Guild Wars 2

I feel sorry for places like Hoelbrak and Rata Sum(although this was a extremely confusing place) which required alot of effort and time for the devs, but I feel it’s all going to waste because of Lion’s Arch
Lion’s arch simply provides everything for you so why stay in beginning areas. I think Anet should provide some incentive to stay in your homeland

Does anyone think that the $20 more was worth it?
I think Mistfire wolf kinda sucks. I didn’t expect a super elite which would dominate everything, but I expected something that is a bit more worthwhile

boneduste.4023:

Hopefully Anet can answer this or someone can point me in the direction of a post that answers this. I will put out a guess that 5 was used since sPvP is 5v5, so there is no reason to have it unlimited. This breaks in WvW and even PvE.

Can we have the limit removed? If not removed, how about raised? This will help with many situations, most importantly for me (WvW) is the mesmer portal bomb.

To be completely honest i’d rather have a limit of 5 than let 1 elementalist and necromancer deathshroud drain *facepalm steamroll an entire zerg
Seige is not limited
Mesmer portal bomb breaks WvW because of culling and turtling (thank god that was fixed

Reclaimermaster.4107:

I’ve noticed a lot of negative topics about the ranger being underpowered or bad etc. etc. I have a level 50 ranger and it’s currently my main. All these comments make me want to choose a different class to play as so I don’t waste more time. Can someone explain why the ranger is getting so much negative feedback and what about the ranger needs work so I can understand it?

The Ranger is badOBSTRUCTED because it’s not OBSTRUCTEDgood at anything.
Want to fight from range? WarriorsOBSTRUCTED and thiefs can outperform
See this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_rXq2LYg0
Want to fight melee?OBSTRUCTEDGuard, Warrior, Thief can outperform
Want to OBSTRUCTEDsupport?Ele and Guard can do it betterOBSTRUCTED

This is because of a lack of OBSTRUCTEDa clearlyOBSTRUCTED defined role for the ranger
The ranger only excelsOBSTRUCTED in PvE, but lacks inOBSTRUCTED WvW and pvp
WvW and pvp are OBSTRUCTEDendgame things and once you hit level 80 you find that all things the rangers OBSTRUCTEDcould do before are outshined by other classes
On a second thought ranger fails at PvE endgame aswell
The lack of damage and even mobs in orr and Southsun kill your pet in a few hits makes pets useless
SO pets are only useful for 80- leveling

Problems…
1.Bad AI for pet OBSTRUCTEDsince Anet believes a good portion of damage comes from a pet it leads them to believe thatOBSTRUCTED the player shouldn’t be as strong
The problemOBSTRUCTED is with that is that pets can’t attack while moving although they can hit quite hard when traited.
They are also extremely weak and get instagibbed in WvW zergs and pvp
2.The leads to OBSTRUCTEDtraits and utilities
The traits of a ranger are OBSTRUCTEDmostly broken or useless see this link
http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/65758-compiling-a-list-of-useless-traits/
What’s left is ultilities
The counterpartOBSTRUCTED to endure pain is protect me
Protect me is a great ideaOBSTRUCTED that would only work if the pet acutally lived to do it
So OBSTRUCTEDendure pain is vastly superior OBSTRUCTEDto protect me
So it comes downOBSTRUCTED to traps and spirits
Traps have long cooldown, but are pretty good
Spirits have cooldowns for theirOBSTRUCTED skills and are very weak so they aren’t reliable

So what are we “left” with
~Broken OBSTRUCTEDsword OBSTRUCTEDthat makes you leap everywhere
~Shortbow(Only reliable weapon imo) but that got OBSTRUCTEDslightly nerfed and isn’t going anywhereOBSTRUCTED
~ Longbow The rapid fire “burst” skill does just about the same damage as the autoattack
Axe ok
Horn ok

The problem with theOBSTRUCTED ranger is a gigantic problem built into GW2 itself
All combat is too close quarters
Too many gap closers unreliable knockbacks

BUT MY BIGGEST GRIPE IS THE OBSTRUCTED ARROWS WHICH KILLS OUR DAMAGE

I hope this post displays the annoyance of obstuctions and the problems of the ranger

Rednik.3809:

Predator.7321:

2.There is a limit of seige on a map I think it’s like 200

This. Without despawn, someone can simply build 200 arrowcarts inside SM and bam, no more rams, trebs, catas or golems on map, enjoy assaulting full upgraded towers and keeps with bare hands.

Acutally Golems have no limit but I get what you mean

tichai.4351:

This is now getting ridiculous, siege is being placed and despawning, in some cases <10-15 minutes. This mechanic is totally unnecessary, siege is routinely destroyed by attackers and/or lightning strikes anyway. So why is it felt this is necessary?

An unspecified or apparent random timer on siege has to rank as one of the most annoying things in WvW and has no valid justification for being in the game that I can see.

So, I would be extremely grateful if this annoyance could be removed from an otherwise enjoyable game at your earliest convenience.

1.It despawns in 30 minutes without ANY use
2.There is a limit of seige on a map I think it’s like 200
3. Might be balance issues idk

Which server do think has best prime times in American servers
NA
EU
Oceanic
I would like to play on a server that has the most people on it when i’m on because well it’s boring playing against armies with an outmanned buff with 10 guys

The problem with 5 man healing is that the heal heals 5 of ANYTHING. That includes pets and little minions which is waste if you’re trying to heal someone

Priest.8752:

Frankly I want a refund. Anet completely lied in their manifesto, which is why I bought this game in the first place. Anet claimed there would only be horizontal gear progression… made it 3 whole months before reverting on that. WvW was already declining, and now you’re adding a gear advantage to those who grind for it. Grats on doing exactlty what will make people play even less in WvW.

You want a refund….?
Suck it up they are a company they need to add new content to stay fresh it’s only been 3 months and alot of people are maxed out with exotics already idk about you but mmos are supposed to last years

You don’t have to do it if you are bored
Leave and rejoin you might get different overflow

Switch them just before they die and it’s a 20 sec cooldown.
They did pretty quick tho

Rizzo.2153:

Putting together a condition damage/aoe bleed build and am wondering if piercing arrows are worth putting 30 trait points into. Thoughts?

I run a Condition dmg ranger I put 20/30/20/0/0 I think that’s the best balance for overall damaga

ZudetGambeous.9573:

If you fall off a cliff you spawn back downed at the last check point. If this didn’t occur then that is indeed a bug and should be reported.

Well then I guess it’s a really common bug because that happened to our party like 6 times in one run

Is Miyani spamming you guys with “More information, and our thanks”

Why do we all have to die just to go back to checkpoint….
If someone dies in unreachable spot we all have to die just to get him back
*edit guess what if one party member leaves or dcs all progress is lost we were about 75% of the way and 1 guy leaves for supper all 2 hours lost I hate this dungeon

JonPeters.5630:

Hi Anders, I’m totally not here so skip this post and read on…

We made the improvements we had time to test. There are still more ranger improvements but when our time is limited we have to focus on things we know we can fix. Signets and shouts are still on the docket, and I suspect some of each of these will get some love in the next time around. As you can see a lot changed in this build for every profession and we have to test these changes as well.

I do still believe ranger is the profession in most need of improvement after this patch and we will continue to make those improvements. If we could fix everything at one time we would, but the reality is there are a limited # of hours to make changes.

I see a lot of talk about ranger weapons, but I don’t think that is the real problem. I think sword and longbow are both good weapons, which is why the changes take longer. The problems are deeper, in pets ability to hit moving targets, trait lines with not enough viable choices and skills that are often too specialized to really compliment the weapon builds. These aren’t things we can change overnight. The change to Greatsword block was in fact a very difficult change, but we made it because we knew it was the right thing to do.

There are >500 skills in this game, 480 traits, and 2 designers working on this. Even then often we are bottle necked by other issues. I’m not going to say we are not working on these things, nor can I say there are things we could have changed but just ran out of time on, but this was a patch that contained ranger improvements and it will not be the last one that does so. Maybe you want more than honesty but that is what I currently have to offer.

Jon

In other words better luck next time rangers
I was under the impression that these "changes were ready last patch and just had to be implemented this patch and i’m not sure where those changes we were promised went.

“The Priory Explorer Plinx event chain in Cursed Shore will now occur less frequently.”
That was my farm!!!

I saw this coming…This is not a joke Anet this patch has been up for about 5 minutes and there’s almost a 1k views on this thread about that filth you shoved in our face

It will come out later when Arenanet feels like giving us them

Mrowqa.3861:

Well Maybe warrior does do 20k dmg crit with a skill that needs full “rage” and fully depels it so he needs to recharge it again.

In meantime You and your pet can do twice if not 3 times that dmg to him.

Also with proper build You as ranger have 12s of “immortality” where warrior can’t do kitten and you can just laugh at his face.
Look some ranger vids/ screen shots where pets do 3-5k crits alone with base attacks. att to that bleeds from hawks etc or might buffs from tiger and seriously you will outdmg that warrior and you have much more utility.

You know a warrior has signets that you can just click and get full rage
Or you can just spray a volley rage up
What’s the point of all those bleeds and stuff if he 1 shots you

Aeri.5738:

can we all have an agreement, that pointing out warriors damage 100x a week is the upper limit? you just did it the 101st time, and it slightly starts to annoy people.
Yes, right now we are below warriors in terms of damage, and gues what: it’s going to stay like that cause our pet deals a large amount of our damage.
so you will never see huge crits like that, rather than 2 medium crits of you and your pet.

and now for god sake just w8 until the update for more complaints…

Not sure about ur pet but mine does nothing

Schwahrheit.4203:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhGZUthR6E4

18k going once, going twice? Rules are… no SoM, Omm, FoJ. Signet of Rage is fine. Frenzy required.

Who needs Hundred blades when you can do 20k dmg from range
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_rXq2LYg0

Like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru_rXq2LYg0

Mrowqa.3861:

First of all this vid was posted here at least 10 times now.
second of all This warrior is pure kitten when you attack him as ranger he can’t do kitten, only run. Easy and simple to beat.

This warrior build is only good when u remain unnoticed by anyone and can freely do dmg. Same this applies to Mesmers Berserk or duelist when they remain unnoticed and just rip enemies apart.

Yes the crit dmg is just stupid. but it’s easy to avoid as many ppl stated.
Ofcourse it’s harder in crowds but seriously if You watch most of WvW videos, ppl are dyin so badly to random stuff like aoe that u won’t even notice what you got hit from.

And seriously get your ranger even with gs or lb build or even crappy sword in 1 hand and ull see how that warrior is good in 1v1 combat against you

Oh I just found this video and find it stupid
I actually have fought against warriors its much harder than going at the other way around
I still think the Warrior shouldn’t hit anywhere close to the ranger at ranged
The only thing that is close to these hits are Rapid fire and that is cumulative dmg
1 shot 20k and a volley is ridiculous

This warrior can do good melee dmg, ranged dmg, and heavy armor
Time to reroll

Another infernal week with SBI and JQ again….
If we lose this week we out of T1 for abit
Well the PVE event this time will be Lost shores and will probably knock BG players out just like Halloween again…

Snow Aeth.1937:

Here we are again for another week of awesome fights!

One great thing now is that tier 2 has serious competition too, so if anyone drops out this time they won’t have to worry about lack of challenge!

SBI/JQ watch out as BG is coming to hack your orbs big time this week

Anyway good luck to all 3 teams and lets bash each others digital heads in as much as we can <3

There are no orbs….and BG does not hack there happens to be hackers on our server.

Don’t even accuse anyone of hacking without screenshots or a video

GL to all hopefully this match will be more fair without orbs

Clever.7918:

All i get is rubble when i try to mine Orichalcum, am i doing something wrong?

Your not use a Orriculum pic

I have been on Blackgate since day 1 and we have come a long way. I understand that we have alot of transfers, but how do we control the amount of people transfer into our server. We win because we work together in chat and have outstanding leadership. My guild (Urge) has put countless hours and seige down in order to achieve victory. I do have to admit War machine from SBI is a strong force, they win alot of battles, but persistance wins wars. We have pride and continue to fight. I want a fair fight from all servers or it’s truly not fun. These “exploits” such as portal bombing and turtling are part of the game intended or not, It is up to Anet to fix these. As far as I know there are no hackers in Blackgate in WvW

Get over it….Nobody cares that your feelings were hurt.
All that matters is that they are actually doing something to fix it.
Are you expecting Arena net to beg you to come back and play their game after you already bought it?

P.S It’s just a game and it’s your loss if you don’t want to play

Oh yeah and ET and HoD servers are deserted on all battlegrounds/borderlands

Well I am not sure whose going to win. I heard HoD alliance broke up. Boring WvW for Blackgate this week