Guild Wars 2

Jony.6815:

Rieselle.5079:

I wouldn’t expect too many PvP or even balance/class/bugfixes until 2013.

ANet’s plans were always PvE events in Oct, Nov and Dec. So their efforts are now focused on the Xmas event for now. After “event season” is finished, maybe then they can start looking at more general features/fixes.

If this is true i see a massive getaway :p, people is just getting tired even those patience ones, myself included. There is a real chance for having a rpg third person game on the e-sport scene, we thought it could be GW2. IF they truly focus on pve this game will be a pve game with some pvp candys, nothing else. It`s a shame they are loosing the opportunity, maybe in a short time there is other company who realize this and take the correct decissions.

I hope so, I have given up on play GW2 due to their statements which they have broken time after time, they need more staffing in the PVP team, notwithstanding that they must be COMPETENT (not what I see). I hope Anet realises their deficiencies soon or another company clone this game and correct those deficiencies for them.

Hi all

Thought I’d share a funny video (I am not the creator, nor associated with this video) on this forum initially posted and credits to ilJumperMT.4871 for finding it.

Should lighten up some peoples moods

Edit (oops no link!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htHRErZM7QM&feature=player_embedded

ReginaBuenaobra.6953:

There were some events that we could not extend past Phase 1, unfortunately. Extending all events in Phase 1 would have been a much more extensive fix, requiring much more time to thoroughly regress. Given the time sensitive nature of the event, we extended what portions we were able to effectively.

Our developers are reading all of your feedback and are taking all the critiques on board.

We apologize that this means that folks are not able to complete the Miyani chain.

I’m not sure if you are lying to us by simply saying that critiques are taken onboard as it clearly does not show in what anet is producing. If that is the case maybe your devs should be a bit more transparent and list the critiques learned and the what will arise from the lessons learned. Forgive me for being sceptic but Anet has continuously broken promises and fail to deliver, makes me wonder what has been learned.

Your build is bad, and you should feel bad. Please don’t imply you are superior in your title cause you found the ultimate build when the backing you have is this bad. Also please state your PVP rank, will make things interesting.

Good list posted by OP. The sad thing is, for the past month so many constructive threads, none taken. There needs to be an independent review by Gamespy or some other known reviewer to state these facts and the delay taken by Anet to correct these issues. Then Anet will probably act with more haste.

Sad state of responsiveness to community feedback.

Have to agree with the rest of them. This is EXTREMELY disappointing. Far beyond expectations. I understand you only have 2 DEVS working on these things, but this is ridiculous at best, you had ages to go through these things, and all you perform are minor improvements for the key issues with the profession.

Furthermore the lack of correspondence between the staff and the community is a disgrace with regards to PVP balancing. Its hard to put this the nice way when anet has failed to perform promise after promise.

As a ranger using longbow, I am constantly getting ‘Out of range’ when they are in range due to the fact the target is moving and the arrow is still moving towards the targets previous position.

Anet, please have a look at fixing this issue or increasing the projectile speeds from bows.

Ive got roughly 3480 attack

Elite, in these scenarios we have a few options but is not guaranteed success:
1) Healing spring – I love this skill, but you are rolling the dice if you have more than 1 condition
2) Signet of Renewal – Not my preferred choice but is the other removal option

The following are just to buy time for it to wear off:
3) Greatswords block
4) Lightening reflex

But as you are probably aware, none of these are true counters and you will be likely dead if immobilised in the presence of a good enemy.

Warlock, I’d say it wouldn’t matter, although being immobilised is currently death for the ranger which the player would address, however, as stated by the Dev in another thread, they have their sights on working utilities. In my opinion, they will provide a counter for this in the near future and you should just pick the race you like best. However, I will have to say Xsorus is assuming that the thieves you will be facing will not be too skilled, no thieves will spam skills on stacks of confusion, it is actually more effective to cloak + backstab which will end the ranger anyway in a 1v1 situation. With equally skilled opponents of the same ‘real’ level, it is difficult for a ranger to win 1v1 situations with our current arsenal.

What are you basing this “skilled in opposing foes from ‘a far’. That’s the basic understanding of a Ranger.” statement on?

“Any other excuse to define a Ranger otherwise, is irrelevant and does not relate to my argument.”, lets talk ‘fact’ about that sentence:
1. definition of ranger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger, no where does it state it is a person or object skilled in shooting from afar
2. is it not an excuse, you are trying to define something that is subjective and stating other opinions as an ‘excuse’
3. your argument relates to the definition of a ranger in which you provided no base

You are blinded to believe that your opinion is the correct opinion, lets detail what ANET has depicted:
1) Nature associated being

Now from the definitions of wiki for instance it would fit under the broad definition of “Parkland occupations”
- Forest ranger, a person charged with protecting and preserving protected forestlands
- Park ranger, a person charged with protecting and preserving protected parklands
- National Park Service Ranger, an employee of the U.S. National Park Service

In short, your argument is baseless and you are ignorant to facts.

I agree with Rott, does seem to all fit in, except for the greatsword, which I love anyway. Somehow doesn’t feel like there is enough tree hugging, just need more trees to hug…

Well, why should rangers use guns? Why don’t we use staves? Anet defines what weapons each class has and if they can get the player base to buy-in that’s fine. You are likely basing your opinion upon the other experiences you have from other games or lore but it is just an opinion which everyone else has their own interpretation of. I wouldn’t say its dumbfounding, but baseless and the fact you put ‘range’ implies that you are linking it with the word ‘ranger’ in which arcane made his assessment.

Recently a lot more bots whom are guardians or warriors who can res each other and have proper names! GASP

I would imagine your build was based on a 1v1 situation in WvW which is… quite rare, you also rely on melee in WvW…. which is quite risky for a ranger considering we are quite squishy. No offense but my guess is any thief you have killed thus far is probably not a real level 80 or is probably not very skilled. Natural health regeneration for pets is just a massive waste of points and will be better spent in quickness when downed.

Let me suggest you try the following just for comparison sake to your current build:
take away 20 in NM and place 20 in power and get the 5% longbow range and damage.
add QZ to utility and use it just before you use skill 5 then followed by 2.
change to a power/crit build
Use a canine pet to control battles – esp the wolf
Note that you can use your pets f2 skill even when you are down, just watch out for the 3sec cast time.

See and feel the difference.

Yes it does Rav, under one assumption… they stay inside the trap. It’s hard enough to get people to run into them and we don’t have any immobilise to make full use of the trap, dodge is too easy.

Good tip, but too bad overshadowed by bloodlust

Much better choices made this time round but still not the best, details as follows:
1) Scholar is not very useful in pvp, as in one hit you lose the 10% bonus, Rune of Ogre does a better job.

2) Pets and spvp don’t mix, don’t rely on your pet and put more traits towards yourself.

3) The dodge roll is useless for 30 points, better spent in Power to get either longbow range and dmg or piercing arrows

’Cause animal hugging. spirit loving people dont use weapons that pollute the environment

I’ll be direct and say its trash.

Details below:
1) extremely bad choice of runes & accessories, if you go longbow, you want burst not condition. I understand conditions are for the traps.. but traps do hardly enough damage to even scratch an enemy.

2) extremely bad choice of sigils, steal health triggers every 2 seconds and only steals 30-100hp per activation

3) poor choice of wilderness and NM traits, your healing is negligible and the regen will do nothing for you

4) all other classes outperform you in every way possible

The queen of Tyria has summoned her finest accountants to project the revenue these nature wanderers will bring to the Tyrian empire, and statistically is not going too well. Thus all food, support, foreign aid has been withdraw and redistributed to the local warriors who slay kittens for cash.

I am a ranger myself, but to add to our current frustrations read the patch notes released by gw2guru… either I am very wrong or ANET are VERY sneaky and not releasing full patch notes:
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/news/842-official-update-notes-database-updates-including-new-skins/#comments

compare with the ones ANET released:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-Notes-October-22-2012

Nothing for ranger except some text fixes, but how sorry I feel for the Necros… Again warriors win

I just have to laugh at how hard dard is trying, and proving he can play a ranger better than the other thousands of rangers out there. Go join a sPvP and after a few hundred games comment again. Skolvikings yes there is a cast time to skills and we are all well aware, the F2 skill just does not start ‘casting’ when we click it, as the pet prioritises other actions or its next action and you have to wait for that to finish.

CRrabbit.1284:

I am not that ranger, but I can imagine what happened (maybe not 100% correct , but I guess 90% accurate):
JP’s warrior met a ranger;
Ranger started to SPAM 1 once seeing JP’s warrior;
Warrior charged and 100 blade;
Ranger dodged and kept SPAMING 1 from side, Warrior began to bleed;
Warrior 4 crippled ranger, but was crippled as well;
Ranger set a spike trap, Warrior was immobalized and kept bleeding, ranger 3 ev shot and make the distance further, meanwhile still kept SPAMING 1;
…
…
Warrior kept bleeding and Ranger kept SPAMING 1;
Finally, JPWarrior downed!
Then…. ranger didn’t come close to finish, but kept SPAMING 1 till warrior die.

Conclusion: ranger’s SB is OPed, and the key is SPAMING 1 too much, it’s “not fun” at all.
Then here came the patch and explanations……

Prev.4879:

Will that ranger please post here? I want details. I figure that JonP had to be afk for about 10 minutes for this cold blooded murder to occur. That’s a given. Then what happened?

Sounds like a battle between low level PVP’ers, probably shouldn’t be taken seriously.

How are you summoning more than 1 additional Hyena at one time? Mines cancels the previous summon

Rangers are not the only bots now, if you visit cursed shore, you will see bots of all professions… Warriors, Guardians, Necros

Aesseus.4596:

What a childish, ignorant, non constructive, silly thread.
Yes i’m a main 80 Ranger, and love the idea behind my ranger, yes the Ranger needs tweaking LIKE every other class in this game, no we are not broken.

All these extravagant qq threads are getting old, this is not a holy trinity of an mmo, once people get this through their thick heads, the better and the more you will enjoy your class and game.

I did not mention anywhere it is not broken, now before you start ‘deeming’ things as non constructive, take a look at what constructive means. Now I did mention things need to be re-imagined yes, because under the current circumstances Rangers are VERY limited in builds available with regards to PVP and competitive play due to the reasons listed above. You obviously do not PvP enough to understand the ‘so many’ gaps we currently have.

Now although I did mention traits and weaponry skills need to be ‘re-imagined’ but this is a pervasive issue with the exception of thieves and probably engineers and warriors. There is no synergy between them. However it is very obvious with the play of the ranger as you will soon realize that nature magic is not useful besides the first 10 points.

So before you go deeming things as ‘nonconstructive’ I suggest YOU take a step back and provide an UNBIASED comment

As you are all well aware players have voiced the same concerns over and over within this forum and elsewhere, I thought this might just need to be in a more prominent position i.e. its own post for the attention of A-Net.

1) All the rangers weaponry are terrible and need to be re-imagined. (In particular the longbow skill number 5, useless skill, too easy to dodge)
2) Rangers lack a skill (except that stupid signet of renewal which doesnt work half the time) to escape immobilize, and severely impacts our chances of survive in competitive PVP.
3) Rangers utility skills need to be re-imagined, as they frankly suck.
4) Cast time on pet f2 skills need to be reduced, and having f2 take priority over their auto attacks.
5) Ranger traits need to be re-imagined, as they suck.

All of the above is made in comparison with the other classes available in particular the thief, warrior, guardian and elementalist.

The most POWERFUL pet is definitely the River Drake followed by the Salamander and felines.

However the most USEFUL pet is the wolf hands down. So many times have I used the F2 skill when I am just about to get finished in PvP and has saved me countless times.