Guild Wars 2

my 2 EuroCents on the thing… (and thats just mho)
its grindy and its boring…
I leveled all craftings up to level 400… man was I happy that this thing was off my hood (it is just not funny – most of the stuff you make you destroy anyways – almost nothing you craft is really that useable)

And now I have to get the things to 500? Give me a break!

Crafting is no fun, the mystic toilet is no fun and grinding materials is sucky as hell too…

As soon as the “Next” good sandbox game is out I am so out of here… (see what I did there?)

… no really, fix them… they are so buggy I don´t even know where to start…
so fix them please?

I think somewhere on a server a guardian lost to a spirit ranger…
so that can not be…!

again… well done Anet…. (sarcasm)

I really get the impression that no one over there has a clue what to do with the ranger class…

But then, I have 7 other 80s right now and I will give all the new shinies to my guardian.
Thats for sure

Buffed? Read the updates again… and then once again…
I read that as “not a buff” ;-)

inb4 the “Ranger pets are fine, l2p crowd”

+1
worst pet mechanic ever

coming from a guy that always plays the petclass in every mmo that means something
kitten AI, no connection to the pet whatsoever (they need to be switched around anyways so why even name them when they always forget their name)
No costumization, they dont scale.

imho whoever designed that pet system just dont get why people play pet classes…
complete failure…

Whats with all those creepy humanoid minis… they seriously creep me out…
who at Anet thinks that those are a good idea?
No one I know really likes those… lots of em like the small monsters and everyone likes the cute small animal ones.. but the humanoids?
shudder

Hands down the worst petsystem in any mmo I have ever played…
The game is so good otherwise that I really dont get it.

Here is no bond to a pet whatsoever – they are just bad programmed skills to me…
Coming from a guy who always plays the animal pet class of a game

Unholy Pillager.3791:

I’m in college, majoring in biology. And I want mustelids.

I am no college major in biology, but I also want to have mustelids…
As it looks I am not the only one who wants a “smaller” animal ripping appart larger ones

Wolverines, Badgers, hell even minks and weasels are nasty critters ;-)
pound for pound the nastiest out there

So go A-Net
Give us mustelids… you even could make a nice story about it (Norn Wolverine Spirit nudge nudge )

would someone official say something about that?

I definitly chose the Staff – got the Shortbow…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Zenith-Weapon-selection-bugged

Could we have some kind of confirmation or acknowledgement here?

I am 100% sure I did not choose the shortbow – I wanted the staff for my guardian…

yeah me too…. I doublechecked and klicked yes…
still the shortbow instead of the staff

Got to choose… wanted the Staff and got the Shortbow?
Anyone else got that problem?

chose the staff – got the shortbow…
Anet?

Strange … I was 100% sure I had the staff selected and ended up with the shortbow…
Could there be a bug?
Is there a possibility to change that somehow?

that annoy me the most…

I always play the (animal)pet class in a mmo (yeah – call me hippy)…
something about always having a “friend” with me is soothing to me and clicks somehow.

And thats the thing … in every mmo I played I had a favourite pet

In GW2 pets are some kind of throw away and change as you want to thing.
There is no sense of accomplishment when you tame them…
they dont even remember their name.

This week spiders and drakes are the pet of the week… but that will change.
I never had less of an “emotional” bond to a pet in a mmo ever.

It runs around – it dies (real quick sometimes in AoE (yeah yeah F3 or switch – I know all the “tricks” to “try and avoid” petdeath ) i switch it to the other pixel running with me.

I change them when I do something else…

if there where any nice skins for minis I would choose another class and just run with a small badger that does nothing then my Ranger.

But I also loath the minipets (mini humans and charr and stuff are just creepy and wrong)

So … now you can rip me apart all you want. I said my thing

I have 8 level 80s (yeah I know everyone has)
depending on what I play I take another class….

Right now I use Ranger for… well… storing things I guess…
and thats a shame because he was my main and is the best equipped of all my chars.
After last patch my vote goes to Ranger
Ranged combat sucks on Rangers (isn´t that a shame)
Pets are more then useless (even our “special” F2 ability takes 2 to 6 secs to proc sometimes (if it works at all)

(love the Necro after last patch though… well done on that class Anet)

… waiting until the “Ranger is uber and after the patch much more betters then ever learn to play” crowd will flock in …

But on the more serious note: I played WvW only with my Ranger (and of course everything I used in my build was “nerfed” last patch.

WvW now feels completely off with my Ranger…
Pets always get the “too far away” signal now.
Dont wanna talk about Shortbow …

So guys.
Everything is very good. Soon (™ in about a year I guess) Longbow will get some “love” from the devs (how I fear that day ^^)

I tried several new builds…
But I dont want to play with sword/dagger – axe/torch… I wanted to play Ranger because we are “Unparalleld Archers” and stuff…

/rantoff

so +1 to the OP (my tip: go and make a Necro for WvW – they really are fun now )

Same here.
really really annoying
Switchet target even when I had my hand not on the mouse and just did autoattack.
Can anyone from A-Net have a look at that?

yeah I am sorry.. I am just so angry cause of all the lost time and equipment…
I tried to play with the class after the patch… (actually since beta) I really tried.
No I am really really disheartened…

But you are right… I will shut up now and read on what great ideas the not disheartened playerbase actually has (and I mean that – really great ideas – no irony here)

Actually I am more with Cuchullain then with the “Ranger is fine” crowd …

I played my Ranger for quite some time in WvW and PvE (not sPvP though)
I tried to play him after the last “patch” tweaked my build (cant afford completely new equipment) tried to like Longbow…

It just feels off now.
So speak for yourself jubskie as Cuchullain will speak for him and I for me.
The good thing is that it takes almost no time to level another character to 80.

I did that and have fun again.

But no one will give me my laurels back that I have invested in my ranger – a class I had fun with before this abysmal patch.

Guys I honestly dont know why you are doing this threads any more.
Anet will do like they did before.
Fix something else completely (maybe we are not good enough under water?)

They will tweak the Longbow a bit (more damage to LB 3 or somesuch)
and then they will nerf something else a bit more (I think pets sometimes still hit someone in WvW – that, in my opinion, can not be)

truth be told my hopes where not that high anyways.
some Rangers will say “class is good as is, I am so cool..”
some will moan.

I have lost my fun with the class in WvW with the last patch…
On the other side my Necro now rocks.

Sometimes I wonder if they dont have a serious Ranger player at the dev department.
cause even the dungeon builder (whose name I dont remember, sorry dude) who plays as a ranger didnt help much here…

Pet ai is kitten useless(yeah I know there are the supermicromanagment guys out there that “rock” the crappylicious AI like no one else – but I am not that pro)

Shortbow was okay (not great) and they even managed to destroy that.
The Ranger who was my main is now in the shelf… can I please have back all the laurels and stuff I invested in my build?
thanks…

if you want to use ranged weapons (in pve) I advice you to go and make a Warrior…

so what we learned…
they do care.
chopps is a real pro and also is quite happy (and very condescending – but thats because he is pro and all the whiners are very noob)
So actually all is good.
Nothing to see here… Rangers are fine.
Shortbow got what it needed … pets also…
Longbow is cool now
Pets also
;-)

Hey Robert!

“Pet Selection – Which, When, Where, and Why bother any more.”
would be a more fitting title at the moment…

“… my shortbows range is so short now I have to dodge my own arrows …”

somehow I think that really funny (in a sad way)

Pets with a not kittened up AI?

Pets that fire up the F2 Ability reliable?

as for skins I d love to have something small and fierce like a marten, badger and or wolverine (something from the mustelidae family)

Adian.8756:

Oh no? You can’t autoattack with Shortbow anymore, from freaking miles away, while applying 14+ stacks of Bleed? God forbid you actually have to use skills to play.

Ranger Shortbow was by far the most forgiving, braindead, easy-mode way to play in all of GW2. Thank god they changed the range.

I enjoyed a play style.
I invested ingame money and a bit real money in it.
They destroyed my fun with it.
Maybe I am not “as pro” as you are – but I am entitled to my fun.
You sir are frankly no one whose opinion I am interested in.
Good bye

ESO
will go there I guess and try to take my guild with me…
I hope its any good.
love the elder scrolls series anyways.

un-kitten believable what they did in this patch.
unbelievable to me.

the devs definitly dont give a kitten about what we write here…

AI is still kitten
and every patch we get kittened.
So this time I shelf my ranger for sure.. gonna play thief
not spending another dime in the BLTC
waiting for the next “best” MMO ^^

Awesome Khayoss ^^
Sad but True
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8MO7fkZc5o

definitly not buying anything after this patch until they fix the Ranger…

I really want to know what ANET has planned for rangers or what they think the role of a ranger is.

I have several other 80s
will be playing with thief necro and guardian some more now…
but almost all my Laurels and stuff got into Apothecary gear for my shortbow/double cat Ranger… which I actually enjoyed… ANET took my fun.
So I actually would like a representative taking a stance about that

BlusterWolf.2103:

I choose to play a ranger because I like thakittens the only class that can use longbow and shortbow and I like pets in all mmos; longbow is mediocre since beginning, and now shortbow get hit again, yeah I said again, I will never forget 40 milliseconds. Now whats the point of playing this “Unparalleled archers”

+1

That was not how you do it Anet… not at all…
my fun with the Ranger in WvW is gone now…
thats what you did with that “patch”
I hope someone “important” reads this and… I dont know… ignores it I guess…

Is it just me or is the “fun” (as far as it has been fun using the shortbow anyways) now completely gone in WvW?

I tried to use it – but man… you cant chase anyone down any longer with it… and for my condi build Longbow just isnt the weapon any more…

what about beeing the best Ranged class? I cant see it…

lets see…

“Rangers rely on a keen eye, a steady hand, and the power of nature itself. Unparalleled archers, rangers are capable of bringing down foes from a distance with their bows. With traps, nature spirits, and a stable of loyal pets at their command, rangers can adapt to any situation.”

so we are NOT unparalledled archers – as much is clear (I like the longbow on my 80 Warrior more then on my Ranger… and the Shortbow on thief is lots more fun…!

bringing down foes from a distance… hmmm – not after this patch, no (if the patchnotes are true)

traps – okay – nothing fancy but good

nature spirits – still a joke – I dont even wanna start about them

pets – after the coming nerf, with the bad AI and pathing, even more a joke then ever… and maybe the worst most unreliable “special” Ability of any class (I have 7 level 80 and played them quite extensively)

I actually dont know why I still care about the Ranger…

I tried my non stop stealth thief in world vs world and it was easymode…

Even my Necromancer was much more fun now that I respecced her.

So A-Net… anything to say about your own description?
Time for a rewrite maybe?

IF the notes are true, they nerf 50% of the damage from pets that almost doesn´t hit a moving target anyways… kitten Ai sees to that…
so if they fix the “not hitting moving target thing” I have nothing against the nerf.
If not I really consider quitting the game for a bit.
My main is a Ranger and almost all my money got in his equipment…
And of course I am a BM Shortbow Ranger ^^
Both of the things more or less destroyed with this patch…. But I will wait and see for the original Notes…

With all that Pet damage reduction…

Maybe they fixed the kittened up Pet AI? Actually hitting something while moving?
If not I am not impressed…

I have a “bunker” build BM Ranger and my Pet is not hitting for 75 percent on a decent player…

If you want to do long range damage make a Rifle/Longbow Warrior ;-)

My pets just stand there and watch me die… no matter how much I press F1 or F2 …
or even when I put it on aggressive…

the pet AI is still really kitten…

Colorblind people have problems dealing with the dungeon (red and green…. really?).
And fix Pets… the let traps blow of left and right…

Stop “fixing” things until you fixed petkittenting moving things… everything else is really … well.. not important.

Edit: h i t t i n g is going turned into kittening….
yeah… maybe you should fix that also ;-)

Jabronee.9465:

This is the huge problem we “Rangers” are facing since Launch!
Developer never seem to undertand sucha a broken mechanic.
When you give a Class that are being forced to use Pets to add up to the total dps,
you SHOULD NEVER have it bugged, inactive, glitchy and could not dodge or avoid damage then it would a burden rather than an asset.

Its either you get Full Focus on fixing your Pets AI or Give us a choice to not equip pet at all and let us Rangers do 100% dps by ourselves instead of sharing our dps with your broken pets.
How hard is it to understand.

this and 100 times this… until the pet ai is not fixed they can tweak their numbers all they want… fix the core – not do little tweaks around the faulty mechanics!

+1 to the op
we are (rather dodgey) “tanks”…
please fix the homepage where it says we are the masters of ranged combat… thats obviously not true ^^