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Maybe I missed something but out of curiosity can someone explain how he linked this ammount of commendations?
As far as I know, at this time it’s impossible to have this ammount. Or am I wrong? How do you go about winning this many?

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Thanks for the follow up, been checking on the thread for the answer :P

Been thinking along the same lines for the past couple of days as well. But after this last patch too, I may be taking a final look at my ranger before perma-stowing it away for good. Sad, been with it from the start only for the idea behind it, the beastmaster way…but sadly it’s not going anywhere.

Sorry you came to the decision of calling it quits for good Xsorus. Your input has almost always been among my favourite reads on the Ranger forums. A loss for the community indeed.

Thank you for that

1 POI was in Wayfarer’s Foothills for me when I went to continue the Living Story. Location of WP still unknown, looking for this too. Anyone else?

Rangers are born aggressive. And awesome. It’s the only explanation!

lol Chopps

Great ideas, enjoyed reading and moreso I support and want the whip. Always thought that Slave Driver flaming whip was quite cool (ermm…hot)

Gah! Can only transfer to NA servers, not guest. What a pitty

One of your best ideas Chopps! Will do some time management and try to make it.

AlexRD.7914:

Oh my god! Stop reviving this thread, it’s 4 months old.

It doesn’t matter how old the thread is if some of the issues presented are still current. Would you rather we opened a new thread every month to continue on the same issue just because the present thread got old?

FASTCAR.7831:

I goto into AOEs and takes damageto charge my burst..I can SPAM that 14k AOE over and over.
[…]
Again in my vids I DONT show my tactics for a reason. I dont want to give all the tricks to the build away. why would I?

But you don’t. You really don’t. Your movies show that. No reason to hide this since you’re already talking about it. You’re planning on hiding something you expose every time you post? That doesn’t make sense. Even for you.

FASTCAR.7831:

Also due to massive regen.tanking and several damage immune skills, I taunt and tease people to attack me.

This was a good joke, the thread needed a smile. You got Shield Stance and Defy Pain. Perfect taunting abilities.

For the past 2 days the lag in WvW has been so great, no matter which of the 4 maps I’m on, that I haven’t been able to enjoy it. No zerg involved and internet is working like a charm. Only happens once I move to the borderlands. Good things queues haven’t been long anymore :/

FASTCAR.7831:

I love when people think there is no healing. As my sever rolls over server after server…..with me healing.

And that’s why your server was/is in T1 before and after the scores reset. OH WAIT …

I reiterate that your build is decent, your game is not however.

Wow, I should get a in-game achievement solely for completing this thread. That being said, while I am impressed by how well the presented healing build works I am still not convinced by it.

I’ve watched your movies and so far I’m pretty sure you aren’t doing the great job you are claiming you do. Simply for the fact that most of the time you seem to not be doing much if anything at all except placing your banners. What kind of help is that?
In some of the videos you actually have people of your own party dieing and they are at the back of the fight. Your own party. You have already placed your banners and are just running about not doing anything, at least ressurecting.

And the fact that you said Necros are 99% useless in WvW, well…I’ll stop right there.

Albeit your banners heals are better than I had thought previous to reading this thread, they are far from the amazing thing you make them out to be. I can’t get over the fact that one of your party members stays at the back of the fight and still dies. With all your banner regen around him, plus his own self heal.

Hope you take it as constructive criticism, it speaks more to the way you play than what your character can do if played right.

I’ve been waiting for this to drop for a long time, and today I was able to buy one (and not cheaply either might I add) and while I love the skin I am totally dissapointed with the usual animation of it on necro.

The usual smoke scythe effect that appears on any use of staff on necro takes place about mid way through the staff (unlike all others at the top of the staff). It makes it look so very wierd. Now I almost feel sorry for not going with The Crossing. Oh well :/

In any case, if it doesn’t then it should be re-added. I’ve been waiting long enough for it :P

Setun.4368:

Setun.4368:

The best way to utilize the scepter to your advantage I’ve found is for baiting. The projectiles are easy to dodge, but that’s part of their strength. If you can make someone dodge your autoattack and use up their endurance, just so you can follow up with a guarenteed immobilize via #3 followed by smite #2 immediately after, the combo possibilities while that person is immobilized are whatever you want to make it

The projectiles actually track them and will hit them unless they go out of maximum range. You can technically move away from longbow/shortbow attacks as well if you’re at max range from the person firing it. If you change the playstyle of the weapon to play on its strengths rather than the strengths of another weapon type it works quite well actually.

Reading your comments above, where people playing scepter are just bad…I’m not sure which part of your body you’re speaking through to be honest. Have you ever used your Guardian for anything else than smiting mobs around 1-15 areas?

The projectiles do not track anything unless the target is immobile, which in itself is not tracking. Just the fact that you waste 1 weapon slot for the purpose of baiting tells me alot about your experience because no way you waste someone’s endurance with scepter #1 =) The Scepter #1 is only effective at near-to-melee range. FACT.

Also, another fun FACT for your superb combo that you use over there on your max-range fights: #1 is 1200 range. Immobilize is 900.

And “technically” you can do many things. But practically, not. I’m the kind that practically plays the class, you must be the one that technically knows what it should do.

Going back to my original statement, the only thing that needs to be changed on Scepter is the #1 having a homing ability added to it’s projectiles. There’s nothing wrong with the other 2 skills and no one here said there was.

I agree with Flashing Blade more than anything else!!

Also changes to Shield of Absorption would be very very very welcomed

I disagree with the bow option too. What I would like to see (as an improvement to the Scepter if you will) is a homing ability for the orb. The speed is fine, but make it follow the target so they have to evade the attack, not just take a step to the left or to the right. Other than that I don’t see any problem with the Scepter as a ranged weapon.

Would love to have the Cultist Hammer skin from the weapon used in FoTM to break the seals.

I know it’s not a high priority but just throwing this idea out there since I’d love to match it to my Arah set on my Guardian

Me too, been thinking about this for a while. There is a trait that allows pet to share boons with the ranger, but consumables are a no no for now. Would be great to see this ^^

Stuck at 82/83 with “Achievement Chests” still unlocked, even tho I must have opened hundreds of them by now :/

It only works from hero panel like Niacin said. The only way to fix it that I’ve found.

You don’t see what? The fire underwater? :P

Always enjoy your movies. Using a similar build for WvW roaming too, different runes.

Jsvkkie.2037:

The Legendary Shortbow “Dreamer” – A Discussion, by Venn Adamant

In conclusion, the weapon isn’t meant for someone looking for an epic conclusion of his character
set, it is meant for more relaxed players who are just looking for another bit of fun. And it’s
awesome.

Venn

Bullcrap. Because it’s those “relaxed” players that go and get the legendaries…not the ones looking for the “epic conclusion” of their characters. Completely rubbish.

In conclusion, if I’m a Short Bow Ranger, like a Condition Ranger and I want The Dreamer as a conclusion of my character I’m stuck with a kitten look while others got pretty awesome choices, just because The Dreamer is for the “relaxed player”.
Funny.

Talking purely skill damage WD will hit 12 times for a total of 1008 dmg. The final damage is of course scaled with the proficiency points you’ve got added to attack (weapon, armor, traits, etc.)

The answer to your question is 84 per hit. There’s a multitude of skills like it, that show xx hits of yy dmg where the damage is per total.

deepwinter.9015:

I absolutely HATE that my arrows aim for the base/feet of any target I’m firing at! It makes attacking siege emplacements near-impossible!

AMEN brother!

Love the defensive use of WD but would love it even more if it allowed for mobility. I rarely find myself using Axe on off-hand for that reason, not to mention 4th skill is useless :/

I’d love the ability to use a dagger as a main hand weapon as well as opposed to only off hand. Doesn’t it make more sense for a Ranger to be able to use dagger main hand than for a mystic class such as the Elementalist? :/

I forgot what you said before and after “join spirits”. That I’d love to see

That was one of the suggestions, yes. Either have it by default or set it to tier 1 so people will access it without having to waste points to get it for different builds.

That was the general consensus so far….I’m 50/50 on the issue. Ultimately there’s other more pressing issues I’d rather see fixed/improved.

I’d settle for perma-stow even without an upside like a buff. Just the ability to perma-stow it for situations where it’s needed. I’d much rather use it when it comes to fighting, after all that’s why I made the Ranger…for the pets. My oppinion.

As for the people who are against it (few and far between) I can say I stopped reading what Kasama has to say the moment he said his pet tanks Bosses in dungeons. Obviously we’re playing a different game or his pet is AC’s Cave Troll and I haven’t yet aquired it. Will look into doing that for the purpose of becoming Kasamawesome.

This isn’t a real solution. The only real solution is perma-stowing. Due to your level you haven’t gotten into content where your pet will literally become a nuissance like the bonus level in FotM where Jade Maw targets your pet a million times, disregarding players and wasting so much time. You can sometimes stow it but then you just sit there holding a crystal and avoiding damage so you are literally of no use to the team until it’s time to pick up another crystal…and the pet gets re-targeted.
This is also an issue in some of the JPs where you’re looking to avoid combat to be able to skip fast through it and your pet keeps aggroing everything around you because you take falling damage when you jump.
These are just off the top of my head but there are so many other situations where I’ve found the pet to be a downer rather than a help because it can’t be perma-stowed.

And this from a guy who only plays Ranger because of the pets.

The trait is badly designed, its’ cons outweight the pros and it’s been described why above by Eurantien. Not just for the canines but for the spiders too. 2 of them have Immobilise so why would you add cripple, whilst the other 2 do not but being honest who picks pets for skin rather than utility in competitive modes? I don’t see the usefulness of that trait.

I’m hoping in time the folks at Anet will give these traits a second look and replace them with something more usefull to the ranger or the pet.

I play the ranger because of the idea behind the class, otherwise there’s no reason to play it in the current state it’s in (at least compared to every other class out there)

You won’t be the only one :P

Ranger is currently not on par with other classes when it comes to dishing out raw damage. And that is probably also due to the fact that pets are still shaky.

The way I see it, the ranger plus the pet should be able to do similar damage to a different class, say thief or warrior, given a similar build (eg. berserker). But as it is now, the ranger itself still does lower damage than a warrior rifle build and the pet…well…it can’t even keep up with the target if traited for it, let alone without the buff.

I’m sure other classes are lacking in some departments as well, but as far as I’m concerned the ranger is the least versatile class at the moment. Due to lack of build choices (spirit build is globally useless), pets are sometimes a nuissance more than a benefit and the weapons could use some polishing (obstructed, random target changes, etc.)

Improvements? Maybe you mean fixes. Fixed some things that were broken, still alot of things missing and broken to this day. It has to be fixed to work the way it was intended before it can be improved.

Haven’t lost faith yet but the waiting is somewhat of a downer.

If nothing else, at least add it as one of the passive traits. Although I’d love to have this by default, goes without saying for any ranger I believe.

I’m new to GW2 alltogether but been playing Ranger and I love the ideea behind the class (albeit it has it’s bugs and quirks >< ). Haven’t quite gotten the hang of the movement yet but still I think I do pretty well with it. That being said, here’s my semi-condition/survival take on the sPvP ranger.

http://youtu.be/9HDq0uAcUVk

Still bugged, after all this time ><

//Seafarer’s Rest

Amen brother. I feel this thread should stay on the first page, maybe eventually someone from Anet will give it a look :/

As a Ranger I agree the pet is somewhat of a nuissance sometimes when I’d rather not have him out and about. I would much rather have Stow hide the pet until I release it from the same button.