Brynioch.1873

We will also get a legendary open world backpack.

I'm still optimistic it will be a new family instead of a cat. The mount uses the griffon rig and we got 3 new families with SotO. There is a chance!

I would like the Sun Temple Gecko Springer! It hasn't been on the store since March 22.

They will never bring that trait version back. Especially not with the new staff 2. It was one of the most broken PvP traits of all time. 3 sec CD, heal and blind on hit for the entire group. There was a reason it didn't even survived the first week after release...

The cooldown reduction from Pack Alpha doesn't work on any skill of the new pets except 'Bloodthirty Charge ' from Juvenile Wallow. Also 'Gale Breath' from the phoenix and 'Hunker Down' from the siege turtle are not labled as beast skills. But the related traits work. The 'Jade Cannon' ability from a Soulbeast merged with a siege turtle has a blast finisher tag in the tooltip but doesn't work as one.

This was not to promote vindicator. The jalis change was mostly a WvW thing but the requirement to face the target is a mechanical change and those changes always affect all game modes. Herald facets down to 5 man is sad but was announced. All skills got reduced to 5 man except banners and spirits until their rework.

Condi Untamned could be a thing. The stacking damage trait just says damage in the tool tip, so it's all damage not just strike damage. But condi builds kinda suck in open world.

The tooltip says it should be 4 seconds now. Hadn't time to play with it to confirm.

They increased the ambush window from 2 to 4 seconds.

Soulbeast has an absurd amount of +% Strike Damage modifier and extra stats to even remotely work as a power dps because ranger weapons still have bad weapon coefficients. Pets are factored in for weapons damage and we will never get another power spec until this is changed. Condi core ranger was one of the best DPS at a point in raids but power ranger was never played.

It will be either quickness or alacrity on one spirit. They already said that in the blog. But then druid has to compete with other speccs for the same buff. And let's be real if we get quickness druid is just dead. There is nobody that can compete with hfb for that slot. Yeah it will be allowed to continue it's 'existence' like now as a spirit bot. But do we want that? This specc is bad in all competetive game modes and the only reason right now to take druid are the spirits and 10man might. We might even see it die now when the 10man might gets removed. There are coming new supporters along the way and spirits can be brought by Soulbeasts.

They didn't say anything about a crab pet. They reveald phoenix, siege turtle, rot wallow and white tiger in the specialisation stream.

The icons of the avatar version for Glyph of Tides and Glyph of Stars are switched. The spikes at the edge indicate that. Can you please change them to the right version? :)

I still think untamed has potential and look forward to it. The spirit change will most likely just kill the last spot druid has outside of meme PvP/WvW builds. Maybe it opens up a druid rework that is badly needed for years at this point but ANet hasn't shown any motivation for ranger reworks... The pets sound fun hopefully they can hold up to it (and not be killed by old pet bugs..).

Greatsword is just broken by design. There will never be a weapon that rivals it in PvP. Also the fact that almost all of our on demand condi cleanse is in Wilderness Survival and Survival skills just shoehorns every build into the same things. Your build is just core ranger with untamed tagged on it. The problem is the the design of core ranger. As long as we don't get a massive rework for core ranger things will likely never change. And hammer like greatsword? Why shouldn't I run Hammer/GS then and some immob?