Guild Wars 2

Please fix this. I hate when I’ve fallen and there is nothing to attack while my health goes down. Instead of waiting for imminent death your health should recover since nothing is attacking you.

use skill #4. (15 chars)

Psyx.7368:

Please fix this. I hate when I’ve fallen and there is nothing to attack while my health goes down. Instead of waiting for imminent death your health should recover since nothing is attacking you.

why not just use the #4 skill and get back up?

I repeatedly hit all four buttons and I never get up

Psyx.7368:

I repeatedly hit all four buttons and I never get up

Press 4 ONCE and you will begin to channel your healing skill. Do not press any other buttons after pressing 4 once.

Why would hitting the other buttons make my health go down?

Psyx.7368:

Why would hitting the other buttons make my health go down?

Because it interrupts the self-heal for #4.

Because being in the downed states detracts for your health. You are dying. Press 4 to start bandaging yourself so you can live to fight again.

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Fight that instinct. It’s not helping you.

. . . and never play a ranger with a longbow.

Skill 4 is a channelled skill. You press 4 once and you heal over time.

Being attacked interrupts it, using other skills interrupts it, just let it happen.

Well, imaging you have a wound and you are using blood. You need to use bandage (#4) to prevent bleeding. If you start bandage yourself but then changed your mind and start swinging your sword (other skills) – you are still loosing blood. Hope this helps.

I will have to try that next time

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

Sounds like you need Life Alert®, OP

Maybe it’ll become available on the gem store?

Is it bad that I find that picture just amazingly hilarious. Oh old people…. xD

WRay.2391:

Well, imaging you have a wound and you are using blood. You need to use bandage (#4) to prevent bleeding. If you start bandage yourself but then changed your mind and start swinging your sword (other skills) – you are still loosing blood. Hope this helps.

Heh so mashing buttons is basically poking at your own wounds.

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Ironically, that’s one of the very few situations where pressing all of the buttons as fast as you can isn’t the best strategy.

also death is an option…

the ui sucks and doesn’t show you any conditions when downed

you may be confused, so by pressing buttons you could be killing yourself, you have no way to know till you start pressing

FlamingFoxx.1305:

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

Sounds like you need Life Alert®, OP

Maybe it’ll become available on the gem store?

Is it bad that I find that picture just amazingly hilarious. Oh old people…. xD

Ha ha. Be careful…one of those ‘old people’ might be the character next to you, deciding whether to help you…or not. =P

Umm, something on a different note that I find annoying. When you are being attacked underwater and you get downed – you then swim to the top to get air. Well, if you are near the shoreline, why the eff can’t you just get out of the water? I feel like a fish flopping around and have died on my low level toons sometimes, lol.

tliones.5208:

Umm, something on a different note that I find annoying. When you are being attacked underwater and you get downed – you then swim to the top to get air. Well, if you are near the shoreline, why the eff can’t you just get out of the water? I feel like a fish flopping around and have died on my low level toons sometimes, lol.

Have to agree on this. Why does it say ‘Swim to the surface!’ still after they changed the way being downed in water works. You can’t do anything on the surface. =(

Except heal rapidly when you get there.

I thought that swimming to the surface auto-resses you as if someone was ressing you? Or does it work differently now?

Doesn’t work for me…there is no downed skill-bar available.

You don’t need to press anything. Its automatic. However, like button 4 its interrupted by being attacked, so its only useful if there is something/someone able to pull agro off you. Generally I find bobbing for a heal, then swimming away just under the surface after being struck, then bobbing for a heal will let me work my way beyond the leash distance of almost anything in the game.

I am suprised that it is not the best choice to roll your face on the keyboard when you are downed.

People seriously log into the forum and write a post, instead of reading the skill describtions? People make it to 80 and do not understand how the four skills work. Unless you have never died before because you are such an awesome player, this is sort of a shame.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Fight that instinct. It’s not helping you.

. . . and never play a ranger with a longbow.

Why not? I can start by using #4 to start healing up then press my #3 that calls my pet over that doubles or triples the rate of healing and is almost immune to incoming attacks getting me up in the middle of all incoming damage and IMO making the ranger/pet healing combo that leaves all others dead. LOL

Majic.4801:

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Ironically, that’s one of the very few situations where pressing all of the buttons as fast as you can isn’t the best strategy.

mashing buttons as fast as you is never the best strategy. Skills are very situational and if you mash them at random the skill you might need later might not be available when you need it the most. gw2 is for the most part very easy and mashing buttons might win you most fights. Doing that however prevents you from learning to play that specific class efficiently with the result that the few hard fights will be even harder because you might be wasting skills (clearing conditions when you have none, giving yourself / allies regen when you still have not been damaged, using your most damaging skill before giving yourself / allies stacks of might, crippling ranged mobs, immobilzing enemies at melee range etc….)

Im Mudbone.1437:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Fight that instinct. It’s not helping you.

. . . and never play a ranger with a longbow.

Why not? I can start by using #4 to start healing up then press my #3 that calls my pet over that doubles or triples the rate of healing and is almost immune to incoming attacks getting me up in the middle of all incoming damage and IMO making the ranger/pet healing combo that leaves all others dead. LOL

I said never play a ranger with a longbow because if you press keys randomly, you Point Blank Shot a lot and kitten people off. Which makes it harder to trick people into thinking ranger is a viable class.

The pet res thing is fine.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Im Mudbone.1437:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Fight that instinct. It’s not helping you.

. . . and never play a ranger with a longbow.

Why not? I can start by using #4 to start healing up then press my #3 that calls my pet over that doubles or triples the rate of healing and is almost immune to incoming attacks getting me up in the middle of all incoming damage and IMO making the ranger/pet healing combo that leaves all others dead. LOL

I said never play a ranger with a longbow because if you press keys randomly, you Point Blank Shot a lot and kitten people off. Which makes it harder to trick people into thinking ranger is a viable class.

The pet res thing is fine.

Ahhhh, that is understandable then. I’m not a button masher opting to use a more thought out use of skills.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Fight that instinct. It’s not helping you.

. . . and never play a ranger with a longbow.

Why not?

kokiman.2364:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Fight that instinct. It’s not helping you.

. . . and never play a ranger with a longbow.

Why not?

Point-blank shot will annoy people

maddoctor.2738:

kokiman.2364:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Fight that instinct. It’s not helping you.

. . . and never play a ranger with a longbow.

Why not?

Point-blank shot will annoy people

So does illusionary wave, I know some people seem to feel the urge to use all their skills in every fight.

my finely tuned senses tell me op is troll

kokiman.2364:

maddoctor.2738:

kokiman.2364:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Fight that instinct. It’s not helping you.

. . . and never play a ranger with a longbow.

Why not?

Point-blank shot will annoy people

So does illusionary wave, I know some people seem to feel the urge to use all their skills in every fight.

But nobody runs around going “mesmers suck” the same way rangers are held up as the quintessential “class nobody should ever ever play”. Even above engineers.

And the reason people give me for rangers sucking usually revolve around idiots with longbows who don’t know how to hold their Point Blank Shot and just use it to shave Defiant off.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

kokiman.2364:

maddoctor.2738:

kokiman.2364:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Fight that instinct. It’s not helping you.

. . . and never play a ranger with a longbow.

Why not?

Point-blank shot will annoy people

So does illusionary wave, I know some people seem to feel the urge to use all their skills in every fight.

But nobody runs around going “mesmers suck” the same way rangers are held up as the quintessential “class nobody should ever ever play”. Even above engineers.

And the reason people give me for rangers sucking usually revolve around idiots with longbows who don’t know how to hold their Point Blank Shot and just use it to shave Defiant off.

Ofcause nobody does that the majority seems to latch onto popular opinions like “ranger sucks” or “longbow is bad” when in reality the ranger is quiet nice and the longbow is not that bad

Hey rangers aren’t bad. They bring Frost Spirit to a group!

Most people that say “X is bad” are people that jump onto a bandwagon and don’t even know why they’re saying what they are.

There are a lot of bad rangers. Just as there are a lot of bad warriors, TERRIBLE guardians and the most useless elementalists I have ever seen in my life who can’t even cleanse a condition in a water field.

It doesn’t make the classes bad. Just the people that have no idea how to play.

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

And there’s your problem.

Press #4 once. Wait. Get up.

maddoctor.2738:

kokiman.2364:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Psyx.7368:

When I’m downed my instinct is to press all of the buttons as fast as I can

Fight that instinct. It’s not helping you.

. . . and never play a ranger with a longbow.

Why not?

Point-blank shot will annoy people

I play ranger as my main character, and I use longbow most of the time, with sword warhorn as swap. I rarely use the point blank shot though, most time I use it is when I am on my own to push melee foes away from me. If I am playing with others/others are present in the event I will keep away from point blank shot. I know it annoys people, and I don’t really need it unless I am in danger.

Really learning to be careful with when to use skills can be key. Like with sword or shortbow on ranger and just smash all skills and you are anywhere near an edge with a nasty fall…. well… whatever you were fighting stops being a concern.

Revive Orbs are available in the cash shop… :p

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Have to agree on this. Why does it say ‘Swim to the surface!’ still after they changed the way being downed in water works. You can’t do anything on the surface. =(

Actually, if you hammer space bar enough you can make like a Jesus Lizard and get out of aggro.

milo.6942:

my finely tuned senses tell me op is troll

Sigh, there goes my “Make it through ONE day without someone using the T word” Title.

On topic, I wish they’d add skill #5 – Suicide! So many times I go down and know there is no hope. I’m already at the map trying to WP while I wait for boring downed to be over. Even in some cases I just can’t be bothered and let myself die because downed doesn’t spark the do or die feeling I got from Borderlands 1&2. Suicide option would be great.

Or even an option in settings where you could get an additional 100 HP’s if you turn downed state off. Hell, +1 hp would be enough for me.

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

Sounds like you need Life Alert®, OP

Maybe it’ll become available on the gem store?

LMAO! That pic made me laugh!

It always struck me as odd that the down skills weren’t on weapon skills page so new players could read the skill descriptions in a less stressful setting.

That’s actually a good idea.

Yes, yes it is.

Perhaps it’s another strike against Rangers, but #4 stops channeling after 2-3 seconds, even when not being attacked or hitting any buttons yourself. Luckily your pet can pick you up, but if other classes are able to continue to channel and rez, then this would be a bug on the Ranger front.. would it not?

I just tested this to confirm and yes, it stops channeling after 3s or so.