Guild Wars 2

felt like a kitten and decided to read the entire thing, +1
I agree

didnt read most of what you wrote but I agree with what I did read

yes, but no idea when. looks more and more like 2015

Teq is fine just the way he is, they just need to boost the rewards A LOT. There should be a guaranteed exotic, or atleast 4-8 rares.

Also they need a higher level champ bag for world bosses, you can go to FGS and get the same champ bag in 30 seconds

10/30/0/30/0 is also what I run.

Reflects from focus just too valuable to lose, you keep empowering mantras, and I personally use the trait to heal when I charge mantras.. by far my fav skill for fractals

S/P is beyond superior to D/D. D/D has better dps on a single target, somewhat, and thats it. S/P offers more. Caltrops, Signet of Malaice, some dragon candy/ omnom pie, and Pistol Whip will regen your hp and keep it above 90% for scholar runes in every encounter

Staff has super high PVE damage in dungeon groups
D/D is prob the most fun play style in the game, in both PVE and WVW.

I hate scepter but its kind of taken the Daggers popularity away

only ranger was difficult for me to level and its the only one I did any crafting with.

I love alt leveling actually, I just hate hearts so I never do them. just do one or two levels a day and it is what it is if not dont do it at all, or be smart and farm up enough g when you can crafting each everything to 400 over and over tunl you are lvl 80

I love having one necro in my party regardless of anything

I understand everything youre saying. I didnt mind ascended jewels or weapons, but the armor is just ridiculous. Getting Ascended earrings is also ridiculous.

Can we do something about the CS events on cursed shore? theyre ALWAYS broken. The Gates of Arah was finally fixed today and it lasted all of 6 or 7 hours before it broke again, and now we have to wait another two weeks? This is 2 months now the same thing….

Valentino.2698:

nullixin.9462:

Taking my disguise (too) seriously sometimes.

I would like to know which chest and boots u are wearing in the second picture on your mesmer.

what is that complete set on the left???? I like it a lot, youre about to get copied. I know what helm and shoulders those are, thats it

These boards have way too much QQ but lets try to calm it down for awhile. Theres a HUGE amount of new players (Especially on my server wow) and its not fair for us to put this negativity out there because of our reasons.

Lets all try to greet and help new players enjoy the game!

Happy new year friends and anet

ascended medium armor is gangster, the rest sucks

same build I use, just need to time your pistol whips and evades better. perhaps use shortbow a little more

can we talk more about zap or spark, dawn and dusk are played out

Lindbur.2537:

You should save up, the surest and most risk free way of getting a precursor is to simply buy it off the TP. I did so for my Dawn.

On a somewhat related note, I’ve been extremely lucky today. I confess, I came here to show it, but really, getting it as a drop is… not likely to happen. I’m a jerk. :x

congrats and my hate for you is strong… jk, but no really, its strong

Yea I dont see the PVE complaints at all. I actually stopped playing my thief in PVE a logn time ago because its so easy with him. For maps you can literally use S/P 5,1 on everything, even things 20 levels higher than you and win.

I just broke out my thief again recently because im making Bolt and dont know if I want to give it to ym Mesmer. For dungeons pistol whip owns everything. I run S/P D/D dont even bother using my shortbow and im just dandy. Ranger is the only class I can see complaining about PVE because their mechanics are warped.

I DEF find Zerker Thief way easier to play than Zerker guard, though my guard does out damage my thief slightly

700g isnt that bad either

best way to go about this? horror stories of the forge?

is it best to just save up and buy this bad boy?

Nilgoow.1037:

Longbow and bear.

this comment was so stupid and it made me giggle like a child

17g at the moment

highest had was 1650 or a drop less

crazy

guy in my guild got one last night and it cost him 120g. he has 1200 achi points and is relatively new. My other guildie who ive been playing with since launch was furious because she cant get a pre for her life, ran to the forge and put in a few rares and got a dawn also.

Me? I aint got kitten

I was using nemesis hybrid build and now im looking for something straight power and cant find one on the boards… ive seen it a million times in the past and for some reason I cant now

Chris RJ.1843:

Figured I might as well. My Guard, Elijah Craige in a few sets of gear.

dude that look is a complete kittenen win. im looking for a new look for my norn guard but I think I need to be human to get your look. Tier 3 human chest right?

merry xmas

now lets get down to business.

Norn Guard was my first 80 and hes honestly my least used toon. I absolutely love the Guard but I think I just dont like my armor set up or something. Hes small skinny norn now I had to downsize him because he just looked too fat before. I know this post is ridiculous but can someone post a good look or armor set up?

cyanide dye

expensive as shiznit

Mesmer… played Mes so much it actually replaced Thief as my main.

Ranger I have the most fun playing as, but because the game is actually challenging not because theyre great

Just letting you guys know, the rage on the necro forum has NOTHING
NOTTTHHHINNNGGG

on the Ranger Forum.

We Rangers have spirits.

that is all

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

Nike.2631:

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

Rangers are already pretty strong, you just have to discover how they’re strong.

Just because your build was nerfed doesnt mean all builds were nerfed.

Who says my build was nerfed? I think the basic pet AI has been uniformly rubbish since launch .

And is it good design to have ‘pretty strong’ be hidden under a rock somewhere? Especially when the class description in character creation sends you in the complete opposite direction…

That I can agree on, the pet mechanics arnt the best. I’ve seen pet mechanics done better.

As for hiding the better builds, it’s a double edged sword. Sometimes it’s fun to play a class a completely different way and make it effective. Like a dps guardian that still retains it’s hardiness, or a mesmer that doesnt use shatters.

I hate to be mean but you literally have no idea what youre talking about. Forget the pet, its borderline useless, think of it as a chance to get an special ability and some extra damage occasionally.

Rangers Traits are ridiculous and weapons are laughable. The devs have stated that they know the Ranger needs a buff they just havent done it. My build? Ive changed my builds about 35-50 times since launch and I dont mind that, but we’re the only class thats actually WORSE than we were at launch.

I cant believe this thread got TWO responses from a dev but the Ranger forum itself is crying and screaming for attention and theres nothing

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Azure.8670:

you wake up from a long night of sleeping and farting to log on and see your main Warrior that youve put hundreds if not thousands of hours into is now a Ranger.

What do you do

What happens when you wake from a long night of sleeping and farting to log in and discover that a ranger greatsword has passive evades on auto, a big hit, a long range throw, a block and gap closer and your great sword has a 3 second self root, a gap closer that is very fickle with over shooting, a whirl attack that fires you off, through and away from your enemy and has no blocks? The solution..you take that rangers longbow and use it better than they do. You then give thief their shortbow where they can trick shot, AoE, AoE detonate, evade and teleport. Ranger should have never stolen the all round better weapon skill set on greatsword and warrior would not have stolen the better longbow weapon set.

wait this is a joke right?

Kilger.5490:

Maul on GS actually does get some pretty high numbers, I dont know that I totally agree there. I’ve never played guardian, or warrior so I cant compare though.

The thing I dont like is if we want to go for high survival it seems we need to rely on our pets or conditions for any damage, not the best options for wvw. I’d like to see more survival options for a power ranger, like a better regen on signet of wild.

A huge thing about this though is that maul its pretty hard, but then we are stuck in GS and it is what it is. I think Rangers would benefit GREATLY from faster swap like Warriors have, kitten cooldown between swapping weapons. Or atleast let Rangers swap between 3 different sets, something. We have the proper tools that just dont work correctly

Burnfall.9573:

Azure.8670:

Burnfall.9573:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

The strange thing about pets and ANet is when they worked, and worked well in World-versus-World, they get gutted.

That guard, stealthed cat, critical-hit combination was epic . . . devastating . . . and then it was nerfed like crazy. So, yes, pets do work, but it almost seems like ANet doesn’t want them to.

Another example, the Hyena and Spirits-combination was THE spec in PvP during beta. The hyena could summon an equal-level companion, and the healing combination from the spirits was also devastating.

You know what happened. Hyena’s damage was reduced as was the companion’s. Spirits got gutted too. And that spec became obsolete.

So, I’m not buying this ‘we have no idea’ excuse about pets. The trend is whenever something does work or is powerful for ranger, it gets gutted . . . hard.

Bleed-spec? Gutted. Longbow bug with frenzy? Nerfed with record speed. And on and on.

I call BS. They know. How shameful is it to admit you don’t know how to fix an issue in your own game rather than to actually admit you don’t want it to be fixed instead?

The developer who used to speak for rangers on these boards quit in a huff for a reason.

correction; they were fired including robert.h, for supporting rangers.

Actually I spoke to a dev about this in game and he says Robert actually left for another job opportunity.

I’m not going to argue with you because you are entitled to believe what you want

But one thing you must always remember,

as the saying goes, “word is death, and action is life”

since day 1, all i have witness for our class, is death.

you decide?

(last time life was given to us and was immediately taken from us by death)

oh no no im sorry, im not at all trying to argue with you. Im simple stating what I was told, and im taking it as that. Who really knows what happened

1 – Scepter. Awesome weapon that absolutely sucks. Its a hybrid weapon that isnt weak and is good for conditions, but the auto attack is horrendous on so many levels. I wish this weapon would just be melee, since our GS is a Ranged weapon. Melee cleave Scepter, or make the AA like the guardians scepter.

2 – Only one melee weapon!! Makes no sense. I guess this kind of ties into my number 1 with Scepter but kitten , how can we only have ONE Melee weapon?

2.5 – Need more flat damage AOE. A Longbow or Shortbow would suffice. Maybe Rifle or Hammer or something that has power and AOE.

Oh and for the record, when this game launched the Warriors had extremely weak healing and since 60% of the player base is Warriors, they cried and cried and cried and cried and cried and now that have the healing signet, the best possible heal there is. I have played high level fractals with Eles focused on healing and it was fun and I had no problem with it, but no way should GW2 need a dedicated healer. Even Dungeons and Dragons barely has dedicated healers anymore, Clerics have become more like Paladins over the years

Pay to win is Diablo 3.
GW2 is so far from pay to win. It takes roughly 48-72 hours to get your toon in full exos and at level 80, and thats play casually. People cry too much. Everything else is just skins, and ascended are long term goals so we actually have something to do.

Play some other MMOs, especially the older ones, and youll see pay to win. Nearly every online game lets you use real money to achieve goals, and theres nothing wrong with that, and if youre crying about it get a better job or play something single player honestly. Not everyone has the chance to play 30+ hours a week to get the best of gear and enjoy everything so they toss out their hard earned money to keep up or get ahead. Its not paying to win because your same hard earned gold can get you the very same things.

The Trinity system is absolute obsolete garbage. Its like Turned Based RPGS, everyone loved it the past 20 years and then it did its bow out and its gone, because its obsolete. If you think not go play FF14 and have fun, seriously. Waiting 2 hours for a team that needs a DPS while the healer sits back then entire time not responding because hes watching youtube the entire dungeon is fun for like, a day, and then you say ok enough is enough. If you find that fun please mail me all your GW2 stuff and good luck.

Prysin.8542:

The GS was intented to be defensive. It has a block, KB, gap closer/creater, stun and evade on AA. It is not intended to make tears-of-joy as 4-digit numbers pop up on your screen.

Sword – DPS
GS – Defense
SB – Evasive CQB ranged
LB – Power LD ranged
Axe – fast paced small group CQB

Dagger – defensive
Torch – Offensive
Warhorn – support

Sword is a much better defensive weapon especialy with dagger off hand than GS could ever be. Sword just has a powerful auto attack with a horrible root issue (thats not an issue). now tell me, if GS had the swords AA damage and sword had GS auto attack damage, which would you consider the defensive weapon?

Burnfall.9573:

Ardenwolfe.8590:

The strange thing about pets and ANet is when they worked, and worked well in World-versus-World, they get gutted.

That guard, stealthed cat, critical-hit combination was epic . . . devastating . . . and then it was nerfed like crazy. So, yes, pets do work, but it almost seems like ANet doesn’t want them to.

Another example, the Hyena and Spirits-combination was THE spec in PvP during beta. The hyena could summon an equal-level companion, and the healing combination from the spirits was also devastating.

You know what happened. Hyena’s damage was reduced as was the companion’s. Spirits got gutted too. And that spec became obsolete.

So, I’m not buying this ‘we have no idea’ excuse about pets. The trend is whenever something does work or is powerful for ranger, it gets gutted . . . hard.

Bleed-spec? Gutted. Longbow bug with frenzy? Nerfed with record speed. And on and on.

I call BS. They know. How shameful is it to admit you don’t know how to fix an issue in your own game rather than to actually admit you don’t want it to be fixed instead?

The developer who used to speak for rangers on these boards quit in a huff for a reason.

correction; they were fired including robert.h, for supporting rangers.

Actually I spoke to a dev about this in game and he says Robert actually left for another job opportunity.

SplendidDust of AncientSuns.8453:

If warrior is ranger then what does that make the ranger?

The Ranger? Its the Warrior BETA

Killsmith.8169:

Prysin.8542:

The GS was intented to be defensive. It has a block, KB, gap closer/creater, stun and evade on AA. It is not intended to make tears-of-joy as 4-digit numbers pop up on your screen.

Sword – DPS
GS – Defense
SB – Evasive CQB ranged
LB – Power LD ranged
Axe – fast paced small group CQB

Dagger – defensive
Torch – Offensive
Warhorn – support

I don’t have a problem with GS being a defensive weapon. I do have a problem with GS being unable to hold a candle to the Guardian’s hammer, which is also a defensive weapon.

This.

Its not that we dont understand these things man, we all know what tools we have its not that we cant read or play, its that our tools are viable and thats it. Nothing spectacular, nothing great, they just work.

Basically thats the summary of the class. Its viable – it works, its just.. .there.

(By the way, someone on this board said the Warrior is a better Ranger than the Ranger is, and it wasnt me, so maybe you should just relax and have some fun Vaxx )

And I play Warrior quite often
Tyrannus Krogan
Lets do a dungeon sometime buddy ol pal

I agree. I actually always thought that it was because Mesmers are strong under water but thats a whole different topic

Ive never said warrior is so OP, ever. Actually lets talk about that, I clearly said that warrior ISNT OP, that its the class done the best and its strengths outshine its weaknesses. its the model class.

As for my Ranger QQ, its well deserved and people agree with me. Now, tighten that diaper and walk away

I must admit that longbow fury nerf was ridiculously quick. Shame NOTHING else has ever got “fixed” that quick

Lodestone Draconis.7684:

Azure.8670:

style.6173:

The better question is why is a warrior a better ranger than the actual ranger class? Gotta love the balancing decisions.

I want you to read what im about to say in Raidens voice from the Mortal Kombat movie

“Finally… one of them understands”

I must admit this made me laugh till my cheeks hurt.

Its all about fun on these forums unless youre a ranger. Then its war

…. no one running zerk?

Noobie.1073:

I don’t mind pets dying, I just want my pets to be able to consistently hit a moving target. I want other classes to actually be afraid to get hit by my pet. Isn’t that the point of having a pet? If we can simply reverse the pet damage nerf for all aspects beside tPvP/sPvP, i’d be happy. The pet damage in WvW would be greatly welcomed

speak on my brother, speak on

style.6173:

The better question is why is a warrior a better ranger than the actual ranger class? Gotta love the balancing decisions.

I want you to read what im about to say in Raidens voice from the Mortal Kombat movie

“Finally… one of them understands”

you wake up from a long night of sleeping and farting to log on and see your main Warrior that youve put hundreds if not thousands of hours into is now a Ranger.

What do you do