Guild Wars 2

SHADOW GLIDER

A glider made of black smoke or something like that, would fit thieves amazingly! Pretty easy to design as well I suppose.

I’m sorry for your loss. May she rest in peace.

Karl I wanna be honest here. Lots of awesome changes for the ranger class. I expected something more about the pets tbh, but after seeing that video I can say I still have a lil bit of faith.

Tribio.8531:

My both pets have their own name, they get buffs, they buff me.. And yes, I switch them very often.. Am I misreading something here?

By “switching” he probably meant the selection of a different pet, not the swapping between the two pets you have active at a certain moment. Therefore if you need let’s say a tanky pet and neither of your pets suit that requirement then you will have to select a different one. Maybe one whose look you don’t like.

Tribio.8531:

The fact that some pets are more DPS oriented than others (who are more utility oriented) is nothing more than (in my opinion) logic..

Absolutely, no way I can argue against that. But at this point by logic a bear should be stronger than a dog. I agree there’s a logic behind pets fixed stats. But it’s just an online game…I mean players just want to use what they like, especially in a game like gw2 which is an appearance-driven game.

+1 totally agree. How about BOWS? Can we have some realistic looking bows please? Nearly all the bows in this game are huge and unrealistic, weird if not plain silly, especially the ones released recently, so it’s basically getting worse and worse.
Hero’s longbow….
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/5/51/Hero%27s_Longbow.jpg
The phoenix one…
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/a/a9/Phoenix_Longbow_Skin.jpg

Are those limbs? Really? Look like metal blades to me. How do they bend?
I like how they designed good looking compound bows like rox’s bow. But seriously those bow look terrible. I really want some cool looking wooden bows. It’s quite obvious anet artists are not really into archery but the internet is full of awesome images they could get ideas from…
https://blackwidowbows.com/index.php?route=common/home

Let’s speculate, you didn’t, as I did not direct mine at you. If I thought such a thing you would likely ask me to demonstrate my assumption, which is obviously something I wouldn’t be able to do. This kind of logic debates are neverending so yea let’s put this to an end.

Prysin.8542:

and then there is yet another category that goes onto the forum to present a biased, illogical and ill presented, also often spiteful and hateful, post about why they do not like function X Y Z on their designated profession. They then parade around saying “i quit the class long ago, not playing it anymore. Lol warrior much better”

I don’t find my post biased nor illogical. I was complaining about poor game immersion caused by a slapdash pet mechanic. And it’s a fact. It is hateful tho and it’s not like I’m denying that. If you think my post is illogical feel free to demonstrate why it is so, keeping in mind the subject which is game immersion and class design and not pet effectiveness in game. And yes I quit the class cos I don’t enjoy playing it cos I feel like playing a beta. I wish I could go back to my ranger tho. And no I don’t play warrior I’m playing necro, since I really like the way they had designed its class mechanics. Why should I play a warrior? I told you I don’t pick a class based on its effectiveness, and I wasn’t complaining about ranger being weak. Looks like it’s you bringing up illogical arguments, I don’t feel like belonging to that category you mentioned.

Prysin.8542:

you know, there is no-one forcing you to play the class if you do not like it…

That’s why I’m not playing it anymore. But, you know, I still like the archetype and I’d like a well designed ranger class in gw2, that’s the reason lots of ppl post complaints and suggestions on these forums. Sadly there is another well-represented category of ppl who accept blindly everything they are given.

Let’s talk about our awesome pet-swap mechanic. I feel this one got introduced cos even the devs at some point realised their pet mechanic wasn’t really working that well in game (aka the class was unplayable), so they had to remedy to that really fast. Is the pet dying too often? No problem let’s fix this the easy way…let’s add another pet you can swap to. Awesome. And, to add disgrace to the devastation, let’s make the character say “I choose you” so we can turn this game into something even more childish. Let’s attract those teenage pokemon fans (sry pokemon fans, no disrespect).

I still remember one interview where an anet dev was talking about the living story excited like a kid on christmas and he was like “ohhh we all love Frostbite (rox’s pet) it’s our favourite character in the studio bla bla”. Cool isn’kitten Why doesn’t rox have an additional pet she is forced to swap to? I can tell you why…cos it would break game immersion. For the same reason every other ranger main npc in game has only a single pet (Eir). I understand lots of ppl don’t pay attention to details but I also believe many others do, like me. I want to choose a pet I like, choose the stats I like and feel some sort of emotional attachment to it. I think this is the goal of a good designed pet class. Not to mention Master’s Bond trait. Dunno if that has changed but as far I can remember all bonuses are lost on pet swap. A clear example of synergy between class mechanic and its traits lol. They should have added some sort of heal skill for the pet (an ability to refill its hp bar or something like that) instead of this pet swap thing.

I know there are many more problems related to our pets, like bad AI, but tbh I doubt they will ever fix those kind of problems since it took them 2 YEARS to fix f2 skills.

I have been playing ranger since game release. No actually I haven’t. I used to play ranger but I don’t play it anymore. It’s not downgraded to the rank of an additional bank just cos I’d feel sry for the character I still consider my main.

This is not a qq thread about ranger effectiveness in pve/pvp/wvw since I don’t really care about it. I love the ranger archetype and I always play nature-based classes whenever possible. Well to be honest I do care about effectiveness since I used to play spvp a lot back when I considered it at least approximately fun and I still play high lvl fractals, but I don’t pick my class based on how effective or broken it is. Assuming the ranger to be the worst class in game (which is probably true lol but w/e) I’d still play it IF it was at least fun or well designed. It’s not. And the reason is its class mechanic aka pets.

Let me specify I’m not against pets and I’m pretty much ok with them. I’m not asking for the devs to remove pets or give us a perma-stow option since it will never happen because: 1-the devs are stubborn and will never change their flawed philosophy; and 2-they have screwed up the traits so much (by binding almost all of them to the pet) it would require a whole class redesign.

I admit the f2 skills fix was a move in the right direction and helped a lot. But It’s not enough, not even close. I don’t care if they manage to make pets work somehow, I don’t (and every other ranger player truly attached to this fantasy archetype should feel the same) want to play a slapdash class. Pets are literally like consumables, there’s NO connection with the character, no immersion in game. Pet swap is probably the worst idea they have ever come up with. Seriously I cannot really conceive how this band-aid idea was implemented in game.

I’m not a roleplayer, but I’m a perfectionist and I put a lot of care into my characters. And since I play this game also for its story and lore, I’d like a bit of immersion. Well I feel nothing for my pet, it’s not my companion, it’s just one of those (ugly, most of them) animals I have into my personal pokemon petting zoo. There’s no pet customization, they don’t even remember their name lol (and that’s not a bug they didn’t even contemplate this feature cos this is, again, a slapdash class) and since we are forced into choosing a different one every now and then lots of people don’t even name their pets anymore. The result? I cannot even tell which one is mine, they are all the same. We cannot even choose for real which pet we want to play with, since we cannot even change the stats.
Do you want a dps pet? Too bad bro you can’t use your bear cos in tyria, you know, bears don’t go much to the gym and are weaker than a dog as a result. kitten those dogs on roids. Do you need a ranged pet cos melee ones are dead more often than not in most endgame pve content? Grab a spider or devourer. Oh you wanted to play with a bird? Sry man your bird is a dps melee pet, bad luck. This is so annoying. Also most of those pets are either ugly, useless, or both. Pigs? Really? The murellow? I cannot even stare at that one.
There are NO exclusive pets to obtain in game. I remember in gw1 we had lots of beautiful pets. Here we have some decent-looking ones. That’s it.

Lol pet system in this game is so poorly implemented I don’t really care about pets not remembering their names. Actually I do, a lot, but seriously pets are like consumables, no connection with the character, no immersion, nothing.

Tbh I’m totally fine with them creating “one single piece” outfits since they usally look cooler than normal armors. Also, and this part is really important, they usually are somehow free of clipping issues. That said….

A lot of the light armor gear looks horrible (especially the ones on the gem store) and medium armor sort of follows that train as well. It feels like all the love is going towards heavy armor and even at that sometimes they look ugly as hell.

….I totally agree with you on that. Another thing to underline is that almost every armor/outfit is clearly made for a specific profession. I mean this is extremely annoying expecially for light armors since 90% of the new light ones released are clearly made for eles or maybe mesmers (trickster), while none of them looks remotely cool on a necro imo.

Chrispy.5641:

I love my Ranger! I hate the way its designed, but I love the base concept!

…..still not sure why I named her Cida (Latin for ‘killer’), but oh well, it fits!

Yea that’s something I can understand. Ranger is still my main, I don’t play it anymore cos it makes me feel sad and I don’t really enjoy playing it. I’d say the base concept of the class is ok, they pretty much nailed it, you feel like a ranger (as a fantasy archetype). Too bad the actual class implementation in game and class mechanics are awful.
Btw “cida” is not exactly a latin noun, is just a first declension suffix

IndigoSundown.5419:

Two things to fix Ranger:

1. Change the profession’s class mechanic; then lose the silly mechanic that says X% of ranger DPS is in the pet and buff ranger skills accordingly; to replace the profession mechanic, give rangers <anything else>.
2. Make pet skills (like Engineer Turrets and Necro Minions for those who like to play with AI).

This has been suggested sooo many times. Sadly I think it’s too late for something so drastic to happen. Plus the whole profession and its traits are way too connected to the pet. In order to make the pet an option they would have to redesign the whole class (I know I know the term “redesign” doesn’t really apply well here since the ranger class in gw2 can’t be called “fully designed” to begin with). But the main hindrance is a bit shadier imo. The devs will never ever do something like that cos of their pigheadedness. In their heads they know exactly how this terribly designed class should turn out to be. It doesn’t matter if their view of the ranger doesn’t apply to this game or simply doesn’t work or isn’t fun to play or play against. I mean really look at skyhammer map in pvp…everyone hates that stupid map, ppl even stay afk in order to avoid playing on that crap…still after one year or even more the devs have done nothing to fix or modify it. The same thing applies to the ranger or everything else in this game. With probably only one exception: if a decision is not lucrative enough they will probably change it in order to increase their profit. Sadly this is not true for the ranger…who cares if the class is subpar in pve or w/e gamemode you are playing in, the ranger player has already purchased the game (so who cares if he stops playing) and:

-already switched to a diff profession (or probably will);
-he does like the class…I know this sounds impossible to believe but the world is filled with this kind of ppl who accept everything they are given without protest or even a sign of disapprovement.

In the meantime, after 2 YEARS, we can still watch karl mclain declare that pets have “some issues”. Thanks karl I didn’t realise that.

Sry no disrespect intended but I chuckle a little bit every time I see someone appreciate the design disaster the ranger class is in gw2. Sadly.

Caedmon.6798:

How this hood even got passed the testing stage ( do you even … ? ) is beyond me,especially since its a GemStore item that lots of people use Real money to get stuff from..Things like these are just unacceptable.

Yea mate I know how you feel. As usual another item with awesome design but poor actual in-game implementation. Such a shame.
Anyways….still.not.fixed. Bump

Still.Not.Fixed. Bump

Item name: Artifact of the Sunless, but this bug applies to every ascended focus.
Race: human.
Gender: male.
Issue: the necromancer focus skill #4 (Reaper’s Touch) is bugged while using an ascended focus. Basically the scythe you send is misplaced/wrongly rotated.
The 2 screenshots I added display respectively the bugged animation while wielding the Artifact of the Sunless and the correct animation while wielding a random focus (tried that out with different foci as well, same result).

Illustrious Fox.7196:

Liewec.2896:

in pvp we have no wealth and we eat our stale bread and wash it down with a puddle of water.

Qu’ils mangent de la brioche

Ahah nice one. I love cultured irony. Don’t expect many people to understand tho.

Ryuujin.8236:

Even if we negate the mechanical aspects of pets (like how they utterly melt when exposed to a zerg in WvW, or pathing up and down mountainsides the long way given their inability to jump over low ground cover).

Pet’s still come out lack-lustre compared to GW1, simply because each pet species has a distinct role, which means there is a relatively narrow band of “useful” pets. Your “pet” isn’t really your own, in a way that can can become attached to it. In GW1, I loved my moa, in a way it looked a little like kmy ranger, and i had a matching minipet, and it clicked.

But in GW2, i have a few pets I’ll use depending on situation, but none suit my aesthetic preference, i have no attachment, i use them as a utility, not a companion.

Very good post, that’s exactly how I feel. I don’t think majority of ppl are necessarily against having a pet. The problem is how pet mechanic was implemented in this game. Now they are trying to fix a few things, like f2 activation, but it’s simply not enough. I mean even if they managed to make pets work (which I highly doubt to begin with) it doesn’t really matter to me since the implementation of pets itself would be poorly designed anyway. I actually like the idea of having a pet but WHY should I be forced into choosing a specific pet (which I don’t like for example) for a specific role? Pets feel like consumables. No connection at all with my character. Oh and pet swapping? Really? That makes the whole thing even worse. Every time I hear my character shouting “I choose you” I wanna throw my mouse against a wall. This is not pokemon online.

KraunK.2319:

jesus christ no one want this map.

Wrong. Devs want the map to stay. Lol it’s like going against a wall, they are not going to remove it. I mean they worked kitten that horrible map and wasted a lot of their precious time. They expected super positive feedback from the playerbase, but as always they were wrong, cos there’s no connection at all between them and the players, their minds are in a total different dimension.

Extremely old bug, happens with every race. Love it on my human warrior tbh, red eyes look amazing <3 i wish i could select that colour using a makeover kit, but w/e…

Still not fixed…bump.

Still not fixed…bump.
Anet seriously I’m begging you because I can’t literally create a good looking character without clipping issues of some sort in this game. And no I’m not exaggerating. I reported this bug the best way I could. Is this so hard to fix? What’s the point in designing beautiful items if 9 out of 10 those items are bugged in some way?

Silentshoes.1805:

What else could you be doing with your time? Could you be improving the world in some small way?

Probably yes, he could. Nice post btw, really deep, it’s actually so deep it feels out of place on this forum.

Item: Cloth aquabreather
Race/gender: human male

Ugly clipping issue with the “clint eastwood” face (basically the only manly looking human face we have). In the screenshot is also evident the famous “red eyes” bug, but tbh after 1 year I suppose players have given up reporting that.

Grenth Hood bug

Item: Grenth Hood
Race/gender: human male

The hood clips with the character’s neck. This happens minimally while the character is standing still, and it’s way worse while the character is rotating his neck (for ex while he’s wielding a 2h weapon, like a staff). I didn’t notice it at first but once you do notice the issue, it becomes really annoying. This happens essentially cos the hood doesn’t “replace” the character’s neck, it just covers it up. The charcater’s head on the contrary is completely “removed” while the hood is on. If you watch your char really close in transparency you will easily notice how the neck is simply hidden by the hood, that’s why this bug occurs. I’ve also noticed this doesn’t happen with certain chest armors (like the orrian one), and the reason is the chest armor is already replacing your character’s neck. Sadly the orrian chest armor has some bad clipping issues with the grenth hood.

Item: Grenth Hood
Race/gender: human male

The hood clips with the character’s neck. This happens minimally while the character is standing still, and it’s way worse while the character is rotating his neck (for ex while he’s wielding a 2h weapon, like a staff). I didn’t notice it at first but once you do notice the issue, it becomes really annoying. This happens essentially cos the hood doesn’t “replace” the character’s neck, it just covers it up. The charcater’s head on the contrary is completely “removed” while the hood is on. If you watch your char really close in transparency you will easily notice how the neck is simply hidden by the hood, that’s why this bug occurs. I’ve also noticed this doesn’t happen with certain chest armors (like the orrian one), and the reason is the chest armor is already replacing your character’s neck. Sadly the orrian chest armor has some bad clipping issues with the grenth hood.

Item: Deathly bull’s mantle skin

Race/gender: HUMAN MALE (I know for sure the human female shoulderpads are not bugged, dunno about other races tho).

Essentially the right shoulderpad ONLY (watching the character from the back) has some weird graphical bug. I’m still fully confused on how this could happen on one shoulderpad only, since both of them share basically exactly the same skin. This is extremely evident and annoying, mostly cos this is the best skin to combine with the grenth hood. So pls fix this bug.

Race/gender: HUMAN MALE (I know for sure the human female shoulderpads are not bugged, dunno about other races tho).

Essentially the right shoulderpad ONLY (watching the character from the back) has some weird graphical bug. I’m still fully confused on how this could happen on one shoulderpad only, since both of them share basically exactly the same skin. This is extremely evident and annoying, mostly cos this is the best skin to combine with the grenth hood. So pls fix this bug.

I got mine yestarday on SFR (eu). Apparently I was to only one who got the chest. It was my second teq kill. Well I’m just lucky I guess. But really those weapons are not that special anyway, they look pretty much like the standard asc ones.

clint.5681:

Fjandi ANET has shown they have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to exploiters in the past when they banned plenty of paying customers, but that was for pve and they are showing they don’t care about pvp.

That’s a diff story. As far as I know those players got banned for a precise reason: they were exploiting the trading post (or other similar stuff). That’s obviously very dangerous for anet cos those players were basically messing up their stupid in-game economy. So they essentially banned them out of spite. Revenge.
Skyhammer farmers were totally different beasts. They spent real money on custom arenas (and putting custom arenas on the tp was a stupid idea to begin with), so everything was fine for anet until legit players started complaining on the forum and ripping on the devs. Only then they took action to solve the problem.

Sampo.9678:

Still i’d like to know if exploiting in pvp is not bannable.
And getting 25k glory each game for birthday booster exploit.
Isn’t that like 20-25 gold right now if you exchange for gifts?

The exploiters got 20-25 gold every 10 minutes..
And it seems to be totally ok.. I don’t understand!

Don’t you really understand? What do you expect them to do? Ban the exploiters? Really? Yes I’m quite sure exploiting is bannable but doing so is not convenient for anet. They are paying customers and most of them are likely still paying real money for this kittenty game. I’m quite confident anet doesn’t want them to stop. Also skyhammer farming used to be so widespread that if they really had banned all those exploiters the pvp scene would have been completely empty.

Devs are (and have always been) stubborn in their mistakes. They seem to care about the players and keep asking for feedback but, in reality, they simply ignore pretty much everything we say. Grouch is likely the exception here ofc, but he’s not a pvp dev.

Dardamaniac.1295:

Why not just quit..?

This.

joonasp.9217:

Anet plz stop adding female faces to the male face section!! We already had plenty of them.

This. New faces are terrible tbh (only one is decent).
Who knows, maybe they will add an aromatase inhibitor available on the TP, estrogen levels are way too high among male humans in tyria.

They did a very good job with ascended armors imo. Stats diff is minimal, so basically you can play with exo with no problems at all. Nerds have something new to farm and waste their time on, while other players can enjoy the game as they want since they are not forced into getting these new armors. Plus skins are horrible, which is cool.

It’s not really a bug, sadly. That’s how the hood is designed. You won’t be able to find any back piece fitting the grenth hood, since the hood has a piece of cloth covering your back. I’m fully confused on why they had designed the backpiece this way tho. It’s quite stupid honestly. They could have designed it differently, like the toxic spore, and they can still change it into a “floating backpiece”.
Anet WHY have you added into the game a GRENTH HOOD and a GRENTH BACKPIECE if players can’t really use them both on the same character due to terrible clipping? Cos, you know it’s quite obvious we want to combine them somehow.

I dunno tbh, I kinda like the aegis effect while wielding 2h weapons or…any weapon but a shield. The effect looks terrible on shields. Luckily our shield is pretty much useless so…

Araris.7839:

As the title says, this elite is a meditate, as backed by our friend Jon Peters own words. So, why is it not benefiting from our meditate trait lines?

That’s a really good question tbh. After all other professions have diff elite skills and pretty much all of them benefit from trait bonuses (like cd reduction etc). This is true for basilisk venom, signet of rage, spirit of nature etc. Making RF a meditation (it is already a med anyway) would be a really cool idea, plus would improve our dps spec without making bunker/support builds op (it’s only a 2k heal and 4 secs fury every 72 seconds, and support builds don’t take those traits).

I couldn’t care less, I hate mr sparkles. It sounds like a name from some crappy cartoon for kids.

Human cultural t3 (male) bug compilation

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Human-cultural-t3-male-bug-compilation/first#post3314899

So I’ve collected a few graphical bugs related to the cultural t3 armor. These might be seen as “minor issues” but they really aren’t, considering the fact that this armor is probably the most publicized armor in this game (it’s also used by one of the main characters in this game, Logan).
BUG 1: the little piece of cloth that hangs from the left shoulderpad has some weird “stretching”, expecially while the character is moving and/or wielding a weapon.
BUG 2: the left shoulderpad has some weird stretching on the “metal wing” as well (this is again mostly noticeable while the char is wielding a weapon). This might be related or not to the first bug.
BUG 3: this is the most annoying. The cloth parts attached to the helm and shoulderpads do NOT move at all like pieces of cloth are supposed to. They are totally static like a piece of metal. You might say “they were designed that way”. Not really since on the female version they move just fine. So this bug exists on the male version only. Who knows maybe they just forgot about this detail…

Crovax.7854:

Well it should look like that if it was a complete set but this image is as far as i know just a concept from deviantart.

Not really that’s how the original grenth’s armor looks like.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/natus/grenth.jpg

Jack Pumpkinhead.1534:

It looks quite nice.

No it doesn’t. They just used the trickster set (a set clearly designed for mesmers) cos they want you to spend money on that as well. There are better combos, like the dry bones armor (spvp name), and they don’t cost 800 gems. Anyway the hood doesn’t really fit any armor well. Not a surprise lol they wanted to add 5 diff races into the game and that’s cool, too bad as a result we can’t have any good looking armor since it’s probably too hard for them to design one whole set for all the races. They tried ofc, and the results are here for everyone to see…the only good looking sets for charrs are the cultural ones.
This is how that armor should look like.

Jornophelanthas.1475:

If that is about the looks, remember that different skins can be applied to any piece of gear, including ascended armor.

Oh sure that’s prolly the main reason why ascended armors look so bad. Buy more stones guys. So basically we are supposed to farm like kittens just for better stats, but after all this design strategy works since basically that’s what most mmo players are, kittens, and i’m just stating the obvious here.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Since there is no content in the game that requires ascended gear just take your time and have fun making it.

Too bad the crafting process is not fun at all.

I just want to thank you for fixing this bug! The mantle is perfect now.

Bump. One month later this bug is still there. Anet I’m not asking for the moon, I don’t expect you guys to fix every single graphical bug in this game, but really can you fix at least one? I can’t find a single armor in this game without clipping issues, I’m not even kidding.

Armor: phalanx armor
Race/gender: human male

I’ve already reported this clipping issue and it’s still not fixed. This armor is for sale for 800 gems (10 euros). It would be nice if this bug was fixed.
Here is the link to the original thread, with PLENTY of screenshots:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/New-phalanx-heavy-armor-BUGGED/first#post3136016

mtpelion.4562:

finite.5439:

5000? are you kidding??

Too low?

Way too low! 7k at least.