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  1. There hasn't been a single "meta build" using Shared Anguish as a staple trait choice EVER since it got introduced. Just because you find it useful, doesn't mean people that don't are low gold tier (or worse) pvp players. The regular power builds haven't even touched WS in ages. It has been an optional trait on condi builds at best. I haven't depended on it in plat. Other good players I see rarely run it. Good roamers in WvW rarely run it. Stop hyberboling kitten. Core ranger has horrid stab availability, with or without Shared Anguish.
  2. Shared Anguish in its current state would be an absolute HORRID GM trait. It's already meh. A minor bit of stab on pet swap is overrated. What about introducing core ranger stab options that aren't awful to begin with? Strength of the pack is a glorified 60s CD stab skill. To think they thought leaving it on 75 was fair back when they removed CD reduction from the command trait is laughable.
  3. Scourge should NEVER have been buffed like it was, and reaper is still a very functional dps+boon ripper. No one enjoys playing against barrier/transfusion scourers, and I can't imagine anyone actually enjoying playing it either. Most boring support build to ever grace the game mode.
  4. The Wilderness Survival changes look good. You're removing too much condi cleanse from druid in WvW. Removing Alac means druid basically provide heals, cleanses and a handful of common boons. Stripping away so many cleanses puts it too close to other builds that can heal + cleanse while also providing meaningful boons or barrier. Meaning you're essentially downgrading it to a second grade support. Since you're looking at hammer; there is definitely more room to improve hammer for competitive modes. It feels a bit underwhelming especialliy without the ambush skill (non-untamed builds, basically). A little bit more range and damage could make up for the almost complete lack of defensive utilities. I also feel like untamed should have better boon rip access. It feels a bit half baked. A couple of the cantrips could perhaps provide some.
  5. WvW Spellbreaker has a pretty disgusting CC/immob/boon rip build at the moment, it doesn't need buffs. Edit: I forgot I ented the forums where 90 % of the people got zero clue. I'll give you a hint: Leg Specialist in tactics immobs on cripple, ICD is only per target, and spellbreaker runs hammer with an aoe ranged cripple and sword/x with a cripple on the leap and immob on f1. The build kittening slaps. With celestial stats you're pumping out some decent quickness as well. Or are people confused because they think boon rip is dead? It's not. They are literally killing off alac in WvW, they are massively reducing Res and Stab on rev, and people get mad because Null field is gonna take litte bit more thought to use. Eugh.
  6. There are plenty of specs/builds more broken that kittening soulbeast.
  7. Dolyak Stance is a better instant source of shared stab than anything druid has, with the added benefit of the stance effect. It also has earth spirit for aegis and prot, it has resistance from frost + spiritual reprive. All vital boons, and there goes your utility bar. This is a concept. Soulbeast obviously isn't meta for anything supportive in PvP (or WvW). But the foundation is there and in comparison to druid it is much more boon oriented and generally more sturdy. It is slightly closer to a core guardian. I mean, now we're just moving the goal post anyway...
  8. Irrelevant. Rev has massive access to resistance (and stability + great dwarf damage reduction on dwarf/ventari) if played correctly. Rev is the class you stack because of the boons, druid is the class you add a certain amount of to your group for pure healing and cleanses, since healing and cleanses overlap between parties. Tripple blasting shouldn't be a thing anyway. They are adding self-might to the skill to make up for the three blasts' intended purpose: self might from the number 2 skill.
  9. Yeah, he asks about healing, but I give him a useful answer. Calling it a druid without celestial avatar doesn't add anything to the conversation, it's just an obvious statement. It doesn't matter what staff is best at. Soulbeast with access to staff and mace is a boon support primarly with access to some heals, some of them again are bursts. It doesn't have quickness or alac, so it's irrelevant in PvE. It's useable in PvP, but still worse than core guard. If he wants to meme around as a healer in open world, then yes, it will be able to do that.
  10. I mean, obviously, but that's not the way to look at it. Support soulbeast is a niche that people tried out when it got access to staff. Stance sharing, the updated spirits and reworked nature magic traits allow soulbeast to be a bit more of a direct boon support compared to druid in PvP (and by extension small scale WvW). Mace might be good for it. Or it might be worse because you're losing sword mobility and leaps. In PvE it has only meme value because it can't provide quickness or alac.
  11. Boon stripping could for sure be improved as well. It feels a little bit tacked on atm, not sure if that was Anet's intention or if it was supposed to be a more integral part of the spec at some point. Rending Vines isn't exactly a prime wvw skill with how it is tied to the pet + its small radius. You're very dependent on the GS ambush right now. Exploding Spores is a good candidate to add some boon strip. Sword/Axe is also an alternative to hammer, but Relentless Whirl probably just about make the hammer worth it. Depends on how well you can land axe 5s. Soulbeast with Untamed Ambush skills would have been juicy. Sad thing is, that's about the level it needs to be at to compete with the dps meta builds.
  12. Not the solution. Throw Scourge in the garbage bin (seriously, hard nerf that kitten, necro has other zerg options for wvw anyway) and make skills that share barrier have abysmal scaling in wvw. Barrier should only be complimentary to healing, but right now coordinated groups often have more damage absorbed by scourge barrier than the healing they get from vindi/druid. Buff damage for builds that currently can't compete with Beserker and holo if you want dps variety. If they're gonna remove a stat set, it should be celestial. That garbage is ruining what little there is left of roaming.
  13. Pets dying is almost irrelevant. Yeah, you lose a bit of your kit, but it's not necessary to make Untamed work in a zerg, The easiest way to make Untamed good in a zerg meta is if they bump up the damage numbers on unleashed hammer skills and maybe bump GS back up slightly as well (+ a little frost trap buff). You stay unleashed 100 % of the time and use Let Loose to refresh the ambush skills on every weapon swap. Frost trap, Signet of Hunt and Wild and entangle or the elite cantrip on your bar. Protect me if you need a stunbreak. Bonus if skills like Nature's Binding were a little less crap, but it's not needed. Wether you're on Untamed or Soulbeast, the most damage potential you have in a coordinated group is a full melee build. Other specs do that better atm, which is why some buffs are warranted (especially on hammer, that weapon has near zero utility anyway). For clouding outside of groups, untamed is already a potential monster on quickdraw double longbow because it adds multishot to the mix.
  14. Meh. Skill and coordination still matter when you have minstrel stats and high boon uptimes. Scourge is the number one problem by far. It's not even a discussuion. It's by far the build that most enable larger group to tank coordinated boombs, rez back up, face tank a whole lot more because of barrier and simply W on you because they're 15+ more than you.
  15. Since I seem intent? Excuse me? You're the one who quoted me in the first place. It's like you're delibrately ignoring what I actually said. The statement was that Untamed managed just fine for a while after the teleport nerf. Gameplay from right now doesn't mean kitten. I have been talking about the past the entire time. There have been 9 months between now and the UT nerf, and with that other changes affecting Ranger/Untamed since then - including the Signet of the Hunt buff that replaced the port, and the Let Loose changes that massively improved unleashed skills while comboing with Remorseless. As we know, both of these have seen nerfs recently as well. Which obviously means I rate Untamed even lower as of this exact moment - none of that changes how I viewed Untamed in the months prior, which was my entire point to begin with. I almost exclusively play ranger in both PvP and WvW, and have always done so. So no, I didn't multiclass and play untamed whenever I was bored, it has pretty much been exclusively the only thing I've played along with a couple of other ranger builds the entire year.
  16. It was a good change guys, now we can enjoy all those buffs that most definetely weren't QoL changes that should have been implemented YEARS ago. Smokescale was clearly overpowered after being meta for 8 years. /s
  17. It is most definetely not more thematically appropriate than the greatsword, not in the context of this game or the ranger archtype in general. It's clearly meant to be a claymore type sword, not some ridiculous colossal sword. Some of the skins in this game may distort that idea, though. And I know this is beside the point, but a rifle is also not as much needed as the greatsword turned out to be. Another projectile weapon is the last thing this class needs.
  18. No kitten, Sherlock. Untamed was still solid for a good while without the teleport and you could carve your own space playing it in the meta. It's not even a discussion, and I frankly don't give a F if you're gonna disagree with that or make some "hurdur" comment about how it wasn't ranked at the top of carry-me-builds on metabattle or wherever. Yeah. it's Boyce. He's good, but he's also not gonna repeatedly play a build if it's unoptimal and trash. I also did just fine without the teleport. I mentioned Boyce because you wouldn't care how I did, just like I don't care about you getting into plat on whatever build in 2023 because getting into to plat in 2023 is a literal cakewalk.
  19. Function over form. Literally. Get over it.
  20. The Force of Nature thing is a needless gimmick in my opinion. The weapons are otherwise fine, but I'd rather have them balanced without that mechanic in mind.
  21. + The fact that people cling to that playstyle says everything about how sad the state of dps ranger in zergs are. They finally made druid capable of what it was supposed to do. We just have to wait and see how long it takes for them to release a decent zerg weapon that soulbeast/untamed can make use of.
  22. yOu kNow whaT iT dID usE!??? Dude, I'm talking about how power untamed managed just fine in the meta (a kittening difference from "being meta") without the teleport, especially with the Let Loose update prior to them removing the fury from it. There is a ridiculous huge twitch archive of boyce kicking kitten on it for months after the port gutting. I know what the "last untamed" build is and that it's already nerfed, because every kittening ranger build with a hint of bunker capability to it always get whipped within a month or two. Nothing new.
  23. I'm just replying to "Willbender can still port". That implies having access to ports at all. The Untamed nerf sucks and it also sucks that Anet thinks ranger can't have a regular port without all the drawbacks, but Untamed managed just fine in the PvP meta without it.
  24. The answers are that 1)Remorseless ranger, and Untamed in particular, was strong and didn't need the teleport on top of it to be really good, and 2) PvP players complaining. Reason number 1 is also why they removed the fury from Let Loose. And yes, it sucks, but Ranger can live without it. It did for months after the nerf. Willbender would be complete trash without the ports (not that I like WvW Willies, they are obnoxious at best).
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