Guild Wars 2

Staff Druid was handy for that bit.

Managed it without too much trouble on Ranger, but yeah, that boss fight with the burning squares basically took away my pet for all intents and purpose. Basically a vast amount of my DPS went out the window.

Deal. Give the GoB to PvE and a Legendary Armour track to WvW.

It’ll come someday… And then I’ll have the last laugh. They called me crazy when I forged those UW legendaries, CRAZY! HOW DARE THEY?! I’ll show them! I’ll show them all!!!

So, now that the raid armour track is done and dusted, might we get a WvW legendary armour track? Feel free to reuse any old skin to make it faster too, we’ve got plenty of transmutation stones to make it look how we want.

Kaineng grew on me. Hated the identical maze it felt like at first, but ended up appreciating the feeling of size it gave to the area. See Divinity’s Reach for a supposedly large place that feels absolutely tiny…

I absolutely loved the Jade Sea at first sight though. The solidified waves, the quarries, the underwater monsters trapped inside… Absolutely gorgeous and rather unique as far as typical rpg areas go. Pity the Luxons felt so brain-dead, I could never side with them despite loving the place.

But the Jade Sea is supposed to be liquifying again in GW2 isn’t it?

I love my Dreamer and the sound is a big part of it.

If you go about accommodating people that don’t want to hear it, could we also get a slider to turn the ink-spilling visual cancer GS legendaries into thin plain iron swords?

Chess is already in game, you just need a guild vault.

Rym.1469:

Remember that Maul gives your pet the buff regardless if it hits or not. I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be like that, but use to your advantage.

Hmmmm… something something SotH maul sic’em jaguar stealth bomb…

Long bows are too small to feel legendary. We need a Giant Bow!

It’s not so much Muddy Terrain as Cripple having been pretty much obsoleted. There are so many ways to mitigate, clear or ignore Cripple that it feels close to useless right now.

We already got an entire spec on nature magic. I’d rather have one based on the physical/survival aspects this time round, like a hunter or tracker, with either a rifle or a spear/javelin and proper pet synergy. And for all pets. Not just introducing 3 stupidly better new pets making the rest obsolete.

Yeah, it’s great, and the Maul→HB→Maul makes for some cool burst indeed if you can time it into a tail swipe.

Mocrassar.4317:

My Ranger DPS decrease… 30 to 28k…

Sharpened edges?

Got all the HoM pets, and wouldn’t mind or feel slapped in the face if they got unlocked for everyone for free or in the gem store. Don’t think I’m the majority though so…

What should really be done though is remove those pet portraits from the pet selection window if you haven’t got them. Showing those greyed out portraits that aren’t obtainable through playing this game is a bit daft.

Winter’s Heart is not that bad. I thought Lord of Chaos was much worse with regards to the pacing, and Path of Daggers was a bit slow at times too.

It would completely unbalance a perfect economy!

Did it get fixed today? Because I had my own instance last night.

Aurene is certainly challenged…

And after restarting the Ooze section, Aurene got stuck on the first gen this time…

Vegetation.6419:

Tyloric.7520:

First mission is bugged. Dragon got stuck and would not proceed (ooze part). I’ve heard of this happening during the rescue the vigil section too.

Same for me, last ooze generator and Aurene won’t attack it.

Same.

But, that could destabilise the economy!!!

The Moot is close to perfection right now. Best footfalls in game by far, and the aura is pure awesomeness since it got buffed. So. Much. Shine…

My only complaint is the very muted ‘pop’ noise when you use it to strike a foe, it just doesn’t quite work.

I’ve got both versions of the Toymaker bag and some other time-limited stuff (Witch Hat among others), and would be happy to see it make a comeback for the ones that didn’t get the chance. When I wear these, it’s because I think they look nice, not because it makes me feel exclusive.

Nuzt.7894:

atheria.2837:

Nuzt.7894:

Why is there no pets that Grant AoE stability on a reasonable CD (25-30 Sec)? With all the Boons and Conditions that pets have a variety of I don’t understand why this was left off the table.
You want to make Ranger/Druids more desirable in WvW team play ? This would be a quick easy fix to help in that department.

You have stability.

Now if you want a character that was left always at the mercy of others who share stability – Revenant.

Rangers/Druids have 2 stabilities both on 60 CD and are not AoE, you will note I said AoE, the point is to give them more Grp/Raid/Squad utility.

If you’re unhappy with Rev please direct yourself to the Rev forum, it’s below this one.

SotP got nerfed to 75s.

On a Guardian that can’t help having Aegis popping all the time.

Toasa.1236:

Why day and night has not the same length?

It’s due to your location on a planet that is inclined relative to its orbit around a star.

Your server doesn’t kick rangers out of the squad? Lucky you.

Any screenshot showing how Aegis ruins it?

Lol, I’m loving it already!

I blame Kiel.

There’s plenty of them that are handy depending on builds. One not mentioned yet is the Charr Hidden Pistol which provides you with an additional evade every 15s (and acts as a projectile finisher for what it’s worth).

Some got badly hit by the various nerfs, but are still useful if less potent: Asura’s Technobabble was awesome on Ranger when the MoC trait gave +100% daze duration, and Bear/Leopard form used to run much faster on skill 5 before taking a nerf to the knee, allowing to run through the hot room in the Thaumanova fractal. Before the crit damage nerf too, the Bear form charge could be supercharged with all possible damage buffs (Ranger SotH for example) for gimmicky but hilarious one-shot kills when they connected.

I must be the only one that enjoyed the Zhaitan faceoff. I loved that for once, after spending ages in the story preparing everything: soldiers from the various races, war machines, dragon-slayer high-tech weaponry, it… just… works…

I can’t say I miss the usual totally unexpected plot twist where for some reason it doesn’t work, and everything you’ve done so far is basically irrelevant and you end up fighting the boss 1v1 with melee weapons. Seeing the whole pact building effort paying off was cool, and the after-party even better. I loved it.

In the same mould, I’d totally laugh my a*** off if when the latest dragons are done for, Lazarus doesn’t (totally unexpectedly!!!) betray us (omg, what a plot twist!) but just says “So long, and thanks for all the bloodstone” before leaving peacefully as he said he would.

Underwater content. Even if it’s irrelevant to the story and just side exploration. Most Tyrian maps have some underwater nooks and crannies, but Dry Top, Silverwastes and all the jungle maps are devoid of any aquatic areas.

Talking about exploration: large open maps to explore that aren’t necessarily packed with psychotic monsters every square metre. The introduction of Southsun Cove started a horrible trend in that regards. I dearly miss the days of my first Tyrian map completion. There was plenty of peaceful exploring to be had.

That change broke my heart as we can’t swim with dolphins anymore.

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

I almost forgot the days where I could send my pets up walls in WvW to kill people on siege! Those were the days…

And 3000 range Sic’em, and a pet leash range that was higher than 3000. Until it was deemed a problem for sPvP and we got the infamous “Pet leash range increased to 2000” patch note.

Pet damage hasn’t changed, neither has Sic’em, and pets attacks can be made Unblockable on demand now. Enjoy. o/

Right Click → Sell on Trading Post.

As far as wvw is concerned, the big thing is that unlike LB1 and LB2, Staff1 is not a projectile.

Unblockable AoE fear from wolf could become loltastic on hazardous maps… Not to mention the Sic’em/SotH damage spike.

anduriell.6280:

Jim Hunter.6821:

Durzlla.6295:

Levetty.1279:

Durzlla.6295:

25 might, pulsing stability, fury, swiftness, and regen,

That is pretty much baseline for every class at the moment.

And that’s the problem they seem to be trying to address…. very very very slowly…

Starting with ranger….

YEP
Anet is live testing stealth and stability nerfs with the ranger. And will stay only with the ranger.
Remember this words.

That’s a bit unfair. Look at the HaO boon share nerf, Mesmers got it immediately after haven’t they?

OGDeadHead.8326:

Gotejjeken.1267:

8 × 2 = 16

Not mathematically possible to use it twice in one CAF now.

You cast it when you enter CA, 8 seconds cd follows – you’re now at ~9 seconds, then you cast again?

Yup, that’s 2 pops instead of 3. In addition to the base healing nerf, that’s a serious hit to the healing output there. One less blast finisher too.

Pity SB didn’t see a restoration of the 1200 range. Still, the buffs it received are nice enough this time round. Nice to see WH getting some love too

No idea where that Maul buff and SotP nerf came from though.

Charred. No other dye provides such texture to the material. Had my eye on it for a while and then the birthday dyes happened. Much delight was had.

I settled on Celestial stats out of laziness more than anything but I have to say: it’s great when the stats roulette is in full swing and you don’t have to care about crafting a new set. \o/

trueanimus.4085:

Now with piercing arrows and improved healing and (*yes i will say it) the few boons and procs we bring to allies nearby in longbow, staff and celestial form, druids make a really needed dps/heals/group addition to the group, no matter what people say.

Frankly, with the amount of projectile hate in the game, LB is close to unusable in zerg fights. The staff may lack the punch, but at least it doesn’t get reflected into piercing 5 of your allies (or converted to heals by an opposing team druid). Sure, we’re not useless, but imho it’s fair to say that many classes bring more to the table. I love my ranger and play it most of the time because I enjoy it, but I still contribute more on a GWEN alt, even with precious little experience. They’re just flat out better at that type of fights.

We’re still pretty good roamers, but then, we’ve always been.

Are you ready LA? Aye aye captain!
I can’t hear you! AYE AYE CAPTAIN!

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As fishy as Zhaitan, as mysterious as E?
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If underwater balance be something you wish
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Preorder the expansion and you’ll get a pet fish!
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Ranger not a part of current wvw meta? What wvw meta were we ever part of?!

At this point, the ultimate plot twist would be for Lazarus to mean every single word and stay a truthful ally right to the end.

The community paranoia would be intense and the trolling levels off-the-scale!