ahhh I have diff jewels and no carrion pieces. maybe I should change that
20k hp? …. I def did something wrong im running around at 15-16k hmm
yup it works. I have that on my mes
I still wish they would’ve kept Kudu alive long enough to be what Scarlet is supposed to be…. as much as i love Scarlet he was much more awesome… God rest his tiny little soul…
That being said i’m not seeing anything Scarlety about this patch, if anything i see Faolin, or other Nightmare Court members, being involved in this, i mean they have tons of mesmery magic, which the krait seem to have lost over the 250 years since GW1 (as well as their frills), not to mention it’s called the tower of NIGHTMARE, and that there’s vines and stuff growing off of it which fits with Nightmare Court, and the Krait are using plant weapons and look like they’re glowing like those Husks in TA do…
If scarlet was directly behind this it’d be more steam punk, not to mention Scarlet doesn’t get anything from helping Krait, Nightmare Court do, they just wanna cause pain and agony and torment, what better way to do that than cause every land dweller to drown? They haven’t given a kitten about who they helped in the past, why start now?
What did Scarlet get from anything she did? The story hasn’t told us her motives and most of her appearances are inconsequential. She’s directionless from the perspective of the player. Why did Scarlet manipulate the Molten Alliance? Why did she try to get Mai Trinn onto the Captain’s Council? Why did she attack the Queen’s Jubilee (we actually know this, it was said in a lore interview that she felt challenged by the boasting humanity was doing so she wanted to prove a point – her motivation at the time was that shallow)? Why is she building an army of clones in Twilight Arbor? Why does she continue to have seemingly inconsequential invasions? What are they even invading? Was she involved in the Secret at Southsun? We’ve had almost an entire year of following her around with her exploits and they are jumping all over Tyria and don’t seem to have anything to do with each other.
I don’t think the writers want Scarlet’s MO to be “engineer + x = theme for the patch”, it’s “x + y = theme for the patch”. The Molten Alliance wasn’t Scarlet’s engineering, it was dredge weaponry combined with Flame Legion fire magic. Following that trend, krait magic and architecture combined with sylvari magic and architecture could be the theme of the new patch as well as the result of Scarlet’s Villain Sue “genius”. In the same lore interview, Angel says Scarlet likes to combine two things that don’t normally go together just to see what happens. That’s why we had the Molten Alliance, that’s why we have the Clockheart and it could easily be why we have a krait tower with thorny vines coming out of it. Her last name is Briar and that tower has a giant briar coming out of its side. At this point, it’d be surprising if she wasn’t involved.
I wish the writers would trust that the krait (and their existing motivations) alone are more than enough to carry a story. The krait are an interesting enemy faction and, like most factions in Tyria, their story and lore is underutilised. Shining the spotlight on them for a patch and expanding on their motivations, goals and ambitions would be a fun and exciting adventure in Tyria. We don’t need a lame gimmick from Scarlet to make the world interesting – it already is.
Scarlet reduces stories to their superficial components – Flame Legion are simply their flame magic, the dredge are simply their weapons – rather than expanding on their complexities. It dismisses the complexities (and in many cases, goes against them) simply to accommodate Scarlet. The world of Tyria is already exciting and interesting. We don’t need Scarlet to use her gimmicks to dumb it down for us.
I read this twice to find a lie, but there is none.
this is…. TRUTH
so, Ele was my first class at launch, got him to 80, rocked the ol d/d PVT cleric trinket build and loved it. Moved on to other classes, and here we are now… I finally have every class at 80 and im back on my Ele. I havent used him forever, and id like to break him out for some PVE, maybe WVW down the road.
Anyway for some reason im really enjoying using Staff. im still in PVT armor and have Cavalier trinkets. Id rather get new armor than trinkets but im down for anything… just need some armor/weapon/sigil/rune advice and a good trait set up. thanks
I just typed out something extremely long and accidentally deleted it all so now ill make it short.
Worth it, yes.
Best choice, no
Basically Ranger is an awesome class thats being held back by itself/game mechanics/ silly design. With a few notches turned the right way by ANET Ranger could easily be on par with Warrior. The sad truth is that we have a lot of issues and not enough strengfths, but we can pump out solid DPS and dont die easily. Youre going to hear a looooot of complaining about Ranger, but as much as we complain we all do like the class a lot. It is not unnoticed by ANET that the Ranger has flaws yet it has been ignored for a long… long time. You will most likely enjoy the class, just dont be like the rest of us and actually except any BUFFS from how it is now
the way female humans hold the GS is correct and preferred. Male humans hold it in the air and it might look “cool” to some people but its actually kittened and is a horrible stance for combat
I have 10 more lvls on my necro before I have lvl 80 in all classes and im sad about it. I love alts
he left, not fired. I too thought he was fired but I spoke to a dev about it and was told he left and it was sad because he was an awesome guy
The dev that played Ranger left ANET awhile back. Roger or Robert I forget his name. Did you watch the skills preview? The two devs, who I like btw they seem pretty cool, didnt even know where the Ranger traits were. Every other class they went right in like champs, Ranger was a mess.
this +4000.
I love you anet. Sorry for all my Ranger revolting ive been doing.
Oh I love engineer, its my fave character class by far. But turrets are useless, rifle and pistols are useless, cant use backpacks without clipping with kits, kit builds are the only useful setups.
Rifles and pistols are so far from useless wow. Lets not even get into the ridiculous confusion stacks you get with pistol/shield and perplexity runes or the rifles burst power. smh
I suggested this very same “collar” idea a few months back and people flamed me for it. I dont see the big deal in getting one or two more pieces of gear… Warriors can use almost every weapon so they have to get more weapons, an engineer can use a rifle pistol and shield… I mean… come on
I love axe both offhand and mainhand but ive been ranting and raving how they havent made the main hand axe stronger yet. I swore this most recent patch was going to correct this and now I feel like a fool
on topic, I just played with a Dev that openly says he hates playing his Ranger and they need to fix the axe. Most people on this board are here to just troll or say im lying (which im not I took screen shots, but decided if I post them I may get the dev in trouble, even though he said its not his department so he wouldnt) however I do highly respect Guanglais posts. Yes Guang, almost every class has a weapon that “sucks” but it has a use. The axe on Ranger mainhand is absolutely useless. I used it as my main weapon for half a year and its just awful but I love it. Necro minions arent terrible because they do their job, they focus and are fodder. Thats it, just walls to die. Ranger pets do the same exact thing except theyre not supposed to, its a major part of our dps.
Also, last thing. I too stopped playing this game for 2 months, twice, and found my way back and fell in love again. Its a giant work in progress and if ANET listens to us in the future this will be the only game to really challenge WOW.
this game is amazing, and the people that say otherwise are people like me that love this game to death and see potential to be the best MMO ever, ANET is just making a like of strange decisions.
As a game, this is easily one of the best ive EVER played.
As an on going MMO, development is … strange to be the least. They def care about the game and give us tons of things to do and im not complaining, but a lot of the normal things MMO do like more classes, races, new areas, dont seem to be on the table and thats what we really want. Still though, its an amazing game and dont let these forums destroy you
please dont listen to these Forums. People here are extremely kitten. Guardian is an absolute beast, but Necro and Engi are arguably the best overall classes. Warrior and Guardian are both amazing, but it depends on what you want to do. The Condition cap can be annoying, by Hybrid Necro is an absolute MONSTER. youtube it.
I have to say, with yesterdays patch Scepter should be stronger than GS no? I mean, I use GS with sigil of fire, but im thinking scepter with Sigil of force and offhand pistol or sword with sigil of battle would out damage GS? Im not really sure. Ive always liked Scepter to be honest because I charge mantra of pain before every third attack when I Want to keep phantasms up. shrug
Axe sucks. It needs either more power or more conditions. The Pets suck. Mesmer Phantasms and Necro minions are just summons and function better. Pets should either be invulnerable, or take away the ridiculous ridiculous CD on switching after they die. The traits are all over the place. Everything about this class screams BETA. Dont get me wrong, Ranger is still my 2nd 3rd favorite class to play but it could easily be first if it worked. However it honestly only that high because I just love Rangers lore wise.
its called stop logging into your Ranger. I HATE people that complain and cry and all that, especially in GW2 because the devs really do give us a lot for a game withh no sub free and im grateful for it I truly am….
So with that said, lets just stop logging into our Rangers. Petitions and all that mean nothing. Until the Devs see cold hard numbers that we cannot deal with this anymore nothing is going to change. Every other class is getting stronger and we’re getting weaker. Mesmer and Ele really arent moving up in the food chain, but Mesmer has been in a good place for quite awhile and Ele had its long reign on top.
No mas. We will say no mas to logging in. We love this game anet, even the ones that tell you its boring or just come here to complain love the game, they just see so much potential that isnt being used.
No mas my friends. We will will summon minions as Necros. Use phantasms and Mesmers. Walk the shadows as Thieves. Conjure trashy weapons that still work better than Ranger weapons as Elementalist. Out dps most classes as a Guardian. Play with Toys and make some noise as Engineers.
But we will not watch out pets walk into AOEs as fellow Rangers. We will not be rooted and unable to evade while we attack. We will not have a worthless axe that bounces on enemies and tickles them.
No mas my friends, no mas.
I want to say something. I say almost nothing negative about this game; ive been playing since launch with only two breaks due to real life stuff, and I can take a lot of things.. Im not a spoiled/entitled gamer and I understand how things work with balancing and such… things take time. I get that. I have played every class to 80 except Necro which im currently working on. I have 2000 hours logged into this game. I love it to death.
With that said, the Ranger sucks. Ranger is probably… my 3rd fav class, maybe even 2nd, but ill be quick to inform you of its lack of interesting abilities. Everything about this class is wrong. The only thing it can do properly is bunker, which is extremely … strange, for a Ranger class, but even that isnt AMAZING. Bows… ok, bows. Longbow is ok, it should have more range, and both longbow and shortbow should have piercing arrows without having to trait for it. As of now, my Warrior an Engi can whoop a Ranger in a ranged battle contest. The GS is a wonderfully done weapon. It is weak, but its a defensive melee weapon and its actually done quite well. The 1H sword sucks beyond belief, but its so strong that you feel dumb not using it. The Root is absolutely awful. Ive actually learned to play with it but even with the amount of time ive put into timing my 2/3 to get out of the AA 1 (I turn off auto attack but sometimes it comes back on automatically and thats another issue) its still not 100% and dodging out of 1 is a task in itself. Ok, lets look past that. Traps/Conditions on a Ranger work… but almost every other class does it better. I like how traps work but they need to be more varied. Make the ice trap turn into a water field or something once its been activated. Anything, just more… variance. Wit that said… my biggest issue, and I thought it was going to be handled today.
The Axe. I love this weapon off hand for no reason really, the 4 is a monster but the 5 is lacking. Ive come to learn to use it just for reflecting but the attack should be atleast 2x stronger. The Axe main hand might be the biggest mess ever. Only other weapon as messed up is Mesmer Scepter, which is awesome that it got attention today but its main problem is the auto attack and that was untouched. The Ranger Axe needs to hit 50-150% harder, and it needs to be a power weapon. Axe as a condition weapon is just not worth it. Keep the chill on 3, make the 2 just cause cripple or vuln. Yes, the SB is a hybrid weapon, LB is a power weapon, but axe is like a bootleg terrible version of the Thief SB.
Fix this PLEASE. PLEASE FIX THIS. Also, as a community, we have given up on pets. I like how they received more health and I just ran some PVE and it seemed to help but I havent done much more than that. I still think Pets should be given a trinket or something to improve their stats and skills. It would be better if you made pets invulnerable and much weaker, and each pet has 2 or 3 skills we can use. Whatever, just… just dont tell us theres going to be multiple weapon fixes for the Ranger and all we get is a GS maul buff, the ONE thing we didnt need.
Thank you
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It will also prevent shadow refuge (or mass invisibility) from being used to save downed team mates, it will make downed 3 for thieves and the mesmer downed invisibility and it`s clone totally useless, the implications are far more severe than any of the previous posts indicate.There is the actual value of this change. Stealth was the only sure stomp save in the game. It had no counter play. Really I don’t think it is that big a deal, because if you are a Ranger what are you giving up for “Sic em’”? Probably a spirit. While having a counter play for stealth is valuable the spirits are the crutch that make most ranger builds viable right now, and on the whole I think that the spirits actually carry more value.
The anti-stealth counter should have simply been “The thief is visible, even while in stealth, for 4s” – that would solve everyone’s issue without locking a thief out of their SA traits and stealth attacks.
^ +1, Sic em should only allow the ranger to see the thief but still allow the thief to be in stealth. It would allow the ranger to 1v1 a thief with more dynamics but it would also introduce some interesting team play and coordination for smaller skirmishes. Completely locking out a trait line is just bad implementation.
Its not completely locking out a traitline. Its a 4s reveal and its garbage. Ranger can barely kill a Moa in 4 seconds, let alone a Thief. L2P
you guys are so ridiculous. The Ranger is SOOO BAD. Youre worried about a Ranger revealing you??? They have to waste a utility slot to use a skill that sucks with a 40s CD. You will never see anyone use this garbage stop crying. If youre terrified of a Ranger keeping you from stealth just quit Thief anyway. We are still so mobile that we can survive 4 seconds, I assure you.
I’m not even playing, at this point, as I’m protesting a lack of bugfixes by not signing on. If they ever actually fix Turret bugs, I’ll play.
I’ll probably use Turrets and Gadgets, when I do, as I just don’t really like the speed-piano of Kits (and would play an Elementalist if I did), or the RNG of Elixirs.
Whats wrong with Turrets exactly? They now focus on the same enemy you are attacking, which is amaaazing. Just tested it out a little bit on karka, dropped two turrets and was shocked how much that damage helped. Didnt WVW with it yet
The patch isnt bad at all, the problem is they hyped it like it was going to make people build new builds like they were going out of style. I didnt expect much, but sadly I main Mesmer and the patch barely helps me. Im interested on the CD reduction on the 2/3 scepter as I actually like the scepter a lot, but the problem is its auto attack.
Im really, really… REALLY… upset that they did NOTHING for the Ranger axe. pathetic
That’s all? That’s all for rangers? I wanted to fire up GW2 tonight, but nahhh…
The good news is that Elder Scrolls Online comes in a few month’s time (2014 Q1), and that’s for sure I won’t level up an other character here.
I haaaaate to be the one to say this, as im a HUGE ES fan (and if you buy the game, please message me whatever your name is on there we can play together) but everyone that played that demo a month back said it was awful :\
that IMMO isnt a big deal and pistol is weak. they can unload on you and you can shrug. all it did was make warriors a better partner for them. immo+warrior burst is a huge problem, but for the thief itself its just more trolling
Mantra of Pain has been my go to since I started mesmer. I really really hoping for a small AOE or bounce or something. oh well
Tip #1 – dont buy gems with real money.
I’m not farming anything but I can easily get over 50G / week.
Just spent 15G on a new hair style.Tip #2 – if you can afford to buy gems because you work hard for your moneh, so haard for your moneh, then do it, who cares.
50g/week is not typical. Don’t even dream that you can make 50g/week by playing casually.
50g a week really isnt that much. 2 cof, 2 se, maybe an AC run is about 2 hours of your time with a half decent group and thats guaranteed 4-5 gold not counting selling rares or salvaging and selling mats.
When I gather and craft some thing myself. I feel I’ve earned it and I can use the gold I have to go else where.
If I simply buy the mats off the TP. It feels like cheating and cheapens the feeling of accomplishing some thing.
im with this guy cuz hes my sequel
actually have no idea what youre talking about bro, sorry
im all for the living story I think its a great idea, AS LONG as it doesnt get in the way of a MAJOR expansion in content in the future. I see LS as something to do until we get an official expansion. If LS is getting in the way of that then down with it
guardians got buffed I dont know if this is a joke or not
Pyro, Cole, and Guan are the only mesmers I listen too.
If a mesmer is using a GS in a dungeon, be grateful. It means he/she is not good enough to play at melee range and is saving you valuable time in having to res them constantly. I have a guildmate/ game friend who ive been playing with for a year and shes simply not good enough to melee with any character so she sticks with guardian and uses scepter/staff. I convinced her to try melee in a dungeon and it was a horrible scenario that resulted in PUG rage quits.
GS is just fine; its help for the crippled.
they just did a short preview with all the classes, full notes tmrw. If they nerf mesmer phantasm damage I will play as Necro and Engi only from now on which is sad
as cool as that pistol update is, its actually a thief nerf in terms of WVW. The more people that play that build, the less perma stealth thief you will have to deal with. Its going to become an annoying troll thing, but what everyone really needs to worry about is 3 turret Engis. This is going to be RIDICULOUS
supposedly skills traits and balancing but I guess we’ll know in 2 hours
just wondering if we have a ETA on the notes for tmrws patch. Im eager to see what Ranger changes they make, ive picked her back up lately and have been having fun
theyre not even that expensive. 7 gold each. Even if you play… 2 hours a day or less, you can do two COF runs in under 30 min and youre guaranteed 2 gold off rip, not counting selling rares or ectos. Honestly Grinded out 2 days of farming and dungeoning, salvaged everything and sold all the mats and got 85 gold and bought my trav runes for mesmer. Yea you dont want to shell out the gold but its really not that bad. I just spent 45 gold to buy two corrupted weapons just for the skins. shrug, and yes Trav runes are actually a real game changer they made me love my mesmer again cuz im not crawling… worth every minute of grinding
He’s right honestly. Even if there are things you HATE about this game, and you want it to get better because youre a fan, theres just better ways to say things XIV on and off lately and that game honestly sucks, but the community is SOOO supportive of the game its amazing. SQENIX has been horrrrible to their fans for almost a decade and people still support them. ANET tries really hard to make a lot of fans happy, in a game thats three pronged. just be respectful and remember that this is a work in progress. Things game time and this is a great game whether things about it kitten you off or not.
im on ehmry bay and theres no one EVER at teq now. However, a LOT of people from my server have recently moved to other servers for the upcoming wvw battles. EISN was one of the biggest guilds and now they are gone, with one or two others.
bumping this because its the reason I ever made an engineer
im STILL using this and able to kill things in PVE fine. People barely hurt me and I barely hurt them in wvw. My question is, what did they change that makes this build trash now compared to what it was? I stopped playing during the patch where they made changes and scepter got popular, and ive been playing my engi and mesmer only lately. I just use ele for rotation
honestly I only use my Mesmer and Engi now. I break out the Guard just cuz I like how he looks, but I completely forgot all about my Ranger. I miss playing both my Ranger and Ele and I really, really hope this patch brings life to them
Please halp the PvE phantasm mesmer. I have to go 20 into power to get the reduction of greatsword skills. 20 into precision for the reduction on pistol skills. 25 into vitality for the minor trait that gives 15 percent more phantasm damage (Not even sure why that trait is there). And 25 into the shatter tree for the minor trait that gives a reduction of illusion summon cool-downs, which previous was not there.
I mean you could probably give our illusion infinite health with no aggro pull and we still would have trouble topping wars on a dps meter. Some people want to just be pure damage, let us be damage without these silly hoops.
why would you put points into GS and pistol? thats like working backwards… Theres almost no reason to put points into GS unless youre a complete complete ranged build, then I kinda get it
or resistant to crits. This will fix the Zerker issue. Or make a boon that does it that more enemies have. Cant see how this will change the game for the worse in any way
it will punish good players in good gear who are able to survive in that good gear.
and there isnt an issue. the majority of the playerbase doesnt even use berserker.
the majority doesnt? you really think that?
Theres nothing wrong with full zerk but this game community has made it a problem. Game wise its great, but people kicking people for not being full zerk is ridiculous. Regardless, people always find something so I guess that doesnt matter. However, if theres a condition cap and people complain about 1Hit KOs then why not have SOME resistance to crits? guess im a super minority on this