Guild Wars 2

The song is How ya like me now by The Heavy

Too bad he drops like a rock as soon as he’s up and I have to pick him up again lol

I use the hound to root:taunt and get him up the second time

Fluff nailed it, I use cavalier/soldier runes and intelligence/energy sigils for the auto crit on swap for Maul and PoS

I’ll post the build when I get home, working now. =)

And yeah, that’s why I posted the Vid because its a power melee shout build and I dont come across many people spec’d this way. So if nothing else its a nice change.

Thanks Fluffball =)

appreciated.

Wolf: Boo Von Go Away
Drakehound: Scooby Doom
Drake: Oops your Dead lol

Heya Donee =D

Yup that Drake lol!!

Curious, did the Ranger equip a Drake?

Decided to start recording again, just a little mash up vid of my Asuran Melee Ranger Ochit McGoogle in PVP over the last couple of days. Nothing high end but I don’t see many shout melee rangers so hey!

Hiya Donee! (It’s Kaloria)

Fun watch Sir, now I know who you are on the boards. Since I see you in WvW/PvP all the time. =D

Asura Melee Ranger, reporting =D

That was me on Ochit the Little White Asura with the Drake last few PVP matches, Fun fights Sir =D

Puck.9612:

Crapgame.6519:

I don’t know, it is hit or miss but I usually see at least one other ranger most games. As someone said, they are typically LB focused but I see others. In fact, when they come across me they usually kitten a brick because I’m running a sustain / double melee build that totally throws them off. So the dialog starts after the came and idle chit chat follows – which is good.

To be honest I mostly play unranked and it is a toss up of who you are going to get. When I queue up with friends that is typically when I bust out the LB because I’m the primary damage dealer on the /assist. So in that case speed kills

I think maybe ranked you would find fewer of other classes because of the meta and/or favorites. But open/unranked, I think rangers are well represented.

I think I might have run into you a few days ago. Spent the last minute and a half on spirit watch fighting a double melee sustain ranger until the clock finally ran out. I was a little black asura running heyena and pirate runes.

Was the Melee Sustain Ranger an Asura all in white with red trim, Ochit McGoogle?? Because the min long spirit watch fight vs black Asura Ranger sound VERY familiar.

Vendetta.1958:

I’ll be the first person to point out that a ranger mechanic is OP, but IMO, bird F2 is fine as it is for the following reasons:

1. With the exception of longbow, ranger weapons have lower damage coefficients than their counterpart sets for other professions, due to them being nerfed after release to compensate for the damage their pets are supposed to output.

2. Bears/Drakes/Devourers are not good pets. Their F2 is either on a ridiculous channel time that will never hit (Drake) have massive cooldowns for underwhelming skills and deal no damage (Bear) or have straight up gimmick F2’s (Devourer)

If one of these two points are addressed, then it would be fine to Nerf bird F2s

Tl:dr: Bird F2 is very strong, but all the other pets are garbage, (except dogs) so nerfing bird is a terrible idea until the other pets are made viable.

River Drake’s F2 (lightening bounces) is the most reliable of the Drakes, They have a TON of survival, and FYI – ALL – their attacks cleave.

Unless you F2 they will open with a Tail swipe (cleave) that delves for 1900+

I have a folder full of screenies of 15K + Tailswipes in PVP matches and I have hit for over 20K in WvW

I run melee with GS-S/A and having almost every attack from both me and the Drake cleave is awesome.

Wait for the post when he gets leveled by a Drake Tail swipe for 17K +

I run this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAR8XnUqAtCiVsA2CCctgh/gaf9MIA+04HG+eFu9Z4gVfeA-TJBHABA8EA6Z/BlLDMwFBAA

Intelligence PoS/Maul and pet Burst. Very good survival, drake practically static unless I need a Fear or To Save drake after “protect me”

Can generate some huge Damage numbers and great sustain. Also works very well with Crusader but I prefer Cav for the ferocity and bigger kitten umbers on weapon swap

Been doing this a while now…mostly in PVP (many tears) that moment it lands…..so….so beautiful.

Nice vid, glad someone took the time to compile and post. =D

I don’t use guard in my build (pet stealth) and I still land over 50% on the first attack.

Here’s a PVP Drake hit from yesterday.

Enlarge/Sickem/Attack of Op/opening strike

Here’s the PVP Build if you wanna try….VERY tanky for the Burst. =D

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAR8XnUqAtCiVsA2CCctgh/gaf9MIA+04HG+ufv9Z4gVfeA-TJBHABA8EA6Z/hsLDMwFBAA

The best thing about it is you can effectively set it up for the opening round of most fights, assuming of course they don’t manage to avoid that opening Hilt Bash. Once combat has begun its hard to line all up again but that first Hit is a Biggie

The Pet gets the opening strike auto crit…so if you pop enlarge signet and sickem even without a Hilt bash (MoC) it’s still over10K. But I figure I get the big hit off well over 50% of the time to open. Combined with the Hilt Bash and Maul damage it pretty kitten damage for the opening 3-4 seconds. Easily eclipsing 20K between me and the Pet.

I have seen the Drake drop 2-3 damaged people on a single tail swipe <3

I haven’t gone through the footage yet but this is just one of 5-6 over 15K my pet has hit with tonight. Getting a lot of Tears in Map =D

Lol Yup!

(throws him an Asura for a scooby snack)

I was getting my Daily in PVP and I had a thief on me…I had a Drake hound (Scooby Doom) out

So I hit the thief with a hilt bash on GS he purged it and blipped away. And shows up full health a few hundred units away. So I pop signet of the Wild and sent hound on him with sic em

Well lol the hound was enlarged, had opening strike and a moment of clarity with sickem up…dog went a few feet and leaped at thief and hit him for 17.5K and insta gibbed him. I have raw video footage but no still. Going to post it when time allows.

I laughed so hard I had tears as the thief cried in Map chat both about the damage and not being able to stealth!

100% to dead, no need to stomp =D

Raven.9603:

Sarlack.4096:

Ranger!

NM/WS/BM

Ranger using soldier (trooper runes)

Run 4 Shouts (trait-ed for faster CD using resounding timbre in BM)
- Protect me
- We heal as one
- Guard
- Old Rampage as one (forgot new name)

Evasive purity in NM (dodge removes blind/poison/cripple)

Signet of Renewal (Transfer all condi to pet) removes 1 condi/10 sec as remaining non shout skill

WS – Empathic bond (use bear) clear 3 condi/10 sec to pet

Brown Bear as one pet – removes 3 condi AE 3 x per min.

Throw in Generosity Sigils for good measure.

Shouts potentially removes: up to 11 condi/min on command
Evasive purity potentially removes up to 18 condi/minute on dodge (10sec ICD)
Empathic bond+SoR removes 24 condi/minute – Passively
Bear removes – 9 condi/min (AE) – On command
Generosity transfers – 6 condi/min – passively

With close to 1 condition/sec removal potential in this setup if you die to a condi class, your doing it wrong.

Just sayin’

Bear removes 2 with “shake it off”. soldier runes dont improve the bears shout sadly.
I am not sure if bear would live through a whole fight with empathic bond and SoR, there is probably going to be some pet swapping going on there.

Its a given you should be managing pet and not let it Die by strategically swapping. I stand corrected for Shake it Off removing 2 not 3 but my stance remains the same, Rangers have amazing condi removal when done right. Still close to 60 condi per minute of removal.

Ranger!

NM/WS/BM

Ranger using soldier (trooper runes)

Run 4 Shouts (trait-ed for faster CD using resounding timbre in BM)
- Protect me
- We heal as one
- Guard
- Old Rampage as one (forgot new name)

Evasive purity in NM (dodge removes blind/poison/cripple)

Signet of Renewal (Transfer all condi to pet) removes 1 condi/10 sec as remaining non shout skill

WS – Empathic bond (use bear) clear 3 condi/10 sec to pet

Brown Bear as one pet – removes 3 condi AE 3 x per min.

Throw in Generosity Sigils for good measure.

Shouts potentially removes: up to 11 condi/min on command
Evasive purity potentially removes up to 18 condi/minute on dodge (10sec ICD)
Empathic bond+SoR removes 24 condi/minute – Passively
Bear removes – 9 condi/min (AE) – On command
Generosity transfers – 6 condi/min – passively

With close to 1 condition/sec removal potential in this setup if you die to a condi class, your doing it wrong.

Just sayin’

I agree and for that reason I have been trying various power builds in PVP, usually a good indicator is the feedback you get during matches. That being said

I found for reliable condition removal is WS (SoTF/4 S.Skills) + NM Evasive purity. This setup has allowed me sufficient condition removal to not spec NM and go MM and still feel rugged. I can stay in pretty hard with 2 on my while still pressuring one.

It’s nothing groundbreaking but the burst Damage from the (Plenty of) Fury/Intelligence generated Auto Crits, Opening Strike 25%, MoC 50% and Enlarge 25% vs Survival is terrific. You can generate some enormous hits as PoS and Maul really our single hardest hitting attacks that aren’t being channeled (and thus avoidable) going to them on Swap is essential.

Typically I hate empathic bond (kills pet) but if you use the Drake static and use awareness on swaps he’s easy to keep alive. The base toughness and perma Regen/signet takes advantage of the healing and gives you really strong survival for opening burst which renders protective ward less necessary. The Drake can take the damage when protect me used and every one of his attacks is AE.

It’s too easy to lean on the BM/NM/MM but venturing away from it REALLY compromises our survival…I think this is a viable way to step away from the the safety net the BM/NM/WS offers. It’s tough on Thieves and Mesmers too! I like this balance and bag of tricks. Wanted to share is all because I have found it very hard not to take the Golden Three the topic alluded to.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQNAR8XnUqAtCiVsA2CCctgh/gaf9MIA+04HG+ufv9Z4gf1eA-TJBHABA8EA6Z/hsLDMwFBAA

Thoughts?

1% Damage per boon

Simple question,

5 stacks of might is 5% damage 1% per stack of Might?

or

1% Damage, the Boon Might no matter how many stacks will only register 1% and it’s only 1% for each different type of boon.

Thanks,
Kalo

Crapgame.6519:

lordkrall.7241:

Can I have your stuff?

No one in their right mind would let a single week out of almost three years decide what they should or shouldn’t do with a game.

I somewhat agree with your thought process regarding one week vs. three years.

On the other had I can see the OP’s point and actually agree. I’ve been toying with the idea of pre-ordering to the tune of 200 bucks. Maybe even 300. We have three people playing. The optimum package to buy is the ultimate because you get 4,000 gems and a character slot. Gives you some beta access which is also nice. That is how I came up with 300 bucks. Still with me? Ok, this is where it gets to the OP’s point of view.

1. Lack of WvW information with expansion pack. Yes, we know of a map but not much else.
2. Still no operational player portal with weekly, monthly statistics for players, guilds, by class, etc that focuses on WvW play.
3. Golem rush – event was in WvW not EoTM – weekly scores still counted and a bug
4. No communication or acknowledgement from Golem Rush feedback or complaints
5. No rewards compared to PvE (defending, building, roaming, controlling NPCS, etc)
6. Population and wall clock coverage issues
7. Server tiers – top / bottom are stuck – middle can’t move
8. Borderland maps – great concept, no movement – ruins dead
9. No alliances
10. Never ending ranks, bogus or meaningless titles, should focus on WvW traits or abilities

“If” or should I say “since” I mainly play WvW and those are just 10 issues I have off the top of my head, valid to me, maybe not you, why would I buy the expansion? Serious question, not trolling?

After a while the same format of play gets boring especially when the server you play on can’t move up or down due to population and 24×7 coverage. Since the 9 issues I list, my issues granted, and no information on how to address them I am not going to play 300 bucks for a new map…

EDIT: I come from DaOC for a bit of background. Not perfect but at least it had a player portal for guilds, alliances, players, by class, by week, by month

Edit 2: Added 10th item for ranking system – needs work, lowered, changed, focus on WvW abilities or traits

Topic aside, what DAoC server were you on =)

I played for YEARS!! (Had a RR12 Reaver Named Kalorian and similarly named Merc/Mini)

Good condi clear, 2 stun breaks, decent mobility, strong defense, Strong pet.

3000 Power, 44% (64% as near perma Fury) 200% Crit Damage with MoC/Opening Strike/Signet Bursts

Edit: It’s a WvW Roaming build and my numbers include stacks.

Just sharing…

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-J;5Fkx-f2JEF-0;9V-E;1b_Y;0046147257;46wl36;1t_MTt_MT70FQ3-oH;3HbH6RbI6JbJ6230BV1a;5NYCqNYCucYDucYDu;9;9;9;9-VX-6Q

Log out and back in and you get the daily chest. Doing same for me for 2 days…If I am logged in when Daily rolls over I need to log all the way out and back in to get new daily.

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

they salty , the fact the pet swap bug only works with Clarions bond + transmogrification tonic which causes the transmog effect on the charater (white cloud effect)

and again they salty they have no idea what ranger did before patch , let alone after.

I certainly wasn’t doing that lol…I guess they saw the Taunt floater was all I could think of.

What the hell is it?

I just fought a trio of Black Gate on Tarnished Coast and killed them and they invited me. Told me I was exploiting the pet swap bug (stated “I saw the effect!”) and I was reported. The only thing I could think of is I am running BM with an Eagle and Go for The Eyes/Wilting and the Taunt. I don’t even swap…it’s all Eagle unless I need a rupt from wolf for various reasons. So I spam the GFTE and Wilting on 5 Sec resuse and the taunt ever third F2

I’m basically all glass armor/weapons/Amulet/back and Trinkets/rings Cavalier and running WS/NM/BM in a defensive SoTF setup.

I do something that’s been deemed blacklisted or an exploit that I don’t know of?

Gracias Sir! =)

I know it’s early but hate killing my Bday booster to tinker on Ranger

Been a while Xsorus

Or can they be used with a Hawk/Eagle and have both re-applied every 4 .75 Seconds.

This is my Melee build I run when I solo. Pretty Tanky

has a lot going for it and when stacked can put out some good DPS particularly when Enlarged and Quickened…It has 2 stun beaks, decent toughness/hits…reliable but not spectacular condition removal, good fury, quick CD on all sword skills (very good mobility) great dodge/evade/protection up time as well …decent pet DPS/SOS mix…sneaky good passive health regen with little investment. It all ascended but its what I wear /shrug

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNUQNAR8XjEqUyaFLusQ1aABhaVA0uGu3UwdTkvfdFrkC-TFCEAB2t/wTK/SU9ntUCiwDAoNdDAcEAe4iAEAAB4m3Mb2mBDdoDdoDdoN0bO0bO0dWKguWGB-w

I play it in WvW with a couple of guildies small man, and yeah the adept trait changes a little

Pre Expansion Build

Idea was simply to hit some baseline offense and must haves as follows.

Thresholds I wanted were 2500 Power (I do with stacks) 50% (70% under Fury) Crit Rate and 200% Crit Damage, “perma” Fury and MASSIVE cripple and immobilize for control, 2 Stun breaks, good controlled condi clear and movement speed without being too glassy ; )

You can generate more 50+ sec of immob per minute under optimal conditions and near perma Fury

I’m having a blast with it so figured I would share.

http://tinyurl.com/kcpu2ps

Kalo

Fun watch nicely done. Loved the opening clip…

One note! Your poor Pet, left it hung out to dry a few times when it’s F2 could have served you well, that being said hindsight 20/20 and great vid.

This is strictly Theory Crafting, but it’s an edition of an idea I have had. It’s all about melee hybrid damage/pressure with an enormous amount of immobilization/control. It’s planned around me, so it’s a Sylvari high Silver Ranked so full stacks/grasping vines. I may build it exotic and give it a whirl as I think it has incredible Troll Value =)

I’d like your thoughts.

http://tinyurl.com/pzfalwl

My main concern is condition control but if pressed I could use Empathic Bond to bolster but I hate gimping the pet.

I have been rolling LB/GS for ages (before LB upgrade) and spent my first year as a bow/bow ranger simply for the challenge.

Get many /whisper after winning fights. The response they get depends on how they come off. In the event they trash talk I simply respond

“If you think it’s a fluke we can do it again”

Change the Runes and Ammy for Power based and 2-0-6-6-0 is very viable with LB/GS. I run a bunker with both those weapons and that spec but do not use the same gear for obvious reasons.

I run it with Hoebrak runes and Zerker Ammy. And either SoTF/EB or SoTF/BS combo for defense.

Sube Dai.8496:

You can trait 2/0/6/6/0 with zerk amulet and still have good damage.

Survivability is where it should be for rangers.

Shhhhhhhhhhh =)

I is Sir….

Wassup Sparky?

Invigorating Bond has a 20 second ICD so it doesn’t apply with each of the Eagle/Hawks faster F2s

47 here (just turned last week) you got me beat by a mile =D

F2- Make a sweater?

Terravos, JCBroe, Faux, Prysin to name a few are all big contributors to the community. As for who is most influential on me personally….none, as I do my own thing but those are opinions and posters I respect and read what they have to contribute.

I run GS/Axe x 2 for a while now, its a defensive build but I run a SoTF/Barkskin setup and use LR/QZ

With Fury/Quickness you can use both Axe 4/5 and GS Maul for some good burst.

I have had some very good success with it, cant help but wonder if we have fought as I see nobody else running this weapon set. My Ranger is Kaloria