Guild Wars 2

Very happy, can’t say about numbers, but as a gameplay I really liked it

Not fun at all. This is some of the most frustrating game experience I ever had.

Did anybody managed to see Eurantien last match pvp build? I was a bit late, but overall it looked like NM, BM and druid? Anyway it looked like something I rarely see in pvp and if anybody can link his build, I’ll be very grateful.

Tragic Positive.9356:

About the Maths … Well … How would you like to calculate it? For every single encounter alone? For every situation alone?
That’s way too troublesome for anyone to answer that part of the question.

No, just for one specific case, like I said, ideal set up, best gear, all buffs, static boss, some fixed most common value for armor like heavy armor golem, etc. My feeling is that somehow the ranger with longbow is on par or better then herald hammer, but its only feeling and poor math, and I couldn’t find anything to back me up with facts and give real numbers and likely it will stay only feeling, because the GW2 community lacks the number nerds of WoW and other games. I don’t say better, useful or anything, I simply wonder about the theorycrafting if anybody bothered to do it, but seems no.

So essentialy, we have good educated guesses about the ranking of the dps of the ranged weapons in ideal PvE settings (all buffs, minimal movement, etc), but its only guesses and there is no yet hard math to crunch and show real numbers?

This means that there is no much point of heated debate, because it boils down to trying to prove feelings without real data to back it up.

Aomine.5012:

Sam.6483:

Aomine.5012:

My Glint Mallyx Rev often do 18k~20k x 2 damage on a target with a 2 sec CD.

In how much Damage Per Second that translates? Also, is it hammer?

Since you are obviously ahead of me in regard of profesions knowledge, how would you rank the ranged weapons from the different profs and builds? Is possible with aproximate DPS, Thanks.

Read my previous post.
I did give a small ranking between each classes and explain the situation requirement.

As to dps, it’d be lower than 36k dps ofc because hammer 2 still has a 2 secCD. But you’re still doing some damage when hammer 2 is not ready though. Also when swap to Glint, despite a dps lost, you can keep up more might/fury and spam a ground target high damage skill (facest) when your Mallyx is on CD.

Roughly speaking maybe you can expect a 22k range dps from hammer, providing you know the location of hitting foes twice with hammer 2.

Something seems bugged on my browser, couldn’t see your answer. I understand now. Just couple of questions more. LB warr, condition or power buid (I also wonder why its not commonly cited as one of the highest ranged dps)? And how much you think ranger can get in ideal situation, ie double LB, best pet, static target? Thanks again.

Aomine.5012:

My Glint Mallyx Rev often do 18k~20k x 2 damage on a target with a 2 sec CD.

In how much Damage Per Second that translates? Also, is it hammer?

Since you are obviously ahead of me in regard of profesions knowledge, how would you rank the ranged weapons from the different profs and builds? If possible with aproximate DPS, Thanks.

so like seriously, its proven (i think some guild did the maths) that power ranger is not in the top dps even with the right rotation.

And that it is actually common knowledge.

Thats what I was refering to, a common knowledge, but I couldn’t find any dps charts or math that will show how the ranged weapons and the proffesions compare, so I tested a bit on dummies and Tequatl with same gear, DnT&Metabattle builds and I tried to do some basic math like reading the numbers from the logs in intervals of 60 sec and looks like the DH LB and Rev hammer are a bit weaker then LB ranger and then I thought that maybe I am doing their rotations wrong or something.

If anybody can point to some real math or charts, please.

I am talking PvE, bosses are largely static or predictable, VG let say.

In PvE, from some common wisdom somehow I thought that the tiers are something like:
1. Top ranged dps – Herald hammer
2. DH lonbow, Ele staff
3. Ranger lonbow, mesmer GS
4. Everybody else

However plying and testing seems that it is rather:
1. Ranger LB & jaguar, Ele staff
2. DH, Herald hammer
3. Everybody else

Didn’t test thief, necro, engie and the rest, because are not commonly cited as top ranged dps.

Am I doing something wrong, that my ranger has higher dps then DH and Heralds???

I main Ranger for now, but still managed to pile up hours on DH and revenant, maybe I am playing them wrong?

Windows 7, 64bit. Every time resets on log in.

Tried to leave open for some time and then come back, moved game folder on another disk, nothing helps

Same problem, it was fine few days ago

Wow, very fast answer. Support needed half an hour to look into the issue, I coudn’t even cancel it.

Ah, ok, thanks. Should’ve been option for that, I guess it would unload a bit the queues

I sent ticket to support regarding some deleted by mistake total makeover kits, but I thought that they were identity repair kits which are much more expensive and because I don’t want to bother the support with few pounds worth lost, i’d like to canclel the ticket, but I can’t find such option

A bit of background. I have played most of the MMORPGs at near hardcore level. I’ve got 3.8k hours with GW2, not sure how much but a lot on several accounts in GW1, 6k in WOW, also a lot Diablo, Tera, SWTOR, RIFT, WildStar, etc. GW2 is by far the best from what I’ve experienced. However I’ve got small peeve. I always prefered to play or role-play the archer type adventurer as opposite to caster or warrior, but not the beast master one (I like the pets in general, but the GW2 implementation is very poor compared to what I’ve experienced with other games and specificaly I don’t like it). In WoW it would translate in Marksman hunter for example. Also I like non-too-human races. Based on these prefferences I created at launch and mained until now norn ranger, which seemed to fit the bill. However with HoT I finally gave up the hope that there will be some possibility to play without pet and on another hand the norns turned to be just big humans with useless elite, where I expected something in the line of Beorn-like shapeshifting giants, which turn in bears when fight.

So the question is, does the Dragon Hunter has that adventurer/archer/hunter feeling for role-playing? And how Sylvary and Charr fit in this fantazy? I have both combinations to lvl 80, but haven’t played much on them and can’t get the feeling. My impression is that char fits better as warrior, because the guardians have more magical feeling in general and the chars are too beastly to be magical on first sight. FOr sylvary haven’t found any specific feeling, they seem to be too human-like, but I may be wrong.

So, can the DH fit in the shoes of the ranger expectatios and what are the justifications for char to be one? Thoughts?

Could be the problem some hero point completed from WvW token? I’ve done that just to test it, if I knew about this bug in advance wouldn’t have risked.

Same problem, character with 100% old world completion, didn’t get reward for verdant blink completion.

+1 For awarnes of the issue

Still same, network error when trying to load maps

Same. Can’t load any map with any character

Game instantly crashes when I click on some achievement chest, no matter where my character is.

Specific Game Mode
<All.>

Proposal Overview
<Permanent stow pet, included in combat without receiving buff. In many cases it is worth to have 30% less dps, but to have better control of the character played. All other professions can be played without their class mechanics, mesmer clones doesn’t spawn, because the character is attacked, etc >

Goal of Proposal
<Avoiding undesired obstruction of views, for example attacked on jumping pusle, trigering traps, etc.>

Proposal Functionality
<Ability to stow pets permanently without receiving any buffs>

Associated Risks
<None>

3000 played GW2, 2000 as ranger and done 8 orbs Liadri with ranger and some other feats. This is the single and worst problem with ranger’s profession: inability to stow pets.

Specific Game Mode
PvX – It refers for all game modes

Proposal Overview
Ability to stow pets and recieve small buff instead. This buff should be relatively small so the pets are still desired.
Historicaly in GW merchandise rangers are not “the pet” profession.
There are many issues with the profession, but pets are the worst problem.

Goal of Proposal
Fixing major problem with profession mechanic.
Rangers are unique among the other professions in that that their profession mechanic is handicap and non-optional rather then optional and desired bonus. (See for example warrior, they can spend their rage or keep it as passive buff to damage or healing, but in any case acumulation or spending of rage is desired)
In many instances and situations pet is serious handicap. It is springing traps, obstructing, etc (most recent example is marionette, warden 2)
If there are better ideas how to fix the profession, this can serve as band-aid until proper implementation and will give more freedom of choice how to play the game.

Proposal Functionality
There is no obvious problem implementing it. Plain 5-10% damage/deffence increase and all pet related skills and abilities either unavalible if pet is stowed (another reason pet to be desired) or self-casted

Associated Risks
If the buff is not balanced correctly, there is risk rangers to become too strong and overrepresented (in many games ranger/hunter class is overly popular)

Yargesh.4965:

You played 3,000 hours for about $60 dollars and think you did not get enough out of your experience? Just as a side to walk from Tromsö in Norway to Cape Town in South Africa takes according to google 2941 hours.

Sam.6483:

3k hours GW2 playtime, including early beta on couple of accounts here. After playing about all MMORPGs last 8-9 years, most of them hardcore I am pretty confident that I am much happier with subscription based model with complete lack of cash shop. For the overal superior gaming experience with GW2 compared with the competition I’ll be happy to pay £10-15/month. Overall I feel more satisfaction achieving feat or winning item purely because of my skills or time investment in game than just buying it with cash (example being, making the achievement with 8 orbs Liadri, so far my most satisfaing moment in GW2). I worked our pretty fast that working 16 hours real life overtime to buy legendary is easier than “working” 1000 hours game time unpleasent and repetitive farming of gold and materials to craft it. So To have legendary I work 2 days instead of playing 2 days, seems wrong to me personaly. Thanks.

I think I did not get enough out of my experience??? Moneywise, I’ve got orders of magnitude more then any other hobby I had. Just not very happy that I achieved most of the things (like legendary) relaying on my skills in my real life job instead of my skills ingame.

3k hours GW2 playtime, including early beta on couple of accounts here. After playing about all MMORPGs last 8-9 years, most of them hardcore I am pretty confident that I am much happier with subscription based model with complete lack of cash shop. For the overal superior gaming experience with GW2 compared with the competition I’ll be happy to pay £10-15/month. Overall I feel more satisfaction achieving feat or winning item purely because of my skills or time investment in game than just buying it with cash (example being, making the achievement with 8 orbs Liadri, so far my most satisfaing moment in GW2). I worked our pretty fast that working 16 hours real life overtime to buy legendary is easier than “working” 1000 hours game time unpleasent and repetitive farming of gold and materials to craft it. So To have legendary I work 2 days instead of playing 2 days, seems wrong to me personaly. Thanks.

Thats what happen after probably 100h of camping waiting and failed attempts. Something got to be done. I am on break until Anet find solution

Can’t believe it yet. Easier to believe I messed up the dates and now is 1 April then rangers got buff. And that was not enough but 3 sec stealth on longbow!!!

SvenskNavi.9378:

And how about defending Stonemist Keep 100,000 times, or getting 5 legendaries? How are those achievements coming for you?

Reread please “Limited time” in the title. Stonemist will not go away after 2 weeks.

Well this is the end game, ticking boxes with achievements. There is no gear treadmil, no competition for world first kill and I can’t just rerun the personal sories without end or to keep doing same dungeons for same reward, I need some kind of goal or target when I play game.

SO, thats real frustration, being in weak server and trying to do obsidian sanctum. It is not something related to my skills in the game or time investment, etc. Just after many hours patiently trying to reach the kite I am killed again and again by campers. This kind of achievements are leaving bad taste in my mouth, a game should be enjoyable and in the case with GW" it is 99% of the time, but achievement like this make it frustrating.

I hope attention will be paid and in future, temporary content achievements will be designed to be dependant of the skill or time investment of the players, and not of the mercy of the other pvp-ers

10/10 for Riven Winterwolf, I wish I had thought something like that first.

Ran Shadowhunter – ginger female norn ranger
(I know, I know, lack of imagination, but still…)

Exactly same happen here. ame here. UK, virgin internet

Mustafa.7684:

wow you are an idiot for sharing this… you just messed up the market for potential gold.

Also its not a guarantee that you will be getting any skins. I have ran through 48 times with out a skins. that 8 toon for 6 days…

Calling people “idiot” is sign of lack of culture. I am mistaken, confused, whatever. But why I deserve to be called “idiot”?

IVIUIEI.9631:

Sam.6483:

Then what we see in TP?

all those timw wasted…. and not a dime
well at lease u have a lot of bubles…no ones gonna be able to pop your baubles

I haven’t yet I have 10 baubles, just made some maths while looking the skins.

I just thought I found way to make gold :/

Then what we see in TP?

I’d like to share what I discovered.
We can do SAB once per day per character. We can solo in fact easier then with group. First 2 bosses grant 4 baubles. We need les then 10 min to run them. We can create few new characters. 1 greatsword skin is 50 baubles. There are hundreds of thousands potential buyers. Skins will be retired in 4 days.

Thats about all.

Less then 2 hours later we are 60 gold richer.

Rinse and repeat until you get tired of making gold.

I hope you liked this discovery.

Edit: Ignore that, I am wrong. No easy way to make gold

Salt.4621:

Look for employment irl?

That thing “employment” was what the working class is suppoused to do?

I thought about that, but it will eat most of my playing time just waiting. I tend to teleport to check up for dragons every 15-20 min, I am most interested in Claw of Jormag.
I guess it will turn in waiting wars.

As title say, I am trown in overflow several times in row before the dragon events and i can’t complete them, guesting bring same issue. How to kill dragon in reasonable time (read my gaming time window of 3 hours in the evening between 18:00 and 21:00 CET.
Thanks in advance for sugestions.

1. Which class do you consider to be the “most overpowered”?
A: PVE-Guardian, WvW-Mesmer.

2. Which class do you consider to be the “most underpowered”?
A: PVE-Ranger, WvW-Engineer.

3. Which aspect of the game do you think needs the most work done? (sPvP, PvE dungeons, PvE open world, WvW)
A: PvE open world.

4. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being good and 1 being bad, how would you rate the in game economy?
A: 1

5. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being a lot and 1 being very few, how would you rate the amount of bugs/glitches in the current build of the game?
A: 5

6. Which aspect of the game do you want to do more, but have no reason to currently do so? (sPvP, PvE dungeons, PvE open world, WvW)
A: PvE open world

7. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being great and 1 being the worst, how would you rate the community interaction between players? (things such as parties, dungeons, etc)
A: 8

Is that true? I can’t compare. If its true, shall we ask for being able to refund laurels?

Can’t log in.
Build: 16732
Error Code: 42:1020:9001:4103

Couldn’t log in forums either last 2 hours.

Server: Ring of Fire, EU. Playing from UK.

SpyderArachnid.5619:

Take WoW for example (yes I know, but it’s the best comparison). You get a level 40 Frostsaber. Now imagine if you could only ride the Frostsaber if you were not wearing your armor and the Frostsaber only went as fast as your regular running speed and it only lasted for a few minutes and then vanished and as soon as you were hit with anything, it vanished as well. Then it would be like the Broom in GW2.

You are telling me that my favourite mount in wow, http://us.battle.net/wow/en/item/23720 is not mount at all, because it only went as fast as my regular running speed, my skills are unusable and as soon as I were hit with anything, it vanishes as well? Why Blizzard call all these cosmetic animations mounts???

Last time I crafted something was when I leveled crafts 3 months ago. I salvage occasional something rare when it seems the chance to get ectoplasm outweigh the price I can get in TP. I don’t have jewellcrafting either. However I researched why somebody was banned, when I’ve seen these posts and its clear that Anet is handling bad the case. The common sense dictates that this is fault of development team, which have to make public excuse for their fault. And the so called “exploiters” are completely innocent. As note if I knew there is easy way to make some gold I’d have engaged until the value of the materials make it unprofitable, just like with all games when I spot some demand like enchants and keep making them until the competition or the materials make it unprofitable. Always it was fine to do so. Here if I want to salvage or vendor something, after I learned for bans because of buying and selling materials and items I feel like criminal who can be punished, because of some unknown to me rule.

Also I have real life business and I have idea that if I put wrong price and somebody buy the product I can’t call the police and say he has stolen. In the case of GW2 my judgement is that is highly unprofessional what ANet is doing. As somebody who spent real money willing to support ANet to buy gems for precursor, keys and other things from TP (which is thousands by the way) I am very concerned by their politics and I will wait to see their answer first, if there is any before buying again. The answer should address the unanswered questions in this forum if is this is a bug, how they permanently ban before first informing the involved players that what they are doing is wrong.
My 2 cents

Here she is. First is her glass canon gear for general pve, second one for WvW.
Pity there are only couple of non-trench coat skins.

Torches and Shortbow or Pistol or Land spear to Warriors, they need 2 more weapons at least.
Axes or Longbow to Guardians, axe looks proper for them and longbow should should fire magical arrows (1200 range preferably)
Rifles or Spear to Rangers, Rifle is must I think they just overlooked it, see ranger can’t use rifle??? Spear is most proper weapon for such profession.
Hammers or Scepter to Engineers, hammer is tool and they are used to and scepter something loaded with alchemy miracles and tricks
Rifle or Mace to Thieves, sniper is proper evolution of tief to assassin and mace is brawler stuff
Greatswords or Sword to Necromancers
Greatswords or Sword to Elementalists
Dual Pistols or Dual Daggers to Mesmers.

Thank you for the answers. What I mean is not GCD, which will prevent the spaming, but the delay between pressing the key and the time the animation begins, which in wow and tera is below my treshhold of perciving it at all. Could anybody cite such instant spells, which Healix said exist, that can be cast in mid air, while turning, preferably rangers whith which I am more familiar (seems only the first skill of the shortbow is doing that on theory, but not on practice, and I’ll go now to look if I can find other professions’ skills). But what I wonder is what exactly is that, server-client differences in where the animation is processed or something else. If there is intentional build in delay of 200ms this will answer my question, but I can’t find source to mention such thing. Thanks again.

Any body know what is the difference from technical point of view between games with instant reaction times of spels and games with slight delay.
Example: In WoW if you play hunter there is thing called jump-shot, your character is runing forward, then you jump, turn in mid-air 180 degrees fire to say arcane shot (which is instant), turn again facing forward (still midair) and when you lend you keep runing and you kept in effect the continuos speed of runing forward but you fired instant shot to the chasing mab/player.
However in GW2, the first ability of the short bow, equiped by ranger, which is instant also, doesn’t work like that. You can fire doing “jump-shot” but to be able to hit you have to wait fraction of second (my estimation is 0.25-0.35sec) which makes you landing back not fully facing the original direction.

I explained this technic only because it shos better the time lapse between presing the key and the actual start of the spell. In WoW it works in way to make you feel is instant or nearly instant regardles input or internet lag (it could be 2-3 sec lag and the technic still looks same). Other game that works like that is Tera.

To clarify, I use high end hardware, i7-3970, 2x GTX 680, SSD hard disks, 28" monitor, several razer gaming mouses, keyboards, etc, everything overclocked. With couple of words money are not issue and I try to use the latest/best avalible on the market. I checked all combinations of settings, windowed modes, etc, lowest fps was around 230 with other players around. I have 2 broad band internets, for both game show around 15-20ms delay. I am aware there is engineer ability called jump shot, I am not bashing GW2, it is best game ever imho.

Only thing I want to know what makes these games different, does wow make your pc making the work and gw2 make these things server side or something else. Thank you in advance for the answer and patience.