People will tell you to turn off auto attack. But turning off auto attack is not a permanent fix. It’s like putting a plaster on a wound that is in putrefaction.
The whole loot revision has been weird. DEs are supposed to be the bread and butter of GW2’s PvE, but what do you get for a DE? 1,5 silver and some karma. Even back when Orr DE farming was a thing, people got their stuff from killing mobs during the DE and not completing the DE itself.
I don’t know why they chose to give you loot bags for killing champs instead of giving them for completing the DEs those champs are involved in.
This man knows what’s up. DE was supposed to be the end all of pve farming. But it have abyssmal rewards at lvl 80 with it’s 1s50c reward. Other thing is Anet nerfed the event timers to hell and back in Cursed Shore.
Anet said months ago that making the pets less dumb and better was like giving the possibility to warriors to dual wielding greatswords. So, overhaul never.
It is funny to see how rangers are the only profession that get handicapped by their profession mechanic.
Pet dies in AOE? Enjoy doing about 60% of dps for 60 seconds.
You want to use a tanky pet? Enjoy being the center of all laughs laughing at your cute cuddly bear or no damage pig.
You used F3 so that the pet stays next to you? Enjoy doing 60% of your dps.
You put 30 points into beastmastery, despite the fact pet damage got nerfed to hell and back? Enjoy your tankier pet that still die at boss battles and big WvW battles.
Conditions are garbage in group pve against bosses. I have a ranger that can stack bleeding quickling on stuff with around 2k condition when buffed. I get maybe 1-2 bleed stack on the mob when people with 0 in condition damage are taking the rest of the stacks.
We will never see a player side condition stacks, instead of group side stacks we have rightn ow, due to server latency and costs.
I saw about 5 persons getting exotic skins off champs during the Gates of Arah event . Too bad most people aer busy grinding champs in Queensdale instead of doing Cursed Shore events .
Being in JQ myself , here what i usually use on my Ranger in WvW :
Rabid based trapper for solo roaming
OR
Apothecary / Settler Condition build for solo roaming
Same Apothecary / Settler build can be used as a spirits / warhorn group buffer if you spec in spirits .
OR
Shout build for 100% perma swiftness / regen
Full signet GS longbow build when i am bored and i want to pew pew myself to death with barrage .
During that time , WoW subscribers are freefalling , at 7,7 million right now . If it is like some years ago, about 50% of that 7,7 million are Chinese players that pay per hours (at a rate of 6 cents / hours) . A lot of NA and EU servers are deserted . And Blizzard are moving toward micro transactions .
The second attack is a leap backward, if you press it again you leap back in. Although it is a tad stronger in damage, the travel time make it less strong then just letting 1 roll on..
The third attack is an evasive roll around the target with poison damage. Since most people using the sword in pve for enormous damage are mostly zerker, this is not worth it as well.
Thats usually why i prefer greatsword overall, the damage is almost the same ( a bit lower) but way more active, got control on my character and decide where i leap etc.
So if you decide to use the greatsword, it still do quite enough damage if you are not into min/max, its not a big dps loss. For me, it just feel more confortable.
The biggest advantage of the 1hnd sword is to be able to decide your off hand for the task i guess. The might stack on the pet can lead to a better dps too.
No, Greatsword DPS on Ranger is closer to Shortbow. One-handed Sword is the highest and best DPS option. People that claim Sword is “press 1 to win” have not used a Sword and don’t understand the hazard that comes with playing it.
There are hazards using sword when you have 25 stack of might from warriors and possibly protection if there is a guardian around?
I have no idea why you guys want DX 11? Is there something you’re really missing from GW2 that DX 11 would add?
DX 10 may bring some better shadows, but from what I can tell, GW2 already has some great shadows at max settings.
DX11 use multi core computers more efficiently than DX9 and DX10 . In fact, DX11 cards run way better on DX11 than DX9. Also, it bring more shader options and tessellation on the table .
On the June 2013 steam survey , 62% of the steam users are using DX11 cards , 28% are using DX10 and the rest are using DX9 only cards.
Seem GW2 will be DX9 for a long long time, From Face book
“For those of you who have been asking about DX11 support for Guild Wars 2, our goal with GW2 has always been to provide a gorgeous fantasy world while at the same time running on a wide range of gaming PCs.
Focusing on DX9 allows us to do this, as it’s a much wider supported graphics API than DX11 is and we wanted our game to reach as many of our fans as possible.
We will be evaluating supporting DX11 post launch. ~RB2”
I still get kicked even if i do some rabid trapping build with 2k + condition damage , access to chill , immobilize , stun . fire and water blast fields and pets actually useful in this situation like wolf or spiders .
Using weapons like shortbow , axe / Torch , axe / warhorn or sword / torch , sword /warhorn . Pugs will throw you out for one more zerker GS warrior.
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I was unaware that adding a new area in DR (Reperation in the Great Divide is underway) With easy access to everything ,
“Unlimited” salvaging ,
New weapon and armors ,
Treasure hunting ,
Guild message of the day (something people wanted since release)
PvP Dishonorable + Leaderboard ,
Game optimization , the ability to limit particule effects (something people wanted since release) ,
LFG tool ,
Sure , you were ugly . But you were alive with ton of people doing your events over and over .
I went back to CS today, to find it empty , running around and meeting about 5 persons in the whole map . They where asking “Any events going on?” There was a simple answer : none . Everything is on a 30-40 minutes timer that take forever to reset . There was not enough people to trigger any champions in penitent or shelter . There is more people standing in front of CoF spamming LFG than there is people in CS as a whole.
Anet killed Cursed Shore . Events over there are taking too much time, now , compared from before . So , people are finding faster ways to get their monthlies done and the fastest way is by zerging Queensdale .
Then focus on living world content? or better yet, don’t make things up(like Southsun) but rather have it evolve around the main story.
Still wondering why they made a whole island appear into the middle of nowhere when there was the Ring of Fire Islands nearby begging to be revisited .
One hand ranger sword is the only weapon in the whole game that have a skill 1 that root you into place. in a game about movements. Yes, you can turn off the auto attack, but it’s like using a bandaid on a wound that is necrotizing .
The rewards for high level events is laughable . 2 silvers for a 5 minutes events . Crappy greens and blues in chests etc . Try to avoid the one hit kill champion chicken , champion spiders that spawn veteran hatchlings that give no exp, no drops , champion wraiths that kill npcs that you must defend in less than 2 seconds .
Even with selling your drops and moldy bags, you end up making less money per hour in Orr than in CoF .
I was never one to complain about buffs but from the unofficial release notes, it looks like almost every class is getting a ton of buffs and it’s a little disturbing.
Yes, ArenaNet in the past has nerfed many skills to the point of uselessness. But this patch seems to be going to the opposite extreme of making everything overpowered.
You can say no problem we all needed some buffs, but just remember the monsters will probably be buffed too.
Since I have an 80 of each class I’ll have a lot of new stuff to play with if all these changes are made. Hope they don’t make the game worse in the long run though.
Did you read the notes for Rangers? Ouch. I bet they were hoping for positive changes and instead they got spit in the face. I only leveled mine up for farming anyways, but I guess I’ll have to wait another 6 months until Anet decides to make them viable.
What’s coming for rangers?
Huge nerf to most pets’ damage . Since pets are about 25-50% of the dps rangers have , it’s a huge nerf . Anet is not even bothering themselves with buffing direct weapons damage other than some longbow buff (which still suck) .
That’s exactly what we need. Anet nerfing the dps of the bad AI companion that serves as our pet. Which also count at about 30-50% of our total dps . Good going, Anet.
The question is : Why should i do Orrian events for a pathetic 2 silvers + drops per events when i can do more money just running CoF path 1 over and over?
Also, spanking champions that give little to no rewards, like Plinx’s event chain Champion Abomination, that no one want to do anymore , those champ chickens that throw 30k damage eggs , champ spiders that spawns veteran hatclings that give no exp and drops , events that automatically fail once a champion Risen Wraith appears etc.
