Guild Wars 2

Like i said it depends on the lvl of area you are in. frost is mostly exotic fire heart rare/exotic and low lvl like gendarran has greens and bleus, the amount of hits doesn’t matter

you can’t.

bleu/green/yellow boxes will drop in the type of lvl area you are in. you can see that if you do lvl 80 frostgorge that you only get exotic, because you went over a certain level reach. lower lvls just have more chance in dropping lower type of box. High MF doesnt influence this

or buy a recipe from the person that teached you crafting. can be bought with karma

Prof: Ranger
Trait: 30/25/10/5/0
Weapon SB/axe + warhorn
Amount of tries: around 40+

first of all this challenge was very hard keeping your eye on your health, endurance, your foe, here aoe, here clones and the portals. add a pet survival and you lose control sometimes. but i liked it, it gave that extra challenge i didnt get at other pve content. i even learned the ritme of the aoe falling down in both fases.

Probably the most expensive and hardest challenge i ever faced. biggest problem was that the visions of darkness sneak up behind me while i shot at here. felt like a creeper act. stacked up my sigil of bloodlust mango pie and oil for extra power. pets just jaguar and wolf. i had a good start because my 1e pet didn’t go down. also my previous fighter, a warrior, helped me a little by lingering his banner of discipline in the field ( he died fast ). so a little cheaty tip might be to ask a friend war and place a banner out the ring, you grabbing it and then enter the ring.

8 orb achievement? hell no

Just add a permanent name to the pet so that we don’t have to keep renaming it.

Let’s look at a few things were we check the money, fractals en de council spot.

Looking at the money side Kiel seems the better candidate, but how much reduction will we get? 50% – 40% – 10% – 5%? Money for waypoint is easily earned back, while keys might have 50 gem reduction ( which is more then a few silver ). Also if they add new skins in the chest people obviously buy more keys and will probably saves a few gold on buying key’s thats way more money saved then waypoint.

Looking at the fractal side Evon is obviously the best of the 2, i mean we havn’t had anything with the gods going one, while in gw 1 we had shrines were we could kneel and pray to the gods for boosts and in certain stories the gods were involved to.

Looking at the council spot, my opinion is that Kiel should not be on a chair, she should be out on the fields serving and protection the citizens. don’t forget the council is a group of pirates. If you look at Evons work ( way of acting and thinking ) you will see that he just fits perfectly there.

I got a few stacks now in my inventory waiting for the last days, voting for Evon. Since the candidates are very close to each other ( 4% difference ), anything can happen. And in those last days i can bet that the amount of voting will either be doubled or tripled compared to last week.

I tend to play as ranger mostly and sometimes during a dungeon, wvw or the standard pve i like to play berserk or a little bit tanky. you can change the armor and weapons for stats but you can’t replace the traits, meaning you won’t be able to invest in toughness or vitality or the power and the precision let alone the trait effect that comes along with it.

Can’t we have something like a item to summon a trainer so we can reset our traits? We already got a item for merchant en black lion post. And it would go allot faster then leaving the area, going to LA or to WvW to re change our traits there.

I would even pay gems for a item with unlimited uses, since i tend to change my build a lot. Although its best to restrict it’s usage in WvW area’s to avoid complaining.

well we might have a story were evon is gonna start a group explore to sacred places were we have to ‘get’ sacred relics only to bring the fury and wrath of those we stole from. Sounds fun right

This is a Copy Paste:

Q: How would elections in the next update work?
A: Tokens given for new content and as rare drops. This is not an American election, this is a pirate election so anything goes. Dirty stuff, bribery etc are expected. Pirates elect very different and players should be prepared for anything and everything.

Q: Will Living world be affected down the road or this is just a vote and forget?
A: Whoever wins this becomes a member of the council. So absolutely this can play in the future as they can decide on important decisions. Years from now this person could still have an effect.

Here is the official link :
http://dulfy.net/2013/07/16/gw2-colin-johanson-livestream-transcript/

Anything goes all is unfair and trickery, and the world of Tyria as we know will change its story for the next years depending on the winner.

CHOOSE WISELY!!!!

Since waypoints look better then reduced keys, its obvious that most people vote for Kiel. People who played Gw 1, like me, actually won’t care about the cost reduce of waypoints its just a fhew silvers wich can be earned back easily. My vote is for Evon for i want to know what happens in the Abbadon fractal. players that never played gw 1 should give Abbadon a chance, find some info or watch some cutscenes from Nightfall. Asuran accidents are a common thing in Gw 2 and the gods didn’t got much attention. Hopefully the fractals might even give a hint about the gods. i still wanna know the answer why the gods are not showing them self to help with the dragons, but those answers won’t show.

Ty and lol and final of course Evon get my votes. I mean c’mon Abbadon

i havn’t followed all the details, so i might have missed it. But is the end result of the voting between kiel and evon dependable on either:

. Your own server
. The whole Eu or American server
or
. Both EU and American server.

It is kinda weird that your own server has the Thaumanova reactor and a other server has Abbadon’s fractal. i mean what is the point is voting if both fractals come and people just transfer or guest somewhere else.

So if anyone can clarify that for me that would help allot and for the other people that might also not know.

Of the legendary norn drinker Adnul Irongut. In the past fhew days this unknown norn has been the talk of many people be it good or mostly bad. For he has played hundreths of thousands of players in a game of Belchers Bluff. Altough he lost macthes fast by certain skilled players he managed to keep most of the population busy for hours and even days. He only enjoyed drinking and shouting and always had a laugh when players threathend him with slow and painful deaths, burning down Hoelbrak and even exterminating the whole norn race.

His actions may never have been the best, but he is still a brave drunken norn that accepts every challenge of every player. Knowing that his name Adnul Irongut would be remebered by players for the years to come………

That both party’s either get a draw or both lose because of a certain reason, be it cheating or the fact that both wern’t suited and they just choose a 3e guy. Or the dead memeber comes back to life, or was never dead to begin with TUM TUM TUM.

In the end they might even add both fractals ( but winner goes first ) i love em both so wichever party wins, it is already a loss to me knowing i can only play one new fractal lvl:(

Try correcting people that keep saying Jormag is up, while it’s supossed to be claw….

@ninja.

your’re right yea, i tend to forget to equip entangle most of the times out of habit. even though i got a trait to reduce its cool down by 20%.

the 80/20 armor attributes are not only for WvW, otherwise i would go full 100%. but i need some toughness to survive in Dungeons and PvE since my guild is good, but not on a pro level that i want to make myself squishy.

altough i dont have a build ready to show i run 80% berserk and 20% pow/crit/toughness ( for extra protection ). running a 30/30/10/0/0 build now, but i might change it in a near future. using my trait so that signets also effect me i use elite rampage as one, signet of wild ( sweet 25% extra damage ) and quikness to Barrage a WvW zerg with stone signet to get out of it during and after barrage. most of the times it even changes the tide of battle since there scared of 2-3k barrage hits * 12.

this build helped me in many places and so far i got to lvl 31 fractals, but i tnk way more rangers are higher then that. proofing that Rangers are a serious class no matter what other people tell about rangers. with the right build we can do the work other classes also do.

Also i making a melee build for my ranger more about the survival and so far i outlive warriors in close combat and stealthy thiefs.

sprint is fine but how the skills and landing work are kinda wrong. sometimes whenever i combo 1 + 2 and land on the other side of the platform the game thinks i fell down and they reset me, forcing to go again. happened twice in a row and was forced to take the ‘slow’ route.

Not sure if i got the right forum for this thread ( for i placed it in dynamic events ) but what i wanna tell is this.

So far most our travels and big boss event are always on land. Sometimes we travel trough the water for a heart quest, certain dungeon water combat, or a small boss event, but never ever was there a epic big water boss that would reward a chest or bonus chest.
Isn’t it time to add a area were 95% of the area is the deep mysterious sea. It would give me as a player more excitement traveling underwater with dangerous big sea creatures swimming everywhere around me. giving you character a kind of flashlight to illuminate the dark area for a gloomy scary effect.

Having little camps a little below the sea level for merchants and a mysterious city way deep in sea for puzzles and big events would be very nice. don’t forget in the early gw 2 trailers we saw a little glimpse of a big ‘dragon’ passing players while they were in the water. Who knows they might add it later. Even a mini game in the water would be awesome

But we gotta make water battles fun since people in WvW tend to avoid the big scales water combat. I can admit that most people don’t even know how to play good water combat since i did a 1 v 3 with a non lvl 80 character and still won, let people motivate to make a legendary water weapon to show off. Getting a bit tired with all the twilight clones running around. Reminds me of the gw 1 monks with obsidian gear and chaos gloves.

remove the backpack from the slot and re apply it. had this problem with my quiver to. otherwise try to hide and show it back and forth

RIP english and Grammar and of course the clueless person thinking that rangers don’t have block, not many stun breakers and 80% being pet “spells”. At least he admitted the bad english. Now to admit grammar and the clueless.

looks very nice. If the thief was closer to the sword i would have sworn he just managed to dodge it. i prob have some older screen shots somewere so i will upload mine later.

I got a tip but only if you are desperate. use a Mango Pie nourishment if gives you 90 health every second. its kinda unfair but inrongut is bearly a challenge once you eat the pie. didn’t wanna use it but almost had him for 1 more sip but he kept spamming his special so i failed. after the mango i always stood max health and in the end i was around 5k health left.

Played AR and we had a mesmer while we were at the final boss i got very angry on that mesmer for he was the worst mesmer ever. throwing null fields only on himself while not having bleed while the rest is bleeding out.

he didn’t even use his TW during the fight, but he used it when we were running around voor the barrage attack. we completed it but it took way longer then it needed to be. not to mention he went down and died alot so rezzing was also needed.

In the end he explained he used the warp for a combo for ‘speed’ we had 2 guardians already giving speeds plus a warrior who had banner. in the end he even blamed me for the fails and wanted to kick me off ( didn’t happen of course ).

in the end he wanted to keep talking and complaining and i said “its done, dungeon is over stop complaining” obviously he whispered me telling me to L2p and logged of before i could reply. big mouth from somebody with a 1500 achievement score.

i mailed him it was over and stop complaining and i blocked him so i won’t have trouble from him again.

seriously some people…….

Yea i reported this bug a a week or something ago. only the risen squires give a unlimited time of cripple. the normals attacks that give cripple last a fhew seconds. And this i checked with every charr and i am 100% sure, whenever they leap you like the skill 2 of the warrior sword. That attack gives the unlimited cripple, so somewhere around there is the bug.

Correct me if I’m wrong but is it just the fear of the weapon being nerfed if any changes are made, that keeps you from supporting any change on the sword skill 1?
I wouldn’t mind at all if the animation stayed the same but could actually be cancelled out by dodging. That’s not dumbing down the weapon; that’s increasing potential, and would in my opinion make the weapon more accessible to less experienced players.

That said, fear is never a good reason not to adress issues.
(Although in the Ranger’s case I understand that getting beaten and bruised over and over again by the nerf stick isn’t a good way to promote healthy conversation about skill changes.)

Finally one of the few people who know what i mean. Making it possible to break the attack by a dodge roll is a good example for a improvement. people might get scared because it might get nerved. but in order to break the attack you sacrifice 50% endurance for a roll so it should be in balance.

@jorneMormel

What i meant with the" the attack that won’t let you move during a attack" is that when you use the chain attack of skill 1 “slash 1#” you follow up with “kick 2#” and " Pounce 3# " which wont let you move during skill # 2 en # 3 ( except for the leap on 3 but that won’t matter if foe is standing still).

If we talk about Hornet sting ( skill 2 ) and Serpent strike ( skill 3 ) then i don’t have any problems with it there both amazing, good evade and retreat and even to shorten distances fast using the skill 2.

The thread should have just been about skill 1 with its 3 chain attacks and how it " could be improved " without making it to strong for enemy’s to complain about, but some people started about the hornets and the serpents so it went a little confusing. i thought my thread was clear about that but so far not much came out of it.

The main reason i posted this thread was to talk about the improvement of the 2 and 3e attack of skill " the attack that won’t let you move during a attack". It is not only for me but also for the other Rangers that might had some problems with the attack. Like i said it’s deadly for some PvP/WvW matches, but also during Pve combat in dungeons. During a Mesmer boss battle in SE i always dodged by a hairs breath when she casts here aoe stab, but if you are able to move you got it allot easier to get out of that field if you were not immobilized at the spot.

People can say " don’t use sword at all then" but i like the sword its MY character, MY play style, My build, i don’t wanna be forced using a other weapon just because its safer.

And if people say L2p let me tell you now not everyone is as good as the other. Some are better some are worse, i find myself a little above average with the sword. The sword must be fun for every kind of leveled player to use in a fight be it Pve or Pvp and if you take away the ability of the ranger to run around by keeping it at 1 spot then people will look bad at the sword and will barely play it.

Also skill 2 and 3 are not always about pure damage but to dodge and avoid the damage, thats what it is to be a melee Ranger

1. Increase might gain with the skill 5 of warhorn from 1 to 3 most have already been increased that way.

2. Show pet boon/cond above command bar. To anoying to find it and trying to klick it, while this could be so much easier. ( someone elses idea but it is my wish to have)

3. Small pet dragons anyone?

So yeah…….

Good attacks with the sword and giving cripples to foes, giving might to pets and even 2-3 evades, hell we even leap to our foes in distance. But the weakness is the 2e en 3e attack of skill 1 for in this animation we rangers can’t move, evade or even break the attack. I like the animation but its makes it hard for us to do anything else during that moment and in pvp and wvw that’s deadly.

Also i believe ( not certain ) that there are no other professions with chain attacks that keep you standing at one spot during the attacks.

So i am asking what might be the best solution for us to also move around without us being to OP towards other classes

i agree above my ranger is on lvl 31 and i don’t have any trouble with pug group clearing the levels. what actually makes me laugh is that when we fail they mostly blame me, but at the same time i see wars rushing in without support or guardian that don’t use wall or boons or heals while I mostly 1 man standing and rezzing. if people don’t want a ranger then that probably means that they arn’t that good either. in the end experience is more important then a silly class.

Name: Ritian Fhenrir
Approximate Age: 26
Affiliation: NA
Race: Norn
Profession: Ranger

Appearance:
He always wielded a blindfold yet for some reason he made his profession a ranger. But eyes aren’t the only senses he could use to hunt, by using sounds, noise and his pure intuition skills he raised his ability to the max. But now he’s wielding a animal shaped mask that was taken from a dangerous svanir master, that had caused harm to the environment and the creatures that lived within. The masks purpose was not only a act of his trophy, but also a new and more effective way to cover his face, as he new that that for some unexplained reason that would been best to do.

History:
Long ago a group a norn hunters travelled deep into the dangerous woods, hunting for powerful beasts so that they can make their names known trough out generations to come. Yet what they discovered was something more small and harmless. A small Norn baby left behind in the woods with nobody in sight to help him. Leaving a baby behind would bring a Norn more shame then coming back without any trophies of there slain prey. One of those Norn was a shaman of the Wolf lodge. He looked the baby in his eyes and saw something what shouldn’t have been seen, he quickly covered his eyes with a pelt from his robe and the group of brave norn headed back to Hoelbrak. Along the road the shaman will never forget what he saw, it was frightening, but he also saw something else something………. promising that one day will change the world of Kryta.
Since the kid didn’t had a name the shaman asked from his students to come up with a name, that they would carve into stone to forever remember the names of the wolf lodge inhabitants. His first name was Rithian his last name would have been something called close with the wolf Fenrir, however one of the students made a mistake in writing the last name and added a extra letter though the shaman thinks this name was more suiting. His Name was Rithian Fhenrir, the lonely child in Wolfs dorm.

Youth:
At the age of 8 while he was exploring the woods he met a cub wolf that was also abandoned. Sharing the same history he adopted the pup and named him Hokeroxer. And the two of them would be having a future were they would travel and hunt all around the Shiverpeaks and beyond and having allot of exiting and dangerous adventures making his story.

Early Life:
At the age of 10 he and his pet Hokeroxer were hunters and lived of the lands. But because of the elder dragons lands were lost and corrupted, for somebody who can’t see the corruption he listened how the spirits of the wild suffered because of that many spirits were devoured by the dragon Jormag. At that moment het realized what he had to do.

Current Status:
By fighting against the dragons he hopes to remove the corruption from the lands, so that nature can heal itself again. So far he bravely fought with Destiny’s edge and the pact to fight Zaithan and slaying it. But there are more dragons to be slain, how can a Norn ever reject a good fight?

Affiliations:
Avengers of the Underworld {ARCH} he travels with this guild to travel around and stop all kind of dangerous creatures. From the shadow creatures in the swamp to the generals of the dragons.

Family and Friends:
he see’s his wolf dorm and his pet wolf as family but he always saw the wolf shaman as his father and he gladly adopted him as a son. A fhew years ago when the Wolf shaman died he entrusted him whit his most precious family relic, a war horn. After a year Rithian had to fight for his life to reclaim his fathers relic from a Norn he lost against in game trough trickery and he had to fight against the corruption it had suffered during that time. in the end he restored his father relic from corruption en rostered the family name.

Personality:
Rithian is most calm and quit around people and he normally thinks twice before he acts, unless he is in a situation were patient is test to the limit. Rumor has it that he killed the svanir master without his hands, because the savnir had looked him in the eyes when he removed his blindfold in battle.

Quirks:
Is common like any other born during combat. But if his mask is removed he fights like no any creature that has ever lived. Its hard to tell if he can make friend from foe during this demonic mode.

Stories and Art Involving This Character:
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Other:
What the shaman saw in those eyes all those years, the secrets it held, the horror it contained but also the promising future it hold, the shaman eventually decided to bring this secret with him towards the afterlife, for until the day that Rithian Fhenrir from Wolf lodge will have to make a choice that will save his people….. or bring its demise. But for the years to come those secrets will still be hidden behind a cold emotionless animal shaped svanir mask.

My norn ranger combined with a wolf warhorn that shows a wolf picture + moon. wish i added my wolf pet and waited till night for another moon, then i had a moon- and wolfception

Rithian Fhenrir! Added the h in the name because Fenrir is overused, it also gives a certain thing whenever i use my name like that.

Btw cool names above for the 3 norns, they do sounds allot like vikings however

I like the fact that norn can change there appearance into a animal. what i don’t like is the fact this elite isn’t used alot and sometimes underpowered, c’mon there born the should be more deadlier in animal form. Since there are no utilities for the animal or the ability to run and attack at the same time, what makes it easier for you to get beaten, and the short span of usage. humans have good hounds elite, sylavri tree’s and turrets, asura got golem’s and i even see warband elite being played. my opinion is that they should change a fhew things about the norn elite. the only elite i sometimes see being used is the snow leopard to be invisible and run far away with the dash skill when having trouble in wvw or pve.

Here’s mine, took alot of time of mathcing diffrent armors.

I have played thief once, before i deleted it ( thief wasn’t really my style ). And although i like traps that reveal foes that are invisible, i can’t help it but to think that they really handicapped the thief.

revealing thief’s with traps = fine.
30 seconds unable to stealth = wth.

I’ll admit from here i really hate it when a thief goes instant invisible when they hit me while i can ‘barly’ do a thing as a ranger. I got my as kicked allot of times. You know what forced me to do instead of complaining? ADAPTING. I trained with my ranger in pvp to learn thief’s attacks and what to do most of the times. traps, fear howl, melee attack. I still get defeated by good thief’s but beginners and average thief’s are not always a challenge for me anymore.

Thief’s are able to overcome these traps ( for most players who play thief’s these traps are nothing threatening ). you just need to adapt as a player to these changes. scan around first, make allot of distant when you see them placing traps, let other non thief’s go ahead and trigger traps while you stay on a distance and if you do get caught you got tons of skill to escape again.

I wish you guys good luck with these new changes and hopefully they at least reduce the timer a little.

Like most people here i made a howler about a couple of weeks ago. I never felt bad about it when i used tons and tons of gold for the Howler. I fell in love with the Howler the moment i saw it ( didn’t even cared about the visual effects ) and when i had it i was overjoyed.

I agree with people that the fog isn’t much, it should be little more. big legends like sunrise and twilight are allot flashier then a simple war horn. And they should make the howling noise 3-4 times instead of infinity, and add a little more different howls.

But in the end i made the legendary so i can enjoy its looks and effect’s for myself. Most people might not notice or care but i will always be able to enjoy its mysterious fog effect, and you guys probably think that to to.