Guild Wars 2

Don’t worry. Story-wise, the dungeon is just “Get to these guys. Defeat them. Good, you defeated them. ALL GLORY TO INSPECTOR KIEL!”.

It is a pretty fun dungeon, though, and it is a shame that it is temporary.

Aww man… I was hoping for a nice skirt that would make my human nobles actually look like nobles…
Wait, is that a “piwate” quaggan? Coo! I hope it is a mini! I NEED IT.

lol
Maybe some people like bears.
You shouldn’t be such an elitist. People have different play styles, and not every ranger run a BM build.
Though I must admit that I killed a (probably) lvl 80 ranger that was using a bear with my low lvl warrior in WvW yesterday.

I think they should balance the existing classes before adding more.
Warrior is still the underdog in PvP and people still don’t want Rangers in their dungeon parties. Until these issues are at least partially solved, I don’t think they should add more classes.
Adding more classes always messes up the balance in MMOs. Always. It is something that cannot be avoided simply because balancing takes time. The devs must wait and see how the players deal with the new mechanics since this is something that can’t be successfully tested in a small scale, by devs only. It requires a lot of people with different playing styles to make sure that the balance works.
After balancing the existing classes, sure, they can go and add more classes and let us test them for a while so that they can go and balance them too. I think it would be easier to balance new classes if the old ones were already balanced.

Esplen.3940

And the female human version of Trahearne, the dirty Inspector Kiel.

Oh good, I thought I was the only one that felt this way about her. Such a Mary Sue.

He is my favourite, too.
To be 100% honest, the major reason for me disliking Trahearne is because of, well, the mentors. No, I don’t blame him at all (of course), but he seemed to be a cheap replacement for our beloved mentor. How can we be forced to deal with someone so perfectly annoying after getting to know a great character like Tybalt? I’m pretty sure I would have ended up liking Trahearne if it wasn’t for that. It is quite impossible not to compare them.
I miss Tybalt, Forgal and Sieran. My newest character is not completing her personal story because I don’t want to go to Claw Island again.
I want Tybalt back. And Forgal and Sieran, too, but mainly Tybalt.

Yeah, I’m always unlucky, to be honest xD
Thanks anyway, Buttercup. That was really kind of you.

1000 Regular Coffers
All opened in Black Citadel with 181% MF
No Tickets (yeah I’m just that lucky…)
2018 pieces of Zhaitaffy
6 Mini Holographic Risen Knight
1 Hard Potion
2 Warm Potion
4 Cold Potion
4 Charged Potion
18 Dragonfish Candies
16 Dragonfly Cupcakes
14 Slices of Candied Dragon Roll
10 Koi Cakes
24 Dragon’s Breath Buns
9 Kralkachocolate Bars
10 Koi Cakes
192 Fireworks

Oh well, I tried :T

What Weirwynn said.
And for asura or sylvari, a title or something else that might identify what they do or who they are, since they do not use surnames.
Warden Lorelei, Golemancer Vatti, Valiant Svynna, Savant Mugg, this kind of stuff.
My asura is called Synergist Nitta, for example.

WHAT IF…
The new system ends ups being like HoM instead of WvW?

I can’t wait.
That part of the living story in Southsun Cove was a major letdown for me, but none of the other parts disappointed me the slightest. Since I loved everything about the Dragon Bash and the Aetherblades, I am REALLY hyped right now.
The thing that I am looking forward the most is the new reward system that will be tied to the achievement points. I’m so excited!

Yeah I did, with one of my Whispers’ lightbringer.
An undead Charr says "I'm sending you to shake hands with Tybalt", or something like that.

skullmount.1758:

They’ll be back as undead/zombies in a LS patch, just like you know who :p

When I went back to Claw Island with my first character (a norn that picked the Vigil), I thought I would face undead Forgal. Of course, I was happy that it never happened, but it would have made sense. Since Sylvari can’t be corrupted, Sieran wouldn’t be able to come back as undead, but that would make sense for Forgal and Tybalt.
I hope it never happens, though

Atlas.9704:

Please do, I’ll even install mines in the doorway so he’ll never leave! lol

Awesome <3
Though Elinor (my sylvari), being clumsy as she is, would probably end up accidentally blowing up the entire Grove if you did that lol
And blaming Canach.

Atlas.9704:

That’s okay, the Home Instance would have Forgal in the barracks training the troops or have Tybalt buying apples at the market in mine.

Oh the feels… And that Plush Tybalt Backpack killed me.
I figuratively cried desperately in front of my computer when I saw that.
Figuratively.

I wish we could find them somewhere in the mists. That would be nice, you know, knowing that they are alright despite… Well, being dead. Tybalt could be with his warband and Forgal with his family. Sieran could be with Riannoc, too. That would make me so happy…

But if they somehow escaped (seems unlikely, but…), it would be so good to have them in our Home Instance! We should go in a mission to rescue them at some faraway island where they ended up after being thrown in the sea by the dragon (yes, this should totally have happened in Claw Island because of reasons). They would look at us and say “What took you so long, kid?”, “Ohh I knew you would find me! This is so cherry!” and “If it isn’t my best buddy! Did you bring me some apples?”.
A girl can dream.

Pretty much what ProxyDamage said.
I’m pretty sure that just because ONE developer does not enjoy the play style of a ranger or a warrior it doesn’t mean that ALL of them hate both classes.
TBH I don’t think that they hate us or the warriors.They probably just have no idea how to balance PvE without braking PvP, or maybe they don’t know what to do with the pets and the dungeons. Also, for some weird reason, they seem to think that for buffing one bow they must nerf the other. Slowly, they are learning to separate PvE from PvP, so I have my hopes up that someday we will see some improvement for Rangers in PvE.
Quite frankly, I believe they just took a series of bad decisions regarding the ranger and ended up messing everything up further and further while trying to fix their previous mistakes. I don’t think it was on purpose, just to screw with us x)

Hermes.7014:

frostyraziel.1854:

Hermes.7014:

Anhellbro.7213:

new skins from official website its Achiv points. Im hope 10000 =))

Requiring 10000 achievement points? Sure, new content for 5% at best of GW2 playerbase will sure make people happy.

/e-sarcasm

5% is an overstatement. There are around 90 people with +10k achiv points.

So probably even less.

Yep, much less.

But point taken, anyway. I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t lock pretty much everybody from content like this.
I can’t wait to know how many achievement points will be needed for the top reward, though. I believe 5k would be good. I’m not really close to that amount, but I think it would be fair.
Oh, the hype…

BlueSoda.6297:

It would be cool if they let you have all your mini pets from your bank collection run around in your home instance.

I would be sure to get 250 Mini Southsun Faren as soon as I could. That would be hilarious.

I think he is addressing to people that are complaining about the new system.

Atlas.9704:

Levetty.1279:

Hopefully they add a way to remove those Hylek’s that are stinking up my home instance and replace them with Quaggans (or Kasmeer Meade).

I’ll take Inspector Ellen Kiel or Hiroki, but yeah I do like this thought.

That being the case, can my sylvari take Canach in? c:

Btw I am happy that the Home Instance is getting some love from Anet.

Well… The only thing that changed that I find interesting is this new Living Story thingy. The Living Story is a bunch of periodical event-like updates that include new plots and stuff to do. However, most of the content is temporary, to create this feeling that the world is alive. Past content is gone since that part of the story already happened, it is not happening anymore. Right now, Lion’s Arch is being attacked by pirates and inquest during the festival (Dragon Bash).

I don’t mind it if they make each of the updates last for, like, 2 months. At this rate, 4 living story related events will be up at the same time, all the time, but it shall give us time to finish them.

He will burn it all down?
With lemons, I guess?

…We need Asuracake.

Sitkaz.5463:

The cake is NOT a lie!

Of course it is not! The cake is waiting for you, at your party. All your friends will be there. Assume the party escort submission position or you will miss the party.

Anhellbro.7213:

new skins from official website its Achiv points. Im hope 10000 =))

Wait. Will they be bought with achievements points or will they be unlocked with them, like HoM points?

Hermes.7014:

I think it looks cool but really they should start making some ice themed armor too.
Something like the armor of the Son of Svanir woman they later scrapped: http://www.theroundtablet.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/guild-wars-2-norn-svanir.jpg

This looks pretty cool, but it was probably scrapped because the Sons of Svanir are misogynists. It wouldn’t make sense to have women that were Sons of Svanir.
Still, awesome armor. I really wanted to see something like that.

I agree with LLunatic, but may I suggest that hats have a version with hair? A pre-selected, pre-coded hairdo that will show underneath the hat, pretty much like The Sims, if anybody here ever played it. The only con for that is that characters with long hair will look like if they had short hair under the hat (or maybe the other way round, depending on the hat). However, I believe that ANY hair is better than no hair at all (except if your character is already bald, of course).

Any JP that is not timed is easy IMO.
It doesn’t mean it was not enjoyable, though. Dealing with so many people was the best part of it. We have a really nice community.

dulfy.1493:

-snip-
While the puzzle is not timed, there are many steam jump pads inside the puzzle that can take a bit of practice to get used to. On some of the jumps, a mistake can be fatal and you will be forced to restart.
-snip-

The puzzle not being timed makes me so happy!
I’m not such a good jumper, but as long as I can take my time to understand what is going on and to prepare for the next jump, I can finish any jumping puzzle.

Thanks for the information, Dulfy. I’m not going to watch the video because I don’t want spoilers, but I’m sure it is great, like always.

This is where I would post a picture of my Jade Weapon!

…If I had one!

Congratulations to everyone that got the tickets. I’ve opened over 3000 of the regular coffers, but got none. It happens x)

You should try playing the ranger and deal with nerf after nerf every time Anet tried to “balance” the game.
Like EVERYBODY told you already, Troll Unguent does not make the ranger immortal. I am all for class balancing, since my main (a ranger) is the worst possible class for PvE and nobody wants us in their dungeon groups at all, since for most dungeons we are useless (if any of the bosses have AoE attack, our pets will be dead in no time, meaning that up to half our dps will be gone).
The Warrior already have the best potential damage outcome of the entire game. I realize that it is not a good class for PvP, but thinking of how screwed up was the last update for Rangers and Warriors both, I believe Ranger is not supposed to be a PvE class while Warrior is not supposed to be a PvP class (that’s very, very sad IMO). Quite frankly, that’s the only possible explanation that comes to my mind, and I would rather think that it is Anet’s intention instead of thinking that they simply have no idea of what they are doing.
I understand that you don’t want rangers to have better sustain than warriors. However, do you think it is fair that one class have great sustain AND the best potential damage outcome in the game? I don’t really think so. Also, Ranger apparently does not mean “ranged combatant” (I know, it is a bit ridiculous). We just got our max range for the shortbow reduced, and that was the main weapon of a lot of builds (mine included). You will find a lot of rangers having to stay in close combat, and I dare to say they are as common as warriors that use riffles and longbows.

NinjaEd.3946:

Spvp is the one place in the ENTIRE GAME where ranger is possibly top dog.

Don’t say it out loud! They are going to nerf them in there too!
Don’t you know that the Ranger is absolutely forbidden to be better than the other classes at anything at all?

The Permanent Hair Style Contract. I need it mostly to change the color of the accessory some of the hairstyles have so it will look good with my character’s current armor.
NPC’s clothes as armor skins. I would kill for Demmi Beetlestone’s skirt for my human mesmer. More cultural armor skins would be awesome, too.
Town clothes that are not obviously directed towards humans only. Seriously, we need cultural town clothes. I get it, human is the most popular race, but it is not the ONLY race. Leafy town clothes for the sylvari and spirit themed town clothes for the norn, for example, would be a great addition to the Gem Store IMO.

Ohh I see. Sorry, I misunderstood x_x
I hope they solve that problem soon. There was a really long thread in the suggestions board about that issue.

Esplen.3940:

I’m red-green color blind and I have no trouble seeing the circles. Distinguishing friendly from foe is my problem.

This must be awful. If Anet would let us customize the colour settings, I believe it would help you, wouldn’t it?
Meanwhile, you can go to game options and uncheck the boxes that say “Show All NPC Names” and “Show All Player Name” and check the “Show All Enemy Names” box. That way, you will only see the name of foes, even in WvW; the names of the people of your server won’t show up unless they are directly in front of you or if you hover your cursor over them, but the ones of people of the enemy servers will. Oh, you can still hold ctrl to see the mobs and/or items with yellow/white names and alt for the friendly npcs.
I know it is not a solution in any way, and I really hope that Anet will come up with a real solution soon, but I’m trying to help

I guess that means that the circles now having a “wavy” animation didn’t help you guys.
That sucks. The only thing I can suggest you to do is to get a thief to perma stealth you when they start firing the cannons. I can’t see any other way for you to finish this dungeon alive.
That’s really bad, I was hoping that Anet would have solved this issue right now. I am not colourblind and I find the circles unnecessarily hard to see, too.

I’m not saying it’s Cantha…
But it’s Cantha.
(I’m kidding)

Holy hodor, awesome suggestion! I’m all for this.

For running dungeons? ~.~
That’s what I created my warrior for, since my ranger can’t.

Lothair.8942:

On my wishlist of things I would love to have:

Bloodhound: Your pet gains the ability to track it’s targeted enemy through stealth and continue to follow and attack.

I’m pretty sure they would never do that because thieves would say it is too overpowered. I would love that, since last time I’ve been alone against a thief in WvW it took forever for the battle to end, since he kept disappearing all the time but he couldn’t do enough damage to me to come anywhere close of killing me. I eventually killed him, but it took way too long and it was really boring and frustrating.
What I’m saying is that the trait/skill you are suggesting would be great for PvP, but we are already good at PvP (that’s my opinion). What we need right now is to get better got PvE.
It’s like the opposite of warrior: Awesome for PvE, not so good for PvP (or maybe it is just me).

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Having a lot of options in how to be mediocre doesn’t make the class an unparalleled archer. It makes us an unparalleled loot bag.

Thank you. A bit of an exaggeration, but that’s alright, I get what you mean.

Also, I don’t see how this discussion is relevant in any way. Why does it matter if the ranger is an archer or not? I just want to be better than some other class at something relevant, hell, at anything relevant. I can’t think of a situation where I would rather use my ranger instead of any of my alts because she can do something that my alts can’t, not just because I like her.

I believe Anet thinks that they just fixed us two days ago.
It seems that we are not supposed to be a dungeon class at all. The more I think of it, the more I get this unsettling feeling that the Ranger is supposed to be a PvP-only class.
Either that or they just don’t know how to balance PvE while not breaking PvP yet. I will keep my fingers crossed and wait for the day that they figure it out.

This is simply the best analyses that I’ve seen regarding the Ranger.
Amazing, simply amazing. Oh how I wish that the devs would read this and take this into consideration…
I just want to be able to run dungeons and to really be useful for my party with my main character, and you addressed to every problem that I have. Thanks for taking your time to write this wonderful post!

Also… a lot of npcs can dodge. Every single bandit in Queensdale can dodge. Why can’t our pets dodge?

CHIPS.6018:

First boss: I am necro, how do I get stability without destroying my current build?

As a necro, you can get stability by using the elite skills “plague” or “lich form”. I do not recommend it though, unless the golems are almost dead, since it won’t last for long and it takes forever to recharge.
For the record, I completed the dungeon as a necromancer, but I didn’t make use of stability or vigor. I just dodged a lot.

About the models, it really depends on the races, really.
Tengu wears the same models as charrs.
Largos are pretty much the same as humans and sylvari, just with that wing-shaped fins. I’m pretty sure Anet would ignore the clipping and just give them the same armor sylvari and human characters wear, since they still didn’t fix the problem with the charr’s tails and the asura’s toes (not for every skin, at last).
I believe these are the top 2 classes that people would want to be playable, and the only ones that I can see becoming playable someday.
Of course, if Anet wanted to get crazy and, I dunno, making Quaggan a playable race, yeah, that would be a problem.

lekyii.9856:

This dungeon only need two things.

-The red circles in the last boss be more noticeable.
- the Dungeon has to be permanent content.

Oh good, I thought I was the only one having a hard time spotting the red circles. I figured it was because I was running the dungeon after a long, boring day, and that I was just tired.
It would be great if they were a little darker, IMO.

I agree that the dungeon should be permanent. It could give us tokens to spend on the new weapon skins that were data-mined. That would be awesome, though highly unlikely (I mean, why would they give us the skins as a reward for our effort instead of putting them in RNG boxes again, right?).

Ohh my build looks a lot like this, I just have to change some of the major traits for it to be exactly like it. It’s good for zerging indeed. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Grimno,
I did it with my necromancer. I ran in circles, in the same direction that the wall was turning, and jumped up on the crates when the shorter beam was coming, while auto-attacking the golems and removing the confusion sometimes. Also, I dodged the golem’s pulls. Got hit a few times, though, but didn’t die.
Worked as a charm, but one of our members was killed. We finished the part, but it took a bit longer than it should because the member that was killed was doing great damage to the golems while alive (I believe he was one of the elementalists). Necromancer, 2 elementalists, thief and warrior.

Upham.6137:

Actually, no, I hate general PvE, and what I do the most is WvW roaming and pvp. I’ve always played tanky builds cus I feel that’s what rangers can do best, tho.

That explains a lot. Rangers are great at PvP IMO. I kill everyone with mine with very little trouble. If I’m underwater, I can kill multiple enemies while my pet keeps me from getting killed. It’s awesome.
HOWEVER
I want to run dungeons, too, and sometimes I have to get in a pug. That’s where the problem is: Not a single dungeon in the game is AI friendly, mostly because of area damage and the fact that the only thing we can do to try to protect our pet from it is calling them to us and hoping that it will get out of the red circle fast enough.
The way I see it, the Ranger is not intended to be a PvE class, period. That’s awful, since we end up having to level and equip an alt if we want to run dungeons and to be useful for our group. I thought every class was supposed to be able to do everything in this game. I was wrong, it seems.
If the devs could just separate PvE balancing from PvP balancing, that would be great.

I did it with a pug.
Granted, we took too long to kill the last boss and I couldn’t get that achievement (the one about shooting a ship or something). Also, I still couldn’t run it again so I couldn’t focus on getting Faster Than Light or Personal Space, but I shall try again next weekend. We only wiped once, at the first boss, but once we understood what was happening we could finish the rest of the dungeon easily.
Communicating with your party plays a big role in that new dungeon.

Dardamaniac.1295:

The solution may seem easy for you…Just buff every skill..Make me do dmg,make me do support,take everything other classes are having and give it to Rangers…But for him is a bit more complex.Warrior stayed out of pvp matches for a long time,still tho was the king in pve..Rangers was in a very good place in pvp and in a just good place in pve.
Lets wait and see how the meta will evolve,i dont think Anet want to destroy Rangers..

I don’t think the solution is easy at all. I just don’t get why they can’t nerf Rangers ONLY in PvP, not in PvE. It makes no sense at all, sorry.
I don’t want any of these things that you said and I have no idea of where are you coming from. What I DO want, however, is to have bows with proper range and pets that are able to dodge (before telling me that it is impossible, there are quite a few npcs that can dodge). Would dodging pets break PvP? FINE, make it so that they can only dodge in PvE. If it can’t be implemented at all, alright, I can deal with it.
If I think it is easy? Not. At. All. But going back to where we were before all the nerfs (in PvE only) would be a great start.

JonathanSharp.7094:

Yes, we care about the forums. We also care about all the classes equally.

Please, go to Lion’s Arch and type in the map chat:
“Hey guys, what do you think about the Ranger in PvE?”

Or, better yet:
“Anybody needs a Ranger for any dungeon right now?”