Guild Wars 2

This is secretly a tier 1 recruit thread, isn’tn it?

“Our skill lag is only pretty bad, guys, come on, what you waitin for?”

Kilger.5490:

I was totally melee until I saw how a long bow can melt stuff with the right spec (+10% damage for endurance & flanking, +5% for trait, “quickdraw” for lots of rapidfire), and at range where dps isnt interrupted by cc. Now I dont see why there would be any complaint about a ranger with a longbow in the group.

Because you still do less damage than another equally unbuffed melee. In addition, that melee player is getting buffs and providing buffs for the other players that will dramatically increase their damage relative to yours.

Durzlla.6295:

Rutee.1058:

There is definitely such a thing as being ‘too tanky’; especially when you’re outranging most AoE to start with. I don’t worry about it since two of my three stats are damage and I’m usually close, but I’d start to worry if it were just one used for damage, and the other two self-defense.

I use clerics because the healing power helps my allies as well as myself (not that much granted), that or if i go with a more offensive build i’ll take magi and just make a build that boosts my pet up when i crit, and i do have zerker sitting there when/if i wanna use it…

This post makes me cry. Magi is less offensive than clerics. Both of those have the worst DPS of any sets in the game and are not worthy of discussion when we’re talking about damage output. Save that for some kind of ranger support build thread.

I have no confidence that the Oct. 15 patch will be minor tweaks to weapons and traits and sic’em will be situational at best.

I really think Anet is has not handled this game professionally at all. Everything from the fail conquest mode in spvp, profession balance, devs fighting with players about gvgs are signs to me that GW2’s future after the launch of ESO and other anticipated games looks grim IMHO.

If this game doesn’t do a 360 and focus on real profession balance and more PvP modes for both spvp and with pve gear or plan to release this stuff as a carrot on a string when the newer hyped games come out, its going to hurt ANet big time.

It has been hard for me to play this game lately because I play only WvW and I am sick and tired of having to hear how Rangers suck, and how I need to re-roll a warrior, elementalist or guardian when I play better than most of the players in viable professions.

Rangers will not be fixed until they solve the issues with the pet mechanics and Sic’em change is like putting a bandaid on a broken leg.

The other problem Anet is having to come to grips with is Ascended/Legendary gear not contributing to our Pets, which contributes greatly to our Damage. If you don’t understand this issue then you’re sorely mistaken.

Also, pet survivability in Dungeons is also holding PvE content down. Now Anet is starting the whole, pets will be inv. to certain AoE’s, soon every dungeon will have “special” pet rules, just so that we aren’t irrelevant in future content by the hard core gamer types.

NevirSayDie.6235:

If the devs fired the PvP staff and deleted PvP in the next patch, how would that make WvW better?

If I were a dev, I would have stopped taking the WvW forums seriously a long time ago. Fortunately, the GW2 devs are very patient.

The answer is: opportunity cost. The resources (dev time, servers, etc.) they are spending on sPvP can be used to improve WvW. This is not insignificant. Anet is currently OBSESSED with turning sPvP into an esport.

Furthermore, sPvP is currently the only consideration when it comes to balancing. If sPvP were deleted more attention could be place on WvW’s myriad balance issues.

As for the devs taking the WvW forums seriously, they have never done so, and that is part of the problem.

Between melandru runes, dogged march, -% condition food, traited stability and invulnerability, shield block, the ability to sword/GS leap into range before you even know I’m there, and a choice on utility bar of 2 more stabilities, another invulnerability, and immunity to condition (any 3 of those 4 are fine), there’s no way in hell you’re stopping me bannering a lord if I really want to.

That’s not even considering that there’s 50+ other people around me either doing the same thing, or providing a distraction. Or that a thief might stealth me before I enter.

Arguments along the line of “just kill the warriors”, or “use CC” or “boon-strip lol!” are stupid. Sure those things might work if the warrior is alone, and you see them early enough. But in the middle of a blob-fight, and where warriors can appear out of nowhere already at the lord, these arguments are nonsense.

The only valid point of discussion is whether having a Lord repeatedly ressed is a legitimate tactic to aid defence against dirty golem rushers, or abuse of mechanic to act as a fail-safe for bad defensive play.

Justdeifyme.9387:

You can play Guardian with Staff and Scepter.

Please don’t do this…..

Staff/Sceptor Guards, Bearbow Rangers, and any other ranged abomination makes me want to cry… Unless your team decided to range a boss, do not roll range primary.

korelg.7862:

why not transform it into sellable items and sell them at the TP? those are currently pretty expensive

Supply and demand. Everyone is up to their eyeballs in Bloodstone Dust. Why would anyone want to buy more Bloodstone Dust (or Bloodstone Dust related products) from someone else? This item’s drop rate is so incredibly high that the only real way to get rid of it would be some way to simply destroy it and get it out of the economy entirely.. such as giving it a vendor price (or ability to convert it into something else).

Perhaps make some consumable items that require a stupidly large amount of the dust could be a fix as well… just something that can consume the tens of thousands of Bloodstone Dust that everyone has in such a very short period of time (of not even trying to farm the crap).

Besides… where did all this Bloodstone Dust even come from? Within just a couple weeks more Bloodstone Dust has dropped than I would have thought the Bloodstones could even account for.

Simply reduce the amount of bloodstone dropped. Or you want to make champ-trains even more profitable?

FirstBlood.7359:

Backpedalling warrior trying to show how great he is. Nothing impressive about this video, nothing overpowered about that warrior. The combination of sword and hammer is so terrible that it can only be found in WvW.

You sound miffed, man.

bokkieskitten.8023:

Yea. Too many dang hammers.

I mean, I love getting hammered two fold and all but…. Wait… what…

Settle down you, you’ll get hammered enough later.

Nice post ilr, I wondered if I was the only one who interpreted those sentiments in Josh’s post. Players don’t accuse devs of “lies” when they don’t make happen something they mentioned might come, they accuse devs of lies when they blatantly do the exact opposite of what they stated multiple times would not happen.

I hope we don’t see any of the same mistakes that previous developers have made either. Warhammer clinging to their precious metrics until the bitter end (while players wailed on the forums, gnashed their teeth and left in droves) plus strange ex-community people appointed to key roles in PVP. SWTOR all but blaming a “toxic” PvP community for developer failures also springs to mind.

I realize that we are all just individuals, games players don’t always know what is best for the game and I/we possibly don’t know better than Devon Carver (although I suspect I have a kitten sight more experience). But I truly hope that EVERYTHING is now open to discussion and not closed off because it doesn’t suit one or more developers “vision of the game”.

We shall see.

im just going to go cry in a corner now….

It’s all the passive effects that saved your kitten 100000 times, not your personal skill. That’s the thing what bothers me with warriors at the moment. They require almost 0 skill, only thing they need is a good build, correct gears and being able to time 1 skill: hammerstun.

Kilger.5490:

This problem is posted daily lol. I’d be suprised if there wasnt a change to sword in the upcoming oct 15 balance patch.

Nah, they’ll be shutting down the aged servers to get ready for GW3 (or because the bank foreclosed on them) and we will still have the pointless leap on our best dps weapon.

Stice.5204:

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

Here’s the situation. I play ranger (full berserker gear with LB) and i almost always roam on map (avoiding pve stuff).

I win about 90% of the 1v1 fights, and about 40-50% of 2v1 fights.

I personally consider this unlikely as a full berserker glass cannon longbow ranger matches up quite poorly against many of the popular solo roaming builds. There’s a reason bunkers and condition pressure builds became the dominant roaming playstyle and it’s not because nobody thought to try out full berserker.

If you’re making it work regardless, then kudos to you, but I think you’re either exaggerating or fudging your definition of what constitutes a “1v1 fight.”

I win about 90% of the 1v1 fights blah blah blah – Biggest lie so far I have seen in ranger forum.

Hanging around in Queensdale for so long is like living in a mother’s basement.

Why stay there when there’s higher zones that has more “loot-challenge-fun” events such as the major meta events that holds a chest as well as other meta events in the zones?

Lilith Ajit.6173:

What is juking?

Juking: When you jump and throw up at the same time.

Usage: My friend bet I couldn’t drink a gallon of milk while playing hop scotch. I ended up juking all over his face.

Also, less commonly used, refers to a person faking one direction and quickly moving the other way.

haviz.1340:

Midline in gw1 gvg was also considered a kitten role, being carried by frontline and backline. Exceptions were dom mes and ranger.

How dare you insult my ele blind bot! Casting Blinding Flash was an art!

blinks

…..

falls out of chair laughing

The current PTV meta warrior with hammer, mace/shield can. Regen 450+ HP a second, can chain stun 4 times in a row, has the highest armor and health pool in the game, and can push over 3500 power with 100% crit.

This build is inheritly broken and you do not need to worry about building entirely to kill this spec. The nerf bat will kill it for us.

This meta broke spvp and due to anets commitments to MLG, they will have to change it. I would wait for the skill change annoucement later today.

Scrotbag.9715:

Pegaasus.3280:

The funny thing is that I’ ve spent these last two days..duelling most of the rangers who posted comments towards me like : You can’ t play this class ^^ Learn to play and so on..^^
They were simply nabs ah ah who died so easily..
I won’ t write their names here to avoid being reported..but seriously..before writing such things..really learn to play your ranger ^^ ah ah))

I got dragon class in sPvP but asked Anet not to let it show and I got full ascended gear in PvE but transmuted all to low tier skins just so I don’t embarass people ingame.

Get a grip sunshine, this post is even more ridiculous than your first.

So you transmuted your weapons? I mean really, full ascended gear? What does that even mean? You’ve got jewelry and a backpack and weapons. Jewelry and the backpack are common place, and the weapons are craftable, so why would anyone be embarrassed? I put a lot of work into my backpack so I like to show it off. I haven’t bothered with the weapons yet, but unless they look amazing, instead of squirrely like most of the crafted weapons I’ll end up transmuting them anyway.

I’m just lost at what the point of this post was.

Bambula.3649:

Prysin the ranger scalles better with crit dmg than with power. We are not like the warrior that needs tons of power
Our weapons scalling is to bad so crit dmg works much better

This doesn’t make any sense logically and is mathematically incorrect.

Ranger: to much issues to sum up. But overall this profession is VERY clunky. The clunkyness of it, makes it already underpowered. That’s why most post saying ranger is UP are countered by theoritic post ‘but they are good in this that’, but reality is, the clunky part of ranger just makes it not work well. Why clunky? here goes, Arrows often miss. By side stepping or wathever but they miss more then any other ranged auto attack. Single target. Bows are fully single target, but other professions have better tools to hit more enemies with a ranged weapon. Barrage alone doesn’t cut it. Once that skill is over, there’s no way to efficiently kill 5 mobs/enemies with bow weapons, and that should not be the case, especially since ranger should be the master of bow. Secondly Sword. All 3 of the skills are clunky. 1 roots you, yes ok you can sort of live around that, but it will never be a full fix. 2: This skill is plain bad and clunky. Why? It doesnt evade attacks while it should!!!. warrior greatsword 3 while activated ALWAYS NEGATES ANY DAMAGE, no matter what. This skill should be like that in the first phase (rollback). Now it’s just a slow movement skill. (it starts to slow meaning you still take full damage of ongoin attack, and when you finally fly back, it still doenst prevent aoe damage. And then the 2nd skill makes it worse, cause it’s predictable, and has no use except if the other enemy is dumb and almost dead. 3 is ok, but again in practise doenst work so good. The circle you make is weird, and you’ll often miss the poison attack, cause of the unpredictable movement even though neither you or enemy moved away. Again a major survivability skill, not working properly. Condition removal. This is a big one. Both thief, engi, ele, necro and even mesmer are better in this. Yes there’s healing spring, but that cleanses to slow. Basically cleanse is most needed in two cases, cleanse burst cond damage (lot of bleed stack, burn stack, fear does damage ticks), or immobalize. All other conditions are not that bad to live with (some stink, like chill, but again they are not gamebreaking). Immobalize however does. In it’s current implementation, i’d say it’s STRONGER then stun. The only cure? instant condition removal that always works (and is not related to ‘pet being alive otherwise doesnt work’-kind of things. That alone makes ranger so vulnerable. Fix this, ranger needs better cond removal. SEcondly pets. I think the idea/setup of pets is not as kittenome ppl claim. However some issues exist. Pets have to low armor. Some (like bear) has 2400 armor. That’s bullkitten for a tanky pet. That’s the complete base armor for warrior (if he even uses a few armor pieces, it goes up to 2800 already). Bear pet has lot of hp, but it’s useless cause armor is so low. Basically bear has 35k hp /2400 armor, wich equals like 20k hp/2800 armor. But with all weaknesses that pets have (instant killing dungeon shots, unavoidable), this is massively underpowered (especially for tanky pets who barely do dps, like again BEARS). Either give more pet control (instant get a pet to target locatin to avoid super aoe in dungeon and make ranger a ‘managable in dungeon’- profession, or give pets aoe damage resistance (i know you won’t do it, to stubborn, but this is the best/easiest solution), or make the pet cooldown a hell of a lot lower (or give option to ress pet with F).

Why don’ t you fix Ranger class..You made it the kittentiest class in the game with all your nerfs..( pets, spirits )
Noone being playing ranger in wvw anymore…do something.

DanH.5879:

so, while the other classes get super bonuses, thief gets nerfed more

well… thief hate at it’s finest….

Yeah DanH try play a Ranger.

They improved guardian DPS ahahahahaha…..this is just sad…