Guild Wars 2

Some of my favourite moments from this match up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sMPjgHW1hKM

The ranger has no aoe outside barrage. My ranger is completely useless even using full spirits — my pet has to sit besides me on the majority of 30+ zerg encounters. I don’t have any cleave as a condi spec.

Couldn’t you at least give Ricochet 1-2 stacks of bleed so My ranger has something to do in teamfights? I’ve got Bonfire and barrage with Sharpened Edges. That’s it.

The rest of the time, I’m throwing single target condi application projectiles that are bodyblocked in the zerg.

It’s such a kitten chore to play a Ranger in WvW compared to my ele or a proper melee class that can cleave melee effectively because 1/3 of my damage isn’t dead the moment we clash.

No, increasing pet HP by 250% will do nothing. The amount of damage a zerg puts out will kill a pet in no time even if it had 50k HP. The pet needs what allows people to operate in a zerg — AVOIDANCE AND BLOCKING/IMMUNITY. And not some 60 sec cd immunity.

WvW is all about melee cleaving and aoe. The Ranger has so little of it.

Or we could stop acting like kids on the forum and, you know, actually enjoy the game

Nemesys.7251:

30 enemy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_WNVyqSzGc&feature=youtu.be :/

sorry need to study more math

Looks like you can’t count.

P.S. love the “60+” part at the end, gave me a good laugh

jaimy.4108:

Shifty.3412:

Nemesys.7251:

less than the kittenblob of FSP who come for 16 of us.

It doesn’t matter, you run from everything anyway.

Dear Mr. Guildhopper, you are not even on the FSP server so please cry for attention on your own matchup section.

Lol guildhopper, i spent one night with your guild in which we spent about 4 hours running away from AM guilds who then when caught us, destroyed us, and the next 1 hour queueing, was there meant to be anything special about your guild again, apart from the forum crying?

As i know (XxX) never runs away from combat,so if Nem says you were 50 it is true.

Golem rushes of 30-50 golems shouldn’t be a thing

http://i.imgur.com/XK2HR6O.jpg

leadustin.1572:

Kaleygh.1524:

I wish Kodash would run in smaller groups, my bags are getting full all the time.
Their players are just as good as the mindless zerglings from blobbadon`s mouth.

Wooha Far Shiverkids and Crydara at it´s best. The high skilled small scale roamers at work. Rofl! Kodash – crush this loot bags!

Ah hey there sunshine, look who it is Abaddons Mush squishy as hell, win by numbers (sometimes), although painting by numbers is more your mentality. Little translation example of blobaddons map chat:

/Map: Quick everyone on me now!!!
/Map: 5 FSP building a ram at Durios!!!
/Map: Hurry up, we gotta move quick!!!
/Map: why do i only have 63 ppl on me? I need everyone now!!!
/Map: Ok lets move.
/Map: right lets give it to em
/Map: ok they’re dead, good job everyone, get your loot bags.
/dance
/jump
/cheer
/Map: Leave the ram, they may come back and we can hide around corner and do em again.

Go back to ur own thread Billy no mates, your server ain’t wanted anywhere, especially here. I’ve seen more organisation on the Teletubbies. Coming across your blob reminds me of the ending of the Benny Hill show loads of ppl chasing 1 guys across a map.

Two days into new matchup, finally vs servers close to us in rating, and I can see how much these 2 weeks vs Gandara helped my guild to improve. Once again, thank you TDA, XxX, JDGE, Dius, BT (sorry if I missed any) for all the fun fights – it definitely made us better team

@ KrisHQ:

You forgot to mention the 3-10 aurora randoms fighting alongside you… you forgot to mention the “nice” chitchat you initiated… you forgot to mention that you always waited for us to engage other groups before trying to snipe us… you forgot to mention that it was you who decided to engage us repeatedly (even after wiping seven times in a row)…

You get what you ask for, dude.

@ [team]:

You guys got balls and fought well, despite being outnumbered – respect!

Best regards

To the upleveled Far Shiverpeaks thief solo roaming around the southern area of Gandara Borderland about 30 minutes ago:

You didn’t know it, but my companion and I meant you no harm (he was the big, scary norn warrior, I was the engineer with the gas mask.) We were quite impressed with the way you handled yourself in what was probably the most lethal area you could have chosen to walk around.

When we were fighting those 3 Kodash thieves near the south camp, we temporarily lost track of one of them… only to find you swimming over their lifeless corpse. And when we were killing that necromancer, you made sure you had tagged him – getting perilously close to us in the process. You reminded us of an opportunistic predator following other, more dangerous predators, making sure to pick up any scraps they drop. And we thought that was awesome.

So kudos to you, man.

Nice matchup for change, but Kodash has to fight hard to come out of this matchup with a positive ranking and not loosing points by the end of the week. We really have to tick high most of times to accomplish that.

Who wins a match is of no interest anyway as points are calculated against the ranking of your opponent. FSP is also doing very well so far.

But starting weekend is always different then weekdays. We will see how it develops.

For the guys calling blobs. About 30 people in a group is just your basic prime time zerg. Everyone put up what they can at reset to check out the new opponents. Hardly blobby but laggy of course, even people trying to force it as usual.

Could been different on some maps though at certain times, but I didn’t see any huge blobs and did not run in one. Anyway blobby behaviour is to be expected at prime time on a weekend. I really hope we don’t get a blob fest during the week or I’m leveling another alt.

But good that no one is running a pure karma train putting everyone from their server just in one zerg. I am so sick of seeing 100+ people running autohit at you… It’s boring when playing against it and even more boring when doing it yourself.

Also there were some nice small group fights with some guilds from FSP. Hope to see more of these this week and hopefully some GvG as well.

Also looking forward to a possible comback from Gandara. I doubt you guys give up easily but fight harder when things are looking dark like we Kodashis do.

Also most guilds from Kodash should be open to GvG challenges and most people in late hours for 1v1 as well. Just let us know on the battlefield after a good fight.

One thing I have learnt in this game. I used to give way to server loyalty and server pride. I felt this underlying burn out constantly. Then I decided I was going to play for myself and play where I enjoyed and to forget server loyalty and server pride and I have never been happier in WvW.

Evening all.

First i just must say that you guys on ANet are doing a great work. Now to the topic:
Is it just me or do it feels like the hammer and warhorns designers need to get a bash? Nearly all the hammers in the game are small, thin and missing the lack of impact.
Seems like the designers dont like hammers.
We dident get a superhammer skin, the dragon jade skin doesent look like a hammer (more like a axe or something) and now with the new achivepoint skins the hammer is small and boring and looks more like a bigger mace and compare it to the greatsword and ppl starts to cry (forcing ppl to play with the GS just for the looks). Even the legendary Juggernaut looks more like a staff.
A hammer should be heavy and crush, slam and make a big impact on hit and not plow a small line in the ground where ppl can plant potatos :/

Cant you guys that designt hammers make them more like they should be…nearly all ive been talking to always get disappointed when you release a new hammer skin.
Its a 2-handed weapon that should be heavier then all the weapons in the game in my opinion.

And the warhorns…pleaze make them more desirable. The are so small, grey and boring.

Best regards Nico

DevonCarver.5370:

Just wanted to hop in and mention, again, that the AoE cap on player skills is a technical limitation. Were we to increase that, skill lag would get considerably worse.

Really….Worse…?

So instead of just taking 30 seconds to use an ability like now…the Anet servers would leave the building, get in the car, drive to my house, punt kick my dog, and punch me in the nuts?

Because i really can’t see how it can get much worse

Quarktastic.1027:

Well…this thread isn’t pointless at all.

So, how often do you rotate your tires?

I change my pets between every big fight

I’ll also votekick other rangers in teams when I see them only using Bear/Wrongbow
This doesn’t make me an elitist. The OP is right, It’s been almost a year now…. training wheels should have been off months ago…. This isn’t soccer.

Bear is only for people who’s keyboards didn’t come with an F3 button and some fluke in their copy of GW2 in Options wouldn’t allow them to remap to another key.

while this is a bit tongue and check I would like to seriously thank Abandons!

While fighting on EB Sunday night, I crashed due to the mega blob.

Said crash ended up putting me in queue, so I went to get a drink.

As I got to my kitchen I heard a noise outside, and when I checked I found a guy trying to cut my bike lock with a pair of bolt cutters.

After cursing at him he ran off.

But I am rather pleased that my bike was saved.

Thank you abandons mega blob! You saved my bike!

On the bright side they really can’t butcher the class anymore than they have.
lets look at the ranger class as it stands, It’s unwanted by anyone in Pve for anything, only one build was viable in PvP, and the class is pretty useless in WvW, I know of guilds that won’t allow Members to join with a ranger because they bring absolutely nothing to the guild.
My question to the Dev’s : "When you were children were you touched in bad places by men in the woods or were they carrying bows? is that where the hate is coming from ?

Morgenes.6985:

Yeah he’s like a chihuahua running after someone barking and trying to bite into the calves. And when you turn around and start to fight back he goes poof and waits till you turn around again. Nice watch dog you have there. xD

But ok he managed to kill some of us (including me s two times) and didn’t die, so good kd ratio.

I would like to start by saying, I am the thief that has been hunting you today. I would also like to say that the hunting will continue throughout the week to punish you for being the blobbers that you are. And I would like to close by saying that ofc I disappeared when 30 dudes turned around and came steam-rolling towards me, when you turned and fought as individuals we had fair fights and you died (as expected, blobbing means none of you or your guildies have any experience in small scale fights).

p.s. I bought more rams just for you XD

Ask them about what other nerf we should be expecting for rangers.

Just one: since the technology is there to split skills between game modes, why don’t the sPvP crowd get to enjoy its nerfs for itself?

I’m dead serious too. We are just not playing the same game. The whole 1v1 node bunker meta has no point in regards to random pve, dungeons or wvw. Balancing the skills for it has been and still is a predictable clusterkitten from update to update. It may even bad for the community feeling. Or am i alone in wanting to punch a sPvPer in the face after every ‘balance fix’?

Wilderness Survival
Selectable traits in this tree are fairly well balanced and offer good choice.

The minor grandmaster trait, however, is extremely situational. Keeping health above 90% is difficult and makes this trait apply for very little of the time that you are actually fighting. By comparison, 3 classes get 5% of toughness added to power, 1 gets 10% of healing added to power, 2 stack might for 15 seconds on commonly occurring actions (stealth and blocking), and the last one gets 10% extra damage when endurance is full – all are much less situational and much more controllable by the player.

Empathetic Bond is also underwhelming as a grandmaster option. 3 conditions removed every 10 seconds is very stingy for 30 points spent in a tree. By comparison, necros strip 3 conditions for killing a foe at adept level, thieves drop 1 condition every 3 seconds in stealth at adept level, Mesmer removes conditions with every torch skill use at master level. At grandmaster level, the elementalist removes a condition whenever applying regeneration – both to themselves and allies.

Suggestions:
*To make us different, swap minor grandmaster trait for a trait that applies fury on interrupt, or to fit us into the mold, give us 5% of toughness to power.

• Replace Empathetic Bond with something more group friendly… unfortunately removing a condition every time regeneration is applied is exactly the same as the elementalist, but that would play very well into Shout builds. Something with more group interaction and consistent application is warranted for something at the grandmaster level than 3 conditions every 10 seconds. As is, this belongs in a Master level at very highest.

Nature Magic:
The Spirit tree all needs to be re-thought and re-worked in conjunction to a new Spirit mechanic. Other than that, the changes included in the 6/25 patch were excellent.

Beastmastery:
I’m not going to tackle this tree at all because of my strong belief that pets are fundamentally a flawed system in their present state. If AI can be fixed and pets remain in their current form then this tree is probably close to perfect as it is. If they become something else or become optional then this tree requires re-work from the ground up centered around whatever the new direction is.

So that’s my take on what I’ve observed myself as well as what I’ve read from the feedback provided by many experienced rangers in the ranger forums here and on other sites.

I beg you to PLEASE listen to your community and do something to help us.

Healing Skills:

Personal healing is a strength of roamer Ranger builds, as well as the potential for area healing through Healing Spring. The addition of a condition removal/heal hybrid option as is present in other classes though would be very much welcomed.

Utility Skills:
Outside of Spirits (addressed above), very few utility skills are a source of angst among rangers. Fundamentally, though, there is one large overarching issue: Spirit skills are the only ones that interact with other people. Signets, Shouts and Survival skills are all directed only at the Ranger and its companion. This is potentially one of the reasons that Rangers are passed up in favor of other options in groups, because everything they do is self-centric and does not play well into the group dynamic. By adopting this design direction with the class, purposefully or inadvertently the Ranger is actually being put on an island and angled towards solo play. Analyzing the more popular classes, many utility and elite options are available to them that interact with allies. Even thief – the ultimate solo roamer – has options that allow for area stealth and removal of conditions from allies.

Shouts in general could need some alternate functions if the Pet system is altered in any way to make pets optional or replace them with a different alternative. If pets are kept in the game with the current AI, consider changing Guard specifically. In any other game that includes a pet system, this is a skill that comes innately to the function of having a pet. It is mildly insulting that a beastmaster type class lacks the ability to command a pet to guard an area without specifically loading a skill to do so. Going back to my dog as an example, I taught her to stay within the first 2 weeks of bringing her home as a puppy. I’m not some amazing outdoorsman, but I would expect that any pet I had trained for battle would do this without any special skill being needed. Aside from being an insult, this shout doesn’t provide any real direct benefit – except for its 100% uptime access to swiftness and regen traited after the 6/25 update – and should be included in basic pet controls. The shout itself needs to be replaced by something more useful.

Traps cooldown times are inconsistent. It’s a minor point, but it’s not something that makes much sense.

Elite Skills:
Entangle is an extremely useful skill, but there are some odd limitations. In order to receive its full effects, the one entangled has to be oblivious enough not to target and attack the roots that are trapping it. The fact that this works well on NPC’s is more of a testament to poor AI design of the NPC’s than the effectiveness of the skill. In PvP formats, the skill can work as a very short term root, but really only traps inexperienced players for the full duration. The root component should continue to be escapable by appropriate skills from the one trapped, but the ability to destroy the roots should be removed. It is, again, an unnecessary limitation imposed on the class.

Spirit of Nature suffers from the same limitations as other Spirits, and changes to this Spirit should reflect any changes made overall to the Spirit mechanic.