Guild Wars 2

im sick of this kitten too, and im a druid. bunker druids shooting lasers from a stick should have been made a completely different class. 90% of their abilities are healing. i refuse to play a laser shooting druid, i signed on this game to be a ranger w my bow, not a laser shooting druid shooting lasers from a kittening stick.

im a ranger. i refuse to be forced to relearn a totally different class to use a laser shooting stick and constantly heal, so i have only used some druid skills to enhance my bow. they should have given the dragonhunter bow skills to ranger. apparently anet wants rangers to all become bunker druids. i will quit before i do that. there was clearly not much forethought into these elite skills, as 3 of them are staffs. seriously anet, you couldnt have made one of them fist weapons? or psionic/mind spells weapons only with hands? or even ninja/karate skills?

the more i see about this game and how its being put together the less i want to play it. get your act together anet.

ArenaNet needs public test realms for this game. It’s really obvious that the things going into GW2 for at least WvW aren’t being tested by the right numbers of people, and several websites have shown that it’s only developers who are testing what gets released. Tons of garbage has been added to WvW that makes the fights so totally lopsided its unreal.

Most obvious is the insane amount of lag in big fights in WvW. I recently upgraded my internet from 12mbps to 45mbps and the fps after 4 years of this is STILL dropping to 1-3 fps. There is absolutely no excuse for this, and daily I’m seeing people give up and quit playing because that is their endgame and it has become too much to bear. There are other good quality free games out there that take care of their customer/players and those leaving know that. I think after this last quarter earnings ArenaNet should be getting their act together to keep regular players in game rather than being cheap and letting them go.

Now, this is under Bugs, because thats what it is. Arenanet constantly marks my account because some topics I post other things under have gray areas where they may or may not go, and I’m not sure, so instead of simply telling me/moving it and being nice about it, they get anal, mark my account and act like evil overlords unlike many other games.

But this is most definitely a bug. So I’m posting under ‘Bugs’, let’s make this crystal clear.

In WvW I constantly run into this problem w my ranger where npc’s, sometimes directly in front of me on flat ground, give me an ‘obstructed’ return and they take no damage, at all. This happens ALOT. Most times I’ve noticed at supply camps, but it happens at towers and pretty much everywhere else as well. Haven’t seen it happen so far w/ players, only npc’s. This is one of the most annoying bugs I’ve found yet.

Another one is the auto targeting. This is the worst I have ever seen in any game ever. It wasn’t even this bad at original release, but it’s steadily gotten worse the more that’s been added to the game. Perfect example; earlier tonight in WvW I had a player and 3 rams right in front of me maybe 15-20ft away near a tower gate. Instead of targeting the player or rams, the auto target chose to start firing at literally a 45 degree angle to my left AT A WALL.

This stuff is just getting way out of hand. Please fix it.

Took me a while to break down and get HoT. Here’s the intro vid Time For Bigger Prey… & link to the first of my Maguuma series. Enjoy.

12th Blood Legion Battalion

Hellcats Pt.1

The Primus Centurion discovers Flame Legion is going underground after his fahrar, and decides to give them barrels of their own medicine in World On Fire Pt. 1

World On Fire Pt. 2

World On Fire Pt. 3

12th Blood Legion Battalion

Another 12th Blood Legion Battalion entry...

The Kodan and Quaggan stop by the Citadel to lavish gifts on the Charr for Grimpaw’s help, while another Primus and Dinky fight adds to the festivities in between promotions.

Maniacal Apotheosis

A 12th Blood Legion Battalion Short Fiction

An unexpected attack brings young and old together in a massive fight at the Iron Legion center.

The Battle of the Black Citadel

2 years. 50+ posts. 20+ stories.

You will find no drama here, these are Charr. No love stories, no gossip, no crying, no political intrigue. Want to find out what a soldier is doing hiding in the Citadel? Go beat it out of him. Those are weaknesses, and there is no place for that in the Charr. Besides, the Primus Centurion won’t put up with it. Neither will I.

12th Blood Legion Battalion

The Primus Centurion:

Grew up in the fahrar never knowing his sire and little of his simba. Defended Dinky in a fight and became fast friends as cubs, fighting hard and playing hard. A few years before warband age nearly killed Dinky while firing an experimental gun he made from parts found around the war wagon prep deck, and was punished by Rytlock Brimstone himself, who saw it; the two have been trying to outdo each other with pranks ever since.

Engineer Grimpaw Grindgear:

Always punished for blowing holes in the fahrar wall just because he wanted to go out that way. Was transferred to the same fahrar as Grimcrotch and Dinky (when the ‘Terrible Two’ joined the Steelbane warband) because ‘if Primus Kurr can handle those two, he is the only chance we have against this cub.’ Used to gift dead rodents he killed to elders, unfortunately he used explosives so there wasn’t much meat, or anything, left.

Thief Rafka Firemane:

Smaller in stature like Legionnaire Dinky, was discovered by then Centurion Grimcrotch in his fahrar while on an educational visit by besting a larger male cub in a bare-paw fight; he never had a chance. Later was trained personally by the Centurion at a very young age with hatchets and axes.

Elemental Rathgaar Firemane:

Background is a bit of a mystery, but from what is known was kidnapped and raised by a flame legion shaman and taught the elemental ways. When old enough to know who he was, he killed his adopted flame legion sire and ran off to the Black Citadel. Was taken in by a gladium who taught him in the art of bare-paw and staff combat while continuing to hone his elemental skills.

Engineer Poppler Swizzlestix:

After winning a Snaff Prize for his Golem, became the first asura to win a second with his collaboration on the C.A.T. suit, a set of armor with a particle beam infused shield, with best friend Grimpaw Grindgear, a charr engineer**. Also co-created the particle beam hand cannon with his friend Grimpaw. Is the only creature in the history of Tyria to pull weapons on 19 charr soldiers all at once, and live.

Guardian ‘Lefty’ Ironpaw:

In and out of the fahrar, once killed a human and among his belongings found a cigar, which he took a liking to. Later was hired as a bouncer in Hero’s Canton canteen to keep him from drinking so much, but was fired for constantly breaking up fights by crushing jaws with one punch from his left paw, gaining him the nickname ‘Lefty’.

My own characters here, blended together with some of the personal story sidekicks such as Dinky and Clawspur, Elexus Shredskin, Fyon the Wraith, and of course Rytlock Brimstone along with Imperator Bangar Ruinbringer occasionally, make for some great drama-free action. The personality you hear and see around Black Citadel npc’s, silliness, absurdity, smart-aleckness, and just plain rump kicking tough Charr, is what you’ll find here.

And to back it up, many of the stories were inspired by some of the best heavy metal and rock ever made; you can also hear the very music that inspired those stories on the website and much more, so take a look around, it’s more than just a blog!

Apparently it wasnt bad enough that they gave base game to HoT purchasers, making vets pay the original $60 plus another $50 for HoT. But now since we had another eye free he felt the desire to jab it as well with making the base game absolutely free, to everyone.

I’d gladly take limited chat and limited bag slots for free on just one toon until lvl 80, then pay only $50 for HoT and have full game open up. I know thats not how it works, but if you have a brain you know what I’m talking about.

So again, us vets appreciate that, Mikey.

most mmo xpacs give you huge maps, and things to do. anet tries to make you think a free toon slot for a new class is something to behold, when other mmo xpacs give those to you FREE.

and this xpac only opens up 3 areas in maguuma, out of the HUGE tyrian world atlas. this maguuma isnt even maps, it is areas because they are much smaller, like dry top.

and after leaving the broken personal stories to linger rotting like no one cares abt the game for nearly 3yrs, wtf makes you think this game/xpac is worth even $20, let alone $50….?

Here’s one thing; I’m not huge on fishing in games, I rarely did in others. But you wanna be unique, right? Give everyone fishing, and give the charr the unique ability to simply wade into shallow water and scoop up fish with their claws instead of a lame pole….? I would fish every day I guarantee with all 5 of my charr if you gave us that ability, that’d be awesome.

Ask yourself: “How can I make this content better?"
Consider: How have you seen this particular problem solved in other games?
Consider: How do you think this particular element or aspect of the game could be improved?

in other words, do their job for them instead of making them go to that particular trouble spot, play the game there themselves so they actually experience the problem, THEN come up with a solution.

there are problems we have reported over and over and over and… since release, and they continually get ignored. you have the lists here in the forums and elsewhere, im not going to point them out for you.

but here is one problem i will help you with; in these forums, you always try to push people into either fixing a problem themselves with a workaround so you dont have to do anything, or you just ignore them. how about, as i said, you go in game to experience most of these problems yourself, see how annoying and frustrating they are, then youll find out why so many people are quitting because you simply try to push the fix onto the players instead of doing your jobs.

so its not a matter of giving good feedback, its a matter of your ‘selective reading’. ya, that is a thing.

just got the wvw tix update today for the weapons. you shorted me 150 tickets. i had 500 tix at end of the season, they sat in my bags this whole time. now that you patched this, those 500 i had are now voided, and you replaced them with 350 tix and the lame TEMPORARY finisher. as if its too much for us to be just given one that works all the time for doing 9 weeks of that garbage. GIVE ME THE REST OF MY TIX SO I CAN GET WHAT I HAVE COMING AND TELL YOU TO SHOVE THIS GAME PLS.

obastable.5231:

the tournament itself was the main part. the reward was simply a means to get people to spend gems on transfers.

and by more meaningful crusades i’m pretty sure narsilik wasn’t referring to anything at all in a video game.

why would someone spend money on gems to xfer for a wvw weapon skin they cant get if they xfer mid tourney season? and if you xfer after its over, you dont get rewards from a server you xferred to, you get the same ones from the server you were on during the season. this post makes absolutely no sense.

so no, i highly doubt this mess is because anet was trying to get anyone to spend gems on something that wouldnt happen anyway.

this is pretty annoying, they have had almost 2yrs to work on this and probably longer, since im sure they had some way to do this set up pre-launch. but instead, they have been busy doing unneeded cosmetic stuff like the pictures in weapon descriptions.

this game has gotten so god-awfully boring after our guilds hijacked the wvw season and bought the T1 JQ win, that no one even goes to the maps any more, so the one thing left for me to do is no longer.

just biding my time until a different game worth getting comes along.

i have all woods from level 1 – 80 in the personal bank, you know how you clear your bags it goes to collectibles as it always has. so they arent in my guild bank. and i am huntsman level 113, but when i go to the huntsman station no wood shows up for me to use any more. it has been like this for at least a cpl patches, i didnt pay much attention til now. but now its kind of annoying that i gather this stuff and my banks are filling up cuz i cant use the wood. any ideas?

note: its not because i ran out of recipes or something, i have plenty of those. its just like i have zero wood when i can see that i have plenty. never had a problem up til now, so its not like i dont know how to do this.

Only a REAL WvW player would see that this buying off other servers in order to attempt advancing in the season by double teaming will come back and bite you in the fattest part of your backside.

Try to do the usual signing on, bring up the launcher and……..nothing. The launcher shows, Guild Wars 2 shows, downloading at zero (zero kb/sec). Have a bare white launcher w no personal info to load, no start button, nothing dloading. Leave it open, nothing changes. Cannot close the launcher by clicking x in upper right, have to use Task Manager to force the launcher to close.

Who does major changes like this mid – WvW season?

i can only get the launcher to show up, it doesnt load my info to enter, there is no start button……other than the basic white screen w the woman on it the launcher simply refuses to work. cant even get on the game to complain about everything else.

and it wont let me exit the window. i have to use task manager to force it to shut down.

what morons do this stuff mid – WvW season?

yep. im there too. its happening under the umber supply camp from there to the bravost sentry, and from danelon supply camp to quentin lake tower

the only people who ever use the spirits are spvp players.

so pretty much the changes made to ranger that were effective are….ZERO. AGAIN. i think ive seen maybe 5 people, since beta, that ever use the spirits; no one cares about healing, give us something better to kill with kitten .

give me an equivalent ability to say guardian hammer, or thief backstab, that can gank you and have you down or dead in 3secs like them, and i will be happy.

could have kept the pet health bar off the abilities too, no point in it since i dont spvp or care about the worthless pets. we get ganked of too many abilities having this worthless pet, it does nothing for anyone, especially rangers.

time to put this ranger back in the closet, clearly anet has no clue how to create a ranged class. unfortunate, since mine was my main.

so its ok in spvp to jack up pet health in spvp but not to leave it any other time, or even bump up the health of the player to compensate for that in wvw? thats bogus.

and anyone who wvw’s would find that very reasonable. tired of rangers getting ganked by anet.

ELement.5647:

Usually caused by slow PCs and loads,.

wrong.

happens to me all the time the last month or so, never did it previously. it has nothing to do with my pc and i doubt it is because of your pc as well. this pc works perfectly fine, and in fact i have the graphics so low on this game, and the firewall set for gaming to eliminate unnecessary programs as i play, that if i tweak it any lower this game will look like the atari tank battle squares. fix this garbage anet.

pretty much everyone has run into this at some point in the game.

you need better gear, find a heart that matches your desired level for karma gear (say 51), but when you get there and finish the task you find the gear that person holds is not level 51 gear, its 52. or even 53. ive run into 2 of the hearts on at least one map that are like this. and no, im not going to say what map, im not getting paid by Anet to find these things for them. if they are doing their job correctly, they have a list of every heart/karma vendor on every map, and can look at each individual vendor to see what they have. and when they do that, they will see whats wrong, and fix it accordingly.

another thing along these lines i have found is the stats on different gear levels. i have also found on several maps that, say a level 26 heart, has one strength of stats (green or blue, doesnt matter the exact stat, its the stat strength)….but as you level to, say 30, you can get to a heart just to find that the exact same (green or blue) level 30 gear has the exact same stat strength as a level 26. what sense does this make? so some people may take the gear becaue its closer to their level, but it doesnt help any more than the old level 26 gear you had.

this is just basic stuff, Anet. everyone here likes this game, but when we do more than our fair share of pointing out flaws/bugs like this and get completely ignored, it gets frustrating, leading people to just up and quit playing it knowing that this is just another corporate front and its pointless to even say anything, even tho the players who are here every day deal with this stuff constantly.

i dont care abt the movement, pets in general, ALL of them, are so weak they are pretty well worthless, and those control slots we have for them should be better used by something that is actually effective. as is, we rangers have NO working slots in our pet bar (the one for pet skill is extremely weak), NO ability to kill anyone or anything outside of pve, and absolutely NO graphics oooo’s and aaaaa’s like flaming arrows, or a lightning shot. NOTHING. ranger have been completely ganked in this game, and im getting close to being done with it. this is not like wow where i have 4yrs into it and go back once in a while for the investment. this game can be fun, but what little fun is to be had w an 80 ranger is disappearing fast.

its a water weapon who cares

very first toon i made was a blood legion ranger, did personal story story blah blah. had a few missions in other characters PS be the same for other toons, but it wasnt for the entire personal story, was only for one or two missions.

four toons later, i do another charr, an ash legion elemental. story was completely dif at beginning, then at one point i get sent to black citadel to speak with rytlock brimstone after saving the ash legion tribune around level 20-25ish. suddenly my story gets handed over to brimstone again. but for the ENTIRE REST OF MY ASH LEGION STORY I HAVE TO DO THE EXACT SAME BLOOD LEGION PERSONAL STORY QUESTS I ALREADY DID FOR MY BLOOD LEGION RANGER OVER 1YR AGO.

what the hell Anet, you guys too lazy to come up with something original for each charr legion? cuz this is boring, and i really dont feel like doing this AGAIN.

and you wonder why people are saying they are or have been bored with this game. i completely agree.

all ive noticed is Anet seems to have put every effort into the launch of this game and did absolutely no thinking as far as long term. after release, all we have seen is temporary events/dungeons. i saw the potential and jumped on it, now unfortunately the effort put into launch is seriously lacking 1yr later.

and now, from what i see in these forums, they still dont know what to do so, instead of reading the forums LIKE THEY SAY THEY DO to get ideas, they have created a thread specifically for living world ideas. since apparently they have run out of them.

So many things, where to start. Guess this time I’ll point out the wacked living world things I keep running into.

I posted this once, don’t remember where. All of these things tie in together to make for a more complete immersion in the game.

We need more hearts on these maps, especially since all events cannot be soloed. Some I understand; champs etc. shouldn’t be changed, but most others need to be. But we wouldn’t need more hearts if most events were scaled down or up to the number of players involved. Unlike what Anet apparently assumed, going with their idea to make this a more social game, all maps are not full of people to readily do them at all hours of the day or night, and even when they are fairly busy that doesn’t mean everyone will be happy to join your call for help with some. And the lack of ability to complete some events in some maps forces players to move on to a different map, breaking the story immersion and turning the game into simply a grindfest to get to max level and to hell with the story.

Adding more hearts isn’t a bad thing. If you don’t need them you will move on; and it encourages people, in the future, to roll more toons and go through the same maps they’ve already done, knowing there are more hearts they did not do before, keeping things a bit more fresh. And helps to keep people more interested in the story.

One answer: more hearts and/or scaled events will help allow people to level more easily on a particular map, letting them continue the story in that area.

On my first toon (charr), I didn’t even know there was access to the other charr ancestral territories because (my toon) is Blood Legion, and my BL charr ranger has no reason to go to Divinity’s Reach, let alone know to use the portal there to go to Ebonhawke. So besides the fact that that particular missing bit of info kept me from completing map completion, it made leveling that much harder thinking I was limited to what maps I knew of. Over one year later, as I rolled a different toon, I made one that just happened to take me there and it opened up 4 more maps for me. What sense does that make?

And fix the hearts you already have. So many times I am desperately needing newer gear, and I complete a heart hoping I can get something I need, just to find the heart I completed (say, level 27), has level 28 gear or goodies I can’t even use. There are even a few I found that have gear at LOWER levels than what we need.

And I deliberately did not add any particular maps or hearts where these things are happening. If Anet is doing their job they will know where these things are at by keeping a list of every vendor (karma or other) on every map, and every event, and will change them accordingly. They don’t pay me to point them out; in fact I have been paying them.

And please remove the stupid pve stuff from WvW; not only is it irritating as hell, but it keeps queues insanely too long and prevents people, like myself, from caring about wvw after we sit in an EB queue for FOUR HOURS.

how about throwing in some oooo’s and aaaah’s for us rangers like everyone else has. rangers have nothing cool looking like flaming arrows or a lightning shot, or a burning bow when we gain fury etc. all we have is the boring pewpew white line as the arrow goes flying, and a weak pet that can heal allies BUT NOT OURSELVES when we are downed, which doesnt even make sense.

i have seen several tweaks to other players in this regard but i have never EVER seen anything for rangers since this game started. which leads me to believe a dev or two working on this doesnt like rangers and wants to leave them as lame as possible.

and if this dec 10th ranger update turns out like the so-called ‘big one’ for rangers a year ago, ill go find something else to do, because that will prove to me your devs truly do not listen to your players.

im kind of curious as to what caused your dev last year to say ‘rangers dont need a buff’, yet suddenly it looks here like theres a halfway decent one coming dec 10th. LATE, but coming.

I dont see how this season can even count with the number of times people have simply given up and moved on to other things after a 90min-5hr + queue time for EVERY BG. typically BL are shorter, but many times i have waited for them averaging 90mins, usually 1hr. I personally have had 4 5hr + EB queues; they have averaged 3hrs for me, 2 or 3 times i have gotten lucky with 90min ones. and one time, between the EU/NA prime time zones i got into EB after about 15mins.

seriously, you cant possibly think this season should count after this garbage. so many times the good/regular players like myself were queue’d for several hrs, just to get tired of waiting and logged off. and if the only reply you give to that is ‘oh well’ or ‘better luck next time’, your game devs and priorities are seriously wacked., and you need to be fired.

Short fiction. Follow for more. Enjoy

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This is the ultimate charr ranger look. Period.

I took a few months off; when i come back there are so many new toys n gadgets (all fluff) that i could care less about, along with so many world events i cant keep up with or have no idea whats going on. i dont want minis, i dont want boxes o fun, dont want all this garbage that has overflowed my bank yet i dont want to get rid of in case someone there has a brainfart n decides to use it to make something….

first – stop w the wizbang toy ooooo’s and aaaaah’s, and the limited use dusts to make stuff. i dunno who came up w that idea but wow that was not a good one.

pve – add a few more hearts on every map. there are so few of them that many times when youre leveling, the next nearest heart to you on your current map is one or two levels above you, which would be ok except for the fact that you need more gear. i even found at least 2 maps that skip a level heart entirely, forcing you to go to a dif map anyway.

and most events are designed for groups of people, but many times its impossible to find a group to help you do that event so you can get to that next level or two heart for gear, forcing you to change maps and breaking the storyline. outside of the PS theres not much of one anyway, which stinks. i mean, even if you have to scale back the amount of exp we get with each heart/event that would be ok, just add more depth to the pve world.

example: when i leveled my charr guardian i tried to do all of the charr homeland before i moved on, to keep up with what was going on in the area. since im, you know, charr. but i couldnt, not enough hearts, and dont think i found one group to do any events there. so i was forced to move on from the charr homeland to the norn snow, then went bouncing around between several different maps looking for hearts i could do. and thats where the game became just another grind to get to 80. so freaking boring and not what i wanted to do.

events – scale the events to the number of people involved. regardless of your grand vision of this being an interactive social game, every map doesnt have blobs of people running around ready to take on everything at every hour. and even when there are lots of people on a map they dont necessarily want to help you.

key to these are to add more hearts first; when you do that, you give players incentive to make another toon and come back to that same map and level with it. doesnt need to be a lot on each map, maybe 2 or 3. but as is, there are some maps (like diessa plateau) i dont like, tho i want to like it because its a charr area, because i can rarely find many doable events for lack of group, and with no doable events you cant level to do the next heart for the gear you need. see the process here? theres a lack of something. which ive already mentioned.

i personally dont care about the world events. i have only done a few, and didnt really want to do them then but thought i would for crits n giggles. and many of the holiday events i simply wont do, because in the first year most of them were so buggy or time limited that they either just werent fun or i couldnt do them. and theres nothing more than toys or other garbage i cant or wont use as rewards, so it doesnt even make them worth the time.

just looks to me like this game, on release, was fine for the moment, but there was no long term planning done. everything since last winter has been done on the fly, within a few months of releasing it into the game. and just dumping tons of toys and garbage into it isnt going to distract people from the lack of actual game content.

including the ‘new map’ coming up for wvw, which will be nothing more than an attempt to distract people from the fact that its taking them 90mins-3hrs or more in queue to get into a bg they want to go to. and, from what i understand, wont even count towards your world’s score. lame. then after the 3hr queue all you have done is entered a really bad lagfest.

you seriously need to upgrade your current servers or buy new ones to stop this , these queue times and the lag are driving people with maxxed characters away.

my whole game breaks down in wvw. absolutely nothing works in big fights, and all i can hope to do is win the battle so i can get credit for ANYTHING. every fight in wvw has been nothing but a lag fest that just got worse x3 after this season. que just to get in the kitten bg averages 90mins-3hrs EVERY DAY. then after that wait, you get there and within 20mins leave, because every fight is a giant battle going by in full 5sec still screenshots of you attempting to move your cursor while spamming the kitten out of your abilities that you already know wont work. and this is not my ‘losing packets’, my pc and connection have been fine since i got this game.

quit being cheap and just buy better servers, anet, kitten .

i would, but why would that start happening a cpl hours AFTER i had already put it on? i was in and ran around wvw for that time before it happened, with those marks not showing at all.

and why should i be forced to PURCHASE some stupid makeover kit just to make my gear not glitchy? that would kind of defeat the purpose of allowing us to create our characters how we want them before the game even begins. this has nothing to do with my toon and the way i made it, this is all on GW2. i have no problem spending money on things i want or need, but i will not spend money to fix this, they should have taken my charr’s big mouth into consideration when creating this gear. and if their answer is what you suggest, i will expect a refund of the gems i purchased to get this gear skin.

A couple hours after I got this skin set, out of nowhere these 4 white marks showed up on the face of it. It’s not the light reflection, can’t change colors n fix it, cant log or completely sign off and fix it, nothing works. It is a graphics glitch. Help.

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same here. made mine aug 25th 2012….3 days later, nothing

Are we ever gonna get new PERMANENT content, or you just going to keep doing things like these temporary 500mb patches, and nearly endless promo of sPvP that not many even like? I would make another toon, but with the 2 80s i have i was running out of hearts constantly after level 30, and i wont make another until we get more quests, because that sucks. There is more than enough room on every map for a ton of quests, and we already have to walk everywhere or (if we can afford it) use wp.

I’m not a fan of being forced to group with either a guild or even a random group to do normal leveling. I’m just here to play a game, not hang out and chat and make friends. While some groups are necessary for some events and i understand that, pretty much everything the devs do now is forcing people to group to kill some big baddie (if it’s not the cash shop stuff)……and that’s it. But that’s also if these events even work. I’m still irked about last fall’s 3 day Halloween event. On my server for the first 2 days it was bugged and no one could do it, then on the last day it finally worked but i didn’t have time, so i had to skip it. You said you had years of content, just didn’t tell us it was all TEMPORARY.

One of the biggest problems seems to be getting karma gear in the 70-80 zones. Many of the places to get this gear are only accessible by beating a major boss, and some of these are ridiculously hard no matter what the number of people attempting it (and gets harder with the rise in numbers fighting it), so no one does them. I have been waiting to get 1 (one) piece of gear from the ‘of the soldier’ group of southern Cursed Shore for nearly a month. I was in groups that tried it 6x, and failed. I won’t do it again, so that level 80 i need it for doesn’t get played. And every day i log on i go right to that toon to check the map, and no one ever captures that point. Enough guildies won’t go there just to help, and probably fail several times, one person get a piece of gear, so it’s pointless asking them. So i log n get on my main to WvW because theres nothing else to do, or i go do something irl.

Just give us some new PERMANENT content. Never thought this game would get so boring so fast.

worst experience was posting a typical game complaint here, no swearing, no names, a generally neutral attitude, about a very common problem many many people have, and on which many people have posted here before.

got banned. sent in a tix asking why i was banned from forums for posting a simple complaint, was told ‘youre not banned from forum’, so went back, sure enough they removed the ban. anet failed to inform me, however, that they had added one disciplinary point to my account. for, according to them, ‘not being banned’.

month or so later got loaded in wvw, some troll started doing what they do best, next thing i know i get a 3 day suspension for language. fine, i understand. i send in a tix asking why i got 3 days instead of the typical 12hrs/1day for first offense; this is where i find out i had the one disciplinary point on my acct already, and now had another added to that for this. they dont send a notice to the person who reports someone for language that there is a language filter on their chat and that anet encourages them to use it (which would save them from dealing with many complaints about that).

so if ive done something wrong, like the language thing, i have absolutely no problem with any type of discipline, in which case id have it coming. but just remember this:

when you get disciplined for any reason, doesnt matter if you actually do anything or not, and even if they withdraw what they did then claim it never happened in the first place like these tools did with me, you will still have that point on your acct. so unless you dont care about the $60+ you spent on this game, keep that in mind.

there is NOTHING being added to this game. holiday stuff that was so buggy i couldnt do any of them from halloween thru x-mas, an event area for 80s that is devoid of anything but npc’s, was used one time for one event. and even if they do decide to use it again, unless they add hearts and make it a ‘legit’ questing area with an event or two, who wants to do that in the same area, again, just to leave it unused? a one time event where everyone goes to kill something then never goes there again for another 6mos/year? thats not an event, thats boring. other than that, its puzzles, or some fun box thing, or the latest rhytlock pet side scrolling thing, whatever that is. five people play spvp but they come out with an entire patch with 90% stuff for them. couldnt add more pve events or hearts, though, for the majority of us.

i recall reading several times that anet said they had ‘years of content’…. if this is the type of content they have planned for years to come, id rather play Monkey Quest with my nephew. its a side scrolling rpg/quester with gear upgrades, crafting and pvp, and dont think ive run into any bugs yet.

no tnx krosslite. you dont work for anet, i dont know you, and i dont take too kindly to people like any other nub who decide their 2 cents is really worth a quarter.

Direngrey.8376:

Despite what some people are saying about Rangers, ignore them. Rangers are an amazing class, only elitists will tell you that they are bad because they themselves prefer full zerker gear war.

I’d go with ranger. Because they have excellent mobility. Excellent range. A pet that can revive them, and melee is amazing.

pet healing ability is no guarantee the pet will go to you to heal if you need it when there are a dozen allies around you who need it as well. its pretty worthless in wvw.

what is needed for a ranger pet extra is the ability of the pet to revive their owners, instead of just running over to them and standing on top of them like a useless idiot.

how about firing a good 1/3 of the dev staff for shoddy design.

i rarely play gw2 any more, but in wvw i play(ed) music to keep me pumped:

Firewind
Dream Evil
Clutch
Alejandro Silva
Black Label Society
Dio
David Valdes
Dream Theatre
….and the list goes on.

Got bored with pvp maps faster than wvw, and wvw is 2 maps; one really. Only real dif between BL and EB is one has a lake in mid and one has a castle.

Where’s the REAL content GW2? If I wanted to do puzzles, kid games and wear costumes I’d play Monkey Quest w/ my nephew!

wrong. this game has many of the old rpg devs from wow, yet it being new makes it buggier than anything. because anet is more concerned with cosmetics than actual smooth gameplay. same with last 2 ‘holiday’ type events, halloween and this lost isles thing. i never got to do the mad king dungeon cuz it was bugged the entire time, same with lost isles noll npc, so i gave up. i would be embarrassed to invite a friend to play this crap, telling them ‘this game is awesome’ or something….not happening. the 80 area is continuously bugged, ALWAYS. they may fix it, for a day. then it goes back to usual, then doesnt get fixed for a week if we’re lucky. my server has had the same 3 teams in wvw to fight for 3 weeks now…..thought there was gonna be some variety in this garbage. a new corner to fight out of, yay. and i heard somewhere that josh/jon peters something was giving us ‘substantial’ updates to rangers….just to find out it buffed one underwater shot. as if anyone even likes or cares about anything underwater. come on man, stop keeping rangers the laughing stock of dps, and knock off these 1 and 2 shot kills against us from these other toons, thats where the BALANCE comes in. my build is prime and i have all exotics…that doesnt stop thiefs from staying completely invisible and ganking me 2 shot when i never see what hit me…. this is crap man.

on the flip side, ive been on mop since release. was sposed to be a ‘thrall attacks theramore’ event before release, i dont see anything dif w theramore. mop seems ok til kun lai, then the bugs start in from the rts devs wow has instead of experienced rpg ones they fired that moved to anet. after kun lai mop is buggier than all get out. im having same probs as bad as gw2, minus the bots. only dif is, i said i wasnt going back to wow; reasons i did, i dont get one or two shot in pvp, balance is restored there w/ my main, and devs dont tell us they are going to do things there that they end up not doing i.e. ‘substantial updates’ with rangers in gw2. and i missed my bear Kee, he’s been my buddy for 2 1/2yrs.

seriously man, bump up this health for everyone and make things a fight. my class isnt the only one tired of unbalance here.

ok fine whatever dont care

wheres the 1. TEETH or PUNCH in the bow shots. or the 2. CAMOUFLAGE STEALTH a person with nature should have, or the 3. PETS HEALING US when we are down instead of just running over to stand on us…..just basic improvements, man? you got all this cool stuff for other classes and rangers have DIK. i quit WoW 6mos ago because of the trashed talent tree that my 5yr old nephew can play now, but if this is the garbage im gonna be stuck with in this game for this class, im considering going back to my tauren hunter. i dont like that, but i think i would prefer paying for that, rather than getting the crap beat out of me on a shoddy toon and never having any currency from constant repairs. it certainly wouldnt force me to spend real money on anything. cant believe i actually thought i might consider paying a sub for this gw2 at one time. unfreakinbelieveablely lame anet.

this isnt like we have 15-20 different choices to cycle thru when we are bouncing around deciding on the fly w/ other games, you gave us like 10-12. i can deal with that. but i wouldnt even choose these if i did have up to 20, my mounts would fill up these spaces on my hotbars.

if you had forbidden rangers from playing wvw, i would understand, because in pve you dont really notice how god-awful they are as much. only in wvw/pvp does the really glaringly bad/lack of abilities in this class shine through.