Guild Wars 2

neverborne.4736:

Send a Scout Hawk:
Activate the skill and then click an area of the mini-map to send the hawk. Several seconds later that area will become “revealed” allowing you to see red dots of enemy players, green dots of allied players on the map even though it’s beyond the normal range which you’d be able to do so.

thisssss!!!! at least we can scout and use this as an effective strategy to more or less accurately measure the incoming zerg

maybe to improve (imba)

15 minutes cooldown channeling skill 30 seconds to complete
(reason behind a lot of rangers can utilize this most of the time)
rangers will touch the ground to communicate with the earth, scanning all enemies on the map

just asking, if your doing hybrid condi/crit

how much crit and condi should you aim for?

you can easily win against rangers, mostly because they run in a glass cannon range build,

i have not seen a melee ranger in my entire wvwvw career,

but i have seen alot of melee rangers in ranger thread, and i must admit they are becoming skilled and deadly,

@ryan, its not just about the title, maybe you forgot to read the body of the query, he indeed state that he is leaning towards condition, i know its hard to swallow the bitter pill of pride and mistakes if you ever commit one. In public service, you will always cater to the best interest of the client that you deal with.

indeed there’s no definite answer, but you should provide an answer that caters his need.

@meentje, on crit effect is good if you have at least 50-60% crit chance, you will be able to maximize your bleed potential

i believed that he asked a gear for traps build(that uses condition build)

i referenced him to that thread because it uses a survival condition set that uses apothecary gear that utilizes tough/healing/condition damage

the OP also stated that he wants to use rampagers/rabid gear (which is condition based), in exchange to his carrion gear

however, you are trying to give him a crit damage gear, which is not optimal for his desired condi traps

and for the final note, to the thread that i referenced the OP with, at the second part of the video, he utilized traps

why punish altoholics, they dedicated their time in doing events every toon that they have,

they already exhausted their whole time in playing,

its their reward for doing so.

but in this regard, having an alt is difficult to gear up, specially if your aim is to dress all of them with ascended gear, more so if you want all of them to have their own legendary weapon

I think the OP is asking an optimal gear for trapper,

i think the thread of “wvwv bunker ranger” provided a good gearing for condition builds

but its kinda expensive, because he used Apothecary gears,

i like the idea of using story mode to give laurel rewards, since no one wants to do story mode, you can only do story mode if some pugs are willing to help you, or if you are in a guild,

(honestly i have not finished story mode, dungeon master title, because everytime i asked the players in the map, only a few respond, and usually it takes forever to form a group)

and if i am using gw2lfg.com they respond so slow, i did an experiment if it is just slow or no one want to run it,

if i posted LFM exp mode and tadaaaa in less that 2 minutes a group is formed,

if i posted LFM story mode tadaaa minimum of 30 minutes to form a group

uhhm maybe a fix would be the time of shadow return,

because 12 seconds is too long to cover a large distance

CookMETEnder.7582:

Oglaf.1074:

CookMETEnder.7582:

Oglaf.1074:

Balao.3016:

I love knights armor, and totally reccommend it.

I like how knights armor and ogre runes go pretty well together, because you have the power there, and the toughness to help you live. I honestly could care less about the crit % I lose out on with zerker. I’m really just now replaceing some of my kngihts with zerker, but i’m not going full zerker. I honestly should just stay full knights, I like the toughness way too much to give it up.

Toughness is a double-edged sword. It makes you tougher, yes, but it also makes you an aggro-magnet. That’s how Berserker Warriors actually work; they have no Toughness to draw aggro.

Have to go to school, but wait, can you explain?
Having higher toughness CAUSES aggro?

Oh my, yes. Stacking Toughness is one of the easier ways to make yourself an aggro-magnet.

Well, looks like I’ll be looking more into Berserker Ascended lol
Just read it on Wiki, thanks man!

wow thanks for the info, i never thought that toughness works as an aggro magnet mechanic,

( arghhhhhh need to tone down total armor)

Ethics.4519:

I guess Tybalt is okay. I’m a little racist though, as I find all Charr ugly and dumb.

ahahahaa lol char racist

(anyway in real life, whatever good other race will do, we always condemn and put prejudice on their actions)

my only gripe about the so called INCREASE, why is it only noticeable in crit Damage?

how about us who build ourselves with condition damage?

strictly berserker speaking, you can feel the difference using AScended trinkets

but for healing trinkets, condition trinkets, or anything outside crit damage, its hardly noticeable,

i have (rabid ascended set, except for the new earrings,) an added 50 condition damage did add 1-2 bleed damage per tick,

so for me ascended is not that beneficial,

therefore, if you want to feel the damage increase go for berserker stats or cavalier stats,

arghhh i should have bought urchins needle long long time ago, now its 11g,

before it was like 3-5g

uhm personally, my thief belongs to the priory,

its an anime perspective anyway, most of the best manga’s portrayal of thieves are intelligent..

meaning that all npc used for cnd will follow/attack us no matter what?

eg. i will cnd rangers pet of mesmer clones and or minions,

Rising Dusk.2408:

Daecollo.9578:

Yep, I can’t really play my Pistol Whip thief anymore, now I “MUST” go stealth critical copy cutter thief.

That may be true, but this is a good fix that was definitely long overdue regardless of its side effects. Hopefully now that you can’t use those builds as effectively will be a signal for ANet as to what to buff in the next patch. They’ve already said that they buff things based on usage, so something going completely unused is a definite signal for them to fix it up.

My only question is: What is the internal cooldown?

i guess and hope its 2 secs at least like sigil of blood

any news if how long is the internal cooldown?

i personally use omnom pie,

would it be 2 sec internal like sigil of blood?

awwwww what the….. oh well, argh,,,,, just cant explain what i really feel….. this is my bread and butter in surviving my toon without rellying too much on healing gears

maybe they can put a hot bar for easy weapon swapping, not opening the inventory itself,

and the ability to put food and nourishment in a hot bar,

its alittle cumbersome to open and close inventory pannel

as one of the mechanics posted above, using real life plant color inspiration ^^

(because most of the players are just using expensive abyss and celestial or expensive dyes, this is an avenue to make use of the normal/uncommon dyes to be used)

Hule.8794:

50000 influence? Really?

oh sad, our guild is kinda new, so we only have 22k >.<

time to buy guild influence for 20 gold = 20 k influence

ascended earring weeeee 12 commendations each + 5 gold?

or is it an option of 5 gold or 12 commendations?

usually rangers dont go deeper into power trait line, or signet mastery,

because more often than not, rangers go BM bunker build or Condition trapper build

personally i would go for 10 increment (thats just my personal rule to make other stats useful)

eg 100, 110, 120 or 130 bleeds per tick

my hief runs for at least 1750+ with the aid of sigil of corruption

making my bleeds 130 per tick

drongas.4189:

black and white lotus

im a little skeptic about “black and white lotus”

does this plant color exist?

i have not yet seen a black and white lotus in my garden nor in the greenhouse near my place.

as far as i know, the star is only seen to the actual character who have finished/completed the map., and it is working as intended

( i have 2 lvl 80 alts, and its really painful to complete the map againn, but my only motivation is to get another set of gift of exploration)

Rising Dusk.2408:

The holiday celebrations in GW1 were largely because the ANet employees love the holidays enough themselves that they put in countless extra hours beyond their normal 40 a week to get them done. This tradition has continued into GW2 as well, and a lot of employees put in a lot of extra hours getting them done right. What it shows is that the employees aren’t that enthused about Valentine’s Day. Apparently someone made some roses, but that’s it. That sort of “extra effort” is what makes ANet holidays happen, and well, it’d be crazy as customers to expect them to put in those extra hours for every Tom, Dick, and Harry holiday out there. That said, GW2 seems to be making these content updates more regularly (ie. monthly), and seem to only be pursuing ‘holiday events’ for those that were a big deal in GW1 (ie. traditions).

maybe (hehehehheh just maybe) only a ONE employee has a romantic blood in his/her vein/artery flowing. and the rest are hopeless romantics in real life

Electro.4173:

Valentine’s Day is a minor holiday, so I think expecting anything based around it is unrealistic. There wasn’t anything for Thanksgiving, after all. Heck, Valentine’s Day did get the toy bouquet, so thats still “something” and more than I would have expected.

I also think there’s no lore based on Valentine’s Day either, so there’s that as well. Wintersday and Halloween are both lore-based celebrations (kind of suprised they kept Halloween and didn’t name it something else, but still). Seems they want to keep the holiday events based around lore and not just throwing in real-world holidays which have no basis in the GW world.

I never played GW1, so I don’t really know what other holidays exist in lore. Maybe someone who did can chime in and let us know what to expect on that front?

if someone could give us some lore in the GW holidays is greatly appreciated

since i did not play GW1 also

Linguistically Inept.6583:

i wouldnt be able to stomach seeing a pink loveheart hammer (or something similar) ingame, valentines day is a joke of a holiday and im glad they didnt create any

okay vanlentines day is a joke,

but if anet will celebrate April fools day, would not it be more of a joke on top of a joke?

why is it there’s a wintersday event if in other parts of the world they dont even experience winter?

why holloween, when in some parts of the world it was taken seriously as an event to commemorate a love one who passed away, and in some strict tradition it is to celebrate the souls of honorable saints? so it is safe to assume that they made a joke out of it also?

and just to add an insult to an injury:

if the dev will celebrate april fools as a month long celebration, would it be making fun of the aprils Holy week celebration to Christians?

White stargazer lily

nevertheless, as to what others are stating, one is not compelled to buy from something from the gemstore,

(I for one is not compelled to buy the wintersday skin)

however, i really want a heart weapon skin heheheeheh

Ronah.2869:

PS: maybe other countries are not celebrating it?

maybe not,

(but we dont celebrate wintersday in the Philippines)

so why not hearts day themed weapon skin also?

(we dont celebrate hearts day also here, just in case you might ask)

my personal opinion, that price should stay as is,

i dont have it yet,

but it makes me motivated to save more and play more and dedicate more time farming gold

but if you will lower it (eg, to 20 gold to the whole set) i would buy it, then i will leave the game, “saying that i have completed my desires already” to the point that there is no need to play anymore… but of course it is an exaggeration, because i will not leave gw2 yet

i was really(eagerly) waiting for weapon skins this month of love,

but i was distaunted by the fact that theres no such thing was created,

i thought that the trend will continue, like holloween weapon skins, wintersday weapon skins

but no heart skins?????

PS: Maybe the dev team dislikes the month of love (maybe they dont have a special someone hehehheheheeh)

yup torch for optimal condi damage,

sword+ dagger + shortbow = best for evasive trap style (lay down traps, 4 times evade, rinse and repeat)

i found a new plant at our local market, will post later heheheh

you dont need to be someone elses class to enjoy the game, if you really want to be a ranger despite its class lacking abilities, i suggest you go with it.

(i personally love rangers even if the world tells me otherwise)

**tip to be happy, acknowledge what others will/might say, but dont let it rule your life

my concern is, you did show us how you equip saying mix of some armors and displaying your overall PVE/wvwvw BUILD, (P/P/C with Knights combo)

but the action is in Spvp, its kind of confusing

regarding my personal experience in wvwvw as a ranger, i only use my skills as utility to the group,

therefore, i dont go alone, (im not that confident in my damage output),

if you are looking for a damage dealer that doesnt rely on your pet, go for a warrior,

since our damage is split in to two, so that if one part dies your damage will be halved..
(but it is rewarding for me to micromanage my pet for CC and damage as long as it does not die)

like what others stated in different topics in this subforum, there are only two viable build to make you more or less survivable, bunker or trapper,

(personally i tried Crit damage build, and it was not rewarding in a sense that you will always compare your damage to other classes that excels in raw damage output)

anything that is transmuted cannot be used as a prevursor to that intended item,

it sucks, because i transmuted my ascended backpiece, and i cant use it to make it as an infused version >.<

if thieves have crossbow

it will be awesome

like this girl in a particulare game:

incest is common in sylvari, if you venture to some of the quest, one of it is saving the his beloved from the nightmare court, heheheeh

i think it the materials used, and dye affinity plays a role in dye reflection,

if your dye is natural metalic scheme, and your armor is metalic in nature, it will have a reflective shine,

in my observation, all of sylvaris cultural is metalic in nature, regardless of whether it is cloth/leather/metal

thats why i dont use abyss because it turns out brownish

Tip; use the UI in the color and separate the color “by materials” and avoid the natural metalic colors

Caedmon.6798:

So that will work out like this..Big guild with their leader having a comm tag,Everyone votes him,asks friends to vote aswell etc etc,while he may not even be that good…Unknown commander 1,not many fiends but great view of mind and tactical viewpoint,get 1 vote but is alot better then the comm from the Huge guild.This wont work out for the best,like Every voting system doesn’t.

and in lieu to your idea, that we may have a bad commander that was elected,

is it not prevalent in our current system that bad players are having a commander tag for the sole purpose of buying it, and some other reasons behind it.

and in regard to that statement, we can also name a few commanding officer that is good right now.

Yet with our curent system, pplayers who have plenty gold can access commander tag.

Section 6 statees that you can re elect commanders, it may be for a good reason, or a bad one.

section 1.1 states that any electorates must provide a speech so we can see their intent or whatsoever.

further statements imply that in the commander UI we can rate the commanders according to how good and bad they are

so in the end we can have an informed decision and consent on to WHO shall we vote for

thats one of the limititation of a democracy, and the rule of the majority

thats why we have a commander UI ot track their records

as a responsible voter, you have the power to elect the commander you want,

and in reality (in the Philippines at least) Popularity will play a good role in the electoral race

and in USA, only 2 parties are involved? democrats and republicans, am i right?

since one of the Rules stated above we can have 10 commanders at a given time

can you change the system since commander title is readily available/obtainable through gold ?

before implementing = refund all the commander tags to the Players who bought it

if you want a gold sink: My idea:(you can suggest your own here)

through VOTING, and one vote is 10silver each, and you can vote for your favorite commander-electoral

requirements:

1. one vote costs 10 silver each playable character
(for the purpose of gold sink)
you can vote multiple times given that you have multiple characters
(maybe a limitation that would be seen here is creating multiple characters to get a vote)
(we can make a variable that at least LEVEL 20 Characters can only Vote)

1.1 any player who intends to run must pay a fee of 1 gold (still for the purpose of Gold sink, and for the purpose of not oversaturating the electoral race, the bad part is that what if 10000 players wants to run for the position)

- to combat this scenario a 3 day time frame to file for candidacy is inforced (maybe at this process thousands of players will file)

- 4th day, he/she must submit at least a 500 word speech in game (it is easily checked because we can have word count) (at this stage dedicated/intellectual/strategic players will be the one who will initiate this stage)

- 5th day, the first 50(fifty) candidates who completes the requirements are the one who is going to run. (first serve status)

2. the commander candidate must at least 2 weeks old in a server

3. the candidate must be in a guild for at least two weeks also
(hindsight the commander can switch between guilds he is affiliated with, but if there is a system that if he/she is the commanding arms, he/she cannot switch guilds until his post is relieved)

3.1 one guild member CAN only run for the post, no multiple representatives

4. like the previous games that I played, (and in real life) commanders can only take the post for a certain period of time

maybe 1 month is enough for leadership

5. after 3 weeks of leadership. filing candidacy will take on effect to prepare for the next commander

6. the previous commander can be re-elected, can re-run for the post.

7. in lieu of different time zones and limited play time of some commanders ( due to real life activities and what not, we can elect 10 commanders in one month, or 15 maybe plausible)

8. if the commander changes server permanently, his/her commander status is revoked, and in this scenario, a game announcement will be published through mail that a certain commander is out. and emergency elections will be carried out immidiately without the cost of 10 Silver

8.1 guesting commanders will have a different color tag and will have a dignitary previledge to lead PvE in other worlds.

9. since their power is bestowed upon by the majority, commanders will have 3 timed abilities to command its people

- he can send one mail to all its constituents to call for arms (cooldown time 45 minutes, so it will not be annoying)

- he can use mass party maybe 75 individuals players

- he can use emergency, to teleport all his party members to his location (for assault) (cooldown 30 min)

10. commander hall of fame UI. to track good/bad commanders, and its constituents can make a rating of the commanders (a track record for officials)

11. the developers can make a sub-forum to discuss past present and future commanders,

12. in game – we can view their speeches and intent to run the commander post (so we can gauge their competencies)

and after a month a new cycle will begin

any Amendments is greatly appreciated if it can make the rules clear enough

Arrow Storm.4618:

sorry for the bad angle, i still need to get my pants. also, i like the view from the back, you see the most leafy blades

i think i’ll be frequenting this thread with when i get more inspiration

i like your plant, what is it called?

thanks heheheh

im still looking for a plant that is present in our garden for inspiration,

the plant is called snake plant, an ornamental plant inside our house

for me, its large for a skinny type of body

i would personally pay 400 gems for 5 piece rune/sigil remover.

(to save the superior runes of divity and to save my t3 armor)