Guild Wars 2

Wangatang.1938:

Lumn.2951:

This is my ranger, Agrias Mori the monster hunter.

Anyone know what helm that is?

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Prowler Mask.

I can use the other tabs of the Trading Post, like trading gems or selling stuff just fine, but whenever I open the gem store tab the last couple of days, everything inside (images, links, the revolving product banner) is all jumbled up.

Has anyone had this problem before and if so, how did you fix it?

kitten Evon and his 15% Evon-tax on every single kittenen TP sale. That is all.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

…some utter bullkitten I didn’t care to repeat…

I’m surprised a self-confessed TP player like yourself doesn’t curse that kittenen good-for-nothing charr every time you make less profit due to the abhorrent kittenen 15% Evon-tax?

Yourself? Your “class mechanic”?

Corpus Christi.2057:

I’m thinking of adding radiant mantle skin to this set

Yeah, that will go so well with the under-boob armour. You simply must not delay another minute!

That thing is ugly, so when it dropped for me (along with the air-breather) from my first tri-key chest, I sold it immediately for 15gp (after Evon-tax). I don’t regret it, even if it is now higher priced.

Wanze (or someone in Tin Foil [HATS]) will sell it for 42gp in a week’s time I’m sure.

Brother Grimm.5176:

Madora.9340:

Don’t know how you guys can say making 80-100 gold is easy, but I seriously want to say you are part of the problem.

Have you ever considered that the same could be said for those players that have never spent any RL $ on gems? (no doubt some of these are the same players).

Yup. Guilty* as charged Your Honour!

*I have voted about the content of the gem store with my closed wallet. Give me reasonably priced armour skins in parts (I’ll even still bite at 200 gems per body slot), or non-ridiculously-animated permanent harvesting tools and my wallet will open.

While you can’t get the recipe, you can get Sentinel’s Orichalcum Imbued Inscription

Wanze.8410:

Also the new consumable recipes, requiring toxic spores, have a lvl of 450, so they have potential to make profit.

And help raise your level from 450 to 475 which most people battle with…

mercury ranique.2170:

please also note your server name

No need for that. This bug has been reported numerous times over the last week. On almost all servers as I recall.

Miss Mie.6731:

Not a cute Anime-Style Girl… i’m sorry! ;-)

Great taste in bows. Simple and exotic, yet won’t give your position away in the wilds.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

I think the learn to play card is played way too often. I know exactly how to play this game, but that doesn’t mean I should like OP effects we see in the tower: massive respawn rate, elite foes when there’s only player around, massive AoE without any place to hide. I think it’s a cheap way of “increasing” difficulty and, at least for me, absolutely not fun. And the average player might be able to deal with two of those effects, but a third one might just confuse them so much, that they’ll start making stupid mistakes they wouldn’t make during normal gameplay.

While I partly agree with you objections, and for the record (since you may have missed it in my signature) I play a ranger too, in this case you don’t (yet) know how to play this content. You seem unable to adapt to this more difficult content and come across as simply lumping it in a convenient ‘ArenaNet made cheap OP content again’ QQ basket.

I too died a lot more the first few times I tried getting anywhere in the tower, but I adapted after learning when and where to run, where to dodge and where to stand and fight before moving on. There are safe spots. There are areas where you should cleanse conditions as fast as possible and others where you needn’t. There are times to help fallen players and places you should just leave the ‘weak’ (those that have not learned your lessons yet) behind.

As always, you are free to play—or not play—any released content. If you choose not to, make peace with your decision and move on.

Vas.7306:

Hmm this seems very familiar somehow…

Will you choose to:
Destroy the tower
Control the tower
Send out a synthesis spore to combine all the races of Tyria into one master race.

Just remember not to put the genophage in by mistake.

Your choices matter!

I lol-ed. Then I cried. WAAAAAAAAAAALTEEEEEEERS!!!!!

Lorelei.7809:

YES!!!! The running animation has been fixed!!! It has been bugging me from release!!! Thank you ArenaNet! Now I can play my human female and not feel awkward!!

I LOVE the new running animation.

Heroines need to run sans chicken wings and to a less feminine/dainty run!

+1

Amelia Knox.9362:

Vavume hit’s again!

I believe he’s a seriously, snappy dresser too. Or so he likes to tell everyone.

sephiroth.4217:

Also give all classes with longbow a killshot. Yea that would be nice.

A killshot from stealth… What? The first shot has to land to stealth, so it’s not like you can’t dodge the second one… Only on warrior? Okay, but only as a compromise to get this awesome skill into the game.

Mystic.5934:

I considered investing in quartz back when they were 40c and decided not to.

I wish I had invested more heavily, but just didn’t have the funds back then. Still, the 1000 units I bought at 40c and sold later for 1s20c was not an insignificant profit at the time. Ironically I sold a 100 units (from my home instance) when this news broke for almost the same money I initially invested.

No profit at all at 500, except for selling ascended dowels, inscriptions, deldrimor steel and elonian leather. The only non-profit ascended material is strangely enough the spirit wood planks, but even that will allow you to make money (if not profit) if you gather the mats yourself.

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

Most of the times I’ve been downed by those stacks of mines is because I’m out of energy.

So are you unwilling to compensate for that by using different traits or foods? My wife was having the same problem until I mailed her a stack of ten “Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew.” That’s 5 hours of increased energy regeneration right there. As the OP stated, it is for the most part a l2p issue and people are just too complacent or ignorant to adapt.

bri.2359:

I suggested awhile back that the proper thing for Anet to now is to allow any account playing a ranger to be able to transfer all soubound kit, unlocked dyes, unused skill points, crafting professions, etc., to any other character. If Anet did this, I would delete my ranger in an instant, and I assume many others would a well.

That would unfortunately not be good enough. I would also like part of my money and life back (as I read the description on the main Ranger page before deciding to buy this kittenen game). I must admit that I enjoyed playing her most days, and enjoyed playing this game most days, but an admittance like that made me lose all hope of ever being on equal footing with anyone playing any other class. And I’m kittenen stubborn, despite the /laugh and corpse dancing and TS jibes and watching poor Snær limping back to me I’ve had to endure, I still main her.

If my pet is never going to work correctly, and I don’t really want to re-roll, delete or get compensated, at least give me something in return that is working.

I love my Ranger and I hate my Ranger. Fix/substitute the stuff that makes me hate her, ArenaNet!

trooper.2650:

KyreneZA.8617:

trooper.2650:

Thank you all for your answers.

However I find this a bit frustrating… I have everything needed to craft my first ascendant weapon but dragonite. And since I play once/twice a week max, and because of my limited playtime I struggle forming a willing helpful party of 5 people, this is getting rather long. On top of that the jormag event failed few times when I was lucky to get there in time.

I am aware I am a very casual player but I would appreciate if Anet could lower/remove the need of this or just make it more accessible to everyone. Of course, I am sure you all do not find this so frustrating as it is for me. Nevertheless this is the only game I play and with this drop rate I think it will take me half a year to have it done :/

If you play that casually, then you definitely will not even notice the difference between Ascended and Exotic. I don’t see that you really need Dragonite at all actually.

Yeah right… as if I was dumb. Does it require you to play 8 hrs a day to notice if a weapon is stronger or not? What’s wrong in wanting the best weapon out there for when I can log and have fun while roaming in wvw or the occasional dungeons/events? I am not even trying to go for the legendary. Just the top tier of what’s available now.
Gosh, some people just think that because they spend half of their life in they game “can” and whoever spend less time “can’t”… That was EQ 10 years ago.

There is nothing wrong with wanting it, just be prepared to not have it instantly. Honestly, you’re coming across as an entitled whiner while also making the mistake of bracketing my reply and making assumptions about my playstyle.

I play a couple of hours a night, mostly WvW, and it took me three weeks for my first Ascended weapon (only because I was home sick with the flu for two of those). It has taken me about six weeks for my second. I have honestly not noticed a big enough difference in performance to say that it is required. That was all I was saying.

Yeah, I know, your apology is in the mail.

trooper.2650:

Thank you all for your answers.

However I find this a bit frustrating… I have everything needed to craft my first ascendant weapon but dragonite. And since I play once/twice a week max, and because of my limited playtime I struggle forming a willing helpful party of 5 people, this is getting rather long. On top of that the jormag event failed few times when I was lucky to get there in time.

I am aware I am a very casual player but I would appreciate if Anet could lower/remove the need of this or just make it more accessible to everyone. Of course, I am sure you all do not find this so frustrating as it is for me. Nevertheless this is the only game I play and with this drop rate I think it will take me half a year to have it done :/

If you play that casually, then you definitely will not even notice the difference between Ascended and Exotic. I don’t see that you really need Dragonite at all actually.

JonPeters.5630:

Summoned creature AI is a different can of worms that we aren’t opening for the same reason…Rewriting that has the risks of breaking millions of unknown things so we have up until now band aided the solution. It is something that needs addressing but won’t be addressed until we can kitten how and when we will test it.

Jon,

I have up to reading above not agreed with any ranger players that wish to have the pet removed/stowed permanently. I also understand that it is ArenaNet’s stance that this will never happen. Now, seeing my hope misplaced, I have to respectfully ask: Given that our class mechanic, and (if I understand it correctly) a significant portion of our damage output, is not functioning correctly, why not?

Why can we not stow away our pets (which I love dearly—despite forgetting their names, but hardly ever see alive despite my best efforts) and get some damage compensation in return (if anything grander might be to difficult to do). I understand that it’s also about losing face, or admitting defeat/failure, but come on! As a low-hanging fruit, this will give you breathing room until you can fix pet/summon AI (if at all).

Yes, it will limit the use of some (admittedly misplaced) traits, a whole trait-line and some builds. However, conversely it will also open up a whole lot of builds that can now safely ignore any pet traits. Apart from ArenaNet’s hurt pride (I cannot quit say “hubris” although it feels like that some days) and some technical difficulties (which you have to go through with every balance change anyway) what hinders this?

I know, as a player, I am at liberty to re-roll my main class or quit the game entirely (ArenaNet is not entirely at fault for me choosing a ranger main 02/05/2013). I would prefer not to. Until we have not addressed (or worked around) the pet mechanics, any little “cosmetic” changes to our other traits and skills will not fix this class.

Respectfully,

Just a placeholder to use once I check up on this issue in game.

Axyl.9408:

This nerf isn’t directed towards us. Guardians, Mesmer, Engineers, Rangers, and Ele’s are all getting their access to vigor reduced. I don’t know why you guys should think we’re more special than the others.

While GW2-for-Dummies aren’t. No, we’re not more special than the classes you mentioned. Just a little more borked. This will hurt us a little more, and therefore the QQ.

@Solandri: In this game I don’t think the effective difference between light, medium and heavy armour warrants a great difference in effective endurance. At most a light armour wearer should have 10% more endurance (or less endurance use per dodge) than heavy and 5% more than medium.

This is not the bug report ArenaNet is looking for… /handwave

AEFA.9035:

the 1hand sword quote though: “with the 1 hand sword i would need my guild mates to kill my target for me, just so i can get back control of my character” LOL epic truth

“Don’t worry, we all use axe anyway” – so funny because of what ridiculous advice it is. While it doesn’t root you it’s more useless than 1HS imo.

Ah, yes, Rangers. We have dismissed that claim!

Inverted.7439:

Longbow requires you to face your target to cast 4/5 skills & the one skill that doesn’t, roots you.

This more than anything is what is wrong with the longbow. No matter how ‘low’ the longbow damage or how ‘broken’ the skills, not doing any damage and going on (reduced some say) cooldown is the most broken and low of all. Instead of wasting the skill when facing away, the skill should be prevented from firing at all.

Curo.2483:

KyreneZA.8617:

Are you crazy, OP? Why sell you exactly what you want for 150 gems a piece when they can sell you exactly what you want (plus redundant extras) for 800 gems. Don’t be daft!

Because there is no guarantee that someone will be willing to pay the full amount for just one piece.

Point is, even if you optimistically like 5/6 pieces in the set, they are still making more money per piece with the current format that the proposed 150 Gems/Item. Sure, they do lose sales when intelligent shoppers simply refuse to buy the whole set, but don’t underestimate the buying power of the uncaring masses. It suits ArenaNet just fine if you pay 800 Gems and discard half the items.

[conspiracy]
In fact, judging by how each set seems to have at least 2 fugly pieces, they seem to be designed exactly for that.
[/conspiracy]

Wish-crafting aside, remind me again: how many Gems for the Toxic skins? Would you rather discard 3/6 items having paid 133 Gems apiece or buy them individually for 400 Gems apiece? Only the person who only wants 2 pieces out of each of the current sets would break even.

Remind me again, what did those Aether Chests drop? I’m beginning to see a pattern here…

My condolences to the [NEWS] warband for the death of that Charr thief in EB last night. I don’t take lightly to people killing yaks I’m escorting. Even less when they’re trying hard to be a CARE-bear and not quite getting there. I consider one dead yak fair trade for one dead thief. Actually, I lie: I consider one dead thief almost a fair trade for one dead yak.

As for Fort Rat-nick. When next you rats see a bright yellow chicken flying from Umber, stay away. Sending 2, 3, 5 and even 10-man squads to take it is a very bad idea—as you found out. It took your small 30-man zerg to finally flip the bird. Insulting.

I have gotten credit by just doing LB damage to the gate with my Ranger (without the “killing blow” conspiracy propagated in this thread). I have gotten credit for manning one of the rams I put down while commanding. I have gotten the most credit by manning a trebuchet hitting SM out of WC, when you can do the double-wall trick and stupid PvEs are repairing (and likely wasting their server’s supply) to get their own achieves.

Get out of the zerg all you achievement hunters! Build some siege where it will help your side and with supply from camps and do something that requires a little more thought. Your server will possibly be in a better position for it and you’ll get your Demolition Expert in no time.

Edit: Possibly your rams are mounted by people without enough mastery to apply Structural Weakness, and you are therefore not registering enough overall damage to the gate to have it register for credit towards the achievement.

Bowl of Orrian Truffle and Meat Stew if not in PvP. The reason: I’m going to be killed by conditions anyway, Signet of Stone helps against bursts, so why not let my dodges actually do something for me. The only problem is that it only lasts 30 minutes where some other foods last an hour.

Haven’t seen as many CARE-bears as usual with Blobbadon, although they were quick out the gate on changeover. Is it just me or is there now two Blobbadon blobs on any map? That is actually moving towards good tactics, except that they seem softer than usual in an open fight. More PvEs in their blobs than last time we met?

As for FR, well I have yet to see anything useful from their side. Even their roamers run away rather than fight, and only come back when outnumbering you at least 5:1. My wife and I were capping their eastern BL camps, sentries and slaughtering their cows with little to no interference almost all day yesterday. There was one hammer warrior north of north camp though. Well done sir! I saw you coming (just got back from afk) and that still didn’t help. You pwned my Ranger quite handily. As for that poor FR General (warrior in gladiator gear) that kept on coming back for more lickings: don’t you understand when we emote /no? We’re saying it to save you from yourself.

Yaro.3251:

Ragnar.4257:

Its the ones who point-blank refuse to listen and don’t give a kitten if they ruin it for everyone else who aren’t welcome.

And (not to be a devil advocate, but) who cares, I might add? One can simply ignore the chat and do whatever they like to do. As long as it is within the rules (ToC/CoC/whatever you call it, which are pretty wide), nobody can do kitten about it.

And to play devil’s advocate right back at you: what if the few (that ignore and do whatever they like) are spoiling the fun for the many (who work hard as a team, or at the very least towards the common good) then? Isn’t that against the ToC/CoC too? You cannot just put forgiveness in a blanket statement like that without considering both sides of the argument. Should anyone (the one/few/many) be allowed to have their fun at the expense of someone else (the one/few/many)?

Well it’s not like the OP is incapable of learning. He already learned that with his Ram Mastery he should use skill #2 next time. And he had fun, so as much as I would like to kick his kitten for the wasting supply on repairs comment, kudos to him. Perhaps he’ll even shape up to becoming a “real” WvW player.

johnnymiller.5968:

They sure are plus the exotics are costly to craft. Even more ironic considering the inscriptions are worth up to four times more than the crafted item.

Do not craft to salvage! Buy the cheapest exotics on the TP and salvage those. Sell your own crafted inscriptions to fund this.

7/10 – too many humans, too much lore in a lore poor game.

Malcolm Cousland – noble warrior (because I could and as homage to Dragon Age)
Nagfeeks Helkatjie – commoner necromancer (loosely translates as “night-shrew hel-kitten” her succubus True Name; she was a foundling and her parents are dead: it’s therefore not important what her given Krytan name was)

Bloodstealer.5978:

But hey UW still has lots to learn for sure, like rushing T3 towers that are heavily sieged 3 times in a row isn’t a great idea, especially when we already began building siege outside of their ac range…. by the time the next wave of Deso hit from keep it was all over bar the WP’ing and finally it proved to be the breaking point and our numbers dwindled.. so were “back on the menu peeps” .
But hey it was good fun and loot bags a plenty.. added to that it bought UW some much valuable time to get its corner ship shape and prepared for the inevitable

As liaison between your commander and ours, it was only a pleasure. After the UW backstabbing (or let’s call it misunderstanding, such are the tides of war after all) at SM on Saturday we were a little hesitant, but we all profited at the end while Tanko* didn’t. I’m truly sorry for your loss of supply right in the middle there, but just like some of your roamers jumped me and took Rogue’s in the middle of the team-up, so some of our small guilds and roamers thought Speldan and Pangloss was fair game. Our commander at the time sent his regards and thanks for the fun, even if I wasn’t able to convey that at the time we resumed hostilities towards UW.

As for Tanko, I also want to echo the respect to INVI. Fighting you guys really is fun, even if my ranger dies. Fighting the rest of your server, not so much. 1v1 they are soft little pin-cushions, 5-30v1 they just have no respect and think it is cool to /laugh after stomping my ranger. Newsflash: it is generally held that killing a ranger in WvW is not much of a feat. While killing mine is a little more of a feat, you should not /laugh in smug satisfaction. I will chalk it up to what many Tanko players have mentioned in this thread: the overcrowding by horribad PvEs during prime time.

Oh, and thanks for the laughs this morning Tanko. Destroying your 3 Omegas in front of our keep was serious fun. Not much of a challenge, but fun nonetheless.

• While I have respect for some Desolation players, including some who posted in this thread, I do use the term “Tanko” in a derogatory sense. Call it friendly ribbing if you feel generous, or outright trolling if you’re not.

Bloodstealer.5978:

Yip they have won it, no one can deny it.. I just wish I could of found more Deso players to fight… well I say more but not the hordes that it has been hilarious getting to chase me across EB at times.. really it takes 10-15 of your zerg to run down 1 UW player … awesome.
Then again having stayed up a few times this week to see just what Deso do as the early hours nightcappers come in.. golem rushing empty towers and a keep with 3 people defending… I truly bow to your awesome wood and stone overpowering skills.

/bow +1

AG on the other hand have been good fun.. I like the risky small group runners you have been putting out across EB.. small groups but that have some darn fine skills to offer “bows with respect”…. but I have a complaint ! – -

Why you not like me fearing all those Deso scrubs sitting behind the lines of warding tricky traps waiting for you to come over Durios bridge.. yip I have spied watched that several times while roaming Umberglade and rushed in, feared them out to you, hilarious btw when I run in and see them run uncontrollably out to you, fall into the water or the valley other side"… but then you rush the rest, wipe them them and come get the Horny Asuran Necro who is still laughing at his evil work – – why you no nice …..we be nice to you precioussss, yes we be nice to you!!

Unfortunately in the heat of battle some people still lose their minds. We also sit with some new (PvE) players that have no respect.

One commander I had the misfortune of talking with admitted that s/he/it leaves it on at all times because they like the attention. I doubt therefore that your 2) will ever happen, Danikat.8537.

On the other hand, whenever a new player asks where landmarks are in Lion’s Arch, one can invariably just point them to the closest dorito.

laokoko.7403:

I honestly can’t find too much reason to convert gem to gold. Since I can’t find any use of gold. That is probably one of the problem because people simply arn’t converting gem to gold.

Well you could always do gem→gold in the cases where you want to bypass the RNG and get what you want directly from the TP. Time gated dyes comes to mind if the TP price works in your favour.

spritefire.5234:

Salt.4621:

On the plus side we get to live in Australia while the others don’t. Only works if you go outside though so MMO forums aren’t probably the best place to brag about such things.

Everything is venomous outside tho

And their rugby and cricket teams suck…

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

Pyrasia.9281:

Sadly, this isn’t Mass Effect <_<’
I know. Sigh.

They should let Bioware create the story, then we will be blown away.

Just don’t let Hudson and Walters near it…

They don’t like to provide rewards to their players. Period.

Why?

No seriously. Why if the SB is one of the top 3 ranger weapons does it need more love at this stage?

Now, if you mean we need a new SB legendary, I can agree. Any self-respecting ranger that flounces around with a pony-shooting set of butterfly wings should re-roll mesmer.

The problem with datamined items is that they should never have been datamined to begin with. People have datamined ascended armour, yet that is not in the game yet either. The OP smells a bit of Au de Entitlement…

Wanze.8410:

Drucilla.3158:

3k+ gems later and I’m the proud owner of two of the six shades. Neither is one I particularly wanted, but I guess I should feel fortunate that I spent the equivalent of 45 US dollars on them.

Wouldnt it be cheaper to buy them on the TP for gold?

That just means some poor other player was duped into spending money for RNG in order to list them on the TP in the first place. Now if you tell me the listing price on the TP will allow that player to recoup their losses (i.e. the gold from the sale will be the same as having traded the original gems for gold), I’ll grant you your point.

warriorjrd.8695:

Great fights in eb tonight, INVI had loads of fun. It’s much more enjoyable to see AG fight on the battlefield rather than the forums because you guys are great fun

/bow