Something else I found is that if your pet dies and you swap pets, the merged swap will be unaffected. That is honestly how I thought it would work as they are on separate cool downs anyways, and it still is bad to not have your normal swap, but it makes killing the pets on soulbeast still basically a waste of time.
Its a skill called slavery! It was given to us as a shadow buff and ever since we can enslave any class that is worse than ranger (which is almost all of them now after patch, screw you anet!)
I wont be sharing any celestial builds as they are super cancer and I dont want to be responsible for spreading them lmao. But yes, cele works really well for all ranger specs if you know how to build it right. Although with the wrong builds cele will feel tanky but will hit like a wet noodle for ranger more than any other spec cele is usable on. Go find or make the right ones and you will have a good time lmao.
Normal ranger tech called hacking, anet allows us to do it because there is no easy way to report hackers! But in all seriousness, they may have been using smoke assault or lagging. You can cancel smoke assault so they may have been port canceling it, but if they were porting around more than every 20s then it’s hacks or lag.
@@___m16 Grandmaster traits refer to the final line of any trait line. Eternal bond specifically is the top grandmaster (top trait of the final line) in the soulbeast specialization. If you do not have the entire specialization unlocked you may not be able to select this trait.
What? I run full berserkers. I have 1 marauders accessory to put my health at barely above 18k but that doesn’t matter really. Full marauders is honestly better for soulbeast as with full berserkers you will constantly overheal if you kite and use your cool downs well and you don’t lose much damage with marauders because merging gives you so much ferocity that the extra 10% crit chance from marauders is a huge bonus.
@@sylver4494 Ah..so full marauders + dolyak is the way to go then?? Sorry but could you link your build? Thanks!~! Ps : please upload or stream some wvw for us =)
I would say marauders armor and durability rune is the way to go, I have two soulbeast montages and a clip dump on my channel if you would like to check those out :) I’ll post the build when I get home.
This is the build I run, tbh it is not the best soulbeast build for wvw, it is not even the best power soulbeast build imo. But it is a mix of what is good and what I find fun. If you want it to be better run marauders armor, a third stunbreak over sic em and a stout pet like alpine wolf or siamoth over raven depending on if you want mobility or boons/stealth. Owl is also decent for healing and mobiliy, fern hound is good and also provides more cc but I like owl because higher dmg as a pet and chill application. Air sigil can also be swapped for cleansing or bloodlust on longbow, if you run bloodlust also run it on harpoon gun. I run jelly fish underwater because it provides a smoke field while merged which you can leap through with spear. Shark is also a good option because it is a high dps pet that provides a small amount of mobility and the fear it has can be casted on a target that is behind you which is great for kiting and running away. Stats are incredibly optimized and I do run those stats currently but if you are unable to get it perfect that is fine just remember to prioritize precision over anything else. Food should always be 66% lifesteal on crit as it is the best for soulbeast because if the high crit chance on the build as well as many multihits for constant procs of damage and healing. Protect me, dolyak stance, quickening zephyr and lightning reflexes are all good utility slots and you can swap any of them around but you MUST have either dolyak or lightning reflexes for the immob cleanse. gw2skills.net/editor/?POgAMFlFweYgsQmJeaXrvtSkeCA-zVhYBRVnrQEIbBFIGE0pEmCoNJQmiqeFqa8QIiBMp+5tI/oFA-w
My dude, at this point I'd say just abuse whatever Anet dishes our way because they clearly indented to not test a single thing before they released the patch (looking at your vindicator... I mean dodgeicator). Use and abuse is the only way Anet will learn how to balance stuff... ow wait, no this runs the risk that they will delete a class completely until they revisit it 3 years later (looking at your berserker). Hmm, decisions decisions
I don’t even want to play the game much because of this tbh, I play whatever I find fun no matter what but it sucks when I see them promise balance and try and go in the right direction but then utterly fail. I mean balancing this game would be hard don’t get me wrong but it sucks that they shit out just dumb af things that should have been said no to when they were presented as an idea.
I think everybody knew it would be broken LMAO! I was just hoping they would have some foresight and at least try and make it a somewhat reasonable addition to an already good specialization.
@@l337izes I think you mean that soulbeast shouldnt have access to pets and should be perma merged? I don’t agree with that because I play ranger to have access to those pets and it staying merged would take away any unique flavor that the spec has because it would just be a warrior/revenant. But it does need a lot of balancing 😂
@@sylver4494 problem I have with soubleast is you have to deal with both the pet skills and merge skills. druid and untamed dont have a beast mode. now if pet and soulbeast and pet shared cool downs would be different. also pet swap before pets dies is old af trick thats busted.
@@l337izes Dealing with both skills isnt the problem, druid has access to celestial avatar and untamed has unleashed skills that add something to the kit. And having them share cooldowns would be bad as you cant control what the pet uses. Soulbeast is insane because it can take advantage of every busted core trait and skill while also having its own busted skills with no trade off.
Broken..are you serious? Average rangers still get farmed like no tomorrow, a single well played willbender will demolish you on that build..and I know that 'cause I play 3x variants of willbender and farmed rangers after the patch exactly like before, I mean "a few extra stacks of stability" won't change the status quo at all. Cele everything still dominate WvW, I consider something broken when it can tank 3+ decent players without breaking. Yeah you're little better at running inside the tower now...I still see rangers being farmed like before. Sorry...I mean every time I see a "broken" and ranger in the same video title, I already know what to expect : a lb/gs build.....tower camping or +5 a single roamer, then you catch them far away enough from their tower and they go down faster than light
I am going to take this one point at a time, yes average rangers are going to be farmed but that is because the average player in wvw is also going to be farmed as most pvp players are garbage. Willbender is a bad matchup for soulbeast, if its cele its a hard counter but at this point everything has hard counters that they can not kill besides harbinger, catalyst and willbender. A few extra stacks of stability is obnoxious and honestly that trait just makes me sad that they are putting more stability spam in the game without thinking. You wouldn't know how cancer stability is to deal with because you play willbender which is a build that does not rely on cc to get kills or to get pressure off of you. Cele everything will dominate wvw, but are you forgetting about cele ranger builds? All of which are broken and cancer and the soulbeast variant just got even more cancer. And soulbeast is as good is power builds get rn, the only power builds that I think are better rn are virtuoso and willbender. I don't consider tanking 3+ players a broken build because as stated before pvp players in this game are garbage. Catalyst can tank 5+ pugs all day long but if you know how to fight it you can win 1v1, at least against hammer. d/d cata is unstoppable lmao. Also are you calling me a tower roamer? I barely even take objectives much less camp them I look for fights and am a roamer, if you want to see me play I have montages on my channel :)
Something else I found is that if your pet dies and you swap pets, the merged swap will be unaffected. That is honestly how I thought it would work as they are on separate cool downs anyways, and it still is bad to not have your normal swap, but it makes killing the pets on soulbeast still basically a waste of time.
2:57 I’m really impressed by that soulbeast trick where you summon a pet mesmer to delete the golem
Its a skill called slavery! It was given to us as a shadow buff and ever since we can enslave any class that is worse than ranger (which is almost all of them now after patch, screw you anet!)
LMAO
Nice video:) Does celestial work well for soulbeast?
I wont be sharing any celestial builds as they are super cancer and I dont want to be responsible for spreading them lmao. But yes, cele works really well for all ranger specs if you know how to build it right. Although with the wrong builds cele will feel tanky but will hit like a wet noodle for ranger more than any other spec cele is usable on. Go find or make the right ones and you will have a good time lmao.
I was playing pvp and a soul beast was moving super fast. Like they were porting. Is that a thing?
Normal ranger tech called hacking, anet allows us to do it because there is no easy way to report hackers! But in all seriousness, they may have been using smoke assault or lagging. You can cancel smoke assault so they may have been port canceling it, but if they were porting around more than every 20s then it’s hacks or lag.
Has this been changed I don't have an f4 ability in beast mode
You need to select the top grandmaster trait, it’s called eternal bond.
@Sylver sorry I'm fairly new where would I find grand master trait isit in one of the spcialization trait lines ?
@@___m16 Grandmaster traits refer to the final line of any trait line. Eternal bond specifically is the top grandmaster (top trait of the final line) in the soulbeast specialization. If you do not have the entire specialization unlocked you may not be able to select this trait.
Hey why do you run maurader over full berserker?
What? I run full berserkers. I have 1 marauders accessory to put my health at barely above 18k but that doesn’t matter really. Full marauders is honestly better for soulbeast as with full berserkers you will constantly overheal if you kite and use your cool downs well and you don’t lose much damage with marauders because merging gives you so much ferocity that the extra 10% crit chance from marauders is a huge bonus.
@@sylver4494 Ah..so full marauders + dolyak is the way to go then??
Sorry but could you link your build? Thanks!~!
Ps : please upload or stream some wvw for us =)
I would say marauders armor and durability rune is the way to go, I have two soulbeast montages and a clip dump on my channel if you would like to check those out :) I’ll post the build when I get home.
@@sylver4494 Thanks!! il check them out. Please post the build when you can thanks bro
This is the build I run, tbh it is not the best soulbeast build for wvw, it is not even the best power soulbeast build imo. But it is a mix of what is good and what I find fun. If you want it to be better run marauders armor, a third stunbreak over sic em and a stout pet like alpine wolf or siamoth over raven depending on if you want mobility or boons/stealth. Owl is also decent for healing and mobiliy, fern hound is good and also provides more cc but I like owl because higher dmg as a pet and chill application. Air sigil can also be swapped for cleansing or bloodlust on longbow, if you run bloodlust also run it on harpoon gun. I run jelly fish underwater because it provides a smoke field while merged which you can leap through with spear. Shark is also a good option because it is a high dps pet that provides a small amount of mobility and the fear it has can be casted on a target that is behind you which is great for kiting and running away. Stats are incredibly optimized and I do run those stats currently but if you are unable to get it perfect that is fine just remember to prioritize precision over anything else. Food should always be 66% lifesteal on crit as it is the best for soulbeast because if the high crit chance on the build as well as many multihits for constant procs of damage and healing. Protect me, dolyak stance, quickening zephyr and lightning reflexes are all good utility slots and you can swap any of them around but you MUST have either dolyak or lightning reflexes for the immob cleanse.
gw2skills.net/editor/?POgAMFlFweYgsQmJeaXrvtSkeCA-zVhYBRVnrQEIbBFIGE0pEmCoNJQmiqeFqa8QIiBMp+5tI/oFA-w
My dude, at this point I'd say just abuse whatever Anet dishes our way because they clearly indented to not test a single thing before they released the patch (looking at your vindicator... I mean dodgeicator). Use and abuse is the only way Anet will learn how to balance stuff... ow wait, no this runs the risk that they will delete a class completely until they revisit it 3 years later (looking at your berserker). Hmm, decisions decisions
I don’t even want to play the game much because of this tbh, I play whatever I find fun no matter what but it sucks when I see them promise balance and try and go in the right direction but then utterly fail. I mean balancing this game would be hard don’t get me wrong but it sucks that they shit out just dumb af things that should have been said no to when they were presented as an idea.
You can't swap in combat still tho, right?
I wish you couldn’t pet swap in combat :(
You can swap in combat and it heals you lol
@@Brotection_ I actually didn’t realize that the merge swap heals you too, I am going to have to test that.
I already knew the merge swap would be busted LOL I was like surely they are joking. so now I can smoke scale abuse and bird nope the kitten out XD
I think everybody knew it would be broken LMAO! I was just hoping they would have some foresight and at least try and make it a somewhat reasonable addition to an already good specialization.
@@sylver4494 way think they should done soulbest it stay merged with pet and let them swap merges. the pet swap+merge ooof
@@l337izes I think you mean that soulbeast shouldnt have access to pets and should be perma merged? I don’t agree with that because I play ranger to have access to those pets and it staying merged would take away any unique flavor that the spec has because it would just be a warrior/revenant. But it does need a lot of balancing 😂
@@sylver4494 problem I have with soubleast is you have to deal with both the pet skills and merge skills. druid and untamed dont have a beast mode. now if pet and soulbeast and pet shared cool downs would be different. also pet swap before pets dies is old af trick thats busted.
@@l337izes Dealing with both skills isnt the problem, druid has access to celestial avatar and untamed has unleashed skills that add something to the kit. And having them share cooldowns would be bad as you cant control what the pet uses. Soulbeast is insane because it can take advantage of every busted core trait and skill while also having its own busted skills with no trade off.
-100 social kredit points for longbow
+100 social kredit points for a cool video! :D
I use longbow because I don’t want to face my problems face to face ;-; Back evil celestial build back to where you came from!
@@sylver4494 * agrees in deadeye *
Broken..are you serious? Average rangers still get farmed like no tomorrow, a single well played willbender will demolish you on that build..and I know that 'cause I play 3x variants of willbender and farmed rangers after the patch exactly like before, I mean "a few extra stacks of stability" won't change the status quo at all. Cele everything still dominate WvW, I consider something broken when it can tank 3+ decent players without breaking. Yeah you're little better at running inside the tower now...I still see rangers being farmed like before.
Sorry...I mean every time I see a "broken" and ranger in the same video title, I already know what to expect : a lb/gs build.....tower camping or +5 a single roamer, then you catch them far away enough from their tower and they go down faster than light
I am going to take this one point at a time, yes average rangers are going to be farmed but that is because the average player in wvw is also going to be farmed as most pvp players are garbage. Willbender is a bad matchup for soulbeast, if its cele its a hard counter but at this point everything has hard counters that they can not kill besides harbinger, catalyst and willbender. A few extra stacks of stability is obnoxious and honestly that trait just makes me sad that they are putting more stability spam in the game without thinking. You wouldn't know how cancer stability is to deal with because you play willbender which is a build that does not rely on cc to get kills or to get pressure off of you. Cele everything will dominate wvw, but are you forgetting about cele ranger builds? All of which are broken and cancer and the soulbeast variant just got even more cancer. And soulbeast is as good is power builds get rn, the only power builds that I think are better rn are virtuoso and willbender. I don't consider tanking 3+ players a broken build because as stated before pvp players in this game are garbage. Catalyst can tank 5+ pugs all day long but if you know how to fight it you can win 1v1, at least against hammer. d/d cata is unstoppable lmao. Also are you calling me a tower roamer? I barely even take objectives much less camp them I look for fights and am a roamer, if you want to see me play I have montages on my channel :)