Guild Wars 2

Dunno why you would want to farm karma, it’s basically useless … karma gear blows, I just spent 63k on a weapon just to tramute its skin on my exotic crafted bow.

Anyway, back to your question, joining a zerg group in WvW, participating in every event in the 70-80 areas are 2 really easy way to farm karma, Ihave 80k+ sitting on my ranger, that I cannot use … cause there is nothing useful to spent karma on.

I myself have ranger 80 in full exotic gear (berserker armor, jewels and weapons), I did all of the instances in story mode, and some of them in exploration mode, I aslo did alot of WvW, and some sPVP.

I’m not going to comment on everything you said, instead i’ll just add my own experience to it.

You were talking about stats and traits of nature’s magic and beastmastery, now, from a PVE point of view, let me tell you, it does NOT matter, not even a little bit, as your spirits and pets constantly get one shot by pretty much anything.
The pet control system doesn’t let you do anything about your spirits, and pets don’t even position themselves behind their target to hit when they don’t have the aggro … They also don’t take reduced damage from AOE… resulting in their lifetime never exceeding 5 seconds.

Now, about WvW, most of the pets can’t hit structures (your pet is out of range, even tho the gate is right in front of it …). They also die cause they stand in any AOE, you can only command your pet to stick near you, or run behind its target, nothing else ..

Last but not least, sPVP, pets work well, I would even say that they do too much damage … But hey, it makes up for the terrible and useless skills you have as a ranger, I only use quickening zephyr and seal of stone (with signet of beastmaster trait) and a random last, depending on the “builds” i try, then again, there maybe 2 different builds on a ranger that are not useless.

Edit : I forgot to talk about Pet skills, you have quite alot of them, great, It woul be nice to control more than 1, don’t you think ?
How stupid is that, you can control when your wolf casts its heal, but not when it uses its 2 seconds stun ? W T F

Btw, your thread will be locked tomorrow, suggestions aren’t allowed yet. I’m sorry :/

Reihert.1509:

I believe the op and everyone else is talking about different thing.

Who cares, we are here to whine about the poor game mechanics ! I didn’t even read OP’s post ! I saw something like “QQ 2 HP BARS QQ DOWN STATE” i wrote my rent and closed the page !

Im Too Godlike.5629:

Any1 know why they decided to make this decision?

The same reason they decided to give stealth and teleport to thief and mesmer in downed state, or a self instant rez that lets you use your invulnerability skill as a warrior

To add that extra fun everyone wants ! You know, having to kill someone 2 or 3 times before he is really dead ! Removing the possibility to ever do some 1v2 or defend a base alone, no matter how skilled you are ! right ? RIGHT ??

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Slic.2406:

At least remove downed abilities, let the players just sit there slowly bleeding health. Guild Wars 1’s system was and still is the best – each person has a 1-time-use Resurrection Signet.

This man speaks the truth … stop that crap already, ppl stealthing, teleporting, using stuns and doing damage even after you defeat them …

Go back to Guild Wars 1 Resurrection signet already.

greg.3792:

13. Trebuchet on Battle of Kyhlo is op, it deals 9-11k aoe dmg and you can rush it from start and shoot before enemies take first base (windmill/mansion).
14. Cannon on beach map can be used, you just need to carry cannonballs from nearby ship. It deals 5k aoe dmg and you can shoot both beach and docks with it

Yey \o/ We so needed siege engine to ruin PvP, getting 2 shoted from 54357435743573 kilometers away

Reevac.1748:

Sunlight is healthy for you.

Sun rays cause cancer !!

As a ranger in PVE I have to
Drop my fire trap for the team … and auto attack the boss to death, there is absolutly no point in using any other skills, they do less damage than my basic attacks
And I can’t use pets or spirits because they die as soon as I summon them.

Drop trap, avoid aoe, auto attack, don’t even try to argue about PVE in this game. It blows.

DiBiddilyBop.1470:

Use the trading post. That’s what it’s there for. If you want to use the mail, you assume the risk. There is no third option.

It’s funny because there was no trading post for the first 2 weeks of the release.

I’m afraid that you can’t really do anything If you have hardware limitations ..
Overclocking Laptops is a bad idea, do not try it.

On the other hand, you can try to scan your computer for malwares/virus
Defragment your hard drive
Close useless applications running in the background

displacedTitan.6897:

Qtin you realize that instead of trying to deathblow thieves you can just attack them to death on the ground right?

I know that, now let me ask you something : Why would you create a special Finish Off Button only for PVP, and render it completly useless against 1 class in the game ?

This is how my 1v1 against thieves end up every single time, there is that dude i just owned on the floor, I can’t use the F button so i just auto attack him to death, but WAIT, he teleports behind objects and stealth, I spend 30+ sec to kill someone who is supposed to be dead already. Time that i could have used to tag a base, or help my team mates. And now i’m standing there, between bases, useless, most of the time with low HP, and another thief comes from behind and finish me off.

Tolmos.8395:

<————— WoW is that way. Have fun!

WoW has one of the most advanced PvP system, Focus target, Smart casting.
And there are no aggressive monsters in BGs that hit you as hard as players. (dude, those kitten sharks ..)

I will definitely go back to WoW if they don’t do anything to change the utter kitten that GW2 PvP is.

holy grail comment made me giggle

Downed state is horrible and should be removed.
Same goes for underwater fights and siege engines in sPvP.

I played many games for years now, and GW2 has the worst PvP, hands down.

926 points here.

Zerg fest, siege engines 2 shotting ppl, underwater fights (can’t use “F” and sharks pwn you), just pure fun .. PURE FUN.

Maybe you could tag along with 1 friend, like in League of legend, but definetly not more than that, half a premade team against only pug is just not fair.

gooberkid.6029:

Don’t forget, guys, that endgame content is not all about raiding. Endgame content is about having something definable to do at the level cap that keeps people playing. A built-in time sink, sure, and nobody said it has

Actually There is no endgame content, raiding or anything else :
- WvW takes about 1 to 5 hours to enter, depending on your server.

- Gear progression is non-existent, I’m fully geared (exotic crafts, armor weapon and jewel) 5 ectos + 5 “rare” metrials per part is really easy to get.

- sPvP makes me want to cut myself, i really, really hate the downed system, and I can’t understand why there are siege engines that hit you for half of your HP bar in one hit. Also, those sharks .. hitting you for 2k+ when you try to finish off someone who is ALREADY DEAD, swimming away from you like nothing’s happening.

- Instances, I did them all in story mode, and 3 in exploration, it was fun, despite some bugs that are understandable for a game that has just been released. But i’m not gonna farm them 100+ times to get a SKIN for my gear, no, not gonna happen, I did this on WoW, i’m not doing it again.

My 2 cents.

Doesn’t matter, even if you survive to an OP button spamming spec, you will never -EVER- catch up to a thief who is running away from you, even if you manage to kill him with DoTs, it takes about 1 minute to finish a thief in downed state …. horrible system needs a complete revamp.