Guild Wars 2

ItIsFinished.9462:

If you want something that is far from the meta, but yet, extremely effective at 1vs1’s and holding points, try this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQRAnY8fnEqQvgWxC+rAXLGoQo6tCcHgAw98GD5cBTOA-TpxCwAOOBAAOCAHOIAXeAAS3fIbZAA

Interesting, going to give this a try later on. Guessing its sort of a condi/regenbunker hybrid playstyle?

Ghotistyx.6942:

I don’t take it seriously, but I’ve got my ranger running a perma chill build. At least 2/6/0/0/2, MH axe, sigils of ice, runes of ice, and owl. Consider hydro sigil, ice drake, snow leopard, sword, sb, torch, etc.

It’s pretty fun to use. Might make some people hate you forever. Probably works best as hybrid, as traps and Axe will be putting out quite a few condis, but you’ve got that basically permanent 5% damage and a bird/drake/cat.

Yeh i run a chill hybrid with a condi build! Works like a charm.

Firstly, the answer to the question is yes, definately. And as for builds, bunker and regen rangers are very strong so i’d give them a try, but don’t dismiss other builds, have a play around for a while and see what YOU feel most comfortable with and suits your style. For example ranger can do some serious single target condi damage which is what i’m playing and enjoying the most at the moment, or with the new GM trait along with longbow range increase you can destroy people from massive range in a sniper-esque class.

I personally feel that with builds its what suits you, i for example am not very strong at bunkerish builds as i don’t enjoy the play style as much. I’d recommend going through the forums from the last few weeks as LOADS of builds have been posted and can offer an insight into what will suit you best!

:)

Wow some really insightful posts. Perhaps Anet may actually have a scan over them…

Kind of annoyingly amusing for me though, never been a hardcore WvWer but being a roamer has always worked out as my 80’s are the non GWEN classes.

Hey folks,

I have been casually looking through some of the WvW recruitment posts and have found that rangers are never among the options for available slots, especially in some of the more reputable guilds. I’ve also noted that they are scarce in GvG related videos. Whilst by no means exceptional i feel it can definitely contribute to a solid team, and have come across some incredibly strong rangers.

I have a ranger as one of my toons and rather enjoy it so am curious as to the hate.

Thoughts?

Hey folks.

I am a pretty experiences player and am just hitting 80 with my ranger and loving it. However whilst i’m quite experienced in dungeons and know the types of role/builds that most classes can bring, i’m stuck as to what is the most effective to roll with for my ranger.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,

Ranger is my latest 80 and love the idea of this build and am wandering if it still works (i don’t know much about how patches since may have changed it).

thanks.

Silentr

JQ

Ranger is a new class for me but is quickly becoming my main. WvW + PvE – interested in getting in to sPvP

when i go from my thief SB to ranger SB i cry.

what it says in the title really. When i say WvW focus, i also want a guild that is active, even if less so, in sPvP and Dungeons/Fotm

Thanks.

Quite simple really. I came back to the game after a few months and the experience was horrible for me, was so lost with living story meaning that with the exception of dungeons PvE was sort of a no go for me.

So my suggestion is this. Perhaps create instanced versions of certain specific key events that people who missed them can access to catch up a bit, perhaps from the achievement menu? irrespective of whether the achievements can be gained it would be nice to be able to play through.

Fanks.

Hey,

Glad this post got bumped actually otherwise wouldnt have seen this build. i love it , makes me feel like an actual chaos causing mesmer for once.

@Chaos – think it would be worth tweaking for usage of the upcoming interrupt trait?

Hey guys,

i was quite a serious player until September when i had to stop playing. I am now able to play again and am rather lost. i understand that i can find things by going through patch notes but i havent found any significant changes in the past 5 months but may have eluded me.
I am just asking for more of a current perspective in regards to what the meta Mesmer is now in terms of general builds and what its current role is (Im talking PvE, Fractals, Dungeons etc.)

Cheers,

Title Says it all.

Would be a great addition, could be used by the Warrior/Ranger as a melee Weapon, 1h with a shield, giving the ranger the option of a shield? (for any game of thrones fans, in the style of the red viper of dorne?
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/261/0/e/The_Red_Viper___Oberyn_Martell_by_higheternity.jpg)

or even as a long ranged throwing weapon such as the paragon in gw1 which could be used by the guardian or be the basis of a new class??

We know no new classes will be around until a new expansion which isn’t in the foreseeable future so a new weapon would spice the game up a bit….

just my 10 cents.

Whilst obviously not perfect, a well thought through idea! would be amazed if Anet wasnt considering this already, and this thread could seriously contribute some ideas!

1up.

sanictoofast.9317:

ceejay.2517:

i hate to be a troll but… you can do it in WoW….

you should probably just get out

i dont even play wow :P just a comparison that cannot be avoided!

uknortherner.2670:

Anet have already said no. Is this so difficult for you people to understand?

if you had read my post you would see that what i had suggested was not actually a race change… just an idea based on the premis of it…

my suggestion inst that a character is changed to a different race, rather that the XP is transferred to a new character- thus solving any personal story issues.

:)

i hate to be a troll but… you can do it in WoW….

I am not going to go into too much detail of my ideas as that would bore you.

The basis of my idea comes from the city ownership idea in GW1.

I would add another WvW type map that had various towers castles of various ranks, and these would be given to guilds based on their faction (like kurzick and Luxon from gw1) earned in WvW. Furthering from this, it would be possible for guilds to assault other guilds locations to take there tower/keep. However guilds would be only be able to own 1 location at a time. Each location would offer benefits related to the rank e.g mf boosts, ori nodes, karma vendors for specific items etc. The benefits of the entire map would also be ranked based on the server performance that week in WvW.

This would make the implementation of an alliance mechanic very important and would encourage the name of the game – guild wars.

Silent.

What time zone do you play in?

Whilst i fully understand the complications involved with changing a characters race, i do have a simpler suggestion and would be amazed if it had not yet been thought of.

Basically instead of changing a characters race, offer the ability to transfer XP from an existing character, say a Mesmer for example, onto a new Mesmer of a different race. This would eliminate complications regarding story as the new character would essentially be an entirely new one., not just a race change

The idea being something along the lines of ‘soul transfer’ or something of the like, as opposed to a race change.

Great idea, heard it many times in game.

Cant join instances with any party.
Tried Fractals, Dungeons and MF.
Join party get prompt to join in instance, click join and nothing happens….
if i start the instance, people cant join, they all end up in one for them as a group without me.
if i try walking in i also end up in my own instance.
Server: Jade Quarry
Map: various
Cheers.

Cant join instances with any party.

Tried Fractals, Dungeons and MF.

Join party get prompt to join in instance, click join and nothing happens….

if i start the instance, people cant join, they all end up in one for them as a group without me.

if i try walking in i also end up in my own instance.

Server: Jade Quarry
Map: various

Cheers.

Right im playing on my laptop which i have used before and always tends to be okay with low/medium settings. But today for some reason i am lagging to the point of dc’ing.
ive ran speed tests which show my upload and download speeds to be 5MBs+, which isnt massive but should be fine. The GPU/CPU are never having loads above 50% either.

Any idea as to what the issue may be,

Cheers,

Silent.

any dev care to shed some light on if this is an intentional difference?

Embolism.8106:

I think he means that using Decoy grants you the buff “Decoy” instead of the buff “Stealth” that you get with all other Mesmer and Thief stealth skills. As far as I can tell they function the same.

Embolism has understood what i mean, when you cast decoy and then mass stealth the decoy is its individual buff which runs alongside the normal stealth buff rather than stacking…

The decoy description says that the skill grants stealth, yet it does not grant the stealth mechanic that the elite ‘mass stealth ’, the utility field stealth skill,and the thief skills produce. Is this intended? Or is it a form of ’Bug’? I ask as recently ive moved more from my thief to mesmer for WvW and find i am using skills assuming stealth and it not happening.

Grateful for any clarification.

Silent

Hey,

I was playing fine last night, but just tried to log in multiple times today and get the error message “The game client is unable to gain access to the log-in server at this time…" or the log in times out.

Any Help appreciated.

not much to add, except another +1 for stickyness!

Thanks for the video links, they were interesting. Yep thats my problem, i consider myself to be more than capable on my thief, but finding a group is much harder than it seems for other classes. sighs

Right, i am expecting a whole lot of responses relating to L2P your class, but ill ask my question anyway.

I have Level 80 Mesmer, and Thief (my main), and it seems that in high end PvE such as dungeons, mesmers are only wanted for portals and such like that found in CoF, and thiefs are just not really wanted at all. I know a well played mesmer or thief can be incredibly useful to a group, but in general i feel like they’re not really valued.

My question is simple, im looking to create a High end PvE/Dungeon runner, which classes offer the best PvE group capabilities. i like the play style of the engi but seems very UP/Broken atm.

My guess would be Warrior/Guardian/Elementist ?