Guild Wars 2

Yep i agree with the OP. I really enjoyed this event!

Koega.8653:

I dunno, maybe they changed it for devs to track it easier? At least you know someone from Anet has seen the post!

They can change it to anything they want if that helps them!

VOLKON.1290:

You know… with the bobber/sinker thing it may be better to have that represent “surface/mid level/bottom” for bait placement. Limiting it to three “zones” should simplify it a bit.

Oh, and I give ANet full blessings to create the “Volkon” line of fishing poles, gear and apparel.

If they do it, they should name an exotic fishing pole “Volkon”

Hey the title of the thread changed from “Fishing… Yes or no?” to “I would like to see fishing added in the future”

How come?

VOLKON.1290:

Back in May on the Guru forums I had this idea regarding fishing:
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Right now, fishing isn’t in the game, so this is purely hypothetical. However, imagine if they were to introduce it, what they could to with it.

• Craftable fishing poles, various levels of poles perhaps, or even various levels of hooks jewelers could make.

• Obviously more cooking options.

• Random dynamic events. Imagine if you accidentally hooked a Hylek leader and started a local skirmish, or hooked a long sleeping creature on the bottom of the lake that went into a rampage.

• fishing competitions would be possible I imagine…

I hope they’ll consider it… in the GW2 universe they could make fishing a whole lot more than buy a pole and cast a line.

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Your skill bar changes with the pole equipped.

1. Cast. Distance of the cast is dependant on how long you hold the key down and it’s straight line from where you’re facing.
2. Jiggle. You give your bait a little wiggle.
3. Set hook. When you get a visual indicator that something is nibbling your bait you use three to set the hook which leads to:
4. Land/Reel in. Bring the fish in. Landing the fish could be made more complicated with things like drag, etc, but maybe not just yet.
5. Bait hook. Opens your tackle box (new bag type) and allows you to select baits as well as sinkers or bobbers.

Depending on bait and depth different fish could become available. The Tackle box would be a bag with a certain number of slots in it that solely holds fishing equipment. Different size tackle boxes could be crafted.

Other event idea(s):

An NPC needs help clearing a dock or favorite spot of some nasties so he can fish. As a reward, you can buy certain baits, maybe a recipe, plus get advice on how to catch a certain type of fish for karma.

• Ideally, a tackle box could be taken out as a complete bag and stored, with contents intact, in your bank, or be a separate bag slot always available to your character that can only hold a tackle box.

Wow those are some awesome ideas!

Keep them coming guys and maybe the devs will get inspired.

Unfortunately i have the feeling that most of the GW2 community doesn’t share this craving of ours, but who knows…. maybe one day, one day for the fisherman inside us!

After spending 119g on norn T3 cultural set (which i absolutely love), i would feel bad if this ascended armor would put t3 cultural armor to shame….

I really hope that the devs will take a look over this thread, there are some wonderful ideas floating around!

Farzo.8410:

If they can implent it right and make it interesting and useful to the game I have nothing against it.

But if it’s going to be anything close to the World of Warcraft kind of fishing I think we are better off without it.

The fishing is very stale and not that interesting. Standing still waiting for the bobber to move. No thank you.

There is one thing that puzzles me… Tyria is such a wonderful place, every view looks like it has been painted…. But almost all the players (myself included) fail to take note of that and just rush from zone to zone, event to event, never slowing down to take notice of the beautiful landscape around them.

Now imagine finding a solitary rock over a river, getting your fishing rod out and start appreciating Tyria in a whole new way…

Think about it: a peaceful night, fishing in the Cursed Shore…)

Salamol.7963:

Not something I’d thought about or felt was missing… though I’m sure if a whole bunch of threads spring up about it I’ll start to want it.

Hehe, go with the flow, right? :P

After leveling 2 characters to 80, i was thinking that it would be nice to have some peaceful fishing sessions between WvWvW and Orr farming.

My opinion that an interesting fishing mechanic would add a lot to the game, and we would have even more reasons to admire the beautiful scenery across Tyria… :P

What do you guys think?

Also it would be really nice to know if the devs have even considered to add fishing in the future…

It was hard at first, but after i completed it once, it got real easy for me and did it countless times after….

Best jumping puzzle ever, i’ll miss it!

Dante Dragonhand.2538:

Ranger never beats me, I never complained about rangers because quite frankittenhe class sucks, I called for buffs. Shortbow rangers didnt beat me either, Im just stating that you are crying because you cant just spam auto attack anymore and profit so easily. I play a ranger, I want other weapons to be viable, I dont want to be pidgeon holed into shortbow, until longbow gets buffed Im gonna be on thief.

Now we’re talking!

You think that i would be so angry, if i had any other viable weapon? I would have chosen something else immediately, but atm all the weapons for rangers suck big time!

Yep i started a thief but i think i’ll go for a warrior.

I love the idea of the ranger but i can’t do this anymore, so i’m picking the easy choice…

Btw soon enough there will be only warriors left in Tyria)

Dante Dragonhand.2538:

OHHHH GOD I CANT PROFIT OF AUTO ATTACKING ALONE ANYMOREEEE. Quit crying, all shortbow users did was auto attack and shortbow became the best dps wep rangers had. Jokes on you, its not meant to be a dps weapon.

All i hear you say is “blabla bla i’m happy because you got nerfed bla bla, now you won’t be able to kill me anymore in wvwvw blabla bla, i play any other profession that ranger bla bla…”

Edit: Lol he deleted his comment

Why does it take this long for an official answer, besides “we’re looking into it”?

I mean it’s quite obvious that this was a huge mistake from their part….

I see lots of undiscovered geniuses in the ranger’s forum that play anything else then a ranger and come tell us to L2P, or other elitist rangers that think that they have discovered all the solutions to the problems this profession has, but they yet have to get 100 kills in wvwvw.

Please guys, if your only reply to the issues presented is L2p, do yourselves and ourselves a favor and ignore this thread, go play your own profession and be happy when you kill a ranger in wvwvw (because you are so good at the game….).

Wulfrim.4793:

Hey there! I currently have a 80 elementalist, 61 Mesmer, 24 Necromancer and 26 Engineer and I am not really happy with any of them. I wanted to start a new class. I’ve dabbled with everything but warrior in sPvp and nothing really sticks. I don’t really know what I want to do, ie ranged combat, melee, tanking, roleplaying, casting, pve, pvp, wvw but I’m currently stuck with guild wars as my only gaming outlet at the moment. I’m highly unmotivated to create another class after the long dredge of getting elementalist to 80 and I’m extremely fickle when it comes to picking which class. I was wondering if you ranger enthusiasts could motivate me to create a ranger with success stories, videos, screenshots of armor, experiences or anything that really makes ranger stand out. Please keep any negativity and unhelpful replies out of this topic. Thanks!

Who is the troll now Wulfrim?

Seras.5702:

So you melee classes kill you if you (in your words) fail at kiting. Sounds about right for every ranged class ever. And LB & SB are the only viable weapons? I guess you’re only talking about WvW huh? Cuz most of the other weapons are completely viable in PvE and dungeons. [/quote]

If i am taken by surprise in wvwvw, what do you suggest that i do? Running is futile most of times, so the only option is kitting, and guess what that fails most of the times, when against an opponent that knows his stuff….

Yeah and i don’t care about Dungeons and PVE….

Edit: I don’t think you understood what i meant… I never melee lol… I kite and try to run away if my damage only scratches them…..

Wulfrim.4793:

If I had to guess your lack of performance in the pvp world is more because of lack of skill than a underpowered class. Take the next twenty minutes. Read over the other forums, learn from the classes what you can and react apropriately, also take notice how everyone thinks they are underpowered. Don’t give me the “Well if xx does this how are you suppose to react” because on paper everything looks amazing and acting like ranger doesn’t have any good abilities is just plain ignorant. Stop assuming the class is broken and start assuming your skill is lacking. It will get you much further. Or just take option B, quit the game, stop trolling the forums and rid us of your negativity.

Edit: Also I recommend watching youtube videos on more skilled rangers and how they don’t take forever to take down a class and CAN kill thieves.

This is quite funny. I could have bet that you will give me the classic L2P answer…

Well you see, i am not under performing, on the contrary i do quite well overall as long as i manage to keep myself out of focus.

I also watched a lot of videos and have the best possible glass cannon build atm…

My problem is that while the Longbow does it job well at range (except we have only 1 aoe on it…), the shortbow was the only other choice for up close combat….
There is no other option, can you understand that?? And our only option got nerfed…

When i see the thief and warrior monstrous dps it makes me feel… so… weak…
In a direct 1vs1 fight i have 0 chance of winning, unless he really doesn’t know what he’s doing….

Anyway, I guess it’s too much to ask a you to understand this, so please go play your mesmer and let us rangers feel disappointed….

Btw i am not trolling, this was my first post on these forums. If they would have left the ranger as he was i wouldn’t have said anything, but this was too much for me….

Wulfrim.4793:

Have you tried reading any other classes’ forums? Every single person (including mesmers, warriors and guardians) think their class is the most underpowered terrible damage dealer in the game. You just need to get out of the EQ mentality. There is no DPS, there is no tank, there is no healer. There are classes. Each class is capable of doing everything, but not one particular thing. Ranger is fine. The SB debuff could have been unintentional and the Dev team is currently looking into it, as they have stated. Before complaining I recommend reading other posts.

What i do know is that my only viable options for my Ranger is to go glass cannon, if i actually want to kill anyone in wvwvw, and also another thing i do know is the only viable weapons for the rangers are shortbow / longbow, the other are absolutely crap.

And also i do know that while it takes me a LOT of time to kill a player in wvwvw (impossible to kill thieves btw, they just vanish and run away…), a thief, or warrior absolutely destroy me when the second i fail kiting them.

So please don’t tell me that every profession feels under powered, because that is bullcrap!

Rangers really needed a buff, after being ignored in so many patches.

I play as a pure glass cannon, and my damage is pathetic compared to other classes, and now you nerf the shortbow, the only decent ranger weapon?!?

This was a very bad move, and should be fixed asap, because you are punishing rangers for nothing.

Or maybe you are trying to eliminate the profession completely,well in that case you’re on the right track…

Right now all my GW2 love has transformed in a bitter taste, and i think i should reevaluate my options….