Guild Wars 2

Has it been considered that this was perhaps an unnecessary fix? Minipets already serve no purpose in the game except to follow you around. They are already immersion-breaking in the sense that there is no lore explaining why you have, for example, a tiny human bandit following you around.

Minipets exist to be seen by the owner. They are already difficult to keep out. They go away and do not automatically re-summon when you switch zones or die. They take up bag space and mini owners go out of their way to craft invisible bag space so that they are not accidentally deposited with resources.

I know there are many times my guild and I have had a lot of fun seeing the minipets underwater. One of my friends has only a few minis and one of them is the plush griffon, which he always gets a good laugh out of when it “swims” underwater in an airplane mode with its wings.

I understand the need to fix bugs in the game and also that some bugs and quality of life features are easier to deal with than others, but to add my 2 cents to EnemyCrusher’s reply, if you can’t add swimming animations for all minis and still want some to stow underwater, then please either add the ability to automatically resummon them when you swim/zone/die and mark the tooltip for ones that cannot swim. Minipets are prestige items and some are worth a lot of in-game gold or only purchasable with real world money. This may have just been a bug fix to you, but as the bug has been in the game since launch, please understand that this is also essentially the removal of a feature for minipet owners.

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Plz necro dont use conditions on me… im a full zerk gear with zerklike runes and accesories, i have no HP and i dint equip my cleanses/stun breakers, so plz dont use conditions on me. IF YOU USE CONDITIONS ON ME ILL SEND A PM TO DEVS, GO TU YOUR FORUMS AND BEGGIN A NERF NECRO CAMPAING AND ILL QQ EVERYWERE (not about me not equiping cleanses/stun breakers, or know how to dodge, but at you knowing how to counter play me) SO YOU GET NERFED DOWN TO THE DIRTH AND REND YOU USELESS AGAIN!!!

Do you have any pictures in your Gw2 screen shot folder you may have taken on the day you created your legendary?

You can view the properties of the picture, and check to see what date it was created.

the mesmer utility skill – portal is working as intended.

what are you talking about?

For me that is a harder question then it sounds. I guess it depends where the challenge comes from, it also depends which aspects of the game you are talking about.

You could say a profession that less balanced like a ranger has a higher skill ceiling because it is more challenging to do well with them…that being said to answer this question we would also need to know your goals..

..highest skill ceiling for..what exactly? And would consider using an under used skill/trait spec to up the difficulty?

The issue with this thread is it gives the illusion of veracity to the people that are refusing to use the tools at their disposal and are just whining for nerfs instead of actually bringing anti condition/cc tools to defend against a spec with strong conditions and CC; or even at least learning the limitations of such a spec and preemptively shutting it down.

You don’t address that sort of mentality by coddling it. You only accomplish encouraging that behavior to continue in the future.

That is why this thread comes across as both nonconstructive and insulting.

i’ll bite, troll?

Best build for a Ranger in the front lines is…

Roll a Guardian

You aren’t slowed down in combat, you’re sped up out of combat. In combat movespeed is the normal movespeed.

2 chicks at once.

My favorite weapon is a 2H Axe. Since we don’t have that, I’ll have to go with Longbro.

-1000 Range, allows me to be a threat without being in melee.
-Burning. Need I say more?
-Blind. PvP, Blind is about as good as Aegis. Bet you didn’t think of it like that!
-Immobilize. Great for setting up burst with Arcing Arrow, Evis, 100b, Final Thrust, or Earth Shaker.
-Combo Field Fire. I love Combo Fields, and I love Fire.

I also love a traditional Sword/Board. Since the Sword buff and Shield trait change, I recently started using this setup with Longbro, and it’s a lot of fun. But Longbro is the backbone of most of my builds.

Daecollo.9578:

How about Axe off-hand instead for burning bolts?

I’m going to be that guy…

There may be a reason you’re always complaining about the class if you’re seriously recommending Axe off-hand.

You say “Viable pvp build” and then I open it up and see “serker amulet (ofc)” and /facepalm.

well whatever, it’s stupid putting a POI when we can’t get it…

i’m scared of trying new things

Obviously to appeal to the Tarnished Coast population.

twitch.tv/Defektive
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Hi there! My name is Defektive and I’m a Warrior (rawr).

I spent a number of hours today putting this together. The end result is a build that
I’ve come to absolutely love. For the first time in a long time I’ll go ahead and say it, this may make us tPvP viable.

Enjoy.

The build:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-sFwo;1RK-Q0d4NL-60;9;5TJ-J;127A08;257-LRV4;2CoF2CoF25ke

Highlight Videos: All videos were taken tonight.
tPvP 1v1 Thief: http://www.twitch.tv/defektive/c/2483538
tPvP Teamfight Save: http://www.twitch.tv/defektive/c/2483465
tPvP Full Match: http://www.twitch.tv/defektive/c/2483518

Amulet:
Zerker / Valky

Primary Weapon Set:

Mainhand:
Longbow
-Sigil of Fire

Second Weapon Set:

Mainhand:
Sword
-Sigil of Fire

Offhand:
Shield
-Sigil of Bloodlust

Utilities:
‘Endure Pain’ or ‘Bersekers Stance’ – Determined by enemy team comp.
‘Dolyak Signet’
‘Signet of Stamina’

Elite:
‘Signet of Rage’

I think my main problem with the story was something to do with this:

Your working with these npc’s, learning a little about them, everyones total honorable, sacrificial to a tea for the greater good (almost a little too sacrificial most of the time), everyone is super super awesome and shiny and amazing people – no diversity, like everyone is the same with a different skin, backstory and voice (sometimes).

Then these faultless people suddenly all start bickering like little children because they think someones plan is stupid, or they had a squabble in the past and I’m like “eh, these characters are like 15yr old teens, all happy go lucky when they want to be but bit**y as hell”.

Every main character seems to be prone to this level of squabbling, characters who are in charge of armies and have earned their position should be capable of holding their emotions and understanding the “greater good”, yet they all cant get past their own issues and pettyness.

We needed more character depth, sacrifices should have meant something and not simply been cases of “ill hold the line, you go” (especially in the many situations that did not require sacrifice in the slightest). The assasins guild should be capable of holding their tongue around the other factions, there entire way of life is about subterfuge and deception, yet they cant even hold a poker face.

You know what i’m talking about tho, i’m just repeating myself now.

Thats my thoughts anyway.

I disagree with the blanket nerf to pet damage for Rangers.

I still dislike that there is not enough separation between PvP balance and PvE balance.

I dislike that the idea of balance is to nerf to the lowest rung on the pole rather than picking a baseline of a working build and bringing the rest of the builds up to par.

plot twitst…..it doesn’t matter anymore cause all our builds suck

The name Chopps raises red flags.

Everyone can get to high level fractals with full berserker gear. I did it too, but I wouldn’t recommend it. At least not with random people. A bunker build would have been a much more relaxed experience.

HI, i dont know how many warriors are happy of the changes, all i know is that in this community there are soo much whiners (Daecollo, Albundy etc…) that Anet could think that everything that they do is wrong.
I want to say thank you for yesterday patch, i had so much fun in pvp with my warrior!
I really feel that every build that we had is now stronger, even if i was disappointed that the heals were not changed.

I tried a hybrid CC build hammer/GS with 0-0-30-10-30 and now the sustain/burst is way better, Cleansing Ire is soo good that i dont even need to watch my condition sometimes.
I tried a brutal glass cannon build GS/ Axe shield with 30-0-0-10(desperate power)-30 and i can say that the damage is higher now.
It was awesome to see something like 6/7 warriors is a 5v5 arena, everybody was playing his favorite class again!
Thank you Anet for what you’re doin, Guild Wars 2 is my favorite videogame ever and you’re doin a great work!

Michele “Mijo” from Italy

Ignorent is bliss.
If you ever play a warrior in dgn, you’ll notice how bad ranger was in terms of dps.
Now post pet nerf is even worse.

Baseless complaint?
The fact that you give no example but your personal feeling shows how clueless and baseless you are.
Did you even read the patch note on all the serious nerfs?

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Daecollo.9578:

Currently i’m running 0/10/30/0/30 Hammer + Axe/Axe, however hammer is bugged atm and roots me a lot. I’m testing out Axe/Axe to see how much damage it does.

Ok, I was casually disregarding this thread as laughing material, but I gotta ask: how do you catch anything…?

I realize this is probably PvP, so the problem is somewhat mitigated, but… you do realize that you’re crippling yourself enormously, right?

I mean, you have no range or mobility… You don’t even benefit from a defensive offhand… Yeah, you get a lot of burst damage… But you’ll never hit anyone. No amount of survivability will change the fact that someone can just stand there and casually kite you to death.

I’m genuinely curious about how you actually hit anyone. Either I’m missing something really important or the answer is “you don’t. Ever.”. What is the rest of your build? Morbid curiosity.

Something like this I imagine
http://youtu.be/kTbF5B1mlNw?t=1m53s

ranger DPS will never be the meta because every other class does it much better with half the effort . It is pure mathematics really , ranger benefits far less from power then other classes and on top of it its 20-whatever% of damage dies to a stiff breeze in high level content .

Furthermore dungeon bosses are designed to have low toughness and high HP pools hence condition specs are far less desirable then raw DPS ones , but i digress .

Do not kitten your party by having a subpar class in high level PvE content .

Chopps.5047:

I was chasing people down all month (may) using rune of speed! I play 2-4 hours of wvw every day on Jade Quarry. Don’t tell me I don’t know that zergs stop and blast powerful fields just for the swiftness. Zergs snail tail all the time because of slow pokes. Not everyone is running a 25% speed signet or swiftness yet OP writes, and I quote, “I can’t chase ANYONE down anymore”. You are so wrong I’m almost at a loss of words. I think you guys are just haters. You must like to bellyache.

So you pat yourself on the back for killing terrible players who can’t keep up with the zerg? Interesting…