Guild Wars 2

I think for PvE it will be very useful. Granted I think that it would have been better as Condi = Prec > Expertise = Heal. It’s arguably a condi version of Zealot’s, making it pretty good for High level Fractals, and Raids.

Lukas.7159:

if people only could stop giving a kitten about insults on the internet

I come from the Trolliest WvW server out there, were infamous, you should know which I’m talking about. I could care less what I’m called.

When they are actively preventing me from making call outs to try to keep playing the game is when it becomes an issue.

I just got out of a match with a player who Akitten in the worst possible way today, not only were they not actively trying to help us win, they were spamming to prevent us from having call outs. Link for proof (Names Blocked to prevent witch hunting, Red is the offender, the other colors are my teammates, they were fine to each other) WARNING: NSFW and offensive language http://imgur.com/a/FxFXi.

We all reported him, hopefully he’ll be banned soon but we will never know if he is (unlike other games which tell you that “A player you reported has received punishment” e.g. League)

This topic is not something that I thought I would ever have to bring up in the PvP forums. This has been a rampant problem in WvW since the inception, but has gotten infinitely worse with the cross map feature added recently. I have a video taken from a guildie that shows just how bad the problem is on an average night on a certain server.
I will not be sharing that video as it links to his personal Youtube account which uses his real name, but if a Dev PMs me and wants it I will show it to them.

This whole situation could be avoided if they put even a very loose spam filter into team chat. Yes this could catch people doing legitimate callouts if they are very active but if they could make it so that you cannot use say 50 messages in a minute or 30 in 10 seconds or something fairly extreme but in a short time period it would solve this issue and shut down this troll, and all trolls like him.

I do not know what anyone here is talking about. In T1 NA BG has an entire guild whose only goal is to pick off specific commanders. I’m 100% sure that they were bought by BG as they only started appearing about a month ago. They have every one of out commanders followed as well as spies on our server to watch the maps to see where we go. Hell they even have spies in out TS, as when we have swapped commanders without swapping the tag (Only said hey “Back up commander” you take it) they IMMEDIATELY swapped targets.

Now I’m sure that they did this as they are losing and just can’t handle not being the best, anyone who has ever been in T1 understands this. The constant AJing, Kitten Jamming for those who don’t know what that means, the running from even numbered fights, none of it has helped them, and they know it.

I also cannot say that we haven’t done the same thing. When a prominent streamer transferred to a server that we were faced against we assembled a murder team to go and moa him and pull him and just harass him until he stopped commanding or rage quit streaming. This continued for weeks until he gave up and transferred to our server to spy for his guild, which just allowed us to farm him even more.

Bounties have always been a thing. I have seen people offer 10-15-20g a kill (with proof) of “celebrity” Commanders. They have followed through on dropping hundreds of gold just to kill one or two specific people on servers.

https://gw2efficiency.com/ Lists a total of 105,082 accounts that have PvPed to a point of being ranked. Subtract the people who PvP for the ascended and get out and you might be just over half that IF WERE GENEROUS.

I’ll probably get flamed for saying this, but Power Rev running hammer instead of staff. Everything else is the meta except the sigils. If you see a DH on point you will want to 2,3,5 or 5,2 then 3 to pop all of the traps. 3 is an evade that will pop all the traps while 4 is projectile denial so they can’t pull you in or shoot you. After you pop all their traps and get one or two autos you can jump in with sword and burst. If things get hairy your out will be Glint heal, shield 5, shiro heal, sword 3 and disengage back to hammer and repeat.

Kudzu III: Cow Pies do not spawn in Queensdale or Diessa Plateau at their respective spawning locations. I believe this is something to do with the recent patch bug fixing an issue with their sale to vendors. I have spent between 8-10 hours since Monday at these sites and have found nothing at all. I have submitted 2 bug reports and heard nothing back. The only reply we have received (in the other thread about this issue) is that they exist and finding them is the “difficulty.”

8-10 hours of searching for a bundle to spawn in low level areas is not difficulty. It is a bug. It is the last step I and many others need for the collection and we have no way of completing it without them spawning.

Oh and by the way, the infinite gold exploit is also possible by killing ANY risen giant, I received 2 of the bone meal in the gates of arah event alone.

Can you provide a screen shot of the dev’s response. This is really not an acceptable response. This isn’t a difficulty issue, we all know the spawn locations of them in Queensdale and Diessa Plateau. If we have made it this far in our progression towards a legendary we are veteran enough to know what we are doing. Hell we could all probably pin point the exact spawn points of them (as they are visible on the ground).

Such a reply insults our game knowledge and our commitment to completing the collection. I myself have spend around 8-10 hours camping out these three spawn points since Monday , if that isn’t difficulty I do not know what Anet expects from me.

If I receive a similar reply I will use a more public forum to bring light to this issue, I encourage you to do the same. Post on reddit, or the GD forums, raise hell about the reply as we are not QQing that we went there once and didn’t find it sitting there.

I have been working on this bow for 2 years, ever since I saw it. My ranger’s wardrobe is built around this bow and it is my main goal currently.

I will not stand by will a literal pile of bull **** come between me and that bow.

While I agree that Revenant sword appears stronger than ranger (and probably is) did you consider that this variation might be attributed to gearing, or are you assuming Zerk for both sets?

The second criticism is in regards to our most trusted, and hated ally. Our pets. The ranger as a class, and most pet classes in games (e.g. Hunters in WoW, etc.) will never deal equal damage to another class without their pet. This is a balancing point for our class. Hell when I played WoW in BC Beastmastery was the “meta” build for hunters and pets equated to ~60% of the class’s damage. Now you can argue that pets need a rework (they do) or they need to do more damage (not necessarily the case, just smarter AI, imo) but that is an entirely different argument.

Personally I believe that yes, on equal footing WITHOUT pets revenants SHOULD do more damage with their power weapon vs. our power weapon. While I’m not saying you are wrong and rangers are in a great spot (though we are arguably in the best spot we have been in years) your comparison is not entirely a valid one without considering our other source of damage.

So a bug has been discovered which allows people to drop out of Golems making them unable to be re-piloted in mid air. This hard caps the siege limit really quickly and makes it very difficult for servers to respond to the hardcore K-train of other servers, or K-train themselves.

The troll is using the item Marriner’s Horn and then Swapping to Flute quickly and it it removing him from the golem in mid air. The only way to fix the damage is to wait for the timer to run out.

In order to not start a witch hunt I will not be posting the abusers name but have reported him for Botting. He has done this in every one of the Borderlands (Tier 3) and I have Screen shots to prove it is him if a Dev would like to contact me to handle the situation further.

I use a build in PvP that is a condi build with evasive purity and the middle wilderness grandmaster trait (the one that cures 2 condis on survival skill usage). This allows me to shed certain condi by dodging and therefore avoiding further damage ( timing your dodges is still important you can take a couple of ticks and evade a bigger damage spell and be fine) as well as running Troll Ungulant (now a survival skill) lightning reflexes (survival) and Entangle (survival). For PvP I run spike trap for the knockdown but would probably switch to muddy terrain in WvW. I run Rabid gear with undead runes with shortbow and axe/torch. In WvW I run sinister trinkets as the build relies on crits to apply bleeds. I cant post the traits atm but I will in a few hours

Manekk.6981:

what was nerfed on it? my bow hits like a truck…

It’s not that LB was nerfed (even though the power coefficient was lowered on LB2 without any patch note about it…) it more has to do with Remorseless. If your not familiar with it it lowered the coll down of the next weapon skill you use after you swap weapons in combat. Previously the meta (read organized dungeon/fractal builds) was LB/SA opening with LB2 LB5 then swapping to sword and auto attacking while Axe 4ing off cooldowns (being mindful of defiance). Now with Remorseless the meta has become to replace LB with GS and swapping weapons on CD. This provides tons of remorseless pros as well as the fury (and thus another opening strike) on swap. Making the ideal rotation being GS2 swap Axe 4 auto till CD Axe 4 auto till swap, GS2 GS3, maybe GS5, GS2 off CD, swap and repeat. While swapping pets between jungle stalker and jaguar on CD to provide quickness.

I don’t think it matters very much, Engi’s aren’t taken in very many GvG’s regardless, and if you do notice Engi’s in the match you should adapt by burning 3-4 blasts on a Guardian symbol (or any Light Field) to gain tons of Retal. Engineers will then kill themselves almost instantly if they use grenades at all, let alone the Grenade Barrage.

It took multiple zergs and tons of kittening to the Symbolic Avenger disabled.

Who wants to run an engi zerg tomorrow one shotting people until enough hate is generated to get it disabled as well.

So it took a zerg breaking the game and tons of forum kittening about the trait to cause it to be disabled.

Who’s up for an all engi Grenadier zerg tomorrow?

Honestly, I don’t have a huge problem with the $50 price mark. I’ve played other MMO’s and bought their Xpac’s, they cost about the same as the game, that’s how it is. However, not including a character slot with the base game does one of 2 things. 1. buy the $10 character slot, or 2. farm it. This again wouldn’t be such a bad thing if players who are just buying HoT (and the game) now get 5 slots because they bought the game. If anything this encourages players to buy second accounts. Personally the HoT will cost $60, not the advertised $50 because I want the character slot day 1.

Arena net has also set a standard for themselves in Guild Wars 1 when they gave slots out without extra microtransactions making it more expensive. Including a character slot would have saved you guys from a TON of the hatred you guys are getting right now,

I recently started playing a ranger and really enjoy how the sword+dagger/Short bow combo for the constant in and out fighting style of it. I understand that the sword is less than ideal because of the root, so the axe can be replaced for it but I really prefer the sword. Basically the idea is to jump in, dump poisons/conditions with sword 3 and dagger 4, while evading with those skills as well, dag 5 for bleed. Then switch to shortbow and point blank SB2 for max poison stacks, then SB3/ Lightning Reflexes out SB4/5 and position for bleed stacks.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNEQNAsYVjEq0taLLWsQ1aAAhaZBEANThml9E0BNwJLoJpA-T1TAABXqEUhTAgQqOE9hAAH9A/oGjS7PKxM4BA0kSDAOCCtopRCzDRpMAOTMEcgDCAcAQQ3A-w

That is what I put together quickly and I may be completely off on my build, I am just trying to get ideas. I sacrificed power as a main stat and picked up ferocity in hopes that the crits will make up for the lack of power. I think I may have to pick up more toughness/vitality or risk being to squishy to make full use of this build. This build is for PvE mostly