Guild Wars 2

Ryan.9387:

Poison field will help balance out the loss of survivability from the switch from 0-0-30-30-0 to 0-30-30-0-0 quite nicely.

We will then be able to leap weakness onto power classes, which should give perma weakness with axe and sword.

It isn’t amazing though. Just nice.

Would be nice buff, but they first need to fix Poison Field bug where it doesn’t proc weakness on the target but says it does on your screen.

Today in a Team Que game, I was pushing far and there was warrior in front of me rushing to beat me back to the point, he ran with his back to me while shooting the LB. I wish i recorded the arrows coming out of his back cause I know I can’t do that on my ranger.

Question, what Team Que builds beat a H/LB. ALso anyone know of “Ranger” build that is Meta isn’t designed just for 1v1 that can beat the all in one H/LB build running Solider’s/Lyssa combo.

I’m talking good player vs a good player cause I don’t think there is one at all.

Sounds like a great tourney, my team won’t be entering until the balance patch has come out and changed meta which is still same as last years MLG.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

ronpierce.2760:

Deimos, I’m just going to say it… Your sense of balance is terrible. You’re constantly defending broken unfun mechanics, and typically because you abuse them. Also this isn’t rock paper scissor. Its paper (conditions) can sometimes cover rock, or Rock (other) sometimes penetrates the paper. Rock can cause a gun (AR engi) to miss fire, or the gun can blow it to pieces, but pretty much always the gun destroys the paper without the paper even having a chance to blow away… That’s…. Not balance. No one likes Rock Paper Gun balance.

like i said, there are 8 unique professions.
some professions will be better at some things.
some professions will be better counters to some professions.
and so on.

i do not play engineers, and i do not think this trait is broken. whether or not you agree with me does not matter. i just voice out what i think and that’s it.

like it or not, guild wars 2 is becoming rock scissors paper.
the last few patches made this obviously clear.

do adapt or be left out.

Sorry mate but you need to stop posting for good, how about you play something besides Warrior and then come back to the forums after a few months, learn the game stop making posts like you know what your talking about you don’t. You have barely left hot-joins and your understanding of the game has been made clear by your posts. You have great deal to learn about other classes and how the meta works in Team Que and even Solo Que where your real PvP is.

You want to know how you know if some is stupid, they convince themselves there right then make a video preaching there right!.

I liked the Video, even know your a Warrior which I currently hate the most. Was great music and nice plays.

@mini.6018 I found your comment funny cause that’s what its like for almost every class that isn’t a Warrior.

http://imgur.com/E6Lvh1J

So many PvP’ers, day ago my server was very busy does this mean my server (Maguuma) was just farming the PvE content added to PvP.

What’s your server like today.

This isn’t a troll I was just shocked to see how dead the Mist was.

P.S This is Prime Time for my server.

cymerdown.4103:

There’s been a good amount of disappointment on the forum today regarding a misunderstanding of when the changes proposed on Ready Up would end up going live. See as how the next big update is still probably over a month away, I was thinking that maybe a small “hotfix” size patch in the next week or two could help address the biggest concerns for PvP balance in the short term, without adding undue amounts of extra work for the developers as they prepare the next big patch. I think 3 simple, small changes would do just that:

1. Implement the proposed change to Healing Signet (reduction of about 30 hps, small increase to active).
2. Implement the proposed bugfix to Spirit of Nature (reduction of 160 hps).
3. Remove Skyhammer from the Solo Arena rotation.

Just my thoughts, but I am fine with waiting it out as well. What do the rest of you think?

I really hope Anet listen to this post, not sure the PvP player base can last the duration till the next patch.

The current state of Warrior in Team Que when its Good Player vs Good Player the warrior is going to win no matters what even if they mess-up.

If anyone is unsure what this build is, Solider-Lyssa-Hammer/Longbow, this build is on a hole new level of unbeatable.

The current state of Team Que is almost dead, you rarely see more then 2 good teams in Que in PRIME TIME on NA.

Sorry but they need to do weekly hot-fixes to broken skills or major bug’s like Spirit of Nature.

Tricare.2946:

We are getting more nerfs. However, there are buffs coming…..

-Spirit of Nature – ‘reduced’ to 320hp/second
-Talking about adding fields to traps, maybe.
- Empathic Bond- no longer removes conditions if pet is dead. (which I’m 90% sure, was already the case)

Spirit of Nature is the final nerf required for Spirit Build, sorry but the skill was to strong.

If they had fields to both Viper and Spike Trap that would be awesome, let’s hope they fix the poison field as it does not proc weakness it is bugged.

Empathic Bond already works this way so unless they found a bug I’ve never had to luck of my pet taking condition while its dead.

The big question we should be ask is, what nerf’s are other classes getting. If they do the right nerfs to other classes old builds and new builds will rise so there could be more buffs going on the idea that other classes getting nerfs.

NevirSayDie.6235:

entropy.9613:

Lopez.7369:

Johanson’s response makes perfect sense to me. There’s no reason to push e-sports until the rewards revamp (hopefully) brings in a healthy population.

I’m excited for this on behalf of my unborn grandchildren.

They’re in a tough spot. They mentioned they had hopes for e-sports in some pre-launch interviews and ever since then their playerbase has been making a thread about espahts about every other minute. Apparently, some people now believe “espahts” is an insult which means “I deserve to be internationally recognized for my great skill in playing computerized games and your company is to be ridiculed for not providing me fame and glory.”

Meanwhile, the WvW community is convinced that every decision they don’t like is a conspiracy to intentionally ruin WvW and therefore funnel people into PvP to fuel an espahts dream (I am not making this up or exaggerating). Any time Anet does something like put $1000 down for a modest invitational tournament, the WvW forums make threads for months like “stop chasing the esports dream, shut down PvP entirely and focus on providing WvW players with everything we ask for.”

So the devs have been making the best of it and making good improvements where they are needed while saying the least controversial things to avoid forum riots from conspiracy theorists.

I think the WvW have been doing cyber attacking on the SPvP Servers. Conspiracy I don’t think so, have you seen there GvG’s I’m sure Anet’s own servers try to crash themselves each time they play host to this abomination.

Also I like your post I was kittened off at this game and your post picked me back up cause it’s so true lol.

@Nalar.6523, never tried it in WvW, I used to run traps only in WvW and they worked back then so I don’t see why they won’t know with all different armor’s and trinkets you can get now.

@dylan.5409, it’s funny I find fighting shatter Mesmers easy but when I face PU I hate it. I think my problem is I’m so used to fighting Shatter when I fight PU i try to use same tactics and they just don’t work as well.

@Nike.2631, Yeah traps are allot of fun but also allot harder, there are some really strong counters currently in the game. Main one being Necro’s, lastnight in Solo Que I met a Necro that ran Spite/Corrupt/Transfer Conditions. I could get him extremely low but whoa he had some insane damage. He would Spite me then I would pop my elite to stop any Fear Chains and then he Corrupt me at this point I loaded him with conditions he would xfer them right back onto me. It was extremely painful.

@Deaddark.5701 Cheer’s Mate, hopefully I’ll have time this week to record some new footage.

@kiwituatara.6053, vs PU Mesmer I think the build would go rather well seen as the condition burst + AoE from Geomancy + Axe will eat his clones up. I’ve faced few clone spamming Mesmer in Que but they didn’t really both me.

I’m currently working on 2 versions of this build, one is mainly for team fights other is for holding home and de-capping far. Build’s are almost the same but minor change’s to sigils and traits and healing skill.

Many good idea’s but like always I can almost 100% say we won’t see a single change based on the idea’s of many rangers whom know the class inside and out.

What we will see if more hard counters buffs to skills we didn’t want nerfs to skills that didn’t require nerfing.

So ask yourself why bother, to get the Ranger into a good state with many viable builds it would take them at-least 2-3 years as we can already see it seems to take them forever to make changes.

Newbkakes.4971:

I honestly just miss the days of power builds//watching and interrupting skills. When you’re up against 1-3MMs/1-2 Spirit rangers spamming a point and you can’t see the player or the cast animations it just sucks. Anet shouldn’t be coddling unskilled players in PvP. There’s PvE for that. PvP should be about skill and only skill. That’s where the fun of PvP comes from: out kiting, thinking, maneuvering the opponent and not just standing there: target, drop marks, lolpettingzooawayyyy!

Anyways, it’s nice to see I’m not the only one who’s frustrated by this. Didn’t think anyone would reply, thanks guys.

Take one nade engineer, and there goes all your Ai………..

New Video! Finally got around to uploading it hope you all enjoy.

Hey, great o see everyone finding some fun with the build. Even better everyone coming up with there own version.

I’ll have new video up soon I’ve been away with work and not had chance to upload, over the weekend I’ll make some replays as there some great info and change’s to builds players have been making.

Also on a side note I’ve tested many different versions of this build, also many are still wondering why that weird trait in NM to be honest I’m still asking the same question, but after watching replay’s of my latest video I’ve not posted which will be soon, I can really say I think it’s making its mark.

Righto time for some sleep.

Sube Dai.8496:

This could be a nice variant:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQRAnY8fjAVx11VuVs2Bi2DNZeMxeYIH9IXB/fwvaP-TwAAzCpIYSxkjJDTSmsMNqYVxeh5CA

Less vitality
Slightly less protection
Less power

More bleed on crit
25% movement speed
Swiftness
More toughness

Yeah that’s decent, the lack of protection is made up from the higher toughness pool, and the swiftness is really helpful.

Only thing I would do different is run Geomancy Sigils your only going to land 3 bleeds with Earth Sigils within the 10 seconds window when you swap weapon.

You could even try dropping the Rabid Jewel and replace it with Carrion Jewel, give you 45% critical Chance, with 18,482 Vitality.

Other then that, the build does work. I tried making it work with SB but I found I can get better damage out of the Axe/Dagger – Sword/Torch combo.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQRAnY8fjAVx11VuVs2Bi2DNZeMxeYIH9IXB/fwvaP-TwAAzCuIYSxkjJDTSmsMN8Y5xehJBA

Almost same as what you posted, I changed the Sigil’s and Jewel. But I could see this build being rather effective. It’s shame on how much power you lose but, almost 600 Power.

@Shinoobi.1259, The build is designed for home point and far point pusher. It’s not a selfish build as no one is around to get anything from me. If I wanted to be in the team fight I would take Rabid/Undead SB Spirit build and press 1 and close my eyes.

I’ve been playing this build in Team Que as well, it’s working extremely effective at backpoints, its made Engineer’s no long viable at backpoint as they can’t stop me. Only class still having a problem with is Warriors, they can be 50/50 if I don’t play smart.

Pet’s – Not sure how many time’s I need to say this but I’ve test many pets, if you want to run glass pets with NO INVESTMENT into BM then sure go ahead and watch how fast they die. By the sounds of it you don’t understand why I use Lightning Drake. But hey I only have almost 100% up-time on fire fields so that blast finished from the drake is useless. You know birds and pigs are so great at clearning supply drops from engineers with all there AoE and how well they can tank. Mean while the AoE Drake is useless LOL.
I love it how birds and pigs even cat’s stack weakness so they combo with my #3 Axe, oh wait they don’t but you didn’t know that cause you haven’t even tried to understand.

Sigil’s – The only real worthwhile Sigil to run on first weapon setup is %5 Critical Chance, other then that its waste of time. How stupid do you have to be to stack a On Critical Sigil with a On Swap Sigil, when your weapon swapping every 10 seconds. But you would of know that if you tried the build.

@tan.9240 That’s fine the build isn’t designed to please everyone.

@jcbroe.4329 I don’t think many will take the time to give the build a good run but that’s fine. The Power Trait I’m still testing, let’s have a good think about it does it really matter if you get extra 5 seconds of protection ever 30 seconds with you already have Dodge Protection and Forge. It’s same with the Stun Breaker trait, I would rather have more vigor up keep then a passively random Stun Breaker which is on 90 seconds CD.

I say let them argue, I love getting wasted and telling people where to shove it.

@ItIsFinished.9462, I like the changes you made, not much of fan of Signet of Stone but that’s just me we all have our own flovers.

I’ve often wondered how Bloodlust would go with my build extra Power would be rather nice. I’ll be giving this a try for sure.

Viper’s Nest was something that came late into current build I’m running, I ran heap of test vs current Meta Warriors, biggest problem I found was my Dagger/Sword Poison was decent but they could remove it rather effectively which really gave me the kittens, so I took Vipers Nest and the damage boost really showed.

But once again its up to play style your best at, I love in your face burst you down fast damage while others like sitting back and playing different tactics.

Bsgapollo.5364:

Cynz.9437:

Got curious, opened twitch, saw he plays engi :s, closed twitch

He’s always played engi. He was actually the person that made engi competitive in tpvp. No one else would play it.

Maybe in EU, his build sucked in the NA meta.

Ryan.9387:

What is the reasoning behind the vitality -> power trait?

I’d think that more protection or sharpened edges would prove stronger than some extra power.

It’s something Radom I’ve come to like, trust me I know but look at the build its different it works so why not I say.

Like in video I have I hit a ranger for 900 then it Bounces hits spirit then hits him 4 1200 that’s got a little todo with why, how I see it is if it works why not, also I have decent protection, and I want that extra HP over 10% duration as it does nothing even know u get 100 more power, I’m still getting it with my trait

Question you need to ask yourself does it really matter what trait. I would love to see half the top team ranger’s copy and paste this build and be good at it. That’s right almost every single top team ranger for ages all suck at the class and only play FOTM builds.

Hay I run hybrid spirit BM build in wvw I use sun spirit and spirit elite I take 2x bird with almost the same step but I have 0/0/30/20/20, it seems to work for me. If you check the channel in my sig you will see 2x wvw video build should be there. I use leeching with scav runes for my tanking gives me 2x free slots.

Hope it helps its not boss build but it’s decent

Yeah lately vs Necros I’ve been having it not so bad I’ve learnt a few tricks, biggest thing I found was you need to drop 3x traps the pull range on them once they hit your traps you have a window to use ur wolf then fear, follow with 3x traps again it should break them to the point where you have the upper hand also apply weakness to them it’s one skill I’ve found works well against them.

My next video has a lot of 1v1 vs Necros I used my bait tactic and just rush them, one fight I just finish killing guard DPS 1v1 far and Necro came in I pulled back after trapping RoA the rushed him while finishing the guard.

Try removing NR an run 3x traps the damage is so much better, biggest problem running NR it kills your pet removing your condition remove hurts allot.

Theif’s are still a pain, I’ve faced so many lately they hurt if I don’t dodge allot, but just make them work for it and soon as they do that’s your window, it’s the best way to get them I learnt this dueling wvw theirs and I’m talking some of the best in the game.

Once I get this new video done i plan to slow it down explain a few things along the way.

MailMail.6534:

I can’t take the name “Bearback Ranger” seriously. Sorry. :/

That’s the hole point, normally I get 10 page’s of hate mail, so this time I figured I say something random that throws them off there game. It worked this time….

So, I’ve been recording every single game I play. You going to LOL at my new video, just stupid kitten where I should of died but pulled it out of the hat and won.

@ Dardamaniac.1295, I kinda pulled off the ambush on some unsuspecting foe, it was classic he went from 100-0 in seconds I didn’t even take 1 drop of damage.

@ Aeri.5738, your telling me. Honestly only happened a few time’s where I’ve been immobilized chained then condition burst. Think I’m one lucky son of a ranger.

Durzlla.6295:

aussieheals.6843:

Durzlla.6295:

aussieheals.6843:

You need to change your pet to a cat or dog. Also you need to turn on fast casting in the interface. Try to save your dodge rolls and drop the axe for a shortbow till it’s fixed.

Uh…. What’s wrong with the axe?

Clunky, spilt axe doesn’t about face and it could use a slight raw damage increase

Why would axe need to about face when no other ranged attack does? Also split axe gives a 100% uptime on 5 stacks of bleeding, it doesn’t really need a damage buff….

@Sol, your trapper build is very similar to the one I was messing around with a while ago, I used Axe/Dagger and Sword/Torch too but I used entangle over RaO (don’t really use this elite for some reason, I need to do that more…) and I brought a frost trap instead of the sig, was getting some really good results from it , but I gotta say necro screws me over whenever I use ANY condi build…. But hey, what are you gonna do vs the master of condis? It’s like going up against a mes with a boon reliant build.

Yeah RoA is only way I can beat Necros and Warriors, like I don’t always need it vs them but sure does help vs there Fears and Stuns. I used to run Entangle but I’m so sick watching everyone just walk out of it and Warriors can 1 shot the roots.

Axe is really good weapon, if you land #5 from dagger as you land your Spike trap, there almost sitting still, land your #2 on Axe then weapon swap that can be done within seconds its one hell of burst.

Hey we should talk trap ranger some time I really enjoy playing it, and it does require some level of skill which is great.

Hey, answer everyone.

@aussieheals.6843, I do have fast casting on, there are two options one shows you placement while casting, I found it more effective.

Cat’s are useless, any burst pet is. I’ve tried to use them already, but the meta is to burst/condition heavy they just melt to Engi’s extremely fast. Also Drake is our best pet, extremely tanky, AoE Weakness, Blast Finisher and there F2 well makes every other F2 look bad, you should try it some time.

SB is a bad weapon for my build, you should of tested that before saying something. For starters I can stack more bleeds then a SB can. I have better dodge upkeep. I have way better base damage, I have more then just bleed/poison. Also if you haven’t noticed the meta is Warrior heavy, and you can cover you Weakness from Axe #3 and almost keep it perma on them. It’s the best way to counter there adren regen which counter there condition remove and damage, you should already know that.

Half time when I dodge I’m trying to predict there movement it’s a bad habit but we all do it no one can play perfect (also you should know being Aussie Lag hurts at times), its hard with so much AoE and more then 80% of the time you can’t see single thing there doing thanks to over the top effects and size of there char.

My biggest problem is holding out on using my NR and then using it when I have nothing on me or using it at wrong time, I’m so used to having HS + Spirit to remove condition’s when I use NR I’ve been clicking the skill even know I have it hotkey’ed to my mouse. Just bad habits.

@Durzlla.6295, Nothing Axe is a meta weapon thanks to our #3 on axe. More ranger’s need to click onto the fact it really wrecks warriors.

@jcbroe.4329 Wolf/Drake is by far out best option in this current meta, if you watch my Video in the 2nd fight, it was thanks to F2 from drake I won that fight followed with pet swap into wolf.

Axe/Dagger is one of the best condition setups you can get with Flame Trap, SB is only good with Spirit Ranger. Axe/Dagger – Sword/Torch just require’s more skill, 10 second weapon swap with Geomancy the base damage + bleeds is far more effective then your few bleeds your going to get from a SB, now add in your Axe skills + dagger and your getting more bleed’s per 10 seconds then SB can even hope of applying.

So far, Necro’s seem to hurt me. I’ve been recording every single Solo Que to see where I’m messing up and what I need to do vs other classes.

Vs Warrior I can now beat with avg 5k HP left, if I get good spike early I destroy them rather fast. I learn’t a cool trick when they got into Berserker Stance, I spam Auto attack on Sword.

Vs Engineer, well I’ve found only build that can stop me is AR with Carrion/Forge due to fact they have large HP pool. Other then that as long I don’t play dumb I will beat them, your Avg Engineer is running Nades/Toolkit, so I can trap right throw there block’s, its even better when I face Engineer running Pistol/Shield with Toolkit, I can almost say I will always beat them even with there supply drop. First 10 seconds of battle I drop them so fast It puts them on back foot, so all I need todo is time my RoA/Trolls around that window and I can charge them down rather fast, I recorded some games lastnite and got into 1v1 vs some high ranking Engineer’s setup to push points, I beat them hands down (The fights will be in my next video). Wasn’t that they sucked it was sheer power/condition damage coming out of my build.

Now Necro’s are different story they are 50/50 all depends on there build, if they stack Corrupt Boon I can almost say I’m good as dead, if there MM aslong I out smart there Pet’s I will win, if they have Spite I have to watch for the cast or I’m good as dead. I was running NR but honestly amount of time I would use NR to remove big kitten stack condition’s just to get Spite or Corrupted I gave up, I figured go more damage and focus on what I can do rather then trying to be counter to everything.

Other then that, isn’t much I can’t beat 1v1, Warriors/Necro/Engi are only classes that give me run for my money, aslong you play smart and don’t get stupidly outplayed I feel you will always win.

Trap’s will become the new backpoint meta, I’m making it a mission to bring them back.

Now in terms of my build vs Rabid, I deal more damage have a better tank. Only problem I’m faced with is swiftness.

I’m on mission atm to bring back trapper into Team Que, but I’m not sure its going to happen.

So far I’ve found we darn good pushing far point and holding home, few problem’s but we have no swiftness well my build doesn’t, and we have no escape. If you take look at some skills Warrior and Engi have for backpoint in terms of escape and holding its just insane compared to a Ranger.

Be nice if they turned Signet of Renewal into a skill like Elixir S or Berserker Stance. Then we stand a nice chance.

I’ll keep recording and posting, hopefully Anet takes the time to check out the Trap ranger and improves the builds.

Also, the hard counter to Trap Ranger is Spite + Corrupt Boon, wait for us to pop RoA and Corrupt once we remove spite and its GG we are dead. We can’t remove the conditions without killing our pet making all our condition remove useless. I’ve tried running healing spring but without team blast finishers it’s useless. I would love to be able to take Spirit of Nature but that would make Trap ranger tad to strong I feel.

This happens allot in Team Que, there are limited amount of Top Team’s in Que and what do you think happens when there is only 1 left in Que, your just unlucky team that had to face them.

What I would do is take what you learn’t from that battle and improve from it.

I have a drinking problem, I left my wife, I left my kids at the Zoo. I have a BearBow.

I play Ranger, I know Team Que.

Message me.

Durzlla.6295:

Not able to watch the vid quite yet (work), but you say you have high crit yet you’re using carrion, is your high crit coming from high fury uptime? Because it looks like it’s only about 20%.

22% critical chance + fury on weapon swap, also you have RoA. It works really well, the amount of critical’s you get is rather high its almost 50/50 chance due to using Axe which hits 3 target’s, also your traps pulse and your geomancy is aoe as well. So your always getting 3 base hits and with 50/50 chance your always getting critical hits.

Hi, I’m Saizo Sol. I’ve recently been trying to find a solid Trap build for SPvP so far I’ve come up with nice mix which seems to be working rather well.

I make plenty of mistakes and I’ll make sure to improve
This build isn’t for everyone, it fits my style

Video Link 2 - http://youtu.be/23wyL53IDvE

Video Link 1 - http://youtu.be/Wi7vDGBbkzI

Build Link - http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQRAnY8fjAVx11VuVs2Bi2DNZeMxewfH9IXBUdwvaP-TwAgyCpIATBmDMDYSwsgN8Y5xeh5CA

Build Back Down:
– Great balance between Power Damage, Condition Damage, Critical Chance and Critical Damage. The base damage from a axe already hits rather hard and with decent amount of critical chance and critical damage you can really stack up the damage from your offhand’s and auto attack, now you combo that with your condition damage. Also great part is your weapon swap geomancy sigil’s not only do they add bleeds they also add base damage. So combo’ed well you can do some really massive spikes. Also Traps have nice pulse base damage which Carrion with critical chance/damage really combo’s off well.

- How my tank works, I have great mix between traited vigor upkeep and weapon dodges, there is large amount of immobilize going around so you need hard dodges on both weapon sets, now I’ve taken Carrion/Rabid – Forge to help level out my toughness and vitality, I have great protection upkeep to make up for loss of toughness. I was running healing spring but the heal is just to small to help. TU is your best option and also gives you better vigor upkeep.

- Pet’s, I’ve finally settled with Wolf/Lighting Drake, reason being you can do some great combo’s with both pets. Also your going to need that Lightning Drake to break some tanks.

So, change the build how you see fit, but so far this has been best option for me. You can’t counter everything so invest in what you can do well.

Hope you enjoy.

Before you comment running the build down at-least understand the build

Trap’s sure are fun, better then most you get to use every single skill.

I’ve been trying to make LB – Sword/Horn work with Trap builds, it’s rather funny only seems to work some times.

Been playing my trap build lately. Running a mix of 2 different builds.

Yes I mess up a fair bit. But honestly I don’t really care, one thing I’m extremely happy about all the FOTM ranger’s have left so you rarely see any rangers anymore.

Video Link: http://youtu.be/Wi7vDGBbkzI

I’ll add more information later.

I’m a ranger I’m aloud to hate everything we have Longbows and brownbears..

Build i’m now using : http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQRAnY8fjAVx11VuVs2Bi2DNZeMxewfH9IXBUdwvaP-TwAgyCpIATBmDMDYSwsgN8Y5xeh5CA

I have no stun breaker and barely any condition remove WHY, cause we have bearbow.

Anas, please add to your list.

Ranger – Spirit of Nature – Healing reduced to 320 rather then 420.

Lyssa Rune – 6th effective now has 120 seconds cool-down.

Sigil of Energy – Reduced to 25%.

Only if they would start making smart changes like simple list below.

Healing Signet – Heals for to much.

Spirit of Nature – Heals for to much.

Lyssa Rune – Needs a 120 second ICD on 6ths effect.

Energy Sigil – Changed to 30%.

Might – Needs to be 20+ Power 10+ Condition, it’s just way to strong for how easy some builds can stack might when there build isn’t designed to even stack might.

There super simple changes wouldn’t even take an hour to finish.

1. Balance, bug fixes, trait reworks.

2. Removal of Skyhammer.

3. Ladder Season

4. New Game Mode with a New MAP, Deathmatch PLEASE. Honestly there doing 5v5 DM in WvW and it works rather well so why not in SPvP.

5. Complete Sigil and Rune overhaul, 90% are useless and other 10% are overpowered. Fix them.

6. Deimos Tel Arin.7391 banned from the forums.

The map is so bugged, can you for kitten sake remove it from Que and fix the map. Stop wreaking the game.

Team Arena Meta Builds.

God Tier:
1. Healing Signet

S Tier:
1. Warrior (LB-H)
2. Engineer (Conditions/Power Nades/Bombs)

A Tier:
1. Ranger (Spirit)
2. Thieves (Power)
3. Necromancer (Conditions) < Warriors make there life hard.
4. Engineer (Power)
5. Guardian (Bunker)
6. Mesmer (Power)
7. Warrior (Bunker)

B Tier:
1. Thieves (Condition)
2. Necromancer (Power)
3. Guardian (Power)
4. Mesmer (Condition)
5. Ranger (Every Other Build)

C Tier:
1. Elementalist (Every Single Build)

Nice post Ken as always great idea’s. Just few things with the ranger idea’s.

Stalker’s Strike, I do not approve off many of my builds require the dagger for the poison upkeep. By changing this skill it feels like your favoring the Carrion/Forge SB -S/D Spirit Build, which doesn’t really favor the other builds, if anything it nerfs 3 builds I run which require the offhand dagger with poison upkeep.

Lightning Reflexes, (Evades/Base Damage, Vigor 10seconds, Stun Break) with your update (removes chill, cripple, and immobilize.) It would be awesome skill but its overpowered. It’s almost perfect counter skill vs Warriors that run H/LB means I can break there LB spike and dodge there hammer. Every single ranger build within 1 week would be running LR as its first save me skill.

What I recommend, is there currently trait in Nature’s Magic, that is called Evasive Purity it removes poison and blind on dodge with a 10 second ICD. Now I would change that trait as its rather useless and no ranger uses it at all so it removes chill, cripple, and immobilize rather then poison and blind. Now you might say that could be tad overpowered but it isn’t the only real builds you could run it with is Power builds. Spirit build’s can’t invest into the trait so won’t make them stronger, Trapper builds require 0/30/30 to be decent so they won’t ever trait 20 into NM and final Beastmaster would – there damage in order to get extra condition remove making an already dead build even more useless.

I would recommend adding torment to our trap’s to make the build more viable, Frost Trap is already useless and no viable trap build in SPvP would ever take it. So why not just change it so it pulses torment the longer they stand in the trap. It’s active it isn’t spam-able and opens the window for more builds besides Spirit Ranger to enter the meta.

Also I would nerf Geomancy Sigil, if you compare it to Spike Trap (Trait) its almost stronger. Geomancy = 6 bleeds 7 seconds every 20 seconds with 2x base damage on swap. Now Spike trap is 3 bleeds 10 seconds every 20 seconds with 3x base damage with cripple + imob. But in terms of damage Geomancy needs to be taken down to atleast 2 bleeds with no base damage. It shouldn’t play such big roll in so many builds.

Did you honestly think this over, dodge to remove 1 condition is rather stupid. It would make some classes extremely powerful.

Some nice feed back, I do disagree with fair amount of idea’s but that just me I see things differently.

Everything in this build is designed to combo off each other and offer different combo’s other builds can not offer, E.g. my Healing combo – Weapon Swap (Leeching + HS + Leap + Pet F2. At the same time I can remove conditions on myself and team mates but also heal my teams and give them regen + offer water field for blast finishers which stack up the AoE team heals. That’s just one of the combo’s, now the fire field combo’s and weapon combos are rather good as well everything is timing play it right and you can have big upkeep on burning.

Kagamiku.9731:

You can’t nerf a class based on how buffed other classes can make it. It’s kittened and illogical.

And you forget the part where in team fight you have multiple players doing DPS. 1000HPS may seem impossible in a 1v1 scenario to some classes but it’s still easily dealt with in a 5v5.

Really is no point talking to you anymore. The skills broken like it or not its fact, so make more posts on why its fine and how its only healing you use (doesn’t require any skill). I’m sure you have a hard time playing warrior.

I also feel Trapper build would combo best with H/LB Warrior, the extra CC/Stun from the warrior + blast finishers and fire combo field.

E.g. you trap your target do your weapon combo’s + pet, mean while Hammer Warrior stunning the target while blasting might. It’s like 2 for 1 combo, you get great bonuses while doing your job.

And the down time on your fire field is made up from LB on Warrior, you can leap throw it giving yourself that extra fire field. + your base damage would be allot higher due to might stacks. So them traps + attacks will hit rather hard.

Yeah I’ve been trying to find way’s to improve the build more but there really isn’t much more you can do.

If there was a decent way to get Swiftness into the build without breaking it that would rock, currently all your swiftness comes from RoA and when your in combat weapon swap. I have been thinking Speed runes, but you lose your forge which is required to counter that burst damage (Protection).

Yeah with the LB/GS I always run 30/30/0/10/0 max DPS build, so HS and Renewal are my only options as condition remove. So many time’s I’ve been condition spammed and well no chance of keeping up I need Renewal for stun-breaks as well not just condition clear.

I’ve even tried using Lyssa Runes and when I’m maxed out with conditions on me hit my elite but normally I can’t come back from it due to how much damage I’ve taken how small heal from HS is.

If we had a different condition remove that doesn’t xfer or require our heal skill to remove we be in decent place.

Kagamiku.9731:

Spirit of nature has nothing to do with warrior, are you stupid?

602 + 320 = 922, not quite there yet bud. Not that it matters anyways since it’s a RANGER skill, not a WARRIOR skill.

I guess the next time a guardian drops a Protection boon on me, I’ll be sure to thank him for making me even more OP. ‘Cause y’know, a warrior can’t give it to himself.

Man players like you are just simple minded, you focus all your claims around stupid 1v1 forget you have a team. kitten as much as you want but its OP its 100% passive, players like you need these skills to carry your kitten cause you have next to no skill.

Kagamiku.9731:

Sol.4310:

Hyperion.4638:

For all of you who think HS(Healing Signet) is op (its really not) read what this does please

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Adrenal_Health

Oh look its not only the HS that heals there is an actual trait involved that heals passively too.

I type this because everyone keeps forgetting that few bleeds or a simple poison render the HS passive useless.

Why is it that every single warrior only uses Healing Signet, that’s right its the strongest heal, you seem to forget there are others on your team its not bloody 1v1 where we can prema poison you and counter your regen, you also seem to forget are you just standing them what about your passive condition remove what about your stance, what about your bloody team support that also does condition remove, WHAT ABOUT SPIRIT OF NATURE, yeah real balanced just give them well over 1k heal a second which is 100% passive.

Your a kitten stop trying to save face and kitten off.

Warrior has nowhere near 1k passive HPS, let alone well over 1k…TYVM

I sure hope you’re not implying a warrior should go full cleric, I really hope so. But that’s okay, they STILL don’t have over 1kHPS with full cleric. So are you factoring in mango piesand dolyak runes as well? Real logic you got going there.

If we want to get realistic here and not talk out of your kitten
392 for healing signet
80 for adrenal health
I’ll even give you the benefit of the doubt and assume a warrior is dumb enough to use a banner for regen passive, so another 130 for that

=

602HPS

That’s about half the number you pulled out of your kitten , even with me giving you the benefit of the doubt.

Did you even bother to read what I said or are you that stupid, I said SPIRIT OF NATURE just before the 1k for a reason, you add that with Healing Signet + Regen you have over 1k.

Next question how many spirit rangers do you see in tpvp every single team.

Hyperion.4638:

For all of you who think HS(Healing Signet) is op (its really not) read what this does please

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Adrenal_Health

Oh look its not only the HS that heals there is an actual trait involved that heals passively too.

I type this because everyone keeps forgetting that few bleeds or a simple poison render the HS passive useless.

Why is it that every single warrior only uses Healing Signet, that’s right its the strongest heal, you seem to forget there are others on your team its not bloody 1v1 where we can prema poison you and counter your regen, you also seem to forget are you just standing them what about your passive condition remove what about your stance, what about your bloody team support that also does condition remove, WHAT ABOUT SPIRIT OF NATURE, yeah real balanced just give them well over 1k heal a second which is 100% passive.

Your a kitten stop trying to save face and kitten off.

Yeah I enjoy the gs/lb just hate the condition remove for that build can be killer at times.

I would love to see a come back for Trap ranger, I feel good guardian/warrior/ranger (trapper) mid with probably DPS mesmer would make really good combo, for team fights.

Honestly stop coming up with your own idea’s on how to balance and listen to the players, your wrecking this game and we are sick of it.

Balance conditions and AoE, stop bloody improving them and adding stupid skills to counter your mess, they don’t work they just make the game more stupid.

-25% to all AoE SPvP Only.
-25% to all Condition Damage SPvP Only.

Each time you release a new hard counter of buff classes to handle the current AoE/Condition spam you are effectively removing any chance of playing different builds. E.g. A build that used to be decent is now no longer viable you just added far to many hard counter to counter stupid OP builds that you refuse to nerf. Stop with hard counters or just quit your job and let someone else bloody well do it. Stop wreaking this game for kitten sake.

Rant complete hate it or like it I don’t care anymore, just like the real world your job is to balance the game, if you can’t do it ask for help.