Certain skills should be ineffective against certain enemy types.
A no brainer really, but that this is currently not the case severely limits the possibilities for adding challenge and variety to the game;
Possible examples
Undead immune to fear, poison, bleeding, torment
Spiders immune to poison, blind
Select Shiverpeaks mobs immune to chill
Dragonbrand immune to confusion
Ghosts immune to bleeding, poison
etc. etc.
For shoulder armour pieces that have non-matching left and right sides,
add the option to toggle which side switches to match the other.
Because;
Highly cost-effective way to increase armour combination possibilities, and,
appeases those who like/dislike the design of one side, or asymmetry in general.
What’s heartbreaking is that regardless of any meta, with a little love on the enemy AI, and the skills given to the enemy, exploits and glitches could easily be overcome.
More Emotes have been requested since launch.
Sadly, it’s a low priority – obviously, as almost 3 years have passed and not one single new emote has been added. Kitten tragic, seriously.
If Human and Norn armies were to face off against one another, who would win?
Unless I am missing something, I would have to side with the Norn, because all races can be any profession, so the Norn’s innate sheer physical superiority would tip the balance.
Thoughts?
Edited for clarity;
this topic is intended to deal with the lore in the Guild Wars franchise, not the actual gameplay in Guild Wars 2.
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Heimskarl,
That “response” from the Devs (and consequent complete lack of action two years after launch—as sad as that is) is specifically about pet names.
I’m after a more general and frank, 2015 response.
To Anet, the Devs,
Could you please comment, in general, about how the team currently feels about Ranger pets/pet system, and, the direction in which the team may be headed regarding any improvements or upgrades?
This is a topic the team has remained completely and utterly silent about since launch.
- Favourite unlocked: The Magnanimous because I think highly of the notion.
- I want to have the Legendary Champion title.
- Respected title: Been there done that, and Legendary Champion because they both require a great deal of effort.
- Disliked title: Twice-told Legend because it represents a disgusting amount of available time, luck, money and extravagance.
- Title want created: The Righteous because I think highly of the notion. Obtaining it should require completing several other titles, for instance Combat Healer and other in-game activities/achievements such as completing the personal story, helping that kid finish his snowman, and any other do-goody stuff. No brainer, really.
My guess at most people’s overall thoughts and feelings summed up;
Frustration & disappointment
It feels like Anet are only releasing outfits. This is because they haven’t released enough new full armour sets since launch, and, the ones that have been released just haven’t “hit the spot” for a lot of people.
Some of the outfits (at very least, some of the pieces of some outfits) look very nice—and consequently many people would like to have said pieces to mix and match with other pieces. This can’t be done, and it’s just plain frustrating.
While the “technical issues” excuse for pushing out outfits instead of armours may be ‘valid’ to some extent, it is regardless, entirely unacceptable and a clear example of an overall loss in production quality and excellence in favour of cost reduction and time saving. Anet have already proven that it is possible to create myriad individual pieces and still have them look great.
Releasing outfits in and of themselves is not the issue. What is the issue however, is that many people are desperately hanging out for some new stuff, and when it finally arrives in the form of an outfit that they can’t freely make use of, well, it’s just heartbreaking. Anet need to release armour—even if it’s not the same ‘theme’ as the outfit—alongside every outfit release.
That would appease the crowd, guaranteed.
I crafted Mawdrey too.
As enjoyable as questing for the parts was, I must say it was a blessing to be able to buy some of the materials.
There’s an NPC in Camp Resolve that lets you rewatch the final cinematics if you’ve completed the episode. He’s standing near the entrance.
Please, may we have the same for the Personal Story final cutscenes?
I want voice/sound tech. that allows the game to pronounce (audibly) my character’s actual name during all voice-acted scenes, in the voice-actor’s voice.
(even if I have to dictate the pronunciation initially at character creation time)
The concept of “choice & compromise” has not yet been mentioned, I think, but needs a short intro;
In real life people feel happiest when they have succeeded at a particular undertaking (especially of their choosing)—and consequently reap the expected intangible and tangible rewards of that success. Therefore, in order to reproduce that happiness in your game, there must be rewards (and compromises) commensurate with any undertaking. Conversely, illogical (unexpected) generic rewards mostly detract from the entire experience. *See Blue Moa’s, wolves and other wild animals dropping great swords and bows and spears. But I digress.
Therefore, in creating the best experience, there is simply no getting away from an RNG system that directly manipulates the outcome of an RNG in favour of what a person expects, (John’s option 2), but having chosen a path, perhaps compromised, and subsequently succeeded.
In real life people make choices and compromises—some that prove difficult decisions to make—usually before they go on an undertaking.This aspect of choice and compromise is mostly ‘backwards’ or absent in the current adventure/random loot system, and it is the same for all players—when instead there is opportunity to really make it “their story”.
THE MEAT
The improved RNG system would have players choose a theme that would reflect the direction in which a player wishes to advance. RNG loot drops are tied to both the mob types and the theme. Final, high-end items could not simply ‘drop’, but require assembly by combining other items obtained through a database of random events (adventures) tied to the player’s chosen theme. (their story)
These adventures could require compromise, rather like certain direction changes people face in real life—changing a university degree half way through for example—i.e. in GW2 said character “theme” changes, combat required with a specific weapon combination for X amount of time etc.
Bottom line: loot drops or is acquired more or less according to player expectation but also only after their having made an active choice or compromise.
1800 hours, no drops.
I’ve said this once, I’ll say it again; There should be an algorithm before the standard random generator that goes something like; “If player has played X amount of hours and precursor drop count is less than 1, drop precursor. Else, do normal loot generator.”
All these have been suggested before… a lot. The stow won’t happen, devs don’t like rangers playing without their pets.
So make the kitten pets work properly then for pete’s sake!!! It’s been 2 years!!
My take on the perma-regen, beastmaster build.
I’ve been using this for months now, love it:
Excellent armour @ 3000
Decent power @ 2400 —- but your your bird pet will do kick kitten dps
Might stacking, invulnerability, and stability from your signets (20% CD reduction too!)
Perma regen—-Either Runes of Dwayna or Runes of the Dolyak
Sigil of Renewal and Sigil of Energy on each of your weapons = semi-perma dodge and even more healing.
Zero condition removal so you’re pooched with multiple, long duration conditions on you—-swap out troll ungent for the healing spring if this bothers you.
Final note: I temporarily drop one or two of the signets (usually signet of the hunt first) depending on the situation—Sic ’em is a must have against thieves for example.
Anet game designer envisaged a sword/bow/dagger-wielding, elven-ish, druid-ish, at-one-with-nature-and-the-beasts Ranger.
Says said designer to American art team, “Go create some armour for a Ranger”.
Infamous last words;
We now have as many variations as one could imagine for an American ‘Texas’ Ranger in a cowboy hat and trench coat—but without the possibility to actually wield pistols or a rifle. Click for a Texas Ranger
End Result; Ludicrous. Tell me this ain’t how it went down, and I’ll eat my hat.
Anet, may we please have more armour that has synergy with a fantasy-style Ranger?
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I posted about this two years ago.
Regardless, Anet should release a ‘poser’ / green room / photo room feature in the game, to allow you to pose your characters and take snaps.
The support people are following a generic problem solving process which, while probably unavoidable is not really effective. (I’m still at the stage of sending them machine configuration data)
Incidentally, new IP address acquired, connection is now possible. However, whether that is due to NCSoft lifting the block, or my new IP address, I can not say.
I received a new IP address, and I am now able to connect.
However, as the new IP is in a similar range to the one I had before,
my connectivity may be coincidental with NCSoft lifting an IP address range block as of yesterday evening.
stop refusing connections from 60.51.xx.xx
in Account & Technical Support
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NCSoft is blocking IP ranges.
This issue is being posted at here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/error-42-1000-7006-1327/first#post4201148
Hi, yes that error code and this issue is doubled up here in this post:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/Game-Forums-unavailable-from-Japan/first#post4201144
NCSoft has definitely banned an IP address range. Hopefully a forum moderator can direct this issue to an Arena Net employee and so on…
I opened a ticket with support.
In the mean time, I have confirmed that I can not connect to any NCSoft websites.
That means, typing ‘NCSoft’ into Google, and clicking on any results—for example, their main home website and Aion and it’s forums.
This is definitely an IP block of some description. It’s infuriating.
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I play Guild Wars 2 from Japan (2 years now), and last night I was abruptly disconnected and have not been able to connect since.
I can not connect to the forums or the game servers without using a VPN.
Has Anet or NCsoft put out a ban on access from Japan!? Please confirm.
I have tried using a VPN to access the forums and the game, it works, but it is slow and I should not have to do this.
Could someone, anyone please tell me if there has been some official blocking action taken against Japan, Japanese ISPs or Japanese IP addresses?
It seems the game and forums are currently inaccessable from Japan.
I was abruptly disconnected at 2am last night and have not been able to connect since.
Access from my home computers is impossible, contacted my ISP and they can not connect either. (But mobile phone access to the forums is possible.)
News/information please!
Error code—-42:1000:7006:1327
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Because being a Ranger doesn’t necessarily mean you are Chuck Norris, nor the Texas Ranger.
But they decided to make Cowboy ‘Texas Ranger’ trench coats and cowboy hats and face-hankerchiefs in abundance… it’s xxx-for-brains that “Rangers” can’t then flesh out this role with rifles and pistols.
Total design failure me thinks.
Why does being in a party assist in farming?
Yeah love those, those ‘doh!’ or ‘Ohhh shhh..t!’ moments.
I’d planned out a set of specific armour, finally collected enough dungeon tokens, opened up the vendor, made sure I had my mouse over the one with the stats I wanted and double click!—YES, I want to purchase!-click! … go to equip… this armour type does not suit your profession… (@@_@@);
Long-term player here—I’ve completed most, but not all of the below.
.
Collecting desired equipment/weapons for looks
Personal story
Exploring all map areas
Dungeons/Fractals
WvW
PvP
Build experimentation/perfection
.
If you have completed all of this, and/are bored with the content that can not be completed per se’, (i.e. WvW/PvP) then frankly speaking there are only two remaining options;
1) Enjoy the social interactions; guilds, helping new players etc.
2) Don’t play until new content that interests you is released.
It really is that simple. And there is nothing wrong with that.
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Is it the idea that you dislike, or just using that name for the idea? We could call it something else, after all.
Part of the answer to your question is in my post, but to expand briefly,
How does the notion of disease (or similar mechanic by a different name) improve on the existing gameplay? In my view, it doesn’t. The ‘pros’ the OP refers to are vague and contrived.
No offense, but I think the idea of disease is ridiculous.
Not least because disease is something that people tend to suffer over relatively long periods of time, which clearly isn’t representative of the seconds-to-minutes long combat encounters in Guild Wars 2.
Then there is the issue of what of kind of disease. For example, Parkinson’s Disease —where characters would shake and drop their weapon on every tick? Or Tourret’s Syndrome perhaps, whereby characters would randomly /yell profanities and remain in a ‘stunned’ position. Leprosy, anyone? Rabies?
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If you can’t have a house right in the center of Lion’s Arch or Divinity’s reach, a house that everyone walks past, looks at and goes ‘wow!’…
…What is the point!?
Instanced housing—which is the only way it could ever happen— is like having a legendary weapon but putting the skin of a white trash item on it.
Therefore, no one will ever know or care you have a house, or want to go and see it unless you tell and invite them to have a look, at which point (should they bother to visit) they will spend about 47 seconds inside before they leave the instance to go run some other content directly relevant to them.—Your hours of customizing and furnishing will amount to sweet F.A.
I just want adult pets, and the ability to equip them with pet armour.
Hi Shoz, I don’t mean to be unkind as such, but you could put in a little effort and look through the available traits and runes here using this site;
More… warm… bodies… pllleaaasse uraahhh, waha, hahaaa!
You get all the bonuses listed when wearing a full set of the same runes.
Phoenix Rifle, (Black Lion ticket required)
The best-looking rifle I’ve seen in game.
Use voice-changer software.
(Grab a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Z sound card), all software included.
You’ll sound like a total bad-kitten , even with your mind-numbingly ugly voice.
I would swap Sigil of Hydromancy for Sigil of Renewal.
Take the Fern Hound for additional healing, and the Blue Moa for protection and another heal.
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@irk,
Why do you have two sigils that rely on critical chance, when your critical chance is only 18%? Given that those sigils’ effects then only activate on another chance, they’ll almost never pop.
I would remove the Sigil of Force and/or the Sigil of Bloodlust and replace them with Sigil of Purity (60% chance on hit to remove a condition)
In place of your existing food, use Bowl of Lemongrass Poultry Soup for -40% condition duration.
If you want to have several different builds and gear associated with those builds, available to you, and/or you have multiple characters then having a wide variety of ascended stuff is extremely useful.
I feel that this is particularly true for avid WvW players.
Rubberbanding is where you jump back as expected, but then the game returns you to the location where you jumped from and puts your skill on CD (meaning if you used it to get away from that big OHKO, you just got placed right back into that OHKO).
Happens pretty frequently with SB3 if there is even a slight hint of latency.
This!
Player housing (including the decoration and furbishing) amounts to content that for the most part only the owner, a single player can enjoy.
For many, this enjoyment is limited in direct proportion to the degree in which the housing can be displayed and shown off to others.
Instanced housing, while technically allowing players to do this, is a ‘sad’ and uninteresting method of implementation.
Unless a player can have his/her house in a ‘real’ non-instanced part of the world, i.e. have it freely viewable and accessible by other players, motivation and meaning is severely diminished.
If it exists only in an instance, it doesn’t really exist.
@OP,
Take a look at this tweaked version of your build.
50%—60% condition duration, 1345 condition damage
Fully utilized spirits, with an additional chill opportunity + 10% damage on hit chance
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAnYVjEqUvarKGsQ1iAAhaVA0sGa2Xjh7l4JSiK2bC-TViBABAcCAKUPQzHCgEVCGmyPe2fYU1fi4JA8nmASBAxaA-w
@Cufufalating
You’re right, just relying on the sigil and food your chances are limited. (approx. 35%)
However, I feel that even with all your other sources of chill, namely;
Icy Screech (pet), Frost Trap, Cold Snap (Spirit), landing them is highly circumstantial.
The end result is that the build, while indeed well-specced for chill, completely lacks in condition removal, and has very low dps, the damage it does deal from conditions is spread out over time, which naturally, many enemies will have healed or removed those conditions.
At best, a chill build can serve merely as support in a group battle—which is what the OP is after apparently—wanting to be a “valuable addition to any havok team”
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I took the Long Bow. But really wanted the Dagger as well.
(Really not into/bored of scimitar-style swords, but the Mistforge ones were ok)
Kudos to everyone with their positive views on success versus thieves.
However, I feel that we need to be more realistic, because success depends on several factors— none of which are a guaranteed—and even if they were, the Ranger player needs to have a specific build(s) catered to thieves, which render the ranger less effective in many other situations.
The problem, is that the thief is able to achieve effectiveness (against most classes with ease) with a single build, but the Ranger needs a specific build(s) and needs to expend great effort to survive—let alone defeat—a thief. Balance issue!
The Sic ’em skill is a step in the right direction, but four seconds is ridiculous—it needs to be six to eight seconds.
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Thanks for sharing daoz.
I’m a little puzzled with your choice of runes and sigils though;
In PvP your health will never be above 90% while you’re engaged in combat. (why Runes of Scholar?)
3 of your sigils rely on critical hits, but your hit chance is only at 39%…