Guild Wars 2

Supreme.3164:

Javi.4359:

Bring RTL down to 15 sec. It doesn’t evade, it doesn’t heal, and it doesn’t damage particularly well.
Ele needs more active skills…

A 15s Cd maybe would be too much but yeah…you don’t evade or heal while using RTL, the dmg is mediocre but you still move too slow to hit anything farther than melee range

I don’t know, a druid can use ancestral grace twice every ~15s (depending on weapon swapping) if they spec for it, and they can do quite reasonable damage from 1200 range while they do, with more armour and HP than an ele to boot.

All other things being equal, I could see a 15sec RTL helping the viability of s/d specs quite a bit.

EDIT: Forgot to account for a thing

Bring RTL down to 15 sec. It doesn’t evade, it doesn’t heal, and it doesn’t damage particularly well.
Ele needs more active skills…

Jana.6831:

Javi.4359:

Jana.6831:

They are OP – watched a fight druid vs berserker today – was a fun 5 minutes OP vs OP. The druid won in the end thanks to rng.

ETA. They are OP because they have too much sustain and deal too much damage (their pet does as well) – most elites have.

That wasn’t a human female druid vs a very shiny Charr berserker, by any chance?

Human female or norn druid vs a human male berserker as far as I remember.
There was a very cute male human thief who sat on the roof of vale and watched.

Aw kitten ! I was having a duel with a Berserker as a Zerk druid the other night, it ended up being close to the same story, but not so much on the ‘rng’ part for the win haha

Not even forum famous

Jana.6831:

They are OP – watched a fight druid vs berserker today – was a fun 5 minutes OP vs OP. The druid won in the end thanks to rng.

ETA. They are OP because they have too much sustain and deal too much damage (their pet does as well) – most elites have.

That wasn’t a human female druid vs a very shiny Charr berserker, by any chance?

Smokescale – Smokey Bear
Bristleback – Sanic
Wolf – Wofl
Drakehound – Spooby
Jungle Spider – Spodermon
Snow Owl – Deadwig
Shark – Bruce
Jellyfish – Squishy

You’ll have no trouble guessing which game modes I play with these pets! haha

Condi Chrono, Condi PU mes, Condi teef
I don’t mind condition classes, but these guys have no burst, it’s just all sustained high damage that after a little while you just can’t really do anything against. No skill in playing it, no joy to fight against it.

I /do/ like good thieves! Dueled a D/P teef the other night that absolutely destroyed me and it was a ton of fun. Good thieves are rare, but they are a scary thing.

As of the last patch I’m getting around 17FPS sitting in the SE spawn of a WvW borderland, with no one around.

Yesterday I was getting around 60fps skirting a zerg… :|
Fired up The Witcher 3 and it still runs smoothly, so I’d be inclined to say it’s not my computer’s fault.
GTX960, GTS650 (not really doing anything in gw2 tho,) AMD FX-4170 and 8GB of RAM… should be enough for gw2, right?

I’ve been having much of the same. My ping on.. another game that’s based in the US – it has its servers in CA – is around the 190-200 mark, but on GW2 my ping is well over the 400 mark. Usually my GW2 ping is 220ish, so I’m not sure what’s going on there.
Pingtest.net is giving some weird results; pinging to their SF, CA server is fine (170ish iirc), but the LA, CA server is having spikes, and you can straight up forget about Dallas.

Also on Telstra…

Daharahj.1325:

Snorcha.7586:

I think how long they left turret engineers was a pretty good example of this company’s mindset, they dgaf.

I’m exhausting every possibility before beliving this, but i’m getting there :/

I’ve pretty much got to the point where I believe this wholeheartedly.

Good work, Anet. You used to be cool.

Taltevus.3289:

I see the pay wall arising.
I see F.2.P on the way.
I see exploiting and grinding.
I see those bad times today.

So don’t log in tonight
It’s bound to charge or grind
There’s a paywall on the rise.

-Rasputina

Holy wow that was fantastic!

+1
I’ve been having this problem pretty kitten often.

Lévis.5489:

Pet Ai is linked with PVE mob AI. A dev said years ago that changing something for ranger pets would open a whole can of wurms.

Then delete the pets and start again. It’s obvious that in their current state they’re either BS overpowered or useless.

Guard stacks gave me a reason to actually take camps. Now I don’t even bother, for the most part.

This is a much needed nerf for Ranger. Anet plz respond.

The new BL is atrocious. The stuttering is overwhelming, despite the game showing me 50odd FPS.
I want my old BL’s back.

CD673141-975B-42E9-8500-F0FEFF861A7D:

“Smokescale: Smoke Assault: This skill has switched places with Smoke Cloud so that it will now be the F2 skill for this pet. F”

Welp that has cemented me not buying the expansion. Can’t have a ranger have skillful play with their pets now, can we?

I would! I’m sure as hell not going to spend 80 odd AUD on an xpac that I’m going to use maybe 10% of…

I agree. Taunt really shouldn’t lock you out of targeting. Switching targets I can deal with, but locking your target just beyond what any CC should be able to do.
Also it hitting through evades, blocks and invulns reaaaally needs to be fixed. It wasn’t okay when Mesmers did it and it’s not okay when Rangers do it.

…Why was Stalker’s Strike omitted? That was, like, the main reason I was upset about offhand training being removed.

This should really be on the front page…

Needs more condi removal.
I’m thinking, make traited daze mantra only stun if you interrupt, burn PU and the person who thought of it to the ground (not really anet plz don’t ban me) and see where it goes from there.

We need more balance patches, more frequently, more than anything.

Random Weird Guy.3528:

Javi.4359:

“A thief can stealth that much, too!”
That is essentially all your post boils down to. A mesmer is not a thief. A mesmer having /this/ much stealth is much more powerful than a thief having this much stealth.

I don’t really have an opinion on whether or not PU needs to be toned down, but one thing people have to realise is most forms of mesmer stealth are easy to get. Torch 4 and Decoy are instant (or instant enough), compare these to heartseeker through a smoke field. Mass Invis is your SR, but you don’t have to stand in one spot for 5 seconds,

Again I have no opinion in this matter, just food for thought.

Sorry mate, that was aimed at Xstein’s post

“A thief can stealth that much, too!”
That is essentially all your post boils down to. A mesmer is not a thief. A mesmer having /this/ much stealth is much more powerful than a thief having this much stealth.

To those having trouble playing a d/d ele w/ water/arcana/X
Burning speed > Ring of Fire > Earth EA dodge > Magnetic grap (leap if you are in a good place to do so) > Frozen Burst > Lightning Touch > Air AA
Rinse, repeat.
This is your basic rotation through the elements, it gives you your might and provides good defense. Earth dagger 2 blocks projectiles. Do this while you are in combat, even if your enemy isn’t in range, and it gives you a good stack of might + fury + regen etc to fight with.
Obviously you have to do more than just mindlessly rotate with this, but it’s a good base to work from.

Have fun!

Honestly I think PU needs to be on that list too. It’s just too kitten strong as a whole. I’ve been playing mesmer for the last 6 days as a non-FoTM, non-mantra mesmer, and I came across two players while roaming in WvW while I was playing that build. I, predictably, got my kitten well and truly wrecked.
So, wondering /just/ how powerful PU + mantra heal (for condi removal) was, I slotted them and went back after those two players. I had no guard buffs, no food, and only exotic armour. My sword only has a major sigil of energy.
I couldn’t be killed by them, and I downed the ele multiple times. A condi warrior and a d/d ele.
A trait that gives that much power shouldn’t be in the game, imho.

Before I get jumped on by the “It’s in wvw it doesn’t count” crowd, I wasn’t using any of the things that make WvW inherently imbalanced, but my opponents were. On top of that, I kind of suck at mesmer.

blitzkrieg.2451:

Javi.4359:

I’m having a ton of fun with my ranger, roaming in WvW and playing PvP. I feel that a lot of the whinging about ranger is L2P kind of stuff, though there definitely are some broken things about it. Pet permachill, for example.

I find it to be a fun, rewarding class. It’s not easy to win against good players, but imo that just makes it more fun! I’m playing a power build, LB + S/D or S/A depending on how I’m feeling like playing; warriors don’t stand a chance unless they manage to sneak up on me + rampage.

Pet permachill, for example. – what? you can not get perma chill on anything with your pet let alone going entirely into chill duration with grenth and applying chill yourself AND your pet it would be impossible.. why? it’s impossible because condi removal exists. stop with misinformation please.

After reading that I’m thoroughly convinced you’re simply playing bad players.

I’ll tell you what, play against Tarcis / Wakkey / Hman and give us your assessment on Longbow and Sword/Axe , I want videos of your matchups too for proof and then post it to these forums. Until then I’m thoroughly convinced you’re playing against bad players.

Thanks

Pet gets chilled, pet F2 ability stays with ‘chilled’ CD indefinitely, or until switching maps.
Maybe ~90% of the players I face are bad, that’s entirely possible.

ElforTheLandStander.7052:

Lastly, there would of course need to be some kind of achievement with a title…which I hope to god would award you with a helmet skin that looks like one of those ugly fishing hats covered in lures.

Please anet make this happen.

+1 OP’s suggestion. This would make sword a much more valuable weapon for actually doing (some) damage, rather than just a tool to defend while your other weapon(s) come off CD.

Switched to my teef with s/d. Used flanking strike.

God that made me sad.

I’m having a ton of fun with my ranger, roaming in WvW and playing PvP. I feel that a lot of the whinging about ranger is L2P kind of stuff, though there definitely are some broken things about it. Pet permachill, for example.

I find it to be a fun, rewarding class. It’s not easy to win against good players, but imo that just makes it more fun! I’m playing a power build, LB + S/D or S/A depending on how I’m feeling like playing; warriors don’t stand a chance unless they manage to sneak up on me + rampage.

Provost.6210:

They don’t understand Eles, 50-60% of them play Rangers (who now press ‘2’ to win).

…Not sure if troll thread.

You people seem to be forgetting that the specialisation change will change just about everything. You get three spec lines, not two and ‘a bit’, so it makes sense that each line shouldn’t be as strong as it is now.

I just really want my Hide in Plain Sight and I’ll be happy. Other than that all the trait changes are pretty good, imo.

Yeah I got that one yesterday. Was good for a quick laugh at the kind of things people fall for.

Except fireball can be easily strafed, isn’t 1.5k+ range when traited, and lava font doesn’t track through stealths / teleports.

LB is a much better single target long range weapon. Old mate above me seems to forget that we have the ability to swap weapons, whereas eles don’t.

I’ve been getting lag spikes and skills just straight up not going off over the past few weeks, and it has gotten much worse over the past week or so, to the point where I can’t play any PvP content. Is this going to be fixed any time soon? ‘Cause at this rate it’s not really worth playing the game at all.

Myself and a few of my guild members had a lot of lag spikes when we were roaming in EBG a few days ago. It seems to only be on certain maps.

Running dire gear…

Yes, yes you are.

Nova Stiker.8396:

Reducing the amount of burning just a little would go a massive way. You’ll see a big difference when Drakes Breath dealing 33% less damage and Burning Speed can be avoided without the need to dodge.

I think it’s clear what he wants here.

We can all go home now.

It was so easy to get because you literally bought the gold with real money, then bought it off of a vendor…

If you wanted it to be hard(er) to gear your character, you could have earned the gold in game, or farmed it through drops, or crafted it.

Seconded.

Scuba Steve for supreme ruler.

Malkavian.4516:

If I am going to be too ambitious, I’d say I’d like them to take a leaf out of how Skyrim showed it’s flavor text in that you are like reading an actual book and not just looking at a dialog box showing the book’s contents. If anything that would actually make collecting things be more meaningful outside of increasing one’s achievement points.

I think that’s a great idea! I love reading lore ingame, but in gw2 it just feels kind of.. flat. I spent literally hours just reading books in Skyrim, so if the books in gw2 were presented that way I could see myself losing quite a few more hours to ingame books…

Oh yes, please yes! I haven’t been playing recently and this would literally give me the kick in the kitten that I need to get back into the game. (Yes I am that vain leave me alone)

timmyf.1490:

I don’t get it. I love the outfits. I have Mad King’s and Fancy Winter and I’ll have Ancestral by the end of the day. I guess to each his or her own.

I really like mixing and matching armours to get something that I like. With an outfit like this you can’t do that, and you can’t use other things you’ve bought from the gem shop or otherwise in conjunction with it (in my case reading glasses.)
Kinda a bummer because I really like how it looks.

Gahhh if only it wasn’t an outfit I would buy it in a heartbeat!

You can use it to make your burning speed a pretty decent burst, or when your stunbreak is on CD and you need to move, or opening gaps to give yourself room to breathe. Basically whenever you thin ‘I am here and I want to be over there’ lightning flash can be useful.

Also there are a few places you can LF to for a very useful escape.