Guild Wars 2

Tripple Cantrip Staff Ele with Dwayna Runes and 30 in Water and arcana:
Soothing Wave, Soothing Disruption, Cleansing Water and Elemental Attunement
Heal: Ether Renewal
Perma Regen, perma condi removal. GG.

Lower the CD of arcane shield and the ele should be happy. 75s? really? xD

urdriel.8496:

Terravos.4059:

Ehh, Since when is BM Bunker nerfed into the ground.

It was nerfed this is true, But if you’re thinking BM Bunker isn’t able to kill people very easily you’ve not been watching my updated Guides.

Spirit Ranger also cracks me up, Because I play a Venom Aura Thief, and that build is 100x more powerful in a solo and group setting then Spirit Ranger.

im not comparing ranger with other classes, i talk about the build rangers can use.

when i read ur past Posts i can say with certainty that u r doing nothing else then compare Ranger with Warrior.

Everything the most People are saying was that the rangers just get nerfs.
They dont want to see the buffs we get and that the nerfs are needed for Balance issues.
The most here just see two or three classes. Ranger, warrior and maybe thief. And have absolutley no interest to see the whole Picture. Ranger compare themselfes with an absolutely different class. Never listened to the devs?: “do not compare two classes”
U just see a nerf by rangers and Forget the other classes. U see no Balance u see just “RANGER NERF”. And feel like the biggest victim.
As i made a post with almost all buffs the ranger gets since release (as an answer for a thread with all nerfs), what happened? I get flamed and was marked as troller because i tried to Show the ranger community the reality.
We are more balanced then others think. They just dont want to see it

urdriel.8496:

snow.8097:

The hate against rangers?

- i have the Feeling the most People who are against rangers…are rangers themselfes. There is so much QQ about stuff that isnt needed. Rangers are strong, but crying around how weak we are. Its like in School “who hates themself cant expect that others love him”

- Some rangers just Play incredible bad. Some PvE Players at start never learned to dodge. PewPew from far away made it useless to learn. The risen were dead before they got too Close. But we should expect that Players who played the game few months are able to dodge?

-selfish rangers – Okay i dont want to say that just rangers are selfish, other classes can be selfish too. But why r some rangers Standing behind, see that his mates get down and never mind to revive? Thats a Problem, instead of helping they think they can kill the Mob/Foe/Champ alone and die atleast. Thats for sure a reason why many Player hates them. Standing safe behind and dont mind to help

- underestimating their own class.
Rangers can be so strong and have so much potential. But our class is not easy mode. We Need to learn and move.
Now i have the Feeling when we loose a fight the most ranger go online here and call for nerfs of other classes.
And when we have a strong build, so strong that ist going to be too strong (BM and Spirit) the most cant accept that and discuss and flame around.
What do u think about Warrior who say they are balanced and should Need a buff instead of a nerf? Or PU mesmer who wants all boons at once?
U wouldnt like them because they cant accept that they are too strong. The same procedure we can see here.

BM was a strong build until Anet nerfed it to the ground, spirits?? play a spirit ranger and you will know how to kill him easy.

Ranger is a underperforming Class due to Anet Balance team.

BM was a OP build. tank ranger meets mega burst birds. anet nerfted it to the balance ground. now its a bunker hard to kill but also hard to kill the other one. how it should be.
Spirit is one of the strongest builds ingame. dont matter how u want to play. solo group roamer bunker.
when u die fast with almost perma prot. perma burn on foe. lot of vita and toughness and evades via weapons and aoe blend immob und dmg…yeah then r not spirit rangers easy to kill. Just you.
tip for everyone: sometimes its not the best technique to activate all spirits at same time.

The hate against rangers?

- i have the Feeling the most People who are against rangers…are rangers themselfes. There is so much QQ about stuff that isnt needed. Rangers are strong, but crying around how weak we are. Its like in School “who hates themself cant expect that others love him”

- Some rangers just Play incredible bad. Some PvE Players at start never learned to dodge. PewPew from far away made it useless to learn. The risen were dead before they got too Close. But we should expect that Players who played the game few months are able to dodge?

-selfish rangers – Okay i dont want to say that just rangers are selfish, other classes can be selfish too. But why r some rangers Standing behind, see that his mates get down and never mind to revive? Thats a Problem, instead of helping they think they can kill the Mob/Foe/Champ alone and die atleast. Thats for sure a reason why many Player hates them. Standing safe behind and dont mind to help

- underestimating their own class.
Rangers can be so strong and have so much potential. But our class is not easy mode. We Need to learn and move.
Now i have the Feeling when we loose a fight the most ranger go online here and call for nerfs of other classes.
And when we have a strong build, so strong that ist going to be too strong (BM and Spirit) the most cant accept that and discuss and flame around.
What do u think about Warrior who say they are balanced and should Need a buff instead of a nerf? Or PU mesmer who wants all boons at once?
U wouldnt like them because they cant accept that they are too strong. The same procedure we can see here.

when u cant make enough damage with rapid fire, then ist not the fault of the Balance Team, just ur fault when u use it random.
Immobilze the foe or knock them down with Point blanked shot and then u can use rapid fire.
Its about making ranger balanced and not making him OP, which Player wants to Play a OP class? who wants to hear after a fight we won " u r just another OP ranger. nothing else"
And the most posts i read from u Atherakhia, have less to do with Balance, i am sorry

my answers
1) we will not see a Change in the next few months, probably not even 2014. We could say, thats no bug, ist a Feature. The only Thing we can do is to accept it or bring specific ideas how anet could improve this. Until today i never read how anet could do it. just simple “fix this anet” is very very helpful +1
What could help is realizing how the F2 attacks work. As Jcbroe told us the F2 will be a part of the Action chain of the pet. When the pet will activate the F2 is not easy to say, except we are able to see permanent what the pet is doing, but most rangers want to watch the foe. I think what could help is a Little window in the pet bar that Shows the next attacks of the pet. In the pet menu we can see Icons for the 3 normal attacks and a 4th Icon for the F2. The Icons should Flash like our Autoattack chains. With that Little Feature we are able to say more precise when our Special attack Triggers. Not only the F2! We can see when our pet trys to trigger the knockdown or the AoE poison field and so on. Its not the full control of our pet that we want, but with that we are able to time our Actions better with our pet.
That would be a great buff IMO with just a Little UI window!

2) okay what should i say almost all ranger build are x/x/30/x/x. Just power ranger works with 30/30/10/0/0. Its just true we Need EB or BS for our builds, but all classes have the same Problem.

3) Yeah WvW is not really made for rangers in WvW when we just look at the pet.
Most ranger in WvW choose the pet regarding their F2 ability. What could work is to make pets invulnerable when they r on passive and in a Special radius around u. without that radius i could imagine a exploit to let them make dmg without getting hurt.
So we can activate the F2 for the zerg and let them passive after that without the fear that they die seconds later.
Other idea could be that pets Trigger like champs in an Event.
I have heard that champs in Events gets stronger the more foes are around. Maybe pets could work in zerg fights the same just with toughness and vitality. Maybe toughness is enough

4) mmh i think with the actual System that every skill class has 4 skills there will be ever a skill that is weaker then others.
We can only choose 3 skills for a specific build. Spirit rangers are using usually Storm instad of Frost. tank signet rangers use more Stone then Wild. Other builds rather use LR then Sharpening Stone because we have enough Access to bleed.
Buff one skill and in General another skill becomes weaker in comparison.

5) i see no Problem with our weapons. some of them are good in viability. Just the Longbow is more used for powerbuilds but the dmg is okay, we can make a 8K burst in PvP with Berserker, that absolutly okay.
Power: LB, SB, GS, 1H-S, WH
Defensive: GS,1H-S, A(off), D
Condition: SB, 1H-S, A(main), D, T
Control: SB, LB, GS, A(off)
What do People Need to see with bow? we can shoot arrows. Thats what Bows were made for. In comparison they are boring because swords and other melee weapons can do more and have more possibilities to fight with. I just cant understand what u mean with boring.

6.) Rangers live i an symbiotic Lifestyle with their pet. We feed them, we heal them, we love them. The pets love us, heal us and and revive us.
The Ranger builds a Team with their pets. Thats teamplay nothing else. A good ranger doesnt let the pet die.

7.) Thats okay +1

8.) that theme is discussed enough and i have the Feeling we will see more in next Balance patch.

9.) i think we can be good supporter, tanks and damage dealer. Control is okay i think.
The cool difference to other classes are our pets who can bring Special effects for the Team like jungle Stalker, the Moas, birds, on swap effects.
But yeah more Team Support outside the Spirit genre would be nice

trap traits shouldnt be in WS!
think about it . when we need to use the M and GM trait in WS for the trap traits we will have zero survivability
we cant use EB or other good traits in the most used trait tree of the ranger.
u just think oh in WS is condi dmg…traps have to there…
thats not clever with that no trapbuild will longer exists because most builds need 30 in WS for EB or BS.
U want more base dmg as trapper against engis or condi counters? the is skirmishing thousand times better. power and condi duration is better if u really want to change the traits in other lines

anyone hates them too?
their position is extremly uncomfortable.
the lines that someone is one rampage for example dont let us the see the boons of the foe.
its not cool when u want to stun a foe and in this second while we cant see it he gets stability.
the line just need to be slightly under the the boons. nothing else

they said trait reset will only happen before every season starts

i have respect for engis. but i hate it to play against them because of the light effects. then its the only moment my game laggs in pvp and they just need to kill me

apothecary: as spirit ranger u do not need so much healing power. with almost perma protection the normal heal is good enough.

rabid: all in all the perfect ranger stat combination. i play my pvp ranger with rabid. u will make good dmg together with very good sustain.

dire: good choice when u want to play more bunker. the only dmg u will do is the condition dmg.

water spirit: its a nice heal the only problem is the long cast time of the heal. very helpful in group play.

troll unguent: one of the strongest heals in game. start the heal when the fight starts and u gdt almost no dmg the first seconds.

when u play wvw with ur guild or other little groups play rabid with water spirit. in big zerg fights use dire and healing spring! a water field and every two seconds one condition clean for u and ur allies is very helpful in fights.

the effects of the spirits trigger around the spirits themselfs.

when u use empathic bond: protect me. when u use bark skin: signet of renewal.

interesting ideas ignavia
but i think completly new items and such a complicated way of the upgrade idea could not be in favor for the most player.
and the need of cooking too could be too many crafting jobs.
i mean some people need to master four jobs to 500 to be full ascended. upgrading in that way with additional two jobs is too much.

but my idea could work with ur precursor idea. i just thought of armor but changing stats on ascended weapons is okay too for tge player who dont like the legendarys. the feature of changing the color of asc weapons coukd be cool too

a complete set of zealot armor and trinkets cost 30 stacks of sprockets. additional two stacks per weapon.

Has anyone a build for the new stat Combo?

reducing the cast time of aqua surge would make it better.
maybe using some on-heal-runes make the heal more attractive for u.
activating the spirit and his skill are two seperate healskills.

the heal was so incredible high because the devs activated their meditations in combination with the trait that heals you for using a meditation.

permanent trait reset
unlimited upgrade Extractor

probably because jewelcrafting will be upgraded to grandmaster soon.
Then we will be sure able to craft all stats i think

i am sure because one dev said some months ago that no legendary armor find its way into the game. The Last left possibility are trinkets or backpieces, backpieces are epic enough in ascended. So only trinkets.

it would be for the owner of legendary trinkets a QoL improvement just like a legendary weapon- we dont Need it but when it is nice.

i would like to see an unlimited version of it.
the demand would be high when we could have the chance to change stats on ascended armor. other stats, other runes.

i think we should be able to upgrade asc armor to have additional stats.
not one upgrade to have all stat combinations just pro upgrade one new stat.
that could happen via mystic forge. maybe we put two armor pieces into the forge one ascended and one exotic with the new stats we want to have. the other two components could be ectoplasm, t6 dust, thermo reagents or one t7 material thats needed for that armor type (damask for light armor,…).
for example this formula:
zojja medium gloves+knight medium gloves+1 elonian leather square+100 thermo reagents
after that we will be able to choose outfight if we use berserk stats or knight stats like for legendary weapons.
it should be expensive to upgrade a complete armor set but not so expensive that we could craft a new armor for almost the same money.
we can upgrade an asc armor until we have all stat combinations.

i think its a cool alternative. we will not see legendary armor so the bonus feature of changing stats should be added in a different way.

we will not see legendary armor. we will see new legendary weapons in some time. we will probably see legendary trinkets.
what do u think about them? Should they can changing stats like legendary weapons? should we craft them as a collection that we have all five pieces?
i think yes. why should we need just one legendary piece to change stats?
i hope personally that we have two slots to choose main stat and secondary stat for those who like berserk+valkyrie instead of full berserk for example.
now your thoughts folks

kiwituatara.6053:

Question. If my stun duration is 1.5s does it round to 2s? and 1.4s to 1s?

durations are rounded down or up to the next .25s.
1,5s keeps 1.5s. 1,4 rounded up to 1, 5s.
for example 1, 3 would rounded down to 1, 25s

maybe…today…who knows

ranger should get more blindness so +1 for that idea
i would love to see LR gets a real stunbreaker which triggers instantly

8s evasion? what about a 10s cd for dat skill?!
and immunity to conditions and survives all allys in 900 range!

the short time while the t3 Medium was changed was the best time.
the not choosed secondary color on chest is not cool.
okay for ur style is okay but for many others the rechange of t3 medium was a horrible time

fukushima butterfly

anyone noticed that the random laughs of the devs stopped when they started to talk about the ranger? i thought oh my god no they barry them xD

i am really sorry for all wvw ranger who use EB. pets get killed fast in zerg fights and with no condition remove life gets harder. then anet should not wonder when more and more play bear.

nevertheless i have the feeling that ranger will be becoming strong after patch.
shatter nerf. war nerf. just what i didnt like to hear was that thiefes will see improvements too

the swiftness duration of #3 stacks with piercing arrows.
but yeah some seconds more of it would be bice

we have enough access to bleed so crippling shot should apply torment.

critical damage changes

okay i try to see the whole Picture
in earlier Posts some devs said they try to do something against the berserk meta in PvE. Thats okay.
But now i have the fear, that this changes will also be there in PvP.
Everyone knows that the actual PvP meta is all in all Condition. With Changes in Crit Dmg that will probably a nerf we will see a push of condition builds as consequence.
So i really hope that the crit dmg changes will be pve/WvW only

yeah then u right. i didnt mind that

mmh..yeah i can imagine that the Price of passifloras will rise in some ways..but in other Hand..most People will use fan based crafting guides. No crafting guide will ever say hey buy that expensive flowers to Level.
All other are around 2 to 4s. ruby is more worth because of berserk meta.
when i remember we needed from 425 to 500 24 discoveries in other craftings. So i think our 8 jewels are enough.
I really hope my idea Comes true. I want full armor sets of specific stat Combos for different Metas. But for some thats not 100% possible.

yeah that was clever, not bad wanze :C
i will safe Gold, silver, platinum and Mithrillium for Xunlai and different Dusts and Orbs for Cristalline.
I think this is the best a jeweler can do when he wants to get a grandmaster

http://i.imgur.com/hFxaCeB.jpg

i hope that works
i just found that on reddit
just compare Hs passive without healpower with troll unguent and around 1500 healpower.
(HP in link means with HealPower)
rangers need to go full healpower to get healthpoints back like a warrior without healpower.
yes beastmaster are condi bunker and we shouldnt forget our dmg via pet
but warrior are enough bunker even they can skill as what they want.
dont forget bunker wars that can do too much dmg for bunkers.

stop trying to compare bm rangers with wars in general. thats just a discussion u cant win.

funny when warrior with HS are crying about heals of other classes.
what u decribe is probably a beastmaster..a tank build.
while u have a passive effect with 400 per second. while we use an active effect from ca. 800 hp/s plus our signet with max. 125.
u try to nerf a already nerfed ranger build because ur buffed everyone hates build or better u couldnt beat it. thats no arguement.

nice it works

cristalline ore will probably be refined from t5 dust and maybe the ingot with t2-4 dusts.
but i can imagine that bloodstone will be needed to take that big amounts away.
when we look at the prices of dusts this could be possible.

i like to live up this thread

I have no ideas what anet plans to let us do when we reach jeweler 500. Yes i hope for ascended trinkets with stats we cant actaully use like assassin or dire. Or with the decision to craft no ascended giver stats, to let us craft infusions with boon/condi Duration.

But i have ideas how to Level 500.
Actually everyone can imagine how easy and cheap it would be to master it. We have 11 jewels, 1 just with rare recipes (when the zephyrites do not come back) and rare and expensive Azurites and passifloras. So the most player only can use 8 jewels and discover 24 trinkets. Thats too boring for anet. I think we will see more.
What i have noticed is that we have no orbs or crests for Settler, Cavalier and Dire.
And no no upgrade components on exotic for trinkets for that three stats and Magi, Rabid, Shaman and Soldier.
Maybe we will be able to craft exotic back pieces with jeweler, when so we Need all stats too.

What i think or more suggest to anet is that they add crests for Settler, Cavalier and Dire Stats and give us the Option to upgrade the crests like orbs to exotic ones. So we have new activators for exotic trinkets.
So crests could be useful. When we look to the AH we can see a lot of unused crests that will never valuable.
That in mind People would do more JP´s for the chests where we can find this crests or just like me searchs for randoms chests in the world.

I think this could be a really good plan for anet. the most important for me is to see exotic rabid Upgrades, so i came to this ideas.

first: pls do not forget the leap finisher. this finisher is strong for the fact that we have access to water fields and fire fields. good timed we can jump two times threw our spring.

that we have low access to weakess is just wrong. with wintersbite we can apply almost perma weakness. then we have our pets like the one spider i forget the name with weakness and vuln. as f2 with 30s cd and the black bear with 13s weakness.

i would suggest to give the ranger access to torment.
and the time frame to use ML is too low.

…no…just no.

ah okay then they use the plural of Magus. now i see the wizard hat as the sign. Thanks

can please someone explain me the meaning of the stat combo “Magi”?
I cant find anything about it. Does it mean Magic? Or Mage? Every stat Combo Name is Logical for me but that is…idk…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Suggestions-to-some-ranger-traits/first#post3340897

i made this Little thread a month ago with just some ideas.

Additionally i really want to know in which radius “Signet of Renewal” pulls conditions to ur pet. A Little tooltip would be helpful

I think Rangers should apply torment OR confusion to their foes.
I specially look to the shortbow.
Lets look at SB #4 skill “Crippling shot” 3s cripple and some bleeds from ur pet on 12s cd.
Thats not useful, this skill should be used when u dont want that a foe Comes closer or runs away, but for that just 3s is just too weak.
I would suggest to apply torment, not many just 1 or 2 stacks for some seconds to make condition builds with shortbow stronger (actual condi ranger meta is A/T+S/D).
I dont know how it should apply torment, with the arrow or with the next attack of the pet. With the first one ist easier to evade, with the second one ist more difficult because the pet does it.

Or rangers should apply confusion. Here i look at concussion shot (SB#5) or maybe hilt bash (GS#5) too. How many stacks or how Long confusion would last is up to anet.
Maybe the Trait “Moment of Clarity” could be modified with that.
Atfer the last update the rangers tried to make their own “Stun meta” with SB/GS but the dmg and the stuns are not woth it to create an own strong or even relevant meta.
so that this trait adds some stacks confusion after every dace/stun.
Then this trait could be more interesting.

I think with that ideas we could push the meta out of Spirits to more condition or power. We just Need a buff in offensive Terms and maybe some nerfs in defensive regards. Nevertheless the oppotunity to apply one of this conditions would be a good buff to rangers

Other ideas regarding where we should apply this conditions are welcome!

100b is not the Problem, ist just about Timing, i mean when they attack they cant move.
In WvW there is an actual war meta called “Run away warrior” and that guys are trollers. They get no dmg, for that they do too much dmg and when they think “okay 4 People are too many for my HS”, they just rush away.
Warrior have everything, high defensive, offensive and mobility.
I dont call for it that they should get nerfed everywhere, but in one part of their build for sure. Tanks or dmg dealer, not both, when that happens i think the mobility will not be a big problem

Not just the lore about Largos! Tengu too.
As said in wiki the tengu were a strong candidate as a playable race, so can u tell us the Story of them? Why is the bazaar of four winds related to their government?

And when we will see the zephyrites back ingame? i wanna learn more of them.

very inspiringthread here i like it

top 3 i like to see
1: Templates/Changing Stats on Ascended Armor:
In an earlier thread anet mentioned we will probably not see any legendary Armor, which is okay, but legendary weapons can Change stats, so i think upgrading a asc armor to Change the stats would be cool, maybe unlockable via mystic forge, the asc Piece, a Piece of the stats we like to have on exotic and two other items.
When it is possible would be very cool too when we have a “Rune locker” on this set,i think for example Dolyak is good on Soldier but not on assassine. The Same for legendary Weapons with sigils

2.Accoun bound dyes

3. i really like the idea of Boss specific armors and all in all more skins

Top 3 i never want to see

Mounts: why we should Need this, just why other games use it? I could have no respect to a Player riding on a moa

Sub-classes: Gw2 is NOT gw1. the current state of Balance is hard to handle for anet and u want that they have more work when other classes can use other traits too? wanna see a thiefe with PU? A shatter with unexpecting foe? A tank ele with Bark Skin?
I think anet will never do this because it will be not good for the game

new skill effects in PvP:
would be not cool to learn hundred of new effects to know what the foe is doing, no prob for PvE

to Particle effects…mmh nice ideas really i like it, specially the one idea with buying it from dungeons…but do anyone know how it should work together with legendarys auras? flame Aura on frostfang? Lightnings on Howler? Ist cool for People without lgendary, but with, okay ist just personal flavour

Shark Armor:
Seems that Noble/Trooper/Nobleman (Caudecus Manor set) is a crit craft using a Sliver

So i think i think the Dredge and nightmare armor works like this as a crit craft with phoenix and Dragon token

the ivory shortbow seems to be a crit from tiger and sliver, hope longbow too

the last recipes we dont know are phoenix rank, somebody knows one who is over rank 70?

hey guys i found an older thread about this recipes on guildwars2guru collected by Players.
I will read it and add recipes we cant find at wiki

then that idea
boon Duration defensive Slot, condition Duration offensive Slot
a full ascended armor has 6 defensive Slots, on trinkets maybe 3 more (I think the most use offensive maybe?) or just say 10.
Then it would be 10% or 20% boon Duration (i see 3% per Infusion could be too strong there u are right).
So i think that is still okay when u know how Durations Trigger on boons and conditions.

Condition Duration could be difficult to handle, lets say a full ascended Player has 5 offensive Slots active, then it would be 5 or 10% condition duration plus.

I just try to see the Balance in WvW, there is no Need to talk about Balance in PvE, thats useless. Maybe with a Duration cap on infusions that anet decides how high it is is okay Wanze?
Its just Brainstorming, some People wanna be ascended AND focused on duration

i am not enis, i am his friend xD enis is snoow

no Phantom i am rank 39 and my rank isnt farmed.
My plan was to buy a T1 cultutal, salvage it to get the token and craft Trooper Jerkin.
The rest of the armor is starter set and Guild armor

thanks coulter i like dat weapons