Guild Wars 2

Absurdo.8309:

So legendary weapons are out of reach for casuals too. 1000 hours is not casual.

Dude … Whatever

Absurdo.8309:

How many hours did it take you to get legendary weapons? I highly doubt you’re a casual.

Launch date was 28 August 2012, I’ve played for 1986 hours over 9 characters since then.
That’s a average of 1.14 hours each day (1745 days).
I think i have spent half of that time on the legendary Kudzu

Is that casual enough for you ?

Exciton.8942:

If you find it not realistic to set legendary armor as your goal, just forget about it. It is not like they look so amazing you have to obtain it. There are plenty other more realistic goals you can achieve in this game.

Amaimon.7823:

As exciton said, find realistic goals, and stick to them.

As for realistic goals.. legendary weapons are also available for the casual gamer and already owned by my characters, the “find realistic goals” comments are total BS if you ask me.

At least Arenanet could open up legendary armors in other play styles except raids.
I couldn’t care less not to complete the raids but the legendary armor definitely has some benefits for PVE and WVW also.. The changeable stats for example ?!?

This topic is about the combination RAIDS and Legendary armor, in my opninion this is a big FU to the casual gamer.

Speaking from a casual gamer point of view, both the Raids & Legendary armor are unrealistic.

I am not online frequently/long enough or to join a semi-pro guild that clears the raid in matter of hours. Nine out of ten times I get kicked out of the guild due to beeing inactive for to long, therefore the Raid must be completed using pick up groups when I have the time.

Fact is that pick up groups mostly are not good enough to clear the raid or, as seen in another perspective: I’m not good enough of / not well-read enough to know all tactics since I almost never been inside the raid due to difficulty described above.
Outcome: drum-roll kick out of party!

Consequence:
- Raid has no single player or easy mode thus i am never going to complete raid due to lack of time/guild/party
- Not able to complete legendary armor item list

Hence my topic title: raids & legendary armor unrealistic for casual players.

addition:
I know Guild Wars 2 is an MMO and it is meant to be played with multiple people but it als can be played solo. Myself as a hard working young man in my thirties must squeeze in some play time between work and family.

By the choice to make legendary armor only available by playing the raid i feel really
neglected as casual gamer by Arena Net!

Just my twentytwo cents,
Yvilthi

Totally agree with OP !!!

Myself I am a ‘on and off’ casual player, so more a single player sort of say.
I play for few months and after that not for few months.. this goes on since launch..

These raids are to kitten hard for casual payers like myself, I’m not steady active enough to stay in a guild which could clear the raid. And in Pick up groups i get kicked out because i don’t know the tactics of bosses….. Sigh
This is very frustrating, not so much for not seeing the raid but more for never going to complete the farm for legendary armor pieces.

The least A’net could do is make it an Very Hard single player experience for the casual players also. Just like that one boss in the Queens Gauntlet (Liadri the Concealing Dark).

That was fun and hard!

21-11-2015 still bugged..
Getting annoying now

Agree, i’m dc’d like 20 times past week very utterly annoying!

I’ld realy like to see Wolves as they were in GW1..
They were pretty kitten there, in GW2 they look like tame puppy’s

Probably get flamed at a lot after this post but i don’t realy care much, people who flame are mostly the kind of people who have no understanding to other people’s thoughts.

My ranger turned three years some weeks ago, I play the ranger class since launch and has 90 % of my playtime so far.
I don’t get a lot of other rangers out here, i mean.. okay ranger is maybe the most hated class out there if you ask the stupid meta build party’s.
But also in my opinion ranger is the most fun build to play, and maybe one of the hardest classes to master if you want a high upkeep of sustained dps and pet dps.
Postition on and awareness of the battlfield is key and that gives me much joy.

The state “ranger is not viable in groups” is utterly B.S., i’m running a spotter frost spirit build myself and can guarantee the whole group 150 precision per player and 10% dmg increase for about 80 % of the fights. One in three pet swaps is giving the Call of the wilds buff for an extra 20% crit chance, +90 power / +90 cond dmg and 33% swiftness as an extra group support AND if used in waterfields you get a free groupheal…

Conclusion: Rangers are very viable and even if they have lower base dps they make it up by running a viable build!

That beeing said: I’m realy suprised about the druid, the livestream gave me a “over the top healer” feeling but still i’m very eager to get my hands on it when HoT launches. Probably i’ll come back to my spotterbuild after testing it out but that’s just because i am very happy with the ranger as he is already.

Irenio, keep up the good work with your team and thanks for your dedication to the ranger class!

Legendary Mistwalker <3

Try the legionnaires longbow, I think that’s one of the most beautiful “No shiny” longbows in game!

I am running LB – GS spec.

This is one of the Rangers must have weapon for awesome 1 vs. 1 burst damage if you ask me.
I’m able to lay a burst on someone for around 25-35k dmg without even getting hit myself first on regular basis!

Rapidfire -> hunters shot -> point blank shot -> weapon swap -> leap -> counter attack/cripling throw -> Hilt Bash -> maul
And not even counting my pet dmg with this rotation (which will be for another 5 – 7K in the same time)

It takes some practice and “fingerspitzengefühl” but when you are used to it and can burst without thinking about the rotation, you don’t want any other weapon anymore as off-weapon.

PS: For multiple enemy’s you attack with LB from range and then always have an escape route and/or gap closer with GS if necessary.
Also when fighting multiple enemies the burst comes in handy to finish one of and in combination with entangle you’ll have another escape.

It would be awesome to have the choice of pet skin in combination with the skill set you want.

Reasons to do this:
I (and I’ll bet other rangers also) really like our chosen pet combination.
(My chosen pets are the Jungle stalker & the Wolf).
The Jungle stalker gives me some extra offense while the Wolf has proven himself to rescue me multiple times when needed by his defensive skill pack.
I’m not that happy about the pet skins though, ill rather have two devours which suits me more.

I am sure that more ranger experience the same feeling as I or.. the other way around, where they don’t like the skills but would love to have the skins of that pet.

Option 1: How is it possible to do this:
Create a long, hard “legendary” quest line that when completed lets you equip a pet template.

The template lets you choose
1) The wanted pet skill set which has the base stats stuck to it.
for example when choosing the wolf skill set you also get the wolfs base stats.
2) The pet skin in my case the devour

Option 2: Give it another spin
Legendary quest completion lets you choose between several predesigned pets which just like legendary’s have swappable skill sets.

few pets/animals that are not yet designed as pet but would suit this position because of their skin would be:
- Rockdog
- Raptor
- Junior Dragons

Are there more Rangers which have any thoughts about this ???

Done it 4 times yesterday with 3 possible outcomes.

outcome 1:
After clicking the caravan i defended last base and complete story without leaving the area, saw the ressuractable soldiers on my map, it where only 6 though and after talking with them all it did not complete my adchievement.

outcome 2:
The boon was automatically removed 2 times when i went to defend the last station.
I presume one of the soldiers had to die during their fight… but it seemed more that one of the caravan people died and therefore my boon was removed

outcome 3:
Clicked the caravan and defended the last base, the boon was still active after completing my story but there where no soldiers what so ever to ressurect or talk to.
There were no bodies even.

Tonight i’ll try to talk to the soldiers right after clicking the caravan and before defending the base but i do not have high hopes for this.

Where it goes wrong is: The npc u have to protect, they have far to less vitality and/or toughness to mitigate the damage output of these mobs.

If these were buffed it would be still hard, but doable

AndrewMcLeod.3857:

There were no changes to make any creatures harder than they previously were in the patch on Tuesday, and the damage on Veterans and Champions in the events using the new event scaling should be significantly closer to what was intended.

We’re still looking at the difficulty of these events, and may make more changes in the future. If anybody has played any of the events using the new scaling since the patch, feedback is definitely welcome.

Realy ?

try to do the escort quest on your way to Balthazar with more then 8 ppl.
The npc’s get one shotted and then the event is over (Failed).
Say if u make it to the temple (if u are that lucky) the npc’s get killed within 3 minutes of the 7-8 minute timer so u can start over again o_O

It is totally fecked for ppl who need the legendary shards.

My character is a ranger so mostly the things i miss are

1) More Ranger pets. FE:
- Rockdog
- Bat
- Basilisk
- Dolphin
- Whale
- Quaggan ^^ (troll ofc.)

2) Better bow skins for longbow.
The Roxbow (shortbow) was ultimatly cool and i didn’ t hesitate to buy that one from the gem store. (even if it was 1200 instead of 600 gems i would have bought that one.)

Why isn’t there a longbow skin that comes close to the coolness of rox’s bow, it makes me sad…

BobbyStein.2315:

I can empathize with having a busy life and not always being able to fit my gaming schedule in between work, home life, and social commitments. Your comments are not lost on us.

We’re exploring some ideas for the future, including a system that would allow certain bits of Living World content to be accessed independent of the release. Plans and designs have not been solidified yet, so I want to temper your expectations. But if you have any opinions on the matter feel free to let us know. We’re already looking at ways to leave some LW content behind to evolve Tyria and improve the game. This would be one element of it, should we decide to build such a feature.

1st off, i have plenty of time so im not gonna complain about the timeframe that is needed for the living story content (called “LC” from here on).
That being said:

How about making a VM on the servercluster that creates a kind of overflow with specific content and make a pull-down option so the players can choose to connect to these overflows. (sort of like the guesting system)
When the LC is finished these overflows let the users play this specific LC by choosing it when they want.
All tough i have no idea is this is technically possible it may be a good solution.

Regards,
Yvilthi

Paul Belz.7351:

Thanks guys!

We’ve got this fixed internally and it should be pushed with the next hotfix. Much appreciated!

Hey Paul,

There seems to be one more problem with this rune.
As mesmer i have since today:

6 x superior rune of perplexity = 30% cond. duration
1 x superior sigil of malice = 6% cond. duration
10 points in domination = 10% cond. duration

But even so i only have 16% condition duration noticed in my hero screen.
See my screenshot.

Cheers and keep up the good work!
Yv Ilthi

I always run with 2 devours purely to the fact that i am Shortbow / Axe-warhorn ranger.
This way i always keep my poison stack on the target.
The bleeding and poison keeps doing damage even when i’m swapping to axe-warhorn for might stacks and chilling.

I would like ascended armor items just because of the facts that now my armor/weapons are exotic (orange) and my jewels are ascended (pink).
Would like to have them same color no extra stats required or maybe only Agony resistance so that we could go higher tier Fractals since thats about the only thing i do in GW2 xD

edit: maybe put in an charactermark (like the map completion star) when u’ re full ascended that would be cool.

True that!

Sadly tough: * ranger pets MUST be stowed at certain places.

Not possible when u want to attack, 1st attack pet comes out again, and yes sadly its working as intended …

Stairpuzzle on Harpie run: it is a good idea to stow your pet there.

Give Cantha!

It was the most Epic Guild Wars experience i certainly had, and while we are at it
Tengu !!!!

Looks like it works very good.
If it stays in the air when 800k+ players use this, it is a great addition to the game security

Duckzor.4327:

Yvilthi.5413:

from another post

Alright, this is gonna be long, but bear with me. I’ve tested out both the LB and SB at lvl 80 full exotic gear and weapons, traits stacked 30/30/10/0/0. Now before I state myself further, if you already can’t tell, this ……

read full story here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/What-s-the-point-with-using-a-Longbow/page/2#post306222

Hope the whining about longbow is over very soon., they out dps a short bow by a small bit

Uhh, sorry to burst you bubble, but it does not. Shortbow auto attack WITHOUT the bleed out dps’s longbow rapid fire.

Only thing longbow is good for is AOE.

Excactly, and since 1) power precision crit dmg does more average dmg then the condition builds and 2) for the bleeding stacks you need to be constantly flanking all enemys, the power dmg of both out dmg the shortbow (by a small bit)

from another post

Alright, this is gonna be long, but bear with me. I’ve tested out both the LB and SB at lvl 80 full exotic gear and weapons, traits stacked 30/30/10/0/0. Now before I state myself further, if you already can’t tell, this ……

read full story here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/What-s-the-point-with-using-a-Longbow/page/2#post306222

Hope the whining about longbow is over very soon., they out dps a short bow by a small bit

I completely disaggree with “So 1v1 Ranger is a joke”!

If a ranger uses his your brain (instead of instant panicking) and combo his way trough the skills 1vs1 is very easy and almost a as easy as putting a knife trough butter.

With full Exo Berserker’s gear (guilds back with exo gem), Superior rune of Rage and Superior sigil of Force on both weapons:

My traits: 30-30-5-0-5
in marksman —> I / VI / X
Skirmishing --> II / IV / X

WvW
1) Rampage as one & proc petskill f2 ( in my case passive Red moa buff)
2) Hunters Shot (point blank shot if the enemy is already close to you)
3) Quickening zephyr
4) Rapid Fire
5) Weapon swap and poisson volley
6) Quickshot
7) finish with crossfire and petswap (for quickness provided by 5 points BM)
8) No hits taken and enemy downed

At point 5) you’ll already done 15K of dmg (maybe 17 when flanked) and can easely finish with shortbow without putting alot of effort into it.

sPvP
I use entangle as elite skill and lightning reflexes as utility both for the survivability.
I like to stay in background to cripple with longbow and burst with rapid fire/Zephyr combo also use Shortbow when all of the above are done.

PVE
use bears for aggroing mobs if u dont want to take hits, personally i keep using red moa bird and jungle stalker for the buffs.
In dungeons u can give the “purple bosses” 11K rapid fires on max range when flanked.
With some might stacks, Red moa fury buff and frost spirit u can get up to 13K.
(spirits are not that bad for a lonbowranger who stays out of aoe range)

Proof
This is me in the above spec when just dinged lvl 80 (not even full exotic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrxk_vTz9yM&hd=1

Only downthing is —> since full dmg specced you will have to stay in the background because ure pretty much a glass canon. When a enemy becomes closer you WILL have to kite your way around him with the shortbow, luckely we have a cripple, stun and jumpback skill on this weapon.

Just my 2 copper,
Yvilthi

Some bow skins are very nice tough.

I now have a legionnare berserker’s lonbow and a mystic berserker’s shortbow. they are cool.
The Unicorn legendary "the dreamer = omfg-wtf /facepalm
i rather have a destroyer instead.

Thanks for the Patch fix.
Works great now

Maybe an idea to throw us a legendary “profession questline” to get a nice looking legendary-profession based armorset ?

Did CoE the other day 2nd path / 1st path / 2nd path / 1st path
got 60 / 60 / 15 / 6

Why the 15 and 6? I get and also understand the deminishing returns but what the hell!!! We killed all bosses each worth of 5 tokens?
Why did i got 6 ? thats like 1,2 tokens each boss o_0

“token farmers” already farmed all sets they could through exploits…
Why does Anet punish the players that do complete a whole dungeon?

ddak.3150:

I have a problem – in picture below you can see that I am missing 5 vistas, 8 waypoints, and 21 point of interest. I am at 98% of World Completion.
I have discovered all map of tyria, with all hearts and events (point of interests, vistas, skill points), all world vs world maps, and even finished 30ish jumping puzzles and still missing this much. Like I skipped the whole area?
Perhaps someone know what I’m missing?

Thanks

WvWvW ?

Anyone who stays in a fight while beeing transformed into a Moa bird = A Idiot,
in fact if u look up idiot into the dictionary is says: “a person who stays in a fight while beeing transformed into a moa bird”

/joke off

im serious run away if u are a moa, its an elite skill with a long cooldown.
If u run away at least the skill is wasted.

Indeed tactical weapon: with hawks eye u can barrage(cripple) put on a vulnerability stack and around do 12k dmg with rapid fire from up to 1500- 1600 range ( even further away if u stand higher). After that swap for your dps weapon (in my case shortbow) and after 30 – 45 sec make the tactical descision to use your longbow effects again.

also: standing from 1500 range in pve dungeon bosses equals to almost no aggro meaning one less to join some estafet run (some bosses).

Same here, i cannot put tokens pre patch in my character bags !

Just finished 100% did get the title but no reward!!
Still not working properly…

Edit: when entering the chantry of secrets it pops up in an instant

megrim.3189:

Sharpe.1485:

I have to say, I understand this whole safety feature of not allowing more purchases after a certain ammount, but only if customer support wouldn’t take so long to again “re-authorize” the user to make a purchase.

As it is now, there are alot of people wanting to put money into this game, but unable to due to the time it takes the support to solve each individual request.

It is becoming somewhat annoying.

3 days now – and waiting.

I like to purchase gems every few days, once or twice a week. So now I have to send in 1-2 support tickets per week to have my purchase restriction lifted for 24 hours.

What an absolutely, astoundingly stupid state of affairs. Turn around on support tickets is already glacial without adding to it with this. Something really needs to be done, once you’re on the ‘risk’ list, apparently they are completely unable to remove you from it. EVER. So we’ll all be sending in tickets every time we want to buy gems. Then waiting a few days to a week for a response.

This is bushleague business right here. I want to give GW2 money, I like the game, I’m happy to support. Why in the holy heck are they making so difficult for me to do so?.

Same kitten different user …
Not ever did i see a company that doesn´t want money from us.

Cannot purchase gems from store
#120925-006527

Please give me a 24 hour buy period, thanks

so.. i use a confusion spec as well, but do not know excactly how to gear for it.
My instincts say i have to go for condition dmg + duration and precision..

so.. i use a confusion spec as well, but do not know excactly how to gear for it.
My instincts say i have to go for condition dmg + duration and precision..any toughts ?

Morgrim.4021:

I laughed a bit at the name of the set. People who’ve played Guild Wars 1 will know :p

I know/knew there is also a Zho’s set :P but it hasn’t got the stats i need..

Dev’s please respond here or in my Q&A …
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Patch-25-9-dungeon-tokens/first#post244473

Farming for 2 weeks to buy 2x runes that after purchase suddenly are soulbound on character.
Tough vender never showed that they would bind on aquire!!!

Aireroth.7596:

Items are soulbound, tokens are account bound. That means, get the tokens, bank them, change characters, withdraw tokens and buy items on the character you want to get them for.

Please correct me if I’m wrong.

I now know this is the normal way., but i have bought the items already.
That is my problem…

3) Dungeon tokens should be account bound. This will allow players to have a single character farm tokens for their other characters.

I bought 2 x superior rune of nightmare with my ranger for my mesmer, but came to the conclusion they were soulbound

Does this change means that items are accound bound also?

SeedsOfYggdrasil.6315:

Well, the idea would then be to increase this amount. 10 tokens is almost meaningless for a difference.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-Tokens-Account-Bound-please/first

See the posts from Jon Peters

Robert Hrouda.1327:

we’re very aware that our reward system is not up to par for dungeons. It is something we are actively working on right now, to try and find a solution for. I’m not going to talk about what our plans are because I don’t want us to be trapped in promises, but I will say this: We know, and are actively working on updating the system.

Thumbs up !!!

I realy like the Dynamic encounters and it feels rewarding that you finally downed a (in the begin looking impossible) boss.
Only the loot is/was a major setback

Suggestion, small chance ( 0.5% without magic find) for extremely cool looking exotics
And a bigger chance (maybe 1 till 5 % without magic find) for a random 75-80 normal exotic.

anyhow, Keep up the good work

SeedsOfYggdrasil.6315:

…….

Here’s the meat of the idea: The first time you complete an explorable mission each day, you will be rewarded with bonus tokens from the dungeon you have completed. After the first run each day, the system defaults to the current amount of token drops in the game.
………….

You already get more tokens for the first completed explorable path each day :S
Last boss gives 15 tokens, 2nd time u run the same path he only gives 5.
If u run another path of the same dungeon you get 15 again at the last boss and the 2nd run of that path only 5 … So achievement is not nessecary i.m.h.o.

What i do like to see is a chance (if even small) for exotics to drop.
Gear drops are complete b.s. right now

Anyone have any clue how one aquires this armor set?
http://www.guildhead.com/search/Khilbron%27s

PlayerX.5307:

Sethren.8472:

I use it all the time. My weapon swap is between a Greatsword and a Scepter/Torch. I am a condition-phantasm mesmer, so I really like the confusion stacking quality of the scepter (and the torch’s phantasm). I get my AoE fix from the Greatsword.

The Scepter’s block ability is also very helpful when a person has run out of energy to evade, and it counterattacks for a nice chunk of damage.

Personally, I think it’s one of the best weapons a mesmer has. It’s just misunderstood.

I would love to duel you…. lol

I Use scepter pistol – Staff and i would realy like to duel you.
Nothing pleasures me more then a over-confident player tearing himself down because of my confusion stacks

2 letters for OP… : QQ

Every class has one ability that is hard to handle with,
learn to counter those and be happy in pvp.

Don’t counter and go QQ @ home

F3 skill does that for me also, very annoying since even logging out doesn’t work for me.
Quick fix for me is pressing F3 twice in a row so u select ground marker and drop it right after that.