Guild Wars 2

So no dev attention still with this? Guess issues outside of fractals aren’t on the list anymore.
If anything this drives even more people to quit or farming their precious fractals since they are the only way to get decent loot anymore.

Still no attention from the Devs? Starting to look like it was done just to try boost gem sales to me.
Stack of tier 6 blood cost 69 gold on the TP now…

Seems like everything is pigeonholed into doing fractals. Can’t even get a decent drops anywhere else so i’m feeling like i could take a break and continue again when/if the whole game isn’t about playing one silly dungeon for the best drops/loot and leave the rest of pve and wvw out to dry.

4 hours of farming in Orr gave a whopping 5 rares and from all the moldy bags i gathered i got 3 tier6 mats , 1 blood and 2 armored scales.

Good times.

Is all the loot in game now in fractals? Should we just forget about open world pve and WvW?

Still no update or a fix? It’s currently killing open world pve and my will to try continue farming for legendary mats. Combined with ascended gear grind the mats on at AH are scyrocketing.

Stack of Vial of powerful blood is 69 gold on tp now. Nice work.

WvW legendary part isn’t that much of a trouble. Much more annoying part is to not be able to buy the obsidian shards for karma since the only vendor resides in the almost always bugged Temple of Balthazar.
So you’re stuck with lurking the forums for a server where it might work and try to server hop around every 7 days.

Currently one can only acquire them from Temple of Balthazar or from the new flavor dungeons.
Please add the ability to buy the shards from all the temple vendors since temple of balthazar is more after broken than working.

Silentstorm.7531:

Stat capped games only work for RTS based games. You cannot keep a audience with no way for them to progress. It works the same way in life is everyone capped at 100 dollars? No ofcourse not people need things to strive for. And reality check thats atleast 75% of the gaming population they want power and the means to earn it. If you really think a game is going to be successful with horizontal progression your in denial.

Make me cry a little every time i read about ‘gear progress’ . You are not actually progressing in power , youre just trying to get to the same point where you were before the new more powerful tier was introduced.

Is this issue gonna be adressed in the near future? Some of us still would like to experience the old dungeons. You know the people who like to play for fun and not for the gear treadmill.

Best wishes : Your original target audience member

Laelgon.8046:

Right, but how many ascended item slots are there at present? Three. You can also buy infusions with the dungeon tokens.

Hmm, who else has the feeling the next step is infusions will be available in the cash shop for a ‘nominal’ fee.

Now all the pic needs is a ranger a.k.a Aquaman.

Lion Thundercat.2461:

Where can we expect to see an official response from anet?
This happened to a lot of people, AN can’t just ignore it.

Why not? Theres much more serious issues than a few loot chests in this game and they have no trouble ignoring them.

Crazy amount of precursors in the chest, lots of people got one.

dirtyklingon.2918:

Nageth.5648:

dirtyklingon.2918:

agony level is the new gear score

Actually fractal level is. Does anyone have any ascended gear yet?

my mistake on the terminology.

i mistakenly called fractal level agony level.

Hmm, wonder what Sigmund Freud would say about that slip? :P

Yviz.1053:

Most recently, SWTOR didn’t have a LFG tool at launch because they believed it was a detriment to social interactions. Guess who has a LFG tool now? Same deal with Rift. No LFG tool when it first launch. Try to guess whether it has one now?

The point I’m trying to make is all of these AAA MMOs all released their games without LFG tool and believed for whatever reason that their game was better without it only to be mistaken a few months or years later.

Well, to be honest they real reason is/was they had no time to make one hence the excuse of ‘detriment to social interactions’ .
SwTor was in a hurry to hit the Xmas market to boost box sales and GW2 had to come out before Pandas.

I expect them not to do ‘bait and switch’ since it’s agains’t the law both in EU and US.

Also In European Countries the “Unfair Commercial Practices Directive,” legally requires a manufacturer to accept returns under bait and switch conditions

Why they changed? They are going after the Panda money but the problem is they might lose the people who bought the game because of the original design philosophy and not a 100th game with a gear treadmill.

Just keep bombarding them in twitter,forums etc and someone should give some attention to us if there’s any competence left in Anet.

Yeah, maybe i’m all doom and gloom but after the SwTor fiasco i find myself much less resilient to incompetence that i used to be since i have a feeling that this game is starting to go the same route.

I admire your resilience and dedication but i seriously suggest you atleast visit the stickied ranger bug list before you make a commitment to your ranger.

Reroll thief or warrior. Thief with shortbow and warrior with longbow are superior to ranger with em, among other things.

Taym.8326:

Can this be removed from Sticky and someone else take over? The person in charge of its upkeep has not updated the list in about a month. I think he has stopped playing, also any volinteers to take over? XD

Why is that? None of the bugs have been even fixed so what’s the point of updating the list.

RakaNishoo.6071:

And that is exactly the reason why ANET needs to start fixing bugs instead of adding cool new content that is bugged in the same way that the rest of the game is.

Pathetic…

Agreed. Start unbugging with the rangers. Thanks

Berethos.4526:

Boomstin.3460:

Reclusiarh.2674:

Meant to say PvE, but the point stands. You’ll still be able to do all of the old PvE content with exotics (like we already do). But more than that, how are people making estimates before it’s out?
Anyway, if that is true, and it is about a 40% increase in effectiveness, that’s utter insanity—I don’t think ANet would make it that hard.

Lfm dungeon run , ascended geared only, whisper gear or no invite.

“LFM dungeon run, Exotic geared only, whisper gear or no invite.”

Last I checked, that hasn’t taken over the game. Ascended gear won’t either. The sky isn’t falling just yet, Chicken Little.

Maybe getting 1 exotic gear is super easy to get. Ascended not so much.

Op, you should be glad you can atleast do decent damage. There are some professions that don’t even have that.

Check the stickied ranger bug list for starters, basicly nothing has been adressed since lauch

Rangers are broken and badly underpowered. The solution?

Buff warrior longbow.

After the complete abandonment of the ranger class by the devs it’s a pretty safe bet to assume all rangers ingame are bots. Better report .

Reclusiarh.2674:

Meant to say PvE, but the point stands. You’ll still be able to do all of the old PvE content with exotics (like we already do). But more than that, how are people making estimates before it’s out?
Anyway, if that is true, and it is about a 40% increase in effectiveness, that’s utter insanity—I don’t think ANet would make it that hard.

Lfm dungeon run , ascended geared only, whisper gear or no invite.

Sylosi.6503:

dishonest company that sell a product on one basis then swifty do a complete u-turn 3 months in.

In fact I am doing the opposite and telling my friends (and other forums) never to buy a product from Anet or NCsoft.

Pretty much sums it up. It just puzzles me why would they go and try compete with gear treadmill mmo’s when they had something much better before , and to many was one of the main selling points?

Won’t invite anyone to a game that abandons everything why it came popular in the first place.

Ranger community would like to thank everyone at Anet for admitting that the ranger is the profession that needs the most help currently but are given the least attention of professions to actually fixing things.

I don’t think anyone was expecting miracle patch where ranger would start rocking every profession but this is just a kick in the groin overall.

I just don’t get it, they even admitted that the ranger is the profession that needs most help and yet they give less attention to it than the other professions.

Ah well, time to log in to the game first time after the patch. Gonna spend my time by reporting every bug and issue in the bug thread with the ingame bug report. Maybe that will eventually get some attention.

No need to root for the ranger. Some of his weapon skills do that already.

Azel.4786:

It means that not only will your arrows get obstructed but you will run out of them!

Also there will be a added delay with taking an arrow out of the quiver that adds longbow and shortbow casting time by 40 ms per arrow.

Think the last bullet point was

• Reduced active ranger playerbase by 40 percent. 97 percent of active rangers are now bots.

Thanks for reply. Maybe i’ll come back to Gw2 when the changes are implemented one day.
Also, if you know the ranger is in most need to improvement then why fixing ranger isn’t more of a focus for you guys?

Time to lock this thread. No point in keeping the thread alive since dev’s keep ignoring the ranger issues.

Steely Phil.3952:

No significant Warrior changes at all. Patch after patch we get completely ignored.

Well, just be glad you don’t play a ranger

Unspecified.9142:

Oh goody! Our only good utility skills got nerfed!

Well at least all our utility skills are ‘balanced’ now… they all suck equally! Hooray!

Hahaha This is getting surreal. Stop beating the ranger, he’s already dead.

Jeheil.2516:

Warriors, if you are underwhelmed in your patches….go and entertain yourself by the utter despondence, wailing and gnashing of teeth taking place in the Ranger forums.

At least your bow skills got buffed.

Yeah this. Poor ranger class Broken and ignored.

Yeah, gear treadmill incoming and all these awesome ranger fixes. good times never end:D

wintermute.4096:

awesome, I can now instantly not activate them on my highly competitive spvp builds.

So you play an underwater ranger then? :P

I feel sorry for the Blacktide players and guilds. You came to tier1 expecting a good fight and all you got was a wave of transfers from the losing side.

biocide.9186:

I really hope this patch fix stow away the pet, every time i take small damage The pet pops out. please fix this

I don’t think they will touch the pets in near future as much as it pains me. Haven’t seen single comment about pets by the devs. Almost seems like they want to dodge the pet issues.
Hope i’m wrong though.

Muffin.5208:

Who cares if they dont do MAX dps, ive got loads to do and Ive saved lots of ppl in PVE. And like someone said, im also usually the last one standing with my pet, cleaning up and ressing ppl around me
I look at myself more as a support than High DPS.

Maybe some people want to also play pvp with their rangers without feeling handicapped.

monepipi.5160:

A pet is part and parcel of the ranger, an extension of him. Either you accept the whole thing or go reroll another class. ANET will never implement stowing pets to give you buffs, that will be them shooting themselves in the foot.

Maybe they should have lived up to their promise that game wouldn’t be released before pets are working properly.
Oh and no need to shoot anyone in the foot. Our broken pets have us already limping quite nicely.

Xenos.1072:

Id like to see Lightning Reflexes work like evasion does in direction. I hate when it throws me back. Would be nice if it just moved me the same as a dodge roll would, whatever direction i was moving.

I think the evade back with lightning reflexes is fine. Can’t even count the times it has saved my life from enemy zerg combined with 2 dodge rolls. You can get some serious distance between you and the enemy in a heartbeat.
Now only if it would break roots and it would be awesome.

Sdric.8526:

You can’t hit way better.
The ranger got (as you can see by the looks) a full CoE set.
Jewelery is complete “of Berzeker”.

A shortbow attack takes 0,520s
An unload 1,5s.

So even with 3 auto attacks thats only 3078 damage in 0,060s more time.
Which still is less than the half of 8342.
WITH A BETTER GEAR ON THE RANGER (+Precision +10%Crit Damage lacking on the Thief)

Ranger pets will add some damage on top of that.
But only if the target isn’t moving, or the pet isn’t 2 shotted by the npc or gotten killed to a random aoe…

I see the night capping is still a hot topic among some people. Funny when they went agains’t the most powerful primetime server in the past (Far Shiverpeaks) and capped the empty map by night themselves it was ok. And for some reason now it’s not?

Think the WvWvW is getting better and better every week now, been some awesome close matches going on lately.