Guild Wars 2

I am not going to talk about skills ,bugs , there is plenty of post about it already.
During this demo I did tested mostly holosmith and soulbeast. With holosmith it looks like someone think it thru. Class mechanic, animations ,the way armor changes etc.
Soulbeast on the other hand is clunky as hell , it feels like that spec was put together 30 min before demo started. Slow animation , most of the skills in beast mode are simply bad, and boring, there is nothing fun a bout it. Not to mention that stupid green aura. If you can make nice armor animations for holosmith how can you push out kitten animations for soulbeast and think its ok. Biggest problem with ranger in gw2 is that devs have 0 imagination. Beast mode that does not feel like beast mode grats anet

Sic’em does have way to long cd for what it is now, and tbh its useless skill atm. It should work like this :

• keep the cd as it is
• on use pet teleports to the target, knocks target down and cast reveal.

That way it would have some use in the fight, but we will never get any good updates and changes. Devs neglected ranger class since day 1, look how they destroyed “S&R” , it was nice shout for a month .Or how the nerf to the ground “protect me”. I have no faith in ranger dev, this class is a king of garbage skills on long cd’s.

Yes its lame, that they change it . They did it probably because HOT content sucks and its boring as hell. That`s why they nerf it so all www players with alts go to HOT to create impression of crowded maps. to be honest it is starting to look like HOT will be first and last gw2 xpack.

1 www changes fiasco .

2 pvp drama atm.

3 Boring grind content in HOT

4 Druid/Ranger fail.

5 Anet is lucky that there is no mmo with similar RVR on the market yet.

OP welcome to horse dung grindwars 2. Since HOT I play less and less, this mini xpack was not worth $50. I don’t know how the hell they could came up with so many dumb ideas. Its like they don`t care if HOT was going to be first and last gw2 xpack. What is most disturbing is that they took big disrespecting dump on www players. Since i got gw2 xpack I find myself more and more looking for new mmo with www game mode. Sadly Camelot unchained is probably years away from release. If I didn’t have one last friend left in gw2 I would probably stop playing.

ps. Pardon my English, it is not my native language.

This stupid nerf just shows yet again that ranger dev team is a bunch of losers with 0 imagination. Could you please nerf all the ranged weapons AA in game, the same way you did to ranger staff. I am sure you will find reason to do it for each class. W cant let other classes to brake game with uncheck and op AAs.

ps. New border www map sucks badly, again 0 imagination.

Thx i did what you suggested and it helped. Latest patch downloaded fast and with no errors. It is a bit lame that Anet staff is not on top of crucial things like this .

cheers

No offense tao but claim that ur pet died only twice tells me how often you are in pvp/ www. Please post clip how do you keep ur pet alive in fights with more than 2 people. I would like to see how you navigate ur pet thru all the aoe and spash dmg and keep it on target and alive.

Jelzouki how is the shout radius long cds broken sor signet shortbow flanking restriction a LTP issue??? . Each time someone posts about ranger broken skills its trolled down to LTP you noob. wth. And similar skills on each class shoud work the same and should have similar cds for fair play don’t you think?
Please post clip where you can fight on ur ranger vs 3 -6 players and get kills or simply run away prove me wrong,. somehow you can do it on war/ thief. But wait its a LTP issue and a only pros play thief/war rest of use are simply noobs.

I did pointed out problems that I see with ranger class and all you do you just tell me ltp . Last time I died to a ranger 1v1 in www was in march 2013 , never while on my eng nor guard. I must suck big time or I must LTP for sure. If it is as you state LTP issue so wth PB was nerfed and it was not presented as LTP problem. It was not op in any aspect of the game yet got hit by nerf bat and no other instant skill got this treatment because only on ranger instant interrupt is game breaking that must be it.

Yes solori I do see that you didn’t read first part of the post, do you have a ranger class or you just trolling here.

• Pet micro managing huh did you ever been www fight before or you just a pve player?

• No flanking needed on thief and eng pistol aa , I guess rate of fire is much much slower than short bow.

• forage pops up randomly on the ground I bet you have lots of time during the fight to find it and pick it up and use it, I wonder if steal did drop bundle on the ground in random spot how would that work. I don’t wont range to be like a thief it just shows that similar skills on thief work properly but not on ranger.

• LR is on way to long cd and it should not be affected by chill because it is escape skill.
  Look at the eng rocket boots, ok it does not brake stunt but it does have lots of functions on low cd. Or thief withdraw look how neatly the packed all good stuff in to healing skill on short cd.

• and if you consider might on axe aa , and ROF faaster cast as a huge buff than fine you can have ur own opinion as well, To me rof change was just almost totally wiped by PB nerf.

Tao if ur pet died only twice so far that means you are new to www. Wait a bit and than you will see that to keep ur pet alive and keep it on target so it could do some dmg is achievement for sure

I don’t understand, as stated by devs ranger is the class that needs lots of buffs, and all we got was few fixes fluff changes, and huge PB nerf.
PB was nefed because to many rangers use LBs now , what about staff necros, guards or eles or dagger thieves or hammer warriors all the popular weapons should be nerfed because people use them ???
Oh wait PB was an instant cast that must be the reason than , but following this way of reason I understand we have to expect nerfs to all INSTANT cast skills in the game now. Let see all teleports , entering stealth skills , thief pistol interrupts, all f1-f4 skills etc etc ets lots of nerfing is needed looks like. Why only ranger got hit by nerf bat to instant cast skill, btw f1-f3 skills on ranger are not instant since day one,.
I am confused that you have time to change shortbow animations GS norn aa
animation( now it is harder to dodge out of it ) Pb animation , But for hell you wont fix root animation on sword.

• shouts long cds on them and low functionality , you cant use it to help friendly players unless you triat for it . RADIUS IS ONLY 360 why on guard and war its 600??

• why guard is not similar to shadow ref skill or why it does not lock down area to give friendly players buff or de buff of some sort ?

• SOR
  does not work when pet is dead or out of range also cd is way to long,we simply don’t have good cond remove skill

*pet is dead most of the time , pets cant keep up nor attack moving targets

• we don’t have triat that would give ranger moving speed buff.

• short bow flanking restrictions, if its so awesome please add this to all 900 ranged weapons in the game.

• why we cant pick diferent f2 skills for our pets? and why some of the skill are on such long cds ? 45 sec cd on 2 sec wolf fear lol, why we cant have fear roar on bears well? etc

• boar foarage why the hell it does not pop up in f2 slot so its rdy to use when I need it ( thief steal works sweet tho.)

• sword 2 why it is not forward jump with 2nd part of it to be a backward roll and why the hell it is on such a short timer? Thief sword skill works sweet as an instant teleport.

• traps have only 600 range , wells 900

• LR way to long cd and its bugged with chill.
  etc etc ets

Warriors and thieves get sweet buffs and skills only ranger I treated like garbage.
Whoever is in charge of ranger fixes simply does not have a clue about the class, for the love of good use that lvl up scroll on ur ranger and move it out of starting area already,2 years of garbage treatment is plenty.

ps . pardon for my spelling but English is not my native language,

People who claim that war/thief is not op simply cling to I win button Anets favorite classes. If you don’t consider those classes op than yeah try play ranger for egz.
Thief does have perma stealth, farts blindness all the time , burst damage no Cds on weapon skills more free teleports than in any given star trek episode. Steal is on low cd and does have 1500 range hehhe no its not op class at all. One thief can easy go vs 8 players and get kills or troll and run away , that’s not op at all. ( try and do it with ur ranger) There is also this stupid notion that people who play thief class are pros and the rest of us is just a group of mindless morons who don’t know how to play gw2. Claiming that in www thief does have only limited uses is also false, and it probably comes from people who love easy kills and don’t bother with group effort.
Warrior is basically best class at everything in game.

Those two classes are Anet baby pets that will never get balanced. This game was advertised as a skill based game, what it looks like that skill starts and ends at character creation screen. Its been already almost 2 years of this unbalance garbage, one can only hope that new mmos will deliver better www experience , sadly Black desert Online is still years away.

When is this promised ranger fix patch coming?
1 Ranger is the only class that does have to triat to use active signets effects why?
SOR does not work when pet is dead and if its out of range how is this fair ?
To long cds on the ranger signets vs its functionality.

2 Shouts : Why ranger shouts have smaller radius than war/guard shouts? Also long cds on sic em, S&R, Protect me, vs very limited functionality. 3 sec reveal lol , or kill ur own pet with protect me while its standing in place. Guard should be changed so it would create area that no enemy could cross with buff or debuff inside radius. Why our shouts do not remove cond and buff other players around us? Again it needs triat to be used as support .

3 f2 skills are still million light years behind other classes f2 skill way to slow. More f2 options per pet would be nice as well. Boars F2 should work similar to thief steal pop up that env. weapon in to f2 slot so I can use it when I need not on the ground.

4 pets die to fast and cant keep up with targets, drake don’t turn and don’t follow the target after you hit f2.
4 LR finally it removes root, but its bugged and it should have its cd reduce to 20 sec tops ( eng. rocket boots, or 15 sec cd on thief healing skill that packs in to one our LR as well, sweet that thief always get best toys)

5 for the love of god change sword animation on AA so we can dodge. People ask for this and it should not be such a big deal. In last patch you did changed NORNS GS AA animation. now it is a bit harder to dodge as well while char is in mid air.

6 ranger does have the highest number of bugs ,lame triats and useless skills and you simply neglect this class since day one . Stop this favoritism toward war/thief and look around, this game does have other classes as well. To be honest I just wasted my time typing this because you wont do nothing proper for this class, there is way to much stuff to fix with ranger and I bet you wont bother.

Yes Chrispy LR does remove stunts and rocket boots no but is that just reason for double cd? you can use RB twice before you can use LR again. I don’t know if you are familiar with thief healing skill Withdraw , it does not remove stunt but it is heal + LR in one ( no dmg on it tho ) and its on 15 sec cd. Anet simply gave away good skills to other classes and rangers are stuck with garbage utility + idiotic long cds. Also LR is affected by chill which makes you roll back slower and for shorter distance.

Anet ignorance regarding ranger fix lead to a bit idiotic situation in wvw. Maybe it is just my impression but in some random skirmishes form the grp of players I am always first one to get attacked. To be honest I also always target enemy ranger first because that is simply 90% of the time easy kill.

It looks like that I will have to wait for another mmo that maybe will make rangers interesting and fun again. Hope Black desert online and eq next wont suck in class balance department like Gw2 is.

I understand that Anet babysits thief and warrior class for almost 2 years now, but maybe its time to fix ranger class?

I know I know stop whining and LTP noob. I do have 4 lvl 80 and ranger does have the weakest set up of trait , weapon skill and utility in the game.

1. Sword root on auto attack if its so awesome could devs pleas code it in for all classes.

2 Ranger shouts, is there a reason that our shouts have 360 radius ( war and guard
shouts have 600 radius ). ranger shouts do not buff people around until you trait
for it. Not to mention that ranger shouts doe have simply dumb functionality.

• sic em- to long cd to short rev debuff and it should teleport pet to the target.

• guard – lol please someone from anet post vid how you use this shout if you don’t
  have " natures voice". This shout should have a bit longer cd and it should
  lock down targeted area so no enemy could walk in or out from it in,
  addition it should provided of buff or debuf in that area depending
  on what pet do you use atm.

• protect me- kills ur pet most of the time and pet stops attacking for duration. Way to
  long cd for dumb functionality and dead pet syndrome.

• S& R- Huge cd for … no functionality I na skill how sweet is that .

I don’t understand why ranger shouts don’t have some effects from get go,
as well as some implemented cond remove etc , so we could have shout build
to play with.

3 Fire trap and torch skill should blind the target.

4 trap radius and range should match necro wells.

5 LR finally after almost 2 years it does remove immobilize, but you didn’t drop cd on this skill why? Eng rocket boots is far superior to LR and its on 20 sec cd.

6 Entangle way to long cd for low functionality ( npcs walk thru it no problem). ore or less it works maybe about 20% if the times. Also with newest trait it does remove only ONE cond unless you fixed it. we Don’t have single good legendary skill, also non of it is on 90 sec cd .

7 Hunter shot needs longer stealth duration also stealth should be on use not on hit.
While in stealth this skill should turn in to sneak attack of some sort that would deliver nice dmg. and it should go on cd after you exit stealth. In present state HS functionality should have ben added to short bow quick shot.

8 W don’t have traits that would reduce cd or add extra effects to healing skills.

9 New animation on the 3rd GS auto attack for norn males makes it a bit hard to dodge out of that jump animation. I have to test it a bit more but what it looks like my avatar sometimes slides to the side before dodge.

10 Why do we have this flanking restrictions on short bow? if its so awesome please add this to all classes weapons with 900 range. this is not LOTRO anet this is GW2with fast paced combat.

11 Pets die to fast and cant keep up with moving targets but you know this already :/

12 More f2 skills per pet so we can pick what we like to use, all pets should have Forage skill and upon use it should pop up in f2 slot not on the ground cd is to long on this as well. I don’t get it why bears for egz don’t have fear roar on f2 or why we don’t have Drag skill( pets immobilize and drags target twords ranger)

13 RTW should be default arrow speed for longbow.

looking on how they changed legendary and ascended items to be account bound I fear they will never do anything substantial to fix ranger class. That just looks like an answer to all the people that complained about time invested in this broken class.

ps: pardon my spelling English is not my native language, hats off to anyone who still enjoys playing ranger class.
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For few past weeks I also have this strange in game lag. I can move but all the game around me just stops. I cant use skills as well, it does last few seconds than game gets back to normal until next lag spike. Any other online game does not lag like that while I am playing. I see that lots of people does have similar lag problems, is this an issue on Anet end? I dint lag in GW2 like that since game release.

I did try “repair” but it didn’t work . I am stuck on log in screen and have to close it thru task manager “guild wars 2 client 2 is not responding” game was running with no major problems since lunch and now this drama. anyone have better ideas how to fix this problem?

I still cant download yesterdays patch" gw2 game client is not responding" I am stuck on log in screen anyone have solution for this ? I do see on the forums that I am not the only one with similar problem :/

Game was working perfect yesterday, but when I wanted to play today I got stuck on log in window and I get this msg “guild wars 2 client not responding”. what could be the problem? I did try to reach gw2 tech support team but all I got was email from them directing me to ncsoft tech support and I cant log in there. Doe s anyone had same issues since todays patch?

Ok mi do have few questions.
1 Did anyone at Anet level up their ranger higher than lvl 20? If yes, did you guys use that scrolls to do it?

2 Why you don’t read ranger forums were people do post nice ideas how to fix this class?

3 Why we have the weakest utility skills in this game with long cds?

4 Why we don’t have more F2 skills that we could chose for our pet.

5 Why Mesmer and necros minions have AI superior to ranger pets?

6 Why any other class in this game does not have to trait to use active signets effects?

I can continue like this for pages. I do have 3 other lvl 80 guard necro and eng, ranger is by far the weakest class in this game. It is not LTP problem it is devs fault and you don’t admit that. Now you are going to show us how to pve? Lots of peps play this game since lunch and tbh we probably know ranger class way better than anyone at Anet. Show us rather your mad skills in wvw, were we are laughing stock. Ascended grind and last two ranger non substantial updates somehow made me lto ook around for new mmo.

ps. sorry for my English.

It is tragic how this class is neglected by devs and compared to other classes in the game we must have the lamest set of utility skills .

Why do we have to use triats for active signets effects? I don’t understand that , any other class in game have to do it ?

We don’t have proper skill to remove conditions SOR is a joke on 60 sec cd that does not work when pet is dead or away. it should remove cond from ranger on use and pet should get buffs per cond it pulled from nearby players.

Lighting reflexes is another lame skill on 40 sec cd. It should remove all snare cond on ranger while rolling in direction you character faces. Look at eng. rocket boots, low cd and superb utility skill. And if anywhere LR is the skill were you should add stealth not on longbow.

Why we don’t have more F2 skill to pick what I want to use with my pet ?
Boars for eg. could use charge skill that knocks target to the ground, ore skill that would create mud trap to snare target for a moment. forage skills should pop up in to pet F2 slot so I can use it on demand not to look for it on the ground.

All cats dog and wolfs could use Drag skill that snares and drags target towards ranger. That’s just few simple ideas that pop up in to my head while I was writing this.

Next lame skill is guard , does anyone use this ever? It should work more like this:
pet guards area that enemy players cant move in or out ,also depending on which pet ranger use guarded area buffs friendly players or debuffs enemies .

W have lame utility skills on way to long cd. Please tell me if my ideas are moronic , op do not fit in to the game lore? I am not going to mention weapons buffs and pet Ai here because we ask for this constantly on the forums

ps Please pardon my English it is not my native language.

You can easy see it when you observe guilds that run zergs. They never stack necros rangers or eng . Its always thieves guards eles. A net totaly drop the ball with class balance. They did adveritse gw2 pvp to be skill based and what it is just a proper class composition in the zerg. If you are lvling new alt get urself a thief and you will rule in WvWvW. btw “Stelth stomp” A net that was totaly lame idea, make sure to buff up thief in next patch.

Ok its ma bad on axe nr 5 thing but i did read about it on the forums. Yes i think that thievs are op because it is one clas in WvWvW that I simply cant kill 1v1. Is it because i am a noob like someone stated , or thievs do have better pvp skills than reangers? Someone stated in this post that we have better doened skills than thievs lol.
“LICK WOUNDS” 99% of the time when i am downed is on cd , and i cant simply use it. On the other hand mesmer elementalist and thievs downed skills let them escape or delay stomp almost every time.
Traps are our best friend , hmm maybe but dont forget that you can see were ranger set his trap if you have this option selected in settings.

Thievs can steal skills from other classes. Is this true that when they steal from a ranger axe nr 5 WD and they use it thay can move? If yes how dumb is that?
WvWvW is the endgame, is this how it will be, godlike professioins with best skills and rest with whatever? Thievs are already Op as kitten and it does not look like they will be balanced anytime in the future. The more I play in gw2 pvp the more i see that its not about the skills of a player and all about class you pick :/

If you are looking to WvWvW, I strongly suggest to pick diferent class. My main is a lvl 80 ranger and to be honest rangers suck at this moment. We dont have good condition remove skill , pets are a mess and dead most of the time in pvp, we dont have godlike burst damage skill like thief or warrior. longbow is a joke weapon , we are not much of a support class, spirits rolf. Traps are visible to enemy if they set it in options , we have one of the worst set of downed skills in the game etc etc. I still play my ranger in WvWvW just because i dont have a stomach to lvl up war,thief or guard

Its not amazing its just lame that we cant use " core" part of our class. In wvw pets die way to fast , and yes I dont want to go 30 p. in to Bm to have a bit better pet. When you fight in grp vs grp with all aoe on the ground pet most of the time cant get to target alive. I dont understand why Anet dores not fix or at least consider to fix or buff up pets. F2 skill speed lolz. :/

ps. Since shortbow was nerfed because ’boring " nr 1 skill on it, will thifes borring dagger spawn skill nerf is on the horizon to?

English is not my native language so srry for any misspells

Nice video Xorus but that just shows how lame at some ways GW2 PVP is. It is not at all skill based pvp you just have to pick Op skills + class and you are golden. Lack of balance in PVP oriented game is a bit strange, i dont understand why Anet neglect this problem. Btw could you post video were you dont use PI, thx.

ps. heh imagine how fast asurea thief can kill anyone with PI. :/