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Can I get an invite?

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Hi could I get an invite please? Sounds like a fun guild.

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1 PvP match, 1 vista, daily finished.

Zerk Ranger Build

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I use a very similar build and I love it. If doing open world PvE, I would swap out natural stride with verdant etching, and add in another glyph. Also, I don’t feel like lightening reflexes or quickening zephyr are all that great, but I usually toss in a signet there. But overall, I love this build, especially when zerging through Dragon’s Stand.

Why play a druid?

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Druid’s are kitten. I love playing in huge zergs in Dragon stand with my druid. Tossing vines everywhere, CCing left and right, then quick swapping pets and longbow and bursting down mobs with my piercing arrows left and right. Then swapping back to staff and laying down more vines and heals everywhere. I have a bunch of 80s, and for me, Druid is by far my favorite, nothing is even close.

L2P - I did HOT Why can't you?

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However, I will comment about those other, “frustrated with HOT” posters who fill the forum with angry threads. Most of them are not like you, or at least, they don’t show the respect and good intention you are showing.

Most try to speak in name of every one. Most aren’t open to any discussion. Most don’t make any research before writing. Most don’t want to even try. Most don’t even try to be rational.

Their typical argumentation boils down to:
“I’m representig all Gw2 players, I can’t win, I’m frustrated, this thing is trash, nerf NOW, anyone who don’t agree with me is a White Knight, I will NOT try to learn, I paid to not learn, I’m entitled to ask anything”.

These guys/gals DESERVE the L2P treatment, and, IMHO, they don’t deserve your support.

Every map in HOT was designed to be played by large groups of players working together
however the system that underpins the whole design philosophy (Megaservers) is (and has been well prior to the launch of HOT) utterly broken.

No one should be telling other players to LTP – everyone should be questioning why Anet designed a whole expansion around a broken megaserver system and six months after launch we are still waiting for them to fix it.

It’s quite simple – If the maps were full, no one would need to play ‘solo’ and virtually all of the HOT Unplayable threads would vanish.

Fix Megaservers, Fix HOT

Why not just go to LFG and join a squad?

Problem fixed.

I hate HOT but want to enjoy it

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I hit a point where I would log in to a HOT map, run around for a bit and maybe do an event or 2 and log out. I was like what the heck is the point. Then I started going to the LFG tool, and joined a bunch of 50 man squads just doing the events and it really started clicking with me. I love open world content with tons of players, and HOT is absolutely perfect for that. Oh and the loot is awesome, I’m absolutely loving HOT when played with a large squad.

ANET FIXED STUFF =))

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There were 2 directions after all that negative stuff with HoT. A-Net took the right one. I didn’t play the new maps since some weeks. This weekend you can see me there again. I’m really happy with what the update brought us.

Not trying to be a jerk at all, but what part of the update will be bringing you back exactly? I’m just curious.

Thanks.

Ranger 26 Jan patch notes

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I didn’t see any changes for Druid. All other elites got an update except for druid … hrmmmm

I think this is the class for me.

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We are less useful in teamfights than others, though.

As I’ve been leveling I can see why. I’ve noticed a lack of aoe attacks. I run Sword/Axe and Longbow. Only aoe is both 5’s and the sword aa seems to have a small cone I think. Thief can whip out the shortbow which every attack is aoe and elementalist is obviously an aoe machine. Unless I’m forgetting a weapon or trick rangers can use to get more aoe.

Good choice VicariousJambi.6452

You will enjoy this class. In the past I only found 3-4 builds who fit with me ( turret engi, condi theif, Dire mesmer, Cele DD ele) but I recently find the ranger and the whole class fit with my play style and past builds.

Since HoT ranger is more fun then ever, we can show our true skills with new pets and trait line. But we are still under power in pvp , not even meta. Anet know it they will probably buff it in the future.

Enjoy the power of the nature.

I really like the pet mechanic, it feels like I can really customize this class to play how I want it to.

I plan to explore a lot of the map. I’ve already got a few cleared! I can’t wait until I’m leveled up for HoT, everything I’ve heard is great about it.

I’m not really bothered by the lack of AOE. I just use piercing arrows … it feels awesome unloading rapid fire and having them all pierce …

Is this game grindier than WoW?

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If you think GW2 is grind, try playing Destiny. Ugh…

How would you rate the HoT Fun Factor?

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I’d give it so far just a 1/10, because the only thing that they got right in my opinion is the Songtrack and presentation of the game…

Story: Terrible, super predictable as ALWAYS (Eir), as if the writers just copy paste weird player story ideas into their canon, too short, not epic, just same as lame as Zhaitan, but at least not so idiotically easy that you could label it like the Zhaitan battle as “retar# level” where you need to press two minutes long just only 1 button and watch the fireworks … (and not a dragon at all… wtf wouldnt even be able to descrive against what the hell we fight there at all)

Gameplay/Balance: Terrible..the games skill balance is total out of control since June 23 patch and the new Elite specs did nothing at all to solve this, but made it in certain overpowered powercreep spec cases (reaper for example) just only worser

Content: Blocked too much behind Mastery/Hero Point Grind with now having also tons of hero points left ofter after the retro change, that are of NO USE at all for us

WvW: Terrible, I was hoping for the Desert Maps to bring new life to WvW, they essentially made absolutely the opposite and lead to a total WvW desertation!!.. emptym aps everywhere, the desert maps are WAY TOO HUGE and should get scaled down in size by at least 25%
Suchcrap just happens, when you make about something important like WvW just only 1 stupid closed beta and not like they should have done it properly also together with the rest of the game several OPEN BETAS to get more feedback for WvW!!

Performance: SUPER TERRIBLE … since Hot I’m not able anymore to play anythign of the new game content as usual I was able to do so 3 years long ..THREE YEARS LONG!!! with no problems to play the whole game permanently on max settings everywhere!!
And now if I dont cripple down the game to mashed potatoe ugliness, I get püermanent CRASHES like every hour to two max or so in regard of how extrmely I participate in events ect with lots of action and BAM .. OOM crash to the point, that I get it also multiple times a day… THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE and needs ASAP improvement to brign back the game to is former good performance.
To have to cripple our settings to potato level is no solutions, thats just only a cheap circumvention of the root problem for the devs to have not to work on proper performance solutions that would make for everyone on the long run far much nmore sense by bringign out finally a 64 bit client (stopping 32 bit support, making 64bit officially the system requirement and updatign the game engine stuff with thigns liek at LEAST DX11 support..

Yes it will be a step that will make alotz of people with ancient old stone pcs unable to play anymore GW2 but who seriously supports this game and wants this ganme to run also very well for the future for the next years to come, will understand, that this freakign stupid step WILL BECOME more and more neccessary and that by haging on your personal junk pcs will only unneccearely cripple Anet down longer to PROGRESS the game technically further to the next necccessary era of technology that is required for a massive complex game like this to A) stay competitive on the market for the next years, to stay modern and strong enough, that such silly problems like OOm crashes won’t happen anymore. Any games that lets these problems happen even these days are a shame for todays technology and to let that techology gettign crippled down unneccarely, just to get only the perople with their stoneage pcs also into the boat to be able to play the game is just the absolute biggest burden, that ANet finally needs to get rid of to receive by this step new fresh air that enables them to expand the game into new heights it would be always unable to reach, as long the game needs to carry the burden of all the millions of stone age pc users and are unwilling to invest a freaking darn dime on a new pc to be able self to enjoy the game A) on a much better quality themself and support the company and everyone else this way passively by givign the develioper the change to expand the game on modern technology STANDARDS which are at least 64bit client and DX11 support for many years by now …

Features: half of the features are uninished and hold back, other features of the game are still announced since 2012 and yet still until today not implemented to the game…
HOT just continues onto this half hearted implementation scheme nd this makes it very disappointign and frustating.. when you see for example that they add new crafting disciplines, like scribing, but yet since 2 yeasrs still have freakign not the intent as it seems to finally make coooking and jeweler equal to Job Level 500 first, before they add anythign new …
other things that were planned basically 2012 as minigames have they implemented now under the concept of Adventures and then they make this absolutely ununderstandable design decision to lock them all behind a silly map event blockign wall that forces you every like 30 minutes to wait on it, that peopel make some dubm events just to get your adventures unlocked to be able to play them /facepalm and yet I stil forget it, that theres is still the announced since 2012 and yet still not finally implemented POLYMOK… what lets mwe come back again to the half hearted full of holes cheese implemention desion that Anets does here since game release….

They permanently add something new in a more or less heaviliy UNFINISHED STATE and continously add new content since then, in the hope as it seems, that people forget the old content over time, in what an unfinished state they left it behind…. this scenario has repeated itself over the last years several times by now in many different areas of the game (it began first with the adding of Southsun Cove) (in certain cases they reiterated the old content in new ways, what is good – as it shows, they don’t forgot everything) and slowly im having enough of this, as it makes it question myself, what is so hard about it to stay on something that got worked on and move first onto something new, once the previous project that got added is added in a complete, finished and polished state without any holes in the general design, so that the content gives the player also the feeling, that theres some QUALITY behind that content and not that quantity is the driving force here by pushing rather more new content out, to focus on to polish and finetune first what the game already provides, before we move too quick onto new projects.

Why must they flood the game constantly with new content before they finish first what they have started somewhere else in the game??? )LS1 anyone …best example…

This is like playing multiple video games at the same time, but never completing any of them, because whenever you started one, you start right after the next game, before you even complete the one that you started playing before. I don’t get it …

Thats the kind of feeling that I have right now in many things Anet has done over the past 3 years …
The same feeling do I get with WvW now after seeing what they did with WvW now, I think now, they should have just beter kept the old aps and polished and improved/redesigned them instead of completely removing and exchangign them, turning WvW into a player desert that totally alienated everyone, because like 99% people got thrown with the new map totally into the ice cold water without any explanations, without any time of testing, because there were no open betas for WvW at all…

I could continue now with alot of things that I dislike currently about the changes and the way Anet handles new content in this game and leaves behind old stuff like a dry desert, because some things sounded awesome on paper, but turned out not to work so well as they hoped it would, earning only bad player reactions (last invasion stuff anyone??? god in hell was that aweful, it was nice meant, but they shouldnt have better never done it at all for the sake of the game’s image) but I think this so far is just enough…

You must be a blast at parties.

Anyone else quit their Ranger with HoT?

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is it only me or Guardian’s Longbow is better than actual Ranger’s? xD

Cause for me it’s really like DH is actually what Ranger should be.

Well, it will be.

They’re a heavy armour class with a longbow and no constantly dying, bad AI, pet.

Whereas, Ranger is only a medium armour class with a constantly dying, bad AI, pet.

They could level the playing field by making Rangers (passively) tougher and/or giving them better, more sustained, non-targeted stealth.

After all, if you think about WoW, Hunters there wear mail armour (i.e. somewhere between leather and plate), which they can choose to make more like plate with a talent, have camouflage (a weaker form of stealth, with 100% uptime) and have a good disengage (which is far more useful, when used defensively, than a knockback).

…and even then, with all that, they are (at best) mid-pack in PVP.

Without better defence, far better stealth and/or a good disengage, Rangers will never be on an even vaguely equal footing with other classes, in this game.

…and yet, what do they do to Rangers?

Nerf, nerf, nerf, paste an ill-fitting Druid spec/class on top, nerf, nerf…

They’re just coming across as totally clueless and/or horribly biased.

Constantly dying pet?

I don’t get it … am I missing something?

Anyone else quit their Ranger with HoT?

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Let me start by saying I love my ranger to death. I love its skills, its utilities, its look, even the pets I kinda like even though I think we should have a no pet option.

But I would also like something new after so many months playing Ranger. Was hoping the changes in HoT would rekindle my joy for the class. Instead we get a staff which, imo, is a clunky weapon to use and, while effective, isn’t really fun. And we get glyphs, which ranks up with mantras as the worst skill type in game.

I really dont know what anet was thinking with Druid. But for me its garbage and simply doesn’t fit ranger. Glyphs are slow and clunky, and when I think ranger I don’t think “heal bot”. But apparently a-net does, so I’m now looking for another class to main.

Quit my ranger? Hell no, they are friggin beastly right now. I’ve never felt better about ranger than I do right now. Are you guys crazy?

Elite Specializations & Hero Point Feedback [Merged]

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I didn’t get my Ranger elite until I played it for many hours (when the game first came out). Why should it be any different for a different class?

Am I totally missing something?

Ranger returning, how's my build?

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Howdy peoples. I’ve had a ranger since launch, and I got away from it for a while because I was exploring other classes, but with the upcoming changes coming, I’ve decided to go back because it really is a blast to play. Here’s the build I’m currently running, and I’ve actually really liked it, but I wanted to get someone else’s opinion on it. I am mostly running some PvE and I will more than like change some stuff up when I go to WvW.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJATRjMqUyaDL+rw1ig9gadAUABcHWDs3t4IKZTLB-TBCBwAQ3fwoyvGXBAJPAQJIO1fAcIASpLIh5PA-e

My thoughts are that with steady focus, it’s a nice 5% boost to damage, and I try to keep it up as much as I can with natural vigor and primal reflexes. This is synergized (is that a word) nicely with the extra 5% damage I get on my longbow with Eagle Eye. Add 7% power with Strength of Spirit, and another 5% with bountiful hunter, and there’s extra damage coming from everywhere. Add in my sigils and stuff, and I feel like I really am maximizing my damage on my longbow/greatsword. I run with spiders so they can keep at a distance and get some good attacks in while ranged.

Thanks all!

Post a Screenshot of your Guardian

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Just hit 80 last night. Here’s my charr.

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Zerker guardian with staff

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I’m not asking pugs to play any way. They can play however the hell they want.

Zerker guardian with staff

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This elitist mentality is what bothers me most about this game. Seriously, if you have fun playing a certain class, with a certain weapon, then go for it. If synergy is soooo important to you elitist dungeon runners, whey the hell are you running with pugs in the first place. I paid just as much for this game as anyone else, and I’ll be sure to bring whatever the hell weapon I want.

Ranger Game Update Notes - October 15, 2013

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From reading the other boards, it seems like all the other classes are kitten ed off with their re-balance as well. Take it with a grain of salt. These aren’t the greatest changes for rangers, but don’t think that everyone else got this amazing patch, while we got shafted (yet again).

Any viable signet builds?

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Now that spirit builds are all but kaput, are there any legit signet builds out there??

Summary of "Clockwork Chaos"

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More whining ….

sigh

My Spirit Build

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So is this build using all Knight’s gear?

IMO this is another jumping puzzle.

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GW2 has to have the biggest community of whiners I’ve ever seen. No matter what forum I go to there are always babies crying about how awful this game is. For $60 there cannot possibly be a game out there with close to the content of this game.

Guild wars 2 content update

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This is my first mmo and I am thoroughly impresses by how this company treats its community. What a fantastic fun game they have put together. Cheers.