Guild Wars 2

The new system seems to target the closest target in any direction.

This is incredibly frustrating as you may have an enemy in your sights at 900 units and it decides to target the moa at 600 units behind you.

Please have it target enemy players only, as well as prioritise enemies in your FOV.

Pretty sure, as others have said, that the champs at Jormag do not drop champ bags, and never have…

Yep perfect where it is.

Ty awesome news

Forge would be nice.

Romek.4201:

people still would not watch

I would.

Wow above war and guard. Have you got a link fluffball?

I’d vote full rabid on 0/2/6/6/0

I find the damage is significantly greater with bleeds on crit than dire alone.

Have DNT done any updated numbers yet? Would be good to see where rangers are in the overall rankings now.

I agree but only because they don’t look good enough to wait that long!

Sube Dai.8496:

Your location: Sydney, Australia

Time and date of incident: Anytime. Worst is middle of the night Pacific Time, like 11pm-5am (UTC-8).

Game World: Fort Aspenwood (mostly playing WvW, but also noticable in PvE and sPvP)

Brief description of what you’re seeing:

Frequent rubberbanding / warping of other players and NPC

spell and effect delay: between ~0.2 and sometimes up to 20 seconds, sometimes skills won’t activate

async animations + effects: damage or effects are applied prematurely compared to the animation state

I was able to play from about 4pm – 12pm Pacific time and it was great. Skills behaving as normal, no lag or anything.

Then now at like 2AM-4AM it is back to lagging like a mofo.

So US afternoon/evening is fine. US Night time is terrible.

There aren’t many condition builds in the NA TPVP, but that is because the teams are built to deal with them at a team level.

WvW players build for themselves at small scale, which is why this is an issue.

Conditions are the meta for solo roaming. Once you start to add more players who can cleanse for you, that changes dramatically.

Your location: Sydney, Australia

Time and date of incident: Anytime. Worst is middle of the night Pacific Time, like 11pm-5am (UTC-8).

Game World: Fort Aspenwood (mostly playing WvW, but also noticable in PvE and sPvP)

Brief description of what you’re seeing:

Frequent rubberbanding / warping of other players and NPC

spell and effect delay: between ~0.2 and sometimes up to 20 seconds, sometimes skills won’t activate

async animations + effects: damage or effects are applied prematurely compared to the animation state

Play spvp. Hotjoin is meant for ppl waiting in queue.

There is/was a perception in PvP that the damage off crossfire was too high for the rate of fire. But now that everyone is running lb I guess the complainers switched too

Another stupid anti ranger thread.

PBS → QZ – > Rapid Fire = not one person complained about this before patch.

The increase in RF cast time did not suddenly make this combo OP.

I know there is a thread about EU servers but I am getting unplayable lag on FA since the patch.

WvW has major skill lag and World Events are totally unplayable.

Strangely the connection doesn’t drop even when my skills don’t respond for like 20-30 seconds.

Trace route is attached.

I am playing from Sydney Australia so not expecting awesome pings, but since the patch is the worst lag I’ve had since launch.

Same.

15/ char

kyubi.3620:

Well even witheout the stack of pet bloodlust wich require pet never or near to be switched you gota remember that with axe, might on crit from trait, might on crit from weapon, shared boon a pet can prety much perma cap 25 might.

My snow leopard doesnt always cap the 10k in pvp but can easily pwn the hell out of you with a fair 8k bite (ive seen so many people rage about this ahahah even one calling me hack)!
Why snow leopard? because the leap is icy and pin you immobile wich allow him to chain you to the death, people constantly get destroyed by my cat when in spvp because the thing can easily topple the hp of a player within seconds (icy axe + pet constantly smashing you = your prety much dead especialy if squishy)

Swiftness and movement speed are irelevent once you walk from behing frozen back in those years axe was unreliable due to no advantage save for the ice axe, now that i spam pulling grabs freeze and might on hit you might revise your statement especialy since ive been chain killing people like mesmer rangers and even signet hambow warriors of late the most hilarous behing thief who scream in horror as they are revealed out of stealth by sick em.

I must admit however ive so far been running zerker with this build, maybe its high time i move on to something running on precision and tankyness

In my experience the snow leopard and alpine wolf are never even close enough to have their f2 connect.

That is pretty cool. Add krait runes and its a big aoe condi bomb.

I think you have to take frost spirit for it work, so that you have another form of stealth that won’t be broken when you attack (like flame and spike do).

Also you could use frost and spike to proc predators onslaught, which will do more damage than your remorseless opening strikes.

I think maybe they are meant to go with hybrid build. On full condition they seem much weaker than krait.

Totally unplayable atm.

9pm GMT+10

Here is mine, also really bad since patch.

Substance E.4852:

Sube Dai.8496:

People are just used to free kills as you say.

I think two weeks and all the qq will disappear. We might even go back to ‘buff ranger’ threads once people learn how to handle longbow.

Signets and GS still seem pretty weak.

I’m enjoying the GS a lot more now that Maul hits better and Auto3 hits for more but I really do wish Hilt Bash did more than it does.

The problem with hilt bash is auto-stunbreak traits. When you’ve only got 1 stun you can’t exactly bait it out either.

Those are stupid, passive traits that should go away IMO.

Ehecatl.9172:

Sube Dai.8496:

If interrupts were more telegraphed you wouldn’t be able to use them

Point Blank Shot isn’t just an interrupt, it’s a powerful knockback sitting on the same weapon that has a powerful long ranged burst. Not evading an interrupt might cause you to not use the skill you wanted to use, not dodging Point Blank Shot might cause you to eat 4-7K damage depending on if you can get up fast enough or not. It’s also vital to keep the enemy from closing the distance and so is a huge part of longbow survival.

It’s a very important skill for the person fighting the longbow ranger to avoid and should have a better telegraph so the player can tell when it’s coming. As is avoiding a Point Blank Shot is almost up to luck.

It’s like if the warrior hammer skill Backbreaker didn’t have a telegraph. It’d be ridiculous.

I’ve been defending the ranger longbow since the patch launched but even I can recognize that a tell on that skill would go a long way to improving the counterplay against the weapon and make it more interactive to fight against.

Opening the fight with bps can be a big risk. I prefer to save it for interrupts, particularly stomps.

Ehecatl.9172:

The only “nerf” the ranger longbow should really have is a better tell on Point Blank Shot. Rapid Fire telegraphs itself with the first few arrows and a fairly distinct sound and cast animation and it only hits for about 6K on average. 7K on squishy targets. It’s a lot of damage for a ranged attack, but not that much in the world of burst skills.

If interrupts were more telegraphed you wouldn’t be able to use them

Ahh Skirmishing…such great stats, such crap traits…

I’d prefer this GM trait to be another offensive option. Specifically a melee offensive option. MoC is too weak and hard to proc. You could arguablly merge those two traits and add a new one.

Or maybe something with condition removal to open up the option of avoiding EB and SotF.

Remove all NPCs.

Remove all buffs.

Let players build fortifications.

Profit.

The dodge argument is moot in PvP…there are so many things you can hide behind to obstruct their channel, on almost every map.

The exception being graveyard in Foefire.

As someone who will never craft ascended armor I am loving the inflated silk price.

I’ve got more gold than I have ever had!

People are just used to free kills as you say.

I think two weeks and all the qq will disappear. We might even go back to ‘buff ranger’ threads once people learn how to handle longbow.

Signets and GS still seem pretty weak.

Now that you mention it I don’t think I have been hitting 5 targets when taking camps.

Doesn’t feel like the range has increased either.

GoogleBrandon.5073:

Heh, I was thinking about making my own thread, but it seems this will do

Two days ago I was just casually trying to do some matches in SoloQ, and after seeing the 7th person in a row DC’ing, I decided to go have some fun in Hotjoin…
There I was mesmerized by a Ranger getting insane amounts of regeneration – playing something with signets and a Greatsword (don’t know about his other set, he never switched) and that intrigued me…

Now I have had issues with playing Ranger in the past, I was coping with an identity crisis and could not figure out a suiting role within TPvP, but now with the recent changes, I decided to let my curiousity have a way…
I made some kind of weird Celestial+Axe regen build, and discovered some little gems within; now since my knowledge about Rangers is rather limited, I decided to contact a guildy, DanSH for some help… He helped me setting some things straight, like trait spread and weapon combos, and from there I started to work

Granted, this is likely not what he would run, since we did not discuss the build into detail, but This is the build I am running
It could probably use some fine tuning, hence why I came here… One of my largest gripes with the build is mobility, and I am inclined to take Warhorn, but I do not know which offhand to replace (offhand Dagger saved me so many times)
I did at the very least come to the point with this build that it did exactly what I wanted – Insane Regen+Vigor uptime, Protection and mightstacking like a pro! I managed to beat some Warriors in 1v1’s when testing the build in our Arena with it, though I do not know whether thanks to the build or due to their inexperience facing Rangers, regardless, I had a very good time

Anyway, if you can take your time to look at my build and tell me things to improve, I am happy to know it – One thing though, I really do not want to give up my Sword or Axe since I use the former to combat enemies up close, doing some soft conditions, while my Axe is my primary mightstacking and ranged weapon

That is pretty much the exact build I posted above. Except that I am using sic em instead of sor, and stability training to help the pet get to targets.

Do you have a might source for the pet on that 0/0/6/2/6 ?

My GS/Signet build was a total fail, mostly because of the short Might duration.

0/0/6/4/4 Celestial strength runes has been working well though.

I’ve been playing axe/bm quite a bit in yoloq and whilst they can hit hard they still get cc’d too often to apply real pressure.

Moving targets, bad pathfinding, lots of random cc = pet does not connect very often.

I run it in a 2/0/6/6/0 zerk lb build (pvp) and the survivability is amazing. I’d call it glassbow but its really more of a barkbow

The perfect trade off between damage and survivability.

In Kazakhstan we light fire under bear to make him dance.

Don’t have time because of university?

That is probably the most spare time I ever had in my life!

Wait till you get a job, a wife, and a kid

Wow traps are OP now!!!!

My god the ranger hate on this forum has just reached ludicrous speed.

I have been playing ranger since launch, and I am not having any trouble against lb rangers…

FYI I am currently playing celestial axe/beastmaster…

Sounds like you are talking about pve?

In that regard I think our best DPS is now 6/5/0/3/0 sword/warhorn with predators onslaught.

The might duration on axe is too short to weapon swap as you propose. Also your pet will get might from sword auto anyway.

Also frost spirit is nerfed, so no point training for spirits.

chronometria.3708:

Meglobob.8620:

Why the kitten, would anyone want to collect spoons of all things?!?

Is this some kind on ‘insider’ Anet joke?

Well, that’s the thing, it would be funny, if the reward was a humorous item. I`ve heard it suggested that there should be a spoon great sword, for example. The problem with the collections is that the amount of effort and expense needed is not matched by the amount of thought and effort put into the rewards. I don’t think anyone would mind the cost if the end result was a noteworthy, unique item that could be showed off, to tell people that you were indeed the spoon master.

Quite why this system was brought in without any of that I do not know. It reminds me a lot of the first season wvw reward let down all over again.

They are a good addition to the game but more unique rewards would have made them great as you say.

I die a little inside every time I see a new achievement with ascended mats as a reward…I mean are you effing serious!?

I’d say its way too quick to say how the meta has shifted…but what in particular are you complaining about?

I think its a positive move. Its how gvg functioned in gw1.

Its one of the most balanced changes they have ever made. High risk, high reward.

FA used to have a lot but a bunch moved to SOS and I think the biggest ocx guild quit? (Unreal Aussies).

FAs NA primetime is much bigger though. So you could join SOS and dominate AU time or try and help FA be better overall.

Personal DPS has gone up with lb buff and predators onslaught.

Team DPS is down thanks to frost nerf…

I have been running it like this in PvP:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQRBHPxG2JjKUxitCiLLw1iBwEq2FwyGAPzhT15F0sZ8zJzeA-TpQOgAA7PsWGAA

Pretty happy with the results so far!