Guild Wars 2

So yeh. Thematically Ancient seeds and Entangle belong to Nature Magic trait line.

• Ancient Seeds to replace useless invigorating bond and Entangle should be the active for Nature Spirit.

Thus Nature Spirit can get a decreased CD to 60 seconds.

• Survival skills should get an elite related to survival instead the roots, and Druid should get something cosmos related oriented as defensive combat.

Other changes i’d like to see:

• Survival:
  Muddy terrain: 300 radius PbAoE knock down 2 seconds (at the beginning) + slow 2 seconds + cripple 5 seconds each pulse. 10 seconds pulse every second.
  Sharpened edges: For 10 seconds ranger and pet attacks causes bleeding, ranger’s attacks also chance 50% to cause torment.

New elite: As survival something(survival of the fittest?) in 60 secs CD that apply 10 seconds resistance to the ranger and pet. Attacks from ranger and pet apply poison for 10 seconds. Breaks stun and is instacast. Seems fitting with survival skills.

Another point is that resistance should be nerfed as right now it too strong and overlap with other buffs. Resistance should reduce to 0 damage from conditions but not block CC effects (stun, daze, cripple, launch, ice, etc…)

• Druid new tier 3 trait (i feel uninspired by the druid traitline..) :
  Astral Bond: While in avatar ranger’s pet absorbs 50% damage from druid while pet is alive. Pet attacks apply slow\ice.

So there is a trait with pet synergy and promote an active skills 1v1.

• And at last some changes to some glyphs:
  Glyphs mash up both effects (in and put avatar) to become actually useful and there is a point to equip them. Other than proc the ancient seeds in raids for the buff, aka buffbot, don’t have any other use.

Glyph of rejuvenation: Works as Not avatar state but the healing to others is increased in a 30%

Glyph of equality: retain out of avatar daze, but also break stun for allies. Animation if from Avatar state.

Glyph of aligment: cleanse 3 conditions to 5 allies. Apply weakness and cripple.

Glyph of tides: It works pulling enemies. Pull and radius increased to 600.

Glyph of empowerment: increase damage to allies, increase healing to self also.

Glyph of Unity: increase CD to 60 seconds. Tether 5 enemies.

• enemies tethered can’t break the tether, can’t leave the area for 6 seconds.
• damage deal to druid is reverted to the enemies (146 * (1,55 healing power))
• Druid get 33% direct damage and condition damage reduction .
• Enemies are revealed and can not stealth or teleport away.
• Tether is broken if Druid is stuned, knocked down, thrown or launch.

voltaicbore.8012:

I do not support this idea, largely because (as others have mentioned) I foresee other kitteny nerfs to CA in exchange for the uptime boost. I don’t raid and do very little WvW, so not sure how it would be in those areas; however I feel CA is more than good enough currently for fractals, dungeons, and spvp.

still not see why they should nerf avatar skills as they are already pretty nerfed., although you people kept saying that.

Not it does not involve any direct nerfing. The only actual “nerf” will be that druids will have to choose between Druidic clarity and this new cultivated sinergy.

Being the first trait good for roaming\spvp or the second for raids\zerging as the new trait will only be useful when the druid has more people around so it can generate enough AF to prevent the decay.

So in an actual gameplay players won’t see any difference, except that the druid now may fulfill it’s role as healer without making the druid stronger 1v1.

Hey who said it was difficult to fix the profession without power creep…

vier.1327:

The veteran players seem betray but.. do you know something? Everyday EB has queue, the people keep playing the game mode, the game is not dead, i am sorry.

That is the true, not what i have to read everyday on the internet.

That’s not true. EU T1 Baruch Bay EB doesn’t have any queue for most of the day, only for a couple of hours during evening for 10 queue or so.
Other maps are deserted and no queues the rest of the day in any map.

i have to specify that Baruch bay is never linked, and maybe that’s why we don’t have that problem.
With that i want to say that links works as megaservers, moves all the population to one server to another, thus you have all the population wvw can offer in one match.

We have the ability points we use for wvw masteries sitting there with no expectatives to get new masteries without creating a new powercreep.

Let’s us use them to by ascended materials wich we can use to build ascended and legendary armors or weapons.
Rare and expensive mats like mystic coins and amalgamated stones. Even stacks of hardened square leather.

We have the proof of heroics for expansion content and ability points for ascended or legendary materials.

Just saying as i see many players complaining about unbeatable builds, just keep in mind WvW is full of hackers\cheaters as well.

Necros that teleport around in downed state, eles with permanent evasion.

Most difficult profession to spot when they are cheating is thief due to what mechanics uses that mostly looks like an exploit, but keep in mind there are a lot of those and for many different classes.

Eles with permanent evasions, teleporting hacks, invisible hacks, damage multipliers hacks, immunity hacks.

Because of the amount of players in a zerg it may difficult to spot but they are there.

Because I’m never sure if it was lag, server miscommunication or simply another broken build and you can’t keep track of that player that disappeared in the mist of their own zerg i can’t be bother anymore.

yeh here in Baruch have had same server for the last 3 weeks. I mean common, that server is never a joy to play against but three weeks straight maybe is pushing it a bit.

The map is fine, it is not designed for the one blob by server that is EB, but more for small guilds running around.

Now, of the wvw population would be big enough to have that kind of gameplay.

Aeolus.3615:

anduriell.6280, its Anetbalance lol, they need to change quite a few stuff in game for this to work decently.
IF they aplyed this as a 4th trailine it would create powercreep builds and contradictions they need to find a way to introduce this.

Bomber would be interesting access to skills or improvements that increase damage on distance and weaker damage if close but stronger cc if aplyed at close than at range.
They should aply the ruleset that gw1 had for the bows ^^.

completelly agree with the limits that need to be imposed reason why i dont trust in a 4th traitline…

not talking about 4 traitlines, 4 roles, 4 jobs that each class should be able to fullfil with the right choice of traits.

Although i wou,d change how it works the traits selection as the actual one is really limiting in desing and form which lead to the actual stale one class=one build , but i don’t think anybody at anet is interested in changing that.

quickcry usually is fun to watch.
Although i haven’t been watching or playing gw2 latelly.

i think the “jobs” idea should be fullfiled by the classes and builds themselves.

There are some bad suggestions like medic being able to revive defeated players, as that is going backwards with the game mode improvements made until now.

But the general idea is good. Just not like a “jobs” thing, but more to define the roles in wvw for the classes.

For example we have the thief that is the perfect scout. Ventari revenant, druid and water ele could be the choices to play literally the medic rol.

Bomber you could play as engi or bow warrior.

It is true that classes, because of lack or lost of definition in their roles they lost that flavour, but i think with a good deep reboot and the following weekly small balances to fine tuning the skills what the op is asking is easily achievable.

Just to keep in mind some small things:

• Every role should have at least 3 classes to be capale to build for that. For example right now if you want to be an scout your only choice is thief. Mesmer and maybe engi or ranger should be able to build as an scout.
• All classes should be able to build to fulfill at least for 4 of those roles(6 trait lines with new specs) . So if you play thief you are not locked into scouting gameplay (always hidding, instacast burst and then dissapear).
• If you build for one role the build should not be able to fullfil another as well. A build that can do all like fresh air elementalist that can do a good amount of dps and bunker at the same time should not happen.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

Like others have mentioned in this thread, we don’t think this would be a healthy feature for WvW. Many players will not participate in WvW if they don’t see a commander tag, and we try to avoid adding features that can be used to exclude players.

although i understand the op’s point of view i have to agree with McKenna here for the same reasons as he stated here.

While the thief has access to stealth and teleports what the thief needs is a nerf in pure spam autos… and thats all.

Backstab already hit for 15k in light armor, which is almost to down someone.

Thief needs a redesign so it stops being the class that spams from stealth, try to insta kill someone and if don’t succeed teleports away and resets.

Classes like that aren’t fun to fight against. Teleports should have higher initiative costs, so it can’t be used at any moment.
Autos should be nerfed in damage (not speed) and some other skills buffed in damage or initiative.

Tragic Positive.9356:

Hello everyone.

I’ve been out of the picture for a very, very long time and I accidentally stumbled upon an interesting patch that took place a few months back.
As you could say, I wasn’t really in a mood of studying all the possible changes, outcomes, data and results for all that time, so I’d like to ask you, fellow ranger for an opinion.

How is the Ranger(Druid) doing today? What is our role and how efficient are we? Are we still buff-bot condition PvE and Bunkers for PvP?

Please,tell me your opinions on:
1) Raids
2) Fractal Speed runs
3) PvP (structured PvP only, I’ve never played WvW, nor do I intend to)

And lastly… There was supposed to be a huge change for pets on moving targets. Do pets actually work now?

Thank you all for your answers!

1) still good. Druid has the same uses of old ranger in old dungeons, as a buff bot, the heals is some collateral effect.
2) Condi is the one used. Same uses as for raids.
3) Shout bow build, with menders. Still bunker i’m afraid.
4) No. Melee Pets still can’t connect with fast moving targets, anything with swiftness really. Only pets still bristle and smoke, tiger for some niche uses.

Ranger in general nerfed (yes again), Druid still boring as hell.

No build variety, no fun.

My advise: if you see the trait empathic bond moved out from WS traitline, that could be a sign Anet decided to begin lo listen players that have thousands of hours of experience with that class.

Not worth it yet.

Sometimes i play full bunker druid and i build ballistas and arrow carts in camps, so i can kill things with my full minstrel full bunker herald of immortality druid.

yeh… No.
\15 crying ghost trapper thieves.

Lady Deedra.3126:

I go to EOTM on a hammer guardian and hide by the middle tower place by the airport. I pull unsuspecting people to me, leap to the other side of them then JI into them and then banish them off the cliff. So basically golf. I go to EOTM to play Golf with people’s bodies.

same but easier can be done with a LB ranger + wolf. You should try that.

As i see it, it is the same bad the over hype and overselling than the cmplete lack of communication the business is applying now.

Just a couple of simple suggestions.

• why not to talk about the objectives and projects the different departments are working on. I do not believe a company of around 365 employees just don’t have any projects assigned to the different teams.

There are many topics to talk about, as graphic designers, gameplay programmers or servers architecture engineer. Possible new technologies the group is actively working on or the changes to the skills are the QA team maybe considering.

• And to avoid bashing the red post, just close the thread after the comment. Users may still open new threads to discuss, but this way will dilute the direct bashing the red post.

• And for the love of God, somebody that is very good at something doesn’t mean is good for a completely different thing. Get a couple of community managers that can do as a buffer between the technical employees and the costumers. Write in the forums in their name, translating what the employee want to say in a internet politeness compliance way.

Not everybody is good to deal with complains and salt, you need people with that special skillset. They can collect the actual questions and pass them thru to the adequate person and filter the unnecessary but understable salt.

Business public image is as important as the product itself. If one of those fail, the endeavour will ultimately fail.

no thank you. lets not make it easier for trolling , right?

jcbroe.4329:

…As such, Protect Me and SoR are the best tools that can be run in a group scenario, with an AoE stunbreak and full condi clear (pets don’t die if you swap them, and even if that isn’t an option, a dead pet is better than a dead teammate or a dead you). Any passive effects are just icing on the cake….

ok i see the circle jking..
ok let’s go for it then.

i don’t why you put those two skills together when they are completely different in form and uses. You funny…

talking about utility: Protect me is a shout that can benefit from the runes to cleanse a condition to your team, plus stun break for your team and has 30 seconds CD. And when traited is 24 seconds CD skill that also apply swiftness and regen. And also the taunt thing.
That is the definition of an good designed utility skill for the ranger.

SoR on the other side is a 60 seconds cd stun break that will transfer all the conditions from around you to you pet (yeh you only need a epi necro waiting for you.. epidemic all over and why not), and only will work if your pet is alive ( that’s important) and most probably wont as as soon as the aoes comes the pets instadie, even when they are in passive mode.. hence you only use this skill for its passive, one 1 condition cleanse every 10 seconds. Hence this signet and all others except SoS (and maybe in some weird build SoW) are a waste of slot. So when you need this skill it doesn’t work. Great choice you did there, you funny…

Using a glyph or SoR right now is a waste of slot, and that reflects greatly in his gameplay, that practically stays in the outside picking downed. Which last time i checked that was the role of the thieves. You mostly can’t see any green numbers, doing the avatar thing when the combat is finished and the others are running.

And Jcbroe dude, a druid can do much more while not in avatar and a good druid will be useful while surviving and supporting his team. Obviously not at the level of a 10k healing ventari rev as the druid is in a lamentable state after so many nerfs to the healing side but still can be much better than shown in the video.

The other things you said i don’t have an opinion as i didn’t find useful to know.

Wondrouswall.7169:

anduriell.6280:

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Merge HB & SE together and swap places with MDG in the GM slot leaves LOYF dead. That’s 2 condition traits, with LOYF being so weak that it’s not able to compete, leaving the Skirmishing GMs like WS GMs Rangers like to complain about with EB & WS.

Adding more traits is fine, but it’s much easier for us to just say to add more when, in reality, Anet takes their sweet time considering suggestions that have to be incredibly low to even get them nodding their heads.

As for Anet balancing, yeah, I do think I know how they do it well enough. You say use common sense in this case, but you and I sure as hell know that using common sense never applies when it comes to Anet balancing. It’s comes down to either low-hanging fruit or knee-jerk reactions.

well i agree with you there.

LoyF needs a buff or a rework in any case, that gm is really bad being the only real use to apply piercing to the SB. Right now QD is the only trait you use skirmish for, and that’s bad for diversity and fun. We need the trait line to be stronger in it’s condition oriented role and we need traits to compete with QD.

In any case we don’t do us any favor just crippling ourselves, so i don’t even pretend to understand how the minds from anets balance group works and why they do things they do. So i write the ideas how they come having in mind a general balance with the other classes in game.
If it"s fun they nerf it anyway.

Fluffball.8307:

If you don’t personally use a build, weapon, or skill it’s garbage I’ve noticed. I roam with SoR because it’s an amazing skill. FrouFrou and I also both roam with double melee which is completely unviable in your eyes (although I think she hasn’t done that in a long time?)

Oh and I also use condi every now and then, which is also totally unviable garbage.

double melee= trash, from druid no so much i think.
condi=trash against any competent player. ofc you can have a lol from baddies.

you keep saying SoR is amazing still no reasons why. Maybe i missed a very important use?
Or its like the leather in the tp chant “economy is fine”

Fluffball.8307:

FrouFrou is one of the few people whose videos I actually enjoy. And SoR is one of the best skills in the entire game.

It’s fine you like his gameplay which doesn’t mean it’s fun or couldn’t\shouldn’t be better.

actually quickening zephyr or lighting reflexes are more useful than SoR and even have smaller CD when not traited.

SoR right now, with the condi meta, is simply a wasted slot. For stun breaks you have the two skills i gave you and those will not kill your pet instantly. And 1 condi cleanse every 10 seconds its of no help.

I can’t see why would you think SoR is of any good unless you think in terms of pvp where the amount of evens is ridiculously small. But his video is WvW and nobody with some experience uses that signet.

i propose to delete that skill completely and bring back one is called Camouflage.

Camouflage(60 secs CD): player and pet are stealthed. When this skill is in effect player stays in combat and pet in passive. The effect ends if the player recibe direct damage (no condi ticks) or causes direct damage. Prevents point capture.

The idea of this skill is to grant a limited form of stealth to the player that could be used to scout or disengage as long as it doesn’t get any damage.

Not good if you are in combat as any aoe or any attack will reveal you, and while you are in stealth you cant use wp (as you are in combat). But can be used to scout, sneaky attacks or just for fun. Even to disengage if you outsmart your opponent.

What do you think? And please try to avoid the balance thing as we have perma stealth mesmers and thieves and anet thinks is a good desing.

FrouFrou.4958:

Rather than being sensible and doing stuff for uni as my deadline is approaching, I ended up going through some footage from our last match up and made a video instead. Woo, procrastinators unite!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iayxZv1QZYw

i hope you realize you did little for your squad there, right? You were effectively carried by your group there, other than spotter i didn’t see much support there and camping staff is really not a good idea if you are not in the core group.

You spended most of the time running around hitting nothing and effectively not healing your group. With your 700-800 healing you should be able to stay more in combat instead running around all the time.

You survived because you were pewpewing from afar all the time and nobody give you any attention because you did no damage. The time you got some that thief left you with nothing.

Also in my experience augury rock has numbers but not really good players. Against Deso it would have fun to watch thou.

But guys, seriously, no more videos against wvw baddies please. Druid right now it’s not very interesting to watch as the class is very monotonous (laser laser heal#3 heal#4) as it doesn’t have much to offer other than laser and heal.

And get rid of the second signet. SoS is okeish as it has it’s uses but SoR is just too bad for the actual meta.

Wondrouswall.7169:

anduriell.6280:

I agree this trait and hidden barbs should be merged and moved to GM to have something to compete with quick draw.
Light in your feet should give the bonus at all times.

most dangerous game in it actual form should become a master to with some minor tweaks: health threshold from 75% and 3 stacks of might. Thus you have a real choice between spotter or mdg.

Let’s be real here. Merging Hidden Barbs with Sharpened Edges (new or old) and as a GM trait would do more harm than good. The better alternative was to leave it at 66% and remove the guaranteed bleed on-crit from Companion’s Might as a way to tip the scales.

As for Most Dangerous Game, it has 0 business in a line that has its thematics rooted in evasion, weapon swapping, critical hits, and traps if it has no synergy to offer. It’s best to have it deleted and introduce an entirely new trait.

although i agree with you about the mdg, that trait makes no sense in the ranger as it doesn’t have immunities or a massive health pool to stay at any % that is not 100 i can’t see why sharpened edges and hidden barbs can’t go together as GM trait to compete with quickdraw.

Wondrouswall i know you like to presume to know how anet do balancing but lets use in this case common sense.

Ranger (not the pet) with this trait would be doing 33% damage on the weakest of all conditions, that also have no means to apply reliably.
Makes no sense give a buff to conditions when the weapons do not apply them. Thus merging SE (with 66% chance on crit) and HB and move it to GM is the right and logical thing to do.
It will break the actual condi build because now the they will have to choose between QD and SE+HB. Which is actually good for shifting the stale meta. Same goes for refined toxin and poison master. Why for those traits is good for merging but not for SE+HB?

And would freed the trait line to put more useful traits there, if the devs put some thought in there.

Mo needs to gather around all the employees and get this game fun again as if the most fun this game can offer is a super mario bros simulation that even hasn’t got anything to with the actual game, kitten is all lost.

@kiwituatara.6053 yeah that’s the fundamental problem with ranger, if you want cleanses (and you want to have them) you can’t go for condi because you are locked into WS.
Which means you always miss something very important and you are not free to play as you want.
Well mostly this game is like this, if you play ranger you are locked into power shoutbow or die horribly… always.

Kovu.7560:

Shortbow has seen nothing but buffs since the game’s release, it honestly amazes me how its still subpar compared to even other condi options — not to mention the zerk alternatives.

~ Kovu

Shortbow is the perfect example in how Anet needs actual game designers backed by actual developers that know how to code.

The weapon is simply bad in skills design and overall usefulness.

As i’m saying from years ago: all single ranger weapon sets needs to have available a burst skill, a CC skill and disengage skill at least. And depending if the weapon is melee or ranger also a gap closer and defensive skill.
Ranger’s only weapon choices follow that philosophy, look at the LB or GS.

This must to be like that simply because ranger utility skills don’t do damage, those are only utility.

And even if we had something we couldn’t use it as we need as many stun breaks as possible because lack of defenses and stability.

Ranger, core ranger, is simply very badly designed and should get redone frome the ground up, from what is actually the role of the pet in the class to what is the class supposed to be the best at.

Dawdler.8521:

Xenesis.6389:

My havoc group use to tackle t3 towers and keeps all the time, but it’s not something that’s doable these days unless the enemy is out to lunch because of the changes from HoT.

So then all your havoc team did was karma training? Because otherwise the rest of ypur post make no sense.

Old T3 towers in the early days of GW2 is pretty much T0 today.

In old days many things were different: stability was more reliable, there weren’t any power creep that scales wildly with bigger groups and ACs and ballistas weren’t a bad joke.

condi ranger is not good for serious PvE openworld (farming) or fractals as it needs static targets (for the bonfire) and lots of time to build up.

most enemies will be dead before you can accumulate serious damage.

mmm i cant edit or quote any post, i dont see the icons to do so…

Then they should change the player→avatar→countdown(); for player→avatar→AF_depeleted();

In any case it shouldn’t be much work. If the dev was happy the code shouldn’t be an spaggetti hell.

In any case, if the avatar had the timer mechanic, what was the point to deplete the AF bar? it would have been easier and better to see the countdown, at least we would know exactly how much time is left…

guys, the change to sharpened edges was completely unnecessary:

• Anet again took the easy shortsighted road nerfing the skill that was used instead fix the problem that caused it.
  maybe they did it because they are making the new spec condition focused however if the core class is trash the new spec will be trash: or OP or rubbish.

Players went to condi druid simply because raids once you learn the 1-2-3 step they are pretty easy. always the same routine. And druid needs a little heal as possible as it is not a healer but a buffbot in raids.

Sharpened edges should go back to 66%. Ranger doesn’t have access to almost any condition, and this skill was the only one reliable.

I agree this trait and hidden barbs should be merged and moved to GM to have something to compete with quick draw.
Light in your feet should give the bonus at all times.

most dangerous game in it actual form should become a master to with some minor tweaks: health threshold from 75% and 3 stacks of might. Thus you have a real choice between spotter or mdg.

The other traits should focus more in enabling the condition side of the ranger.

Skimirish and Wilderness survival should be trait lines that empower the condi role of the class. Being skirmish more focus into dps than defense and WS the other way around.

axe main hand doesn’t work for pvp. It’s ok for farming thou, in pve or zerging in wvw, it does enough damage to tag the target so you get loot.

other than that i sadly agree, it’s design it not the most useful

because pve is solely grinding once you got to level 80

the downed state is now a thing? Dont we have more important things to worry like the neverdying panzer zerker, the condi mesmer or condi meta in general, the absurd damage some builds can output just with the ranged 1200 autos having a tanky build like rifle faceroll warrior or lolhammer revenant?

This a troll post… right? RIGHT?

Some downed skills are super annoying like the mist from the elementalist, that skill shouldn’t allow the players go thru doors or at least have longer activation time.

Other than that the only thing i see in the video is a lolhammer rev being carried by the class that is absolutely incapable of stomping downed players.

The skills and downed duration are fine. Some teaks maybe needed but if you are incapable of finishing a downed player you don’t deserve the win. As simple as that.

Trajan.4953:

Why would anybody in this day and age, who wasn’t in college or a hipster, ever buy a laptop?

Please buy a Mac so you can be like riding a bicycle with square tires. Yes you are different but you aren’t going anywhere.

Not everybody lives at their moms basement.

Drinks.2361:

how do you feel about a heated keyboard? Not warmed, heated.

no heat at all, in fact is cooler than the msi gt70 i used before (i7 4770hq nvidia 880).
i use a logitec g13 instead the the keyboard, but my arm usually is were the heat vent is.

I don’t feel much heat. The keyboard is warm in some places but nothing alarming. i use a cooler pad under the laptop anyway.

However from a couple of years ago hp is being doing better with the heat vent desing. Not like those hp dv6.

but my point is not the brand but the microprocessor + graphic card should suffice.

the thing is i dont understand is why it should be nerfed. We have in game a crazy amount of conditions and is being buffed everywhere except the ranger, we get power one shot builds everywhere, we have the 10k healing every 2 seconds ventari revenant to fight the crazy powercreep. Druid had already many crazy nerfs with no reason in form of the cast spamming in form of increased cooldowns in most skills and nerf in the effects. I dont thin unbalance anything if the druid when healing 5 guys can keep the avatar up.

if druid needs to be competitive, and not only talking about pve, druid need to be the healer is was defined for. And for that if we don’t want the stealth abuse the druid has to be able to heal in reliable way.

Druid should not be able to keep permanent avatar form with this change when alone only last a bit longer, but should be able to stay in avatar when healing a group. This way it should not change the balance 1v1 but be really useful in team combat (raids, fractals or wvw)

otherwise the druid lost any reason to use any healing or heal, because for the damage buff is better as little heal as possible so it can reach the full AF as soon as possible.

My point is: for purity of purpose druid should be able to keep the healing state if the group needs the healer. To be balanced with the rest of the game AND follow its own design of healer \CC playstyle druid should be able to keep a permanent avatar state.

I would do other changes as i dont understand how an purely attack skill like ancient seeds is in druid traitline instead wilderness survival and in its place a bunker\support gm trait, but at this point with all the crazy buffs to other classes i would simply love to see Anet got their designs straight and defined to stop this no-sense.

i own an hp omen w201 (i7 7700hq, nvidia 1070), max graphic setting full hd, quality and number of players as “High”, effect LoD deactivated (show all effects) and at worst with 3 servers full map zerging at thesamespot i get around 10-15 fps.

i never got the whining, limit the framerate to 30 in the options menu and you won’t hear the sound again.

And for the purist, 30 frames per second is the standard movie speed and nobody is complaining. Cartoons are at 24, even lower.

I own a dreamer and the change would upset me.

icecreamsupernova.8956:

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

I’ve been playing a semi-bunk Necromancer for about 3 years. I say “semi” because I don’t have any Healing Power in my build but it’s still very defensive in nature.

Excluding the times when skills were bugged, like Gunflame when it hit twice during beta, I’ve never been crit by another player for higher than 9k and I have 3.3k armor as well. I’ve also never been one shot from full health by anything, though I have had my health bar blasted through by good shatter Mesmers before.

Arc Divider is pretty ridiculous mostly due to it’s radius. So while I agree that it’s a bit overtuned, I’m still inclined to believe your story is exaggerated. As many others here also feel.

Check your combat log the next time something like that happens. It’s possible you were hit by more things than you think. For example, Sigil of Air/Fire or Sigil of Hydromancy. All of which can crit as high as 3k, further adding to any other damage you’re receiving.

Yes I am not new to the game, I have played 5 years, 6k hours, 1k on necro mostly wvw and about 6 months or so on a bunker, indeed I know that most things do not hit for more than 5k and that is rare, and yes I have checked the damage log and that’s how I knew how much it hit for, which is exactly why it seems odd. The purpose of the post wasn’t really to convince anyone here but for anet to perhaps look at and test the skill to see if it is unbalanced or ignoring armor value. Edit: also to see if anyone else had seen similar numbers and how common it is

Very common. The ammount of one-shot skills has increased significally from HoT

Archon.6480:

Justine.6351:

anduriell.6280:

Eleazar.9478:

Archon.6480:

Kaizoku.1298:

It was a bit overpowered, your attacks cannot be blocked, reflected or destroyed.
Your pets are affected too, there are some pets that deal 6k damage on two skills even if you get LOS’d you could use your pet and longbow #5. Also when you have traited SOTW, you automatically use the skill at 50% hp or something like that I forgot.

Na, it was only semi-useful in LB/GS power build that was rather weak to begin with. No one is complaining because they nerfed an already useless utility. Ranger has 1 effective build and playstyle at the moment. This did not hurt that build, so know one cares.

1 usefull build? What are you smoking. You can literally play any druid build effectively the only one that is weak ATM is condi druid, but for pvp and wvw there isn’t a trait line that I can’t or don’t use.

Also all of our weapons are used I can’t think of a useless ranger weapon they all have a place depending on what you want to do

dude druid has only one possible build for pvp\wvw and another for raiding.
And that is all. Not even a bag loot for pve.

Sometimes i get the impression anet keeps trolling the players because they read the nosense some people write here…

WvW has either shouts or survival. Clearly more than 1 !

PvP has 1. Menders Bunker or Menders Bunker.

WvW is the same: Tank shouts with survival or Tank survival with shouts.

What about while in avatar the druid can get astral force from the heals so it can last longer.

Simple fix and easy enough to do should bring the supposed healer back in the game?
As right now it is not the bursty healer and obviously it never was the constant healer either.

Also, and this is just an idea, the trait cultivated synergy effect could change to:

• Astral force degradation while in avatar is greatly reduced. Astral force generation improved by 50% while in avatar state. ( 2% for heal)

Thus if the druid trait for it, while is healing the group it should be able to stay in avatar state almost indefinitely.

This is good for raids to keep the buffs up now that you should only need to bring one and groups in wvw as support.

Fluffball.8307:

All professions’ condi builds are bad in leather farming, it doesn’t even have anything to do with druid, and it has absolutely nothing to do with WvW roaming.

I think you just want to write angry dramatic things, anduriell.

anduriell.6280:

not it does not, try to go condi build with a leather farming zerg in lake doric or any zerg bigger than 20 and tell me how it goes.

Condi druid outside from some raids bosses there is not real use for it as it is extremely bad for moving\low hp targets. And in wvw is even worst but for other reasons.

so no farming then? Whats left in pve? jumping puzzles? do we need condi for that?
Other than that condi druid is bad because the only condition it can apply reliably is bleeds the weakest of all which you need like 20 stacks to do some damage which is going to take like 20 seconds to build up if you are lucky.

Even the chrono got the fancy buff to confusion and now is a condition that have better multipliers for passive damage than bleeds.
And they can stack better as they stack more conditions at the same time for longer duration.

and as i said, condi druid is really bad in wvw for other reasons… not only the actual lack of damage compared to other classes.

Jim Hunter.6821:

They can call it whatever they want but they need to revert the unjustified cooldown increase they gave it a few months ago.

MrSmith.2097:

I think the change was great. Everyone knows this change was great. You know it, I know it, everyone knows it. Rangers get the best changes. Lots of people say this change was great.

\sarcasssssmmmmm

Fluffball.8307:

I’m not sure how wealthy you are, ascended armor is very expensive and barely gives you any stat boost at all. If you don’t mind some mild PvE, the dungeon CoF runs are insanely fast and easy and after — I’m randomly guessing 20 runs? — you get enough tokens for a free set of exotic berserker armor that you can “ruin” with dolyak runes or whatever. It’s a lot less PvE than the HoT armor stats.

Ascended trinkets are where it’s at, and those are really easy to swap if you want more survivability or damage or healing.

actually if i’m not wrong you can buy zerker armor in straits of devastation, in one of the temples for karma.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Temple_armor

in any case i would advise to go maraurder. the extra health pool is a plus against all the condi meta.

voltaicbore.8012:

Yeah, I’m not sure what Anduriell was getting at… condi ranger is in a really good place right now. and we have plenty of condi weapons.

I’ve really taken a liking to a full viper condi ranger setup, the standard SB/sxe+torch loadout. While I’m up in the enemy’s face 99% of the time, there are still enough 900+ ranged moves to reach out and tag mobs that are just a bit too far away. I like that flexibility.

you people keep talking about the qt dps tests on static big box targets for RAIDS and keep assuming everyone is talking about the 1% gamemode. Even then is not the best but simply good, which is rare for the ranger.

condi druid is really bad outside from raids but dont let me wake you up.

Kerivek.5740:

anduriell.6280:

Condi druid is not only bad for wvw but for open world (aka grinding) it is as well. Unless you are fighting an static world\raid boss the condi druid\ranger is utterly useless.

This is an extreme exaggeration. Condi works for WvW despite not being the best…and in open world/any pve it works exceptionally well.

not it does not, try to go condi build with a leather farming zerg in lake doric or any zerg bigger than 20 and tell me how it goes.

Condi druid outside from some raids bosses there is not real use for it as it is extremely bad for moving\low hp targets. And in wvw is even worst but for other reasons.

babazhook.6805:

As to being able to cleanse all conditions from a Reaper , you should not be able to. If you could cleanse every condition then a condition build would be useless.

Power builds facing power builds should not expect to outheal all damage done to them so I do no see why a person facing a Condition build expects as much. The goal is to minimize the damge you take as you maximize the damage you apply before your own life runs out..

people like you keep comparing power damage to condition one and that’s a completely and absurd fallacy. Power builds can’t do damage (well 99% of it) when there is no LoS while those 5k bleeding ticks are still there.

Condition in this game is not meant to be main damage or shouldn’t. The spam some classes can do is just kittened and for as many cleanses you may have it is impossible to keep up with the cleanses, having 1 or 5.

having a massive amount of condition damage per tick plus a massive amount of health and armor it is absurd and a faulty design that upset most playerbase except of course the people that uses only dire burn guardian, ghost theef or the seasonal cheese broken one shot build (right justine)?

And that’s why EU seems deserted even in pve on sunday.

Fluffball.8307:

…Berserker mesmers and thieves will explode from a condi burst…

i havent seen a zerker mesmer for a long time and condi druid will die faster than be able to kill any DD. Druid manly output bleeds, that is only one condition and one condition can be cleanse really easy.

Condi druid is not only bad for wvw but for open world (aka grinding) it is as well. Unless you are fighting an static world\raid boss the condi druid\ranger is utterly useless.

Ranger would need a revamp of the skirmish and wilderness trait line to offer an actual condi build were the ranger can output more than one condi at a time.

Not a new spec, (this is unbelievable, even the forums can’t work properly and censure “until”) until base ranger is a competitive class for any game mode, no spec will make it good and balanced.