Dragonzhunter.8506

> @"ParadoX.3124" said:

> Well now you know how it feels to play engi

What do you mean?!?!?! Do you want to say that after you dismount you don't have weapon skills active?

This:

@"Danikat.8537" "As someone else said this is an old bug which has now become a more significant problem. I'm not sure exactly what causes it but it seems to happen to me most often when I use the mounts engage skills, so I go straight from mounted with the pet hidden to in combat - the pet stays hidden instead of automatically reappearing like it's supposed to.

Before this change (and now on druids and core rangers) it's possible to get the pet back by clicking the unhide button (although that's still annoying because you can't keybind that, you have to actually click the button - especially annoying if you're using the action camera) but apparently that's considered swapping pets so on soulbeasts it won't work until you're out of combat, meaning you have to go through an entire battle without a significant part of your build."

explained clearly what it is about ...

@"ParadoX.3124" , next time before saying something, please read carefully.

> @"shadowpass.4236" said:

> Anvil Rock iirc. Yep, I'm on NA. :)

lol, I moved on Anvil Rock a few months ago. In WvW I met only @"Eurantien.4632" , I mean guys from this forum. I am playing mostly 7-10PM Pacific Time.

I joined Anvil Rock. Now I am looking for a WvW dedicated guild who has raids between 7/8 PM - 10 PM Pacific Time (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and 8 PM - 2 AM Pacific Time (Friday, Saturday) sometimes 8 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Time (Saturday and Sunday).

Ofc it is no need for the guild to raid all these days, but this is the time when I can join it.

Thank you!

I don't know how good or newby your enemies were, but your vid made me try Druid again, just for fun :). Usually, a good player who didn't die from the first burst of a glass cannon should kill pretty fast that glass cannon. Don't get me wrong, you played well and I enjoyed your vid, still, some of your enemies seem to be or new, or just surprised by a Druid on WvW :) .

Good video and playstyle ... keep it up!

I don't know how many are playing from the West coast. The time zone difference between West and East it's 3 hours.

Anvil Rock looks pretty ok.

> @"Blackhawk.3951" said:

> With those kind of playable hours... most servers t3 and above have people and zergs you can play with...

>

> I would also look at the gw2 time zone page to see where the activity is too.

>

> https://wvwstats.com/timezones

Blackhawk, how accurate it is this website, atm Borlis Pass it is on T1?

You can find few builds for Druid on Metabattle.

This is one for Open World https://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Druid_-_Staff_Farmer , ofc you can change from 2 staffs to one staff and another weapon you like. You have there all the information.

> @"Excursion.9752" said:

> You may want to post your ideal playing times. There are a lot of good options but you will want to make sure you play when they play.

Done, I edited my comment. Thank you!

> @"GUFF.5692" said:

> Any particular reason why you want to leave EU?

>

> Take this with a grain of salt since I'm on TC but overall I feel the WvW experience on NA has degraded in the last two years (especially the last 6-8 months) significantly.

>

> Roaming is basically non-existent on my server. Most of my friends list of dedicated roamers rarely log on. If you do roam on my server you can usually count on fighting 1xV and seeing a small enemy group cap all your camps/sentries/towers with little to no resistance.

>

> Also, we can't hang with others prime time for zergs anymore. This means you cannot snipe reinforcements getting back to the battles because the battles are over the first enemy push. I know part of it is power creep but it wasn't too long ago that 2 hours battles for hills or bay were common. Pretty much never happens anymore.

>

> Don't want to sound too negative especially about TC. There are still some who try and a few OGs but very very few especially roaming.

I moved to Canada 3 years ago.

On EU server I have 200 ping on WvW and 200 ping on sPVP. My friends are not playing anymore GW2 (after 7 years), so I don't have any reason to stay there alone with that ping.

On NA server I have only 100 ping, this is a huge difference mainly for sPVP.

Atm mostly I am roaming with small groups or alone on my server (Seafarer's Rest) and I play sPVP. The issue you have on TC is the same on Seafarer's Rest, at least at the time when I can play. 7PM-10PM Pacific time, means 5AM-8AM in Europe, and usual ppl are at work or school in middle of the week. I don't care if I can't join big zerg/blob, but at least I hope I'll find a small group of players who love to fight (PPK) more than PPT, but if it is need it I can do PPT too.

Hi girls and guys!

I am looking for a good WvW NA server. I mean I am looking for a server where are many ppl who are playing WvW.

I want to move from EU server to NA server, due to the fact I am living in Canada now.

My playtime is 7PM-10PM Pacific time in the middle of the week and 8AM-1PM, 6PM-2AM (depends) in Weekend.

Thank you in advance for any info regarding this matter.

Hi guys!

I need your help!

I want to move from the EU server to an NA one.

Mostly I am doing WvW and sPVP. So I want to know a good WvW server, who is playing usually between 7PM-10PM Pacific Time in the middle of the week.

If you have any idea, please share with me your info.

Thank you in advance!

> @"guest.9472" said:

> > @"Swagger.1459" said:

> > > @"guest.9472" said:

> > > > @"Swagger.1459" said:

> > > > > @"guest.9472" said:

> > > > > > @"Swagger.1459" said:

> > > > > > > @"guest.9472" said:

> > > > > > > condi ranger is op currently. not sure what this thread is for lol

> > > > > >

> > > > > > Take your condi Ranger in wvw sometime, then let me know how to play it since i rely on website builds

> > > > >

> > > > > I did and it performs much better in wvw. Good smallscale aoe damage multiple 1v4s on the soulbeast version. Again as I said its op. But the way this community works is it follows what the popular kids are doing and "nothing else is possible." Such a joke. I did a 1v3 without wearing an armor piece, condi druid. What youll say about that? Good luck too? When will people realize that adherence to meta is a choice not a requirement. And have w/e salty reply u got ready as is the norm for rangers when they first discover the crutch AA exploits and gimmicks they rely on.

> > > > >

> > > > > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXQdbh0PbPw

> > > > >

> > > >

> > > > Sorry pal, this post is about shortbow, traps, both daggers and adding in condi to staff. You were not using those weapons or slot skills at all in that video, besides the off hand dagger.

> > >

> > > The post is about the assertion that condi ranger under performs. What i showed was a condi ranger that over performed. The current soulbeast build i use is short bow sword dagger. The ranger community is so linear that as soon as condi is mentioned, they rely on traps. With soulbeast, you dont need a single trap. The thread is titled condition builds 2.0. I am simply offering the perspective that an improvement isnt needed, atleast not outside of one's capability

> >

> > Posting builds that are more power based isn’t helping your argument. You swoop in the thread claiming “op” then post vids of power based builds...

> >

> > I have just about every build Ranger can have, and there is a difference between power based builds and true condi based builds. You’re not fooling anyone here by claiming Ranger condi builds are “op” or even on par with power build performance.

> >

> > I’m not here to talk about power builds with you. This thread is about specific underperforming condi weapons and skills.

>

> Nothing i posted was power based. The very first combat clip is the condi shirtless druid i was talking about. Nothing else in that vid is mentioned yet im sure you kept watching. Try again "pal." You keep talking about how much you know, but you dont really know condi ranger. Its currently op. Shortbow is fine sword dagger off hand is fine. And i never said this build is on par with power builds, because it beats them.

>

> "I know this" and "I know that" lol Ive played eu and na beat top 10s regularly with it. In wvw it only becomes even better. Whatever point youre trying to make doesnt matter. Youre wrong, condi ranger isnt underperforming at all. Read tool tips and stop using the same 3 pets for 6+ years and maybe for once youll see something you havent before lol

>

You are saying your first fight was a condi druid build, still your build was Beastmaster/Survival/Druid. Beastmaster definitely it is a condi trait line :D. The only condi thing you used from the traits line is Ambidexterity. So you mixed power with condi ... but still, you call yourself a condi Ranger. You make me laugh.

For the rest of the fights, as @"Swagger.1459" already said, your builds are power-based, weapons, traits, utilities all are power things and not condi (well almost of them at least). Even on your printscreen from sPVP, you use many times LB, another "condi" based weapon.

In conclusion, you are a joke who doesn't know anything but swears when you were caught.

PS: I saw you are using Owl as a pet too, another "condi" based pet ... same for Rock Gazelle ...

After I posted the comment above, the guy @"guest.9472" sent me 2 emails where he swears me and writes all kinds of stuff.

[https://ibb.co/pxmDj7N](https://ibb.co/pxmDj7N "https://ibb.co/pxmDj7N")

[https://ibb.co/hBNxxNj](https://ibb.co/hBNxxNj "https://ibb.co/hBNxxNj")

I am sure that both accounts @"guest.9472" and the one from email are f2p. But I hope that a GM could find him somehow and give him a warning.

Anyway, now we know what kind of player he is.

> @"anduriell.6280" said:

> > @"lare.5129" said:

> > yes, some pet wiht low damage but with boonstrip once per 30 sec can be added. Good idea.

> > "Ant Wasp" will be ok )

>

> No need for new pet, make felines to remove some boons in the [bite ](https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bite_(feline) "Bite ")skill.

>

> It would make a reason to carry such a glassy pets into competitive.

>

> Also as another way to improve felines for competitive: replace the maul with the pounce skill, without the additional effects. So the damage skill is cast automatically.

> Make the F3 to apply stealth to the pet (as used by the jaguar with the stalk F3 beast skill) and aditionaly apply the secondary effect from the actual beast ability (chill for snow leopard, bleeds from lynx) in the next attack. Jaguar can get the buff to crit and ferocity as now for some seconds.

>

> So felines should be able to keep up with their targets, and F3 becomes an utility which works better. Also the beast mode skill will work better as it would have 2 very differentiated skills: Leap and rip boons.

>

> Ranger already has A lot of unused kitten. Rework the exisisting ones, if is easier just replace the old ones. But i would love them to rework core instead adding more over the top not working existing stuff

Stalk from Jaguar should give invisibility to Soulbeast when he is in beast mode.

Savannah Strike from Cheetah should Shadowstep Soulbeast when he is in beast mode.

And there are many skills from pets who can be transferred to Soulbeast when he is going in beast mode.

> @"guest.9472" said:

> > @"Swagger.1459" said:

> > > @"guest.9472" said:

> > > > @"Swagger.1459" said:

> > > > > @"guest.9472" said:

> > > > > > @"Swagger.1459" said:

> > > > > > > @"guest.9472" said:

> > > > > > > condi ranger is op currently. not sure what this thread is for lol

> > > > > >

> > > > > > Take your condi Ranger in wvw sometime, then let me know how to play it since i rely on website builds

> > > > >

> > > > > I did and it performs much better in wvw. Good smallscale aoe damage multiple 1v4s on the soulbeast version. Again as I said its op. But the way this community works is it follows what the popular kids are doing and "nothing else is possible." Such a joke. I did a 1v3 without wearing an armor piece, condi druid. What youll say about that? Good luck too? When will people realize that adherence to meta is a choice not a requirement. And have w/e salty reply u got ready as is the norm for rangers when they first discover the crutch AA exploits and gimmicks they rely on.

> > > > >

> > > > > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RXQdbh0PbPw

> > > > >

> > > >

> > > > Sorry pal, this post is about shortbow, traps, both daggers and adding in condi to staff. You were not using those weapons or slot skills at all in that video, besides the off hand dagger.

> > >

> > > The post is about the assertion that condi ranger under performs. What i showed was a condi ranger that over performed. The current soulbeast build i use is short bow sword dagger. The ranger community is so linear that as soon as condi is mentioned, they rely on traps. With soulbeast, you dont need a single trap. The thread is titled condition builds 2.0. I am simply offering the perspective that an improvement isnt needed, atleast not outside of one's capability

> >

> > Posting builds that are more power based isn’t helping your argument. You swoop in the thread claiming “op” then post vids of power based builds...

> >

> > I have just about every build Ranger can have, and there is a difference between power based builds and true condi based builds. You’re not fooling anyone here by claiming Ranger condi builds are “op” or even on par with power build performance.

> >

> > I’m not here to talk about power builds with you. This thread is about specific underperforming condi weapons and skills.

>

> Nothing i posted was power based. The very first combat clip is the condi shirtless druid i was talking about. Nothing else in that vid is mentioned yet im sure you kept watching. Try again "pal." You keep talking about how much you know, but you dont really know condi ranger. Its currently op. Shortbow is fine sword dagger off hand is fine. And i never said this build is on par with power builds, because it beats them.

>

> "I know this" and "I know that" lol Ive played eu and na beat top 10s regularly with it. In wvw it only becomes even better. Whatever point youre trying to make doesnt matter. Youre wrong, condi ranger isnt underperforming at all. Read tool tips and stop using the same 3 pets for 6+ years and maybe for once youll see something you havent before lol

>

You can say whatever you want, but in WvW, a condition ranger with short bow can't beat a power ranger with Lb/Gs. This is not happening in PvP either. Only if you are a really, really, really good player, and your opponent is a medium player, then yes you can beat with condition build a power build. Condition build is a close / medium range, that's why couldn't performe the same way as a power Lb/Gs build in WvW, where it is an open space for fights. Yes a condi trapper build it is annoying and he can make a lots of trouble to any other class, even against a ranger, but if the opponent is on the same calibre regarding fighting skills, I really doubt that in WvW the condi can beat power. And it is not about the pets, but about the condi weapon ranger have and about all the coef.

I am testing and testing GS. The weapon is still one of a must in WvW. That block is really good, but ... something is missing on skill 4. Many times (on duel mostly or small group fight) I have that feeling that I wasted skill 4. Because now, there are already many players when they see your block they are retreating. And you are staying for another 3 sec in block mode, and that's it, not kick, no nothing. I don't know if this is due to my ping, but many times I can't use the kick, because it seems I didn't block the attack, which means the enemy stopped to hit me before or in the same time I use skill 4. The kick is working most of the time in group fighting when are 2-3 enemies on you and after the first sec of block, you can use the kick, because they can't see it coming, at least 1 of them didn't and you can use it. Dam', I miss so much that throw ...

@"kiritsugu emeya.3962" you are wasting your time and your energy with someone who doesn't need you or mine or other ranger attention.

He is a simple warrior/thief who hates rangers. Simple like that. He argued with me on other thread, and I told him there that it is better for him and for us to go on warrior and thief sub-forums, instead of spreading his hate on Ranger forum. Ofc he denied there too, that his main is not warr or thief, but ranger. I bet all my gold that he is one of those 95-99% of players who played ranger, who didn't have a clue about cancelling of 3rd form of GS AA to have second and third evade.

He isn't a PVP or WvW player either, mostly a PVE guy. Still, he is trying to convince and argue with experienced PVP players.

PS: @"Sobx.1758" , because I don't want you to talk again all kind of .... things, try to understand me clearly, I agree that Anet should fix all bugs/glich/ or skills who give someone an advantage more than should be or was intended, but this DOESN'T mean Anet should Deleted! or replace it with something almost useless.

Still, it is a fact that you are not a main Ranger or a PVP/WvW player. Prove me I am wrong :D

@"Sobx.1758" do you know that as a Ranger you can get 8s of invisibility by yourself? Do you know how? I am asking this now, just in case Anet will nerf that too ...

Maybe if you try harder you can get more than 8s ... :)

> @"bighead.3465" said:

> > @"Dragonzhunter.8506" said:

>

> > Arheundel, you can say whatever you want, but all changes were a nerf for GS. Yes the block now it is a proper block, better than before, but we lost an evade and 1 damage skill , a range skill.

>

> YOU can say whatever you want. But GS AA evasion was a crutch exploit for "top" players. Who cares if a bug was in the game since launch. Now instead of having to engage opponents to earn evasion and having block easily counter by a melee hit that locks you into an vulnerable animation, you now can block completely and evade after at your own choice. In other words, linear players got nerfed. True rangers have seen the buffs for what they are.

I am glad that you are a true ranger and I am just a linear player. Really I am happy fo you. GL and HF.

> @"Sobx.1758" said:

> > @"BadSanta.6527" said:

> > > @"Sobx.1758" said:

> > > > @"kiritsugu emeya.3962" said:

> > > > > @"voltaicbore.8012" said:

> > > > > > @"kiritsugu emeya.3962" said:

> > > > > >did they mess with any other gs skills that I'm not aware of?

> > > > >

> > > > > Yes - they took the evade out of the end of the GS autoattack chain, which messed up a lot of folks who came to depend on it as part of a good melee rotation. Instead of giving an evade frame, the final attack in the chain gives back some endurance. It still takes forever and a day to channel the whole final attack.

> > > > >

> > > > >

> > > >

> > > > WAIT WHAT!! Who in the hell in the balancing team thought it was a good idea to remove the evade frame???

> > > > Devs do me a favor and play ur kitten game, you dont play it therefore you dont understand it.

> > >

> > > meh, pretty sure they understood how the evade chain was abused. Is that really the point you're trying to make? That they ""didn't understand"" people gained 3 x the intended evade?

> > >

> > > >I still can't believe that they labeled the nerf as a RANDOM DODGE. this alone brings up many questions, is the current balance team working in anet or did they get them from another mmo? it was literally implemented in the game 7 years ago... do you guys know what skills you're creating in each class?

> > >

> > > You use it out of context btw. Nobody ever said the dodge randomly found its way into the game, tbh I'm not sure what you're talking about here.

> >

> > lol i laugh so loud when you saud abuse the evade . man just move from the ranger forum if your such an hater comon people need to be real for once sake

>

> Wait, so you're seriously saying it wasn't being abused? :lol:

> And what about taking "random dodge" out of context?

> Seriously, how about you actually answer to that post instead of trying to brush everything to "being a hater"?

Can you link me a thread about 3rd skill of GS being abused? I didn't hear ANYBODY complaining about this. I can bet with you that more than 95% of Rangers didn't know about this either. Please stop being a hater for nothing ...

> @"kiritsugu emeya.3962" said:

> anyways Eura i havent played so i cant judge, but its just soo fraustrating and depressing. I just can't see ranger having 1v1s on "node" at least holding it, and staying in team fights happening.

But you can hold a node 1 vs 1, many times vs 2 (depends of their classes ofc) if one of them is not Reaper, Mesmer or another heavy condition build. You can stay in team fights too, with a little more in/out moves of the hot zone.

> @"Abyssisis.3971" said:

> > @"weaponwh.9810" said:

> > just curious is there anyway for ranger to use LB and output a lot damage? my main is ranger, but recently I play P/P thief, and was surprise how much dmg it output, upward into 70k+ in boss fight, regular mob just die in a sec, solo champion with addon np, cause things just die too quick. wonder why LB is so weak now.

>

> Because other classes complained that soulbeasts with longbow do too much damage from range so ANET nerfed longbow when it really didn’t need to be nerfed. Axe is better for pve imo.

Ranger LB was nerfed only in World vs World. I mean that AA.

> @"Miellyn.6847" said:

> The kick after a successful block is also an evade, people tend to forget about it... We lost an evade on one attack and gained one on another.

many times useless, when you didn't kick because of the enemy steps back:). In the same time, I don't think you can compare an evade at 12 sec with an evade at every 2 sec.

> @"Arheundel.6451" said:

> > @"kiritsugu emeya.3962" said:

> > > @"voltaicbore.8012" said:

> > > > @"kiritsugu emeya.3962" said:

> > > >did they mess with any other gs skills that I'm not aware of?

> > >

> > > Yes - they took the evade out of the end of the GS autoattack chain, which messed up a lot of folks who came to depend on it as part of a good melee rotation. Instead of giving an evade frame, the final attack in the chain gives back some endurance. It still takes forever and a day to channel the whole final attack.

> > >

> > >

> >

> > WAIT WHAT!! Who in the hell in the balancing team thought it was a good idea to remove the evade frame???

> > Devs do me a favor and play ur kitten game, you dont play it therefore you dont understand it. Thats why you dont know how to balance it.

> > The evade frame on 3rd auto skill has been in game SINCE LAUNCH. So you just now remembered to remove it? Did MANY ppl complain about it? I guarantee it may have been 1% who did, others didnt even care about it. Rip our matchup with condi mes now, Ranger basically may not be able to get head to head in 1v1s at a high skill match with most of melee classes, nor it can in team fights. The 3rd auto evade was so unique for ranger it gave us room to get toe to toe with mesmers, weavers, staff thiefs, wars, power fbs, timing enemy burst skills with it. Its why i loved the weapon.

> >

> > Nerfed sicem and lb it was fair, nerfing soulbeasts dmg its still fair, nerfed boonbeast fair aswell, nerfed druid... idk why but ok... not many play it anyways because of you. And now you nerf/remove this? Whats next? Rip

>

> Didn't they give us a full block on GS4 to better deal with melee classes?

Arheundel, you can say whatever you want, but all changes were a nerf for GS. Yes the block now it is a proper block, better than before, but we lost an evade and 1 damage skill , a range skill.

> @"SpellOfIniquity.1780" said:

>...

> Let me set things straight.

>

> This thread was initially created in the WvW sub. My first comment was stating that previously, Soulbeast was overperforming and those who got used to it should have expected it to eventually be nerfed.

>

> I didn't _ask_ for nerfs and very rarely do I explicitly ask for something to be nerfed without suggesting reasonable ways to do so. Most times I've visited this sub I've been insulted in some way or another despite not saying anything that should warrant such an attitude. Those discussions were so long ago however, I can't bring up any examples because I stopped coming here probably before the "new" forum was even created. And unsurprisingly, nothing here has changed.

>

> I know not everyone in the Ranger sub is a complete jerk, but enough are that avoid this place like the plague. This entire string of conversation just reinforces my feeling towards it. One person quotes me making assumptions about things I play and how it's ironic. I provide evidence of otherwise and am in no way attempting to start an argument. And it still devolves in to insults from there.

>

> Anyway I'm done here. If people want to keep quoting me go nuts. I shouldn't have even bothered to disprove the person who quoted me as it doesn't make a difference in the truth of the matter.

I apologize if I offended you. I didn't say that you asked for nerf, I said in general. But I still keep my idea that it is inappropriate for someone to comes on a class forum and ask for a nerf, instead of coming with a solution. When someone asks to nerf something, he must come with a solution, what Anet should do so the class still be balanced and class could be playable after the change. Again, I am not saying that Ranger is not playable after the patch, the class it is still powerful. But the way ppl are asking only nerf that, nerf this on Ranger, is not constructive and benefic for this class at all. See what happened with Druid after all those requests of nerfing.

> @"kiritsugu emeya.3962" said:

> i have been taking a break from the game for a while now, just wondering about the current state with ranger in both pvp and wvw, is it really that bad?

Nope. From my POV is not bad. In both PVP and WvW he is still doing very good. Even they nerfed GS and Longbow AA, even they nerfed Sic'Em! , Ranger is still a very good class for roaming and in sPVP. In PVP I was only in Platinum I, I don't how it can perform in Platinum II or III or Legendary. But in Platinum I, I can say I beated most of the time the enemy in 1 vs 1, and I defended a point vs 2 enemies for many seconds till the reinforcement came. Ofc my playing time 4am-7am London time and 200 ping didn't help me much, but still.

> @"Fat Disgrace.4275" said:

> Not saying that at all, why even put them words into my mouth? but how do you bench mark this anyway? On a stationary golem? Fully buffed with boons/dmg modifiers? On a moving target at range?

>

Warrior is one of those classes with very high mobility. He can chase a Ranger and he can be in melee range in a second.

It was proved in many encounters between warrior and other classes.