Nice. You are now arguing that your definition of a class that Anet created is better than that of the people who created the class.
I’m pointing out that the person was ignorant of basic English for thinking ‘ranger’ meant ranged… they have no basis for that thinking other than the sound of a word.
As for the ArenaNet argument… look at what the class does. It’s not a WoW hunter…
It supposed to do what they describe it doing. Not sure why you’re even bringing WoW into it. Who wanted it to be a WoW hunter? Are you saying Anet wanted it to be a WoW hunter? Please explain.
Ranger as a GW2 class means what they describe it to mean. Not a LoTR character, Not a WoW hunter, Not an Army Ranger, Not Chuck Norris, Not a Forest Ranger, Not someone on walkabout, Not a PETA hippie.
The vast majority of builds were nerfed. I’m glad yours was not. The idea of balance is not to bring everything to the lowest level of mediocrity, but to bring everything to a state of equal usefulness. That did not happen.
You’re missing his point. The term ranger is not made up by Anet, it’s a real-world term that is commonly used in fantasy. The term has nothing to do with using ranged weapons, it defines someone who ranges, i.e. a scout or warden.
Sigh. Pedantry at it’s finest.
An in game term is defined…where?…in game.
If you want to discuss real world terms versus in game terms, go for it. You are just trying to obfuscate the discussion.
“Rawr!! Swords are melee weapons in the real world!! wtf is that Mesmer doing!!!! I’m calling my Senator!!!”
This is a poor analogy, but it isn’t worth arguing anymore. You can go on believing that word definitions are totally arbitrary and it’s totally legitimate to redefine them at the drop of a hat by anybody at any time.
So what you mean is that you recognize that he’s right and you’re wrong.
ANet’s definition of the class is what matters.
PS:
“Being “unparalleled archers” implies neither being the most powerful ranged class …”
You’re right, it implies that they are either the best with bows or the worst at it, i guess the later is what they ment, since both warriors and thieves are better archers.
“This expression refers to their intended versatility at range, which they are unmatched at now between axes, shortbows, and longbows”
Loved it when you said rangers are unparalelled archers because they also lob axes, priceless.
For instance, i’d love to see the points depend on the number of opponents on the map (stuff is easier to get, why would it give as much points, it makes no sense).
Also i thought the jaguar 100% crit on stealth was a stealth mechanic, not a jaguar specific thing. Wouldn’t that change affect thieves too?
Like when they nerfed quickness it also affected our QZ? Ranger was not OP with or without QZ to warrant that nerf, so it was nerfed because it was a shared mechanic.
I’m not completely against double teaming, for the reasons people have stated before.
What i think is ruining wvw is skill lag from blobs (if the servers can’t take it, Anet should do something to prevent blobs) and night capping (mainly night capping).
I think the problem with blobs is the lag it causes the server, disabling any skill that isn’t auto attack.
I doubt zerg busting guilds can even do anything vs a big blob with just auto attack.
Don’t bother buying exotics with gold, you can get pieces either through karma merchants in Orr (these ones seem to be pretty meh on stats) or by running dungeons for the tokens to get the pieces.
yeah thanks i know about dungeons and karma merchants. i have a fully geared level 80 ele. i plan on purchasing the exotic set for my ranger with gold because it’s the easiest option for me right now.
You can buy a full set of rabid gear in orr with karma (minus weapons), for a trapper build.
I personally have never believed in alliances. That would only take advantage if both servers had 24h coverage, like VS. But in our case, where servers have capping in different moments, the alliances aren’t worth.
Anyway, now the map doesn’t show any alliance. Baruch is strong in his map, also attacking SR one. SR focus on Kodash map and EB is equilibrated.
The income evolution graphic seems to indicate that your server has very good 24h coverage (much better coverage than SFR or Kodash, in fact), so what’s the problem?
If we have some people that feel offended by something so insignificant well…internet is not a place for you guys :P In da internet, da internet ogres troll a lot !
Yeah, i guess … as long as other servers don’t start picking on us because of that. XD
And if that happens pleeeeeeeeeease, don’t start calling people “Teletubbies” :S
Anything but that!
pikachus? now that’s insulting, i’d rather being called a PUG (as in someone that was randomly chosen for a “Pick Up Group”) than being compared to a cartoon rat …
Some players are trying to alienate casuals and pugs by forcing them to join Teamspeak, and completely leave them out of any information if they don’t join, hiding the Commander Tag and everything.
Bringing people into TS is not alienating, it’s briging people closer.
Alienating would be preventing someone from using TS.
About withholding information, maybe people have too much going on during wvw to be able to write information in chat, and you can’t deny speaking an order is much easier and faster than writing it.
In the end of the day it’s our choice to join TS or not.
I too would like to know that, i always lose vs engis now.
Ofcourse i have no knowledge of the class, so i too would like some thoughts as to why and how i’m getting blown up to pieces, and how can i avoid it.
I never failed to see it’s use. It’s use is cheap blueprints and badges. I did it once a day for just that reason. If I’m not eating up a spot in WvW while doing it, so much the better…
Agree with this 100%.
Now, how about a direct entrance to the JP map instead of having to queue to EB?
If there is a massive queue and you are a WvWer, you wouldnt go to JP for sure.
On the other hand, and assuming the entrances are still the same, it doesn’t make any sense having to go into a massive EB queue to access the jumping puzzle, when one wants to go to the jumping puzzle and not EB.
The video isn’t mine, i just thought it could be relevant for this thread, and maybe it’ll be useful for someone, if the build in the video description actualy works as advertised (i never got to check it out in game).
the queue priority is for switching between the maps compared to the ones which want to get into W3 at all … as I understood.
Then in my opinion it shouldn’t be this way, want to leave the borderland, get to the back of the queue. If it is the way above, it promotes leaving the captured points undefended because you can easily come back in 10 minute time when you finished steamrolling the other borderland.
But coming back to the core question, what kind of problems a zerg is causing really (beside the known & discussed lags which all players face in big zergs)
I thought everyone is free to join a zerg or not… so why should zerging become obsolete in this content at all?
Well, with a little help from ANet, it already destroyed at least 2 servers, Seafarers and Desolation, so there is that for a start.
… and a zerg of 50 players hopping to another BL might be already a problem due to the fact that they have to wait most likely…
As far as i have observed, they don’t have to wait, or else they’d be in queue for 2 hours or more, and they are not.
Aparently, and i may be wrong so please correct me if i am, people already in wvw seem to have queue priority even when moving to another borderland.
Seriously?
Not one of you sees a problem with a type of gameplay that only consists of mass jumping from borderland to borderland capturing forts, where there is zero effort made to defend a captured point?
“Well, no problem, we’ll come back in 5 minutes to capture it again!”
It’s stupid to be in a empty borderland, capturing forts back, then suddenly, out of no where, we get the outmaned debuff, get runover by a truck, and lose all the forts again in 5 minutes.
Then we lose the outmaned buff and start retaking the forts, and 15 mins later, outmanned again and the story repeats.
Come on, make it so people changing borderlands end up in the end of the queue.
Then the if they want to blob in one server, the other servers still have 3 other border lands to play in. Otherwise they will have to spread among the 4 borderlands instead of blobbing.
This is what i don’t get.
I’ve read reports of Vizunah having huge queues.
So how can the blob be jumping from borderland to borderland at will?
Do people already in wvw have precedence over the people in the queue?
why would any sane person play an MMO on a console, given the choice? Masochism?
Any sane person would prefer a game system that is half the price, has twice the longevity, has more available blockbusters and has the guaranty that it will work with good performance for any game available.
That being said, if consoles ever stop shunning the keyboard and mouse crowd (or if they come up with better input hardware), i will gladly make the transition. The day that happens, is also probably the day the PC will become exclusively a work machine.
Until then i guess i’ll have to keep performing expensive upgrades … or keep playing with the lowest settings possible. -.-
by the way, the karma vendor at the door to arah has 4 pieces of condition, precision and toughness medium armor. the other two are from balthazar and lyssa, i think.
I would not recommend GW2 to a friend who plays casualy, due to the massive grind nature of the game.
And if you are a casual and your game is about wvw, you’ll be eventually be cannon fodder to grinders with maxed gear.
So i wouldn’t recomend the game to casuals, since it is not casual friendly.
To people who would not mind grinding, i would recomend the game (i do think the game is visualy great, the playability too, over all lots of fun), unfortunally the ones i know left the game before reaching level 80, when MoP launched (their loss).
