Guild Wars 2

@ Sevans

Thanks for the detailed answer!

I didn’t use it exactly as is, but your information allowed me to pinpoint much better what I was looking for and what to modify.
I was already on my way to craft full ascended gear, but it will take a while due to crafting time and mat prices.

But with just a few accessories and better placed traits, I have already gotten a great improvement in damage output.
I feel slightly less resistant than before, but I’ll have to wait on my full gear before adjusting.
Keeping Runes of the Traveler and taking out SotH didn’t change my speed at all, so they really don’t stack, and I have a free utility slot.
I’m currently trying the utility skills from your build, but They don’t “feel” quite right to me, so I’ll have to work on those a bit more to figure out the best set (my finger keep going to my number 7 (previously trap skill) even though it’s not there anymore ^^’)

I don’t know about 2 LB though… I’ll try it out anyway and see for myself.
Weapon-swap sigils have never been attracting to me: does sigil of battle really help?
I’ve been testing sigil of fire recently and like it a lot.

Anyway, thanks for your answer: it pointed me in the right direction!

Here are the actual things I’d like you guys advice on

1) I love playing LB (Dwayna’s Wing, crafted, not bought, thank you very much, and currently crafting Dwayna’s Light) but I never really paid attention to the sigil on it:
what would you recommend? I’m thinking Precision or Power since I seem to want higher dps, and don’t really care about condi and all that stuff, but there are other things besides stats. but I guess I don’t know all of the sigil so I’m listening for your opinions

2) LB-related traits: Eagle Eye is a must, the 1500 range isn’t negociable for me. QuickDraw isn’t negociable either. my third favorite one is Soften the Fall, although I guess that one as more to do with roaming, so I guess I could change this one if really necessary. The other ones I changed a few times, but can’t seem to figure out if there really is one more suited than another. Suggestion on those are welcome.

3) I like my Healing Spring, and so do the people around me No reason to change it…is there?

4) Currently using 6x Superior runes of the Traveler (originally for both speed and MF) + SotH …I hear having both is meaningless since speed doesn’t stack, but +30 to all stats doesn’t seem neglectable? Am I better off with another set of runes (I was thinking Divinity seemed nice) or keep the runes and swap SotH for another thing?

5) (related to 4 I guess) I remember doing all of PvE and some WvW with full traps for number 7,8,9 for a long time before switching to a more speed-oriented setup and loved it: would I be able to re-claim some of my traps without messing my LB build?

6) I’m gonna upgrade most of my accessories to ascended, what should I focus on for LB? I was thinking Power Precision Toughness Vitality, maybe Crit? (doesn’t seem crit does much in the end)

7) My current life is about 20000 something since I modified some of my stats at some point because 17000 something was getting downed too fast to my taste. My current vitality/toughness is pretty good, I can usually withstand long enough to actually kill/escape, or at the very least give that kitten ed thief a tougher fight than what he was expecting (I actually managed to kill a few thieves, but I’m thinking those were noobs o_o’). Could I keep that level of resistance AND increase my damage, or am I gonna have to chose between the 2?

8) Pets… Those are so useless in WvW I wish I could get rid of them. They’re awesome in PvE and against WvW NPCs to keep the enemy distracted and away from me, but against humans… The only pet I’ve ever found useful against real players is the shark underwater. I did all of PvE with my trusty Snowleopard, but in WvW now I usually use my snow wolf and white moa, but I’ve never given much tough about pets since anyone with half a brain can just avoid them altogether…

9) Second weapon set: suggestions welcome if you want. I tested out all the weapons extensively, but seeing as I always ends up using my LB anyway, I just put a warhorn there for the speed buff…

Phew…That turned out to be longer than I though it would !

Now for some constructive answers

Hello all,

This post is too help me get answers to a number of questions I have been asking myself recently.

Despite insane hours of playtime, I only ever bothered upgrading my LB and Armor stats, but now I’m planning on re-vamping a lot of my runes, sigils, traits, etc… and I have a few questions in order to help me understand and decide on things.

For starters, here’s my current build:

30,20,10,10,0
LB main, axe/warhorn second
6x Superior Runes of the traveler
HS, SotH, SoN, Spike trap, Hounds of Balthazar
Pets: Snowwolf mostly, and white moa, sometimes snowleopard, and water would be shark

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Now just for those of you who love to tell other people what to do and how to play

I have used LB since the start, I have used longbows during all my PvE time while doing map completion, and I have been using them since I began WvW months ago, and I WILL NOT switch out my LB for any other weapon type. I use my LB for everything, including close range, and only switch to warhorn for the speed buff.
And before you ask, yes I did try out the warrior LB: can’t compare to the fun of the ranger LB.
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for information, I have 4 alts apart from my main Ranger: a Mesmer (I like it, but suck at it), an Elementalist (favorite after Ranger, but too fragile), a Thief (to understand how I can never win against them… Still doesn’t understand and still can’t win, I suck at thief too I guess), and a Warrior (to test out the war LB: nope, not as fun as ranger LB, and too big and clunky)

Just so you can understand what I’m looking for:
-I don’t play for kills and stats, I play for the fun factor. I don’t really care too much about all the numbers and the maths behind.
-After being done with PvE, I went to WvW, and that’s what I do 90% of the time now. I try to stay on the edges of the bus, but have to get close every now and then, and also do roaming solo or in groups.
-Although I’m mostly a solo player, I’m the kind that like to give a hand when I can: I support groups/bus with my barrage, traps, healing springs, speed buff, …
-I do love to roam around by myself though, just for the fun of it (which usually ends as soon as I encounter a thief -_-‘)
What I’d really like to be able to do is solo camps without too much trouble:
I’ve done it a few times, but most of the time I have to stop short due to thieves or respawning npc (takes too long)
-I’m pretty resistant: I don’t do a lot of damage, but I like being one of the last ones standing (even better if I’m the last and my pet rez me and I rez everyone else :$ ) and surprising players by not being the usual one-shot one kill they usually get.

In short, I guess what I’d like to focus on are: LB damages (dps?), staying alive (toughness/vitality?), and speed (you can’t go without SotH speed buff once you’ve gotten used to it :P )

Took me a while to craft Dwayna’s Wing, but it was totally worth it <3 !

I never could decide what pet I like most between Snowleopard, White Moa, and Snow Wolf, so I just switch them frequently

I kinda like the idea of different arrow types, in the shape of quivers as mentioned would be nice too, but… wouldn’t those totally mess up some of the traits lines and skills?

No way they’ll implement something that messes the traits and skills even more…

Just my opinion

Ever since they started this mess, the lockedRect.pbits crashes have been happening a lot more often, and I mean often as in: I used to have 2 or 3 a week, now it’s every 30min-1h of gametime

Hey all!

This post is to try to help people who have, are, or will be experiencing, the sudden fps drop that can happen every now and then, when a mac running the GW2 client fine (more or less, you know what I mean) suddenly gets an big fps drop to the point that it’s not playable anymore.

The solution will almost always come from using a combination of the different steps found in the Mac Beta Client Tech Support > “Basic Mac Beta Client Troubleshooting” sticky (first in the mac client forum).
The thing is, if you read those in order, they tell you to delete the GW2 data file, then start the GW2 client and let it regenerate clean files, and if that doesn’t work then clean your mac’s SMC and PRAM.

Usually for me I’ve found that by doing those steps in order, the low fps problem is still there.

The trick I’ve found is to delete the GW2 data folder in application support, and then DIRECTLY reset the SMC and PRAM, BEFORE launching the GW2 client.
Only AFTER having erased the GW2 data folder and resetting the SMC and PRAM do I start up the GW2 client and let it regenerate clean files.

Also, to those who can’t remember all their GW2 options settings that get erased everytime you delete the GW2 data folder in app support, just log in to GW2 and take a few screenshots of your options before you delete them (stupid I know, but I’ve deleted it so many times now…sight)

Anyway, I hope this will be useful to those of you getting desperate that their GW2 client isn’t working despite all the troubleshooting steps taken.

P.S.: also, if anyone found out some kinda fix for the “lockedRect.pbits” crash bug, I’m all ears :$, those crash aren’t gamebreaking like the low fps problem, but they’re still troublesome…

Well, although this thread is a month old, I’ll still add myself to the list.
iMac 27"
3.4GHz i7
16GB
10.7.5 (got a MBP retina using 10.8, well I won’t be updating my imac to 10.8, it’s even more locked down than 10.7. in fact the system gets more locked down with each new update…10.4 was the limit, after that it was downhill)

Anyway, I’ve always gotten the lockedRect.pbits bug a few times a week so I wasn’t even bothering trying to fix it anymore (although always crashing right before the loot does get old…), but since a day ago (19.Oct.2013) My fps have totally dropped to about 10, unplayable. I had already gotten that problem after an update one time before, and I did everything I did back then, and more: deleting GW2 files, resetting SMC, PRAM, etc… This time it’s not helping at all, and I can’t get it to work at more than 10fps anymore.

I would normally get about 30fps with most of my graphic options on low, which is kinda lame considering it’s a maxed out 27"… I’ll give Anet 2 or 3 days to fix it on their end, like what happened last time, but if I can’t fix it this time, I’ll just quit. I’ve wasted more time on GW2 than I’d like to admit.

Why stealth on longbow?

I dunno why but I’m loving it!

I don’t really care about builds and stats and all that stuff, I just run whatever feels the most fun, and I have to say, since they introduced that “stealth” thing, I’ve been having a lot more fun!

Took me a while to actually realize that my ranger went stealth by herself, at first I always tough an ally was using some kind of stealth skill on the party/zerg.

I feel like my survivability went up, and that was my main concern with my ranger (not quite there yet, but definitively going in the right direction).

I dunno the mechanics behind it, but if I had to try to explain it, I would say that going stealth, even for 1-3 seconds, allows me to “de-aggro” the enemy in front and replace myself, which makes pve ai go back to my pet and leave me alone, and more importantly, in wvw and pvp (mainly wvw, I don’t pvp much) confuse the person attacking me just long enough for me to escape what would otherwise most likely be a fatal blow :$

In short, I think this stealth think was a really good idea! It makes my favorite class AND weapon feel useful now

On another note, if they really are going to modify the LB some more, they can have 1 and 3, and maybe 2 (good, but not fast or useful enough i feel), but please don’t touch my barrage and point blank shot !
5 is great for aoe, and 4 is awesome to push away all those scary people coming at me with an angry look on their faces >_<

This is beyond ridiculous… it’s so ridiculous it ain’t even funny anymore.

There is no way to find anything on this forum other than to make a new post,
and then you get yelled at for not finding the x number of other posts that already talk about your post’s subject.

This is a worldwide MMORPG coming on par with WOW and such, and the webmasters can’t even make a decent forum… oO?

This is the only problem I’ve ever found that never seem to be addressed, almost as if they purposefully avoid mentioning it…

this is the first time I see a skin that I actually like.

I really hope there’s gonna be other ways to get that Magitek armor than through the gem store’

Ok, so how does one go about finding those “charged lodestones”?

Currently, the only reason I’m still playing GW2 is to craft my Dwayna’s Wing

-100 Mystic coin: got them from my 700+ hrs of play
-Eldritch Scroll: will buy from Miyani when ready
-20 Superior sigil of Purity… going to be a bit expensive, but I should be able to afford them
My problem is with fricking Gift of Light:

-I actually farmed AC to get the tears necessary to buy gift of ascalon, despite me being a dungeon-hater and farming-hater (still am, even more now actually).
-ori ingot and cured hardened leather don’t seem to be “too” expensives…
-I’m currently leveling an alt and having it learn Armorsmithing, but getting to 400 will require me to buy mats since I already finished my stocked ones, so yet more gold thrown away…
-The recipe for Gift of Light, 10 more gold thrown at Miyani…fine, whatever….

But 100 KITTENING CHARGED LODESTONES… wtf, those things are worth 3 gold A PIECE (at current market price, and they’re likely to go up…)

In my 700+hrs I don’t think I’ve ever even seen ONE!

I wanted to craft Dwayna’s Wing rather than buy it of the TP, since it gave me an actual goal rather than having to farm for gold (anti-farm) , which isn’t possible in this game anyway (in my 100% map completion time, I got about 8g, never actually buying anything but salvage kits…) and also because carrying around something I crafted myself just isn’t the same thing as just buying it, but this game as became beyond ridiculous for me…

Most of my gold (almost 300) I got from wasting time on the TP, and that took me 8 months…

So, what ways are there to find those “charged lodestones” other than:
-Buying them off the TP (which would cost more than buying Dwayna’s Wing directly from the TP…how the hell do the people selling them make a profit?)
-Farm idunnowhichmobsormaps for hundreds of hours (I won’t)

I’m a hardcore believer that games are meant to be “fun”, and that when you don’t get any fun out of a game anymore, and keep playing without really knowing why, then it’s time to quit.
So far, the possibility of getting Dwayna’s Wing and W3 were the only things I still found “fun”, and now my W3 server is starting to get all serious and stuff and I find myself playing W3 less and less, so if getting those Charged Lodestones is gonna be either buy at an exorbitant price or farm for hundreds of hours, then that’s it for GW2…

@ Rin

I’ve started a thief as my 4th alt (currently lv36, but planning ahead) and as a W3 player mostly, and just because I find it fun, I’d like to make a build that maximize Stealth.

I’ve looked at your build, but could you explain to me what process should I use to get as close as possible to “perma-stealth” (if that’s even possible?) weapons, traits, utilities?

I use a SB as I find that no matter the class, I always play ranged weapon, and getting too close to a zerg usually gets me killed in a few seconds, plus I just like it. However I almost never use my second set as I find all those D/P/S pretty useless (they’re not, but that’s how I feel when I use them, if you see what i mean)

I’d also like to know how one would go about soloing camps, as I’ve heard a thief can do it easy, yet none of my other chars. can do it, not even my main ranger.

But then again, I’ve never really bothered too much with builds as I just play to have fun

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Spotted! Thank you kind Sir!

I have to say, there are quite a few places on the world map that could use another waypoint…

but that one…

it’s about 30 steps from the one above it…

I know it was added due to those new “guild mission” thingies, but still… -_-’

Hi

I’m resorting to asking on the forum because this is driving me crazy.

I had 100% unlocked a few months ago (October I think, got the title, success, 2 gifts, etc…), and I’ve been playing mostly WvW since, but recently started a new alt to go with some friends I managed to get into the game, and I just realized the Waypoints number went from 507 (i think) back then to 512 now.

So I grabbed my Main and went out to reclaim my 100% (I know, so long as I got it once, I’m keeping it. It’s just for completion’s sake).

I got the following new WP:

1 in Brisban
1 in Plains of Ashford
1 in Strait of Devastation
1 in Cursed Shores

Soooo….. was there a new waypoint added before those 4? Because internet and forum researches only talk about these 4, and I’m stuck at 511 outta 512…?

Same bug, since March 26 update

another thread about it here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Major-bird-glitch/first#post1724037

+1

I got the same bug, like some sort of texture glitch that comes out of all birds.
Started right after March 26 update.
I get it both in PvE and WvW

And no it is not “amusing”, it’s starting to get annoying and very distracting…

I’ll take a few screenshots when I log in later

Naqaj.6219:

Engel Angel.9076:

Also, dunno if this is related, but for the first time since I started playing in October, I can’t logging anymore…and crashes have happened a lot more recently… it’s like every update makes it worse than before… -_-’

If you mean you can’t log in right now, that’s becasue there are general connectivity issues at the moment.

Yes, it looks like those have finally been fixed.

Didn’t change anything about the lag though…still nearly unplayable in WvW:
One second I’m moving
The next second a 20+ bus pops up in front of me (like, just in front, right there)
The third second I’m dead…
It’s not that I’m frustrated to get gang-up on, it’s the fact that the game/server can’t deal with bus/zergs, and in between seeing the bus, and being dead on the ground, I only get about 5-6 frames…
I mean if it had always been like that I, then it would come from my internet and/or hardware, but both of those are fine, and it used to work fine before, I used to have decent fps, and I didn’t change or modify anything on my end, so…

Can’t log in either:

Server EU Jade Sea
Build 16732
EC: 42:0:9001:4105

What the hell’s going on oO?

Same here.

Never had any noticeable lag until the last “big” update (the “living world” thingy I think), at which point the lag became quite noticeable…but the last update (yesterday 19.02.13)…I had had to quit the game, WvW with that kind of lag is totally unplayable…

And it does NOT come from my end.

Also, dunno if this is related, but for the first time since I started playing in October, I can’t logging anymore…and crashes have happened a lot more recently… it’s like every update makes it worse than before… -_-’

I’ll had myself to this list, and had/confirm a few things:

-it’s not just the windows client, I’m using the mac client and I still get disconnects.

-changing router doesn’t change anything: got a new router cuz I though mine was too old, changed all the cables too while i was at it, worked fine for a while, log in GW2, within less than an hour problems start again…

-as my phone is connected via my router, everytime GW2 “bugs” my router, I lose both the internet AND the phone line…extremely annoying.

-ISP says everythings looks fine on their end: they can see the router crash log, and does indeed confirm all the disconnects, but they don’t see anything wrong with it.

-I’m not entirely sure that GW2 is the cause, as I’ve had disconnect quite a few times when GW2 wasn’t running, however the disconnect did appear AFTER I started playing GW2, and they do happen way more often WHILE I’m playing.

What I’m thinking is that the GW2 client may not be directly at fault, but somehow modified some of the router/connection settings.

-I’m in Swiss

-I used to have a single disconnect at the beginning of the evening and then I could play for hours…nowadays it can happen at any time, and a LOT more often.

edit:

-I usally check if I’ve lost connection by pressing a skill from the skill bar: if nothing happens and the skill icon just keep flashing without doing anything then I’ve lost connection and have GW2 crash on me in a matter of seconds.

+1

Sure we get crashes and bug and whatever every now and then (sometimes more than other times), but overall, if they were that bad then I wouldn’t have logged in 350+ hours in this game then…

“Beta” is better than “Nothing”

Keep it up Anet!

1) Never though about auto-run -_-’ I did try it once at the beginning but didn’t realize the use back then…
I tested it and although it’s not perfect, it’s still better than having to stop everytime

2) I did know about up arrow to retrieve previous sentences…but I never once though to use it to retrieve and repeat sentences… ^^’ it’s so obvious now that I think about it
Of course that still require to write everything at least once on loggin, so having an external file with said sentences to copy/paste is a pretty good idea.

I’d still like to be able to bind short orders like “repack”, “focus on x”, etc… too use on the fly while fighting though

I’ll go get used to that auto-run feature now, thanks for the reminder!!!

(Still can’t believe I never though to use up arrow to re-use orders -_-’ )

I’ve been wondering for a while as I’ve been finding myself doing a lot of WvW lately:

1) How can you activate chat while moving?

Activating chat (pushing enter) always makes my characters stop, yet I see some people chatting while moving about? that would be a very helpful command to know.

2) How to assign pre-written sentences to keys?
The most obvious example being a guild propaganda speech being cast again and again, people can’t write at that speed and certainly not this consistently, so how? I’d love to be able to assign orders and simple questions/answers to keys (attack, timer?, defend, etc…).

I’ve already googled a bit on the subject, but haven’t had any luck, so here I am, hoping you guys might be able to enlighten me on the subject : )

I’d love a native mac client too, but as it’s been said above by a few, I’m not so sure this is such a good idea, or even removing beta status for that matter.

We have a working mac client already, granted not the best, but still far better than I ever expected from a beta.

Beta means they’re still working on it (supposed to anyway),
whereas out of beta would mean a lot less attention to us.

And as for native, I’m afraid it would make the mac version veer away so much from its windows counterpart that it might almost become a “different” game, so to speak.

What I think they should do is to simply update the client every now and then, edit out a few bugs, that kinda thing, that will get it outta beta eventually, without risking to mess it up completely.

They shouldn’t try to go too fast: Anet should forget about all those “events” they’re so found of for a little while, and concentrate on game bugs and updates instead.

That’s what I think anyway.

Haven’t been through all the posts, but I’ve seen enough of them too see I’m not the only one with this problem:
-Female Human Ranger
-Vigil Female Medium Leggings with horizontal line on stomach.
Looks like a seam issue to me.

After testing with various top armors it appears the line appears on any armor skin that shows a bare belly.
That legging was made for having the top part covered by the Vigil top armor part, so the guy who designed it didn’t bother to make a clean finish as He though it would be covered and not seen.

Would really appreciate if this was corrected as it looks like my character as a disembowelment scar on her belly… kinda creepy

Why would it be bad? if you can do it, then it’s part of the game.
Besides, the best MF require 6 runes, and that require 1 rune on each piece of armor available.

I went full MF, currently at 130-150ish % . . . and I don’t see any differences -_-’
I still get crappy loot . . . I think MF is broken, cuz I seriously don’t get better loot on my full MF main character than I do on my no MF alt character

Anybody find it actually of any use?

I -was- gonna write a very long and very detailed post about how GW2 was the only mmo that actually managed to keep me coming back, essentially due to the fact that a majority of the game does not require forced social interaction, which for some reason every game developer nowaday seem to think should be the primary function of any game, be it computer or console, rpg, fps, rts, whatever…However I would only be repeating what others have already mentioned on this thread.
I was so surprised and disgusted at the last “personal” mission turning into a “forced grouping” mission that I’m probably just gonna quit playing the game entirely…

It’s not that I want it to be solo that badly, it’s just that I feel I’ve been made a fool of…
Anet offered me an awesome game, and purposefully made a fool outta me at-the-very-end… I feel tricked… It’s FFXIII-2 cliffhanger ending all over again…

lagrangeify.5641:

Here’s my gal, dressed for warfare ^^ She’s a skirmishing trap ranger and beastmaster who’s fond of her pet raven, jaguar and polar bear. She likes to get her hands dirty with a great sword generally, though uses an axe and warhorn as a backup….sometimes she even uses a bow.

What armor is that? I recognize some parts, but not all of them

I get this bug as well: sometimes the movement keys will get “stuck” (I mapped mine to the up, down, left, right arrows). The character will just keep going in a direction as if I was still pressing the key (no matter the direction, strafing L and R, but forward and backward too). sometimes just pressing once a move key again will fix it, but most of the time, if I am stuck going, say, left, and I press, say, forward, my character will go forward, but will go back left as soon as I let go of forward. The only way to make it stop in that case is to double-tap a move key to make it stop (activating “dodge” move)
Not really game-breaking, as it only takes a dodge to debug it, but as mentioned above, there are a few times where it makes things dangerous (like say, in a fight, where wasting a dodge could mean the difference between winning and losing, or on ledges or high places, where…well, seems kinda obvious :P)

For info, I run an up-to-date Lion on an iMac 27", 3.4Ghz, 16GB, HD6970M 2048MB
…But I’m fairly sure it’s a GW2 bug, not a computer one.

Sang.3641:

Then just fold in the lost pet dps directly into the ranger.

This would accomplish a few things that the ranger pet system currently has problems with.
1. Pet survivability would no longer be a problem
2. The problem with pets unable to hit moving targets would become a non issue
3. Dumb pathing and pets being an aggro magnet would also vanish

kittening awesome idea, love it!!!!
+1

deepwinter.9015:

ForgottenBlade.3597:

I look across the forums and see defeat, sorrow, and betrayal…

…Uh huh. I see. Braveheart? Aragorn? Maybe Joan of Arc?

I see what you’re trying to do here, but this isn’t a war against a great evil. Its not even a battle of ideals. Its about satisfying customers and a company providing a product; that product being a video game.

So make your virtual stand in your virtual holy place, Lady Typical Fantasyname, and know that someone read your post.

No sooner had this lowborn spoken, than a sudden pain seared through his right leg, making him lose his balance and fall flat on his back. As he was trying to get his head back up, the last thing his fear-filled eyes saw, beside the silver tipped and feathered arrow now replacing what was once his knee, was the razor sharp claws of a snow leopard going straight for his face…
As the beast’s white, almost silver colored fur coat was slowly turning red with the blood of it’s meal, a figure emerged from the crowd of commoners.
Her celestial white clothes adorned with gold linings and ornaments, as well as the way the crowd was respectfully making way for her, left little doubt as to her place in society. Alysee Angel’s purple eyes looked straight at Sparrow Silverstar’s and stood still for a moment…then, as if satisfied by what she saw, she turned around and disappeared back into the crowd.
As she looked back to the corpse, Sparrow absentmindedly noted that the snow leopard had disappeared as well: She turned back to the crowd and proceeded back to rallying her fellow rangers, with the quiet satisfaction of knowing that the Angelic Blades would be there when the time would come.

Oh, and IMO, and unless I miss understood what you implied:
I see what you’re trying to do here, but this isn’t a war against a great evil. Its not even a battle of ideals. Its about satisfying customers and a company providing a product; that product being a video game.

…His a true statement…harsh, but true.
But:
So make your virtual stand in your virtual holy place, Lady Typical Fantasyname, and know that someone read your post.

…Now that’s going to far. Everybody enjoy gaming in there own way. You may not agree with it, but that doesn’t make you any more right than the next guy.

All of the above as been said in a light-hearted way, I don’t mean to offend anyone K? ^^

Being a Ranger to me means, in no particular order:

-Climbing the environment and find vantage points to shoot from (So pleeaassseee cut that “invulnerable” crap!!!) Cause I’m a fricking Archer!!!!!!! not a melee class!!!! the whole point of a longbow is to shoot from AFAR!!!

-Be able to survive on my own, because rangers are supposed to be solo survivalist. I don’t go IN the group, I stay NEXT TO the group, always keeping an eye out for vantage point where I can scout ahead, and which will allow me to shoot my arrows without getting a blade’s edge right in my face…that’s the melee’s classes role.

-Being STEALTHY!!! because a ranger is supposed to be a hunter!!! hunter’s blends in and wait for their prey (so where the kitten is my camouflage?!!!) or put traps and lure them in (I can’t go invisible to set up traps, I can only put them down when the guy with the sword is running straight for me, or put them randomly hoping and idiot hasn’t seen me placing them…)

-Yes….sight rangers are animal lovers…but why the kitten should my damage be split with it? Cat goes in for the kill Cat gets kicked in the face and goes down Ranger looks like an idiot…
Don’t get me wrong, I love pets, but why the hell should I have to use a freeky spider or a dumb chocobo-looking bird when my favorite animals are felines? (idk, make a transmutation stone that works on pets or something…)
Or why should I have to use a pet AT ALL? who says my Ranger wants a pets?
WHAT IF the reason I like rangers in the first place is because I imagine them as stealtily walking in the shade to find a good shooting angle and prepping an ambush while is sword-wielding partner go play decoy and lead the enemy into the ambush…and then comes that kitten DOG walking leisurely in the middle of the battlefield, giving out my position, and bringing a few aggroed friend with him while he’s at it…. WTF!???
I love the pet “CONCEPT”, but seriously…if it sucks that much, just let us alleviate that thing’s suffering…
I WANT a pet, that’s one of the reason I like rangers in the first place…but not if not only is it useless, but it’s actually dangerous to my OWN survival…
Rex, do NOT go lick that Champion’s butt…I said NO…NOOOO! COME BACK HERE YOU *("%%/+(%/("!!!!*

I think that’s it…for now

Oh, and if I let loose above, it’s just cuz I needed it…I mean, despite all that, I’m STILL playing my ranger… Although after reading myself, I wonder why…?
…scratching head… -_- ?

Is it that it’s one of the few mmo that actually works on mac?
Is it that I love the customizations option?
Is it that despite all it’s flaws and dumb AI and it’s inaccurate shape and textures, I just love that kitten snow-leopard (I mean, a game where I actually get to play with my favorite animal!)
Is it that I just love to immerse myself in the game, pretending to be a lone ranger with her trusty Snowblind, walking the world for the beauty of it…?
Or maybe…it’s the completionist within me that just can’t let go… yeah, that one might have a higher impact than the others >_<’

I LOVE GW2, and I never considered using another class than ranger as my main, but by the time that completionist within me sees “100% world map” on his screen, those rangers better be fixed, cuz I have no particular interest in other classes, and I won’t have any more reason to stay if by then Rangers are still useless for anything else other than PvE…

P.S: I forgot that I also wanted to say:
the official description of the ranger as nothing to do with the actual rangers…sad

Edit:
I just realized why I see the word “kitten” everywhere on the forum… come on…I don’t write the whole word, I just put an F and a few stars XD

tofus.4751:

I tried to name my brown bear Emergency Food Supply but it was to many characters

How about “Emergency Rations”, does that fit oO?

As for mines:

Snowleopard: “Snowblind” , my real-world favorite animal, he’s always out when in snowy places, if not everywhere else ^^
Black Jaguar: “Twinfire” , he gets the tropical places like jungles and beaches
Shark: “Razor” , cuz it’s the only other name I can think of for a great white that isn’t “jaws” -_-’
My 2nd aquatic is an ice drake, but I haven’t found something that sticks yet.

BTW, does anybody else besides me feels like some pets are more bugged than others?
I love my Snowleopard, but I feel he dies faster and is overall weaker than my jaguar, even though they’re both felines and have the same stats?

Agreed, imo most skills (not just 30pts ones) I find totally useless…for a ranger anyway.
I like the traps, but that’s about it…

-1 to 4 don’t inspire anything to me, although 3 could possibly be useful, and 2 would be a sight to see :P

-The footprint idea is pretty cool, but not really practical in this kind of game imo.

-Camouflage would be AWSOME: I can’t count the number of times I got pawned cuz a zergs suddenly pops up and there’s nowhere to hide…frustrating when i know i would be able to take most of them 1v1 no problem -_-’
Aren’t rangers supposed to be the perfect scouts? how can we scouts if we ain’t got no stealth capabilities whatsoever?

Here are my suggestion btw

-Explosive arrow for a control blast, kinda like “knock back shot” with LB, but useful in a crowd

-An “arrow upgrade” Signet that gives arrows a little “boost”, examples would be fire/ice/bleed/2 arrows per shot/whatever/… that gives condition damage to arrows.

-“Turn into X pet” skill, like some of those heart quest where you get turned into an animal or a machine: maybe make it turn us into the same as active pet or something, that would be so cool

-“Wild animal comes to help” skill, where any green, and possibly yellow, animals in the vicinity comes to fight for us, that would be very cool too!

My lv80 ranger, armor isn’t final, I was hoping for a human tier3 cultural torso, and maybe pants (not the rest, don’t like’em), however those are 30 and 20 gold, and in my 1 to 80 lv run, I only ever got about 6 gold… without buying anything but salvage kits… and I HATE grinding, whenever I have to start grinding for lv or gold usually mean I’m about to put the game back in it’s box and move to a new one…

I love GW2, but I play games for the customization options (armor designs, dyes, …) and the story. I don’t care about stats, all I want is the look of the armor, but I refuse to play hundreds of hours just for a few pieces of gold…
Is making gold in this game THAT impossible? oO?

Ryox Sinfar.4985:

Engel Angel.9076:

-Again, maybe not a bug, but I can’t change weapons instantly all the time, sometimes I can change at will, but most of the time it’s like there’s a cooldown before switching back (annoying as I play almost only longbow, and only use cor for speed boost, but then have to wait (maybe 10s?) before being able to switch back to longbow, which is time enough to get downed… I mean if it was all the time, then I would assume there’s a cooldown, but sometimes I can just change at will instantly (which I prefer, obviously :P

Do you mean in combat? Because there is a cooldown for switching between weapons in combat. This restriction is not there when you aren’t in combat. It is 7-9 seconds about? Not sure. You can see the cooldown on the weapon swap button (left side of the skill row at the bottom) when you swap weapons.

Well, that’s what I though, but the thing is I’ve never seen a weapon cooldown show up anywhere, and also, it seems to happen randomly whether in or out of combat…I’ll try to do some in-game test with specific situations and see if it’s just me imagining things…

Another point I forgot to add in my previous post, which as already been mentioned I think:

- Auto-attack doesn’t seem to work past a certain distance (eagle eye distance?). I am still in damaging distance, but I have to shoot manually.

Hi all!
Been playing Ranger up to 80, and have read through a lot of this thread, but not all of it, so maybe some of the following have been said already:

-Names don’t stick (been said already, but really annoying: I play this game for the customizations option, and pet names are part of that for me).

-Maybe this isn’t a bug, but I find that my Longbow Volley skill doesn’t always work, for some reason it doesn’t activate with some targets (not specific target type, just any random one). It’s been happening a lot more recently, and distance doesn’t change anything (it can work (or not in this case!) from anywhere from point blank to eagle eye skill distance).

-When finished with a target, my ranger sometimes automatically attack the next one (including yellows) despite no command input, really annoying when I wanna get outta there! (been said I think).

-Healing Spring never worked for me, whether downed or dead.

-When downed, I noticed the Lick Wounds skill neutralize the Bandage skill if already activated, but I can reactivate Bandage (after cooldown) while Lick Wounds is still active…is this normal? (lick wound deactivating bandage I mean, I already died a few times due to that…)

-Maybe not a bug, but trapper’s expertise sucks, and I reverted back to untargeted traps right away: the traps don’t activate if no target selected and in range, so ambush impossible, (I can’t just put a trap at anytime like normal traps, it HAS to have a target locked, in range, and sometimes even with that they still won’t activate…)

-Again, maybe not a bug, but I can’t change weapons instantly all the time, sometimes I can change at will, but most of the time it’s like there’s a cooldown before switching back (annoying as I play almost only longbow, and only use cor for speed boost, but then have to wait (maybe 10s?) before being able to switch back to longbow, which is time enough to get downed… I mean if it was all the time, then I would assume there’s a cooldown, but sometimes I can just change at will instantly (which I prefer, obviously :P

-I read about (and experienced) the “invulnerable” status on some enemies, and I heard it was made so as not to be able to attack foes who can’t attack back? (too far or unreachable or…) BUT sometimes it happens when I’m standing RIGHT IN FRONT of a target !? Also, the following isn’t a bug, but isn’t the purpose of a longbow to attack from AFAR? and isn’t climbing on a “vantage” point where an enemy won’t be able to REACH ME in melee (which as a ranger I want to AVOID) part of the “STRATEGY” element of the game? I mean, I don’t play ranger for the melee! I play ranger (longbow) to get higher grounds, be stealthy, and act kinda like a sniper, not some idiot running around the battlefield with a “machinebow”… I think that “invulnerable” status is the dumbest thing ever… but that’s imo

Alright, I think that’s all I got for now, any clarification would be much appreciated, thank you!

I got stuck storywise at around level 45 and 30ish% map, and went on exploring’n’leveling in the meantime…..Now 2 weeks later I’m lv 80 and about 65% map, and still can’t enjoy the storyline…..despite the fact that my game got updated quite a few times already.
Alright, so there are a LOT of bugs to fix (understandable, it’s a really big game, not complaining on that), but shouldn’t a bug that affects the MAIN STORYLINE take priority over events, skill points, or whatever…?

I don’t mind waiting for glitchy standalone skillpoints or events, but something that literally stops me from advancing the “real” game, now that’s really annoying…but then again, a mmo with no monthly fee AND that works on a mac, I don’t really have anything to complain about… :P

Same here, as soon as there’s a bit too much action or explosions/lights, I have to turn my view somewhere else to find it again, really annoying in the middle of a fight…
just an option to select the color, and maybe the size too, because I find it almost small at times.

edit: okay, screw the above comment, it’s not “almost small at times”, it’s “way too small and pretty much invisible in almost any combat situation”