Guild Wars 2

Idk if it was the late hour but in pvp u could look far better for ur Team mates.
Team rezzing and looking where help is really needed and not needed are just Little things that can Change a whole game.
Nevertheless it was interesting to watch u playing.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/

If u could upgrade ur site like this old one does it would be great.

Effective Power, Effective Health, Damage Reduction, the Condi ticks. That would make ur tool far more cooler

+1 for the giant smashing the Little asura.

exactly when my Team starts playing xD
Which mode u Play now?

New Infos about the stream?
I hope not during GER-BRA

ah i remember the time when we Need to heal our fallen pets. it was really hard in wvw to rezz his own pet xD

while i agree with everything what u say, idk if Runes would make sense and would be balanced.
Sigils for pets would be nice, thats clear. On swap sigils – cool, Duration sigils – nice (wolf+MT+Para sigil jeez), but on crit could be too strong. imagine what dmg Output a ranger could have with Air+Fire on weapon and a second one on pet. I think some rules are needed for it.

Runes on pets…not all runes would make sense and maybe it could be too strong. A list is needed which could make sense, Rune of warrior yes when its on Pet swap, on elite runes maybe when we Count the 3rd attack as elite and the cd is on 90. Our heal can Count as pet heal.
For collars the old PvP jewels would be useful for them. But for noobfriendlyness anet connencted them with the collars.

All in all:
Sigils yes, Runes have room for discussions.

i hope next time i can see how u r playing.
just listening is hard at that time

I dont unterstand why people complain about hilt bash
kitten it needs to much skill to land?
Instant stealth for a lb skill? kitten it needs to much positioning to gain a reward?

A lower cd on RaO would be nice
Currently the ranger cqn gain less advantage from on-elite runes.
Maybe a 90s cd or the possibilty to lower the cooldown via traits. Maybe shout mastery.

Everytime interesting to see the logic of some players.
good rangers with good arguments about the state of the ranger are “noobs” and people who cant win against “noob builds” are just a pro player with a horrible underpowered class.

Call all dictionarys that trolls are people who are right.
Sad statement about the general state of the world

i personally was a noob at start who nevermind to watch vids how to Play, which builds are existent, which rangers are fame and made which builds. So i dont know about Xsorus, Sol i think i heard, and when i saw a good ranger in pvp i never used to remember his Name.
But i call my bro snoow, after i started reading the QQ Forum as a noob i was before thinking they are all right. The discussions with him, an experienced and by some of the best pvp Players known guard, around the ranger changed my way of thinking. It prevented the community from a new QQ ranger.
I call Lypion as the real Inventor of the Regen build, he played it and killed so many in the 1v1 Angz Arena, and not even as main ranger, before Faux got fame with it.

And yes we could say the most influential rangers are the podcasters and so on, but i less used this form of learning, but People who could really influence rangers are good writers in this Forum. Who can Change the mind of one “Ranger Sux”er to someone who finally understands that rangers are REALLY GOOD and just Need some help here and there has the biggest Impact.
For me is that as first Prysin, in my eyes one of the true rangers here on Forum, who has knowledge about the class and everything around it and who understands ranger balancing and not ranger OPing. and i luv it when he destroys his “L2P list”
for jcbroe i have a lot of respect for his activity on Forum and his knowledge and his good Soul to teach this community.
durzlla is cool too

and i hope my Posts are no random kitten with no deeper meaning xD

it should never be released for pvp. being unkillable here and there can be nice yes.
but imagine how u fight in tpvp a bunker guard, a triple cantrip ele or a knockback engi as point holder. alone it would be impossible to kill him in a time frame that would help the team. pvp would end up with nomadic fighters in mid that cant get the point and one nomadic that holds the Back point. it would be absolutely static or the zerg method would become more fame because alone fighting is wasted manpower some where else.

and yes toughness is main stat. what it makes the most bunker combi of that three stat.

the new stat combo toughness/vitality/healing aka nomadic
what do u think. which builds could work with it

in pve not useful, prayers to god never in pvp.
only left wvw.
roaming – full nomadic with tough runes and signet of stone gives 2400 toughness. that means 47% dmg reduction. 7000 more hp, 700 healing. in 1v1 it is in that way strong that u cant get killed, but u can kill the foe in an bigger amount of time.

group play – only option i could see is that we run as first into the fight and that we hope the foes are not smart and only attack u ,while ur team makes dmg.

zerg play: a ranger with full nomadic is like..you are not there
u cant get killed and u do no dmg. really less usefull in zerg fight

all in all imo that stat combo isnt a good combo for us ranger.
that full tank combo could only be strong if a build can spam ALL conditions at once. even without condi dmg would it be strng enough
noma knockback engis would be horrible

but maybe u have ideas for a build that could work

i really like the idea of evade on F3. But i think for most…rangers…here on forum it would be too skillfull to handle. i mean…they Need to see oh kitten a aoe…then they Need to press F3…then the pet is on their site and they Forget to press F1 to let the pet attack again.
Its a really hard L2P issue and most of them have no time to learn, because criticising the balancing on ranger is a full time Job! i personally think ist a great idea

while i agree that the base dmg of GS AA could scale a bit better with power (from all comparable GS AA attacks rangers has the smallest skill coefficient), I dont know if it is necessary for Sword. I´d rather upscale the Axe AA or what do u think?

yes to the idea to make ranger the anti-stealth class, but kitten no to that idea
give muddy Terrain revealed, that would be better

my safi has different armors for different playstyles. Clio has one but ist just perfect imo.

rate which is the best

wow, just what i expected to see in posted Videos
Pro ranger wreck glascannons and uplevel wvw Player from far behind. Less 1v1 and more “dude stop Shooting me, i just want my iron ore”. Most foes had no interest in fighting and were just kiting or they were in fight with others and they just start Shooting from behind.
but gg, be proud to hunt happy ore farmers down

u can create a funny gimmick build with this weaponset
u use moment of clarity and boar as main pet.
MoC increases stun durations 100%. with boar u can find a bone and a skull head. with that two weapons every 35s u can create surprisingly long disables.
with sigil of para and mesmer runes u can increase the time

anet: “we decided that pvp warrior should get 10 additional ranks to represent their OPnes
we think it helps the players to see they are better then u and the wars dont need so much time to skyhammerrank the dragon finisher.
because some warrior have already dragon we give them the big dragon finisher.
deal with it kittens. balancer over and out. peeeaaaacee”

truth has been spoken

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/25yca2/living_story_season_2_confirmed_to_be_permanent/

wow i found it

Edit: i missinterpreted the first pic, sry for that. nevertheless, what that Lady avant says is interesting and when there is a whole Team for that theme then i think is it promising

interesting
because i tryed to theorycraft a vampiric off-BM, focused around life steeling with sigil of blood and leeching and zealot armor. but its hard without expierences from anyone

nearlight.3064:

snow.8097:

in fact on reddit was some weeks ago a post about a dev talking to the community in gendarran. he said that precursor crafting is coming soon.
before here everybody cries QQ but the manifesto…they said already that is could came out later then hoped and i think in season two it is expectable that we can get the new manifesto and Infos about the precursors and maybe legendarys.
Dont Forget it is possible that precursor hunt and new legendary come at same time

Can you provide a link to this reddit post? I’m interested in reading it but I don’t use reddit really so I don’t know how to find it.

i can try to search it but it will be hard to find

when u want to Play power i suggest a 6/0/2/6/0 build on berserk with LB
u dont even Need to Change the rest of ur build, just the traits.
use the NM line for more survivability and u can Play better against condis
thiefes work with blind and poison, evasive purity helps, they stun u with their poison elite? use SotF and LR and start to Counter them with ur fury. and with natures protection u can survive the first burst easier.

and in 6 months 1g is 1gem worth and anet gonna swim in Money because no one can buy the gem stuff with Gold anymore and pays real Money for new skins
longtime Mission completed anet

in fact on reddit was some weeks ago a post about a dev talking to the community in gendarran. he said that precursor crafting is coming soon.
before here everybody cries QQ but the manifesto…they said already that is could came out later then hoped and i think in season two it is expectable that we can get the new manifesto and Infos about the precursors and maybe legendarys.
Dont Forget it is possible that precursor hunt and new legendary come at same time

I asked me this questions and started a bit math and hoped to find a General question.
The answer is, there is no concrete answer for this Topic. Everyone has to calculate some formulas when he wants to know if Force or battle or maybe bloodlust is more effective for his build.

The General formula to see which dmg u inflict is:

Dmg done = Dmg Multiplier * (Weapon strength * Power * skill-specific coefficient / target’s Armor)

Dmg Multiplier: that Counts the 5% dmg from S.o.Force or trait effects like dmg Bonus on weapon sets. 5% dmg is a term of 1,05.
Weapon Strength: for this term u can take the average number from the dmg range of ur weapon, for example exotic Greatswords have a range from 995-1100. So the average is 1048.
Power: u can take this term from ur hero Panel, but dont Forget that Stacks of might increase this term. I advise to type ( power + 0) in ur calculator that u can easily Change the formula later.
ssc: each skill has a secret coefficient that converts ur power to dmg. U cant see them ingame, u Need to look for the Grey number in
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page
just search ur skill, i recommend for first the autoattack of ur weapon set.
Targets armor: this term is not specific, i suggest to take the reference armor of the different classes:
Scholars: 1836 / Adventurer: 1980 / Soldiers: 2127

So when we just say sigil of strength gains us perma 3 stack might we have to add 105 Power to the formula.
for sigil of force we just Need to write 1.05 in dmg Multiplier.

Because of the dmg range the calculated numbers u get dont Need to be the same as ur ingame of the skillfact.

All in all to answer the above question, every build which focuses in Power as mainstat (armor, weapons, trinkets, traits) should use force
a bit “weaker” builds can use strenght for better dmg (condi dmg too)

For theorycrafter i can recommend These sites:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/60838-math-damage-reduction-toughness-and-vitality/
http://gw2buildcraft.com/articles/calculator-faq/

i hope it helped some People and i am open for improvements from better mathematics

i have interest in crafting a celestial armor because i have all recipes and from wvw rank up chests i got in one week the ascended celestial rings…#fate

are there any other builds then that what prysin posted?

Oh and Prysin, do u have experiences with zealot armor?

is that a real Quote from a book or movie? goT maybe? xD
when not then respect for dat lyric xD

i wait for the day when invulnerable safe stomping a lá mist form, engi Elixier and distortion wont function anymore.
Its so unfair for the downed and for the ones who wanted to rezz them

for me is the hate against thief the class and their mechanic itself.
For me its like everything that someone can hate Comes together in one class
Spamming, Stealth, condi kitten, so many evades, coming unmanly from behind and running away like a lightning when they got too much dmg and come back after using shadow refuge aka “reset button” and feel like king when they beat u surprisingly even we wrecked them in 1v1.
what i hate the most, when they cant beat u, they come in between in a 1v1, help killing u and finish to feel like a Boss-.
for me its unhonourable class mechanic and for me its no wonder that many Players dislike thiefes

The Torch! i asked last year for torches with White or black flames! Finally i got them with the extra token, thanks anet

But now i want a torch with black flames. : |

looks like my “darwin build” i made before the big patch released.
but in fact its the same build except the runeset

i like the power build. its similar to the power survival build that dante posted on reddit some time ago. but i prefer berserk amulett instead of soldier, cqnt imagine that soldier works really well.
with that change u could use better sigils. on longbow fire/air works well.
but all in all that build is more fun to play then the 6/6/2 setup

my theory is that with 1st July we will see the upgrade to 500 for the last two Jobs.

The new additional crafting license hints it imo.

Thanks for this nice build Editor, but i would celebrate it when they add such Infos like on this “old” calculator:

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/

Under Damage&Survivability u can see ur effective dmg and ur dmg reduction. And when click Condition dmg u can see the ticks of each condition.
That tool would be great and would improve ur site even more.

tormented runner is inspired by predators instinct, with an CD it would just be applied to one foe, i hope this makes it clear, it is no zerg skill, more focused on small fights.

and the ideas to the less used traits are not to buff the ranger, but to make this traits more interesting, useful and logic.
the BM traits could give beastmasters in zerg fights more teamability they currently not really have

lower cd on A mainhand isnt needed, the skills are already really short for such skills, 3s chilled on 10cd is good and the amount of weakness on foe is great, lower the cd would has less Impact then u think

CA.. i know the discussion about it, but i can imagine in some builds it would be like a Healing signet for rangers, i mean cats and birds can crit so often, with BM even more and with horn we could Play a BM-Power.Hybrid build and are unkillable

QD, i read some weeks ago a thread about the idea to make our projectile chances higher, this trait could be a good place for it

are my ideas so uncool? xD

Merge Signet Mastery into Beastmaster´s Might.
Most signet traits of all classes are just CD reductions, thats okay for adepts, but only SoR can effect us, without traiting SotB. The only reason to use this trait, without go 6 Points in MM would be have lesser CD on SoR, nothing else.
Merging them would make it more focused on playing Signets without loosing a Adept trait for it.
Now we have one Adept trait missing, as this line focuses around Signets, the Longbow and gaining effects when ur pet or ur foe are under special Situations, i suggest a new Trait:

Tormented Runner.
When your foe gains Swiftness, your next attack applies Torment. Amount of stacks, Duration and Cooldown are up to Balance Team.

Next Thing. MM is the Longbow Line. Many rangers dont like it to trait 30 for effects they think should be by Default.
My Idea:
Merge Piercing Arrows With Read the Wind. For me it would make sense, when we can shoot like machine guns, we should pierce the target.
Problem: it does not effect the shortbow, here would piercing by default make more sense.
Another idea would be making read the wind effecting the projectile Speed of others weapons too, not 100% like on LB, but maybe 33-50%.
With that we Need again a new master trait – hard work for anet.
for the fact that MM has a lot of good traits, creating a new one is difficult. My idea would be a trait around Vulnerability or gaining a shorttime of stealth (1-2s nothing more) to gain more synergy with Remoreseless.

Honed axeS:
this should effect Axe offhand too, Mainhand is more condition based, with that trait it would deal real good dmg on S/A power builds. A/A could only gain 225 Ferocity

Oakheart Salve: add Torment to Trigger it

Poison Master: Add a defensive Option against poison. Lesser damage from poison or lesser or maybe no (could be extremely strong) heal effectiveness decrease under poison.

Stability Training: less used trait. All in All maybe we should think about changing the Master BM traits in General. Since vigorous Training do not only effect birds, Moas and jellyfishes anymore, maybe the other traits for specific pet classes are obsolete. Stability Training could be changed to help the Team, small AoE Stability when the pet is disabled, could be great synergy with Shared Anguish.

Intimidation Training: The thought is okay, but fact is that the Majority of These F2 attacks are focused around chill, fear and immob. So some seconds of the applied cripple are wasted or doesnt help u (cripple on fear). It could be changed that all pet classes could benefit from it.

Rending attacks: for all pet classes, maybe lower Bleed Duration because Cats and birds have higher crit Chance then other classes.

Please discuss my ideas

funny when he said it while the last living story chapters
lions arch got attacked, everything burns, thousands are dead, his trading post is destroyed, around him crying people…“it’s a good day” – well, ’kay evon….

first, i think more raids should use LB ranger to spike the weapons in Towers, which are out of reach for others, the deep barage aoe is really helpful to pressure arrowcart users on sideplaces in Towers.
But yes rangers are in an uncomfortable place for WvW as General, as solo fighter really strong and that is helpful for a zerg too, but not great.
what i cant understand is why so less rangers Play on Spirit in wvw, sure the Spirits die, but right timed the passives Triggers after the death and the actives can Trigger two times while alive and dead. with the buff/nerf of the CD of Spirits i thought a new wvw Spirit meta Comes.
Our current zerg help are healing spring, Call of the wind and Pet F2.

pet scaling is a very difficult Thing for programmers i think, that idea in General was already discussed in cdi.
Everything with pet AI is not useful to discuss, we should celebrate anet for the F2 fix.
When we see new WvW maps with water fights, sure of course that would be epic, but as we saw they deleted the pvp map uncorn with water fights to make the game…more noobfriendly (No! bad anet! xD) we should not expect such a map.
thats a theme what will not help rangers, nerfing others to make the ranger more useful? at end the ranger will still not be accepted in wvw and we applied it to necros as well – no.

My ideas:
Triggering traps: we can activate traps without waiting for a foe, with that we can use the Combo fields for stacking might and frost Aura.
Rangers become the anti-stealth class. With sic´em it was a start, now we Need more revealed skills
I suggest Muddy Terrain for Aoe Revealéd. Moving over mud cause footprints – we can see the foe, he is revealed. That as aoe could cause that just some rangers with muddy Terrain can reveal the half of a zerg when they move through the mesmer skill (sry dont know the english word for it).
Other skill; signet of the Hunt. Passive stays, for active a revealed effect is added. For example the target gains a good amount of revealed.
For the design of the Profession it would make sense or not? the ranger who can see through the darkness of the forest and his sharp eyes can see what others cant see.

the Trapper was always a good build which Needs a bit skill, the Problem is that he has Problems with conditions.
In PvP is rabid the Standard for Trapper, but we have no hp increase, even with a good amount of toughness we melt under conditions.
So this build can only Play good rangers who know how to move and act.

Personally ist fun to Shooting at skyhammer and place all my traps at Portal – no way to evade

i suggested to make the attack cooler
to make it to a chain attack, the first attack gives us some stacks of might for x-duration and the second one is the normal attack

Would it be really be worth taking it for some builds?
the only build that could use it quiete well are condi builds with torch and axe or shortbow

A reward track for fractal Skin would be nice for People has no interest in grinding such Content for the random Chance of a Skin and end up with another Skin they dont want

My idea would be tracks of other gods
Dwayna and Grenth for example to unlock just the Skins of the wintersday Skins.
Kormir to get the angelic wings so many asked for.
Melandru and Lyssa…here i have no idea

really uncool as i noticed it
this signet Need to be looked at
first we Need to see the radius, there is no tooltip info
second, the pet should take the conditions of the ranger by Default, i mean in wvw it´s smart to Change the pet before using the effect, right? Right? No, poorly even we switched pet and then we activate, there is the risk that it just takes the condis of ur allies, they think nice my two bleed stacks are gone and we die on condi overload.
and when we traited SotB this effect should effect us too in that way, that we can cure the conditions of allies in near, without getting them. Maybe our pet takes them then too
With that Changes it is easier to use and it will bring a lot of Utility for wvw Players when we can cure up to 10 allies from conditions

poor to see that a thief sees the big potential of shout ranger and the most ranger not

nevertheless its after Beastmaster the most bunker build for ranger and not really viable, for tanking in pvp possible good, as BPD, but as midnight said, its hard to get someone fast enough down to be helpful for the Group, thats my opinion.
nevertheless a nice build, thanks that someone understands that one evade on each set is smarter then two on just one set

interesting discussion, chrispy makes good Points
the ranger increase, sure sounds cool for a lot, but ist more a QoL buff and wvw buff.
for pvp it isnt needed, further the foe, further the way the throwed trap must fly, more time for the foe to come closer. when a Trapper noticed that they throw them in the original range and the big “buff” is not necessary anymore, but for that and the anet philosophy “we buff that, but nerf that” and vice versa, we will loose something, maybe not on traps, but in General.
for example last patch anet buffed Pet AI, for that they nerfed/fixed shortbow AA bleed, the #4 horn attack and the Spirit heal. Give and take.

And i think it will be hard to see such wvw/QoL buffs for ranger because the balancer are more pvp Player and in pvp ranger are in a good place, even some Whiner tell the world the opposite.
And they have the strange opinion, bug is bug and Need to be fixed, even if classes worked well with them without that some ever noticed about it.
I mean Shortbow is now less useful for condi builds and horn is now just a niche weapon because the whole attack can be evaded when the first attack didnt hit and no one ever noticed that that was a bug. Bugs in a game are normal but such bugs who were since headstarts and werent OP are no bugs, they are Features.

what about sigils for the pets :|

“Oh Schaize!”-Button xD haha oh god i laugh xD
so true xD

but would be a nice idea to add this
But i am still the opinion RtW should rather be merged with piercing arrows