Guild Wars 2

The range is based off of the pet, if the pet is not in the 1,200 range it won’t work properly. Best bet is wait to swap till your sure your in 1,200 range and then cast SaR. Funny that you can actually pull players to you from over 2,000+ range due to this, screws with ppl in pvp lol.

A: It’s NOT a druid bug
B: It’s a very well known bug

It is caused either by CC or condi clearing imobilize (had it happen in both cases many times). At the moment my FAVORITE bug is launching people into the air so they can’t use skills. If longbow ranger uses kb and pushes players against certain walls they will be launched into the air for 1~2 seconds and are unable to use skills, forcing people to eat a full rapid fire with no way to counter (can’t use any skills when your not touching the ground, even instant casts).

Ananeos.4587:

Bunker Mesmer didn’t speak for the entire Mesmer class either, look what happened. It’s time the torch was passed down to the other classes.

Nice, the usual “my class got kittened, now it’s your turn” mentality.

I agree with the OP, ranger has had this issue for a long time too.

Things have gone down hill since the since june or july patch (idr date exactly). Thats when all the warriors/theifs were basically forced out of pvp and we were left with condi spammage for months, after the condi spammage came bunker spammage, and now we have 7k one shot spam… GG Anet, CoD style gw2, 1~2 shot kills, passives out the kitten , and zero skill builds that can do amazing even if they are facing a player that has much more experience then them.

LughLongArm.5460:

So you say, nerf all pets by reducing attribute bonus and then buff all pets except for smokescale and bristleback? Here is an idea, nerf smokescale and bristleback?

Buff all pets to the same viable level as smokescale, nerf bristleback f2 by increasing CD to 15s and reducing dmg by 15%. Smokescale is fine as is, if you think it’s not well idgaf.

Edit: also give pets some type of perma speed boost so they can’t be kited as easily. That’s the whole reason you rarely see birds/dogs/cats/spiders/etc… Smokescale can just teleport and stick to your target unlike any other pet. If you think pets being kiting isn’t an issue then you don’t belong on ranger forum, go back to your mains section.

I for one will say I CAN spam CAF every 10 seconds, and I do toggle in/out non stop. Between my shouts giving regen (to my pet and self minimally) and SotW I can refill my CA bar wicked fast. Even faster if you also think about my LB 2 & 5, staff AA.

With that said…. I DO NOT THINK we deserve any type of CAF nerf as it stands. If we got a COMPLETELY redesigned CAF then I’d agree, nerf it. CAF as it stand now SUCKS! CAF is has 2 good skills in most situations, 3 & 5, I typically hit those two and toggle right back out.

Even if every single hit from the birds crit’d, you’d likely still be better off AA’ing for more damage output. It’s damage is garbage and outside using it for the trait glitch I would never touch it.

Also forgot to mention there are two possible keybinds (I don’t remember their defaults) which will force target closest enemy and farthest away.

Very understandable, espeically when fighting minion heavy teams (like a mesmer and MM necro on the same point). Your best friend is typically TAB in those situations.

When your fighting a MM necro click the ground to remove any targets and then press tab, it will 99% of the time focus the necro instead of the minons.

When fighting a mesmer your best bet is still to manually click on them, but if that gets too unreliable you will just have to spam the TAB button until it gives you the proper target.

Also when using tab to target a specific enemy you should try to have that target as close to the center of your screen as possible for best results.

Best of luck.

I’m sure its been mentioned but to hell with it…

trait ‘Enlargement’ procs at 50% hp, but if your in Celestial Avatar it kicks you out of CA with 0% Astral force left… so yea… fix b4 seaons

send me one xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Honestly I prefer just chucking hammers for 2~5k autoattacks on rev and 10k #2 on a 4s cd… GG ANET!

CC, condi spam and a billion passives…

Anet buffs ranger shouts but we cant use them or they get corrupted into poison and cripple… Just sick of patch after patch after patch of crap that just makes pvp more cancer than it was before.

If you think GW2 needs to continue down this condi, cc, and passive spam road good for you. I for one am done till this crap is fixed… Back to EVE Online I go…

Meh, thanks for killing AED for build that weren’t even meant to be serious, now I can’t even run it in a ‘for fun’ build.

All the necros keep saying L2P, we aren’t that OP…

If I play ranger and I want to run shouts, guess what? My shouts give regen and swiftness when trait for lower cooldowns, now its poison and cripple…

If I play guardian and want to run mediations, guess what? my fury just gets corrupted and my single condi removal on utilites gives me boons which will just be condis again…

I wanna play rev, guess what happens? Quickness becomes slow, stability is fear and chill, resistance is chill, might is weakness, etc etc.

The list goes on and on. There is no L2P issues here, MANY classes gain a boon to their skills when they trait for lower cooldowns and the such. Half our skills gives us boons passively when we don’t want them and it just kittens us. Sick of the bullkitten corrupt for days.

While we are at it, look at the alacrity nerf… 66% decrease was too op, 66% increase in recharge isn’t? k anet, best logic, chill is fine as is…

Wow… the walls of text…

Games played: 2,501

Main: Ranger
Ranger games played: 735
Build: Shoutbow Varient (site slightly out of date, actual amulet used is Paladin’s)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJAVWnUqAVsg9sA2CCctglFBD+pWV/qPRhW3LbpFEAOaA-TpBFABLcEAA4BAIdZABuAAFt/ABHCAA

Other: Necromancer
Necromancer games player: 283
Build: Frostfire Varient (actual amulet used is Mecenary’s)
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vRAQNArYWnc0Al3gd2A22A0biFjBL6nFAGAUNhoQtKuHGEPiA-TJxHwAg2fAwRAwYZgAHCAA

Edit: Forgot to change utilities & weapons

In my forum post I can not type kitten

For people that just see the word “kitten” I will type out in LETTERS

FOUR POINT FIVE S

THE NUMBEkittenRIOD, THE NUMBER 5, AND THE LETTER ‘S’
NO SPACES.

Numbers no longer allowed on the forums now? GJ ANET!!!!

okay… this is just stupid… now my bug post is bugging out and more crap is being blepped… im done…. anet fix your forums and fix your game, this is just entirely unprofessional …

My ideas were to keep the weapon simply as it is for a baseline, and just modify the trait for NOW. If we get drastic changes we will just keep perpetuating the power creep that currently exists. As time goes we can add more strength to the shortbow as needed to make it as viable as other weapons.

The main reason shortbow is no longer viable is due to the fact its base damage hits extremely low. The bleed base duration is only 3 seconds,compared to necro scepter AA of kitten , (duration increased to by 70% and 33% chance to cause bleed on crit and increased condition damage by 150 all with one minor and 1 GM trait; leaves bleed with 8s duration with other bonuses).

The shortbow has a baseline 3s bleed (3.3s when traited, such a joke) that requires a flank, LoyF only gives a 10% increase for 4s (compared to the necro 70% perma increase). The only traits we have that help our bleeds are Sharpened Edges (which doesn’t actually make them stronger, just more of them) and Hidden Barbs flat 33% damage buff to bleeds only. LoyF also adds a 10% condi duration but 10% of 3s is so minimal it’s pathetic for a GM trait.

EDIT: Anet… what… the… hell…. i cant use the number four point five s? your actually bleeping FOUR POINT FIVE S (i have to spell it out cause anet is dumb as hell).

I noticed it only worked on skills that have a base daze of 3s or more. My thinking is the Daze is rounded DOWN to the nearest whole number, EX: 3s daze extended by 33% = 4s but 2s daze extended by 33% is only 2.66s so rounded back down to 2s.

This may not be the case, but that is how it feels to me.

So sick of all the “necro is hp sponge” posts… ever since b4 gw2 was launched anet said from the get go… “we want necro to have more survivability than any other class due to their secondary life force bar”.

You want to complain that ele cant beat it and you dont want to have to team fight it down. Well here is the thing, your average necro is running carrion amulet and has roughly 45k ish total hp if the necro is at 100% DS. The DS naturally decays, does not go back up while still in shroud (except through the auto attack), and they have zero condi cleanse in shroud (LEARN 2 ABUSE SOFT CC, IMOB FTW). Survival rangers are GREAT against reapers espeically if they are running spider for more imob, rangers just spam that imob and cripple to victory!

Seems to me everyone is asking “make necro die fast as everyone else” when anet said from the get go, they want the opposite for it. Yea, its takes a team efforts to kill 45k hp condi behemoth, thats the point. The necro is a run away class, let it build up momentum and you’ll regret it.

The only truely broken thing about necro atm is its ability to spam conditions COMBINED with the rate at which it converts boons to conditons (1 boon per 3.5s on a single utility, gj anet). Other than that, necro IS balanced. What I would TRUELY love to see is necro condi/corruption toned down and power actually made viable for the 1st time in about a year now.

I can confirm mesmer rune worked a couple months ago, increased necro wh daze by a full second

oh my god… best post ever… I’d +1 billion if i could….

Locuz.2651:

Meta still needs to settle, just had a major overhaul. Give it some time to rest.

Far from a major overhaul, Some OP things were made more OP, some OP things remained OP, some OP things got made non OP, Some non OP things got made OP.

Still going to be the same old ranger pet spam, revenant hybrid spam, necro condi spam, and theif vault spam. The only real change I even noticed as of yet is the considerable lack of eles due to their unkillability was taken away.

Muchacho.2390:

Allison The Strange.4519:

Also I forgot to mention… Ever since… well ever…. Spectral Armor: Gain life force as you take damge. REMOVED WHEN YOU ENTER DEATH SHROUD. Also applies protection.

It is NOT removed when you enter Death Shroud. If this was a ranger skill it’d get fixed in seconds >.>

Please not this again… It is fully intended that spectral skills dont get removed by entering Shroud. The tool tip is from a time where those effects didnt have an icd of 1 second and Anet never bothered to change it. But since you are probably one of those people that wont believe me here the update changes from that time (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_updates/June_2013).

But going back to the topic at hand. I may be baised (since i dont really like the trait) but the deathly chill trait is what has to be looked at. Best would probably to simply rework it to something else.

Can’t blame some1 for not knowing something that took place 2.5yrs ago and anet doesn’t bother updating a tool tip in that SHORT amount of time.

Petrol.9086:

If Necros are too strong because of corruption maybe they should change some skills to steal boons rather than corrupt them. Boon denial theme/role still very much there but with less pressure.
Another idea might be to move the boon corrupt on scepter AA to unholy feast instead.

There is actually very few necros who use scepter, it is a non issue. Most necros camp staff/shroud and only use their secondary set when everything else is on CD. Even then you don’t stand around spamming 1 for a single boon corrupt. What you propose would be yet another buff.

Edited for wording, I’m bad at grammer.

Also I forgot to mention… Ever since… well ever…. Spectral Armor: Gain life force as you take damge. REMOVED WHEN YOU ENTER DEATH SHROUD. Also applies protection.

It is NOT removed when you enter Death Shroud. If this was a ranger skill it’d get fixed in seconds >.>

I will try to be as objective as possible.

I have necro as my second main, I mostly wvw’d with it but I have 283 games played and almost 1,000 hours spent on my necro.

The boon corruption is not balanced as it currently stands. If a necro TRAITS for corruptions (which most will) corrupt boon is on a TEN SECOND cooldown. Basic math skills dictate that necro is on average corrupting 1 boon per 3.5 seconds on a single skill (added in the .5s cast time). This frees necros from their usual signets in order to take more powerful utilities and heals.

I’m HOPING Anet’s idea was to give reaper a LITTLE buff but instead this allows reapers to take for instance “Spectral Armor” and/or “Spectral Walk” for a HUGE increase in their life force generation. This now makes them tanking behemoths (due to extreme life force generation) as well as HUGE condition damage dealers. Due to this new form of life force generation and no longer relying on signets, necros can now drop the trait line “Spite” which has “Signets of Suffering” for “Curses” which contains “Plague Sending”, “Master of Corruption”, and “Weakening Shroud”. This brings about a free 5 condition transfer, 1 free aoe boon corrupt on entering shroud, and aoe bleed on entering shroud.

All in all this more than doubles the necro’s life force generation, adds to their tanking ability, and adds to their mobility. I honestly feel as though they were balanced before the patch, much better than they are now. If you respond with ‘well this top teir guy went against this top teir guy and this person lost’ I’m going to ignore you. The game should not be balanced around the top 1%, the majority of players are not the top 1% even though many think they are.

Edit: Forgot to mention instead of traiting for shorter “corrupt boon” you can choose “Patch of corruption” to give you a 2x boon corruption on a 5 second cooldown in reaper shroud.

Coffietire.2783:

If you have stocked up a good bit of karma, here’s a cool way to make gold off of it.

• Step 1) Complete this heart event if you haven’t
  http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Teach_quaggans_how_to_raise_crabs
• Step 2) The heart merchant for that heart event sells cloth crab grabbin’ gloves, buy as many as you want (just make sure it’s a number divisible by four)
• Step 3) As all karma equipment are, these gloves aren’t salvageable. However, if you combine four of these gloves into the mystic forge, there is a high chance that they will turn into a salvageable level 45 glove set, which, when salvaged, will yield cotton or linen.
• Step 4) Sell the cotton and linen on the trading post and repeat this process as many times as you’d like.

This method is probably just as boring as playing the trading post and doesn’t pay off as much, but it sure is a lot less time consuming.

I used to do this, had one of those pocket forges and used macros…. even with macros it would still take HOURS to go through all the karma I have. I eventually got sick of it and sold my pocket forge back on the tp for a slight loss and don’t regret it… must have spent 10hours doing that crap at least.

I’m not asking because I don’t like my way, just curios as to how others spend their time in gw2 for their gold.

Personally I do three things; I wait for special events (like lunar new year) find a specific item that has a good effect, stock up on it, and sell it 6~9 months later for a 30~100% markup. Second I farm harvesting nodes, I can make 10~17g an hour doing this by following specific route on certain maps (with a 20% guild buff). Lastly I just do whatever pvp content excites me at the time, its surprising how much gold you make just screwing around doing fractals, wvw, or other random content.

Please don’t bother posting with “play the tp” that’s boring spreadsheet work.

+1
Really enjoying it with a BM twist, the added bleed damage wasn’t enough with all the necro’s in shroud running around so I enjoy the extra direct damage to force them out sooner.

Despite the topic name, I’m not actually asking for ANY changes to shortbow, just a single trait.

The trait; I would change “Light on you Feet” funtionality from dodging to evading an attack as it would synergize so much better with shortbow #3 as it an evade. Secondly I think making the effect stack in DURATION for those moments we are forced to double dodge so it is not wasted. Lastly increase the condition duration from 10% to 15% or 20% as the bleeds from the auto doesn’t come close to being on the same level as many other classes with their auto attacks.

That is all, I don’t think this asking too much. It will make getting the buff easier and harder at the same time by forcing you to dodge an attack but giving you more way to obtain with weapon/utility skills. Stacking the duration would make it useful for longer than 3 of the 4 seconds we have the buff.

At least in my openion it doesn’t match the same level as quickdraw on the same level of usefulness, even in a 100% condi build.

Necro has traited 50% crit rate in reaper/shroud. Was running soldiers with that trait and I could wreck people easy, this would make it worse.

Evan Lesh.3295:

That player must be pretty dedicated to get to rank 20 and Ruby division in 2 days.

There is an upcoming change that will help with the problem described.

1. Rank 20 is easy, I did it on an alt account already and it didn’t even take the full two days. Also he started 2 days prior so it was his third day of pvp.

2. He was emrald.

3. He was solo queued.

4. Fix your game.

I was on a team yesterday in RANKED (we lost) and I somewhat raged at our dragonhunter in the heat of the moment. He calmly messaged and asked me what he should have done and how he could be better. I asked him how long ago he had started playing PvP and he said only TWO DAYS prior and had only bought the game TWO weeks earlier.

Of course I apologized to him as I didn’t realize anet was giving me such noobie players on my team and I taught him a few things and even gave him a guild invite.

But my point is I’m in ruby, I have 2,479 games played, and 5,352 hours logged in game… Why am I getting placed on a team with a person who has likely played less than 20 pvp games? Does anet want me to find another game to play?

There is no L2P issue on my side that could EVER counterbalance this issue. This type of matchmaking turns the game into essentially a 4v5 (or worse than a 4v5 if he is causing enemies to rally).

This has only happened to me three times and each was during PvP. I would be mid match or loading into a match and I’d have the crash pop up box asking me if I’d like to send the error report to anet (not that they give you the option not to). Normally when this happens your game has locked up, stopped responding, or completely closed out.

When I get this pop up box the game still plays normally and I can continue to play the game as if nothing has happened other than the fact I have this annoying pop up window sitting on my screen and the best I can do is drag it off to the side and restart the client after the match.

Normally I’d just ignore something like this but twice it poped up right in the middle of my screen mid fight in pvp and caused me to lose both fights as it forces focus from the game to the pop up window and then I have to move the box out of the way just to see what is going on.

Edit: Just want to point out, this error message pop up window is set to always sit on top of your gw2 window so it is rather obtrusive.

You can either be stunned or dazed, not both afaik.

I have an ‘Attuned Vine of the Pale Tree (Infused)’ and I’m unable to salvage it. Is this intended? Using an ascended salvage kit of course.

The character’s own body clips through the armor and looks rather terrible. Noticed it while using a makeover kit.

Edit: It’s Ferratu’s Doublet chest piece (the back of the left arm)

Not looking for anything super hardcore. I am not interested in ANYTHING PvE related. No PvX guild that has PvE as a primary focus. Guild must have dedicated TeamSpeak (vox, raidcall, vent, etc. is a deal breaker). No rep requirement is also a must unless running as a guild team or something along those lines.

2,235 games played
Ranger 605 (Condi survival, rarely LB)
Engi 444 (I don’t play kits typically, usually static discharge)
Mesmer 369 (Usually power, rarely condi)
Rest 240 or less

I typically like to play condi or support. At the moment still getting used to Condi Reaper. I am well versed in Cele Condi Survival Ranger. I prefer Stronghold over Conquest.

Please PM or send me an game mail. Timezone is irrelevant to me as my sleep schedule can change drastically from day to day.

New bug will be in attachment, will be VERY obvious when you see it…

The old I only see happen when I use Black Widow spider. When your pet is chilled (the black widow) which is CONSTANTLY due to the overwhelming amount added to the game….. the pets cooldowns now act as if the pet has PERMA chill so the kitten cd on F2 becomes 1 minute and 15 seconds (roughly). The bug persists to pet swap (my wolf for instance) and its F2 recharge becomes the same HUGE 1minute 15seconds (base kitten.

So uhhh we EVER going to see a fix? just wondering cause that bug is uhhh about a year or more old? idk

My guild has gone in with half decent players and won with this strat 100% of the time…
Two DH running full zerk, traps, and virtues trait line
One auramancer tempest ele, cele is best amy for its role
Two somewhat tanky heavy condi based builds like chill reaper or burn guardian while running rabid or wanderer’s is great

Basically your WHOLE team goes defense and you don’t even bother with offense AT ALL. DH’s place their traps randomly around your gate and up and down your defend lane. The DH’s just spam away at 2 & 5. With people trapped inside of the guardians traps and #5 your two condi classes finishes them off quickly with their burns & chills. For the 2~3 that don’t die to your initial engagement you just simply have your auramancer ele apply constant auras while the dragonhunters and spam 2 to victory while the condi classes cc (soft or hard) to keep them in range of the dragonhunters.

In Stronghold most teams don’t have any real coordination when it actually comes to a full 5v5 team fight. Your team WILL be able to survive their full assault AND any archers they may spawn. You get FIVE points for every kill your team gets and you will get TONS of them. This is the most fun way to fight in stronghold because you will get CONSTANT fights and win 99% of the time because their full team is likely glass and have no sustain or synergy to win any extended team fight.

Small edit: Have your full team go for the Mist Essence on defense side for the extra points only if it’s required.

That was actually my most loved time in GW2. Condi Survival Ranger was actually really strong then so ranger was actually relevent… unlike now where I see a ranger on my team and I think “$#!% a ranger!?”

So I finally got my rev up to 80 today and used quite a few of those hero potion things from WvW for hero points. I got a couple of the utililites unlocked but the skill bar flashes nonstop anytime I’m in herald for the never ending swiftness and prefight passive might buff. I don’t yet have the elite unlocked or the 3rd utility and I like won’t for a while. Why am I being ‘notified’ that I don’t have skills in those slots when I actually can’t put anything there?

Without a doubt the most annoying thing other than a couple noises some of the mini’s make in the game >.>

Still haven’t gotten around to fixing The Dreamer yet? Sounds are still random and does not consistantly play them. I assume the howler is still broken but idk that for sure.

Balance patches once every 6 months or more. Got one in July so don’t expect another till around Xmas or after New Years. Anet is notorious for releasing completely broken trait changes leaving a few classes extremely OP and others extremely useless.

Spent about half a fortune making this thing. Other people can hear me shooting it but I hear nothing which is annoying.

Operating System
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
CPU
AMD Phenom II X4 945 40 °C
Deneb 45nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 531MHz (7-7-7-20)
Motherboard
FOXCONN ALOE (CPU 1) 51 °C
Graphics
SyncMaster (1920×1080@60Hz)
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Storage
931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EADS-65M2B1 SCSI Disk Device (RAID)
Optical Drives
hp BDDVDRW CH20L SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

Sound Cards
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Playback Devices
Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) (default)
Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Recording Device
Microphone (Realtek High Definition Audio)

Esc key is a bit out of the way for my keyboard, requires moving my entire hand away from my movement and skill keys. Clicking on ground is a shot in the dark as well, especially in a zerg fight. I find when clicking on the ground I have to click multiple times even if I’m not clicking anything.

I assume the need to click multiple times is to help those “click skills with mouse” players when they miss click.

ATM my key binds are super simple
A: strafe left… S: back up… D: strafe right… 1-6: default… Q: dodge… W: forward… E: heal… Utilities: on my mouse…
I click my elite so I don’t accidentally use it.

Higher AP = More invested in the game and less likely to quit no matter how mad you get. Also more likely to exchange gems to gold when they eventually go for legendarys.

Less AP = More likely to keep playing the game if you get awesome rewards.

Simple way to keep new players in the game and old players spending money on gems. Personally I’m at 12k AP (I think) and have over about 250 account wide MF (along with 20% infusion and any food buffs I use) and I have never seen a precursor except once. The one precurser I did get was from the mystic forge, I spent over 1,500g on exotics and only got a single dusk (worth 1.2k at the time).

I’ve also spent another 500~800g on exotics and tossed them in forge and still yet to get a 2nd precursor.

RNG works as intended, to kitten us in the butt every chance it gets.

nearly 3 weeks and no fix…

bunch of sorry kittens

Dante.1763:

All you are going to do is get this thread locked. Believe me, they know its glitched and not working.

We know anets not working, thats why are kittening, they are too busy coming up with the next gem store idea…