Guild Wars 2

WvW: What aspects of Edge of The Mists do you think could carry over to the rest of WvW and how?

Map! This is exactly the kind of map I was missing in W3: roaming friendly, with choke points to disperse zergs and with lots of places to hide and ambush people from. Combine that with more than one vital choke point in the middle to allow more than one path to enemy keep and I’d be happy.
Fast-paced fights and control-for-resources BOs were a good thing as well (instead of escorting missions)

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Bonus: Global: Professions: How would you like to see us evolve Ranger balance?

I will refrain myself from theory crafting since there are people out there with a better grasp on this (evidence found in ranger forums)

Area I play the most: PvE. Even though I come from hardcore oPvP guild I just don’t feel w3 in this game. Too many classes doing the same and trying to dish out huge numbers in close combat while rolling left and right – with abandoning the Trinity class niches dissolved into one huge mdps blob.
I enjoyed Edge of the Mists so much tho that it made me come back to w3 but mdps meta is making it a tedious experience.
PvE: 70%
W3: 15%
sPvP: 15%

Class I play the most: at the moment it’s the Ranger. I went from engie to thief to ele to warrior, necro and ranger. Had mesmer and guardian but deleted them
Basically I play rdps classes in game which does not support rdps.

Classes I enjoyed the most: ele, ranger, engie and necro. Thief in sPvP before it became OP.

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My thoughts on ranger balance:

- redo class mechanic from the scratch. Atm it’s neither an archer nor pet tamer.

.- pets are unreliable and the fact that roughly 30% of damage comes from a faulty mob-driven AI makes the class weaker than any other out there.
Since it’s impossible at the moment for pets AI to be redone enable rangers to roam without them and tie dmg buff to something other.

.- traits need to be looked at and redone. At the moment traits do not support build versatility and force players into two viable builds.

.- condition cleansing cannot rely on faulty pet mechanic.

.- “unparalleled archers” in a game that does not support rpds is a joke. But what makes it a sad joke is that warriors are better archers than rangers. Thieves are better at it too.
Define the role of a ranger in game because right now the class can try to do what all others are doing but not be a master of anything (even the famed “range damage”).
Buff rdps and redo bow skills / damage to give some diversity in ways of playing. There is an unparalleled mdps class out there already: warrior. Hell, there’s even unparalleled rdps class out there as well and it’s warrior as well… Give rangers a niche to shine in (same goes for other classes but I digress).

Everything else, be it new pets or new weapons, until above issues are resolved, is just cosmetics in my opinion.

1. Ranger
2. Elementalist
3. Engineer

And for me it all boils down to this: fix rdps pls!

Ranger: buff
rdps on rdps classes: buff

warrior: can stay as it is provided other classes will be buffed to be on equal terms

Are you planning on giving player characters more immersion in the world of Tyria instead of them being glorified NPCs to the story?

And on related note: it’s good to see Living World evolve and show technological progress of it as well as political power-struggles but I’d like to know how it affects day-to-day player experience. I might be idealistic in the matter but ever since we, the players, defeated Zhaitan and got access to FLYING ships I can’t help but wonder why we can’t go to Elona or Cantha. The restriction of dangers of sea way has been lifted aaand… Nothing changes. One of the elder dragons has been defeated: nothing changes in the world.
Are you going to implement some kind of solution so that player-game relationship is dynamic and not static?

Last but not least: are you thinking about something to make www involvement more personal and, well, occurrences there affect players and their relationships to Tyria?

In a way it’s a shame that devs dropped GW1 requirement for a corpse to create a minion which would answer your question directly but would mess up pvp

I’d like to see the return of toxic shoulder piece and Rox quiver.

Apart from that…
- GW1 armour and weapon skins,
- amour skins that look good on other races than humans and norn (mesh clipping on charr and asura is annoying, human armour on sylvari looks ridiculous 8 times out of 10),
- dyes unlockable across account, not character,
- CLASS armour sets. Forsaking trinity is one thing, forsaking class pride is something completely different

Ranger: VIABLE bows. Sniper rifle
Engie: hammer and rifle that can be used for rdps
Warrior: 2h axe
Guardian: spear / spear+shield
Thief: claws
Necro: scythe

Ele asura: golemancer with golems reworked to necro minions mechanic.

Grenth hood was one of the best items I’ve spent gems on Regardless, I do miss Rox quiver and toxic shoulders, was on hiatus at the time and missed them :/

One can craft quiver pieces in Mystic Forge tho…

I’d love golem elites to be like necro minions – once summoned remain in game till destroyed. After all there’s all kinds of golemancers out there and it’d be pretty lousy one to make his creation last so short…

GuzziHero.2467:

Those folks (like one above) who say Ranger is for Range. I don’t see it that way. I see it as in the term range to describe a large area (cattle range etc). It is someone who lives off the land and utilises it to his advantage. A survivalist, or outdoorsman.

I can’t see them ever giving us longer than 1500 range (which we can trait for), and the engineer, mesmer and several other classes can match that. There’s no point asking for more.

I might have been too laconic in my post, please let me expand my point of view starting off with boring yet accurate quote:

“Rangers rely on a keen eye, a steady hand, and the power of nature itself. Unparalleled archers, rangers are capable of bringing down foes from a distance with their bows. With traps, nature spirits, and a stable of loyal pets at their command, rangers can adapt to any situation.”

Of course this does not mean that ranger is RDPS class only and you are right in saying that there’s more to them than obvious archetype.
However the current state of the game forces rangers to specialize in mdps tactics since range path is not viable at the moment. At the same time warriors and thiefs are doing great with their stick and string weapons – I’d like a class that should be first and foremost outstanding in range tactic to be able to dish out the same (if not noticeably more) amount of damage as, well, mdps classes.
Don’t you find it oddly ironic that you’d be better off playing long-range warrior or mid-range thief than any-range Ranger?

I’m not asking for extra range (Eagle Eye trait is good enough) nor for removing close combat traits and weapons. All I’m asking for is to fix long range dps and path for this supposedly famed for it class.

It’s not unreasonable, is it?

Really amazing thing for me would be fixing Ranger class so that it’s actually RANGE. Mdps is good for mdps classes.

Same here for my gf and me, it started with huge lag (up to 15s between skill activation and effect) a week ago and now it’s constant disconnects every 5 minutes or so.
Gandara, Eu

Since my return to the game after 5 month break I try to play sPvP every other day just to hone my skills (used to love doing scenarios in WAR) and I can feel the boredom of arenas creeping back in.

My main issue with sPvP is that:
- it’s separated from the game. What I do in the Mists stays in the Mists. It’s acceptable as means of training for me or my team but gets old very, very fast. Different skill set from PvE and WWW can only be confusing and it kind of nullifies learning advantage.

- it’s boring. Capture the flag over and over again, running from one circle to the other with occasional spawn camp… Add more game modes. Had I wanted to CTF all day I’ve played an online fps.

- maps are designed for bottle-neck kill-by-the-numbers playstyle (with exception to Battle of Kyhlo). They are also dull, small and frustratingly similar. Again, Kyhlo with it’s roofs, stairs, windows enables more ambush-based and sniper-tactic playstyle (find a spot, spike, change location). IMO maps too small for group tactics, too boring for solo roaming and too similar in design.

- There’s nothing to do in the Mists in between fights.

- downed state in a fast-paced small map environment is a buzzkill for me. Why spike a target down on RDPS character if I’ll have to switch to close combat and reveal position just to try few frustrating times to land that well-deserved KB?
Also, KB stealing with finishers kittenes me off to no end

- last but not least: three viable classes, few viable builds and the same playstyle across all game modes.

I have this bug at frequently as four times a week. My solution: restart client. Works 9 times out of 10 (for that extra 1 time it didn’t simply restart again).

Hope it helps

I’ve started GW2 with an engineer, mostly because I played one in Warhammer and did enjoy playing sniper/grenadier hybrid. What also lured me into this class was the hype promising that ANet had learned on Mythic’s errors and figured out how to create a valid engie class.

Quickly have I realised that:
a. turrets are only useful for lvling 1-20ish
b. where the frag is the loyal pet addon? Two games suffering from turrets attacking on whim and choosing the most silly kitten targets is too much
c. DPS and HP on turrets is on about the same hopeless level as in WAR, the only difference being that in WAR I could teleport them to me and detonate them to use them as portable RC bombs

and the most important
d. no matter the game devs seem to think that stationary class with low burst and dps that’s easily cleansable stand a chance in pvp and opvp without a support from the group.

That being said, my engie is waiting for a better days. Was supposed to be my main, now it’s just a reminder of a character in another game.

cufta.7309:

First of all usualy when i lose a fight people would start jumping around, dancing, even sending me offensive messages for no reason(usualy i don’t mind losing but this is getting a bit extreme) .Second thing is when i beat someone most of the times its one of these.
1) Making an excuse on chat so the whole team can know how “its not his foult”
2)Sending me offensive message because i win.
3)Before i can do it player just goes to the hotm…

You, Sir, must be new to pvp
I’ve played various pvp-centered games over the years, both MMOs and FPS and am yet surprised when at the end of a fight I see “gg”, “gj” or something along those lines rather than skull-kittening or informations about my sexual preferences or my mother’s code of ethic

Ignore the half-wits, appreciate those who have some sense of chivalry in them and report those who cross the line.

Good hunting

Personally I’ve never accepted class name and am calling it “assassin”.
With Leopard or Raven as totem animal I see no problems with my main char

I did the dungeon 20 times so far and I have not seen it drop even once.
I want it baad (being a life-long dieselpunk genre fan) and I plan on farming more during this week but kitten drop rate could’ve been a bit higher

There’s a way around this nasty bug: as long as there’s one person dead rest can deal with repairs and skill changes, as soon as 5th respawns it’s insta-port

Found the solution to the problem:

Xystus.3241:

What have you tried so far?

If you haven’t done anything, please try the following:

1) Delete the File ’Documents\Guild Wars 2\local.dat"
2) Start the game with the -repair option
3) Start the game with the -image option (unconfirmed, supposed to download all updates).

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Command_line_arguments

/EOT

Xystus.3241:

If you haven’t done anything, please try the following

Thank you, kind sir, this, indeed, have helped!

Much obliged

Aye, since about 2 weeks loging in GW2 is a constant stream of frustration and bloody “login roulette” , one lucky login attempt for every 10 black screens, today I can’t even get that, all I have is one black screen after the other :/

Hi,

for the whole day today I keep getting black screen when trying to log into GW.
I tried reinstalling DX, checking and double checking antialiasing setup in both NVIDIA and in game, reinstalling graph card and monitor drivers but without success.
I had no problem with login in yesterday but somehow all I keep getting today are flickering top bar and then black VOID.

Does anyone have an idea on how to fix that?

Extremely frustrated but grateful for any advice me.

WierdScience.5062:

I know I can “minimize” the box but I want it gone from the screen; why isn’t this an option?

Because any UX/UI designer will tell you that this is what makes you either interested in it or talking about it: you are aware of the content, that’s why

Are we supposed to get some kind of reward on finishing all achievements in Live Story?
Finished mine and nothing…

Rayti.6531:

Pronounced Ra-y-ti (not Ray-ti or even worse just Ray)

Ray-Ray variations would be “meh” but Ra-y-ti has some nice Aztec / South American ring to it, good job, sir.

My ele is called Razjel Ha Malach, meaning “Raziel the Angel”.
Razjel (Secret of God) is Keeper of Secrets and an Angel of Mysteries as well as patron of practitioners of magic. Author of famous Sefer Raziel HaMalach (Book of Raziel the Angel) attributed to this figure is said to contain all secret knowledge, and is considered to be a book of magic. He stands close by God’s throne, and therefore hears and writes down everything that is said and discussed.

(most if not all of my chars across many MMOs have names after Gods, Angels and Dwarfs )