Guild Wars 2

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• People say I laugh too much, sometimes for no reason and it’s contagious :P
• This year i did hit 25 winters!
• I love WINTER & winter sports wuhuuu!
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• It’s my last year on college and i’m kind of scared of real life I still want to do regular stuff in my life, so i hope i get my dream job as gameplay designer/ level designer / programmer .. anything connected to the games.
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GuildWars?

• I’m in love with GvG, and sicretly still hope for it^^ ( i’m patient person )
• If people ask me, I love to give suggestions or arguments
• I’m obssessed with Archers/Rangers, anything that has BOW!
• I keep playing Ranger, because i did mainranger in GW1 for 4 years, and that’s everything i’ve played in any other MMORPG.

My carrier of MMOs/MOBAs:
*- KalOnline: archer
*- Lineage1-2: archer
*- Guild Wars 1: ranger
*- Tera: archer
*- League of Legends: ADC/Marksman
*- Smite: ADC

Captain Swag.5893:

Stop making outfits! We cant pick and choose pieces to match with our armor sets, it’s all or nothing, and LOTS of people don’t like that. There are SEVERAL outfits that would be better off as armor sets, and if they were armor sets and not outfits, I would happily purchase some of them to be able to meld them to my liking with my other gear.

Totally agree, it’s waste of good armour that could be combined to full mix and match set. I don’t see a point why they are making outfits at all..

Astral Projections.7320:

callidus.7085:

Astral Projections.7320:

callidus.7085:

Astral Projections.7320:

Since OP’s proposal would remove people who are at jps and decrease the numbers doing them (removing those who need a portal) shouldn’t he have titled his proposal

Making Jumping puzzle dead again [SOLUTION]

I Suugestion OP go back and edit his title to make it more correct.

It wouldn’t reduce the number of people doing them. It would reduce the number of people camping at the end.. and the number of people taking portals to just get to the end. It WOULD however give people incentive to do it legitimately if the rewards were appropriate. That’s what I’d personally like to see.

If there are 3 groups of people at a JP and the solution removes 2 groups then imo, it would reduce the number of people doing the puzzle.

if there are 3 groups of people.. at the END of the JP.. people that do the JP, people that park there and people that get portaled there… There are 2 groups of people that don’t deserve to be there… imo. Because only that one group that actually DID the puzzle can be said to have been “doing the puzzle”.

Oooohh, so this is about who deserves to do the puzzle, not making the puzzle alive as the title said.

Strange, I could have sworn this game was about cooperation and helping others out. I have no idea where I got such a silly notion. Thanks for clearing this little misconception up for me.

Would you attack Teq for 20 min, if you know you could just press F on chest every time that Teq is killed? Would you park there? Sure you would, same goes for JPs.

Rewarding people that gave some effort would make:

• feeling that they achieved something (AP)
• they got rewarded for awesome job done
• they will come again because they enjoy it + enjoy the reward
• every one loves rewards for doing good job

Lets put it that way, every time you accomplish something alone, without unintended cheating by parking characters at the end or using help by over jumping parts of JPs, you don’t deserve the reward, that’s why you mostly get blue/green loot for 10-20-30 min of jumping. People see JP they like it, and never do it again because rewards suck. If dungeon would give junk as JP, no one would ever do it more then 2x like JPs.

callidus.7085:

Astral Projections.7320:

Since OP’s proposal would remove people who are at jps and decrease the numbers doing them (removing those who need a portal) shouldn’t he have titled his proposal

Making Jumping puzzle dead again [SOLUTION]

I Suugestion OP go back and edit his title to make it more correct.

It wouldn’t reduce the number of people doing them. It would reduce the number of people camping at the end.. and the number of people taking portals to just get to the end. It WOULD however give people incentive to do it legitimately if the rewards were appropriate. That’s what I’d personally like to see.

This.

champ.7021:

the few times i do jps (for ap rewards ofc) i do them on mez so that for the next couple of days i can port people who want bad loot or want aps as well. It makes me feel like a good citizen for saving them time and frustration for something that a lot of people really don’t like.

Don’t leave us mesmers unemployed

I think the good part of your idea was to boost rewards…the rest idk :p

Exactly, I made mesmer to help people, but then again i noticed mesmers are the worst for JPs, while you can do every JP a lot faster with Necro or Thief.

I want to prevent parking because parking is main reason why rewards are so bad. People know it, we know it and arena net knows as well. Solution is here, question is, do we want to be rewarded, or just sit up there every day and log for junk, every one has own opinion, and you are right, You can read my opinion, but I don’t expect you to like it:)

Malox.5416:

You’re presenting a solution to a problem in a hypothetical future that YOU created. This thread is pointless and your supposed “solution” is only taking away from the game in exchange for personal/material gain.
" disabling mesmer portals while holding token" No…just no.

I give solution to people to use JUMPING skills, not cheating skills, by …
“whups I did just fail, now worry i can portal back up..”

Well giving every one fair chance to do jumping puzzle and get rewarded for it is awesome feeling. Rewards are HORRIBLE just because people cheat, park accounts up there and eat the loot daily by just logging in to open the chest…

You are one of them, that’s why you reacted that way.
My solution is great solution, to give joy to players that actually do jumping puizzles, and i do them for fun, but at the same time I ask why there is so shameful reward for fairly enough effort.

I make EB ~OS jp daily, just because i want to break my record every time that I run it, but i feel i deserve to be rewarded more for something this awesome.

Under options there is way to hide events, and all unwanted stuff that you don’t desire to see on your screen. One of this is Personal Story.

I’ve done 3x full living story just because i can and mainly I did it for orders…
I don’t see logic behind, why should player be forced to do quests again to be able to hide personal story.

WHY?
Am i miss looking something or?

EDIT: i’m having 8 lvl 80 characters, 3 of them have quests done of full living and personal story. On my other toons, i don’t want to see quests ever again? How can I remove story UI label for it?

ArenaNet please disable your personal story from the beginning, why on earth i would want to do it 8 times just to remove that stupid label and quest tracker from my map/screen?

Jumping puzzle are awesome, and they should be more rewarding, and I have a solution how to prevent JP account parking.

SOLUTION:
- create npc/object that you talk to at beginning ( as a check point)
- player get 1 token for talking
- player can hold only one token
- chest requires token to open it
- once you open chest you lose token

OPTIONAL: disabling mesmer portals while holding token

REWARDS:
should give decent amount of gold / T5/6 material /

This is simple solution to prevent parking accounts with almost zero effort to fix and make jumping puzzles even more enjoyable and rewarding again. I also think Jumping Puzzles should have some key parts of crafting materials that would drop with fair rate to make them attractive.

NOTE: there will be many people talking how JPs should be only for fun, but that’s theirs opinion, and this is my opinion. As dungeons, world bosses and other things have decent reward, Jumping puzzles should be no exception. If someone enjoys them as much as me and i would love to have some decent profit out of it. I’m a sPvP/GvG/WvW person like, but other things that i enjoy in PvE are Jumping puzzles.

ColinJohanson.2394:

butch.8136:

This is huge if true.

Confirmed yes! Our blog will be out shortly with more information.

You can also check out the Ready Up show tomorrow at noon pacific time to see some of the new camera stuff in action!

Ehey Colin! I wish to ask what is the point of making 1st personal view when game mechanics and combat flow itself does not have right gameplay for first personal view combat?

Why not give us full top view so we can have more control on battle field itself? I would love to zoom-out for 1-2x more scrolls, nothing fancy but that would help a lot to resize view for 20%-30%…

I really don’t see use of 1st personal view other then making community trailers/shoots.

Can you collaborate your point of view why this choice over top view ?

Yes, trading post is sky-rocketing the prices of some items…
I think arena net should do something about that..
This is getting out of control and it’s crazy..
People who play Trading post more then actual game, ruin the gaming experience.
Trading was never that horrible as it is in GW2.

I hope we can have some changes to that. Ty ArenaNet.

I just wanna drop this for @AnrenaNet

I’ve just made my ascended armour, and i’ve figured out how much ascended materials we get every day. There is no logic behind this and currently ascended system is pointless.
You wait 24 days to craft all bolt of damask needed for ascended armour, and that’s the only barrier that we currently have things that I would change:

- add all ascended grinders/crushers for every kind of ascended material
- limit two bolt of damask per day
- drop less ascended material derivative by 10, dropping them every where in this huge amounts is stupid. In one day, you can get enough material for full set..
- make it possible to sell ascended material to vendor

Conclusion: We get way to much material that we need for full set of armour. Crafting armour on your own takes in average of 24 days(because damasks) and amount of ascended material that you get in 24 days, would be enough to craft 15-20 sets just from that. @ArenaNet has to reduce amount of ascended material drop, or give us option to get grinders/crushers to convert full stack of ascended material into random sellable item/material. Grinders/Crushers should be easily to gain them through short quests, reason: abnormal acquire of material.

@Draknar.5748: you have bad way of thinking, we get way to many ascended material. In fact we get it tons more that we can spend. It’s pointless to fill your space or bank with 100 bricks of material if you only need “hand full of bricks” to make a set or weapon……………………………………… and turning huge amounts to bricks is consuming a lot of gold for those who don’t pve daily.

Ensign.2189:

BearRider.7349:

Right now i hit around 1.5k-2.5k auto attack. Other rangers tell me they hit 4k, but i don’t know where those numbers come from.

Those numbers come from a stack of might on you and a stack of vulnerability on your target.

Nope, I hit 2,8k – 6k per auto attack if i manage to trigger one of signets (air / fire )

All you see here is bullcrap of a ranger berserker builds, that’s why rangers are hated, no1 knows how to build them.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAT8YjEq0yaDLGsw1ag9gadAUAnd7h4a3BWDcJjqC-TFCFABKpEDgHCQhq/clSQk2fUeIwFAINdDLcEACAcA45nf+5nfuf/d5fX+3yAovFA-w

Use my build, and come back to thank me.
Now you’ll at least have reason to be hated;)

Test.8734:

Firelysm.4967:

I expect A LOT more “unlock through playing” and not “through GEM store” content in new expansion ( referring to weapons/armours )

Unlikely. We will probably see very few skins available in the game through normal play. ArenaNet has to keep the art team making more skins for the Gem Shop, and between selling you a $40 expansion with 6 armor designs or a $40 expansion with 1 armor design, well, guess what’s more profitable for them?

And if that’s all i get, it will be first and last expansion of GW2 that i will purchase, and shift to another game, after playing gw for 9 years, i really dont want to but, there is nothing else to say on that i guess… 40€ is way to much for:
- new legendary
- 1 new pvp map
- masteries
- specialization
- and small piece of maguuma forest….
- plus.. probably junk LS again which is worthless to me(if LS was like episode 8, then i would love LS, but other 7 episodes were disaster..)

Hi, I’m GW veteran I’ve just noticed that expansion will be paid, and it feels shame that we have all this awesome weapons depended on Black Lion keys which are huge RNG gambling. We barely have any trading between players, we barely can unlock anything awesome outside of GEM store, every 2nd thing is account or soulbound..

I’ve spend nice ammount of gems to support Arena net, and i’ve bought them only because i’ve thought expansion will be free. So i wanted to support them on some way. But now that i’ve realized that expansion is pay to play, i feel scammed for what i’ve “donated” to Arena net.

I expect A LOT more “unlock through playing” and not “through GEM store” content in new expansion ( referring to weapons/armours )

My gaming experience when I’ve shifting from GW1 to GW2 went down for 50%…

If I decide to buy HoT, i expect less JUNK clicking lootbags, less account bounded items that i could trade/share with guildies, friends other players.

2,5years after release of original GW2, we still have no GvG… and no announcement for when we will get something to involve guilds in pvp ( stronghold is nothing near GvG).. I hope you guys upgrade pvp & wvw. Now is the right moment to get some deserved attention and respect to pvp / wvw players.

This account bound stuff is making players selfish and learning NOT to share things.

Ty, your beloved loyal player of GW1 & 2, don’t disappoint me.

EDIT:

• People should understand difference between, i bought gems just to support anet in order because gw2 team said once u buy game, further expansions will be free. I bought gems to show respect, not because i wanted something.*

• Eye of the North was paid expansion like any other map, content was HUGE, and u got all weapons and armours free, in GW2 gem store delivers all awesome looking weapon skins through gem store (tickets > black lion keys/chests ).. while in Eye of the north u could unlock everything through playing the game which made every expansion interesting.. i like to do things for reward, not for story.. could not care less for story living story or what ever kind of story.*

Eles deserve to lose one attunement, only then i would give them one more weapon, because 4 different stances are just to much, and this is why cele ele is so forgiven because every “beginner” can play it like a baws!..

no, to op. imagine mesmer hide in keep or any other class could port people in not just mesmers… and instant outnumber? That’s B crap, or something like… solo roam … get to location A, port to commander with 12521412 omegas.. .GG WP no ty… worst un-thought idea ever.

How i would fix it.
Stealth is awesome, but in order to stealth you either have to:
a) be out of player view point of sight.
b) blind target in order to be able to stealth again.

Currently it’s to easy to get in stealth. This would need some mechanics in my opinion.

Hi there readers.
Aether bow is not really cheap and does deliver identical skin look short / longbow.

If this bow is so expensive and has same model for both sizes, why not give us chance for both bows? If not make the difference between long and short bow please.

DeWolfe.2174:

Beyond the lore and GW1 discussion, GW2 was supposed to have us working together to build Worlds. Not fracture into little guilds and fight each other for vanity. I believe WvW should never have had visible guild tags. That allowed the focus of a World concept to be lessened.

And how exactly do you build “Worlds”?

When there are no changes to LA for tons of years and we have all this ascended garbage material that could be contributed to fix lions arch if arena net would consider this as option for better community system to restore the world after Scarlet attack.

It’s sad that we “work together” but we have no effort doing it!?
All we have is blast + might.. like that’s nearly it.. only offensive sutff..
No defensive and tactics combinations that would really contribute to a good team work combined of 2 or more classes. Sure we have veil, but that’s only one class no need to combine anything..

If this is “work together” based game, i think we should get updated combat system.

And about wvw:
its awesome as it is, because other way we would have no competition AT ALL, sPvP is junk, and pvp is just disaster .. and most of us that still play is because we did play GW1 and we still believe in Arena Net for better times. THAT’s ALL.

GvG is needed badly, I would give my hand in fire to bet that… +40% of guilds would try and play GvG.

Vert.5041:

good night because there’s nothing you can do except die from someone almost 1800 range.

That’s not our fault, because arena net made bad gaming model, where if you gap close, he’s pretty much toasted. Rangers need close fights, better pet mechanics or removal of pets. No druid bullkitten but good reconsidered play style model.

And thiefs need some changes too, as well as cele ele and engie, staff guardian, and rifle warrior.

Arvizal.8436:

I run D/P and use my entire skill set.

That’s the problem, you have nice skill set, while ranger:
1. basic damage
2. your beloved rapid fire
3. nothing but stealth with ZERO damage
4. nothing but knock-back with ZERO damage
5. easily avoidable BARRAGE by any non 1 Digit IQ thief. it’s one dodge, or simply walk away.

Arthedain.5928:

mosty because the established roaming meta does not want to adapt…
lb ranger is extremly easy to counter but they dont want to adapt and instead flame us as “noobs” etc

This.

DeceiverX.8361:

I hate fire/air procs from RF more than RF itself.but taking a random extra 4k damage from fire/air is just annoying.

That’s not our problem if you run full PPF, you play high risk high reward, you give and you take hard damage. Deal with it.

Tao.5096:

Google -> GS Auto Clicker
Mouse will be pleased with this.

Mouse: I would love to, but I might lose my job doing that if I get caught by company named Arena net.

My Mouse would love to share a live story, go ahead Mouse when ever you are ready:

Mouse:

Hi every one!
My name is Mouse, I’m 2 years old and I working hard every day, because my owner is GW2 huge fan. I shouldn’t say it.. but I hate my job, I truly do. It cannot tell specific date, but I remember, when I was little, I had this awesome exciting job, click here and there to slay a PVE boss and talk to NPC and occasionally open a chest with good loot and run around exploring the world, but those times are gone, since my boss shifted from guild wars 1 to guild wars 2.

I’m tired, and this days I’m getting forced to do iterative clicking over and over again, specially when my boss orders me to open stacks of bags from champions, stacks of essence, begs, purses and other horrible things just to find nothing special inside. I believe that I’ll have to quit my job, else they will break me They threat me like I’m a slave, and every day they search for new worker to replace me when I’ll end up broken, because I’m already not feeling well: ( I’m still young arena net, please let me live a little longer!

My greatest wish for upcoming Expansion HoT would be, that you guys make more quality over quantity bags, or let me open all of my packs until inventory is full, this would save me tons of clicking and i could live longer. I miss my old job. I’m more then happy that I had this opportunity to share this story with you! Thanks!:)

TL;DR Mouse is a working hard mouse, which will have to quit her job, because of repetitive clicking just to find disappointment.

Zenith.7301:

Fluffball.8307:

Zenith.7301:

Why are people taking Entangle over RAO? Thieves are immune to entangle due to ports as well as eles, mesmers have staff to port out of it too on a low cd.

They are most definitely not immune, they have to use skills to get out. Either they use the teles to get out and can’t use them in another emergency, or you’ve already forced another emergency and now they can’t get out of entangle. That’s one of the main reasons I almost always use MT, drakehound and wolf, regardless of what build I’m running.

You can’t just spam entangle and expect it to land on anyone. They’ll just dodge it if nothing else.

sword port from thief and and mesmer staff blink most definitely are fairly spammable, and both of those classes have teleports/escapes/clears well below the cd of most ranger cc skills.

Simple dodge, makes engangled miss if you time it:
-dodge
- s/d thief can simpy port back
- blinding ranger will make him/her miss Ent
- stun-breaker

so easy to escape, to easy if u ask me … cuz casting is to long, if it would be 1/2 i would use it.

anduriell.6280:

Firelysm.4967:

Well all this ranger setups are not wrong, but aren’t efficient either.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAT8YjEq0yaDLGsw1ag9gadAUAnd7h4G2BWDcBraA-T1BFABC8QAQa/R5RSKxW4IAAwFAoQ1fuSJYAgDAnf+5nf+5RKA9UGB-w

Dude just go with 6 2 6 0 0 build and make sure you get yourself
~ reflex
~ signet of stone…
~ 3rd utility is optional HUNT/RENEWAL/MUD
~ ELITE RAO ( dont bother taking Entangle, every person that is not kittened will simply dodge or stealth to avoid it)..

Let me explain why mud terrain is ok, but not so awesome as every one advertise it as viable, every skill that ranger has is basically CASTING from 3/4 and up to 2 seconds. It’s so easy to break rangers combination. so i always avoid mud terrain, i rather have 25% speed and 150% extra damage on your pet, it’s is just insane, who ever will get close to you, will either get feared or stomped hard. 3rd utility is always nice to have rune as Hunt Or Renewal.
If you decide to take Renewal for condi removal, you can change wilderness XI rune for XII to get 50% reduced damage when under 25% HP.

And almost always use Troll Unguent. when you drop below 80-85%. I almost don’t use heal as one, because i benefit more from TU then Heal as One, because when you take 50% HP damage to heal up again it’s mostly to late already.

Key of this build is s/d, you’ll be very very squishy with this build, but on the other hand u’ll be extremely pain in the kitten because you can dodge and kite every incoming damage if you can time it correctly.

Enjoy and feel free to kick some butts

You have like 40% crit chance… Would be better to mix soldier/berseker armor set to avoid been so glass?? The 201% ferocity will not do much in this cases…

I play high risk high reward, no point playing something what doesnt bust my adrenaline Having that in mind gives me extra motivation for no failure and you know by your own, that if you forgive yourself 3 hits u are gone, same with you, 200 extra armor for 200 less power wouldn’t change a thing.

Ranger is not made to take hits unless you want to play it that way, but then again i wouldn’t go for what i’m running, learn to play flawless brain AFK is not the way to go, that’s why rangers are hated

Well all this ranger setups are not wrong, but aren’t efficient either.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAT8YjEq0yaDLGsw1ag9gadAUAnd7h4G2BWDcBraA-T1BFABC8QAQa/R5RSKxW4IAAwFAoQ1fuSJYAgDAnf+5nf+5RKA9UGB-w

Dude just go with 6 2 6 0 0 build and make sure you get yourself
~ reflex
~ signet of stone…
~ 3rd utility is optional HUNT/RENEWAL/MUD
~ ELITE RAO ( dont bother taking Entangle, every person that is not kittened will simply dodge or stealth to avoid it)..

Let me explain why mud terrain is ok, but not so awesome as every one advertise it as viable, every skill that ranger has is basically CASTING from 3/4 and up to 2 seconds. It’s so easy to break rangers combination. so i always avoid mud terrain, i rather have 25% speed and 150% extra damage on your pet, it’s is just insane, who ever will get close to you, will either get feared or stomped hard. 3rd utility is always nice to have rune as Hunt Or Renewal.
If you decide to take Renewal for condi removal, you can change wilderness XI rune for XII to get 50% reduced damage when under 25% HP.

And almost always use Troll Unguent. when you drop below 80-85%. I almost don’t use heal as one, because i benefit more from TU then Heal as One, because when you take 50% HP damage to heal up again it’s mostly to late already.

Key of this build is s/d, you’ll be very very squishy with this build, but on the other hand u’ll be extremely pain in the kitten because you can dodge and kite every incoming damage if you can time it correctly.

Enjoy and feel free to kick some butts

“Wolf > drakehound/jungle spider > river drake/birds > cats, are all good WvW pets.”

That’s all you have to know about GW2 pets:
birds are way to slow in combat, no matter what guys say wolf does way more damage, and has better decision making, while birds get confused and are dead way faster then any other pet.

(i cannot login right now to check full names but u’ll find it)
If u want 1v1, after 1,4k hour on my ranger i find next pets most useful:
- Use wolf with fear as main
- dog with immobalize (better then spider, because dogs bring a lot more impact of annoyingness and damage itself then spiders)
- Cat’s are kind of OK, but they can miss skill 2, if only enemy changes direction ( dont have to dodge) other then that they have decent damage, both Lynx and the other cat are ok.

If you want your pet to pick only conditions for you and use it as “eat my mistakes” pet, then go with bear.

Wolfs > dogs > cats……………………………………….. bear … rest are useless

Picking pets like drake and stuff is just not worth, because your pet is more useful alive then dead, so don’t send it into zerg.. it will only get out as fast as it went in… so don’t even bother to zerg with your pet.

Wolf fear + dog immobalize = best current combo
with Longbow + s/d setup and traits 6/2/6/0/0.
Axe is ok but more useless then dagger, because as ranger you don’t want to go on 2nd weapon set unless you are forced to a) reposition, b) dodge yourself out of close range damage.

laokoko.7403:

I think most people already know that, because that’s how G1 works.

I kind of hope for a battle where the entire guild can participate myself. So I am disappointed. But on the other hand, everyone knows how popular MOBA is. And having a new pvp mode which ressembled MOBA is quite cool.

Also I think the ability to register as a guild and rank a team is quite cool. That’s not previously done very well before.

I doubt I’m good enough to make the cut for my guild’s stronghold team. But I’m sure I’ll be cheering on them. I hope a guild’s can register multiple team also so more people can participate.

This game doesnt have skill based to be moba… because you are not punished to waste big cooldown enough…. i want old GvG back to have something to do… i hate that stronghold is not what we PvP players desire so much for SO LONG.

Nick.6972:

Here’s wondering why HA (Heroes’ Ascent), a simple Team Death Match with few extra mechanics did far more better in GW1 than GW2 is doing (PvP).
Why do they have to go after all these gimmicky game modes, mix moba, conquest, buffs, and all the other things.

Indeed, i just WANT, old way of GvG map, and i will play that for next 2 years…
Guild lord on each side, and 5 guards.. and no cap points, no treb, nothing (i know siege was in GW1 but for other meaning then doing AOE dmg on cap points), they were ment to destroy gate fast, rest was just pure Team VS Team no NPCs involved kitten, and it was AWESOME.

I just hate that players worry more about CAP points then actuall fights..

Gotejjeken.1267:

Jelzouki.4128:

A cooler mechanic than dual longbow would be giving rangers special arrows that serve different purpose i.e fire arrow, etc.

Used to have that in GW1. Was called preparations.

And i miss that a lot! and those f**ng pets are just not my thing, i want them gone with specialization :>

Staff ranger, i dont want any druids specialization… >_> I wish rangers would never get this "pet"s… now we even get kindergarden mastery… WUHUUUU… so not awesome >_>

Wish ranger specialization would be to decide if u want your pet or not and MASTER YOUR BOW.. not staff… like guardian111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

I’ve stopped doing them, not interested in random things like rank boosts LOL, i can do that on my own. They are worthless.

I name all my pets: “Squirrel Undercover”
Makes 1v1 so much better GO SQUIRREL!:D

MFoy.3284:

OK, ok I’ve given this some thought and come to these conclusions:

o This is very complex for AreaNet. Mike, Colin et al have to deal with NCSoft, Nexon, KongZhong and Internal Staff. Actually, so far so good.

o This is kinda new but not Evil. So stay frosty.

o There is another NCSoft published game that needs attention before Guild Wars 2.

o Any impact to Guild Wars 2 would be downstream.

o Considering SAB on a mobile platform is a healthy discussion.

Honestly, from what I’ve read players are already making a lot of stew from one Oyster. I’ve looked outside, the sky is not falling. I’d like us to calmly take a step back and consider a graphic that clearly shows the whole issue as it currently stands.

This picture is same size of town and Trojan horse. I think i’ve said enough

This companies like NOXON’s… ruin the game experience,because they invest in company.. then leech so hard that they destroy it and invest in another company… then repeat.. we must stop that from happening! Because this can effect GW2 a lot, and i think all this Gem store, is NOXONS idea.. if it would be Arena Net, they would give things with expansion.

Ashen.2907:

Firelysm.4967:

Orangensaft.7139:

why not as longbow?
or why not as both?

Silverwing was shortbow that’s why I’ve wrote it^^
I would love to have them as longbow and shortbow myself:D

It’s still my favorite design of a bow. Even better then any of those current bow legendaries that look just horrible.

I loved my Silverwing and would definitely like to see the skin in GW2.

For what its worth the Silverwing was a recurve bow, not a short bow.

Oh yes! My bad! I was referring to shortbow translation into GW2, and then just keep talking like it was short bow hehe^^ Yes recurve bow^^

Junkpile.7439:

Well you can have 2800 power, +200% crit dmg, 50% crit chance and you can maybe kill warrior when he is afk.

Confident:)? I wouldn’t be so sure about that, because a good ranger, can deal with warrior at any moment:)

mistsim.2748:

if I still played wvw, this is how id play my power ranger

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJATRjEq0yaJLGsQ1ag9gadA0Andrhw9WUEtdBrSA-TVCFwAIOCAAeAAXVCiU5ngLAQt9HyoLYxhAQl6PkCIiRWA-w

valk and on-demand condi cleansing is imo the only way to go. 2700 power and 21k hp aint too bad either. runes of pack, traveller, swiftness (use SoW or SoS instead of SoH), and other options.

regarding OPness of pew pew rangers, I feel this complaint is kind of pathetic. stick a decent d/p or s/d thief on the ranger and his fun is over.

Not really:) I can fight any thief with any setup, by LB+s/d or SB+s/d Even unexpected ganks in wvw by roamers, i can deal with them on 1v1:)

Many say rangers are bad in PvP/PvE, i just meet a guy in WvW who said rangers suck.
“warrior has this, guard that, necro that.. he started”.. and i stopped for a second.. and think about it?! It’s not that rangers are bad, other classes have to many things.

HARDOFREADING.7298:

It’s still alive because 6 seconds of 0 damage is ridiculous for a class that has 2k range,a stealth,a destealth,crazy burst that tracks, & on top of all that A pet Fear. Completely unfair to try & defend a structure or take a structure from any group of rangers right now. Flame away

You just counted all we have, and honestly you are very unfair, you think we wouldn’t run ANYTHING else if we had a choice? PLUS, what do other classes have? I wont even start with elementalist, Engie? I wont comment on that… Warrior?.. well i’ll passs here too.. tons of stealth and sick damage and dodges on Thief? Are you complaining maybe on those too? A guardian with infinity blocks(not rly but nearly), necro with tons of kitten and damage? Mesmer that can do what ever they please?

I think ONLY person here, is you, unfair and talking with wrong argument, you count what we have.. but we cannot run all of this at the same time.. And ranger that uses that “6 seconds of 0 damage” is all that they have, we dont have 2k range, and you forget a 6 sec stealth is very useless because besides rapid fire, there is no real damage on longbow, where LB5 is dodged or you simply walk away from it.. And you forgot to say.. we have 40 seconds cooldown on fear.. where EVERY other class has A LOT lower cooldown FOR A LOT BETTER STUFF, then just a 2 seconds fear.. and u know what? We have to time our “FEAR” very precisely, because our AI companion pets.. are POORLY designed.

Again.. you just talk nonsense, you point out things but don’t know how things and timers work, don’t comment and tell that things are OP if you didn’t research game enough to counter that.

If you goign to complain about balance in WvW, ranger is one of the last classes you should be complaining about.

THIS

Sirendor.1394:

Tbh, they just need to nerf the dmg on rapid fire (not on longbow in general) and decrease the range of longbow to that of any normal long range weapon (1200), like elementalist staff.

that’s where i would smack myself and ask if you are normal?:)

Rangers are meant to have the biggest range. You complain about Rapid fire where there are theifs with steal combo that deal same damage?
Avoiding rapid fire:
- stealth before archer channels 2 arrows
- dodge when first arrow is in range of 200 and ranger will miss next 4 hits
- run defensive skill
- OR SIMPLY MOVE LEFT AND RIGHT QUICKLY.. and ranger will miss 7 shots for sure
- rapid fire is a big skill, and only skill that hurts from longbow, so you should use cooldown for cooldown…

If you get hit with 10 arrows you either:
- run full berzerker build and it’s your own fault… then warrior can just wipe you from his hammer in one hit
- you run pointless buiild and i’m wondering why i try to give you nice argument

Stop complaining about rapid fire if YOU are the reason why we hit hard. Check your build, and your armor setup, then come back and leave a comment.

And to be honest, my auto attacks hit for 3-4,8k dmg on crit, full rapid fire can deal maximum 14k damage with every arrow on lvl 80 character. Rapid fire is not a problem, it’s your setup and your build.

Curo.2483:

And I don’t mean like the current 80 man limit (that might as well be a 500 man limit for most servers, since we rarely cap it out anyways). Perhaps lock off a map so that no server can have more than 10 players more than any other server. Maybe that way people will start to leave servers that are outrageously outnumbering other servers. Otherwise, why would they ever leave if they always win?

My favourite game mode has been ruined due to population imbalance for the last 2 months, and it’s going to end up making me quit the game. Fix your kitten, Anet! Stop neglecting WvW. kitten , siegerazer’s rams can’t even use their #2 skill. Zero attention is being paid to WvW. ZERO!

/rant

People many times forget that SERVER means, better latency for user, (ping), or game response and i did pick my server for only one reason, and that’s best response time.

But on other hand i agree with this guy, i would make server overflow difference, example:

server A = 62 players
server B = 40 players
server C = 54 players

maximum players per server = (minimum1+minimum2)/2 * 130%

Let’s calculate this example… Server A is the CAP/MAXIMUM of what current limit is, maximum cap can be rised if other server get more players. In this case, our servers forgive 30% more population to an average of both servers. So lets do some math.

Let’s say MAP has TOP LIMIT of 600 players:

Minimum 1 = 40 players = B
Minimum 2 = 54 players = C
MAXIMUM = 62 players = A

maximum = (40 + 54) * 130% = 61,1
Solution is floored up to 62 players from result 61,1.

What does that mean? Maximum number of players per server is currently 62 players.
186 players in total for all 3 servers on one MAP. Server A cannot have more players until server A or B rises numbers of players in WvW map.

To fix side effects of lack or overflow of people on one map, we can set top and low interval of limit:
LOW LIMIT = 30 players per server
TOP LIMIT = 200 players per server

In worst case scenario we will have:
A = 30
B = 1
C = 30
MAXIMUM = 30. because 30 low limit, and maximum was calculated on 20.
————————————————————————————————————————————————————-
Simple solution and fair for all, where servers with bigger population would be matched more often together.

Shademehr.1397:

Solution:
Spread out. There are 21 other servers.

That’s not solution, that’s avoiding a problem, which is probably what people do in now days and it’s wrong. What post owner did was right, let them see where we play, and how it feels. If you fix 99% of your problems, problem is not solved, and there is no reason that Anet should be satisfied for fixing only some of servers… and letting others to share and “enjoy” horrible gaming experience.

I just hate that people afk in borders just to get in EB…
I don’t know if that’s good or bad, i would love to have it, but on other hand if we have the sound.. we need borders to be cleared of afkers.

TymX.8017:

-Axe-Dagger/Sword-Torch condi Ranger

As a ranger main, there is nothing more boring and overrated then condi ranger.
Try longbow + sword/XXX, where XXX is situational weapon. And you can 1v1 any1 who ever you desire, rangers are underrated. Sword and XXX brings a lot of mobility to ranger, and will separate a good ranger from bad one very fast.

I like to use 3 pets:
~ Wolf > fear skill
~ Spider > immobilize skill
~ Lynx > damage spike (if i know that i will not have trouble i replace spider with Lynx)

Always using longbow for berzerker build.

Situational 2nd set sword/XXX vs:
sword/dagger ~ thief, mesmer, warrior, guardian, necro, engie
sword/axe ~ ranger, ele

If you prefer shorbow builds, you can check trapper build.

oscuro.9720:

I know I will get hated on for this, but I don’t personally find ranger the best in small group unless the ranger is very very good. I think I’ve fought one like that. Overall, ranger isn’t the most group friendly profession, and where they are beneficial, they can be greatly outdone. HOWEVER, I would not say that I am opposed to rangers, I simply acknowledge that it takes a hell of a lot of skill for them to be in the upper tiers of roaming.

This is very true, if ranger does not know how to react perfectly he’s dead, if they focus ranger, and he does not kite long enough, huge spike of a group is gone with it. Rangers are underrated, specially now where words did spread mouth to mouth about rangers how “bad” and “none-supportive” they are.. but no one did really check the patch-notes:) I still agree with you that ranger requires more skill then any other class, because ranger is the class that does not forgive mistakes, one cooldown and you are gone if enemy takes that advantage.

Jhade.7158:

im in Australia its 11:05pm here so what time should i try to log in? thanks for your concern

Let’s say you want to try at your location early time, when ever it’s 3-5 am for you.

Olvendred.3027:

Be careful before accusing people of scams, and trying to make money from their guides. I’ve looked at the guide, and it looks like what you would have expected from a crafting guide a couple of years ago, before people found more cost-efficient means of crafting. It’s also probably based on prices at that time. I wouldn’t be surprised if it were simply out of date.

Isn’t it weird that only intended ingredients are overpriced, that are on the list?:)

Orangensaft.7139:

why not as longbow?
or why not as both?

Silverwing was shortbow that’s why I’ve wrote it^^
I would love to have them as longbow and shortbow myself:D

It’s still my favorite design of a bow. Even better then any of those current bow legendaries that look just horrible.

As title says don’t follow guildwars2hub web page crafting guides, it’s a rip-off/scam/bad-deal where they intentionally make you buy wrong items at beginning and you spend nearly 37gold for 0 > 400 for leather-work. They give you the ingredients list, and tell you to buy items from trading post, but what you don’t know, that they set overpriced items so they earn big money from those those who try to use this guide. For example i never buy full igrediants but if i would i would spend 37gold to get from 0 > 400 in leatherwork crafting.

TL;DR don’t use guildwars2hub webpage, they setup Trading Post and make you pay overpriced items from ingredients list!