Guild Wars 2

I do Longbow GS combo, I have 30 in marksmanship and a mix of beserker, toughness gear. I also use Butternut Squash and maintenance oil. Yesterday I was fighting a seasoned group of 6 in WvW with about 9 other team mates. I decided to take down the guardian. I sent in my pet, who unfortunately could not keep up with the guardian who was now charging towards me. I decided to knock him back, but he was immune to my knockback, I figured with my signet I could outrun him, but as a ranger once you engage a target you can’t run as fast so anyone can catch you. Luckily I got hit twice before another guardian engaged him. I ran some more and at a sufficient distance turned around to get my revenge. I began immediately with rapid fire plus I activated my quickness, that took him down to about 1/2 his health. Next I saw my pet was finally catching up to the fight but he was almost 1/2 dead just from shrapnel or something. Then I decided to help my comrade by deploying a barrage, at 1/4 health the guardian was worried for his life and decided to heal. He was crippled but still hitting the other guardian. Then his friends joined in, but little did they know the cycle was up on my rapid fire and I engaged again. Between me and the pet he would at least be on the ground begging for his life before I died. AND I had a plan, if they came close I would drop entangling roots. My guardian friend was down, my pet was down, and I was working that guardian for the second time with rapid fire. His friends were closing in, he was getting low on health, I just wanted him to feel some ranger power, by at least getting him to the ground. He began to run away, he only had 1/8 of his life left, when suddenly he was back up to half health and he turned around with revenge on his mind. I deployed entangling roots on his friends, most of them evaded, I fired point blank shot again, he was immune, he leapt and I evaded…..

It was over in 8 seconds…

What can I do wrong to get fewer badges besides not pick up the bags? I will be honest. I don’t miss a single bag. I rather suicide if necessary to get the chance at getting another badge. That is not my issue. My drop rate is hosed.

My thing is that the developers have no motivation to fix this at a hasty pace, and quite frankly I am not a newb, I have been playing rangers from since 12 years ago with Everquest.

Luckily I don’t have to pay a fee to play the game. So I will be back if decent fixes are implemented in WvW and for rangers. For now it’s too frustrating, because many things are not as advertised. Like I said many novel and great ideas. I am not against changes, but gross imbalances are only tolerable until they start cutting into the fun. I only run with the Zerg. When I flank, naturally as a ranger, it’s too easy for a thief to kill me, rendering me ineffective unless I stay back and pick off dying players. Which is so gimp.

I have actually been beaten by a thief who was on the ground almost dead, who managed to rally twice and kill me. Hahaha, that’s madness.

I’m sorely disappointed with an otherwise novel and high potential game. Its the lack of attention this is getting that is going to make me quit. There is blatant inequality in WvW.

1. Thieves. There are no counter measures to them. NO ONE can see them EVER???They do insane damage…..they touch a ranged class or caster class, and kill them. They go into stealth every 5 seconds and I have watched an enemy thief kill 5 people level 80 on a small ledge and walk away with half his health, 5 good WvWers all trying to target him. They can even deliver kill shots while stealthed. It is the most frustrating thing to watch guys. You cannot give one class so much power that they can eliminate a group ACTING TOGETHER, ALONE! I don’t care how good he is. You cannot target a thief long enough to get any real damage done to him. If you hit him with a stun he auto stealths. If he’s low on health he disappears and returns 10 seconds later to finish off everyone else.

2. The Honor Badges. The drop rate on these is ridiculous. 1500 WvW kills under my belt and I have 114 badges? The game is/was supposed to be PvP centric. Its all I do everytime I log on. Its all I want to do. Its what I got the game for. Its supposed to be a PvP oriented game at its core, I don’t want to play jump puzzle, to get badges, I want to kill invaders. Can you reward me fairly for that please? If this drop rate continues I have to kill 6000 enemies to get ONE WvW weapon. The invader’s longbow is 398 badges. I am level 80 and I have been in pure WvW since level 50. I have 33 silver to my name, I cannot afford to buy one, I was buying siege and repairing my armor. I was counting onthe badges to buy a level 80 bow.

3. Five days ago, my son who is 3 accidentally transferred me to another server, I think its called Sorrow’s Despair…WOW, guys how does server matching take place? This server is beaten to shreds by Devona’s Rest everyday. Now when I say beaten I mean 20:1 WvW player ratio. Don’t believe me? Hopefully the screenshots post. The other team delights in it, the other server, does not participate at ALL. I’m sticking this paragraph here for them, because they just suicidally try to keep a fort per night, and don’t complain much, but I will be leaving that server gladly asap. Its not working whatever it is, two team doesn’t even have enough players to take one keep away on their own damn map from the other team???? How can that be fair or enjoyable?

4. The ranger. I’ll be the first to admit my gear is poor. I have two pieces of exotic and an exotic shortbow. The PVE game bores me to death. So I’ll take some responsibility for being one shotted sometimes. The issue is that a warrior can take me out AT RANGE and he’s not a ranged class. We are supposed to be the kings of at least MELEE ranged damage, you haven’t given us that honor. I don’t care what skill it is, why can a warrior hit me at range for 9k, and I can’t do ANYTHING like that??? Then procede to hit me for 1800 damage with Volley? WAIT? My bow only hits for 800 with my AOE? My shortbow hits for 400.

I think WvW is a disaster in so many respects. There are great aspects to it guys don’t get me wrong but unfortunately, its starting to get the best of me, and its starting to outweigh the fun I thought I would have had, and was having in the game. Its no fun being in an encounter with a thief, with 2-3 other players and everyone is just running for safety because we ALL know there is no hope in killing him, and we just don’t want him to get all of us. When a warrior can take you down from range, and you are a ranger!!! there is little hope there, and when you’re server is outmatched 20:1…well that’s the icing on the GW2 cake.

The first screenshot, Denravi’s Rest Domination

The second Warrior Ranged Domination….