Guild Wars 2

23,375 views – something tells me that this is what people were waiting to hear, though not all of them replied. I know that for the first time since the ‘animation fix’ I’m inspired to log into the game Thank you John! I’m not expecting miracles, but as others have stated it is nice to know that the many voices that have spoken on the forums have been heard. Again, thank you!

JonPeters.5630:

Took a couple of days to get debugging in on this. It is in fact a 40ms difference which equates to about 7% less damage when spamming 1. We made this change because it was creating some animation bugs to leave it where it was. It was also encouraging just spamming 1 which isn’t the most fun gameplay. If our data shows shortly that shortbow is now not effective we can certainly address that, but would do so by improving other skills on that weapon rather than by reintroducing the spam on 1 and the bugs that it was creating.

And I’m done with this game. I’m kicking myself rather hard for buying the expansion and the gems that I have bought but atleast this happened and showed me ANets true colors before I bought copies of the game for my nieces and nephew for Christmas. This was a ninja nerf that rangers absolutely did NOT need. Oh well, atleast I didn’t waste too much time trying to farm for gear…. if they ever decide to fix the ranger class I might be back, but I doubt it. I hope for the sake of everyone that has posted here that they do fix this class and make it more on par with other classes.

Peace out.

Edit: I’m not quitting because of the change to the SB, I’m quitting because it was supposed to be ‘only an animation change’ that resulted in a supposed unintentional dps nerf – and then we are told ‘too bad so sad’. THAT attitude is what bothers me.

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nldixon.8514:

How does a game without subscription fees lose subs?

Anyway, I still see plenty of people playing everyday, even in the wee hours of the morning, Chicken Little.

Yes people are still playing but as someone who played since headstart, it feels like many areas are deserted and the % of logged in players in my guild has diminished.

They don’t lose “subs” per se but the bad publicity will reduce the new purchases and people willing to spend money in the Gem store. I deeply regret my last $10 Gem purchase to get Fine Transmutation stones for my Ranger.

A few weeks ago I was ALWAYS put into overflow when I logged in or changed zones, but it hasn’t happened now for weeks. That is something I’ve noticed. I knew something was off today when I logged in and it took ALOT longer than usual to kill mobs. I thought I was just tired – then I checked the forums. Guess it’s time to see if I can find another class that I enjoy as much as my ranger. My character isn’t fantastically geared, I was trying to farm the materials to make better gear but in Orr it’s just not worth it because I never make a profit – and I HATE the botters in Frostgorge.

I will never have the time to farm the required tokens for gear (setting aside hours to run one dungeon is not in my time schedule), which is fine by me, but what irritates me is that one shot kill mobs and crazy high health pools aren’t challenging – it’s boring. Give me real strategies where the group has to work as a unit to solve – not pewpewpewpew for forever and a day until a mob dies. Seriously not liking the lack of imagination that went into the dungeons.

Speaking from a developer standpoint, I can honestly say that if I had worked my rear off creating a dungeon and then that dungeon wasn’t experienced by as many people as possible…I would not be happy. Yes, we the players want a challenge – but we want those challenges to be rewarding. I agree with a lot of other posts regarding this topic that dungeons need to be more intellectually challenging rather than a bajillion hp boss or group of mobs that take forever and a week to kill.

Like the final boss in story mode Sorrow’s Embrace – suffice to say it was a spur of the moment pug and none of us had researched any of the fights so when we ran up on the last boss we had to figure out why it nuked all of us into oblivion We were all pretty much at level and none of us were exceptionally geared so it was still a challenge, but a doable challenge. I don’t mind learning new strategies, in fact figuring out tactics and then following through to completion is why I play these types of games.

I was very sad when Tybalt died. I liked my character’s apple obsessed friend

I have a job that keeps me stressed enough as it is. This game is my stress reliever, but this change just makes me wonder if the people who make these decisions are even paying attention to what the players are saying. I’m highly irritated that I sunk money into the collector’s edition only to realize that it is going to be a LONG while before I can afford to run the rest of the dungeons due to crazy repair bills.

Don’t get me wrong, I love challenges – not insane damage from trash mobs that one shot the party who also have insane health. You just took any incentive out of my wanting to run dungeons and that’s sad because I -really- enjoyed the story of Destiny’s Edge. Guess I will google and find out how it ends.

Best Faded.1759:

To everyone who is waiting for items by the Black lion trading.

• Agathon.8913 **** IS CORRECT !!!!!
  For me anyways… I deleted a bunch of mails and I had huge amounts of stuff piled up.
  I received everything… It worked !
  Agathon thank you !

Thank goodness I saw this post and checked my mail, I’d forgotten to delete a bunch of gold seller spam emails, problem solved!!! THANK YOU!!!

I just tried to buy 5 Crafting Boosters and the gems were deducted, they show up in my recent transactions but they are not in the mail, not in the pick up tab – they are gone which makes me sad because I wanted to do some crafting before bed

I opened a bug report in game but have not opened a ticket, I’m having issues with opening the ticket for some reason.

I can tell you why I keep playing… The story in this game is incredible. Another thing? Being lowered in level so that I can run the lower level content of other starter zones, AND THE ZONES!!! I’m kinda ocd about finding all of the vistas and hidden stuff that you have to work for. There are SO many things to do, I know my goal is to explore EVERYTHING. I try to get in on every event I can, and as my character is a ranger, I’m also trying to charm new pets. This game really is an adventure.

Another thing, the events are so much fun, and while you will see quite a lot of the escort, protect, stop an invasion… etc. You will also find ones where you have to solve riddles, or dump water on passed out drunk taverns and play server to hungry people and people who love their ale. I am truly impressed at all there is to do. And when I get tired of running around a zone, I work on crafting, or do another part in my personal story.

I’m also an altoholic, and I’m glad I am in this game because after what I’ve seen so far with my Narn ranger’s story, I can’t wait to see the other races