Guild Wars 2

Aaron Ansari.1604:

The Pale Tree doesn’t know everything. Hell, there’s a whole story arch in the sylvari line about helping her figure out what happened to the first sylvari who ever died.

Yes, but she knew that Riannoc died, just not how. If Caithe did kill another Firstborn, I think the Pale Tree would know because of both Caithe’s feeling and the Firstborn’s death. This kind of stuff is heavy, it should make an impact on the dream, it wouldn’t make sense for the Pale Tree not to know. Scarlet even adds to her taunt “…or does she already know?” when talking about Caithe’s secret and what the Pale Tree would think of it.

^This one: https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/108539/30fff10-15_NextHero_EN.jpg

I really can’t see a sylvari face on that character. The only thing that slightly resembles Canach is the “hair” (or thorns, or whatever that is).
I have no idea of what that character can be btw. Human? Norn? It looks like some kind of undead human with a muzzle or maybe a shape-shifting norn. I can’t really tell.
This is the third topic I see about that guy looking like Canach. I think you guys might be obsessing over him a bit too much (and that’s my job!).

“Work harder, not smarter!”
- Slick

That would make the Permanent Self-Style Hair Kit pointless. They are really rare, but they exist. I hope that they will start dropping again soon.

That killed me a couple of times and I had no idea of what was going on. Gladly, my party didn’t yell at me for that.

My PUG only had a problem with the last boss, but man, that took forever.
The rest of the dungeon was pretty easy.

It is not hard after you understand the mechanics (and the rest of your group, too).

It is alright. At the last boss fight, we wiped several times. The same person kept dying over and over and then two members of the party (both dead) started to argue. I died a lot too, but nobody picked on me, luckily. Anyway, it was a fun experience until that happened. Luckily, none of the two that were arguing ragequitted and we were able to finish it.
I will run it again later.

They told us they were coming… Just not when. That’s why I saved mine.

Yeah, I’m usually the last to die too, if we wipe. I don’t have problems inside the dungeon once the group let me in, the problem is when I join a group and they start talking like “A ranger? Really?”, “Do you have another character?” or they just vote-kick me before we even start.

Randulf.7614:

Gabby.3205:

I will try the new path before assuming anything.
But yeah, I’m not going with my main, I know that nobody wants to run a dungeon with a Ranger.

Not true. I personally have no qualms about any profession or any spec ppl choose to bring.

Really?
Can I give you a hug then?

Here:

The Lionguard has located a new Aetherblade stronghold inside Twilight Arbor. Captain Magnus’s standing orders are to destroy any Aetherblade facilities we can find, but this is more than payback for the murder of Councillor Ashford- Intelligence says these pirates still follow the mad villain Scarlet Briar and that they are gearing up for something big.

If you want to help shut down the Aetherblades before they carry out Scarlet’s next bit of craziness, meet me at Twilight Arbor and I’ll factor you in to the plan. Warden Idon is stationed in Caledon Forest outside Twilight Arbor. He can update you on the situation inside.

-Deputy Turma of the Lionguard.

You can always get someone to ferry you to the main server. I waited 20 minutes max on overflows during the whole event, and I was there since the start (I was there for my server’s first kill, too).

I will try the new path before assuming anything.
But yeah, I’m not going with my main, I know that nobody wants to run a dungeon with a Ranger.

But that was pretty much what everybody has been asking for… Better rewards, kick players that are AFK.
I know, I know, people are never happy, but these changes are pretty good, come on.

^That one would be simply perfect for my main character.

Braham is a fashion icon.
If you ever need someone that knows what is in, he is your Norn.

Looking fabulous while cracking skulls is what life is all about.

^Probably because they are pretty hard to make, with all the leaves and petals.

Chasind.3128:

Atleast add Scarlet’s hair to the sylvari tree. It’s annoying when an NPC is added & you can’t even have their face/hair/armor options

They didn’t add Kasmeer’s hair either. I believe this is a good indication that we might get a second set of special hairstyles soon.

Siphaed.9235:

As a matter of reproduction, and general social matters, gender doesn’t matter to Sylvari.

This is correct. It makes sense to have so many shared hairstyles.
I remember that, during REALLY early development (when nobody knew what would be of the Sylvari) there were even rumors that there wouldn’t be a gender option for Sylvari; you would be able to give your Sylvari more gender specific features but your character wouldn’t really be male or female. It is nice how it is now, since it is possible make an androgynous character or to make a really masculine or feminine one.

Yes, they are beautiful. The female norn ones do not fit my character at all, but I surely am buying at least 3 kits (one for my asura, one for my sylvari and one for my canthan).

Krikr.2094:

Weindrasi.3805:

The norn are much better in that they look healthy… but they’re still made to look sexy while the norn men aren’t.

I find this offensive. Just because Norn men don’t fit into the standard human proportions they’re not sexy? This is a very racist, human-centric, view of Norn.

This. Norn men are sexy. Well, I like them a lot. I mean, there are a couple of norn faces that are so dreamy! I am not a fan of piles of muscles IRL, but really, norn men can look so good!
Pretty much what you said, just because they are not everybody’s cup of tea, it doesn’t mean that they are not sexy. I think many human males look like teenagers :T

DaShi.1368:

Gabby.3205:

Alright, let’s do this.
-Marjory Delaqua[Old-School Necromancer Detective]: Her short story was awesome, the cut scene was beautiful and she is simply great. I like her back story, I like the way she talks to other people and I love her hair. Really, I need that hairstyle.

It looks like we’ll be getting it tomorrow.

Ohh thanks for letting me know! I’m checking them on dulfy right now. Beautiful, really. I’ll provably changing my Canthan character (Jory’s hairstyle), my Sylvary (dat first one) and my Asura (I can’t chose! They are all pretty!). I was hoping for something different for my Norn, but these hairstyles really wouldn’t fit her, sadly. Oh well, we can’t have everything x)

Alright, let’s do this.

-Rox[Charr trying for Stone Warband]: I LOVE her personality, and the way she talks to Frostbite is really adorable without being stupid. Her interaction with Braham and how their friendship has evolved is really awesome, too.
-Braham[Upstart Norn Hero]: He is great, but I really don’t like the way he treats his mother. Maybe I just like Eir too much. I would like to see more stuff about him and would love to see him getting a bit closer to Eir. Still, I love Braham, and I am happy that he couldn’t get Otillia, he is too good for her. That selfish, cruel, awfully raised MONSTER of a woman thinks that she can dump him just like that? I want to kick her face.
-Ellen Kiel[Lionsguard Captain//Lion’s Arch Council Member]: I hate her, plain and simple. I am ok with characters that get credit for what I did and that’s why I don’t hate Trahearne anymore, but Kiel gets the credit for what other characters did, and that makes me mad. Yes, I am talking about Canach and Marjory here.
-Moto[Inventor of SAB]: I get that he represents the game developers that try to make something that they love but ended up having to deal with money-hungry companies, and I like that.
-Canach[Lone Guerrilla Terrorist]: My favourite one. Not exactly a villain, more like an anti-hero and certainly not a terrorist since his objective was not to cause chaos and terror, it was about getting revenge on the Consortium, killing the guy that was sending assassins after him (Noll) and freeing the settlers. His methods were bad and he should feel bad, but if we take into account that he was being hunt like an animal, starving, sleep deprived and completely alone, like a dev said, it makes sense. Take a person that can not think straight at the moment, put them on an island with their worst enemies, add a bunch of nightmarish, giant crustaceans and you will end up with a mess for sure. He has a lot of potential and I want to see him back in the story.
-Mai Trin[Aetherblade Captain]: She is alright for an evil sidekick, I guess. I liked how she made a Scooby Doo reference.
-Evon Gnashblade[Owner of Black Lion Company]: His short story was alright, but it didn’t make me care for him.
-Marjory Delaqua[Old-School Necromancer Detective]: Her short story was awesome, the cut scene was beautiful and she is simply great. I like her back story, I like the way she talks to other people and I love her hair. Really, I need that hairstyle.
-Lady Kasmeer[Partner of Marjory and Noble]: I would like to let people know that Kasmeer’s family doesn’t have much money like now, even though they are nobles, and that’s why she is working with Jory. I don’t really care about her, but I think that this might change. I mean, I don’t know much about her, and to me she sounded really fake on her short story and while talking to Faren, so I really can’t say that I know her.
-Mr. E[Mystery]: I am not sure if he will eventually go somewhere in the story or if he will just be “the guy that sent those letters” forever. I want to know who he is, and the participation on Jory’s short story plus the letters were not enough to make me decide if I like him or not.
-Faren[Faren]: Such a bright beacon of heroism, this guy. And also great for a laugh. Plus, he looks good on his speedo. I love him so much that all my human characters are nobles OCCly (not ICly, of course) just because I love to hang out with him. I don’t understand why people call him a coward. They probably never played the noble human personal story. He is really brave and have a huge heart, that dashing, adorable moron. I hope he never changes.
-Scarlet Briar[Crazy Omnipotent-ish Mastermind]: I’m not sure if I like her, to be honest. I like her short story and I loved her playhouse. I think she does have potential and I want to see where this is going.

It is funny how one person’s “best update in the history of ever” is the other person’s “worst possible thing since World War 2”.

It kinda shows that we can’t really claim that “nobody likes update x” and stuff like that.

That’s pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

^Um… We know enough about Canach and Marjory to know if we do or do not like their personalities, and we surely do not have to imagine one for each them. Marjory’s short story, her dialogues and the cutscene outlined her personality pretty well. Canach’s short story, the interactions we had with him during the first Southsun event, the informations the devs gave around here and everything the other NPCs said about him all gave him a pretty solid personality, too.

But I can agree with you about Kasmeer.

zamalek.2154:

Merely a Hologram

It doesn’t matter if we kill her. She is only a hologram in the dungeon (pending people completing the dungeon confirming that theory). Her minions are unaware of her demise, her presence continues in that place forever as nothing more than an illusion and the steam machines, aetherblade and molten alliance are locked in a pointless battle for a very long time.

If that’s so, then we can kill her and it will still make sense. It doesn’t matter if we can do it over and over. It is like complaining about the Destiny’s Edge still not liking each other when you run the first couple of dungeons because you already finished the PS.

So, deputy Turma. I remember her, she was standing right next do Kiel at Southsun Cove. I wonder if Kiel would have been the one Magnus would send if the outcome of the election had been different. For now, I am happy that I won’t have to deal with Kiel. I hope that I won’t end up hating Turma too.
I thought Turma was a “corrupt cop” when I started reading, but then I remembered that keeping stolen goods must be pretty common to the Lionguard (like with the Pact’s Ship). I mean, it is a city of pirates.

Anyway, I was really hoping that Scarlet invaded TA, killing courtiers and settling there against their will. Too bad they let her in. I wonder what she promised them… I mean, “making people cry or whatever” was a guess, it is probably something more important than that.

Alright, I will get a lot of hate for it, but I would like it better if only one of the paths were about Fyonna, Laurent and Vevina killing each other and trying to claim the tree. It is just that I don’t like the fact that both three stories are mutually exclusive and I would prefer if the stories of all the paths could make sense together instead.
I know that other dungeon paths are like that, too, but still…

Anyway, replacing one path does not solve the problem, so I don’t think that it should be done at all.

^Trolls that are jealous of our awesome community and want to ruin it.

Let them try. Report and move on.

That’s horrible. I hope you never have to go through this kind of abuse ever again.

It is not because they tried to fail the event for an achievement that is not even on the list and that gives no points or titles, it is because they thought they could be rude like that to commanders that were, well, commanding. That’s your “job” and privilege, to command, and you paid for your blue dorito. If they want to command and make the event fail, they can go pay 100g for their own tag.

Well, Mai Trin said something like that already, when we found out that she was the murderer.

About Canach, I hope the devs still remember him. I mean, he seems to have quite the fanbanse, and that’s because he has a lot of potential as a character. He also knows a thing or two about bombs, maybe we can use them to defeat Scarlet, like we did on the Playhouse’s final fight.

^You don’t like her because she is voiced by someone that also voiced a pony? Really? Even if I didn’t like ponies I would respect the work of the voice actress, she has nothing to do with it, she needs to work.

Tara voiced MANY characters, not only a pony. Please, show some respect for her work. One character has nothing to do with the other but her voice. She voiced Harley Quinn, Omi (Xiaolin Showdown), Raven (Teen Titans), Melody (Little Mermaid II), Dil (Rugrats) and many other characters.

And the My Little Pony bronies watch is not the same My Little Pony you may have watched as a child, but this is irrelevant for the topic.

Ice of Dragons.1637:

Canach has a chance to be one of the great heroes she my try to recruit him but will fail

He has the habit of surrendering when beaten, though, so she can beat him into submission instead of actually recruiting him.
But I really would prefer if he joined Braham and Rox. He could help killing Scarlet in exchange for his freedom.

sigh
Anyone that has ever played a Ranger knows that the damage output represented by the pet is of about 40% of the total damage a ranger can do, depending on the pet. That’s 40% of your damage output connected to something that can’t stay alive inside pretty much any dungeon.

And saying that pets can’t dodge so they will be killed by 1-hit kill attacks even if they have stupidly high HP is speculation? That’s simply how the game is, sorry. 1-hit kill attacks kills you even if you have a stupidly high HP because that’s what they were made for, and it is not different with pets.

I am not assuming anything and I am not whining, this is just plain and simple what ANYONE can see and test. If you need more information on the pet’s problems, please, Google is your friend. Or maybe you can go to the Ranger boards, too. I would do the research for you, but you are sounding too much like a troll, denying everything that pretty much everybody knows already, so I just won’t waste my time.

I can’t talk about Engies, but I have the other professions at lvl 80 and I can say for sure that no, they don’t lose as much when they are not using that mechanics. It can’t be compared, it is not even close.
All they lose is extra skills. When our pet is dead, we lose their extra skills and a huge chunk of our DPS.

And about the patch preview , changing the pet’s HP does NOTHING to 1-hit kill mechanics that some bosses have. They will die either way because they can’t dodge. It solves nothing. It just shows that they don’t understand the problem.

Edit: Now, if they got their HP increased and couldn’t be affected by 1-hit kill boss mechanics, we would be getting somewhere…

But that’s my point!
None of the classes you pointed out are forced to use any of these.
The Ranger is forced to use the pet. These other classes do not suffer a major cut on their DPS if they choose not to use these mechanisms. The Ranger does. How fair is that?

And about your second point, that would only be possible for PvE, not PvP, which means that ANet would have to stop balancing the game around PvP and effectively split the two game modes.

Solid Gold.9310:

thefantasticg.3984
“The ranger is balanced with pet damage. It’s also balanced around the pet having 100% up time. I’m not going to link the references from Anet but they said as much. You or anyone else interested enough can go find them.”

Your serious, 100% up time, meaning 100% not DEAD ?

Funny because invasions, TEQ, generally any content that’s been added just lately, my pet seems to have about 5% up time on a good day.

Exactly, that’s the point. Rangers are balanced around the ideal situation, which is actually far from the truth.

runeblade.7514:

Seraph.6145:

@Runeblade – The problem is, that there are some people who enjoy playin’ as Ranger the most. Other classes are just “meh” for ‘em.
And they can’t enjoy their favorite class in 100% because of that stupid pet that stalks you everywhere and all the time! Got it?

So they like the pet class but they hate pets.

I don’t get it.

The Ranger is much more than just a pet class. Many skills and traits are completely unrelated to pets, and you can actually build a Ranger that does not use the pet at all. But since we can’t perma-stow them, if we don’t want to use the pet the closer we get is to leave it on Avoid Combat. However, by simply leaving it on Avoid Combat and ignoring it, we are still losing a huge chunk of our DPS.

So that’s the problem:
We use the pet = Pet is dead all the time unless there is absolutely no AoE attack. We lose DPS.
We don’t use the pet = We still lose DPS.

Why should the so called “main mechanic” of a class be a handcap?
I hope that now you get it.

Top 5:
1 – The Bazaar, by far.
2 – SAB. I am specially fond of W2Z2 because of Cantha.
3 – Canach himself. He is really interesting.
4 – Rox and Braham as characters, their personalities and their interactions.
5 – Molten Facility. By far my favourite dungeon ever.

Worst 5:
1 – Canach’s lair. Just plain disappointing.
2 – The election. It was just stupid. Luckily, it happened during the Bazaar. It could have been even worse othewise.
3 – Dragon ball. Awesome game, people AFK ruined it.
4 – Instances that we couldn’t run with a friend. Making instances that can be run solo is alright, but making instances that force you to solo is not. Luckily, there were not many of these.
5 – RNG chests preventing me from getting the skins I wanted. It would have been nº1, but since I can now buy the skins on TP, it doesn’t bothr me so much anymore.

Talyn.3295:

All I can say to this, is that you knew what a ranger was when you started playing it however long ago that was. If your not happy with it you got one option. Play something else.

Yeah! How dare them suggest QoL changes! I mean, it is not like rangers are ANYTHIG but a pet class, since they have absolutely NO skills or traits that are completely unrelated to the pet. Also, how dare them want to be able to run dungeons and not having to rely a big percentage of their DPS on a mindless AI that can’t dogde! They should have known that all the new dungeons and boss encounters would have AoE attacks!

Really?

I heard we are not killing Teq on he main server anymore because the guests took over it.
Try asking a member of [Yum], [AARM], [CERN] or another big guild where are people killing Teq now. I mean, if they are still killing Teq. I don’t know, life happened and I couldn’t play a lot this week, sorry, I wish I could help you.

Adine.2184:

This is kind of like asking them to remove clones from a mesmer or kits from an engineer . Its a primary function of the class that cant simply be removed . You always have the LB warrior or SB thief if you want to use a bow but not a pet .

Actually, nobody is asking them to remove pets, just to make them optional like clones and minions.

I think we should be able to perma-stow our pet, so that people could have a choice.

I mean, it could be like that:
If your pet is out, you get a percentage cut down of your atributes, depending on the number of trait points you put on BM. That way, rangers that do not want pets would not be handcapped by them, and the ones that like pets (like me) could make use of that extra skills linked to a mindless AI like it is already.
Ranger without pet: 100% of their atributes.
Ranger without pet: 100% – x%, x depending on the number of points you put on the BM trait line.
The trigger to that change would be the stow pet button.

Just for the record, like it is now the rangers already get a major cut on their DPS because of the pet. A percentage of the ranger’s DPS is already linked to the pet. If the pet is dead (and if you are running a dungeon and the boss has AoE attacks, it will be) we hit like a wet noodle.

Someone that knows about balance and stuff can come up with a better system, I am sure, but it would be cool to have this kind of choice, just like I don’t want my necro to be a MM. It is probably a stupid suggestion anyway.

Maybe it is a mini nightmare tree, the one we see at the end of the video.

Sioul.7269:

I’d love to see Canach joining Braham and Rox

This!
That would be great. I can imagine the three of them interacting, Canach having such a huge ego and all. Rox could teach him to be humble, or else Frostbite can. Canach would probably make snarky comments about Braham, too. It would be great for the three of them, as characters.

Defend the turrets. It is a casual role.
The event is not casual as a whole, but that doesn’t mean that a casual player can’t be part of it.

^Doesn’t matter, the pet will come out as soon as the ranger enters combat.

If they are not going to punish scammers, why is “scamming” even an option when reporting someone?

I liked Frizz’s Lab. I had some problems at first because I was with my main, a ranger, and my pet couldn’t stay alive (yeah, big news). Also, there were two mesmers on my group and their illusions and phantasms were useless, too. My group couldn’t deal enough damage, the fight took too long and we wiped several times.

Then I tried with my necromancer (not a MM) and it was a breeze.

The fight was alright, I think, but not for some classes. That’s not cool at all. It would be awesome if every class could do it as easily as my necromancer could.