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Sina.9208:

oxtred.7658:

The saddest part is, they are right. There’s no point taking a ranger in any run, except if we find a niche use to any of their specific skills ( something around pets triggering something, I don’t know). So, if they could fix frost spirit, that would be great.

There is no evidence that anyone that has a power to help us is actually reading the Ranger subforums .d

The thread in Profession Balance seems to have been ignored as well. I’ll make a reddit post about it in a day or so once the whole leveling thing calms down. A post in the GW2 Discussion forum might be good as well, but I get the feeling it would fall off the front page too quickly (or be moved).

If the change was intentional, it goes against their entire “shaving” balance philosophy. ANet usually tries to balance skills by slightly adjusting numbers with a foam nerf bat, not a ten tonne hammer pounding them into the ground.

Both PvE and PvP trainers no longer offer trait books to low level characters. I decided to make a new sylvari ranger to play gs/lb, only to find I can’t unlock 2 of the most important traits for the build and the 40 skill points I put on the char were useless. Character bound trait unlocks were bad enough in the first place, but now locking them based on level in PvP? Seriously? We don’t want this.

I vote to either revert changes or rename the skill to Smiter’s Boon.

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As with Jerus, I’ll join you if you don’t have enough newcomers.

I hardly play my ranger, so idk when it was changed. I only tested because you mentioned channels and I didn’t actually know whether it would apply to every hit of a channeled skill or only on 70% of the hits. Was pretty disturbed when I saw it only proccing on the first or second hit after multiple tests. I hardly played my ranger before, even though I expected him to be my main near launch, but since then he hasn’t moved from the test golem in HotM.

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Forum bug squash

rpfohr.7048:

Has anybody tested this besides to OP or are we just taking his word.

Seems crazy this would happen as a dev in the past even mentioned there is suppose to be no ICD on FS

I tested it and can post screens if you like.

“Smiter’s Boon 2.0”

Bump. An ANet response would be nice. Was this change intentional? If so, why?

I’m of the opinion that legendaries should be for prestige, with no advantage over other weapons except the flashy blinding skins.

Bump.

Was looking that way to me as well. Well, there goes most of ranger’s party utility I guess. The single proc is really obvious on warhorn 4 though.

Just tested in mists, only 1 hit of multi-hit attacks was increased with frosty. Requesting someone else to test whether non-multi-hit attacks are gaining the damage bonus more than once per 10s, the numbers I’m getting atm are too varied to tell and I’m low on time.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

Since when does Frost Spirit have a 10s Effect-Recharge on the +10% Damage?

It’s always been there on the tooltip, but as far as I know has never been in-game. Bad tool tips as usual.

NA here; I’ll run with you, but I have scholar’s in my ascended set and no strength runes, so…

I’d be up for a 5 engi run if you’re looking for players. The lack of Fury for long fights is somewhat bothering, but with near perma 25 might/vuln it may be harder to notice.

+1 to JP in HotM. Seems like every time I end a match I’m jumping up to the roof or climbing around the edges of the map.

All traits and skills are reset and must now be obtained via the new trait system. Purchasing traits from profession trainers has also been removed.

Your Bomb 3kit build has the Grenadier trait despite no grenades. Might want to fix that.

I’d like to see HotW p2/3 at 1.75g. We should get more for putting up with those underwater boss fights/hp sponges.

OP, not everyone enjoys the same type of content as you do. Some prefer dungeons or WvW over living story content. Should they not voice their opinions on the forums when they dislike the direction ANet is taking with the game, or believe ANet is making a mistake? Believe it or not, almost all of us here enjoy the game and want it to be the best it can be.

Just tested in HotM, ranger runes do still provide the +damage with a mini active.

And thus ended the era of Elite skills that actually felt… elite.

I will be very surprised if it doesn’t. I still don’t think it’s worth using outside of skyhammer though. Supply Crate is just too good to pass up.

So much downed state…

manveruppd.7601:

Sins.4782:

I’d like to add that adding a bank to PvP does not devalue bank items in PvE. Bank items have the advantage of having 0 loading screens, and do not detract any time from whatever activity you were doing beforehand.

More importantly, bank items and TP access items don’t kick you out of instances like dungeons or fractals, which porting to the Mists would.

Interestingly enough, you can go from a dungeon instance you opened to a world vs world map, bank, leave via the ‘leave wvw’ button, and you’ll show up just outside the dungeon entrance. Upon re-entering the dungeon you’ll find your instance never closed.

Probably works the same way for HotM, but idk.

-EDIT- Not sure if it works this way in fractals, but it certainly does for traditional dungeons.

Esplen.3940:

If I recall correctly, the bank is only available at “Your World’s Borderlands”.

You can access your personal bank through any Guild Registrar NPC (provided you are in a guild with a guild bank). All 4 main WvW maps have ways to access your bank without leaving the protected area. The only time all 4 maps have a queue (usually) is at reset night on t1 servers, and even then not for all that long. So the average player would be unable to access their bank through these methods something like <.1% of the time. So what’s the problem with giving this same access to PvP?

I’d like to add that adding a bank to PvP does not devalue bank items in PvE. Bank items have the advantage of having 0 loading screens, and do not detract any time from whatever activity you were doing beforehand. As has been said before, players who are willing to go through loading screens for free bank access already do so through WvW.

The EU team won 3 to 0.

Dsquaredcri.9421:

If you are #1 Engi NA then poor NA lol you make me laugh hahaha engi is not a powerful nodefighter never! Engi is the worst class at it! Your’re not a ranger/warrior/ele, those 3 classes are the best 1v1 node fighter in game, engi is a running 24/7 class! You running a build with no protection #6 trait in alchemy and with only bombs as stealthing skill for disingage you would just be free meal to dps classes!
Yeah you’re the #1 NA hahaha

Top kek sir

Dalanor.5387:

Showtime.

Or click here to skip to ranique’s reply.

Have Zhaitan shoot shards of enemies out of his body to land on the airship. Players must destroy these monsters in order to protect one member of the party who operates a laser/cannon and gets to see pretty numbers while shooting at zhaitan. Each time a new wave appears the player on the cannon gets knocked back and receives a debuff which prevents them from operating the cannon for some amount of time, forcing players to alternate on the cannon. The waves of enemies increase in strength, and include vet/champ versions of bosses already fought. The cannon absorbs life force from defeated enemies in order to strengthen its effectiveness against zhaitan, because of some asura magitech bullkitten.

Fight becomes interesting but completable for any skill levels, but still lacks the satisfaction of bashing the dragon in the face.

I don’t think the bank/TP thing would be that much of a problem if we could change our PvP build outside of HotM. At that point, the only reason to use HotM as a hub would be chatting with other PvPers between matches.

I don’t want to see HotM become useless, or give more incentive to queue for pvp matches from elsewhere, though. I think having the PvP population majorly in one location is a good thing. However, with all the PvE rewards from matches now, we seriously do need access to bank/TP.

If you’re really dead set on not giving players another place to access bank/TP without losing their location (seriously, WvW already does this, what’s one more place going to do?), but don’t want to split the PvP population, I see 2 options:

1. Use rank, games played, or whatever, as a bar to the bank/TP access
2. Allow bank/TP in HotM to only be accesses by players who have played a match in the last XX minutes. Serious pvpers will almost always have access when they need it, others won’t.

…seriously though, I don’t see the issue with adding a bank when one can get the same access without losing location by entering any 1 of 4 WvW maps, which will only all have queues on full servers at wvw reset. I get that you don’t want to devalue banker golems etc, but people who really care that much about wp fees and whatever will always have a way to get around that. Not having these is just hurting those of us who do PvP.

I’ll go on Saturday.

Evilek.5690:

Sins.4782:

Evilek.5690:

Free teleport on bank and back ? No thanks

It’s almost like you can already do that using wvw maps and their crafting stations and guild npc’s.

wvwvw=queue, sPvP=without queue

How many servers do you know of that regularly have queues for all 4 wvw maps? Or ever, for that matter?

Evilek.5690:

Free teleport on bank and back ? No thanks

It’s almost like you can already do that using wvw maps and their crafting stations and guild npc’s.

A record with an engineer and a coolaid troll? Nice one. That FGS spot on ralena/vassar was interesting too.

Rather than remove steel packed powder completely, I’d change it to affect different explosives in different ways. 1 stack of vuln per grenade or small mine, 2 stacks per bomb auto or concussion bomb, 1 stack per pulse in fire/smoke bomb, 5 stacks for a large mine, 1 stack per small mine. That makes bomb kit worth using after vuln spikes or in teams that already have decent vuln application. FT still hardly applies any, but I see FT more as a best solo dps weapon, easily able to sustain good might stacks, making up for the lack of vuln. Toolkit could definitely use more vulnerability, or damage, or something; it just seems like a joke in terms of auto right now.

Bump.

Oh man, I love this topic. I sure wish we had more threads like these.

Serbianwolf.1652:

Such condition damage is simply way to big to overcome for other classes, even necro.

The kek was top.

You may be interested in this.

If you’re going to be using your engi in dungeons often, norn is a great choice. The Charge skill on the bear form elite is similar to a fiery greatsword’s rush when used against a walled foe, with the added benefit of continually interrupting most anything due to CCing every hit.

Bear and leopard form are also great escapes, and can be useful for escaping uneven fights in WvW, though they won’t beat supply crate’s usefulness in small fights.

In sPvP you’re better off not going with a large norn though, unless you want one for trolling on skyhammer or something.

Bomb kit / tool kit / x is very viable in s/tpvp. The AoE damage and conditions you can put out on a small point is huge, and the Big ol’ Bomb → Glue Bomb combo is lovely for decapping against those without an excess of stability. Smoke Bomb will ensure a stomp on most professions, and can be used for stealth plays if you’re willing to use your blast finishers. Bomb engis are some of the best out there at holding side nodes.

pmnt.4067:

maha.7902:

What part of ‘this skill does quadruple the DPS of anything else’ sounds balanced? What elite in the game is even on a level close to that?

Glad you asked. Let’s use the wiki and compare the base damage. Equal buffs (food, might) will multiply these values equally

The Fiery Rush line ticks 80 damage, lasts 3 seconds, and consists of 12 patches. Multiplying these numbers gives 2880 damage.

The Bear Form Charge hits multiple times for 609 damage, but the wiki doesn’t say how often it hits. If it hits at least 5 times, it actually outdamages Fiery Rush. Most movement skills hit bosses 4 times, but I personally haven’t tried Charge yet. I’d call that “close to” fgs.

Bonus: 100b+Whirlwind Attack deals 3066 damage on the same cooldown as Fiery Rush (these CDs can be reduced by traits). That’s also “close to” fgs.

As you see, all FGS really does is provide warrior-esque DPS for the ele and a second player (oh, now I see why FGS should be nerfed). So stop claiming that it does quadruple damage of anything else in the game.

Oh god, my sides, my sides! Stop it, you’re killing me!

Login.5102:

Therefore necroing a Dead PvP thread is completely allowed.

FTFY

So ANet is nerfing necros? Laaame.