Guild Wars 2

Title says it. A lot of skills these days are getting telegraphs because of OP problems. Steal does many things when traited: daze, rip and steal boons, stealth, and damage

It seems to be unblockable as well.

No other profession has a skill that can do this much crippling damage to a player. Mesmer has moa which is unblockable but it is also an elite.

At least give steal a tell so people can dodge it , maybe even a slower teleport that shows a trail or how about change the skill so it can only be used in melee( makes perfect sense to add a tiny bit of realism into a fantasy game) . So far its just luck and uncanny anticipation. Anet nerfed point blank shot, so why not this?

the big problem is that neither of these zones give good enough rewards to get people away from the FGS champ train.

1) mounts are not epic. that is my opinion. some people think they are epic , others don’t.

there are already mounts in the game as one person listed three of them .

Tyria’s zones are way too small to even warrant a speed boost.

Sure lets have mounts, but if they get hit once by an enemy mob , it dies and you lose it forever and have to buy another mount at a stable that is 10gold.

How about an temporary waypoint pops up near these raid like boss battles during the fight? Only dead players within the proximity can use it of course.

1. scalable ( small guilds should be able to do all raid types)

2. massive time required ( should be an adventure and not everyone zerging in a tiny spot in a zone)

3. fun?

If Anet ever monetizes any content that is not skins or minis I will quit and also turn away any potential customers . Keep it how it is( buy once , free forever afterwards) . Anet should not be hurting for money atm.

This whole “anet has to make money somehow” is only thought in the minds of the ignorant. Anet makes plenty of cash from the gem shop. Everyone I know spends real money in the gem shop today.

No , OP, you need to be nerfed. But seriously , this oversight is not entirely Anet’s fault. You think farming the ToT bags like this is wrong but do the other players who make 100 stacks of ToT bags think like you? This maize balm farm is victimless and it really doesn’t hurt anything.

Okay the only thing that it did was make Labyrinth empty. Maybe you are just mad that you completed the story and you cant do it. ToT bags are cheap on the TP if you really want them.

Its Edward Nigma. He wants to sell you his box and eat your brainwaves with a spoon to learn all your perverse fantasies!

The whole event meta that goes down in Dry Top is a great design and one thing I would really like to see is the buried locked chests coming to every zone.

Guild Wars 1 had locked chests all over every zone and it was fun unlocking them by using lockpicks. I have no idea why this was not carried over. Sure there are chests at the end of certain veteran mobs and JPs but their loot isn’t so great.

3k hours+ for $60+ gem purchases . Money well spent.

But.
I am now all burned out from dungeon farming and fotm and wvw , and spvp and everything…..

I did it all when I played. Now I just log in to do a 10 minute renowned heart on one of my 12 lvl 80s. I don’t even care for laurels anymore or even a full set of ascended gear.

I am really just looking forward to living story and I hope it doesn’t become a disappointment. It shouldn’t because living story keeps on improving.

The game has been way too centered around the gem shop for your player to look good. This might make money in short term but Anet shouldn’t have to be doing this if they are making sales of their game and put out good content.

If you make good content that unlocks cool skins then the gem store should only be for bank expansions, stack expansions, character slot expansions, character animations, toys like the flute or lute.

A lot more players would stick to this game if it had more lore added and actual content instead of new gemstore items.

it is pretty useless trait. hardly anyone in pvp or wvw use projectiles, and its just aoe madness and melee.

Tree.3916:

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Today I have been hearing people getting the same ascended items consecutively.

I also got two barbed signet rings today from a level 18 and 25 run. Are the rewards messed up? Did the patch break it?

Anet needs to address this issue and the broken promises they made about getting guaranteed fractal gear when completing higher levels.

Where did you see this promise?

Oh I don’t know, maybe a half a year ago or so when they were talking about reworking fractals……….

This definitely needs to be fixed. doing levels 14 , 25, 36. all rewarded with a barbed signet ascended ring.

This is very frustrating. I don’t want barbed signets , I have no use for them. Anet better address this problem because ascended trinkets pile up for veterans. We cannot do anything with the ones we don’t need or want.

This is so ridiculous.

I will just leave that here. Raising the server cap is not a good idea, and there has to be a way to fix blackout exploit.

Today I have been hearing people getting the same ascended items consecutively.

I also got two barbed signet rings today from a level 18 and 25 run. Are the rewards messed up? Did the patch break it?

Anet needs to address this issue and the broken promises they made about getting guaranteed fractal gear when completing higher levels.

Many traits for many professions are now bugged and do not give anything. We are not your QA testers. If we are then I think we should get compensation.

yah I noticed this as well. Whenever Anet pulls out a feature patch lots of traits and skills bug. FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT.

Anet’s reason to change how leveling works was because they thought that people from ages 13 and up are incredibly stupid, don’t now how to play any game and don’t know how to read. Locked skills until you hit a certain level? Incredibly dumb. The system you had before was perfect. The game has turned into a grind.

Anet simply insults the player base and any altoholics because of the changes.

Some of the renowned hearts are really messed up and some of the things you could do to accomplish progression in a heart no longer exists after this patch. You can no longer feed the cows in the first queensdale heart for crying out loud…… rofl .

Stop the hand holding and minimizing of options to do on renowned hearts. PvE certainly sucks now in open world for new alts or new players. It really is a crap sandwich that should be turned back into the cake it was.

The changes are not fun. They don’t help players get better at the game. Change it back for the health of your game. GW2 vets right now are telling their friends to not buy this game now because of how bad the leveling experience will be.

This skill is bugged. please fix. It will not put the reveal status on foes every time. Seems like a lot of things got bugged after the patch.

story mode locked until lvl 10. many things locked until reaching a certain level. some of the renowned hearts are all messed up.

community continue to express yourselves on what you think made this game even more grindy.

the achievements don’t really make it grindy because they don’t add anything too substantial and its end game where some grind should be.

its still lacking really , #2 is still iffy on actual success. also autoattack seems to miss in certain situations.

the damage is good now but still not a kit that you stay in for too long. you do your bursts then you use the FT auto when you are waiting for those burst skills to cd

hope they don’t nerf at all. learn to dodge or be dead. QZ cuts rapid fire duration almost in half which means 1 sec , which one dodge roll can take care of.

According to OP I should be offended by the “normies” in this game because of the realism in the fantasy game. That would make me a moron if I was offended wouldn’kitten

I don’t think Anet intended to offend anyone when creating these “fictional” characters. That would just be bad professionalism.

One should only be offended by actual offensive material that come from hate groups. You know, things that are actually personally targeted at you.

Lets say hypothetically I am offended by all the disabled people out in the world. Is it my right to try and fix these unfortunate individuals or publicly address my issue with them? I think not.

GW2 is a fictional game. If anyone gets offended by anything within the game they are morons. If you are genuinely offended you should probably stop playing , maybe ask for a refund.

I personally am getting sick of anyone being offended by anything. As if said thing that offends you actually affects any day of your life. I cannot pity self patronizing individuals. All I can say is either rise above , or ignore. Tons of other games out there.

Also, there are probably tons of novels out there that depict the same type of character that is Taimi. OP just hasn’t read them to be offended yet.

They shouldnt be trying to go behind the opponent to start attacking. My freaking birds rarely attack because of this. It is very frustrating. Take the PvE AI out of the PvP pets.

125+ foxfire clusters, extremely rare in most cases. time-gated crafting

This is not fun. Does not present a challenge nor does the reward match the amount of time put in to doing this gargantuan grind.

It is probably the only challenging class to play because of its many faults with how bad the pet AI and the ranger’s reliance on them for dmg or support. Versatility is great. LB, SB, Axe, Dagger, Warhorn, Sword, torch, and Greatsword. plenty of weapons to choose from and they are hard to master in spvp setting.

It wouldn’t take any complicated programming that’s for sure.

It would be similar to using a treb or cata where you hold down to increase the power.

Better yet why not make some skills where you hold down the button to make them stronger??? OMG I am a genius. Give a large tell so PvPers can see the charge up. Early stages of GW2 some professions did have charge up skills. Don’t know why they changed.

i bring raven and owl highest dps and a good swift duration. so far i just rapid fire , hunter’s shot , swap into SB and use QZ. seems to take down any light if they are cut off guard.

I switched out signet of stone( cant think of correct name) for protect me because I am traited that way. 6/5/0/0/3 The real strength is in the pet where I can rely on my birds to do 2-3k crits almost each hit with their double strike auto. Sigil for LB is Air and Rage. SB is air and accuracy for extra crits.

Opening with rapid fire triggers that rage and I get a huge quickness time when I sync with QZ.

I already made some people RQ and whisper me nasty things :P

what stat set are you using? your shortbow is hitting 900-1k crits so im guessing berserker?

This is a no brainer, cmon anet. less carpal tunnel.

I want to see housing and boats……… oops Archeage is rubbing off of me.

I already snipe now, and it works wonders in the zerg. GvG you have to be really careful and aware of your surroundings.

LB #2 called on burst target with burst dmg pets is deadly when paired with another ranger or thief. Rangers shouldnt snipe alone.

nearlight.3064:

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

if you actually run an organized guild zerg the ranger is viable right now. rangers are very powerful in gank teams against mesmers, thieves, necros, eles.

What do you find works best for gank on ranger? I’ve been thinking about it lately and to me it seems sword/axe with MoC or a rabid trapper build would work the best, although that build its up defensive utility slots a bit too much.

LB ranger, piercing arrows, with read the wind. sic’ em for stealthers, break stun utility and when the new buff comes around bring speed signet because activating will give a substantial burst shot. GS for escape and invuln from ranged pressure.

Gank teams don’t get focused and if you are trying to be a gank team and you are getting attacked you are doing it wrong and your positioning on the battlefield is really bad. You should not have to bring all defensive utility skills..

Wolf, and a bird, extra speed boost and the fear helps out alot.

lol , you think money buys quality….. certainly not.

Example: take a headset for instance, those turtle beach headsets are around $60 to $80 and their mics sound like crap. A $17 logitech mic headset sounds crystal clear

If you really want to give Anet money buy lots of gems……… Its like you want to be told to spend money instead of being an actual patron and donating money by spending $10-$20 a month in the gemshop…. kind of dumb and lame.

You do get great benefits from buying things in the gem store like keys , skins, stones……. Anyone who thinks a sub fee will help Anet pump out quality content knows nothing about how businesses work.

If Anet is putting out crap content it isnt because they dont have the money. It is because they are poor developers…….

Nuff said , close this thread.

Cantha would be a great expansion! no doubt people would definitely buy it! If NCsoft wants to make money they should be whipping Anet to get this out!

keep skyhammer in the rotation. either adapt , counter, or die. its your choice. you aren’t good at pvp if you can’t learn from the current situation and adapt.

if you actually run an organized guild zerg the ranger is viable right now. rangers are very powerful in gank teams against mesmers, thieves, necros, eles.

scerevisiae.1972:

IMO warrior LB is a lot stronger than ranger LB for WVW due to much stronger AOE, & more useful CC. i think that says a lot.

you know nothing john snow

ranger LB piercing point black shot , barrage, and rapid fire for a gank ranger is much better than high arcing warrior shot. only thing warrior has for the LB that is any use is a blast finisher and a huge fire field. CC? what pin down? umm leek poultry soup and a ton of condi cleanse from the zerg. oh its a single target skill. baaaahh

sorry

yes the hobo sacks need to go. if it is a visual thing for other players then just make the kits visible in the hands. its not hard to see someone holding elixir gun , flamethrower, or wrench in their hands.

if grenades had auto target you would miss 90% of the time with them, only an idiot gets hit by grenades at range imo.

I say give these players a 1 year grace period. that is plenty of time.

Give us old style GvG format from GW1 plz. I know some of you will tell me to go WvW but I will have to say no.

give us capture the flag

give us Fort aspenwood, and jade quarry

Larger capture point maps that are more along the lines of alliance battles with NPCs and massive kunnavang dragons!

basically whatever pvp you made from GW1 factions should be here in GW2.

i do it all the time, when someone rage quits on my team , i definitely dont want to be on the losing side so i go to spectate and wait to get on the winning team.

simple as that Anet. if you don’t penalize people for rage quitting then I will keep doing this. Sick of someone’s feelings getting hurt because their uber build just got trashed.

It is so pathetic to see people rage quit when their side is only 50 points behind.

thats why its called yolo queue. if you keep playing it , you will start to be paired with players that are on your level. you will start to win only 50% of your matches such is the nature of competitive play and matchmaking.

So i guess you dont play Spvp…………… where non-dps centric roles can be very effective. nothing more annoying than a tank that won’t die on a cap point.

PvE is easy mode, come and play TPvP where there is actual difficulty.

I have tried making the flamethrower work as well. So far I can increase the dmg through traits and a rune set by 30%+ with at least 6 stacks of might / 25 when rolling dungeons with a good team.

It is pretty messed up because flamethrower is incredibly weak… My rifle #1 does slightly more DPS with the same setup and no stacks of might.

Simpsons did it!

energized armor doesn’t work in conjunction with juggernaut. most of the traits that deal with flamethrower are not working at all. deadly mixture for instance shows no difference in DPS. the 10% if burning doesnt really seem to make any difference.

it is very sad that Anet is going to put that sword on the Gem Shop…… The whole “Anet has got to make money somehow” saying is just utter BS and a weak marketing strategy.

Anet is turning more and more into a far eastern style business model and it is very disappointing. NCsoft must have them by the short and curlies.

Dizzie Mizzie.1069:

I don’t know how anyone else feels about it, but I don’t think paying a fee if you miss living story content is fair! what about those that have lives, families, work, school, are on vacation or even have disabilities ( I have disabilities and am just lucky I can be on now ) and cant log on in time to get the content..how is that fair? I have supported you enough thru the gem store, my own cash,(and I know that’s my choice) and I take offence to you asking for more because now you are taking the choice away from me, now you want me to budget for content?. I understand that for some they say this at least gives some a chance to play it if they miss..unlike the last story, but my point is why does it have to cost at all? I’m sure you can set up replay without the cost. I was under the opinion this was a free to play game, but now if you want new material its not? Well that makes it a pay to play game right? At least for those that cant live for the game.

have lives????

Why is this not in? It is a small request because its just for convenience. Right now any new characters made on an account that already has the episode unlocked on a character will not have access to that episode.

Is Anet really hurting that much for cash? I would hope not. This may have just been a little oversight on their part , but yah this is really inconvenient.