Kraitan.8476

Slightly disagree. The better the player the lower the value of your trap, more traps is often a weakness not a strength, I've beaten many rangers trying to make trapper rune and all that crap work. Sharpening stone is on demand cleanse, fury and good damage. About the MH axe, I enjoy it but dagger will proc [Predator's Cunning] way more than axe which will help with sustain, on top of that if you take axe MH you have only projectiles and a single ele can render you useless. Also dagger leaps can be used for 1.3k heal or 8s weakness per leap. Axe just doesnt compete with it in my opinion

Here's a guide I made, (top 100 EU soloQ on 2 accounts) https://new.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/gbmb49/condition_soulbeast_pvp_build_guide/

I think itll gain popularity quickly because core has taken a hit and I've shared this for anyone to try. It's gonna be annoying fighting my mirror ;)

Ive had success with this https://new.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/gbmb49/condition_soulbeast_pvp_build_guide/

How about dampening where all healing decreases by a percentage, increasing over time. For example: have healing gradually decrease from 100% -> 0% over a period of 15 seconds.

It allows healing specs to remain somewhat relevant (doesnt completely shut them off from 1second to the other) and therefore makes fights at the end of a match a little longer and more tactical because there's the issue: is it worth to use this heal at this point (when it heals for let's say 20% of the original amount) or should I go for a final attack instead?

The current transition from 1:59 into 2:00 feels a bit unnatural in terms of flow I suppose? Not sure how to explain xd. Thoughts anyone?

> @"bigo.9037" said:

> the game is dead honestly. anet should have made better choices for pvp back when they cared at all. if they made something like 2v2 instead of stronghold they would be more successful.

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> they kitten up, realized they got 0 return on investment in pvp and decided to never do anything except balance patches ever again. Same with wvw. they add 1 more map that adds another dimension to the game ( vertical ) but players didn't like it so anet will never ever take chances in wve again.

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> alliances are so far off that it's essentially useless. no old players will return just because of alliances. it's just the same old wvw but with slightly different teams woooo amazing.

Yeah they had a window of years to make pvp gr8 but never acted upon it. Better late than never though.

Ill keep it short since only few pets are viable anyway, bird: kutvogel, smokescale: aidsbeest

1 map every 3 years is the pace. Welcome.

Forcing you to fight in small circles on a pretty small map with pretty short respawn timers: bad.

Same for the stunbreak/immunity on soulbeast while merged with a black bear for example. Feels so dumb when a stunbreak gets randomly (because there's no reason to daze/interrupt a stunned target) interrupted and it goes on full CD without applying the effects of it.

Anything thats not featuring circlewars2 would be appreciated, be that 2v2, 3v3, 10/15/20's. >As long as it gets a Q! otherwise why even bother

Balancing/reworking 50 meh pets (giving players more options) or nerfing the 1 everyone uses? Hhmmm

Should fix resstraits before fb+nec meta

Its fucking dumb that every game has 2 of X class, 2 of Y class and maybe 1 other if you're lucky.

Doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's aids nonetheless. I fought 2 mirages at close with over 10 clones coming at me, after a minute of aids I just thought to myself, fuck it, I'll leave & give them the point, this ain't worth it.

Nerf:

Mirage

Holo

I play:

All

> @"Blocki.4931" said:

> Could this be related to "Melee Attack Assist"? in the general options? Because I've noticed how poorly that behaves with Warrior Sword 2 which is also a leap.

No, that’s an option ill never use xD and Im fairly sure it has nothing to do with it since the bug can happen both with & without a target. It does seem to happen more in wvw for some reason, very strange :/

> @"SlippyCheeze.5483" said:

> > @"Kraitan.8476" said:

> > 20-25% of uses at the end it turns your character and kinda leaps back a little bit. Not sure how to reliably reproduce, seems random.

> > Beside that, the consumable (interactable) items dropped by siamoth/pig etc does not work with the: ''show all usable object names'' - option. Which can be a bit annoying from time to time, can this be fixed?

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> Interestingly, I have been using swoop a whole lot, doing some key farming on a shiny new Ranger, and hit this zero times in ~ 10 hours of gameplay. All sub-80 map completion and personal story, of course.

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> Do you use action camera, free camera, or regularly rotate the camera rather than the character to view things? I don't do any of those, and I'm wondering if there is some relationship?

Ill record it tomorrow if you'd like to see it?, shouldnt be hard ;) I dont use action cam, using free cam but I dont think its related at all to camera settings/movement.

20-25% of uses at the end it turns your character and kinda leaps back a little bit. Not sure how to reliably reproduce, seems random.

Beside that, the consumable (interactable) items dropped by siamoth/pig etc does not work with the: ''show all usable object names'' - option. Which can be a bit annoying from time to time, can this be fixed?

> @"Staffordshire.1752" said:

> Bowless ranger is by far my favourite thing in the game. How i miss wilderness survival condi ranger side noding :) I play a very similar build right now but not on your skill level xD I wanted to ask, what do you think about swapping RT in beastmastery out for the might on crit? Ramps up so well to me. I also want your opinion on matchups. How do you fare against the meta builds like spellbreaker/holosmith/condimirage, what do you avoid etc etc.. Do you consider yourself a teamfighter or do you like for sidenode 1v1's and 2v2's. Also suggestion for a vid: duels?

Wow mate those are some decent questions, I'll try my best to answer as much I can.

Swapping out RT for might on crit: I don't think its worth it. Axe inherently provides might with autoattacks and the reduced CD on sic' em is really good. It's a crazy strong skill so imo its better to have the 40% dmg buff 20% faster each time instead of some extra might. It's not like the build needs more damage anyway, the key to winning is knowing the matchup & important cooldowns so you can burst around them.

Matchups: I thnik the build can work in both teamfights or sidenodes, I prefer sidenodes because I personally enjoy winning fights alone (you could say im a one wolf pack kinda guy XD) but if you do get into teamfights, be aware that you can provide stability, immunity to movement impairing conditions, a decent 4-5k heal with resistance on it and of course pressure/cleave with axe5 or just hit a bunch of nearby enemies with a nice AoE Winters Bite (axe3). The hardest matchup is probably condi mesmer, but that could be said for any class atm. Warriors shouldnt be hard, they all use a shield and all think they're safe while blocking, use that. Necros can be kited & pressured enough to kill 1v1. Holosmith can be tricky because of the 80-90% dmg reduction they can achieve, try to kite them while they're in forge mode and evade their burst is your priority, beside that try to burst them down once they've used some defensive cooldowns like that shield or the 50% dmg reduction. Holo takes a bit of practice but gets easier with practice. Also always use the terrain, you aren't winning any fight if you're gonna stand on the node. My next vid is probably going to be a wvw roam with various soulbeast builds. It's like duels, except they go to respawn after ;)

ps. you can easily swap demolisher amulet for paladins amulet, it helps a lot vs conditions and with sic em and the ferocity from beastmastery traits you will really have more than enough damage.

pps. dont burst vs protection and try to keep in mind when your sigil of annulment is ready. I love swapping to it, throwing a big Winters Bite while merging with smokescale so its a huge unblockable boonstripping hit after which follow up with smoke assault for a nice burst. But it can be combined in many ways, which makes the build so much fun <3

Hope this helps!

Ya they idk the balance team is super inconsistent in philosophy and updates ~ this, you couldn't have said it better. The only reason the current state of pvp is what it is, is years and years of this.

> @"PaRaPhReNiA.8763" said:

> > @"phs.6089" said:

> > > @"Kraitan.8476" said:

> > > Beside the balance side of it, mesmers are just incredibly annoying to fight. The amount of evades/invulns/ports/stealths/blinds/blocks they got on each and every ability makes it just such bad & boring combat compared to fighting any other class. Because it is also poorly balanced, it doesnt require much skill to be effective on it therefore many people starting playing it which magnified the problem and now everyone is aware & complaining. Except the devs who usually need 6-9 months to catch up.

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> > Why don't you make a mirage and play it for a bit? BTW you know what else is annoying to play against (besides anything else) it's a core ranger on trapper runes. I mean a ranger that know what to do. Hear me, this comes from DH main player.

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> HAHAHAHAHA CORE RANGER WITH TRAPPER RUNES! It's so kitten broken, I fully agree

I wasnt even gonna reply to that comment anymore but I'm glad you did xD

Over 6 months and still havent been able to use dagger mainhand properly. Feelsbad

Ill play €20-30 easily for any non conquest teambased pvp mode with a large map preferably

Beside the balance side of it, mesmers are just incredibly annoying to fight. The amount of evades/invulns/ports/stealths/blinds/blocks they got on each and every ability makes it just such bad & boring combat compared to fighting any other class. Because it is also poorly balanced, it doesnt require much skill to be effective on it therefore many people starting playing it which magnified the problem and now everyone is aware & complaining. Except the devs who usually need 6-9 months to catch up.

Anything that isnt circlewars would be very appreciated. Also when SH gets reworked, make it at least 4 times bigger please.

> @"Joey.3928" said:

> Props for playing melee ranger. It is my favorite thing to play. I really want to give mainhand or offhand axe another try. The axe throw on #4 seems clunky to me. I just have to get used to it. I really like the damage on greatsword and the defensiveness on sword/dagger myself. Maybe this weekend I'll drop dagger and try offhand axe :D

Axe 4 is clunky indeed, feels so good when it hits though, it's easiest use is when an enemy chases you since they usually run in a straight line. Besides that, axe 4 has next level gravity, meaning if you throw it over any kind of hole (like on skyhammer floor) it will drop down and never reach the other side (would have been fun if we could pull enemies into them but we can't). Also you can sometimes throw it up to ledges above, but it doesnt always seem to work. Let's call it a learning curve ;)