Guild Wars 2

Craven.5468:

Joey.3928:

Basically what you said is Elementalist is too hard to play. Elementalists do not do crap damage. They are just hard to play. It doesn’t mean they are weak or bad. They are very complex.

I agree that you can drastically improve an elementalist output by merely learning to combo your own fields and doing them intentionally (not just whenever CDs are rdy). Spot on.

THANK YOU sir. I am tired of people saying a class is weak because they aren’t two dimensional when taking said class to a competitive scene.

I use both in every type of gameplay. I love all the skills each weapon offers and I use them all depending on what is happening.

Basically what you said is Elementalist is too hard to play. Elementalists do not do crap damage. They are just hard to play. It doesn’t mean they are weak or bad. They are very complex.

Anonymous.6935:

Joey.3928:

With Guild Wars 2, I can take my lvl 2 character into sPvP and there is absolutely no difference between me and that other guy. If I win, it is because I am better than him. Not because he was able to spend x amount of time in game and have better stats than me.

It’s not all like that at the moment though, there’s only four maps with one game mode at the moment, and unless you like playing the same thing over and over and over and over again with no variation what so ever, then fair play to you!

Also depends what character you are in PVP at the moment, it’s just not balanced. I for one when playing a Elementalist in the past have a much harder time to do anything, yet playing a Thief, not only do I do more damage than the Elementalist, you can actually quite literally just repeatedly press the number 2 button to do the heartseeker move and do just as well! No need to tell me to learn to play, i’ve tried every character, and for the time and effort along with the amount of damage you can achieve with them, there are others which are just better than others. Hence why the majority of people I saw were Warriors or Thieves.

I kill every thief I see as a ranger. Elementalist is probably the most complex class to play imo. You are basically switching between 4 weapons. The Elementalist’s strength comes from swapping attunements. If you are playing it just in Fire magic and are expecting to nuke down everyone you see, it isn’t fair to say it is unbalanced.

If you play like that, you aren’t playing the class wrong. You just are not playing it to its full potential.

the uprising.6317:

Anonymous.6935:

Joey.3928:

With Guild Wars 2, I can take my lvl 2 character into sPvP and there is absolutely no difference between me and that other guy. If I win, it is because I am better than him. Not because he was able to spend x amount of time in game and have better stats than me.

It’s not all like that at the moment though, there’s only four maps with one game mode at the moment, and unless you like playing the same thing over and over and over and over again with no variation what so ever, then fair play to you!

Also depends what character you are in PVP at the moment, it’s just not balanced. I for one when playing a Elementalist in the past have a much harder time to do anything, yet playing a Thief, not only do I do more damage than the Elementalist, you can actually quite literally just repeatedly press the number 2 button to do the heartseeker move and do just as well! No need to tell me to learn to play, i’ve tried every character, and for the time and effort along with the amount of damage you can achieve with them, there are others which are just better than others. Hence why the majority of people I saw were Warriors or Thieves.

Bro LoL has basically 1 map and has limitless replay value. The problem is that 8v8’s SUCK and are major zerg fests. You get the most points if you just stick with the zerg… why can’t we play 5v5 outside of tournies??

You are actually completely wrong. I can speak from experience. If I am facing an enemy team who just zerg points. We always win. Splitting up and capping AND DEFENDING points is how you win.

Guild Wars eventually had the option to rename your character, change genders, redo hair etc.

I can see them doing the same thing for gw2.

Anonymous.6935:

Valkyrie, wow! Just wow! I feel like not even bothering to post on these forums anymore, due to the fact that you put everything so clearly and into great detail. Again I agree with you 100%! Nothing wrong with some facts along with some justified constructive criticism – despite many others who will most likely completely disagree with them and suggest everything is all good and dandy the way things are.

Because it is very subjective. I am a lvl 45 ranger and I feel like things are amazing in the game. Yet there are others who think everything is so terribly wrong.

All I know is, this game works for me. All the other mmo’s I have played I ended up quitting. Why? Because of time commitment. I am a PvP guy. I never liked the fact that I have to be put in a gear grind in order to be competitive with other players.

I would play the game, have fun doing PvP working towards better gear. Then I would stop playing because that is just not fun. I don’t have the time to grind for gear in order to even play with the big boys.

With Guild Wars 2, I can take my lvl 2 character into sPvP and there is absolutely no difference between me and that other guy. If I win, it is because I am better than him. Not because he was able to spend x amount of time in game and have better stats than me.

The first Guild Wars did not have an end game either. It was very much structured like this.

Elite PvE areas where people go to get items/materials to craft elite gear.

Many PvP game types where people can make a PvP character without doing any PvE.

Heck, all my cousin has done is sPvP. Literally that is it. All he does are tournaments.

I played Guild Wars for 6 years. On and off. The game is meant to be enjoyed very differently than a WoW style MMO.

What is it about the dungeons you do not like? And what would you like to see instead?

Also, I think the options for PvP are more than enough. sPvP and WvW are very different types of play and both require a totally different play style and tactic.

Not sure what else you would want. Open world PvP ganking?

I agree I would like to see some sort of chat function. Or at least making the color of player names correspond to what side they are on. That alone would make things better I think.

I can speak from experience that trying to rally your own server along with the other losing one is extremely difficult. I did my best to get IoJ and SoS to band together when we faced ET with minimal success last matchup. Some people listened, most did not either because they didn’t want to or they never heard me to begin with.

I kind of like the challenge of trying to make alliances work and I feel all of that would be stripped away if we were all able to talk to one another in game.

I honestly think changing the color of player names is best option.

As long as they have the resources to devote to making a Halloween event happen.

If they do, it will surely be great. I absolutely loved the holiday events in GW1. They were always very fun.

I honestly don’t have a problem with the utility skills I bring.

Muddy terrain is awesome even though it is currently not on my skill bar.

Protect me is just amazing.

I also really like the signet that removes all conditions when you activate it. It is very useful to me.

I love the raining arrows from barrage. Also, I love the animation for rapid fire.

Jormag is like the size of a mountain so it makes sense why everything would be so different.

Stalkarn.1329:

I miss them too! There are too few skills that effects your bow. Well there are spirits but they die before they are summoned in dungeons. No offense ANet you are realy great at making games but I think the ranger in gw1 was much funnier to play with. You ad more choises with ranger in gw1. You could use preparations (yaay) and deside if you wanted to take your pet with you (oops sry, off topic).

I think the ranger has a lot more choices of playstyle in gw2 than the first by far.

Level 43 Ranger. 10/10

Tropheus.7436:

Its rather annoying to be a shiny good guy as is everyone else. Cant be a merc looking for payday, cant be a real necromancer, cant be an assassin. Sure the mainstream world is about saving the day, but where are the profiteers, where are the people who work for themselves for their own benefit. I much more enjoy the greys, than the flat white and only white, the only black are the bad guys in game. Its the greys that make a compelling storyline. EQ1 is the only game so far that I have played that really does the bad guys right and makes the game make sense. You have the good races and the bad races, and some that have both in one. The white, black, and greys. Having just the white, and only the whites makes the overall fairly dull. I will play it a bit more and see if I can get anything out of it, but right now I am rather bummed.

Whats the deal with the so called dynamic combat system thats so revolutionary? It still seems exactly like any other mmo. Auto-attack with some bonus powers. Have designers not figured out that that mode of combat is <yawn> … sorry just woke up, was talking about combat, right? Really, Skyrim and the Elder Scrolls series(oddly enough they are de-evolving the online version back to akittenauto-attack system) and to a lesser extent Tera are the only games to evolve combat to a fun and interactive experience that actually involves some skill and not a mind numbing auto-attack and wait for battle to be over type game. Hello designers, it isnt 1998 anymore. We can go outside the box and have a little more interactiveness in a game. A target reticule for shooting and figuring out where the target is in relation to your weapons reach isnt new or hard to program, I think Wolfenstein did it 20 years ago.

Sorry just a rant on the inability of mmorpgs to evolve into something more interactive and less boring. The capability is totally there but the designers refuse to use it for some reason. grrr

Are there any RP servers?

idk man. The combat in this game is pretty action orientated. It depends a lot on position. If I’m firing my arrows at a target and someone or something gets in my line of fire, my arrows will stop hitting my initial target. (Without piercing arrows of course)

Plus you can dodge any attack. Not just circles on the ground. If you time it right you will ‘evade’ attacks.

Just give it time. I am a 6 yr vet of gw1 as well. You had 6 years to perfect the first game. Just give this one time and you will understand it more.

The game is vastly different/new/complex compared to the first.

GW1 was my first online rpg

I noticed in the PvP locker, there is cultural armor slots. How does one get it to be used in PvP?

R E F L H E X.8413:

The mesmer has to have portal on his skillbar to do this. Both teams can bring a mesmer.

A bigger problem in spvp is one team doing 99% of the damage to a svanir and then any class can run up and steal the kill taking the rewards from the other teams efforts.

It would be like giving the ability to steal flags from flag runners in gw1. And then steal it when he’s about to cap it not even having a flag runner on your team. Not a very good example but I think you get the point. One team doesn’t even need a flag runner while the other team took the time to run it and just got the flag stolen right before he capped it, taking credit for his run and credit for the characters dedication to flag running.

I love kill stealing the npc bosses. You just have to pay attention to people like me who are sneaking up on your attack.

I was killing one of the bosses and an enemy player came into the fray. I had to keep him back while still fighting the npc. I see nothing wrong with this…

I picked a Norn for Eir. I read the two books and she was my favorite character.

I hated how I constantly had to reapply my preps in GW1. Taking that elite to make them last longer was always so appealing, but I didn’t want to give up my elite slot for it.

I personally do not miss them as much as I loved “Read The Wind”.

Depends on what you wanna do. I recommend looking here: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc

So what those 10 pts will give you and which traits will work for you best.

Well. Do you want to be a glass cannon ranger? Meaning purely offense with no or very limited survivability? If so, power and precision is what you want.

You then would pick traits and utility skills that would help you deal that damage.

There really isn’t a “This is the best build to run for dps”. Everything is situational and depends on your playstyle.

I for one am focusing on power/toughness/vitality in that order. I want survivability and don’t care about crit or burst damage. Thus my traits and utility skills and weapon choices reflect that.

Hope that helps.

P.S. I would pick traits specifically for what they do. Don’t worry about gaining that +200 to power or whatever. Pick traits that fit how you want to play your ranger.

mangocheesecake.1487:

Cosine.7841:

Another idea when outmanned: Deploy a cattlepult at your spawn that will shoot you to a random location in the zone (that is not directly on top of a capture point). This will make organizing a little difficult but cattlepults are fun and it stops spawn camping.

there are 3 exits out of spawn, just so you know

(But it would be nice to flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy~~)

Exactly. I always see people going straight and fighting a mob of enemies right outside spawn. meanwhile I go a DIFFERENT exit and take a camp.

I like the armor repair where it is. It definitely makes me play smarter. I also think the commander cost is good where it is.

Death Aggro.9602:

And thats how Anet gets our money. And still gives us nothing. Gotta pay for the game and storage and bags. The currency is so deflated it takes forever to make enough gold to buy the gems without using real money. And you have to unlock bag space on every alt. Way to rip me off Anet. BAG SPACE!!! LMAO! Talk about greed. What you give us isnt enough to do anything without needing a merchant every 3 minutes. But i guess thats why you sell them in your gem store……..

They are a business like any other. This is their job. They are offering a way for you to unlock those extra slots through gold and not just with real currency. I already spent $30 in the gem store and I bought the collector’s edition.

Maybe it is because I work in the game industry, but you have to understand they need to feed their families too..

I personally use longbow for what the skills do and not how much damage I am pumping out. I am currently using longbow/shortbow and I am loving it in WvW.

Longbow skill #4 (point blank shot) is probably my favorite. I have killed many people by knocking them off a cliff. My all time favorite thing to do though is use it on an enemy when they are trying to finish off a downed ally. Can’t tell you how many times I have rescued allies from death because of this tactic.

Wish I could help right now, but I am at work. This is when I dislike having responsibilities as an adult :P

Rainsfords.7419:

You know ET’s just gonna take it all back in a few hours, right?

There is no quit to be found here sir.

I for one am trying to rally people of my server in whatever map I am in to ally with the other losing server.

I do not give up and enjoy the challenge.

Me with some friends I made last night

It didn’t last long as people on both sides attacked each other, but it was fun. Going to try my best at this tomorrow. I have more people on SoS wanting to work together now.

I will not be online today, but tomorrow I will do my best to lead IoJ forces with you Jedahs.

I will add you to friends list so we can chat in game.

This image is proof we can work together! Not all of us IoJ people are bad

Well I managed to gather some SoS allies. The list keeps growing. Add me in game and we can all try to make this work.

Ok, but you can’t blame the whole server for the actions of some idiotic people. I can assure you that TONIGHT. I will do everything in my power to assure cooperation between our servers.

I wish I could be online 24/7, so I can only promise you that tonight Whichever map I am in, I will do everything I can to let our side know NOT to attack red invaders.

I want us to split each map 50/50. I want ET wiped off the maps.

What do you mean? Did IoJ turn on you or something? You can’t blame the whole server for something like that. My intentions are honorable I assure you.

Need more people! PM me in game!

PM me in these forums (or in game). I have an offer for you. It’s time we make a stand.

Well I will probably be in a borderland tonight and I will advise my server (as best I can) to NOT kill red invaders. We need to work together to push back this green monster.

Well I’m not giving up. I will be in WvW in a few hours and will do everything I can for Isle of Janthir!

buzzkapow.8465:

The situation on SoS/IoJ/ET is getting worse and worse. I’ve never seen a map this empty of allies, and so full of enemies. What the heck is ET doing with nobody to attack? It would explain why i just got zerged at our supply camp and stomped by 15+ guys.

I’m currently at work, but just wait ’till I get home. We will send ET runnin :P

My friend and I are rangers and us two can take supply camps easily and hold off enemy players pretty well.

Problem is off peak hours for you are not the same for oceanic people. There really isn’t a simple solution to this other than forming alliances outside the game.

How about instead of whining about it, you go in and HELP. My small group did some damage last night for IoJ.

You just need to coordinate with EVERYONE. Boycotting isn’t helping at all and is just making it worse. Sad to see you would rather give up without trying though.

People on IoJ and SoS need to team up. I met one SoS enemy in the field and we waved at each other.

I saw another later and waved and then 10+ SoS killed me -_-

We need to work together to overthrow ET.

If something like this is done, all the costs would have to be re-balanced.

People LITERALLY do chase you across the map for a kill. I’m always the one running and I’m just like SERIOUSLY?! Why are 10 people chasing me right now.

Yea no. I’m only lvl 29 and WvW is what I do most.

I used to do longbow/sword and horn, but today i decided to do longbow/shortbow. So far I like it.

I like the cripple/evade on the shortbow. I think it will work well for me.

Just depends what you want to do with your ranger. Traits offer passives and stuff like that to compliment your playstyle. Just look on the wiki at what the traits are and decide which ones seems most interesting to you.

Don’t worry so much about getting the points. Like Marksmanship offers points to power for example. You will be getting all those stats from gear. So I would pick the trait lines that offer you the best traits for your style of play.