Guild Wars 2

I’d do a Trap Build instead.

I’ve done that as my BM bunker, it’s not amazing…

We have a lot of single target condition damage.

Also as comparison to an elementalist, it won’t be comparable, the Elementalist is a much better Zerg Busting class, and much much better for groups.

Solo with BM bunker, you can absolutely stomp an elementalist.

Traps would be much better for zerg busting

I have PI, so that tends to hurt Elementalist alot cause they switch atunements

Groups are usually what eventually get me heh

Zumy.6318:

Hello folks,

I am thinking about getting a million gold to craft myself an Apothecary gear and was wondering how viable this was away from 1vsX, but for team skirmishes in WvW also, as for zergkiting and busting.

Currently I am maining my ele again. I prefer the ranger though, but I just cannot see as much support for a group with it.
Suggestions? Experiences? Canines seem to die very very fast so a polar bear could be an option.

Heavily hoping for some input from Batto and Xsorus too :-).

I’d not recommend this for groups or zerg busting.

Max you can hit is like 5 people on fairly long cooldowns abilities, and i’ve ran in groups with the build…its not super amazing.

BM Bunker is more for solo play and small man action the zerg busting.

Large Scale its not amazing, you can do the bombing, but that’s about it.

I prefer the Vigor cause it works on everyone nearby, including myself..

Mighty Swap isn’t going to make a huge difference

Alchemist.3692:

Xsorus.2507:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AJtTgVeyOA

Movie showing how fast i can murder a supply camp as a BM bunker build.

Wonderful for camps, but I’m not sure how it would work pvp? those stacks of bleed were really nice though… any videos vs players? I’m curious to see how it works out with ppl who use condition removals/transfers

Ehh

That’s my latest

I have more on my channel

Oolune.4357:

Great stuff, Xsorus. After watching one of your videos, I guess my question is really how much do you think Pain Inverter does for your build? Is the build worth it without it? No doubt that retaliation and confusion helps a lot. =P

I don’t think otherwise, mind. Just wondering your thoughts on it.

Pain Inverter isn’t required for BM Bunker (Cleric Armor version wouldn’t use it for example) I just use it because it is absolutely one of the best abilities in the game for the build.

I mean really, I could use other abilities but none hold a candle to it.

Ovi.5473:

That’s a very interesting spec, far too reliant on close range combat however making it a unnecessary target. Weapon swap bleed is also reliant on close range, the point of taking a bow is putting distance while pet just hammers from melee. Even with all the dodges and toughness the close range fighting seems like a deterrent. I’ll try the build out myself though, it certainly looks fun.

You’d be surprised how much damage you can take with 0/0/30/10/30 build using Shamans with Birds.

2 people is pretty managable, 3 you’ll probably die but it’ll take a bit.

Battosai.5620:

axe is actually a really strong defensive weapon, with chill and weakness on #3, combine it with frosttrap and you can skip your hydromancy sigil and use geomancy for more pressure. the pressure coming from bonfire on point while being traited is amazing.
shortbow is a good weapon ( a hybrid with carrion will give huge pressure, with shaman it’s kinda lacking imo ) , but the pressure of axe/torch on point is the highest you can get.
LR is good, but i only run it in a semi-trapper build with vipers nest and flame trap. with utilizing the 3 100% projectile finishers the shortbow provides + sword/dagger ( dagger #5 is 100% projectile finisher as well), you can keep 9-10 seconds of burning on a target with one flame trap, permanent poison, loads of evades and really high pressure, but that’s a different build.
i think the signet is better than LR in that build, drop TU, and use your leap finisher on sword to get 1797 extra healing with 944 healing power ( which you have running the build i suggested) without adding in life sigil.
so doing a basic combo like torch #4, axe#3 into wolf kd, axe#2, petswap to jaguar + f2 + weaponswap(with geomancy) and dagger#5, then #4 ( keep sword #3 for dodging important stuff, not for dps due to high cd) will apply 11 bleeding stacks alone from yourself, burning (8 seconds with forge + smoldering),cripple, chill, weakness, poison and your jaguar can sustain around 5-10 bleedingstacks himself.
it’s just some basic stuff – i can see the use of TU if you solely go for 1v1 and play against teams that don’t have that much access to high burst damage, but healing spring is just the best heal in game – by far. combo it with ele, thief and you will survive forever.
you can run search and rescue with shout cd and mercy runes + SoR + healingspring to have a great teamfight support setup.
i can see the build having pressure – but i think you won’t lose much by trying what i suggested, while adding way more teamfight/skirmish utility and synergy.

@ xsorus – geomancy lasts 7 seconds.

is it 7 seconds? never really paid attention to how long it really lasted as I run Veggie Pizza and couldn’t accurately say how much.

But yea 7 second PBAE bleed is very powerful.

Hmm, I find dropping Natural Healing for 10 points in Skirmishing rather weird (if you’re wanting 10 points in Natures, switch to Birds instead and use their Vigor Talent on swap)

If you want Cats switch the 10 points from Natures to Skirmishing for the 30% crit talent.

Shortbow with Shamans is rather mediocre damage, Against most people you’re not going to be hitting them all that often with the back attack, and you already have a fairly good poison chain in sword/dagger (which is why you do Axe/Torch as your secondary)

It also allows you to run Offhand Training as a talent (4 abilities instead of two if you ran Sword/Torch with Shortbow for example)

Plus it allows you to do Sigil of Geomancy on both weapon sets while maintaining corruption sigil as well. You gain a 6 Second Duration Chill, and a Weakness by going axe/torch as well.

That Sigil of Geomancy on weaponswap adds up as well, Since we’re talking about a PBAE 3 stack bleed that lasts 5 seconds I think base.

Lightning/Signet of Hunt/Signet of Wild are good though since you don’t have access to racials.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/BM-Bunker-Build-Guide/first#post1854612

The change did nothing to stop some of the abuse of stealth in PvP in the first place….However reverting it back without removing the chain stealth non sense is just silly….It also proves how inept the balance team is pvp.

Rofl…. Not surprising considering the current state of this game when it comes to “balancing”

Zenith.7301:

Is your condition cleanse only from 30 WS major? I’ve been finding that lack of condi removal screws me over a lot, especially against engineers and good necromancers that strip stability.

That is my main concern with using troll unguent. On the other hand, healing spring feels like it takes forever to recharge and you need to stay in it to get the most use out of it.

I wish we had more active control over our condi removal than random passive condi removal from 30 in WS and a long cd signet. I quite miss my ele and mesmer’s activated condition clears on low cd’s.

i switch between the heals all the time…Healing Spring is pretty nice for the condition removal but god I hate the cooldown on it.

That extra 5-10 seconds (if you use Heal as One) can be the difference between life and death in a 2v1 or 3v1

Entangle can win fights, and it can not do anything in fights.

I’ve died a lot to entangle, mainly cause i’ll get caught on the edge and for some reason I can’t hit it with sword if that happens (I have to switch to axe)

i tend to use it for Bombing which is why I run it.

Entangle/Bonfire on top of them/PI (They start damaging the roots to get away, and take confusion damage)

It can kill groups of people fairly quickly. You don’t need to run the Entangle cooldown talent though, most of those first 10 point talents can be ran and you’ll be fine…I only run it for kittens and giggles, and only time I consider it absolutely mandatory is if you run Lightning Reflex and Entangle. (this is how I generally rate talents, the more abilities they have effect on, the more likely i am to run the talent)

I never had a whole lot of trouble with Necros with BM Bunker.
I can heal for a lot, I put out a stupid amount of conditions, and my burst is acceptable with the Bird.

Now if a Necro AJ’s my fight, I’m probably screwed.

Movie showing how fast i can murder a supply camp as a BM bunker build.

Movie showing how fast i can take out a camp in World vs World (and i did this one fairly slow in my opinion as I didn’t gather the mobs all completely up)

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Ranger toolbox isn’t just utilities, folks, it’s your 1-5. And between LR and QZ, there’s a TON of utility power in just those two alone, leaving a third open for whatever you feel you may need in the fight and to better define your play style. Shortbow is full of utility and also does really good sustained DPS, so I stand by my statement of rangers having an expansive tool box.
As for Ranger DPS not matching thief burst… yeah, that’s pretty obvious – I don’t think I’m rocking some boat by saying that. I accept that trade-off of lacking burst potential for having a better toolbox of things I can do to survive while outputting consistent DPS. I can see the longbow as maybe being a bit spiky, but nowhere near what a D/D can do. Maybe a trap ranger can get a bit bursty if they hit all 3 traps at once on a glass cannon, but Ranger to me isn’t a burst class – it’s a sustain and survive class.

You can’t really avoid a ranger’s sustained damage, but you can mitigate nearly all of a thief’s burst with really fast reaction and smart play.

@Misterdevious
I once got my jaguar to hit a warrior using a rifle for a super awesome crit around 12k on a single attack when all roided up from signet and shout, and getting a lucky crit. There’s potential, but it involves luck I can’t depend on, whereas a D/D thief can depend on his skill.

Also, despite my best efforts, I could not write a post that didn’t come across as defensive lol. I’m still a ranger through and through
I’m more upset that nobody said anything whatsoever about my “swooping” into the thread… I thought that was golden.

Very last fight in that video

Also, I can’t help to laugh that you think QZ is utility

Esp when you add shortbow with it (QZ doesn’t do anything for shortbow)

Also, lets really compare Shortbow thief vs Shortbow Ranger

SB Thief has an AOE on the first attack vs a Shortbow Ranger who has better Single Target damage
SB thief has a massive aoe bleed/damage attack on his second attack vs Shortbow Ranger who has a Cone Poison on his second attack (thief wins on this since Poison is covered by their Poison Field)
SB thief has a no cooldown evade that applies a cripple vs a SB Ranger who has a cooldown evade that gives Swiftness (Thief Wins this one by far)
SB Thief has a Poison Field AOE he can apply with no cooldown, vs a Ranger who has a small Cripple that gives your pet an awful bleed (Again Thief wins on this)
SB Thief as a Teleport+Blind vs SB ranger with a Daze/Stun (Teleport is better, cause it has no cooldown and is way better utility)

Lightning Reflex is comparable to the Withdraw Heal that Thieves get (that’s twice as fast on the cooldown as LR)

So yea…

If I was running GS+Sword/Torch i’d run Martial Mastery

that’s 8 abilities that get their cooldowns dropped.

Shared Anguish can replace the 20% drop on Entangle timer if you want (if you’re power based you can run it for sure)

i wish they’d swap Hide in Plain Sight and Shared Anguish though.

just cause I find Shared Anguish is never up by the time I down someone.

Cempa.5619:

Xsorus.2507:

Cempa.5619:

Hi,

Looking for help as I got my Ranger to 80 and have just enough Gold to buy one set -casual player. I came up with a build idea/design:

Ranged (SB) power build that has at least 15 in BM with strong (near perma) CC via Cripple+Immobilize chaining from pets+abilities to keep melee just out of melee range and enough power + CC to allow pet to eat away with me at ranged.

So I started out with the above idea to fit how I have fun playing MMO’s:

Ranged Control

I picked Ranger because it has a massive arsenal of ‘ranged control’ when factoring in pets (Wolf+Dog for example give 10 sec Cripple+4 sec KD+2sec Immob + 2sec Fear) rotate that with Muddy Terrian which lasts for 20sec on a 24sec CD and it looks like enough mitigation.

As for Conditions using -20% rune + -40% food so -60% conditions applied to me should be just about enough.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.0|5.1g.h2|0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.79.1c.79.1c.79.1c.79.1c.79.1c.79|1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c|k28.f1.a6.a5.f5|15.7|4j.4w.4x.4q.55|e

Effective Power 3243.59
Effective Health (EHP) 25834
Damage Reduction 23.12%

Gear thus far is pure Soldier and I am not sure if that is the right choice?

Depends on whats you want to do

Solo, you’ll get creamed

But you should be fine in Zerg Fights

I like to roam and get camps and some towers, the idea of so much control is that I should be able to handle other roaming players so any feedback is appreciated and thanks

Recommend BM bunker if you like to do that.

Condition Version, this allows you to roam and kill, not to mention murder Supply Camps

Do Shortbow, you won’t need Warhorn since i’m pretty sure you have Signet of the Hunt and Greatswords Leap is more then enough to catch people.

You’re getting popped by a Glass Cannon Ranger with the Signets (Signet of the Hunt + Signet of the Wild) they then will Maul you

I’ve hit people for 10k with this setup, it however is complete kitten against anyone who knows how to play so I generally don’t run it.

a group of 3 though should have zero trouble killing this setup..as it has really no survivability to speak of.

awge.3852:

Xsorus.2507:

Apothecary for Condition Build
Clerics for Power build

Also choose sigils to support your equipment in whichever way you seem fit. Mainly condition/toughness/precision/power/healing sigils help a lot, it all depends on your approach.

Yea, Apothecary Gear don’t choose a crit based sigil, cause you’re not going to crit, Power Builds can sort of do it cause of Fury with Warhorn and Rampage as One.

The crit on next weapon swap sigil is good for Power build cause You can do that then pop with with Maul for example.

I kill elementalist all the time

DaliIndica.9041:

Lol, WvWvW’ers trying to talk about balance. PVP balance is the sole realm of sPVP, has actual gear control.

OT: Ranger is a little lacking in some areas, but so are all the classes. Guardians are pretty poor damage dealers, yet it can be done, and if done well, will be better than your average warrior or thief glass cannon.

The skill ceiling is high enough that any good player can make a less than perfect class work.

As for the comments that they suck in PVP, you have no idea what you are talking about. A well played ranger is utterly godlike, just get out of the mindset that burst/bunker are your two options.

In fact, once you step out of that game, you realise a lot of the classes are overlooked because they don’t sit well in the extreme world of bunker/burst crap. Learning what your traits actually do and building a trait set up around a playstyle and sticking to it will yield far better results.

Dont use the pre-build set up (the one you get the first time you enter the mists), and to be honest, ignore the ones you find online. Or if you use them, accept that you will be rubbish with them. Best way is to build a simple build and work from there.

Every class can work with 30/0/20/20/0 And stick on the soldiers amu. Then play a little, and make adjustments in accordance to what you like playing as. Also, remember you can use buffs (ranger is of course not great at getting buffs, but it can be done with a little keybinding) to make up stats. I run with only 35% crit chance, yet I have fury up all the time so I use that to make up the gears shortfall.

Short Version : No class is weak in PVP, if you put the time in you will get results. Also, NEVER be afraid to try out new specs and ideas. Run SB/LB, maybe you can find something that works with it. Try a flamethrower on Engie, see if you can get something working. Just go crazy. Try crazy specs, overthrow a government, go to a boat yard and do some scuttling, operate heavy machinery whilst using pain killers.

Wait…

you think SPvP is balanced and WvW is not?

Rofl..

Hate tell you mate, but SPvP is equally unbalanced ….Hence why teams of 3 Elementalist are common..

edit

Also on the subject of gear being the major imbalance in World vs World, that is incorrect unless you’re referring to just Sub 80’s vs Regular 80’s, Cause I can pretty much tell you most people who are 80 in World vs World, are using equivalent gear to other players. The Big imbalance in terms of stats comes from people using Food/Crystals vs people who don’t use those things. Those are actual stat imbalances and have nothing to do with gear and everything to do with consumables.

Some people can’t handle that sort of play though, so they stick to the dumbed down version of pvp that is Structured.

Cempa.5619:

Hi,

Looking for help as I got my Ranger to 80 and have just enough Gold to buy one set -casual player. I came up with a build idea/design:

Ranged (SB) power build that has at least 15 in BM with strong (near perma) CC via Cripple+Immobilize chaining from pets+abilities to keep melee just out of melee range and enough power + CC to allow pet to eat away with me at ranged.

So I started out with the above idea to fit how I have fun playing MMO’s:

Ranged Control

I picked Ranger because it has a massive arsenal of ‘ranged control’ when factoring in pets (Wolf+Dog for example give 10 sec Cripple+4 sec KD+2sec Immob + 2sec Fear) rotate that with Muddy Terrian which lasts for 20sec on a 24sec CD and it looks like enough mitigation.

As for Conditions using -20% rune + -40% food so -60% conditions applied to me should be just about enough.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/ranger/?6.0|5.1g.h2|0.0.0.0.0.0|1c.79.1c.79.1c.79.1c.79.1c.79.1c.79|1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c.1g.9c|k28.f1.a6.a5.f5|15.7|4j.4w.4x.4q.55|e

Effective Power 3243.59
Effective Health (EHP) 25834
Damage Reduction 23.12%

Gear thus far is pure Soldier and I am not sure if that is the right choice?

Depends on whats you want to do

Solo, you’ll get creamed

But you should be fine in Zerg Fights

Apothecary for Condition Build
Clerics for Power build

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I thought I’d try and write a guide for people looking into running this type of Build. I mostly play a Condition version of it but i’ll try and include the Clerics version and thoughts on it.

BM Bunker:
Currently in my movies I run the following build

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VFF37k;1F-v-f2FxF-0;9k-3;3T9T;456A5;029Ba-X8V;1hoHAhoHA9-Fw

You can change some things up in this build and i’ll list the options currently present.

The Basic idea behind the BM Bunker build is to rely on Regens and Healing to stay alive while using your pets to Burst the Target when needed.

Abilities Present in the build

Signet of the Wild – This ability a Regen, and its effected by your Healing Power.
Entangle – Condition Versions of the build use this Elite usually, though a Root even without condition damage is always welcome
Rampage as one – usually seen in the Cleric Based builds.
Lightning Reflex – Extra Evade, Solid ability to be taken in both types
Signet of the Hunt – You can avoid using this in Cleric Armor Builds (Warhorn instead) and Greatsword.
Sharpening Stones – Can be used as a Damaging Ability on the Condition Versions of the Build.
Sick Em – Not used all the time, but can be substituted in.
Quickening Zypher – Used in the Cleric Armor Builds

Weapon Sets used in the Build.

Condition Version Weapons – Shortbow, Axe, Torch, Sword, Dagger
Power Version Weapons – Shortbow, Axe, Warhorn, Sword,Dagger, Great Sword.

Rune Sets used in the builds currently

Superior Rune of the Forge – (Food Type Veggie or Lemongrass)
Superior Rune of Melandru – (Food Type Lemon Grass)
Superior Rune of the Nightmare (Food Type Veggie)
Superior Rune of the Undead (Food Type Veggie)
Superior Rune of Dywana (Food Type Veggie)

Sigils Currently used
Condition Damage Builds – Superior Sigil of Corruption, Superior Sigil of Geomancy
Power Damage Builds – Superior Sigils of Might, Superior Sigil of Battle.

Current BM Bunker Build Talent Setups

Condition Build, PI, 0/0/30/10/30
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VFF37k;1F-v-f2FxF-0;9k-3;3T9T;456A5;029Ba-X8V;1hoHAhoHA9-Fw

Clerics Armor build, 0/0/20/20/30
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VFF-h;1wE-v-f2JEV-0;9k-3;3JJT;459-52-29B6oG66;1Rk06Rk063-Fv

Alternative Setups for Condition Build is 0/10/30/0/30
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=VFF37k;1F-v-f2FxF-0;9k-3;29T-T;10;056A;129Ba-X8V;1hoHAhoHA9-FI

Pets Currently Used in the BM Bunker Builds
Raven/Owl
Wolf/Dogs
Drakes – I recommend only Marsh Drake for this
Cats – Jaguar and such

Which pets to use in which build?

0/0/30/10/30 – Use Birds, The Crit Talent in Skirmishing doesn’t work on the Birds F2 ability, and it is their primary bursting ability.
0/0/20/20/30 – Use Dogs/Drakes
0/10/30/0/30 – Use Cats they get the most benefit out of the 30% crit Talent.

Condition Build Rotation
When using the setup I run which is Axe/Torch with Sword/Dagger i try and follow a Rotation, i don’t always manage to do it but if you’re looking for one..This is generally it.

Axe 1 (If Guardian), Winters Bite, Throw Torch, Bonfire, Splitblade (While in Bonfire), Weapon Swap (Sets off Geomancy), Throw Dagger (while in Bonfire), Hornet Sting (While in Bonfire if not up do Serpents Strike) Monarch’s Leap (Will give Fire Shield), Serpents Strike, Stalkers Strike, Weapon Swap, Repeat.

Following this Rotation will give you the max mount of conditions (11 Bleed Stacks/Burning/Chill/Weakness/Poison)

If using Birds, Swap as much as possible as you’ll be wanting them to apply their burst and such.

If using Dogs with Cleric Builds, you don’t want to swap that often as you’re trying to maintain might stacks on them.

The Heal Currently used in these Builds

This is honestly up to you, I’ve used all 3, they all have their advantages and disadvantages.

Trolls Urgent – Use at the start of the fight before you take damage
Healing Spring – Try and use your Leaps with this as it’ll give you an extra heal with it, and try to stay in this as much as possible. Generally works best with Dywana’s runes
Heal as One – Slow cast time, so can be interrupted easy, good Burst heal though, and low cooldown.

Few Tips
Sharpening Stones with the Condition Build, always use this ability after using Splitblade
Precast Signet of the Hunt – this will give you an extra 50% damage bonus to your pets next hit, it lasts 16 minutes
Leaps – Use these as much as possible with Healing Spring, Frost Trap can also be used for the extra Damage Reduction it gives.

That’s it for right now, I’ll be updating this slowly as i think of more things, if anyone has suggestions i’ll include in this post.

That includes Alternative Version of the build, Weapons, Thoughts ect ect.

jkctmc.8754:

Xsorus you could always play my wifes Necromancer. We’d just have to get the gear you wanted.

It won’t take me that long to get him up, I’m 43 right now on the Necro and just need to hit 60 (will use Crafting to get the last 20 levels)

only reason i’ve not to do right now is gearing out my PT in SWTOR>

I’m currently slowly leveling up my Necro right now to do a Minion Master Video (while at the same time slowly getting gear for my Powertech in SWTOR)

As for Ranger being as bad as people say.

It depends.

Mainly on which people you’re talking about

Can a Ranger compete in World vs World and SPvP/TPvP yes…I can stomp people all day long in WvW and be fine…I can do it a bit better on my Thief as you can see from those videos but i can compete with the Ranger.

My problem with the Ranger currently is the Shoddy Pet System and its complete lack of group utility worth anything.

I mean i’ve been playing my Pain Inverter build for quite some time (which is BM Bunker) because quite frankly, other then Trap Build, really nothing else stands out on Ranger.

I can run the Greatsword Builds running around right now, and I have….However I find them to be worse then the BM Bunker to be quite honest…I can run it, but I don’t feel i’m doing as good as i can.

So basically think of it like this..

Rangers need improvements, but they’re not so broken that they aren’t playable.

They certainly don’t need bloody nerfs every patch that gut the few things it has left (Looking at the Quickness Nerf and Guard Nerf)

My Sig

BM bunker build can be found in the information on most of my movies.

Kain Francois.4328:

Well this is certainly great news. Greatsword Ranger is currently in a good place in terms of defense and offense, so if everything else can be brought up to the quality of that, it would be nice.

Particularly, I hope the spirits buff bring us more in line with Ritualists of GW2. But also, 1h sword needs fixing, torch needs revamping, and longbow needs an outright buff.

How does Sword and Torch need anything? let alone revamping (in torches case)

Having Natural Healing and Armorfish out results in no Regen for the Ranger, only the pet.

Jaguar/Shark/Jellyfish doesn’t ahve this problem

Niim.9260:

Yams.6082:

Sokar Rostau.7316:

The second thing that needs to be remembered is that WvW is not sPvP. If you want to have 1v1 – 5v5 fights that is what sPvP is for.

I wish more people understood this. I don’t understand why players insist on having small group fights in WvW when the PvP style was clearly meant to be large-scale.

Because it is rubbish. Who says that WvW is only large-scale pvp?

WvW is faction and objective based PvP in an open world setting that caters to a wide variety of play styles. The variability of WvW is what makes it interesting regardless if you are playing 1v1, 5v5, or 50v50.

There is a lot more to WvW then storming a castle. The best leaders I ever had could leverage all the different play styles for our common goals.

This, anyone who thinks WvW is designed only for zergs clearly don’t get what WvW is about, nor what it was designed from originally (RvR)

The whole idea of WvW is its open world area where you can fight 1 person or 50 depending on your luck. Balancing the game based on a massive zerg is borderline stupid.

Its not a super great Power weapon I’ll say that, but for conditions its not bad.

5 Stack Bleed/Chill/Weakness is great for PvP, esp the Weakness.

My guess is this will improve zerging even more rofl

I run Axe/Torch with Sword/Dagger

Take that for what you will.

They’ll gut confusion in World vs World, to many players don’t know how to stop attacking for it to remain to be honest. Anet tends to cater to the plebs..

Oh the hilarious part is I’ll be taking a nerf because Mesmer’s and Engineer’s kind of like how other took a nerf with QZ because of Warriors/Thieves hehehe

of course this isn’t the first time Mesmer’s have ended up getting me nerfed

looks at Natures Ninja and misses his Guard

This thread is great, I don’t know whats funnier, the fact that we have a 2 Engineer/2 Thief/1 Ele team whining about a Ranger

Or that they had no idea how to stop the ranger or count past 5 it seems… (at no point in that video did he get the ball back to his thing in 5 seconds)

Most games usually have a ICD on Damage Shields.. but yea one retal per second would be a good balance for it, It’d not hurt Retal users in small man fights, but it wouldn’t make it instant death in large fights for people hitting a group.

I’m going to guess I’m going to get nerfed rofl..

Would be great right until you have an 11 stack confusion thrown on you

Think I may of just come across a very weird bug.

I was noticing that I wasn’t getting the health regen while under water from Natural Healing (30 BM GM talent) and was wondering why…

If you have the armorfish out you don’t get it…The pet still gets the heal, but you don’t..

If you switch underwater to say Jaguar/Jellyfish/Shark you’ll get it.. However with Armorfish for some reason we don’t get Natural Healing Health Regen.

This issue exists sort of on Rangers as well… If we have Masters Bond equipped it gives us a stack everytime our pet kills something, up to 25 stacks..

If you touch water and go under, even if you have same pet equipped, it’ll completely wipe the stacks (as it becomes a new pet)

Its bloody moronic… Anet’s kitten pet system annoys me to no end..and its why the Necro and Ranger are looked down on right now concerning pets.

They did a shoddy job with the system..

Kardiamond.6952:

Xsorus.2507:

People complain about Confusion just like they did with TI and Mass Betrayal in Rift…People like to spam abilities….They also don’t like to pay attention.

Sorry to double post, didn’t see your post Xsorus.

I find it weird coming from you.

After all, you are that guy that made 10 video with ranger build that ALWAYS use pain inventer.

Oh Pain inventer? You mean the racial ability that AoE stack confusion?

Yep, seems a bit biased if you ask me.

Same thing with Henrik, who says people are bad if they die to confusion. And yet he is maining a mesmer.

I’m not saying confusion is over the board because I die from it. I do die from it, but the main reason is because I used to kill everybody with it.

Hell, I made a freaking build focusing entirely on confusion :

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/The-Demented-Engineer-WvW-Build

I advocating a tune down, because it shouldn’t proc on every a player do and do those kind of damage. Shouldn’t proc on dodge and thing like that.

Having played a Confusion build I know exactly how you survive the builds.. If you watch my latest video, I survive an 11 Stack Confusion put on my by Engineer by not attacking, I then proceed to kill him with a 3 Stack Confusion… cause he was swapping kits (thus using a skill)

I wish I had recorded videos when I played Rift..

I would have some great videos

These are videos my friend did back then but I wish i’d recorded myself blowing up with with Warcaller back in that game (Stormcaller/Warlock) I use to be able to grab the red bauble and wipe entire groups in seconds.