Guild Wars 2

Warrior is the overall love child. The devs seem to be giving it the most attention.
Also, guardian seems to come out of pathches mostly undamaged and isn’t riddled with bugs like some professions

Both pretty safe bets to reroll.

Dardamaniac.1295:

We are sad cause we have a long time to see a red topic in our forum, dont know if other class forums have but you used to talk to us.What happened?

Only dev that cared even a bit left the company/got fired.

edit. I’m slow

All player-controlled minions, excluding mesmer phantasms and clones because they were already increased in a previous patch, now have 71.43% more hit points in PvE maps.

Fix it to apply the buff also in wvw like it is stated in the patch notes. Currently it doesnt.

Also ,could you fix the pets so they can hit moving targets aka hit while moving.
My pet f2 skills also work very randomly if at all , and their cast times are very long.

wbonetwo.2196:

You Ranger players should boycott this bullkitten. Rangers range weapons hit so weak to begin with. How can it be fair to allow our S/B to be same range as our axe… that is ridiculous.

Well, after the infamous ‘animation’ shortbow fix that we got long time ago showed that the so called balance team are just plain incompetent.
So things will continue to be kittened until someone higher up notices the rock bottom quality these guys keep passing on to their customers and they hopefully get fired and get replaced with actual professionals.

Kitten

That’s it Chopps! Keep fighting the good fight!

+1

I’ll crawl back under my rock and check out the rangers buffs when the next ‘major’ balance patch comes out :P

Free stuff = good patch

fail

Ranger with a fern hound must be the hottest thing in wvw right now.
Beware support eles!!!

Khallis.5708:

This is the balance patch we waited for … for months? THIS? this is it? do you have like 2 people working on balance changes?

Yes.

People have tried politely. And Unpolitely. Neither works.
Carry on.

Oh god…
Can’t they get anything right?

Well, who can blame them. Think about all the time they spend perfecting warrior and guardian so it’s quite logical they don’t have time to tinker around with the lesser professions.

Vaxx.3178:

4. When the devs got to Guardian and Warrior you could see they got very excited.

I really thought Anet was pushing for the whole feedback and collaborative development? I have seen nothing implemented, besides the protection on dodge, that most people have been suggesting. From simple things like larger pet pet sizes as the Ranger lvls, to bigger things such as a re worked pet mechanic. Not sure of Anet has anyone in house that likes/plays/cares for the Ranger class.

That’s not really suprising at all. Straight quote from Jon before the game was launched.

‘The guardian is the first time I’ve felt I’m playing that class I want to play, but this profession does it in the way that I’ve been waiting for since 4th grade. That idea that it doesn’t have to be so direct and so specific and you can still feel like you’re doing other cool things whilst still supporting your allies.’

They clearly had a direction and vision when they were designing guardian. And passion. And it shows on the end product.
Ranger on the other hand was put together from two early developement professions marksman and warden. So it really wasnt anyones passion, just something they glued together so they got 8 professions to the end product.
It’s sad to see such unprofessionalism. If they would work in any other business and ranger was their end product they would have no customers left and gone bankrupt long time ago.

Can’t everyone just agree that all the top servers suck equally and eventually will run the gamemode to the ground by sucking all the players from the other servers. It’s been an ongoing process for a year now.
How awesome it would have been if all the servers would be more or less equal in strenght instead of this who recruited the most unemployed people that play from their parents basement at night capping empty keeps and by day handhold with other ‘pro’ guilds when they get wiped once.
Sitting in a queue for 4 hours is great, as long as your server wins.

The plan is to repel wvw players away from the game apart from the top 6 servers so they can use the server capacity that’s left over to pve overflows.
So far, so good.

Too bad they teach in the dev school that no matter how bad and clueless decisions you make(random mathups) , never admit that. There’s always the next mmo around the corner you can get hired to work with if the current one tanks due to your incompetence.

Contiguous.1345:

I knew that would stir up resentment among the GvG party.

You keep trying to invent your own rules for the game and get upset when Anet don’t go along with it.

You can go into a tennis court and kick the ball around in a game of your own invention, but you can’t call it tennis and demand that the net be removed because it gets in your way.

Of course there’s only one way to play the game. Anet’s way.

I don’t gvg Nevertheless i don’t feel the need to tell people it’s the wrong way play even if it’s not my thing.

Contiguous.1345:

We’re playing Risk but you want to play Monopoly on the board instead. It’s not surprising that Anet keep taking steps to force you to play the game ‘properly’.

I was in such a guild for quite a while but came to see how unhelpful, selfish and elitist it was to play like that.

There are many ways to play wvw , the important part is to have fun. Your attitude is far more selfish and elitist by stating there’s only one set way to play wvw.

Anet invented the backwards game. People are trying to lose so they don’t end up in the gold league. GJ

EmperorOfDoom.4362:

They should just take the rankings how they were when they first announced the season stuff.

Hopefully anet is smart enough and does this. Decide the leagues by the ranking before the league announcement.

Power ranger is strong with ele’s conjured weapons? Nerf power ranger!

Phoebe Ascension.8437:

Gandara is a funny server, when you are alone, they would even use 180 cd elite, to ensure the kill on you, while they are with at least 3 people (should be easy enough without elites). When they are alone, and I surprise them, dropping their hp faster then they expected, they always run like headless chickens, STRAIGHT for their friends, to ambush you there. In the end, it’s a bit ridiculous cause as solo roamer you don’t stand a chance against ‘ganking addicted’ servers like gandara.

Basically running away, is the most viable strategy against lame tactics like this. And that in itself is lame. But if that’s how gandara wants to play so be it. Either do fair duels in future or i’ll just runaway. You choice really Gandara

It works like a charm against Seafarer’s rest.

The server ran away from you? Try spvp with your dueling build or hang around the windmill for some 1on1 matches if you are into that sort of thing. Maybe put a ’I’m up for duels in location x’ in your matchup thread.
Much better choice than embarassing yourself in forums.

The only way you really win agains’t a thief is to just not to fight him. He has already won when you start wasting time fighting agains’t someone who is built for trolling you with stealth gimmick build.
Move on and do something contructive.

That’s just their way of saying ‘We don’t have the resources to do anything about it’

Any video up from the Sotg yet?

Durzlla.6295:

Adding onto this…

They want to make the F2 skill (and active skills for minions, spirits, spirit weapons ETC) very very responsive, and then for pets they want to make their AI smarter on when to use things like the KD and that. IF that fails then they said they would be looking into making it so the ranger can manually activate all their pets abilities.

They actually said that on Sotg? Maybe the extended beta will be over soon then
Is there a video up yet from the Sotg?

When ranger pets will be able to hit while moving/hit moving targets?
Why rangers biggest issues poor pet ai/pathing , horribile f2 responsiveness and bad scaling due to pet has been ignored for a year now?
When will shortbow animation fix be corrected by compensating it damage?

Someone take time how fast they hop through any ranger questions

Maybe warriors get something as awesome as ranger shouts. Gl with your optimism.

Jalad Lantana.3027:

You can orate all day long to the fan boy choir if you wish, but if you cant provide 3 separate types of game play (wvw, spvp and pve) without dumbing them all down to an fitful compromise, perhaps Arenanet needs to rethink things.

Delete pvp and focus on pve and wvw. Try pvp again in Guild Wars 3. Atleast that way there could be two good game types.

Daecollo.9578:

Boomstin.3460:

Just a worried warrior trying to counter the people complaining about warrior heal signet.

Just a worried ranger trying to counter the people complaining about spirits.

Nah, you are welcome to delete spirits for all i care. Nice try though.

Just a worried warrior trying to counter the people complaining about warrior heal signet.
Nothing to see here.

Even few steps are impossible to accomplish when one cannot walk. Some nice ideas though.

No. Pve and WvW doesn’t matter to them when they balance the game.

I’ll still help people by telling them to play guardian instead.

Colly.4073:

So a 4 hour patch in EU prime-time? Maybe stop taking WVW down so kitten early

GG Anet :/

Eu customers are second tier customers to most US based companies. Like we can see here.

Got kicked out and can’t connect to login server.

Nuka Cola.8520:

No more “huge” underwater patches, oh noooooz

Wrong dev.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

Not sure how to feel about this. We never got what we needed while he was around in it’s entirety, just fractions of it and small paint-over-the-cracks fixes. The question now is whether or not they’ll put someone remotely competent in his stead and where that will take us from here.

Well, considering he wasn’t working on bug fixes or class balance but was a dungeon designer i kinda doubt there will be anyone :P

So first they get rid of ranger players. The next step was to get rid of ranger playing devs :P
The plan is working, pets are awesome!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Robert-Hrouda-has-left-Arenanet/first

Good luck and thanks for everything. You were one of the best devs around here.

Judging from past experiences it’s safe to assume pets will get ignored with the power creep. Just try to remember how long it took for them even to add agony resistance to pets after fractals were introduced.
Would be much easier of the pets would scale of the ranger instead.

I would just hope that they would take some pride in their work like real professionals do , i can’t imagine anyone working at anet is happy with the poorest pet system implementation in the last decade in mmo’s.

Kasama.8941:

It’s also worth mentioning that the Ranger’s traps have shorter recharge times, then most condition removal has.

How many trap rangers does it take to counter lets say a group with 5 guardians and 5 warriors running with soldier runes?
For example guardian running 3 shouts has cooldowns of 24,28 and 48 seconds on them.

No condition will stick to any organized groups much longer than a second or 2, everything will get cleansed way faster than anyone can apply them, or worse yet converted to boons. So you are actually hurting your own chances and buffing your enemy.
Sure traps can be somewhat effective to tag some mindless zerglings on eb and they sure are quite handy in small scale warfare.
I like that you try to find positive sides from the current situation but please stop spreading misinformation. It’s not helping anyone.

multivira.7925:

I really wonder why gandara is doing so well to be honest. Where the hell are these points coming from :P

If i had to guess it has something to do with summer holidays ending. Quite a few from the top12 servers seem to have lost their night/morning zergs completely so they can’t tick 500-600 points all night and morning anymore.

WvW guild recruitment : We are currently open to applications from all professions except rangers.

The pve patch seems to have mostly killed the biggest night/morning zerg trains off from wvw across all tiers. Very confusing to see such close matchups , instead of the normal matchup is over before the weekend after one server ticks 600-500 every night and morning.
Enjoy while it lasts

I love this thread. This means all of us mediocre players who enjoy the fights instead of points can become truly awesome if we transfer to the winning server.

Can the op keep us up to date with the current bandwagon server going forward so we don’t need to waste gems by accidently transferring to the wrong server?

Stop suggesting longer range for longbow. Anet will just nerf the shortbow range to 300 so longbow will feel it shoots longer.

Lightning reflexes does actually hit only 3 targets. Whoever is/was working with rangers should have stayed mopping floors at McDonalds :P
Yeah, the damage in lr isn’t the point but still , sometimes it feels theres someone in the dev team who was just hired randomly from the street when he was walking past the building

IDarko.4709:

Unfortunately, Dius has to cancel most WvW events this week because of insane armount of lag, rubberbanding and disconnects.

Seems to be a widespread issue. Yesterday was just terrible. Most likely has something to do with the living world zerg madness that is going on now.