Guild Wars 2

narwhalsbend.7059:

GOSU.9574:

The pic is a bit outdated now, changed the yellow to be more orangeish to match Verdant weapons, recolored the shoulderpads to be orangeish. While she isn’t completely skimped out, I went for that “In your face!” punk look on my Sylvari Ranger.

While the cultural jacket does have a bit of a tail, I wouldn’t classify it as a trenchcoat.

Is that a stock hair choice?

Nope, it’s in the hairstyle’s/makeover kits. One of my favorites across all races I must say.

I didn’t know anything about this and while I doubt I would be enticed to do these events for a single rare, anything that helps to improve this games woeful loot system gets my vote.

sharkstein.2109:

You sure your level was high enough when you completed it?

Since when did completing the monthly require a level cap in order to get laurels?

Snowmoon.1758:

i’ve got a ranger too and yea it seems all rangers need to wear ultra conservative.
No skimpy looks, not even a tiny bit of skin.
They might as well change the class name to “Nun” instead.

The pic is a bit outdated now, changed the yellow to be more orangeish to match Verdant weapons, recolored the shoulderpads to be orangeish. While she isn’t completely skimped out, I went for that “In your face!” punk look on my Sylvari Ranger.

While the cultural jacket does have a bit of a tail, I wouldn’t classify it as a trenchcoat.

From the brief period I was watching this, very boring. “Oh look, Overlord view! Stick fighters are fighting it out! Exciting!”

This will never gain any real esport following.

Klonko.8341:

You have zero mobility. Its bad for Wvw… If you dont take sword you cant roam.

wtf are you talking about?

Anyways take warhorn, swap from inventory when you need to get somewhere.

Sword is bad, period. Your paper DPS is baws, I know.

Zoso.8279:

Personally id like the armor weight to be removed too. When I’m playing with my engi who is heavy turret build I want him to look more armored up and some medium armor looks like it is full leather. Now I have to admit their are some armors that with different dyes I can make look like heavy armor but it doesn’t look the same. Stats and the base armor should still be how it is now but skins at least only armor skins would be nice to customize. Again only the skin of armors the stats would be the same. Weapons should stay the same imho because I think that might have issues with weapon animations.

Sorrow’s Embrace medium armor tends to be heavy looking, at least on human males (and probably Norn Males). Also Magitech boots.

At this stage there really is only ONE reason to leave armor weights in the game: crafting.

Outside of that there is enough outfits that heavies wear that look like light and enough heavy outfits that light can wear. Outfits and gemstore skins.

So your suggest is quite workable, even though I doubt Anet would do it.

If you can’t tell a scrub from an experienced player by merely spectating them then……..

What is this garbage?

Sorean.5379:

Go back to single player games is my advice.

Seriously…? You guys are never happy,sheesh

How does this comment in any way benefit the discussion? You are simply saying “Shut up!”. If you have nothing to contribute constructively to the topic I recommend you say nothing.

“Better to be thought”…….you can google that portion of the famous quote.

We won’t mention the cost saved from upgrading all the alternate gear.

I don’t see this happening but I would be happy if any kind of option were available that would cut down on the ridiculousness of alternative gearing, runes/sigils you can’t retrieve, the ones you do retrieve requiring loss of gear, etc.

It was removed from spectator mode to prevent Spectator’s from jumping on the team with the highest ranks.

I hadn’t thought about it but my systems performance when running the game actually improved slightly.

Killthehealersffs.8940:

GOSU.9574:

It’s really cute that you think they care what you think.

While they may “listen” my opinion is they do not act on what they hear/read, for the most part. There are extremely rare circumstances, such as the outrage over T3 Human Light armor being sold in the gem store for any race.

Ascendant gear , was the choice of 300-400 ppl that wanted gear progression and cried on the forums about it at the start of game .

100-200 ppl on the forums wanted them to revamp-redesign high lvl istances(it was Twilight Arbor?) and only a pitiful amount of ppl did them (and later on ppl whined , why the company doesnt improve old dungeons or they dont waste more resources into dungeons… ).

They shouldnt listen to 1-200 ppl at the forums , regadles of how much ‘’attarctive’ the idea is , because they will waste money and the rest of the population will ’’bite’’ them

If you think for a moment the changes made weren’t something Anet wanted internally, that is cute as well.

The short answer is: No.

Are rangers really that OP since the changes went live? No.

Do people rant and rave when things get changed to their favorite class/build, turning into raging drama queens unnecessarily? Yes.

Im Mudbone.1437:

Deitus.6053:

Vegeta.2563:

Chris Whiteside.6102:

You could just give your friend the activation code. You don’t have to give him/her the physical game.

Chris

I did this for a friend too, but I used my paypal debit card lol

i would use paypal, but i have access to physical money only, so im just gonna go to a gamestop and buy the physical version. i can just get the code from inside the box and basically just discard the rest, since i already have the game. thanks for your help guys

Why not just SNAIL MAIL the whole boxed set to your friend?

EDIT: NVM, i’m forgetting it’s for overseas.

He can still send the box overseas even if his friend recieved the key by another means. It’s always nice to have the box and such (IMO).

It’s really cute that you think they care what you think.

While they may “listen” my opinion is they do not act on what they hear/read, for the most part. There are extremely rare circumstances, such as the outrage over T3 Human Light armor being sold in the gem store for any race.

You are clearly mistaken. Anet does not make grindy games, and that is a direct quote.

What class do you play that you use to allow someone to mow you down from range? Do they not have barriers on PvP maps? Do you not have access to confront ranger in melee range? Does your keyboard simply have that one, very large, Faceroll button?

No longer works for me. Anyone else?

MystikaLsmuRF.7150:

GOSU.9574:

It was like this right after patch, but since then I have seen quite a few matches with 1 ranger. Also I see a lot more build diversity than just Long Bow.

I giggled.

I smell troll kitten.

It was like this right after patch, but since then I have seen quite a few matches with 1 ranger. Also I see a lot more build diversity than just Long Bow.

What you are witnessing is the fact players are more confident Rangers can manage PvP now, and thus you will continue to see this uptick on some level of population per match.

It’s better to have 1-3 rangers each match than 5 necros or mesmers or warriors. But that will continue to happen as well.

So many sheep, so few shears.

You don’t need an “expansion”. You just want a box produced full of hope and rainbows? Why can’t content be pushed live, no box, much much lower overhead, etc.

The game needs something similar to raids, and no, sorry Anet, Tequatl open world junk doesn’t fill the lack of end game. Your vision to not do raid type content and instead focus on open world is a flop. Time to admit it, it’s been 2 years after all, the typical time it takes for game developers to reach the conclusion that things did not work out as planned.

GvG. Guild Halls. Monk Class. Raid type content. This is the type of stuff to push live with a pseudo expansion. Even though this game should have had GvG on day 1, it is “Guild Wars” after all.

Alkonium.9164:

6/10. Cute, but it sounds more like a Charr name, and even that’s a stretch.

Or I could rip off real world cultural names from gaelic, norse, etc. Nah.

It sounds like what it is, a fairy name.

I would rather see a strong Outmanned buff.

Mark Katzbach.9084:

sock puppet

This phrase is quite humorous to see used. +1.

:)

You know what? I would not have a problem with this going live. I really, personally, would not be affected. Most of it is already available in some form or another in the gem store. I see this as just a larger repackaging. Also did you realize that Teleport to a Friend was in the game back during the pre-launch days? It was Teleport to Party Member. It was removed soon after, though I don’t know when.

Hell I wouldn’t even be offended if they put in an instant 80 item. And before someone claims thats because I want it, I have 11 80s right now, I have deleted 7 80s since launch. I don’t need such an item.

If this makes you sad, try playing a Mesmer or Guardian.

My contention: movement speed base should be upped by 25%. Remove this from all current traits, signets, sigils, runes. Leave only the 33% swiftness boost in the game. Allow the speed booster from gem store to push run speed by +15% or 33% cap.

The real problem for me comes with levelling. For me it’s all about how fast I can get through the content. When levelling I always use the speed buffs I can, and the skills I can to move even faster even for just brief bursts. When levelling a Guardian or Mesmer you are seriously kitten. They will take 25% longer to level to 80, in all cases.

For those that will say “Dude, use the RUNES”. Well first of all when levelling the speed runes are seriously cut in effectiveness vs. the pure 25% movement buffs most classes have access to. Secondly, it gimps build diversity at end game. If I have to use Traveler Runes in order to feel I have the minimum mobility on my Guardian or Mesmer, they lose effectiveness by not being able to use other Runes.

The best solution I can come up with for Guardian and Mesmer is to have one of their Elites have a 25% movement passive.

Since you took the time to make a video that clearly elaborates my position on this “Sword is highest DPS” bullkitten, I want you to specifically notice, especially in that dual engi fight, just how LONG you go with that swoard equipped and not in melee range.

This is why I will always go axe/torch and LB on switch in roaming. I don’t want to hear this “Oh but you have to be in melee to max your bleed stacks” blah blah crap. Standing there dealing NO damage with that sword shows you just how powerful that paper DPS really is.

Demonts.4593:

It is basically impossible to 1v1 or 2v2 as a d/p because of all this AI and AOE going on that will just kill you instantly. Also now s/d is pretty bad, they should have just redone the build. The black powder nerf was ridiculous. Not to mention d/d is STILL complete kitten and condi thief sucks compared to an engi or necro because of lack of AOE.

If you are trying to play any thief build as a necro or engi you are doing it wrong….

Yeah…I originally had a Norn, deleted remade to Human. However, if I could bring myself to play cats or mice I believe those are better options, ever so slightly.

Asura are small and do not telegraph their animations so noticeably, which might have benefits in WvW. Charr have the racial mentioned above, PvE/WvW.

Eurantien.4632:

No, I’m talking about PvP. No sane ranger would run a beast master build since the pet nerf.

I do, and I do quite well. I would not run such in a team environment unless it was some kitten like BM Team

And you agree with my point, there is no large open areas on pvp maps where there is nothing to get behind. Thus: advantage = BM over Power Ranger w/Bow.

“Oh no bow ranger has me in his sights I can’t possibly foil that by ducking behind THIS.”

Bads are bad, I guess.

There were no notes about changes to dailies. However they are randomized in general. I was not aware they were not the same for everyone each day, that may have changed while I was away from the game.

Eurantien.4632:

BlackRose.1247:

not necessarily, as now a good powerranger (lol) can always outkite the condi, whereas a condiranger mainly has to be in semi-melee (around 600)

Well, a good power ranger could outkite condi ranger before, they just had to be REALLY good. As it stands, I have yet to see anyone that good.

Based on pure mechanics however, it is a much easier match up for the condi ranger.

Duhwut? You must be talking about wvw in an large open area or something. Also, here is a hint, the biggest load of a BM Condi/Regen ranger’s damage……is it’s pet.

Aomine.5012:

Rozbuska.5263:

FYI that sigil have 9s icd

Which is rather obvious, but it doesn’t require you to hit anything, so it’s actually rly rly useful for engi

1 condi clear on swap every 9 secs seems like it’s a worthwhile sigil slot use? Seriously? Do you pvp?

Honestly though, posting this more as feedback than anything else, that animation always bugged me. Especially on heavily armored female characters. While I am on the side of “Why on earth was this removed?” I am also on the side of “I like it gone”. If it is put back in, fine by me, but personally I won’t have issue if it is left removed.

It would be nice to hear the official reason, outside of simply a bug, that it was removed though. 2 years later…………is this the alpha or beta?

Porterhouse.6304:

I log in today and notice that my low-level alt cannot use the Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic anymore. It seems that there is now a level 15 requirement on the item.

Any reason why for this? I know that limitation wasn’t there before. And heck, it’s really not that hard to even get to level 15.

But what was the reasoning behind this stealth nerf? Were the level 1-14 character’s too overpowered without those 32 copper Crude Salvage Kit’s? I’m curious to the reason behind this little game change.

It’s kind of an odd thing to put a level requirement on a store-bought item like that.

Obviously Anet decided alt’s can’t handle such an option, it is too confusing for your low level characters. They simply can’t handle the options overload. It was done for their own good and protection, you see.

Yenn.9185:

I can’t believe people still uninstall today considering how cheap storage space is. GW2 is practically free to play, so unless you’ll never play it, wouldn’t it be better to just dump it in a hard drive just in case?

I mean, geez, 19GB you have to redownload. Even if you have to box that’s still a lot of patching to do if you ever feel the urge to play again.

You wouldn’t believe how many floppies that takes.

Now you know why anyone with a brain and a budget does not spend their gems on this crap.

Mesket.5728:

Repeating that you listen to the community doesn’t make it true.

thefantasticg.3984:

jcbroe.4329:

Can I just take a moment to remind people of something?

The damage rapid fire does has not increased with the patch.

Before the patch, it was actually LESS dodge-able than it is now, with MORE guaranteed damage on the target.

The only different to the weapon now is the time frame in which Rapid Fire deals it’s damage, and it comes down to the point that has been argued up and down these forums now that we can compare the old sustained damage longbow to the new burst longbow; In theory, sustained damage is better because it is harder to mitigate since it is dealt consistently. However, in practice, players have a harder time reacting to burst damage based on skill ceiling/floor, resulting in burst usually having an overall higher effectiveness against players ill-equipped to handle the mechanics of burst damage.

Go up against a good player. Like, an ACTUALLY good player. You will almost never land even a hit of rapid fire, because they know to counter the longbow, they have to dodge the skill and get into melee where dodging “through” a character cancels their cast, and incidentally, the autoattack damage is also at its lowest at close range.

If rapid fire is “still landing one or two hits,” it always did this. In fact, before the patch, you could double dodge and still be hit with ~5 hits of Rapid Fire versus the 2-3 you might land now, and the damage per arrow hasn’t increased.

ANet has stated explicitly, multiple times, that players shouldn’t be able to 100% completely negate the efforts of opposing players, because it’s already enough to be able to render them so ineffective that you should be more than capable of achieving a win against them.

The longbow is EXACTLY where it needs to be at now. If anything is broken after the patch, it’s the will of all of the bad players who can’t seem to figure out that they actually have MORE options to counter longbow users now.

I will add that the animation is rather ridiculous now. Incredibly so.

Jski.6180:

GOSU.9574:

Fuzzion.2504:

Staff eles in wvw are field bots. Including crowd control and aoe damage.

Again, eles dont scale well with healing so u lose a lot of other important stats in the process

Did not answer the Q, but I am guessing it was just a joke in the previous posts that I necroed.

Ele still falls into support control more then a pure healer (support and healing are two different effects just in a lot of games they like to lump the two together) and over all there no real healing class in GW2. Think of GW2 like a pentagram system more then a trendily system. Healing and tank are weaker in this game where the others support control and dmg are much stronger.

Not really sure why you are replying to me, maybe you meant to simply reply to the thread. I am not questioning it’s potentcy or “viability” in any format, my question was regarding the previously mentioned 10 pt (now 2pt) traits not being spent as increasing healing by +150. I think the poster was just being snarky but having recently returned to the game I wanted to be sure something hadn’t changed with some hidden bonus for not spending trait points or some oddity.

Anyways, I am currently playing such a build in WvW. If I want to be all bursty, I play one of my other bursty characters. If I want to be condi, I play one of my condi characters. If I want……you get the idea. I actually made this new ele just for WvW and since Clerics was FAR cheaper than zerker, I figured I would give it a shot and see if I liked playing the build archtype as is, without being all snobbed up about how powerful it is or isn’t.

Sometimes people play for fun. Not everyone always needs to play the highest burst dps maximally tweaked out for every nuance of potentcy.

Crazy.

Maybe in order to prevent player confusion with idle animations they have incorporated it into the new unlock to gain method to their game play. Once you have mastered being completely immobile while idle for a long period of time it will unlock the not-idle animations?

/s

On the other hand the hype is likely due to the fact that LB has suffered for such a long, long, long, long………time. Finally it gets this damage burst boost and, even if over time it turns out to level out, it still seems quite powerful. After more long term adjustment it may not seem thus, but with a good amount of crit stacked and Air and Fire sigils……

Honestly though, why speed up the attack rate and not just improve the damage? All the developers did was allow you to pack more crit burst faster, which in my opinion is a bit overpowered atm.

Fuzzion.2504:

Staff eles in wvw are field bots. Including crowd control and aoe damage.

Again, eles dont scale well with healing so u lose a lot of other important stats in the process

Did not answer the Q, but I am guessing it was just a joke in the previous posts that I necroed.

My last alternate to 80 (thanks to the new levelling system), my Sylvari Ele :

Bubbles Fizzlepop

Hamfast.8719:

Holy poop… gimme that checkbox NOW! I’m flipping back and forth between my own map and an online interactive map to figure out where my missing heart quest is. THERE IT IS! Under that danged red commander!

Indeed, sir.

I pointed all this out 2 weeks ago. I even offered the best way to offer it up in the Options menu.

Anet’s response? Finger.

dDuff.3860:

Haha, you guys live in the world of SB.
Just take P/P with D/P, or even D/D and you got a whole new gameplay to explore.

HAHAHA you guy live in the world of delusion.

Take any other weapon/combo over P/P and enjoy versatility, power and survivability.

Seriously, you keep clinging to that P/P setup.

mtpelion.4562:

Welcome to the real world, where people who are good at things have to suffer through inconveniences so that businesses can cater to the MAJORITY of their customers who are NOT good at things.

1. Do you really think the majority that play this game are just “bads”?
2. Do you really think this apparent in your mind majority of bads wanted these changes?

Let’s keep the pressure and scorn where it belongs, on the decision makers. Those who pushed it live.

All I can say is……was levelling my 17th Character to 80, she was level 79 and had 2 bubbles to go when the “Update in 1 hour” message came up. I made kitten sure she was 80 well ahead of time. I felt and knew the changes coming would end my feeling to make any more alternates. I have deleted 7 of my 80s over the course of this game’s life and I won’t be making any more.