Guild Wars 2

2 people can kill a ranger underwater with the pet healing him.

I know because I’ve done it..

1 person will not though.

Apothecary Armor/Weapons are sort of expensive, but they are affordable in comparison to Passiflora.

http://www.gw2db.com/items/72083-ashes-of-the-effigy
http://www.gw2db.com/items/72089-infinity-loop
http://www.gw2db.com/items/73996-melandrus-bloom
http://www.gw2db.com/items/12829-shamans-ring
http://www.gw2db.com/items/12770-shamans-amulet
http://www.gw2db.com/items/72098-the-zealots-amulet

Look for these on the auction house, They can be a replacement for Passiflora Jewelry (Its like using Reyna’s armor with Passiflora Jewelry)

Jewel wise you can use yellow Passiflora, or Carrion if need be.

BM Bunker Rangers can be good in 1v1 and 1vsX, however zerg fighting its not super great.

you know, I’ve seen something like that on SoS as well…I mean maybe its just random, but I seen a ton of ranger running together like that…

I need to pay attention to the guild next time.

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Bailey.6892:

Daecollo.9578:

Since all signets are getting buffed, I think Signet of the Wild should get double its healing as well, otherwise it will never find a slot compared to the other options.

It would be a joke if they did not improve the passive healing. Although that tends to be the competency levle of anet..a joke.

It will be overpowered for regen builds if they improve the passive healing. I’m waiting for this to get a buff and then a quick nerf as soon as ANet realized rangers can stack 700+ regen/sec without help from guardian rejuvenation and elementalist soothing mist.

Point of interest, i can do 700+ regen on my Thief.

Shadow Rejuvenation from the Shadow Arts line is very nasty with Healing Power, with 800 Healing Power I outheal my Ranger with 1100 Healing power easily.

The Spiral King.2483:

I truly feel sorry for the Minion Masters coming from GW1 expecting a fun experience. At least your minions are not your inherent class mechanic like our brain-dead pets are.

Should of had Mako ;o)

To bad our Pets don’t work like Companions in SWTOR

Yea its a good CD, I mean if you’re power bunker, a case can be made for running it for sure over Rampage as one.

I’d have a hard time giving up Entangle though cause I use it to kill greater numbers

I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen it last a minute in PvP…

Most of the time its dead within the first 15 seconds I’ve casted it.

Its good to cast when you’re getting low for the Instant Rez, but I don’t expect it to stick around.

If it had a 120 second or 180 second Recast timer, I’d probably use it just to res.

Yea this was shown in beta I think it was….

Only reason I’ve not used it was the long timer it has…

Man, I’m so happy this guy pointed out how amazing our damage is, We can now drop our Bunker and Trap builds and spec Longbow with Glass Cannon for extreme pwnage.

Chopps i’ve read that before, It’s not true.

Attacking with your auto attack x2 will not make your pets attack 100% of the time..

Clearly saying nothing has worked quite well for Necromancers.

This game was released over 6 month’s ago, and you want to handle this with kids gloves?

Most of the time, Minion’s don’t work right…Most fights consists of maybe 1 or 2 of them actually hitting, the other 2 or 3 not hitting and just standing there.

That is a serious problem.

Someone tested it and I believe its 1.2k DPS or so from the pets.

You also don’t use them to hide behind, It’d be like going all Spirits on your ranger to “hide” behind things… Only you invested Multiple points into making them good.

a Minion Mancer is basically giving up a lot of utility and other abilities for something that doesn’t actually work.

Know how awful our pets are sometimes at doing what we want?

Well I have a new level 80 toon i’ve been playing.

My Necromancer….and I’ve made a Minion Mancer of all things.

thought i’d share a short movie of what its like playing this spec in PvP

My Channel also has another movie as well called Scarecrow Volume 1, Trust me when I say we’re not alone is moronic Pets..

Yes……quality gaming right there

I find shaming tends to be the best way to get change done.

Toughness one is it, and unless you go 30 in Marksman, you won’t use it.

What boons are going to get stolen from me?

My Regen that lasts 5 seconds?
My Protection that lasts 2 seconds when I dodge, Good luck stealing that.

Maybe you could steal my vigor, but I have so much of that it doesn’t matter.

Ranger is probably the only bunker in the game that doesn’t actually rely on Boons all that much.

We’re not like Elementalist and Guardian who stack the crap out of every boon to silly levels.

Ranger Traps are good traited, not traited they’re not that great.

It’s a decent regen right now, It’s not as powerful as say the Thief one in stealth or the Warrior Ones..(Both have higher amount healed) But BM bunker is already pretty powerful, so not sure I could support a buff for SOTW, maybe after the patch i’ll change my mind.. but right now it doesn’t need a passive buff (Its active though needs to allow stomp)

Because most Rangers run Glass Cannon, which unlike most other glass cannons, doesn’t have a whole lot that can save you from getting jumped.

Most thieves basically will go for Bow Ranger, the smart ones avoid any Ranger that’s not using a bow..Cause it probably means they’re going to stomp you into the ground.

Thought everyone knew Dagger/Pistol was the counter to P/D

Its only the stats that are gettin buffed.

Here is how you can tell the confusion nerf is over the top.

Do people run Confusion in SPvP?

If its not ran in SPvP, then you’re pretty much breaking it in World vs World by balancing it the same.

Not to mention not applying all the other balance ideas you did in SPvP to World vs World, but just the Confusion one.

If they only had a brain.

kiwituatara.6053:

Xsorus.2507:

confusion getting gutted by 50%
retal getting nerfed also

probably has more to do with engineers and mesmers but pretty funny

Hey xsorus. I was just looking at your youtube videos. They are very good. I was just wondering, do you have auto-target on? I usually have it off, but I have trouble using axe without it. Thanks!

I turn it off

Yea, you can daze with Moa after the patch better it’ll be interesting.

I might make another technobabble video after the patch if I see some improvement to it.

It wasn’t anywhere as powerful as BM bunker.

Soldiers yea, Working on getting Clerics gear for the build.

I wish i’d recorded my ranger playing yesterday, that highlights Confusion killing stupid people in PvP.

I got into a fight on my ranger with 2 Heart Seeking Spamming Thieves…That’s basically all they did…was spam Heart Seeker like nubs.

I pain inverted them and watch them proceed to kill themselves spamming HS on me….

It was a prime example of why Confusion doesn’t need a nerf…People just need to quit being stupid and play better.

K, that’s what I was thinking..

If I have say, 2 Condition Necro’s with the exact same build using Fear with the damage and such..and We double fear that guy…Will both us do damage to him while he’s feared?

Rofl, You want to know why you’re getting nerfed

Count how many times in the video they said “We want New Players ect ect”

New Players do stupid things..Like spam attacks when Confusion is on themselves….Therefor Anet is nerfing Confusion to appease fools who don’t know any better.

Its part of their “Dumb down the game as much for the mouth breathers”

When they nerfed Shortbow i actually did start looking at S/D and A/T with pain inverter.

I did a test run with Rabid gear and was like “OMG this kitten #8221; then they added apothecary and I got a huge kitten cause I instantly knew that was going to be redunk with the Ranger.

I’ve not really seen anything since that made me go Wow like Apothecary being added.

Yeap, My flesh golem annoys me with out bad its AI is.

Same with Bone Minions or whatever those ones that blow up are called..They just aren’t near my target half the time.

Doesn’t sound like i’ll be able to replace PI in my build (even after its nerfed to hell) with something else in the patch.

Spirits won’t be good without heavy nature, and its doubtful whatever they add will be equiv to PI even nerfed…

Traps are still a no go unless you dump 30 points into Skirmishing.

Sharpening Stones is alright, Just wish it did something more besides a bleed.

Probably works a bit better since last patch now that Maul got a buff in damage. that was pre that basically.

http://www.xfire.com/video/2c48b

Gork Sez Stop!
Damaging
Learned on Rank 1
Core Ability
Usable by Shaman
Rank 1 Morale
100 ft
Instant
No
Description
Your target suffers X damage over 2s. If the target moves the duration is restarted.

Heh……Gork Sez Stop

That’s my Idea.

i don’t mind expendable pets like the Necro Minions

I mind expendable pets that stand there like they’re picking their nose looking at butterflies instead of attacking the target i’m on.

We get the Toughness One, that’s basically it.

and its pretty awful except if you got 30 points in Marksman

Daemon.4295:

Retaliation was always too strong IMO, there’s just no way of avoiding it in large WvW battles. It’s not like you can pick out each guy’s buffs in a 30 man zerg, you just accept the fact that some of your AoE damage wil get thrown back at you. My issue is more with zerg mechanics than retaliation itself though, wish they’d work on that instead.

Anyway, chalk up another major change to gameplay mechanics 6 months past launch. At least this time it isn’t nerfing rangers (except poor Xsorus!)

:0(

I might consider playing my ranger again a lot if I think they’re improving them build wise.

I still sign on and stomp people though every now and again for fun

I’ll record some video tonight of my pet in PVE doing nothing, and just keep posting it on here.

Trust me when I say our pet AI is the equivalent to Einstein compared to Necro Minion pet AI.

i’m still wanting Pigs to give up the abilities on our F2 instead of on the ground.

http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2guru/b/396007412

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Remember, those are just things mentioned in SoTG, and don’t reflect all the changes. Focus was paid more to pets/spirits this time around, so hopefully a few of the issues brought up in the old thread we had will be alleviated.

I’m sure there are other changes….We’ll see how much work was actually put into them though since this is something you guys talked about November of last year.

I keep getting “balanced” cause of WvW ;o)