Guild Wars 2

I love the logic behind this post. I bought a 2013 Camaro and the 2014 Camaro is better so maybe I should ask for a refund because they sold me exactly what was stated, but never told me the 2014 would be better.

I have had this happen at times versus multiple classes. I think it is more of an issue of lag and nothing to do with the warrior class.

I find them more in small skirmishes in WvW, but that is about the only time.

I enjoy my Ranger and I find it easy to play in WvW. The only problem is that I feel my Guardian is needed much more in team play. I never consider my pet to be of much use in all honesty. Neither do I worry about the pets of my opponents because I never stand still for them to hit. I feel all ANet has to do is make it where the pet stowing can be permanent and then give the Ranger normal damage stats instead of the penalty. Should only come to a basic “if then” line of code in which if pet is stowed then provide a buff (to negate the penalty).

I agree Silent DR is a great server to play on in which each person can make a difference and not be lost in the zerg.

I don’t have to listen to my opponents cry and complain in map chat. It is unbearable enough to hear my own team.

Arnon.1563:

Atherakhia.4086:

Even if it can’t be achieved there’s at least evidence that change was attempted. But class balance? Shadowbane had far more diverse classes and managed to be pretty well balanced overall. Was on a much larger scale than this as well.

Wow someone mentioned Shadowbane. I did like my Centaur Crusader. I’m not sure the classes were as balanced as you think. At lest in the beginning it was a rock/paper/scissors as race had specific vulnerabilities and a class could exploit that, if my memory servers me.

Last thing I remember before I quit, were hackers spawned Dragons and destroyed our city one of the last 2 on the map.

I miss Shadowbane. That was real politics and losing meant something in it.

naphack.9346:

do NOT go something like 30/30/10.
15 in wilderness survival are essential for protection on dodge.
You can go 30/25/15/0/0 or 30/20/20/0/0. The first one is more range-centric, with a bit more damage, the second one is a bit more defensive giving access to traits for your sidearm, which is either the greatsword(defensive sidearm) or sword+warhorn(aggressive sidearm). 30/15/25 could also be an option, tho I don’t have numbers on whether the 10% extra damage on the initial burst(same bonus as scholar runes) is worth the stat loss from not having the 5 in skirmishing. I don’t think, it is.

As for traits, steady focus is a must, the rest of the marksmanship line is up to your preference. There’s a ton of good traits in there, so pick any 2 and you are fine.
from wilderness survival, nothing beats the reduction in fall damage.

Runes: Runes of the Ranger. Don’t bother with scholars. Retal and siege will get you below 90% regardless, while ranger runes provide a permanent 5% boost.
Alternatively, just stuff ruby orbs in there.

About skills, muddy terrain is one of the best, if not the best skill, you can get. Having that on demand AoE immobilize just makes kiting and zerg fighting that much smoother.

Pets: Your best bet is probably a combination of devourer+dog. You can run the classic three tailed devourer and have an on demand knockdown in case someone wants to get close.

If you have problems kiting or like to melee some then he probably is right about going all glass is not good. Honestly I rarely die with my ranger unless I put myself in a situation where I can’t range them and kite. If I want in your face combat I feel othwr classes are better suited for that.

DeadlySynz.3471:

Your pretty much describing how I play OP.. I’d recommend this 30/30 and the last 10 whichever will help you survive the most in WvW.

If your going to go full damage, you need to go full damage. There are a lot of complaints against this class that their damage is weak; most of the time it’s because they aren’t traiting or gearing themselves properly. The thing with the Ranger is, they don’t seem to do well when you mix up their builds.. IE, a glass cannon thats not in full berserker and doesn’t have 30/30 seems to suffer a big damage penalty. You need to go kittens to the wall with this.

The thing is, they don’t really have the utility to escape or to keep up with another class (in small group or solo situation) if you mix their builds up. If you go with a solo/roamer build, your golden. This build won’t really help you using a LB and in bigger groups. If your going part berserker with a mix of knights/soldiers like some like to do, you’ll find you’ll get beat far more in those situations than you’ll win. Then zerg play, well with your LB you won’t be in the fray so to speak, so there is no need to gear yourself for survivability. Even if you did, you’ll die quickly much like every other class in the front lines if they have any heavy hitting ranged classes on their side. I’ve killed bunker rangers off easily in a full damage spec, because despite the toughness and regeneration, they can’t handle a massive burst.

Also, ignore that you have a pet. Choose whatever pets to take with you that will help you survive better. Once you learn to stay alive, you may be surprised just how strong they are.

I agree I run a 30/30/0/10/0 build with all zerker. With the sigil stack I get 80% crit chance with 110% crit damage with 3300 attack power. If I am going all out range from say a tower then I use double longbow with sigils of strength. Swapping gives me the extra fury for 100% crit chance and easily get 25 stacks of might. Trust me melting people is not a problem.

If you are going to fight from range mostly then not using double longbows will keep you from swapping and gaining the fury buff.

If you implement all that is available to be a true Ranger then it will work out well. However, I agree our pets pretty much blow and don’t consider them at all except for hopefully they will either cleanse a condition, root someone if they are stupid enough to stand still and etc. I use the protect me if I get caught by a melee, especially a thief. Then press the rapid fire with the “haste utility” (forgot the name)and wait for them to reappear dead.

I had no real success with condition or bunker builds. I have seen some that were great at it, but that is rare what I have seen. To me the whole point to playing a ranged class that has such an advantage of range is to keep them away and pick them off.

Unfortunately Anet made short bow useless in my opinion.

I would love the option to get rid of my pet for more fire power.

Well at least they should let the guild clear out the bank. I have known people to have guild acronyms that they never thought someone would find some way to make it perverse.

Really? I Have a Ranger and rarely is this an issue with my Rapid Fire. I didn’t think retaliation does that much damage.

Well I have 5 members in my household that plays. Some use the logitech wireless trackball and some use the wired version trackball and normal mice. We are all having the same problems with the right click movement and on my dual monitor it goes off screen no matter what changes I have made. It has gotten a lot worse since the last few patches. It is to the point it is game breaking. On some of the computers it will go off screen and go to the desktop when using mouse movement.

I can’t believe they have not fixed this issue yet.

Ricky.4706:

Paladins = knights = guardians = all the same concept – different underwear.

a man wearing 44 lbs of metal – can run faster than someone wearing silk…..Right!!

an inherent weakness ? nowhere in the lore does it say mesmers were born bowlegged. You figure wearing silk for armor – the first thing they’d teach you in mesmer school is how to run ….and fast!

on tp parts – it’s actually cheaper to buy computer parts to assemble than buy a prebuilt computer – because the pre-built has extra parts you don’t need.

wvw is a wrestling match between a sumo wrestler and a wrestler from elementary school – who’d win ?! – ok everyone, act surprised!!

I’m glad you find this stuff logical – but it’s illogical!!

and yes, the way to have fun is to simply not have any feelings about it or regard to logic – hence psychotic!

Psychopaths tend to be very logical because they are void of emotion. You are trying to apply logic in something that is based off fantasy. That in itself is illogical.

ViRiD.2784:

WvW population imbalance is really, really weird to me for a couple of reasons as an MMO vet:

1. The game mode is completely incentivized. It’s probably one of the best ways to get EXP and Karma in the game, and provides access to a lot of exotic gearsets through its own currency. Additionally, it drops an abundance of T7 mats and I’ve personally received a couple of Ascended Rings from the rank chests.

2. It doesn’t correlate completely with overall world population. Though the Server list is notoriously nondescriptive of the actual activity of the servers, I have seen T2 servers like FA be a whole descriptor lower than a server like Kaineng.

These lead me to the conclusion that some servers just lack a WvW-focused group, and for whatever reason the majority have no interest in participating in the game mode. Thus, I feel we should avoid making any sort of conclusion like “low wvw pop -> game is dying” because I don’t believe they are linked in any discernible way.

If I had to spitball a direction for how to tackle the imbalance, it can either fall in one of three ways:

1. Force PvE’ers against their will into WvW. Tying it to the living story, or making it better than FGS or CS for farming, will force a number of players into WvW that may not want to be in there. Other MMO’s have done similar things with large quest hubs tied to a pvp zone.

2. Shift the majority of changes to the game mode to accessibility for casual and non-pvp’ers. Listen to their complaints first and foremost, and have them direct the development of the WvW area. This would likely lead to a reduction of the value of the strict “control the most nodes” game we have now, and shift the points to things like pvp dungeons and other semi-competitive pve encounters.

3. Continue on course, addressing the concerns according to the prioritization Anet had already concluded, and hope that a “better” yet same game mode will naturally attract more players as the gameplay becomes increasingly compelling.

I probably missed things, but that’s my conclusions on pop imbalance off the top of my head.

Oddly have a rank 160 toon and other alts and never got an Ascended to drop or come in a chest. I doubt the Ascended aspect of you getting a couple are the norm, you may be very lucky.

Qualamala Lumpa.9832:

If you really want to be guaranteed a place in the silver league, I’d say go for DR, AR, FC, ET or GoM

We would love to have you on DR.

HyperHysteria.4128:

Solstice.1097:

In a few short weeks we will be consistently fighting servers like SBI, Kaineng, IoJ. I think we all know that for us those matches will not resemble the WvW that we know and love. Nothing against those servers but we all know the nature of the beast.

In very recent history, lower pop servers have been falling one by one. First AR, then DR, then GoM, and now I am hearing talk of a few other servers being at risk of a similar fate.

Those of us loyalists that are left have my utmost respect and appreciation… That being said we have not faced a challenge like that which lies in October. We are being forced to make a choice; stay divided and get rolled over in the name of loyalty (at least we’ll have a valid reason to QQ), or unite and stand courageously together against the injustice of the system!

Of the low pop servers FC has the strongest backbone, made up of players and guilds that have proven their loyalty by sticking with the server during the 7 months from Jan-July where we only won TWICE. Now we’ve won 3 out of the last 4 weeks. We don’t have “fair-weathers,” we have soldiers. We are starting to create a buzz, converting PvE’ers to WvW addicts, and my last recruitment thread netted several in game messages from higher tier players and guilds interested in possibly transferring to FC. I believe with our current momentum we are in the best position to facilitate the “alliance” I speak of.

I wish our options were not so limited or drastic – I would be thrilled if we could keep re-matching our current battle! I would be even more thrilled if Anet at least put a band-aid on the population imbalance before implementing seasons under the make-believe idea that WvW is competitive in its current state, but such hopes are merely silly wishful thinking and reality is king.

So, the TL;DR is if anyone is interested in choosing the “united we stand” approach to season 1 as opposed to the “divided we fall” (in other words those who prefer a fighting chance over a reason to QQ) please reach out to discuss!

I have been on Devona’s Rest from day 1. As I remembered it back in the first few weeks I started playing, we were the underdogs being placed at the bottom, but managed to pull our selves together, and bring ourselves up to 5th tier. But with school becoming a problem and other personal reasons, I took about a 3-5 month break from playing Guild Wars 2. After finally returning a couple of weeks ago, I was sadly greeted to a devastated WvW community. Seeing this happen was quite devastating to me, and decided to take up commanding DR forces, and after a a few weeks of doing so, I have been able to understand better the sever population problem with WvW. Seeing as a WvW tournament is coming up, I can only morn over the fact that this tournament will potentially ruin our entire WvW community, since most people will stray from WvW for good after realizing that there is potentially, “no point”, into playing WvW due to us being stomped purely by overwhelming numbers repeatedly.

I won’t ask for a band aid for our sever as it will potentially create more problems, but I will one day hope that the population deficiency for DR WvW will be resolved, and that more people will find the great fun in WvW even if we are outnumbered around the clock.

I agree the tournament style will probably just ruin our WvW community even more. Being here since release I feel your pain as well. However, I am not moving because I am stubborn like that.

Victory.2879:

If it wasn’t for queues whenever you want to swop toons whenever this terrible lag happens I’d switch to my staff spammer guardian for these fights- don’t need the heal button as regen takes care of that and I can still use an aoe and run around killing all the soft targets who can’t use any of their decent damage skills and can’t use thier heal buttons…

ANet needs to invest in some much better servers for wvw – maybe ditch the left over Pentium 2’s they are currently running it on and buy something a little more up to date?

Processing power really should NOT be an issue, unless you really just don’t care.

That is what I do when the lag issues arrive. Nothing like having 30 secs of lag and seeing you lived and half the others died.

It almost seems they are promoting zerging instead of trying to make the game about skill and balance.

Good video, was inspiring.

Well let’s hope they do not because that would be craptastic.

I never enjoyed the boon builds anyway. However, I can understand how some are upset. Just have to wait and see how it pans out is all. They made their decision for now.

“Lol ya, I cant imagine how they did not see this coming. Keeps will never have any supply now.”

It was hard enough before to get them to leave it alone.

I figured this would have been priority. Thought this game was to be more siege focused than pve. Which don’t get me wrong they are doing well for the most part in both areas, but the same rewards should be available to all types of game play. Forcing others to play other parts of the game just to stay competitive in the opposite spectrum will end up hurting their player population.

That was awesome.