Guild Wars 2

Artorous.8573:

I never get anything below blue quality and I normally get at least 1 rare and a medallion. Considering it takes all of 5 minutes tops to get a couple silver, I don’t see your point. Better rewards come from boss chests. Dragons give large chests that give you loot based on your actual level, as do the starting zone bosses like the Fire Ele and Ice Shaman.

The loot from the dragon chests are pants, it’s no better then what I get from spending the same ammount of time killing any type of mobs out there..

I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that it is intended, to discourage transfers, you won’t get bonuses for the current match and the next, after that it should work as normally.

Ordin.9047:

For me, the game did in fact live up to the hype… for the most part. What is huting the game for me is dev decisions after launch. Things like too many gold sinks, not reimbursing players for anet mistakes, bugs left and right, bots (lets face it they should have had something in place prior to launch), nerfs…. the list goes on.

This is how I feel, and the somewhat snarky answers on this forum.. I’m sorry Anet if your players are an inconvenience to you

Works fine on my Mesmer.. on my Ranger, not so much.

It needs fixing as it’s annoying as hell..

It’s Guardians moving them and yes, it needs fixing

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/What-in-the-6-is-going-on-here

Is it this bad on your server?

Twaddlefish.6537:

…wow, that’s awful. Funny as hell, but pretty awful. This is the kind of stuff that’ll cripple WvW, really needs sorting soon.

Friggin’ bots…

Yeah, it’s gamebreaking really.. unless all sides got about the same ammount of bots ^^

@tomlin

That won’t make them go away though, they’ll just ress and still take up space..

You know.. I don’t think I’ve ever played an MMO where I’ve felt so unrewarded for doing random things. Don’t get me wrong, I like the game, but droprates are just bad.. porous bone anyone? The most epic looking chests ever 99% of the time drops vendor trash. The only thing that rewards something decent are zone completion.. the 70+ zones that is. What’s left are the karma/gold/badges/shards grind, but then you’ll have to deal with DR.

It’s just that kind of game I guess, my first b2p game.. I’m still enjoying it though..

Wonderful, this is bad.. with the queues and all, bots taking up space in wvw.. 50 of them you say? great…

raxx.8914:

In this thread someone said they got 1 from zone completion, so i finished the shore and got 2 exotics, level 76? WTF it’s a level 80 zone….

It’s random, even the level.. I got 2 lvl 80 exotics for doing the same thing.. nothing I could use as both were heavy armor, but still…

I think for ranged Warrior is the better choice, or perhaps Mesmer, I sure enjoy playing one (LB/SB ranger since day one)

I only go there to farm nodes now, I don’t kill stuff, just run away.. I never get much for killing there anyway.

Treize.7026:

To be honest, it feels like drop rates for everything have been lowered across the board. Either that or my luck went from “average” to absolutely terrible. I get fewer badges in PvP for doing the same things, 0 keys, very few yellows on random mobs around Orr, nothing higher than green from event chests (well, this has always been that way), put 4 items into mystic forge, get 1 of them back, or their equivalent…

I had significantly more success doing all of these things (except the chest) up until recently. I don’t know if drop rates are something they micromanage when stuff starts flooding the market or what, but at any rate, it’s getting old. I don’t need freebies, but one or two lucky breaks would be nice now and then.

As it is, the only profitable thing for me to do is flip items on the TP. At least for time invested, I feel like i’m getting some benefit.

I like the game but games generally have some sort of reward mechanism in place.

This is how I feel, I mean, there’s streaks of bad luck.. then there’s no luck ar all. I have no luck at all.

As I understand it it depends on the property of the surface and the fact that it’s not really dye, more like a tint, the underlying surface will show through somewhat..

Err.. they felt the need to cut the Hyenas power in half because of “Howl of the pack” and then there’s something like this in the game? Makes sense..

For now I only use my Ranger to farm for my up and coming new char, I’ve even considered salvaging his gear for ectos to craft gear for my new char.. he doesn’t need exotics to farm. I might hold off on that and see what happens, if things don’t get better that’s what I’ll do though, sad as it is..

Kysin.6349:

You can tell by John’s post that they really have not put any effort to investigating this so far, a 7% damage reduction? Okay yeah that is raw damage, condition damage is where the SB really delivers in addition to that 7%. We have been testing, it is a 20-30% damage overall nerf, if you can’t understand your own game mechanics how are we suppose to believe that this game will ever be even close to balanced? I am not going to compare Ranger to other classes because, well it is incredibly obvious that others excel in every way. You don’t need “data” to see that! The only way I will be fine with this CF nerf is if they address our whole class (all weapons/mechanics/AI/triats), because they are all buried in bugs and nerfs.

I loved ranger in BWE1 all the way up until first huge GS nerf, followed by massive LB nerf, then utility nerf (spirits/sharpenstone), Axes nerfed, a whole wasted trait chain (spirits), nerfed traits (evasive purity), 1 handed sword has always been glitchy, pet AI is laughable, original SB crossfire bleed nerf (the only one I understood), and now finally the SB atk speed nerf. The truly sad thing is, I could go on.

Just look at the response from this one thread, not including all the other threads. We are not happy at the state of our picked and favorite class. We realize it can take some time to address problems, but you have to communicate and take input. Responding with a half researched answer like “its a 7% reduction” is honestly just depressing.

Please address these issues, or at least tell us that you are actively looking into the Ranger class, or that the Ranger is not where you want it to be yet and the team is working on it, etc. etc. I have supported Anet for what like 7 years now? And I am in no way threatening to leave the game or anything, but please don’t let us down!

Well put, I very much doubt Mr. Peters will deign to comment though..

It wasn’t “unintentional”, it was done because spamming 1 isn’t fun apparently (wich I can agree with, it isn’t) they just didn’t bother to tell us that, but there are better ways to fix that..

I’m getting sick and tired of the whole nerf and buff cycle I’m going through in every mmo I play, I won’t hold my breath waiting to get some balancing of the other weapons done. What makes me annoyed with this particular nerf though is that they tried to pass it off as a animation “fix” while taking care not to mention the damage nerf ;(

JonPeters.5630:

Took a couple of days to get debugging in on this. It is in fact a 40ms difference which equates to about 7% less damage when spamming 1. We made this change because it was creating some animation bugs to leave it where it was. It was also encouraging just spamming 1 which isn’t the most fun gameplay. If our data shows shortly that shortbow is now not effective we can certainly address that, but would do so by improving other skills on that weapon rather than by reintroducing the spam on 1 and the bugs that it was creating.

You’re suprised that when you leave us with one option to do decent damage we take it? Spammig SB one. The obvious solution here would be to rebalance the other weapons, not nerfing the one option we had. We didn’t spam SB one because we wanted to, we did it because you herded us there.

I rarely see something in chat now and I only get ~1 e-mail / day.. so, yes it’s much better

To me they (most of them) look more gimmicky then legendary, the effort to get them certainly feels legendary.. the looks? not so much. But tastes differ :p

Never had one drop, only gotten them from zone completion.. and lately I haven’t even got any rares, must be weeks since I got my last rare.

I’ve been on the recieving end of this a couple of times, you have to see the Thief comming or you’re dead, it’s lame imho but whatever ;p

They are probably trying to figure out what to tell us.

Never seen that happen tbh

@Paladine
Just curious, what crafting professions do you have? Most of the useful stuff I can make I’m usually better off just selling the mats, seems I have some research to do…

faytte.1057:

Strongfort.2451:

Safari.3021:

I just want to put this to all those people talking about ranger weapon damage being far below that of other professions:

Your pet makes up more than the difference, other professions do not have a constant additional damage from their f1 skill, the lower damage from weapons is to compensate for this, and rightly so.

If you follow the plight of Rangers you will see that pets are very finiky. Especially their activate-able skill (F2). All pets have to stop moving in order to cast their move and therefore miss the majority of the time rendering their “utiliy” nearly useless.

Pets also run at default speed meaning simply moving will 100% negate their damage. Combined with the fact they stop moving to attack means the damage you get from pets is marginal at best.

Exactly what he said. In a game as mobile as this, our pets were designed for a game like WoW which is tank/spank. Our pets cant move and attack effectively, meaning most of the time they are just pretty decorations.

Dead, pretty decorations..

faytte.1057:

I for one never once noticed any bugs with the animation speed. Asking all my ranger friends, neither did they. Did ANYONE notice an animation bug?

Nope, can’t say I did..

Governor Toothpaste.1582:

I think some of you guys are forgetting that they gave a reason for this “patch”. They didn’t say they did it because the shortbow is over-powered. They didn’t say they did it because too many bots use this weapon. They said they did it to fix an animation bug. I hope there’s more reasoning behind that than they said because that sounds lazy but that’s what they said.

Which is why I expect it to be fixed pretty soon, unless they had ulterior motives..

Flipping the TP

Sounds like one of the dyes Chefs can craft, they are of “rare” quality, not like the ordinary dropped unidentified dyes, but yes, the description on those also states that they will give you either an uncommon or a rare dye (no commons) despite being of rare quality…

I think that particular skillpoint is bugged on all servers, no point in moving..

Oh well.. I have my 90+ FoV, without using any shady software just the hardware I have, if that makes me an exploiter or some kind of cheater so be it. I find the whole discussion ridiculous at best.

arcaneclarity.5283:

What sucks is that we have been nerfed so hard previously that we are narrowed into a single good weapon and set of utilities, now we don’t even have that. So what do we do? Roll a different character?

Funny thing is that I rolled a Mesmer just a few days ago.. lvl 40 atm, I feel a bit miffed ;p

It feels sloppy, how could they miss something like this? It’ll be intresting to hear what Jon has to say after having his look..

Try taking quality down a notch, I had the same issue and that seems to have fixed it. At least it hasn’t happened in quite a while now.

Yes, fix this.. I need to reroll Warrior already.

faytte.1057:

I think you were off by a decimal point.

Feels like it..

Rafkin.8923:

kennelai.6053:

For ranger, that crossfire skill is our short bow autoattack skill.
With Quickening Zephyr (2x fast for skills and actions), we could shoot about 3 arrows within a second. I believe this is the main burst output of rangers.
But after that increase of cast time, Quickening Zephyr seems useless now.
Slow as hell.

You’re referring to the 40 MILLIseconds they added? Lol

Seems like they messed up, there’s no way it’s 40 milliseconds

Seems to be fixed after the patch, just went there and got it done

Yup, still broken even after the patch..

I’m seeing this too and not only that, for each leftover weapon there’s a targetable and invisible dead clone…

As the other thread got closed with the claim that the issue was fixed I just want to point out that I still can’t delete a character.. just tried after a relog and nothing..

Sly.7354:

How would I figure out what custom resolution would give me close to a 90º FoV? My monitor has a native resolution of 1600×900. I don’t suffer from nausea or headaches, but it does bother me. It’s annoying to go from playing a game on my PS3 to playing GW2 on my PC. The difference is noticeable.

The formulas can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_of_view_in_video_games

pawtrisha.7234:

My Norn is THICK and I like it! Shes not fat at all, but shes no skinny mini either!

Yeah, after looking over the human models I ended up making a (short) norn aswell..

Cube.4905:

I also cannot delete characters, but it looks like a comma is inside the quotation marks of the characters name at the end, except you cannot enter a comma also.

Well, the delete button becomes active so the name should be a match.. anyway, I won’t keep trying, the chardata is probably stored in an array and that scares me.

Same, just tried to delete a char and nothing happened, I’m afraid to try again considering previous bugs and Anets reimbursement policy.. ><