Guild Wars 2

I stopped reading at 11 out of 10….. fail

You mean Vertically challenged lol

10/10 for the changes, Love them

She’s probably full height

Why is it so many people in todays society expect to be GIVEN things.
You paid for the game and the playable content, not all the items under the sun.
Play the game and stop thinking about it and those items will drop.
HAVE FUN!

Dude mark spoilers in the title, if people want to play the LS episode then they will? No need to clog posts onto the forums?

This has to be a troll post? Seriously? Open your eyes man this patch was kitten incredible.

I had a very similar problem back with GW1 – where my computer would get to a Graphical scene and would crash.

Does your Graphics card need updating?
What are your PCs specs?
Or are you on a Laptop?

BRING BACK PARAGON

(Kitten Dark(Death)Knight WoW Players)

I got one on my 3rd run >_<
On the same day I got an everlasting Teragriff tonic from the JP
& an Ascended Armor chest from PvP

(I’d never had any drop over exotic since launch)

Anet,
from the bottom of my heart, thank you for this amazing patch.
Every second was pure enjoyment and the fights were incredible experiences.
Through the whole thing gave me a range of emotion, fear, laughter, cried and finally I left me speechless and breathless with the final cut scene.
The announcement leaves me with excitement and I truly can’t wait to see what you have in store for us.

May your swords stay sharp and may your arrows fly true.

Targren.6073:

Is that all the traits, or just the new GM traits? (I came back after 18 months to all 80s, so I don’t know how the leveling process has changed, other than it’s much, much slower at the beginning stage)

All traits, also levels 1-10 are actually much faster since the update.

Jim Hunter.6821:

This games PvE is about as much fun as smashing my hand with a hammer. Give me the option to buy the traits with WvW badges and karma, and for kittens sake, unlock all the traits for PvP. One of the biggest selling points for PvP was that you could jump in and be on equal footing with everyone.

Yea I agree with your points, making them available I the appropriate ways for each game type.
As for PvE, I amongst many enjoy it and I think they implemented the trait system well for PvE, but yes they do need to review the unlocking system for WvW and PvP.

Soilder.3607:

You can only get a maximum of six points.

Correction you get a maximum of 14 trait points by level 80

Jim Hunter.6821:

If you want to have even more fun build a new character so you can have the added enjoyment of paying gold and skill points for traits! Thanks Anet

OR unlock the traits by playing the game, completing events and participating in map completion, not all the community has become lazy and expects everything to be given to them

Note: I dislike Quickening Zephr, but in this build if used effectively it can stack a ton of bleed with Auto Attack

1. Land Fear with Pet
2. Pop Quickening Zephr
3. Bleed away while their back is exposed

• Can switch offhand to Torch but the extra evade on dagger is amazing
• Lot of Vigor up time for more dodges
• Double Fear with pets – Fear + SB = Enemy back exposed to stack ‘dem’ AA bleeds
• High poison to kill the heals
• Low CD of Entangle means applying more torment and bleeds through Krait Runes
• Can change the 2 points in Marksman for 2 points in Nature to take the Nature’s Protection Trait

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAV8YjMq0ya3KurQ1aABhaVA0uGS2umd9WBbQBbqA-TJxBABL/EAA4iA8VZgb2fAA

This is a quick template, condi builds are fairly versatile with Ranger imo, just focus on the condi damage along with good defense

Krait runes are seriously under rated, know one expects Rangers to deal torment, and with reduced CD on Entangle through the “Wilderness Knowledge” trait = an AoE Elite on a 48 second cool down, who’s complaining?
(also immobilize for yet another flank access for ‘dem’ bleeds :P)

Enjoy

We have many fun skins in the game, some take the form of unconventional items like the Greatsaw Greatsword Skin = Chain Saw.

Anyway I was teasing a fellow Sylvari Guildie with the usual salad jokes and I thought it might be hilarious for maybe a rifle skin to be release depicting a Leaf Blower!

I’m not sure.. I think when you try and finalize character creation after typing a name, the game crashes if it’s a Sylvari Engineer and red writing pops up just saying “We Know”.

In all seriousness of course it works :P
If you’re concerned about realistic practicality then maybe this will justify it, the Sylvari we know chose Humans to take their form and examine their life. Therefore, all classes logically taken by Humans are accessible by Sylvari.

A lot of players like SB for the rate of fire but you’re correct in that another gear stat such as Rabid or Cav would benefit a condition based build more so.

Here’s a quick build I threw together that I think will fit your basic needs well.
One trait is optional, I prefer to go for Signet of the Hunt in WvW and swap to Lightning Reflexes before a fight. RAS allows you to hit 70% Crit, although you could change this to Entangle.

The Wilderness Survival trait line offers two well used Grand Master Traits

• Bark Skin – negates hard damage under a HP threshold
• Empathic Bond – Transfers conditions to your pet

I prefer Bark Skin by “a lot”, EB imo can hurt your pet too much. Saying that Empathic bond may be more useful in WvW Zerg fights than Bark Skin – but give it a try and its personal preference really

Speaking of pet; I usually stick to double up or mix of;
Roaming

• Birds (Blind F2)
• Wolf (Fear F2)
• Drakehound (Fear F2

Zerg

• Drakes (Power and AoE F2)
• Spiders (Ranged)
• Devourers (Ranged)

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNEQJATBjEq2viDLctGoPoW/ABwY3eHmhq11AXwkF-TVyEABBt/g1HBgIuAAYpEMJlfHq+ja6ak4BAAwhAIAACghO0hO0hO025O35Ov5NLFwoCjA-w

Lord Voldemort.6189:

I watched 1 ranger take a group of 6 out single handedly by just going invisible in WVW.

Please cut down on the narcotics

There was a recent CDI regarding bringing Raids to GW2 also, it’s very exciting.

Until then, enjoy the new PvE content every two weeks and also the upcoming Christmas Content.
Fractals (some people don’t enjoy these but I LOVE fractals and trying to get higher in the levels and waiting for those fractal weapons and ascended drops is amazing)

Yea this is frustrating, they port back to the front gate basically – well that’s where I find them.

If you need help completing the achievements contact me in game, I’m more than happy to help anytime

Ario.8964:

I haven’t had a ton of time to test this but I thought it’d be cool to do as a full melee ranger. Hey, it could potentially be rather strong and the off hand axe can be changed to dag or warhorn depending on preference.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNUQNAR8XjEq0yaDLGsQ1agEhq9IkufA7zNAaaX/QBreA-T1BFABC8EAQS53hq/kmuha2fAgLCwVKBDAgAczbmNbzghO0hO0hO0u5Qv5Qv5QLFgFLjA-w

Let me know what ya think. I put it together really quick so there is probably room for improvement.

I think using an offhand warhorn would free up a valuable utility spot (taking away Signet of the Hunt) Warhorn applying swiftness along with your runes of the pack go very well together so the signet imo isn’t needed.

Changes I’ve made;

• Offhand Dagger to Warhorn
• Signet of Hunt changed for Renewal
• Elite changed to RAO
• Skirmishing GM trait changed to XII “Moment of Clarity”
  – This change I feel goes well with the GS,
  stun with 5, followed by
  skill 2, maul – to gain full benefit of the 150% DMG from the trait

I dislike the destroy projectiles “Strider’s Defense” while in melee for 2 reasons

• Only a 20% chance to trigger
• In PvP/WvW, most people when facing a Ranger will try to go “toe2toe” with you anyway, so not many projectiles flying around, it’s nice to have a trait you can knowingly proc yourself then have a 20% random chance.

Hope these points help
Really enjoying this thread

Edit 1: (Corrected grammar, fixed bullet points)

There are more efficient builds that benefit the party DPS and killing bosses.

Bear bow works yes, but it’s more of a solo PvE build.

Ignore the food buffs on that link, that’s from an engi build I was looking at :P

I haven’t had a problem with playing Power based Ranger in PvP, LB and GS – especially since the changes, as long as you manage your cc’s, dodges and combo signets with big hits and positioning, rangers are awesome.
I usually play a pressure role, flipping points or keeping the opponent off a point constantly with cc’s so the team needs to use more man power to focus a point.
imo Bark Skin is amazing, and I will likely never swap this trait out – having Signet of Renewal and Sigil of Purity is enough I find.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQJATRjEq0vaFLOsw1aA/gadDEAhd7cIGmWXBcBbqA-TFyEABBt/gb6CMU9HsUCmkyvHOCAS8AAA4SAQIgFzBA-w

Each to their own though, Ranger is my favourite class and amazing fun to play :P
So many different builds.

For WvW I usually run Condis or if I’m in a zerg I’ll switch our some traits (Eagle Eye) and utilities – also swap out the Knights gear for Soldiers

Flitzie.6082
Just curious if you’re testing in WvW or sPvP?

Since the last patch I can’t open my Golem Banker on any of my new characters.

Please fix :’(

I just finished the Personal Story for the 6th time and it hit me, how can Anet implement the Cleansing of Orr when it’s vital to keep the “un-cleansed” version for personal story purposes and newer players.

For this reason I think it’s unlikely that Orr will ever be truly cleansed, it would throw personal story, new players, events and a whole lot more out of wack.

Thoughts?

I really like all the changes and think it’s improved the game for new and veteran players alike.
I’m a Guild Wars Veteran and I approve these changes ;-)

Awesome!
Now I can be sure to reflect some kitten back >:P

Ok so I can’t finds this anywhere

Player 1 fires projectile
Player 2 reflects projectile
Player 1 also used a reflect skill

Will the reflected projectile be reflected again or not?

Keenangs.2074:

I think that Guild Wars 2 should slim down the amount of worlds available and increase the max limit of the worlds. You know there’s a problem when you make a sylvari and literally nobody is to be found in the sylvari biome base.

This is likely just your time zone or the time in which you play – worlds no longer have an effect on players in your map since anet introduced the “Mega Servers”
Maps are now filled with players from many world servers

I think implementing Raiding will be a great step forward for GW2.

Saying that I do also believe that there needs to be progress (ie. other game have the gear treadmill)

Although the gear treadmill is damaging to economy and social play, the same idea can be implemented to fit our game.

Agony is currently used in Fractals and creates a great mechanic that can increase difficulty and provide a challenge.

I therefore propose that any future raids and dungeons have a sort of agony stat treadmill, giving the player to continuously increase their agony resistance as harder content is introduced and as harder modes of any raid or dungeon are released.

(Content and final rewards also need to be decent, this is what will bring the players, also a CHALLENGE!)

Good Luck to Anet, I believe in you, you can pull this off and it can be amazing!
(think GW! = UW and FOW=Pathway to Success)

Correct me if I’m wrong guys but, isn’t it know pointless to have 2 sigils of the same category on a weapon.
i.e. 2 on hit sigils won’t activate , 2 stack sigils won’t activate

sigh..bump (15 characters)

I doubt this would happen since Race changes haven’t even been introduced :/

Hi everyone,
The conversation of map (zone) completion in GW1 vs GW2 came up in my guild chat today. There were mixed opinions, however, everyone did approve of this idea.

It takes the idea of Vanquishing, from GW1 and puts it into GW2.
How?
Well it’s simple, provide a means of accessing a “Vanquish Mode” – maybe similar to the Hard Mode button in GW1, and restricted to lvl 80’s?.

Once pressed, the zones you enter will be altered to fit the mode.
Some ideas for the zone

*Enemies do not respawn and there is a kill count for total enemies remaining
*All enemies are “buffed”, all veteran and more champions/elites
*End Zone Chest with DECENT loot
*Achievement for completeion

So yea please add to the suggestion and I hope a dev sees this and gives a response, just a yes this is a good idea or no this is a bad idea will make me happy lol.

I believe the PvE community of GW2 really needs something new and this is imo a great idea

This can’t be right? the camera is almost past the shoulder height.

On norn rangers, when signet of the wild is activated, the camera angle shifts so high than the norn disappears from the screen!
It’s like a crazy birds eye view, please fix this, i’ve gone completely off playing my Norn characters.

Simple question, it’s running on 32bit, which is fairly sad since 64bit has been the norm for a looong time.
Other games are running at 64bit including Wildstar.

Why isn’t GW2?

I love it how devs merged similar topics into this one but have made no comment or fix whatsoever.

rapthorne.7345:

(and come on, why would someone who’s never played an MMO before throw £50 at guild wars 2?)

GW2 is buy to play, people 100% brand new to the MMO genre are most likely not going to buy GW2 to experience their first MMO -

Because it’s free to play? opposed to other subscription based games which people are moving away from.
Your comment about “GW2 is buy to play, people 100% brand new to the MMO genre are most likely not going to buy GW2 to experience their first MMO”
Doesn’t really make sense since lots of player pick it up as their first MMO, it was even the fastest selling MMO and lots of the player base was new

Vitus Dance.4509:

Renn.8241:

Yes all you (me included) veteran’s

You were doing so well…right up until you mentioned ‘veterans’.
Don’t worry, it’s not just you as people have been brandishing the term all over the forums recently
Can anyone really consider themselves a veteran because they’ve played since release or have a slew of level 80 characters?
WoW vets i can understand as WoW has been quite happily trundling along since November 2004 but GW2 is a mere baby by comparison at, just over, 2 years old.
I don’t know – perhaps it’s just one of those words…like moreish, to supposedly describe wanting more of something, that just sets my teeth on edge…who can say?

I understand where you coming from but maybe I didn’t make myself clear, I mean Veterans of anet, not solely GW2. Those who have stuck with anet through GW1 and all there other mistakes and successes
As well as Veterans of gaming, I approached the new character patch as if it was my first game, as GW1 was my first MMO. After now around 14 years of gaming, I have a general drift of many games and consider myself a veteran compared to soemone newer to gaming.

On a side note, my fiancee, who is brand new new gaming, found this patch very helpful and even more so got a chance to play the old version a week prior, and preferred the new system

I’ve played GW1 and GW2 both from launch so I am experienced in anet’s ways and remember what it was like being a brand new gamer in the world of MMORPG’s (first was GW1).
Despite the major negativity towards to latest patch in terms on the revamp on starting zones and level gating, I decided I would try things out for myself.

I rolled a fresh Human Necromancer and was instantly delighted with small tweaks like NPC’s being shifted etc. After hitting level 40 (for the elite) this is what I have to report.

Pros

• I enjoyed the new level gating and feel it will benefit the new player base astronomically compared to the old system – it’s easier to navigate for people new to the MMO scene
• The level gating on the weapons isn’t a big deal! In fact, it’s very well suited to new players! Yes all you (me included) veteran’s might want to RUSH to level 80, grab all your utilities, traits and skills but let’s face it, this feature wasn’t for that purpose!
  *This feature brings back the excitement and relaxing experience that is adventuring and leveling in an MMO, I found myself more involved in my surrounding’s and wasn’t included to rush to the next level tier were I could do another story.

What caould be improved?

• Detailed bug checking before ANY patch goes live. I repeat, detailed!
• Skill Points (&goggles?) shouldn’t be level gated AT ALL – if the point is a difficult (combat) one then maybe add a prompt “are you sure sure you want to activate, this could require help” along those lines
• I haven’t reached the final chapters of the personal story yet but from my knowledge it need careful reviewing to ensure there is a logical order of events and dialogue.
• Controlled communication with the community is a good way to get feedback, don’t hide things from us, this includes releasing small info each day leading up to a patch which accounts for 10% of the patch, resulting in the community wanting to hunt down kittens.

Summary
I will add anything along the way and I am sure I have missed something.

• Overall I am happy with the patch, anet just needs to take more care and time into bug checking and ensuring their products are the highest quality possible and up to standard, which is slowly falling. An increase in staffing could tend to this.

Concerning the low level changes within the patch, it’s a great step in the right direction. It will greatly benefit new players, but also keep in mind the veterans, we know how skill points work…

All the best anet and I hope you see this post and I hope you make the appropriate alterations in the fix patch this week.

To the majority of players, ( I know this won’t happen but..) please pull back on being so negative and selfish, at least see the light which this patch brough to BRAND NEW players to gaming, stop rushing things and enjoy the game – once you do this you’ll see how great things are.
It’s not all about the veterans, after all we do want our community to grow

Guesting should matter due to mega servers, I doubt there would be many maps open in the starting instance areas

Satay.2967:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Preview-window-character-smaller-off-center/first#post4410359

Everyone has this problem.

Obviously

Charrbeque.8729:

The bottom of my Charr’s feet are cut off in the hero panel.

Don’t mind chopping up some Charr but this bug needs fixing for everyone’s sake! ;-)

Above is the original post guys, please post there – makes it easier for the devs to see larger posts rather than everyone starting there own topics

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Camera-Angle-Bug-Feet-missing-in-Hero-Panel/first#post4407063