Guild Wars 2

Miflett.3472:

- Above all else, Longbow needed a kitten damage buff on it’s auto-attack more than just buffing the cast time. Something that ArenaNet has shied away from time and time again. If I still am having doubts as a power specced ranger between shortbow AA and LB AA, something is wrong. The problem with LB wasn’t necessarily in the skill mechanics themselves, but with the absurb amount you had to spec into MM to make it viable.

As a 30/0/30/10/0 ranger. I absolutely agree.

long bow and short bow just seemed to part of the same aspects so I moved to just shortbow longbow and swapped between the two for situational usage.
Shortbow for those I couldn’t lockdown, and longbow for those I could snipe out.
Short bow to chase and be agile, longbow for mass AoE damage on points.

Now its like short bow is the only real viable bow…
Longbow needed a change, the stealth wasn’t it.

I don’t get why Anet doesn’t want to balance out the longbow damage to match other options.
doesn’t make any kitten sense at all.

the sealth is a mechanic that doesn’t belong on the longbow kit.
It belongs in a different weapon set kit, yes, its a great addition… if it was done to the right weapon. like an axe dagger or a sword…. or something where a sealth mattered, but not on a control/aoe weapon where sealth is kinda pointless.

I used to play with longbow sword+dagger for massive condition and control.
Was excellent till I switched to double bows and realized bow swapping lead to an amazing ability to snipe people out and control areas and dish out mass condition damage.

Now if I continue to play ranger i’ll probably go with axe/dagger, short bow.

I don’t like the short bow, I prefer the longbow shortbow tanky dps combo, its what I really optimized my ranger for.

Axe+dagger is one of my favorite ranger kits.

Atherakhia.4086:

I’ll be serious…

My complaint with this class revolves around how boring it is to play. I realize I’m setting myself up for failure because I don’t really want to play a melee ranger, but shortbow and longbow are boring. You literally do nothing but run around in circles auto-attacking things until your opponent eventually dies of boredom himself.

you kinda missed the point of playing an archer archetype there….

Silanae.2856:

I’m afraid to say that I have to agree. The changes might be nice for pvp or some such, but in pve it has really hurt my rotation and damage output. I’ve stubbornly clung to longbow all this time, but now I just feel sad and discouraged.

They hate the long bow so they are pushing rangers away from it… I swear.
They have been with every patch as it is.

darkace.8925:

jonnjo.2594:

I am in complete agreement with OP. I found the new mechanic refreshing. I also love stacking vulnerability. Oh and thinks for the raven tip. Never occurred to me.

If you love stacking vulnerability with a longbow, then why don’t you deplore the change? The new version of Hunter’s Shot requires twice the work and one subpar trait to get the same effect the old Hunter’s Shot got with one push of the button.

^This.

Quarktastic.1027:

FranBunnyFFXII.3508:

NargofWoV.4267:

SB has 3 escape type mechanisms… the LB only had a knock back, it needed more.

because an AoE cripple doesn’t count…

An AoE cripple that roots you for the duration of its cast, and only stacks 1 second of cripple per hit. How many people have you seen who willingly take more than one or two hits from barrage?

Drop barrage in their walk path, then dodge roll backwards+that trait that makes you invulnerable for a few seconds.
I used it all the time during spvp.
It works even better if you cripple, dodge, then use 4.
pretty cool combo to control an enemy players distance for you. A short bow you basically had a small stun and a dodge…
And stealth isn’t really an especape anyways. it allows you to negate targeted damage for a duration, not really all that effective.

The changes are awful. I explained why in my thread.
Even for PVP it sucks.
Rangers aren’t rouge like characters they are dps/tanky DPS geared, not sneeking assassins.
if I wanted to play a theif i’d play a theif… I wanted to play a ranger.

All rangers who used longbows used that rotation…. add piercing arrows and you have an excellent mass damage mechanic.
Now? Nope.
Because applying mass vunerablities with one skill isn’t strong enough for players to use their aiming to maximize damage output.

NargofWoV.4267:

SB has 3 escape type mechanisms… the LB only had a knock back, it needed more.

because an AoE cripple doesn’t count…

Personally I hate my pet, I wish I could just use my skills and forget about the pet, but pets do damage so its just a nerf to not use them.

I wish rangers didn’t have pets.
I loved the aspects of the ranger and I simply just ignored my pet and let it auto attack. worked out well overall.
as long as you get your pet on your target and it can tank, then you get the damage bonus, but pets are sstill not fixed out of their kitten ed stupidity so its almost like…pointless to really worry about them.

Zenith.7301:

Stop playing glass cannon or knight armor and go regen bunker. Against sword thieves save the dodges/evade for larcenous strike (the stab), and against backstab D/P punish with bonfire and monarch’s leap while they’re stealthed so it’s hard for them to land a backstab.

You won’t kill a thief that doesn’t want to die because they’re a cheap class that exploits a broken mechanic (stealth), but at least you shouldn’t be dying to them if you pay attention.

Im not playing a glass cannon. I’ve got 30 toughness 10 vitallity.

Im talking about sPVP.
Ok I’m at a loss here. Any other class is pretty easy to get the jist of fighting them. Mesmers and engineers are probably the easiest for me. but Theifs?
Can’t do it.
How in the bloody hell do you fight a theif as a ranger? They like negate eveyrthing i throw at them, and then just shred my HP like its nothing.

I run 30 toughness on my ranger in pve and pvp, its a highly useful trait for stacking condition damage, and being tankier than hell.

ilr.9675:

They should just fold inward stay still when NOT moving (or when walking).
I don’t see the problem yet with their speed when characters are running full speed.

I was thinking they should fold in or at least stay rigged to the way the character moves when the character moves, and then be animated when you’re standing still.

What do you think?

Gizmo.9178:

FranBunnyFFXII.3508:

Gizmo.9178:

That is your opinion. I don’t like the stiff wings in the video. The animation for the holo wings give life to them and I thinks its cool to see.

What’s uncanny and unfluid isn’t an opinion. Whats red is red, whats white is white, and its a fact that he wings animations don’t syngergize with the way player’s avatars move, which is why it looks uncanny.

Still a matter of opinion.

Ok buddy. you keep thinking that.

Gizmo.9178:

That is your opinion. I don’t like the stiff wings in the video. The animation for the holo wings give life to them and I thinks its cool to see.

What’s uncanny and unfluid isn’t an opinion. Whats red is red, whats white is white, and its a fact that he wings animations don’t syngergize with the way player’s avatars move, which is why it looks uncanny.

I guess it looks ok to people who haven’t seen them done in other games, and what looks uncanny or not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvNTkUkMgDE
Here’s an example of well done rigged wings.

So I managed to get lucky and pick up a pair of the holo wings, and i’ve seen the Shattered wings on preview. I have to say they look nice… Except for the fact that they are swinning so hard.

They would look better if they weren’t so heavily animated. If they were less flappy and more stationary they’d look excellent.
The animation is fine standing still, but moving it just looks odd.

I’ve owned “wing” back items in other games, and having them flap like this, just looks strange.
If you’d like to see a game that did “wings” right, Tales Runner did an excellent job.

Not sure whats going on but I have 4/14 done of the achivements, but it only says I have 3?
One of them was the dragon ball matches. and I’m half way to dragon ball boss.
Do these count or was it just a waste of time?

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Now i have an idea in mind of something I would like to work towards.

Beldin.5498:

I choosed Order of Whisper armor for chest and legs for my female Norn ranger

Wow That top. Where did you get that?

Where are the cultural vendors at?

I wont play asura because they are stupid little ankle biters.

I hate miniture races in MMORPGs because everyone loves them except people like me who hates seeing micro avatars.
I hated gnomes, and goblins in WoW.

Look, if i can punt your avatar over a fence, then its not a real avatar.

I’m a huge vanity freak, and In ever MMORPG i play i go to great lengths to find armor and vanity items that fit my style.

Well I’m playing a Norn ranger here in GW2, I absolutely love the build and charcter archetype and the character I’ve built. Shes an incredible avatar at least in my eye’s but there’s something glaringly irritating about her. Nothing wrong with her, but what she wears.
What she looks like right now is such a farcry different from my other avatars. Which have all worn things which are rather extravagant, or outlandish.
I don’t know if i could post screenshots of my other avatars to help maybe assist with ideas, but I’m looking for something…Interesting to find and make a set out of.

I like a mixture of some exposure(clevege or something more exotic), and coverage.
My castanic and blood elf are great examples of this. but i also love things that are outlandish and very provoking of power or inhuman yet very decoractive designs(my Fiona and Lon Femina were very big examples of this).

I’ve looked through medium armors in game and I’ve tried to find something interesting, without success.
One thing i really liked was Eir Stegalkin’s armor. Isn’t there something like that for rangers?

I’m just at a bit of a loss trying to find something I really like.

Also since I was looking at them, how do the armor skins work? They work for combat armor? are they reusable?
Advice or suggestions would be great.

The miniatures/vanity pets in this game are pathetic. I don’t say that lightly either. I love getting them in any MMORPG I play.
I bought the digital collectors edition of the game specifically for the mist wolf and the rytlock miniatures. Sadly i never use the dang thing because it so poorly designed. Which is really odd considering how well designed the rest of Guild Wars 2 is.

I think the miniatures need to be update because they are still rather unacceptable in my eyes.
Here’s the problems with them as I see it.
Follow distance: The miniatures follow way to far behind the player. They are suppose to be a show piece item, and if it isn’t peddling a long 2~5 feet behind your heels, its not even noticeable.
My miniature shouldn’t be trailing 20~50 feet behind me. It shouldn’t disappear off my screen and I have to look around trying to see where the little thing went.

Reaction time: kinda ties in with above, the miniatures should react fairly quickly to the players movements. at least trying to keep up, this would stop most of the long distance problem, but at the same time they shouldn’t take of 5~10 seconds later.
Movement speed, They are slower than the player, why doesn’t the script automatically match their movement speed to the players speed? They are slow enough to be reset next to the player after them running for 30~50 seconds(sometimes longer)
Pathing: They follow the path the player takes…not direct pathing like a ranger pet does. Why? This puts them even farther behind than they should be.

All of the problems above shouldn’t be an issue at all considering Ranger pets and how they follow the player at appropriate distances, and reaction times.
They shouldn’t reset if i change maps, go for a swim, ect.

Persistence: The miniatures disappear too often, like when changing maps, going into water, and many other instances. They shouldn’t do this. They should be very persistent, and ignore a lot of things that would otherwise cancel out their presence in the game.

Vanity pets are suppose to be a bit of flashiness you pay for, and the miniatures in this game do not perform this task even remotely successfully.

Just some input. It should be a relatively easy fix, but I’m not a game dev so i don’t know how hard it would be to modify the miniatures to fix the problems.

In reality shes as tall as the slider would make her. I stand next to a human female and she’s a halfling to me.

But then again wandering around Tyria I noticed I feel pretty dang small…so it makes me wonder….If i feel small.. boy how do the other tiny peoples feel wandering around grass and plants that tower over them?
I mean those poor little asura, I could accidentally kick one of those things across the yard….

EroticAndHeretic.7398:

Thessaly Erinyes: 7/10 I quite like it!

Mine is a young engineer girl named Sjöfn Ragnfridr! Had to use a human body to make the child like look, but it’s funny to have a young character acting like a juggernaut with a flamethrower! And quite original when doing RP, I guess.

I cant even pronounce your name haha…. So I can at least say its very interesting!

Now I’m embarassed, everyone has very interesting names.

Mine is Franbunny….which is my first name in real life(not joking, it it really is). I’m not that creative so i just use my first name for all my avatars because its a fairly unique name.

I agree, that’d be interesting to see something more characteristic of the big toughness of the norn.

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I couldnt figure out what was happening, until i realized that everytime i open the GW2 patcher on my brand new laptop, the wifi connection halts and It completely cuts off communication.

Whats going on?