Guild Wars 2

It’s in the kitten name for crying out loud… RANGEr. Rangers should have greater range abilities, naturally, than any other class. As it is, we have to dedicate a lot to get that range as well as arrow speed. 2 separate traits needed to have something we should already have.

Is there a swing your weapon faster trait? No? Well, slower attacks then. Hold your shield tighter trait? No? Easier to bypass shield defenses. Learn to run with heavy armor trait? No? Run speed and gap closer range reduced by 25% and endurance recharges at -25%. (That would be two traits)

We get range and damage. Our job is to keep you away from us. Your job is to get to us. Every class has a way to do that, some have multiple. +300 is a joke. 1500 should be the base for the LB without the need for a trait slot.

Phew… it’s not just me.

Same problem here, the download is crap as well, the best I got was 128KB/sec and then it just drops to 0.0KB/ps and sits there. Just got a new PC so I am re-installing all my stuff. This is the only thing to give me any trouble.

Are the servers crapped out?

Fujiga.3928:

I love how the mass complains about getting easy/free gifts monthly and new content(even if it leaves some things to be desired)…criticism or under-developed opinions?

I have one. First, “easy/free” well – you get what you pay for, if you know what I mean. It’s ‘easy’ to make a million dollars: make one dollar (which is easy), now do that one million times.

The effigies are boring. The fireworks around LA you had to fire off are boring. The pinatas are boring. They are unimaginative and overly repetitive. The holograms are ok, the first 10 times, and then they are a grind, a long boring one.

Now if the numbers were cut in half (at least) it wouldn’t feel like a chore to accomplish them because, let’s face it, there is no challenge in any of the above mentioned ‘events’. The only sense of accomplishment is ’thank god that one is finally done!" That is not a good thing.

And no one is forcing me to do them but, these are still a one time event, so… I am gonna do what I want to do so I can get something I want. Thankfully I don’t want those ugly dragon wings…

I just wish they didn’t equate ‘new content’ with collecting 500 (or 100k) of something that is boring, repetitive, no challenge and just ridiculously time-consuming, oh… and not very fun.

Same here, won two in a row and no achievement.

the uprising.6317:

No they didn’t they said if you like mmo’s you will like GW2, this is most blatantly not the case. Again, casual gamer or gtfo, I don’t know how you guys don’t see this as “backward” elitism.

Ahh I see your problem.

You stopped listening to the manifesto after "if you like MMOs you will ike GW2’. You must have turned off the video at that point because they said, just after ‘if you don’t like MMOs you will really like GW2’. You see this implies that the game would not be a, dare I say, traditional, MMO where you keep chasing the proverbial carrot that is new gear, as is true in so many other MMOs.

It is implied, nay it is straight up stated, that being forced to grind for new and better gear was not their goal when making this game. That is why so many people were upset when Ascended Gear was introduced into the game, me being one of those people.

This game was not designed for ‘hardcore’ (read as: plays the game constantly and may take off work when new content is added) or ‘elite’ (read as: bases how awesome they are on how fast they can kill something in a game) type players. This game is not for those types of people. I mean, sure they will play it but they will get bored quickly, stop playing, come back when there is new content, beat it all in a day, two if they are sick or (god forbid) working and then complain about how there is no endgame. Lather rinse repeat.

Simply put, this game was designed with the casual player in mind and, the sooner you accept that, the better.

This Friday after reset was the first time I have ever experienced skill lag since the big PvE one time event just outside of LA. It was pretty bad for a while on Friday, skills appeared active for a while without doing anything. but on Saturday, I did not experience it.

Nope. Unicorn rainbow arrows do nothing for me. Daggers on my Asura would be nigh invisible as would the pistols. I think the pop gun sound would drive me insane after a bit as well.

Zero desire to make a legendary. Precursor = sell for gold.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Technically the tinfoil hat would view your character as a mount, so it’d be an easy way for us to get mounts in game.

We might even have concept art for it….

<-Troll.

WANT TINFOIL HAT!

Seriously? Seriously? Wow – the daily is crazy easy to accomplish. How much easier could it be?

New daily:
Kill 1 monster
Use a Waypoint
Jump
Move backwards
Take off a piece of armor and put it back on
Dance

How would that be? Wait,no that won’t work either, waypoints cost a few copper.

Paulytnz.7619:

:(

I guess the best we all can hope for is that sometime in the future Anet brings in a new item to the gem store that lets us un-soulbind items. Heck I would imagine you would pay a few bucks for that right now.

That would be a terrible idea. We can’t always protect people from stupid actions, eventually they just have to deal with it.

I have played the game to 80 on 4 characters and collected enough to craft exotics for all of them. Don’t care about legendary at this time, if it happens it happens.

Maybe playing and farming are different?

Legendary weapons are in the only thing you really need to farm items for it. Just through playing the game I collected enough stuff to craft exotics.

You are complaining about one set of items and having to farm for them. You are supposed to farm for the Legendary items, that is why they are Legendary.

We have:
Daily – Laurels
Monthly – Laurels
Daily PvP – PvP Reward
Monthly PvP – PvP Reward

We need:
Dungeon Daily – Dungeon Coins
Dungeon Monthly – Dungeon Coins
WvW Daily – Badges
WvW Monthly – Badges

Normal Daily and Monthly should be Open World.

Cactus.2710:

Dee Jay.2460:

What are you referring to? In what terms “make of break”?

Regarding progression, content or balance?

The OP hasn’t thought it out that far, and doesn’t really know. I’ve checked out a bunch of his previous postings and they mostly are just asking for better rewards to make WvW more “interesting”.

Yea – better rewards would be nice since there are no rewards for WvW. Badges? Don’t really need them anymore. Karma, don’t need that anymore. WvW is nothing but a massive zerg running all over the map capping and killing and being culled the whole time.

There is no reason to WvW right now as there is nothing to gain from it. If WvW was rewarding in some way, then sure, it would be worthwhile. Right now – not at all.

So yes, more/better rewards would make it more ‘interesting’, ‘fun’, and ‘rewarding’.

Is the upcoming WvW patch going to be a ’Make or Break" for you and GW2?

For me it is.

:)

No problem at all.

In order of questions… (well question marks)

Yes.
Yes.
No.
PvP stuff.
Better PvP gear and PvP rankings.

Warrior and Ranger are probably your best combinations.

The answer is yes to all your questions aside from the why level to 80 question.

As for that question, at level 80 you are more effective because you have level 80 gear.

No subscription – just play the game and decide for yourself.

Tell me, what’s the attraction to only fighting scripted mobs all the time?

Not an infraction. Think of it like a warning ticket from a police officer. You don’t have to go to court but, they keep a record of it anyway to use against you at a later time should you be bad again.

Only a WvW player makes plans to stay home on Friday night.

Once I saw the effects and the skin on the bows – I gave up on Legendary weapons completely.

Freaking rainbows and unicorns…

If you signed onto this game with those hopes in mind, you clearly bought the wrong game.

There are games like that out there, Lineage 2 for the fantasy minded and Eve Online for the sci-fi minded come to mind right off the bat.

Maybe you should be playing a game that is totally dungeon focused for the end game content. This is not that kind of game.

They think you are a bot who got stuck somewhere and are killing you repeatedly because of that.

Welcome to Tier 1 Blackgate! Looking forward to some fun fights.

p.s. When do you guys wanna 2v1 against JQ? They love that kinda ting.

The alternative to the current system exists in every other fantasy MMO out there. I used to DJ some time ago and patrons would come up to me for requests, “Can you play some Nine Inch Nails?”, “Sure, what song did you have in mind?”, “Can you play Closer?”, “I can but I won’t and here’s why. Every other club you go to will play that exact same NiN song every night, everyone else plays that same song. We’re not everyone else. I’ll play NiN for you, but it’s gonna be a different song.” It was, until I stopped doing it, the busiest club in the scene for 5 years.

GW2 is not every other MMO, stop trying to make it like every other MMO because that is what you are used to playing.

Don’t expect any new maps anytime soon. They said it takes months to make a new map and they haven’t started on any new ones. They are trying to fix the actual problems with WvW at this time.

Make it so that winning has an actual reward for the server – improved XP/Gold/Karma/Badges for the next week. Specifically something that only benefits those who are playing WvW and not those who don’t. It doesn’t benefit anyone who is somewhere other than a WvW BG. And the bonuses only come from WvW actions – JP’s don’t count.

No penalties for losing.

In General:

Remove JP and make native NPC animals click target only (not tab)/AOE as well

Auto loot bags

The ability to reposition siege equipment (all but trebs). Maybe a siege cart can be added and that is how siege equipment can be moved around. Up and down steps not possible. Build an arrow cart on a wall – it has to stay on the wall, etc., etc..

Because, in other games I have played, scammers would use this feature to avoid the community knowing who they were, that any name change also include an FKA list when you right click their name.

Bob
Formerly known as
Jim, that guy who scammed you out of something

ArtemisEntreri.4138:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fYAQNAoYVlUmKO3ey5E/5Ex2DfqTe6fgs6MoZLB;TIAg0CnA (copy and paste into browser)

Go full Beserker in everything. If you want a little more health put Beryl Orbs in armor but everything needs to be zerker.

I notice there are PvP Jewels in that build. Are you able to use them outside of PvP?

Nothing – the culling is all on Anet and how they handle parceling out the info to us.

How many kills do you have to own 8k in badges? Seriously curious because my badge drop rate is kittene.

I think they should remove all the NPC mobs from WvW, aside from the guards and merchants. Get rid of the animals or make them background noise you can’t target.

Aw man, the short bow has a freaking unicorn on it? The long bow has flowers? What’s with all the little kid/girly looking stuff on some of these weapons? I’m gonna be spilling (virtual) blood with these not spreading love and peace.

Can we have skin options that don’t take much after we craft a legendary that looks stupid?

kRiza krimos.1637:

This thread again!
Vanity costs deal with it.

This reply again!

Legendary weapons are not just vanity items anymore.
People seem to keep forgetting that little bit of information.

This is what Lindsey Murdock had to say on it:

You’ll also see more Legendary items in the future and an update to our existing Legendary weapons. Legendary items were always intended to be on par with other “best-in-slot” items. So fear not, all existing Legendary weapons, which are currently on par with Exotics, will be upgraded to be on par with Ascended weapons at the same time that we add Ascended weapons to the game. Thus Legendaries will remain “best-in-slot” items. All Legendary items going forward will be of Ascended power.

Now, as I, and I am sure many others, have no use for ascended weapons or armor at all, because we don’t do that Fractal crap, Legendary weapons are not just pretty weapons anymore but an actual tier that will get better and better over time thus making them the exact opposite of a vanity item.

While your video card definitely makes a difference, a lot of this game depends on your CPU as well. So if you have an awesome GPU with an not so great CPU, you will experience FPS issues.

Running an EVGA GTX560 SC with an Intel i5 3.0ghz Quad Core and 8g of RAM. I get 50-60FPS in PvE, 40-50 in WvW and it drops to the low 20’s during the worst of the fighting. This is with all graphics maxed out.

First off – why not just sell it and then buy a weapon you can use on your character?
Second – why are you crafting a legendary you can’t use?
Thirdly – Ranger uses short bow more than thief.

Magiofdeath.2745:

moirweyn.9872:

I managed to kill 5 people solo and escape a level 80 thief today in WvW.

All with my level 12 thief. Honestly, the only reason I got away from the other thief is because I was a thief.

You’re bumped to 80 though.

But I am using level 10 gear, only have the first tier of skills unlocked with only two trait points allotted and had only been playing the class for 2 days.

All that makes a huge difference and I still felt OP.

Yea, WM would pretty much Zerg in a circle on a map. No defending what they took, just take stuff and we would be right behind them taking it back.

Not to say the WM zerg was not impressive but, we just avoided it because we knew the strategy behind it. It was the same every time: Predictable.

I managed to kill 5 people solo and escape a level 80 thief today in WvW.

All with my level 12 thief. Honestly, the only reason I got away from the other thief is because I was a thief.

How about making it impossible to tab target the NPC animals that are far behind the PC players we try to target. Nothing worse than targeting a group of Minotaurs that are on the other side of the map instead of the person trying to kill you who is right in front of you.

Just remove them all.

The answer is:

Culling

There need to be better rewards for defending a base. I know, most of the time it’s just standing around (dancing) while you wait for someone to attack. If the rewards for doing that were better, people might actually do it. Everyone just wants to run with the zerg, get kills, points, badges, loot, karma and all that neat stuff.

As it stands now, when I do it, I sometimes fall asleep from boredom and lack of drops, loots, karma, points, badges and, what’s the word…. of yea, FUN.

Yay WvWvZzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Not only can a thief blow all their initiative, stealth up + heal + regen the initiative quickly, they can get away quickly, chase you down with ease and then kill you while invisible. Then, to add insult to injury, spike you while invisible as well.

In the next patch, culling won’t be fixed and thieves will get another set of buffs because, as long as there is a way to stop them, the class is underpowered.

That bites, I beat toypoc with three – i should have gotten the achievement retroactively.

Seriously, don’t care, got the title – I’m done with it.

That ET game on the Atari 2600 had no grind.

Primarily because no one could play that piece of crap for more than 5 minutes. I don’t think the people who made it knew what to do.

Zaith.9132:

I didn’t really like the skins to begin with though I thought some of the effects were pretty cool. I’ve been pooling my skill points and T6 mats.

I just sold all my mats.

The prestige of legendary weapons is now absolutely meaningless. It requires no hard work or luck at all – only pockets lined with gluttony.

I’m not saying you are this if you have one – I’m saying that with 4 legendaries on the trading post now, I will no longer think much of any character I see carrying one. It’s not your fault. The weapons just don’t mean anything anymore.

You do realize that Legendary gear will be more than just skins soon, right? They will scale to always be ‘best in game’ gear. When A-Net releases Ascended Gear 2.0, or whatever they will call it, your Legendary gear will step up to match it.