Guild Wars 2

My two cents, if they ever make it, just some rough ideas here:
-All weapons skills that gives buffs to your pet give their buff to you instead (Hilt Bash for 50% more damages, Might with Pounce, Bleed with Crippling Shot, Weakness with Winter’s Bite), expect for axe, all those would increase DPS a bit, this might also push GS into a better DPS weapon than Sword depending on groups (those who stack might easily).
-X% chances to dodges attacks, dodge one attack every Xs, dodge every X attacks or add one second of distorsion when you use dodgeroll (more active, extended evasion on dodgeroll)
-Every Xs your next melee attack makes you leap to your target (gape closer), your next ranged attack makes you leap back.
-Inflict torment whenever you inflict poison (if you don’t use pets, Rangers have less access to poison).
-Ranged attacks has a chance to shatter on impact (1st target only) and deal damages to nearby foes (ranged AoE on target, would help in wvw).
-Grant Stability when using either a dodgeroll (short duration) or a healing skill (average duration), rangers only stability source is Rampage as One and this skill needs a pet to be fully effective.
-New effects on shouts (conditons removal, CC, boons, conditions all AoE of course).
-Chance to remove one boon from target or remove one boon every X attacks.
-Remove X condition (or Y stack of X condition) from target, instantly inflict damages based on your condition damage stat value and remaining duration of removed conditions.
-Trigger a buff every Xs that cancel the next incoming condition
-….

Related Traits:
-Merge pet swap CD reduction and aspect swap reduction
-Current aspect effect linger for 5s after a swap
-Aspects that trigger a buff after Xs or X attacks trigger right after a swap

AEFA.9035:

Aria.5940:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/wuv/wuv/Edge-of-Extinction-and-Frozen-Soil-please/

Just came across this thread while looking through the forums. A great idea for making rangers viable in large scale WvW.

A couple of our pet utilities could be easily replaced by this. (“guard” for instance should be a basic pet functionality, not a utility)

This is what’s so dangerous about Rangers and it makes them hard to balance. If they put up GW1 skills without any tweaks or changes in GW2, you would find that most of them are global skills that affects everyone. In some game modes like WvW everyone would welcome a Ranger with open arms, to other game modes, maybe not so much. But I love these skills! I miss seeing them.

Edge of Extinction bomb

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Edge_of_Extinction

I could totally see those spirit effects back in GW2 as Environemental Effects for WvW/PvP (like Mystlock Instabilities for fractal), would add some real spices to those matchs.

“I Will Avenge You”

Specific Game Mode
PvX

Proposal Overview
Reintroduce IWAY

Goal of Proposal
Ranger’s pet die too often in dungeons and WvW and some skills don’t help keeping the pet alive (Signet of Renewal, “Protect Me”). The idea is to introduce a buff for the ranger when the pet die that increase it’s dps to compensate for the DPS loss. Dungeonners and WvW zergers could use this buff since the pet dies often and PvP players could intentionnaly make the pet die with “Protect Me” or Signet of Renewal to benefit from this buff, fixing a bit of the “pet not hitting reliably” problem.

Proposal Functionality
“I Will Avenge You” should be a passive Shout trait that benefit from other shout traits. It should activate whenever the pet die for a limited time with an ICD. The skill is cancelled when switching pet or when pet comes back to life. A simple buff to damages and conditions damages should to the trick.

Associated Risks
Might be disturbing to willingly kill the pet for more damages but there are already skills to do it, might as well get a benefit from them. It also didn’t matter that much in GW1.

On another note, Ranger is one of the best class at maning Environemental/Siege weapons and bundles (conjured weapons mostly) because the pet can still do things while they’re using them and those weapons are designed (damage coefficients) without taking pets/minions into accounts.

Specific Game Mode
PvX

Proposal Overview
Improve shortbow and longbow

Goal of Proposal
More AoE option on longbow since Barrage has a somewhat high cooldown and improve condition application on shortbow because flanking in 1vs1 is not that easy.

Proposal Functionality
Longbow and Shortbow get a chain attack on 1st skill:

Longbow:
-1st chain: no change
-2nd chain: same as above
-3rd attack: Glass Arrow => arrow shatters on the first target and deal damages to nearby 5 foes (arrow still pierces with trait but the shatter occurs only on the 1st victim).

Shortbow:
-1st chain: same as always
-2nd chain: same as above but remove the position restriction
-3rd chain: slightly more powerful shot that could inflict torment or something else

Associated Risks
Shortbow becoming more powerful with condition damage builds but the positionnal restriction seem weird to begin with.
Shouldn’t change things for longbow, same damages on a single target.

We’ll probably get the vaccine in the next update so that we can launch a counterattack.

This is bugging me, LA got attacked and all but there’s no corpse anywhere as if there were no casualty at all.
You can find corpses on other areas (CoF p2 for exemple, devourers rooms) so it’s not a matter of moral or something similar.

I want a mine turtle

Ranger will be the next topic for the Profession Collaborative Development.
Source

Played a lot in EotM this week and I really love it. Some things are really good and fun but might not fit in current WvW. I look forward to the discussions on both this and fractal.

1.Ranger
2.Necro
3.Engineer

What’s fun with those achievements is when you get a loading screen, by the time you get there you’ve already been hit by the marionette.
And getting the last two ones is really a pain since players tend to fail the 3rd event a lot.

Wow changed stats at each extensions, people complained or not and got over it. We’ll adapt.

I think a good idea would be to remove stats from gear and just allow stats from traits and rune sets (with a second rune set for trinkets). GW1 was close to that and it allowed a lot of diversity. Sadly this would need rework on traits, runes and the whole crafting system.

The sets as a whole are ugly but some individual pieces are not bad combined with something else.
On the other hand, shoulders and especially helms are really horrible in my opinion.

Just compare Aion (NCSoft, GW2’s publisher) and GW2 armors. It’s Night and Day

And the gold reward at the end is too low compared to what you can get from dungeons in the same length of time.

Weapon chest is rumoured to not drop at all (according to datamining it didn’t make it into the game and there’s no mention of it in the patch, it’s in the data but not available).

Tequatl is fine as it is, the problem is map limit, people who don’t know what to do and people afk.
The other major problem is one year of mindless players zerging boss, people forgot to think, now they have to wake up and it’s a bit brutal.

I’d like to join as well, support ele with boon bonus (70% without food), shout guardian and DPS ranger/mesmer/warrior (all in exotic armor with ascended pieces here and there).

Someone is actually buying all precursors to sell them at higher price, already happenend to the legend, tooth of frostfang, zap and dusk.
Check any BLTC tracker to see what I mean (for exemple :http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/29166)

Someone is actually buying all precursors to sell them at higher price, already happenend to the legend, tooth of frostfang, zap and dusk.
Check any BLTP tracker to see what I mean
(for exemple : http://www.gw2spidy.com/item/29166)

Did it solo as a Ranger, full zerker with 1500 range on longbow, stand of the rock near mortar and snipe. Get into water if you agro any veteran (got only one bothering me). Pet on standby (take pets with buffs).

Could also get some legendary pets (like Rainbow Phenix from gw1)

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Just out of curiosity, what exactly is wrong with rangers that need fixing? Because I can think of a lot more things that need nerfs than buffs, unless that’s what you meant.

Mostly pets and spirits dying too fast and the lack of useful group support, for PvE and WvW group. Ranger is plenty strong in PvP.

It also makes offhand disappears during the animation, made Howler yesterday to discover that…

I’m using 20% reduction on Shouts so that I can use “Sick’ em” (32s) with my Jaguar Stealth (30s) but I noticed that Stealth wasn’t up when Sick’em was. I checked the tooltip of Stealth and nothing was changed (still showing 30s) but the recharge time is arround 50s now.
Same for Lynx/Snow Leopard, the recharge rate of Rending/Ice Pounce is still showing 30s when it is arround 60s in reality.

Anyone encountered a similar problem?

Edit: now it seems to work fine on Stealth, I don’t understand anymore…

I might be wrong but I don’t see anywhere in the math the attack speed, neither the fact that some pets hit twice.

A recent post on reddit spotted the chat code for Feather of Dwayna, it was in the same list as items that were crafted through MF using Eldritch Scroll. So there’s a probability the recipe is something similar to Aether/Azureflame with another kind of gift. It might be gift of weather due to the nature of Dwayna, but it’s a pretty expensive one and required for meteorlogicus, one of the less crafted legendary, that could explain why nobody ever found the recipe.

Sadly I’m looking for the PvE version, not PvP. Edited my post above for more transparency.

Thanks for the answer anyway =3

I’d like to hear a red answer about this if possible.

We already know Final Rest can be looted, but what about Wings/Feathers of Dwayna in PvE? Are they available as a drop, a mystic forge recipe, NIY or something else?

Thanks in advance for the answer.