Guild Wars 2

The fix post dissapeared lol

Any devs wanna respond just so we know?

crystalpink.2487:

I have the same issue, too.
It’s stuck at 0 kbps. Also, I can’t close the client using the X button, so yea had to use “End Process” button from Task Manager >.<;;

This noon, the client patched just fine, but apparently there was another update that caused this 0 kbps patching issue…..

Exactly, I patched earlier too, and after i ate, launched the client and there was another patch.

after an hour stuck at 81%

For Some reason the DL speed is really slow, but i just played like 3 hours ago, complete with the new patch (Pact Fleet weapons), and i clicked my client now, and this happened.

Same exact problem!

Sithu Aye! I love you. if youre a girl, if youre a guy then no kitten .

Sevans.4619:

Empathic Bond has never been my condition removal of choice with BM/DPS pets. You’re putting too much crap on them (Weakness, Cripple, Chill) for them to effectively dish out the damage that you’ve dedicated so much of your build to.

so what do you use?

@off topic

Ross Im just curious, when you post your vids, do you record them on high settings or low? It seema kinda different from the usual gw2 vids I watch. I feel like your visuals are somewhat rendered or something.

Since the necroed started, im gonna ask this.

I played my MtD build and Spirit Ranger build lately and ive been called cheese.

So,. What if for example:

Pyro and I played the same MtD build that was called cheese. But he uses it way better than me, so does that mean that he will be a different level of cheese then?

I think shatter is superior, i have a really hard time dealing with them as a lockdown mesmer, the boonstrips help a lot too,. and IP with the on demand f3 and f4.

Although what i said above is not true while facing rylock, he is the only (i think, chaos a close second)lockdown mesmer that gives me a super hard time.

I tried using a spirit ranger in spvp and was loads of fun. However I do not see a lot of rangers running this anymore in tpvp. This is also the reason why i cant find a lot of posts about it.

So my questions is:

1.) Any updated build now?
2.) Is water spirit any good, ive looked around but only found like 2-3 threads about it and were almost a year old.

What are the upcoming nerfs?

The ranger shouldve had it when you forgot to charge yer mantra!

Just after a small update today this happened.

6 in chaos before full zerk i had 2.1k toughness.

now 1 have 1.4

Edit: All zerk before 1.8k no points into chaos, tried logging out same result.

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

its the combination of Traits , whats going to fill those pet slots , if they move to a Pet Tree.

More trait buffs for the ranger? its a power creep if anet were to add pet trait trees.

i see what you are saying Balancing the power between the ranger and pet is much more complex than just Reducing power and adding some condi stats.

you’ll have to consider the combined Burst/ dps Potentional if those changes where to happen.

So whats the best approach then?

@Zenos

I dont see how it will be OP, reducing their power stat and adding condi damage and make it their primary stat. Its a fair compromise. wouldn’t you agree? so basically we’ll get like a rampager stat, high prec mid pow and mid condi kinda thing.

Adding trees would also not make them op, then just remove the pts we get in beastmaster by half then add reduction in pet swap. so you only get 150-200 pts and you get %reduction of 30 if you go full.

The trait tree itself would allow you to customize your pet to be viable to taking traits on our own tree just to make some pets half decent.

xDudisx.5914:

Nerfing zerker shatter build, would make all the other builds more appealing. Solving 2 problems with 1 fix.

LEARN TO PLAY

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

Can’t compair a AoE howl vs a close range High damage Cone 2.75k base without might or Signet of the hunt added is a huge amount of damage and for a cone attack I expect it to be hard to land , increasing that 2.75k damage by 150%5% (predators onslaught) and taking into account if a Squishy targets gets hit by the cone , it will nearly down them if they don’t dodge out of it and thats why i tend to use a Crippleimmobilise attack befoe unleasing a Cone attack thats a huge damage boost.

hence why the wolfs Damage on its howl is so low, its only a damage factors so it can be effected by blocked and dodges also because it always effects 5 targets in a large area.

Yes damage wise they can’t be compared. But take this for example again, The confusion drakes f2 is based on a condi? So why not lower its base damage? At its current state, (no condi damage stat for pets) whats the confusion for? it ticks for 148 on each skill use. So is confusion only for a cover condition?

If we had condi damage stat for pets that are based on damaging conditions, it would go towards their condi side, so lowering the base damage for that drake or even fire would be reasonable right?

This is the reason some of the pets are whack choices, i think they were just copy pasted skins and changed the f2 and Anet did not even bother checking, Oh hey this pet deals burning or etc, Let’s lower the base damage! and add condi damage scaling!

The only justifiable drake pet with the f2 is the Lightning drake, Bouncing f2, 2.7k base damage, low, precision (not always crits) No added condi effects unless traited to its f2. now that is more reasonable than the others wouldn’t you agree?

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

well apart from the lack of condi stats for pets , the bonus pet stats from beastmastery are So low its nearly pointless.

i’d rather they made it 35pts(or 20) per Tier of adept minor, master minor , grandmaster minor.

Wait, going full into BM gave 300 all stats right? (excluding HP and condi damage)

Also, yes the condi damage for max might is really high but that is really an ideal situation, and how many times would this happen in a realistic fight? so having 0 condi damage stat is still the main point that some should have it as a stat, they just make their pow stat lower as a compromise?

@ neon

The thieves argument should be Common Sense for Anet, making a GM trait that has a class exempted from it is utter bull.

The daze part summarizes what power block is, when you are dazed you cannot use skills but when you are interrupted your attempted skills go on CD. so i dnt think it would work.

Kyori.6091:

Couldn’t it be for example be something like “200 healing power per illusion up”? not sure about the number, that would be something you could adjust still but I’m sure you get the point.

Per illusion up would only serve for phantasm builds, IMO
Clone death kills your illusions for dmg so i would benefit them for seconds maybe?
Shatter would be the same.

AND as long as your phantasms and clones stay up for so long for this trait to be beneficial.

NinjaEd.3946:

Welcome to ranger, pick from the few good pets and just ignore the rest!

Seriously, you’re going to find out that some pets rock and others are along the lines of “kitten?”

Some can end up being situational for pve but that’s about it. Take the time to try them all and find which one suits your build or possible build the most.

I did try them all lol.

The thing is I mentioned this already on my main question.
The current status of some pets are limiting the choices.

Would you choose the Confusion drake? No. Why?

No Condi Dmg stat for pets f2 is lackluster
f2 is hard to aim, very situational.

Same for Fire drake.

Only pros i have for drakes is that it is sturdy, blast finisher on swap and cleave attacks but thats about it. But it is slow as kitten too untraited.

Porcine? Maybe yes maybe no.
Concept is good, f2 mechanic is kinda iffy because it requires you to pick up the loot. and your foe can also do that use it against you.

Now if you compare it to the Canine and Spiders and Birds family

Spiders. Ranged. Soft CC. — This is the reason why it is picked most out of all the other pets. Immob does not need Condi dmg stat
Hound- Knockdown, Immob Cripple, No Condi dmg stat needed, Deals okay damage.

Hound and Wolf f2 – Range is good, howl in place. Now compare it to the drakes f2? cone, often fails.

Birds have the swiftness thingy yes, but the f2 is so spammable ( 2 hits, low cd, no activation time)

Now based on the comparison, I think you would rather normally choose these 3 families above.

Cuchullain.3104:

This is an excellent idea, and the hunter class in WoW already has this. I forget exactly how it works but different pets or pet classes have different trait lines with options you can customize for each pet. For example one trait for a cat would be “charge” which allows your pet to charge forward at the speed of an arrow and instantly hit your opponent, stunning him for one second. Compare this to the excessively slow speed and right angle attacks of our pets which often die before they reach the target in WvW or fail to reach the target before you kill it in PVE.

Pets in WoW also have much more effectiveness and diversity in their roles which you can enhance through traiting, such as a tanky pet that pulls more aggro and is tougher with the right build. GW2 bear isn’t much of a tank and few pets hold aggro well.

I’d like a pet in WvW that does knockdowns or f2 howl like a wolf but can be customized to be more survivable at the cost of dps. A dead pet does no dps.

Ive been saying this numerous times, when i played WoW, it gave me that sense of feeling the traiting my pet to suit various situation or gameplay modes only applied to my pet, i didnt have to spend trait points I have just to make my pet “viable”

For example, Having their own pet tree would:

I can trait to have -50% AOE damage when i want to WvW in zergs, therefore my damage output will not be kitten because my pet would have higher durability.

ALL these traits that we have Should be On A Pet Tree, And Replace them with traits that would benefit the ranger Directly

>Carnivorous Appetite
>Alpha Training
>Malicious Training
>Pet’s Prowess
>Companion’s Might
>Agility Training
>Expertise Training
>Concentration Training
>Instinctual Bond
>Master’s Bond
>Compassion Training
>Intimidation Training
>Speed Training
>Instinctual Bond
>Stability Training
>Rending Attacks
>Invigorating Bond

18 Traits all Pet Related

Now if we had our own pet tree

We (The Ranger)

Will be able to have 18 Ranger Oriented (Affects the ranger or weapon skills, or utility skills)

That would Create A LOT of Diversity for the Ranger Class and The Pet Too!

Whatya guys think?

Cufufalating.8479:

I don’t want the Ranger to be anything in particular. I don’t see what’s wrong with letting ANet take the theme in their on direction. Not every game has to be a carbon copy of all previous architypes, and infact one of the main points this game was sold on what trying to break from a lot of the typical MMO stereotypes.

With that in mind, I can’t understand people who come here expecting the game to be designed around their definitions.

Right on the sweetspot

Chaos Archangel.5071:

Gonna give 2/4/2/0/6 a run. Them clonedeaths!

Isnt shatter and clone death counter productive?

Aggrostemma.1703:

Solandri: and 7 out of ten still sucks this combo…

Was this meant to be sarcastic? :p

Eurantien.4632:

Condition pets are horrible. Since pets have their own stats they will almost always do low condition damage (unless you might stack them).

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQBAKxXeB-TZgZAAQZAA

^so is the tooltip wrong or something? I put rabid amu and it increased confusion damage. Just wondering

The counter torment application can be dodged

Ahh what a waste., i liked the condi variation they provided especially the confusion one but yeah..

I hope they fixed the pets first in general then add more control. Adding more control will be great but i think the priority should be the functionality of pets in general

MSFone.3026:

It’s in inspiration, have it be phantasm related.

Landing an interrupt resets your phantasms attack timers. This would pair so awesomely with CI, mmmm.

I like Pyro’s idea from a while back: Landing an interrupt reduces the cd on all skills currently on cd by X seconds, so if you have a skill with Y sec left on cd, landing an interrupt makes it only have Y-X sec left, or brings it off cd is X>=Y, and it does this for every skill on cd.

This would apply to all skills, elite, heal, utility and weapon skills. This would also make for an awesome pair with CI.

I think any heal on interrupt less than 5k is not going to be worth 6 into inspiration, even them I’m not sure. It would have to be a boss heal with an icd. But then you have the icd issue, as I don’t think any trait related to landing interrupts should have an icd. The heal on interrupt was a dumb idea imo. Pyros idea above would be amazing.

Resetting the phant timers would be better if you put it into Furious Interruption (Reset their attack to attack again if they did) No offense, but 2k AOE base Heal is a lot already, scales with healing power, and dnt forget you could take it Restorative Mantras on top of that!

shadowpass.4236:

All of you thieves and mesmers rely on stealth as a crutch.

You do not know how to survive without it so you QQ when you can’t hide in stealth, regening health or letting AI do all the work.

SA and PU exist for a reason.

While there are skilled SA and PU players, the majority are noobs who can only win by playing those cheese builds.

As a mesmer main it is really sad that the utility slots we have no matter what build will likely take in decoy blink a cleanse or port most of the time. It is hard to survive without them. It could be those 3 or 2 of them would be on those slots except for very niche situations.

I wish this wasnt the case but it is.

I agree with ross guaranteed weakness would remove the rng part, and still make the trait viable. You should make a bountiful disillusionment remake too, i think its too lackluster compared to CI and PU

Ross Biddle.2367:

StickerHappy.8052:

Clownmug.8357:

I think we’d all be better off finding out who came up with the trait, hunting them down and eliminating them from the gene pool, thus securing humanity’s future.

But seriously, I think something simple like changing increased healing power to increased healing effectiveness would be tolerable. Maybe something like +33% healing effectiveness.

Why not make it just heal for 2k when you interrupt.

Since I’m pro interrupt, I like this idea.

Make it aoe too, since its still an interrupt, it wouldn’t stray away from the original idea. 5 sec icd to prevent the chaos storm procs. Make it scale with healing power too, even if it scales really good, you still have to interrupt to make it work, so we have the balancing issues covered

@mail

When are you playing? I miss you already!

Clownmug.8357:

I think we’d all be better off finding out who came up with the trait, hunting them down and eliminating them from the gene pool, thus securing humanity’s future.

But seriously, I think something simple like changing increased healing power to increased healing effectiveness would be tolerable. Maybe something like +33% healing effectiveness.

Why not make it just heal for 2k when you interrupt.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

I feel like the one thing you can’t punish is auto attack spam.

I’d really love a buff that would allow power block to work on auto attacks again. If not, lets go with the next best thing… 5s weakness on interrupt. Or steal boons on interrupt (which should really go to a rework of furious interruption)

or better yet.. Power block allows you to see enemy cast bars. Huzzah!

or lets get trolly.. Power block reverses your movement controls/skill bar for 4 seconds on interrupt (10s ICD)

Maybe remove cripple from CI and add weakness?
And put confusion on power block??

:) Just thinking bout it makes me so happy,

Humpy bumpy!!!!!

Anyway I managed to fix it! Thx tho for all the advices Pyro and Advent!

I learned my lesson, stay away from the #TheFappening kitten!

ProtoGunner.4953:

The anime teenager sound corner is mighty within this game… I usually just listen to the game music. But guys if you do just listen to some actual music: classic, post rock, epic doom, 80ies heavy metal or rock.

This made me lol and kitten my pants! haha!

Don’t forget the Dubstep, Tugs tugs tugs!

Jurica.1742:

StickerHappy.8052:

Jurica.1742:

Pfft.. So many things..

I’m a big John Mayer fan, he has incredible guitar stuff and a lot of good songs lyrics wise as well as melody ect. Vultures is something I really like to listen to while playing
I also listen to
Jack Johnson, Of Monsters & Men, Bob Marley, Dexy’s Midnight Runers, Pink Floyd, Frank Sinatra, Queen, The Beatles, REM, BB King, Buddy Guy, CCR, Clapton, Hendrix, Mayer, Kasabian, Perl Jam, Rival Sons, SRV, Black Keys, The Doors, Rolling Stones, The Who ect….

I do listen to some nightcore occasionally if I feel like I’m playing badly to boost my playing, though if I’m playing well it can be counter productive. I get twitchy, tense ect and it just works against me. Then I just listen to all of the artists listed above.

Have a wonderful rest of your day guys! Happy shattering!
Much love,

Monns

Wow! same bands I like, \m/ Rock on.

I love you.

I suggest this one on duels (for real, ignore my last troll post)

Either:

or

Second one is by Temple of the Dog (if you know them, if not, its pre-pearl jam, band is pearl jam with Chris Cornell of Soundgarden on Vocals)

Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder are one of the greatest Rock voices of all time!

Just make it Revert it to the way it was before and add Confusion on interrupt

Only classes that will be greatly affected with the 100% is the obvious cast classes like necro heal and all that.

I vote for the 100% because being a GM trait, it would be hard to get with CI, you can but without sharper images and DE.

And Also PB will not affect rez and stomping and AA. and we should be set.

But will affect thief weapon sets.

Since, I’m a new ranger myself so i dont know if this is a L2P issue.

First pet:

Drakes: Any of you guys find their f2 hard to aim? (A little easier on the bouncing drakes, Lightning and The poison one) The cone f2 drakes, once the opponent moves a little away from the drake, it cancels the cast, and goes after the foe wasting the f2. B.) If my foe goes a little bit outside the cone or back of the drake, f2 completely misses and wasted again.

Only thing you can make your foe eat all the hits is immobilize them enough with duration or no cleanses or stun long enough so it they can eat all the kitten.

Drakes F2 is strong but its mostly situational, in the heat of battle its clunky to use.

Second Pet:

Porcines: Any of you guys find it hard to use f2 and pick up the loot in the middle of the battle? Could be the same as thief skill.

IMO, the most comfortable f2 to use is the birds, because they have the lowest cast time of f2.
Feline leaps takes a long charge too which your foe can dodge easily.

Canine Howls are pretty good because they have a pretty large radius and knockdowns on top of that.

So any tips with the above pets? Thank you in advance.

PS: 1.)Another problem i have with pets is that when I jump off the ledge (i.e. Spirit Watch) My pet circles around the map, taking the ledges going down when i press f3, sometimes i start a battle without my pet needing for me to swap.) <—— is this intentional?
2.) With my duel with shadowpass, I just noticed if youre against a kiting class, the pet is having trouble sticking with the opponent.

Someday.3650:

What we need is more control over pet skills. Like f2, but 1 or 2 more.

Or a trait tree for pets!

yes i tried your suggestion and it worked pretty good as long my teamates know what to do,. btw, i asked the op this too, any alternative for krait? I feel like its too generic. haha.

Are the invites still going on or??

Im the only user, whenever i change the access through the properties it gives me an access denied kitten.

yes, i mean i could reformat it but i wont be able to backup since i cant copy cut or delete. i cant drag too. just that drive tho. Any of you encountered this problem?

Fay.2357:

Well, the biggest issue is that mantra healing scales horribly with healing power. This means you should ditch all of that clerics and get something that doesn’t have a useless stat. Additionally, disruptor’s sustainment is literally one of the 5 worst traits we have, for that and other reasons…so ditch that too.

The next problem is that you’ll be doing somewhere between 0 damage and 0 damage. This isn’t exactly an issue…but I sorta like getting loot when I play wvw.

Lastly…it’s actually somewhat difficult to continually chain heals while in a laggy and aoe spammed environment. You have a very long channel, this means you can’t dodge without breaking it, are limited in mobility without blink, it’s just not easy to make it work effectively. The aoe range is decent for a dungeon comp…but you’re going to have trouble hitting a lot of people with it unless you’re in a really tight zergball.

What was Jhughes running in your 5 mes comp?

ItIsFinished.9462:

StickerHappy.8052:

ItIsFinished.9462:

StickerHappy.8052:

solrik.6028:

Sigil of Earth is wasted on S/Wh because you will apply 2 stacks at max and fighting with sword doesn’t grant many hits on the enemy. It’s better if you go with geomancy for longer and more bleeds.

I agree with you on this one, but if i had geomancy on axe, any other sigils you suggest OP or solrik?

Keep in mind that you will have 60% Condition Duration so the procs from Sigil of Earth jump to 8 second bleeds. But if you want to use a different Sigil, try Sigil of Torment.

Oh i forgot to mention, this is for the spvp build. :p sorry

For sPvP, Generosity, Energy, Leeching or Earth

For WvW, is perplexity still viable post rune fix?

same thing, delete option missing.