Don’t play a ranger in Wvw.
1. You’re the first target in our group.
2. You have little to none escape skills.
3. You can either play a bunker build and kill NO ONE, or Play a zerker build and die in 1 shot.
4. Everyone else knows rangers suck and will come after you immediately/
5. Your pet ain’t gonna do anything except run around in circles and disobey commanders.
6. Anyone who says otherwise obvisouly don’t play wvw too often on a ranger.
Stick to playing on a low tier server against bads and build up this sort of view.
Killed plenty of “I AM THE PWN” warriors and guardians on my ranger in wvw, on a tier 1 server. I would tell you to “Bring it” but this game has lost my interest across all modes. I return to the forums for the LOLs like your post brings me.
Just gonna say what build works depends on your servers tier, IMO. I watch builds manage to win against bad players all the time. On my server I face off against better players often and some builds just don’t cut it, against archtypes others swear they have no issues with. I may not be the most skilled player (and I am assuredly not) but I can gauge the competition I face and it’s of medium to high quality.
The reason I say this is what builds will work for you are based on the YMMV (Your Miles May Vary) model.
If you like NOT having auto-cast on grenade 1 on land, you lose NOTHING by having it available and disabling it. So I fail to see any legitimate argument against it being available to those who do NOT want to press 1 repeatedly simply to hit a single target. Your arguement is no more valid than removing auto-cast from the game entirely so everyone has to spam 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1.
Please, provide a valid argument instead of “nah, I am fine spamming 1”. You are NOT effected if auto-cast is implemented…..DISABLE IT.
I think people are against it because they don’t want time wasted making more of this. Optional or not, it is a wate of time and reasources. Then when there’s bugs to fix (as if this isn’t a big enough problem already) it means more time and resources away from other problems that deserve them.
WTH? It would take zero effort. It’s already in the game, it is simply disabled.
Can we please get an intelligent, valid debate going on?
You understand making options that turn on and off take time and resources, right? Then factor in that you are asking a-net to spend that time and resources to recreate something they already know is a problem.
If you want a valid debate, address the valid points instead of pretending they don’t exist.
Valid Debate: The ability to auto-cast grenade 1 is IN THE GAME. Dive in water, target enemy, press 1.
It requires NO resources to develop. There it is, IN THE GAME.
Seriously……….waiting on a real debate, swatting flies gets tiring.
Done with this thread, waste of energy. The oblivious can’t be convinced of the obvious.
The entire game “pigeonholes” a player into playing one character. Unlike GW1, GW2 totally rips up any reason to have alts outside of appearances. Penalties in all modes of play except PvP.
d/d once you get a hang of it, the fastest weapon combo for single target kill speed. However I recommend every chance you get to farm an event with a group the best way to level. shortbow tagging, staying out of danger, etc.
Thief is more about learning how to play than any other class. It is one of the least forgiving to the initiate.
Hey, everyone. We’ve been reading all your feedback about the Flamekissed Armor Skin that was released into the Gem Store yesterday.
Although the Flamekissed Armor uses the same mesh as the Tier 3 Human Cultural Armor, it was not our intention to create an armor skin that so closely matched the existing Tier 3 Human Cultural armor set. The intention was to use the mesh as a basis for creating an armor set that stands apart and is distinct in appearance. However, after reading your feedback, we agree that the Flamekissed armor is not visually distinct enough from Human Cultural Tier 3 armor.
We will do a few things to address this issue.
We will temporarily remove Flamekissed Armor Skin from the Gem Store.
Players who have purchased Flamekissed Armor Skin will keep the skin.
We will make new art for the Flamekissed Armor Skin that achieves our goal of making a visually distinct and attractive armor set and does not closely resemble the Human Tier 3 Cultural armor.
Once this new artwork is completed, we will then update the Flamekissed Armor Skin so that all existing sets that players have purchased get the new art. We will also offer the Flamekissed Armor Skin for sale again at that time.
When we update the Flamekissed Armor Skins with the new artwork, any player that has already purchased the set and who does not like the new, updated look, can get a full refund by contacting Customer Support.
Note that there is no ETA on when this change will happen. We need to work with the Character Art Team to determine when we can have a new armor skin ready, and this could take some time.
Thank you everyone for providing your feedback. We appreciate that you took the time to let us know how you feel about the new armor set.
Just wow. I absolutely, 100% did not expect this, ever. You are making the correct decision and my faith is partially restored. (will never be 100% cause I feel the company greatly deviated from the manifesto and went 180 on gear treadmill). However, I have to give you credit on this and I am glad you have listened to the player base.
Might I highly suggest the PvP Masquerade light skin as an already available, highly desired, PvE light armor skin.
If you like NOT having auto-cast on grenade 1 on land, you lose NOTHING by having it available and disabling it. So I fail to see any legitimate argument against it being available to those who do NOT want to press 1 repeatedly simply to hit a single target. Your arguement is no more valid than removing auto-cast from the game entirely so everyone has to spam 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1.
Please, provide a valid argument instead of “nah, I am fine spamming 1”. You are NOT effected if auto-cast is implemented…..DISABLE IT.
I think people are against it because they don’t want time wasted making more of this. Optional or not, it is a wate of time and reasources. Then when there’s bugs to fix (as if this isn’t a big enough problem already) it means more time and resources away from other problems that deserve them.
WTH? It would take zero effort. It’s already in the game, it is simply disabled.
Can we please get an intelligent, valid debate going on?
Like i said on the french forum, people have been banned for getting this armore on norn characters, using the cash shop stone of transmutation, and the reason was “We want it to be exclusive to human race” and now it’s avaiable for all races. That’s what bugs me here. So Anet ban people for no reason and don’t care if people cheat since they get some $ or € in the process? Really nice.
The game a direction i actually completly hate. All stuff become bound, trade is becoming useless, they are recycling more and more things, maybe it was the goal of removing stuff they put in with living story, recycling it again and again.
More time pass more i fund myself playing to Runes of Magic, and this is awful.
You bring up an extremely valid point about the past banning of peeps that transmuted this armor set onto their Norn. Just goes to show hypocrisy follows the cash flow.
I am with you on playing other games til EQN is out, but I have played most other decent games and RoM wasn’t decent
“This armor addition was objectively wrong because it makes me feel cheated.” The reality is no one was cheated. The armor looks similar but it’s not the same. No ‘prestige’ was lost, if it ever existed, because it’s still clear which of these is the human cultural and which is the gem store armor. This is a logical argument.
I would be 100% agree with you if this was World of Warcraft. But its not.
This game is based on skins, nothing else. For a game like this, you argument is as logical as Data from star trek can be logical, failing to see the true meaning of some things, even as stupid as virtual costumes.
You seem to have confused GW2 with a horizontal progression game where unique and exclusive skins are in themselves the BiS max gear. However this game is no longer a horizontal progression game, but a standard and traditional vertical progression game just like WoW or LotRO …. and as such, this game is now about grinding for max stats, not skins. So if you want to be unique, be the guy that can ping the most pink/max stat gear.
Ahh but you are confused on what was sold and what was purchased. Horizontal progession is exactly what was sold, but it was a bait and switch. Right from the start Anet changed from their selling lines to a vertical progression Power Creep game.
I am not shocked in the least they have decided to take the appearance progression and make it Pay. They already sold out any standards they previously had, why stop there? They will continue to do what they want the way they want and YOU will just have to deal with it. They have thrown this up in the players faces time and time again. YOU WILL DEAL WITH IT.
Again there will be no official response to this complaint. They made a decision, you will DEAL with it. The only official response you will find in this thread, if any, will be promises to lock the thread.
If you like NOT having auto-cast on grenade 1 on land, you lose NOTHING by having it available and disabling it. So I fail to see any legitimate argument against it being available to those who do NOT want to press 1 repeatedly simply to hit a single target. Your arguement is no more valid than removing auto-cast from the game entirely so everyone has to spam 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1.
Please, provide a valid argument instead of “nah, I am fine spamming 1”. You are NOT effected if auto-cast is implemented…..DISABLE IT.
Avoid being trolled in this thread as I am sure there are fingers hovering over LOCKED cause they do not like what they read and any excuse to lock the thread is eagerly awaited.
I think a few ambient here and there would help a ton for us Necromancers. I find myself low on life force every time I duel and am forced to ask enemy players for some.
That’s my only complaint about it also, pretty hard to win fights with 0 life force.
Why do you think Necro was the shunned red headed stepchild in GW1’s pvp? No corpses? No minions for YOU.
May have changed later, I dunno, I left after first 2.5 years.
This. Snow leopard is the biggest slap in the face to all non-norns in this game and should have been nerfed to remove the mobility a year ago. It has a freaking 3000 range dash and stealth, which is far better than fgs. Now the fact that norns get our cultural armor too is just spitting in the face of light armored humans.
You guys….are…seriously making me consider deleting my human ele who I have had about a year now, to recoup the slot and roll a Norn Female Ele. I already liked their cultural armor, but now I can have BOTH sets and the Snow Leopard elite….only issue is grinding from 20-80 (since I ain’t paying to craft that out).
The fact that they have gone through with this decision tells me that they do not care about peoples time.
Indeed, the deed is done. There will be no hotfix to remove or change this item. No matter how much complaining goes on I seriously doubt you will get ANY official post in this thread other than threats promises to shut it down.
Unless I can be proven wrong because I doubt any medium class wanted another unflattering coat that is the same skin as Orrian I believe just glowy stuff. Whoopdie-Doo.
Actually it is the medium WvW set, an ugly one to be sure.
I also find it amusing that one of the permier PvP armors requiring high rank to access is now easily obtainable from the gem store.
And no, that is not wrong. You can’t say, “That is wrong” and leave it at that. Where’s your proof? As far as I know, not a SINGLE piece of armor has been added to the game without the use of the gemstore. Please come back with evidence.
This argument belongs in a different thread, but just off the top of my head Settlers armor was added to the game, after release; Apothecary, Givers, Celestial, etc. If you meant cosmetic, lots of bits and pieces (skins) have been added. Quivers have been added.
I will be a bit amazed if there are enough people still playing next year to have any functional GvG. Games coming out and the rats are fleeing the sinking ship.
I am not always on top of the direction of every mode of the game, but was it ever given as a fact any area of the new map was intended for GvG? Just curious.
If they do it for the human cultural armour then it should be for all cultural armours. Either open them up for everyone or not at all….
I am sorta with you on this. What they should do is remove the T3 armor vendors and just stick the SKINS into the store for 500 gems. No transmute stones needed.
No special particle effects, they can do that later for the 800 gems versions.
Just another sad day playing a sad game with sad support that puts out sad updates.
The truely sad part was the Heavy and Medium versions of this gem store reskinning.
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I bet the metrics are off the scale on which set gets purchased the most. The heavy: a few. The Medium: No one. The Light: Meter pegged and buried full scale deflection.
Actually if they added Token type rewards to Fractals to be spent on Ascended Armor and Infusions, I would actually DO Fractals.
The main reason you aren’t getting much for new in-game armor skins is they aren’t adding that many new armor stats that often. Skins are a way for them to monetize the game, probably one of the best methods. The boosters and many other items in the store are junk, IMO. Others are one shot, like bank expansions, inventory expansions, character slots. You aren’t spending often on these items. New armor skins have a bigger turnover and, typically, a bigger price-point.
What they should have done is simple. There are sets in PvP that you can not get in PvE. People have requested access to these sets for a long time now. They aren’t cultural, no strings attached. So why weren’t they used?
I would have been excited to see PvP Masquerade (the voodoo set) become a gem store skin set. Same goes for the medium set Stalwart (love the shoulder). Not sure about heavy since I never bothered checking.
I am still not upset over this obvious snafu, but I am also not a buyer of the T3 Light Human set, nor did I waste gems transmuting it, only to discover one with particle effects for 60% the cost on the gem store. I think I bought the legs for my Ele back in Nov 2012, that was it.
4Any company can change, delete, add or whatever their own Virtual Content at any time of the day.4
and they can face the blowback. Throughout (recent, for sure) history there have been changes a company has had a right to make, which when deemed unfair to the user/customer, has received so much negative feedback the decision of the change was reversed.
There is a legitimate issue here, whether you are effected or not, whether you are willing to accept the actions or not.
Sorry folks but I found that video funny, even if a bit corny. I don’t really see it as any waste of money, to me it was a good change from an advertising perspective.
If they have come to realize that on average the cash shop generates more income than box sales on a per account basis it would be foolish of them to NOT run a sale to draw in more people to be exposed to the cash shop.
Sometimes a price reduction can lead to increased revenue/profit.
I have no issues with this. I hope if they ever do “expansions” it’s all a matter of updating and adding the content right in to the game. The savings on mass producing boxes and discs with the content and marketing to outlets and shipping to outlets is not small.
This is why I don’t get the “I want an expansion!” crowd. It can be done without store releases. New skills, new content, new classes, new races, on and on. I think some people have that gratification need to going out and picking up a box and hugging it til they get home…..or something.
I don’t sit on either side of the fence on this decision, but it does strike me as odd that the new gem store light armor skins are retouches on human T3 light and I could get them on a Norn if I wanted. The other 2 skins are not based on racial armor. Curious as to why this decision was made.
I would be willing to pay 200 gems per piece if parted out. However I also understand if Anet is firmly against breaking sets down to single piece purchases.
Nope – I really like the mechanic and you are able to aim for the target you want. You also are able to aim for where the enemy is walking or between two.
Grenade 1 already auto-casts underwater. If you don’t like auto-cast, you can disable it. For those who don’t care to spam 1 over and over just to hit the same target, it is a valid issue. There are many instances, especially in PvE, where this non-auto-cast mechanic is a PITA.
One of the toons I had the easiest time completing Orr maps with was my Mesmer….I could even solo Vets that were nightmares for all of my other characters. I don’t even consider her my main nor even do I play her at least once per week.
Have to agree either they should be Skins or they should be Exotic or even Ascended. Skins gets my vote since then they could be any quality stats I wanted.
When levelling I found range to be best. I did not use bombs….
I preferred Rifle even though it may not have the best damage, it has good CC. Grenades or Flamethrower for when you get into more than 1 mob at a time or during events. The choice for me was more about playstyle and not having to spam 1 with a targetting radial. I often used offensive turrets and net turret, for more CC. With Rifle and Net turret you have a lot of CC.
For this type of levelling setup I would focus on Power, up to you on if you want Vitality, Toughness or Precision.
Right now I’m using Brazil’s updated ranger build with two swords and am going to switch back to the old one bc I think it’s better always having a ranged weapon in case you need to retreat for a bit.
Could you post links or give directions on where to find the builds you mention?
Just ridiculous. The fact you pull this off while under pvp stress always amazes me. This is why they are nerfing Woodstock by 25% effectiveness on Dec 10th.
You should also link your build directly in the video comments for those that find your vid without this thread.
She won by not being glassy and #2 dagger spamming?
Here is Yishi’s most recent WvW video. Be sure to read the notes as he uses an Ascended Valk dagger so he swapped his chest to berserker for the stat trade off. His build link for this video is in his comments.
The only thing that will benefit from the 6th rune of water will be your Medi-Kit’s tool belt heal. Bombs and Kits won’t trigger it.
Actually any #6 ability will trigger an on heal affect. Therefore you can use the 10sec ICD on the runes to great advantage. It also works using the #6 on an endless tonic, which mesmers do all the time with centaur runes.
Apparently, by checking the wiki, I am half wrong on this. According to the wiki you are correct that the healing skill slot skills do trigger the effect. The portion I am correct on is it does not trigger off traits or other effects that have a heal. From the wiki:
Healing skills should not be confused with skills in other skill slots that can heal snip table reference This is especially true for traits and upgrade components which trigger “on healing,” referring to the use of dedicated healing skill.
From what I’ve always understood the whole point of a three way match is specifically to make it so the most populated team can’t simply steamroll, that when one of the sides gets too strong the other two do a “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” sort of deal.
The point to the 3 way system is so you can’t concentrate on one enemy to the exclusion of another. While the enemy of my enemy is my best friend is a position that can be utilized and must also be overcome, it isn’t necessarily the intent of the current system.
