Guild Wars 2

blade shards, baubles, super baubles, lesser vision crystals, vision crystals, icy runestones, general gifts for crafting legendary weapons (gift of metal, gift of battle, etc.) with the exception of gifts like “Gift of Bolt” which is used for only one legendary item

Anet has said previously that Magic find increases the drop chance of trophies. Guild Gathering boost increases chances of finding rare materials from mining, logging, and harvesting.
My question is would ether the guild magic find or the guild gathering booster be better for acquiring the trophies used for scribing from logging and harvesting?

Why does the Loaded Wagon lose the lights from the Lit wagon used to make it? I am asking out of curiosity.

can we please get the candy corn gobbler back in the gem store? it has been a few years since it has been up there, 2014 was the last time it was up that I can find.

honestly for my self and everyone I know who needed clovers had better luck doing the single recipe, yeah it takes longer but you will get more back.

cant retrieve the 2 candles I have made and attempted to place, also the animations stopped on them after they were placed and about a minute went by.

Also on a side note the Seance Candle is only accessible through guild storage, it is not accessible while in decorator mode… sorry to throw 3 bugs in here with it, was only thinking it was the one.

and to be honest I think there is an issue with the animation running, the second candle seems to not work after the first ghosts came up. Yep no animation after sitting here for about 5 min. Please fix! otherwise awesome decoration!

The Seance Candle guild decoration was placed within the hall of Angels of Eternal Destiny, upon trying to remove it to replace it the animation stopped all decorations within the area have been cleared but it still says “placed”
as this is a very expensive decoration considering the globs of dark matter, ectos, and creepy jack-o-lanterns can we have it placed back in our bank? or have the materials returned. I will be making another for so the current project can be completed but I would like to have the decoration back in the bank if possible, a fix for removing, or the materials back to cover the cost please. I don’t mind if both candles get put back in the guild storage, I just don’t want my mats, the guild’s mats, 1/1000 decoration space, and time to be all for naught.

If this is more of a matter for CS just let me know and ill take it up with them. thought I would try the bug forum first since this is technically a bug. A screen shot of the guild log for the first and second Seance Candle being made is attached.

sincerely,
~CM

I’m kind of saddened by the fact that this means there will be no serious looking weapons or counter themed weapons to the overwhelming rainbows, flowers and straight up joke weapons that we got from the first series.
Every week I lose another friend who has gotten tired of playing, and to be honest the hope of getting a more serious looking longbow legendary for my male norn was a significantly large part of why I kept playing all this time. To quote one of my friend’s who stopped playing about 8 months ago, “I guess we got to grow up some time and stop playing these games.”

so I have actually found a fix that does not get undone, if you replace your bags with an empty bag and switch back they will not close again.

A smoldering basic glider that trails smoke.

I know at least my friends and my self would like to see the candy corn gobbler again.

I know at least my friends and my self would like to see the candy corn gobbler again.

:D Awesome work

The juvenile electric wyvern has a bug with the active skill (F2) lightning assault where under some seemingly random circumstances the launch from this skill will only affect the breakbar of npc foes only about 50% of the time. Other times lightning assault’s launch has no affect on break bars, nothing has been changed between times where it works and times where it doesn’t making it completely random as to whether or not there will be any effect from it. This happens even on the same foe during extended fights.

As this is not a consistent happening can this be fixed or can it be explained why the launch from this skill will only affect break bars some times and not every time?

Hopefully can this be fixed to working every time as rangers really don’t have many active abilities like other professions do that can cause breakbars to drop, with the majority of those abilities already tied into pet active skills that are mostly on 30second + cooldowns and lighting assault being a 24 second cooldown making it relatively one of the quickest available skills to impact break bars when it works.

Wyvern pets:
The wing buffet skill skill on the wyvern family is terribly slow, it takes to long for it to activate that even npc foes walk out of the affected range or side step it.
also the pets spend a long time preforming this skill for it to not hit anything.
my suggestion would be to reduce the cast time, reduce the number of hits this skill produces, and increase the cone of the area affected by this skill so that it could not be side stepped while right infront of the pet. Making wing buffet more viable to gameplay and not so gimmicky that it would be over powered.
right now that is the only attack that they do that I have yet to see make contact with any foe as the foes will run past them and start ether attacking me during this skill winding up or just from dodge rolls and normal combat movement taking them out of range.

so much for being the first name and weapon announced, next reveal is engineer.

I think some of you might also have forgotten that traits no longer give you stats anymore. All of your stats now come from your gear, runes, sigils, and weapons. Make sure to check your gear to get a better idea of how to balance your stats.

is about 2 seconds atm with anything less than bears.
that is all I got to say atm.

if it did not come with 1 char slot… yeah I still would have a hard time justifying it.

latinkuro.7304:

People forget you CAN just trade in gold for gems and get that so highly contested char slot……….!

that is a lot of gold to trade in just to get a char slot. currently it is slightly over 144g currently

Hell for Guildwars (1) if you added one of the new standalone games to an existing account you got a new char slot for each addition of the game, I cant see why they cant make it so if you got the expansion you get a free char slot or if you add a new copy of the base game to an existing account you get 1-2 new char slots.

viewed from the back it still shows the full coat but when viewed from the front the tail of the coat still disappears, this has been a long ongoing cosmetic bug it has been almost a year since a group of friends and my self have reported it. please fix, it ruins game immersion. I have screen shots attached of the for a front and back view, it also behaves this way in the preview screen and wardrobe screen.

as you can see the back of the coat is solid when viewed from the back but when viewed from the front the coat tail vanishes. This is on a Norn male and apparently only affects norn male models .

idk if they nerf this they have to nerf all those other classes that are getting 15k+ spikes. hell rangers cant one shot people, there are several classes that can, and if you line up our damage with those we are actually perfectly inline for not having that “spike” dmg but having a much more drawn out version of a spike.

this is a pretty hard “unintended” nerf considering frost spirit is one of the things that kept rangers in dungeon groups to give the competitive edge, also with the icd this makes the frost spirit almost equal to search and rescue in terms of usability over other utilities we can bring. it is almost like we are being boxed into taking selfish utilities that do not contribute to group play.

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

Prysin.8542:

You do realize the 1 sec RF burst can only be used once every 16 seconds at best, that is if we take gm trait in bm line offering 3sec quickness on swap. If not speccing into bm its 1sec burst every 48 seconds. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT

i know Qz is once every 45secs , but your not thinking about the casual players or the 40+ year old that play this game too, i know a few in our guild and im dam sure they can’t react in 1sec.
normaly a human click speed reactions (if they are mouse users is a little more than 1secs 1.5 or maybe 2 if they take a little longer) the idea of it being once every 48secs don’t even matter , thats why i didn#t even mention the cooldown Because it is once every 48secs..so 1.45 with a qz and Read the wind would be perfect for both types of players, stop getting ya nipples in a twist over 0.45 secs.

if the rapid fire update will give them trouble what do they do now against Mesmer bazerkers, warrior burst skills, thiefs in general, engineer utility at point blank, necromancer lich and deathshroud….etc, I can go on and on, the point is many of these things are capable of dealing large amounts of damage very quickly and they are already in the game, some are much quicker than others (warrior burst and thief) but rapid fire will be more inline of other similar physical damaging abilities on other professions. also Mesmer zerker phantasm hits you faster than one sec as well I forgot that one. if rapid fire really will be such an issue these other skills with similar potential that rapid fire is being brought up to should be nocked back in cast time as well. Rangers are being worked on to be brought up to being on par with other classes don’t forget that. they are currently the laughing stock of the game in every game mode, which is why some pvp teams will kick people for dying to a ranger!

Can we have Storm Bow Skin please?

I really don’t get why people don’t take that and run with it to make it better from there?
Do all of you really want to stay so stagnent in builds that only one set of weapons is usable in ove? Do you all like fighting spirit rangers or playing them in PvP? If no, than stop complaining. We need to move in a direction that can be at least built up from. Trying new things is one way to do that. I hope LB ranger takes off just so it will get better balance in the future for those that like the archetype. Lol if you want proof that this works look at how many weapons are viable on warriors now compared to at launch when every warrior used greatsword at high end content.

You guys saying lb is not getting a damage increase do realize we will also be attacking 10% faster with it while traited with read the wind, right? You will be able to loose more arrows down range in less time than currently with auto attack at 0.675 sec down from 0.75 sec, rapid fire with 2.025 sec cast down from 2.25 sec (4.5 sec currently), hunter’s shot is instant, point blank will be 0.45 sec cast from the 0.5 now and barrage will be at 2.025 sec from 2.25 sec (2.75 sec currently). It may not be huge numbers but there is definitely a decrease in all cast times making it a much better weapon than it previously was. We won’t know how much of an impact this will really be in combat till after the patch. So people quite your kittening, long bow will be in an improved state and rangers wielding it will do more damage than rangers that had longbows pre patch.

Kiriakulos.1690:

If we’re losing LF out of combat can we get Zerker stance, Endure pain, Healing Signet, Adrenal Health, Heavy Armor and decent self boon application to compensate?

That’d be close to a fair trade then since we’d have OTHER FORMS OF DAMAGE MITIGATION.

PS- Play professions besides your own before making asinine comments.

I also wanted to add life force is a hell of a lot harder to build than adrenaline, only a few skills (some only have one skill) on each weapon actually give life force, if warriors are going to call for the same treatment of it as adrenaline, than necro needs the same access to building it as warriors do with adrenaline.

About increasing hundred blades like they increased rappid fire for rangers, how about no previously rappid fire had a cast time of 4.5 seconds. Literally if rangers used auto attack for 4.5 seconds they did more damage than the sum of rappid fire. Which made the previous version a damage loss to use. If you want a speed increase on hundred blades you will need to shave off some auto attack damage to make it so hundred blades would be more balanced on the weapon considering it never was a dps loss to use it over the auto attack, ever.

I don’t know how many people would go for it but mane handle solo arena like how GW1 handled random arena?

This would mean that as long as your team wins you continue to face new teams with gradually increasing rewards for each win.

After 10 wins it would put your solo arena team against a team arena team.

This kind of system could also be used for team arena.
Not only would winning be more rewarding but it would allow teams that lose players or if someone needs to leave to do so and replace them with a new player in the “team”. This would be a welcome relief to parties that have atk players in them in both solo and team arenas.

I also have to suggest a report function much like GW1 had in PvP that would kick an atk player and put a rebuff on them keeping them from being able to queue for 10-20 minutes.

I would really like if a bank would be added to the mists just to get access to storage. It has been a hassle since PvP gear was removed to continuously have to hold onto weapons with desired skins for just PvP. It takes up unnecessary space for something that is only used in less than half of the entire game.

I don’t know about the whole pay with gems to get it though, maybe pay 15 silver each time to get access to it? That way you can get money to access it with fairly new characters after a round or 2 in PvP.

The only other counter to this would be allowing us to have PvP weapon slots, when nothing is slotted in them it just carries over our pve weapons.

Belzebu.3912:

Just the 1st arrow.
What most people are talking about after the update is using the Signet of the Wild active damage bonus, it lasts for a time and not just 1 hit.

did they say it would have an active period? I didn’t see it anywhere.

uh… all I can say is are you able to watch where your pet would be, where you are and fight all while doing so? if the answer is yes go for it. if not I would just stick to thief. ranger also has less ways to escape a bad fight than a thief would so take that into consideration.
If you think you can handle it, it can be a very fun class and you will get a good share of laughs out of it. I wouldn’t make any rash decisions about the ranger thing from the ready ups. they are not set in stone and ranger could very well still be bottom dog after this patch goes through. most people that play rangers are usually gluttons for punishment so asking us if it is a good idea might not be the best thing to do. (never forget the aquaman patch)

I am just curious do you guys think the damage boost to the closer ranged tiers of the Long Range shot skill is really going to make much difference on foes that can close over 1,200 range in less than 2 seconds?

Currently my skill facts are listing

• 1000+ range: 821 damage
• 500-1000 range: 684 damage
• 0-500 range: 547 damage

With the changes it will be

• 1000+ range: 821 damage
• 500-1000 range: 731.88 damage (732, I don’t believe it will be rounded up)
• 0-500 range: 639.99 damage (640?)

Do you guys thing this will be enough or do you think the closer 0-500 and the 500-1000 ranges should have an additional feature such as a .5-1 second cripple to make classes that have a lot of gap closing abilities have a harder time getting to our soft bodies? More specifically warriors with their gap closers, and yes I know they are virtually immune to cripple now but it still causes gap closing abilities to fall short of their full distance.
The .5-1 second cripple is really not over powered for it affecting the closer ranged tiers and allows more reaction time and competitive fighting styles, other than getting smacked in melee in less than 2 seconds after you attack someone with “the longest distanced ranged weapon.”

really I think at this point the roots could go invuln and not be over powered for an elite, the issue in wvw is that aoe pretty much kills it as soon as it is dropped unless you are in a very small grouping of servers where roaming is more viable.

Eurantien.4632:

“Protect Me” is the same mechanic as endure pain but worse, the pet can die. Yet “Protect Me” does prevent capture point progression. :/

protect me also does not usually last the full duration, the pet will usually die in a blink of an eye and will also leave you with out half of your class mechanic for 60 seconds (or your entire class mechanic if your other pet is already dead), really it is the worst skill to compare anything to because you really do shoot yourself in your foot. also after your pet dies, you take damage again even if the full duration does not tick off, swapping to a new pet will not continue it onto the new pet.

Booms.2594:

Signet of stone contests a point

That it does but it also usually means that the person holding it cant cleans crap for conditions, there are trade offs you have to make to use signets and have a working build hell you could do it easily but you wont kill anyone… rangers really have kittenty utilities atm and the crazy things they require to make them work.

Actually most of the people calling warriors OP are the sustained damage classes, these are classes generally not capable of doing large spike dmg but good at using conditions and a steady amount of mediocre damage (necromancer, ranger, engineer). These are the classes that readily can not get through the warrior defences without having godly skill and making no mistakes in the fights, these are the classes built to do damage over time and the warrior is currently almost immune to this kind of damage. Most of the passives and buffs warriors can get makes it so only heavy spike damage can bring them down. Ranger, necromancer, and engineer are not capable of exploiting this “weakness” since the heavy spike builds are not in their classes designs… So if you think warriors are balanced, try playing these classes.

Also this is why getting killed by some classes is considered an insult in PvP, for warriors and most of the upper tier players.

Filaha.1678:

Wait, wait, wait. Hang on.

Let me set something straight. My ranger is perfectly capable of soloing frogface. In fact, it’s easiest on my ranger.

Why?

No dropped combat. If you stand in the right place, even if she knocks you off the platform, you’ll just land on the platform below and can jump up. But your pet stays up there, fighting her, even doing 0 damage. This means that frog NEVER leaves combat, which means she won’t start healing up if you slip up and fall off. Any other class? Nope. She’ll drop from combat and start healing up.

Ranger might not be the fastest class, but it’s the safest.

If you get knocked off the platform, even if the pet is still fighting, you already lost the achievement. So no it is not easier. This is not a question of being able to kill her, this is getting the achievement done without taking the longest amount of time to do it solo, having to avoid being knocked off the top compared to classes that don’t have their damage output affected. Those clases have a much smaller window of error making it easier to do the achievement legetimently because they have much better damage to burn her health down. Who cares about keeping her in combat if it is much harder for your class to compete with other classes for a reward.

I hope that’s not the case, rangers cant change builds to make up for the lower dmg multipliers on our weapon skills because of the fact that we have permanent pets… its almost like they like making mechanics that hinders rangers for the pet not being able to perform/live under given situations.

so ranger pets dont do dmg to nochtli at all, they come up as 0 dmg they can however apply conditions if they have them but otherwise don’t help in the encounter. is this a bug since ranger pets are a significant % of the ranger’s base dmg?

the Royal Terrace has gotten it’s LA port back but the Captain’s airship pass lacks that option currently. just wanted to bring it up.

They said they would fix the 6th stack effect on ranger runes because the 5% on animal companions was not working…. They made it 7% on animal companions being alive but nothing was mentioned about it actually working now or that the issue it had being fixed. Any of you seen any info on it?

I thought they were changing how the runes functioned because the previous (6) did not work when a companion was active. Did they fix the runes or is this an oversight because during a ready up we were assured they were changing the 6th slot for the rune set… Adding 2% more damage to a bonus that was not working previously does not improve the rune set… Anyone with info on this?

I think you failed to realize the great sword is a cleaving weapon and not really meant to do 1v1 with it, its more along the lines of group combat. should only be using it if you can hit multiple targets and not to try to burst down one target.

also if you think the 1 on warrior GS is bad, play ranger where the 1 on GS does less damage than a picked up warrior banner skill 1.

btw it has been a good run with you all, but it might be time to take a break from gw2 till our profession isn’t getting the crap end of things. I guess I will check out ESO and check up on how things are going in the future.

to those that are staying Good luck, stay open about how you feel, pay attention to other classes not just ranger as seeing how our own abilities can become a hindrances with our own combat such as “sic em” with the new thief trait.

hopefully talk to you all again, there are some decent people in this community which is awesome, but I am just getting tired of hoping for something that is polished gold and just getting polished fecal matter instead.
what ever happens have fun guys.

so they strictly mentioned on the readyup done on the 21st that a warrior with healing sig will need to worry about burst skills and not so much about sustained damage with the rendition of healing sig.
that is really broken because it is literally saying rangers cant do kitten to warriors who have healing sig since we are not meant to do “burst dmg” and only do “sustained damage” as mentioned in our ranger CDI by Allie … also that “sic em” has the potential to grant a thief 200 power without a thief even needing to stealth, leading to it seeing even less use than it already does.

Why is it rangers get over looked so much when general balance is being done?

so they strictly mentioned on the readyup done on the 21st that a warrior with healing sig will need to worry about burst skills and not so much about sustained damage.
that is broken imo because it is literally saying rangers cant do kitten to warriors who have healing sig since we are not meant to do burst dmg and only do sustained as mentioned in our CDI… also that “sic em” has the potential to grant a thief 200 power.

Why is it rangers get over looked?