Guild Wars 2

The patcher hangs after patching just like before. I don’t get any error messages.

What’s the cooldown on the 6 rune bonus for the stealth?

I tried repairing the client, redownloading .dat file, made sure antivirus is not blocking GW2 (I’m not using Windows Defender or firewall so those are not causing problems either), moved GW2 out from the Program Files, ran as admin, turned antivirus off, unchecked LAN/proxy settings but so far nothing has worked. The launcher pops out, patches and then just stays there with play button grayed out. I gots Windows 7 if that makes any difference.

I can login and play just fine if I bypass the patcher with the -email x -password x -nopatchui but I don’t count this as a permanent fix as I can’t use TP.

So racist.

I’m running GS + S/D 2/0/6/6/0 in small scale and I really like it, good survivability and you get to do some big numbers every now and then as well. I’m afraid melee rangers will be even rarer after today’s patch tho. My latest video is from last week https://www.youtube.com/user/Froudactyl

This sounds like a good idea! I hope the team joins as many different kind of guilds as possible, small havoc teams, GvG guilds, ye ol’ humongous community guilds and so on. It’s like a jungle out there!

GOSU.9574:

warriorjrd.8695:

it could have 16s CD, grant fury and vigor as well as cleanse 2 conditions, potentially.

Now that is really overpowered. Should it also make you breakfast?

Few slices of toast and a cup of coffee thank you!

Wait for the feature patch before you craft anything, pick a build that works for you and just craft away. I think ascended gear set does make a huge difference in wubwub, especially the weapons boosts your attack quite a lot.

It’s not like there are that many active forum membears to discuss these important matters at the moment anyways as most seem to be taking a brief hibernation while waiting for the feature patch.

But I wasn’t even bearly finished :<

Zaxares.5419:

I’ve heard tales of Thieves being tracked while they were in stealth too, because they had miniatures out and the miniatures dutifully followed their masters everywhere they went. (The miniatures were NOT stealthed.)

Bumped into one of those yesterday, the dudebro died pretty quickly :>

I read the title as bearmastery. Oh my, somebody please help me! I’m losing it!

Otaking.4675:

Fluffball.8307:

FrouFrou.4958:

I can’t bear these kind of topics.

Sorry, that’s 1 ranger-forum demerit.

I don’t think you’re koalafied to hand out demerits.

Ouch, hawkward. This arguing is becoming unbearable!

I can’t bear these kind of topics.

It’s the magical French Canadians causing trouble, network errors and mayhem!

Pickles on top of pizza, what kind of blasphemy is this? Off with his head!

Ohoo, liked zeh music you used in that video. Some little things to keep in mind tho when you go out adventuring next time! You could try “shotgunning” shortbow’s #2 Poison Volley more often, meaning you shoot it when you are right next to your target so all 5 arrows actually lands and causes more damage rather than shooting the air. It only tickles them if you shoot from far away. You could also try and take more advantage over your Flame Trap, kite around and shoot through it for the combo finisher, also leaping through it for fire aura.

The lag has gotten better over the year if you compare todays fights to what it was a year ago. I used to avoid EB since it was nothing but a lag wave after another. The occasional map breaking SM lag is still there tho but at least EB is playable during primetime these days. Well, mostly.

Junkpile.7439:

Atherakhia.4086:

How in the world are you expecting Rangers to be the new meta? Someone just released a video of an organized 50man, coordinated ranger zerg losing to 20 man pug. I don’t think the buffs are going to compensate them that much

Have you ever seen ranger who actually know what their skills do?

What kind of nonsense are you spitting out! Only thing a true ranger needs to know is how to equip a longbow and use #4 when ever it comes out of cooldown.

You magnificent thing you! It’s always very satisfying to see a power ranger do all these amazing things, owning and pwning :> I’m happy to hear that at least one person got inspired by my bouncing and got converted into a melee ranger. Your playstyle is a lot more aggressive than mine for sure as I tend to be very careful and overly defensive at times, but then again I don’t really solo roam nor do duels these days anymore.

I’m actually semi excited for this. I don’t play for PPT and I couldn’t really care less about winning, but with the weekly achievements there should be a steady stream of people rolling around in the ruins. I’m tired of empty maps, I want to fight people!

Zanzer.6450:

So I ask… what could ANet possibly do to make commanders want to include Rangers in their groups? What could they do for the class to earn them at least 1 spot on a 20v20 GvG?

By restricting the most common build so that the players who happens to be rank or over 500 are able to use bow and bear combo (Ideally at that point no one even wants to run that one anymore as they are smart enough to know how useless it is).

For a moment I was very confused! Fissure of Woe having a massive blob, what kind of black magic is this?

John Cleese.

I think it’s amazing you are actually asking for help and trying to understand/learn rather than making another whiny OMG OP NERF PLIZ GIF ME MY POIS NOW!!-topic like bazillion other PvE people have done in the past. I salute you and I hope you get your title soon.

Some rangers are excellent at irritating other people by knocking things away from melee. It seems like we got this stealth ninja elite skill added, not sure if it’s a nerf or a buff.

You should go with a ranger because mesmers don’t have bears as their sidekicks.

This will be interesting for small scale, flipping that north camp with bazillion ballis will be a tad bit easier. I’m not going to be too happy if this is all the feature patch has to offer for wubwub tho.

Nuzt.7894:

Heres my take on colored tags, its almost pointless. Why ? Pugs will follow a tag regardless of color, this is why so many drivers don’t tag up. Whats to stop a pug from following a green, yellow, red, orange, purple, whatever color tag because its not blue ? You ask nicely now if they could let you do your guild run and they still follow so all of a sudden color is suppose to be magical and stop this ? Sure it will help with coordination but those Commanders that avoided tagging up so they could do guild runs will still avoid tagging up so they don’t get the ranger uplevel army following them.

Not good enough, private guild/group tags and public tags are what is needed.

How dare you! The ranger uplevels are the core of every blob! BEARBOWS REJOICE AND UNITE UNDER THE DOUBLE RAINBOW!

Eurantien.4632:

Gets lonely exploring out there alone. Gotta have some company.

This was actually the reason why I picked ranger! I started as a solo player so figured that a silly looking pixel companion could be my trusty sidekick till I find some people to play with.

I still play my ranger not only because I invested so much time and money on it, but I also like how tricksy rangers are. You have to know what you are doing to be able to survive, there is no easy way out.

I think at the time when Anet started to build the map guilds were a lot smaller. There was time when a group of 15 players would be a blob and 20+ a zerg. Time passed, mother blobs starter to appear alongside with the buffed ACs & traits, guild groups grew bigger because Anet didn’t bring anything for the smaller groups. All the updates have been feeding and rewarding blobs while making the life of roamers/havoc groups more miserable, thus guilds had to recruit even more people to be able to compete. When EotM finally came out it was too small for the guilds that had grown so big.

On the other hand the terrain, the chokepoints, cliffs and bumpy hills is amazing small scale heaven, a perfect map where one could escape dead/blowout matchups but sadly as it is, Anet didn’t address the very same problem that is haunting wubwub today. PvD & blobbing is more rewarding than breaking the group into smaller groups so there is nothing else but 3 zoneblobs to be found in this map. Not to mention the turrets and all the silly NPCs on top of that. I have to admit I’m quite fond of the sentry turrets tho. Makes it so much easier to find people (The poor leftovers trying to reach the blobbery!).

You learn more from the losses anyways!

As you might have noticed we don’t have much condition removal in the first place, so what you have is pretty much the best you can get. The other route is to invest in Nature’s Magic and traiting for SotF but that’s about it.

Chokolata.1870:

Well what I would do:

- critical damage to marksmanship and condition duration to skirmishing
-combine agility training with pet prowess into a single trait and move it to the master level
-move quick draw to adept level
-carnivorous appetite affects ranger as well. ICD of 1 second
-new minor trait “random cool name”- convert 1 condition into a boon on weapon swap (ICD 9 seconds)
-opening strike refreshes on weapon swap as well. Pet opening strike refreshes on Pet swap as well.

There, i fixed it :p

Voting Chokolata to become the next developer!

Karma training in EotM is not actually a bad idea, it’s a rather fast way to get wxp and you get to gather some gold & badges for your gears too. Roaming isn’t too bad there either if you want to explore and try if you can find not so hardcore people to 1vs1 or 1vsX with. The downside is, once the blob sees you, they will chase you no matter what :< Generally the roamers in BLs are a lot more skilled and more dedicated to small scale than the people in EotM.

As nice as all the wxp traits looks like, the vitality stacks that comes with Defense Against Guards (50 vitality per stack, 5 max, altogether gives 2-3k more HP) should be your first trait line to invest any points in and once you have maxed that, go for the Guard Killer (20 power and condition per stack, 5 max). After that, just go with whatever you think you will need.

Since you are a PvE player, I’d assume you have quite high AP count so you must have gotten a few achievement chests with badges of honor already. You can buy exotic gears (Soldier, knight, carrion, cleric, bersker & rabid) from Wubwub armor NPC with the badges and some gold. Also ascended trinkets and infusions are a tad cheaper when you buy it with badges + laurels. The wubwub infusions comes with handy things like +5 toughness & -1% damage taken from the guards as well.

AdziH.2360:

think what I’ve garnered is i need to learn how to melee with my Ranger better :|

It just happens to be so that the melee weapons have amazing escapes while ranged weapons don’t. You could try running with LB and sword + dagger too while roaming, you just need to get used to the bouncing and learn to control it to your advantage along with the terrain to lose line of sight. This way you can still keep your beloved LB but still get away when needed. Just keep your mind open, try new weapons and builds!

As for your server, Gunnars is a pretty solid server wubwub-wise. Nice pug groups, lots of highly skilled roamers. Till Friday you are against Aurora Glade (Lots of condi ganking groups, watch out and get your running shoes ready) and FSP (These guys tend to run with big numbers).

One of the most important things you need to get is the buff foods. Get either the -36% Bowl of Poultry and Leek Soup or -40% Bowl of Lemongrass Poultry Soup one. The -40% is a bit more expensive one, so running with the -36% is good enough really unless you are swimming in cash. This will help you to keep on going, and trust me, you will notice the difference when your food runs out in the middle of the fight…

Log on your mesmer, portal people into your basement and don’t let them out until they have joined your guild.

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

You know, I can understand that teh so-called WvW devs are busy, and as such may not have time to reply to the hundreds of crying posts made by WvW players who are down to their last grain of sand in their bucket of Hope.

BUT wasnt a WvW Liaison assigned to the WvW forums as a go-between players and devs. I dont mean you Mark, your title is Community Special Operations, this person was designated WvW Liaison.

What happened to this person? I believe it was Chris, but he was replaced by Josh, and we’ve never heard from him since; apart from the Ready Up streams.

You forgot one person, Jessica Boettiger, WvW/PvP/Skills Principal QA. She posted few times during Season 2 but then soon after disappeared.

“Guild Arrow Cart skill-damage tooltips now properly reflect their superior-level damage.”
Aw man, this is all we needed. WvW is finally perfect now, wouldn’t change a thing anymore.

Hule.8794:

grifflyman.8102:

because the lack of content WvW has received lately.

Whats that? Is content something to eat? Or some skritt shinies?
I dont think Anet knows what “WvW content” means

It’s the worst swear word there is, whoever says it gets banished off of the cliff.

hhasgdfasghdfasd brainfart. NVM

Behold! The Great Lord Flameram!

Oh my. Aw yiss. My awesomesaw got some lovin’ <3

Dwolf.4358:

Proposal Overview
I would like to propose or offer a suggestion to the Dev’s about maybe incorporating a one to two hour window of neutrality once a week on the WvW maps to allow players who do not participate in WvW to map, this would also allow WvW’ers to map as well in the same fashion so they can focus more on WvW.

Goal of Proposal
The goal is pretty much to allow the freedom of any and all players to accomplish something in game without having to resort to having assistance to keep from being ganged up on or have to deal with low populations in a place where they have no interest in of being in, but seek to accomplish an achievement that requires them to venture into.

Proposal Functionality
Basically, incorporating this one to two hour window could occur around the time of reset on Fridays, or around a time that would be fitting so as to help out our oceanic players as well so as not to have a very long window or two separate windows. This would give people a chance to step in, map any of the borderlands or EB, and leave without interfering with WvW groups who have different plans besides mapping. Further more, if done at a time where it was one to two hours, it would give those players who do heavy PvP and WvW, their groups, a chance to take a break if need be or regroup and plan.

Associated Risks
At the moment I cannot see a risk in allowing this to occur as it does not interfere, nor interrupt flow of game play to anyone.

I would like to propose or offer a suggestion to the Dev’s about maybe incorporating a one to two hour window of mass PvP once a week on the PvE maps to allow players who do not participate in PvE to cause mass destruction, this would also allow WvW’ers to get PvE loots as well in the same fashion so they can focus more on WvW.

Belzebu.3912:

2 – Swap the Healing power from Beastmastery with the boom duration from Nature Magic.
Reason: This is the one that can be OP, or just “buggy” with that change you would get the vit bonus of NM and also better healing to maintain that extra HP, also builds focused in sustain damage requires a better survivability, and with this change NM alone would help this a lot, in the other hand the BM line would be too under powered.

Boom duration sounds vicious. I like it.

Behold! Quality of life fixes, the icon/tooltip fixes are coming!

Substance E.4852:

Yes, yes it is.

Ranger grew up on the same street that Warrior and Thief did and he saw how cool those guys where and tried his kitten edest to be just like them. Only he was severely crippled and had to go everywhere with his helper dog and was just never as good because of it.

And so Ratman and Bobin the Bear was born. “Come, boy wonder! We shall rid the world of crime!” But Bobin had already aggroed all the mobs and wiped the rest of the team and as a result causing “no rangers pls” signs appearing everywhere. Tis the sad end of the story about the kid no one wanted to play with, always the last one to be picked for the team.

I heard there was a.. Traffic ram.

Aris.9264:

ITheNormalPerson.9275:

Aris.9264:

arkealia.2713:

200g is largely enough to buy one berserker armor set + trinkets.
I would also recommend a soldier armor set (power/toughness/vitality) for wvw, it helps with survivability and it’s cheap (farm badges of honors by following the zerg in EotM and buy the set at the armor vendor on any wvw map).

I got a few thousand honour badges already is that enough? Sorry I can’t get on the game right now and check how much it’ll cost :\ I also noticed the defence tends to be weaker on armour you buy with badges of honour? It was when I last looked in on it, anyway, but then again I have no idea what’s going on in game apparently lol

as long as you go to the vendor that sells exotic (orange) armor, it will be just the same. and a few thousand will cover the costs for sure (i think the chest piece is about 2g & 200 badges?)

also knights is a good choice if you don’t want to spend like 40g on zerker but still want to be semi glassy, since it’ll only cost you <10g

Well I bought a berserker chest (which was 1g) , leggings and boots and while hideous, they seemed to have changed some of my attributes around. By the way, what am I meant to be going for attribute-wise? No idea what I’m aiming for here (thanks for the help, by the way!)

You shouldn’t really worry about how the armors looks when picking stats as you can easily just use the wardrope system to get the look you like after you are done with your gear set. I mean, sometimes I stop to appreciate some of the most ugliest, eyecancerlicious outfits in WubWub but in the end it’s not going to kill me or save him either.

Prysin.8542:

snow.8097:

yes i saw yesterdays stream, i was “safidelray” if u remember

I never played in NA or watched streams there, but when i hear from a friend, a great PvP Guard, that the NA Player are weaker and i saw yesterday u killed someone with SB crits around 440…i could believe it a bit.
But to be fair, in EU the typical WvW´er are just strong in zerg, outside they are weak or Play the current EU OP-meta.

NA is less about individual skill and more about collective effort. A group of random NA players are actually more likely to cooperate on what we in EU would recognize as a “high level of group play” then a group of random EU’s would. This is why when you reach T1 NA, you see less strong guilds during each prime, but a more overall solid coverage. SO while EU stacks 10-20 superior guilds in a window of 5-6 hours, NA puts 30 mediocre guilds spanning 12-18 hours. This allows for amazingly active play, almost any time of the day. I will note that NA T1 roaming is horrible, you will ever only meet groups of 3 consisting of 2x p/d perplex thief + 1 nike warrior or 2x nike warrior + p/d perplex thief. There is no variation to this setup. If you can kill em, they run, if you ain’t that good they will 3v1 you, without even considering to make it a fair fight.

NA in general is a lot more open to new players, while in EU you usually have to earn your place rather then being given one.

I think this was one of the reasons why I ended up coming back to EU after a month or two. Over at NA people just didn’t seem to care about fun or fair fights. Red is dead and they would do pretty much anything to win, even make their motherblob port back just for your tiny little group. Sadly over here at EU people are just stacking condi classes, but I can live with that since there’s a bigger chance to bump into people who are up for fair fights.