Guild Wars 2

I like these quite a lot but I wonder with some of them (like the empowerment one) that they would end up raising the cd on them. They don’t generally like people getting quickness so much. Maybe change that to something else? Might or fury might be safer. I hate high cd abilities…

And yeah, I would really love to see some stun breaks on some of these to make them more useful.

Does anyone actually like the glyph elite? Seems pretty useless…it has potential though but it doesn’t seem to work half the time.

Played some more. It would be really nice if you would put a stun break on one of these glyphs. Idk, put something on them to make it worth taking them.

Not an engie (though I have an engie alt), but I feel the gyros are very underwhelming. I’m not sure what the point of the purge gyro is. Why not just merge that one with the medic and then create a new one that is more useful?

Hammer is loads of fun. A bit on the slow side though.

I love the glowy hand effect. Please leave it the way it is.

bluesnacks.2301:

no it isn’t, revs are pretty op

No they aren’t. Stop trolling. Revs are insanely weak to condis. Use them.

No Bill, no! You must bring it back! Do whatever it takes man. Whatever it takes.

Kailee.8790:

…If this was easy, then we need a massive overhaul on dps for the druid…

I went full cleric with staff… it took ~2-3+ minutes for 1 veteran beetle… I just press 1 and alt tab

I was zerk and had no problem killing vets in a reasonable amount of time. The staff is lowish dps though, so I would switch to sword/axe.

katniss.6735:

Dragonhunter has a dragon icon. Tempest should have a trashcan icon.

Actually Herald has the dragon icon. Dragonhunter’s have an arrowhead.

I’ve been playing my druid most of the day and only played my rev a bit. Still love it to pieces though. Will be testing it out more tomorrow.

You need to practice more with the class I think. I have no issues whatever with the mobs. I use sword/axe and hammer as my second set. All zerk gear with strength runes. Glint/Shiro legends. Devastation/Invocation/Glint trait lines. Idk, works nice for me.

Don’t use the default celestial set up that the beta character comes with and don’t use the default traits they stick you with.

And here are the typical pvp people crying for nerfs to Rev again. Infused Light? Pay attention and don’t bloody hit the rev when he has it up. If you do, well that’s on you and you don’t have much right to complain about it. Double dodge the UA or run to a team mate. UA is not good against more than one target.

You basically want to nerf Rev’s one good burst skill or take away the evade which is absolutely necessary in pve. If they nerf these skills they better nerf it in pvp ONLY.

lol, dragon like shield? Where the hell did you come up with that. It looks like an arrowhead. Our elite spec stance is Glint, who is a dragon hence why the dragon icon fits. So, no you can keep your arrow it doesn’t fit Herald at all.

For pvp maybe. No evidence of that in pve as of yet.

These wyverns need work desperately. They are so slow and half the time I target something and hit F2 they end up doing their AoE where ever they happen to be standing instead of at the target. All my other pets run to the target and attack. Please fix this.

Better survivability is key. If you need to split pve and pvp to do this, then please do it. Don’t let pvp interfere with pve please.

I really wish you guys could make pets move and attack at the same time while you’re at it. It’s crippling for them to not have this in any raid that requires high movement.

Also, even though you don’t intend for pets to have AoE damage reduction I beg you to consider it for spirits. Especially since you made it so they cannot move. Once again if there is an issue with pvp, please split the skills.

edit: Just did the Legendary Wyvern event which seems buffed since the last time I fought it. Now this is fine, except my pets were dead for most of the fight. Very frustrating.

I support this. I love my bristleback the way he is.

Awww I love the giant bristleback. I don’t want that little big guy nerfed to smallness. He’s so cute.

I really hate the fact that we hold our staves like hammers. Especially considering it is NOT a melee weapon. Why are we holding it like this?

Glyphs feel a bit lackluster. They need something to spice them up.

The wyvern is kind of sluggish. Many times I will have something targeted and hit the F2 and instead of doing the attack on the target it does it somewhere else. Needs to be more responsive (well pets do in general, but it seems really bad with the fire wyvern).

Oh and make tiger amphibious please. Like the above poster mentioned, tigers actually go in the water.

Overall I’m having fun though, will come back with more feedback later.

Yeah, it’s horribly nerfed. Completely faceroll now.Very disappointing. They got rid of all the snipers and I’m pretty sure they lowered the health of the enemies because they died very quickly. I was all ready to use my special druid staff heal block on those snipers, it should have been an awesome moment. Alas…

Why is it “not intended” for rangers to have might stacking? Saying “just because” is not good enough. There needs to be a concrete reason why they took that feature away when it was something helpful to the ranger and not overpowered. They could have kept it intact after the nerf. Who knows, maybe it’s because they intend to add might stacking elsewhere. Maybe it’s because they don’t intend to might stack but they are giving us something else equivalent. But there should be a reason.

Ok, feedback….the buffed WHaO was obviously overpowered. We expected a nerf. Anet just doesn’t go for stacking insane amounts of quickness (a big reason why ele warhorn was nerfed, funnily enough they kept might transferring there though). However, there is little to no reason to take away might stacking. Eles, warrs and necros can already might stack and some of them do it party wide. So why must this be taken away from the ranger’s WHaO? What is the reasoning behind this?

If we could get some insight or perhaps maybe some hints at other changes in the works for rangers that will help us? It doesn’t have to be about might stacking, just any info about stuff in the works that will improve things.

Yay, good to have this thread back. Ranger shouts are probably the most lackluster in the game and definitely need help. Spirits too, but I suppose that should be an entirely different thread.

lol, it’s hard not to love Gail.

Go out and TP those desks Gail!

I really wish they’d talk to us. On here and not on twitter. Communication is something desperately needed. I know things are kind of ragey right now, so maybe they are too scared and want to wait for things to cool down a bit.

Roy, Roy I wanna believe. ;-; You gave me such hope with the amazingly wonderful revenant. Please help rangers.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/We-Heal-as-One-Feedback-merged/page/7#post5551025

I think that was the first post in that shout feedback thread.

Roy, Roy you make me want to cry with what you do to my ranger. You secretly want me to switch to revenant don’t you? Because I do love my revenant….

Meh, I need to level up my armorsmithing really quick. I have all the mats to make the ascended armor for my rev, but I don’t actually have my crafting for heavy armor leveled. lol. I basically bought up all the mats to make weapons and armor. I’m not making it yet though I’m still deciding on what course to take….most likely shiro/glint but I have to test things out during the BWE.

lorddarkflare.9186:

And even amongst those who claim to only be upset at the might cap, the reaction is disproportionate enough to suggest otherwise.

Actually the might cap is the one reason why most people would be upset. Because there is really no excuse for that one when you have warriors and eles running around. The disparate treatment is jarring.

Who didn’t recognize the skill was broken? Most people did. Everyone had to know the perma quickness was going to go. Anet has never approved of any class having that. But ranger has issues and ranger does need help, this could have been an opportunity to yes, nerf the skill from it’s overpowered state but to also at least throw ranger’s a bone by keeping the might stacking. You cannot argue that that is overpowered in the least. Not in this current game.

People who are complacent don’t get anywhere in this world.

You are going say with a straight face that THREE stacks of might is fair? Seriously?

Maybe having ridiculous amounts of quickness is broken, but there is no way in hell you can say the might stacking is broken when things like ele and warr exist in this game. I’m pretty disappointed right now.

If it’s capped at something silly like 2 to 3 seconds I’m going to be sick. I don’t understand this, especially with the boons like might….you have eles and warrs that can stack the hell out of that, why can’t rangers do that too?

Raven.9603:

Wildfang.3271:

Just posting this on behalf of my friend, Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582 who got suspended.

“Apologies to all for my bad behavior. I will update the thread when my suspension is over which is currently the 13th of October, but I have contacted support about that duration. Thanks all.”

Let me guess:

• Moderator does a huge disservice to Ranger community by merging all Druid threads into one useless megathread for “feedback” despite not doing the same thing to Revenant or other class forums.
• User gets P.O.’d and complains about Moderator.
• Moderator, upset and embarrassed when User’s thread becomes the Red thread, issues forum ban.

Thats my theory until rumored otherwise.

Uh, The op made multiple threads ignoring the moderators and then went and made a specific thread calling them idiots. Yeah, if you insult them I think you are going to get a suspension. And you’d deserve it. Even if he was frustrated by the merging situation that is no reason to behave in that manner.

Chokolata.1870:

Quite honestly, the QoEmp should be a 20% damage boost and a 20% reduced damage taken in its inverted form.

That sounds like a great idea. Currently I’m just finding the glyphs kind of underwhelming, especially that one. 10% is just ok and the current inverse is rather terrible. The radius of the glyphs is also pretty awful.

Going to repost my critique then so it doesn’t get hidden away by the attempt do away with the other thread:

I have mixed feelings. To be honest when I heard our spec was called “druid” I was kind of expecting it to be very heal oriented, so this did not surprise me at all. However, It’s kind of disappointing. No improved AoE, no strong dps support except for that one glyph with the 10% buff. Druid as it is would not be very useful in the current state of PVE. However, Anet seems to keep saying HoT is going to change things up. So I suppose we can’t really judge the druid until the actual expansion is out. It could be very interesting. I mean I used to be a feral/resto druid in WoW so having a role doing some healing support would be nice. It’s definitely worth trying. But it’s also something I wouldn’t want to do all the time. Sometimes I just like dps.

I am concerned with the total lack of synergy of the druid traitline with the rest of the core ranger. There are no damage modifiers or anything that would help buff damage much. Many of the other elite specs allow you to spec into the elite spec and still maintain some of your playstyle. For instance, you can still be a death shroud focused reaper if you want. Or you can still be a shatter based chronomancer or a phantasm based chrono. There are things in the elite spec lines that are still useful for those playstyles. That’s just not true of the ranger. If I want to be a sword/axe power ranger or a remorseless greatsword ranger or a sinister axe/torch ranger in pve there is literally nothing for me to really take in the druid traitline. I suppose I just won’t take druid at all if I want to be full dps. The problem with that is the core profession has many problems still.

It just feels like you would only ever take druid if you wanted to be heal support in pve. Or for pvp, the spec does seem like it might have some nice things for wvw and spvp.
However, Irenio did say that he was watching the forums and was aware of a lot of issues we’re having with base class.

Well that balance stream happened and there are still many issues with the core profession. I’m happy about the pets getting condi stats, that’s great. But it’s not quite enough. Hopefully he just ran out of time and there’s a lot more.

Please let us have access to all pets for the BWE. It’s very annoying to start a ranger beta character and you only have one pet unlocked.

And the tongue guy mini. Don’t forget him.

They do seem enthusiastic about it. Rubi said it was great to see these rewards given for doing specific content.

1. Herald
2. Reaper
3. Chronomancer
4. Druid
5. Scrapper
6. Tempest
7. Berserker
8. Daredevil
9. Dragonhunter

Bryzy.2719:

Just because healing elements may be required in new group content, it does not mean that everyone is suddenly going to be a healer. We will still need 90% DPS-focussed team members to actually get us through the content, but they will now need that new, higher level of support the Druid can offer. You can’t have a party full of healing Druids in group content because nothing will get finished!

And there is the problem.

There are real synergy issues with the core profession. Druid is wonderful, if you want to be a healer. If you don’t and you want to be full dps, then you are stuck with the core profession which has many issues. Unless the new balance patch is absolutely amazing this is going to be a problem.

Ryou.2398:

xarallei.4279:

zinkz.7045:

xarallei.4279:

Particularly if you want to go dps in pve.

LOL, and there we have the truth, some people are QQing basically because they want to DPS in PvE which Druid is not going to help, so it doesn’t fit your personal playstyle in your specific bit of the game so it is “kitten”.

Way to ignore everything I said and take stuff out of context. Nowhere did I say it was “kitten.” In fact I said I look forward to trying it out. I already explained, MULTIPLE times that the big problem arises when you don’t want to be a healer in pve. Druid is great for support, but is unusable for pve dps because of the lack of synergy. Now if the core profession was in great shape, then this wouldn’t be a problem. That’s not the case. Ranger has issues. Now the balance patch stream is coming up, maybe it will address these problems, who knows.

Please stop being so rude, everyone is allowed to have an opinion on there view of a ranger, honestly I do not see the other classes with such a big change, personally I think this is a good thing but at the same time I can understand why people will not think it is appealing considering rangers in dnd are more inclined of not using staffs. But a variety of weapons however ranger also means versatility allot so it can make sense for a ranger to use all forms of weapons which includes a staff and since rangers are closer to druidism in guild wars it does actually make sense.

Anyways it is not constructive to insult anyone here so everyone just needs to stop and instead try to help others see how it might actually be fun for them and they did they if you watched the entire video they said they will be looking into balancing the ranger.

I’m not sure why you are quoting my post. The person I was quoting was the rude one calling people “QQers” and taking things completely out of context. Nowhere did I insult that person.

Nature traitline is still garbage and spirits need buffs baseline along with the buff to grandmaster.

I guess I’ll repost what I said in Tragic’s thread:

I have mixed feelings. To be honest when I heard our spec was called “druid” I was kind of expecting it to be very heal oriented, so this did not surprise me at all. However, It’s kind of disappointing. No improved AoE, no strong dps support except for that one glyph with the 10% buff. Druid as it is would not be very useful in the current state of PVE. However, Anet seems to keep saying HoT is going to change things up. So I suppose we can’t really judge the druid until the actual expansion is out. It could be very interesting. I mean I used to be a feral/resto druid in WoW so having a role doing some healing support would be nice. It’s definitely worth trying. But it’s also something I wouldn’t want to do all the time. Sometimes I just like dps.

I am concerned with the total lack of synergy of the druid traitline with the rest of the core ranger. There are no damage modifiers or anything that would help buff damage much. Many of the other elite specs allow you to spec into the elite spec and still maintain some of your playstyle. For instance, you can still be a death shroud focused reaper if you want. Or you can still be a shatter based chronomancer or a phantasm based chrono. There are things in the elite spec lines that are still useful for those playstyles. That’s just not true of the ranger. If I want to be a sword/axe power ranger or a remorseless greatsword ranger or a sinister axe/torch ranger in pve there is literally nothing for me to really take in the druid traitline. I suppose I just won’t take druid at all if I want to be full dps. The problem with that is the core profession has many problems still.

It just feels like you would only ever take druid if you wanted to be heal support in pve. Or for pvp, the spec does seem like it might have some nice things for wvw and spvp.
However, Irenio did say that he was watching the forums and was aware of a lot of issues we’re having with base class.

Well that balance stream happened and there are still many issues with the core profession. I’m happy about the pets getting condi stats, that’s great. But it’s not quite enough. Hopefully he just ran out of time and there’s a lot more.

The meta is dead, long live the meta.

You are really going to complain about this? Revenant is good overall. Ranger has tons of issues with the core profession. So what if druid is good at heal support? God let us be good at something for once. And like Roy said, they both do things a bit differently. It would probably be nice to have one of each on your team.

The new stuff is good, but I certainly wouldn’t say it’s better. Fear not this night, norn theme, tengu wall, here be dragons, etc still beat any of the new songs. Though battle on the breachmaker and the marionette music are very, very good. There is a lot of potential with these inhouse folks.

It would be nice if there was some other support thrown in and not just heavy healing.

zinkz.7045:

xarallei.4279:

Particularly if you want to go dps in pve.

LOL, and there we have the truth, some people are QQing basically because they want to DPS in PvE which Druid is not going to help, so it doesn’t fit your personal playstyle in your specific bit of the game so it is “kitten”.

Way to ignore everything I said and take stuff out of context. Nowhere did I say it was “kitten.” In fact I said I look forward to trying it out. I already explained, MULTIPLE times that the big problem arises when you don’t want to be a healer in pve. Druid is great for support, but is unusable for pve dps because of the lack of synergy. Now if the core profession was in great shape, then this wouldn’t be a problem. That’s not the case. Ranger has issues. Now the balance patch stream is coming up, maybe it will address these problems, who knows.

Scowny.1654:

Absolutely ridiculous. Most of the other profession forums are complaining about how amazing Druids are compared to the other elite specs while a large portion of the ranger community is complaining about how the druid isn’t what they signed up for. You are right. You signed up to play a ranger, not a druid. And guess what? YOU CAN STILL PLAY A RANGER!!! The elite spec is optional, providing something that the base ranger is lacking. Are people really questioning the entire expansion on the Druid elite spec?

Except the base class has many issues. If our base class was great, then sure adding druid wouldn’t be a big deal. But it does have problems. So just saying “don’t play druid” is a sign that you aren’t understanding the full issue here. The druid trait line has no synergy with the rest of the class. Most of the other elite specs have great synergy, especially chronomancer and necro. Our spec doesn’t have that. That is a problem. Particularly if you want to go dps in pve.

Well Anet keeps saying they will be. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. But let’s go on the assumption that it is true.

A lot of people were hoping for great dps support, not healing. But this healing is supposed to be useful in the new HoT content at least. We shall see…