Guild Wars 2

warriorjrd.8695:

THAT TONIGHTS GONA BE A GOOOOD NIIIGHT

I was waiting for this.

Ranger too stronk. Need nerf.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

I tried to respond to your original thread… spent 15 mins writing just to find it got deleted (sigh)

Galtrix.7369:

Because there was no gear treadmill, I could not improve myself to be better than others. Because I already bought all ascended trinkets and and ascended weapon as well as exotic armor, there was no goal for me to do.

Climbing a gear treadmill does not make you better at the game than another player.

Gear treadmills not only kill competitive game modes, but it is a lazy and easy for developers and players both, get out of the mindset that a game should be about grinding stupidly hard to obtain tiers of gear (skins are fine, not stats), they can be much more.

Being able to use your dodges properly, your defence mechanics, and positioning and team combo’s and dealing with different situations and reacting fast, makes you a better player. Gear treadmills remove player skill from games.

And when you reach the best in slot (BIS) gear in another game, then what? Do you want them to make a new tier every few months? You want to endlessly chase the BIS carrot that means nothing and just alienates skilled players from grinders? Ascended gear is a step in the stupid direction of treadmill grinding.

Gear treadmills do NOT make you a good player.

I’m actually going to admit I loved chasing BiS back in WoW.

I just wish I had the time to raid extensively enough.

I understand where you’re coming from. I was disappointed in learning that rangers were better for melee, after coming off a Hunter back in WoW.

Anyhow, this game is fun and all, but I feel this game just isn’t meant to be played on a daily basis. The game was meant to cater to the casual fanbase, where games like WoW catered to a more hardcore fanbase. This game was and is a breath of fresh air, but with a heavy emphasis on RNG, lousy cosmetic items, and the worst grind I’ve ever faced in a game, I’m losing my interest more and more each day.

There’s a potential infraction somewhere in all this I’m sure, but I’m looking forward to the PS4 launching, and waiting for Wildstar to launch; and I hope it lives up to it’s hype. I miss the Trinity system, I miss hard dungeons, raiding, and non-RNG based systems. Okay, raiding had that, but at least it was fun leading up to it. Even if you didn’t get your drop there was still that sense of accomplishment for taking down that raid boss.

This game lacks accomplishment, it even lacks some polish. The cosmetics for the most part are awful and uninspired to me.

This isn’t a major complaint, and it’s a great idea; but for me, I preferred having the armor sets dyed out for you. I have the worse sense of matching colors and armor, so just looting the drop I needed from a boss and slapping it on without worrying what colors it were was fine.

I even miss cloaks and capes.

Anyhow, I digress.

This game is fun, and definitely a good game, but this game Lately just hasn’t been my ideal game now that I have a lot more free-time and room to play. I only log in to run dungeons and gawk at the scenery. At least when I did that in WoW people were always doing something, and I knew there was always something I could be doing.
I feel like I’ve exhausted that with completing all the JP’s, without wanting to farm the Slayers, and doing all the non luck based explore-able achievements.

Anyhow, I digress.

This game is fun, and definitely a good game, but it might not be for me much longer.

I believe you’re supposed to change your culling settings.

Great players and a great community!
Great dungeon runs!

Hey, Justin.

Coldsnap (IX) Is a recently formed highly knowledgeable and experienced dungeon guild.

What you can expect from us:
Daily dungeon trains/Fractal 48’s
Experienced players with intimate knowledge of PvE aspects
Experienced dungeon runs with different more efficient tactics
Friendly community who work together well
(We’re also working towards Guild Missions, should be in another week or two)
We’re recruiting daily, and looking for players with the same attitude who are willing to clear dungeons daily for money.

We do have requirements however.
Excelled knowledge with your classes.
Excelled knowledge in dungeon boss mechanics.
TS3 Is a must, however you don’t need a mic.
The will to change your builds or classes to help suit our runs.
We also prefer you to have over 4K achievement points, but if you can prove yourself well enough, it’s not a true requirement.

We’re enforcing a rep rule as of now that needs you to rep at least 70% of the time, and you must rep whenever you tour with us, or run a dungeon with any guildies.

All new recruits will go through a trial period to test your skill and knowledge in dungeons, and with your class.
If you have any questions, or would like an invite, feel free to send a mail to any of the listed names:

Warzaw.2708
Design.6057
Nick.1740

Ranger master profession.

Hey, Anierna
Coldsnap (IX) Is a recently formed highly knowledgeable and experienced dungeon guild.

What you can expect from us:
Daily dungeon trains/Fractal 48’s
Experienced players with intimate knowledge of PvE aspects
Experienced dungeon runs with different more efficient tactics
Friendly community who work together well
(We’re also working towards Guild Missions, should be in another week or two)
We’re recruiting daily, and looking for players with the same attitude who are willing to clear dungeons daily for money.

We do have requirements however.
Excelled knowledge with your classes.
Excelled knowledge in dungeon boss mechanics.
TS3 Is a must, however you don’t need a mic.
The will to change your builds or classes to help suit our runs.
We also prefer you to have over 4K achievement points, but if you can prove yourself well enough, it’s not a true requirement.

We’re enforcing a rep rule as of now that needs you to rep at least 70% of the time, and you must rep whenever you tour with us, or run a dungeon with any guildies.
All new recruits will go through a trial period to test your skill and knowledge in dungeons, and with your class.

If you have any questions, or would like an invite, feel free to send a mail to any of the listed names:

Warzaw.2708
Design.6057
Nick.1740

Well, our sword auto-attacks have two leaps, which means we’re constantly rooted in place making it harder to dodge. It requires some practice, and suggestively turning off your auto-attack.
Our pets are also pretty bad. They blindly run everywhere, and will usually get hit by all the AoEs.

As for ranged rangers being viably, if really depends. You’re always welcome to play your class the way you want, regardless of what other people tell you.
Speed-running is basically clearing the dungeon as quickly and efficiently as possible in the shortest amount of time. It’s basically just saying we want to get in and out of the dungeon fast.

Leaning back towards ranger rangers, or condition rangers, they can be used. Though, I’d be careful what parties you plan to join, and make sure they’re not asking for a speed-run.
A lot of people hate rangers even still due to the majority of them playing the infamous doublebearlongbow builds.

In PvE, condition builds aren’t really all that optimal. Open-world bosses will usually be bleed-capped at 25 in seconds, along with vuln. Other conditions like poison and burning just stack duration, not intensity. Dungeon-wise, the only condition that really matters for speed-running is having 25 stacks of vuln on the boss, which usually happens with a good comp regardless.

If you like playing WvW or PvP, then condition builds are a lot more optimal. You’re SB axe/horn would fair better in those scenarios, although I couldn’t tell you how well since I only play PvE.

I use to play doublebearlongbow, then I switched to doublebearshortbow. After some time I realized that I just wasn’t doing all that much damage, and I wanted to be a more reliable ranger (And I came off playing a Hunter in WoW, so I was looking forward to playing a ranged class) So I eventually self-discovered the 13K GS Maul build, where I also tried the sword/warhorn, but I couldn’t get into it.

A month or two ago, I finally cracked after realizing how weak the GS was, and finally made the transition to sword/warhorn.

So, you can play whatever you want, regardless of what others tell you. If you prefer SB axe/horn, then play that, it’s all up to you. Unfortunately rangers aren’t the most loved class, and people may occasionally kick you as well, or see what weapons you’re running first. We’re a lot better now with our sword/warhorn build, but the other rangers running bearbow and other builds continue to give us a bad name. It’s a bit of a double-blade I guess. You have the right to play whatever you want, it just unfortunately calls the rangers with meta builds doing their tops DPS into question further.

Actually, Sic ’Em is pretty good.

I run it in my build, which is actually Brazils’ build.

Hey, FOLFIRI

Coldsnap (IX) Is a recently formed highly knowledgeable and experienced dungeon guild.

What you can expect from us:

Daily dungeon trains/Fractal 48’s
Experienced players with intimate knowledge of PvE aspects
Experienced dungeon runs with different more efficient tactics
Friendly community who work together well
(We’re also working towards Guild Missions, should be in another week or two)

We’re recruiting daily, and looking for players with the same attitude who are willing to clear dungeons daily for money.

We do have requirements however.

Excelled knowledge with your classes.
Excelled knowledge in dungeon boss mechanics.
TS3 Is a must, however you don’t need a mic.
The will to change your builds or classes to help suit our runs.
We also prefer you to have over 4K achievement points, but if you can prove yourself well enough, it’s not a true requirement.

We’re enforcing a rep rule as of now that needs you to rep at least 50% of the time, and you must rep whenever you tour with us, or run a dungeon with any guildies.

All new recruits will go through a trial period to test your skill and knowledge in dungeons, and with your class.

If you have any questions, or would like an invite, feel free to send a mail to any of the listed names:

Warzaw.2708
Design.6057
Nick.1740
Ebi.8561

My good mouse recently started messing up, my RMB would run if I clicked instead of turning my camera. I had to click the very edge of the RMB to turn my camera only.

Between that and my LMB becoming super-sensitive, I had to resort to my old crappy mouse.

I’ve been having an issue with my mouse right clicks focus as well.

I was in Arah yesterday with my guild and suddenly whenever I tried to move my camera with my right-click, it would make my character run. If I’m lucky, I can sometimes move my camera up to an aerial-view without my toon running, but that’s all I can manage with luck.

It also requires multiple clicks to open up the windows when right-clicking on certain items.

Though, I can move my camera only by pushing down on the right-side edge of the RMB.

Edit: I’m using an Azza gaming mouse.

So, my right click on my mouse suddenly is forcing me to run forward instead of dual-clicking to run. It’s getting obnoxious. I looked through my settings to see if something changed, changed them back to default, and no luck.

Any idea why it suddenly happened?

(I can turn my camera up for an aerial view without moving sometimes, but then it just starts running)

EDIT: Also, now I can’t right-click anything to open up the window in game unless I try it repeatedly.

I honestly love my Charr ranger, but I kind of want to change it to a human female, and I can’t unless I roll a whole new toon.

R.I.P. F/U

You will be missed.

There is no dungeon team.

So, I’m suffering from sleep deprivation, and I just can’t sleep.

Anyhow, I decided to quit on sleeping tonight, and figured I’d log onto GW2.
Usually in LA on Blackgate I get around 21 FPS with high-settings on, and everywhere else is 30-40 (manageable for me) but I logged into LA and was at around 5 FPS. I tried zoning somewhere else and am pulling like 10 FPS there as well. Even my loading screen is suffering an FPS drop.

Any idea what’s going on?

We’re still recruiting!
Feel free to message one of us for more info!

Chopps.5047:

Turn off auto_target_ in settings if you like being able to leap away from stuff, this applies to greatsword Swoop as well. This setting is different from autoattack.

Turning off auto-target and auto-attack are definitely your best options. Try to anticipate when the enemy is doing an attack or AoE, make sure you’re not spamming the Sword #1 chain too hard, and prepare to use 2 or 3.

Another great suggestion is carry around an offhand dagger for certain fights. I find the OH dagger is good for Alpha in CoE, and maybe Tazza in SE. The Sword 2 might take too long to go off if your 3 is on CD, and you really don’t want to waste your endurance, assuming you’re using that trait. It also doesn’t move you around nearly as much as the other two dodges do.

Great players, great community! Check us out.

Treeline.3865:

Oh gawd, I’m not sure how I forgot about sword. Hope you don’t mind me reposting these in the original.

Haha, no worries man.

My (personal) gripes with my ranger.

Sword Auto-Chain: That kitten ed root. I can’t move mid-chain, which is bad news when I’m flanking and spamming the 1 key and the boss turns around because someone who can use his auto-attack while moving had to get out of the way. I’d love for this to be gone so I can situate myself better on a moving target, seeing as how Serpent Strike has an average CD, and it’s not always the most effective maneuver.

Sword’s Pounce: I hate when I target an enemy, start my chain, then I suddenly Pounce through them, either A. flinging myself off a ledge, or B. Jumping all around the room because I lost the target mid-pounce, or I hit 1 again and Pounce back to the enemy.
That’s pretty annoying as well and has cost me more than once.

Warhorn 5: I agree with what you said about Warhorn 5. I have to make sure I’m not targeting anything when my party blasts might, or the boss is on it’s way over after being pulled.

Warhorn 4: Why does it matter if we’re not on the same side of the wall? I can SEE the birds attacking the enemy, but does it really need to go invulnerable every time?

Pet AI: That’s a given for any Ranger. Although my dungeon comps are usually super organized, so my pet rarely dies now since the bosses or enemies are burst down so fast.

Stalk & Sic’ Em Canceling: I don’t know if there’s a reason for it, but I don’t see why they have to cancel the effect of each other.

That’s all I can think of or remember.

Oh, two more, sword related.

Closer melee: I’m not sure if it’s ranger only, I haven’t noticed on my guard, but that sword chain forces you into a much closer melee range, which isn’t always for the better.

Push-back: The Kick in the chain pushing the enemies back constantly is pretty annoying in it’s own right. I know other classes can push in melee, but it seems easier on a ranger.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Personality

The SAB warhorn skin is a personal preference, although it’s green or yellow.

I consistently cleansed Malrona’s poison with Healing Spring three times before I realized I forgot to change my heal just in case.

Something tells me if a YouTube video of 5 PVT or Cleric staff Guardians running through all of TA F/U were to mysteriously be uploaded to YouTube, I’d probably end up watching the entire run.

I think that’s close enough.

I’d assume so.

I also would guess you haven’t gotten your crafting past 450 yet, or aren’t interested in crafting Bloodstone’s Bricks, or ascended weapons altogether.

Otherwise yeah, destroying them is fine.

Zelyhn.8069:

Technically you can solo CoF 1

I know you can bypass both doors with swiftness, but we never got the boss to engage.

He just sat there with his minions circling him as we ran around the room.

I actually got the game for Christmas, but I didn’t get to play until January.

I can’t buy the Mistfire wolf, nor did I get anything else deluxe edition bound.

The chest has 10xp boosters, an 18-slot mithril box, and a choice of Krytan, Profane, or Primeval armor.

I guess it’s a mini-upgrade?

Hey so, I logged in just now and I got this in the mail.

I’m just curious, has anyone else gotten it, or have an idea why they’ve been given out?

I’ve only bought one thing from the gem-store if it’s a thank you or something.

I’m fairly sure this won’t end well, and I’ve been pondering whether I should ask; but I might as well at the risk of being buried under potential/probable hate for such a question.

I know there’s been some debate on it before, but where do we stand with Ele’s in speed-running for dungeon compositions?

I know the general gist is FGS 4 is broken to some people, and therefore it’s not exactly fair for them to be in speed-runs. (At least, that’s something I read)

Thoughts on whether Ele’s are fair game for hardcore speed-running? (Assuming they replace a class)

According to the wiki’s updates, only select players got it for the time being as they continue polishing it over the next few days.

After they feel the system works well enough, they’ll start giving access to it to other players as well.

But that’s just what I’m assuming the wiki meant.

I’d be amazed if our pet wasn’t one-shot.

10/10

/15 char

Me, a friend, and a guildie of hers ran F/U today with 2 pugs.

I had to talk the healing guard down out of meleeing with his scepter and the warrior/mesmer pug bought him a zerker GS for the fight.

It was a pretty exciting moment.

I’ve got the Green Toad’s Warhorn, and I need to say that I love the sound effect for it.

I was running Guild Missions last night with it and we were all laughing about how funny it is and now everyone wants one.

The design is alright, but that sound effect is awesome.

Orrian Jewelry Boxes

I think at PAX Colin said something they’d like to look into is a closet like in PvE for all the skins you collected.

It’s nice to collect all these skins, but once you place a new one down, or get a replacement just so you can hold onto the skinned item kinda sucks.

Either you’re permanently losing a back-skin (Shattered Wings etc.) or you’re dumping skins/skinned weapons/armor into your bank. Hopefully we’ll get a PvE closet someday.

The warhorn doesn’t fair well either. But that dagger is horrendous.

wmtyrance.3571:

I’M on Eredon Terrace myself and want to see this happen. And i bet dungeon runs would be a blast.

Message me sometime man if you get a 5 ranger run, I’m based on ET as well.

So, this is my whole take on the SAB Tribulation mode.

I’m going to go on the record and say even though Tribulation mode made me want to punch my monitor, made me mutter profanities constantly, and angered me to no end, I STILL had a blast doing it, and I finally got my King Toad sword tonight.

Having said that, I’m going to give some insight to help you out in W1 with some tips, and explain why this isn’t P2W.

First off, there are complaints about the random death sequences, hidden spike traps, hidden pitfalls, etc.
Guys, that’s the whole point to this, you’re complaining about a mechanic that’s meant to exist to teach you trial and error. I know we all want to speed-run it, but until you understand how the paths work, that’s jut not a viable solution from the start. Don’t go and spend all your tokens in one go unless you’re like me who truly did not want any of the basic blue skins, or they didn’t return the old skins. Take your time and learn the jumps, where the spikes are, and the pitfalls. I’ll be giving a few tips down below for anyone who has yet to progress in Tribulation mode, or hasn’t gotten very far and wants to see what’s up ahead.

As for P2W, that’s just silly. Anet specifically stated this mode was for the hardcore player to earn something to help them stand out. They’re not going to hold your hand while you jump on clouds to advance through the zones in 20 seconds. If you so badly want to beat it; practice, practice, PRACTICE. Memorize the layouts and where the jumps and spikes are, I guarantee you you’ll be making less and less serious mistakes, and only silly ones by not gauging your jump properly, or running into the wrong area because you weren’t paying attention. The infinite continue coins is for those who really want/need it, but it isn’t necessary. I did all of W1 on Trib mode without it, and a lot of people have as well. If you truly want the skins, you’ll keep on trying and do your very best, otherwise this mode just isn’t for you. It’ll be back next-time, and you’ll surely get a chance to achieve those skins once more, among the new ones.

I’ve also got some tips that might help you. I’ll put them in a spoiler in-case someone wants to do Trib mode without hints.

Regardless, have fun in SAB!

Funny. Most of PvE is a face-roll if you understand your class and can dodge.

The only semi-difficult part of PvE is Arah, and that’s only until after you know how the fights work, then it’s just about as easy as every other dungeon.

It’s literally a L2P issue for PvE on your end, and even then PvE is so easy to faceroll with knowledge in dodging and your own class.

As for the TP, well… it’s always buggy, and the interface sucks.

But to be fair, in turn, I can’t do PvP for the life of me right now. I rarely enter it, and usually get beaten up since I’m so used to AI control than players rotations.

The best PvP I’ve ever done was on Skyhammer, I sat up there for 3/4ths of the game as a guildie guarded me on the laser cannon while I rained fire on random players.

I believe so, yeah. I thought I got the wrong answer down initially.

I did a 5-man ranger CoF P1 run. I think we all did it in like, 7 1/2 to 8 minutes, and we even had a longbow double bear ranger with us.

Get the lightest shade of blue you can find, use it as your main dye.
Use gold or a lighter color as your outline of the gear.

I love some of the ideas OP, but unfortunately Anet has either recently, or addressed most of these in the past.

1. Mounts.

I think it was near launch Anet said they didn’t plan to include real mounts into the game. We have the waypoints instead which save us time from running around once we open them, granted a lot of them still force us to run where we need to go. Though, at least it makes us slightly less lazy. I think some of the main reasoning behind not adding mounts is so they’re not in line with every other MMO that uses mounts for speed-travel.

2. Skins

Anet makes a good amount of money off the gem stores selling skins for armor and weapons. Rarely will we get skins handed to us now, either they’ll be crafted, looted (new champ weapon drops) RNG based, or based on the current updates new/old currency. I think the gem store is going so well Anet is capable of sustaining themselves. Which also means they’ll be in no rush to do a traditional Xpac if they so choose.

3. Dungeons
I think the only real dungeon dev left was Hrouda, and he’s no longer with Anet. The only thing we’re getting dungeon wise is 3 new fractals around the end of the year. Otherwise, I wouldn’t count on more dungeons being added anytime soon.
For smaller, easier dungeons, I suppose you haven’t heard of mini-dungeons?
Look up Vexxa’s Lab.

4. Large groups for dungeons

Colin stated at the recent PAX event that the chances of more than 5 people to an instanced dungeon is almost non-existant.

5. More tiers of cultural armor

Cultural armors are a waste at lower levels, and they’re ideally just skins for your race anyhow, just wait until your 80 has enough to buy them, I don’t really care for cultural stuff anyhow.

6. New class

Again, Anet stated the chances of a new class are extremely slim. They feel they’ve covered the bases with the current classes, but if they were ever to introduce a new class, it would be a heavy so there’s three of each.

7. Devoted healer profession

Anet hates the trinity system, they don’t want their dungeons to be like every other MMORPG. If you want that, look elsewhere.

8. Keep Legendaries at top class

That would be un-fair to people who don’t have the time or ability to craft them. It’s not so much a QQ as Legendary’s are there for what they are, to show you spent a long time building a cool skin to show-off. Ascended is top-tier as of now, and Legendary’s are buffed up to them just to be fair. I don’t see why skins deserve to be top-tier.

9. In-game build templates

Colin stated at PAX a team is working on it. They don’t have an ETA or any idea how close the design or idea for it is. If it ever comes out though, it’ll start for PvP since it’s simpler to add it to that first, then it will make it’s way towards PvE and WvW.

10. Permanent LS

Colin stated a month or two ago they understand the aggravation of the fans being treated to temporary content, but the Gauntlet and Pavilion was the last piece they need for their yearly portfolio of returnable events. Expect new permanent content soon, Tequatl is getting revamped to be harder and more rewarding on the 17th.

11. More end-game zones

They’re working on it I believe, but they’re still getting the core of the game down, fixing and polishing, etc. (News from PAX as well)
When the game’s core is designed to their satisfaction, they’ll start adding zones and races and new weapons. They’ll even give some classes weapons they’re not available to.

I’m not trying to shoot your ideas down man, they’re all pretty good, but Anet doesn’t want to be a generic MMORPG (although the direction the game has been going in lately, it might’ve stretched a little too far)

All this is actual news except the Legendary’s being top-tier.
Sorry to crush your wish list though.