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8 hours ago, Miellyn.6847 said:
5s window will probably never happen. You are not supposed to use Barrage before the ambush skill. There was a reason they changed the unleash CD to 1sec, just like Mirage you are supposed to use it almost immediately.
Since ranger is not Mirage, it doesn't have to be the same. Half the times it bugs out as well, making it very clumsy to use. The time window should be extended.
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2 hours ago, InsaneQR.7412 said:
Tbh i would just give hammer 2-3*CC skills and remove the second weapon skill forms entirely, so that every weapon works in the samelway with unleash but hammer gives you the most benefit out of disable traits.
Indeed. Simplify the hammer and be done with it. I don't like dual skillset at all. It feels like the weapon is working against itself, like so many other things with this spec. That way it should be a lot easier to balance as well.
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Hammer skills:
- They still all feel a bit too similar to each other. The leap should probably be changed to another skill with a shorter cd.
- It seems it's too easy to not get the ambush skill to work correctly
Ambush skills:
- The time window when they are available should be increased
- A clearer tell on the 1 skill when they are available would be nicePets:
- They should use their regular skills automatically when unleashed
- Have the option so set pet skills to autocast
- Enveloping Haze would be nice if the pet teleported back to the ranger and triggered the spore cloud there
Cantrips:
- Perilous Gift should grant the same effect to the pet
- Exploding Spores are still way to hard to land the knock down effect
General:
- A visual tell on the character if it's in unleashed state (while the previous effect was a bit too much to some people, removing it completly wasn't the right way to go imho)
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I'm not really sure. I really like the mixed approach for pet unleashed state, but how do you implement that on the regular skills? That's the main issue.
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The issue with pet abilities and the lack of their autocast should be high priority for the next (?) beta imho. There are a lot of things going on with this new spec, and of course it's new to all of us, but still, the option to set pet abilities to autocast needs to be implemented for those of us that are not comfortable keeping track of each of their abilities, and this is especially true for the short cd ones.
This spec has a lot to keep track of: are you or your pet in the unleashed mode? Are the ambush skills available now or how long was it since I used it last? And so on. Micromanaging every single pet ability feels like a bit too much for an old grump like me 😉
I don't want to see it go away, just allow players to choose.
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3 hours ago, UmbraNoctis.1907 said:
The keybind option you are looking for is called " Ranger Pet Combat Toggle" found under the Miscellaneous section of your control options.
Oh the joy, if that could have been an option for 'stow pet' instead...
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On 11/26/2021 at 7:57 PM, Bast Bow.2958 said:
Aw man these forums, I was afraid for what I’d might find here.
I for one think the changes are awesome, they listened very well and on such short notice.
I for one want to clarify - I too think the changes are good (well, let's try them out live to really see), but sill, the point made by Heimskarl Ashfiend above, and which I supported, imho is a valid one. Tbh, what we [seem] to get now i core ranger +++, instead of opting for a completly new way of approaching how to play this class.
To each to their own, but personally, when I saw the release I was at first actually hoping for a worthy succesor to the bunny thumper, and as soon as I realized that's not going to happen, I was hoping for a true pet focused elite spec, as in, quite the opposite of Soulbeast.
As for now, this spec is core+++. I'm pretty sure they are going to slap on some drawback, but imho it would have been better if the core gameplay and HOW you actually play this class would have been altered in a much more profound (and interesting) way.
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2 hours ago, Dadnir.5038 said:
I think after players reminded them that the pet (buffed or not) is more of a liability than anything else for a "frontline bruiser" in GW2, they might have come to their sense and invest a bit more ressources in making the Untamed less about the "pet".
Yes indeed. They could however have thought about a few options to have made this spec a bit more about the pets and their role. For example, have the three major traits actually be about boosting the pet, the middle row focused more on group support and the bottom row focused on the ranger. That's probably how I would have tried to go about it. Three very different styles, with the option to mix between them.
For pets, they could have added things like gaining stability, transfer conditions to their opponent, gain evade frames when the ranger dodges, life stealing, reduce damage taken from conditions and 'splash' damage, and so on and on.
But yeah, I get it. People hate being killed by 'ai', so there's that.
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7 hours ago, Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582 said:
Several steps in the right direction, though I can't help but think that if "The Untamed is the first Ranger elite specialization to improve the power and utility of your pet, and it fell short of the mark." Then why have they not improved the power or utility of the pet, at all?
This, right here, is 100% true.
They fell short of the mark to improve power and utility of the pet, so they decide to boost the ranger! Hilarious logic right there.
The increase in utility I guess they think about when having access to all skills of the pet, fine, but like I and many others have said before, this will lead to more micromanagement to keep up with current efficiency of pets, in short, more work for the (almost) same benefit that we already have.
Of course there are some really nice things that opens up with full control:
- You can make sure that birds never again use the useless Quickening Screech
- You can land that Tail Swipe when it's actually wanted
- You can land the awesome Harmonic Cry when YOU want to (this pet skill is likely to get nerfed one way or another)
- and so on
But pets won't use their original skills in unleashed state at all (efficiency loss), and many will be hard to micromanage because of short cooldowns of skills (again, efficiency loss).
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I'd like to remind the devs yet again - implement this:
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On 11/18/2021 at 10:01 AM, wolfyrik.2017 said:
Surely basic attacks should remain either auto or can be set to auto?
This is key. While the option to be able to control ALL attacks is good, I'm pretty sure that most players will find it to be fiddly and won't use it much, meaning a loss in effectiveness. See my post above, that's something that needs to be implemented (and in all honesty, it should have been implemented years ago, as a core feature).
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Arguing that the velocity increase on longbow = dps increase is flawed, since it is not really measurable, unless longbow before that change missed ALL the time, and afterwards hits ALL the time. You could say it helps to keep dps up (or higher if you will), but unless my prior statement is true, you can't give it a fixed % increase value.
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With the new option available to us to manage all pet skills ourselves, I for one would like the option to be able to set one or more skills to autocast, on a per pet based basis. Pretty much as show on the screenshot on the link below.
Pet Selection ScreenI also think this should be a core feature available to all ranger specs.
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On 11/14/2021 at 9:00 PM, Tiilimon.6094 said:
Dunno, we used to play just fine when games didn't even come with manuals of any kind.
And when was that? Oh, you mean pirated games? Afaik, manuals for games were a thing even in the old C64 days...
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4 hours ago, Arklite.4013 said:
How easy is it to flank while playing solo
I'd say that to some degree depends on whether you have your pet out or not.
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On 10/30/2021 at 5:23 PM, HotHit.6783 said:
Restorative Strikes is somewhat bland, but a general use defensive grandmaster is fine. Because Ranger's damage is split between themselves and their pet, the efficacy of this is much lower than other professions. I honestly believe 20% wouldn't be that crazy. To play into the theme of cooperation, it could be that you and your pet heal each other with your strikes. Naturally the pet's coefficient would need to be much higher to be effective.
I like this idea, in some form. I think that it should affect both ranger and pet. 10% on ranger I guess is ok, but for the pet I think they could up it to 15% at least (possibly higher), and evaluate how that would affect self sustain for the pets.
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2 hours ago, Daddy.8125 said:
Dont just launch a New Class.. they actually change up, Improve and Rework parts of the prior classes to keep them feeling fresh.
this is Something GW2 doesnt do.
Actually, they do, but 90% of the time it's about nerfing the old to give way for the new. So I'm expecting Soulbeast to get nerfed even further to make the new spec look more interesting. That's the Anet way of doing things.
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22 minutes ago, Cufufalating.8479 said:
The pet now dodge rolls whenever the ranger dodge rolls.
Hm, no. Just give them evade frames instead of a dodge roll, or it will be annoying for several reasons (interrupting big attacks, dps loss and so on).
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40 minutes ago, Lazze.9870 said:
I will throw it in pile of "why can't Anet give ranger this thing that other professions do which works, instead of doing a weird quirk that just makes it either clunky or less effective".
Amen to that.
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5 hours ago, LughLongArm.5460 said:
I figured why Untamed feels so bad to play, and actually, there is quite a simple solution to make this spec really cool and effective. It does not need a full redesign and the adjustments could easily be made until the release.
You nailed it pretty much. Unleashed pet not using their normal skills besides the autoattack have to be a dps loss.
I think that the unleashed pet should have the special F1 and F3 abilities, but the F2 ability should be a boosted version of their normal F2.
Just a few examples of "boosted F2" abilities, what they could be for the unleashed pets:
Smokescale F2: Smoke Cloud + deal damage to enemies within range of the cloud
Jacaranda F2: Jacaranda's Embrace + bleed damage
River Drake F2: Lightning Breath + daze foes that are hit
Tiger F2: Furious Pounce (grants fury) + bleed damage
I hope you get the idea. Or, use the unleashed F2 in combination with the pets normal F2, that could also work.
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When pet is in unleashed mode, it seems you can't trigger certain traits like "Beastly Warden" for example. Which of the unleashed pet skills is supposed to be the equal to the F2 pet skill?
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15 hours ago, kharmin.7683 said:
So many "we want hammer for bunny thumper" threads, and this is what we got. Should have been more careful of what was wished for.
Anet should be better at implementing what was wished for.
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19 hours ago, Psy.7823 said:
Hammer is.... underwhelming. It offers no real active defence (evade, invuln, block, leaps), but equally doesn't offer enough damage to make up for it. Not only is the damage low, there is no snare/chase potential when the ranger is unleashed. The CC on hammer with pet unleashed is nice but lacks reliable follow up. If you CC someone you have v limited follow up damage, you don't have access to your pet skills (tail swipe), or any decent damage hammer skills without unleashing yourself.
Indeed. For all I care, they could get rid of the hammer unleashed skills altogether, and keep only the "normal" skills (damage needs to improve then). Honestly, I think the whole Unleashed mechanic needs to go back to the drawing board, or remove the cooldown when switching (balance/remove switch traits).
The mechanic feels counterproductive towards itself with the current implementation.
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I play my ranger main 99% of the time I put into this game. I tried the Mechanist in PVE just now and holy kitten this thing rips through PVE content like a warm knife through butter. I almost don't have to even think about what I'm doing, I threw together a random build and tried it out - everything just melts with zero effort.
Compared to our ranger elite profession, where you have to press a ton of buttons and switch between modes and micro manage pet swaps, pet skills, unleashed and so on so forth... in shorth triple the effort for less than half the benefit. OMG if this stays the way it is now!
For pvp though, I'm not sure at all about the Mechanist, it may very well be too slow there?
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Most fun with the Untamed so far: The teleports (both for pet and ranger)
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Untamed Bug Thread
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Posted · Edited by OGDeadHead.8326
Yes, seen that too. And F1 shouldn't even be possible to use unless the pet is in range.
They sure got a lot of things to fix still...