My guild has just disbanded its GW2 branch… Sad days but almost everybody left so I can understand such a decision.
What a shame if you think about it, WvW could have been so much awesome if a bit more effort had been put into it and if the community had been listened.
It’s a waste of an awesome combat system in my opinion, too bad, now it’s over.
Problem is, its still the best game in its genre despite its flaws and its still very much alive 3 years on. Maybe your guildies left, but the population is still thriving. Enough people to go around which makes WvW awesome. I am also on FSP and we had epic battles yesterday.
I had really hoped that some games could top GW2 by bringing much needed features like the more complex ESO WvW or physics galore Archeage but nope, they ultimately suck at being fun. Most next gen MMORPG games are 1 year away. Hell the only game to top GW2 looks to be GW3 lol.
I agree with you. Note that I didn’t say WvW sucked, far from that actually, but after having epic battles on the same maps doing the same exact things for two whole years… Well things are going from epic to boring and that’s why people has beginning to quit.
Now my guild is focused on ESO and in my humble opinion this game is absolute kitten (though I loved the single player versions) so I’ve set my status on “standby” until the next gen game, as you called it, comes out.
My guild has just disbanded its GW2 branch… Sad days but almost everybody left so I can understand such a decision.
What a shame if you think about it, WvW could have been so much awesome if a bit more effort had been put into it and if the community had been listened.
It’s a waste of an awesome combat system in my opinion, too bad, now it’s over.
Wow! For once I’m not the only one to have an issue. The strange thing is that I’ve played the game from release without problem and this behavior suddenly shown two weeks ago, without any hardware modification.
P.S. I have a Logitech G700, drivers updated.
Edit: Problem seems solved by one or more of these things (played a whole evening in WvW without issue):
-DPI trick on the client shortcut
-Disabled selection on right click in GW options
-Rotation speed to center in GW options
-In Logitech Setpoint set the refresh rate to 500 instead of 1000 and disabled the “cursor controlled by OS check”
Just accept GW2 isn’t what many people wanted it to be, and the developers have no interest in turning it into something else than what it is.
They are clearly focusing all attention on the casual-story element, and the WvW/PvP modes were just put in to generate game-sales. They are not part of the core game.
Hardcore / semi-hardcore wvw/pvp player? Arenanet would like it if you stuck around, but they’re not actually bothered enough to make an effort to keep you. You are not their target market.
You might as well ask for serious PvP-content in Farmville. That’s not what the game is for, so why would the developers put time into it?
No more, no less. We all wanted some kind of game, ANet wanted a totally different one, ANet won the battle, that’s all.
I respect their vision of the game and since it’s not mine I uninstalled it months ago. Guild Wars 2 is definitely a good game, I add a lot of fun (and rage) playing it but it could have been better, ten times better. What a pity.
I was said this patch would open new perspectives build wise right?
Well, I may be mistaken but from what I’ve seen so far it has just done the exact opposite.
Actually, if I’m not mistaken, you can even transfer ascended trinkets (rings, amulets, backpack) on heavy and light professions since they are common. Can you confirm?
And not only that but every group in a 15v15+ fight now have what I call the “squadrons of death”, basically 3-4 thieves/mesmers that have the main job to kill every “range” professions.
So, months ago you could run around a fight and harass the enemy at range but now, you’re immediately focused and you spend you time trying to stay alive.
Against an elite guild you’re just basically useless if not already dead, that’s why GvG doesn’t want us anymore, even our famous water field has become dispensable.
Every profession have improved but we stayed at case 1, people who are saying it’s a “learn to play” issue are just fooling themselves. Being able to man decently a ranger is not rocket science. The true is we are just plain ineffective [in WvW at least] compared to other profession, like it or not.
Don’t even mention the condi-bunker build, not only it is boring as hell to play but to be a bunker I’d have chosen a warrior or a guardian, not a ranger that’s for sure.
I wish ANet would allow to transfer our ascended/legendary stuff on another profession.
I can’t be part of my guilds GvG because I play a ranger. I can do WvW with them because I’m very good with my ranger and use my healing spring in the middle of the battle on the commander when called for.
Just to let you know that you’re not alone in this case. I know what you feel dude…
I’m the only ranger in my guild, that says it all.
I think that the profession will improve a lot when we will (finally!) be able to use our F2 ability whenever we want.
Last time I was engaged by a thief after a gvg fight and all my defensive/evade skills were in cooldown. I only had my wolf fear available, I pressed the F2 like a hundred times and it never kicked off. The thief ended killing me peacefully. I really hope this patch will change our life.
I rerolled a War too, I’m still level 40 but the damage it does is already impressive, I can only imagine what it will be at level 80 with exo weapons and armor.
Faithful ranger from day one I’ve decided to reroll a warrior as my guild doesn’t even have slots dedicated to rangers for party formation in wvw. I’ll play my ranger for guild missions and pve fun for now on.
I’m now convinced the major flaws and handicaps of this profession will never be fixed, wiser people understood this long ago.
1: Siege warfare is far too underdeveloped.
2: Professions must be more balanced (es. ranger usefulness vs other profs. and its broken pet mechanics in wvw).
3: Zerging effectiveness must be limited.
I have played since pre-release.
I simply don’t share Arena Net idea of WvW so I’m out from this moment. This game could have been a masterpiece, if only they could have listened to the community…
Have fun everybody.
Commanding pugs in not an easy task and that must be appreciated, for this reason I’m against this idea.
The only thing that kitten me off is when they actually don’t command, in other word when they move around without giving any order in chat (I don’t even talk about using TS, thing that would be mandatory on our server).
As soon as a commander is doing his best it’s OK for me, every commander was once inexperienced and even the best ones sometimes make the wrong choices and loose battles.
Atherakhia, I agree and this is the main problem actually: Pet mechanics were absolutely not thought in a WvW situation.
To tell the true, to be on pair with the other professions the pet should simply not die at all (appart from working correctly).
A guardian special abilities are dying? No, they go on cooldown like our pets’.
A guardian lose some of his damage power in some situation? No, it’s always the same.
I took the guardian but I could have taken every other professions, we are the only ones that have our F2 and damage that are dying… And since in WvW it dies after 3 seconds at best this makes it totally unfair.
Mmmm I’m not sure targeting has something to do with the issue. For example, try the wolf (the worst in that reguard imo) which has an area skill so it targets nothing specifically or even the bears that have area skills too.
However, it’s important to specify that it is in WvW, in PvE all those skills work far better even if not perfect.
@Martheo
I think that it doesn’t make much sense since unless you keep it passive there’s a lot of chance your pet will be far away from you so basically there’s few chance he’d need to dodge when you need to and reciprocally.
@iKeostuKen
It would be awesome to have some kind of evolution for the pet as well, major versality and role but I think they should first fix the current issues with it first, F2 key unresponsiveness is one example.
Yes sorry, I obviously meant Signet. It is not so wasted since it is traited (I run a signet build) and I use it for invulnerability when things are going bad, it saved my life many times plus it gives me that extra toughness allowing me to invest in other things.
I’m not an expert in game client-server communication but the lag generated is probably due to all the calculation that must be done to process the use of skills (damage, buff etc.) on every involved players.
The server CPU simply doesn’t have enough calculation power to process everything so a queue is created (I guess there will be some kind of priority involved here that’s why skill 1 usually works longer).
The possible data sent to clients to inform them to show effects is just a result of these calculations. If your skill is not cast you see no effect.
In conclusion, the game could have effects of a 8 bit console, it wouldn’t change anything to the issue.
I used to run polar bear and wolf but I recently opted for double bear: black bear and brown bear. Since I have the Sigil of Stone they become mega tanky and it let me enough time to use their special abilities (after having pressed like 100 times the F2 key while I fight).
Not only that, since they don’t contribute in any way to the damage I keep them passive so they stay with me, prolonging further their life expectancy.
So, I use them for to inflict aoe conditions and to clean conditions on me and my group. I currently don’t see any other way to use them in WvW (And I only do WvW).
It’s not a coincidence that hardcore guilds have zero or maybe one ranger in their lines, if it’s untrue that we are useless we are however not a good source of damage, at least in the current state of the class.
If I could give you one advice, for WvW go for fire, for PvP however go for air. Air actually does a bit more damage but it’s not AoE. In any case both are good sigils for LB.
Ok thanks, can somebody confirm the range? I see normal spirits have 1000, 350 wouldn’t be much considering its life expectancy when put near the fights.
Hi, I just tried to swap Entangle for Spirit of Nature in WvW and I have two question:
-Question 1: Since it only has an influence on allies I couldn’t personally estimate its impact but the strange thing I noted when I clicked on nearby allies is that they did not have icon of any type indicating a buff (like for example the ones you get from a guardian) so, can you confirm this elite skill actually works ? If so, what is it radius of effect (it is not indicated in the tooltip nor on the wiki)?
-Question 2: Sometimes it is semi-transparent and sometimes it is plain, is there a reason for that?
Thanks.
What an awesome idea! Let’s swing it the other way!
All PvE players will then come to farm in WvW, people that don’t give a kitten about objectives, combat or team strategies. Queues will become exponentially longer. Zergs will be everywhere. WvW, which is already a total mess will become a total absurdity but you guys are all right… In the end we will all be happy because we will have our ascended weapon to brag about, all together right in the middle of a complete nonsense. Yes ANet, we want more shinies!
Hahaha someone from vizunah told me they are often fighting 2x their no. ! So someone from ANET can check the CULING from vizunah server , i think its not fixed !
Hehe, if they say so we can upload few videos showing how a group of 20-25 is wiping 60+ of them. Not saying it’s a big challange but maybe someone need to show Vizunah a gameplay of their opponents and the red OCEAN they create everytime?
It’s not a big achievement to take 100 people and roll over guild raids. There is only [Meta] guild running alone, it’s still cool to see that at least one guild can play on your server, as I said before big props to you guys. It’s not like I’m complaining about this week, it’s a great farming. Just trying to understand your mentality!
Piken NEEDS to slow down a bit, we’re getting TOO D@MN HIGH in the “ranking”.
Kisses,
Devitz
5 minutes ago. VZ borderlands. the whole map is green. 3 keeps. 2 towers.
the entire SFR server + the entire Piken server attacking BAY at the same time making the map unplayable because of lag. explain? can’t split on other structures?
look at yourselves.
yeah because you know, Monday evening there was absolutely nobody from Vizunah at Piken bay along Seafarers, not even one. All those dozens of people staking on the walls and in the lord room that can be seen on my screenshots are just mere illusions.
i think normal pets will never work properly. we need something else. example invulnerable pets whats not dealing or receiving damage, just buff us or the party passively and do some effect for f2
That’s not a pet,
We have those already; they’re called Spirits XD
With the difference of spirits not being mandatory.
Ganking in 7 on 1 people is not most honorable thing but it’s part of wvw and I’m OK with that but you really had to /laugh?
5 minutes later, had a water combat duel against one Seafarer guy, same guys came and had to interrupt it… Really?
Pride and Prejudice and Ponies, I think you can easily remove the word “Pride” from your name.
Well, wouldn’t be enough to rise the transfer prices to something like 5.000 gems or more? Someone would think twice before investing so much in a transfer.
