Guild Wars 2

Rainbow Eyelids.8461:

there needs to be an easy way to connect with other players, even without forming a “team”.

CURSE VOICE would be that. it works in SMITE so….

voice is THE WAY to coordinate. and it makes the other players seem more real and its more social.

EVERY competitive game needs voice.

^

do you mean like the voice chat in dayz?

Icetrinity.3804:

I find calling target to be extremely beneficial in big brawls. Even if your team doesn’t focus your target (they should, or at least you should all focus one together), you have a big target above someone’s head to help you see where your intended target is through the chaos.

Further, if you are a little late to the team fights, hang back for a moment, look at enemies health bars, and what profession they are, and pick a good burst target (or peel for a team mate). Call target on them as you engage. If there is a target called in a team fight, it might help your team to coordinate a burst and down someone. I certainly look for targets if they are called. Also helps with tunnel vision for your teammates then.

P.s. Sorry for any grammar/readability issues, on my phone.

- Ice

cant wait to see what my guild says when i tell them please call target when i am around in a big fight lol . thank you

ellesee.8297:

Press tab!

Wahoo! Bye frands!

tab doesn’t mean anything if your throwing axes in the wrong direction. i guess you don’t understand what i mean.

i need some advice my fellow pvpers.i am very good at capping. knowing where to go and when i watch the points on map like a hawk lol.i have one major short coming and i need some advise i have a lot of trouble focusing when all hell breaks loose.there is so many skills going off in a big group have a hard time targeting and paying attention to who i am trying to kill. sometimes i even get downed because i didn’t even have someone targeted so i could have been trying to hit air lol.when it comes to 1v1 even 1v2 most of the time i do extremely well.any ideas on how i can get better with this? i have over 1500 matches on my belt so its not like i don’t have lots of practice lol. thank you in advance for any help you can give

i have been goofing off trying out new runes. but is it just me or do some of these runes seem more like gimmicks then being helpful in any way?

Nier.8741:

I don’t understand why ANET gives EVERYTHING to this class.

They can take away (one or two of those)

1.) The teleport
2.) Blind on burn
3.) Evade on burning speed

And D/D will still be viable. I just don’t understand why you’re allowed to have so much BS. This class literally takes no skill.

look i was toyed with earlier today by an ele even made a post about it but i wasn’t screaming op.learn from it.i did it will make me a better pvp player imo

xarallei.4279:

It’s pretty disgusting how someone who plays for a few minutes with other crappy players can declare that a class is OP.

its very possible hes just trolling

Spine.2763:

I have never played much ranger before today, and i must say i as very entertained and disgusted. I gave he standard build just a few slight tweaks to the traits and sigils and immediately i am top of the team in every game for the first 3 games, my muscle memory isnt queued, i have no idea what im doing other then waiting for rapid fire to cool down, and im still top of the team. Please give ranger just a tiny nerf, how about 18k auto attacks opposed to the average 2k/2.1k im getting with no thought at all.

if your build is anything like i think it is all it will take is a few well timed dodge rolls to get close by a fairly tanky build and your dead in a few hits.

Teutos.8620:

Kako.1930:

it was diamond skin. That’s a bad matchup for a condi

The ranger-pet alone brings enough direct damage to take care of dimond skin.

lol in this case nope he was really good dodged every pet attack like i said dude was impressive to watch.nothing like feeling like your being toyed with .in the end he will make me a better pvp player for it

i have had 400-0 on that map only one time.but i think my best match was when i 3 capped by my self because both teams were zerg fighting off points.i find it amazing how often teams don’t pay attention to the map lol

Krysard.1364:

trunks.5249:

blubberblasen.3901:

it was the hidden elite skill from ele, because all elite from ele are op, like all skills with zero recharge.

1/4 cast time : “go to the forum and cry how OP all of the ele skills are” zero recharge.

… ah.. again .. anti ele thread..
… for your information: condi Ranger is lame, play melee ranger.
or l2p

what are you talking about crying? i said the guy was impressive.i just wanted to know what he did.has for melee vs condi ranger that’s a matter of a persons play style. no reason to be trolling on a legit question on a thread

Dont care about him, and as said, he was probably using Diamond Skin, bad luck there :/

yeah everyone has said diamond skin i just don’t know why that guy thought i was crying OP

Trevor Boyer.6524:

Greatsword #4 Counterattack and Greatsword #5 Hilt Bash need to have the same range. They read as the same range but this is not true when actually using Hilt Bash.
If Hilt Bash had the same range as Counterattack, Rangers could stream attack combos much more easily.

Sword #2 ~ After the first click which jolts you backwards, the time interval that allows you to wait before needing to do the second click, should be increased. This would allow a Ranger greater time to untarget, face a direction and jolt away with the second click jolt forward. This would help the Ranger with it’s disengagement and give a viable choice over Greatswords.

Axe Off-Hand #5 ~ Increase the radius of effect baseline, proportionately to how it was pre 6/23/2015 with the old trait that reduced off-hand recharge and increased off-hand range. Axe Off-Hand was actually viable then.

Skirmishing ~ Trapper’s Expertise and Strider’s Defense need to swap their positions so that condi specs can run both Sharpened Edges and Trapper’s Expertise.

Traps ~ Remove the arming time or significantly boost the DPS of traps. Right now traps are a joke compared to Ele fire rings, Purging flames and all of the other enormous fast casting condi splash AoE available to other classes.

Empathic Bond ~ Change this to: Removes 1 condition every 3 seconds. Here is why: After the DPS creep and condi patch, the current Empathic Bond of removes 3 conditions every 10 seconds is too slow vs. the strength of condi bursting, especially burn stacking. It’s often that a Ranger will die after a condi burst before 10 seconds are up to cleanse his condis. 1 condition every 3 seconds would be a more practical approach at this point, especially vs. burning.

Pets Remastered ~ Pets need a serious overhaul. The only useful pets in spvp are wolf/drakehound and sometimes hyena/spiders. The CCs are critical for success as a Ranger in pvp and not enough pets have CCs. This renders large majority of pets completely useless. Either up the damage of some of the non-CC pets or give them CCs.

~ With the above changes, Ranger could be viable in meta.

i find my cats very useful sometimes even downs players before i do any real damage with my own skills. however i do think pets need a major hp or toughness over hall.they die way to fast

blubberblasen.3901:

it was the hidden elite skill from ele, because all elite from ele are op, like all skills with zero recharge.

1/4 cast time : “go to the forum and cry how OP all of the ele skills are” zero recharge.

… ah.. again .. anti ele thread..
… for your information: condi Ranger is lame, play melee ranger.
or l2p

what are you talking about crying? i said the guy was impressive.i just wanted to know what he did.has for melee vs condi ranger that’s a matter of a persons play style. no reason to be trolling on a legit question on a thread

i run a condi ranger with runes of balthazar/rabid amulet.in a match i was fighting a ele he ate up my traps.bonfire, everything i threw at him.his hp never went below 95% and he just slowly picked me apart.i know eles are tanky now but wow.anyone who knows condi ranger know bonfire alone can hurt bad.to be honest i think the first time he killed me i swear it looked like is hp never even went down at all. at first it crossed my mind that he could be hacking tell i saw a warrior kill him..how ever that guy was set up was pretty impressive

i used to play this mmo that had a pvp dungeon.that would open up every few hours. four party’s would start off at the bottom of map cut off from each other . soon has timer went off they had to fight monsters to meet each other in middle to fight mini boss.then all four party’s would fight huge waves of monsters to get to map boss. mind you who every dies on the way there stays dead. soon has boss is killed all who are left go into a room a counter starts and when it ends the pvp battle begins.and the winning party gets good loot chests. i am sure nothing like this will ever be made but thought it might give A net some ideas

nacario.9417:

People are exaggerating when it comes to this supposed toxic community, and ive played 6 7 crowdy mmorpgs last 7 yrs solely for pvp/dueling. There is no such thing, while any game as with the real world has its trolls – u can even use the same arguments the devs used for implementing the mentor system – why hinder the playerbase cuz of some bad eggs? Some people just like to scream and be heard, theyre afraid because they lack knowledge and arnt tolerant. Spoiled brats i say which hinder a richer experience, much like the conservatists. But in the end its Anets game and theyve chosen this path. Thankfully we’ll see some dueling through guild halls, but i long for the day dueling is openee up at larger pve areas, giving incentive to visit places, like the arena in BC.

my first mmo was a game called dekaron an extremely over the top pvp/pk game .max level players would always run by the lower level maps and keep on bugging you to dual and if you still said no well they would flat out kill you.if your a hard core pvp fan i say try that game out.just be warned that game isn’t for the weak. i have to admit i sometime miss one person picking a fight with a guild and you would have guilds and there friends in a war for hours at a time

i was wondering does having gear on count?because just had two people go in naked and they dropped like fly’s.i asked them to put armor on and when they said no i said i will not res you if you go down.because i have my rangers traited for getting downed players up fast.every time they dropped i let them die even if it cost me my life from being out numbered.by the way if it does count was i in the right letting them die because we would have won the match if i had got them back up

Skooma.3459:

The 4v5s lately have become pretty ridiculous. It honestly is seeming like every 3 games or so either someone rage quits, leaves at start, or just afks for half the game or more. Even in ranked games the amount of leaving/afking is getting pretty bad. Can we possibly bring back when the game first came out? If you leave/afk and get reported, you can’t pvp for x amount of time? Or you get less rewards? Something to combat the epidemic of getting carried thru pvp games or forcing your team to play handicapped?

i am guilty of this. my team was losing badly .so i switched to a toon i am good at.in the end we still lost my team was busy zerging 1 point

lol love the topic since i did my first solo run today .with my condi ranger with dire gear

Adjust.6903:

Is there a link for the Condi build? How is it fairing against other classes in similar position? Definitely need to level up and try it out

this is the build i have been using excellent damage ,survival, and gets downed party members up super quick http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRBMfdG2IlK0wiFsg/KQ1iBMhyX8F4x/bYyj8eZ70AoipqA-TRSAwAaUCGb/hAnAgc6HgY+DwRA4qyPkq/45hAQKAIWDA-e

i don’t think you understand the gravity of what would happen if GW2 went F2P. mmos that go F2P die a slow and nasty death and if they don’t die half the time they are not worth playing.sorry i don’t want tons of bots,gold sellers,hackers,and pay to win coming into this game..also forgot to add how F2P games servers always go down then take hours to come back up.

Dilligaf Wyt.1867:

You can be a ranger and do not have to progress to druid if you choose not to.

i think he is afraid that if he doesn’t change to druid people will not let him in party’s

i tested your build loved the con removal.i feel i was able to help team out more with this build. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRAsf3YnUqA1Ci9rAOsAUtgBMhqX2ONA+bYyjcfxXgH/gf1eA-TZhAwAfeCAw2fowBBgcZAAnAAA excellent 1v1 and i can help end huge fights faster.i like being able to cap fast and move on to help where ever i am needed.with your build i was fighting one warrior for 1/2 the match.with my build i would have killed him and capped in a matter of seconds .how ever i will try my build with your runes though

GodSpeedFist.8642:

What do you guys think??

With all the condi updates and condi builds around… Is a Power Ranger still viable?

both are great builds both have there pros and cons against other classes

i would like to know if the ranger staff will have targeting skills. i had a stroke when i was born and can only use one hand.i don’t want to get hyped for it if it does because i will not be able to use it.my biggest disappointment this beta was the guardian bow because i play has a guardian has well.only to find it was a waist for me because it had three targeting skills. since i main a ranger i will act like the staff doesn’t exist and will not get hyped if it does have targeting and i am fine with that. however i would be crushed but happy for my fellow rangers at the same time if staff is good enough to get rangers finally in Tournament, but who am i to ask for auto targeting

i like the traps but not the bow.on the dragonhunter trait line.one of the main traits is meant for the bow i think it should be moved to the optional traits and replaced with something that helps all builds.that and i think the new virtues are sub par to the other ones and shouldn’t be forced to have them.if we just want to play with the traps

nope dragon hunter is no replacement for a ranger i like there traps a lot more then the bow

FloXun.1456:

I also agree that the new virtues are a downgrade compared to their original ones. They are also not affected by most of the traits affecting virtues.
I don’t really have anything to say abour Spear of Justice, I think it is quite a fun skill to use.
The current status of Wings of Resolve and Shield (?) of Courage however is in my opinion quite bad, they both are a downgrade compared to their Virtue counterparts. Both their effects should be instant, currently their effects are just clunky.

see that right there is the problem you like spear of justice and stuck with two you don’t like so do you pick one set with only one you find useful or just give it up to keep 3 that are all useful

Westwater.1095:

Not to mention 2 of the minors are basically focused around using the longbow. What if I like traps but don’t want to use the bow? That kind of junk needs to be put in the selectable traits, while minors should be usable by all builds.

agree 100%

i know you get hit harder with less toughness.so i was wondering if any one knew what the difference is % wise.like does 1 toughness = 10hp.maybe i mean how much hp would equal 1 toughness when taking damage.sorry guys having trouble on trying to word the question out

i really like the traps. i feel i shouldn’t have to have the dragon hunter trait line to be able to use them.that and i lose my 3 virtues .i prefer some of the other ones over the new ones only new one i really like is the shield one.

RJMazz.6798:

It’s an unfinished class with not everything it has to offer and many tweaks needed for balance.

Also I won 60%+ of my fights by using Dual Swords/Hammer in Shiro and Jalis, with Devastation, Salvation (spec for blind) and Invocation. High fury and stability uptime, air procs, Sigil of Strength, double heals, insane amounts of life siphon, kidnap, huge might and a channeled 50%DR when the situation calls. Also on-demand quickness for fast stomps.

I can definetely do some things as a Revenant with the way I played but it needs lots of tweaks. If I played against myself using my Warrior, the Revenant would never stand a chance.

should have guest it was a mixed bag of both glad you found a good build

i am not trying to be a troll or anything.its just something i noticed in pvp.granted the skills look cool but they seemed to get downed a little to easy. i was wondering if its the class or if its because people are getting the hang of it.one thing that threw me off was when i went for a stomp and ended up somewhere else thought that was pretty cool.by the way being turned into stone beats the shame of being turned into a bird lol

i really love the new pvp map. i payed for the expansion so i ask no scratch that i demand to be able to play on that map the entire time beta is on and be able to skip the other maps. lol

Dardamaniac.1295:

Although i find em really fun i have found some major weakness that make em not viable atm.

1. They getting countered by AI. Mesmers, Necros and even other Rangers send their AI on them and they trigger leaving you with a skillslot on a 36sec cd

2. Range. Good Mesmers that realize that you are a trap Ranger tend to stay away from you. Other classes that have a strong range dmg can beat you easily if the play clever. Being melee and throwing traps feels a little clunky cause of the casting time, even so its nearly imposible to keep a steady flow in your rotations.

3. The lack of synergize with more traits. We need more traits imo. A single trait giving just some increases doesnt feels right. It either will make em OP or it wont help much. We need some kind of utility on them. Some cond removal, some stun break

4. Pets. They dont seem to synergize well with our pets. The soft cc that they provide may make pets hit more reliably the target but still i believe that more interaction is needed.
Something like giving some boons on pet, something like pet gains Sic em when a foe steps to a trap. Its seems logic that your pet is ambushing with you for a foe to step on the trap and hunt him down..

What do you think?

i don’t have to worry about that to much i always put the trap down has i am fighting to get my combo going.

worminator.5174:

About trap ranger: The burst of condition is amazing, but is also a big weakness against necros with condi transfer. Thats why i also stopped using traps in ranked matches. And if i know, that my opponent is a trap- ranger, i simple send my pets first to activate the first traps and then swap my pet.
About the other build: I also thought about some shout-ranger and will try your version. I think i understand, why you choose drake over wolf, but iam not sure, if the mightstacks are worth loosing the aoe fear. Otherwise without a good amount of might, the celestial amulett would not work. And also “protect me” need some tanky pet like drake, if it not shall die in an instant. Not a easy decision.

Im running for now a variant of the standard settler ranger to get atleast some support, combined with good mobility and the potential to fight on point.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRAsf3YjUqQHLWyCusAVLG4EqeYr0A4fhFPx9BPUb5LWJpK-TJhHwAPLDA4kAE4JAAa/BA

pro

“Resounding Timbre” combined with “We heal as one” is good at the beginning for some speed, but also add some regeneration the whole time for you and your team.

“Protective Ward” is strong, but i think, that i got more than enough protection from “Companions Defense”. Because of that i choose “invigorating bond”. It add some more healing for me and my teammates.

“Allies Aid” together with “Quickening zephyr” is a great combination to instant res allies in downstate. Because of Fortifying Bond, the pet also resvive your teammate faster. (Player-res-speed 160% + Pet-res-speed 150%)

Good mobility with sword 2 and Lightning reflexes. This saves me, after fighting 1v2 for some seconds to buy some time for my teammates. You can also add “Quickening zephyr” after this combination to roam between the points. Not as good as classes with portskills, but its ok.

Good condition remove for yourself.

Kraitrune helps to cover the immobilize with bleeding, torment and poison.

“Vigorous Training” over “Evasive Purity”. I know that vigor is not the strongest boon, but it saved maybe some comrades in longer fights, because they could dodge one or two times more. “Evasive Purity” is strong, but this build offers more than enough condition remove even without it.

“Beastly Warden” and Wolf-aoe fear for interrupts while stomping or rezzing.

contra

Missing aoe condiremove from shouts combined with soldierrune.
No stability for safestomping.
Lacks aoe dmg even with entangle and bonfire. Only made for small scale fights. Big teamfights are troublesome.
Lack of portskills to get fast on higher ground.

when i am not useing the build i posted above i run one almost like yours just more tanky http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRAsf3YjUqQDL2vCWsAVLGwEqeZ70A4vhJPy9FfBe8KmqC-TZhAwArLDsc/hCHEAAnAgOPBAA

i used to dislike some of the so called op stuff that is going on at the moment.i have come to be glad it happened .because it made me step up my game and after all the strategy i could find and advice.i have become a much better pvper then i was before everything got out of hand. anyone else feel this why or am i crazy lol.

Tragic Positive.9356:

Greetings, fellow Rangers.
As I usually do, I’m sharing another potent PvP build.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRAnY8fnUqA9rg9CC2CCctgBGhiD3vNA+nYYTdf0HhT/ijOKC-TJBFwAF3fYxTAAaZAAnEAA

Pros:
~Turns fights around easily with “Search and Rescue” trait / Taunt
~lots of Evades, 2 stunbreakers, decent survivability
~lots of Condi Clear (90% AoE)
~mobile
~Marsh Drake+ SotP combo gives instant 18 might
~high hybrid dmg spike

Cons:
~both weapons are clunky. You’ll often find yourself needing the instant response that you won’t get
~lack of blind (still has lots of weakness, though)

you might want to try this one its stronger with more survivability http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRAnY8fjUqQ/KWuCOsAVLGwEqeZ70A4vhVNy9FfBe8LOqqI-TZhAwAw2fowJAgcZAAHEgOPBAA you can use guard with it i just use the trap for the knock down for a Guaranteed entangled. best combo is spike trap entangled then bonfire. i have killed 3 at one time with that combo,i have had thiefs stay away from me after dieing none stop. you can run dodge roll in the middle of a huge fight do that combo and your team can finish off who is still standing. the only real cons of this build are some necros,ele depending on build. but i have had both drop fast.

i am good at pvp and i have seen lots of videos of melee rangers doing great at WvW roaming.so i thought i would give it a try.well to be honest it didn’t go well got killed by a mes and a thief in a few sec.i am running this build atm http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQRAsf3YjUqQDL2vCWsAVLGwEqeZ70A4vhJPy9FfBe8KWJF-TlSAABxs/gBHEgAOBA5ofwRlgAcEAMTpHSq/MmyAPeAABAOAY3d3d3d3tUAQsGA-w i am working on getting the rest of the dire jewelry. any ideas what happened or is pvp and WvW just very different? i know all the stats are raised.thank you for your thoughts and or advice on this matter. btw this will sound weird but if anyone says i need to go long bow it will not happen i hate bow lol

i was wondering does anyone know why there is amulets missing?theirs no apothecary or dire amulets i am sure there are more that are missing.Anet if you read this could you tell us why.

some times when i am playing my screen will go black and my speakers will make these horrific sounds . i will have to turn pc off because i cant get out of black screen. at first i thought my cpu or graphics card might be going bad but i have a gaming rig and no way this game could even start to push my pc to its limits.so i tested it on other games and nope its just this game. i have an i5 3.4Ghz cpu a r9 280x gpu and 8 gigs of ram.it doesnt even happen every day i can go days and nothing will happen.any idea what is going on?

Manimarco Devil.1790:

Keeps putting you into the same map even if game is over.

really? everyone else is getting error saying its are firewall lol

i love melee codi ranger. i love flying around like a bad kitten lol.guard was my fav tell i made my ranger

will lot let us connect when trying to join ranked or unranked

GussJr.1643:

I’ve noticed a lag time in when I use the f2 skill, about 2 – 3 second lag…but never to not use it all all.

that’s what it more then likely happend wouldn’t know dead before it goes off lol

there have been times where i push f2 and the pet doesn’t use skill. its happened a lot today.kind of a pain pet leaves me hanging when i needed him the most lol or can pet skills be interrupted ?

draxynnic.3719:

I’m active enough in the community that I’m probably more likely to avoid spoilers if I play it early. That, and if I’m not getting rewards to my account for playing, I might as well get all the novelty I can rather than playing old content with new options when I could be playing new content. There’ll be time enough to take a revenant through the original game when HoT launches.

has for me when xpac is out i will start off at level 80 using all the Tome of Knowledge i have.and just do the main story running down all the way points to do living story events been playing way to long to be doing the same old quests over again.

LeviQuiteQuirky.6892:

I’ve been on the forums a lot lately and have read a few speculations on the new “Bezerker” Specialization being hand to hand combat (punching enemies in the face). Then I watched Wooden Potatoes new vid on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDULOykGyyE. About 5 minutes in he talks about this and how it would be stupid if implemented with the example he used. Then I started thinking…yes it would be stupid like that, but would be awesome if you could use a transformation/ kit/ shroud-like skill based on adrenaline build up. So with a new trait line, you could focus/ convert your adrenaline into Chi (giving up you default F1 skills). When activating F1 after building up your Chi/ Adrenaline. You would enter something similar to Rampage and Death Shroud (without the massive health pool).

What I can imagine:

1. Build up Adrenaline/ Chi.
2. Pressing F1 to enter focused state/ enlightenment or whatever you want to call it.
3. Rushing foward at superspeed (like bulls charge, shadowstep or blink), punching the enemy in the face, knocking them on their bottoms. Activating another skill wich shoots a kamehameha like skill or a barrage of energy/ chi orbs at the target area.

this idea was thought over in 10 seconds so you don’t have to take me seriously. But I got excited over the idea of it like a kid on christmas when I had this brain fart. :P

What do you guys think?

i would think more like guts from the anime berserk

SkiTz.4590:

Power ranger in sPvP is quite solid..pretty good, not amazing but they are deadly and a well skilled ranger can deal with about any class 1v1… now all the other builds for ranger are trash thou… spirits are long dead, traps aren’t worth it, condi is not as strong as other classes condi. Power is BY FAR the best and pretty much only build I see in PvP – that’s a problem

WvW – yea they aren’t impressive at all here. They can solo roam, thats about it. But what freaking class can’t??. Not as good as a backliner or front liner as other classes and not as good for support in team roaming either so best options if you want to WvW as ranger is solo roam or backline DPS zerg with LB.

PvE – ya, sucks. not the worst, but close enough lol. Limited group utility. average dps. nothing special. They can do just fine as most classes, but they don’t excel at ANYTHING.

Overall, ranger is not great , its very much a subpar – average class. Excels at nothing, isn’t terrible at anything… just average lol

codi builds are not trash.i do very well.i am a full melee ranger just yesterday i killed 4 ppl at one time hit my spike trap popped entangled then bonfire and it was over.i had one match today where i got over 100 points just from getting downed players up because i can res them so fast.its all about the player and there build and how they use it.

i used to hate the map but its growing on me. with a team smart enough to stay together and knows there class fairly well its an easy win. i think if everyone knew not to run off alone people would like the map more.but 99% of the time you have one team that scatters and gets picked off.