Guild Wars 2

coronbale.3894:

I think after 20 min into the match, BG and YB had a combined 22 golems on the map. EPIC!

BG had no Golems on any of the Tier 3 maps.

Valroth.7138:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgB1anukittenE

This is a follow-up video showing how to deal with D/D Thieves.

Says “Sorry this video is unavailable.”

Miiaah.5416:

Moddo.7105:

ghtchill.7613:

As the title says friends, when we left T8, Tier 1 was our goal. Now, not withstanding we do not choose T1, we still have to reach it. T1 is the conclusion of a truly epic voyage. No server in this version of this game has risen from T8 to T1. We’re almost there, despite many predictions of our impending failure. Those crystal ball gazers are what we like to call…wrong.

SO…come on Kai, complete the journey…then continue to have the fun.

PS

All things are the same until they change…and we have changed it.

This post actually makes it like a T8 server worked hard and rose up ranks, not the reality that journey started in T1 then bunch transfers down to T8 and a ton of more transfers from even more bandwagon riders.

You’re right they should have chose the path all of JQs free transfers did

Never been to JQ so this in reply to me means nothing if it was intended to somehow mean anything to me.

ghtchill.7613:

As the title says friends, when we left T8, Tier 1 was our goal. Now, not withstanding we do not choose T1, we still have to reach it. T1 is the conclusion of a truly epic voyage. No server in this version of this game has risen from T8 to T1. We’re almost there, despite many predictions of our impending failure. Those crystal ball gazers are what we like to call…wrong.

SO…come on Kai, complete the journey…then continue to have the fun.

PS

All things are the same until they change…and we have changed it.

This post actually makes it like a T8 server worked hard and rose up ranks, not the reality that journey started in T1 then bunch transfers down to T8 and a ton of more transfers from even more bandwagon riders.

Daemon.4295:

Xsorus.2507:

I managed to get myself some high toughness armor for that new Daze build i’m working on.

PVT gear + Cava Jewelry + Knights Jewels.

I’m having trouble against bunker builds (like mesmer’s with the setup) and Guardians are tough as hell also, only managed to defeat the guy once in a duel, and I think he figured out what I was doing and switch to anti daze abilities

I’m thinking i will have to modify the talent some

Something like

0/30/5/5/30

My cat pet is just dying so easily without a second source of healing, and I think you need at least one DPS pet.

How does a daze build work on ranger?? There aren’t enough daze options, did you lose a bet and have to trait moment of clarity? :p

He is a Ratman thing with Technobabble.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

Sebrent.3625:

Are we allowed to know when this next discussion is, Robert? ;-)

Today! We have them multiple times per week. I may not bring up all of the issues from the list since there are a bunch of other class things to discuss, but I’ll seed the list details multiple times throughout the coming meetings to keep it on everyone’s mind, and spend some time this weekend coming up with proposals and such so I can better guide the conversation.

Is this first time pets has ever been discussed? If not could we get a list of things been there done that at meetings.

Musty.3148:

Does anyone ever READ the boards before posting anymore?

Hell not even that just read a bit of chat in game and he probably would of caught a mention of why this is silly idea.

Only stats they really need to keep track of. X numbers of people who bandwagon to tier 1 servers as they rode up the tiers and X number of times losers bandwagoned to another server. Then when the l33t people from Tier 1 and 2 servers post on forum we can see how much hopping they have done.

cubed.2853:

Its absolutely no motivations, I could imagine a lot of people leave too if Outmanned buff pops up.
But the absolute worst is that an enemy sees this.

No way you head out and find a nice quite area to PvE mobs in:)

vespers.1759:

oh hey we’re outmanned… better give us PVE buffs that don’t help us at all!

Let me help you make since of this. When they where designing the game the person in charge of implementing the out manned and the Orb buffs mistakenly switched the two. So as time went on that person left the company and everyone else never knew they two should of been switched.

At least that is my theory.

Habib Loew.6239:

There was a bug with the outmanned buff which caused it to be stripped from players on death. That bug should be fixed in the March update.

So technically there still is a bug. So to say “There was a bug” is not correct way to say that:p

They should make it so that if archers in towers/keeps can see siege it gets drawn on map for other team. Then people would need to eliminate all guards in area first to ensure stealth. Adds another level to sieging. But as this would require Anet actually adding code into the game I wasting my time suggesting it.

Durzlla.6295:

All these people saying LB is bad for a glass canon build… i don’t think you understand how the weapon works… When you’re at max range you don’t use anything but 3 and 1, because it just hits that freaking hard…

But LB projectiles are too easy to dodge at max range. SB is much better because of faster casting time. LB is 1.25 sec cast where as SB is .5 So in time you get 1 LB off you can get off 2.5 SB casts. And add in bleed dmg per shoot the SB does more dmg than even at max range. This is going by your only use 1 and 3 skills on LB.

No Walking.6349:

How about 6 seconds of quickness, with a buffed up SB hitting from 1200 with the pet harassing….don’t QQ about rangers, they’re great. How about not running into the middle of the fray like you do with your thief.

Anyone else notice that 99.99% of people in 3 underdog professions(eng,necro,ranger) that argue class is great and nothing is wrong with it, always use their posts to insult other people and always say how great they are.

Ahh the internet is such lovely tool of the low self esteem nerds of the world.

JaironKalach.4938:

I don’t know why you continue to presume that you know what my experience has been, ignore my descriptions of it, and then assume I don’t know what I’m talking about.

He knows because that Teddy Bear behind you is actually a nanny cam that he is stalking you with!!!!

capuchinseven.8395:

JaironKalach.4938:

capuchinseven.8395:

Honestly if you think you’re outnumbered here you’d have a heart attack if you saw T2.

This is funny. We’ve seen T2. Within the past 4 weeks, we’ve played every one of next weeks projected T2 matchup. You guys stand out against them, TBH. I expect that with BG moving up and SoS moving down, you will be at the top of the fight.

Seriously dude if you think 25 players beating on your garrison door is a zerg you should see (or rather sort of culling see and not see) 30+ outside your door and another 15 beating on your water gate while 15 more take your Bay.

Oh two “In my day we had to walk to school in 15ft of snow uphill both ways”
posts on say page. That is so hot.

capuchinseven.8395:

Honestly if you think you’re outnumbered here you’d have a heart attack if you saw T2.

Post like these bring to mind a old dude saying “In my day we had to walk to school in 15ft of snow uphill both ways”

LadyLad.1389:

I just wish Toughness + Armor mattered. I’ve had Thieves hit me in Plague form, which gives me (4,322 Toughness / 5,181 Armor) for as much as 10k damage with a backstab. This should never happen under those circumstances. It only makes Armor worthless. I have to give up a very large amount of my damage to get this level of defense.

I have a theory this is related to %crit dmg. in that it is ignoring armor when calculating add bonus tacked on. But this will not matter because cti dmg is limited in sPvP and that is only thing Anet balances against when it comes to thieves.

kerona.3465:

Moddo.7105:

kerona.3465:

DB your speed hacker/flying/tower jumping buddies are back

Very dissapoint.

Hey Blame Anet lack of caring about hackers. I know who you are most likely referring to as he was kicked from old guild we had. All info was submitted to Anet with OBVIOUS Video + SS proof from opposing servers and DB. This person still is in game.

Hell they don’t even bother to change the report feature, how hard would it be to add a new item to drop down Hacking/exploiting and a text field. I wonder if their UI is so hard coded and not scripted like ever other moderen game.

:( This is disheartening to hear. We’re reporting him when we see them, but it’s kinda hard when they’re blinking across the map at 100 mph. Taking up watch at our tower keep lords until they get bored/log/NNK-oclock.

Yea this made me stop reporting hackers as waste of my time. Spent like 30-40mins gathering different videos and SS from a bunch of Mag people when it happened a month ago. It was beyond reproach proof of him blinking around and even after getting downed he teleported away. He was the only person of the class that was logged in with our guild tag on. Not sure of how much better proof Anet could of had. Must of just deleted email.

Cactus.2710:

morrolan.9608:

Obviously anet don’t actually have a process n place on this its just at the whim of the devs.

ANet does not have a centralized process in place for dropping patches. If you listen to the 45 minute video they did back before launch where they describe various aspects of their coding schemes, one of the things they mention is that any group of devs can drop a live patch at their whim without involving anyone else. It’s been pretty obvious since then that they think it’s pretty cool to do so.

Yea probably when enemy server is about to enter inner Garrison for server Anet dev plays on :-)

One thing about Reven build if going into WvW is drop 10 from inventions and go 30 in Firearms. Coated bullets is single best way to hit MANY targets at once. Each bullert burst from pistol will hit people next to target and each time a burst hits target another burst happens so on and so forth. Can hit alot people ikittenerg.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

I’ll admit I don’t WvW as much as I likely should. When I do though, I tend to avoid the larger battles due to culling and those pesky stealth thieves who seem to pick my Anet tag out of the crowd and proceed to stick daggers in my spine.

Those Thieves are not targeting you because of Anet tag. It is fact you are a ranger and one easier targets for a good thief to down. A Ranger provides a nice and easy target for C&D that only a mesmer can match but when you kill a mesmer clone with C&D it can put crap on you.

Meryt.9823:

Namu.5712:

Meryt.9823:

All I want is a pet that picks up all the loot bags. Don’t really use pet since Guard got nerfed.

Not nerfed, fixed.

So will they be fixing Mesmers illusions?

What does Mesmer illusion have to do with guard? And why ask that person he is just another Joe nobody like reset of us How would he know the Devs plans.

Tauril.8504:

The devs say they want to avoid splitting skills between PvP and PvE

Well in the case of Thieves this does not hold true. Eng/Ranger/Mesmer nerfs that where because of sPvP also effected WvW/PvE. The nerfs Thieves got to cluster bomb/C&D and other skills where only in sPvP/tPvP. So they only split them mainly for Thief abilities cause why would devs nerf class they like most.

Namu.5712:

Meryt.9823:

All I want is a pet that picks up all the loot bags. Don’t really use pet since Guard got nerfed.

Not nerfed, fixed.

No nerfed. Guard was change a few patches back from why it is now to the way it was before last patch. It was not OP in that state till people figured out that they could Guard + Search and Rescue to cheese way into keeps with Mesmer Portals. So instead of fixing that issue they took easy way out and changed Guard back. It was easier to revert to old code rather than right new code.

saiyr.3071:

Pretty sure TC is trollin you guys

Well not really trolling they are just trying to act all nice in order to entice our SEA guilds to move. They saw how it back fired when FA tried to recruit so they want to

“If all goes well and we reach a level of strong rapport and comfort with them, consider sharing Theon’s excellent siege strategy writeup, unless they already seem to know most of it. They seem well organized and know what they’re doing, just haven’t had the opportunity to learn from T1 competition yet. Theon’s guide is a result of exactly that. Makes them better, makes our matchups more fun, and makes it clear TC War Council is serious about WvW (a perception we seem to be having problems with lately).
"

Thief group play is fine, Learn to use a SB effectively and you are one best healers when a ele is around. In a orgnized guild group on voice, ele calls out droping water fields you can spam CB on it and put out some seriours AE healing. SB has the best on demand blast finisher and 100% projectile finisher there is. Plus spreading around poison field is nice group synergy. It just take a bit of practice to master the SB well but it is worth it.

Kanto.1659:

When you say something like, a warrior is bad if he can’t win against a mesmer, yes, I fear your credibility is shaken.

NO he was saying if a Warrior loses to a lvl5 mesmer he is bad. How in hell is that mesmer A going to survive one HB as that lvl5 has 1 slot for Utility and 0 for traits.
Plues lvl5 armor has 1 stat on it therefore his scaling would suck. If lose 1v1 lvl80 vs lvl5 of any class combo you do suck.

And no sPvP was not topic of the lvl5 mesers text so it has no baring on what the person you quoted said.

Phira.3970:

Simple math

350ish heals per second per person.

So if its a 20 non 100% hp people zerg, you’re doing 7000 heal per second.

Its more consistent and larger ranged healing than most other classes

Would be useful for countering arrow carts.

I don’t see it doing much other than that though

Does banner work like that? Because ever other ability only heals 5 people max.

Khenzy.9348:

Rangers are there to provide water fields, although it’s little utility in comparision, to be fair.

If job of Ranger is to provide light fields then bring a eng as you will get them more often 16sec traited on exilar gun and also off turret.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

I am still here and watching. I’m currently composing a list of ideas and statements from this thread to bring to our balance meetings (held multiple times per week), that I can present to at least talk about with the group.
I go to the meetings as a representative for rangers and dungeons, since I play both of those things extensively. Here’s how my list is looking so far:

Core problems: (Note: we are very aware of both of these things)
-Pet AI.
-Pet management tools

Things to investigate:
-Pets auto attacks only hitting a single target.
-On “return” command, your pet gains swiftness so it can escape out of red rings more easily.
-A button that makes your pet momentarily not take damage. A sort of “Dodge” button for you to control. This is mainly due to us making sure players know how to use their dodge-roll or damage mitigation skills, which pets don’t have, and don’t always know how to escape properly when recalled without a direct pet swap. (NOTE: This is a springboard idea for pets being able to avoid damage)
-Pet/minion AR that is shared with the master’s stats.
-More defensive pet skills.
-Vigor applied to pets turns into swiftness or protection.
-In dungeons, pet’s get more health/armor.
-Lick wounds not always working. Pet just runs back and stands on your body.
-Search and Rescue buggy
-F2 skills activating faster.
-Health/stamina bars for pets
-pet names not being undone when removing them from the “kennel”

Since you run these meetings multiple time a week what was brought up at other meetings already. If given a idea what was discussed already (which alot of items you listed should of been) then we could not have redundant posting. Or is this the first time that pet ideas is even being discussed in one of the meetings?

Steelo.4597:

SM trebs, golem rush, invisible stomping, portal bombing, solo-contesting, thief damage, camp buff (fixed version), glitching into gates, invisible circles, culling, lag, bugged queue, orbs..

theres a lot that should be fixed..

Not least of which is 90% of tiers have big population tine slot imbalances.

cannons.8109:

wow, you guys are really dense. grey cat chasing a brown mouse could be a subtle reference to Tom and Jerry – good catch by OP.

But it is not a mouse it is a rat. They are totally too different things other than both being rodents. For one thing rats have 22 chromosome pairs, house mice have 20. Another is rats have 6 pairs of nipples, house mice have 5 pairs. And rats will engage in muricide, which is killing of mice.

Jericho.4521:

Almost any class played by a smart / experienced person could kill me. That being said, D/D Eles, and Guardians in general gave me a lot of trouble 90% of the time.

Don’t worry keep plugging away and you will get better to win more offten.

It is Always a good idea to atleast glance at patch notes once in awhile. You can find them in https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news And big patches get a thread while smaller ones after/relating to it get a post in that thread. This way you will not get surprised and then post on forums and then getting someone to tell you to read the patch notes. :-)

One question Xsorus does using PI drop you out of stealth on cast or as person takes a hit from it or if at all?

Xsorus.2507:

Well he is right about the Mesmer, who stood in place (and in general was pretty awful)

However he is wrong about the 1st minute part, I generally only include fights that have level 80s in them, If its a sub 80 I usually just delete the video.

Yea seriously that Mesmer was horrid, she never once summoned a clone only waited for iWarlock cooldowns or something. And seemed she forgot to bring a second weapon into WvW.

Forget even about PvP play playing like that in PvE is bad too.

Xsorus.2507:

ErlendR.6107:

I just saw 2 min.
1st min: low lvl ppl
2nd min: a mesmer who didnt move at all
3rd min: no thanks

There is a level 80 in every fight in that video

Oh why got to go and bust his bubble you know every thief video has to have people come in and defend the broken mechanics in WvW. Since posted a video they can’t tell you to L2P a thief first etc..

Preyar.6783:

etrigan.4213:

….

Pretty sure cats chase mice/rats…

Aww come on….where in the game is there a grey cat chasing a brown mouse in circles and around buildings? Please enlighten me.

Well for one in the northern server borderland camp.

Don’t bother Anet does not ban people for hacking. Had a guildmember speed, teleport and HP hacking a month ago. Other servers caught him on Fraps and screen shoots and it was blatant(He was only person of that class on at time this happened so was easy to see who it was). Went out and saw it myself so he was kicked out of guild and reported it as did many other people from all 3 servers.
That person still logs in to this day.

kylia.4813:

Will buy a nag a once someone releases a mouse for us left handers……

Razer was suppose to release one. The announcements where back in March of 2011 no idea what happened as I would think it would not take a year+ to actually design one. All have to do is swap keys around and such.

http://www.facebook.com/razer/posts/257599577663832

Agrios.1957:

I see you have a point with pets. But not THAT point to say “OMG Rangers FTL” as if pets were vital to core class mechanics.

Pets are not vital to core class mechanics? WTH pets are the class mechanics. 40% of your dmg comes from pet and if BM specced it is alot more.

Recycle.5493:

Using axes for GC ranger is like wanting to burst people down with a shortbow thief. Axes simply aren’t the best tools for burst dps.

Bad comparison as Thief Short bow can bust down very well. Granted not as OP as D/D BS but if use SB well it is effective at close range.

Kinda funny that reason one aspect of GW2 can not be buffed for ranger is because it would effect another part of game. Why is it important to balance Ranger across modes but other classes have received buffs and in case of WvW no nerfs even though they might be weak or OP in other area. Take Mesmers nerfs that “where” to balance for sPvP yet hurt in PvE a area mesmers already was lacking in.

Kazoo Cherry.7921:

Wow all this talk of pet dodges etc and my flesh golem still stands around and does nothing for about 25% of the time. When are necro’s gonna get some love?

I’m guessing english it not your preferred language but when one arranges letters R A N G E and R all in row that spells Ranger not Necromancers. Hence talking about Ranger pets in Ranger forums is probably more likely to happen than talking about Necromancers minions.

EnRohbi.2187:

Moddo.7105:

Like me for example I am a self made millionaire male model 3 time Nobel Prize winner with 9in male member who is secretly dating Kate Upton. But people don’t care about that.

You’re going with 9in in this fantasy?
Would think you’d break double digits at least.

Naw 10in or more and ladies get scared.

So from Playing all the up and rising T1-2 servers in last couple of months one thing I am learning is that Transferring = skill in GW2. Most of the extreme populated transfered bandwagon servers talk about work and coordination communication improving and that is why they are steamrolling servers.

Jayne.9251:

GuardianOMS.8067:

TheFug.5278:

GuardianOMS.8067:

TheFug.5278:

This happened last time we fought Maguuma, even when we were on CD.

They pull the “lol we never die and pwn you guys so hard” card out. Then they talk about how bad we are.

And then when they actually go up against organized guild groups they all get dominated and promptly leave the BG while blaming numbers.

Guys, it’s getting a bit tired.

Yup, that’s what always happens. Please, tell me more. Because CD never did this! Oh no no no.

It is what always happens. When I first heard we were going up against Maguuma again, I told my guildies that we would be seeing the “we never die!” card being thrown out again. Sure enough, there it is.

Why don’t you guys stop trolling the forums and try playing the game for once, you might actually have fun.

Until then I am going to keep RP’ing. I like collecting badges while dressing up like a pretty pirate.

No way! Maguuma is in the same situation and you guessed that we would react the same way?! Please teach me, sensei! . It’s not hard to guess how forums warriors are gonna act, just as how we know how TC and CD acts. Nothing changes. If you’re tired of it, go have fun.

But the fact that you’ve been trolling as well kind of makes you seem like you should be practicing what you preach.

I love TC, I really do. But this.

If you find yourself writing a mini novella in response to something here .. hit cancel and go take your dog for a walk. In the history of the interwebs, nobody manages to convince anyone of anything they don’t already believe. Trying only makes both parties involved look silly.

I can also appreciate how my offbeat attempt at comedy as I ventured into this thread may have been misconstrued. We were so used to doing it as the underdogs in Tier 2, that it kind of became a fun and silly way to relieve some burn out and stress .. plus make some friends along the way.

While I don’t think we’ll ever hit the level of friendship we had in our recent T2 matchup thread, I am still hoping we can at least muster up a bit of respect for each other.

Um isn’t what you replied a mini novel.

capuchinseven.8395:

kfarb.6732:

It has nothing to do with video games though.

I’m sorry I’m confused, who felt that correcting a spelling mistake on the internet was a useful way to reply to a discussion about video games? Then for some reason it’s strange that I would reply to that…?

That’s pretty funny. I think it’s best I drop out of this.

Yes you should. To me from reading your post you seem to have some self doubt issues that a PvP Video game forum might not be the healthiest thing for. In each of your post you have told us how great you are at never die and how smart you are with multiple masters degrees. Well little secret for you no one cares about any of that. Hence why he was commenting on your mentioning your degrees. People on internet lie and make carp up. So could you be, and that is why most people don’t care.

Like me for example I am a self made millionaire male model 3 time Nobel Prize winner with 9in male member who is secretly dating Kate Upton. But people don’t care about that.

Eduardo.4675:

Maybe we need a moderator/dev coming here to clarify?

HaHaHaHaHA…HAHA
Better chance of hitting the lotto