I watched that video it perfectly describes how alot of the content is with ranger pets, punishing not difficult.
As for how hard it is to play ranger, not very probably because most content isn’t very hard either it makes the “finetuning” of your skills using it take much longer, I can’t be more precise than that, though on the other hand after almost a year playing a ranger I still feel I am improving in small ways.
After playing a few hours of ranger in WvW I must conclude…
Arrow carts > rangers
I haven’t roamed/seen roaming rangers before, but AFAIK ranger AoE is soft. I’ll play my shout-healing warrior for kills, loot, and AoE DPS. Yes, my healing SUPPORT warrior (that’s how bad rangers are in WvW atm).
I think rangers are in a different place then all the other classes. I think its the “go to” class for new players and its also one of the harder classes to make shine. since ive been on my Ranger ive fought atleast 50-60 other rangers and you can tell by character movements and rotation that the players are in a panic and just trying to stay alive. When you compound that with the class having a High skill ceiling to play well and you have a demographic that is sure to be split between “the class sucks” and “learn to play”
I think the main stigma behind the class is that it HAS to be a ranged class and in guild wars the ranger is better suited for melee.
just my opinion.
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Personally, I think popular votes are a bad idea. Expansion of the voting franchise is the gravest threat to the Guild Wars 2 Republic. Only those of proper, broad perspective can be trusted to be enlightened enough to choose leaders. I propose the following qualifications for voting:
1. Voter must have a Commander tag.
2. Voter much have at least 6000 achievement points as of July 2013.
3. Voter must have at least 1 level 80 character of each profession.
4. Voter must pass a game literacy test (e.g., “What key is bound to a dodge button in default settings?” for Asura and “How many karma vendors sold rabid accessories in the level 58-65 range as of December 2012 and how many have been added since then?” for Norn)
If we keep the voting franchise from expanding too much, all players will benefit and the game will move towards the future.
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Does ArenaNet really want it’s players to hate dungeons? Why troll the new players with this dungeon once they reach level 35? Why not just increase the required level to level 80 and get it over with?
Does ANet really expect 5 new level 35 characters can beat this dungeon?
Is this truly the best choice of dungeon to introduce to new players trying to get into dungeons?
PS. I know at least someone is going to comment that they solo’ed AC at level 35 or whatever. That is amazing and you are truly skilled in this game. This post is mostly for new players to GW2 and still learning the tactics at low level.
Hello, I’m a normal player, who does PvE and WvW, and recognises that the tiny meta of PvP capture the node produces builds that are unworkably bad for any application other than the closed little 10% that is PvP.
EDIT: that came off unnecessarily snarky. However, the perceptions of PvP players on class balance, while the sole measure for balancing the game, are so skewed that they are worthless.
It’s long past time that every single balance is split between game modes, so that PvP can achieve their longed after “every-class-is-exactly-the-same” mode, while the rest of the players can actually enjoy playing classes that have different strengths and playstyles.
I play sPvP once in a while. When i play with some of my friends we usually kitten around and win pretty much 4/5 matches. But once in a while one of my friends who only does spvp invites me to fill in a spot in his high ranking team and ill play whatever they need, home point bunker, dps roamer, ect. We usually face some of “pro” teams and to me i see nothing special. Sure they are way better than those random pugs buy not better than the good players ive fought. If i play home point they need to send 2+ ppl to kill me. Ive fought power/zoose/ostricheggs ect and never lost to them 1v1 so i dont know why some of the people in the pro teams feel they can say what needs nerfing.
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I understand making only one due to time-constraints.
Actually they’re only making one because players keep saying that we want our own decisions to actually impact the game rather than giving us the illusion of impacting the game.
Well then they’ve failed in implementation as by attaching certain rewards that are almost assuring a landslide in a certain direction they are practically guaranteeing the outcome. That is the very definition of illusion of choice.
That’s not really fair. Lots of people do not do fractals, have never set foot inside a fractal because the cost of getting into fractals is too high. Fractal 1-10 is actually harder to do in PuGs then higher level fractals. Besides which, a lot of people have no interest in even normal dungeons, forget about Fractals! Only the Fractal runners will be voting according to their Fractal preferences. The normal world PvEers are more likely to vote for WP cost reduction because that’s what matters to them but if you are doing a fair amount of PvE, you are unlikely to be really thinking about WP costs because let’s face it, most of the time you can make-up the WP costs by killing the first random mob you see. But some people will vote for reduced BL key costs because they do buy keys. There is also the Human vs Charr thing. So I don’t really see any of the rewards being the “decider”.
So what it really comes down it is which group is more dedicated/active during the next expansion period. I.e people can talk Kiel or Evon but are they actually going to work for their candidate? Whoever has the most motivated supporters is the one who is going to win. It’s as simple as that.
My brain is shagging under the weight of changes… having six characters was not a good idea!
Vote Dhuum!
He promises to remove waypoint costs entirely, by removing the ability to resurrect!
He promises to deal with each ban individually, taking unworthy souls to the underworld, never to be seen again!
He will kill you if you don’t vote for him.
On the forum everyone is a pro…
When u play instead >.< seems they hide very well because people i meet is not that good often.
Well and i bet they complete a messed fractal with 5 rangers am i right?
They don t need to rely on profession negating any mechanic like a lot of guardians and warriors true?
GW2 balance:
A PvE player is supposed to avoid a 1-2 second 1 shotting aoe.
A WWW player is considered uncapable of avoiding a 5,75 second aoe for half his health.
Colin just said on the livestream (which just ended a few minutes ago) that the Fall of Abaddon refers to the events taking place before the original Guild Wars game.
It’s a done deal then. I want to see one of the single most amazing moments in the history of Tyria, not some silly Inquest debauchery. I will just have to live with the fact that I’m voting for an RNG peddling crook. :P
Better than the third coming of Kormir. Kiel is working hard to replace Trahearne as our token credit stealing NPC ally.
All I know is that in GW1 I never once was not taken for a group in lieu of something else (the requisite 2 healers aside). I had the group utility and ability to run many builds. That is just how rangers were in GW1. They were always viable.
Many times I couldn’t get into groups on my ranger, and sadly it is now happening now in GW2
Dont nerf CoF until they have added another farming spot (Like the old CS farming…) I really enjoyed the CS farming, but is just… UGH NO THANKS
There are other farming spots, you just can’t farm them brain afk like CoF^^
Btw: why do you need farming spots? Just play the game and enjoy it… fun > reward
Rangers can trait long bow of a ranger of 1500 but they actual hit further. Wasnt there a thread about ranger hitting for 10k with auto attack and you want this number to be higher really.
One time spike damage requiring multiple long cooldown skills to get that kind of damage. The kind a warrior can repeatedly pull off with a kill shot. Yeah … bad comparison.
Ranger more than any other class needs to learn to use the right weapon for the job. As well as tactics. I watch videos of ranger using a sb agaisnt mesners with confusion stacks on them (yes us a fast shotting weapon with meh damge to trigger the confusion). These ranger are why people consider some rangers walking loot bags.
Don’t assume we are these bad players, or even that a majority of players are that bad. That’s a disservice to the community and just makes you look arrogant.
Some mob are harder to fight at range like the Spider boss in ac. Fighting him at ranger triggers it’s range attack red poison circles of death. Melee’ing or fight up close make this fight solo-able by just about anyone. Giving Rangers an incentive to make bad combat choices is not the answer.
We always have the choice to make good or bad choices. Sometimes we gotta range. Sometimes we gotta mix it up in melee. Any good player already does that. We want a reason to sometimes use our bows, as right now there ain’t really any.
Rangers have medium armor like Thieves and Engineers. These two class dont have a problem getting in there a mixing it up. Why do so many rangers have an adversion to melee combat.
Most of us don’t. We just want a reason to pull out our bows sometimes. Cuz if we’re always in melee, why don’t we just switch to playing warrior or guardian. They fight in melee, but far better. Right now we’re just weaker, squishier warriors saddled with a bad AI responsible for a good percentage of our damage.
No. It’d give us options. Maybe then we’d see some ranged rangers that can actually pull off decent damage. Cuz right now there is no reason to range with a ranger. And that’s a bloody shame.
am i right?