Guild Wars 2

Oglaf.1074:

Bellyboomer.3048:

The Norn may have muscle but lack tactics, technology, strenght in numbers…

Tactics? Contrary to popular belief, Norns are not stupid.

Technology? This is a sword: this end is for holding, the other for stabbing.

Strength in numbers? Lore-wise, a single Norn might very well best an entire Charr warband in combat.

Nope.

If that were so, Jormag would be a pest control problem.

I get the feeling that while Hrouda means well and is being as genuine as he can be given how devs for MMOs can’t be totally transparent(for the sake of the game), that this thread is just damage control. If more players are displeased with Anet for ignoring a class in dire need of fixes, that has been in dire need of fixes since launch, that is surrounded by other classes in dire need of fixes… People are going to start quitting.

People who quit generally aren’t around to buy gems to acquire that shiny new dinky insert holiday here has brought along.

Maybe I’m not giving Anet enough credit. Maybe I’m just being paranoid. We’ll find out in due time through what is done(or not done) regarding the issues of Rangers.

Yeah. It’s been there since launch, I have 3-4 screenshots on my P.C(This is my mac).

It’s usually after I go through a portal, randomly Litioch’s neck will retract into her body, turning her into an awkward looking gremlin thing.

I just shoot at him.

Am I doing it right?

I just want an Asura lab that I can customize heavily that doesn’t have my incompletely developed krewe wandering about aimlessly.

That’d require a reworking of all abilities, weapons and armors in the game.

Nope.

Not to mention how Anet doesn’t really take the suggestion forum seriously.

Gytis.1637:

Or maybe you can buy dance moves or whole dance from Black Lion Trading ?
Would buy a breakdance move where you’re spinning on your back

Good job, you gave them ideas.

I like the whole different lines for different personality choices thing and love how you’re actually suggesting that the rich aren’t automatically in charge. I’ve always been a bit peeved when my server deems my advice useless because I have other things to spend my gold on than a flashy badge.

Also, I wouldn’t do honor badges quite like that. I was thinking it would be after a certain amount of time playing in-game actively, a certain amount of kills(badges or no), and a certain amount of captures/successful defenses/gold event medals achievable by both and more, you’d become a Lieutenant(Different colored text). Players then pick who they want to be commanders(you cannot pick someone in your guild or on your friends’ list— you can, however, abstain from voting entirely. This removes from play the popularity contest/big-guild domination BS. You can only vote on one character(this applies for your account) and cannot vote on servers you’ve switched to for a period of three weeks(to avoid people trying to vote down good commanders to mess up opposing servers).

Any critiques to my take? I made this on the run and I want constructive feedback. I’ve got similar goals to Pred in that I want it to be less money-oriented and more skill oriented.

For the record, I’m not trying to usurp your throne in this thread, Royal. Your idea is a vast improvement over the current system, I just feel like it would be a pain with honor badges as they can be hard to come by on some characters(Namely my support character that doesn’t really do killing)

I -love- the ideas. It would turn the current grind into an epic goal for me to do what I want to do in-game whilst growing ever-closer to achieving it. I could WvWvW and still in some ways contribute to getting my legendary without being forced as it is to lock myself in Orr and Frostgorge, hope and pray for good drops and hope and pray for a fiftieth of what I need from the mystic toilet.

Serraphin Storm.2369:

Yes pet could use some help but they are not totally useless and dont die if a monster looks at them.

Have you ever done a dungeon before using anything but bears? Stop talking.

Lert.6287:

Pretty sure there is something like that already, with fast fire rate, stable, but not high damage, arrows reaches their targets pretty fast. But hmm how was it called? Something like short… shortriftle? Ah, it’s Shortbow.

This doesn’t contribute to the thread. It’s off-topic. We’re talking about Longbow, not Shortbow. Another thing, have the common courtesy to give an idea if you’re going to poke holes in his.

Florgknight.1589:

I don’t see the longbow as a weak primary weapon at all. In WvW situations, as long as I’m not being snuck up on the longbow is great as deterrent to melee builds as I can dish out up to 4k crits with 1500 range.

Whilst the warrior can dish out 21k crits with killshot, hitting multiple enemies. 4k is nothing in comparison to what other professions can do.

Rangers are still awfully designed by-and-large. The OP appears to have run into one of our few builds that actually work as intended. Don’t you worry your pretty little head, it’ll probably be nerfed.

@Caedmon
“All irrelevant,It’s Simple…mounts just pop away when you get hit instantly,just like when you ride the broom and get hit by someone,it pops away.Thats no issue,the issue is ….that mounts just have no real place in gw as of now.”

I don’t see anything ingame usable as a ‘mount’ besides Dolyaks, which would just make you go slower. There are no lore-applicable mounts in-game currently, not even addressing how GW2 would be shrunk, the quality shattered and the feel of the game completely ruined. Would you like to try again?

Stop making these threads, OP.

To answer your question, no. No, no, and no. Mounts will ruin GW2, not improve it.

I get the idea that the Dredge live in larger cities further below and away where workers and civilians supporting their war efforts would be safe aside of destroyers, which guards could fight. Females are probably there. Given how the Soviet Union treated women generally, they’re probably little more than workers and child-bearers.

They promised chairs we could sit in and mugs we could use in bars. In fact, they made fun of MMOs that didn’t have them.

I don’t see them.

I think we could go with him having weapons but not using them, like [REDACTED]’s monk, like only using them for ultimate animations(or not), with the option to hide weapons on their backs.

1. I have friends in the dev business, Asth. After the bullkitten we’ve been subjected to, I think we’ve earned our right to ‘demand’ answers from devs. We rarely if ever get those questions answered seriously if at all(Devs ignoring 99% of the ranger forum, responding to only one issue maybe once every two months), and the answers we get sound nice but aren’t backed up by ‘practical’ or ‘sensible’ action, which is why we keep ‘demanding’ and ‘whinging’, whatever that means.

2. We shouldn’t have to wait until an expansion to get a POSSIBLE fix or see our feedback recognized.

3. Pfah, you just contradicted yourself. The feedback is from the community, if you claim that they don’t give a farrk about the feedback, then how can they care about the community? And you claim they care about the game, Asth? Probably, but they’re certainly not showing it with the way they’ve been leaving major problems unaddressed and still finding time to add some new dinky to the gem store every time a month passes.

I think it has something to do with the events of SE Exp and CoF Exp. Both shattered former leaderships, and in the case of the dredge freed and saved otherwise doomed individuals. The Dredge would have to look at outsiders differently after that(considering how the outsiders saved them) and the Flame Legion might be pulling a Taliban and trying to act a bit nicer to would-be allies to gain support in their endeavors.

Still, it sounds to me like the Flame Legion is using them. It’s in their nature.

Cute, but impossible by lore.

Treguard.3420:

I would just like to say that i think it would be nice to have mounts one day. They may not be needed do to being able to travel through portals, but it would ad to the fun of the game to have ur own mount even if just for show. Would like to see comment and know who agrees or disagrees. thanks for your time

Stop making these threads. You’re picking at the bones of a long dead topic. Nobody wants mounts— No, I’m mistaken, nobody with half a brain to see what they do to a game or knows a kitten thing about GW2’s design wants mounts. Nobody cares. Stop making these threads.

I gave up on Anet. If they’ll carry us into a brighter tomorrow that’d be great, but I’m not about to get my hopes up. I’ve pretty much lost confidence in them.

Ricky Da Man.5064:

Instanced housing would remove players from the open world, a bad move..

It beats the landscape being clogged and overrun with ugly, misplaced houses and first-come first-serve rented rooms available only to the rich.

The test results are coming in right now…

Longbow is a terrible weapon. That’s what it says, right here. We weren’t even testing for that.

runeblade.7514:

Please make some NPC riding mounts.

I can’t see a world without mounts.

Nothing to see here. Just another vulture picking at the bones of a dead topic.

WonderfulCT.6278:

Ranger is fine. A lot of the arguments I see on this forum are unjustified but oppositely a lot of them are. Ranger has good dps, can preform in pvp, plus the pet can work well, but dies easy in certain boss encounters. The pets have very limited AI so learning to manage them is pretty essential.

Never played engineer so can’t offer any advice.

1. Ranger has sub-par DPS to any other profession capable of doing it. If you want DPS, I recommend playing another profession.

2. In PvP we’re a bad joke. Nonsensical weapon design makes DPS builds with the longbow outright useless besides barrage. The only builds I can honestly give credit for in PvP are bunker and trap as the others are just enticing other professions to smash you for badges. If they don’t succeed at smashing you for badges, they’re simply bad players and should feel bad.

3. The pet does -not- work well. It is clunky, stupid, is too weak to survive even the most mediocre AoE, it takes up to four seconds of blank staring just to start the windup for its weak abilities and/or prioritizes spamming its basic attack over listening to you, which can end up in a single ability taking up to 7-9 seconds, time you don’t have in many situations. In dungeons, pets die immediately, taking your DPS with them and thusly making you a useless profession for many paths where fast and hard DPS is required. You’ve touched on their AI, but you’re giving it way too much credit. It is simply lazy and clunky, something that a modern MMO like this shouldn’t have to say about its own pets.

4. Anet has addressed them in dungeons but continues to ignore all the other issues Rangers face, ones they are apparently quite content with pretending do not exist.

My personal final rating for ranger is a generous 6.5 out of 10. As others have said, it is a ‘Jack of All Trades, Master of None’, but that’s just an excuse for mediocrity. If Anet stepped it up and performed some serious changes rather than disheartening icon changes it would likely be a 8-9.

Prysin, we’re not asking for hints. We just want a simple “We’re working on it” and maybe some comments on issues we present, or a simple “We don’t give a Farrk”. Responses keep us refreshed, like they aren’t just ignoring us outright and sweeping us under the rug.

Don’t do this. The people who don’t want it aren’t “Casuals”, They’re simply the sensible players who know that this would never work with GW2. The OP would turn the game into a crummy aimbot-afflicted mess in PvP and PvE alike.

Rezzet.3614:

if you are getting stomped by warriors you are playing it wrong

It isn’t about getting ‘stomped’, it’s about being equal competing professions, which is impossible if Anet continues this trend of ignoring Ranger’s problems and nerfing it constantly.

@OP, I can tell you where they’re not.

But hey, on the bright side we’re jaded now, it doesn’t sting as much to find them apathetic, incompetent and deaf to our cries of injustice.

If I’m correct, thieves are both incredibly dexterous, agile fighters as well as masters of denial magic(the same kind that mesmers use, albeit in a different form).

It makes more sense to me this way. You aren’t so much skyrim sneaking as you are just imperceptible to your foes.

It’s a lie.

Firstly, what kind of awful thief can’t beat a RANGER?

Secondly, I went to WvWvW and tried with three different sets of pets. With some backup from my warrior buddy, I got my pets to attack him, he stealthed. They then stood there for a solid six seconds and then ran back to my side. The thief then re-materialized about a hundred meters later, completely unharmed and unbothered, or a similar scenario.

I would like a patch with rangers, engies and necros fixed.

Anything else is second-priority.

Yes, I know, my dream is impossible. But that’s what dreams or for, right?

Boomstin.3460:

Worst balance team ever. And i tought Bioware was bad

Sad but true. I’ve lost hope in this ‘team’.

DanH.5879:

wts my gold mine for 2 lovely young ladies with the profession: personal pleasures ^^
OT: this is not a strategy game !

You’re a dirty ERPer.

I like that.

Dons tophat and diamond monocle

Let the Economic Roleplay(ERP) commence. I shall first buy stock in the Orichalcicum mining industry, controlling the mines. Once I save up, I shall then buy a Charr refinery and route all my ore there for refining. I shall then buy caravans for moving it about, and move on to another industry, more mines and more refineries. I shall control the whole business through vertical integration. Frosty Carnegie will be known all throughout Tyria before I’m done!

The only reason you aren’t -All- test subjects is because you become makeshift field rations when you die on a battlefield, which is pretty useful in a sustained battle that can last for weeks, or in a hold-out situation with Branded clawing at the gate.

Engineers,

We feel your pain.

Best of luck. You know what they say about misery loving company…

-The Rangers

You won’t ever get one, Nicola. God forbid they buff us so we can compete, we’d be able to put a dent in daddy’s holy trinity, the guardian, thief and elementalist.

Daemon.4295:

rshadowkirby.3548:

aaaand the thread got closed
by a mod
because apparently we should do it in the ranger subforum WHICH WOULD MAKE SENSE IF ANYONE CAME IN THE FORUM
mod said that he will remind the devs of the ranger

thats the only good news we get (if you call that good) and it wasnt even a red that closed it. it was a mod

Hey that’s the best news we’ve gotten from anyone in ArenaNet for months, don’t knock it!

I’m knocking it. Anet doesn’t even come in here.

Responding to some guy back there trying to pretend that rangers can actually bring something to the dungeon table but quoting is borked for some reason.

You can bring group buffs from pets/spirits, regen and condi removal as well as best water field in the game. Easy fire and ice combo fields, sustained ranged damage. Pets can draw aggro as well. Our damage can still be significant, even though it is not the warrior’s. For example, the method my guildmates use to run Arah and beat lupicus is by having usually 2 or 3 rangers maintain damage the whole fight, doing the entire first stage alone. When fighting the final boss of path 3 the rangers kite the npc’s while everyone else focuses on capping. My guild leader never wants to run arah without rangers.[/quote]

1. Spirits die whenever someone farts. Their support is weak. Their ability windups are long and too situational. Their little ‘support’ is only a percentage of the time, whereas banners from warriors are unkillable, can be dropped wherever you want them, provide constant support and can be picked up to provide other buffs like swiftness. Spirits cannot do any of that. The water field I’ll give you as it is exceptionally good. Ranged damage and combo fields, no. Not at all. Rangers have very sub-par ranged damage due to bad weapon design, especially on the longbow department. The only thing that doesn’t need either more cowbell or a re-working entirely would be the shortbow.

2. Don’t talk about pets as though they’re useful. They’re not. They’re situational, stupid, clunky, too frail to survive even the weakest AoE and too badly programmed to avoid it. Their obscenely long wind-ups for their abilities won’t even start until five or six seconds after you’ve repeatedly clicked or pressed F2, and even then these abilities are fairly useless. 99% of a dungeon or WvWvW they are dead and not contributing, and due to horrible class design they take a significant portion of your DPS with them.

3. Your guild leader is an idiot that doesn’t know how to play. Three rangers is a horrible choice for DPS and utility.

Durzlla.6295:

Mardermann.7468:

Everytime I read one of those “Rangers are great – learn to play” replys I am fairly sure that person never has played anything else…
My main is/was a Ranger – I play it well…. yes I can do good (for a Ranger) but then I made a Warrior (and also a Guardian and an Elementalist) to level 80….. oh man… what a difference…
So please – dont say “Rangers are super….” they simply are not – not if you try another class…
So many things are borked with the Ranger its not even funny any more…

I play a ranger (main pending but that’s more for RP reasons you care nothing about), ele, engi, mes, and another ranger because i wanted to have more rangers…

Gotta say though, ranger certainly isn’t -weak- or -bad- so idk where half these people kittening about ranger are getting this from, i’m just assuming they don’t understand how to manage their pet therefore they’re doing bad and therefore they think rangers sux.

It’s like that amazing period back in Beta through like freaking November where all the people though eles completely sucked and were teh worst prof in the game, now look, no major buffs (other than downed state) and eles are considered to be OP. Ranger is CLEARLY in the same situation, there’s a high skill floor unlike every other pet prof i’ve ever played (minus SWG, you had as much pet management in that as you did in GW2).

I disagree with you all the way. I’m an RPer here and I’ve done the math. Our class is mediocre and weak across the board, and worse yet we’re plagued by people who claim to be skillgods and down-talk everyone who has a different opinion as “bad”.

If you want to fantasize about our profession being good with longbow, axe, sword, and our pets working, and our abilities making sense, and our spirits not dying whenever someone farts, go ahead and do it. Just don’t incorporate it in your posts.

Durzlla.6295:

Our pets aren’t strong? news to me…

Have you been on LSD, living under a rock, this rock being on an asteroid, this asteroid being deep within a black hole where not even light or sound can escape, this black hole being in another universe, this universe being in the matrix?

Izuna.5307:

Malediktus.9250:

So is everyone making a new thread with boring text and screenshots for their legendary now? You arent even first to have 4 legendaries.

What’s your deal im posting on final completeing a long term goal. I don’t care if im not the first so what?

We don’t care. You’re lucky, 95% of GW2 players are not. You have a shiny, we don’t. That’s not worth a post.

^ Agreed. Anet is just trying to make it look like they’re working when in reality they’re just crapping out content that we don’t need, that doesn’t change a thing and that isn’t interesting.

How about those buffs to make ranger viable as you promised, huh? How about making it possible for the not-so lucky to get Legendaries, huh? Where’s that content? Oh, oh, I think I understand. Busy making flowers for the gem store. I understand, yeah, that would take priority over those things. In the mean time, just throw some trash content at us and hope it keeps us interested.

Miragee.3604:

Olba.5376:

I think not.

For one, “Guild Wars” in the name refers to actual wars in the history, not the in-game guilds. And even if it was, it’s a semantics argument, they could just swap the name of guilds to “factions” or something and then your argument wouldn’t hold water.

They actually should remove the name guild wars from the game as it is a game that doesn’t even nearly fit as a guild wars game.

Yes it does. They should remove Rangers, Necros and Engis, though. The unloved professions are being indirectly told patch after patch that they don’t belong in Tyria.

We began talking about Teyo and ended bickering over colleges.

You’re all imbeciles. If I had funding from the Arcane Council and enough turrets to keep the Inquest away I would just build a college of my own to surpass and engulf the current status quo in magitechnical progress.

It’s a shame that the Council is too stupid and arrogant to hear me out.

nerva.7940:

thats funny, to me the ranger is the best duelist in the game while i find him utterly useless in larger wvw engagements.

Give me videos and explain your video in-depth or you’re lying.

‘Hopes and dreams’?

Our hopes have drowned in developer incompetence and our dreams have been crushed beneath the buffs of other professions.

Also, please organize your thoughts better.

Lorelei.3918:

Answer: Quit playing. When Anet see’s Ranger numbers drop off dramatically they will know something is up. Now whether they CARE or not is a entirely different matter.

Nope. They’ll keep moving on, business as usual. Farkk Arenanet. Yes, moderator, you can infract me now.