Guild Wars 2

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

kyubi.3620:

I dont think party needs more precision mainly because everyone is already full zerker spamming perma fury and likely over 70% base crit rate. T

70% base crit chance in zerker gear…. With statistics like that, I can’t understand why people don’t listen to you.

im just saying everyone who run zerk already has critical rate off the charts. you dont need this much critical rate. because the moment you hit 70+ you already are nearly perma criting. This just makes a trait like spoter totaly useless id rather have something like increased critical damage percent partywide buff wich actualy will make a real defrence (oh thats right warrior already does it from banner).

are those math backed by the sword alone because you gota see the dps of the whole build before judging. I dont do 100% of my damage with my weapon here. Sword build is 100% focused on the player weapon (might on crit for pet is cute but it hold little meaning if your pet isnt speced already statwise into beast mastery wich isnt the case of the current ranger meta i realy dont know why they bother giving those trait to pets if they actualy dont put 30 point into beast mastery in the first place)

I dont think party needs more precision mainly because everyone is already full zerker spamming perma fury and likely over 70% base crit rate. The current build runs marksmanship while i run beastmastery instead so i actualy trade personnal damage for pet damage here. While i do agree on the utility of frost spirit im likely to carry sic em and pet rage signet for damage burst (they should just make sic em also affect the ranger and prevent healing it would solve all the class dps problem if there ever was)

I always have dps and party support up my mind dont ever doubt that. Im running dual battle rune on weapon swap so both me and my pet always have a fair share of might stack as well as fury + ill use spirit elite healing spring and likely frost spirit so they do get their share of buff (ive not tryed new heal yet) and my offhand horn do proc fury for party and prety much keep mine permanant. sword for as far as i remember does not abuse from the buff share since you dont actualy swap weapon that much does it, while i do agree a guardian may proc the might and the fury i dont see that kind of player often unless in organised group.

Running dungeon naked is professionnalism? Peoples actualy rage on other player for using defrent builds then meta wich work with fair efficiency or for having the wrong class (like ranger) but going all or nothing mode on an anti melee boss is given praise.
Well i guess i could indeed cool off because this is about the same situation in everygame anyway but i wish the community would actualy take in consideration the fact that running a dungeon the safe way is actualy just as good when it comes to results if not better. I mean if you can down Lupicus in a reccord time good… if not dont insist maybe you should just get your ranged weapon out.

Not to spoj but to melee lupicus fighter in general nothing personnal. I respect skill but i respect even more professionalism.

Agony.3542:

LordByron.8369:

or more simply

BALANCE PVE professions…..
Just to start with something

There is some truth in this statement, however I want to remind you that you can not balance the lack of skill. Eles are great damage dealers already , however a lot of ele players run horrible builds for dungeons (aurashare for example) with horrible gearsets (celestial would be godly compared to it), even if you buff eles, those people wont go. Same goes for rangers, they can deal very decent dps, however 99% are longbow camping. Now of course some things can be balanced out, for example how necros bring very little use to your party, but tbh there needs to be a way to really show players how much of an anchor they really are for their groups. (inb4 a quadrillion h4t3r5 show up).

longbow camping? God sake you speak like if sword was the solution to everything alleluia well sword doesnt work for beast mastery and i actualy run beast master so take a guess why i run multi targeting weapon. What makes everyone think longbow suck is those fools who just spam the auto attack on a marksmanship build and stick to the same weapon for hours. The weapon can pull its weight when you actualy use the cooldowns for real and constantly swap between it and something else. Sword is only good for single target melee boss kill or cluster target mob fights.

You’re a detriment to every pug you enter and you don’t even realize it. I don’t kick based on class (unless we asked for a specific class of course), but I would kick based on build.
I’d rather keep a person who is new to the dungeon but who has a good build over a “pro” with a horrible build like yours. At least the person with the good build right up front demonstrates a willingness to bring peak effectiveness to the team instead of saying I do what I want, screw the team[/quote]

Peak effectiveness? thats relative on your belief and to be honest i think sword is over rated.

I dont do all of my damage my pet does a good half from the might stack my multihit grants and before looking at the cute numbers sword brings denying everything else maybe you should considerate what the pet can do as well (yes the pet is villified a lot by the AI in pvp but pvewise it cant bring its share of damage as well if traited right). Ive built my spec around the pet rather then around personnal damage im aware of the sword build, im also aware of the damage it does but im also aware of its limitation. what im building is something entirely different.

As for bringing me in? I dont need your aprobation neither do i need to care about close minded people who thinks there is only one good build because I dont join party i make them (And open the dungeon) and people who aint happy with it can just get the hell out because yes we get things done here. Its people like me who work tirelessly to make something new and yet effective (not in the blind i test my build prior to use) who makes the weels run and not sheeps constantly fellowing the builds of others yet cant think on their own.

actualy i didnt choose axe mainhand for its damage altrought the bouncing strike helps a little in that way but for the number of hit it can score within a single attack. Im still evaluating the potential between sword and axe for might stacking because axe deals 3 bounce wich may all score might on crit for pet but sword gain 1 free might stack on the third hit.. So far i keep for axe but im likely to do some test to check wich weapon stacks might the quickest versus damage overall potential because more might on pet = more damage but more damage from weapon also = more damage.

so far my verdict sound like
sword: 3 hit 2 second 1 free might
axe: 2 hit x 3 (triple bounce) two second ranged but lower damage on single target
ill need to evaluate gain and loss altrought i guess sword would gain advantage on a single target dps basis
Unlike some would believe i dont run the actual meta build but more of a 0 20 0 15 30 version of the spec with a 5 point wich im still evaluating to place between skirmish and nature magic could also go in wilderness survival but ive been avoiding marksmanship because of how bad the trait are in that spec so far. Im far from behing misguided

Its not that i got something against melee i have greatsword guardian and 2h sword warrior, however on a fight like that one i wont bother getting my sword out ill just take my rifle or my scepter and bombard it, a small loss in dps isnt worth risking the fight over an easy joke like part 3 wich shouldnt even actualy endanger you, if anything ill deal him more dps while not having to constantly dodge out or run away from him then the other guy having to constantly retreat in and out to resplenish health bar or worse yet that is constantly getting downed because he cant time his dodge right. bringing in a rifle is never to secure when it comes to lupicus.

Even meat shield have their use because alone i doubt youl manage it. or at least you wont manage it within a time as short as a 5 man cell would it will just waste everyone time. Im not saying you should revive just anyone there do are some lost cause wich cant be revived without risking to loose your own life but most people do deserve a help.

Part 3 is actualy the reason we all rush lupicus health bar trought part 2 lol because hes a just a huge barney the pink dino at part 3 and wouldnt kill anything ever if he wanted to (well if you actualy run a 2h sword or axe warrior on lupicus its all your fault anyway if you fail at the easyest part of the fight) stay at a fair range from him and youl be fine

thats why you run destructible minions? like bone, wurm, and blood fiend. If lupi is gunna do his drain nova you just gota explode them on his face.

Are you this scared of part when 3 wich is uber easy when part 2 is actualy the real problem? As you said yourself ignorance is bliss and a good minion master will always prepare in advance for any circonstance, When im in a fight minion wont just be unable to manage i reconvert to well spec.

I always work toward maximum effectiveness in my own playstyle. It doesnt mather if i play a longbow/cat pet ranger because i play so well those guys have to deal with it (also because i never run something that doesnt actualy work). You must run a good build within your own ability. I run rangers in fractals? So what? If you dont want to play with rangers or necro because youve got prejugies you can get out and go look somewhere else because ill always have at least 1 to 2 other guy i trust are skilled and that know i pull my share with me who will be more then happy to pull the kick trigger for a jerk or a guy who mess around and dont want to learn (we are open minded it doesnt mean we tolerate people who just wanna do whataver they want i dont care what build you run long as you run the dungeon right or are willing to admit you dont know it that way we can explain it to you).
See ive done several zerker only run as a ranger already and I never had this kind of ’’problem’’. Call me lame for it but im not imposing anything on you if you want to run with full warrior, you can always take the door out.

Even meat shield have their utility and even i can see the use of a full life player on the field who actualy takes some of those hits for me or divert attentions. a lone pro is a dead pro a team of noob who work togueter will more then often make it trought. Learn to be less of an individualist and land a hand. I see a guy whos playing like you mexican i warn him before kicking out if he dont behave. Teamwork is what realy gets stuff done and ill always land a hand to anyone i see in a pinch before thinking for myself as long as theres a slight possibility of him getting back up, that kind of solo attitude wont get you anywhere and by not lending your hand to others you actualy hurt your team more then you help.

GRexCarolinii.9604:

Gnat.9405:

I main Necromancer

I main minion-master Necromancer

it has become second nature to me to apologise for the minion’s behaviours just before running dungeons (especially that pesky flesh golem…)

but I do believe most of the minion hate is fairly unfounded
sure they can pull things you don’t want pulled – but i’m more than used to that happening

my proudest moments include where Flesh Golem decided to solo Subject Alpha (CoE) knocking down a quarter of his health
and when the minion-group decided to effectively ‘break’ Alphard, Serpent of the Waves (Arah) – not exactly sure what happened, as I’m unfamiliar with the dungeon,
but thereafter the minions were actually requested for by that group of friends

minion master is perfectly doable in dungeons and even recommandable over any other necromancer spec as they both deal fine damage and take hits for the party. if your about to do an important task wich involve not agroing anything just dismiss all minion and resummon its what a true minion master do (ran Arah as minion master a thousand time lupicus included and i didnt pop any worm! better yet lupi more then often went after the minions and left the players alone)

people dont judge me for what i play and i never get a negative comment on my builds because they always are well tought and effective. If something dont work i correct it the moment i see it or find a more effective way to run it.

deSade.9437:

Erebus.9276:

Elitism addiction is a serious problem and you should really seek help, they even have support groups: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Looking-for-slow-dungeon-runners

I’ll try to take things more slowly. Today I started with the cure: SB/LB ranger with a pig and a boar. I had lots of funsies, ressing my noob team that died in melee and overall surviving fights. Maybe I can get out of the elitism tunnel, with the help of my loyal Mortadella… oh, and Bambi of course.

Im a longbow/axehorn ranger and im also an elitist who constantly fight and test builds for maximised effectiveness within the limit of the reasonable. Longbow is just a misunderstood child, Note i run mesmer and zerk warrior along with zerk guardian as well so it aint anything to do with behing close minded rangers have their own place in the natural order of dungeon running and so do necromancers.

Lots of people complaint or are affraid of ranger for nothing. I run jaguard longbow/axe-horn with zerker armor and ive never been kicked out of a group for my class or my spec because i actualy get thing done. However i always offer to use any class amonst my list of 7 (because i play ranger warrior necro ele guardian thief and mesmer) when it comes to a more specialised group with specific needs (aka speedclear wich i rarely join by lack of interest), I didnt down the priestess of dwayna with my ranger but with a specialy prepared full zerk warrior spec i made for the occasion its all a mather of adaptation because a class may be good in a dungeon and fail utherly in another. For most dungeon i wont bother joining speed clear group because ive got little interest into getting thing done quickly i just want to get it done so ill just take my zerk beast mastery ranger in any instance or fractal i want done when im bored (because ranger and necro are actualy quite of fun altrought maybe you guys have forgot after all this time spamming the same rotation or button mashing constantly the same thing on a single class) and i do get bored realy quick when constantly playing the same class over and over so i prety much class switch every instance i do.

Just because im running ranger doesnt mean im mind closed ive been testing every single build i run on dummies in spvp and taking asking around advice or looking other build used by player before i use them in dungeons and theres always an actual logic behind my trait/weapon choice so its not like im actualy ’’testing’’ random stuff in dungeons if im actualy using a longbow on a ranger its because i tested the damage and approved the results. Im aware of one handed sword dps but im also aware that the weapon itself doesnt fit the spec (i made that spec in mind to deal as many critical hit within the smallest amount of time possible in order to stack pet might)
This is always a step toward a maximised effectiveness and polyvalance and not a choice of actual playstyle.
If every single player used their head more and created and tested their build themselves beforehand working tirelessly for the best playstyle/effectiveness wed likely get better players in general and we wouldnt need to be constantly be worried about if a guy is using a very bad build or not. Can you realy pretend after testing it out your build isnt a total failure if the result wasnt satisfying?

Note: I dont join party i make my own i like to keep control of who i want in or out so im always the one to open the dungeon and i keep a friend or two with me for a quick kick when a guy is just behing outright lame or just wont take a hint when i try to explain him how the dungeon work. Damage effiency isnt competance, i dont care if your a zerk warrior or a staff guardian if you actualy are a problem because you have a bad attitude or just dont wanna learn the place playing the ‘’i know everything but i actualy know nothing’’ act you likely gunna get a quick kick the moment this becomes a burden to the team progression. Theres a lot of reason i would kick a player out but the class and spec isnt amonst them as long as you can be helpful.

tbh i do all my instance with pug cuz guilds are unreliable… true you do get a good party with guild but you need timing to get people online. i dont have time to waste on an aranged team when i can do the run myself with random people. + my main is a minion master necromancer and a beastmaster ranger so ill let you guess what i think of those so called zerk warrior party. I do have a zerk warrior and a dps guardian as well as a Phantasm mesmer but they are so boooooooorrrrriiiiiing id rather run with non professionnal who are more open minded yet pull their weight for the same results (and twice as less queue time). It doesnt mather if it takes longer as long as the stuff gets done mainly because i got all my time and i wont be doing it more then once a day anyway.

Of course this often result in carrying bad player around but who cares i can always kick them mid way if they dont behave.

Question would be more like why waste time making an organised party to begin with when youl spend no time pugging one and get the thing done by the time you get your so called organised party ready. Behing picky just makes thing longuer for nothing.

if eternity did look like this it would actualy be worthwile to waste my gold on a legendary to begin with. Sad Arena net seems to think legendary must look like troll-like weapon rather then actual legendary looking stuff. How is a bow that shoot unicorn supose to be legendary give me the stormbow or the voltaic spear back o_O

list of potential weapon

Shortspear or javelin: (out of water of course and as a ranged weapon to most) to be used as a 1 handed weapon
Scythe: no seriously give us that back i miss my Derv
Two handed axe: just why our warrior DOESNT have that weapon yet?
Lance: could be fun
New engy weapon kit: is it so hard to give us a cryogen cannon or a tesla?

elhona… yes i know… i miss those place but what i miss even more was my trinity-minion master build and my ranger spear-shield beast master build wich was a killer (tanked and dpsed down duncan the black with it lol) its just utherly sad that i cant play those things anymore.

Great sword has cripple on sword toss it isnt a dps weapon O_o
Greatsword has pull all on grab it isnt a dps weapon

Please stop getting out excuses to justify that a cripple makes a weapon not dps style. Longbow actualy should be the top damage weapon to ranger, it is slow it needs damage to compensate it, the reason for the cripple is to keep mobs at bay so to keep sniping them for high damage because this weapon deals lesser damage at short range.

tom.7468:

Consider renaming the thread to Armor cap to ruin the game for the ones having fun.

more like armor cap to ruin the game for the baddies having fun laughing at anyone who isnt using a zerk build.

Tbh full zerker is what i run on close to all my character however i dont spec all out damage to compensate for the actual survivability loss because i dont like glass cannon to begin with. Running raw damage warriors makes me feel like a thief running raw damage guardian also makes me feel like a thief. Warriors is supose to be able to take the blows and push mobs around with knockdown or stun them, simply running Axe or Greatsword just feel wrong so i run Rifle Hammer mace shield and dual sword or sword shield. Altrought i do something gets my greatsword out for damage sake id rather keep it in my bag at all time if i could.

The issue Anet has with pet users is their tanking viability versus damage done
In the early day Ranger pet was nerfed by 50% of its damage because rangers where dealing heavy hits while tanking it as a full tank geared spec. Minion master necromancer often are looked at with contempt because their minion damage just arent enought to keep on par with Dpsing group. Since giving pets OUR critical damage would be outright ridiculus (or awfully nice from my point of view) I assume having them scale with power would be the best solution to keep them on par with any build the player might use.

Currently pets gains from condition damage only wich is sad because prety much NO pet beside rangers one do condition damage to begin with. Now now i can understand Anet Doesnt want to work with the Pet AI and its all right it doesnt need any tweak from my point of view but pet damage should be related to the user own build rather then to a trait line or actualy it could be both with a trait that increase the pet attack power gain from masters instead of those useless traits wich increase minion damage by a flat 30% you could put that minion gains a 30% bonus of the master attack power.

Making pets gain from the master power would do 3 things.
1. Make minion master geared toward damage actualy able to do so
2. Make Beastmaster ranger more rewarding to gear damage style then tankish style as well as move the ranger as an actual fairly good pet class
3. Make the turret build for enginer actualy viable damage wise

And in overall give some value to class wich uses pet in pve party because right now people are utherly effraid of them o_O (wahahahahah a turret enginer please gtfo of my party your useless o.o)
You already made the tooltip show us what could be now make it appen for real please.

Note: DONT by all mean DONT give this buff to mesmer phantasm unless you plan toning down phantasm damage a bit to compensate for the power gain. Well actualy go ahead and do it ill just run mesmer in pvp and kill everyone with a Phantasm build o_o your phantasm mesmer already is strong enought dont make it better

Btway this could ALSO apply to pets wich comes out from an elite skill or an utility racial skill aka the thief summon and the racial summons. This would be the first step to actualy making race elite interesting.

any tought on this?

Makes me sad because in open beta ranger longbow WAS the pvp killer. I recall rapid fire hiting hard enought to nearly 2 shot a player. All you ned to do was pushback rapid fire it then kite and repeat to win now its like MEH! Pet also got their damage downed like hell (damage halved seriously?) wich kind of ruined the purpose of them. Pet NEEDS to have their spell damage increased by our attack power… its all they need to do to make pets class actualy do real damage… if my pet actualy got its skill increased by my attack power id easily be on par with any other big dps class wich i have to work like holy hell just to achieve (my maximum pet critical ever done was of 10k in a pve instance i just wish i could do that more often)

What about

Snake stance – Survival
Cooldown: 1 minute
Duration: 10 second
Provide the ranger and the pet a 50% cooldown reduction on all abilities, put healing on cooldown cannot benefit from quickening zephyr

Tiger stance – Survival
Cooldown: 1 minute
Duration: 10 second
Provide the ranger and the pet a 20% damage bonus to all ability as well as quicken, put healing on cooldown

Serpent reflex – Survival
Cooldown 20 second
Duration 6 second
Gives the ranger swiftness and block all strike while still enabling attack

Well what they could actualy do is scale pet critical damage with the ranger critical damage or at least scale the pet power with the ranger power so to make a power build viable to beast mastery having pet score serious hits. BM ranger always did heavy damage in GW 1 so why the hell is my pet dealing less damage then everyone else for uh? Maybe Anet could up the duration of the active effect of signet of the wild to make it actualy work longuer time

Centaur race
New weapon styles (scythe, shortspear out of water, 2H axe)
Tengu race
New armor
New dungeon (as in real new dungeons)
New classes
More elder dragon content related stuff
Continuation to personnal story
More ranger pet (including the pheonix please -_-)
More utility skills

Pah 4 race in this universe we could play legitimately without ruining the lore
1. Tengu
2. Centaurs
3. Kodan
4. Quaggan

Forget about dwarves they will never come back.. As for the elves Anet already stated that the sylvaris are their definition of the Elve word so forget about them as well. Id like to see a 4 legged race quite a lot in the game so Centaur definitively got my smile especialy as ranger (where did Zhed go o_O)

Largos could be played but lets be honest they are to shady as a race to make more then a background story idea. Quaggan altrought listed above for behing popular have been already cathegorised as a minor race and have no more odds of behing played then grawl skritts ogre or hyleks.

lol look at the zerker rage against weakness in pve XD go condi build badling if your so creeped about 1 single condition. Weakness always has been the bane of melee character who spammed physical damage… it should stay that way. Actualy if i was them id make it so that blindness makes ALL your hit miss for the debuff duration rather then the next hit i remember blinding surge in GW 1 so well it was hilarous to watch a warrior in pvp QQ about behing constantly blinded

what we need is a revalorisation of toughtness so to make it feel more appealing. The excuse to full zerk i often see is ‘’damage makes boss hits us less often wich result into better tanking and waste twice as half time. people with toughness makes it longuer for everyone and more likely for zerk player to die’’ this is the most ridiculus statement i ever heard about. Anet didnt class to be able to tank boss but they should clearly punish people for zerk burning them down as well so to force them to run various build in dungeon and less all out damage relying entirely on dodge. What about a Pressure gimmick wich makes that every hit you take increase damage taken by 5% to 10% for 10 second reseting to 0 if not hit within that time limit and stacking up to 100% reseting its own cooldown if hit several time while trippling the scaling damage reduction value of toughtness versus mobs. This would make defensive style viable while preventing any form of permanant standing tanking (the wow style) and force the defensive character to keep dodging and kiting the boss around rather then simply stand and take the hits while making the agro on toughness actualy usefull for something o_O (this would also make pet somewhat more usefull). While not making toughness style essential it would revalorise it in the eye of the community.

Second thing… make stackable boss impossible to stack for by adding aoe attack gimmick that one shot players who doesnt dodge or making the auto attack deadlyer or strike as a AOE effect (aka spider boss in AC who just doesnt use the net spray on stacking player and the countess of spider boss in TA wich is simply a faceroll because she just doesnt do any damage when brought in that corner x.x

this way well get a few zerker a defensive character and likely a support because altrought going full defensive could work as well youl waste a lot of time doing the dps a 4 zerk + 1 D would do, on the other hand having 1 defensive in the group will make the boss a thousand time easyer for everyone from not having to constantly dodge a targeted strike on your head giving a chance to zerk character to have a free shot at the boss without constantly behing worried about getting struck.

long as i got something that is not shooting unicorns or looking like an awkward disco ball ill likely build a legendary weapon. That raven staff is interesting in the least (why would i play bifrost on a necro?) and will do a wonderfull addition to darker, shadyer character who just cant stand the pinkish that are our current legendary list. Look i can respect a guy who got predator frostfang or twilight but how in hell did they ever tought making a bow that shoot unicorns was actualy gunna fit as a shortbow skin for those more serious player, just show what they think of thieve and ranger. Bring back in the stormbow as a longbow i wanna see my thunder arrow striking those guys head!

Sina.9208:

If you are doing a speedclear (meleeing with sword) the sweet spot is around 90-95% crit chance with banner+food. (assuming your party is able to stack might properly)

90 is useless if you got fury… what use is there to have 110% chance to do a critical since it cap at 100? go for 60 youlbe a 80 and youl crit 4 hit on 5 wich is prety much about nearly every of your hits anyway.

Spitefull spirit – Curse
Cause the target to take X damage everytime it use a skill for 10 second (cannot be dispelled like confusion) could also put 25 stack of confusion and torment on target for 10 second
1 minute cooldown

Vampire embrace – blood
Cause every ability you use to siphon 500 hp (modifiable by healing power) for 30 second or triple the power of life siphoning
1 minute cooldown

Aura of the lich – Death
You have half your normal health but take half as much damage for 30 second upon activation you ressurect 1 bone minion +1 for every dead creature in a 1800 radius (the return of a classic)
1 minute cooldown

Reaper mark – Soul reaping
Place a reaper mark on the target, every attack the target takes gives 5% life force to the necromancer for 30 second and the target takes 20% more damage. If the target is slain the necromancer recover the totality of its life force and Reaper mark cooldown is halved.
2 minute cooldown

Spoil victor – Curse
If hiting a target that has less hp then the target the cursed takes 2000 – 4000 damage
last 10 second

Balance of life – blood
You and your target equalise health to the same amount. If you have less health then the target the target transfer health to you and vice versa (if a thief is full life and you are near dead you may use balance of life to go back to 50% while damaging the thief for the same amount)

just ignore robert if anything they should DOUBLE the damage minions do 8D reason hes crying about is hes playing a guardian with 10k hp and a GS or a glass cannon thief and he got his life drained out from a vampiric minion master who said trolololol as the glassy guy got kitten d by his flesh golem :/

i wanna see the improved minion trait so badly Q_Q having 4 bone minion healing on hit golem and vuln bone fiend is like WOW imagine the self heal power from vampiric master 8D

Durzlla.6295:

Atherakhia.4086:

Wall of Thorns: Summon an unpassable wall at your feet. Anyone that passes through it (stability) is immobilized for 1 second. Projectiles cannot pass through it.The wall can be destroyed and has 50,000 health. Duration: 10 seconds. 1min cooldown.

I’d say also make it apply 5stscks of bleeding to anyone who touches the wall, would make for some nice synergy with fear and point blank shot to just smash people into our wall of thorns lol

would indeed give some use to the ranger arrow push

Bambula.3649:

wtf has beastmaster with this build to do?
and why is sword bad for beastmaster Oo with skirmishing V, perma 25 stacks might..i like !

Um no… sword is actualy a melee weapon and it doesnt attack this quickly or hit enought target to stack the 25 might without rampage as one. I use axe (triple bounce multi hit on AA?)/longbow (barrage, rapid fire) to stack might on crit proc and i often reach the sweet spot without even using the elite.

sword just dont do enought hits per second to actualy be worth it unless mobs are in a cluster wich is not always the case. Thats of course valid if your pet trought and trought (30 in beast mastery) and you want perma 25 on your pet.
I run critical damage beast master with that and my pet is constantly at its max

If you aint speced for beast mastery just run sword youl do better dps that way.
Sword doesnt do enought strike per second to actualy be worthwhile on a might stacking basis for skirm V that id know but it still do more damage then any other ranger weapon when it come to personnal dps.
Id certainly consider sword however for melee range cleaving if i can hit more then 3 target at the same time because on lonely target it just wont do. the third hit 1 might stack slightly help fix that hit number loss but its still wasted by the fact sword is a simple strike weapon (even on a single target you can do up to 5 strike with axe
splitblade and barrage do continious hit for a long time while you spam auto attack as longbow (best used when a lot of mobs are in the AOE as youl likely proc 3 stack of might or more per second).
PS you may want to use the warhorn as of offhand weither you use sword or not for hunter call. doing 17 consecutive critical hit you nearly already caped the pet might and if you run the might on weapon swap rune (3 might for 20 second) you likely will get it at its max easily

I run 0 20 0 20 30 what do you run

however fastest combo to have 25 might? use horn call,splitblade add longbow barrage and then cast rapîd fire and watch those numbers go in.

hey thats a nice idea ranger has 1 actual real stealth for its whole build that shout could make it interesting for pvp situation. better yet you could keep attacking while stealthed for a few second this would give ranger the edge in pvp it never actualy benefited from.

sniper kit? are you trying to rebuild the april fool commando or something? next thing we know well add tactical nuke and the summon air armada elite spell xD but seriously i like the sniper idea for engy

cept those class dont provide healing as well its still actualy viable considering you stack both vuln and healing

Clumsy.6257:

kyubi.3620:

Clumsy.6257:

kyubi.3620:

My definition of Fun is not hard content its actualy to look nice and hard content or not is of little importance long as i do. Fractals arent that hard yet that people actualy need to run a 5 perma shadowform A/E with pain inverter and other skill yet just to make it trought. And even then this game doesnt have the GW 1 Issue of behing forced to constantly block or evade hits with invulnerability not to die.

The content that people used multiple a/e SF tanks was very much doable without them. The reason they were used was to save time. The difference was a several hour long UW run versus an 8 minute long UW run.

this is also why Anet Hit the perma shadowform build so hard with the nerf bat that it could hardly be used anymore without a huge time loss as well as a crippling waste of money for buff, Perma spell breaker also was hit that way and i had to carry 2 hero just to buff me with enought damage to kill the mobs around me. They DONT want people to screw up the game with meta build to begin with they want them to inovate. Lesson is create as many meta running build as you want Anet will always be waiting for you at the corner with the nerf bat ready just for it. Long as the build is decent enought to be used but not strong enought to be overused Anet wont nerf it but give it so much as to make it a necesity to dungeon running or pvp and theil ’’fix’’ it without a moment tought.

That “nerf” could hardly count as a nerf. It forced people to spend about 5% of what they were making every run. If anything it sped them up due to speed boosts. You could say anet buffed SF in an unintended way.

depends on what run you talking about lots of place had theyr cost litteraly double just to compensate for it (aka raven) but hey i guess thats how business works.

took me a lot of time to actualy get my ranger to be pve and pvp viable and right now it kind of is. I run my own builds and not a meta (because i never run meta anyway or when i do its by accident because i dont check forums for builds) and test them on dummy and on players in pvp before using them. To run ranger or just anything correctly you need dedication and hard work.

Clumsy.6257:

kyubi.3620:

My definition of Fun is not hard content its actualy to look nice and hard content or not is of little importance long as i do. Fractals arent that hard yet that people actualy need to run a 5 perma shadowform A/E with pain inverter and other skill yet just to make it trought. And even then this game doesnt have the GW 1 Issue of behing forced to constantly block or evade hits with invulnerability not to die.

The content that people used multiple a/e SF tanks was very much doable without them. The reason they were used was to save time. The difference was a several hour long UW run versus an 8 minute long UW run.

this is also why Anet Hit the perma shadowform build so hard with the nerf bat that it could hardly be used anymore without a huge time loss as well as a crippling waste of money for buff, Perma spell breaker also was hit that way and i had to carry 2 hero just to buff me with enought damage to kill the mobs around me. They DONT want people to screw up the game with meta build to begin with they want them to inovate. Lesson is create as many meta running build as you want Anet will always be waiting for you at the corner with the nerf bat ready just for it. Long as the build is decent enought to be used but not strong enought to be overused Anet wont nerf it but give it so much as to make it a necesity to dungeon running or pvp and theil ’’fix’’ it without a moment tought.

‘’I know they wont do a thing since arenanet probly has the worse support and just awareness of their playerbase i have ever come across.’’

um nah that would be blizzard with world of warcraft XD frost mage and paladin

They will do something and yes they are aware. They just dont want to make people notice to much otherwise well start asking for impossible stuff and they wont be able to fill the demand. Give them time it took a whole expension time in Guild Wars 1 before we started to notice some change to the class. They still have so many stuff to fix and content to add they just have so little time for class balancing they will make thief viable one step after another

well we could have wyverns for the elemental pet type that you listed above expiatus
as for other stuff why not add bugs as in other stuff then spider?

as for big bird the pheonix obviously is a candidate (big thing roomed your whole screen in GW 1 it was funny in pvp because people couldnt see a thing)

My definition of Fun is not hard content its actualy to look nice and hard content or not is of little importance long as i do. Fractals arent that hard yet that people actualy need to run a 5 perma shadowform A/E with pain inverter and other skill yet just to make it trought. And even then this game doesnt have the GW 1 Issue of behing forced to constantly block or evade hits with invulnerability not to die.

dont think theil do that they want theyr content to be accessible

oh forgot this one
What: thief shortbow stealth
Why: I used to be an advanturer before until i took an arrow to the knee

What: Venom
Why: Because it tickle to much

What: Trap
Why: Because one thief ruined my flower pot puting a spike trap in it (my poor roses Q_Q)

What: Thieve guild
Why: Thief should do a quest to aquire membership in a thieve guild before behing able to spam that skill

What: Pistol
WhyL: arent pistols at this time supose to be able to do maximum 6 shot before needing to reload there should be cooldown after hiting 6 time

What: Short Bow
Why: how can their arrow actualy bounce perfectly between target this skill needs ground targeting o_O

What: Cluster bomb
Why: just how can he detonate the bomb at distance with does he has some time of ’’bomb’’ button somewhere on a remote pannel?

What: pistol stun
Why: stop making me dizzy _

What: ambush
Why: Just where did that guy come from?

What: Your mother
Why: Because thief are motherless scum or so everyone says o_o

i run search and rescue from time to time when in dungeons and fractal for player who just cant keep themselves alive its a usefull tool when running beast mastery.