Guild Wars 2

aspirine.6852:

FrouFrou.4958:

I want them to be friendly, like in Disney movies. I want them to dance and sing with me! And then kill everyone.

You would kill thumper?

No, Thumper would go on a killing spree, kinda like the bunny in Monty Python.

I want them to be friendly, like in Disney movies. I want them to dance and sing with me! And then kill everyone.

Maybe something like this http://imgur.com/gallery/DZanF

One of the comments in there:
“Tried to make a Trebuchet that fired a bomb. Made a bomb which fired a Trebuchet 11/10”

I asked about why he described guild teams and the new PvP game type and why he didn’t say the words ‘GvG’? He replied with multiple points. He said the GvG community is actually two groups that do not understand each other very well. One is the GW1 GvG and the other is the modern WvW style GvG. The modern WvW style GvG is something that could be a gametype of its own (sounded like he thinks it should but…). However, ANet doesn’t currently have enough resources for the three gametypes it currently has. The PvE, PvP, and WvW teams just don’t have as much resources as they really want to make them into the ideal version that they are dreaming of (in the time they want it in). They do not want to pull people off the 3 core features to create a 4th which would cause neglect for all 4 core features. As to whether or not the new PvP game type is going to be like the classic 8v8 GvG… they are not decided. They have play tested everything from 5v5 to 10v10. Nothing is set in stone yet for how the standardized setup will be, and likely will not be decided until enough beta testers comment on it. (HoT beta testing coming, no word on invites)

From http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2tsiox/pax_afterparty_lessons_learned/

I think Harvey did a rollback, I feel like I have lost some data.

There tends to be one BL (blue BL) that is usually lagging/causing dc’s for me while other maps are just fine.

I believe it’s a lettuce or some kind of a turnip.

Azure Prower.8701:

MARKONINI.4153:

If you are very lucky and your queue pops while you are downed you can just click the "Travel’ button and simply “vanish” without giving your enemies any loots ^.^

If you’re talking about WvW queues. That also automatically defeats you.

That’s not true, you get to travel through time and space without a scratch. You’ll arrive to your destination in one piece instead of being a bloody pancake on the ground.

I think they should add Legendary Defenders in the JP. They are the real PvPers. No mercy!

I’m willing to trade my mom for that new wubwub map.

Also how big the sPvP GvG thing will be? If it’s going to be 5vs5 that’s not exactly answering to our needs!

coglin.1867:

FrouFrou.4958:

coglin.1867:

Rangers rely on a keen eye, a steady hand, and the power of nature itself. Unparalleled archers, rangers are capable of bringing down foes from a distance with their bows. With traps, nature spirits, and a stable of loyal pets at their command, rangers can adapt to any situation

As defined by Anet.

The definition Anet used there only became true after September’s patch, prepatch you would only meet a silly walking lootbag bearbow ranger here and there (The only reason anyone would use a bow was pure obliviousness, not knowing how bad bows were at the time). Since we are relying on the definitions, the last sentence there sums up this topic pretty nicely: adapt to any situation. You guys aren’t adapting, thus you tank the floor.

Who are the “you guys” who are not adapting? I am unclear what you are going on about, or what you seem to think my opinion in the matter is. I was simply pointing a simple fact in relation to a few others debating on what the ranger is supposed to be.

When you claim the definition came into existence is irrelevant.

iunno, “those guys” as in the people who are causing a tsunami wave of qq in the forums? Topic after topic and instead of switching few skills they throw their hands in the air, refusing to change their build to counter something that is killing them.

It’s not irrelevant when the definition came true, rangers have been crap at this ranging thing for 2 years. For 2 years you would think that all the bow wielding rangers are walking lootbags, but now that rangers got the buff which actually reflects the definition you kindly posted, people get mad because they are not used to getting killed by that walking lootbag. It’s upsetting. The bullied, always last to get picked in the team, never invited to birthday parties-person is finally being able to hold their ground, giving a bit harder time for the bullies.

coglin.1867:

Rangers rely on a keen eye, a steady hand, and the power of nature itself. Unparalleled archers, rangers are capable of bringing down foes from a distance with their bows. With traps, nature spirits, and a stable of loyal pets at their command, rangers can adapt to any situation

As defined by Anet.

The definition Anet used there only became true after September’s patch, prepatch you would only meet a silly walking lootbag bearbow ranger here and there (The only reason anyone would use a bow was pure obliviousness, not knowing how bad bows were at the time). Since we are relying on the definitions, the last sentence there sums up this topic pretty nicely: adapt to any situation. You guys aren’t adapting, thus you tank the floor.

xihorus.2804:

In WvW I hate it when….

….I am on my warrior who only has melee weapons and a ranged class attacks me. All ranged weapons should be disabled when a ranged class initiates a fight with me.

….I am roaming on my thief and am attacked by three people at once. Two of them should be automatically disconnected at the start of the fight to make it more even.

….I am on my support guardian and the enemy stops focusing me and switches to my teammates instead because of my high defenses. The game should force enemies to be only able to attack me.

….I am on my elementalist and enemies don’t stand in my meteor shower after I cast. The game should force enemies to stand in the red circle and soak up the damage, like in PvE.

….I am on the WvW forums listening to people complain about stealth mechanics, because they haven’t spent enough time in WvW to learn how to deal with them.

I think xihorus should be in charge of balance patches.

This is the day we all have been waiting for! They’ll boost arrowcart damage to make up for the upcoming might nerf! Horray!

When you are dead on the ground and there is a lootbag next to your body.

Piken is not dead, most of the guilds are taking a break from the game due holidays and won’t be back until the year has changed. You could always join the Piken community forums and be up to date on what’s going on instead of making silly topics like this. Outside of reset having a queue only on EB and occasional homemap queue has been the state of the server for quite a long time now anyways so put that tin foil hat down, it doesn’t suit you.

Since the mobs are killing you that easily it made me wonder, are you playing on Edge of the Mist or in the actual WvWvW maps? I don’t think the mobs in regular maps can kill you as easily as in EotM. There’s quite a difference in both modes as in EotM you are there mainly to cap things and level your low level toon (Think most of the people there are avoiding fights as much as they can) while in regular maps you are there to fight and defend so people prefer if you have a maxed out toon.

Blargh, in hopes of getting an aswer I shall post my question from another topic here as well:

Just wondering about the points per kill since we already kind of have that within the Bloodlust Buff in the form of points per stomp. Will the buff get changed to something else or will you score double the points if you stomp someone?

Just wondering about the points per kill since we already kind of have that within the Bloodlust Buff in the form of points per stomp. Will the buff get changed to something else or will you score double the points if you stomp someone?

I think jetpacks would be the right answer to this particular problem.

eugenstash.8610:

But he be like “click click click” and owned dem chineze nub cakes den he was like “oh yeah, well you row wit dat chineze surver little kid”. And I be like “yo fastcar, your epik leetz build is epic and i never seen it b4”. And he be like well I nevar seen da female body parts before so ya." And I be like "WUT?!!!!!)

You are my spirit animal!

solrik.6028:

FrouFrou.4958:

Pathetic how people aren’t allowed to express their opinion on a public forum and instead other people point out the less important things…

It’s a forum, I usually post things about a game and no one has been offended because it’s a game.

It’s their personal issue if they get mad and start to slam the keyboard.

You are allowed to express your opinion but don’t use your opinion to tell people what they should do or how they should behave (because it’s no longer an opinion then). At least do it right if you quote me and change it to mean something else.

Coughhypocritcough. Pardon me as I cannot hear you over the sound of mad keyboard smashing.

Pathetic how people aren’t allowed to express their opinion on a public forum and instead other people point out the less important things…

It’s a forum, I usually post things about a game and no one has been offended because it’s a game.

It’s their personal issue if they get mad and start to slam the keyboard.

They must have gotten upset over you killing them since they sent you those whispers so why not just stick with that? That’s a great victory alone already. I think it’s better to take the high road rather than stooping down to their level and doing emote spam/teabagging. Besides it’s a humiliating punishment enough to get killed by a solo ranger anyways :>

We ended up in a bit of a blobby match up last week and my usual melee build wasn’t that effective, so I took out my bow with the rage sigil and went for some machine gun pew pew. I’m running with quite a lot of toughness as I’m usually the one getting heavily focused but I’m still pretty pleased with the damage I dish out! Nothing special but I thought I’d share it anyways :> http://tinyurl.com/FrouBowBuild

http://youtu.be/k-Kd9CGKyys

Silvercyclone.1462:

FrouFrou.4958:

Silvercyclone.1462:

Give rangers WHITE polar bears too.

Woah, racist!

Not trying to be racist its just they don’t even look like polar bears.

WOAH! Being racist wasn’t enough, now on top of that you are being rude and dissing their looks! Is anything ever enough for you?! Shame on you.

Flitzie.6082:

Fluffball.8307:

Flitzie.6082:

Difficult.
Getting away with a ranger is – Difficult. And a major problem.
The Short answer is: You dont.

Well this is completely wrong on all points. Mobility is zero problem for rangers and escaping even thieves is fairly simple. In OPs case it’s as simple as hunter shot, LR, sword2 sword2 and he’s more than out of combat.

http://youtu.be/7AkX6q_kV-s?t=3m40s

Ha, I’ve seen that video before.
I still have to disagree. That is not escpaing or getting away. Thats extreme dodging that might eventually make the enemy turn around and give up. I never said the Ranger is bad at dodging.
An escape for me is a distanse covered in a time frame that your enemy cannot keep up with.

Aw man. For some reason I get away more often than I die. Am I doing this all wrong?

I kind of stopped watching when you started to corpsejump. Stay classy.

Silvercyclone.1462:

Give rangers WHITE polar bears too.

Woah, racist!

Michael Henninger.7451:

Michael Henninger.7451:

I can’t speak to tools. I can tell you that using the ‘botter’ option is indeed sufficient.

As for the exploits are ANet address, this isn’t a Customer Support address. Exploits is more of a ‘I found a way to cheat here’s how to do it’ thing and Quality Assurance reviews those.

GMs don’t belong to a server so wondering if you’re server has a GM is futile. We’re everywhere >=).

To further clarify – exploits@arena.net is not used for reviewing reports of cheaters. This is for notifying us of found exploits so that QA can work on reporting fixes.

Well this is a bit awkward as we have always been told by the mods and whatnot to report hackers that way as there was no hacking report option in the in game tool. I guess this explains why none of the reported people got banned then if it’s not their job to do that in the first place. Thank you for clarifying this! I have one question tho, if one happens to have video footage of someone doing some sort of naughty business, should we send it in via normal ticket or just rely on the “botting” report to do the thing instead?

So it’s absolutely pointless and waste of time to record any video footage of these people hacking and reporting them via the exploits@arenanet.com then?

Cuchullain.3104:

Okay, I get it now. Retaliation really isn’t a problem for rangers, just me. I have been making the mistake of shooting at people in WvW.

I realize that if you use an aoe ability against multiple targets like it is designed for, you deserve everything you get. There is simply no time at which using aoe against a zerg is appropriate, so creating a mechanism that punishes you for doing so is perfectly reasonable. Large zergs are too weak and need more protection.

As many others already pointed it out, you should shoot at the backline instead of the frontline because that’s where the motherblob’s weakspot is. If you look at GvG videos and such (Look! It’s a TA vs. vE GvG video with commentary! Both are top EU GvG guilds. You might learn a thing or two from them! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_OALK_WkTc), you’d see that while the melee balls are clashing, the ranged/focus group is picking off the staff ellies and squishies on the backline. Without the backline’s support the retaliation ball won’t survive very long. Then again, the enemy ball will prolly win because you were foolish enough to kill yourself on retaliation and you rallied half of their zerg. Good job!

I have been fooling around with a sigil of rage, on top of the random machine gun pew pew procs you get to do quickness stomps and super fast resses. Give it a try!

Squirrels are nature’s speed bumps.

atheria.2837:

FrouFrou.4958:

If you are not in a guild, you could join the community TS while you are following a commander. It’s a lot easier to listen than reading chat and trying to figure out what’s going to happen next.

Please remember that there are hearing impaired and deaf persons who read these forums and play WvW.

Reading map chat is a necessity.

How dare you! I’m sure there are blind people too, now you hurt their feelings! How can you even sleep at night, you monster?

Cuchullain.3104:

“Maybe you should play your elementalist then if you are not willing to learn to play your ranger properly?”

Maybe you should troll somewhere else.

No can do because I’m not trolling. If you seriously think doing a barrage on top of a buffed up zerg is a good idea it just means you are a prime candidate for natural deselection. Judging by the posts you made.. Viva la evolution!

Jim Hunter.6821:

Devildoc.6721:

Not hard, just they’re being disruptive to play.

Along with a kitten ton of people playing other professions. Honestly I don’t know why I even responded to this troll thread. You are clearly biased against rangers and there is nothing worth discussing here.

You could always just knock him back with your LB #4, that should show him!

Maybe you should play your elementalist then if you are not willing to learn to play your ranger properly?

And everybody was drunken kungkittenfighting
Those bottles were fast as lightning
In fact, it was a little bit frightening
But they fought with expert timing

If you are not in a guild, you could join the community TS while you are following a commander. It’s a lot easier to listen than reading chat and trying to figure out what’s going to happen next.

I’m with Doc in this one as this is extremely irritating. I swear if this game had a “insta beeyotch-slap the ninny who just pulled/knocked my target away”-grandmaster trait I’d be putting all my points into that traitline.

Bubbles, just to cause confusion ’n stoof.

I think the difference between the old CDIs and the new ones is that the new ones are strictly moderated. Chris is amazingly active while our old CDIs were humongous and there was no one guiding us through it, some odd red posts here and there (Was it Devon? I don’t even remember who was in charge of the wubwub CDIs!) so the topics didn’t turn out too great. Same happened with the Ranger CDI but at least we got lots of our ideas through and implemented even tho the person who was in charge of that topic didn’t really help us at all. Chris seems to be determined to stick around and hopefully he will be there for us, but he mentioned he won’t be there if we flood the topic with negativity and the usual depressing nothing-will-come-out-of-this-why-even-bother-posts.

There isn’t that many longbow rangers out there in wubwub anymore if you compare the numbers to the tsunami wave that was out and about after the patch hit. Of course everyone wanted to try it out but now most of the people have gone back to their other classes/builds when they realized that as fast as a glassy LB ranger can take you down all you have to do is to sneeze at the ranger’s general direction and they’ll drop dead.

Think about the walls! They have feelings too!

Oh, I didn’t even notice it got changed until I was trying to escape from the zerg through the cap and didn’t get too far! They may be taking baby steps when it comes to fixing stuff but it’s better than nothing.

Who needs tear gas when you have bear gas, it hits a lot harder and is eco-friendly.

This means I will be running around the maps like a headless chicken, blindly guessing where the action might be. It’s going to be tough to find any small scale fights without the white swords as I usually avoid the orange ones and try to track down the camp flippers and a-likes instead.

It’s sort of like doing parkour, minus the bouncing off the cliffs and splatting part.