Guild Wars 2

Stuck on the loading screen for Bitterfrost Frontier, eventually kicks me out telling me servers cannot be reached.

Can zone in to other maps just fine.

Strider’s Defense: This trait no longer has a chance to destroy projectiles on melee attack. It has gained new functionality: when you evade an attack, gain quickness for 3 seconds.

This could be kinda fun with greatsword evade auto-attack. Don’t think it will be very effective though.

Any consideration to prioritize ranger pets for boons and other buffs? For instance in a full party ranger pets do not receive benefits from boons and abilities like spotter and frost spirit.

Yes we have fortifying bond but that should be baseline and not a trait.

I think it’s even more lazy they nerfed the damage rather then correcting the amount of shots. AFAIK the tool tip still says 15 shots but it’s actually 20. Although I think the damage nerf is = to less shots anyways.

Danariel.4675:

The problem is not 1 time for 3 hours, it’s multiple times for 3 hours, only to more than likely fail in the end. Even after you succeed, you have a VERY limited amount of time to find 2 pets before you’re booted back to the beginning.

Also, and I might be mistaken, there’s a limited number of juveniles to tame? When I tamed my smokescale it actually de-popped it from the map and there were only 2 others there to be tamed, no idea if that means only X amount are tamable at a time though.

I totally agree though having two pets (really any of the pets) behind completing some meta events is just silly. No other class has a key component of their mechanics locked away. By all means make us explore for them like we had to in vanilla but do not put them behind the meta events, only available at certain times for a limited time.

That’s not fun, that’s tedious.

Interesting note on Pet AI and their ability to hit moving targets:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3mnup7/old_whiteboard_pictures/cvgndch

I played the druid a bit over the weekend and wasn’t terribly impressed. It’s shoe horned into one role, healing. It doesn’t damage, doesn’t condi, just heals. While it was great at healing it seemed to struggle at clearing condis, especially on allies, but they could have just been me.

Shoehorning it into just healing makes it feel like a new profession rather than an elite specialization.

If ArenaNet felt raids or future content needed a dedicated healer they should have made an entire profession to do just that, not slapping an elite on a class that it simply has no synergy with.

I really want to see torment somewhere on Shortbow, whether applied by the ranger or our pets.

Maybe, skill 1 inflict bleed no matter position but if you hit from behind or side it also inflict torment. Or convert skill 4 to inflict torment rather than bleed.

I think Skill 2 needs to stay as some sort of AoE, although I’m not a huge fan of the cone, otherwise the weapon has zero AoE ability.

What does everything think on the scrapper gryos compared to ranger spirits?

woot.com has the Steel Series Guild Wars 2 branded headphones on sale for U.S. $12.99.

Just passing along in case anyone was interested:

http://computers.woot.com/offers/steelseries-flux-gaming-headsets?ref=gh_cp_4_s_txt

Tooth of Frostfang from a sentry in WvW, sold it for around 850-900 gold.

Seems like this would be a good time to find out what the map cap actually is.

Dragonbrand here, in Blue Borderland, getting about 1-2 second skill lag.

/ip: 64.25.38.168

Getting about 200-300 msec ping time.

Haven’t read the whole thread but if you’ve got load balancers in front of your servers might want to check those, in my experience they can get finicky.

Or check your BGP announcements to your upstreams and/or your BGP load balancing.

Or maybe A-Net/NC SOFT can get direct peering agreements with the major consumer ISPs in the US, like AT&T Comcast, Time Warner and Cox? Or at the very least AT&T and Cogent?

http://bgp.he.net/AS30588#_peers

PBS knockback may make it hard to chain Hilt Bash, although as OP said Swoop > Hilt Bash.

But still if you’re chain-stunning someone I think you want to keep them close.

When I pull the moas out they are known as “Lawn Moa”

Not a bug but a design limitation, post from a couple of years ago, I can’t find the original dev one however.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Ranger-pet-names-resetting-Merged/first#post1392229

TLDR: Technical limitation caused but not having a dedicated name database for pets.

An interesting read to be sure but no ranger section in the class roles. Ignorance of the class or bias towards it’s usefulness in WvW or just an oversight?

I got one the other day, Tooth of Frostfang. Came from a Veteran Guard in WvWvW, I didn’t notice it will I was clearing out my bags before I logged out.

Think my playtime is about 1600-1700 hours.

Not sure what I’ll do with it, I main a ranger and use Sword/Axe/Longbow so might just go ahead and make it.

Favorite: Ranger. I’ve spent the most time on this class and I play rangers in any MMO/RPG game. Love traps or pew pew for WvWvW roaming.

Second: Warrior and Guardian, both are fun to play, no matter what I do I don’t seem to die on the guardian.

Last: Engineer, just can’t get into it for some reason,.

I rarely use them but I name my Moas “Lawn Moa”.

I’ll take 220 if it’s open.
Character name: Elenire Manyshot

I wonder if GW2/ANET/NCSOFT uses a service like CloudFlare to help mitigate these?

Haven’t seen this posted but apparently as part of the feature pack the combat log is getting some love:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/September_2014_Feature_Pack

http://www.guildmag.com/preview-september-2014-feature-pack/

From the links above:

The combat log will receive a major overhaul in its design and functionality. ¹
Instead of being just toggled on/off, the channel can be further configured to show the following action separately:
Incoming Buff Damage
Incoming Healing
Incoming Damage
Incoming Interrupts
Incoming Mitigated Damage
Outgoing Buff Damage
Outgoing Healing
Outgoing Damage
Outgoing Interrupts
Outgoing Mitigated Damage
Critical hits are separately labeled
Damage numbers will be shown in different colors: Green for healing, orange for damage, red for critical damage, purple for condition damage
Player skills are displayed as chat links and provide more information on hover.
Ranger pets, necromancer minions and other summoned allies show up in the log but for now appear as if the player does the damage².

So lots more useful info coming in the combat log.

mistsim.2748:

Yet we still have Rangers who are not satisfied with Ranger changes. Try running RTW with Quickening Zephyr when you open up from 1800 units away, its hilarious.

Is that also with Eagle Eye trait? I recall reading RTW is also increasing the range of LB attacks, if that is true I would assume that’s unintentional (bug) and will get patched.

Meh I think it’s ok but certainly not worth a grandmaster. It feels like we’re being forced to use a trait to overcome base mechanics. The arrow speed should be increased as a bug/QoL fix NOT a grandmaster trait.

Still way too many LB traits in the Marksmanship line. Needs to be some condensing for sure.

1. Ranger
2. Necromancer
3. Thief

She reminds me of Cait SIth from FF7. As such I expect her to betray us.

The ranger is fine if it is played by a skilled player. I’ve taken my ranger on marionette plenty of times and never once has anyone said anything derogatory to me, regardless of passing or failing a platform.

Run spotter, traited spirits (increased proc chance and spirits unbound) X/war horn or whatever weapon is appropriate for the situation. Keep the pet on passive when fighting champs and send them in when you can. Pets have to be swapped depending on the situation, for the marionette I run the jungle stalker and red moa to keep might/fury rolling for my group.

Not terribly difficult but you do have to “work” more than other classes.

They also mentioned looking at sword auto attack change possibly some changes coming there but likely not this update.

Just a guess. I would expect critical damage changes to be a nerf to the amount a crit hit actually does. For instance if a critical hit deals base 2x more damage perhaps the change is 1.5 more damage and then scaled up with critical damage stat. They could also just change how much critical damage % is needed to do increase the amount of critical damage dealt. If it is a 1:1 ratio now perhaps they are changing it to to 2:1 ratio.

Hope this made sense, I’m rather tired.

1. Ranger, 80: Sylvari this is my main, has all my best skins and so on. Mostly pull him out for open world PvE and 3W zerging, occasionally I’ll roam in 3W as well with him. I’ve always played a ranger in MMOs all the walk back to my EQ1 days.

2. Guardian, 80: Norn, use her mostly in dungeons. Tons of survivability fun to play, recently started playing her in 3W, she feels very useful there

3. Thief, 80: Charr, don’t really play him, probably because I feel he is so squishy. I primarily use him to harvest T6 nodes in Orr.

4. Warrior, 80: Human slowly replacing my ranger main. Warriors are pretty fantastic in all areas of the game.

5. Elementalist, 80: Asura. Haven’t played him in a long time pulled him out the other day and forgot how fun it is. Dagger/dagger is such a blast to play and a Staff Elemntalist in 3W and dungeons is great support

6. Necromancer, 41: Human: Just leveling her up.

7. Engineer, 21: Sylvari, Used the level 20 experience scroll, haven’t played her much. Engineer seems like a complex class to play.

Haven’t rolled a mesmer yet, will one day.

I agree with many other posters. I like the evade on greatsword where it’s at. With counterattack and dodge we have plenty of “active” evasions. I don’t have any issue with passive evade being part of the autoattack. I do think it could use a small damage increase to the auto-attack, something in the 5-10% range and a blast finisher on maul would be amazing. I don’t understand why it doesn’t have one, seems a perfect skill to put it on.

Just a thought for 1H sword Serpent Strike skill. Currently it inflicts poison on the target what if this was changed to weakness? With all the complaints about the auto attack chain and the difficulty in dodging with it, using this skill to avoid damage and then inflict weakness may give us a little more sustain if used properly. Heck this could maybe be done on Dagger 4 rather than sword 3?

Couple of quick thoughts.

General – Not too excited, some decent trait changes and tweaks to longbow but too many base mechanics of the class are either underpowered or broken therefore tweaking traits is just going to gloss over the real issues with the class.

Sword – As has been said sword is only melee 1 hand weapon and the dancing root is place is very annoying. I shouldn’t have to disable auto-attack and time attacks with dodges and so on for it to be effective. This either needs to be changed or an additional main hand melee weapon needs to be added.

Greatsword – Personally I like the evade. Greatsword is a defensive weapon with a small burst from maul. Of course I’d like to see an increase in damage on it. I suppose if you want to melee for high zerker like damage you have to use a sword but then with the aggravations sword brings people would rather increase greatsword to be more offensive. Fixing main hand sword or introducing a more appealing main hand melee weapon may quell this debate and potentially shift greatsword from defensive to offensive.

Axe – Needs a re-work. Damage is too low, aftercast is long, the target bouncing is interesting though. Either needs a damage increase with shorter aftercast or turn main hand axe into a melee weapon.

Skills – Only thing I want to offer here is Viper’s Nest. Could this be a combo field: poison or even dark perhaps?

Can you all clarify something for me:

All player-controlled minions, excluding mesmer phantasms and clones because they were already increased in a previous patch, now have 71.43% more hit points in PvE maps.

Does this indeed include ranger pets and they’re pets ant not really minions? Always thought there was a difference between pets and minions.