Guild Wars 2

Speaking for myself, I have just as much fun with my Ranger as any of my other professions, and I’ve never been kicked from dungeons/Fractals just because I was using my Ranger.

It IS true that Rangers lag a bit behind some of the other professions in terms of raw damage (a good portion of a Ranger’s damage comes from their pet, and like all AI companions, the pet won’t always be cooperative in reacting swiftly to changing battlefield conditions), but honestly, unless you’re joining a speedclear group, most players aren’t going to be bothered about it.

Most of the hate directed against Rangers is usually against bad PLAYERS using Rangers, doing things like insisting on attacking a boss at range when the party needs to be sticking close in melee range. If you carry both a ranged weapon and a melee weapon for different situations, and adapt your tactics accordingly, the Ranger is just as welcomed as any other profession.

I don’t really WvW or PvP, so I can’t offer any advice for those situations.

What bothers me about PVE finishers, is that I can’t rally off of my opponents. Often I run into situations where I’m barely able to bring down a tough opponent, while downed. But now they don’t die, they are also downed, making it impossible to rally off of your defeated opponent.

What is wrong with using guild chat, or changing the guild message?

This time I have some Asura action for you guys

Thats a very nice hat

Where’d you get it?

Scarlet did not send you a gift?

I’ve definitely seen trends in this game throughout the year and two months since I started playing. In the beginning, the game was swarmed with bots and gold selling advertisements. Every time I ever posted something in map chat, I would get a mail soon after advertising gold selling. Then it died down for a long while, with only the occasional mail. But during the free weekends, it flared up to a whole new extreme. After those free weekends, it died down for the most part, but not as much as it did when anet first banhammered the mass of bots. Those weekends must have given them a decent supply of accounts to hack, not to mention the 40% off sales caused more advertising accounts to be bought.

Mel, you don’t need to worry on either matter. You were not attacking me, you had a legitamate concern and so I addressed it. I have played this game for around 1500 hours and this is the first time I have ever reported a bot. I don’t assume that someone is a bot, in this particular case I initially assumed they were another player and said hello to them. It wasn’t until afterwards that I followed them around and that was when I noticed their behavior.

Overall, I think it’s wrong to assume that any random player you see is a bot. There are plenty of people that farm, myself included. I make resource runs daily, gathering Orichalcum and Ancient Wood, Soft wood, etc. When I was making my legendary, I farmed Skelk and Sparks for hours. If I do it, there’s no reason to believe that there aren’t other people that also farm and make resource runs. But there are telltale signs of a bot, and if and only if all of the following are true, then I feel it is okay to report.

Signs of a bot: (If all are true, you have a bot. If any one of these is not true, it is most likely a human player.)
1. They are making repeated, robotic movements, over and over again with no sign of human error. This can be reinforced if they then make stupid mistakes like running into an obstacle repeatedly and do not easily remove themselves from the obstacle. (Be aware of the fact that players will occasionally press the auto run and minimize or go afk, so running into an obstacle alone does not make a bot)
2. They patrol the exact same path over and over and over again.
3. You see them in this area performing these actions repeatedly over several days. This is a big sign, because many human players will farm, but very very few will farm the exact same area consistently for 8-10 hours every day. Give it some time, and check back later to see if they are still there.
4. If all of the above are true and you are suspicious of the person, say hello to them (with /s, because many players ignore map chat), wave, jump around in front of them, drop a guild banner, etc. Don’t accuse them of being a bot, just try to get a human reaction out of them. If it is a human, they will give it away somehow. Even if they don’t respond, if they pause to look at you or notice you in any way, it’s a human. A bot will pay absolutely no regard to you as if you don’t exist.
5. If you’re not completely sure they’re a bot at this point, don’t report. Give the person the benefit of the doubt. Only report if you’re 100% sure.

IVIUIEI.9631:

My ideas were to have him play along with me on the weekend only. I have a second desktop that was use for movies only, its got a low end graphics card on it. But I’m not sure if Anet allows two account per ip. Gaming for him is only on the the weekends.

It is not a problem- we have 3 desktops and three separate accounts on the same IP

I have a son the same age, and agreeing w/Loki only you will know that answer. But if I could nudge you in a direction, since this was brought to a community forum, if you have to ask in safety of your child, you already have the answer you’re looking for.

My son is the same age, in our house, and typing this I want to emphasize this is what we believe is good for our family and in no way have an opinion of how others should raise their kids,

No games Mon-thurs (school nights for him)
No fps, or games w/emphasis killing realism (cod, battlefield, GTA you get the picture).

For myself I only game when hes at school, or after he goes to bed. My gaming consist of one MMO at a time. This also frees up gaming on the WiiU together on the weekends….when I can drag him away from minecraft to game w/his old man.

Loki has some very good points.
I will just add- do you plan on playing with your son?

We got the game for our 6 year old daughter because she kept sitting on our laps when we play- she is a bit young but she enjoys just running around and looking at the world and harvesting stuff and unlocking waypoints.

A ten year old is of course much more capable-
really it is up to you

You leave the quaggan out of this. They’re a pure, innocent people and have no need of your villainy.

Fortunately, I speak the quaggan language~

You are a clever one. I don’t know how you figured out who was helping me. But you are too late! My friends helped me get a job at a little restaurant called “Two-Ters” (delightfully tacky, yet unrefined). Now I am hiding amongst you, accepted as just another one of the people. The patrons really seem to like me, and I like them. So if you come in and try to “bust up the joint”, be prepared for the food fight of your life!

While I may have missed your shift, I did happen to run into your little friends on their way out of the tavern. They tried to flee, but ol’ Cap’n Storyteller is a wily one when he sets his mind tah catching a mermaid.

I followed them at a distance, and eventually caught them ducking into a ramshackle little hole in the wall. Rather than burning the place to the ground (in the name of public safety, of course,) I’m giving you a chance to come out with your fins up. I can wait out here all night if necessary.

I was going to make a bad salad joke, but now I don’t feel like it.

My fault sorry, was playing around with my rifle on my engineer and stray shot must have taken out your head.

Mystic.5934:

When I bought it for my brother, I took the digital deluxe code they emailed me, pasted into photoshop with directions on how to download, plus fancy graphics and such, printed it out, folded it into an envelope, put it in a cardboard box of packing peanuts, empty envelopes and toilet paper, gift-wrapped it. it took him all of like 30 seconds to find the real one.

Haha I wish I’d thought of that! That would have driven my sister nuts.

Neek.9531:

Think I just figured it out…

Yes I did thanks me. Oh btw your so handsome

You people are so biased towards vegetables…

As a Lightbringer, I find your lack of apples disturbing.

I am all for wvw alt-friendliness. I don’t agree with OP’s idea though. The only way it would make sense was if turning on the Commander tag automatically changed your display name to your account name. That way when troll Commander Gabby decides to switch to another alt, and troll with them as the commander instead, it still says “Commander Gabby”. If OP amends this to their original submission I would support it.

I can understand why it is not account-bound. If you are a well-known kittenty WvW commander, and people say “HEY! Don’t listen to Jink Bonestealer! He’s a troll commander!”, and you get to the point where the troll commander is no longer listened to – it would be pretty stupid if all they had to do was go on a different alt and try doing the same thing again.

I vote to keep the cost to prevent further trolling from unqualifed commanders.

Allanon.9072:

From here idk if are others but from here i can lvl realy fast http://www.gw2crafts.net/

This is a great guide for getting all profession from 0-400.

However it breaks down rather horribly in the 400-500 guides. It doesn’t use ascended recipes or any of the new recipes. It also has you make completely worthless items instead of items you can sell for a profit.

Looking at artificer it says it will cost 220g to get from 400-500….

I did it over the last month for about 20g.

Completing zones at level 80 yield 3 level 79 trans stones or a black lion guys… here’s the issue.. Level 79 at 80? is that a joke?! why not maybe 1 level 80 instead?

yes, temp and perm options. excellent idea.

I’d like to throw into the mix of options: glowy auras and more dance moves

There’s a roaming Priory girl in Malchor’s Leap who goes from dark-skinned, short black hair to fair-skinned, waist-reaching brown hair on a daily basis, and vice versa.

@Stin: I’m offended those clothes are still not wearable by players. Female noblewomen NPCs have it, even the Orrian zombie ladies have it, but not the players. >.<

Same goes for Countess Anise’s attire (minus the pants)… Y u no make it available to us, ANet!?

I do not like the minigame rotation. Can we get rid of it? I want to play Keg Brawl whenever I like, like I used to be able to. Some of the minigames in rotation I only play for the achievementpoints, because I find crab tossing frustrating and southsun survival boring.

When you make the legendary it will make it soul bound on equip. You can sell it on the trading post or equip it to your new main