Guild Wars 2

Is that the selling price or buying price? If it’s the selling prices chances are everybody salvages it or vendors it and one crazy person decided to post it for 60s.

If it’s the buying price…. then… sell it?

Yamiino.1827:

What I find funny about this is that they said they didn’t want people to be LFG and play however they wanted.

I think you misunderstood what Yamiino means. I believe he/she is saying that it’s ironic that Anet said they don’t want people to LFG, yet that’s what dungeons consist of.

I believe the idea was to get rid of the trinity so that people aren’t waiting for an hour LF Healer, LF tank, etc. It’s ironic/sad/disheartening that it has turned into LFM FoTM 30 war or any variation of that from 1-50 and war/guard.

AlexRD.7914:

I just love it when i get quoted with phrases taken out of the whole text, making them look completely out of context or stupid.

Pets are NOT useless or broken, sure it needs a little bit of work still, but they are hardly useless. If you work with them, they will never be useless. Unless it’s a P/D thief, then GG.

How is the pet useless?
Please tell me, now i am curious ( not being sarcastic )

What I want to know is why you are so AGAINST having this option. How will you be affected negatively when I stow my pet because I want to be pure damage from a bow and not rely on AI.

The only other class that relies on AI for damage is a necromancer (also arguably broken) and that reliance isn’t nearly as much as a ranger.

Budchgon.2108:

99% of bots are rangers and you see nothing wrong with that? Seriously?

Oh, nice statistics. Care to back that up with proof?

Punish the ranger class because bots play rangers. You see nothing wrong with that? Seriously?

The mesmer was waiting to portal people, probably saw you and knocked you down. Just do it again and this time use stability or some skill/trait to get by, everybody has one.

It’s PvP so be prepared to get killed. Unless they are using an exploit or bug then get over it. I understand it might be frustrating but posting on the forums won’t (and shouldn’t) help anything.

So, I guess you don’t play ranger.

What a great idea though. Lets penalize all the rangers and make their pet even more useless to band-aid fix the bots who will easily jump classes to whichever is easiest until all of the classes are completely nerfed. When every mob OHK and every class does 1 damage per hit there will be no bots left!

Best….idea….ever.

Lol, what are we arguing about?

OP made a mini pet and doesn’t like it. It can be assumed that he/she then made 4 tonics with the remaining frames since he/she is out of frames. What’s so confusing?

If you have cogs but no frames, chances are there is nothing left to do with the cogs. However A ) They could add something to use the cogs for or B ) There may be an undiscovered MF recipe.

I haven’t tried to put the cogs in the MF so that could easily answer B if it won’t allow it.

I like ranged pets better for dungeons because even bears die easily. I go glass cannon build with CoF gear Power, prec, cond damage. I’m pretty good at dodging attacks and I pretty much just make sure I don’t take aggro, or stand behind my pet if I do.

I use sbow/lbow, and mainly just flank w/ quickness for bleeds.

AlexRD.7914:

Holy thread necromancy

2 days isn’t THAT bad. Although the message of the reply is a bit ridiculous. Nobody really cares about that anymore. It was crappy the way it was done but most people are over it. Giving us 40ms back on crossfire won’t solve the issues.

AlexRD.7914:

They are not going to remove pets.
Forget it.

This is a pet class. I mean, it’s the same thing as creating a thread in the warrior forum saying: “I DONT WANT TO USE GREATSWORD BECAUSE I DONT LIKE IT AND IT IS NOT PRETTY. REMOVE IT FROM THE GAME.”
Learn to use your pets, pets are useful and powerful if you play it right.

I have NEVER seen my pet die in 3s when i was looking out for him, i have never seen my pet being kited by an enemy while i was looking out for him, and being able to split your damage in half (And that other half will be powerful, regardless of the gear), is one of the best things you can ask for.

You know what my friends say after i beat them in 1v1s? They say :
“You only won because of your pet, he is overpowered”

Your analogy is horrible. The ranger community is not asking for pets to be removed. We want the ABILITY for the pets to be removed. In your example, it would be like FORCING the warrior to use a greatsword. Not allowing weapon swap or any other changing of weapons.

How does it affect you if they give you the option to PERMANENTLY stow your pet and give you a 10% damage increase to compensate for the lack of additional DPS?

If you like the crappy pet system, then you’re free to use it. If you don’t, then you’re free to not use it. For the people who say don’t play the ranger if you don’t like the pet, what other class can I swap between sbow and lbow?

Well there’s also a chance of getting the toymaker tonic. I’m assuming that’s rather rare as you’ll most likely get the 5th tonic that you did not make.

Maybe they wanted to give you a way of getting both the tonic and the minipet of same type.

I’m upset that this is their band-aid fix. Hopefully it’s just for now as they have realized the need for this, especially since they essentially just created an infinite amount of dungeons with LFG FoTM 1-100+.

However, you guys moaning and whining are being ridiculous. If you can’t find a group then that’s solely your problem. I’ve never waited for more than 10 minutes for a group. That’s definitely on the high end. You ask your guild, ask the overflow in LA, take the tele to server LA, go to the area where the dungeon is, and go back to LA for another overflow. There are people out there, just go find them.

I would much rather see guesting implemented before LFG tool though.

I would recommend warrior. High survivability, high sustained DPS, and low skill ceiling.

I found warrior play style boring, which makes me like ele more. Faster ‘twitch’ reaction needed, very versatile, decent variety in builds.

I definitely want to see skimpier clothing. Yes that sounds bad, but it’s true. We should have a wide range of armor/looks considering that’s what Anet decided to base it’s end-game on for the most part. Don’t want to grind for stats? Grind for looks! Well everybody wants better stats, but who says one set of armor is better than another? My favorite bottoms for my human female ele has been the lvl 20 white acolyte drops (skimpy skirt ftw!)

I also want to see this for my ranger sylvari. Right now he has CoF just because it looks cool, but it doesn’t really fit him. I’d love to see some type of armor that the dothrakis wear in the Game of Thrones.

miklo.3610:

“about 2 hours ago”
So where’s the patch?

OP made the mistake of assuming that since all town visits will be at 10PST, that the first update will be at 10PST.

However Anet has specifically said that they gave a big gap for the first initial patch update on purpose to allow for wiggle room.

Wiggle room isn’t a direct quote, I paraphrased.

I like the walking honor badges one. I’m a ranger at heart but this profession pisses me off in this game. It’s class defining mechanic is the pet which is absolutely atrocious. AI aside, there’s no love for the pet. All we have is a name that doesn’t even work.

My favorite I saw in LA was “GLFM Fractals lvl 10 pref a ranger….. said no one ever”

Electro.4173:

I’ve seen more discussion about general weapons / armor looks in Players Helping Players than any of the individual profession forums. And the threads in profession forums usually apply specifically to that profession and weapons that “fit” the profession, so its fine that they’re found there.

I wouldn’t be opposed to a Armor / Weapons or Gear subforum though.

Good point about the PhP forum. I guess that one slipped my mind. I feel like it just wasn’t given a proper category because in most MMOs weapons and armors are exclusive to profession/class where in this one, especially weapons, are spread across several professions

rchu.8945:

stof.9341:

Short anwser : No.

Long answer :

Hell no.

+1.

If they want to alter a class defining skill, then I want other classes suffer the same fate. You nerf one, you nerf them all. And thief as a class already been nerfed numerous times.

I don’t agree with OPs idea, however I disagree stronger with you. Thief and warrior probably have the ONLY class-defining mechanic working properly right now. Actually, it’s only warrior, as thief’s class-defining mechanic (stealth) is more OP than intended with the culling situation, while all other professions seemed to be bugged in some way. Ranger’s pets are horrible (don’t even get me started), mesmers’ phantasms and clones seem to be buggy and still getting nerfed, engineers have kit bugs, eles (can be argued both ways) have certain issues with attuenment slotting, necro pets have horrible AI as well.

So until ALL professions class-defining mechanics are fixed, don’t wish that other professions have “the same fate”

PearlGore.7419:

BTW Phantasms were not fixed yet, that comes Tomorow with the Range patch

Yes, however OP is complaining because JP is replying and interacting with the mesmer forums. He is citing numbers, responding to posters, and giving specifics.

Previously JP didn’t comment on a single thing, simply came in with empty generic promises that left us wanting more and outraged when we were denied the promises.

However, OP posted this BEFORE the comments about lbow projecticle speed, SotH, and some small fixes to the pet AI (notice how he makes sure to say this won’t fix everything, but should improve somethings lol)

I couldn’t agree more with this. I feel nothing for my pets. Actually a little hatred when they don’t attack or pull some stupid mob when I’m trying to be sneaky.

No name, no level, no abilities I pick, no stats that I pick etc. All I did was press F on a green name and boom, I can make him go die for me so I can swap him out and put him back in his dungeon in my…. in my…. my bag?

I feel more like an unloving necromancer that just summons dead spirits, make them fight for me, and don’t really care when it dies because I will just switch to another one.

Give us a challenge to level them, lets us pick stats and abilities, give them levels or emotions so we can feed them/interact with them. Maybe I want a feline but I want to make him tanky.

Also would be nice if pets followed armor/weapon tiers as in there are common white name pets, all the way up to stronger pets of exotic level. Some of you will probably disagree with that one (I definitely DO NOT want them to be sold on TP), but I think the rest most of us would like.

nldixon.8514:

Shortbow is the most boring weapon we have too, which is a real shame, since it’s got a lot of damage output.

Shhhh! Don’t say that too loud or they might find more animation bugs!

I do completely agree though, it’s a shame that crossfire was nerfed instead of buffing 2-5 or both.

Hey, sounds like a good guild. I’m dedicated to GODS for WvW but would love a PvE focused guild for dungeons or even sPvP. I’ll PM one of you in game.

/friendly bump

This is a pretty simple idea. I think there needs to be a forum for discussion of armor and weapons.

Right now it is scattered through profession category (about what shield a guardian should use or what daggers look best on thieves) or in the crafting section (how to forge this item or why isn’t this item making money QQ). Also maybe some in the BLTC about how dusk is still too expensive QQ.

But in reality all the weapons can be used by a variety of different professions, so if I’m thinking of what daggers to use for my ele, I don’t want to have to check the thief, ranger, necro, etc threads then go to discussion followed by crafting.

Agree? Disagree? Meh?

Rangers and thieves should have this. I don’t think eles should. Just fix the speed increase on daggers. Many of you are whining about that yet it’s bugged and the trait doesn’t work at all, ever.

Unfortunately the pet would be dead in 10 seconds and the ranger 10 seconds after that, where the warrior would still be alive.

I know, I know, that’s not the point of the test. Props for actually doing some research and attempting to get answers.

Something needs to be done with story mode.

1) Give tokens in story mode
2) Let players do it multiple times and make it worth somthing

or

3) Make difficulty scale based on # of party members (only for story mode). Setting a range of 2-5 for party would be fine.

Avatar Rage.4369:

Wait I thought you could put your own music into GW2? Or am I just imagining it?

Edit: nope I didn’t here is a link

http://www.guildwarsinsider.com/guildwars2-in-game-music-player-tutorial/

Yes exactly, which is what got me thinking about the Pandora idea. My problem is that if you aren’t computer savvy then this might be a hard thing to do. I’m a procrastinator which is why I have yet to set this up. However if it were as simple as logging into Pandora and selecting a channel, I would have set it up day 1. Also makes it incredibly easy to change the music in 5 seconds, rather than creating and copy a complete new playlist

Yes it’s good news but guys, just relax. Don’t sing his praises yet. He’s promised before and the ranger community became even more outraged.

We could see a 50% increase in Lbow speed or we could see a 0.5% increase in Lbow speed. Just wait 4 more days.

At least it’s safe to say that we wont see any more one-time events after this. Well… since it’s Anet, maybe 60% sure we wont see any more one-time events.

Keiran.1896:

I was disconnected too during the boss. No reward, no mail.
And those people abusing the chest, opening it several times during the event.
And those people getting 2 precursors per chest.
And those people receiving the mail after opening the chest.
And those people receiving 2 mails instead of one…

I had lost faith in Arenanet, and that just achieved me.
You just burned the fun I had in this game like an old paper.

I understand that it’s up setting not to get the reward, but if you based your fun in this game on getting a chest drop then I feel completely sorry for you. You are welcome to play any game you want, but GW2 does not encourage this type of fun.

I would recommend mainly using D/D. Tons of AOE damage and good survivability in later levels when you trait correctly.

I tend to use staff in WvW if I go with a zerg (D/D in small squads) and boss fights

Kyosji.8961:

No. You get exactly as much as the description of the item says. (4500 I believe)

False. The booster does effect the amount.

Attendedx2/Lootedx2/No Mail x2

(x2, did it with an alt as well)

+1. I’m in a big guild and sometimes I’m partying with a guildie and don’t realize it till halfway through the dungeon run

I found the post that describes how to set your own playlist for different categories in the game, like ambient, battles, underwater, towns, etc. I love this idea but it seems like a lot of work, especially for those people that aren’t exactly computer savvy.

This would probably never happen, but I would love to see a Pandora & GW2 partnership. You could automatically select your favorite pandora station for the category, that way it would be incredibly easy to change and could even be an in-game menu.

Battles – Skrillex. Okay JK… Chiodos
Ambient – Incubus
Town – Red hot Chili Peppers
Underwater – Disney Channel (Unless I’m on my ranger, then Dimmu Borgir because all rangers are OP in water combat)

What do you guys thing? What channels would you guys choose for your categories?

I’m mostly in agreement with fractals. But keep in mind you can also get a lot of rare armor from dungeon merchants with the other dungeon tokens. I believe you can salvage these for ectos yeah?

Abigor.4952:

@Ethics
Actually till some moment I was able to finish them of in downed stealth(start finisher, they go in stealth, as long as they don’t tp I’d kill them even in stealth), either it was a bug before, or it became so now…or devs changed it.

If they changed it that would be great. I’ve mainly been on planetside2 lately, waiting to see if 12/14 is the ranger saving patch I’ve been waiting for (probably not, always got an ele waiting for me). Can anybody else comment if they are now able to finish thieves that stealth (not teleport).

Dante Dragonhand.2538:

They are crying about the trap bug fix where people could lay down 2 sets of the same trap and have 4-6 traps down. So let me get this straight, berserker gear is broken? So in pvp my zerker ammy and jewel will be fixed and Ill now be a threat? If so, YESSSSS! If not, awwwww.

The berserker he is talking about is the mesmer phantasm/clone iberseker. So sorry, he was not referring to your gear.

I completely disagree. I’ve moved away from my thief as it wasn’t quite my playing style, but let me tell you that your 10-20 man team sucks a lot if one thief was killing people off and trapped you into a zerg.

I’m perfectly fine with stealth finishers. I don’t care, it’s the mechanic of the thief. Yes I get upset, but I get upset whenever I get downed/finished. The only issue I have is that finishing an invisible thief should still count. You can AOE a stealthed thief and you can finish your attack as long it started channeling before hand, so why not be able to finish them off once you start the skill.

Bullshizle.2675:

This is my personal opinion but I find the D/D healing for Ele a lot better than the staff healing : )

I also like D/D healing better. Low CD on the icy breath skill and I find most people immediately run out of my geyser so that only healing rain does alright.

I believe the general mentality in dungeons/PvE is that the best form of healing is to finish off the boss before he can do too much damage. Unfortunately most bosses have 90% or more damage on big skills and most healing does maybe 10-20% of HP over time.

I’m not quite 80 yet, but this is what I’m thinking.

For WvW when I run with small squads I’ll be mostly defensive with D/D. I plan on mainly using my AOE abilities and being one of the first ones in with RTL and stomp to give my squad time to come in and crush them.

For everything else, Dungeons, WvW zergs, PvE etc, I will most likely be less defensive. I’m thinking staff with mostly offensive stats and a little toughness/vit here and there to help out with staying alive a bit longer.

Again, not 80, so that’s not what I do, just what I think I’m going to do.

I’ll jump in since I’m in love with my ele (don’t tell my girlfriend).

I decided to sPvP a bit to test out lvl 80 on my ele. I don’t spvp a lot but wanted to get into it a bit. My first match was okay, I was starting to get used to the ele. My 2nd match I capped a point and thought “Hey, I have aoe, I’ll go take out the treb”.

I was fighting 1v2 and going for the treb the whole time while trying to distracted the 2 (a thief and eng). They were doing some work on me but nothing much. Then comes big ol warrior and I thought “dang, I’m screwed”. I survived long enough to take the treb down and continued to dance with them for another 2-3 minutes before they finally took me down. I was running away and had yet to turn off auto-target, so I RTLed back into them lol (fail).

The best part, as I’m smiling and congratulating myself was to see the thief come up and chat and say “ kitten eles”

There’s so much fail here OP. I’m pretty sure 5 guards can’t go afk during a boss. My thief does well and shadow refugee is great for certain parts, especially rezs on random deaths during boss fights.

Jay.3415:

Criminal.5627:

Jay.3415:

40 milliseconds increase to the SB…. one can wish

tbh i would rather most of the ranger skills be reworked and give a greater variety of condition/dmg/boon/and boon removal options,
would like for at least one attack on longbow to cause burning or incindiary arrows to become a preporation like it was in gw1 would prefer it alot more over sharpening stone.

Oh my bad cause that nerf was sooooo needed…

It wasn’t needed at all but it was like a kicking a dead horse. There are so many other things wrong with this class that it was just absolutely ridiculous to nerf one of our only ‘decent’ weapons left. Not to mention how they went about it. Hey we fixed a bug, oh your DPS was nerfed? Yeah well, you shouldn’t spam 1 anyway. Buff the other skills…. naaaaa.

I could easily live with this 40ms increase if they fixed other weapons playability and bugs (1H root)

youtube is a great way to check out others’ reviews, opinions, and gameplay/mechanics before purchasing.

Also, the game is brand new in terms of MMORPGs. They have changes for WvW and sPvP coming, so just relax and be thankful there is no sub fee.

The looks of the invader can tell you a lot about what’s going to happen in WvW. On my thief I usually look for a big norn in plate to steal from. Plus with the RPG aspect it doesn’t make sense for a warrior or guardian who’s wearing a robe and wielding a staff to be able to 100b with all that toughness and armor.

As for the town clothes, it sucks but I think the point is the RP element. I don’t agree with it, but it is what it is.

It depends. If they are nice/talkative and follow directions well, then I’ll stay. I don’t get mad at people for not knowing the mechanics. I always ask if anybody is new and try to explain it the best I can, but it definitely takes a play through or two to pick up on it.

However if I have a leeroy Jenkins in my party or people who don’t do normal stuff well (revive when down, dodge AOEs, etc) then I don’t feel bad rage quitting.

Orion Templar.4589:

You asked for three, but I added a 4th general one:

1. Pets: Faster (instant) cast for F2 abilities
2. Pets: Ability to hit moving targets
3. Pets: Smarter AI to get themselves out of AoE and make them more survivable in dungeons
4. Add a general option to the options page to insta-cast ground target skills at target foe location (rather than cursor location)

I don’t like your fourth option. That removes the skill from part of it and I believe is intended. Plus I don’t see many serious PvPers/WvWers using this as we all know people move. That’s the fun, juding where that person is going to be in 1 sec or 2…. or 3 with some of the bigger skills you see w/ eles.

Blaine Tog.8304:

Carighan.6758:

oflow.2157:

They use the excuse that the class is complicated when in reality its not… most good eles just compensate by having better than average twitch skill which can make up for how bad alot of the tool set is.

Aaah, the good ol’ “We’re simply better players”-argument.
Always really easy to back that one up, is it?

To be fair, he was speaking about a specific type of skill rather than skill in general. I don’t think it’s an unfair assumption to assume Elementalist players generally have better twitch skill than the average GW2 player since playing an Elementalist forces you to dance attunements and chain skills from different attunements quickly, thus training you in twitch skill. In Staff, the Earth 2 + Water 3 or Fire 2 combo is actually rather mechanically tricky to pull off. Toss a Warrior player into an Elementalist’s shoes and I doubt most of them would be able to successfully complete it right out of the gate.

Right on, but what’s so bad about having a class where you need twitch skills? I don’t think every class should be playable to every skill set and ability. Why should somebody that has slow reactions be better than or just as good as me with fast reactions?

There are older people who play that just like PvE and sometimes dabble in WvW. That’s perfectly fine. But let them play a warrior or ranger where you don’t have to press 10 buttons in 3/4 seconds to stay alive. Eles have a very high skill ceiling, if you you’re good enough to reach it you should be rewarded.

Your three changes seem a little lackluster and would still leave me dissatisfied, imo.

1) Increase long bow damage and arrow speed
2) Fix obstruction errors with bows
3) Fix Pet AI so they attack moving targets along with F2 abilities being insta-cast.

There are many other things that would count as a fix and not even a ‘buff’ as I seriously doubt the ranger is ‘working as intended’. But I would be happy to see those 3.

However, I think I’ve almost been converted to an elementalist for good.