Guild Wars 2

Ok, now I had a fully geared 80 mesmer, a nice geared 80 warrior, a fully geared 80 ranger, and a 20 thief. Currently working on thief, future guardian and ele.

For dungeons, I have carefully observed the group contribution of ranger, mesmer, and warrior. With a full zerker build, mesmer(sword/focus) and warrior(gs) deal the most damage, provide great group buff, and have decent survival chance as glassy cannons. Ranger, however, sucks so much because not only feline dies really quick but also the cooldowns on survival skills are just too long. Ramage As One is on of the best dps elite skill(same level as warrior’s elite signet) but there will be no significant damage bonus if my pet is down and swapping pet is on cooldown. With support build, warrior gives decent buffs(banners and shouts) and combo fields(longbow), mesmer apply too many buffs/debuffs(staff) and group ultility(time warp, illusion of life, null field, and feedback that allows me to solo TA spider boss), and ranger… I can’t really think about anything =/ Spirit? Yeah I was on full spirit build for a week and none of my spirit will last more than 30 seconds—even if I placed them properly. No need to mention I have to hide my pet in case it will go aggro some nasty creeps because of its weird movement. So why should I use my ranger on dungeon runs for both my pleasure and my group’s effectiveness?

For PvP, I usually use my mesmer(staff with prec/tough/condi), guardian(healing and condition), warrior(quickness 100b), and thief(dagger storm+stealth skills). I could easily kill any ranger that is the same PvP level as me, and may need to suffer a bit if they are like lvl 40 in PvP(but not often since I believe only few people will use ranger when they are above lvl 20 in PvP. They will usually use warrior, thief, and ele imo). I do use my ranger sometime and found ranger is extremely effective against toughness build engineer, but thats all. Most of the time I will be kitten by mainstream classes(yes, I know how to dodge and when to dodge and what to dodge). One thing I find very interesting is that ranger players usually have some bad temper: /laugh after they killed you or shout out when I continuously quickly kill them for a period of time. So why should I use my ranger not only because the ranger community sucks in some way but also I am getting much better result from other professions? Though I quit PvP like 2 weeks ago cause I don’t like bragging on how many ppl I have killed and how I could “possibly” win the duel between you and me, but on how many ppl I have helped(Queensdale and answering whatever questions or helping skillpoints/heart/vista is what I am talking about).

As for general PvE, this is the only area I like to use my ranger but only on specific tasks like: gathering, getting skillpoints that are heavily guarded, and roaming. I was using my ranger solo farming orr(cause I wasn’t able to tag anything with zerg) till I found out that my warrior could tag almost everything even with a huge zerg(much more effective). So I will use ranger a little bit but thats it.

When come to WvW, I didn’t even touch my ranger after they patch the Guard skill. Thief can eliminate reinforcement, mesmer can do ninja portal, and warrior can mess with anything. Ranger? Heck no.

I believe that some ppl are in love with their ranger no matter how bad the profession is—even defending it by saying they can play it well but I cannot. Please think about you group, you guild, and you server: What advantage have you brought as a ranger? Will the advantage be more significant if you are playing another profession? It is good for you to have some different opinion, but I love my group, my guild, and my server so I want to be more than a ranger.

to be fair, there is some difference beetween answering a question a million times/ reading the forums so much that your work is slowed down and not posting in 4 months.

Personally, i dont expect dev interaction, where community ideas or future balance changes are openly discussed with their community… thats just not going to happen.
What i would like, is a simple, honest, blunt one-liner, taking 10 seconds of their time, even a “ranger is fine, there are no reworks scheduled in the next month” would be great.

Working on equipping a char with full ascended, utility infusions , legendaries, raising fractal rank etc is a long term investment, and ‘d like to know if i’m wasting my time. That feeling , every month, waiting with excitement for the patch notes, speculating, and then finally scrolling down to the ranger section just to discover things only got worse – thats what kills me

I want to thank lag today for being a fierce opponent. Also a nudge towards culling. You must have been recruiting. Saw alot of you today. Anyway. Lag and culling shouldnt have to team up. You are good each on your own. Also want to thank blob and blob for good fights today. And blob! kitten Hit like a truck. To the other blob and blob that was together. Good fights. Blob and blob seriously though, some amazing fights at the bridge there. And to blob. See you tomorrow

If a cliff can do this to an OP thief, just imagine what it can do to you.

http://youtu.be/OX3OQImYGag

Things you need to know about cliffs:

1. They are immune to conditions.
2. They are immune to direct damage.
3. They are immune to all CC.
4. They can and will one shot you.

Geez… people these days love to complain about everything.

Solution: Improve your multi-task skill. Pick up those loots while battling the enemies.
It’s really not that hard to do.

I have no problem picking up my trail of loots during battle while I’m attacking enemies at the same time, as long as my bag is not full.

Otherwise, just ignore the loots completely if you’re so into killing the enemies. Easy.

Don’t forget out the incredible Icon change for the birds. I got so excited when i heard about it.

And Jon is not going to come as he has nothing to say about the at least 10 serious issues that shout for fixes and still nothing happened.

One thing needs to be understand. We don’t cry for buffs though it needs it quite much. We would be happy with them fixing the kitten bugs.

When I read we are 50/100, I ask myself, are you really Italian or just from Marseille? I get you won’t understand this private joke, but even when the truth is obvious you deny it.

Hope to meet you again tonight, it would grant me the pleasure to fight a pale copy of Red Guard tactics.

Once again, I never pretended we killed you at each meet, but you did with this video.

Kisses.

Hi yourself, just to inform you… I’ve never seen your 70+ Kodash zerg on Gandara BL yesterday evening, they must have been with the presumed 30 Gnous (in reality 10 at their best), dashing after your band only.

I don’t pretend to scare you, I just made a statement of our last meetings, however I see that my words reached your nerves, my mission is complete.

Have a nice day!

Because I relish the small chance that the person I kill will post a QQ thread like this.

March update comes to pass, new gear is added to the game for badges, and all across the servers, shouts in /map and /team are heard…

“mesmer in jp?”

The Jump Puzzle across all maps become the highest populated areas of the game, rams gather dust, and keeps fall to ruin from disuse.

RIP WvW
August 2012 – March 2013
Your Potential Was Never Realized

To prevent JP abuse (beyond what it already is), reduce the badges from chests, from 10 (@ lvl 80) to 2-4, add better item drops (rares / exotics) to compensate, and increase badge drop rate from kills, so WvW’rs can actually play rather than have half the map in the JP.

Sorry dear, but in Germany the legal age to have a relationship with a girl for adults is 16, so you are too young.
Don’t let this destroyed hopes for my affection bother you the rest of your life. You will find a boyfriend when you get out of puberty, I promise.

Greetings to the guardian from Gandara fighting me in the south-east camp (sorry, don’t know what it’s called in english :P) of kodash-borderland at 4:30 a.m.
fighted for minutes until we noticed we couldn’t kill each other
so we “bowed” in the end and moved apart

All I wanted was pet responsiveness ;-; I mean they could’ve just done a ghetto fix and buffed pet move speed and give their melee hits a larger range so they hit more often.

i’m glad the eagle and hawk icons were changed. i always though that was a bigger issue than the fact that they are the same kittening bird with the same kittening skills.

GG.

I have a briefer evaluation:

Crap.

I just feel lied to at this point. Rangers were promised fixes back in November and we’ve gotten nothing of note what-so-ever. Guardians and Elementalists, two classes that were essentially fine if not overtuned got twice the attention Rangers did.

At this point, I’m not even questioning understaffing or a lack of knowledge on the issues. At this point, the only explanation is that Jon’s “balance team” spends most of their day sitting on Reddit at work instead of doing their jobs. Their old NCSoft brethren at Paragon Studios overhauled entire classes in 4 month time periods while Rangers still have entirely messed up trait lines (1 second bleeds, 1 second might?!) and not even an acknowledgement of the true problems.

Whats going on?

Anet only ruins WvW - you must already see that.

Skapocalypse.5236:

I like it. Now you need to keep scouts in towers and maybe 3-4 people in keeps. People just need to adjust(and they will adjust) and not just zerg around and follow commanders.

the same zergers will zerg, and leave the others to do the scouting.
The same people who run dolyaks now, or supplies…

Most zergers will expect ‘others’ to stay behind, never themselves.

The end result will be that most towers and keeps won’t have designated scouts on the lower populated maps.

‘Not making swords’ is a form of organisation. It often fails, true, but that doesn’t mean the system had to adjust.

Look at it this way for your argument: people sometimes adjusted to not making swords, and sometimes they didn’t…
Same will happen with scouting: some will, some won’t.

People ,won’t magically adjust: those that bothered now with being supportive for no reward, will keep doing it.
The karma trainers will still try to train.

Of course it’s ‘playable’. Even a class with only one ability is ‘playable’. That’s not the point. The point is that the ranger class is simply not up there with thieves, guardians, elementalists, warriors and mesmers. Instead, we’re down here with engineers and necromancers.

What disturbs me is that out of the 1100+ posts in Jon Peter’s own thread, which was viewed over 140 thousand times, only two of those posts are his.

Come on guys, get your communication act together! You can do it!

Why can’t my Norn guardian dual-wield Asuran thieves?

Johje Holan.4607:

lLobo.7960:

Cows = Gas bombs

Not to be a party pooper but thats actually historically accurate. They’re cow corpses and they carry all kinds of nastiness. In historical sieges they used to catapult human corpses to spread disease.

If only we could catapult those enemies back to their own side!

I think that they should just add in Gigantor Golems.

Where you build 5 Omega golems.

Get them to stack ontop of each other, and then hit like the 6 number.

And they morph into this huge kitten golem capable of being anti-personnel, with Omega golems as legs and arms. Which will just rip open walls and eat them etc etc. Has to have fire and hello kitties on the side too.
You can only build one when outmanned with buff.

I’ve attached a schematic for Anet.

I’m not getting into all the cons of how this game works around zergballs, we are all well aware of it at this point.

What I suggest is lets make it less fun for people to run in a giant tunbleweed fashion across the map.

New Passive area skills:

1) Mass Viscosity: While moving, if you are within 1200 range of more than 20 allies, you move slower decreasing -50% speed. The debuff continues for 10 seconds after all allies are not within 1200 range.

They can obviously pull something like this off just think about the frozen condition thing in the cold fractal or whatever it is called. If you get a ball of more than 20 players it starts to punish them for being on top of each other. Lets help fix culling by making them split up anet.

2) Mass Confounding: If you are standing within 600 range of more than 20 allies, you gain confusion every time you activate a skill.

Everything is based on 20 since that is what Anet felt was an acceptable number of enemies to portal bomb you and cull in 5 seconds later.

Also i would like to add I was thinking about riot mobs when coming up with these skills. The confusion part is when the mob starts hurting itself.
Personally i think it should be 10, but that is a different topic.

EDIT: This was not meant to be a QQ post, merely suggestions.

Culetto.4386:

So how does /sleep help hackers?

Apparently, it makes them more alert and able to focus.

Bah dum dum.

>3< you will survive. Just don’t use points as your reason to play. Have fun.

I remember when there was peace in Eternal Battlegrounds Jumping Puzzle – one server was dominating and held all 3 keeps on map.

bhagwad.4281:

So please – don’t waste my time attacking me in JPs. Be a bit sensible and we’ll all get what we came here for without any pesky situations along the way.

But I came to the JP to kill you and then find your five paragraph essays on the forum.

All you " lets be friends " jumpers out there get me lots of badges =)