Guild Wars 2

Xbon.9086:

the way things are now is perfectly fine, huge content patches every few months, along with LS updates which include minor patches, I wouldn’t have it any other way… spent hundreds in the gem store already to support further :P

As I previously posted,alot ,and I mean alot of people have spent money in this game,indeed there are some who will come and say ,“I bought it and never spent a dime”.

But as you said,you spent hundreds,me as well… and so did many others:)

Do not forget Anet is not the deciding factor.Do not think for one second they don’t have the money…They are being backed by NCSoft,a company worth over 1.2 billion dollars…so to those who say"Anet just uses gem store so they can barely make it",get real..

Best way to make this expansion working in the sense of both finance as well as keeping the player base happy would be using the living story.
And although people yell and talk bs all day regarding Anet ,nerfs ,lack of new content,it is my opinion Anet planned this LS type of game knowing they will never make an expansion(as in boxed or requiring some sort of payment).
Do not forget only one season of LS came by,I believe throughout season 2 and 3 ,new permanent areas will be unlocked as well as new races.
Do not worry about money,I assure you there are a lot of people buying gems.
Considering the remaining player base ,there is a good degree of people spending around 10-20 bucks a month on the game

TLDR to this thread!

Ranger changes are more than welcome as it places the class on par with many others,rapid fire changes as well as the fact the frost spirit has been reworked to its prepatch stats means the ranger is here to stay .

Anet did a great job of balancing a class which has been neglected and disconsidered for too long.If u want a broader perspective on how to deal with the class,take a look at what brandon and unlucky posted above.

And trust me when I say it,give it time and people will adapt and all this fuss about rapid fire making you watch over your shoulders from now on will be forgotten.

FenrirSlakt.3692:

Miku Lawrence.6329:

Wait, Lilith is leaving?

She already has.

Get over it already

To the person who started this thread: you do not know or understand the most limited mechanics of this game.

As someone previously stated,all classes with proper build and weapon go for 2k damage on AA.
You want to nerf a ranger??you think he is op….please learn the mechanics before opening your mouth.If u truly want to take him down,get close,use reflects,charge him..use stability against his knockbacks and eventually in melee 1v1 if he is using a zerker build ,his defences are too low for you.

Inform youreself better before opening a thread with such nonsense as to nerfing the ranger….when clearly this is a class which has never truly dominated spvp…and is just now getting some attention…

To the human being who started the thread,goodbye and take your excuses with you.

To the people complaining.

Nr.1 They did not destroy the warrior class,they simply nerfed certain builds and yes,you will no longer be the class in heavy armor with one of the highest dps ingame.(which is more than fair)

Nr.2 Please for the love of God stop butchering Anet with comments like " they don’t care about you,they only care about the new players and their money"
Ofcourse this is the case,you are not on a subscription based game,if u were,then you could complain.You bought the game and have enjoyed free content for 2 years.I bet you Anet does not even read such nonsense like " you dont care,you only want money".

If u want to have the right to complain,you need to pay,that is how the world works,understand it or quit,and if you do quit,spare the forum readers of your " I leave,I have been here from the start" cause the ugly truth of the matter is no one cares…

Zaxares.5419:

As you’ve noticed, the most efficient method of beating the dungeons is the zerker meta, and yes, that does tend to mean that people who play different types of builds are unwanted. That’s a deeper issue regarding game balance, I feel.

The zerker meta is the most efficient way of going through dungeons when you have players who understand the type of build.
Running a pug group full of zerkers with some newbies will prove far more difficult than say a more toughness build.

Zerker is the way to go once you are used to your class and have run all the dungeons a couple of times.Getting a fresh new lvl 80 in zerker gear and throwing him in a dungeon with let’s say 2 more just like him,will prove to be a wipe fest.

You have to be way out of your mind to consider " throwing away 3-4 ascended weapons for a legendary".
I have crafted ascended weapons for all my characters before they made them account bound and let me tell you the grind would be to the roof.
A legendary weapon is not worth 4 ascended,not in terms of money,not in terms of time..

Mitch.4781:

I LOVE the game…it saddens me to see all this potential go to waste. It’s like having a beautiful smart daughter who could become an amazing Doctor only to see her turn out to be a prostitute. That’s the bottom line.

Give the people what they want Anet..it’s not rocket science!!!

Brilliant comparison mate,sadest part of everything you said is that it is all true..

KevinEvo.7061:

I’m a returning player after over a year, and I’ll share my insight. Compared to WoW dungeons, the dungeons in this game are confusing. In WoW, at least when I played, the dungeons were straight forward; you go in and kill stuff until you get to the boss. The bosses may have had a unique fight mechanic, but it was easy to figure out.

In this game, everything is a maze, and the dungeon runners are hostile. Most things can be skipped, bugged, or cheesed somehow, and there is so much backtracking. I knew all the tricks to each dungeon. Now, everyone does them different, and I’m a noob again. I have to relearn each one because everyone has a different cheese spot, or skips different things. I have played MMOs for 12 years, and I feel for new players who get called names, noob, or kicked because they haven’t run the path 100 times. How is anyone supposed to know to sneak past 50 mobs and hide in a corner, when the dungeons are not intended to be played that way? Then you get the guy with 12,000 achievement points getting kittened off because no one knows all his secret hiding spots, and it’s crystal clear why no one cares about dungeons anymore.

The next biggest problem, is everyone is speccing Berserker or similar damage gear, and going full damage traits. Then everyone dies in 3 hits. If you go support, you’re not wanted.

In summary, confusing and broken dungeons, together with a 2 year old player base hostile to newbies is why no one cares about dungeons anymore in this game.

Amin to that my brother,I am more or less in your situation,played the game since beta,quit 7 months ago and now I am back only to see everything changed and most pugs act like we are all supposed to know every single spot and skip.

I feel more or less ashamed when I see how Anet bashes the elitist zerkers,and then I see how the zerkers keep complaining they can’t take advantage of new players and noobs by selling..

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

If this is true, it proves how bad the playerbase really is. Ranger was in a better spot before the update because of the Frost Spirit.

LB “buff” means nothing. If you use LB in dungs I would immediatelly kick (and my main is a ranger)

Then,my friend, I guess you really are limited in knowledge and perspective about your class,kicking someone just because he uses a LB just proves how ridiculous the player base really is.

Forget the buffs/nerfs of LB/Frost Spirit,the choice of weaponry is strictly subjective…

Talking only for the PvE side of things,I am extremely pleased that rangers are back in the game as I constantly see alot of threads with complainers desiring nerfs,etc..
After 2 years playing my ranger main I can finally state mathematically,longbow zerker can outdps most classes with ease:)

UnitedChaos.8364:

Go outside then? Play less than 70hrs a week?

He plays around 30 not 70,and the reasons why he plays this much are his own

Solomon Darkfury.3729:

Ciucan.5092:

Solomon,make a Permadeath character:),I know Wooden Potates was in kinda the similar situation you are and decided to try to look at the game from a diffrent perspective .

Honestly,my personal advice would be to reduce the hours spent in game,30 hr a week can make anyone get bored,especially someone who has achieved most of his goals.

lol what is a permadeath character?

For instance,you start a new class ,bla bla,make up a new rule set : only 10 lives allowed.If you die more than 10 times during leveling,you delete him,or go even more hardcore,5 or maybe…just maybe…..ONE!!:))

I promise you when you get to lvl 70-80 areas,you start feeling a chill

Solomon,make a Permadeath character:),I know Wooden Potates was in kinda the similar situation you are and decided to try to look at the game from a diffrent perspective .

Honestly,my personal advice would be to reduce the hours spent in game,30 hr a week can make anyone get bored,especially someone who has achieved most of his goals.

Hey,guild leaders and officers,I am currently a pretty active guy,I play daily varying from around 2-3 hours to even 4-5 depends on the schedule.I have around 3k ap,got my dungeon master and currently have 2 characters.A lvl 80 ranger,and a lvl 80 guardian.
Have experience in all dungeon paths,and am currently around 20+ lvl in fractals.

I am looking for a guild ,more or less PvE focused but am also interested in some sPvP.I have been an officer in my guild and am rather experienced ,reason for leaving is inactivity from members.Therefore my main criteria in a guild is activity,I do not care if it has 5,50 or 500 members,I am looking for active guilds,nothing more or less.

Voice communication such as Teamspeak,Voip or anything else is a must in my opinion to get to know the people you are gonna spend hours with:).
All in all,if your guild is active(size does not matter),and do dungeon runs,fractal runs and some ocasional spvp,I can be your man,I am active, loyal and tend to constantly improve my gameplay.
I am used to cohesion among members,my current guild have been more or less close friends,so I am looking for a guild with a solid core and some maturity,I am the kinda guy who laughs and curses on teamspeak,so the right atmosphere is important:)
I am residing on Piken Square but if I like the guild, transfer is not a problem.

Still open recruitment

islarose.7356:

Ciucan.5092:

I will not repeat what the majority of players stated above .What the community implies requires a huge amount of work from Arena Net,utterly huge amount,redesigning most of their game mechanics,the living story patches cannot even scratch the surface of these problems unless the team is made to work 24/7 full time.

You killed diversity in PvE due to limited game mechanics that promote unity instead of trinity or diversity or w/e you wanted and you destroyed your chances of revitalising this game with your consistent denial of an expansion for reasons that will haunt you when you start losing money by the millions.The amount of work necessary to correct this game can only be done through an expansion….

You have hard MMO’s coming out the block very soon,1.5 years have passed and the game is on the verge of imploding,with the WoW expansion,Elder Scrolls Online and EverQuest soon here only a huge amount of work input as in an expansion or shutting the game down for some time to do all the reprogramming necessary can make a difference.

In other words,it was fun,time to pack our bags and let them work on Guild Wars 3..

Sorry but.. WoW xpac won’t revitalize their combat system, and ESO is pretty dismal in terms of combat – simplified, and hindering rather than engaging. Also lacks a hard trinity with far more diversity in builds, and thus bad builds, than GW2 does. Not to mention an unfortunate crafting/gathering system. GW2 may not suit your needs, of course, but I don’t think it’s a dead game, by any means – nor do the others outshine it in my experience.

Wow already had major changes with its expansions and be it as it may,ESO bad or good,the entire community is complaining about the predominance of zerker and you cannot offer them anything else when you have transformed your PvE content into something players do just for the gold/tokens…after doing the same content for so long and having no viable diversity to maintain interest for long periods of time how can you think this game is not going down slowly but steadily.
No new dungeons, some new fractals after all this time which are still a mediocre effort…a broken system that does not offer the posibility of a viable defensive stat build except in an organized party and you think this game will be here for long… this is not to get me started in the condition damage discussion….

I love this game ,and I try to find new things PvE wise to keep me here,but mark my words,in a couple of months ,with nothing major coming from Arena Net in the near future guild wars will exponentially lose it’s interested player base,it has already begun for some time now..,and when you have other alternatives people tend to go for the new and interesting no matter how poorly designed the other games are…

I will not repeat what the majority of players stated above .What the community implies requires a huge amount of work from Arena Net,utterly huge amount,redesigning most of their game mechanics,the living story patches cannot even scratch the surface of these problems unless the team is made to work 24/7 full time.

You killed diversity in PvE due to limited game mechanics that promote unity instead of trinity or diversity or w/e you wanted and you destroyed your chances of revitalising this game with your consistent denial of an expansion for reasons that will haunt you when you start losing money by the millions.The amount of work necessary to correct this game can only be done through an expansion….

You have hard MMO’s coming out the block very soon,1.5 years have passed and the game is on the verge of imploding,with the WoW expansion,Elder Scrolls Online and EverQuest soon here only a huge amount of work input as in an expansion or shutting the game down for some time to do all the reprogramming necessary can make a difference.

In other words,it was fun,time to pack our bags and let them work on Guild Wars 3..

Greetings,we are a small tight guild with some core members who have played together for some time now,we are highly experienced in all forms of PvE content,including Dungeons and Fractals and are currently experimenting some sPvP.

We want to recruit players who are sociable and active as we spent most of our time on Teamspeak 3 whether we are playing or not,we are more interested in having fun together,we are willing to teach unskilled players as well as take experienced ones on speed runs or high level fractals.

We are based on Piken Square but recruit from all EU servers .

If you are interested please post or PM me ingame:)

Kind Regards

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http://contemporary.enjin.com/

Hey grump:),I think we can have some fun provided you are interested.

http://contemporary.enjin.com/

We are on Piken Square,and I will not suggest transferring since you just did that:) but we kinda meet the criteria you like,take a look,maybe we will enjoy each other’s company:).

http://contemporary.enjin.com/

I will not post the all boring promotional guild message here but I think my guild could be a place you could enjoy,check it out who knows,maybe we will have some fun together:)

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Hey there,we are a tight guild comprised of players who have been playing together for some time,we are currently looking to expand our ranks as we have recently created the guild.We focus on activity and being social,if you are interested then dungeons,fractals,wvw or pvp can all be found here.Check the website if you are interested. http://contemporary.enjin.com/

Hey there,we are a tight guild comprised of players who have been playing together for some time,we are currently looking to expand our ranks as we have recently created the guild.We focus on activity and being social,if you are interested then dungeons,fractals,wvw or pvp can all be found here.Check the website if you are interested. http://contemporary.enjin.com/

Hey there,we are a tight guild comprised of players who have been playing together for some time,we are currently looking to expand our ranks as we have recently created the guid.We focus on activity and being social,if you are interested then dungeons,fractals,wvw or pvp can all be found here.Check the website if you are interested. http://contemporary.enjin.com/

Hey there,we are a bunch of friendly people who have been playing for a while and set up a guild recently,most of our core principles revolve around a tight solid core group,so we might be exactly what you like:),here is a link
http://contemporary.enjin.com/

We are a newly formed social/part hardcore guild focused around members who have played together before. We are highly interested in having a strong core member component and a highly active roster. We value activity and sociability over anything else, followed by knowledge of game mechanics and the motivation to improve yourself. If you are interested in being part of a fun and rewarding online experience then Contemporary is the place where you can find it.

We operate on Piken Square but accept members from all servers, if you are interested in shaping the guild you are in rather than just accepting it please visit our website for more details.

http://contemporary.enjin.com/

Looking for guild on RoF,active guy,sociable,still rising in lvl,looking for a sociable guild for PvE,dungeons and Wvw.In game name Tyr Doga.Got exp in MMO,played some Guild Wars and Star Wars The Old Republic.Mainly intersted in having gun and establishing some good relations.

Greetings,

Currently looking for a guild as previously mentioned:)started GW2 a couple of days ago,lvl 17 ranger,I am used to MMO for the most part as I have played GW 1 and SWTOR.
I am interested in a tight bunch,too many members lose cohesion,I am not exactly a high lvl yet but I am growing,very sociable and interested in learning new things and making some good relations:).PvP,PvE,all the good stuff,available during afternoons until late night GMT, would prefer some mature players to whom I can commit my time and energy.If more information is required pls ask.

Good luck:)