Guild Wars 2

Aaron Ansari.1604:

EDIT: I realize that the same scattered argument could be used here as has been used for the kodan and the quaggans, but then we could also argue that there’s a thriving race of flesh-and-blood dwarves chilling on another continent. Until we have something to indicate such (like that aside that most of the kodan did go in another direction), it’ll just be unsubstantiated conjecture- not entirely unreasonable, but still nothing but pure guesswork.

Humans in Tyria are nothing like humans on Earth! Not knowing what the rest of the planet looks like, and having more than several sea faring societies… it drives me nuts. Throughout our entire Earth history, humans have had an urge to explore that is almost psychotically insatiable.

Naz.2607:

I also agree that pvd shouldn’t be allowed, with maybe, the exception of fire damage… cuz…logical

Sort of off topic, but setting castle doors on fire is not easy/borderline impossible. Most people struggle to even get a campfire going, using dry tinder and lighter fluid.

Atherakhia.4086:

It is common knowledge that the Ranger is 5th highest DPS in this game behind Elementalists, Thieves, Mesmers, and Warriors.

Eles and thieves I’ll buy, almost certain we out damage warriors and mesmers.

Do you have a thread reference?

From what I’ve seen, the people you know from BP coming to FA are completely irrelevant in terms of our incredibly steady and loyal WvW population. There is not going to be any spike or crash in FA’s WvW.

You won’t get any heat from anybody for that, and the entire GW2 community has the balls to say that.

That said, if you really are in to min maxing, you’re doing it wrong if you don’t like rangers.

Achieving bloodlust is a pretty cool idea, although people would elevate it to just take turns trading BL.

It’s a stupid AP track and should be removed entirely. Or at least reduced to no reward chest and only 1 AP. Real players will get it regardless, server leeches will not bother doing something so tedious for so little reward.

Rangers are not garbage in any play mode. In PvP and PvE they are one of the better, more requested classes.

There are some gameplay choices.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Racial_Skills

Racial skills are designed to be weaker than normal skills, but several are decent.

But race is mostly aesthetic.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Cultural_armor

What the heck are you talking about rangers can’t kite and then listing warrior? Warriors have a lot of movement skills on their two swords, and so do we. I wouldn’t really consider lots of melee movement “kiting” though. If anything the enemy would be trying to kite us.

Can we make it nearly impossible for a thief to land a backstab while we’re in our melee sets? Obviously. Can you park only in LB and keep people off you? Not really.

If you’re in a zerg fight, you don’t need faster arrows. If you’re in a small fight, you don’t need piercing arrows.

I’m pretty surprised by the numbers SBI and IoJ are fielding. There have been zergs on at least 1 map pretty much 24/7 (well, 24/3 so far). It doesn’t matter scorewise, but they’ve been making it fun.

Who cares about OS?

Necros struggle with being slow as balls in WvW. I fight them all the time with zero condi removal when I forget to change to SoR.

It’s probably easier to just show you what I run. This is for solo roaming, but not dueling. Things like taking out camps or guarded yaks in keep sieges where speed is really important. With that note I have a warhorn up a lot of time instead of the dagger, and SoH instead of SoR.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vMMQNAT8YjEq0vaLLesQ1agY9YP9BAcG8nR+D+/iVaQC-zUCBYfCyYLJjgAisAg+AOzsIasFVFRjVXDT5iIqOAACwNvZ2sNDO6RP6RP6R7o38o38oHtUAUsAA-w

(I actually have hydromancy on the dagger right now, but energy would be better.) Final slot in Marksmanship is usually spotter, but that will likely change to Read the Wind. Piercing arrows if people are using NPCs as meatshields.

The first thing I do when I start playing is get the guard buffs up. That means I can use full berserker instead of your pieces of valk’s, for example.

LR and MT are pretty much non-negotiable for how I play. Reason being that they are used against thieves. You can use yourself as bait for the first C&D and then immediately LR out of the Basilisk Venom. Sword 2 in 2 random directions will probably make the 2nd attempted backstab miss (it will never come before they unstealth) and then for the third one, MT yourself right before/as they unstealth. Possibly drop the entangle there as well. MT = super important to me.

Of course MT is also really nice for just snagging people at any given time. Warriors as they try to rush you, or whoever is trying to flee or get in to a tower, etc. It’s just a really good skill. QZ has such a crazy long cool down and you don’t get any survival out of it.

Drakehound is sort of a 2nd MT.

I also love Nature’s protection and Primal Reflexes.

Dakota.4591:

Add daily chests to them, albeit smaller than the full dungeon but still enough to be worth doing.

CoF P1 worth 1g? Make the bridge event worth 25-50s.
AC worth 1g? Make Lieutenant Kohler worth 25-50s.

I love this idea. And that amount is very reasonable, it’s about the price of one t6 crafting mat.

Just wanted to clarify that when I should you definitely should not start at 70% crit chance, I meant that due to your equipment there was no way you’d be that high. Not that you were wrong for having a lower crit chance. 48% sounds totally reasonable.

Vermillion.4061:

HoD had higher Q’s than SoS. lol

It was 180/70/70/120 for us.

That’s actually a bad sign since they’re all on at the same time.

Pretty similar on FA. I look forward to that matchup.

RoyalPredator.9163:

So what is your advice to me for WWW Power ranger?

Play a lot of sPvP with your melee set.

I should hope not. PvErs get like…… 15403209842092834092384 million times more drops than PvPers will in this update.

I made SIX GOLD in T6 drops in 45ish minutes of farming earlier.

Edit: With 97% MF.

BeardRex.6739:

UW combat is 100x better than any MMO UW combat before

It really is SOOOO incredible what they’ve done with it. It’s jut slightly annoying because of depth perception so it’s “useless”.

#dontlikeit #yolo?

Ranger runes provide a lot more precision than your divinity runes. Also 100% of my equipment is ascended berserker, and yours is mixed exotic. You definitely should not start at 70%. I START out of combat with zero buffs at 68% (I think, might be 64) and I am wearing way more precision equipment than you.

If your gear takes you over ~65% crit out of combat, you should probably change. That’s why I changed to bloodlust instead of precision.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Mesmer + anything

One of the most fun days I’ve ever had in WvW was with a level 17 mesmer who had owned the game for 3 days. He created so much chaos that my berserker sword ranger just racked up the kills left and right. We played together for like an hour or two, just ad hoc.

Guard rangers have MAAAAAAAAAAASIVE group healing; anything with those.

Also power rangers with something that causes chaos, like a mobile nike warrior.

Whit.2385:

Fluffball.8307:

If the forums really are filled with the small minority of elite players, list to the 3 pages (soon to be how many?) of people saying this is a bad idea.

Anyone that posts to the forums by default is automatically a “forum-goer” and therefore a minority. And we all know what to do with minorities! Kick ’em to the curb and tell them they cannot share our water fountains. Therefore, even if there are 3 pages worth of pure whining and complaints by this over-entitled minority population, it does not matter, because the silent majority have spoken. And they love the changes. All of them.

There was a typo in my post that made both my post and yours really confusing. Anet has said that these forums are heavily skewed towards “elite” players and I was saying “if this really is true, please listen to the almost unanimous chorus saying ’don’t do this!’”

In PvE berserker rangers are in high demand. In WvW roaming, power rangers are very strong although they are moderately difficult to learn. In sPvP they — as almost all power builds are — are not that great because the entire idea is to stand in one place and not die. That said, I’ve played berserker s/d+gs for hundreds of games in sPvP and it does just fine.

Honestly, I think both the condi camps and the power camps (me) are wrong. Rangers do really well at half condi, half power, half pet. All up in yo’ face every which way. (For competitive play, obviously for PvE you go berserker.)

If the forums really are filled with the small minority of elite players, listen to the 3 pages (soon to be how many?) of people saying this is a bad idea.

+1 to this despite reading the nerf notes. Needs to be nerfed another 50%.

He’s only getting 10 chests.

Didn’t they do a write up on the ogres pre-launch? I can’t seem to find it. The wiki (for whatever that’s worth) says:

“…the ogres have been progressively moving west into Ascalon, taking both charr and human lands to gain more space for their growing herds.”

Tanith.5264:

I foresee many a futile attempt to get past that barrier and the level 80’s…this will not end well.

Tons of people have wandered around in there via map breakout techniques. The portals have been there since launch, but they are not functional yet.

Some guilds even hold “raids” in there, where they take like 60 people and see if they can kill anything.

I’m using ranger runes, and also listed mine in combat. Yours in combat is what… 27% higher or something? So for a direct comparison to my screenshot, it’s 75% vs 102%.

Not sure if my ascended gear boosts it slightly again. And mine is 100% berserker instead of a couple swaps.

Edit: Wow, just looked up the difference between exotic and ascended armor. That’s a lot more than I thought it was. The pants that I have give a full extra 1% CD, plus a few extra stats, plus the WvW infusion.

RoyalPredator.9163:

Hmm… Have zerker gear, trinkets, weapon, 25 on precision, still my chance is 48%
What the hell?

Are you in vigil keep or something? I just checked in game in a level 80 area, and in combat (i.e. with spotter and fury and no other buffs) I have a 102% chance to crit if I’m using my perceptive weapon. With bloodlust that is like 84% or something.

VOLKON.1290:

Fluffball.8307:

VOLKON.1290:

I’ve never felt more confused in my life. What exactly did I just watch?

Beauty. Insight. Truth.

Where was that, inside the bra of the girl that wanted more money?

Nope, she was a monthly fee MMO. It was inside the bra of GW2.

VOLKON.1290:

I’ve never felt more confused in my life. What exactly did I just watch?

Beauty. Insight. Truth.

No added damage from the traits. Possibly some from the runes, but that remains to be seen. Losing more damage from the sigil change.

All of the pants in the game have a waist drawn in that can be seen if you remove the top, so I don’t see why it would be impossible. Not to mention the numerous medium armor skins that already show the waist.

My guess is almost all light and medium armors appear stylized to show a shirt covering the waist like would be natural. Especially for the ones that actually look like armor like the studded armor. Most of us don’t walk around looking like my PvP gal here (although thank you, if you do.)

I think this is more of a “shirts naturally go over pants” thing than anything else. If you look at the light armors, most of the male armors have shirts going over pants as well (most look like trench coats even.) Right now IRL my shirt is hanging over my pants.

There are armor sets on both light and medium that show the chest or waist, even if only on one side, so it’s clearly not impossible to do.

Edit: Linnea that’s Krytan top with Heritage pants.

There are already several medium armor sets that use belly shirts on the ladies (the infamous underboob that all female human thieves use.) And there are tons that aren’t trench coats.

My ranger looks like a centurion.

Those are so awesome I can’t even stand it. They’re like artsy film school projects.

The internet is for porn and pure, blinding rage.

Andrew Clear.1750:

=SBI isn’t out in full force, and IoJ and SBI were both beating FA from 1pm EST time on. I think FA will be in the top 3 or 4, but they are not a lock for first.

FA has more points than both SBI and IoJ combined and it’s the last day pre-league. You’re reading WAY too much in to that.

Fractals are a huge improvement over the regular farming dungeons, you’re right. Stacking isn’t a thing there, and there are tons of support skill areas.

I like the idea of lots of wimpy enemies coming at you because bosses are immune to CC and most of them can’t damage you at all. The grawl fire elemental boss is so much fun because of the lava eles, the actual boss is useless. (Also the DoTAoE he puts on players and ‘hot feet’ or whatever it is called is a fun way to force movement.)

Rainbow Sprint.3215:

A lot of world bosses need a buff before the SB really. the claw and the shatterer could use a big buff but really they need to buff all the world bosses at the same time if they buff any of them.

The Claw is in a good place except when the boss train just overwhelms the fight. If you don’t have a critical amount of people, it’s really hard, and the mechanics are fairly interesting compared to all the other bosses. If you’ve never tried it with about 8 people, I highly recommend it. He might be my favorite world boss.

The Shatterer is in such a bizarre place. The only fix it needs is to be able to attack to his side, then the fight would function as intended (at least until people got used to how his mechanics are supposed to work and broke him again.)

cranos.5913:

sigh I don’t get why all threads about more challenging content have to be hijacked by “want trinity, no stacking” discussions…

It’s not a hijacking. There is no reason to make a dungeon 10-man if it’s going to play exactly the same as a 5-man. You wouldn’t even be able to see that there are ten people playing with you because you’d all be on top of each other.

I have no moral problems with stacking, but it would be an absolute waste of an opportunity.

No one wants a trinity, but a ton of people want excuses to use skills that do something other than blind or damage. All these beautiful CC skills go to waste!

Assuming you’re running berserker gear with the LB, I think SoI is a waste. You already get fury on weapon swap, so you’re going to have something like 75%+ chance of crit.

On the other hand, you could use something like valks in WvW and do that. There is no way I’d feel comfortable with 2 LBs in WvW though. Might be able to get away with LB/SB.

You would be kicked anyway for not wearing zerkers. Teams that want to play efficiently will be looking for like minded individuals and you won’t be welcome. Teams that will not expect you to run a meta build won’t even ask you about it.

And why exactly would you even attempt the wurm if you are not running a good build?

Chrispy.5641:

Protection reducing incoming damage by 33% for 2 seconds is better than Aegis negating 100% of just one attack.

Possibly. If you’re in the middle of a zerg the protection is way better (although you may already have it from guardians). If you’re on your own the aegis might be better. For example an ele will only be able to attack once with a scepter fire autoattack in those two seconds, and will be starting a second attack. That’s a bit of an extreme example, but you would have prevented 100% of the damage during the 2 second period rather than 33%.

It’s not totally unrealistic even for fast attacking weapons, as two players in melee will often position themselves to not be able to hit each other (leaping around, or dodge rolling through each other and having to move back in to position, etc.), and in that case aegis wins again.

It also depends on what type of attack it is. Since it’s a controllable on-demand aegis, you could use it on things like a backstab.

Regardless, it’s hella overpowered to have a new aegis once every less than 4 seconds IMO.

Found this bearbow guy kicking kitten . This was a blast to watch. I bet that surprises the hell out of people.