Guild Wars 2

Josh Davis.6015:

It’s too early to give concrete details. First we need to finish up development and then run through our internal “it is ready to ship?” process.

In short, we agree with a lot of what has been discussed on these forums. Leagues need to do better in the prestige department, and the pip system can’t really support that. If you’re in legendary, for example, you should truly be in the highest percentiles in terms of player skill. Leagues also need to feel more rewarding, especially once you’ve landed in your correct division. In the current system, the rate at which you earn rewards slows down significantly as your climb becomes more difficult in the later divisions – but you should still be rewarded for playing in your correct division, even if you can’t progress any further.

Another area of focus for the team is improving match quality. I can’t go into detail here (it will be better explained once we can talk about the entire scope of changes), but I wanted to let you know it’s a priority.

-Grouch

I approve, this sounds promising.

slap on the butt Go get ’em tiger.

You’re going to get noticed the most and get the most attractive results by mixing and matching armors. If getting noticed is your goal, an Anet made set of armor is pretty much a death sentence.

Many of the armors available to a level 2 character are quite aesthetically pleasing if you accentuate the right parts with other armor styles and the right dyes.

borya.2964:

If someone have better advice rather than going condi or high bunker, i’m also interrested.

I’d like to think I posted some.

The two heals power revs take heal for less than 4k combined unless you allow the rev to trigger their mechanics. So you can whittle them down with that in mind. If a rev pops the shiro heal, most of the time he’ll use sword 3 to trigger all the minor heals and add extra damage. Interrupt sword 3 (one of their best defensive skills) and he’s now in a vulnerable position with probably only a few K health left. If he has stab up, you can break the UA in a wall or with some pathing things, or stack 2 interrupts since the rev only has 1 stack of stab.

If you don’t want to pay any attention to your pet, don’t take glassy ones like birds, take tanky ones like drakes. It’s going to be pretty rare that a drake dies in PvE, and you can just do your thing and ignore it. By the way, size is totally irrelevant when it comes to pet stats.

Sunarah.6432:

I’ve been buying more makeover kits than a person should lol. I’ve also only played for 3.5 weeks

I don’t know about you making a Greek goddess, but what I can tell is to stop spending money on your character appearance right now. You should delete and remake your characters at this point.

To put it in perspective, many of us have had the same characters for well over 200 weeks. So the 1 week or whatever you’ve had a character isn’t worth spending money on when you can get to the same point in mere minutes or at most days once you’re familiar with the game.

This has been answered a million times, but since the search feature doesn’t work I’ll repeat a few points. You can always try google for more posts from this forum.

The first major thing you need to do is pay attention to enemy mechanics. If you can name an enemy that is giving you particular trouble, I or someone else can tell you why you are dying to it and ideas on how to fix it. Or use wiki to look up the mechanics of that enemy.

The second major thing is you (probably) need to take a few key defensive utilities or traits in HoT. They expect you to be able to deal with conditions, stuns/knock downs, and lethal damage. There are many ways to deal with those, but the easiest is to simply take utilities or traits that …. you guessed it, clear condis, stun break, and provide damage resistance or invulnerabilities (which can easily be replaced by a well timed dodge when you get the hang of things again.)

Edit in response to your gear question: The general rule of thumb for PvE is to take the most possible damage. If you learn the encounters and your profession’s abilities, there is zero content you can’t complete in full glass gear. If that isn’t possible for you for whatever reason, you can add tankiness, but that will drag the encounters out and potentially make them harder.

Or thief or warrior depending on what archetype of ranger you had in mind.

Aren’t you the guy that made a thread about how the level 15 open world zone was too difficult for you to play on your level 80 mesmer?

Regardless, I do remember your name and you always seem to find something to complain about that no one else has a problem with. That’s fine I suppose, but the sheer number of people being baffled at your complaints has got to tell you something about the validity of your complaints.

If you give your grandmother who’s never heard of GW2 a DH you set up, she’ll accidentally kill someone. She won’t hurt anyone with scrapper.

Scrapper has way too much sustain, but at least it requires you to be conscious.

Both of their (power herald) heals are pretty crappy unless they “work”. Their other major annoying defense is sword 3 which is pretty easy to interrupt. Those are the main things I look for.

I’m a pretty mediocre herald player though, you might get better answers on their forum.

Also like Justine said, the power revs have pretty much zero condi clear.

In your chat box there is an option for a combat log. Read it and figure out what’s killing you. It doesn’t really matter whether it’s condi damage that ignores toughness, or physical damage that is affected by toughness. The important thing is you don’t know why you’re dying so you’re just eating all the damage.

Jerus.4350:

THIS! as an Engi main myself, I feel the same way ‘maybe if I keep picking them up they might realize Engi ain’t bad’ but, it doesn’t work Gyro rez the commander? ‘Nice banner!’

Any class pushes something? “kittening LB ranger!” (with no LB equipped.)

Edit: Forgot my favorite; anyone pulls anything “Ranger control your kittening pet!”

Illconceived Was Na.9781:

I thought the exercise was great evidence that people are willing to pay a huge premium for getting mystic coins now:

• The instant that news of the events dropping coins popped, the price plummeted.
• As soon as people realized it was account bound to one/day, the price increased back to what it had been.

That shows that sellers aren’t very committed to the current prices; it’s the buyers who are willing to pay extra.

Accordingly, it would be my guess that ANet isn’t going to add substantial new sinks. The might add some more 1/day events to see what happens again.

Agree 100%. Coins are a luxury item that newbies have access to if they choose to play the game. It’s an intentional decision.

Honestly if coins went for like 3 gold a piece, imagine what that would do for the newbie population? Instant anything they wanted off the TP?

ArchonWing.9480:

Within the next six months, during a living story event or holiday, they’ll introduce a way to get Mystic Coins.

They already did, with those ley energy events once a day.

You’re like a computer with only 1s and 0s, Allison.

Regardless, I expanded my thoughts on why I don’t think anet care about the price increase. I just blew a few hundred gold on the coins today myself, and I’m sure I made some new players very happy.

sophiewhite.3149:

hes probably asking for support. wanting people to agree anet needs to do something to lower the price.

Makes sense. Anywho, the anet econ guy has said they like to give new players a way to make money, which is why early crafting materials tend to be really expensive. New players have no need for mystic coins but do need money, and people wanting luxury items worth thousands of gold need the coins.

Seems like an intentionally designed system.

Allison The Strange.4519:

I’m well aware of clovers being available from both PvP & WvW tracks. That has no impact on what I’m asking.

I’m asking if you think anet will allow mystic coins to keep increasing in price or if they will add a new way to obtain them that will drop their price drastically.

I answered what I thought anet would do (nothing), I don’t understand what else you’re asking.

Clovers drop from the PvP tracks, so my semi-educated guess is it’s not something anet is terribly worried about.

They probably haven’t done it because moas and raptors are basically the same thing, both mechanically and “evolutionarily”. Maybe they could add a raptor-skinned moa sort of like the HoM pets.

Even though something like a stability shriek would be cool, I’d prefer they never add any new pets like the core pets again at this point. They need to add attack animations to the base animal that actually work, like some of the HoT pets.

Seems like every time I try to do all 3 paths it gets contested before I finish. Just use Murphy’s Law to get it to trigger and make some cash on charged lodestones in the process.

Rantaine.4759:

And bad players hardly will get Legendary Champion, unlike gwamm.

Even if you lose 100% of your games, LC is still easy to get. It’s just time.

LughLongArm.5460:

As far as i’m aware of, this trait is almsot never picked, never been QQ about since the release of HOT.

Should this trait get a tooltip making us aware that its not on CD?

I see it run pretty regularly, in both WvW and PvP. I usually take it myself, but I’ve almost always played my builds as CC pressure since launch. The weird CD is what really annoys me, but like 95% of everything else in this game I just sort of develop an internal timer because the UI is so insane (not even the UI designers fault I think, the game just has too many things that need icons.)

Also there is a player sponsored tourney in the PvP forum right now where this trait is banned (along with pretty much every other viable build from every profession), so I guess some people still get annoyed by it.

xKratos.4758:

Fluffball.8307:

I think you’re going to turn a lot of people off with those rules.

Yes I realize some people want to play their AIDS builds like triple mantra Face roll Mesmer for example or using hot pet for ez wins while picking all defensive traits possible on vanilla ranger etc. The rules are in place to put certain classes mechanics that are clearly overpower compare to other classes thus give the lesser skills player the edge as long as they roll a certain specs. The rules are put together by my experience as well as high tier players inputs so if someone get turn off well suck for them they missing out on a chance for 500g and 800 gems while playing something fun instead of AIDS rank queue

Seems unnecessarily hostile even if it’s not directed at me.

It’s your tourney, I have no problem with making the rules “only zerk amulets on condi builds” or whatever you want to do. Your restrictions are just overly harsh IMO and I think you’re going to lose half your viewership based on that. I was interesting in watching it, but with the harsh rules I have lost interest.

Most other tourney’s just use the “zerk amulets only and don’t blatantly troll” rule or something and do fine. Zerk and no HoT stuff would be how I’d do it, but I’m not running this or putting up the prize.

I think you’re going to turn a lot of people off with those rules.

I don’t even want to know what a cape would look like on a charr. It would probably just be a line sticking out of their torso.

I think controlling the pet diligently makes the class a lot more enjoyable. Don’t expect the pet to do what you want it to, force it to. I spend probably 50% of my mental energy in a PvP match focusing on the pet. Once you learn how to get it to do things like force certain skills, it stops being so much of a problem.

Ranger is the pet profession after all, so trying to ignore the pet weirdness is like trying to enjoy the crisp, refreshing flavor of a ghost chili.

You can get the knowledge crystals in 5 dungeon runs. Just play the dang dungeon.

Ghotistyx.6942:

Fluffball.8307:

Edit 2: Euratien is banned from this thread.

What is this sorcery?

Ha. A mod moved this thread. It was in the ranger forum where like 10 people read it, and obviously Eura is in a lot of videos.

Justine.6351:

stuff

You seem to roam frequently enough I’m kind of surprised no one has snagged you.

I was watching someone random twitch ranger the other day and he knew who I was, I was like WTF??? It’s so weird.

morrolan.9608:

Anet clearly have really bad internal feedback mechanisms that just do not provide meaningful feedback on developments. SH and the Desert BL for WvW are prime examples.

It makes me feel really bad, honestly. Like all these talented people spend thousands of hours working on beautiful projects the players don’t want and we told them we don’t. SH is less of a good example, but the desert BL, ugh, it kills me. So beautiful and so exactly what we didn’t want.

Random thread, but I occasionally find myself in other people’s highlight videos. I was in a Chaith highlight as one of the guys losing a 1v2, but it looks like he took it down or it expired or something. I also found myself playing engi in a video that features me like 1/4 of the time (obviously the asura named Tiny Fluffette.) I think I might be in a highlight of that dragon-faced asura ranger on Yak’s Bend as well.

ind of small community despite the millions of people who own the game.

Edit: Also wtf is the kitten filter doing to my link?? It still works.

Edit 2: Euratien is banned from this thread.

Anet put a lot of money (salary wise) into making stronghold for us, and we didn’t like it. (I mean, it aight.) Are they going to try new fun things now that the community showed they don’t like it?

Also both new WvW maps (EotM and borderland) show the community doesn’t like the new things anet does, although in that case it’s because anet blatantly ignored what the WvW community wanted. So…

Zero condi cleanse? (And I assume you don’t have HoT or not taking druid is “wrong”.)

Aeolus.3615:

In big team fight when another players has is defensive skills on CD, any class can auto-atack pretty hard for a win, not only DH….with traps..

You make a good point, but a DH can be on a marauder amulet and standing in the middle of the action while doing that. So many of their big attacks also heal them. I honestly didn’t even realize the skills were healing me for several games until I read the tool tips and was like “oh no wonder I can’t die.” (Except if you played with me last night, sorry I was drunk.)

Banning ranger LB seems really arbitrary. Friggen staff does more damage on the auto and can’t be reflected.

Why are all teams called Cold Foamers? It’s like every single game. They need to increase the name pool. That’s what’s wrong with PvP, kittening Cold Foamers.

You can get to 100% bleed duration using the metabattle (I assume, I didn’t look at it) condi viper build, then use the trinkets for some defense or healing power or something, for a WvW druid.

Why are the mods merging threads on this when they delete or ban threads on other minor offenses???

DeceiverX.8361

they’ve adapted to be cute, cuddly, and loyal friends, with all their shortcomings handled by more capable species.

No they have NOT. They’ve been bred by humans to be worthless as anything other than human toys. They did not do this as a survival mechanism.

Sagramor.7395:

How would you build a double melee bruiser these days?

Standard specs really. Druid is a must, I think NM outweighs quick draw in this case, and BM is pretty much a must. Could easily go with WK in place of NM. Utilities depend on that trait decision.

Edit: Actually signets are a third possibility, with MM.

Justine.6351:

I reread the op.
Zerging/healing/crit/raids
Pvt is not a good armor set as you wouldn’t run that in pve and it lacks any crit chance or healing.

My bad, I read raids and thought WvW. Forgot PvE. Soldier’s is unacceptable for PvE.

I destroyed several expensive sigils before I realized you had to select an empty slot. It’s not good UI, although I see why they did it.

To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.

Isn’t it relatively easy to get 100% condi duration without the trinkets though? It’s been a while since I geared up a condi char. If you’re already at 100%, sinister is going to be better.

Do we have any evidence life evolves on Tyria? Did the mursaat and seers evolve, or was that just player speculation?

It just depends on what you’re doing. If you’re constantly fighting like 2 v 7 or something, playing in marauder’s is probably going to cost you the fight, but soldier’s will make it a winnable fight.

Or for zerging, obviously you’d want soldier’s. Basically the more damage you think will be unavoidable, the tankier your gear (obviously).

There is no one way to go. Soldier’s is a solid option.

Justine.6351:

for the armor on a power druid you can make,

berserkers
marauders
celestial
zealots

Those 4 stat sets can be used in any power build with the weapons and trinkets defining the build overall.

Soldier’s is good as well for roaming in WvW. Like a double melee bruiser build.

DHs aren’t OP, they’re just WAY too easy to play and get results with. With the profession achievements, I’ve been struggling trying to learn all the intricacies of mesmers going back in time and all these weird things you can with their skills, and then I put on DH without knowing a kitten thing about the class and just start instagibbing people left and right.

I don’t have any trouble fighting DHs, but I am pretty peeved at how little effort and skill it takes to get spectacular results.

Aeolus.3615:

I cant believe people still rush mindlessy to traps, ignoring the animation and the annoying “pewsh” sound.

That’s why I had zero respect for DHs before I tried playing one. Then I realized it’s actually pretty easy to put a trap down in a big team fight or when someone has blown their defenses/dodges. It really takes very little effort when most skills on both weapon swaps as well as your utilities are a big attack and also has built in defense.