Guild Wars 2

My comment was aimed at the people who think that say you have a 1% chance at something from a chest. They feel that means open 100 and o man you will get 1.

You roll a 4000 sided die(lol) and it is the same chance every single roll to roll a 1. It does not get better just because you rolled a bunch of times because you are not eliminating sides of the die.

The horrid drop rates for the big draw of these events changes them from fun into a chore if you actually want something from it.

Going to excuse myself from the topic been at this all day and have not got squat. Do not want to pass my bad mood onto others.

Indeed people seem to get the idea as you open more chests the chance goes up for what they are after but it never changes.

Kinda like me re-installing this game thinking they would make getting event loot more reasonable. It never changes.

Why did I even re-install the game?

Needs more Charr warrior in here!

Crevan
Blackgate

Hi all,

I am a shout WAR who usually takes fear me over on my mark for the cc and control it brings.

As of late though I have been noticing it totally fail at point blank me standing in the boss’s face with full adrenalin.

I will give examples from fractals:

On the final boss in the Groll shaman dungeon I used fear me to move him away from the people we are defending rather often. If he got too close (people being downed or just bad luck and positioning of him and the target he picks to go for) I would use fear me to buy a little more time or move him to a better area. As of late I can be standing right under him on the circle for him on the ground or right in front of him and it straight up does nothing to him.

In the Dredge map for the final boss both ice or suit I would use fear me to break the heal every time the shout was off CD. Now I can be standing right next to him and shout off my fear me and it may break his heal once and after that it does nothing at all.

On cliff side I would use fear me to move the boss away if people were taking too much damage or if I wanted to interrupt a move or res and he was too close. It worked well and helped control the flow of the fight. Now he gets the fear icon over his head and just keeps on trucking.. Switching targets, jumping, slamming, doing what he does you get the point.

What is going on? Has anybody ells noticed this? It is to the point I see 0 reason to use it any more.. The CD is so long and with the fear not working on a boss more then once if at all I may as well just sit with on my mark on my bars at all times.

Thanks for any constructive ideas or answers.

P.S. the only change I see noted is Fear Me: Updated the tooltip to correctly state the range of the skill.

But Anet has made other changes in the past w/o saying a word..

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIIQJAcTjgONvVPKP4wBAjiiA6ogKmSPODt0A;TgAqsMZJyymlLLZWLMGYA

This is the build I run and love. Lots of condition removal, heals, cc with fear me, buffs to yourself, cc breaker, high melee damage with the option to go ranged when needed.

I run in Power, Precision, Toughness gear / Superior Rune of the Soldier, have 45% crit chance (but it feels like 90 almost always at 15+ stacks of might and get a lot of procs on the vulnerability and heals on crit)

Helping my team with the condition removal and small heals, am tanky as heck, and put out nice numbers to boot.

I am very happy with this build

Power Precision toughness gear with shout heals and ruins of the soldier to remove conditions

I am very tanky, help with a bit of small spam heals with my low cd shouts, small might and fury buff, cc, condition removal, elite banner to get up the downed, and am usually doing between 10 and 14k damage in dungeons each HB (not including the silly super squishy mobs you get crazy high numbers on).

Wile I think this thread is dumb and just an attempt to flaunt the OPs kitten… I felt giving an idea of a WAR who is built to bring something more to the group rather then making said group work to keep the glass cannon alive was worth bumping it.

P.S. 10 gold says my more supportive build does more damage through out a dungeon due to being downed less~

I had no problem seeing the mobs and my computer is far from top of the line.. Maybe you just need to update your hardware?

Makes me think of back on SWtoR Ilum fights on my old pos computer where I couldn’t see anything or do anything. Built a new PC on a budget of 1k and it was night and day.

Not saying your computer is good or bad but I get the feeling there are a lot of people crying about stuff like not being able to see things because they are running this game on less then optimal set ups.

The event was a blast and as I said before the only thing I would have asked to be changed was how long the reinforcements stages took.

Sorry you had those problems though..

O and to say they should have to warn people the reward is going to be good is silly. If you were on and chose not to come that is on nobody ells but you… 1 time event said enough.

I came in to the forums today expecting to see a tun of happy posts about this event.. and am amazed to see only crying..

It was long and a bit repetitive with the killing reinforcements for sure. But over all I had fun it was something my guild got together for and all tried to get on the same overflow. We had a lot of fun laughing at each other and experiencing something new in the game.

And in the end the chest had some amazing loot to tie it all together. One of my guildies even got the precursor for the hammer. People only seem to care about what they got and can’t be happy for others and that is a shame.

Grats to those who got the lucky precursors. I did not get one but I was happy with just getting the earring that I do believe everybody got? It exceed my expectations and I am glad Anet took care in making something that was so long and for some full of deaths and made it worth wile.

If you did not make it that sucks you had a tun of notice for it. And to those who want to argue it is just a game and they shouldn’t have to plan around it then stop crying for not getting something in said game.

I will agree that 1 time events should be on slightly dif times if the server is European vs American but other then that this event was not sprung on anybody…

Thanks for the good time!

I’d rate Venus Irontail 5/10
Irontail works great for a charr but giving a Roman Goddess name to a race with no gods seems off.

My Charr WAR is Crevan

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P.S. In my opinion eventually the current exotic gear will be replaced with better gear. We will see new crafting recopies we will see new dungeon gear we will see new event gear. It allows for harder content and new ways to play. If that really angers people to the point they have to quit the game maybe an MMORPG is not right for you…

“harder content” is not made by bigger numbers. You make things difficult by new and difficult mechanics. Item treadmills are things for subscription based MMOs, not for free to play games.
Furthermore, new item tiers reduce the content you have at “endgame” since the usual MMO Bob follows the carrot on the stick, which is gear.

This entire situation reminds me of the “New Game Enhancement” (16.11.05) for “Star Wars Galaxies” which pretty much destroyed everything that most people loved, just to make it more appealing for the WoW crowd.

I disagree Larger numbers make for larger variations in stuff. This allows for things like boss mobs to use higher damage moves and kill / not kill a wider range of people because the stats have a greater range in them. It opens the door for Ideas and mechanics that may have only had this or that out combs to have this or that or that or that because with higher stats comes more ways to combined them and come out with different numbers.

You people saying that groups are not going to let people in with out ascended armor sound silly to me.

Right now if you invite a person you have not played with into a group tell me how can you tell if they are in white gear or exotic?
Looks? I can use stones to make white gear look exotic (I don’t think this would ever happen lol) and exotic gear to look like white gear.
Damage? I don’t know about you but I cant tell what any 1 person is doing for damage less we are both soloing the same kind of mob and our kill times are totally different. But hey in group content that dose not happen very often.
How long they stay alive? I said earlier I did Arah exp mode in greens and did better then even I expected. Sorry to say but slightly better gear is not going to save you if you are a bad player so we can rule that 1 out.
HP? Cant see people’s HP numbers only a bar and even if you could who is to say you are not just built with lower HP needs in mind.

Well I guess the answer as far as I can see is there is no way to tell unless you personally know them and or have seen them get it yourself.

MMORPG grow and change. It keeps the game fresh and interesting and with change come new options and ways to play. I am all for it with in reason and this is reasonable.

See my earlier post for how I view this actual change.

I do NOT think this is going to turn into the problem WoW has. Grind this to get this so you can do this to replace everything you got so you can do this and replace everything you worked so hard on over and over again.

I personally have beaten some explorer mode paths in Arah in full greens back before I could afford better armor. And nobody knew because you cant check people and I was skilled enough to dodge and keep myself alive and do what I needed to be useful.

Now I have 3 professions to 80 all in exotic gear and I find myself wishing I could customize or specialize my character a little more into a specific area. And maybe they are starting to work into that with this infusion slot. It could allow you to boost specific abilities or attributes of your choice outside of what runes do.

An easy way to get people to calm down is just allow craftsman to put infusion slots on other gear.

Now you have opened a whole new area in the market for craftsman.
You have allowed people to further specify how they want to play the profession they enjoy.
Added more content for people to work at with out killing what they have already worked so hard on.
AND your opening doors for harder mechanics, bosses, dungeons, areas, so on.

Is this what they have in mind? Maybe or maybe not but with how much time they spent developing this game I am sure they have given it more thought then o people are crying about this or that lets quick change everything we built this game upon.

P.S. In my opinion eventually the current exotic gear will be replaced with better gear. We will see new crafting recopies we will see new dungeon gear we will see new event gear. It allows for harder content and new ways to play. If that really angers people to the point they have to quit the game maybe an MMORPG is not right for you…

I forget about my pet being a part of my damage because they are dead any time my damage matters……………. I dodge out of the circle and the pet gets slapped across the face. I call the pet away to try and make it dodge and it gets hit any way.

I have 0 interest in GS but LB undeniably needs work and 1 handed sword needs to let dodge break the animation.

How do they water down the uniqueness by pumping up the speed or internal damage a little?

Is admitting that something isn’t working and tweaking it or adding a little more to it really losing what it is? Or is it bringing it into its own more?

Idk your post sounds like kissing butt to me and I am sure my post sounds like QQ to you.

Nobody actually expects pets to be dropped or for any crazy profession altering changes to be made to Ranger.

But if you sit there saying how playing Ranger is all sunshine and flowers instead of bring forward your concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even hopes nothing is going to happen.

I keep getting infractions on the Ranger forums probably because I sound hostile or pessimistic or something ells.. But in truth I sound this way because I want to see changes and I want to see the class in a place it can truly bring something to the group worth wile.

I am sure devs like to hear the good and they deserve to but this is not 1 of those times in my opinion.

Got an infraction for saying I was disappointed what the heck? Any way..

Ranger being playable =/= Ranger being useful or worth bringing to anything.

We can all go into a Dungeon or PVP as a Ranger and say HEY LOOK I’M DOING IT GUYS!!

But can you really try to argue against the notion just about any other class in the game would be more worth wile in that slot?

You can’t because almost every aspect about Ranger right now is underwhelming or underpowered or straight up useless.

Again I am crossing my fingers for this update that keeps getting pushed back.
May we all not be disappointed.
But Hope for the best and prepare for the worst (as I gear up my Warrior)..

P.S. Seriously if i get a nether infraction for this..

Please make cultural armor skins craft able through the MF or just through the respective craft or a reward from something we can accomplish and work at other then gold.

Nobody uses this armor for it’s stats but it has such an insane price people who would really like to use it just cant justify it.

T3 armor cost almost 100 gold for the set and with exotic gear being 3 gold or less each in most cases how can anybody justify the prices and not give a second way to come about the skins?

I really enjoyed the clock tower.

My girl friend and I spent hours competing with each other (and everybody ells) to see who would get up first her or me.

I won and beat it 3 more times before she got mad and gave up but we had a tun of fun with it and it made for a really great event.

I will say though… This event made me hate the heck out of Norn and Charr, who would make it so hard to see myself or where I was trying to jump.

Great job over all and I hope each holiday has puzzles just as hard.

With the hope they are going to help Ranger in the next patch I have finished upgrading and styling my Ranger and though I would share.

Head: Whispers/ Shoulders: Whispers/ Body: HotW/ Hands: Duelist/ Legs: Priory/ Feet: Vigil

I really wanted to go with more of a classic look for a Ranger

I personally would LOVE to see ranger pets straight up dropped.

IMHO Ranger is all about nature and knowing its surroundings, using them to his advantage, being sneaky (not thief sneaky but quick and able to gain position wile not standing out). Traps are spot on for a Ranger. Do not feel stealth should work to hide people from us as a Ranger who is in tune with his surroundings should notice. We should have more movement options and something to allow us to take cover wile we shoot would feel right in the idea of how a ranger would act. Shouts are not needed with no pet and what kind of ranger would go out shouting things in combat.. Spirits are bad and have nothing to do with a Ranger?… Want to give group utility for buffs? How about a protection kind of cover or set down things like an engi does that people can run over to get the heal or buff or traps that make circles that buff people inside them?

Where did this idea a Ranger has to be a pet profession come from? WoW?
Rangers used wolfs and bears and dogs to fight for them? Probably not, at most a hawk or falcon to communicate via letters the rest would give him away cause they are large or loud.

If they want rangers to have these pets so bad make them like the spirits of the animals we found and they just give a boon or remove a condition or defend us..

On topic as they are not going to drop the dumb pet or change anything about Ranger over all class design…

I venture to guess they improve long bow, fix 1 handed sword root, and don’t touch the other weps.

Probably wont touch our skill trees or heals

Will leave pets how they are

and change a signet or 2 a shout or 2 and make spirits suck just a little less

and why do I sound so negative?

Cause they want to make more builds usable. Which to me translates to no big changes just a few so you can try and offer more to a party in some other area then dps.

I really enjoy Ranger (hate the pet but the class looking past the pet is fun to me). I just do not think we are going to see any big profession altering change any time soon..

Prove me wrong please! I want to be wrong.. I have even started to finish upgrading what was left to upgrade on my Ranger’s gear. But I just refuse to get my hopes up too high and have them smashed in a good spirited attempt to make things better that fell short.

I LOLed pretty hard after looking through the list very slowly about 4 times to find the lack of even a mention of Ranger..

I leveled it fell in love with it and have been stuck playing Guardian because the class is so hopeless at the moment….

MAYBE the lack of Ranger notes is because they are reworking it from the ground up instead of just throwing a patch on a broken class…

riiighhhtttttt…………..

aww Nobody ells wondering if this is meant to be this way or just something they have not had time to fix?

Hi all,

I wanted to start by saying I love the ranger 1 handed sword and how we hop at our targets as we auto attack and frankly it is really fun to watch. That combined with 2 and 3’s dodges/poison I really want to love this weapon and make it an important part of my ranger.

BUT the auto attack is making it darn near impossible to strafe around the target with out pressing 2 or 3 or waiting for the sec you are not mid jump.

And the bigger issue we cant dodge on command with out once again using 2 or 3 which both have a bit of a delay on them or at least 2 does or waiting for the jump animation to be over.

Is there any way to make dodge and strafe interrupt the jump animation? I love the sword but I am struggling to avoid damage with how it is at the moment. Most the time by the time I can finally dodge it is too late. And I am pretty sure dodge interrupts most other animations as it should always take priority.

Is this working as intended? Can it be fixed w/o disabling auto attack which save my button and my thumb a work out?

Thanks for any feedback!

Trust me we tried about everything we could think of. Throwing tears at her as she started to vanish, Fearing her as she started to vanish, attacking the area she vanished, and so on so forth.

I think the extra spark is a bug. But the design of how they act is just bad if they didn’t path so bad and switch to anything that may be in or near its path pets or a party member who didn’t move away in time maybe her healing would be more do able. In fact I know it would but as it is the way they move, the buggy spawn, the target switching, and how fast she heals with no way other then the sparks to stop it all adds up to being unbeatable. Unless you have some super specialized pt specifically built for just this 1 boss.
But in my opinion that would prob lead to the exclusion of classes and force people into a specific build which kind of goes against what AN has been going for.

IDK I hope they fix this I just wish there was a warning to save us time. I had gone in on Oct 3rd and was on the ghost boss just before her when the maint kicked me off which was 2 hours waisted no tokens gained but we learned all the path up to that point allowing us to move much faster this time around. But again unable to finish due to this and ending up with nothing but debt out of it (repairs caust more then we made and no tokens)

It is so frustrating and I have had 2 people tell me they wont run Arah any more because 2 nights in a row we waisted hours for no reward.

Yes it was fun figuring things out but that fun turned into not so fun into stress into anger lol.

I just want people to know they should avoid this path and not go through this till it is fixed.

Hi all just wanted to let people know to avoid Arah Explorer Mode path 4 – Dwaynas High Priestess Simin.

Spent 6 hours trying to find a way to beat her. We were not dieing we just could not beat her healing no matter how hard we tried. We were to the point everybody had a job everybody knew exactly when to go get ready to grab the sparks they had to grab. Any time we got her to what looked like around 25% we would get an extra ball and be stuck trying the full thing again…

I can only hope AN gets on this and maybe even disables the path till it is fixed to save people the time and effort my group put in for nothing… No tokens and any money from items was spent on repairs from everything ells we had to fight to get to the end.

6 hours… Thank you to everybody who was in my group for trying and not giving up I wish we could get what we deserve. And best of luck to anybody ells who reads this and still tries to do the path.

This last update 9/18/12 has really messed me up… My game keeps crashing! I have crashed about 5x in a row playing spvp..

And my repair tool is not working so I can not run that. It skips right to the log in says 1 file remaining and when I close it I get an error.

Thought I should update.

It was working as it should for a few days but the game did close out on me this morning again. So it seems the repair tool was not the needed fix..

Kind of wish they had actual GMs to talk to voice or chat would make it actually feel like we are being heard

Now and then my error report will totally freeze my computer and force me to restart to get out as well Rynzo.

I have never gotten a blue screen from the game it just closes to desktop with a message something like a chain of errors has caused the program to close if I remember right.

Indeed my GF is not having this isue at all and the game is still very playable just the random closing is a problem…

I am crossing my fingers that I can get some help but only time will tell.

Hello I have been playing and loving the game since the early release. Well loving the game – the random crashing that is happening.

It seems to happen more often in pvp but I have had it happen when just standing in a town or in the middle of a story quest or just running around.

I have crashed quite a few times but its never 1 after the other and they are very random…

I really want this fixed it is keeping me from doing some things people would be relying on me heavily in and I could crash during.

side note I had uninstalled this game and my OS from my HDD installed the OS this game and updated drivers on my SSD then wiped out the HDD to turn it into storage. My drivers SHOULD be up to date as I updated them after the OS install.

O and I don’t know if it is related but some times my music freezes kind of holding a note as if I am going to crash but it kicks back into gear and starts going again. When this happens nothing ells freezes or stalls but the music.