Guild Wars 2

Einlanzer.1627:

Longbow is mostly fine, and will be even more fine after the Dec 10 patch. 3, 4, and 5 are utility-oriented (not every skill can be for DPS, lol) and can be very useful (especially 5, though it could use modest buff).

Warriors’ Longbow can be very good but is highly specialized and therefore quite ineffective as a primary weapon.

Well, it’s mostly fine in your odd opinion. Longbow requires you to face your target to cast 4/5 skills & the one skill that doesn’t, roots you. Yes i realize not all skills should be “Moar deeps” but look at warrior’s greatsword. It has cc, alot of mobility and insane damage all in one weapon. We have 1 knockback and a slow so it lacks even in the utility department. If you have a warrior coming at you with stability what is a ranger going to do? try to stealth and hope to god he doesn’t block the attack or it reflects which actually stealths the kitten warrior!?! No you’re going to type /sleep, put away your pet and hope to god he thinks you’re already dead.

Anet doesn’t care, instead of actually looking into what the true problem is with ranger they just give it 15% more dmg for a skill & hope that the ranger community is satisfied which is just dissapointing.

Honestly, I’d rather roll warrior if I wanted to use Longbow for anything. I came into this game like I come into most, I want that wierd, not as popular race with the same for the class and right when i saw the classes thief & Ranger pulled me in and although I do like Thief. Ranger was very underwhelming compared to other games in terms of usefulness, DPS compared to the typical warrior-type class and just fun to play was lacking. I get so bored when using LB on ranger because there’s no benefit to killing a mob or player(WvW/PvP) and actually using your 3,4 or 5 because you get most DPS from spamming 1 and hitting 2 when you can.

Do you like Longbow on rangers?

Would you like to see more people use Longbow?

And, would you like to see changes to longbow skills?

Mrbig.8019:

Excalibur.9748:

Mrbig.8019:

Hype.8032:

Excalibur.9748:

key thing that keeps mesmer viable is phase retreat, which is basically shadow return. if that ever gets nerfed (.25s cast time added), i fear mesmer will be in the same state as S/D thief – completely not viable.

I don’t want staff nerfed anymore than IR but I think it’s worth noting that mesmers can be very effective while slotting 3 stunbreaks. Thieves kitten themselves quite a bit not taking shadow refuge…. so mesmers can handle stuns better and their skill remains safe from THA NERF HAMMMAAAHHH.

Shadow refuge should be nerfed too. Then we’ll see how much value the thief has in GW2

lol it would have no value whatsoever then.

That’s my point.

After mug nerf, thieves were in a ridicolous state where we were sub-par in EVERY ASPECT, still teams carried us.

Shadow refuge was the sole, single reason why thieves were brought.

Now that they’re nerfing the sole single reason why thieves are strong ( S/D, or rather a good, self sustainable build), i guess not even shadow refuge will be enough to justify a thief in your team.

If it is, then Shadow refuge deserves a nerf, and the thief profession the rehaul it needs.

Right, it’s not for their mobility, blinds, ability to escape & raw burst damage.

Mindtrick.5190:

ahuba.6430:

D/P sleight of hand will be pretty good, which is a good thing since all other thief specs are “smash your head of the keyboard easy mode”, so I’m glad they’re all on the receiving hand of the nerf hammer.
All these perma stealth and S/D thief tears are so tasty.

That’s a joke right d/p taking skill, haha. Unless you run two of the same weapons thief is easy no matter what you use.

Reality is all I see

Hahaha, “omg d/d give me such chalenge so i kan be good thiev” You’re ignorant, not skilled in anyway shape or form but still continue to stream with your 5 viewers and think you’re at a higher level of gameplay. Stick with BF4 will ya’?

Take screenshots if you’re getting 1 shot by something and claiming it’s hax, of the combat log i mean. Dont just post random complaints on the forums about enemies having haxxorz bring some proof, I could do what you’re doing without any of it being true & asking a few people to back me up wouldn’t be hard. Try to video tape your gameplay if it’s that big of a deal to you that they must be caught immediatly.

I usually run during the day but my schedule’s been changed & my normal guild is always all offline when i’m just logging on so I usually end up not repping anything for the time i’m playing. I used to be in SUPR [Solid Under Pressure] Before they left for Stormbluff Isle and they were a very hardcore korean WvW guild and i’m looking for something like that. Any WvW or even PvP guilds highly interest me even if it’s not hardcore or a massive guild. I’m open to any offers & also I would LOVE to join another oriental guild although I do only speak english.

(I usually play from around 9-10PM to 5-6AM Server time)

I have Teamspeak, Skype, Mumble & a mic so I’m able to communicate although I cant promise i’ll talk much, i’m usually pretty quiet.

Also; I have 7 level 80’s but no main toon and can play most of them very well and also can purchase any gear for builds i’m required to play.

Leave comments saying what guild it is you’re representing & why I should join your guild. Or just hit me up with either a guild invite or a message In-game!

BG has been in the same place as SoR with the random dissapearance of people but Mag srsly? You just make it into t1 and the only thing on your map i’ve died to today is wolves and that’s because they’re Op as kitten

Very fast, I cant wait to watch some of the guilds from BG kick some kitten

JonPeters.5630:

I just had a wacky idea that might make some aspects of MH sword less frustrating. I’ll test it out when I get in to work and report back.

Jon

C’mon man, the sword MH auto is interesting but it’s not that bad, what is in need of help is the bows. They’re so simple & someone with one finger could play as good as a top tier player… NEED INTRICACY

Looking at the static area (part that was bugged/broken)

After guesting to this server to visit some friends I found out they’re trying to 4 man the temple of Lyssa so i gladly help out as much as I can (Spirit build) But after the first two events the third one was bugged and the static fields in the middle kept spawning or something but my FPS went from a normal 40-50 to low 10’s and when looking at it I got 1-5. It’s getting worse by the minute & is affecting the whole area (map chat was complaining) I’d say this is a pretty severe issue !

Edit: took screenshots

after looking at this i’ve realized It’s a sad sad day for rangers everywhere

NO, dont even bother with LB in WvW especially if you zerg! LB has ONE AoE skill & can only hit up to 5 people per pulse (just like any other AoE skill) which isn’t good especially compared to a necro, guardian, warrior ect… I’ll sometimes use complete glass cannon LB if i’m running with 5 or 6 people especially if there’s a guardian because with might you can hit 1 skill and just wreck alot of baddies. But in general LB is just bad, using barrage in a smaller scale fight leaves you totally vulnerable to all dmg & that’s your only AoE skill so after that you have to focus 1 single guy down and hope to god that he doesn’t have alot of retal. I think until it gets reworked(if Anet comes to their senses) it’s just a poor weapon choice.

Chopps.5047:

No, the sword hornets sting/monarchs leap is almost exactly as fast as simply running with swiftness when out of combat. I’ve tested this extensively because I keep reading people claiming they run faster doing sword leaps. They don’t. Greatsword, on the other hand, has a long leap with a very short animation.

Are animation times factored in when overall mobility is ranked? In other words, are all leaps the same speed? I ask because Swoop feels really fast for the distance it covers. Could be my imagination.

With signet of the hunt? Maybe. If you’re fast you can definitely move faster then just running with swiftness by using hornets sting & monarch’s leap without a doubt.

After dealing with so many condi warriors in s/tPvP i’d rather they just nerf sword 4 and leave everything where it is, it’s not hard to outplay a warrior. They’re slow, skills have very ovbious animations & their stances have decent cd’s. I dont play warrior but even I can learn to play against one. Earthshaker nerf is a bit necessary though just because if a warrior uses it & hits all 5 people it’s devastating and can win a losing fight.

Good thinking, I personally dont enjoy GvG (preferance) & wouldn’t mind if they had their own thread to talk about builds, what they run ect…

Although logical it’s unruly & would be too elitist of Anet to do. This would promote hate towards people that haven’t quite hit 80 yet whether it be they’re still leveling for the first time & wanting to check all aspects of the game out or they’re leveling an alt.

After playing a ranger on Tera and coming back to this it’s just sad, I know the combat systems are quite different but rangers shouldn’t be just spamming 1 and hoping for the best because that’s boring and completely ruins a class with so much potential. Longbow is similar in this case but it’s skills actually do something so it’s not nearly as bad. I just want to be able to range DPS stuff from a distance, have fun while doing it and be a valuable asset to my team whether it be PvP/WvW or PvE.

infantrydiv.1620:

evilapprentice.6379:

infantrydiv.1620:

Basically, very skilled top tier players learned how to use S/D to avoid almost all burst while dealing significant damage.

On the flip side, very, very bad players complained about very bad perma-stealth players ganking them in WvW

But, thieves are not really getting nerfed because they are getting a 33% higher base initiative regen. These changes are good for the class in general in my opinion. We might even see the return of d/d to competitive play with the improved initiative regen

They also lowered Initative regen traits (understandably), without adding anything to them to make them interesting or useful (the part that doesn’t make any sense).

Common thief specs (10/30/0/30/0 and 10/30/0/0/30) aren’t going to see much difference in their init regeneration, because opportunist and kleptomaniac are bland, boring, subpar minor traits, and no one is going to slot Quick recovery unless they do something to make it not awful.

It does potentially open up some other specs that avoid worthless init based traits (which means less than 15 points in CS and trickery, very popular trait lines at the moment), but we won’t know that until the new meta stabilizes (assuming all those changes make it into the patch).

The perma-stealth change wasn’t a nerf – IMO permastealth was against the spirit of the game, the way the dev’s designed stealth, and I’m glad to see it. The 1/4s cast time on Inf return sounds like it’ll kill sword, but again we’ll have to see.

They did nothing to address Death blossom, how useless P/P is in general, and their PW “Fix” seems more like a bandaid then a real fix – on paper, it’s mostly nerfs coming to thief.

The only bright point is that 30 acro specs have a buffed Assassins reward to look forward too, and since no one in their right mind will be using quick recovery, You’ll probably see alot of thieves running assassins reward and pain response. New sundering strikes also seems like it’s finally well designed, and being in DA in a bonus because DA needs traits worth taking, but it’s nothing to jump for joy over.

I’m not sure how hard the Opportunist nerf will hit us really when paired with the new +33% initiative regen. Thieves obviously still have lots of useless traits.

It’s clear to me at this point that converting Unload to a condition based attack and converting Death Blossom to power would open up a ton of possibilities for thief in general.

Personally I’d like to see Death blossom keep it’s short evade frame but deal aoe damage of around 800 per crit on a glass cannon thief (for a total of around 2k damage). This would give D/D more survivability and finally a complete weapon kit.

For unload, I’d like to see this attack changed basically to something similar to Sneak Attack (5 bleeds, some power damage). Then I’d like to see the stealth attack changed to a 600 range attack which deals burning damage. Torment could be substituted for either of these attacks too if it was hard to balance burning.

So basically you want thieves to be spamming 3, you’re probably the same type of person that played spirit ranger & is now playing warrior.

I think it’d be way too strong in PvP & only bring more imbalance which is the biggest of problem in PvP

I’ve been reporting them for scamming because they’ve scammed me out of a game hah, but i’ll start reporting for botting.

I know alot of you are searching for ways to transfer your glory – gold or want some sort of system implemented, well this isn’t anything Huge but it’s a start. You can talk to a Glory Vendor and buy special boxes that correspond to the latest Living story update & opening them rewards you with a limited-time finisher (toxic finisher) and a few of the new crafting materials that are worth a decent amount of silver. You can only buy 5 boxes per day but I believe this is finally a start onto something we’ve all wanted for so long!

After a few days of playing it my leaderboards status is just ruined, I know leaderboards dont mean much but that’s really the only thing keeping me solo queue’ing is trying to get #1. I was usually around a 100-200 player but since this i’ve dropped drastically to 400+ and I cant win a game dieing at every point I go to.

At first I thought this was due to the WvW seasons but even when I play at timezones where WvW is mostly dead in NA Solo queue matches lag quite alot. I’m sure it’s not on my end as every other aspect of the game works fine even running around in the mists after a game I have no lag but when i’m in a game I get weird lag spikes. Has anyone else noticed this ?

Instead of rabbits what if you had the animal of your PvP rank wondering around :O people would definitely want dragon & pheonix rank. (flying sharks for shark rank!?!?)

You’re probably just pulling a baddie move & trying to rez yourself with someone attacking you, it takes max 40 seconds after going down to actually die. It’s not hard to not push any buttons….

Ever since the WvW seasons have started there’s no doubt the lag has affected more than just WvW. I myself have stopped solo queue’ing all together until they come up with a fix or just different servers for the different game modes. But there are still quite a few players hopping around on the leaderboards so i’m curious, how are you dealing with it?

Ok so now that the WvW seasons have kicked off, skill lag as been unbearable and my server (Blackgate) are ever-so disrespectful to any opposing server we face, not to mention we’re the zergiest of the zergy servers (Without any question). I’m frankly quite tired of the same waiting in queue for 2 hours in queue, only to zerg and have 50v2 fights over a tower then say how easy it was then get wiped by anything remotely close to our numbers. So i’m thinking about transferring to a lower tier server (NSP or GoM). I recall reading somewhere that if i transfer I wont get the WvW season meta-achievment for the server i’m currently playing on. Is this true? And is transferrign to med/low pop. severs still free? Any additional facts (if there are any) about the season achievment would be appreciated

Ok so since Solo queue has been introduced i’ve thought it was quite fun and play it more then anything else in this game but one thing I cant just get over is how there is no sound made when your queue pops. I’ve afk’d countless times and only alt-tabbing back into the game to see it’s 50% over or we’ve already lost. Why do I do this you might ask? There’s nothing to do. When i’m in queue I usually alt-tab, check the gw2 reddit or maybe even the forums so when my queue pops how the hell am i supposed to know? I DONT. “well dont alt tab hurdur” What do you expect me to do for 15 minutes? Stand around in the dullest place in the game(HotM)? And since the WvW seasons have started the WvW queue’s are atleast an hour in the middle of the day so what am i to do?

Some of your guys’s suggestions are disgusting lol, sorry but it’s true. Gems as a currency !?!? Gems are Anet’s currency they’re able to use & make a bit of profit off of and I doubt they’re wanting to distribute more of them, that’d be just silly of them.

Now for my suggestions:

- PvP reward Skins based on rank for WvW/PvE (rabbit,deer,dolyak,wolf,tiger): I know these would take a long time to create but I totally think it’d be worth it!

-Rewards for winning a match: Honestly, I was ecstatic when i found out i’d be getting 5 ToT bags for every solo queue win but after halloween something like 15s per win is all good with me ^^

-Different reward amounts for different types of PvP: hotjoin probably shouldn’t be very rewarding but solo queue should be a step up, then after that the rewards should behigher, making people Want to create a tPvP team.

-A way of acquiring XP: Honestly, I just want this implemented more than ever.I have no idea how it could be implemented without causing some sort of problem but that’s for you to figure out Anet

Bugs? Ranger doesn’t have as many bugs as many other classes, rangers are just a terribly designed class :\

Paladine.2569:

Howell Qagan.9752:

Sell the ToT bags, buy skin from the money you get. Think. Harder. Next. Time. Please. Before writing anything.

Edit: favourite part is where you have been playing gw2 for years. In plural.

Well, maybe you should take your own advice.
The cheapest skin costs 43 gold, which requires a grand total of 1632 bags at current prices, or 323 tournament wins.

Not to mention that your advocating the idea that we were getting punished for the event by losing out on regular rewards in favor of rewards not even geared for the right game mode is hilarious, haha.

Don’t be so acerbic in your posts. It doesn’t do much for you, especially when your argument is so laughably misguided.

You really need to re-read your post before posting. He’s going against OP not agreeing with him. He’s simply stating if you sell the ToT bags you make profit which is good, whereas OP is against this.

Sorry for the inconvienence? WHAT?!?!?!? This is finally what we’ve been wanting and you’re “Sorry”? I make 12s per win and even a few silver for losing a solo queue match, I dont know who in their right mind would take a few skins you already have and will never touch over actual winnings & even a chance at endless halloween tonics if you open them! I think this was a great idea intended or not I love it <3

The warrior being “OP” wasn’t from some huge nerf. Someone just found a build that worked very well against almost everything else. That’s the thing alot of people dont seem to see. Anet doesn’t make the meta the players do. Warrior & S/D thief have been the exact same as they are now the people just took some time experimenting builds & finally after they strike gold everyone says Anet does a bad job at balancing their game. I feel that’s just a lack of true interest by most people.

Something like this should’ve been in place since the release of the game. Nothing kitten es me off more towards the gw2 than when they start pointing out certain devs/designers saying it’s their fault for ____ and they’re just treated with such disprespect, it’s disgusting.

Oh god the suspicion… Devs are just eating this up >.>

It has been stated that they will disable the Bloodlust buff in obsidian sanctum.

The first rule of the forums is that you NEVER listen to the forums. These people dont know what they’re talking about 90% of the time. The only thing i’d suggest is trying it and if you like it, play it. Yes bunker ele doesn’t have as much dps as a warrior but it has a kittenload more aoe heals and team support & survivability.

I’m just getting more and more excited for the oct 15 patch now!

It’s been a day, & It’s still broken. SoR did this didn’t they? Those cheeky kittens. Please fix this though…

Idk why but Anet likes to think adding a little peice of land with an insanely overpowered buff inside would fix all their problems and keep up happy until they actually tend to the true WvW problems if ever. “MOAR DMG” – Anet on every patch ever

Ok so it works nicely to have 15 vs 1 in a small area but other then that I hate it. It encourages small-medium guilds to run around and slay 3 people at a time until the enemy brings in 30+ to kill them. I personally hate it but the BL bloodlust is kinda cool, WvW was so balanced before this is definitely what was needed to fix it all right? “Moar DMG” -Anet on every patch ever

redslion.9675:

First advice: use Rune of Melandru.

-25% stun time means Skull Crack will stun you for 3 seconds, right?

Last time I played, to swap weapons you need 0.5 seconds (seems like a bit of “lag”, even if IMHO it shouldn’t be removed) If Skull Crack only lasts 3 seconds, warriors have only 2.5 seconds of 100 blades. Remember that the most of the damage is dealt by the last part of it. It will probably be around 50% damage reduction.

This means Skull Crack -> Hundred Blades combo will be much less effective.

Alas I have no idea about universal ways to kill them faster that are as easy as this.

So you’re using a whole new rune set just for one single build….

Anet just doesn’t care about this game, they’re too busy making a stupid world boss harder so people grind their eye’s out trying to kill it thus resulting in more play time. as far as PvP and WvW in this game it’s as unbalanced as possible. I’ve never played an MMO with such a stubborn dev team for PvP it’s really dissapointing because this game has so much potential

I know this has been posted hundreds of times and I know how sick alot of you are of seeing this being posted but Anet needs to know how serious of a problem this is. Try running a small tactical group with 3 queue’d servers. That’s what makes alot of people just give up and go blob vs. blob

Whaaaat? How is 40% more condi duration not balanced? forcing your enemy to buy food or just get kitten on seems pretty balanced to me.

I’ve just quit after this last patch, the one thing i loved in this game was the roaming. Now everyone seems to want to roam with 10-15 people in the ruins so I either spend an hour running around looking for a fight or get zerged trying to fight in the ruins.

Muffie’s been rockin this build in PvP for atleast 2 or 3 months :P

Sounds like you just got outplayed son