Guild Wars 2

JonathanSharp.7094:

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You honestly shouldn’t bother posting one line posts here like this, it will only make me more angry in the long run.

Esp after you nerf a class.

It will be seen as nothing more than trolling.

Because the game really has two Archtypes…..

Either your Glass Cannon, or your Bunker.

The classes that don’t have Stealth or incredibly high burst tend to go Bunker.

Puandro.3245:

Xsorus.2507:

Rofl, you have to be a special kind of bad to lose to a sub 80 in this game.

LOL pretty much, reminds me of the gray theurgist killing ppl in daoc :P.

lol…My favorite was the videos of the people zerging with baby theurgist, like 50 of them, They’d come up on a level 50 running around, then spam air pets on him, and slowly kill him since he was perma stunned

Cempa.5619:

Skirmishing is rubbish unless you want the Trap traits or some silly Moment of Clarity build! You are on the right track regarding a bow build though…

PS I don’t get your love of Sharpening Stone trait and utility, we have much better options :/

I just saw your gear it has +Condi on it, that might explain your S. Stone though if you want to go Bow you should focus +Power.

Its Rampagers, Its got Condition/Precision/Power as the stats, very very Glass Cannon

Basically with the on crit bleed sigil/talent + keen edges + sharpening stone, you turn Longbow into a condition weapon somewhat..Barrage Becomes a very nasty AOE

Puandro.3245:

Xsorus.2507:

Puandro.3245:

Xsorus.2507:

I think its Bite or something that still hits fairly hard, but Maul and the Auto Attack are just awful.

Cat Auto hits as hard as it used to be. I dont eyeball damage i actually wrote down the coefficient. Bird Auto hits twice every 2.6 seconds. Cat Auto hits once every 1.2 seconds. They do the same dps over time.

When cats use Bite their DPS goes up.

When birds use swoop their dps goes down since it does less damage then their auto attack now.

Cats Maul got nerfed but its still better than their Auto.

When birds use their swiftness they stand still for far too long and let the enemy move away too easy. Birds overall do less dps than cats.

You can keep believing birds are better by eyeballing damage but you are mistaken.

The damage feels less on their auto… I remember fairly consistent 2k hits with auto attack on crit.

But yea, Bird Swoop still is as lame as ever.

I just know I’ve been hitting for a bout 1.9k on their auto attack on crits (that’s per hit) and the Cat isn’t getting anywhere near that. But yea…I can see Birds doing less damage over time just cause of swoop alone.

Cats auto damage hasnt changed. You play Ranger much longer than me but i use cats exclusively and i know from a “feel” point of view and from a testing point of view its exactly the same.

Just stop watched a couple pets to get an idea on it.

Cats do kill quicker then Birds entirely because of Swoop, Otherwise i’m pretty sure they’d kill at equal speeds (birds hit harder, but cats hit faster) Course this has always been the case cause Swoop is awful.

Dogs/Spiders/Drakes kill at about the same speed.

Pigs kill a bit slower, Devourer’s are just awful….Even slower then pigs, I didn’t even bother with Moa’s/Bears

hyjaxxx.1584:

im not certain how i feel about your point distribution, the 10 up top and 20 in bm i think ( atleast after the patch) is not well spent.

and something that caught my eye. you dont want stat adding sigils on both sets of weps..its a waste of a spot to add ( fill endurance on kill) or something similar. Just put the stat builder on your axe set..you can rack up your 25 stacks in a couple min with the A1 bounce.

Yea its just preference, Mainly cause I don’t sit around and kill Coyote’s to get Healing Charges up. Charges I get are generally from when i’m killing stuff in camps or players..But yea if you want to kill Coyote’s you can put Endurance fill on the dagger.

Keen Edges also isn’t that bad now, Fairly useful..I personally don’t like the Shout Guard build because I find it annoying, and I have enough Regen as it is, and thanks to that god awful swoop…Swiftness as well.

Puandro.3245:

Xsorus.2507:

I think its Bite or something that still hits fairly hard, but Maul and the Auto Attack are just awful.

Cat Auto hits as hard as it used to be. I dont eyeball damage i actually wrote down the coefficient. Bird Auto hits twice every 2.6 seconds. Cat Auto hits once every 1.2 seconds. They do the same dps over time.

When cats use Bite their DPS goes up.

When birds use swoop their dps goes down since it does less damage then their auto attack now.

Cats Maul got nerfed but its still better than their Auto.

When birds use their swiftness they stand still for far too long and let the enemy move away too easy. Birds overall do less dps than cats.

You can keep believing birds are better by eyeballing damage but you are mistaken.

The damage feels less on their auto… I remember fairly consistent 2k hits with auto attack on crit.

But yea, Bird Swoop still is as lame as ever.

I just know I’ve been hitting for a bout 1.9k on their auto attack on crits (that’s per hit) and the Cat isn’t getting anywhere near that. But yea…I can see Birds doing less damage over time just cause of swoop alone.

Split Blade is still eating all the Sharpening Stone’s Bleeds (while only applying 1) so be careful when you time using Split Blade.

I’ve changed up my build some what, and went back to some older food types

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VF;5F-v-f2VEF-0;9-02;19-T9J2;356A5;049-7-11V;1QitaQitaM7lPkK-3X;1VMVRWWXa2g3m49R-6-0F-8ZF18Z;9;9;9;9;9;4V6s5n

This is the current setup i’m running, Big change is the dropping of Natures Healing for Keen Edges and the picking up of Sharpening Stone.

Sharpening Stone honestly is kind of optional as if you need to you can run Signet of Renewal. Thing i’m finding though is Burst damage is incredibly low right now cause Weakness is just so powerful. Warriors can 100b and do nothing….Conditions builds might give you trouble though if you don’t have it, So its you should probably be willing to switch if you need to (pull off from the fight to switch if having trouble)

Otherwise I’d recommend not opening with Sharpening Stones, Mainly cause you’re going to want to use Split blade at the start of the fight before they hit 50%, Which means it’ll eat your Sharpening Stones if you’re not careful (I’ve not checked to see if they fixed it eating all the hits) But generally I wait till they get past the 50% mark and have popped my Talent version and letting it run its course before doing the Ability one..This is 10 stacks of bleeds you apply very quickly (to go along with the 11 you normally could apply) Think of it as quasi Bleed Burst.

Birds of course are being used, and Blind is fairly lame right now, so Raven’s Blind is actually pretty decent despite the damage nerf.

Food I’ve switched from Mango Pie’s back to Rare Veggie Pizza for the 40% it gives (10% from power line) for the 50% duration bonus, This will buff most of your abilities to 6 and 9 seconds duration which is good.

Anyway try it out, see if you like it.

Pretty sure I was running 0/0/30/10/30 in that video

I switch it up, from 10 in skirmishing to 10 in Natures all the time.

Just like i do pets, I’ll run all sorts of pets just for kittens and giggles.

10/0/30/0/30 by the way is fairly viable now, Or 10/0/30/10/20

Keen Edges + Sharpening Stones on Bunker Ranger can give you some fairly decent bleed burst if you want.

I will probably run one of those two builds next time I make another BM Bunker video

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Shortbow-Longbow-setup-for-Zerging/first#post2287002

This is the setup I run for Zerging if you want to do LB/SB

It works really well, you’re able to stack an absurd amount of bleeds very quickly (25 stacks in around 5 seconds is common)

I think its Bite or something that still hits fairly hard, but Maul and the Auto Attack are just awful.

I will always post any build that I run for the Ranger community because in the end its just a game… and i’d rather fellow Rangers enjoy the game just as equally.

BM Bunker was created because I wanted to create something around Pain Inverter ability, because I was annoyed when they nerfed Shortbow back in the day with Quickness….People were down on the class, and everyone was complaining that it was dead.

I wanted to show that no…We have other builds the class can do that are amazing…

BM Bunker itself still works, Just use Birds….

I actually want to do a write up on my Ranger Dazer Build if I ever get around to getting enough video for it.

Puandro.3245:

Over the screams of my enemies as my Jaguar rips them to shreds. So they nerfed maul on cats and jags F2. Who cares my pet still perma crits in stealth and maul is once every 20 secs. I didnt have any problem killing 2 thiefs at once last night and 1v1s were still a pushover (the patch didnt magically make people good).

All the patch did is exactly what the first patch did to elementalist when they tried to nerf bunkers. Slap on the hand on their suposed target build while doing more damage to the other less viable builds. Before the patch we had more options on our pets. Now our only option for dps is cats since birds got neutered hard and drakes got hit with an A-Bomb.

Ill be suprised if this is the end of the nerfing to BM builds.

Edit: In case you are wondering im still running my BM Hybrid 0/15/20/15/20 Cleric Power Build. Pretty much the same thing as in my last video.

I’m finding that Birds are outdamaging Cats by quite a bit.

Bird double hit for almost 2k, Cats are hitting for less then 800 on his auto attack (i’m 99% sure that they nerfed the Cat Auto attack, it use to hit much harder from what I remember)

Rofl, you have to be a special kind of bad to lose to a sub 80 in this game.

Also Rangers need to really look at Anet on how they handle things.

Guardians, which everyone considers kitten near mandatory for most groups, Is considered probably the best class in the game, has some of the best group utility and substain in the game got nothing but buffs this patch….Not a single nerf was given to them.

People who think BM Rangers relied entirely on Pets for damage don’t understand the spec.

I’ve got videos of me using all different kinds of pets, from Cats/Drakes/Pigs/Dogs/Devours/Spiders/Birds

Yes some pets were obviously better then others..But you could still kill people fairly easily with most pets because the power of BM Bunker is the ability to apply a crap ton of conditions (and a lot of different ones) onto the target very quickly and consistently. The Pet damage is just icing.

BM Bunker is still viable after the patch, Only we have even less choices now then before….While every other Ranger build has also eaten a nerf because these pets were gutted.

Anyone who thinks this patch is fine needs to get their head examined.

Puandro.3245:

Took a while but i got it, haven’t seen the right numbers posted so i decided to make a new post for them.

Level 1
117 Base .05 HP Coefficient
125 w/ 150 HP
150 w/ 650 HP
167 w/ 1000 HP
180 w/ 1250 HP

Level 2
234 Base .1 HP Coefficient
249 w/ 150 HP
299 w/ 650 HP
334 w/ 1000 HP
359 w/ 1250 HP

Level 3
351 Base .15 HP Coefficient
374 w/ 150 HP
449 w/ 650 HP
501 w/ 1000 HP
539 w/ 1250 HP

It’s every 3 seconds.

Regen for Example is 130 Base with .125 Coefficient but every 1 second.

Guardian Passive Healing for example is 84 Base with a .06 Coefficient.

Is it every 3 seconds, felt like every second…will have to go back and test that

Healing Power will improve your big heal as well…

Its probably close to 10k with 1500 healing power

Ashanor.5319:

I think the guy trying to take credit for Ranger nerfs is funny. lol

Best response is still sustaining the fail.

I created the BM Bunker Build, BM Bunker in TPvP is why Rangers got nerfed hard this patch, thus i’m partly responsible for it.

Dand.8231:

Xsorus.2507:

A. I play multiple classes, and they all require one thing for substain, Healing Gear…Some do it better then others, But if you’re kittening your heal sucks its cause you’re not actually gearing with Healing Gear…

I have an 80 Guard wearing all knights gear. Sustain is really impressive, even though hes mostly specced for damage.

My 80 warrior, also full knights gear, has far worse sustain.

The difference is that a lot of guardian trees and utilities have sustain built right in. You can enhance them by wearing clerics gear obviously but even the baseline is potent. To get any real sustain as a warrior, you need to go with either a banner, or shout build, both of which cost 30 points, and thus detract from your ability to do other things well.

I like the feel and playstyle of the warrior, I really do, it’s just…. frustrating when I have no real way to regain health easily. With a 22k pool, it takes two healing surges to being me from 1% to 100%, that’s 60 seconds. Most other classes have multiple ways to heal themselves without having to heavily devote themselves to it.

You have the same number of ways to heal yourself as a Ranger

Your heal isn’t healing you very much because you have ZERO healing power.

Otherwise its a 9k+ Heal if you actually invest in it, Yes your damage will be kitten poor….It’ll be like my damage when I run Clerics armor on my ranger

Daecollo.9578:

Xsorus.2507:

Daecollo.9578:

With 1500 healing power I still have 2/5 the healing of a guardian with no healing power. Lulz

With 1500 Healing Power you can have 500 Heal per second with max adrenal bars which is more than a Ranger has.

While you do have 5 seconds more on your main heal then us, You will have a comparable heal of about 10k (I got to around 9.8k in SPvP with 1200 Healing Power or so) so its about Comparable to Trolls

Your biggest problem though will be lack of Protection.

We don’t have constant adrenal bars anymore.

Rangers have CONSTANT evades and CONSTANT protection, so they take a lot less damage, they also can be at ranged as well a lot so they can avoid the bruising.

You can’t compare the classes because they are just different. Warriors should heal more because they take a lot more damage.

Use your Burst abilities then pop your heal, That’ll feel up your Bars.

It’ll take some practice but that’s how I would do it.

You’re going to have to get out of the mindset of probably using Greatsword as well and Hammer, as neither of those weapons have Blocks of any kind (which you will need)

Spiders actually fairly decent damage now, but build really doesn’t focus on damage from pets so they’re just fluff.

Daecollo.9578:

With 1500 healing power I still have 2/5 the healing of a guardian with no healing power. Lulz

With 1500 Healing Power you can have 500 Heal per second with max adrenal bars which is more than a Ranger has.

While you do have 5 seconds more on your main heal then us, You will have a comparable heal of about 10k (I got to around 9.8k in SPvP with 1200 Healing Power or so) so its about Comparable to Trolls

Your biggest problem though will be lack of Protection.

Daecollo.9578:

Warrior Healing Spells:

Bolster (Cooldown: 30)
Gain protection and adrenaline. Cures burning, poison, and bleeding.
Healing: 8,780 (2.0)?
Protection: 4 s
Adrenaline: 30

(This skill is based off of Hide in Shadows)

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Signet of Sustain (Cooldown: 25)
Passive: Grants regeneration.
Active: Heal yourself.
Healing Signet: 450 (0.2) heal per sec
Healing: 9,275 (2.0) then lose 450 health every second for 10 seconds.

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Mend Wounds (Cooldown: 15)
Heal and cure a condition for allies. This skill is a physical skill.
Healing: 4,240 (2.0)
Heal per condition cured for each allie: 724 (0.2)

These numbers you’re coming up with, Are they with Healing Power or no Healing Power?

A. This one should lose the conditions removal, The Protection is fine I think…Because Warriors lack Protection and they should have at least 1 decent source of it (Rangers are kind of in this boat with Stability)

B. That Healing Signet is a little on the high end on the heal, 7000-8000 would be more reasonable. By Comparison Rangers Signet (Which is no apart of the heal but occupies the Utility Slot) heals for around 125 with healing gear… You have Access to Something comparable in terms of the Adrenal Heal..It heals for around 500 or so with Healing Gear, so it tends to heal a bit more then the Signet we have cause you’ll be using your Bars up…But even 1 Bar in with healing gear its about comparable to the Signet. You can get your current signet up to around 240 or so but even with Healing Gear its incredibly low on the main heal part… so 7000-8000 would be fairly reasonable with its current healing value.

C. Umm no on this one..Its slightly weaker then Heal as One for Rangers with no conditions, but cures all conditions and has a 15 second cooldown.

In the future I would suggest a more reasonable request instead of asking for the world.

dooger.2640:

Xsorus.2507:

You warriors are aware you only get substain when you actually gear for it right?

My guardian does not need to gear +heal and has insane sustain, so does my rogue

Next.

clearly you’ve never actually geared for healing on your rogue if you want to see insane substain.

Vahlen.9508:

Xsorus.2507:

Kryptonite.9376:

Xsorus.2507:

You warriors are aware you only get substain when you actually gear for it right?

This has nothing to do with gear. No matter how you gear, warrior sustain will never be how it is for other classes, it is how we are built. Play another class and you will understand the versatility and sustain you have in a large fight (think WvW) and compare to that of a warriors. Currently we are are burst class, overall. Anyone and everyone can survive longer with the right armor and standing back waiting for cooldowns.

This is not a discussion for try hards, kiddo.

Judging by your signature trying to show off your “Ranger PvP movies” you have no kittening clue what you’re doing. How was that ranger nerf today btw?

A. I play multiple classes, and they all require one thing for substain, Healing Gear…Some do it better then others, But if you’re kittening your heal sucks its cause you’re not actually gearing with Healing Gear…

B. Are you saying Rangers have more versatility then Warriors in a Zerg Fight?

C. The Ranger Nerf sucked, hows it feel being a Warrior today?

Just watched “some” of your movies…………..why are you trying to comment on other classes when you don’t even have a good grasp on how to play your main?

I think I have a fairly good grasp how to play my class considering everyone who ran Ranger in TPvP and the reason people whined about Rangers in the first place was because they used the build I created.

Kryptonite.9376:

Xsorus.2507:

You warriors are aware you only get substain when you actually gear for it right?

This has nothing to do with gear. No matter how you gear, warrior sustain will never be how it is for other classes, it is how we are built. Play another class and you will understand the versatility and sustain you have in a large fight (think WvW) and compare to that of a warriors. Currently we are are burst class, overall. Anyone and everyone can survive longer with the right armor and standing back waiting for cooldowns.

This is not a discussion for try hards, kiddo.

Judging by your signature trying to show off your “Ranger PvP movies” you have no kittening clue what you’re doing. How was that ranger nerf today btw?

A. I play multiple classes, and they all require one thing for substain, Healing Gear…Some do it better then others, But if you’re kittening your heal sucks its cause you’re not actually gearing with Healing Gear…

B. Are you saying Rangers have more versatility then Warriors in a Zerg Fight?

C. The Ranger Nerf sucked, hows it feel being a Warrior today?

You warriors are aware you only get substain when you actually gear for it right?

For those who are running with the zerg right now and aren’t enjoying it as much with the Shortbow nerf Might i suggest a build I run when I get bored running BM

I’ll be honest, I stole the idea from Druzila a month or two ago…. Which was basically run Rampager’s gear with SB/LB setup..

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-F;5Fku-g2VEF-0;9k4O;1TJJ;029719-05;5K-F4;2JH8Rk8dZEwk-1-56;2Vc-h0m1rYxZ259V-776mW6TsW6T;9;9;9;9;9;4V6s5p

Now you’re probably thinking, Longbow with Conditions Blows right…and you’re sort of right, Though you have 2 Bleed Procs that you can put on someone with longbow (making it fairly decent with Rapid Fire) the biggie is Barrage, Barrage will apply Bleeds to each person it hits, and that means Sharpening Stone will apply to everyone 5 times each.

With the new change to Keen Edge you can generally open with sharpening stone and have it apply almost 10 bleeds to an entire group along with its other damage.

When Flanking you can hit 25 Bleed Cap incredibly fast with this setup and shortbow…

I mean you’d be amazed how quickly you could hit.

But the biggie, Its actually not that bad for getting Bags… which is why i’m zerging in the first place usually…

So if you want a decent Zerg setup for Ranger, This build works…and it works slightly better after the patch (keen edges went off before usually just because of Retal, but its a bit more reliable now)

Stability for Pigs by the way doesn’t work…just tested that talent, Doesn’t do anything..doesn’t absorb CC, don’t grant stability

Jay The Dude.5830:

Substance E.4852:

Jay The Dude.5830:

Levetty.1279:

I am really confused on when you would ever be able to hit people with the Storm Spirit, especially multiple ones.

Nature’s vengeance in a zerg?

2k damage every 60 seconds is laughable in a zerg.

Recharge is 20

If it dies, its 60 seconds..(which it will) The nuke is 20 seconds.

Jay The Dude.5830:

Xsorus.2507:

Its a sad day when people think storm spirit is good cause Call Lightning does 3.2k

They don’t realize thakittens pretty much the equiv of the Necro Bone Minion Utility..Only it does less damage and isn’t a blast finisher.

it’s a sad day when this post gets 152 views in under 10 mins and only two replies
if u get call lightning off, 3.2k aoe, if it procs again from natures vengeance 6.4k add in barrage, and thats 10k+ its a nice amount, maybe not as good as some necro ability but then go play necro

You realize you’re not going to be landing it on any zerg except one you’re running from right?

Its a sad day when people think storm spirit is good cause Call Lightning does 3.2k

They don’t realize thakittens pretty much the equiv of the Necro Bone Minion Utility..Only it does less damage and isn’t a blast finisher.

Zaith.9132:

I seem to be one of the few who are happy with the patch in general for rangers. Sure, they still need to touch up weapons other than longbow, but that doesn’t mean they won’t. As for pets, I don’t see the big idea, since the AI is far from reasonably functional still – they’re going to have to keep looking at pets regardless. Better weapons and AI in the future in exchange for a bit of pet damage? I mean, when my raven died from falling damage yesterday, I stopped caring what this update would do for pets. It’s a step forward to creating a working ranger.

Disclaimer: I didn’t say pet AI was fixed YET (afaik it wasn’t touched). Only that the fact that it wasn’t makes pet damage irrelevant so far as yet.

lol…yea…I remember when my Bird died from falling damage from the first time..

Ahhh Anet…they sure know how to fail…

I believe I can sum up this patch fairly easily

•Moa: Peck: Reduced the damage by 7%.
•Pig: Jab: Reduced the damage by 25%.

I mean really…that sums up the entire patch right there

Jinks.2057:

I like these changes and think overall its in the Rangers best interests.

Good job Anet

Says the Thief

A. Anet pretty much removed Rangers Choice in pets..I mean we didn’t have much of a choice before..You basically had the choice between which DPS pet you wanted…Birds,Cats,Drakes and to some extent Dogs……We begged Anet to fix our Pet system and give us some variety…Their solution..Nerf pet damage….thing is…Its so bad now that Birds are now the ONLY viable pet.. and I mean that…Spiders for example hit harder then Cats..Zero reason to use Cats…

B. The Range Reduction on Shortbow has resulted in people saying “Well they did buff your damage by 15% on some of your skills” This is true…They did…However the 15% damage buff has resulted in those skills actually hitting for the same damage as our auto attack does now..Before they actually did less..Which is why they were situational abilities…in Exchange we lost 300 bloody range…Which is massive….

C. Rangers in general are the only class that didn’t get anything this patch remotely useful..Pretty much everything is a nerf… or fake utility that doesn’t change anything.

So yea, after the testing i’ve done…If you’re running beast build…stick to birds.. in fact pretty much just stick with birds period…Anet somehow managed to make the pet system actually worse then before…Before we had like no good utility pets cept dogs, but we had a choice between a couple DPS ones, Drakes,Birds,Cats,Dogs some what….

Now you pretty much have the choice between a Bird and…. a Bird..

Rofl….pretty much only Birds feel viable as a pet right now….

Anyway…tested the new Call Lightning Damage out… seems to hit for about 3k when it goes off.. i’m not sure its effected by our stats..Cause I know it can’t crit…

Rofl….this will make you cry inside

Spiders auto… hits harder then Cats

Rofl, testing the damage right now..

Geez Cats are bad..

Maul does slightly and I mean slightly more damage then his auto which hits for less now it seems

yea they nerfed Cats Auto attack, It hits pitifully now…

Around 700 or so on auto attack, to give you an idea….Birds do that twice a hit

Knowing Anet, they’ll nerf Axe to 600 range next patch

Rofl….at people who think losing 300 range on shortbow is made up by increasing the damage of 3 abilities by 15%, that all hit for less then crossfire in the first place.

Lets clear something up here…

People who are trying to pretend that kitten sandwich you’re eating is chicken are kidding themselves…

There is nothing positive about these nerfs, There is nothing is going to make up for them in this patch, You’re going to be doing less damage and with less range… The Ranger as a whole is collectively worse then it was before.

Quit pretending that everything is puppy dogs and rainbows.

The only change I really like in the patch is Keen Edges Change.

i don’t think people realize how powerful that is.

I can apply a lot of Bleeds really fast with my Rampagers Setup…..

Open with Sharpening Stones up… Time they hit 50% it’ll pop again and you can apply 5 more…I can do 20-25 Stacks of Bleeds on people.

Only thing that will suck is when zerging it gets wasted

Stealth isn’t a problem

Developers moving away from Stealth Classes being slow and methodical like they were in DAOC to the WoW version of a Stealth Class being a High DPS High Mobility Stealther with lots of escapes is the problem.

GW2 just takes it to the next level.

a high dps class with heals with tons of escapes with high mobility and the ability to stealth in combat over and over again. I mean….It should of been obvious what the problem is going to be.

Oh and I know what some people will say “GW2 Thieves can’t sit somewhere along the road stealthed and gank people” Yea they can..

I can easily do it with D/P…..while maintaining 12 stacks of might since i’m perma stealthed, and when someone gets close..I can pop 2 signets and have 22 stacks of might before back stabbing them for almost their entire bar of health.

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Thanks jc. Even if the patch goes through, I really want to stress that there have been far larger nerfs actually quite often to other classes than the pet nerfs we are about to experience. It’s not the end of the world for BM builds, and running x/x/x/30/10 will almost completely make up for the damage reduction in a fully BM setup. I made a post called “BM not dead” with the general gist of the tail end of my OP along with some personal commentary on what the nerfs actually entail for those who still think pets are going to be killed tomorrow.

Pets will be fine. The biggest nerf to BM is the one people haven’t even mentioned, and that’s having to choose between quickness on pet swaps and the passive regeneration you and your pet can get.

That might be a viable choice at 3 seconds, I’ll probably test it out….My problem is usually not how fast the stomp is but being interrupted

Could drop 10 in Wilderness (since I don’t think you want to give up shout mastery) for 10 in Skirmishing for Companions Might (I’m assuming Clerics gear with this)

Do Sword Warhorn/Great Sword Build

Guard/SoR/SoW would be your abilities with Rampage as one

Though if you used Warhorn i think you could get rid of Shout Mastery in Favor of keeping the 10 in Wilderness

When roaming no..I’ll still be my BM Bunker Build, the only thing i’ve thought about changing is dropping 10 points in Natures or Beast and picking up 10 in Marksman for the free Sharpening Stones (and also running Sharpening Stones)

I’ve not been filming, so i don’t know when i’ll finish my technobabble video, but I may make a Rampager Video next after that of me zerging with that setup hehe

Stomping fast isn’t the problem.

Its the complete lack of Stability outside of an elite or 30 points in Marksman