Guild Wars 2

I was under the impression everyone who signed up for this would be competing and I guess that isn’t the case. I’m a little bummed out. Every person on my team are really strong fighters. We just joined forces as none of us had a team to play with.

I think a cosmetic mount would be cool. It should offer no speed bonus and purely be a unique looking way to travel. Like the witch broom. Then yes! Mounts would be really fun.

Welp that was fun in FA BL. GG to those EB from [GH]. Tried to duel a thief but everyone jumped in

Yea thanks again! I love the finished portrait

Troqu.7150:

Been having lots of fun in the IoJ borderlands when I have time to play. Glad they haven’t told me to stop showing up yet

Heya Shy! Was fun having you part of our shenanigans this weekend!

WvW:

1. Reward defensive play – The mindset right now is cap and move. Would be nice to have some kind of tangible incentive to protect your capture points.

1. Make siege weapons more threatening – If five of us are defending a tower against 20, it would be cool to be able to put a dent in their force if we have the proper siege. People just revive so quickly it is impossible to take any of them out of the fight.

1. Commander map markers – Would be cool to give a commander access to different types of map markers they can place for all to see. “Defend here!” Attack Here!" etc

Yea that one is super cool

Cool spawn camping

Was fun though. We finally wiped you guys one by one

Dardamaniac.1295:

playing the video really slow i notice some more changes when he moves mouse over some traits….at 24:44 instictual bond move to 5 trait again

That trait is already the 5pt minor trait though. Are you thinking of Zephyr’s Speed?

Yea the hp increase is sweet. I use owl/wolf so I use protect me on the wolf. it already has nice toughness and hp since i’m 30 in BM so it never dies on me. Though a trick i do is using protect me when pet swap is off cooldown. So I can swap pet out if it is taking too much damage.

Xsorus.2507:

The only way Sic’Em will ever be useful, is if it didn’t drop randomly (which it does), and could be used at the same time I actually use my pets abilities (Owl for Example, I can’t use the F2 of the Owl while Sic’Em is going or it will end Sic’Em)

I did not know that…Good thing my owl skill NEVER goes off lolz. Hope this is something they can look into soon. Even so, if your build has a interchangeable utility slot like mine, sic em is still worth it for just the reveal imo. Tons of thieves out there in WvW when I’m roaming.

I already have sic em slotted for my owl dps. I welcome this change. Throw that on a downed enemy and their ally thief cant refuge res them. Pretty huge change if you ask me.

Not to mention downing thieves will just be easier overall now. With my ranger build I would spike them down to around 30% hp but they would always get a stealth off due to them blinding my interrupt. Now I can use sic em to finish them off.

Come on rangers…

Serraphin Storm.2369:

There is no doubt that the ranger is a hard class to play. There are lots of ranger who have a great deal of success with this class and prefer it over any other class.

The difference between the rangers that have the greatest success with this class and the ones who do not is that the one who have the greatest success play the class that is before them. Not the class the hope the ranger to be. They adapt.

To build a good ranger it take more fine tuning. It takes better reaction times. As a ranger you are required to make less mistakes. As a warrior or Guardian you are permitted to eat so of the biggest attacks in the game and just shake it off. Thieves, Ele and Mesmers can disengage from a fight at will and it take very little skill to do so.

Necro and eng just need 10 second and your dead from condtion overload.

As a decent ranger skill level is above the average player. Some rangers can escape at will. The spirited build was nerf because when a ranger is on even ground he kicks kitten . Yes the build was a bit passive but no more than they other classes.

To Play a Ranger you must improve you must adapt you must have a deep desire to over come and never say die.

This isn’t for everyone, but no class is for everyone nor should they be. I play a ranger because its not OP because it’s not easy mode.

Are the issue with the ranger. Yes. I wish my pet scaled with my gear. I wish my pet followed closer to my side. I wish we had more aoe besides axes and traps (barrage does count and piecing isn’t enough (maybe a traited bouncing arrow instead) Pet die but if they die to often then its mostly the rangers fault. Anything that will down a player will kill a pet.

The Ranger core is strong. Rangers learn your strengths over come your weakness then go back build and develop more strengths. To do this you have to over come your fear. I myself am always testing myself. While I like my sword I always have a ranged backup but starting today I will go sword/x and GS. I will develop the skills to effectively run these set in all aspects of the game (exept when I’m farming nothing beats axes). I will run this until I’m satisfied with my performance. Until I’m one of those rangers that almost never die.

The 3 issue I mention are what I feel are the biggest issue outside of them I am happy with the Ranger class. I do not desire a stow option because I know what this class was when I created my ranger.

You get out of this class what you put into it.

I love you. I agree with everything you posted! I am a hardcore ranger and love proving to people that the profession is very strong if you take the time to master it. And I don’t even run a condition BM spec

Soooo my WvW bugged out. I tried to join BP BL and ended up on CD’s side. All the CD enemies are green to me and say IoJ __

It was a lot of fun and super weird!

……Or I really transferred to CD. Eff you IoJ!

Initialise sucks.

:)

Jay kay. I still have yet to come across a thief better than initialise

The score is so close with all servers! This is awesome.

Enjoy

Enjoy

Mayhem.1935:

Joey.3928:

A roaming video I put together on my ranger from last week and mostly this week. Was a fun week! Thank you all for the fights!

Gwyndor, you are at the end :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-63XfzDZVok

What the?! Where is our cross realming gang bangs of BP!!?

I wanted to put so many clips in there! But the video was approaching 10 minutes. I doubt anyone would watch that long of a video.

I’ll see how much footage we have from that and make a separate one. Otherwise, next time

Also, thank you Chubb

A roaming video I put together on my ranger from last week and mostly this week. Was a fun week! Thank you all for the fights!

Gwyndor, you are at the end :P

Agriope.4523:

The Coma Kid.5184:

Wait finally? Have you not checked up the last few days? Ex-DR and IoJ do not fit well together

Yeah, after the snooze fest the first couple days I took a day break. :P Imagine my surprise…

PS. Warrior from IoJ who was /laugh spamming like 5 minutes ago on BPBL (sry didn’t get your guild) and THEN charging us two poor, defenseless warriors when you had 2 more friends, which subsequently lead to loot bags for us, must have been emasculating for you. Pro-tip or basic tactics 101: don’t fight two hammer warriors in an enclosed space, nothing good will happen for you.

Emote spammers are enjoyable to kill, everytime~

Even though they are unfortunately on my server, I say good job. I hate emote spammers too

I didn’t know some of you [NA] peeps were [EDGE]. I found out after our little skirmish over the weekend Gwyndor! I have that fight recorded btw and might put it in my WvW video I am making if I have room!

Maybe try Necromancer? They can be pretty trolly with all the cc they have.

Pretty sweet! \m/

Fun video to watch

I already use sic em for my owl. Good dmg with 30 beastmastery so I’m excited for this change. I may be the only one.

Despite the score, I had a fun and challenging week of roaming and small skirmishes. Talented players on both servers. <3

Are you experienced with ranger?

Indoles.1467:

Joey.3928:

Durzlla.6295:

You guys do realize once they fix the AI on the pets this trait is going to skyrocket from “ok” to absolutely amazing right?

I agree. I am a power/crit ranger but have 30 pts in BM just for this trait. it is underestimated

I’m pretty sure he/she was being sarcastic as well as knocking the pet ai.

The pet ai does suck but this trait isn’t that bad…3 seconds of quickness every 15 sec should not be overlooked. So many uses.

Durzlla.6295:

You guys do realize once they fix the AI on the pets this trait is going to skyrocket from “ok” to absolutely amazing right?

I agree. I am a power/crit ranger but have 30 pts in BM just for this trait. it is underestimated

Yes it is very fun

I really hate the pet delay. I hope it is something they can fix. I do dislike traiting 30 in BM for this trait, but I am so used to the playstyle it brings. I think it is worth being a grandmaster trait, but I do wish it was in a different tree.

I really like having quickness available every 15 sec though. Especially for stomps/revives.

Banzie.5248:

Brigg.3961:

mrauls.6519:

Tukmolytes.3467:

mrauls.6519:

Why do we go from fighting higher tiered servers to lower tiered in a heartbeat… But I guess everyone’s happy with the match up because we’re not losing >_>

We don’t become forum warrior if no one starts it. And this is a good matchup, no ones bragging or crying.

I see boasting from IoJ’ers on this page of the thread…

IoJ needs to fight competitive servers that will whoop our tail, but give us something to learn… I feel terrible for the two servers we’re facing. From their point of view we’re just taking advantage of our strengths right now, which I can’t call wrong, but I want IoJ to feel pressured…

We’ve had match ups like this as well, so don’t worry. It happens. Use this as an opportunity to work on tactics and to get the rookie wvw’ers accustomed to the landscape. You’ve seen how the upper ranked servers roll, and we both know they’re not used to fighting servers with experience in small man fighting. Now that you guys have beautiful coverage, I’d suggest practicing for them. I look forward to seeing IoJ climb the ranks!

Always love fighting HoD from the IoJ side You guys can go from 5 people in wvw to 40+ in the matter of 10 minutes or less it seems at times xD

Respect to [VLK] and HoD as a whole, I always know when I see a VLK around im bound for either a good close fight or me getting stomped xD
Respect to ET as well, You guys pull out some numbers much of us didnt expect :P

Yea no joke. You [VLK] peeps are great!

Amurond.4590:

Joey.3928:

I didn’t get to WvW much this matchup, but I always encountered good fights while roaming from both servers. Thanks for the fun!

Were you the ranger at coyotes I ran into?

Had lots of fun in this match-up personally.

Probably! I was most likely getting a few stacks on sigil. I think I remember. Were you an uplevel? I didn’t engage you right?

I didn’t get to WvW much this matchup, but I always encountered good fights while roaming from both servers. Thanks for the fun!

Burnfall.9573:

I’m not impressed, not by a long shot.

Where’s our pet, spirits improvements?

Where’s our damage mprovements?

-Another Dissapointment from Arena.net-.

All Garbage improvements, well except for Healing Spring at the least.

To Arena.net, keep us dead where we are, since you Intentionally like us this way.

Ranger class= Total Failure; Wasted and Worthless Design.

Ranger pet mechanics= Garbage mechanics.

While the ranger still has its bugs, you can still be useful. Especially in WvW where I spend most of my time. We can dish out a lot of damage and still stay alive depending on your weapons.

The one thing that annoys me most is, at least with canines, how easy their F2 skill can be interrupted. Just this morning I was trying to use my wolf’s fear while reviving a downed ally and the wolf kept walking forward and cancelling its howl. My ally died as a result. Fix that and the pathing and pets will be dandy imo.

Also, they need to release improvements slowly. Game development takes a lot of time and resources from so many departments and people. Stuff takes time.

Yerffejy.6538:

Joey.3928:

‘Champion’ Warrior from SBI [DH] not sure what your problem is…but despite your guild name, you have no honor. Poor sportsmanship considering I did absolutely nothing to warrant this :/

It is not like he is laughing at your dead body. He is just laughing at you.

What is the issue? lolz

I do enjoy when I know who the person is though. xD

She was spam laughing me for no reason. Not wanting to fight at all. Then when she got low on hp and used all her invuln skills, her guildies would jump in along with her and try to kill me…just didn’t understand and took it as an insult. Whatever.

‘Champion’ Warrior from SBI [DH] not sure what your problem is…but despite your guild name, you have no honor. Poor sportsmanship considering I did absolutely nothing to warrant this :/

dank.3680:

Joey.3928:

I hate you NSP norn thief from [MOX]. In our next 1v1 encounter, I’ll get you

Top notch PSA, tyvm.

:(

I hate you NSP norn thief from [MOX]. In our next 1v1 encounter, I’ll get you

Vena.8436:

Joey.3928:

It is common sense, but I like the idea of having points actually worth more for capturing from the winning server. Maybe if the leading server is up by x amount, their points are worth more to the two other servers. Would really reinforce the idea of protecting your own BL too!

I also like how the losing server will get more pts if they can hold the points they have. So instead of trying to push out and get as many points as possible, they can focus on capturing a few and really holding those to yield a lot of pts.

The problem is, it doesn’t actually solve any of the problems, it just sugar coats them with a larger number for the losing team… so that they have a larger Glicko2… so that they face more of the bad match-ups.

The devil is in the details:

• How do you know when to reward a server with more points? If it just “down by >x” then that doesn’t do anything but pad their score, they will never be able to make up the <x portion of the score difference. (And if you are score padding… how can you possibly create a matchmaking system?)
• It can possibly punish a server that has equal but simply harder playing population by making their playtime worth less (this is why “night capping” doesn’t reward less points).
• Adverse affects on actual skill given the above. That is, in the case of a more skilled server fighting a lesser one (of equal pops), the more skilled server has to try harder to earn points when winning.

There is no “common sense” solution.

Very good points!

It is common sense, but I like the idea of having points actually worth more for capturing from the winning server. Maybe if the leading server is up by x amount, their points are worth more to the two other servers. Would really reinforce the idea of protecting your own BL too!

I also like how the losing server will get more pts if they can hold the points they have. So instead of trying to push out and get as many points as possible, they can focus on capturing a few and really holding those to yield a lot of pts.

JKFlipFlop.7123:

Joey.3928:

Did a little roaming in SBI BL and ran into some [XOXO] (Dank and a couple others). You guys are really skilled and gave me advice that I will heed and iterate on my build a bit more to pump in some more damage.

Next time we meet, hopefully you will see a difference

And to that D/D ele I was dueling, we will have to continue next time. Sorry you dc’d >.< You finished my daily though

kitten class getting in the way of roaming. I need a rematch with you sometime. I was that d/d ele you had like a 10 minute duel with underneath east keep this weekend.

I remember you That was a fun fight. Add me to friends, I’d be happy to duel again.

Pavel.5192:

yeah, but place it to suggestion forum

Done

So I am reading the latest Elder Scrolls Online AMA and came across this:

“There are also scoring incentives for alliances that are tailing behind when capturing resources and keep, from the winning Alliance if the score is imbalanced. You’ll get more points by taking keeps and resources from the winning alliance and holding your own keeps, helping you catch up in the overall score.”

I think that is really cool. I’d love to see this in WvW!

So I am reading the latest Elder Scrolls Online AMA and came across this:

“There are also scoring incentives for alliances that are tailing behind when capturing resources and keep, from the winning Alliance if the score is imbalanced. You’ll get more points by taking keeps and resources from the winning alliance and holding your own keeps, helping you catch up in the overall score.”

I think that is really cool. I’d love to see this in WvW!

Did a little roaming in SBI BL and ran into some [XOXO] (Dank and a couple others). You guys are really skilled and gave me advice that I will heed and iterate on my build a bit more to pump in some more damage.

Next time we meet, hopefully you will see a difference

And to that D/D ele I was dueling, we will have to continue next time. Sorry you dc’d >.< You finished my daily though

Might roam around SBI BL in a bit during my lunch break. Look for the IoJ norn ranger

It is all preference. I use greatsword/longbow and have been for many many months now. I use it in tournies and WvW. I prefer roaming in WvW and the stealth has really offered a lot of fun tricks now with that.

Request:

GW2 – The Tengu Wall

So good. Seems simple, but I can’t figure it out