Guild Wars 2

obal.3218:

haviz.1340:

obal.3218:

What Haviz said is a false statement. Since smite works, I figured the 2 ranger ones I used would but they don’t. You can check the wiki http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Volcanic_Fractal

“Also, saving the “multiple shot” skills for these occasions is recommended. Note that not all multi-hit skills tick the shield multiple times; for instance, the Guardian’s Smite skill ticks the shield extremely rapidly, but the Engineer’s grenades only tick once per volley."

If you speak from experience, you should really spend more time in fractals. Watch this simple clip. Smite not only doesn’t remove more than 1 stack, it doesn’t even remove more than 0. Enjoy.

Player Character.9467:

-_- we know, you also can’t condition a block

You can with necro or warrior with signet of might.

I actually knew that smite didn’t work. I checked the wiki hoping it would be wrong to really sell it there. I was hoping to draw out the real haviz to get a passive aggressive response instead of the usually vague insulting ones that you can explain that you don’t mean anything by. I enjoyed the edited and deleted comments as well before the final. It must be lonely up on that pedestal. GGs

Ooooo lordy, I can tell that the next couple comments in this thread are gonna be golden.

Durzlla.6295:

Every warrior i have ever talked to has said that the blind ruins it, and seeing as how i have ruined their combo several times with it speaks wonders, and they’re hardly going to get that 1HB off with the 3 KDs i have KB, Fear, immob, cripple, blinds, perma swiftness etc.

I love anecdotal evidence.

This again…

Puandro.3245:

Durzlla.6295:

swiftpaw.6397:

Durzlla.6295:

swiftpaw.6397:

Durzlla.6295:

swiftpaw.6397:

Biggest counter atm is the stun lock/KD warrior with longbow/hammer or 1h sword. Just wrecks kitten. LB aoe kittens up spirits, pindown, hammer KD’s, ground slam etc etc you’re kittened up.

this guy is on a thief, he’s been fotm for a long time and hes mad that all of a sudden the rug’s pulled out from under him and he has to think about how to kill someone.

How do you get countered by a stun lock warrior when you can blind them for 2 attacks O.o?

Only 2 attacks.

Which kittens all over their stunlocking combo…

They have more than just 2 stun locks for cc.

Yes… i know this… but if they miss 2 of them their stun lock combo is ruined, how are you not getting this?

Stun CD is so short that it doesn’t really matter if you miss it TBH.

Because of this ^ Besides which, anyone smart enough will know they are blinded not waste their cc.

Durzlla.6295:

swiftpaw.6397:

Durzlla.6295:

swiftpaw.6397:

Biggest counter atm is the stun lock/KD warrior with longbow/hammer or 1h sword. Just wrecks kitten. LB aoe kittens up spirits, pindown, hammer KD’s, ground slam etc etc you’re kittened up.

this guy is on a thief, he’s been fotm for a long time and hes mad that all of a sudden the rug’s pulled out from under him and he has to think about how to kill someone.

How do you get countered by a stun lock warrior when you can blind them for 2 attacks O.o?

Only 2 attacks.

Which kittens all over their stunlocking combo…

They have more than just 2 stun locks for cc.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

swiftpaw.6397:

There needs to be a real motivation to do dungeons. Exo gear is easy to get, what’s left is grinding out money for legendaries. How about some new exclusive skins available only through hard mode?

The Bloodstone Fragment recipe keeps me going.

I don’t even want to grind for that… the RNG is just T_T

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

swiftpaw.6397:

Someone did this the other day in a pug SE. Turned out to be the ranger with 8k AP, a longbow and axe/WH setup with double bear pets.. I should have known better.

It was my alt account.

I will find you, and I will kill you…

There needs to be a real motivation to do dungeons. Exo gear is easy to get, what’s left is grinding out money for legendaries. How about some new exclusive skins available only through hard mode?

Someone did this the other day in a pug SE. Turned out to be the ranger with 8k AP, a longbow and axe/WH setup with double bear pets.. I should have known better.

Durzlla.6295:

swiftpaw.6397:

Biggest counter atm is the stun lock/KD warrior with longbow/hammer or 1h sword. Just wrecks kitten. LB aoe kittens up spirits, pindown, hammer KD’s, ground slam etc etc you’re kittened up.

this guy is on a thief, he’s been fotm for a long time and hes mad that all of a sudden the rug’s pulled out from under him and he has to think about how to kill someone.

How do you get countered by a stun lock warrior when you can blind them for 2 attacks O.o?

Only 2 attacks.

jmatb.6307:

I know AoE is what you do to stop Spirit Rangers. The damage simultaneously drops the spirits, then you focus the elite, and then drop the ranger when they have nothing left.

I don’t want to play like that though.

This sums up the entire thread.

Biggest counter atm is the stun lock/KD warrior with longbow/hammer or 1h sword. Just wrecks kitten. LB aoe kittens up spirits, pindown, hammer KD’s, ground slam etc etc you’re kittened up.

this guy is on a thief, he’s been fotm for a long time and hes mad that all of a sudden the rug’s pulled out from under him and he has to think about how to kill someone.

All I see is someone who is exceptionally angry he’s stumbled upon a class that beats the ever living pulp out of him and he cant figure out how to counter it. Already I’ve seen some people even in hotfixes use their brains, adapt and do some exceptionally good counters that have either destroyed the ranger or put him under alot of pressure and causing him to run, including low ranks. If you cannot do that, all I can say is.. Too bad. I had a guy who kept running at me with the same build, and getting increasingly annoyed that he could not beat me with his burst ele.. He couldn’t accept that by doing the same thing over and over again, the result would always be the same. He didn’t want to change up his skills, he didn’t want to mod his build or change his tactics, he just expected to win because he always beat everyone else. It’s hard to accept change.

Wukunlin.8461:

He also mentioned he did “pretty well” in that build in high lvl fractals. Thank the gods I didn’t do much fotm back then. But yeah, he probably realized he was doing something wrong…
And since Nik found the reincarnation of him on reddit we need to prepare ourselves for another generation of those.

Ooooooooh lordy

Wukunlin.8461:

maybe MF -> boon duration and GF -> condition duration? It makes absolutely no sense (not to mention these should go into defensive/offensive instead of utility) but then this is gw2 we are talking about….

I’m anticipating A-Net making sure that those MF sets are still the next best thing to useless. Replacement stat is probably going to be healing power or something lol.

deSade.9437:

Fixing pets in pve by heavily buffing them? Fixing broken traits? Broken weapons?
Noooo.
Cuz esports.

We cant hurt the tpvper’s feelings ok?

Btw there’s a big ol’ cry thread at this very moment about ‘op spirit rangers’ in the spvp area, it’s a pretty good laugh.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Passive-Benefits-Are-Terrible/page/2#post2454633

Wukunlin.8461:

swiftpaw.6397:

Wukunlin.8461:

swiftpaw.6397:

Yaki.9563:

Range doing less damage might be a valid argument if, for example, melee died frequently and were forced to use soldier gear while ranged could sport berserker.

Just you wait, someone will try using that as a valid argument.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/PvE-Rifle-Warrior-Build-Final-Tweaks/first#post1437107

edit: that was 5 months ago btw

I don’t even…….

now that I decided to read the last few posts of that thread, it’s filled with gold cancer

It’s been 5 months, he’s either wisened up or stopped playing… probably because that build was so awful.

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Her point is that you don’t care about stats that aren’t damage (I think…?)

Yissss

obal.3218:

swiftpaw.6397:

Pet dead, pet dead, pet dead, pet dead…

They really need to do something about that -.-

Indeed. I was curious to see if it was the case after seeing it not die from Alpha’s AoE but they just died all the time here like I thought. Always bet against fractals I guess.

Yeh I remember running zerk ranger for my 30 dailies, it was always dead
Best part about ranger in fotm was the aoe cc’s.. Very strong there. Entangle and MT are the greatest strength, especially on grawl fractal and dredge. You can have some great burst on the shaman vets that go to push villagers off the edge too. I’ve never taken even a somewhat decent pug ranger in there, they are always a dead weight.. but when I take an experienced friend or myself, I find them acceptable.

thefantasticg.3984:

jmatb.6307:

At this point after 1400 tournament games and 3 champion class titles I am completely sick of passive benefits from traits and “skills” that give people an advantage by doing nothing but activate or not activate a skill.

I think traits need to be a series of active choices to choose from. More like Improvisation (steal recharges utilities) than Dagger Training (5% damage from daggers).

Signets, Spirits, Minions, and all other set and forget utilities ought to be reworked to be viable only in PvE.

I believe that the person who knows how to position, use active skills, and win through proper use of team work and tactics without riding passive bonuses ought to be the winner.

When two spirit rangers, two aoe spammers, and a guardian dominate matches that is complete garbage. They are not good players – they have lazy but strong builds.

I want active traits and utilities for every profession in PvP and all the passive junk put into PvE, where that kind of thing is needed to scale with enemy mobs.

Shove that thinking, that believing, and that wanting right back up your bum where it came from. My ranger has been nerfed enough in PVE and WvW because you and other Pvpers QQ’ing like jackwagons. That it is kitten ing me off that you QQ for nerfs like a Whiney bee with a bad itch instead of adapting and getting better. L2P or GTFO.

The best part was when he said he was a thief..
Guess what was fotm for the longest time?
Seems like someone’s a little annoyed that it’s not the case anymore.

Pet dead, pet dead, pet dead, pet dead…

They really need to do something about that -.-

jmatb.6307:

swiftpaw you’re providing nothing intelligent to the thread please leave.

thank you

Irony strikes again

jmatb.6307:

Eles have to use their skills to get that sustain though. Rangers literally just cast their heal, take certain skills and traits, and dance around like ponies. They might as well have a unicorn pet so one of my friends’ names for her ranger makes sense

The amount of facepalm… It cannot be contained.

Alas, for poor Yoric did not post his results in that thread!

Wukunlin.8461:

swiftpaw.6397:

Yaki.9563:

Range doing less damage might be a valid argument if, for example, melee died frequently and were forced to use soldier gear while ranged could sport berserker.

Just you wait, someone will try using that as a valid argument.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/PvE-Rifle-Warrior-Build-Final-Tweaks/first#post1437107

edit: that was 5 months ago btw

I don’t even…….

Yaki.9563:

Range doing less damage might be a valid argument if, for example, melee died frequently and were forced to use soldier gear while ranged could sport berserker.

Just you wait, someone will try using that as a valid argument.

Durzlla.6295:

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore… So much stupid in one thread..

Shh it’s ok Durzlla, there is fun to be had on that thread. He is digging himself his own hole with all the bs he’s spewing up.

Uther Deathhand.1570:

From this it looks like there will be no point in spending time doing cof more than once a day instead of running other dungeons.

jmatb.6307:

Get 150 tpvp wins on a thief and tell me that it’s not much, much more difficult than a ranger.

jmatb.6307:

It’s not about scrubs vs. elites .

jmatb.6307:

Yeah Ranger keeps getting lazier and lazier. If they aren’t riding their pet, they’re riding spirits. Signets and traits remove conditions better than anyone without having to worry about it.

When you don’t have to use your utilities at all and other professions have to bring Lyssa runes or certain utilities just to survive long enough to contribute there’s a serious problem.

jmatb.6307:

These are the kinds of posts that make me wonder if people have played PvP to be honest.

He’s started it back up again Enjoy the QQ-

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/Passive-Benefits-Are-Terrible/first#post2453677

People should just not spec for anything, that way it’s all about skill.

This again…
face/keyboard.

Still on the vendetta against rangers, even after the last thread was deleted lol.

Hopefully it’s a stop crying and learn to play reason.

AoE, use a couple condis to throw off empathic/signet then immobilize/stun lock and spike down.

Or you know… Actual damage stats.

just had a guy rage at me in hotfix for 3 games because he couldn’t kill me with my spirits.. he then rage quit.. he was still running the old BM build.. Was pretty funny.

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

swiftpaw.6397:

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

The skilled players will probably get punished and the person that wants to do Arah with his blue Cleric’s Shout Warrior will be rewarded one thousand times over. That’s just my guess, though.

This. And then we will called scumbags and elitists for being so horribly selfish as to want fair treatment for playing correctly.

“Hate is only a form love that hasn’t found a way to express itself logically” – Lil’ Wayne

That’s how I feel, too. Bring on the haters.

Hate me like one of your french girls

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

The skilled players will probably get punished and the person that wants to do Arah with his blue Cleric’s Shout Warrior will be rewarded one thousand times over. That’s just my guess, though.

This. And then we will called scumbags and elitists for being so horribly selfish as to want fair treatment for playing correctly.

My pvp ranger ^-^

I always put my longbow on ranger for trollhammer map. Good stuff.

Player Character.9467:

swiftpaw.6397:

Hamartia.3421:

Yeah, 3 new fractals. Hopefully they update some of the current bad ones as well.

Dredge.. I just.. Now I’m gonna sleep and have some silly dream about getting stuck at dredge 48 with a full team of PVT and MF players. Sometimes my boyfriend says I yell out in my sleep about idiots screwing up bomb runs and lazer doors. -.-

but they’re getting rid of MF gear :P

That will be the best day of my GW2 life.

I’m seeing a 5 copper completion bonus in our future * giddy excitement *

But but… People will get.. offended. And we all know what happens then. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!

We have to make concessions on behalf of those poor individuals who have fragile hearts. I’m afraid

Better group affecting utility skills for dungeons.

Hamartia.3421:

People arguing against this want the game to remain melee-only. First MMO I’ve ever played where “ranged” wasn’t an option.

The game wants people to remain melee. If ranged did the same damage i’d be chilling at range too, I’m a lazy kitten motherkitten. But it doesn’t, so melee it is.

Hamartia.3421:

Yeah, 3 new fractals. Hopefully they update some of the current bad ones as well.

Dredge.. I just.. Now I’m gonna sleep and have some silly dream about getting stuck at dredge 48 with a full team of PVT and MF players. Sometimes my boyfriend says I yell out in my sleep about idiots screwing up bomb runs and lazer doors. -.-

TheMaskedParadigm.3629:

Swiftpaw, let’s do Arah together. We will make lots of money.

$_$

I do other dungeons quickly already, I don’t do cof at all. I wont benefit from changes to CoF, I just wont be affected by them.