Guild Wars 2

They’re actually helpful tips, especially 2 and 3 Thanks for your help. I’ll have a mess around and practice with what you’ve said

Hi all, I’ve been a ranger since the start of the games release, however after taking a short break I just cannot understand pets anymore. It’s getting to the point that I wish that I could ‘hide them’ even whilst in combat because they just aren’t helping me.

Now let me explain:
PvE, Bear and its condition removal, and the various cats with their boon/shouts are great. Originally I used a devourer because it pulled aggro well and kept going underground, which the NPC’s followed so I could stand stationary and pew pew pew.

PvP: Pets never seem to attack. I’ve tried spamming F1. If I use the wolves fear ability, it never seems to be in range of an attacker? In a recent fight against both a bunker engineer and a generally tanky warrior, my wolf just ran back and forth. (Yes I do have pet attack on the red icon :P)

I love rangers, and I’m all for the game changing and professions being switched around and the game getting difficult, as a harder game means more of a challenge, which is fun. So I call out to you, veteran Rangers, teach me once again to love Pets and please provide advice on the best ones to take.

(PvE build: Heavy glass cannon at the moment) (PvP: Can switch around so doesn’t matter as much)

Please help

Thanks for the feedback chaps

As the title says – Is it worth changing over? Currently I play Aurora Glade but there are various parts of the game that are just seem lacking for my server (In my opinion) and I am aware that on others it isn’t.

So… Is it worth doing an account transfer over to a different server?

Also, a bunch of my friends who play on American Servers despite being in the UK are trying to insist I join them – But my thoughts are surely I will encounter a lot of lag due to the distance? Are they trying to get me to waste my cash?

Please give helpful information

Thanks for the feedback both of you. I greatly appreciate this

So, I’m on 98% Area completion for the Cursed Shore area, and I’m unable to complete it.
For the past 2 and a half day, the temple of Melandru has been contested, and there doesn’t seem to be any players or events for removing Zhaitans’ corruption.

I only have 1 skillpoint left to cap, however it’s directly underneath a hostile temple of Melandru.

Is there any way for me to complete this?

Abnormality: Just started the mission there-after, this time being a level 51. My first encounter with the enemy was absolutely normal… Was it simply just a fluke with my incredibly low damage?

I would like all your opinions on this;
Earlier today I was completing Lornar’s pass for map completion (I was level 67 at the time) – Downscaled to the effective area, and therefore my damage was around 300-500 with crits. Very balanced, had fun completing the area.

I decided to go do my storymode. My current mission was:

Order of Whispers: Defend Claw Island.
I was downscaled to level 50… and I’ve never struggled so much in all my years of gaming
Each attack did around about 50 damage, no exaggeration. It has taken me roughly half an hour just to complete that mission because of the risen have such “ridiculous” health in comparison to my pathetic damage output.

Example: “Seek and revive deputy Mira”
I was half way through revival and a single risen thrall attacks me for quite a large amount of damage. I dodge-roll out the way of it’s knockdown attack, proceeding to use Entangle (Yeah.. An elite against a single foe), followed by barrage, Hunter’s shot, then using rapid fire in combination of Quickening Zephyr. My screen flooded with numbers… all of them below 70. At the end of my onslaught I had barely taken off any health. In the end I decided to use Point blank shot and just keep spamming Troll Unguent and “bunny” around.
“Abnormality”??: When the risen abominations appeared, I was absolutely fine; being able to swiftly deal with them as if I was fighting a normal foe.

Throughout the entire mission I had to rely on my pet doing damage (Some reason it was doing abnormally high even for it’s downscale) along with the Sylvari and Charr.

I just want thoughts really – I had a spare repair canister to fix the damage to all my armour so it is nothing to worry about; I’m just curious as to other players happenings with this particular mission and how they handled it

I do stay still during barrage, I don’t attempt to move unless I purposely intend to break it (Lightning reflex out of an AoE perhaps),
I always maintain the centre of the view thing, which is why I am confused as to why my rapid fire isn’t working correctly :S

I’ve been playing lately and I’ve noticed a few problems – Some may just be my inexperience, so I’m hoping they can be cleared up here

Signet of the Hunt – Specifies a 25% increased movement speed for you AND your pet whilst passive, however it actually only grants you 10%???

F3/Return to me! – Pet doesn’t always obey the command, often just sitting there and taking in all the damage. On other occasions it will return, however if you then tell your pet to attack/F1, it will not co-operate until said foe is either killed or you flee from battle??

General attacks – lately I’ve been using a longbow; when using skills such as barrage and rapid fire, for some annoying reason my character will do the animation to their full extent, however the attacks themselves only last for about 1 second (So If I use rapid fire, for the full duration I’m sat spamming arrows; however only the arrows within the first second seem to do damage; the rest are animation bugs??)
Barrage – Same here. Does the animation however it doesn’t follow through with its entire attack as it should.

Has anybody had any of these problems? Or am I just an immense newbie :P?

I have no problem with the heart in that area + event. I’ve found that sometimes she gets to 0% health, however won’t die – Simply by talking to the scholar, he should go and finish her off.