Guild Wars 2

I think just like fractals its only some “cool looking stuff” thrown together without any real or meaningful lore.

Ahhh, so it was a mask originally.
He basically screams “i am evil” even before the exodus ._.

How about actual long hairstyles for Sylvari.
I might would play one.

Heh, found it always weird that Abaddon looked so extremly different than the other 5.

There is no problem with introducing it later. Players past 12k just get too choose and get their gloves riped off if they choose the boots instead.
The biggest problem that i have with the current system is that its way to less skins spreaded over way too many points (and with that: Years). Two armor sets and one weapon sets is just not justified for 3 years worth of playtime.
That was my biggest fear when they introduced ap rewards. That they have only this much and when they finally choose to expand on it they dont think enough and just slap it on the loose end where they cant squeeze the existing rewards anymore.
The average player has interest in 3-5 zenith skins at best. So you basically choose the zenith skins you may want and the first 3 pieces of your armor until you get to 9k and then you have these huge 10+k where you only get the garbage you didnt want before. And i bet they let us have every bloody last piece of zenith before letting us choose a new weapon type too.
There is nothing wrong with some prestigious skins only rewarded at very very high ap, but there has to be a constant stream of meaningful rewards.
There is also not enough different theme in the skins. You better like one of the 3 current themes if not… well thats too bad but you may like the themes after these.. starting at 40k ap
Sure a full weapon set and two half armor sets sound good when its only a living story patch but the reward system would have been way better off introduced later but polished, finished and big enough in an likewise big content patch… like an expansion or expansion-like patch.
Part of why Expansion > Living Story patches.

Wasting dev time on 14 new armors.. WITH FLAMES?
Hell no!

We already have to play wvw for map completion for legendary.
Is enough i think.

So basically i cant even waste my badges of honor on gifts of battle anymore?
I liked crafting 6 Legendaries without ever setting foot outside of wvw main base.
But with wxp Accountwide you only hit level 30 once right? How do they want to handle that?

haha, long term goal. A long term goal only makes sense when its realistic.

Lets say you get the boots at 21 and 24k and then pants at 27 and chest at 30 because that number makes at least any kind of sense. If i would be a new player and finally gettin my 3k along with the gloves and i would be like “nice gloves i want that set, wonder how many points i need for the full one?” and then see 30k “oh wow thats only time gated behind 3 years+ excessive grind” well yeah.. That isnt exactly encouraging in any way to say the least and i for sure wouldnt get pumped up to get the game playin and the achievements done.

i personally dont like them either way but from from an aesthetical and thematical point of view i think it would have been much wiser to make the steelish parts white instead of grey.

Longbow for ranger would be cool.

Dondarrion.2748:

Actually, I don’t necessarily miss the Wings of the Sunless, but I’d kill for crystalline Wings of the Branded or something like that. Purplish, crystalline wings to go well on a mesmer

Or forget about all the purple and let me change the purple hue on my mesmer to another colour! (ed. although that’s an entirely different topic!)

Actually, they are extremely blue and not purple at all.
I use mine on my ice themed ranger because with a little imagination they look like wings made of ice crystals

The Spiral King.2483:

Oh look, Ranger the only class in double digits, and far behind the next lowest. It’s almost like it was a broken class with a broken mechanic or something, having to rely on a buggy pos weapon for decent damage output.

And where exactly is the weapon buggy?

So, i just remembered Flame & Frost. I kinda get that, Shiverpeaks and Norn for the Frost part and Ascalon and Charr/Flame legion for the Fire. “Flame and Frost”. Sounds sweet, doesnt it?
But as you may know there wasnt any Frost about it in the end which is weird.
So i took a look at how many pieces for character customization (what this game mostly is about) for the respective element we have:

Fire – Armor
Sorrows embrace armor
Citadel of flame armor
Gemstore Tier 5 armor
Hellfire armor
Flame eye, Fire gods vambraces, Fused Gauntlets, Molten Jetpack

Ice – Armor
Glacial eye, Icelords diadem

Armor Sets:
Fire: 3 1/2, Ice: 0
Standalone Pieces:
Fire: 4, Ice: 2

Fire – Weapons
Flame weapons
Molten weapons
Destroyer weapons
Fused weapons
Guardian weapons
Breath of flame, Cobalt, Combustion, Emberglow, Emberspire, Firebringer, Magmaton, Phoenix reborn, Titans vengance, Volcanus, Dead stop shield
-not counting every torch, that would be a little unfair :p

Ice – Weapons
Kodan weapons
Corrupted weapons(thx for these by the way, they are what i would call the best designed weapon set in the game)
Winters weapons(Altough as unserious as you can get.. no wonder noone uses these)
Coldsnap, Jormags breath, Jormags needle, Shiverstone, Wintersbark/bite

Weapon Sets:
Fire: 4 1/2, Ice: 2 1/2
Standalone Weapons:
Fire: 11, Ice: 5

Legendaries
Fire: The Predator, Incinerator, Rodgort
Ice: Frostfang

As you can see, this is not very balanced, actually, its not even the slightest bit balanced.
Why is that? Do you not like ice? Did it do something to you? Why did you choose to put yet another fire armor in the store when theres zero ice themed armor?
…more choices for the -cooler- side of the elements pleeeeeeaaase?

Havent even considered Rangers?
Their sword has a very stylish auto with jumps and acrobatik stuff like that, the other skill are moving evades so they have a very dynamic and you might want to say complex sword style.

Whaaat, ranger 8th
Sword/Axe + Greatsword eez the most fun weapon set ever.

Thalador.4218:

Kibazuka.1390:

My human mains god is Jormag.
May the beauty and clarity of ice purify all that is rotten and unworthy.

You could go with Grenth, too, as he’s the god of ice as well. At least you’d remain a self-conscious person and not a drooling, mindless shell encased in corrupted ice crystals.

Also, Jormag sometimes raises the corpse of his foes, making them icily decomposing zombies in a growing layer of ice armor (like the wights of the Others, but with way more ice). And walking corpses are rotten. :P

Ah, the bottom of her heart is already corrupted by Jormag, so thats totally ok :p

Dead bodies obtaining the icy shell dont disease any further, all rotting happened before turning into icebrood, the transformation process stops the rotting process instantly. Thats how nice of a dragon Jormag is.

Besides, Grenth doesnt seem to have any intention of covering all of Tyria with a layer of ice, stopping time for this fastpaced world and saving the beauty of the here and now as well as granting eternal youth for my human by stopping all of her body processes.

There is no place for gods that abandoned their people.

My human mains god is Jormag.
May the beauty and clarity of ice purify all that is rotten and unworthy.

Top Tier in Dungeons, openworld pve, openworld farming, wvw roaming, spvp.
suck at wvw zergs.
top tier damage, top tier burst, quite ok utility, tanky enough, strongest downed mode, strongest underwater combat, strongest ranged dps.
but overall little weird design.
hmmmmm dunno.. guess people like to whine?

hahaha.
yep, will never help them again

I would want bears, brown bears to be specific.
Like really, why are there no brown bears

Flissy.4093:

I’ll give you 2 weeks before you go back on most of what you said.

I play since release day and still play several hours each day and love it.

Tyria will burn?
More fire themed skins..

lol you want even more damage?
Talk about balance

I got assassin gloves and boots, 100% crit sure is nice

Sligh.2789:

I like having the zerkers yelling at me as they are laying on the ground dead, as I take the boss down. It just feels so good when they tell me I am gimping them after they die.
you want challenge, run a balanced build and play the game instead of zerking all challenge out the window.

Using those so-called balanced builds is less challenging then doing it the pro way, it just takes ten times longer

Build Eternity, its 15.4% longer than one from a Warr or Guard!!!

Galtrix.7369:

Haha, I’m not one of those people that sends hate messages over a forum. But I have played a Ranger since Guild Wars 1 and have experimented with many, many builds for years. I basically studied Rangers in Guild Wars 1 and I continued that obsession in Guild Wars 2, but couldn’t get the same effect as I did in GW1. I found that the Ranger’s damage is the second worst in the game, only above Engineers. But opinions are opinions.

Actually when played in their max dps meta builds, rangers have the third-highest dps of all, mesmers being the worst.

Tachii.3506:

It’s more like the majority of players ignore this path like the plague.

I’ve already got that scepter of dreams and sold it for 250g. From tp data a bunch of them came out when the dungeon was released, and now there’s only like 0-2 for each piece. I can only assume it’s that there aren’t many players that do this regularly, and not that the items are super rare. (well it is an exotic like any other from a dungeon chest but I don’t think it’s as rare as precursors).

I run this dungeon almost every day since shortly after its release. Easily 70+ runs, thats 350 Chances for one of these weapons. We got 2.
They HAVE a ridiculously low drop chance.

Who cares about damage, the longness is all a greatsword is about.

I mean, just look at this: An Eternity from a ranger is about 15.4% longer than one from a warrior or guardian! Thats just the line between very long and not very long.

Gonna build an Eternity now and laugh at warriors with Eternity in LA, telling them go play Dagger/Shield or something like that with your Eternity, teehee.

Warrior/Guardian GS auto range is 130, ranger GS auto range 150.

So after all rangers have the longer swords ;)

*uweehiihii*

Please do not.

Woah blackbear having perma stealth.
pls nerf this instant :o

What kind of logic is that. guard gs auto has a bigger number than ranger gs auto so guard has more dps? wtf.. You do know gs/sword is the main dps weapon for guards? GS for rangers is… not. Maybe the dps from auto is slightly lower because we have a freakin evade build in? On top of that we even do more damage with greatsword because we have that pet-thing most seem to forget which hits for nice numbers with perma high might and we have some very nice dps boosting utilitys guards not possess and lets not forget all the invul.
Now using a shortbow or sword..
I mean guards are great and all, i know, but please, please do not live under the illusion they do more damage. They simply dont.
And eles are nice but rangers are a bit better. Thiefs on the other hand are the worst class of all… if there should be someone whining it should be them.

Arenanet listens more to the playerbase than any other company i saw.
But im glad they dont take all the whiners that dont even know their class seriously.
We are still number 4 on the ranking for advanced dungeon groups, thats better than half the classes in the game.

Umm, let me think….

No.

Yes please.
I want a triops.
And a wurm, they have nasty skills.
Bats would be sweet too.

But i would like a change for how to actually tame them first.

As for dungeons, doing some criticals is not a problem, the build i linked actually has 100% crit chance. But LB, hat one is a problem as it is just bad, like, really bad. There is not a single situation in any dungeon or fractal where you would go longbow. And for gods sake, please dont go conditions.
In regards of your question, sword is the main source of dps, like bosses and such, but for the rest like running from point a to b you use greatsword for #3. Also for groups of trash because gs is the best weapon for stacking bloodlust. And lastly you start every fight with greatsword, Maul → Swap, Sword auto attack. That means you will actually see the greatsword more than the sword.

For dungeons? -> http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMEQNAsXRjEVJ2RWWVs2Bi1j9s/BxZcoE5PUqM+5kZPA-jADBYfERjkfgEEQUBCZZmDRMPNrFVFRjVXDT5iIq2eDzgTIykL1xAoH-e
Dont forget to have a warhorn und for some fractal encounters a shortbow.

For wvw or pvp? i dont know or care

kiwituatara.6053:

Kibazuka.1390:

Well, beastmastery is of course a part of the ranger too, but you cant just say rangers are beastmasters and call it a day. Look at ogres, theyre all beastmasters but they are certainly not all rangers. Same with many archer npcs.
All these traits together make what the ranger is: A survivalist. And having a pet makes perfect sense as he is someone wo “tames the wilderness”. Nearly everything about the ranger is nature themed, and its surely not just stuff slapped poor together.
I can understand though if someone only wants a specific one of the rangers traits, you cant really do that. But thats not a ranger-problem. I wanted to play a pure ice elementalist once but to be any efficient you have to play the other elements too which i didnt want have anything to do with. So i just decided to not play the class at all. I guess you could do that with every other class as well

That quote from the “The Making of Guild Wars 2” proves that rangers are leftovers scraps slapped together.

That quote also says that ranger got split in those professions first. They were just reunited later

Well, beastmastery is of course a part of the ranger too, but you cant just say rangers are beastmasters and call it a day. Look at ogres, theyre all beastmasters but they are certainly not all rangers. Same with many archer npcs.
All these traits together make what the ranger is: A survivalist. And having a pet makes perfect sense as he is someone wo “tames the wilderness”. Nearly everything about the ranger is nature themed, and its surely not just stuff slapped poor together.
I can understand though if someone only wants a specific one of the rangers traits, you cant really do that. But thats not a ranger-problem. I wanted to play a pure ice elementalist once but to be any efficient you have to play the other elements too which i didnt want have anything to do with. So i just decided to not play the class at all. I guess you could do that with every other class as well

Ranger is a light soldier utilizing in fast and flexible combat, skilled in dealing with unpredicted situations. He uses the knowledge of the environment for flanking combat, use of the terrain, survival skills and nature magic.

That is what he is. Hes not an archer, hes not a druid, hes a ranger.