Guild Wars 2

Jubei.5923:

- Fix pet F2 responsiveness.
- Fix pet AoE survivability.
- Fix pet AI so that they don’t run off to random, far-away targets.
- Explain the 40ms shortbow nerf and why each shortbow#1 attack is a lot longer than 40ms.
- Adjust dps on longbow so that other longbow classes can stop laughing at us.
- Explain why BM traits are scattered everywhere instead of the BM tree.
- Fix ‘obstructed’ error with bows.
- Regardless of ETAs, can you please tell us that you acknowledge these problems? Everybody understands you can’t fix things with the wave of a wand, but it would mean a lot to everyone if they knew you were aware of these problems. Not saying anything only leaves us to assume that the developers don’t agree with our suggestions – and that’s OK. Just give us confirmation/closure and we’ll stop nagging.

Is that enough for you?

Why in the world would this posting, which is full of truth – be marked as “infracted”?

I have dozens and dozens of screenshots to attest to much of the above – too bad the devs just don’t want to look at them…

Serraphin Storm.2369:

You can hate this patch all you want and you can make outragous claims of how ranger are totally screwed. With all things consider this was a good patch.

Guard was really abused in WvW. (in conjuction with mesmers) This Guard neft most likly had the least affect on overall wvw game play and still correct a problem.

It’s not so much about what was there as it is about what wasn’t there.

This really isn’t a difficult thing to understand. It’s the absence of meaningful improvements that has people so upset. We’ve been waiting since beta for them to fix the ranger.

@ Serraphin

yes the emp bond was a fix and a nerf at the same time. they fixed it to where the pet gets the conditions now but nerfed the number of conditions. However i think what is upsetting is that they will take the time to fix bugs that work in the rangers favor but don’t touch any of the bugs that are hurting the ranger.

85% increase to one ability of an offhand that is still sub par to other offhand items doesn’t help anything.

anet has even stated that rangers is the class that is in the most need of improvements. So a class that is in this state should not be receiving any kind of nerfs even if it is bug fixes until they fix some of the other stuff.

nerfing the weaker classes while buffing the already strong classes is just bad.

I have a briefer evaluation:

Crap.

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.

Oh well… there is always March… April…. May…..Ju…. maybe within a 4 month block they can make some changes that are worth a crap to the class. But I doubt it, its become quite obvious they give 0 <insert you know what> about this class.

vipeout.2485:

Only a WvW player still visits this thread hoping that anybody at ANet gives a kitten about it…

Only a WvW player is so pessimistic of future WvW.

Good interviewer compared to the usual heavily bias walk on eggshells fair we are usually served up however the answers were no less depressing. WvW is so behind the curve compared to pve

Aww not even all WvW stuff in March? Great.

I guess WvW is not part of the game, its a small feature like keg brawl.

“After the last patch we tried reducing the limit quite a bit more than what has been typical for the last few months to see if we could ease some of the lag issues players experience during some of the larger fights around Stonemist, but changed it back after a few days because we didn’t see a major improvement and it was just too detrimental to the game.”

Just as everyone suspected, stealth change with no notification, no confirmation on the forums despite all the speculation. Anet your treatment of players is poor.

“Queues do indeed behave in a strange manner. Unfortunately, I don’t have any more news about that as it does boil down to resources. It’s a fixable problem, but we need some time from a very specialized type of programmer for that job and they’re all currently busy with other tasks.”

Magiofdeath.2745:

How is 3 of the 4 WvW maps being copy-pastas of each other with each section being named differently labor intensive? It must be hard renaming a tower redbriar from greenbriar. ><

Except that was not what he meant, and you’re being obtuse for the sake of being obtuse. He’s referring to creating, from scratch, a well tweaked, well tuned map for a competitive environment. This isn’t like map-o-generator SSC where nothing matters, we’re talking about maps that have to be meticulously tested for siege placement, defense vs. offense balance, chockes and holds, etc…

Six months for a WvW map has been a number we’ve known since pre-launch.

enji.7459:

Well that’s as good as any statement people have been asking for imo.

No new maps, no culling fix, no loot changes, no queue fixes. Just a progression system we have no details on yet and titles and here they’ve been telling us since December that it is SUCH A HUDGE UPDATE. I’m about done checking in to see the changes even.

And I question your ability to read…

I hardly even read these interviews anymore. Absolutely no information is offered in any form.

It was honestly quite pathetic when even their “official” post on the forums consisted of nothing more than “this is definitely on our table, but we haven’t looked at it yet”, or “adding this to WvW is something we would really like to do, but we just don’t know how to do it yet”.

It’s all just a game that they are playing to keep people interested, while in reality they are doing absolutely nothing to change WvW.

Sounds like the usual excuses.

Also how can the queue issue not be a priority?

Zen.8497:

“To all servers who are saying “VoTF please come to our server, you will be appreciated because we have no EU coverage”

VoTF must have done their own research on the future server and their decision will be respected.

There is no doubt their presence in those servers will be appreciated but that is also selfish at the same time. VoTF CANNOT carry any server’s EU zone by themselves.

This was what happened in SoS, so moving to a server with no or weak EU coverage is basically indirectly asking them to “carry the server” at the said timezone. There needs to be some critical mass at least. Any guild that is expected to carry a timezone by themselves will suffer burnout

I wish VoTF the best in whichever server they choose and find what excites them as a guild in the game."

Let me guess you are just an disinterested JQ player and you just want what is best for VoTF right? You are very inconspicuous my friend

There is a quote button for a reason. Use it.

Haldunius.7864:

Irony.5203:

Haldunius.7864:

Irony.5203:

Haldunius.7864:

I don’t get why everyone needs to play follow the leader to the next hot server. Why not stop creating 1 or 2 stacked servers and instead balance out the top six servers and actually have fun? If, big if, SoS does go the way of the ET, HoD, SBI, etc we have an opportunity to flesh out TC and FA. It seems some people just like to log-in to win, but if we got 6 servers rotating that could be a lot more fun than becoming the next stacked server for a two months and then imploding.

Striving to reach JQ’s coverage will not be successful for this game with its current population. If anything, JQ should be de-stacking a bit as well to promote the game’s ecosystem.

It’s been attempted. Laylyn, a well known figure on Blackgate attempted to balance things out by recommending servers for guilds to move to back after the fall of HoD. It worked for a little while, but it ultimately failed after a brief time period of relative stability.

It is no longer feasible to attempt this due to the costs and other assorted problems.

It’s obviously not too late. Guilds are paying to transfer to BG as we speak. More will follow. Costs and assorted problems are only an issue when you have to pay…..more? I guess that makes about as much since as kittening about coverage and stacked servers and then……stacking another server.

There are a multitude of things that occurred leading to ND and MERC moving. It’s not as simple as “We were losing”, but I don’t know the whole story, and I really don’t want to know the whole story. Trying to convince guilds to pay to move solely for balancing just isn’t possible.

I’m not trying to hammer BG or those guilds that are transferring to it….I’m more making a general statement about these recurring tendencies. It just makes me sad to see the exact same thing happen every 2 months, but somehow it’s suppose to be better this time…..right.

Now we’ll have BG and JQ hammering each other. SoR and Kaineng will trade places getting destroyed by those two with the loser destroying T2. The loser of T2 drops to T3 and destroys that tier. The loser of T3 drops to tier 4 and destroys that tier. Then, once each loser slaughters its lower pop competitors that week, they can cycle back up to get destroyed by the loser above. This is going to be….so fun.

It upsets me as well, but poor design has lead to this. Stagnation is awful, especially when the matchups are unbalanced. This will cause a mixup which will eventually balance right back to the same dilemma we are in right now.

I don’t get why everyone needs to play follow the leader to the next hot server. Why not stop creating 1 or 2 stacked servers and instead balance out the top six servers and actually have fun? If, big if, SoS does go the way of the ET, HoD, SBI, etc we have an opportunity to flesh out TC and FA. It seems some people just like to log-in to win, but if we got 6 servers rotating that could be a lot more fun than becoming the next stacked server for a two months and then imploding.

Striving to reach JQ’s coverage will not be successful for this game with its current population. If anything, JQ should be de-stacking a bit as well to promote the game’s ecosystem.

Isaac.6041:

ND better known as “Always Die” must be losing a lot of gold having to transfer around so much. How many servers have they transferred off of now?

Aside from this? Just 1 iirc, and that was before paid transfers. Nice try though.

Skyrant Kangaroomouse.7458:

Aegis.9724:

With the “horn autoattack” i think he means the fact that, if you use horn 5 with an enemy nearby and autotargeting, you automatically aggro that enemy and start attacking it.

On the good side we are now kings of underwater combat….thats……something, right?

Yeah that is the Horn bug i meant.

Why is that, what did they do with underwater combat?

It’s a joke as much as anything. We had that first patch where nothing happened with ranger (October 22 https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Update-Notes-October-22-2012) and were promised “substantial changes” in the next patch. What we got next patch was 150% more damage on Harpoon auto and some other minor tweaks to greatsword (November 15 https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-November-15-2012). This lead to lots of jokes about the ranger being Aquaman (marvel superhero reference for those who may actually not know). We’re pretty good underwater but once you get us on land we’re not so useful anymore.

December 14 (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-December-14-2012) we got a fairly long list of changes but none were really useful changes. They were all ‘nice’ changes but they didn’t make or break any builds except the Lick Wounds change (still buggy but more powerful when it works). Unfortunately most of the changes from this patch can be described as “changing the awful and useless into mediocre and useless.” This really includes the melee pet hitting better and the arrow flight speed changes. What was awful and useless is now mediocre.

January 28 (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Game-Update-Notes-January-28-2013) was just some bug fixes really. Again nothing bad but the only reall changes were condition stats applying to Entangle (finally!) and Drakes actually using Tail Swipe (this is pretty good actually).

And that brings us to today. I don’t have high hopes for the 26th (next balance patch) but I suppose it’s possible something good will happen.

Basically the answer to the OP is since December nothing noteworthy has changed. The ranger plays exactly the same as before. What worked before works now and what didn’t work before still doesn’t work.

There is something in RL that we call physics… and GW2 don’t have a good one.

collision model…

Gear

The above play style would not be possible without the proper gear, with the heavy dependence on traps my stats require a lot of condition damage, condition damage negates the toughness stat of the person being targeted and is such the most consistent form of damage in my opinion. But, condition damage is not very effective in solo or group pvp because other than the flanking with a shortbow there is no way of applying it in a fast paced Zerg skirmish or high maneuverability group fights. So my gear required decent Power and Precision stats as well, that is why I use ramapager armor and Carrion jewels for decent all around stats. Notice my crit chance is close to the 50% which is a very consistent form of damage. This spec has another big advantage over berserker gear…it is half as expensive.

Conclusion

This is in no way the end-all of specs, this spec has advantages and disadvantages. For players who want to focus on one aspect of WvW a more specialized spec will be much better.

Hello,

Fort Aspenwood here.

Are you a SEA/EU guild looking for a new home? tired of those pesky queue times? Upset at your NA prime time crew not holding anything you guys capture? Looking for a strong oceanic presence to set you guys up for a great day in the office? Well look no further my friends. FA is here for you. We welcome you with open arms. We are more than willing to help you in any way with the server transfer.

Fort Aspenwood has one of the strongest Oceanic crews in all of guild wars 2, theres no getting around it. These guys know what they are doing. AVTR/PRO are great guilds that work very well with anyone willing to show up.

Fort Aspenwood has a growing NA prime time crew that continues to improve every week with guilds like RET,BT,HOPE.PD and so on.

Fort Aspenwood stood strong during 11 weeks of running the out manned buff in tier 3, we took everything some t2/3 guilds could throw at us, when that wasn’t enough they teamed up and still could not break FA. FA has a fighting spirit that simply can not be broken. We want to fight. We live for the fight. We can’t survive without the fight.

We are as a server looking to fill our time coverage gap. SEA/EU we NEED you. We strive to create a competitive server to bring better overall stability to the higher end tiers. Better competition makes for better game play which makes for more fun and more loot. Everyone wins. We are never happy. We always want more. There’s never enough people for us to kill. Join us, you will not regret it. We will do everything in our power to make the transition seamless.

FA has a server forum, a great ts3 community, and a willingness to always improve.

Need to see FA in action?

Here you go, enjoy:

RET in action:

BT in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-grwI5AZYQ0

AVTR in action:

Like what you see?

Send myself a PM in game, or on this server. Lets make a deal.

Join us!

Thanks for your time in reading this.

As a member of a non-WvW active guild who plays WvW a lot, it doesn’t take long to figure out who the commanders are by name whether they have a tag on or not. Plus it’s easy to determine which commanders are worth following or not.

In fact the other day we were running around the map without a commander icon but were still acting as an organized group.

salluks.6017:

I agreee with most of your points, but the bigger priority is Nightcapping/ stale rankings/gameplay than commander books.

In a 24-hour global MMO what you’re calling “nightcapping” is simply normal game play. If anything, losing territory overnight mixes things up. It would be kind of boring if things rarely changed hands. I don’t think that one is ever going to change, much less be a priority to change.

The rankings, however, are probably going to get even more stable now that transfers are no longer free and that’s going to get stale fast for whichever server is always on the short end of it. I think they should ALWAYS switch the first and last place servers no matter what (except the overall first and last of course).

The “commander” thing just doesn’t make sense to me. Once you have that icon it should indicate you have WvW experience. Right now it’s too often just players wanting to tell others what to do. A lot of us simply ignore them until they we see them earn it. I’d really like to have confidence in that blue dot when I see it.

why can’t we build a ladder to climb over the wall,, why can’ we launch a mesmer over the wall with cata.

Hey I can see that guy on the ground shooting arrows up at me! Really, truly I can see him! He is standing right there! Look! Yet when I go to fire back I get this thing called “obstructed” and I have to stand right on the edge of the wall in order to hit him. Now correct me if I am mistaken but should not the people IN THE FORT have more protection then those OUTSIDE?

I want to jump out of the ground like those caravan guards. That would be way cool!

Speaking of Caravan guards why is it called a caravan when there is only 1 yak?

I want to train my dogs to run straight up walls! Then I could have fun by throwing the ball up on the roof and telling them to “go fetch”!

Why can’t my jeweler use the pearls in the lake for recipes? They are quite a bit larger then the normal ones he uses so it should make a larger piece of jewelry right?

Can I leave my badge at home so the enemy cannot loot it off my body?

Speaking of which I know for a fact that the enemy I just killed has a Legendary weapon, exotic armor and some real nice trinkets. Why then do I only get spikes and low level stuff when I loot his corpse? Where did all that nice stuff go?

Having a clear view of 2-5 guys that you charge while solo/duo in order to farm their badges suddenly and miraculously summoning another 25+ people in a perfect ball formation around you from the bowels of some dimension called ‘culling’ which instantly vaporizes you.

Also:

Why is it that gravel and boulders are suitable for catapulting, but not an Asura?

Arrow carts should be mobile at half normal run speed.

Nilkemia.8507:

The maps being required for 100% completion when the other 95% was PvE content.

And yeah, dunno about you guys, but I actually feel bad when I come up on someone alone and kill them, only afterward realizing they were likely just mapping. Unless openly attacked, there are often times I will even leave someone I see going for vistas and such alone. At very least they’re new.

WvW was kind of the whole reason I bought the game. Me and my fiancee played Warhammer for a few years, and she got addicted to open-world PvP. When that game went down the crapper (well, it kind of already was down the crapper, but it got flushed to the very bottom of the septic system, as it were), we got our PvP fix where we could until Guild Wars 2 was released. She told me, “It looks like Warhammer with a bigger budget!” At the time, I agreed. I wasn’t the jaded cynic then, that I am now.

We took our time with the game, because maybe in the back of our minds, we were trying to avoid being disappointed. But when we finally got ourselves into exotics (not as cheap or easy as people claim), we went out into WvW together. It was like being a kid excited for Christmas, but finding a stocking full of dog droppings, and a giant, steaming stool in the corner next to the cookies and milk. Now I am thinking Elder Scrolls Online is our last resort for good open-world PvP. I guess we’ll see. I don’t see this game ever being fixed, because the developers don’t really have any motivation to make that happen. To be honest, they don’t seem to really care that much about the game at all. So why should we?

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

I wish I had written this, but I couldn’t have said it better.

I completely agree the OP and his points.

“Only a WvW player has 10g in the bank and thinks he’s rich”.

I did when I first hit 10g. Then when I made 20g I thought I was swimming. I like to make my own gear cuz like the crafting and PvE stuff too, so am back down to 8g. But have a guildie who fracs and crawls alot, and when she told me her ascended back piece cost her 80g in comps….. I was disabused of the notion that I was rich. >.<

vespers.1759:

wish.3102:

I bet he ran by a guy /sleeping and thought the guy was dead, and then he got ganked and now he’s crying, lol.

haha i once saw a guy with a raptor potion hiding in the raptors on the borderlands map.

it was actually hilarious

lol that’s genius!