Guild Wars 2

Oozo.7856:

Then, of course, there are the cases when the people really are doing questionable things. What needs to stop are accusations of hacking with no proof to back it up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aM1wuqgzCk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CNsjBQMRG0

100% agree

arKRazor.8654:

dreztina.4820:

I find it somewhat humorous that the only guild I’ve found in this matchup with skilled players is being accused of hacking to compensate for skill.

Quote for truth. I’ve been in some great fights with Yarr.

I’m not sure why people default to accusation of hacking so easily. If I die I was either focused, outplayed, or outnumbered.

I can answer that question. Basicly, it’s a self defence mechanism that has for main purpose to protect the self esteem of the players. If you are easily beaten by someone that means that this someone is either a lot better than you or that you aren’t good.

The later conclusion would hurt the player’s self esteem so in order to protect it he will try to convince himself that the other players are “cheaters” or have “no life”. This phenomenon is called “self serving bias”, because the fault of a player’s failure will be external to him (from someone else) and something he has no control about (like cheating). That way the player can’t reach the conclusion that he is bad, cauz someone else did something that CAN’T be avoided.

This is why you rarely hear in the forums someone saying “I got beaten good I need to go practice in pvp”, because admitting that your failure is your own fault can hurt self esteem or confidence.

wiki has another great exemple of self serving bias : “Self serving bias is attributing dispositional and internal factors for success and external, uncontrollable factors for failure. For example, if a person gets promoted, it is because of his/her ability and competence whereas if he/she does not get promoted, it is because his/her manager does not like him/her (external, uncontrollable factor).”

In a nutshell, this is why it makes me happy when Yarr is accused of cheating. It means we do a great job!

my main is a ranger and i ended up doing it on mesmer. The trick is go full zerker and GS. I don’t remember exactly my traits exactly since i don’t play mesmer often. I had something like (20/20/10/0/20). so i phase one you use number 2 and 4 skill all the time to summon illusions to make sure the boss doesn’t hit you.

Just when phase 2 starts use your stealth utility that spawn a clone to get away from him as much as you can then you rotate clockwise. Moa elite skill works on him and you should also use the utility that gives 3 condi to your target cauz if she snares you it’s gg.

Was a fun week AR and SF! Also, thx for all the fun duels

i played that kind of build for a while and yea it is fun in PVE. In wvw tho if only one ennemy decide to focuss you, you become useless since you are glass. If it’s a thief well you won’t be able to do kitten if he knows what he is doing. He may as well 2 shot you if he is zerker too. If you can have a zerg around you all the time there should be no problem tho. Also, i don’t believe long range shot can do over 4k if oponent isn’t an underlevel and has some toughness

i tried your build for 4 days now (also ran faux sheaux for like 3 weeks prior to that) and i have to admit that yeah it is indeed strong but i don’t find altruism rune THAT good. Yes it’s good and all but i’ve been thinking of switching for undead and that would mean 1800 condi damage with stacks. That would help a lot against some classes.

i find your build very creative and interesting!
I have a question for you tho, why are you using A/T S/D instead of A/D S/T?

I would like to add that this is a power build made to do good damage. That build will however lose in efficiency if you run by yourself or with one or 2 players. You would still do fine, but if you run with 5+ players you will be really annoying since it’s much more easier to range burst someone when he is already fighting your teamates.

okay, i tried many different combinations and first you need the right gear
armor/weapons : knight
rune of divinity (lyssa or melandru is also good)
for trinkets i use cavalier
That way you have enough armor to have a decent survivability.

Concerning traits, the two best options i found are either 30/20/20 or 30/3010. 30/30/10 has more pewpew while 30/20/20 has more survivability. I’ll describe 30/20/20 since it’s the one I use
marksmanship 1,10,11
skirm : 6,10
wilderness 6, 9
utility: quickening zephyr, lightning reflexes, signet of stone
healing troll unguent
elite : entangle or rampage
pets : wolf and dog
defensive aspect of the build :
-with cavalier trinkets, knights armor and signet of stone you have around 3.1K armor so you won’t be bursted down easily (unless you run into a zerg)
-LB #4 is an amazing knockback and SB #3 is free dodge
-Activating signet of stone grants you 6 sec immunity on a 80 sec CD since you have #11 trait in marksmanship
-Hide in plain sights (from wilderness) gives you a stealth if you get cced
-ligthning reflexe is a stun breaker, a free dodge and gives you vigor for 10 sec you can dodge like a crazy

offensive aspect of the build:
-if you have same armor and divinity as well you should have around 3.1K attack 50% crit chance (with oil) and 80% crit damage
-With LB and quickening zephyr you can burst someone very fast with #4,3,2 combo
-both pets possess a knockdown and if you active their skill you have fear and immobilise
-if ennemy close on you, you can switch to SB and use #5 and #4 to snare and interrupt him
-Finally LB #5 is one of the best AoE in the game.

Also you can always use the same build and switch shortbow for GS if you find shortbow boring

If it’s for WvW yes i have a good build but if it’s for spvp there is nothing i can do for you

Geoski.1407:

Just thought I’d show you guys PAXA’s true colors.

This chat session takes place at fightnight when PAXA randomly shows up and DEMANDS a 5v5 from the guild Basic[BS].

Side Note We’ve been wiping PAXA quite a bit in fair fights over the last few weeks so I can see where the nerdrage is coming from.

After the chat, they merked us at the duelspot and left(while half of us were in duels)

That discussion reminds me of a spoiled kid throwing a tantrum cauz his father don’t wanna get him the candy he wants…sad

Did some footage last 2 weekends (was able to play on a good comp instead of my usual laptop!) and i was able to gather some footage of Yarr crew doing pirate stuff.

subcrazy.1098:

salocinn.4120:

subcrazy.1098:

salocinn.4120:

Just wanted to tell PAXA necro he is kitten. We have to focuss you since you are annoying AND you are a pain in the kitten to kill (even tho you aren’t a mesmer). Good thing we don’t see many like you XD

Hmm not sure how to respond. Sounds like Ur saying I’m bad then Ur not lol. I’m confused but I’ll just say thanks either way.

i wrote badhass without h, you’r good man

Thanks man. Was that u we had a annoying fight with the ranger and 2 stealthy’s.

yup I was the ranger! That was a very fun fight even if we lost

subcrazy.1098:

salocinn.4120:

Just wanted to tell PAXA necro he is kitten. We have to focuss you since you are annoying AND you are a pain in the kitten to kill (even tho you aren’t a mesmer). Good thing we don’t see many like you XD

Hmm not sure how to respond. Sounds like Ur saying I’m bad then Ur not lol. I’m confused but I’ll just say thanks either way.

i wrote badhass without h, you’r good man

“1000+ kills but not a single death” + “Not saying ranger is OP” = I am too skilled for this game and i am now tired of you know being invincible. plz anet grant me new tools?
Try another class bro

Just wanted to tell PAXA necro he is kitten. We have to focuss you since you are annoying AND you are a pain in the kitten to kill (even tho you aren’t a mesmer). Good thing we don’t see many like you XD

Long range shot is still taking 1.25 sec to fire instead of .75 sec like stated in description

What I am worried about is LB… With quickness nerf and Long range shot animation bug making it attack 1.25 sec per arrow instead of .75 sec this weapon is sub par. Quickness was awesome because you could speed up rapid fire and barrage. But ya they even said in march’s state of the game that LB “needed some love” and it of course didn’t receive any.
So, since they didn’t talk about LB this time should we assume that it will receive some love? oO

Since not too many rangers seems to be aware about such an important issue, I decided to make post…

Since Launch there has been a bug that affect some ranged weapons such as longbow, pistol, scepter, staff to have an activation rate much slower than the activation written in the tooltips.

At the moment, longbow’s long range shot (#1 skill) fires 1 arrows per 1.25 sec instead of one arrow per .75 sec. So, it takes 66.6% longer to fire an arrow, which mean that even with actual quickness long range shot takes longer to fire than it should fire normally.

Einlanzer.1627:

Kiran.2705:

I was extremely disappointed in the ranger’s longbow when I tried it. Rangers really need to be renamed meleenger, or shortranger. Longbow is garbage.

No they don’t, because that’s not what the name means.

On topic, I don’t know why more people don’t realize this, but there is a bug/design oversight causing Longbow #1 to fire much more slowly than it should fire. This bug affects #1 skills on several ranged weapons (Pistols, Scepters, Staffs), but NOT Rifles. It previously affected Shortbow as well until the removed the activation speed to speed it up closer to its intended rate.

It’s utterly astonishing that this doesn’t get discussed more by the player base and why it hasn’t been addressed by devs because it’s single handedly ruining the playability of multiple weapons/builds across all professions.

Yeah i don’t understand why such a gamebreaking issue isn’t discussed more than that…if that bug would be fixed LB would be a decent weapon…I even made a post in Bug section but only one person commented

JKFlipFlop.7123:

To the Yarr guild from FC, thank you for being a small man and giving us an awesome fight at titan. That was probably one of the most fun I’ve had so far this match up. Keep being awesome!

Very fun fight indeed
Our 5 man squad still died in the end tho T_T. I hope we’ll see more of these fights!

Q&A
I don’t like signet of stone cauz it require so many points in marksmanship to make it work on me…does it matter if i use protect me instead?

Yes it does your pet will do nothing that duration and will die in 2 seconds and you will take all damage for the other 4 secs…

Signet of stone has a long CD i don’t like it

Well, that kitten can be the only thing that protect you from a one shot thief or a one shot warior, play safer when it’s on CD.

I die a lot with that build what should i do?

Just change build if you do…this build is meant for experienced players that are good at dodging…it might be hard at first but believe me if you get used to it you will still have high survivability and be a pain in the kitten to kill

can i replace lighning reflex with signet of the hunt? i love movement speed in WvW

I use a horn for number 5 skill that gives me movement speed in wvw then i switch back to regular wep once i have the buff. once you are in combat signet of the hunt is pretty much useless.

Is your build good for PVP, PVE, WVW zerg, WVW solo roam?

this build is awesome in all these aspect of the game except maybe solo roam. You should be able to kill most targets in 1v1 fights if you are good (except maybe retaliation guardians and good mesmers), but when it comes to 1v2 or 1v3 this build isn’t that great since it require more toughness and vita in order to perform. BUT if you are running with a good warior or guardian you can do 2v4 or 2v5 depending on how skilled your oponents are. But ya this build shine much more if you have 3-4 players with you to act as meat shield while you snipe the kitten out of everyone.

i love your guide but i prefer having 20 points in wilderness…
Well good for you, but don’t blame me if you get one shotted because you don’t have enough points in marksmanship to afford signet of stone.

Can you post a video of you playing your ranger?
No, i play on a laptop and i don’t want it to explode

I have a defensive build on my ranger and i have great sucess…
Great for you bro…this is a pew pew build, so if you like defense play defense if you like pew pew play pew pew.

why using lyssa rune?
Cause you can go inside a zerg, then entangle all those players in the face. During 5 sec you will gain godlike powers that will make you able to aoe them then gtfo

final note
Rangers rely a lot on their pets…learn to use their skills and to switch them at the right time they can be such a great pain in the kitten of your oponent when you know how to use them. If you suck at using pets then practice…if you don’t want to use them roll another class and stop complaining.

Also the key to be good in this game is to anticipate what your oponent is trying to do to YOU. By being one step ahead you can counter pretty much everything (except very skilled mesmers and retaliation guardians). This is why doing pvp is very good since this is the fastest way to experiment that build and see how other classes will react to you.

I was tired of rangers complaining about doing crap damage so i decided to make a guide to show how can rangers have best single target rdps in the game
of course haters are still gonna hate that’s life…

marksmanship 30 traits 1,X, X1
skirmishing 25 1 or V1, X
wilderness 10 , V1
nature 0
BM 5

Gear: berserker all the way…it’s a pew pew guide after all
runeset : rune of the ranger OR lyssa rune (i have a preference for lyssa)
weapon : longbow and shortbow
sigil : fire on longbow (air is good too) and generosity on shortbow
utility skills : quickening zephyr, lightning reflex, signet of stone
elite skill: both entangle and rampage as one are good. I do prefer entangle tho
How to play?

this build rely a lot on longbow so you need to understand how it works first… The rotation 4,3,2 used with a pet switch or quickening zephyr is amazing on that weapon if you run that build it is even enough to take down a squishy player that doesn’t bother to dodge (picking a target that used his dodges is always a good idea).
number 4 skill will destabilize your ennemy this is why i usually start by it and it also ensure that number 3 skill connect which the most important skill in the rotation.
what if the invader dodge number 4?
Doesn’t matter what’s important is that number 3 connect…he most likely won’t use 2 dodge in a row.

Why does number 3 need to connect?

because it does 10 vulnerability stacks…with opening strike it’s 15 stacks with one skill…it goes up to 20 if your pet hit too!
then the fun starts with rapid fire burst it can easily go up to 10K damages in 2 seconds on a squishy with all those vulnerability stacks if you used pet switch or quickening zephyr.
All that is nice in theory but what if the oponent dodge twice during that rotation?

Players that aren’t experienced tends to panick when they see that their burst didn’t have a big effect…they are like “ kitten what should i do now”
In this case if your oponent indeed dodge twice you won’t take more than 10-25% of his health with that rotation but the thing is…HE CAN’T DODGE ANYMORE and you are ahead of him by 10-25% in health isn’t that great? Now you have to options he will most likely try to jump on you or try to rpds you if he is range. if he is melee use number 5 skill around you…that skill in itself can take down a stupid target that stays in it.

Yes but most target aren’t stupid and that kitten is too long to cast bro i’m gonna get killed…

Don’t worry you still have signet of stone if you are in trouble but only use that kitten in last resort. you can speed up the cast time with a pet switch and just after pet switch use your pet skill wolf or dog are amazing…Since they have quickness too when you switch they will almost cast their kitten instant…so in a nutshell you aoe around you and speed the cast by switching to wolf or dog then use aoe fear or immobilize on that pet trapping your ennemy in a nasty rain of arrow that ticks between 800-1100 damage each .5 sec and remember that ennemy is either heavily wounded or has no more dodge.
if the ennemy is range don’t bother with that aoe damage thing around you just skip to next step.

after 432 or 4325 on LB it’s time to switch to SB…cauz number 1 skill is crap on LB…unless you are in a big zerg fight or you need the extra 300 range but most of the time you won’t need it.
When you switch to SB you have to keep in mind that your ennemy just took your burst or wasted his dodges but still took some damage. IF he has more than 75% of his life use number 5 skill to buy some time as well as a pet switch and use your pet skill asap to crossfire him to at least 60% then do skill number to cauz he will try to heal. Remember that both your canines pets have a 2 sec KD which helps a LOT and make sure you use your pet skills when there are ready. Also make sure to STAY around your pet when you order him to do aoe immobilize or fear. Also number 3 skill is amazing for kiting since it avoid you wasting a dodge. Lightning reflexe is also another dodge and gives you 100% endurance regen so even more kiting.

If the target is almost dead when you switch to SB you can either use number 5 to stun him then number 2 to reduce his healing or do number 2 first then try to interrupt his healing with number 5 if you feel pro. Then do a pet switch and crossfire untill 432 LB skills get off cooldown.

I could still explain more details for 4-5 pages but i don’t feel like it

well, you can see it this way… irl you can go out with 2 girl at the same time without any of them knowing that there is another girl. When you open guild tab and see “not representing” it’s like one of the two girl receive a text message saying that you are at the other girl’s home which is problematic. So either you make it clear to both girl that you have too much love to give for only one or you pick the one you prefer.

Is it a bug that Kudzu has no special animation for Barrage? A rain of light arrows would have been pretty awesome.