ‘issue’ the wrong way. Traits should be about enhancing/boosting things, not about making (in this case) a weapon ‘not suck’.

This is hilarious!

Ananeos.4587:

Pets need to have less health, period.

Ananeos.4587:

Pets already take 95% less damage in pve, reducing pet health would be balanced for the damage they do.

So, because pets takes less damage unless focused in PVE, they need to have even less health for the sake of balance in PVP! The logic thinking of some ppl here…

Bring back the feeling of pre-searing in the next expansion – profit.

Artaz.3819:

Or just have the Grandmaster Trait Light on Your Feet remove the flanking requirement altogether on Crossfire. That would seem much simpler and be a minor tweak.

No. That’s def not what traits should be doing.

Vicky.4563:

OGDeadHead.8326:

Rofl @ op – you simply will not give up?

Give up what? Proving the point that you might as well replace the druid profession with a pet and half the players in the game wouldn’t even notice?

Sounds like rangers needs a major buff then.

Rofl @ op – you simply will not give up?

Elegie.3620:

Are you guys for real? The weaponless druid was just kiting a warrior, who did not even care about it, as he was just keeping control of the node for the whole game. In the end, the warrior’s team won by a huge margin…

In addition, the streamer was completely shameless: complaining about his team mates being kittens and going AFK (guess why they did that and what they thought of him), saying the opposing team had bad rotations (but why try-hard when the opposing team cannot obviously make more than 65 points)…

It’s okay to try and stream such content, after all it can be entertaining, despite the obvious lack of respect towards fellow team mates. However, seeking some sense about it is foolish. The druid class may have too much sustain, or not – but such a video is nowhere near enough to make a valid proof.

This, pretty much.

@ op: nice try

LughLongArm.5460:

Dont agree, AF is fine. Builds must have some trade off, I dont think druids that invest 0 in tools that generate AF(and we have tons of thouse) should have rapid acsess to CA.

This list: @StickerHappy.8052

“Staff
Perma Regen
SotW”

doesnt include- TU, Rune of the Dolyak, natural healing trait, mango pie food(outside pvp) etc..

This list: @Tragic Positive.9356
“BM
Traited Healing Spring
Staff”
Doesnt include: fren hound, windbornen notes, water rune, other regen ranger traits , traited water spirit etc..

So basiclly you dont want to explore our less “meta options”, use the same pets(brist/smoke) same triats like(druidic clarity ) and complain about limited build options?

I don’t think runes, sigils or consumables should be taken into consideration when it comes to how often we should be able to use our specialization mechanic. Also, don’t forget CA is already gated by icd.

StickerHappy.8052:

I do not even why you guys are advocating 5 Ancient Seeds on a single target is okay.

I’m pretty sure, knowing how this company works, that if they start looking into this, and “fix” it, not only will the ability to land 5 AS to one target be fixed, but also the ability to land AS on more than one target (through for example Lunar Impact → Natural Convergence).
And while they’re at it, they’ll probably nerf either the cd or bleed amount/duration as well.

Pretty much every time something’s been brought up in the pvp forum about rangers there’s one thing you can be kitten sure of – the nerf will come.

Another random idea – how about making HS strip boons at a rate o x per x seconds when traited? Now that would make it a most interesting AND unique choice for a heal skill imho.

Celestial is what I’m using most of the time since I like to do all sorts of things ingame. It’s not the best set for specific roles, but it is the best for jack of all trades types of builds.

How about double efficiency from blasting/leaping HS when traited? Just throwing out some random ideas here…

It never bugs out for me, so what happens for you?

Just let this thread die

What if a traited HS also would heal allies (besides the regen)? Would that be too powerful?

Lazze.9870:

StickerHappy.8052:

Currently, the trait Trapper’s Expertise only affects offensive traps for some reason.

Except it doesn’t.

I think what he meant is that there’s no comparable thing to “offensive ones cause cripple” when it comes to our only defensive trap. We don’t really get anything extra besides shorter cd and longer lasting boons on HS with this trait.

Kodama.6453:

False information.
If a projectile becomes unblockable, it becomes unreflectable too.
My guess would be that unblockable projectiles will still go through sublime conversion. But it needs to get tested.

It’s just that Sublime Conversion neither blocks nor reflects. Still not really sure, so if anyone can test it out it would be nice.

Sardath.8524:

I’d drastically nerf the heal with only one target(you) and keep it the same as it is now with 3-4 targets. I’d probably eliminate CA skill 4 and add something like “Your pet’s next attack can’t crit and will steal 2 boons and heal you for 4x damage dealt”

So you want to make the druids skills pretty much worthless unless you’re in a group/team? Yeah that sounds like a good suggestion… not.

Kydar Schattendolch.6879:

Wondrouswall.7169:

Hornet’s Sting (Sword 2) reduced cast time and Crippling Thrust (Sword 1b) to cleave.

Cast time reduce would be nice. But most problem I have with this skill, is Monarch’s Leap.
The Use-Time of this skill is to short. It should last for 8s at least. You use ist or u let it be. If it switsches back after 8s, Hornet Sting is off CD and again usable.

The actual 3s(?) Are way to short.

I agree there could be a larger time window to use the secondary skill. Still, if I have to choose, my vote falls on lowering the cast time of Hornet Sting. Imho, it should be instant, or at the very least, let the evade part of the skill activate right away, and leave it active for the full duration of Hornet Sting.

Also, since we alreay have cripple in the #1 chain, Monarch’s Leap could very well do with some other effect. Lack of imagination, Anet?

Eurantien.4632:

Live vicariously.

Well that sounds like a bug to me, but I’m not complaining.

Euthymias.7984:

>Become Avatar
>Press 3 (heals and dazes) or 4. (heal+water field)…maybe 5 if you really need a damaging slow/immobilize
>Leave Avatar state

Keep in mind that it works with QuickDraw, in which case, you can use the lowered recharge of the affected skill again and you can use 2+3 for free AoE Retal.

Could toss a #2 in there as well. #1 you can forget about completly.

Very nice suggestions all of them, good work!

Edit: Warhorn #4 should probably be looked at, without traits to back it up it’s pretty bad imho.

UmbraNoctis.1907:

Sword autoattack was never tracking stealthed targets. You just jumped away from stealthed targets, like you did if you hit it untargeted. Which made it for example impossible to prevent/slow down a stealth rez with sword – you just could’t cleave stealthed targets even if you knew their location.

This. I sure as hell dont know where this “tracking stealthed targets” is coming from. Pure misinformation.

Should probably mention this as well, for anyone still struggling with these pets:

• The Juvenile Electric Wyvern pet is now available from the Wyvern Nest after players take control of the Central Advance Camp.

• The Juvenile Tiger is no longer hidden in an area that can only be accessed once the Mouth of Mordremoth has been defeated.

Someone should probably run a bunch of tests with sword and write down the results, so we have something to compare with when the change goes live.

Levetty.1279:

Reminder that a thread full of ‘Rangers’ demanded that this skill become a trap when they were doing the reworks and just ignored the posters pointing out all the problems that it ended up causing.

I don’t think any of those ppl wanted it to work like it does now. They wanted it marked as a trap to benefit from shorter cd, bigger radius and be able to throw it.
Anet, in typical manner, made it into a trap, and then gutted traps to hell.

I’ve said it numerous times – be careful what you wish for with this company, the have a tendency to twist things around, as they can NEVER simply give you what you want.

Looks really interesting

While I appreciate the effort behind that list, I still find it to be a joke.

I asked a friend to create a sample database with 50 million unique entries, fully indexed and searchable. He didn’t have the time to finish the generation of it, but after about 5 million entries, the size were about 175 Megabyte, so he estimated the finished database to about 1.75 Gigabyte.
Adding indexing for faster search, he estimated the final size to be in the range of 2 to 2.5 Gigabyte. Increase the size to 3 Gigabyte and you can add lots of other entries as well.

Dadnir.5038:

I believe that they said that this was intended because : “If they were to save all the pet’s name for each player, it would be a massive amount of data to store”

First of all, I don’t think ‘they’ (as in Anet) ever said that, I’m thinking that was something made up by some forum lurker who think they know things when it comes to programming and databases.

Secondly, the statement “a massive amount of data to store”, like that’s the issue (massive compared to what?), is bullkitten, pure and simple.

Chrury.4627:

simple solo/pve play

Empathic gives you more flexibility on build (the condis actually don’t transfer to your pet, they just disappear)

Say what? Since when? This is how the trait used to work way back, are you telling me this is how it works again now?

Allison The Strange.4519:

The only possible reason I could see you need that extra bit of AF generation is if you sitting in CA till its at 0% which is wrong.

It’s not “wrong”.

I hear this quite a lot, some guys around here seems to know it all. There’s no right or wrong when it comes to this, you adapt to the situation and use your skills accordingly. I know there are a whole bunch of self-proclaimed experts posting all over these forums.

I’d say take advice, but make up your own gameplan and style – if it seems to work for you (and your team in this case), go with it.

Tragic Positive.9356:

But on the other hand, regardless of how much people want to defend the ranger, I’d bet 9 out of my 10 fingers that the Ranger holding onto shortbow had literally no idea how a Ranger is played

What a kittenload of elitist crap. I didn’t expect this from you.

Critical healing have never been any good in any game, so please scrap that idea.

wolfyrik.2017:

Staff 5.. are you joking? Combined with Quick Draw particularly or unbuffed, this skill is fantastic in fractals and HoT. Quite a few OW champs and bosses, too. It’s not just a projectile absorb, it’s a decent length water field which can be procced with 3 for area healing, don’t forget the various leaps, projectiles and other blasts we can combo into it.

The waterfield is good. The projectile absorb part is pretty bad, and that’s the part that needs improvement.

Post your system specs please.

I don’t like ground targeting/directional arrows in general, so for me it’s a no to this suggestion.

Shadelang.3012:

<snip>

Be careful what you wish for – what most would like to see are buffs/changes to core ranger, but in true Anet fashion we’ll recieve nerfs to druid instead, to make core ranger more viable.

They introduced druid as the master of healing – they can’t back away from that.

FrouFrou.4958:

Anet launched a bug tracker, so if someone here happens to have a reddit account we could maybe get our bugs fixed if someone links GM Awesomeness our Ranger bug thread from the bug reports sub forum or makes a new updated one?
The reddit topic where you can post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/48v1x4/announcing_the_known_issue_tracker/

The bug tracker:
http://help.guildwars2.com/entries/98802888

That’s nice, but the “Known Issue Tracker” list is a joke tbh. I’d prefer if they would put a bit more effort in displaying a list of reported bugs, accepted bugs, bugs they work on currently, recently resolved and a history of all bugs fixed.
The very few profession bugs listed makes me wonder if they accept those bugs at all?

Tragic Positive.9356:

I actually think all buffs, boons and modifiers should be passed onto pet as well.
Baseline.
Period.

There’s no reason for Rangers to have 25% of existence glued onto a target that doesn’t scale and is rather a nuisance instead of help in many occasions.

I just don’t think you would always want your pet to stealth when you do, unless it would be working like the jaguar.

Not a trait please. Just add functionality to make pets stay on their current location as soon as the ranger goes into stealth, then runs to the ranger when stealth wears off. All pet control mechanics should be able to override this functionality, and this only applies when pet is not attacking.

Blue Hare.8612:

Next patch:

“Entering combat with a stowed pet no longer act as a pet swap”
“Rune of the trapper (6) now makes pet and payer both invisible but the traps will be visible to enemies”

problem solved

Lol, probably!

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

2. condi durations don’t effect pet but effects every other classes Mechanics

Try it out with a cat, Expertise Training and Companion’s Might, let me know your results. I think Sharpened Edges is fine. I’d love to see Hidden Barbs also apply to pets (which is doesn’t?).

Anet don’t like too much QoL stuff, so don’t expect any improvements.

Only thing this skill is “decent” for (not really) are vs pocket raptors in pve. That’s it.