Guild Wars 2

Gekido Tokihanatareta.1705:

And back to our regularly scheduled score update… Heck of a hard fight tonight on TC BL… good times had by all I believe.

This is what happens when there is actually a useful 3rd server in Tier 2. Not a 2v1 fight against SOR anymore…

Osskil.1029:

Hoots.9564:

Esoteric.5490:

Osskil.1029:

Blackgate, you can’t have your garrison back. Kitten you.

I’ll take an SS in 15 minutes for you

is that ss from the outside looking in?

Still waiting on that SS. Why’d you delete your post, bro?

7 hours later…

IoJ was BG’s pet.

Now that they are gone…

TheDevilWithinU.7092:

Blah blah blah excuses excuses excuses! You’ve been saying you’ve been “resting” for the past three days as well. Jeez can you not just respect the truth of SoR open field dominance along with well placed siege and tactics.

Exactly.

pot.6805:

All siege disappeared in SoR garrison because it was superior. SoR had no resistance taking back their garrison. So sick of these resets.

Same happened to us in your Garrison. Except we facerolled your zerg while having 4 walls down and the inner gate at <10%

I’m the Quaggan Commander in BG BL, get at me.

It’s bugged and it requires 2,000 instant supply to upgrade it, but the cap is only 1,550 so it is just greyed out.

Hopefully this thread isn’t left unanswered…

5 gold

The bug is that IT DOES require instant supply…

The Garrison (Server Valley) for the 2nd place server (Blue Side) in Eternal Battleground can’t be upgraded to Fortify Keep because it requires 2,000 supply instantly.
The cap is only 1550 so you can’t even queue the upgrade. This is a huge disadvantage for the 2nd place team.

Mif.3471:

You seem to forget the fact that you were so busy defending your newly acquired Bay keep that you completely ignored Hills keep, which a small IoJ team took from you at the exact same time we took Bay keep from you.

Face it, your zerg tactics got outplayed.

I actually ran to hills with a 10 man group to try and save it, but because you simply had more players than us, you took both.

Enjoy Tier 3.

Mif.3471:

Pvp.2758:

Couldn’t see the responses of this on the old one so…

Thanks IoJ guy for ramming down the gate while we wiped your entire zerg LOL

(and he finished the gate off for us after his entire zerg was dead)

That was actually me on the ram. Perhaps you should learn some strategy.

Since our entire zerg was dead, instead of letting BG regroup and defend, taking the gate down allowed you to either continue pressure on them until we got back, or flip the keep thereby getting rid of all the upgrades and siege equipment, thus making it easier for us to attack.

You did so, and IoJ took the keep from you 5 minutes later and held it for at least the next several hours until I logged.

The fact that you’re a commander and you can’t think tactically is where the true lols are in your post.

Lol. You would have taken the keep regardless if we took it or not because you simply had more people than us. Also, BG had no presence at the time because we had just taken Briar (wiping them off the map).

Destroying the gate for us allowed us to take the keep faster than we would have, and allowed us to have more supply than we would have. Basically giving us a better chance to defend it, if we were to defend it at all.

Smokee.1754:

Really looking forward to play against TC again. I remember them as some die hard players that always came out with twice the numbers when you wiped em, instead of leaving the map.

With the Euro transfers Fort Aspenwood got some weeks ago it surprised me that TC was able to keep first place, and it just goes to show how strong they are.

I was on TC when Blackgate started rising up through the tiers. TC destroyed every server for a few weeks then Blackgate came and swamped us.

Couldn’t see the responses of this on the old one so…

Thanks IoJ guy for ramming down the gate while we wiped your entire zerg LOL

(and he finished the gate off for us after his entire zerg was dead)

TC, actually be useful and fight for first instead of 2nd like IOJ has done for the past 2 months…

Pets: Brown Bear + Arctodus (best tanks and do decent damage) – You want a tanking pet.

Longbow/shortbow

Skills:
Any heal is fine. I use healing spring for WVW, troll unguent is probablybest for leveling
Protect Me
Quickening Zyphr
Lightning Reflexes
Elite (lv 30) – Entangle

Stacks mobs and barrage them down, then swap to shortbow and single target them, have your pet tank, if you are low on HP use your survival skills and make sure you pet swap if your pet gets to low health (makes it so it is only 20 second CD instead of 60 second CD, if it were to die)

Thanks for the feedback! I will test out Rune of the Ranger. I just didn’t think it was as good because Ruby Orb offers more Power, more Crit Damage %, and almost as much Precision.

Intro: Since most of the time you will be running with groups of people and fighting groups of people, your main source of damage will come from Barrage.

Glass Cannon

GEAR:
Full Berserker: Slotted Ruby Orbs

Accessories:
Berserker: Slotted Berserker

Weapons:
Longbow: Slotted Sigil of Fire
Shortbow: Slotted Sigil of Bloodlust (Unless you stack your Bloodlust stacks with a weapon you stash in your bags then use Sigil of Air)

Greatsword does more damage than Shortbow, but I would recommend Shortbow because of the distance you can maintain.

Hint: Always stash a Warhorn in your bags to use right before combat and while out of combat to run to places faster.

Pets: Brown Bear + Arctodus (Does DECENT damage, mainly used for sacrifice; all other pets will die.)

Traits: 30/30/5/0/5

Trait Skills:
i/viii/x
ii/iv/x

Utilities:
Healing Spring (Removes Conditions//Water Field) – Highly Recommended / Optional.
Sharpened Stone – Highly Recommended / Optional.
Quickening Zephyr – Mandatory
Protect Me – Mandatory
Rampage As One – (For Zerg Fights) // Entangle for small fights/1v1’s

Basic Zerg Fighting: Utilize your quickness with barrage + sharpening stone (puts 5 stacks on 5 targets). Also utilize piercing arrows (line up your shots to hit multiple targets). Barrage with Fury and Sharpened Stone with this build will hit easily 20k+ damage. (Pretty much guaranteed to push back the enemy/down 2-5 players.

Best combo: Get fury > Sharpened Stone + Barrage + Quickening Zypher > Rapid Fire (Line up your shot) > Weapon Swap to shortbow (adds more fury) + Pet Swap for quickness > Spam #1 > Repeat.

Barrage with Fury and Sharpened Stone with this build will hit easily 20k+ damage. That isn’t even counting your Rapid Fire and Shortbow #1 Spam.

Your key to staying alive is “Protect Me”, Dodge Rolls, and Distance.

urdriel.8496:

roll a thief, or a warrior….sry, but is the truth….i have a ranger full geared, and if you comparewith a warrior or a thief, the ranger is a big shyyt…ranger should have a skill with a nice damage, but only have skills with low damage.

Stop commenting on every thread saying “reroll blah blah blah”. You simply don’t know how to play a Ranger, so yes YOU should reroll, but not the players that can actually learn to play the class.

Those two don’t know what they are talking about. I out DPS people all the time, and have my pet revive the downed.

Use full bersker glass cannon with the longbow and shortbow

Pets: Brown Bear + Arctodus

30/30/5/0/5

Utilize your quickness with barrage + sharpening stone (puts 5 stacks on 5 targets). Also utilize piercing arrows (line up your shots to hit multiple targets).

Best combo: Get fury > Barrage + Quickening Zypher > Rapid Fire (Line up your shot) > Weapon Swap to shortbow (adds more fury) + Pet Swap for quickness > Spam #1 > Repeat.

Your key to staying alive is “Protect Me”, Dodge Rolls, and Distance.

Skyrant Kangaroomouse.7458:

Don’t even bother. There is nothing you can do in WvW.

1. Your damage is a joke and your shots get evaded 90% of the time by people simply circling you.

2. Your pet is a moron and can’t hit the broad side of a barn. Most classes can outrun the pet or kill it very easy.

3. You are useless while attacking a keep. BECAUSE YOU CANT kittenING SHOOT ARROWS UP. While engineer happily throws grenades up.

4. You are useless in defense because as soon as you stand near the edge some thief pulls you down, standing further back you won’t be able to hit anything because you get Obstructed.

5. Your pet is completely useless in defending keeps. ZERO. NOTHING.

6. You get 2 shot by almost every other class. Sometimes even one shot and that;s wearing full toughness set because medium armour is shiat

I almost forgot.

7. You can’t get away or catch up to any other class, they either have more movement speed, are invisible 90% of the time or teleport with skills that have barely any cooldowns compared to our horn which is our ONLY kittenING movement speed.

8. Not enough stun/lock breakers, we have 1, yeah whooping one. We don’t have any stuns either, just one that lasts for 1sec, hahaha, kitten you anet.

You must be doing it wrong.

5k+ crit #1 longbow
6k+ #2 greatsword

1. on the Shortbow still needs a fix… and #4 for the Ranger needs a faster casting time….

Any ideas on how to earn the cold Christmas cash? What drastic market changes will the event/patch notes cause? I sold the T6 mats that got an increase in drop chance.

It was a fair fix. It didn’t destroy the ability, but it stopped the OP’ness of it. It is still powerful and will be used over and over, but at least it isn’t 40 players in one spot now…

It can actually res players in weird spots and it can also run through walls.

Use this weapon combo:

Longbow
Shortbow or Greatsword

Liquid.9672:

Lol Choo just portaled an entire zerg on top of one guy standing on a rock in IoJ BL. Nice work guys. I hope my bag was fun.

Could have been a culling issue. Better safe than sorry.

Found the answer. deleted.

I have a lv.19 green one. Where can I find an exotic/rare one?

SoR won’t give up our Garrison to anyone.

Both BG and IOJ broke through with trebs from DE and WH. We fought both servers out of the garrison, took back both of our towers while doing it and repaired it all the way up.

Yeah… by the time you throw the sword, they are already too far away.

The warrior greatsword has 2 gapclosers and a slow…

Needs more gap closers or a faster casting slow/more slows.

The damage is fine, but whats the point if you get kited the whole time? #4’s casting is too long

Jay.3284:

This is such an opinionated question…

First of all, you’re using the 2 worst weapons in the game.
Secondly, is this for dungeons? Open world PvE? WvW? Specify.
Thirdly, When in doubt, go with Knight’s armor with zerker jewelry and orbs
[Moderated]

Greatsword and Longbow are two of the top weapons for Ranger. Barrage does 20k+ and slows, it’s amazing for WVW because of range. Greatsword is the most powerful melee/close combat weapon. The only other option is Shortbow, and it doesn’t have enough burst.

For some builds, a fury utility would be really useful.

Can we get a Utility Skill that gives us Fury on the 14th? Rampage As One has a huge CD and the only other way I can think of is weapon swapped while traited, and warhorn.

Coming soon? I saw it in the TP a couple weeks ago… I would pay gems for it.

Ayrilana.1396, that isn’t the point. Don’t be ignorant of the issue.

I think it is pretty stupid to have a gear set dedicated to farming/playing the game in PVE.

Whenever I do dungeons/Cursed Shore/Fractals/any PVE I can’t even use my real set because I have to use Magic Find to hope for better drops.

I don’t like this farming mentality of a Magic Find set…

I saw the name change thing on the trading post (I know it isn’t available), but is there going to be name change in the future/near future?

I’m pretty sure Signet of the Hunt doesn’t work while in combat.

If you aren’t in combat you can just put the Warhorn in your bag and swap it in to use the buff then swap it back out. If you are in combat then SotH doesn’t work and you can’t swap your warhorn in, so it’s the same thing.

Signet of the Hunt does NOT work while in combat and the active effect is terrible.

I would rather have +10% DURING combat then +25% WITHOUT combat.

Swiftness is faster than 25% and Signet of the hunt doesn’t stack with Swiftness so a Warhorn buff (which can be stored in your bag to use outside of combat will just cancel out the buff anyways).

Raven Paradox.1860:

Reslinal.2359:

To be fair, after 4 weeks the forum posting is finally getting a bit interesting. I am tired of hearing the same “fun fights”, “GJ everyone” talk anymore. Hopefully the rivalry can spice things up a bit, WvW is getting a little stale.

Unfortunately, as a whole we have respect for SoR. Before this week we haven’t had any trash talking and after seeing JQ and SBI non-stop complain about every single tactic we threw at them (that they tried to mimic, and eventually failed at), it’s nice to have these “GG” fights. There is no rivalry. It’s simply someone that’s mad trying to troll. It happens in every game.

No disrespect to IoJ, but I think BG and SoR need to help push them out of the tier. We’re losing pts, so it’s just going to be this matchup for months to come. We all want a change. IoJ has been playing for 2nd every single time I’ve seen them. It’s time for them to pack their bags and leave.

Agreed. I’ve been saying the same thing for weeks. -SoR

When you use the skill “Guard” you select where you want your pet to be so your pet can run up walls and fight for you. Basically it’s like the monsters in the chandelier room, but you get it wherever you want. Example: Dark Room, Well, or even that the enemy spawn portals.

Also, look at the mini map. Where my pet is..right before dark room, he is on the pillars.

I don’t like this idea. Keep pets mandatory for Rangers, but allow them to stow during combat.

It’s the funniest thing ever haha. Try it out. (“Guard” sends your pet to wherever you put it)

This was one of the problems I never complained about because I didn’t think they would ever fix it… I can’t believe my eyes after reading John Peters post! Awesome news!

Are Rangers going to be recieving major bug fixes on the 14th? One of the ones I hate most is Quick Shot on the Shortbow… #3 & Lick Wounds not working on certain terrains.

That is ridiculous .