Guild Wars 2

That finds it extremely annoying that my camera goes through all the walls on the ship in Arah Story Mode dungeon? I feel like I can never tell where my character is unless I’m zoomed all the way in.

I’d go shortbow instead of axe/dagger but idk I’m to tired to test it out right now. Maybe tomorrow.

I don’t call them “Balance Patches” I call them “Warrior Buff patches” so we’ll never get a balance patch.

All these posts are pointless. You know by now they only have 2 people doing skill balancing and working on all that kitten. We aren’t going to get an overhaul or anything really fixed until they actually start giving a kitten about the players and I don’t see that happening.

The main thing that I HATE is that they are saying “we don’t care about skill balancing so we only have 2 people working that but we care about how the game looks so people will buy it, once they buy it we get the money so that’s all that matter.”

I like the build OP. Very survivable and you don’t do much damage but I’ve been holding off people in 3v1 until I get backup and it’s very impressive. Good job

So I’m seeing people liking the GS now and I was wondering what build you guys are running for PvP so I can try it out.

I’m representing a guild and I just updated to the new patch and it says I’m not in a guild when I try to talk in guild chat. I tried representing another guild and it still says the same thing.

To OP no thank you.

Streaming some PvP looking for helpful advice to better my skills. Come check it out and help me out

http://www.twitch.tv/Freky_Shadow#

Cool that worked thanks guys xD

ya I am let me try removing it.

I can’t even log in anymore it crashes at the launch window. Anyone else have this problem?

Figured I’d show everyone how bad the botting is for rangers :/

Indoles.1467:

So far, this is my latest build and it has worked quite well in sPvP (haven’t tested in much in WvWvW). Quite effective at weakening the target before they are able to reach you, then swapping to GS to finish them.

I really like to use the GS on my ranger, really fits my playstyle.
http://www.gw2build.com/builds/power-precision-ranger-ranger-pvp-power-precision-3817.html

I use the Superior Sigil of Ice the in longbow and Superior Sigil of Battle in the GS.

Signet of renewal over Signet of the Wild? Why that? Wouldn’t you be getting more conditions if you used it?

Zunhar.4079:

Rickshaw is pulling your leg. aka, trolling. Max glory per match is something like 350, so the fact that he “beat” the OP by 400 should have been a clear sign.

There is not max glory as far as I know. I’ve gotten 400 and something before and there’s a lot of pics showing more.

Corebot.2701:

rickshaw.5279:

I beat the OP in 12 matches and bested his score by over 400 points in one match.

This is fact because I say so. You should listen to me from now on because my experience makes me better than the person reading this post. Send me a PM for my infinite wisdom and please sign up for my newsletter.

You’re just full of angry gamer aren’t you.

Ya I only played 2 matches with him too and the last one I left to go eat. Ha so idk what’s up with him.

Chesire.9043:

Agreed.

In all honesty I wish player kills only netted you and your team 1 point max. Giving more is what’s promoting this kind of garbage play because it gives a reward towards zerging. Point defense needs a big boost in glory reward also since, as of right now, you get very little reward for defending your teams points, which in sPvP, is also promoting the zerg style of play.

Also: stop being a kitten. I can understand being competitive and all, but just being plain rude has no excuse behind except for showing your stupidity and wanting to stroke your own kitten of which is probably nonexistent anyway.

I don’t think they should lower the points of a kill because even if you are getting killed a lot but your team has 2 points capped the whole time then you’ll usually win.

I understand players(like him) who think they’re the kitten cause they’re getting kills but that’s not really helping your team if you aren’t capping points. This isn’t TDM like he thinks it is. Play smart and try to help your team don’t go around looking for people to fight that usually ends in a lose.

^ point proven thanks

I can understand peoples view on backstab thieves being OP but I don’t think that’s true at all. Backstab thieves have very low health, usually below 16k. That’s really low in PvP. I think people just need to play smarter instead of going full dps all the time. Throw some stunbreakers in your build and try to anticipate where the thief is when he’s stealthed to keep your back to him. If they miss that 1 attack then you have an advantage now.

I just came out of a couple matches going against someone who…thought they were the kitten. He kept saying I was “getting owned” by him because a engi killed me by shooting through a building somehow and he finished me off and then I was fighting the same engi and was at half health and this guy(who is a thief) finished me off.

So me being smart I stayed away from him since he thought he was so good. So I would go cap points and if I ran into him(someone else was usually with him) I would get away with my stealth(was playing a thief) and go cap another point.

He kept being a kitten and saying I was scared and blah blah blah. Just being rude over me being smart basically.

I ended up top player in the game and had over 100 points more then this guy. Please know that capping points is more important to your team then fighting someone. Don’t be like that guy and think you’re the best because you kill the same person twice either. Help your team out by capping.

Also if you see you’re going to a fight that’s going to be 2v1 and you can get away then do it. Cause odds are that unless you’re specc’d for fights like that you’re going to lose and just feed the other team points.

http://www.gw2build.com/builds/ranger-trap-pve-dungeons-7906.html

They’re not going to say anything.

Gaile Gray.6028:

Kazak.8459:

Still no rewards. Anet, any advice?

We would love to get a support ticket from you so we can work with you directly.

In general, I’m intrigued by this situation. We have several factors, like the fact the map completion “rounds up” and may look like it is fully done when there is another POI or two that needs to be visited. I am not sure if the system gives you the title, though, until you well and truly have 100%.

We’re suggesting you:

• Visit each map again
• Visit the Chantry of Secrets

Again, with 100% completion, the title, and a visit to the Chantry, I believe you should have the rewards. I will follow up with the team on this.

Gaile I didn’t know you were working for GW2! Yay this makes GW2 so much better

I will give you a +1

In GW1 you were able to because your pet was on a skill that you didn’t have to equip but they didn’t make it possible in GW2. I hope they make Stow Pet a toggle that actually stays stowed even when you’re in combat.

Just going to do my last dungeon so I can get a weapon from HoTW. What do you guys think? Should I get the Shortbow or Axe?

Depends on what way you want to run your character.

You could just save them till later levels.

Build

Let me know what you think. It has some description at the bottom of the page but it’s the best dungeon build I’ve tried out in dungeons so far. It’s nice because you focus on your traps and not what position you’re at with the shortbow(to the side of the enemy or behind).

Any feedback would be nice good or bad.

Sous.5164:

Freky is right on the money. Anet did a patch the other day that makes the Ranger nearly useless in WvW. I am now looking to shelf my full exotic gear Ranger that I have really enjoyed playing. As a matter of fact, I am contemplating just taking a break from the game for a couple of weeks and see if the issues with the Ranger are resolved.

If not, I will probably re-roll a Theif or Mesmer.

I’d wait till monday at least. They do their patches on mondays. I love my ranger too it is viable in certain situations like dungeons(I run a condition damage trap build) but WvW and PvP it doesn’t have the same versatility that the other classes have.

I would suggest going thief for now. You can go ranger if you want but we’re pretty kitten right now and waiting for Anet to fix us up.

When I go “heal/support” I use fern and brown bear and just have them on avoid combat. I just wish that I could cast their skills without them running in to attack.

I just ran a trap build for the first time in a dungeon and I must say that’s the way to go for dungeons. A lot of support with the fields and you do a good amount of damage. Anyone agree?

I was skeptical and then I tried it. Not as much damage as in the vid but it is pretty good. I’m face rolling people

The whole problem is that it was AFTER server reset. I have to be at work by 3:15pm so I leave my house around 2:30, before the reset. Reset happens at 4pm my time and then when I get on the next morning I can do the dungeons again and get the 60 tokens. That didn’t happen this time it took away my extra 40 tokens even though it was after reset.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

This is not the DR system.

You must have run the same path twice in the same ‘day’ – you get a first-time path of 60 tokens, and if you run the same path before the daily reset (based on a 0:00 GMT), then you will get 20 for running it a second time.

I ran the dungeon before the reset, I ran it at noon Alaska time the day prior and I believe that they reset around 4PM my time. Then I ran it the next day after the reset at I believe 1 so it had been over 24 hours and after the reset.

Reevac.1748:

I don’t think he’s bad. I dislike Logan way more.

I HATE his voice it is so annoying.

Why am I getting DR for a dungeon I haven’t ran since yesterday morning? I ran SE path 3 and path 1 and then 30 minutes later ran AC path 2 and I only get 20 token? AND we ran it in 45 minutes so why am I getting only 20 token?

I find that going support and not dps in dungeons is the best thing to do.

Build

I’ve been running dungeons all day and have had the best success ever. Just smack on some clerics gear and get healing accessories and your team will love you. Nearly constant buffs and regen is nearly constant as well. I find it to be fun too.

idk it doesn’t say anything in the description xD fail

well I was thinking that as well but technically it isn’t all nearby foes. It has a target range on it and I feel like its more of a target thing then a nearby thing. But I know what you mean it just needs to be changed.

So I didn’t know where to put this but I think Entangles description needs to be rewritten.

It says:

Entangle your foe. They are immobile until the vines are destroyed.

But I realized that it doesn’t effect just one foe. So I believe it should be rewritten to:

Entangle your foe and foes near your target. They are immboile until the vines are destroyed.

Cool thanks ^.^

arcaneclarity.5283:

I think the spirit pets, like the Guardian’s spirit weapons and Warrior’s banners, shouldn’t take damage.

They nerfed the spirits with an internal cooldown during beta. Unfortunately, the internal cooldown is a base internal cooldown, so if it procs once off a single individual, it can only proc again once the cooldown is up. The cooldown needs to be for each individual player in range. So it would be better if it radiated a boon to those in range that allowed them to proc the effect.

So basically say I get the protection from the Stone Spirit no one else can get protection from it for a certain amount of time?

So I’m going to give some constructive criticism on spirits. I’m going off of just now finishing Arah Story mode fully specd towards spirits. Just for the record I enjoyed myself and it was fun running it with spirits but they need to have some improvements.

AI
I noticed that the spirits don’t really have any….response to situations. Basically they’re idiots. With how low of health they have(more on this later) they shouldn’t be standing in AoE like its a dance floor. The spirits need to avoid AoE and they need to attempt to avoid mobs, I didn’t see any of that happening.

Health
Everyone knows this, they die way to easily and need more health. But maybe just a higher armor level will do? I’m not sure how ANets system works with the spirits but they need something to make them not die as quickly as they do now. You could even take away their health and lower the time they are up and change the CD a little? I’m not sure but something needs to be done.

Buffs(distance and proc)
Okay this really upsets me. The buffs need to be completely reworked I think. They only work on nearby allies which as rangers is basically only going to work on casters. I believe it should be a party wide thing, especially since they have health and can die. The proc chance is annoying too. I have no idea when it procs and i think it’s annoying that i only have a 20% chance for it to happen. I’m wasting a skill slot for something that could possibly not even happen. It should be on par with warrior banners which just straight up increase damage, vitality, toughness etc.

Activated Skills
I don’t get these. They’re traps and yet my spirits usually die before I can even cast them. You need to be close to the enemy but the spirits die so easily. Maybe make it to where the spirits cast them on your target? I’m not sure maybe if they get more health it wouldn’t be to much of a problem.

Spirit of Nature
Now everything I said obviously I believe should be applied to this spirit but I wanted to say that if I cast its Natures Renewal skill I shouldn’t have to go stand next to the person I want to heal or rez. It should have it’s own AI kick in and be like the pet and think “someone’s down over there I’m going over there to rez them”. That I found really annoying.

Conclusion
Even though the spirits need some help I enjoyed myself. There were times in Arah that I would of liked to use my Spirits but I couldn’t because of the AoE damage (mouth of Zhaitan) or just too many mobs. I truly hope the ANet staff is looking into this because I haven’t heard anything from them regarding the spirits or pets lately.

If anyone has anything else they wanted to add please feel free and I’ll add it in.

Tiresias.6473:

In a brand-new game you are going to see a lot of nerfs, buffs, bug fixes, and adjustments over the course of the first year. In most cases they will be sudden and occasionally sweeping as the developers try out different ways to correct problems.

I fail to see any BUFFS or even real bug fixes only nerfs. They just nerfed the rangers auto attack for the shortbow DRASTICALLY and it was the only really decent weapon and they did it due to “glitches in the animation” even though I never noticed ant glitches and so far no one else has. So until they start buffing and stop kittining around with skills that don’t need any changes at all this game is going downhill fast.

I have no problem with the longbows damage. I have done testing and I find it just as viable as the shortbow if not better in some situations. It’s a different type of play style that I have no problem going into from time to time.

I don’t know why you’re all so upset. They posted it in the update notes sooooo why are you all crying over it. Go use a longbow now.

What runes do you run with?

@Stice
So where did Anet say they are going to fix rangers up a bit to balance them better or even acknowledge what the ranger community is saying? Oh ya they haven’t. Wether or not you believe it the rangers, as far as I’ve seen and played, are the ones that need the most attention at this point. Pets are better but still need a little more and spirits are completely useless and weapons skills need to be reworked so that shortbow isn’t the only actual good weapon.

Oh and a lot of the other professions, necros and eles mainly, just have bugs with their skills that need to be fixed. They’re pretty balanced for the most part.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

I wonder if sometimes people , while posting, read himself.
You’re whining why people is punished. Still you suggest a more strict system where people get 60 tokens after 1 path and 60 just when all other paths are completed and blocked for 24 hours, or the funniest part

Also why are you forcing me to run dungeons I don’t want to run even though I don’t want armor or weapons from that dungeon?

when you have time, later, explain me this part about be forced to do a dungeon when you don’t want nothing from that dungeon lol

I guess your whine is get your daily tokens uberfast speedclearing and logoff and go to sleep, so you can be cool like us wasting an entire day without speedclear, huh?

Well, fell free to forget it

I did explain myself maybe read everything I said. It would be more rewarding to do all the paths in a dungeon (like the devs want us to do) and then when we do it we get a “good job here’s a reward for doing all the paths”. I never said I speed clear and then log off so stop assuming that’s all I do plus there’s no way to speed clear every path in a dungeon so that would be impossible to begin with. I just find there to be no incentive in doing dungeons when you have to worry about the time and how many dungeons you’ve ran it’s not fun.

And I explained it to be daily dungeons like DCUO or WoW was but they were a week lockout and no one ever complained because their rewards were worth the effort. 24 hours is not bad at all compared to that. And on top of that you could actually run the dungeon again except you don’t get the tokens so if you need to help your guild out then you could.

And it’s not my fault you’re not good at dungeons to run certain paths fast. Maybe you should do them more? Or possibly get a better team?