Guild Wars 2

I’ve found that it does fill the void in the following method. You will need to use shortbow nr4 lead into jag stealth and sic’em. the target is now crippled which makes it easier for the pet to hit, the following thing to boost your and your pet’s damage is to ’’interrupt’’ them. Because if you do, both you and your pet get +50% dmg on next hit. and with the pet’s condition it amplifies a whole freaking lot.

you will need to make sure the target is fairly locked down. its a slow burn type build and what you need to learn is making them attack you instead of your pet, i.e being more of a threat and looking like almost a sure kill.

Yeah i’ve gotten so used to rune of melandru because they counter condi builds so nicely because they lose literally 25% of their damage. the more they stack condi duration the more they lose damage. and Troll unugent is much better against conditions than healing spring in my personal experience and playstyle.

Keep in mind the jaguar has 15k hp, so play carefully with him. The dps the jaguar has is substantial but often irregular on mobile targets. do what you can to keep them stationary, even if it means for going vs staff necro eating their aoe.
the greatsword auto attack is a great tool, 3rd hit has evasion. please learn to time it and take it off auto cast. it will likely save your life.

Was doing something completely irrelevant to gw2 and the idea of jack of all trades came up in a different context to gw2 ranger. So I enjoyed theory-crafting while busy and got an idea of mixing Celestial gear and a Greatsword with shortbow. Shortbow is one of the weapons I’ve used least because my PvE gear has no condi damage on it, but I still kept an exotic with me because I’m a bow collector..

Went to sPvP because its where I always test builds.
Took the Sic’em because I hate stealth with passion and I figured I will need extra dps out of somewhere so i took that, hence the commanding shout, 2 seconds of on demand reveal is freaking amazing, especially against thieves mesmers or in a teamfight if you do not want to lose sight of a target. ESPECIALLY a mesmer that has clones. Why would I not want to make life difficult for people using stealth.

Took this to a solo tourny cue and went for home point into mid, and I didn’t wreck face in terms of holy batman DPS, but what did happen is that the enemy got a flag in their face before I went down. I’ve only died in a 1v2 situation or 1v3. I’ve yet to get destroyed 1v1 defending or attacking. Decent survivability with melandru runes (mind you i will never change those runes, too valuable) however this setup requires you to be willing to run away quite a bit. The weapon skills lend themselves very nicely to that, in terms of quickshot, swoop, sword block etc.

the sigil of blood on the great-sword is something i personally like, take whatever you like on it. + stun duration would not help you for all you get for it is .6 of a second extra stun, not worth it.

Got questions, ask away i’ll check this thread often.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJARVnEqQLL2KIGsAXLG4QoavCfQwyOAWgE4VWcyKKhK-TZBBwAAuCAC3fgyDAgxhAAcZAA

yeah the guy ‘’James Portnow’’ is a professional games consultant, who has worked on everything from farmville to Call of duty. His opinions and knowledge are not to be sniffed at as something trivial

LotusThief.4613:

Greataxe. Warrior only. I don’t think anyone else should be able to wield a greataxe. Bad enough seeing Mesmers running around with greatswords.

As a long time Castlevania fan a whip of course. As a bonus I think this weapon could be used by just about all the classes in their own way.

Hand to Hand based off race. (No Weapon) Charr of course should be Wolverine/Sabertooth fighters. Then others could have some sort of martial arts style that is considered cultural to them.

whats the asura gonna do. bite their enemys kneecaps off and chew on their calf? and i just imagine the male norn adapting a pro wrestling fight style. haha

i personally would love to get a the previous selection of bows from the 1st game. rangers had shortbow, recurve, horn,long and flatbow to choose from. i would love to have those choices back, but meh.

the idea of a Rapier really intrigues me.
i would love to have an ancient sword , especially ‘’death bringer’’ ’’Gram’’ ‘’Dynasty Ancient sword’’ to quickly explain these swords are essentially greatswords, only wielded with one hand and swung in one hand, because a greatsword is more kitten being swung in 1 hand than 2.
they are all from a game some ppl know- lineage 2. published by ncsoft [developed too i think] so fingers crossed.
reason why these weapons are notorious in l2- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ec596WIMBE

if anyone here has played Lineage 2, i personally would love to put the Kamael race and classes into the game. Doombringer the class that wields a 2 hand sword with 1 hand, because he can. Soul hound Rapier wielding battle mage attuned to dark arts, in melee and in ranged combat. Trickster i wouldn’t import because its not going to add much, since theres plenty classes out there who are on par with it. and then the Judicator. the one who debuffs the enemy to death and buffs his own team/allies. he was listed as an enchanter in l2. so meh.

it will never probably happen, but since both franchises are under NCsoft label, i can only hope that there will be a game that features the Kamael again. (cool lore aspect about the kamael, created by the giants who picked a fight with gods purely to slay the gods and have a very humanoid form that is incomplete. their final form is a winged humanoid plentiful with dark energy and the ability to absorb souls and use them to amplify their abilities. their unfinished form is of a pale humanoid with their left angel like wing attached. however during combat and use of abilities the right wing appears through flashes of the dark energy they harness.)

oh really now. i just jumped in and looked at server list and got into a normal game no issues. and i feel sad i had to do that because i either play solo que tourny or with friends. ’’normal’’ sPVP doesnt have anything other than just glory grinding.

where it talks about the unique skills for the ranger. the icon for a trap is next to the paragraph about the spirits. and the spirit icons are next to the paragraph of the traps.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/professions/ranger/

dying in a tournament , no matter paid or unpaid. you should never be downed or dying, because if you are then you have the possibility of the rest of your team being outnumbered and then you spawn into a 3cap situation.

and how long did it take for all those mentioned games to get where they are? SC2 had a long way coming. it didnt get there in a year. you have very little faith. so please. do leave cos ur a kittening detrement to the people who want to accomplish something and since its not going to hurt you in any way. you may as well just stay out of it and take ur paradigm shift and ur own channel with you. out with the old. in with the new.

this is not a bump. this is me askin you to please cast for this tournament- http://binarybeast.com/xGW21304240
please please please get in touch with them and talk to them about it. i want to see it do well.

Here is the kind of process i go through when I’m feeling unmotivated.

I look at the large parts of the game, which i split into the following categories
-WvW
-sPVP Quickjoin
-tPVP free tourny’s
-PvE open world [meta events, dynamic events, experiencing the story of the area]
-Guild Missions [these are rare and happen when they are scheduled]
-PvE instances – Dungeons and FotM
-Theorycrafting [builds and the sorts]
-Exploration – jumping puzzle, vista, POI [no use of guides]
-Title hunting

Now that is a lot to look at at first glance, but its how i personally see how i can spend my time. i could sometimes be sick of PVP because I’ve been performing badly so I’m not feeling motivated to keep going at it at the time because it feels like mashing myself into a brick wall, granted its rare but it still happens sometimes.
On PVE side of things I could be interested in a dungeon’s story so I look for groups on gw2lfg if theres anyone wanting to do story mode or explorable. when im not interested in that, I pick a map i know nothing about and just go there to either explore, or do the combat based content. While doing so I always have a personal rule to be flexible with what I am doing, if there is someone struggling to deal with a group event solo, I jump in to help out and stick with them, perhaps get to know the person.
Theres a lot to do in PVE that is generally swept under the carpet, like finding Vista’s and jumping puzzles. Sure you get a chest at the end of it, but the figuring out the puzzle is fun, if you like puzzles. otherwise i strongly suggest you do not try to do them.
you could take a look at the achievments that give you a title, and could choose to go after it because it either sounds cool, or you like the title. thats a rare thing, but now that the titles stand out so much more its a great way for you to achieve something that you like.
one other smaller thing that can feel motivating is to help people. like a friend or any person you come across, i personally enjoy playing with people in starting areas that are new to the game. i dont mean to be rude, but sometimes just observing someone you can tell how accustomed to the fighting styles they are.
one of the worst feelings for any person in any game is the feeling of failure at very low levels, and the motivational side of helping someone have fun is that i personally find that fun. not in a demeaning way of, oh im so much better at this let me help you out.
Instead in a way im playing the safety net for someone. small example, i was in the area for the shadow behemoth and the meta event was in the pre event stages, so i found a few people who were talking in map chat asking for help with another group event etc. i met them and directed them towards the swamp, without saying anything about what was going to happen and it was great feeling to make someone’s day by leading them into the epic fight and they really enjoyed it.

my 2 cents.

jubskie.3152:

Ursan.7846:

capuchinseven.8395:

Arekai.5698:

Who the kitten uses greatsword?
I laugh at everyone who attacks me with that thing. People who use it do only one thing, show that they are weak as kitten.

3k Maul crits say you’re talking kitten.

Try 10k =).

I’ll try to post screenshots later (At work ATM)

How the hell did you get 10k? o_O

my take on this is that he went quite high into marksmanship trait tree, to gain access to opening strike always crits, then the 30 point trait that signets work for you, and popped signet of the hunt and signet of the wild as well as having a lot of crit damage is benefical. thats how i would see it done.

So since i have not seen any thread about the new info window for WvW, for the PPT [point per tick] etc, and thus.

i personally find it amazing because of the separation of each WvW map, its a great addition. Its a simple and very useful tool now, instead of just a single piechart and portal to WvW.

any other views on it?

the players have become smarter, using their pets better. more fine tweaked builds , gear set ups etc to fight back against every other class out there.

The thing with Greatsword is, the auto attacks 1&2 are weak, while the 3rd evade strike is alright. the Skill 2 and 3 are both statistically more powerful.

and exactly where is the shortage of SHORT TERM goals?
im still hunting for good looking dagger for my ranger, and a better skin for axe.
honestly i want less short term goals, because there is just soo freaking much, daily’s, pvp daily, FOTM daily. whats next hourly achievments? pleasee no.

im not a impatient little kid who needs to have a carrot hanged infront of my eyes for me to continue going.

im a patient guy who loves having fun with my community and people i meet during my game time. if you want to be part of a large guild, talk to them and ask them if you can join them and get to know them, however when you are being turned down. understand this, people who are content leeches or loot addicted people are not wanted in social hubs because its determental to the whole guild. i dont want to have to play with people whos interests go only as far as their greed. no, thats not who i want to play with or even be associated with! i want to play with friends, people who have integrity and know how to have fun and have thick skin. which is why i found myself enjoying who VexX as a collective are. we love fun, we have thick skin and we aim to do good in what we are playing.

really why is it that small guilds need to be on par with a large guild, whats the point of managing a large guild that is a huge force to reckon with. a collective that can make a difference in PVE and WvW, not to mention dominate SPVP.
so my question is this, why are 5 ppl expecting to do the job of 100 people?

would you really feel safe knowing you are sending 5 people after a criminal that has continuously escaped capture from 50 people, and the criminals target is you? would you really hire the 5 people? NO if you care for the criminal to be caught you would hire the 100.

this is what im hearing all about. a too small guild cant do it.
so exactly why is it that a 5 man guild expects to siege up Stonemist castle in WvW as effectively as a 40 man guild? not to mention they can bring more to the table and they have a larger force to reckon with.

all the QQ about small guilds not able to be doing it ever, is ridiculous.
the whole aim of the guild missions are to be hard to even unlock not to mention complete. has the community lost the meaning of long term goal? almost most people i have talked to in /map or /team chat for WvW have said they want the legendary’s to be achievable in 3 days. so it just means that their attention span is 3 days. oh wow.

im not in a big ’’guild’’ but im in a great community. im part of a community that just happens to play games. generally during west coast prime time we have 20 ppl online, and im not worried about the influence, because i know the people im playing with are not going to be QQ about it. so our guild now has an optional aim we can aim for just for the fun of it. okay, great. its not like my community has come up with just fun things to do from week to week anyway. 50/50 draws, dungeon story nights, alt days. WvW in an organised way and practicing open field combat with aims.
the guild missions are there to be an extra thing to do, not the only thing to do. people have too much of a flavor of the update mindset. OMG NEW CONTENT, FORGET EVERYTHING AND STRESS OUT AND SPRINT FOR IT!
i have played this game for a while now and i still have around 30% world completion and i have my lvl 80 with exotics. i dont care if theres content i havent experienced, because i get to enjoy my way of getting there.

they were most likely curbstomped by Sylvari and Asura for being too dangerous. and they could’ve gone extinct over the last 250 years.

along the lines of having a commander more easily seen in chat or so, how about make their name the same shade of blue as their icon when it is activated. for /say /map /team chat? so that it stands out just a little more for the Pug’s and it might be useful to have someone who doesnt know what they are doing to have a visual example oh this guy’s name is blue. something’s special about him . im gonna look at what he has to say kind of deal.

Edit: Take a Longbow with you on your WvW Jumping Puzzles. Point Blank enemys all day.

heres the bad side to this, if you hit anything that reflects projectiles, the point blank shot does the correct knockback for the distance fired at. so at point blank, if it gets reflected. you are the one going off the cliff if not backed against a wall

ItIsFinished.9462:

Wanderer.5471:

9. Range effectiveness longbow damage can be just as effective at close range – only the auto-attack suffers from the damage reduction

Has this been verified?

Actually, I think I understand what you were saying.

As a longbow loving ranger, i can safely say that the fact is correct. the only skill that is reliant on distance for damage is the auto attack. the point blank shot is dependent on how close the target is to have how far the enemy gets knocked back.

Longbow range is not super accurate on the skill icon
what i mean is, the little red line under the auto attack is supposed to be an indicator that it is out of range to your target. which is great, however it stops auto attacking when that red line is there. here is where this kicks me in the nuts the most. when you get the 1500 range trait. the skill still thinks the range is roughly 1000, what that means is for your max damage at greatest distance, you will need to fire the skill yourself. the thing is you need to practise this yourself. either in pve or in heart of the mists. get yourself the longbow and the 1500 trait. and find yourself a stationary target. and play around with the range, as a ranger you will need to get used to the range of a longbow.

here is how i do it when i need to know if im in range or not, take off auto cast target AOE, hit barrage once and do not activate it, just look at your range. it might save your life sometime. for dungeons this is amazing, for example the AC run with the asura. you can position yourself to be in range for almost all of the first 5 burrows.

JQ again showing what has made us to be T1 server. resilience, we havent dropped out yet and we are not going to start now, we are just going to happily claim your keeps, towers etc.

but really a server gives up because they suddenly lose when they are with such a history in Tier 1. sounds like there is more going on behind the scenes in SoS, either way, i have no problems taking more and more bags from you guys.
even when standing infront of SM with another ranger beside me under constant arrow cart fire we killed 10 ppl over the course of 30 min. most of them from [Choo] that was fun.

The wierd thing is, im running a Lenovo z570 laptop, and i get around 24 frames in a quiet area with medium graphics.

and when i WvW i do 3 things, kill all texture quality, set the LOD distance to the max, and texture rendering to subsample. yeah my game now looks quite bad, but im having 35 frames a second constantly, and i see ppl a mile away and have not had any bad culling issues. Im based in europe playing on a NA server and i do not have any culling issue. I have yet to see any ‘’low rez’’ figures, because i always see a name and 1/6th of a second later i see the character like, a mile away.

if you really are having problems with culling try looking at your LOD distance setting, because it has an effect.

the only time i ever have a problem with culling is when i first log in at Lions Arch and run from bank to black lion npc. for 10 seconds i see no players. NEVER happened in WvW before.

Ireniicus.2167:

Drasleona.5049:

to the hurting servers waiting for a competitive match. i have an accurate target to send your hate to. IN BIG LETTERS so u dont miss it THEY ARE THE GUILDS WHO LEFT YOU AND JOINED KAINENG along with other lower tier servers. those people deserted you and are now ruining your gametime in wvw, please send the hate to them! i know a few guilds that deserted isle of janthir to go kaineng, find them and hunt them down! kill them, harrass them and get your revenge

Its not hate. We get not all servers are equal and that’s why we have a ranking system. However due to recent announcement the system is even more borked than usual and in my opinion the best option to avoid white wash matches is to accelerate to a 24 hour match system for a few days as it will self correct things in short order.

Kaineg get better matches and so does CD and YB and any other triumverate of servers in a similar position

yea but you are missing the point, you are looking at the current state the servers are in, but you never looked to think of why they are like that.

heres my view. do it and you will forever be called a deserter.

and in terms of latency issues, im in london and i play on a NA server and i have minimal lag, sure a few extra milliseconds on culling, or sometimes like 1-2 second further delay, but that is about it. i have great ping with NA.

i dont really mind people doing it, since i suicide charged into a zerg to pick up 4 ballistae, 5 treb and 1 alpha siege golem blueprint. harr harr harr suckers!

Theres is a lot of mixed feelings on the jumping puzzle, as predicted. This is not about it, this is a suggestion of attempting to understand the possibilities of having hardcore and ‘’current winter wonderland jumping puzzle’’

now i mentioned explorable dungeon as a metaphor so to speak, but it goes a little more than this. for simplicity sake lets call the harder jumping puzzle a Mad king puzzle, and the easier version ’’normal’’ .

in the normal version there are hidden quota that one has to meet in order to unlock their first entry to the Mad king puzzle, and now is where the ’’explorable’’ metaphor comes in. the Mad king puzzle has an entry token, much like a ticket for paid tournaments in sPvP. so you get in there and 1st time there you have it easy, your entry is granted by the quota from the normal mode and you have 1 spare token. The Mad king would have this basic structure- 3 stages, 3 checkpoint. if you fail anywhere before checkpoint 1 you lose the token that you had used to get in, or in the very first attempt means your spare token is now on the line. get past 1st checkpoint and then fall off, you do not lose your token and can try again, but not leave because that would destroy the token. get past checkpoint 2 and you have to find the chest with a token in it among 4 other chests. so a total of 5 chests. then the checkpoint 3, after this part comes the finale. heres the bittersweet twist, the whole puzzle is time limited just like wintersday one, at this point you will receive 2 chests, but only 1 can be chosen, the contents would be 1 token of entry and maybe something like 3 or 4. and then the finale, which im not gonna try make up.

so in short. the Mad king mode of jumping puzzle is to punish lack of skill, and make it a risk when trying to enter it, much like the paid tournaments. and through the jumping puzzle you have to make do with your time, while failing to manage past a certain point will result in losing 1 of 2 tickets provided at first, and pick a chest out of 5 possible which may or may not hold goodies, following on to the final stretch where you will be confronted with 2 chests, both guaranteed to hold tickets, but one has a few in it while the other one has just one, leading to the finale where you get a piece of the final reward, which im not going to try think up, perhaps a title?

well, from what i see, they could possibly make the stack cap something like 100, but heres the good part, the damage doesnt scale above what it is already at.
so no balance changes, just allowing there to be more stacks in terms of intensity that after the already set limit, become placeholders for the bleed stacks that should be there, but have no chance of causing damage, however it allows the ’’tag’’ to be made, and since it can count the bleed stacks and predict the damage, it can give appropriate reward.

thats kind of a bad suggestion, because then it would be what it was in betas, the pet is just immortal and can slaughter everything. the fact that there is downtime on pets is important, because it makes you have to be more responsible for the pet and more to manage

hey heres an unorthodox idea. make it like paid tourny’s. the hard jumping puzzles i mean, so you want the ’’easy’’= the current one. keep it how it is, but add an extra twist to it, something like, must remain on snowflake until it starts degrading to be ’’qualified’’ to be in the hard mode. heres how the hard mode would work in my head, it would have 3 stages, and sort of checkpoints like in the current one, how you go from snowflake to hard candy to the snow ridge and finish.

you pay an entry fee of unit of 1. so price for entry is 1. failing before getting past the 1st chekpoint so to speak gives you nothing. getting past the 1st checkpoint and you are guaranteed at least 1 unit of entry. get past checkpoint 2 and you get 2. get to the finish however and you get only 1 unit of entry and some account bound reward that is made into something else, thats for them to decide, perhaps a score attack based title.

i’m now going off to the suggestion threads and making it as well, figured it would be relevant here.

i want this to happen, i really do! so feel free to mail me if ur doing this and ur in need for some bells, mind you i will need adequate proof. .

uh guys, you know you can just bind everything. i do mean literally everything, if you want to have 12345678 for your note’s then so be it, find what works for you.

Pirlipat.2479:

You are kinda mistaken: Toymaker Tixx doesn’t make presents FOR bookah, he is making presents OF bookah. xDDD

are you trying to make a refrence of the fact that golemancy and necromancy walk hand in hand, because i made that connection and got a good laugh out of it.

I’ve noticed that there are a few ways to go about dealing with compensating for pets not being able to attack players. they are stun-daze, freeze, cripple, immobilize, more cripple, more freeze, more daze, knockback+knockdown, attack speed increase ‘’Sick Em’’.

in short, i’ve found to be a great DPS machine while using the tools for slowing my enemy to let my pet hit them, since my pet hits almost 3x more dmg that i do i find that satisfying. the axe mainhand has a nice freeze, the dagger offhand has a good cripple along with a dodge+poison, both bows have a cripple, shortbow has a stun with daze added in, while the longbow has a knockdown but weakness+IMS [increase movement speed]. for greatsword you have a good block for yourself and a knockdown when blocking in melee range, and a daze +stun when behind. there are a lot of great ways to create slowed movement speed, we have frost trap, spike, muddy terrain [my favorite immobilize +cripple] and elite skill entangle. theres also the trait that causes cripple when hitting someone under % hp. oh yeah and the last and undeniably the most efficent way- sword autoattack hit 1=cripple hit2=leap with cripple hit 3=pet might.

DivineBeing.2086:

Score update along with screenshot of the ap please.

so why does this website exist?
http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA

Jdreal.8347:

mulch.2586:

You mean for tournaments?

cuz the queue for “battlegrounds” is instant, and you do get sent back to wherever you were when you leave.

The part that baffles me is why we have that 2+ minutes before each game after you’ve joined to wander the map. Cuz it’s really unlikely anyone’s come to a tournament without already knowing the map.

you lazy lazy creature. do you want to have an icon pop up every time a dragon spawns? do you want to be able to enter a dungeon from anywhere? do you want to be able to kill a mob without doing anything? do you want to be able to buy/sell/craft from anywhere?[ well you can sell on TP just not get the gold right away]

how lazy is this community? do you need convenience on everything? geez.

and about the 2 min wondering around the map for sPvP i think its a good thing its there, gives you 2 minutes to make sure you are able to play and double check your gear, utility’s, traits etc, also to let the high ping users load in so the match starts with everyone ready and not on the loading screen.

I just wanna be able to que for a quick battleground from any map in the game instead of having to go to the Heart of the Mist

a difference between a good ranger and bad ranger is that, if you see a ranger trying to fit a single role 100% they are going to fall flat on their face. while another ranger is focusing on 3 roles, he’s gonna love life and stomping their enemies.

Code here is bang on. with a small difference, the buff goes to all friendly’s. while it does nothing it can affect everyone. but then when allies start causing the buff to proc thats where 5 targets who are actively attacking are receiving the buff. while they can overlap i have no complaints from my dungeon group for having almost perma +50% DPS with no downtime. i cant argue with that.

the way i’ve seen the spirit buffs work is, they give a nice large area their initial buff. lets call it inactive, because we can, in this state you don’t see it nor does it affect you. the way they work is, they have a % activation rate of 35% base with 50% traited. the sun, frost and one thats escaping me, the swiftness one. the way these work is when you attack, meaning use any weapon skill you have a given % of chance to receive the buff from the spirit, while it may seem only 5 bodies are getting the buff, i kid you not, it does not happen. now the way i have experienced it is, only 5 individuals are able to have the buff activated. heres the key thing. they can be activated at different times and overlap, meaning at points you are going to have a full party with all spirit buffs if the attack speed is high enough to negate the % chance and you receive the buff.
spirit of earth i think, works in the opposite way, you get the boon protection when you are hit for a given time. so at 50% it means every 2nd hit ideally you should be receiving the boon. the elite i have no clue about, still working to unlock it. the spirits are not AOE constant boons, they are % based boons that lay dormant affecting all within range and work well.

why all people QQ about the spirits being weak? did no one care to learn how the spirits were used in the first game? you put them at a place that you are in range of, while in range to the enemy while the opponent is going to have a bad time getting to it, or wasting their time on it because of its location.

Nate Gray.9241:

Drasleona.5049:

Absolutely useless and more bullcrap on my screen that is UI that i have to look at. I would like to see infront of me not some random UI item bar that has absolutely NO BUSINESS ON MY SCREEN. how hard is it to put your food items at the top of your inventory and be done with it? are you so lazy you want a button to fight you fights, manage your food buffs which are super easy to do fyi.
why are you asking for such a pointless thing that can be achieved by applying BRAINZ. ?

no really, why do you need it? its like addons for other games like WOW. they had addons, and the people stopped playing the game but became a game of press the UI

By this logic, why have hotbars at all? Why not leave your skill sheet open and just choose skills from there? Better yet, let’s get rid of all UI elements and just have everything be /commands. Go back to the MUD days. Because progress is clearly meant only for the lazy.

If you use the thing you are claiming people are lacking, you’d see why your post is devoid of it.

get rid of all UI elements? puhh please. when did i say that? i said something thats a peripheral and a freaking convenience thing that can be one in 2 actions, doesn’t cause an issue to me. have you heard of lineage 2? it has a lot of skills to use. i play that game with the ui off, and its fun. especially in pvp, because i dont know my own health i fight better.

now i’ve been in dungeons used consumable items and i find it super easy. i have my inventory set to open at a specific region on the screen so when i hit the hotkey for inventory i know 100% where the item im looking for is. its right where the party ui is when its at the top left. do i need an extra ui sitting on my screen because it takes me 2 clicks to do it. no.

why do i want a clean ui and screen, so that i can see the person whos biting the dust, so i know where my pet is, so i am aware of whats coming at me. i dont play the UI. i play the Game with the UI as a convenience on its own. its very easy to play gw2 with UI off, when your health gets low you can see it on the edges of the screen.

minor gripes such as oh im too stupid to organise my inventory when i know i will be needing an item from it in the next hour probably [ dungeons ].

simple fact of the matter is. its a mindless idea and i have no idea why this is needed. there is a 2 keystroke method of doing this, why not learn it?

Absolutely useless and more bullcrap on my screen that is UI that i have to look at. I would like to see infront of me not some random UI item bar that has absolutely NO BUSINESS ON MY SCREEN. how hard is it to put your food items at the top of your inventory and be done with it? are you so lazy you want a button to fight you fights, manage your food buffs which are super easy to do fyi.
why are you asking for such a pointless thing that can be achieved by applying BRAINZ. ?

no really, why do you need it? its like addons for other games like WOW. they had addons, and the people stopped playing the game but became a game of press the UI

From the view of a GW1&2 player it seems the dances in GW2 are very lacking in character.
By that i mean the dances do not reflect the professions, because it doesn’t change anything about the dance if you are of a race. So in short there are only 5 dances in the game, which is fine. However i personally would love to be able to see the great variety that was present in the first game, they started off with 6 professions and 12 dances. The dances in gw1 are profession bound and sex bound. a female necros dances very similarly to M.J thriller. while the male necros are just over the top headbanging.
im not saying have 60 dances, however i would really love to see it.

However heres an idea, sell gw1 dances for the appropriate races i.e-human, norn, sylvari. Charr and asura can be given totally new dances, but at least have variety from male dances to female dances. [would make better dance videos]

im not saying i want to see this by end of the month, im just saying i’d like to get to a place where its viable to be done.

well the ‘’damage 195’’ is not directly correspondent to the actual damage due to the damage calculation, which you can find on the Wiki. the easiest way i can prove that the splitblade works is when you use it and you see numbers, if they are not identical to the bleed tick damage then you have nothing to worry about

well it seems to work for me. the way the damage is shown on a single target is, instead of having 195 show up 5 times it adds all the damage up and goes into a single ’’bubble’’ of damage. try testing it with you pet on passive and just using splitblade from a range so only 1 axe lands, check it if only 1 stack of bleed is applied. and then move closer and if there is 2 stacks of bleed and roughly double the damage then i see nothing to worry about.

Azrhyel.3942:

Definately no fix…

I have a feeling they might have slightly tweaked some vars a bit about a week ago but still you can sidestep-evade like 90% if you concentrate on that one ranger attacking you.

and this is a problem because? it existed in gw1 and not a single ranger started crying over it. it just meant they had to play smarter to land their hits. also i can sidestep bait out of a double pistol thief unload without using dodge, should i be penalized for it, i dont think so because it takes a lot of freaking effort and skill to pull off. the thing with being able to dodge arrows is, if you are not able to then it just becomes wow combat. it means as soon as you hit a button you are guaranteed a hit. im so happy this is not the case for gw2 with almost any skill, apart from ones designed in a way that are not dodge-able without using endurance dodge.

Figured i should put my build down here, because its laughable how much it pisses off people in sPvP and absolutely ROCKS in dungeons.
Traits- 20/20/20/0/10
marksman- adept trait this is really what suits you and what seems to happen in your fights. does ur enemy run at low health then get the cripple otherwise it doesnt make a big difference, i run with pet 25%hp=might fury, because i can. Master trait- 20% signet recharge, its kind 100% same thing as the adept one, whatever rocks your boat. however be careful with choosing something impractical such as longbow range, because this means you are going to lose damage faster the quicker your opponent gets closer to you, so unless you’re sitting on a cliff and sniping then i wont stop you, otherwise go for something else.
skirmishing- adept 30% extra damage on critical for pets [hint wink nudge this is whats killing your enemy here] master trait is 20% reduction on longbow/short bow cool down however i only use the longbow, because i disagree with SB being 1200 range thus i boycott it even if it disadvantages me.
wilderness survival- adept survival skills recharge 20% faster [hint my elite and 2 utilities are survival, so yeah i want it.] master 20% reduction in recharge for great sword/sword skills. the skills on either weapons are amazing especially the variety on GS. fits my play style like a glove. so im not complaining.
Beast mastery – adept reduction on F2 skills. its because its my source of unavoidable CC unless they have stability, in which case well. kitten

weapons LB +GS.
LB=nullification.-remove a boon at 60% chance on crit, its useful and i like it you can take whatever you want. i just find i can use this and not feel like its a waste
GS= purity. because its pretty much guaranteed you will eat some sort of condition while in melee range, just face it getting rid of it is a good thing.
armor= full melandru, i purely picked those because i love melandru, shes cool, and her sigils are amazing apparently, but yeah i picked them because of the name.
jewels= so far i just have a pendant which is a knight amulet with a rampager jewel. i like it, still dont know if i should change rampage to something else. meh

heal- troll unugent, because i absolutely despise every other heal.
utilities- lightning reflexes my lord is this useful, not to mention extra dodge but also a stun breaker at a relatively low cooldown. win!
Quickening zephyr-also on a low cooldown and just a kitten skill when needing to rez in a team fight and you are racing a finish move, which you should be able to stop with the amount of freaking CC. also because your pet gets the effect. TAKE CARE when using this. during the 6 seconds of quickness you cannot be healed by anything so dont be a smart kitten and pop ur troll unugent before using this under any circumstances you should not do it. just NO.
Signet of renewal- because its a 2nd stun breaker and the most freaking useful condition removal which is on par with the necro. its amazing to pull of just ludicrous amount of conditions and then swap out pets canceling the conditions altogether. do take note the conditions will not be pulled if the pet is not alive.
elite- entangle, because its a Survival skill and its kind of amazing. huge stacks of bleeds if they are stuck for long enough and i just like it, not much to go on really.

Pets- you absolute 95% of dps source the ludicrous Jaguar who can go invisible for 6 seconds and crit from that state. just all the damage is ridiculous!
backup- a normal wolf, because they have fear and a knockdown. not much else, decent balance of stats but im not looking for that in them just the knockdown and fear.
so a few situational things to deal with. nr1- make it look like you are hellbent on doing the most dps you can and look like any other glass cannon ranger,[because they freaking awful and should be exiled and hanged]
nr2- keep your pet alive. this is the most important thing to focus on. now why is this on nr2 and not nr1? because ppl who just read nr1 and move on are not who im trying to show my build to.
nr3- learn to piss off your enemy, by being a colossal troll and just cc’ing them out of whatever they are winding up for and evading, if they are popping their signets and coming at you to 100 blade you just pop lightning reflexes and then jump on them since they probably used frenzy

yeah, im gonna say if you are going to build your ranger around dealing damage with the weapon in your hand alone, you sir are doing it wrong and should reroll another class.
heres the sweet deal.
your DPS you oh so love comes from your pet. how so? lets say on average i hit 430 dmg at max range with my longbow and there goes my pet and smacks the target for 1200 damage consistently. now i went to sPvP with almost identical build, with more traits etc. i hit my enemy for 2.2k crit and 700 dmg i think between minimum range and half range. my pet consistently had dps above 3.2k with absolutely monstrous 4.5k crit

so i figured instead of trying to squeeze all of the possible power out of myself i though F that and went down the tanking role. so i tank the player while the pet just goes to town on them. it works, i out DPS’d a valentine thief [thats heartseeker spammers] out gunned a warrior with o ho and behold a rifle, i out dps’d another ranger with shortbow with traps and a moa, out dps’d a greatsword warrior because he spend most of his time sitting on his kitten and stunned into place. let him stun you, get close start off his 100 blades and just use lightning reflexes and let the pet keep pwning it. keep a stack of 20 vulernability from the get to and make use of it by swapping to greatsword close the gap with nr 3 hilt bash him in the face just to piss him off and add bleeds use nr2 and once he starts hitting you use nr 4 and knock him flat on his kitten again, once the vulernability wears off either fear him away or go to longbow and point blank shot from melee range and dodge backwards, keeping the distance. by now i have eaten out at least 2/3 of his health and he is popping his heal, since no one expects you to be able to keep up the damage from afar he is comfortable with taking hits. but once he notices that the arrows hit absolutely nothing and the pet deals the 3k and 5k hits, he starts paying attention to the pet. which swiftly vanishes.
any single build on a ranger that focuses on doing a single job is 100% guaranteed to fail.
if you havent learnt this already, then please get it in your head, Ranger’s are Jacks of ALL trades. Master of none!
so instead of going pure dps, go a hybrid that does 3 things, even fitting 4 roles work on a ranger with a single build. we are not a class that focuses on a single aspect leaving weaknesses left right and centre. we are rangers, survivors. its what we do.

TheWarKeeper.5374:

Drasleona.5049:

TheWarKeeper.5374:

Xpiher.5209:

Drasleona.5049:

???

I don’t understand your point. And I’m serious, its not coherent.

The spectral agony and this system are nothing alike. This system is more akin to LOTRO’s resiliency system, which was eventually scrapped. For this to be like spectral agony ANET would have to remove RNG from the system and make the gear a guarantee item from reaching certain levels fractal, and they would also have to remove the gating mechanic.

Do you not realise Draselona is a GW1 vet cause he went halfthrough the prophecies missions?
Draselona, im not even half impressed to what youve just said, furthermore it clearly shows you dont know much about GW1.

i’ve completed prophecies fyi, and when i said i went through half way through prophecies at the stage where the main enemies were the mursaat i.e near the end of the missions i didnt have the ’’infusion’’ and in comparitive terms i wouldnt have the ascended gear. and i did fine. i know plenty about GW1 so do enlighten me, what do i not understand about the game?

and just saying i dont understand your point does not in any shape or form help me explain my point better…

really having a hissy fit over such a small thing, repeatedly is really just freaking childish already, all i see is oo another reason to throw a hissy fit. grow up?

You really wouldnt want to show off ur GW1 “skillZ” on me, trust me on that, youre embarrasing urself right there.

You dont understand the game because you have said agony here is exactly the same as agony there, which clearly isnt u get max stats agony resist in 1 mission less than 1 hour, agony resist can then be applied to any armor of any expansion pack of any color, furthermore completing prophecies once still doesnt make you experienced at the game at all.

oh so what does repeating prophecies a second time on hardcore make a difference, while i have 80% hardcore missions done anyway. along with plenty of time in UW

agony= a given percent of max hp damage per tick.
spectral agony= Skill. (5 seconds.) Target foe has -1…30 Health degeneration; moves, attacks, and uses skills 80% slower; and loses 3…81 Health each second

so okay its not 100% the same, spectral agony is worse. it has degeneration while also doing ludicrous dmg per second. so 81×5=405 dmg +100 damage over 5 sec =505 damage, that is not negated by any other thing than infused armor.
to clarify about the 100 dmg, its the -30 health degeneration. the game rules are max 10 pips of degen= 20hp per second is lost. each pip accounts for 2 hp per sec you lose.

and at that stage of the game, average health pool for a ranger is roughly around 480-490 hp less if the individual opted for cheaper runes or any other useful runes available. now i knew that i would be taking that much damage over 5 seconds. and i had my goal. so every time i knew i was about to get blasted in the face with this, i just swapped weapon sets to things i couldn’t use with perfect[maxed] health benefit while also having maxed out health runes and insignias with an end result of 700-800 health , which did make my damage output a little softer, but compensated with aoe conditions, thats beside the point here, but figured i would leave it in.
fact is. i survived it and i can see myself finding wonderful ways of surviving agony too.

i do not need to IMPRESS you what so ever. why? because i frankly dont give 2 cents if you like me or not, but you cannot deny that there is more than 1 way to look at it.
when i heard about agony, my first reaction was joy. my thoughts went along the lines of ‘’oh heck yeah another condition like spectral agony, so how could i counter it with my current given set of tools.’’ and i’ve already found i think about 2-3 different ways of doing so. ill give you a tip and see if you can figure it out. rangers, pets and signets+shouts have fun

TheWarKeeper.5374:

Xpiher.5209:

Drasleona.5049:

???

I don’t understand your point. And I’m serious, its not coherent.

The spectral agony and this system are nothing alike. This system is more akin to LOTRO’s resiliency system, which was eventually scrapped. For this to be like spectral agony ANET would have to remove RNG from the system and make the gear a guarantee item from reaching certain levels fractal, and they would also have to remove the gating mechanic.

Do you not realise Draselona is a GW1 vet cause he went halfthrough the prophecies missions?
Draselona, im not even half impressed to what youve just said, furthermore it clearly shows you dont know much about GW1.

i’ve completed prophecies fyi, and when i said i went through half way through prophecies at the stage where the main enemies were the mursaat i.e near the end of the missions i didnt have the ’’infusion’’ and in comparitive terms i wouldnt have the ascended gear. and i did fine. i know plenty about GW1 so do enlighten me, what do i not understand about the game?

and just saying i dont understand your point does not in any shape or form help me explain my point better…

really having a hissy fit over such a small thing, repeatedly is really just freaking childish already, all i see is oo another reason to throw a hissy fit. grow up?