Guild Wars 2

Thanks for the responses, will use shortbow instead and just swap between staff and daggers when i feel like it.

So i’m making a thief (first time, its the only class with necro i haven’t got up to 80 yet) And i quite like the idea of dual daggers and of course i want to be using the new weapon so staff as well.

Do these two go together? This thief is going to be mostly for general pve mixed in with some wvw , no worried about spvp side of it.

What build would you recommend for it, i know it will be a little weak without a range weapon but im hoping there’s some build that will help it work.

Thanks for any feedback guys! :-)

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Radnar.9814:

Anet famously does not give a crap about Rangers…

Funny that I keep reading this about every class on every forum.

No doubt, but to be fair Ranger is and has been out of the meta in every area of the game for most of guild wars 2. Other than the times when engi or necro have sunk lower than them, rangers have been the bottom of the table.

I think engi will be the enxt reveal. They’ve just done thieves with staffs so they might want a break between that and the other staff elite.

Anet famously does not give a crap about Rangers, expect it to be the last reveal.

Those links to the other thread at least give us the hope that it will in fact be returning soom, we can hope anyway.

The most fun i have in this game is starting up a new character, and getting 100% map completion, especially if ive been away from the game so it looks new and fresh to me, i love seeing all the little corners in every map, ive completed every jumping puzzle now, and when i want a break from that, i chill out with guildes doing a dungeon. In contrast wvw to me is okay, i find it pretty fun, but i cant even stand pvp through a mixture of finding it boring and not being a high enough skill level.

Mostly i play this game like skyrim, doing everything then doing it all with a different character too.

But this has taken so long its obvious its not something they’ve got lots of people actively working on, either it IS on the backburner or they’ve just left one guy to try sort it all out. Just hope it gets back before the end of the month anyway.

Remember HoM are down and have been for months now though, with no clear indication of when theyll ever be returning other than “soon”

Agreed, i really miss the HoM.

After all the time people spend getting the points this is a huge screw you. especially since so many people dont even care a few got a couple of AP or skins when they didnt do it.

Wonder if it will get out before heart of thorns or not, i really hope so but i also really doubt it.

Its been a month now since i can find any official word on it and several months since it was removed. Just wondered if anyone else has heard anything.

My poor ranger is getting ocd about not having all his pets unlocked :p

Thanks, i will

Targeting circles for blasting staff AOE’s still do not grow to correct size when not in mists. This has been a known bug for a while and made me confused for a little while as to whether the trait was really working. Seems like it would be simple enough to fix.
Credit to Shinzan for the example, top is target circles in the mists, the bottom is in Lions Arch.

Still having this problem as well, hopefully a fix soon, it’s only a small bug but quite a frustrating one.

This achievement is just a joke right? Just to put it into perspective, if you killed one dolyak every two minutes, playing six hours a day (always killing dolyaks), every day of the year, it would take you 15 years to get the title. Is this just to make sure nobody gets all the achievements?

Thoughts everyone?

Wow, thanks for all the good replys everyone =) Will definitely be trying out these.

Anyone got any ideas now on how to have a condition mesmer in wvw that can hold up in most fights? A few months ago we were fine and i could hold my own and take out most opponents fairly quickly. That became a lot harder after the recent nerfs and now to blow to chaos armor is making me wonder if it’s one step too far. But the whole reason i went Mesmer because i liked the condition damage they used to be able to dish out, so just wondered if anyone has a viable pure condition build that can hold its own out there?

Thanks for taking the time to talk to us Robert. I think i speak for most of us when i say it means a lot to finally hear from someone. ^__^

New guild looking for players of all skills and knowledge, only a few members right now, but always looking to expand with new people. pm Radnar.9814 ingame if you want any more info/invite.

Thanks

aha thank you and okay i will ,but it’s just because i’m creating a guild with my girlfriend so ill be okay on that front Thanks again anyway

Like the title says, can i have more than one person as leader rank, or do i just need to make another rank with all the permissions on? don’t want to accidentally give leadership away :P (i put this here because guild section seems to be just recruiting and guild hunting)
Thanks.

Yes this is a pretty basic filter that you think would have been implemented from the start, hope to see it appear soon.

I have the played the class, my main is a ranger, i simply wanted to hear from the rest of the community.

What can rangers bring to players who enjoy all aspects of GW2, the exploratory PVE, dungeons, WVW, PVP etc.

What are the good (and bad) qualities that ranger has for these things?
I realize that bad will be a longer list but this is partly directed at the people who are like "what are you guys complaining about rangers are still awesome and ownage and don’t need any changes, yes those people actually exist)

As a ranger now, we know were pretty much useless in almost all aspects of wvw, especially with the changes to Guard. But what do you think the best roles for rangers are now in wvw combat?

Geshque.1326:

Please do not post here if you are lvl 29 and know completely nothing about chars mechanic

It’s a free community, anybody can post regardless of what you think about their comments.

Thanks to this wonderful icon fix ranger is now completely viable, can destroy all other classes and the ranger forums are a happy people under the fair and balanced rule of Anet.

Because i really enjoy the range of longbows and attacks on ranger ,warrior longbow is only 900 range which is okay but when you know you can have 1500 on the ranger it feels so much better, it just needs the attack power balanced.

I’m sorry i wish i could help but i don’t know
All i can suggest is trying to make some good friends to do it with or go with your guild so you won’t get kicked.
good luck

If you’re starving and someone gives you a cookie then walks away, it’s nice to have a cookie but you’re still gonna starve to death.

Nah so far that’s it, i’m glad they did that though makes it much easier to rename both the pets at once when i’m switching em around.

Do you think ranger should be turned into two classes, yes yes i already know that it won’t happen, and we ALL know that Anet winces when they glance at the ranger forum and hurry on their way. (usually to the Mesmer forum… Jon)

Ayways, don’t you think it would be a good idea to change ranger into two classes? On one side we could have a class known as “Marksman” or something, it would obviously be focused deeply on long range combat, with superior LB damage, rifle damage etc, able to use SB as well (maybe not pistols as i don’t think they’d give that much use on top of the others) then for closer range we could have axe main hand or sword main hand with torches or war horns as offhand. Could keep the current ranger skills for these weapons and make some new ones for the rifles, skills would obviously need some buffing and a few changes first. Marksman would have no pet whatsoever making it up with stats that actually matched other classes.

Then on the other side we could have Beast Master, which is more like the current ranger but pets aren’t totally useless, they’d need big buffs and changes, there weapons would be low damage like the current ranger weapons are and their weapon skills could be changed to support the pet more than anything else (like the current ones but not rubbish) The types of weapons they use could stay pretty much the same as the rangers.

So basically on one side we have the same ranger with a pet that actually makes the class viable and on the other side we have a new class for the people who picked ranger because they love that long range combat. I think it’s a nice idea, but then i’m probably wrong What do you think anyway?

On a separate note, don’t you guys just love the new hawk icon?

I hadn’t actually noticed this though until you said, it’s obviously not fair, but maybe it’s just a temporary fix.
Or its permanent in which case ill just /sigh

Yeah i just checked i see that you’re right.
But i dont see why they wouldn’t have told us, it’s obvious we’d notice and rage about it, i’m hoping they’re just using it as a temp fix while they make a better solution to the exploit. And agree, would be nice to hear from them to see what they have to say.

Anyone else just seeing the sharks floating above the ruins instead of in the secret entrance underwater? The event is on and says to kill them but there just green and floating in mid air… wanted to get it done for the 100% completion. Tried relogging and there were a few other people around seeing the same.