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Ranger from the wiki:

Healing Spring (15 second duration, 30 second cooldown)
-  heals ranger and pet for 4920 ( pet does not have to be in the field)

-  gives Regeneration to all allies within the field  
5 pulses (3 seconds per pulse over 15 seconds) amount of health is dependent on individuals healing stat.

- removes one condition per pulse, so 5 conditions total.

- provides a water field other classes can finish to produce healing or other effects.

Note:  Drakes trail swipe (which is their default attack when summoned) provides combo finisher that provides group healing. (tail swipe has a 30 second CD so maximum 2 blast finishers if pets are swapped during Healing Spring)  Also Rangers have a leap finisher which provides them with a self only heal from the water field.

Pet supplied group regeneration:

Fernhounds can provide 10 seconds of regeneration to allies with a 25 second cool down.

Red Jellyfish can provide 10 seconds of underwater regeneration to allies with a 30 second cooldown.

Carrion Devourer can provide 15 seconds of underwater regeneration to allies with a 30 second cooldown.

Pet group condition removal:

Brown Bear can remove 1 condition from the group with a 25 second cooldown.

Dasryn, on 19 May 2013 - 04:19 AM, said:

The funny thing is, the "elitists" usually aren't even the people in the business of minmaxing.  They're just the ones who think warriors are best because they can't do math.  The sheer number of warriors who think their DPS is 20k per second because that's the final number on their HB is mind-boggling.  I once had a warrior tell me the axe chain was 1.75s because that's the total time on the tooltips, even though that's obviously wrong since Double Chop doesn't even have an activation time listed.  I also once had a warrior tell me he was using Banner of Defense for DPS because he had Armored Attack traited so it was giving the most DPS.

Ironically, most of the people who do talk about minmaxing are good enough that it doesn't really make any difference whether they actually do it or not, which is probably why a lot of classes go unexplored and the "meta" is just spamming warriors.  People who follow the "meta" are usually the ones who need it as a crutch, not to optimize.  That's pretty much true of any meta in any game.

This is going to sound silly, but I miss Profession-based underwear...

no /violin /flute /drums /guitar

Are you also conducting a study on profession bending?  Cause while I play a necro online, I am a mesmer in real life.

blindude, on 22 September 2012 - 03:49 PM, said:

IMHO, ANet should adjust waypoint and repair costs so high level players in lowbie zones don't actually lose money by playing there; this would bring the game closer to ANet's promise that the whole game would be the end game.

Apart from that, I like GW2's "end game" way more than what I got from almost all other MMOs I've ever tried (with a few exceptions; for example, I love how I can replay most missions in STO and have them scale to my level.

I hear a lot of whining on the forums. Okay, fair enough, I expect that. However, these people that have problems with the game towards the point that they regret their purchase are beginning to think that they are part of the majority. They couldn't be more wrong.

I'd just like to take a moment here to say something for the silent majority.

We love this game.
We're having lots of fun.
Yeah, there are some bugs that suck, but for the most part, it's a great way to spend a few hours.

Sorry if you thought we didn't like it, but we do. Sorry if you thought ANet is losing customers left and right, but they aren't. They have us. So whine. Complain and threaten and troll and do whatever you wish. Just know that you are a minority, a hedge case, and just because you don't love this game, doesn't mean we don't.

I'm not saying this game is perfect. I'm saying that I agree with the design decisions and the direction. If you don't, please play something else, because you're going to ruin it for us.

**edit for clarity**

Don't AFK in dangerous areas. Not a real problem.

There were these articles posted on the Blog a few months/year ago:

http://www.arena.net...in-of-the-charr

http://www.arena.net...ns-of-the-charr



"Q: Kekai, how did you approach the charr design for Guild Wars 2?
Kekai: My approach was simple: make the charr badass. And then make them even more badass. "

Splice, on 21 August 2012 - 11:16 AM, said:

Please don't take my comment as paternalizing or anything like that but I just wanted to give a heads-up and mention that having vertical sync ON is always a good idea because:

1) it is in fact a quality setting (it eliminates the screen tearing effect)
and
2) it also keeps your card from overheating in certain cases, mostly when you have a fast machine that is able to pump 80 or 100fps in certain areas of the game (alone looking at a wall/floor for example).  If you have a normal 60hz screen, having the card produce 100 frames in one second will only add to heat since only 60 frames are gonna be displayed in that time anyway.  And I noticed several threads where people are seeing considerably high temperatures on their cards while playing so it could be useful to keep this in mind.

just my 2 cents

Well I don't spend a disgraceful amount of time on this forum because I'm lukewarm toward it, that's for sure.

Glowy hands like from GW1.

WoW has grit? lol. no. i dont think so. There is nothing gritty about it at all. the story is VERY tame, the art direction is intentionally VERY cartoony, and there is very little violence. i personally fail to see ANYTHING gritty about wow.

AOC, now that had grit.

point made. moving on.

In guild wars 1 they never nerfed their content to make it easier. In fact, when players found sneaky ways of making it easier, they often nerfed those instead. I wouldn't worry about being challenged in this game.

Since the Mesmers have an elite skills named such, the Mesmer dance should be the Time Warp!