Guild Wars 2

Thebigadventure.9258:

The current meta doesnt allow rangers to join a “meta party”. I kinda see why but a lot of people underestimate rangers a lot. I know that we dont have a lot natural damage output but that doesnt mean we aren’t able to run dungeons fast.
I currently run a LB/SA on my ranger I use frost + spotter and run stalker and jaguar as pet. I like to run this build because it provides a lot of DPS and team support. However I always get kicked for playing a ranger and that isn’t in the current PS war, guard, thief, and 2 staff ele team.
I get that you dont want a ranger in your party who knockbacks the boss or play with signet of stone and a bear. What I would like to see from you guys is that you give rangers with a proper build a chance in the current meta I hope this isnt to much to ask.

It just happens to be a lot easier to kick all of them than to try and weed out the good ones. And besides it’s rather pointless to rant here about ranger usability since most folks on these forums actually know what each class can do/offer. (At least I hope they do.)

Narrrz.7532:

it would make a lot more sense, but it would make guards the only profession (i can think of) which are good at applying aoe might above a stack or three.

not that that’s strictly a bad thing, curbing might application would be a severe blow to the power creep that’s been happening.

GS warrior with Phalanx Strength is the best might stacker ingame. On one target can keep +20 stacks and with 2 targets perma 25 stacks. Only reason for blasting fire fields these days is so eles can grant perma fury to the group thanks to persisting flames.

Drennon.7190:

roamzero.9486:

I’d like to see something that negates or clears all non-boon buffs for a few seconds. It would be nice if abilities like Berserker’s Stance had more counterplay.

It blows my mind that so many people complain about vamp runes, yet no one seems to have a problem with Berserkers stance being on a PASSIVE trait.

Endure Pain and Balanced Stance are available trough passive traits not Berserkers Stance.

Warrior using warhorn 4 and ele staff air 4 and you got perma swiftness. The stealth drone lagged way behind when running so not perma stealth. Still rather just use tools as 3rd line for lower recharge on toolbelts and general convenience.

Yay don’t have to do map completion for engi. Scrapper sure is useless for pve.

Might be a minor increase but screw that, I ain’t going to CC myself.

Trident 5 -> Spear 32 -> DS 511111111 till you get below 50% life force -> spear 32 and auto till full LF -> trident 5 -> DS and so on. And spam the 2 wells whenever.

Nothing calculated or optimal but what I’d use if I’d have to do UW stuff.

Lmao! Anet likes rangers so much that they won’t even give a PoI episode for Druid.

https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/644904491263881216

bloodpyrope.8630:

Gabriell.4856:

bloodpyrope.8630:

Turtle Dragon.9241:

Thief can now:
Steal a Ranger’s Pet, making them unable to use Pet commands/skills. You must use Steal on the Pet for this to happen.

Ok, but don’t forget, once you steal a pet, you lose 20-30% of your stats and your F skills get replaced by the pet f skills Also when you stealth, your new pet will follow you around and give away your position unless you command it to attack someone.

Pet stays with you until it dies, or someone else steals it!

Hi,

Can you tell me where your magical 20-30% stats went because…everyone get the same stats with the amulet system. Am I right?

Supposedly, rangers deal 20-30% less damage because those stats went to the pets. I don’t actually have any official proof from Anet (maybe someone else does) but it’s just one of those things everyone says is true.

Not stats directly but skill damages and coefficients are lower to compensate for the pet.

could… you… use… a… bit… more… dots… in… your… post… ???

Can I have a secondary function for my fractal spoons that would let me murder my party members and actually finishing Mai Trin in a relatively short period of time?

2 rifle warriors, staff necro and guardian that can’t block for kitten doesn’t exactly make the fight enjoyable. >_>

Rednik.3809:

bladex.9502:

There’s a difference between poor AI and purposely disabling all mechanics a boss has by bringing him to a place he shouldn’t be.
Mossman AI is fine, its the people that exploit him that make his AI bad.

Imo Anet should at least give the people that perform this act a 24 hour suspension, as a warning to others to not do it.
That, or fix the problem, but kitten actually fixing bugs, right?

Emm… disabling AI? Like, hacking Anet servers or smth? You run to him, attack, run back. While doing all those actions you are staying inside level, exactly where you have all rights to be by level design. Not on some bugged rock, tree, or outside of map. If boss not attacking you like he should – this is encounter designer fault, not player. Maybe he forgot to write evade code, maybe he missed a string and disabled underwater part of the encounter, maybe something else – but player have nothing to do with it. End of story.
If someone don’t like that – feel free to not use it, but stop lying about “exploits” and “cheats”.

It was obviously such a game breaking bug that it needed to be fixed. /s

Aah Anet and totally unrelated bugs, fractal section of LFG completely grayed out.

Anet just cant make stability affect displacement so they get rid of it completely instead fixing something unique.

Bran.7425:

Question does anyone know if opponent can still use the environmental weapons ‘foraged’ by the porcine family?

Yes they can. As soon as it becomes visible to you the enemy will see it aswell.

Iris Ng.9845:

Ranger is the king of … Taunt… :’)

/tear of glory

And even that is because beastly warden is buggy af and goes trough blocks and evades with 0 cast time and virtually has no possible counterplay.

Also from what we’ve seen so far rangers are getting aspects and glyphs as a druid which would mean that they either get rid of the pet (no thanks) to use f skills for aspect swapping or they give even less control over the pet because they need the f skills.

I just really hope they don’t screw this up royally and actually make rangers a worthwhile party member in any of the three game modes instead of being a gimmicky crippled warrior.

I still don’t get the reasoning behind releasing elite specs one by one. Seeing how they still buff and bugfix classes from the first BWE just makes me scared of how unfinished forge/druid will be when HoT comes out. And if forge is going to be AI based with little flying turds it might just end up as turrets 2.0.

ronpierce.2760:

Diovid.9506:

Why quit? Just don’t use the elite spec (like many guardians and elementalists will be doing).

Or just don’t use the utilities and use the Hammer/Traits.

That’s sort of the thing about Elite specs… they’re far from ‘all in’.

It is pretty all in because you have to sacrifice an entire traitline in order to use that hammer.

Go shoot some karkas hatchling in LA and you’ll have your dragonite eater.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Princess

Iris Ng.9845:

Taku.6352:

Tell me your secrets master! Whenever I post a LFG it gets removed every 5 min and after reposting it like 2 times I get suppressed and end up with an empty LFG message.

Maybe I’m just too elitist that no one dares to join me. :’c

It’s in the mechanism. Try to invite a friend who stays afk and doesn’t have to accept your invitation. It helps your LFG to stay infinitely. Cancel the invite when your group starts filling.

Ahmahgad, finally a use for all those inactive ppl on friends list.

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

RSLongK.8961:

the fun part is the “Pro zerk only :2eles, 1 war, 1 guard 1 thief” killing it on water when on land is soo much faster.

No its not. He doesn’t go into stealth underwater. On land his stealth drops your DPS significantly.

Stealth =/= invulnerable. You can still easily see where he is from the minimap and spam AoE/cleave on him. Sure ranger and mesmers suffer a bit because they need a target to keep up their dps.

Also by the time you’ve pulled mossy UW your party would’ve probably done decent amount of dmg to him with initial burst.

Or they just see your name and want to play with a celebrity. :>

Tell me your secrets master! Whenever I post a LFG it gets removed every 5 min and after reposting it like 2 times I get suppressed and end up with an empty LFG message.

Maybe I’m just too elitist that no one dares to join me. :’c

It was fine getting teleported there before they excluded fractal chests from AoE loot. But now it’s just screw you and your rewards.

Anyone doing it should be banned but ANet doesn’t give a kitten about it so nothing will get done about it.

For future reference.

Chris Cleary.8017:

Avoiding mechanics by standing in a singular area isn’t an exploit, it’s possible bad dungeon design (for example the cage room in the newer flame and frost fractal…sorry I can’t remember the name of the dungeon it’s late). In that fight there are areas in which you can avoid almost the entire fight mechanic, that’s an example of poor dungeon mechanic design.

Standing on a rock/ledge/platform while the boss attempts to hit you from below (yes there are some bosses that still have abilities that hit you), is a problem with pathing and the boss not resetting when it can’t reach the target. This is exploiting a bug.

Kiting and using geometry (running AROUND pillars and such) is a perfectly valid tactic.

Standing outside a stationary boss’s range is not an exploit, the boss “should” reset after an extended period of time, but is not. This is an example of poor boss implementation, and not an exploit.

Using terrain to block/dodge boss mechanics is also considered a valid tactic (standing behind a pillar when a boss charges).

At this point we are getting very nitpicky at each individual boss and each mechanic in question. I’m sure most of you are aware of what is an exploit and what is a mechanic/tactic. We are working on fixing these “Safe Spots”, but it’s going to take some time to get it done, and will probably happen over time. (Sorry I am not going to go into particulars for fights/changes)

I’ll be very clear here:
If a GM finds a player that is using a “Safe Spot”, that player will be moved out of the safe spot and warned (via in-game text). If they are caught again, that account will be temporarily suspended.

If a GM finds a player that is using a “Safe Spot” and selling the dungeon run, that account will be temporarily suspended without warning.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Safespots-and-Exploits/page/2#post4338224

NikeEU.7690:

SlyDevil.3952:

Wethospu.6437:

Does anyone know if monsters’ condition damage follows the general condition damage formula? Also does condition damage round up or down?

I would assume that it follows the general formula, you’d have to see if frifox is able to pull the condi dmg stat off an enemy to check.

Are there any enemies who apply conditions that also give themselves Might stacks? Seeing how their ticks scale as they gain/lose Might would let you back into the formula.

Aetherblade fractal end boss golems apply 5 stacks of confusion with the projectile attack and gain might from the laser wall.

Belzebu.3912:

After all this, can you guys imagine the amount of pressure over the Druid devs?
Druids needs to be amazing to quench the thirst of the rangers and boy we are thirst.

And then it gets nerfed to abyss because it’s too amazing and we can take another 3 years to get anything done.

Sesshi.2610:

there

http://i.imgur.com/PXCjrIe.jpg

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Since it has a very short animation before the first hit I’d just use an aegis preemptively and try to time the 2nd one.

Right click → kick from party/leave party.

If Pugs cannot kill mossman normally then they can’t probably kill anything else normally and it’d be easier to find a new party.

Ryn.6459:

Taku, we are 4 and we tend to sell the last spot, but I glady run with you.

I usually come on around 1700-1800 (UTC+3) and try to do it as soon as possible so if you have a spot feel free to whisper me. Do be warned though, I generally hate playing any of the “meta” classes and would probably just use my ranger as it’s pretty much the only enjoyable class to play atm.

Much rather have character based PR so I’d have more than 1 daily to do.

WTB a static group for daily 50s.

kittening LFG and braindead illiterate pugs are slowly sucking the life out of me.

Ryou.2398:

Hmm maybe I will thanks all. And the light armors look very different on sylvari then humans so what do you mean they are the same?

Cultural armors are different but every other armors set is the same for male human/sylvari.

Azure Prower.8701:

Not like there is any thing under those skirts to tell male and female Sylvari apart.

Sylvari actually have respective reproductive organs but they just cannot produce offspring. Just there for fun and giggles. :3

And that is a prime example why I don’t even bother trying to be constructive or post feedback on these forums. Too many dinks that completely miss the point and take everything out of context.

Sadly they can’t since the world selection is greyed out.

Your friend could just make a new account.

Engineer master race on Mai. I just auto relog to my engi in a pug if we get Mai so I won’t have to sit there god knows how long.

Yes plz buff my bleeds!

There was a big problem that spacebar acted as confirmation for stuff like log out and replacing runes/sigils which lead to some rather unfortunate losses especially considering several sigils cost well over 10g.

I prefer electro pink over the other dyes because it gives quite varying effects on some armor sets. For example TA light armor looks absolutely amazing with full electro pink dye on it.

Idk, fractal is pretty much the only one where it has any effect since you usually have to kill stuff at the same place you stealth at.

For some weird reason dead dredge leaves an invisible hitbox where it dies for a X amount of time and causes reveal/combat when using AoE.

10/10 coding Anet.

While I do agree that spotter is starting to be somewhat redundant but do note that Sun spirit is a pretty decent party dmg boost now that burning stacks intensity especially considering that you can run multiple condi classes in a group now.

That ranger deeps.

TurtleDragon.3108:

Jerus.4350:

Taku.6352:

Jerus.4350:

Taku.6352:

Nerf ranger plox

Not to mention this was with just rabid ammy since sinister is not in pvp.

(also ignore the audio)

no pet swap? (is it because it’s all buffed up and not worth losing that?) yeah condi ranger is pretty awesome.

No reason to swap pets, no Marskmanship for clarion bond or zephyr’s speed in BM

Bleh true, I’ve only been dabbling and have been doing it out of habit

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Poison_Master

Hardly worth it since pet condi damage sucks badly and rather keep 25 might on my pet all the time.

Ok after waking up and reading OP saying killing the golem 4 times I redid the shabang.

Condi ranger 54 seconds from first casting the spirits and 50 seconds from first attack activation.

Condi engi with meh rotations 45 seconds.

Power engi with meh rotations 53 seconds.

Now where’s that coffee of mine…

Jerus.4350:

Taku.6352:

Nerf ranger plox

Not to mention this was with just rabid ammy since sinister is not in pvp.

(also ignore the audio)

no pet swap? (is it because it’s all buffed up and not worth losing that?) yeah condi ranger is pretty awesome.

No reason to swap pets, no Marskmanship for clarion bond or zephyr’s speed in BM