Guild Wars 2

Maybe I misunderstood something about how infusion works, but pets always have 0 Agony Resistance even if I have 30?

Please give Ranger pets some sort of Agony resistance. Thank you!

Hi ANET. As a GW1 veteran, I really hope you bring back Kamadan in the Elona expansion. Thanks!

Relevant: Allow Rangers to permanently stow their pet. When running advanced tactics in dungeons, I do not want to mess up agro if I’m hit.

My supposedly baddass Charr… Farts Chocobos when hit… Moas…

Robert Hrouda.1327:

If it is any consolation I am on scale 22 and have accrued over1600 fractal tokens and not yet gotten a ring either. It is RNG with the Jade Maw.

We are exploring alternatives to the current system.

Hi Robert. Very pleased to read your response. Fractals is an amazing dungeon, mostly held back only the RNG of rings.

I really like the post above me by Ensign however. Randomness is sometimes a fun thing. It’s the feeling of hitting a brick wall and lack of progression that sucks. That brick wall is the difference between randomness and “rng” when the term is used negatively.

In short, a feeling of progression is always nice. DoA in GW1 did things perfectly where you had both random gem rewards and endchests. It also was not limited by a silly thing like “daily” which kills the fun of players who like to grind.

Not one, but TWO Rangers at FoTM lvl 54! Can’t be that bad, especially when his attacks deal 2000 dmg at 1500 range, can it?

If any fellow enthusiastic Rangers wanna party with me or level with me, pm “Dalal Kruschev” ingame (my Charr Ranger!)

And what do I see there? Not one, but two Rangers! This has inspired me to continue leveling my Rangers despite what the naysayers say!

Good job!

(Nice music choice btw…)

I would really like to reiterate my point that if you look at the individual Fractal designs, they are how to design a dungeon the right way. Please take this comment to heart, as myself and many others in the community are extraordinarily pleased with the individual designs of the fractals! Give yourselves a pat on the back, and please look at them for reference when designing future dungeons!

I also hope ANET does not forget about the “Mini-Dungeons”, as they have Silver mobs very difficult to solo, and the endchest rewards from them are very disappointing. It’s also very disappointing how ignored they went by the community after WoodenPotatoes hyped them in his “jumping puzzle” videos (despite many of them NOT involving very many jumping!)

Drew.1865:

Kain Francois.4328:

Increased rewards we can PROFIT from. Increase loot as we progress in a dungeon, and make longer dungeons like CoE more profitable.

Reduce some BS in some dungeons which force us to “cheat” by abusing terrain. Such as Arah P3 where we jump on the urchins to kill the Ranger/Warrior duo. It’s annoying to fight the Ranger while dodging a Warrior who can OHKO the team. There’s also the hoops we have to go through standing on a cliff in SE path 1 to avoid mobs when trying to kill the Golem.

If you want to look for good dungeon design, see Fractals of the Mists. The foes have great loot and they’re all able to be completed in 15 minutes with a competent team. The mobs are not too powerful either, and can be soloed. They do not 2KO either like mobs in AC can do to a level 35.

Oh you must mean even more rewards than the 3 gold I made running cof and AC this morning. Yeah 3 gold for having fun seems a little low NOT.
3 gold and I got to kill Kholer = fun times :-)

Actually I’m referring to the super-long dungeons we don’t profit from, like CoE and Arah. Especially Arah.

AC is fine. CoF P1+2 is fine. SE P3 is good. And HotW would be good if bosses did not take forever to kill.

Increased rewards we can PROFIT from. Increase loot as we progress in a dungeon, and make longer dungeons like CoE more profitable.

Reduce some BS in some dungeons which force us to “cheat” by abusing terrain. Such as Arah P3 where we jump on the urchins to kill the Ranger/Warrior duo. It’s annoying to fight the Ranger while dodging a Warrior who can OHKO the team. There’s also the hoops we have to go through standing on a cliff in SE path 1 to avoid mobs when trying to kill the Golem.

If you want to look for good dungeon design, see Fractals of the Mists. The foes have great loot and they’re all able to be completed in 15 minutes with a competent team. The mobs are not too powerful either, and can be soloed. They do not 2KO either like mobs in AC can do to a level 35.

However, as my overall feedback, reduce boss health. It should not take so long as it does to kill Butcher. When you AFK during a boss and auto your 1 skill, that is NOT good design!

It makes me scratch my head why ANET took the direction of longer boss fights in general? In GW1, Shiro was the perfect boss… Then we were introduced to Dhuum… Not only did Dhuum take forever to kill, but most teams had to jump through hoops with Resurrection Scrolls… AND he was at the end of 2-3 hour dungeon where wiping meant failing!

Stop the forever-boss fights, and stop making us jump through hoops!

However, I would like to highlight the Sovereign Eye of Zhaitan as an amazing, memorable solo boss fight, and Dredge Powersuit for groups. Yes, the Dredge Powersuit! Because he requires team co-ordination to pour lava and interrupt his heal, but he isn’t too difficult once you learn him.

Hey all. It seems they nerfed The Steel Tide farm. You get not only no drops, but no experience for this story quest!

Anyone have other ideas what personal story quests to farm? Maybe the one with the tanks?

So I was bug-hunting Malchor’s Leap in an attempt to get past the current. What I found surprised me!

Somewhat near [Versoconjouring Waypoint], around the top left area of the map when it just first starts to get dark, I was suddenly warped UNDERNEATH the portal to Malchor’s Leap inside some water.

I wasn’t able to get a screenshot however. But I certainly do not believe we’re intended to swim beneath Malchor’s Leap.. Please fix it. Thanks!

CalGarith.6517:

Agadar.4931:

You can also trait into having 2 seconds of quickness whenever you swap pets in combat. That would be every 20 seconds if I’m not mistaken.

When in combat i think its 60 seconds. Everything else is very right, if you have a ranger Reroll for your safety.

Oh come on, Rangers can’t be that bad, right? I only deal 300 average dmg each hit with the Engineer’s Pistol 1… Engineers are locked into 1 viable build (Grenades)

I would like a Jingle Moa, in GW traditions.

To be honest, I do not believe the devs are that bad, and I certainly do not believe they are “discriminating” against Ranger.

However, due to the wonky balance of Rangers in a game where Warriors can use all the weapons of Ranger and more (save for Shortbow), I do understand they’re very cautious about their replies because everything they say goes on the Dev Tracker!

Hey guys. I’m a new Charr Ranger here. I previously mained a Warrior and got tired of Engineer. I found Ranger who so far felt like Warrior but still felt different enough to keep me entertained.

Anyone have tips for PvE+Dungeons/Fractals? And is this the right class for me? I was looking for a DPS-profession, and although people said otherwise about the Ranger, their DPS didn’t really seem all that bad when I tested it in the mists.

What SHOULD my role be in the team? I heard Ranger pets could efficiently tank Old Tom in Uncategorized Fractal, as well as allow you to skip much of the Volcano fractal.

What weapons do you recommend using? So far Axe seems godsent for general PvE and areas with dense mobs. I’m also interested how Sword allows you to “chase” foes and hop around, but is it really that bad of a weapon? What about Greatsword? Is longbow our only decent weapon?

Utilities? Spirits seem to be pretty decent

Traits? (For DPS? And for Dungeons?) The one I tested in the mists is 20/30/20. Is Beastmastery worth investing in wahtsoever?

What about pets? Currently I’m fond of the Red Moa because it reminds me of Warrior who has on-demand, near perma-fury. Is Fury worth trying to upkeep with Warhorn too?

Swiftness for open-world PvE? Just the warhorn or any other decent sources you recommend?

Elite skill? Rampage As One seems like an inferior version of Signet of Fury with much higher cooldown.. Is it worth investing in the other elites? Spirit of Nature heals+res worthwhile? Or Entangle good on ranged bosses who cannot hit the vines? (I’m Charr, by the way.)

Runes? Ruby Orb? What stats do you use on your armor?

I also hear Rangers excel at Quickness? Explain. It involves GZ and a trait? Is it really worth using?

And just overall tips for a new Charr Ranger? Is this class for me if I want a DPS-alt to Warrior? Thanks!

It’s the presentation of Trahearne that bothers me more than anything else. Tyblt dies, and suddenly Trahearne is my best friend?

He had virtually no character development. Which is a big shame because as a character he had a lot of potential, and I do see what they were trying to go for with a modest scholar building his confidence and becoming an inspiring leader.

However, the timing and development of his role in the story was very rushed, and we hadn’t been able to appreciate the “scholarly” side of Trahearne enough to care about him becoming our partner in command.

Furthermore, although his role had changed in the story, his personality did not, and he always sounded so… Wooden… With the exception of one scene in a later Personal Story mission where you’re shown a vision of Orr and Trahearne makes a speech about Zhaitan being a coward.

I really appreciate that one good scene with Trahearne, but everything else felt rushed and Trahearne himself felt effortless.

Something I really like currently about the Fractals dungeon is the sheer amount of lore and storytelling without actually much storytelling. Rather, it tells lore through landscapes at different periods of time.

This is relevant with the Colossus where you see him released at Cliffside fractal, but you also see statues of him underwater with graves below their feet and on their chests. And people really wonder WHO and WHY they built those statues?

I really that style of open-ended, fragmented story-telling which jumps back and forth like it does.

I hope ArenaNet considers more fragmented storytelling for Fractals in the future that we as the player could each interpret in our own way. It really makes the experience that much more memorable!

Bugged here too. Northern Shiverpeaks. It’s really odd since it’s been in this exact state for weeks.Something is off with Packheart either not spawning or going completely off the map.

For the farmers: Try to replace it with fail-assaults on Arah or just plain kill every mob you see.

From my experience, AOEing the darn seal still works, albeit it has more “health”.

Psybunny.8906:

I got a ring on my first try, most of my guildies on 2nd, some still haven’t gotten it.
RNG is RNG, no need for threads like this.

RNG is not RNG because many players get zero period. Zero period for so many players seems a little off. So I’m just asking them to make sure it’s working properly.

It has been 7 days so far. For 7 days in a row, I got NOTHING from my Fractal daily at level 10. Meanwhile every other party member gets one nearly every run.

Others on the forum have similar complaints.

This has convinced me that something is potentially wrong with the drops because it’s not just a low drop rate but ZERO drop rate!

There for I would like to make a call for ANET to re-examine the system, just to see if its working, and maybe apply a hotfix if it is not.

This is not a complaint thread per se’. Rather I am kindly asking ANET to please just double check the system to make sure its working as intended and apply any hotfixes as needed.

Thanks!

Hi. Just want to know if the ponytail male Norn hairstyle was always like this, or only since the latest build?

It was the only hairstyle I liked, but I don’t know if this is temporary or always was like this…

Every pug I go with gives me a different strategy for the Volcano Fractal. While I’m not going to say which side fails to prevent the boss from healing, I am curious what are other people’s strategies for the final boss of the Volcano fractal?

My question is if they plan to revert this? Jumping use to be fun… Now it’s b0rked.

Hi. If I do a FoTM daily on one character, can I do it again on an alt for another chance at a ring? Thanks!

smapty.4270:

Engineer IS op… and has been since day 1. If you don’t think so come spend some time with me in the mists and watch me make the other classes look foolish (and I don’t play a cookie cutter build). If you learn the class and its strengths you can top the leader boards without fail… Engineer is a very solid class and those who say otherwise need to spend some time learning the intricricies of the class or just re roll to a fotm.

-Sterno Lecturo
80 engineer – Sorrow’s Furnace

Teach me your ways. All my damage is no way comparable to my Warrior and without epic support options I feel useless in dungeons and fractals.

When do I get Ascended rings? I’ve grinded Fractals level 10 for about 6 days now with no success of a ring, let alone the ones I wanted (Crystalline or Red Ring)

I’m just curious about the statistics here. Someone else got 6 rings within his 10 runs: [ Ouroboros Loop] [Rurik’s Royal Signet Ring] [Royal Signet of Doric] [Crystalline Band] [Red Ring of Death]

Whereas I had 0 after each time I beat the Jaw Maw. I just got tokens and some gold. I’m wondering what I did wrong, if I did anything wrong? Is it bugged? What is the success rate of others?

The Charr of GW2 are really a lot more civil than the Charr of GW1 though. Whereas in GW1 they were brought up solely for war, in GW2 they involve themselves with commerce and technology. They can’t be responsible for what their ancestors did.

Story is HARDER than explorable and gives no worthwhile reward. /12characters

Warriors don’t need nerfing. Other classes need buffing. Guardians, Mesmers, and Thiefs are fine.

The workaround does work but cages are still broken. He teleports me into a cage I cannot break out of.

Ahlen.7591:

I use both P/S and P/P fairly regularly depending on the fight, and both are good. I don’t know how you could consider rifle having more utility than pistol though, it (rifle) has more damage against a single target (unless you’re abusing coated bullets, then pistol DESTROYS rifle in DPS).

Educate me. I don’t know what you mean by Coated Bullets Pistol beating Rifle for single target DPS.

And against multiple targets, I thought Coated Bullets only explodes ONCE on your target and then continues going in a line? That doesn’t seem like a big damage difference to me.

I’m really not understanding, even with your post. How can I get usefulness out of Pistol than Rifle or Kits? The only thing I see is an additional Blast Finisher from shield…

(And furthermore, on the subject of the thread, are Tankcat and Nades our only options for Fractals that are efficient?)

Raf.1078:

The engineer is an extremely playable and enjoyable class. Made even more so by taking the attitude of “How do I make this work” in spite of all that might be going wrong.

Not unlike an Engineer in RL.

No its not. A real Engineer doesn’t have to cut corners just to be on par with other professions.

I agree Engineer is very underpowered and needs changing. Our damage output is simply too low and inferior allaround to other classes outside grenade kits.

That said, the biggest problem with Engineer in my opinion is that in order to be effective with any particular weapon or kit, we’re forced to trait to it. Example: 30 into Explosives for Grenades or 30 into Inventions for Sentries.

The forced-traits locks the Engineer into very specific weapons/kits they are balanced around as opposed to Warrior who can be effective with any weapon.

That, and Pistol is a joke with 3/5 of our skills broken, missing, or just plain underpowered.

Is there something I’m just plain not understanding about P/P? I just wasted 14g to buy dual Rampager’s guns only to find out even with super high Condition damage spec I am STILL doing less damage than my Warrior!

My warrior can deal around 112 damage per bleed tic due to might stacking of FGJ+Signet of Fury, while being able to stack as many as 13-16 stacks with Rifle and around 20 with Sword. Even his Longbow can create about 7 stacks of Bleed+HUGE AoE burn!

In contrast, we have my Engineer who deals only 300 damage per 1 skill (in contrast to the 600-900 of my Warrior’s rifle), who can barely stack more than 5 stacks of bleeding, with an inaccurate version of Volley… And Static Shock (Which isn’t a bad skill but just hasn’t been handy.)

Also, is Blowtorch bugged? In PvP it deals 3 packets of damage at 200 range but only 1 in PvE… So is it bugged?

Anyways, I’m really confused by all the recommendations people are telling me to use Pistol. Does the Engineer just suck and this is just the best I can do for my team besides Grenades? Or is there something about the build I’m not understanding here? They really do suck in my opinion, and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong here.

I would like to confront Risen Tybalt, actually. Since we’re able to uncorrupt the Risen (Arah p3 spoilers) it would be very interesting to see a Zombie-Tybalt wandering about, even if just in my home instance.

However, what would they do about Sieran if Tybalt got special treatment?

So I decided to level my Engineer through fractals. Does anyone have tips or advice?

My armor is Precision+Toughness+Condition Dmg combined with Rampager’s Jewels. What weapons should I use? Rifle or Pistol? Do I ever use shield?

What traits do I consider?

Utilities? Weapon kits? When should I be using them? I also keep hearing about this “TANKCAT” build… Can someone please explain to me how it works, and if it is useful to use in fractals?

Finally, what overall build should I use in Fractals to be the best Engineer I can for my team?

Thanks!

Congratulations! Looking forward to the video!

I agree. I would REALLY love this!

The closest we have at the moment is “The Predator” legendary rifle, and it makes more laser sounds than silenced.. Da heck?

So my Sylvari’s skin is more like the stem of a plant? Not hard but not as soft as human skin? In other words, something very smooth and firm?

I’m still trying to wrap my head around what touching a Sylvari is actually like.

The fact that female town NPCs bare their midriff make me wonder whether it’s hard like wood or just how hard it really is if I were to touch it..

So this might sound like a cliche, crazy idea, but I think figured out how to salvage Trahearne and save the plot of GW2.

What if he was influencing the Pact with some sort of charisma power, and he was really serving the Nightmare Court? And that’s how he so easily became the Leader?

It sounds cliche and silly, but it opens up a few possibilities:

1. Trahearne as an antagonist. Come on, we all want to beat him up!
2. It explains how such a random “scholar” could so easily risen to power in the pact.
3. It makes ANET’s writers seem a bit more credible after building up amazing characters and dropping the ball when he is introduced.

Of course, he’s still a firstborn and the Pale Tree trusts Trahearne, and she would know if he was serving the nightmare court? So what if he always had some charismatic power he radiated unintentionally? But when he converts to the nightmare court, he uses it for evil?

Anyways, it does sound like a silly idea, but it was worth suggesting. But my suggestion is more along the lines of giving Trahearne the power of subtle charisma to influence those around him subliminally as opposed to flat out mind control.

It definitely does explain how someone so boring to the player is able to influence my character so easily. yawn

Maybe it’s the GW1-nostalgia inside of me, but I really miss the Jade Quarry map.

I feel the game mode would work very well in GW2’s mechanics, so perhaps we can upscale it and bring it back as a WvW mode?

Is my sylvari hard like wood? Or is his skin more soft, like a plant? I’ve always wondering whether or not sylvari’s skin was hard or soft…

Similarly, is the leaf-hair razor sharp? Is the branch hair an extension of the skin or more like hair, where we can cut it off and they won’t feel pain?

Elaborate what you mean portaling?

And so… IT BEGINS…. Again… (The bugging)

I would appreciate if ANET fixes these bugs ASAP since tunnel farm is many GW players’ endgame farm.

I haven’t touched my Engineer for awhile, and when I do, I always use grenades. Well I’m tired of grenades…

So then I discovered a little something in PvP called the lightning bolt whenever an engineer uses his tool belt, specifically the Rifle Turret tool belt.

My question is whether or not such a build is viable for high DPS builds in dungeons? And should I use rifle or pistol/pistol? How should I spec my traits and armor?

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

Kain Francois.4328:

You can mystic forge other infusion pieces which add stuff like +5 precision and such.

Does this mean you should always do the offensive infusion? Could you explain this in more detail?

Well… For example:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Precise_Infusion

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Infusion

You can mystic forge other infusion pieces which add stuff like +5 precision and such.

Trahearne’s VA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSUsXYcQ5qA

Surprisingly famous!

Perhaps an oversight from ANET, as Drakkar was originally intended to be Jormag, but scrapped because he was not “big enough”.

That, or Jormag arose from below Drakkar.