Guild Wars 2

While I didn’t use the largest model here are couple of my heavies for comparison

Just imagine if retaliation completely fed the damage of melee back at the attacker, now remember rapid fire shot is a projectile based attack which that can potentially happen.

To all the warriors out there I wish I could say I am sorry that people learned how to play before you tired of using greatsword (or started warrior), but I can’t not with any sincerity.

Depending on playtime and server the wolf isn’t too hard to get, just remember once you are there the other player are (see the link) and replace the word meat with bag or loot.

Wildstar for a non-anime source of gun + mage, and a couple of tabletop rpg also had them as well.

Seems this thread is no where near on topic might be time for it to take a dirt nap.

-Completely Offtopic note: How is booty allow through the filter but a word for excrement that rhymes with curd is not?

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I’ve leveled 5 chars to level 24 on a new account. Truthfully I didn’t see the big issues and the insult to my intelligence so many speak of. It was mildly annoying to not be able to interact with skillpoints and have to backtrack, but that was the first hour of each chars life and maybe 3 skillpoints. /shrug. The main problem I can see is locking new people out of PvP/WvW who want to do that and don’t know about the workaround. Other than that, I really didn’t see all that much different except I got rewarded for leveling. For some reason, getting free stuff failed to annoy me, even on my 5th char to level 24.

While free stuff is nice it is almost like anet was trying to convince themselves that certain stat set are good (by handing them out for free) instead of provide the player with more optional piece to chose stats from.

All the spirit have that casting issue, it is as though anet had designed them not to move.

Koull.5723:

If Elementalist is one of the strongest I must be doing it wrong.I have a 26 ELementalist and feel like i do no damage.

Blame the NPE that made the game more back heavy than it has ever been.

The first 4 months or so, not too long after that bad matchup started to break the will of many of the servers for wvw

Not to get off topic, but way wouldn’t they even attempt to even the rotations a bit through the month?

At least early on it was definitely not testing as until I started baiting them with soft targets they would /dance or /sit on the corpse.

I just wish someone would get the thread renamed to something like: ‘This happened a while ago and I won’t let it go’

McWolfy.5924:

I realy want an spvp style equickment generation for wvw

Imagine the number of people the mode would lose as “all that hard work” gearing up would be invalidated.

Also how or why the ‘ck’ instead of p in ‘equipment’?

I was speaking of very early in the game at least (for the servers I saw in WvW) the thieves would start the fight if the first backstab didn’t kill it they would disengage and not comeback. After a bit I got a couple of buddies to hide nearby and would bait thieves by mining/gathering.

Ok. The whole long cooldown thing is really not a good idea as the game itself overly punishes that type of play.

The buffs to those conditions are more of a buff for the creature to use against the players than the other way around.

Which could be a ‘buff’ to condition removal and boon stripe in the pve side of things.

Did you bring enough for the rest of the class?

Sorry having an impulse control day, but now what is the next goal, always need a next goal.

nightblood.7910:

Issues? Nah not really, I just mained a staff ele when coming back to gw2 and well you know the relationship of thief to staff ele. Poor little staff ele coming into WvW for the first time and hey look there is a nice thief. Insta death.

Plus I say that hunt thing all in fun. While I do like to hunt you guys, if I see you, Im coming, its due to what I see you accomplish. Therefore I want to fight that. I generally go after what I see do the best with some other counter to it so I theorize and change my builds constantly to play the game. Much like you do. Its a challenge.

Do you recall the if the target wasn’t done in one shot run away playstyle?

The word is duel.
Dual is consisting of two parts, elements, or aspects.
Duel is a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.

Thread can carry on, I just had to get that out of my system been seeing it a lot this week and the current audiobook I am mulittasking with is using lighted as opposed to lite and it is really is just messing up the flow of the prose.

UnitedChaos.8364:

I disagree. Spirits are an staple of gw2’s ranger, but they’re clunky and poorly designed at best.

It might be easier on us all if we listed/discussed what wasn’t clunky or poorly designed about ranger.

Nice parting shot I am so wounded. So are you going to continue this back and forth until the thread is closed? I hope you do, as it will insure that the topic is relegated to needless QQ.

As for going off topic how is 2+ vs a downed anything going to fail that example speaks for itself you are the one who made the choice to take that as an attack, so as before that speaks for itself.

OMNIBUS.2913:

Its part of being immature….not part of the game mode. I’m not saying anything else should be nerfed here btw. I’m actually one of the people who don’t and never want ranger longbow to be nerfed even with all the cry lately. I also have and play ranger myself and only making these statement based on what i think would be balanced for the game. The down state is another story however.

And calling people kid isn’t being immature, while being passive aggressive. I’d use some simile here, but the moderators aren’t fond of that.

At this point the only people opinion on the balance of the ranger or any profession downstate is that of the developers so there isn’t really too much reason to continue this thread.

OMNIBUS.2913:

Btw what is it with all these kids on the forums that resort to skill or personal attacks because they don’t agree?

Just as bad as the profession bias tear-down strategies or maybe a better name for it would be “Let’s Cry until Anet drowns Ranger”

But you are posting in the PvP section and they allow for certain level of personal attack as just part of the game mode.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

ANet made a boatload of money that day.

And now they know what sells, you can expect more like that.

But only after trolling a bit will some weird pastel colored wings first before offering the rest of the ‘standard’ color palette.

Maybe calling it a exploit is what is getting people defensive. Does unintended functionality work better for the sake of discussion purpose?

velmeister.4187:

• Daily Fire Elemental —A Boss event with rewards, something that can’t be tackled solo. Hence, it helps the community while getting you couple of nice items to use/sale on TP.

Not to derail much as I agree on the spirit of which your idea is posted, but it isn’t that the bosses can’t be solo’d (some can some can not) it would just be cutting it close (timer for those that can be) and with the scheduling of those events thereis very few that do not have a train waiting on/for (the current map community to complete the necessary pre-event so they can) their loot bag.

However, back on topic no daily system will make the entire player base of guild wars 2 happy. If you really want those AP you will go out and get them otherwise just play the game and have fun, don’t turn it into a second job.

OMNIBUS.2913:

You can CC the pet sure but it goes right back to where it was and starts rezzing again after its free to act, without ranger even activating 3 a second time. The only way to stop the pet from rezzing for good is to kill it, stomp ranger, or have enough dps between you or your team to finish ranger. At the very least i think if you interrupt the pets heal it should not be able to go back and start healing again until 3 is recharged.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lick_Wounds

If you and your team are having trouble killing/stomping one guy…. That just says all it needs to in and of itself.

Not sure this has been said or not, but any changes to content already out will likely be released well before the expansion to get the player base time to adjust before the introduction of completely new content.

Anet with the fear of making profession too similar is full of traits/skills that are nearly the same but one being completely better, Dogged March compared to Geomancer’s Freedom, Signet of Air/Signet of Shadows. Funny thing is I think they would not have did a general reduction of the endurance recover if they had not at first normalize all the vigor on crit related traits and just left them different.

I can only guess they want the AP from doing whatever they had planned that day so ergo they want AP on the daily login reward.

Kreed.2768:

You should see the PvP section. Plenty of threads there with titles such as “Nerf LB Ranger!”, “Rapid Fire shoudln’t track through stealth!”, “Nerf LB range!”

Thieves tend to forget that all channels work that way I can only guess that it partially a response to reveal being added to a ranger skill a while back so they are fixated on the profession being nerfed.

insaneseagull.7063:

I’ve reached enlightenment and never comment on such threads anymore,it doesn’t contribute to anything but more whining.

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who complain like that is actually people who don’t know how to play. Seriously.

As much as I would like to think ignoring them will make them go away I feel that if those kinds of threads receive no resistance the developer might just give them what they want to shut them up.

Destroyed is not contested just change the icon give the ui people something to do.

More mix and match. Just thinking about it I don’t really have any characters that are a single set (with the exception of leveling character and the what pieces of heritage I do have unlocked).

I can see that. I recently had block a turret engineer, who was way too angry and every other statement was an issue with ranger followed by some assumption about my orientation.

They could give the warrior a stealth on rifle and people would still complain about rangers, quite possible while claiming the ranger used kill shot on them.

It is still too heavy of an investment for it’s effect, but that is the problem with the majority of ranger traits.

Spew our all the praises you can heap upon it polished excrement is still excrement.

Saturn.6591:

Hold on; since when are grenades reflectable (as claimed by like, everyone in this thread)? o.o

They aren’t projectiles after all.

Since launch.

That being said it is kind of odd to design a reflection mechanic to deal with ranged attack, but then design ranged attacks that conpletely ignore that mechanic.

How often has any profession been give compensation of either ‘nerfs’ or ‘fixes’?

It shows a lot about some of the player base there doesn’kitten

It is an overrated trait created to try to make more use of a set of minor traits that (like much of the entire profession) wasn’t really well planned or implemented.

I by no means am an expert on all of the professions, but having played from beta I can only really gather one thing:

The issue with the elementalist balancing is the line between garbage and godhood is very thin and so the changes tend to hokey-pokey elementalist in elementalist out.

Not trying to derail or anything, but from what I am gathering here is you are not upset because you were the one on the receiving end of a one shot, but because the profession you have chosen (based on the perception of being able to gank) is not working to the standard you feel it should. This this correct?

Stilk.6312:

Hi there,

Making a post to protest against the overwhelming pve-everywhere current politics of Guild Wars 2. Why, in a WvW gamemode, a gamemode of pvp, Guild Wars 2 is introducing pve mechanics since launch.
I am talking about two big changes – EotM and the future HoT map. Both are so pve oriented or “pvp for fun” oriented that it is disapointing.

Do you play pvp @Arenanet ? Do you know what pvp is about ? Yeah sure fun, but not fun like you understand it apparently. It isn’t fun to wait for a long time for people just push them off cliffs, or fighting under siege.
PvP is mostly about being better in the same conditions without any external condition that can affect your victory – win because you deserve it. Win because you are better. Loose and understand that your opponent is better, and in the future try to improve to win.

But no, it looks like Guild Wars 2 takes PvP essence put it in a mixer with pve, add the spice of casualyness, and pours it in the game.
Of course EotM looks amazing, of course the next WvW map is gonna look amazing as well, BUT THEY ARE NOT SUITED for pvp. They are not in the same spirit of pvp. They are suited for an open world map of pvp – not for a specialized gamemode.

Unite, both players and developers, for a brighter pvp future in wvw.

So how angry would be if they listen to you and replace your gears stats wtih limited amulets/rune/sigils sets and removes food buffs?

I doubt they would place the current autobalance feature, but could start kicking player out into the eotm to deal with being outnumbered.

A former coworker of mine had the uncanny ability to buy slots the week before the sale so that is how I used to plan my purchases.

You have to get to the level that unlocks it. Apparently class mechanics were too confusing for new players.

Zefrost.3425:

- Mesmer mirror blade is unblockable for no reason.

It was probably they simplest way for them to keep nonmesmer based clones from forming. However there are numerous inconsistencies with how ranged attack are treated projectile vs nonprojectile that probably should be looked into, but are not really on anyone’s honey-do list.

I think that depends a lot on your server, but you should be able to get it just be aware of what is going on around you and you should have minimal trouble.

Not sure it this is entire still the case, but this more or less is Anet on pets:

‘Pets that delay F2 use isn’t some wait script we put into their skills it has to do with core AI behavior shared by all pets and creatures and how they decide tasks. Rewriting that has the risks of breaking millions of unknown things so we have up until now band aided the solution. It is something that needs addressing but won’t be addressed until we can know how and when we will test it.’

BurrTheKing.8571:

That’s a good point, builds like this might either become worthless, or really powerful.

Looking at Anet balance history I would guess potiential overpowered at first (as they lowball the stacks on many skills) then worthless as they make adjustment to them as well as the control skill in a double-tap-make-sure-it-is-dead fashion

That why I stated that was the worst case.