Guild Wars 2

Well what now, is that if this continues we give them the finger and then “take our phonecall” so to speak by playing a different game.

I really believe the matrix clip is apt considering what comes next is the scene where the agents take his mouth, much like how players get banned (and can’t speak) when they disagree with forum moderation.

Yes, stereotyping is bad, which is why they should not assume that we are all children and then treat us as such.

If we are treated with any amount of respect in the first place, they then have a justification to moderate those who are disrespectful towards them. As it is, this is not the case. They do not respect us, and that is not our fault.

The lack of communication between the development team and the community is a downright embarassment. There’s a clear disconnect between the Developers and the forum moderation team, which makes the gulf between the player and the designer that much wider. We get punished for voicing our opinions, making jokes, being honest about the state of rangers as a class and then lied to about animation bugs as though we won’t know any better. And if that animation bug is real? Prove it. We’re adults, we can make sense of complex information.

These forums are supposed to be for class feedback, yet the act of giving feedback will often get you moderated, because the intentionally vague TOS and forum guidelines leave too much room for interpretation. There’s evidently no oversight of the moderation team since they won’t tell you what rules you’ve broken or how long you get banned, simply saying it’s due to some internal “accumulation of points” which could honestly mean anything. How do you appeal a ban you don’t know how you’ve obtained? It’s apparently easy to get banned for some honestly trivial bullkitten, and when people come back they’re just going to be more bitter. It should come as no surprise they will become repeat offenders. If I don’t care about arbitrary forum moderation in the first place, temporarily banning me without telling me why isn’t going to change that.

I think they’re acting as though the player will always be there for them to abuse but I don’t have to play this game. I don’t have to care about whether or not Rangers can perform well in PVP. I want to have fun with this game and I want rangers to do well, but if you honestly want me to just accept this completely non-transparent (and inconsistent) forum moderation, well…

Batlav if you’re using any kind of decent DPS weapon ( so only shortbow), then you’re only using auto attack.

Electro, rangers don’t get a second health bar. Necromancers get a second health bar.

HappinessFactory.4910:

frustration is being repeatedly asked to not play ranger when trying to tPvP…

Well, you shouldn’t be playing a ranger in pvp

Maybe he disappeared because he was logging out to delete his character.

Ravnodaus.5130:

Just going to toss this one out there, and one of the reasons the F2 responsiveness hasn’t ever bothered me… the animation wind up time bugs the crap out of me, but there is a workable way to que F2 immediately.

Hit F3 immediately before F2. It cancels whatever they’re doing and resends them in immediately following with the F2 skill 1st priority.

This is the kind of thing we shouldn’t have to micro.

I’m surprised that, considering Arena Net has already looked at the Short Bow for animation bugs, they didn’t fix the most glaringly obvious animation bug at all. It’s one that I’ve got to say kind of ruins the whole experience of using this weapon.

I noticed just now that when a character is shooting a short bow (or probably a longbow also, but I wouldn’t know since I don’t bother with one) when they reach to their back for another arrow… they don’t actually have a quiver or any arrows! All they do is make a slight hand movement backwards, then pull the bowstring back and let go!

What level of suspension of disbelief does Arena Net require from their players? I can believe that muzzle loaded rifles can be fired like an automatic weapon with infinite ammo for the purpose of giving warriors the ranged dps they so rightly deserve, but I simply will not accept my ranger being some kind of magic, invisible projectile creating, wizard. It is simply too much.

Arena Net needs to address this issue by adding an animation for every ranger where they will reach into a quiver on their back, draw an arrow all the way out, fit it to their bow, take aim, hold their breath to steady their aim, and then fire. Because of the complexity of such an animation I’m sure this will result in a further DPS decrease, however I think I speak for all rangers when I say that we demand proper animations for our weapons; other reasons for playing the class such as utility, or a reason to play one in PvP over any number of other classes simply do not matter compared to this egregious oversight.

At least warrior LB is worth using in the first place.

It doesn’t take bravery to call someone a baby on the internet. For example, if I were to call this post a giant wall of text by someone from an RP server that wouldn’t take courage on my part at all.

Furthermore since ANet’s tactics so far have been to ignore the ranger forum and hope we all stop complaining, I think not stopping our complaining is exactly what we need to do to make sure ranger gets changes.

But they rarely answer.

Katostrophe.3274:

teviko.6049:

Those 10-12 rangers ‘joining’ are just bots with bear pets cluttering up our game.

I don’t see nearly many rangers anymore, and the ones I do see are using my build to destroy me in sPvP.

But still, the number of rangers in sPvP has fallen off dramatically. Necromancers and engi’s have made a surging presence lately. DId I miss something?

Must be new.

http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/guild-wars-2-gender-profession-race-and-craft-statistics-released-15061

Ranger is the second most popular profession in GW2. And the fact that people are using more eng. and necro’s is amazing, I hate when people just use the same classes. More diversity = better.

It just goes to show that this game is constantly growing. Literally, 10-12 rangers have been replacing every player who decides the ranger isn’t for them. BOTs are an issue but thats the game developers problem, not yours. They don’t steal your loot so no reason to complain, just play and let ArenaNet handle it.

Oh look, an outdated and irrelevant chart from two weeks after the game was released that doesn’t account for how many of the players on that very chart are bots because you are objectively stupid and don’t know how to parse information.

Thought I’d edit my post, not to make it sound less mean, but to let you know you’re also completely wrong about the effect bots have. They overfarm items to ruin the economy for everyone and use the gold they get that they farm to fund their account thievery, so yes, they are our problems. You are wrong about everything you believe, and you should not participate on these forums.

Well if they’re spirits they already died once right? Maybe we shouldn’t expect exceptional feats of survivability from something like that.

On the other hand, ghosts are supposed to be a little more resilient. And spooky.

Incurafy.6329:

Turtles All The Way Down.5608:

Yes OP thieves are overpowered and boring, so if you level a OP/boring class to 80 first and then switch to an alt, you’ll have to choose between being overpowered and not having fun, or having fun and feeling like you need to complain on the forums a lot. Welcome to my world.

Look, dude, you were destroyed by a few dozen Thieves, we get it, but stop spamming our forum with crap about how OP we are. Roll a Thief, learn the class, then learn how to counter it on your main. Complaining on the forum doesn’t help.

Thieves cannot into reading comprehension I guess! This is no surprise. Go back to the part where I said I rolled an OP class that was boring, then made a different class to have fun but felt like I needed to complain a lot as a result (on account of, every other class in this game has legitimate things to complain about).

Daecollo.9578:

Best advice I could give you is, Get Runes of Melandru, it makes stuns that are 1 second 0.30 seconds instead, giving you the time to “DODGE” because a thief has a 0.20 second chance to attack again, this will make it hard to cloak and dagger and backstab at the same time.

Yes, you’ll need to get runes specifically to counter thieves because no other class is worth considering when making your gear decisions (not even your own).

Guardians don’t “come out alive” so much as they “don’t die until their team shows up”

but yes if you can’t pick your fights you probably deserve a death. I mean it’s not like there’s anything that’s going to kill you alone.

Quickness is easily the most broken mechanic in the game, and rather than nerfing every other skill that has good synergy with it they should probably nerf (remove, in my opinion) quickness.

If they really have trouble with good implementation for IAS boosts they can look around at other games that do them well… like the game Guild Wars for example!

Equip a dagger. Don’t bother with an offhand.

Put 30 points into the trait line that gives you extra precision. Don’t worry about actually selecting traits or putting points into any other trait tree.

Put all signets on your bar for utilities. Go into PvP. Spam 2 until you win.

Every now and then something might kill you, or maybe a group of enemies will fight you together to do it, but that’s okay because they’ll slowly be nerfed even further over the course of the next five weeks. After all, thief is fine, so if they can kill you they must be too strong.

ZLE did you watch world of roguecraft?

Where he went around killing people while naked/wearing druid gear with spirit on it? Y’know, outright 1v1ing people with the (at the time) best pvp gear in the game? High warlords, the whole deal?

But his videos are clearly just slander, professions that can not only turn invisible but lock people’s keyboards down while they take their health from full to zero are always balanced in every game they appear in.

Anyone who has problems with that must just be a hater.

So with this thread in mind is there really any question that rifle needs a nerf? The OP has as much as admitted that he beats people by virtue of his build rather than player skill.

Don’t worry, every other profession hates you enough to know exactly who you are.

And this, in all its glory, is the warrior community.

If you’re a warrior and you get downed, you probably deserve it :P

After playing a ranger from time to time in GW1 and enjoying it I decided to make a ranger for the first beta weekend event for this game.

I had some fun at the time but this list adequately sums up why I can’t enjoy this profession once I know how this game is best played.

Rangers certainly had this option in GW1. I think it would be interesting to have a different set of function key abilities available with no pet out.

Especially if pets are sometimes a mixed blessing. I doubt a guardian’s virtues have ever pulled a mob they didn’t want to fight.

Bu the solution for this is not to demolish SB damage, the solution is to remove quickness because quickness is stupid.

Everything that has excellent synergy with quickness (sb auto, pistol whip, 100blades, mesmer’s sword combo) bursts too high and looks overpowered because quickness is an awful mechanic. The game is getting balanced around it when half the classes don’t even have access to the buff.

edit: eh… sb+qz, you know what I mean

Solanu, “auto attack” is a skill.

Chronald.3512:

Turtles All The Way Down.5608:

Moa Morph is absolutely overpowered. There’s a reason Guild Wars 1 didn’t have hard cc, and there’s a reason games that do aren’t competitive.

What about DotA2? League of Legends? Any MOBA game really.

What about Flashbangs in Counter Strike? What about WoW Arena?

Your statement proves that your opinion is null and void. Nice try though.

League of legends and World of Warcraft aren’t competitive, other games generally offer “hard” cc that lasts like a second or two, tops. If I can win a fight by making your keyboard do nothing while I take your health from full to zero I’ve clearly outplayed you though right?

Yeah sure Felix, our phantasms are doing “too much damage” after we manage to get all three of them out, meanwhile thieves just continue spamming pistol whip/heartseeker since even after the nerf to PW damage they’ve still got quickness and they’ve still got a ton of extra damage to injured mobs.

And let’s be honest nothing actually lasts long enough to get all three phantasms out because classes with frontloaded damage kill everything before the CD rolls around again.

Even if the DPS is fine why are they not fixing the bugs that influence the rate at which phantasms activate before changing the cooldowns on the skills?

Phantasm spam isn’t even the problem in PvP, this is basically a straight pve nerf. Extended/sustained dps in dungeons/events just got more complicated and no bugs were fixed. Yeah, I’m not very excited about this patch.

I dunno I feel like literally crying.

Mystik.9561

Oh did you not notice how drenched in sarcasm my statement was??

I did not, mainly because it’s the kind of thing I would expect someone out there to actually say. On that regard in this case I was mistaken.

Mystik.9561:

Hey guys did you know we pwnd face in pvp so much so that we were the most played class that did the most damage and just melted face on everyone and thing we touched, that this nerf was warranted…..

Thank you anet for this well thought out change, hours and hours must have been spent crunching the numbers to get it right to where we would suck in both environments. I thank you for the dedication to your mission of reshaping mmo’s and making his such a unique experience…….

If they spent hours crunching numbers they should have found the various bugs that make these changes more of a nerf than they should be. Your sucking up is unwarranted and irrational.

They don’t want us using phantasms, so they’re slowly nerfing them to the ground. If that’s what you enjoy from this class I would suggest playing another class.

Warriors didn’t get any nerfs this patch. They probably also didn’t have any new bugs introduced, if they have any at all.

I think I know what I’m playing this week (It’s a warrior).

Everything that makes them good at pvp makes them awful at pve. Find me a single npc enemy in this game that works like a human player.

They don’t give themselves boons, they don’t attack often enough for confusion (or often enough to justify distortion) they don’t have the same levels of hp or damage, they’re often immune to interrupts…

Moa Morph is absolutely overpowered. There’s a reason Guild Wars 1 didn’t have hard cc, and there’s a reason games that do aren’t competitive.

Qelris.6901:

For a few more seconds cd, you’re giving up your build? Ok.

It’s not just the extra CD, it’s all the various ways they’re buggy that didn’t get fixed because clearly they don’t care. They don’t want us using phantasms, and they’re trying to make that as obvious as possible.

In a decent world fixes for things like this would be on the list of changes in patch notes, but A-net has clearly handed down the Word that we are not to use phantasms any further.

Time to make a shatter build.

The dragons are primarily consumers/destroyers. They awaken, they eat (using their minions to facilitate this), they go back to sleep. It seems incredibly unlikely to me that the pale tree is a champion of a dragon when she is not facilitating any kind of similar process. Malyck also doesn’t give any indication that he’s evil, and in fact his separation from the dream of the playable sylvari indicates that the different trees are not connected over all by some kind of dragon hivemind.

Regarding the crucible of eternity area, there are other things in the meguuma jungle besides the sylvari.

I think the GS could have different things done to it to help it be a good AoE weapon, but I kind of like the might stacks for myself during solo play.

VakarisJ.5619:

Seems the mods are against me overhere, already got two infractions and deleted posts for discussing the issue, so — bye.

Oh and before I go, Rhyse, nausea may be caused by a variety of serious reasons — motion sickness is as benign as it gets. Not like they make boats with moving decks just because someone gets seasick… well they tried once, but they dropped the whole idea.

It’s good that you’re leaving because denying widespread medical opinion with no evidence to back it up and generally acting like a jerk are poor discussion strategies and the guild wars 2 forums are better off without you.

Sieran was just as good and I got to become a flaming avatar of balthazar to avenge her.

I don’t buy it because the dragons are primarily consumers. They awaken, they eat as much as possible (magic artifacts in Zhaitan’s case) then they sleep. Even at the Sylvari race’s worst they don’t seem to follow this pattern.

Trahearne isn’t a bad character, but the way he gets awkwardly placed into the story as a result of every ten levels being a completely disjointed story segment just really doesn’t work out.

It’s not a big deal if you’re a sylvari because you already know who Trahearne is. You know what a wylde hunt is, you know what Caladbolg is, you have more background on Trahearne’s research into Orr. Other races meet him 2 missions before it seems like he becomes the most important character in guild wars.

Four normal zombies are more of a threat than the Eye of Zhaitan. 3 destroyer crablings are more dangerous to the player than a destroyer broodmother… thing.

Not that any of this matters since you’re basically just along for the ride in most of the story missions. It doesn’t matter how many times you die, you’ll never fail, enemies usually won’t reset, quest-important enemies will teleport to your spawn with you…

And for this reason, I believe that players should not wear armor during the personal story quests. It does not help to finish the quest faster, and it’s simply a worthless money sink when the player dies. There is not a single quest in the story that can’t be finished naked by resurrection spamming but if you wear gear and die (which is probably going to happen at some point) you waste money.

Yeah the cripple helps, I just don’t think mind stab does enough to justify being forced to stand still while using it. And I’m still not sure what’s up with mirror blade cancelling some times, maybe it’s a bug?

I haven’t actually checked out this particular armor set but assuming it’s what’s pictured here under the charr tier 1 cultural:

http://dulfy.net/2012/07/21/gw2-armor-previews/#13

I don’t think it looks too horrible, it could depend on the color it’s dyed. The upper body stuff looks a little more awkward, but I could live with the lower part. The tier 3 looks pretty good in my opinion.

If you don’t want to be fabulous I’m not sure why you picked the butterfly class.