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You do realise the top 150 ranked players are only in Platinum in the US. It's very unlikely anyone gets into Plat these days. I might stay in it for like 5 games max a season.

I agree it needs more healing buffs, but I can definitely use it. I mostly use it in Fractals at this stage. Boneskinner is more down to Feedback spam.

I can it's just way harder than Chronomancer. Before this I used to run no boon duration and I don't know why I tortured myself, I'm not up to 40%. Practice is one thing, but you have a very slow ramp up since you are forced to wait for 3 clones which for a Raid/Strike is not really cutting it and you will get called out for low Alacrity uptime. There are a couple of combos but the most common set up is, Staff 2 and Jaunt + Jaunt then dodge. Compare this to Chronomancer which is just Greatsword 4.

Its the hybrid traits like Phantasmal Blades that make Virtuoso strong so the same logic applies if Axe was used.

Right now Bountiful Disillusionment gives you Stability which prevents the real weakness of Mantra healing which is the long cast time. It also gives you access to Regeneration for more boon duration.

That's not entirely true, the thing you criticised at the start is your answer. Traited Signets provide you with on demand Aegis with its Distortion and Inspiration Distortion trait. It terms of on demand healing you best bet is to weapons swap with charged Mantra while using my linked build. I can't remember the exact number but that is roughly 2k+ spike healing. Again you really underestimated how powerful the Aegis spam is on Mesmer.

I solved this problem a while ago. You can use Plate of Sweet Curried Mussels, if you are unable to run Dueling. It's only really good for open world soloing though.

Its just practice, Chronomancer is one of the hardest Elites to play in the game since you can't make mistakes.

I mean I do like the Untamed and don't want it reworked, I personally just don't like Hammer is all. It comes off as the Longbow melee version but atleast the Ambush for Longbow reduces it's cooldown. It's entirely rotation is supposed to feed into itself but it runs out of steam after using all 5 skills. I guess if I factored in a weapons swap to something like Sword/Greatsword maybe that could work. Just swap to Hammer for break bars.

Keeping them at a distance is probably your best bet. Most Dueling is about baiting out burst skills or heals. I normally just Shortbow these tanky classes while I try and survive and heal up with Restorataitive Strikes. But yes Harbinger, Renegade and most Elementalist Celestial builds are a death sentence for Ranger. The worst offender of all in WvW roaming in my opinion is Mobility since anyone on a Celestials Class with movement skills can just leave if they get out played.

I mean right now Chronomancer is Mesmers best support and it does require a pretty strict rotation but it is flexible in the set up. Continuum Split can be used in many way to spam out Phantasms or Shatters for increase boon applications or Damage.

All great suggests

I agree but compared to my other Celestial geared classes Thief is not quite there yet. If I elaborate this is the crux of my issue. I'm a Mesmer and Ranger main so I can play these two infinity better than Thief. Untill I fully understand what I'm playing and even decide it's not as good it hard to me to justify playing it. Once Axe drops I'll give it another try. Currently my Celestial Untamed can solo any Legendary Boss in the game so not much can compete with that even my Mesmer.

Unless you run Power it will be hard to reach 100% Bleed duration plus 100% critical chance with just Celestial. I guess you could run the on-kill Sigil of Perception to get 12% critical chance and even Sigil of accuracy for another 7%. Then maybe you can squeeze a few celestial pieces in.

That might be the way to go. I was running full Vipers, so I had like no boon Duration, (like 20% with sigil + food) I do want to return to Mirage since it allowed me to use Inspiration for Traited Signets which is not possible on Support Power Chronomancer since you need to run 2 mandatory traitlines otherwise you do no DPS. I will convert my Vipers over and see how I go.

Well Ranger Druid was an unplayable DPS for 8 years so I'm guessing it will take about that long for it be a decent Support.

For Revenant I feel like it's the Utilities that let it down so essentially whether you can even use your Heal since it will result in less damage. Most of the Weapon skills have baked in CC and they are a net positive in terms of DPS.

The only reason I play WvW is so I can get tomes of knowledge for more spirits shards. I don't really care what I do and just need tier 6 participation along with most of the reward track boosters. The result of all this is 300 gold a week from upgrading intermediate materials. I think if more people had a way to make money or it was more obvious whats task can generate money then they would do it more.

I will add if you are a Healer and want your pet to help out then run two Moa's and use Harmonic Cry twice with Pet Swap. It's a pretty good heal the pet will stay with your target, otherwise make it passive and just use that off cooldown.

Depends on the builds. The only thing to add is if you considering open world farming where tagging is king use Fire Wyvern and Marsh Drake

Although it is underutilised Search and Rescue is one of the better Resurrection utilities. I mean only Necromancer shares the ability to pull the downed players to them so even if this doesn't have a reduced cooldown it is still very strong in all gamemodes.

Like it was before this patch? Sword before was probably most unused weapon the Ranger had.

Its more i just want to start with Celestials since it will be more forgiving on my gameplay and strategy. I also run Celestials on my unkillable Untamed build so hopefully I can replicate it.

Yeah, I got a sense of that in my testing. I will probably return to Thief when Axe get released since it highly likely that will be hybrid weapon. I really want to run Celestials set which right now there is no real point on Thief.

Classes like Revenant and Thief have become increasingly reliant on spamming certain skills and also getting energy/initiative back rather than having some flexibility it the rotation to provide more on demand CC, Stun breaks, healing. You end up in a situation where you can't even use a certain skill since it will severely lower your DPS. Look at Specter for example with its impressive benchmarks, this is almost entirely due to spamming Scepter + Dagger 3. I propose we lower the energy cost of almost all non-Dps skills and maybe keep the CC skills cost reduction out of PvP.