Guild Wars 2

Irenio CalmonHuang.2048:

Going to be investigating this. It may require some change to Smoke Assault, since the active skills are intended to be a little stronger than the passive skills.

Assault was fine, good, interesting, and satisfying, if you intend to change any of smoke assault mechanics, i’m bagging you let us know what plans are you having for this, and don’t destroy the pet.

Also how come “Active are stronger then passive?”
Moa skills?
Drake skills?
Pig skills?
Bear skills?

You don’t have to do anything about the smokescale except swap them around and it’s perfect! This pet needs mobility, not just that. Please take a look on my topic, how weak our pets are. I’ll also make moving data today, and point out how importent is that pets are buffed to smokescale level. Keep an eye on ranger forum.

FROM HERE ON PLEASE LOOK INTO THE FIRST PAGE, EVERY THING IS UPDATED EVERY MAP, EVERY PET WITH DESCRIPTION AND NOTES.

Keep this topic clear, so we don’t answer same questions over and over again. Ty

Made me laugh as hell. And i just said to myself when i’ve seen that dog:
“Look at you so cute and useless, staring at me^^”
“If you would only bite that guy for me, i would be so proud on you!”

The real TRAPPER is now DragonHunter, SHAME. Thief was never good at trapper, thiefs were only good at stealth abuse, that doesn’t make him a trapper.

Nothing has been done to make ranger good at it, and nobody asked:
HOW DOES THIS EFFECT RANGER, as usual.

Ranger needs a stun break on frost and spike trap, because of abnormal huge cooldown.

Rangers will always be Jack of all trade, and good at none. as usual.

• Fractals.
• Dungeons.

Don’t belong in OPEN WORLD CONTENT, so stop abusing LFG.
Stop being careless, and keep the open world sub-content clean.

Ty

Zenos Osgorma.2936:

vespers.1759:

Is this pre-smokescale nerf? Also what is “semi-active auto attacking”?

i’d say current tests if not its a quick fix to check.

Semi active is actively controling the pet recalls / pet postion and letting it use its AA attacks in tendum with the druids/rangers attacks .

basicly Using the pet at all times not just for its KD or f2.

knowing when to use Huntershot to speed the pet up so it reaches its target or pet swapping for quickness or using zyphers speed for super speed, if a target is running away if the distance is judged correctly a quickness+superspeed pet will be in f2 leap range before the non-quicknened/super speed pet and perform its f2 without missing.

thats basicly what he means by Semi-active attacking .

most just use f2 and swap attack then leave it on passive because its too much effort.
looking beyond the pet alone.

Wish more people were here for constructive argumentation like this guy.

McKenna Berdrow.2759:

#TeamGildedHollow prevails!

Thank you everyone! The skritt rejoice with us on this day!

PS: I don’t know why my title still says Design Intern

You must fix/PutRangerOnBetterSpot, and you’ll get new title. Chop chop

What title says, but more detailed, GW2 community knows little to none about pets DPS/cooldowns/passives. This post is mainly to compare other pets dps with smokescale. I just want to point out next things:

• People are going i know this because i heard it some where and you are wrong!
• People who are not dedicated rangers try to convince ranger forum that our pets are OP while they don’t even try to dodge our active/passive pet skills for once.
• People try to say that Smokescale is still broken and they hate this pet because it has insane burst.
• People have to stop talking non-sense, because obviously huge amount of people believe that and they keep complaining while they don’t know that there are already getting demolished by rangers with knowledge of their pets without needing Smokescale.

Let me put it this way, a lot of non-ranger-main players believing in santa crap as well.
I truly hope that ranger hate/bullkitten will once go away, same as stupid downrating of Guild wars 2 review. I often ask myself, am I the only one that made 9 classes to learn how to counter them?

Because of tons of BS that I read every day, I’ve decided to make post HoT relase pet DPS testing, to publicly show people that they are so wrongly convinced. All tests were made on heavy golem, 10x (5x with F2, and 5x without) and all values are in seconds needed to destroy a target objective.

Keep in mind that this DPS targets stand still and are IDEAL:
Bristleback: 14.5
Tiger: 15.8
Smokescale: 21.1
Electric Wyvern 38.8
Fire Wyvern 34.5

ALL PETS BEST SINGLE TARGET DPS TIME:
Bristleback: 14.5
Tiger: 15.8
Lynx: 15.2
Jaguar: 16.2
WhiteRaven: 17.6
Leopard: 18.6
Stalker: 18.7
Eagle: 19.1
Hawk: 19.6
BlackRaven: 21.0
Owl: 21.1
Smokescale: 21.1 <—- DPS even worst if there is 1 more target in range
ReefDrake: 29.8
RiverDrake: 31.5
SalamanderDrake: 33.2
Carrion Devouver: 33.3
MarshDrake: 33.4
AlpineWolf: 34.3
Fire Wyvern 34.5
BlackWidow: 35.7
ForestSpider: 35.8
IceDrake: 36.5
Wolf: 36.8
Boar: 37.2
WhiteMoa: 37.6
PinkMoa: 37.6
FernHound: 38.1
JungleSpider_ 38.6
Siamoth: 38.3
Electric Wyvern 38.8
Drakehound: 40.4
Warthog: 42.6
Lashtail Devouver: 39.6
Pig: 42.0
RedMoa:43.6
Whiptail Devouver: 44.7
BlueMoa: 45.8
BlackMoa: 45.8
Hyena: 46.2
Arctodus: 47.5
Murellow: 46.5
Brown bear: 55.7
Black Bear: 57.4
Polar bear: 1:00.3

Funny fact, if there are two targets or more next to each other, single target Smokescale DPS drastically falls:
21.1 —-————————> 31.3+

Most rangers(60-70%) that I meet in PvP or WvW, don’t even use pets actively, just to burst that F2 and then they put it back on passive, they never know when to use their pets for semi-active auto attacking.

A lot of people will try to excuse themselves with, but i took this pet because of utility as well. Well, i just want to point out DPS for those that think Smokescale is broke. You can believe in Santa, but stop with the BS. Ty

EDIT: for those that are asking if this is POST or PRE Smokescale nerf, but i can give you the data of both:

PRE nerf of smokescale: 18.9 sec
POST nerf of smokescale: 21.1 sec

mistsim.2748:

I would like to chime in once again to vote AGAINST reverting. having an on-demand burst and the ability to might stack is a much better package for us.

I would also like to emphasize that 95% of the people posting here would never even use the smoke field tactically because it requires a) a team, and b) coordination. secondly, you can still blast the smoke field when the smokescale drops it after his Smoke Assault. lastly, with the Smoke Assault damage nerf, not having it on-demand would make it extremely subpar.

druids already bring more than enough team support and we could use a bit of on-demand spike. I implore the devs to leave smokescale as is right now, it’s perfect. please don’t always concede to mass whining because like the masses IRL, many players don’t have a good grasp on the tools theyre being given.

Methal.9045:

question: why can’t we decide which skill is on F2?

this would be a very nice addition to pet customization. but I imagine they don’t have the resources and the time to implement this.

• How about solo roaming?
• How about duo roaming?
• How about enjoying utility more then burst, because we already have enough ways to get might now?
• How about bursting other ways then on demand while you can burst fairly enough now?
• Did i mantion how about diversity to the builds ?
• And How about my pet stopping each time it comes to the target, and starts performing smoke field on location where enemy left long time ago ?
• How about structural viability for ranger in sPvP with an on demand smoke field?
• How about having less damage then a bird?
• How about druing have nothing to do with pet at all?
• How about ranger support not being desired by true rangers, but by people that wanted rangers around?
• How about making our pets decent, rather then semi-desperate-sack-of-rice?
• How about that?

You like your burst, just like every mesmer, and warriors, but we lack utility, survivability and chance to survive with lighter builds without going full dire or soldier regen ranger.

But what you don’t know, that the base smokescale damage is very undercut compared to other pets, all the burst and damage is in F2 skill now, and after that, this pet is useless, because of the smoke field which interrupts itself makes this pet unviable to chase/they are to easy to kite around.

How about making right call for once and giving ranger utility that actually matters, my friend?

@Irenio, if you care for rangers, revert Smoke with Assault, or even better bring us two active skills. We really need that smoke field, please understand us that utility adds the quality of the game, not the pure burst damage, which can be controlled anyways, smoke fields cannot be without forcing the attack!

I WONDER, why do we even have to explain WHY to revert F2 skills? That’s they key question for me.

Other reveals like shortbow/longbow/dagger, we don’t know for perticular weapon but how soon can we expect next reveals My friends are happy crafting while i happy wait:’)

Wondrouswall.7169:

One would think that the Tiger would be found by now with all the people running around exploring and doing events. I spent more time than I care to admit trying to locate it that I’m starting to think it’s not available. x_O

I’m prediction that they will add raids to the HoT now that every thing is ok, and some where on the way to the raids, we will find tiger. That’s my personal opinion. For sure we wont find tiger in Fractals, because they stated all pets are in Maguuma forest.

bloodpyrope.8630:

Greek.4396:

I remember Devs responding to this in a old “state of the game” stream. About how Rangers should have more pet control.

They said something along the lines of “It would be too complicated for players to use.”

…That’s a stupid reason if they really said that. How would this be any different from engineer toolbelts?

I remember hearing/reading that devs said this would make rangers OP, but I’m not sure where I got that from.

The only issue I would have with this would be, how would things like taunt/wilting strike work with it? Would it still be glued onto the standard F2 attack?

That’s lazy work, me as programmer i would take 1 day, and make this change like this.
If you put mouse over any of them, it would slide out swap button, which would let you swap F2 and F3 skills, F2 would be the skill that taunts.

Shoe.5821:

i don’t have any objection in principle. But F3 for return to me is way more important than additional control over individual skills.

double tapping for an ability sounds dubious at best to me, in terms of reliability, useability, and user-friendliness.

Imagine F1 as a weapon swap. If you press it once on target, your pet will attack if you press it again, it will call pet back, you don’t need to spam F1 because there is no benefit of that. That’s why Attack/CallBack in F1 would be a MUST since CORE 3 years ago. and on F3 put the 2nd active.

Chapter 14th,
Circles bug out i think 3rd clue buggs out i forgot, but i can’t trace Rox no more.
I dropped quest to restart it and now it doesnt even show the beginning and it says i need Poison lore.

I can’t continue the story it’s totally bugged out:(
How can basic core HoT story be so glitchy

Irenio CalmonHuang.2048:

Hey all,

Hi Irenio, smokescale? Why father ranger?! :’(

tirenareikasu.8915:

Update on the Electric Wyvern: It’s ideal to have near completed gliding in order to get to it. I kept running out of endurance before reaching the needed ledge for the hero point let alone to get the dragon pet

False, i had glider 2, came there in 3/4 try because i didnt stand on the edge of root.
If you follow my instructions carefully you’ll succeed 100%, after i did learn where to jump off, i did 2 in a row perfect jumps. It’s possible to make it with glider 2 without major problem, just don’t rush, i feel you that Tic Tac Tic Tac timer 20 min is pain!:(

First time i came there i didn’t even make 2 jumps! Then i’ve found out the perfect location and it was so kitten easy! Just take your time!

So, tiger left ^^ i wish anet would add 2 more pets with living story, i started to love this searching for pets!

joannarei.4237:

The electric wyvern is i guess very difficult to get unless you have a kitten epic group to beat the whole meta map in dragon stand….and it’s not that easy since there’s also a time limit and requires good orginization with leaders and communication which I say ventrilo or some form of voip to communicate with other groups to make the battle much more organized and easier…

I did lead event today, with few other guys we had few ppl on team speak to just chill nothing connected with commanding.
We did beat organized guild that used team speak for 25 min and we only had pugs, how about that:)? But it’s true, i did fail 7x (2 hours each event) before i did succeeded!!!
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Dragons-stand-new-record-TIME-LEFT-49-04/first#post5664910

It’s proven that you don’t need team speak to beat the event chain event in DS:
Event done 25 minute faster with pugs then first completion with TeamSpeak organized guild. http://prntscr.com/8vm3n2

Good luck guys, all you need is patience, and follow what commanders say in map chat and don’t do things that you are used to do in Tyria. Only respect, following, teamwork and dedication will bring you deep enough to slay the mighty MoM(Mouth of Mordremouth).

I was able to kill the Mouth of Mordremouth.
Is that the all might Mordremouth that we talked about?
Q_Q i hope not, because there has to be more, that, that was to easy and fast to be true!!

ColinJohanson.2394:

Hey folks,

Lots of passionate feedback and discussion in here on either side, and a friendly reminder that constructive feedback helps us make better games (please do keep it constructive!) We don’t always get every detail perfect the first time, but I like to think one of our strengths is we’re always open to and listening to feedback from our community and making good decisions based on that feedback.

Ultimately, we’re thrilled with the parts of HoT everyone is enjoying. Your passion is awesome, and it’s part of why we all love creating this game. In particular, in game we’ve seen a really positive reaction to the game from folks who are busy playing, which has been really cool to see.

While we never like to rush and make snap decisions, in particular with a game that’s basically been out less than three days; I think there are some fair points in here for us to discuss. Much like other feedback about HoT, we’ll be discussing this as well!

Thanks again!

Colin thx for the hype, but now it’s the time to sit down, and take a look into ranger. Now or never. I don’t want to wait 3 years for minor change!

Bristleback has a huge issue hitting F2, it misses as soon as target is not in the same height of your pet, which means 99% of the time, can’t we get same mechanics as rapid fire ? traceable with precision of this skill no matter height??

http://prntscr.com/8vde7n

Smokescale up, if you want EU taxi, whisper NOW!
EDIT: they are gone now. I hope you enjoy your pets

Nandafowfa.4295:

Just asking anyway, there are no possibility to the juvenile tiger be in the new borderland?

Nope, i did scan that area for 3 hours, nothing (i’m WvW player)

Actually Bristleback swap F2 is rewarding, because their auto attacks control bleed now, and it’s more useful then using sharpening stones as active, think about it. But smokescale is totally other story, swapping this two skills made no sense, simply due to how much diversity can some active skill take away.

In my opinion we need to start working on double ability. ranger default should have ability to have F2 and F3 ability attack.

I won’t quit my Ranger ever, I want changes and we should stop supporting laziness!

ArthurvonLindenfels.4638:

Here a little song about the tiger, I hope you enjoy it while searching for the pets:)

“Where’s the tiger, can’t find the tiger…. Has anybody seen the tiger?”

(Singing starts at about 0.45)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy3P7Ry94cQ

Hahahahahahaaha MY GOD!
Now we just need where is the electric wyvern song!
That made me laugh so kitten hard! Thx for this mate!:)

I can say one thing.
Who ever made smokescale. I want you to get paid well, i want you to represent ranger and i want you to stand up and tell others around you what we need, because only you understand the ranger.

Who ever though F2 swap skills were a good idea on smokescale, you don’t understand rangers, and you never will.

Who ever nerfed Smokescale – smoke assault, please be so kind, and NERF REVENANT SWORD3, because we all know u kittening won’t and you’ll leave it OP for months.

This ranger nerf hate train is getting so far that i feel some racist going on, on rangers.

@Anet Tene, you promissed me smokescale meta what’s up with those nerfs then?

Dojo.1867:

Unpopular opinion here but are you aware that the smokefield does not blind? All it does was enable stealth combos and from playing ranger with this pet the last few days I found this VERY situational.

Being able to control the burst on the other side seems like a mayor improvement. I am sure it can be used a lot more frequently now aswell. You can succefully combo it with Sic’Em (would stop the attack before if you just use it when Smoke Scale started the mist walk) and you can stack 7 might with WHAO.

So unless they would also change the smokefield to actually pulse blind I MUCH prefer the new installment. You can hate me now.

You are unskilled player sharing oppinion about something that was already possible with existing pet mechanics. Before you share you opinion you should have constructive knowledge about ranger pets.

You are able to control the burst if you get in range with pet, just press F1, and you’ll perform smoke assault, don’t be surprised it works with all other pets as well. That’s what makes difference between a POOOOOP ranger and a dedicated ranger.

Active smoke filed enables players to perform stealth for them with combo finisher, and the situational is your spam, not a stealth. You just claimed that you bursted target to get 7 might stacks. IIF they dont dodge or block it so i can imagine rangers like you wasting WHAO for 3 stacks of might, and then you get burst by ranger who knows what to do with 25 might stacks…

The smoke field was bugged that’s why it didnt apply blindness.

Open world could use divide:

• Tyria continent
• Maguuma continent
• Show all continent of open world (if you prefer to have both)

It’s to many events, and it’s hard to find the group, this could benefit a lot.

I lost the hope on ranger department, it’s kind of sad that we cannot have enjoyable mechanics. Look at killshot warrior, 1 shots enemy with light medium armor like a cake, no one complains can double killshot now if you happen to dodge it once. Ranger gets smokescale, that is blockable or you simply dodge to avoid all the burst, 24hour nerf cuz kitten LOGIC IT’S RANGER.

I just don’t want to start with clunky sword, and totally out of place short bow, 50% of underpowered pets, pet AI uselessness and they promised that AI will be better in HoT, after 3 years still no pet synergy, 50% of useless weapons that cannot be used properly due to no proper connection/synergy between weapon-trait-cooldown wise.

I’m done with it, ranger department just destroyed for years every thing that was some what decent. I wonder can’t you just remove the ranger from the game if you hate it so much ??

Gilgalas.7860:

Now, I can understand that some PvP players may prefer the new on demand burst (although I am confident that many also prefer the on demand smokefield).

I would just like to say this:
People who believe that smokescale’s smoke assault cannot be used actively, is an unskilled ranger player. Only people who don’t understand pets will say that.

I can use F2 smoke field actively and pet burst (smoke assault) actively.
Every time you press attack skill on pet, you shift between attacks that pet has.
To get active smoke assault, let your pet get in range of smoke assault range, press attack F1, and your pet will perform smoke assault if your pet is in range, but make sure you don’t spamm it because you can break your assault attack.

Same goes with every other pet, double immobilize OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO no one seen that right ? people are just kittening complaining about rangers without understanding the simply kittening basics.

It’s just rude from other players to demand smokescale and other pets nerfs without knowing what pets do, how hard is it to pull it off, and most importent, they complain about the freaking damage, but would they try to at least dodge one? NOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo why would they? They rather complain about pet, and say it is op then kittening dodge it. I’m done with this ranger nerfs, it’s just pathetic.

Druid will stay kitten for at least 2-3 months, mark my words, while smokescale got nerfed in 24hours same as Heal As One.

Ranger status, positive feedback, NERF IT, negative feedback/bug, LEAVE IT FOR MONTHS

Heimskarl Ashfiend.9582:

Firelysm.4967:

@Anet, please get the smoke field back on F2, there is reason why we want a XXXX active smoke field!!!

And by the way you totally destroyed the pet now:

• Pet will always run to the target, and perform smoke field first… how is this useful?
  * Pet skill goes on full cooldown if you press F2…

DON’T TRY TO FIX IT, JUST PUT IT BACK AS IT WAS! IT WAS FUN AND AWESOME WE DONT NEED CHANGES BECAUSE THIS WAS LITERALLY THE ONLY PET THAT WAS FUN, SORRY TO SAY, FIRST PERFECT RANGER PET!

Anet why do you have to ruin every thing good on ranger, i simply don’t get you guys.

ALSO:
* damage on smoke asoult is not OP, people need to learn to dodge it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* every class has an insane burst, and people say it “LEARN TO DODGE NOOB”, well why the HELL we can’t have that???? give us pure damage back on smokescale and let people know they need to dodge it! WHY? Because WE DESERVE A DPS PET… After all this years of no real DPS pet, anet, please, what on earth.

IRENIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…..

Only a Daredevil can dodge it all. Dodge = 0.75s, SA = 2s. Even if you double dodged it, you could realistically still be hit for 6k by the remaining 2 hits. Far too OP. Was always going to be nerfed, it could never be defended in its previous form. It is still massive damage, you just need to combine it with some of your own now.

Exactly, you have to kitten choose what burst you want to dodge, look at mesmer, if they miss first shatter, in 10-15 sec they will perform another, even worst? If you dodge GS skills, you’ll still get shattered.. So ranger is now in pair with other classes that offer OR THIS DMG/ OR THIS DAMAGE situation, so yes, you have to learn to choose. I did expect nerf, but not such damage 20-25% maybe NO MORE, and if you did see, the default auto attacks of this pet, were useless, compared to other pets…. Every thing was focused on smoke assault attack that you complained about and NO ONE SEEN that default attack is underpowered.

IF smoke assault gets nerfed, we should demand revenant sword 3 nerf in mean time, because they deal same sick dmg. And keep in mind, how do you counter this pets attack? WITH GROUPING, you were able to perform the damage burst yes, but if you are a mesmer or engie or ranger or simply standing in the group.. your damage will be split because burst will be spread on all…

People just cry about it because ranger finally has a huge power burst spike if you dont dodge it!

• People never learn to dodge pets attacks
• people never learn in default what pets do, why they learn other classes skills?
• people never try to destroy pets to get them on 60 sec cooldown.
• people never even tried in 3 years of roaming even good players did not care for pet..
  Only skill ever dodged was F2 wolf, but nothing else..

IF NERFING PET, DO IT 20-25% MAXIMUM, BUFF DEFAULT ATTACK DAMAGE, BECAUSE ITS UNDERPOWERED, IF YOU WANNA TAKE 20-25% BUFF THE DEFAULT ATTACK AS WELL! YOU CAN’T JUST TAKE BURST AWAY AND LEAVE DEFAULT UNBALANCED! SMOKESCALE ATTACK RADIUS IS LOWER THEN OTHER PETS, THEREFORE IT HAS TO COME EVEN CLOSER TO ATTACK WITH DEFAULT ATTACKS, WHAT’S UP WITH THAT? SMOKE FIELD WAS A MUST ON F2, ACTIVE STEALTH IS WHAT MADE THIS PET SPECIAL AND MAKING A LOT OF BUILD DIVERSITY, SMOKE ASSAULT BRINGS NOTHING TO THE GAME PLAY BUT ACTIVE DAMAGE.

Also keep in mind:

• F2 smoke field did deliver pet to be supportive and amazing at reactive play.
• You nerfed SMOKE ASSAULT, but you forgot that the base damage is totally crappy/underpowered as a default attack?!?!
• 50% nerf damage on Smoke assault is not justified, 20-25% max, why? people have to learn to dodge and default damage is way to low if you want to take that X% away buff default damage as well…
• for the first time pet felt smooth
• before switch, you could actively use smoke assault as well, when pet is in range, you press attack, and you can trigger 2nd attack as on every pet.. so what’s the deal for swapping things around i don’t get you anet..

ANET kittenING 3 YEARS PEOPLE IGNORED OUR PETS, GIVE US A DAMAGE PET AS SMOKESCALE AND LET PEOPLE TEACH THAT THEY HAVE TO KILL OUR PATS IN ORDER TO BEAT US, THEY DESERVE DO GET BURSTED DOWN AS WELL, WHY? BECAUSE THEY DON’T EVER TRY TO DODGE

MSG TO ANET, LET THE BURST BE, TEACH PEOPLE TO LEARN WHAT OUR PETS DO….. HOW DO YOU WANT TO HAVE COMPETITIVE GAME WHEN PEOPLE DON’T KNOW BASIC SKILLS AND ATTACKS OF PETS / ANIMATIONS. IF PERSON IS NOT RANGER, THEY DON’T HAVE A SIMPLE CLUE WHAT OUR PETS DO, WHY? BECAUSE YOU NEVER FORCED THEM TO UNDERSTAND OUR PETS, BECAUSE SIMPLY THEY ARE UNDERPOWERED ALL OF THEM

ALSO, I BOUGHT EXPANSION BECAUSE OF SMOKESCALE AND ELECTRIC WYVERN, if it was for druid, I WOULD NOT PURCHASE EXPANSION, pets saved you, so show our pets some respect…

@Anet, please get the smoke field back on F2, there is reason why we want a XXXX active smoke field!!!

And by the way you totally destroyed the pet now:

• Pet will always run to the target, and perform smoke field first… how is this useful?
  * Pet skill goes on full cooldown if you press F2…

DON’T TRY TO FIX IT, JUST PUT IT BACK AS IT WAS! IT WAS FUN AND AWESOME WE DONT NEED CHANGES BECAUSE THIS WAS LITERALLY THE ONLY PET THAT WAS FUN, SORRY TO SAY, FIRST PERFECT RANGER PET!

Anet why do you have to ruin every thing good on ranger, i simply don’t get you guys.

ALSO:
* damage on smoke asoult is not OP, people need to learn to dodge it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* every class has an insane burst, and people say it “LEARN TO DODGE NOOB”, well why the HELL we can’t have that???? give us pure damage back on smokescale and let people know they need to dodge it! WHY? Because WE DESERVE A DPS PET… After all this years of no real DPS pet, anet, please, what on earth.

IRENIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…..

Dante.1763:

Firelysm.4967:

tacticalevilnoodlefox.5694:

Firelysm.4967:

Sina.9208:

I don’t understand the problem with the smoke-scale. Just do the events for the frogs that are trying to raise bugs to defend them, if you manage to up their defenses sufficiently the smoke scales will start spawning, if nobody bothers with the event they won’t spawn.

Exactly work for it.

Don’t be a patronizing kitten. I did the events. I did work for it, people have said they tried to get the map as high as they could and it still wouldn’t spawn. It isn’t the problem of people not working if they’re doing what they’re supposed to and still can’t get it for some reason that’s just poor design.

Sorry mate it’s truth, you got a full guide, it worked for so many of us, i helped getting smokescale to all my ranger friends, and if guide doesn’t work, at least you know location, but you can still research further why they don’t spawn.

If what hes saying is true, you are just an kitten. Sure it might work for you, and your friends, but if hes saying that hes done what was given and it didnt spawn, maybe just maybe, you shouldnt be a kitten about it.

Dante, I’m here to help, to help each other and I and a lot of people did put in a lot of effort to find this pets, a lot of people just came here to talk trash all day long because they are frustrated. Yesterday i had a 1 hour surgery, and even though i was in pain, I’ve dedicated 8 hours of playing to just find pets nothing else, but pets.

It worked for me, it worked for many people that asked me to help them. I also tried to whisper those who send me in game mail to taxi them. Did you maybe think of people that want a lazy solution, and just rage because they don’t get things ASAP? I’m a wvw player, and I took 8 hours to play a game mode that i don’t even enjoy playing. Rather then posting absurd rage posts on forum i’ve decided to gather people, and find them together.

I found fire wyvern and bristle on my own, but without community i wouldn’t find smokescale, because i’ve already scanned that area long ago and i was deeper in the jungle searching for it, if it wasnt for people telling me the location i would never found it.

I did know day/night cycle has maybe something to do with it, i’ve analysed pictures and images when did they seen mobs on that location, and i’ve made conclusion that they spawn at night time, i had though because they are smoke scale that they hide other then at night. While doing events i’ve checked spawn every 5 min. It took me 2 hours to get it. I worked for that pet really hard. And if XXXX like you guys come to forum and release your XXXX talk on me, I’m with all respect saying, you and all of raging impatient people don’t deserve that pet, and next time show some respect to those that are ready to share conclusions, theory craft and data from first hand.

I can write down at least 17 rangers that can confirm my help and they already enjoy smokescale WvW fights. I can happily say that i’ve had ingame conversation with one of devs, and they were happy to see community help each other as we did yesterday, and i want to keep doing this until we find all 5 of them.

I won’t even try to replay on future toxic comments as such.

Less GEM and Black Lion chest Weapon/Armor content, and move it into the game play.
One reason why people lose interest into PvE content after 1 week is lack of unique reward which GEM store is taking away.

Great job on expansion, specially on quality of personal story. NEVER been a fan of it, but i would love to see more if you keep up the quality as such!

tacticalevilnoodlefox.5694:

Firelysm.4967:

Sina.9208:

I don’t understand the problem with the smoke-scale. Just do the events for the frogs that are trying to raise bugs to defend them, if you manage to up their defenses sufficiently the smoke scales will start spawning, if nobody bothers with the event they won’t spawn.

Exactly work for it.

Don’t be a patronizing kitten. I did the events. I did work for it, people have said they tried to get the map as high as they could and it still wouldn’t spawn. It isn’t the problem of people not working if they’re doing what they’re supposed to and still can’t get it for some reason that’s just poor design.

Sorry mate it’s truth, you got a full guide, it worked for so many of us, i helped getting smokescale to all my ranger friends, and if guide doesn’t work, at least you know location, but you can still research further why they don’t spawn.

infantrydiv.1620:

No thanks. We already have two bows as single target ranged damage, and staff now as well. If Ranger gets a rifle, it should be a shotgun and do AoE damage. I’d prefer it if Ranger got another magic based spec with Scepter or offhand sword or mainhand dagger though.

Well that’s my opinion, the sniper idea is very good and strong.
Ranger lacks of good single-target-pet-in-depended damage, after all ranger is assassin type of class same as thief. I would rather see new type of weapons then having i rifle, rifle doesn’t fit ranger at all. And even then, it would suit main hand dagger even better. Ranger lacks of long range weapons, since the only dps weapon on long range is longbow, SB needs rework before we can count it as a “long range”

Anet, IF, you are going to plan for next ranger specialization in upcoming months.
Take a Mordrem guard sniper as an example. Sick single shot dmg. Love it!

I hope devs/anet will drop a hint about last two^^

Sina.9208:

I don’t understand the problem with the smoke-scale. Just do the events for the frogs that are trying to raise bugs to defend them, if you manage to up their defenses sufficiently the smoke scales will start spawning, if nobody bothers with the event they won’t spawn.

Exactly work for it.

Awesome event:
Killing legendary mordrem wyvern LOVE IT! BUT!
http://prntscr.com/8uqeg8

If you get no awesome loot or chance to get something amazing, people won’t do it even if you make it so sexykitty interesting! Give us a chance of rare item with unique skin!

That’s what drives us all!
More GW1 rewarding please<3

tacticalevilnoodlefox.5694:

Bouwplan.9840:

Vero.7013:

Can somebody double-check the conditions for Smokescales? I’ve been to both areas when all their tiers are up and no juveniles spawned.

Firelysm.4967:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SMOKESCALE:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
NOTE: Hi! Just received a PM from a dev. Apparently the smokescale will only spawn if the Nuoch area gets to tier 2-3.* by – /u/kiwituatara.6053
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Note was made for a reason

Unless there’s something in the note I’m not understanding you need to read a bit more carefully before throwing around wink faces.

Vero.7013:

when all their tiers are up

I’ve been on that map when it’s tier 2-3 as was said. I’ve sat around waiting for an hour, hour and a half (I heard they’re supposed to spawn at night, but I don’t think the day/night cycles take that long…). I had a guild mate help me clear out those Chak things…. the Smokescale enemies spawned back in the area, but the juvenile ones never did. I’ve sent in a ticket thinking there might be a problem with them, but haven’t heard back though if there’s something you have to do that I’m missing then I would be most grateful to have it explained.

What kiwituatara.6053 said, was a hint, i didn’t found it this way. I did come to this location every 20 min to check if it’s there and found it yesterday evening 22:09 at day time. You should do the same, it’s the least frustrating way.

Now you know the location, but be accurate every 20 min (0:00 > 0:20 > 0:40 ) don’t check the area with random 20 minutes. In my opinion this smokescale always spawn at day time, every body that spawn found them were tamed at day time. ( you can see that from map hour on minimap)

Smokescale really feels loyal, put it on passive, burst target, then call it back..
Now is the time that enemy players/opponents learn to dodge this attack.

Our pets have been ignored for to long!

Gaile Gray.6029:

Hey all,

We discovered an issue with the Halloween Festival that we wanted to share with you: The festival activities are not giving Mastery experience for characters that are level 80.

This was not an intended mechanic, but with the festival underway it would be extremely risky to attempt to correct this right now. Weighing the options, it’s best not to take a risk that could impact everyone’s ability to play Halloween content this year and in future Halloween festivals, as well. We will be taking a look at the festival code after the Halloween event ends and we hope to have this situation corrected for next year’s fall extravaganza.

Thanks for your understanding.

Gaile, it’s kind of sad you know? Gaming experience is sooooooooooo bad for so many new players. I just can’t express how will they look on the event next year, when they won’t even get hyped any more.

Halloween is bigger gaming experience for many new players then HoT keep that in mind.

Wanze.8410:

The secret recipe is not to go for special ingrecients and just enjoy the game.

Isn’t that contradiction ?:)
We want to have non RNG so we can enjoy the game, how about that?

I’ll tell you one thing, playing ranger since beta, and i main it hard.
There is no sad part about it, when people say you suck as ranger, i always say be my guest, swap and do it better. People often start argue about it, but they know deep inside that people who play ranger, try hardest from them all, we are the only true players of the class, we play in good and bad, and what’s most important, over the years we got very thick skin!:) If you say one word over elementalist or warrior, they Q_Q next 5 days.