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Forums Filled With Complaining

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We’re complaining because HoT introduced a lot of systems that make the game not the same as it was before the expansion released.

It is no longer “play how you want.” It is now “you must play with a huge glob of people you don’t know and do instanced content.”

And don’t forget to include the term grindfest !! You can’t simply pick up an alt and try out the new specializations because you need to go grind a ton of hero points …. boring.

About how "not casual" this game is.

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Been reading alot about how hard everything is. Well it’s not..Not everything. Sure IF you want legendary armor, u have to put some effort and skills to get it. You don’t get it for free, or fast. HP points, well IF you want 100% (for legendary once again) you need to put effort and group with people. Get 25 points for elite is really easy and no effort.

Masterys, well what do you expect? Get them all on 1 week? For what reason? You don’t need them all for your "casual’ gaming. Do 70-80% in each zone, tag along on The event and you will easy get the exp needed.

Really im kinda frustrated how people can complain so much about something they will never get IF they play casual. Well not in 2weeks that is.

About precursor crafting, people taught they would get it cheap and fast, complain about it and dont realise that u get it atleast for 100% and if you craft The dailys and gather some each day, u will get it. The price is high npw cuz people keep buyout The stuff. And complain it’s expensive? Dont understand..a legendary is suppose to be expensive and take alot of time to get. It’s not casual to have many legendarys. I have 1, and Been playing for 3 years..

Tl:dr shave yourself and get a job. Dont complain about stuff u never get anyway. And enjoy The gsmr, dont think about The skins you Never need..

I agree that Legendary crafting should be hard, obviously.

However, I do not see why I need to grind grind grind with ALL of my characters just to unlock a trait line! I did it on one character only, and cannot be bothered with any of my other alts now. Which basically ruins the game for me.

I think that the whole game is just about grinding masteries now, and that has completely ruined things for me. As of today, I’ve pretty much decided not to play anymore. Since you won’t let me be a ‘casual’ player and enjoy the new content without grinding, I’ll find something else to occupy my time.

[Suggestion] Patching

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Since there are garaunteed new bugs with every patch, instead of calling it a ‘build’ it should be called ‘demolition’. :P

Honestly, why are these things not tested before being pushed to the live game? It’s the job of a coder to fully test and debug code before pushing it to a live environment! Just sayin’.

Absolutely Insane Lag Spikes

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Everybody is getting lag spikes, because their servers are bottle-necking.

For weeks now, we’ve had to put up with insane lag at world events, as soon as there’s a group of players fighting something, all using abilities, my ping jumps up from 40-50ms right up to 300-900ms!!! And literally as SOON as the boss is dead, the lag ends.

Now that is a very clear sign that it is NOT a network issue and more likely the server bottle-necking with all the ‘burst’ input from everyone using their skills at once.

I’m not inclined to invest in a brand new expansion when the game is going down the “Rift” route of doom. Firstly F2P (more players straining the servers) and then just everything being nerfed (global cooldowns, inputs delays etc) so the servers can cope. :\

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This is taken from your FAQ…

Whisper: Except for mutual friends, can only whisper in the same map, one new person every 30 seconds

Have you stopped to consider you are giving GOLD SELLERS a free hand in the game now?!

Have you considered that we are already being whispered multiple times a day from various accounts already, and now that problem is going to sprial out of control?!?

Please REMOVE the whisper feature from the free account. You do not need whisper chat to help your friend, you can party or group up, find them on the map and use say chat or party chat.

Remember, we’ll be able to whisper them still, so we can guide them to a meeting place still, or say ‘accept the group invite’ etc. Also, most ‘friends’ that play together, talk on voice chat outside the game while playing (skype, teamspeak, mumble etc). So you don’t always need whisper chat.

For the sake of not being spammed a million times a day, remove whisper from free accounts!!

PvE Stability Useless, yes USELESS!

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I’m going to be blunt here, so please excuse my rudeness…

Wake up devs and stop balancing this game around PvP!

Firstly, you should never, NEVER balance a game based solely on one part of the game, be that PvP, WvW or PvE! It’s just asking for trouble and further imbalance issues. That means SEPERATE skill mechanics for PvP and PvE.

Secondly, since you do not provide the ‘holy trinity’ in this game (Tank, Healer, DPS) we need to all be able to withstand some attacks. The Stability skill is a key factor here. Without it, we just get downed or killed because of certain attacks that are unavoidable.

Example: Ascalonian Catacombs Gravelings

I just did AC P1 on my Elementalist. I was the one fetching the scepter pieces in the graveling room. So, I took ‘Armor of Earth’ as one of my slot skills. This skill is supposed to be a stun-breaker as well as providing 6seconds of stability and reduced incoming damage. That is, until you guys completely ruined the skill and rendered it useless with the ‘new’ stability changes (nerfs).

So, I dodged the first graveling attack, and the second, and got pounced. No problem! Stun breaker and stability! I cast Armor of Earth, I’m standing up I have 10, yes 10!!!!!!!!! stacks of stability that last 6seconds. I should be standing there for the time I need to pickup the scepter piece, but noooooo thanks to the huge stability nerf, my Armor of Earth lasted all of 0.5seconds!!!!!! Half a bigfatkittening second!!! Are you kidding me?!?!?! What is the point of this skill if it doesn’t do what it says? And this was only ONE graveling that pounced me. How can this mob remove all 10 stacks instantly?

The point is, if you guys hadn’t completely ruined Stability in PvE, this wouldn’t be happening! Sort your stuff out and stop ruining the game we so love.

Stuck at Log-In

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So I gave up last night after being unable to log into the game on ANY character, waiting 2minutes per load screen, then having the game exit and run a ‘repair’ which takes another 10-15mins.

I uninstalled the game, and re-installed a freshly downloaded copy over night. Logged on this morning without any problems….

…until my first dungeon. Entered the dungeon fine, but when it came time to exit, 3minute loadscreen then finally thrown into the Mount Maelstrom zone.

Now I cannot use ANY skills but I can use party chat fine without delay. I eventually got d/c and now cannot play.

Stuck at Log-In

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Tonight I’ve had around 15 disconnects in the short time I’ve played. I cannot log back in when I get dc because I get 60-180sec loading screen then the message:

The game client lost its connection to the server. (Code=7:11:3:191:101)

Now I have been trying to log back into the game for the past 10 minutes, and get this message EVERY time now after a really long loading screen.

Conditions & Bunker Ruin PvP

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As the topic states, these two things are spoiling PvP completely and unbalance the game.

Why is nothing being done about it?

Balance Warrior in WvW

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I’m sick to death of these OP Warrior’s in WvW!

They’re immune to CC because of an OP trait that grants them instant stability every time you use a CC on them. Then on top of that they have two, yes TWO, instant-cast utility skills that are stun-breakers AND grant stability.

On top of all this, they have the largest health pool in the game, heavy armor and insane damage output.

So I’m trying to shoot a Warrior with my Ranger, I lose 40% my HP just from his OP retalliation that has 100% up-time, then he just walks over and 1hits me with ANY one of his melee skills. IF I somehow miraculously get out of their 1million stun skills with a stun breaker, because none of mine are instant-cast stability (like OP warrior), I’m stunned again by their next stun.

Why don’t I just stand there are bend over? That’s basically what the game wants me to do!

You need to BALANCE this stuff.

Cannnot enter the server after patch

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Same, this happened yesterday as well. As soon as you’ve patched, you won’t be able to log into the game for a few minutes because of a false network error.

You can log in on the client, load the game and chose a character, but as SOON as you try log into the game on any character, it gives a network error message.

I’ve been on a loading screen now for 90seconds and still going. Clearly your server cannot handle the load.

Please Post 7/28 Bug Reports HERE [merged]

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Unable to view/bid/buy on ANY precursor weapons on the traiding post.

When you view the item, the item name is missing and if you select the item on the TP, you are unable to place a bid or buy it because the TP just greys out and stops working.

There are some other expensive exotics that are also doing this, Aether (bow) for example.

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Ranger Bugs (Updated)

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  • Pet f2 ability sometimes run up to nearest/previous target to execute the ability even if no target is selected.

That is because pet F2 is also an ‘attack’ command and it shouldn’t be! I’ve made countless posts about this and it’s still overlooked because people claim it’s “working as intended”.

I would argue that the ‘Attack my Target’ command should be the ONLY skill used to send your pet in to attack regardless of wether it is on Guard or Avoid Combat mode.

Please remove the attack command from F2 on pets! I’m fed up of having to micro-manage my pet’s movements because using F2 sends it in to attack and I want it standing at my side so it doesn’t die.

Trading Post BROKEN

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Actually, it’s not the TP itself, but only certain items on there that don’t have names.

Precursors for example, you can see them in the list (without the names) but if you actually click on one as if you wanted to bid/buy, you cannot. This is also affecting some other expensive exotics, like Aether for example.

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Issues with 7/28 Build

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Unable to view/bid/buy on ANY precursor weapons on the traiding post.

When you view the item, the item name is missing and if you select the item on the TP, you are unable to place a bid or buy it because the TP just greys out and stops working.

There are some other expensive exotics that are also doing this, Aether (bow) for example.

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Trading Post BROKEN

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Unable to sell, view or buy anything on the in-game Trading Post.

If you search for an item, find it and then click on it to either place a bid or buy it, the TP greys out a little and you get the circle icon going round and round forever until you give up and close the window.

Fed up with the poor state of Rangers

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Am I the only one who is fed up for months with the shocking state of Rangers in this game?! It certainly feels that way! I’ve made a number of posts here about how badly Rangers need an improvement to be brought in-line with other classes in this game, and all are ignored and ridiculed.

I have NO reason to buy HoT expansion because I don’t want a stupid Druid! I want a RANGED class with Longbow skills, and I had hoped Ranger would get some long-overdue improvements in that area, but instead we get a useless Staff with useless support skills.

News flash: This game does not have “holy trinity” MMO setup (Tank/Healer/DPS) so why implement useless ‘healing’ on a class that is already so far behind everything else?!

Ranger pets – Useless (They die instantly in ANY and ALL fights and still cannot be dismissed in combat! The AI is completely dumb. They don’t dodge when we do.)
Longbow DPS – Average at best
Sword auto attack – useless
Healing Spring (our main condi cleanse) – Useless
Lead the Wind – Useless because “piercing arrows” does not negate blocks or actually ‘pierce’ as it should, by cutting through armor (toughness).
Clarion Bond – Useless because it has a cooldown.
Zephyr’s Speed – Average at best, becuase it has a cooldown.
Strength of the Pack – Average at best, because it isn’t an instant-cast stun breaker (like the endless Warrior slot skills that are all stun-breakers with stability)

Conditions

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Condi’s need a HUGE nerf in WvW situations. We don’t have 1million HP to cope with the insane bleeds, burns, torment, poison, confusion etc that can be applied before you can even hit a cleanse skill.

And even IF you manage to get a few cleansed, they’re instantly reapplied! Why don’t you just get us to stand still and do nothing while being killed, because that’s basically what I do as a Ranger these days.

I can’t shoot my way out, everythings reflected back at me + retalliation + conditions. GG at this so-called “balance”.

Once a condition is removed, you should be immune to conditions for 30seconds at least. And “piercing arrows” should cut through blocks and a percentage of Toughness! That’d balance Longbow dps in WvW.

Ranged = Dead

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I’m still fed up with the state of Ranger ranged attacks in WvW and PvE.

The “piercing arrows” should do exactly that, pierce! They should negate blocks and a % of toughness along with it! That’d bring Rangers in line imo.

Ranged = Dead

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Why are you destroying Ranged players in this game aka Ranger’s?

As far back as I can remember, the PvE ‘meta’ has NEVER been Ranged for Ranger as it should be. It’s always been open with a bow, then melee camp, or just full melee. Don’t you realise that this defeats the purpose of a Ranger?

I would hope that most people, like myself, have made a Ranger because they enjoy playing a ranged class. This is what your very own gw2.com website says about the Ranger class under the Professions description: “Unparalleled archers, rangers are capable of bringing down foes from a distance with their bows.” So, why is this not the case? Why are we melee heavy? Why can almost every profession reflect our projectiles back at us?

With the recent lack of Ranger ranged buffs and the constant nerfing to our traits (Adding cooldowns that shouldn’t be there!) and the reflects that everyone else now has, we’re useless as Ranged in WvW, PvP and PvE.

Ranger vs Mesmer, dead beacuse of endless reflects and dodge, basically all my damage is thrown back at me while they dps me and their clones to too.

Ranger vs Warrior, dead because shield trait reflects all my damage back at me and the warrior is immune to any and all CC while dealing MASSIVE damage! Basically I lose 80% my hf from my own attacks (reflects + retalliation) and cannot use my ONLY kiting skill on my weapon (Pushback) because the Warrior has instant-cast 10stacks of stability on more than one slot skill. Why isn’t ‘Strength of the Pack’ instant cast? Why don’t my stun breakers have stability like the Warrior does? Why doesn’t my Rapid Fire deal 40k damage like the Warrior Hundred Blades does? Why can’t I reflect his melee? Where is my retalliation?

Need I go on? The state of Rangers has been bad for a long time, with only very minor improvements over time (if any)!

This game no longer suits my playstyle, which is ranged dps. It was bad enouigh before being kicked from groups because I prefer Longbow etc, and struggling in WvW, but now it’s even harder and less fun.

Server/World Always Full

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I am sick of these ‘overflow’ servers always being hard-capped so you cannot do events! I wonder why I play this game, when I have to go through this much stress and effort JUST to participate in a world event!

For example, my guild was doing a badge run in Silverwastes. The map was 5% when we started, and a breach happened. So I went to relog to a better character, and was stuck outside on another stupid map! I spent the next 7 minutes clicking the hell out of the screen (right-click, join player-x in zone-y, click the “omg the useless server is already full with only 10 ppl on it” message and repeat a million times) unable to get in and rejoin my friends!

Someone joins our group, zones in to where I am, clicks once and gets in immediately! Come on?! Are you serious?! At this point I logged off in disgust and came to complain here.

World Boss Causes Skill Lag

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Bumping this thread and everyone like it. Game is unplayable at every boss event until the inevitable disconnect.
When is Star Citizen released?

This is still ongoing. I just attmpted Tri-Wurm and was unable to do anything while the boss was alive, as soon as it died, the lag was gone!

This is obviously a server-side latency and/or performance issue that needs to be resolved!

Stacking sigil remain after weapon swap

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When I place a sigil of bloodlust on my weapon, get some stacks and then swap weapon set. Than my sigil of bloodlust still gives bonus power.

As far as I can remember this behavior was different before the update and it was not in the patch notes. So I guess it is a bug.

It’s worked like that for quite a while. They changed it so that if you un-equip the ‘bloodlust’ weapon, then the stacks will of course be removed.

ranger suck now

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Another patch, and still no ‘fix’ for the nerfed “Clarion Bond” trait. Sigh…

ranger suck now

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But rangers don’t exactly suck even now

They do in PvE because the only trait that finally gave us our own little might stacking, was nerfed!

will mesmers get nerfed?

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It’s the fact they can fully bull themselves, while removing all your buffs, have endless clones up at all times, stealth as much as a thief can, and as soon as you’re targeted apply 25+stacks of every condition known to mankind!

Condition Damage in WvW

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Condition damage is out of control right now and needs a massive reduction.

I am sick of having 20stacks of stuff instantly, using my ONLY cleanse ability, then having another 15-20stacks instantly again.

Why don’t I just stand there, not fight back at all, and just let the win? Because that’s basically what you’re forcing me to do!

Mesmers – Need a MASSIVE nerf on burst DPS and conditions
Guardians – Burning damage needs a MASSIVE nerf, and instant 10stack bleeds as well.

[Complaint] Ranger Trait Nerf

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In the last ‘hotfix’ change, this was changed on Rangers…

Ranger

  • Clarion Bond: Added a 30-second recharge to the skill Call of the Wild, which is triggered by this trait.

We finally had a viable trait in PvE that stacked a little might and fury and it instantly got nerfed!

I understand the need to have a cooldown on it, but 30 seconds is rediculously long! A 10 second cooldown is more than suffient to prevent abuse of this trait, and will still allow it to be used effectively on pet swapping with the reduced pet swap trait.

Now that my sollution to your obvious mistake is out of the way, I’d like to go ahead and complain about some things.

Firstly, that this was nerfed in the first place! Rangers are miles behind every other profession on DPS and we finally start to get a bit better and are the first to be hit with nerfs! It’s totally unjustified and unfair. Which brings me on to my next complaint.

Why did you not nerf Mesmers or Engineers in the last patch/hotfix? Both of these have rediculous damage currently, and Engineers are able to 1hit players in PvP. I think it’s absolutely disgusting that you ignore important issues that NEED to be fixed, and change things that DONT need to be ‘fixed’.

(PvE) Are rangers in a worse spot?

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Before clarion bond got slapped with that 30 second cooldown, I’d say rangers were in a better spot than before. But now that clarion bond can no longer be abused, I’d say we’re just treading water at this point.

Yes, we were doing nicely and finally able to stack a little bit of might on ourselves and fury but then A-net in all it’s stupidity nerfed it without reason! It’s not like we were OP, they just hate Rangers it’s a fact.

Let’s leave mesmers with insane burst and Engineers that can 1hit opponents in PvP, but make sure we nerf the ONLY viable PvE Ranger trait.

Grats devs … grats.

ranger suck now

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As for mesmer, they need their burst toned down because everyone can agree they are a bit too strong at the moment.

They need their insane burst toned down … a LOT!
They need a stealth nerf. They already have blink, invis, snares, endless clones etc and now endless stealth as well? sigh….
They need their reflects nerfed … big time! The Longbow ‘piercing arrow’ trait should negate reflects.

But right now ranger is in a pretty good spot.

Um no, Ranger WAS an ‘ok’ spot at best with the recent patch. But now that you nerfed our ONLY might stack skill (Carion Bond) we’re useless ….. again.

Ranger Pets

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This is STILL an ongoing issue and is being completely ignored!

I was doing Mai Train (Fractal) the other day, and specifically took the Brown Bear pet for the Condition Removal F2 skill it has. Yet, I was unable to remove conditions from the group with my pet! Why? Because every time I pressed F2, the pet immediately attacked the boss and ignored the utility skill! Even if you recall the pet, and press F2 again, it just rushes in to attack. I finally decided to let the pet attack the boss and see how long it’d take to cast it’s utility skill, if at all and it decided to cast it about 10seconds after attacking the boss, at a point when there were no conditions to remove!

This mechanic is so broken it’s not even funny anymore! I know pet F2 skills are “supposed” to trigger faster, and in most cases they do, but the pets are still attacking when they shouldn’t be!

The F2 skill is NOT an attack command (or shouldn’t be one!), it’s there to cast a skill. If the pet is on ‘avoid combat’ and you press F2, the pet should cast it’s skill and do nothing else. I cannot spell it out for you in any simpler terms!

World Boss Causes Skill Lag

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This is still an ongoing issue, and we are yet to see a responce and/or fix for it.

The New Lion's Arch - Feedback [merged]

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The city looks amazing, but the layout and placement of NPC’s is terrible!

It took me ages to find a repair NPC on the map, and even longer to walk there from the nearest waypoint (which was not close by at all!).

I don’t like how the dungeon vendors are all merged into one guy as well, it’s harder to find what you want to buy now.

Lastly, the loading screen is not very nice at all. I can see two lion’s and a load of colorful smeer that attempts to mimick the game arty style.

My personal city of choice is Devinity’s Reach because it has a nice loading screen, the layout is reasonable and it’s bright and clean.

Gold Whispers

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To say that I am “fed up” with getting whispers from gold sellers, would be the understatement of the century!!!

I logged on into Devinity’s Reach (City of choice now because LA layout sucks for access to TP/Crafting stations/Bank) and within 2 minutes, I have 3 whispers.

I am sick to death of blocking these idiots and reporting them for gold selling, when it acomplishes ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!! They have 1million accounts and it doesn’t matter if you block or even manage to get one banned!

Why isn’t something done about this?

At least in World of Warcraft (Shudders, I hate mentioning this stupid MMO but…) there are addons that BLOCK any and all whispers from people below a certain level threshold or that aren’t in your friends list and/or guild/party!

Don’t suggest ‘appear offline’ to me please, because that’s not a sollution. You cannot use Guild chat, or whisper any friends while in the offline state.

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World Boss Causes Skill Lag

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I am experiencing massive skill lag/latency at world boss events. I have also noticed other players complaining about the same issue in map chat, at these events.

My ping before the event, even with the crowd, will be 30-40ms. But as soon as the boss spawns, it goes above 120ms!

It is impossible to cast any utility/elite skills while the event is up because of the massive latency and lag spikes.

I cast a ’Hunter’s Shot’ ability on my Ranger (Longbow #3) and it took roughly 5seconds before I stopped attacking and went into stealth. This clearly indicates a latency issue.

If this was happening throughout the day, constantly, or regularly I would accept that it might be my ISP or Router etc. However, I have absolutely no issues in PvP, WvW and Dungeons/Fractals it is only happening at world boss events! The timing on the lag is just too specific to be anything other than some kind of issue relating to world boss events.

I have attached a screenshot from the daily wurm event. While waiting for the event, with the crowds, my ping was 40ms. As soon as the pre-event and boss event were up, my ping was 80-90ms with massive skill lag. As soon as the boss died, my skills we fine again.

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Missing stats! Since the stats have been removed from trait lines, I am down on stats…

From 2600 power down to 2300
From 69.89% critical down to 65.52%
From 236% Ferocity down to 220%

Rapid fire nerfed?

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This is because we’re missing a massive number of stat points!

I was wondering where my 5% crit chance disappeared to, and was going to make a post about it until I saw this thread! It makes sense that if Precision took a massive stat hit, that Power and Ferocity has as well!

Since they removed these stats on trait lines, our gear is NOT making up these stats correctly.

Whisper Chat Broken

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I am unable to whisper friends, or see messages that they have sent me.

The ‘pink text’ appears on my chat window showing the message I have sent, but when I ask them via party-chat if they see it, they cannot!

In turn, I also cannot see messages that they are sending me.

Ranger Staff

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I think giving Ranger’s a staff is a stupid thing to do. And if this is the only specialisation available, I think I’ll have to either delete my Ranger and not play it or find another game to suit my needs.

I have enjoyed GW2, but have been outraged at how useless Ranger DPS is compared to other professions and how they still havven’t sorted out the many many issues with pets.

I specifically created a Ranger to play as RANGED DPS! But my Rapid Fire will never compete with a Warrior’s Hundred Blades, or the DPS that any of the other professions can do!

And instead of improving this, you’re gimping it and giving us a useless staff support spec. -.-

  • Improved Ranged DPS
  • Improve pets! Make the DPS pets survive long enough to actually DO any dps to champions etc.
  • Give us some useful stun-break/stability skills. Rampge as One should be stun-breaker, instant cast.

Ranger Pets

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The “F2” pet utility skill is STILL bugged with no fix in sight!

If your pet is on ‘avoid combat’ and you trigger the pets utility skill, the pet shoult NOT go and attack! This defies the meaning of ‘avoid combat’.

You have two things you can do to fix this (well 3 things, unfortunately the 3rd seems to be the method employed: ignore the problem alltogether!).

1) You fix the issue and stop making the pet attack when it shouldn’t!
2) You create a 3rd pet mode. Guard=your pet attacks when you do, or defends you when you are attacked. Avoid Combat=Your pet does not attack when you do, nor defends but does attack when you trigger it’s utility skill. Passive=The pet NEVER attacks ever, unless specifically commanded to.

Also, while you’re looking at this please make pets useful and viable in PvE. And please don’t tell me they are, because they most certainly are not. DPS pets have NO survival and are completely useless.

Because we cannot dismiss out pets in combat when we need to (why isn’t this fixed either?!) the pet just stands there in all AOE like a dumb fool soaking up all the damage then dies. Then I have to waste a 60sec cooldown to get another pet, who instantly does the same thing and I’m stuck without a pet for a minute, only to repeat this over and over again. -.- The only sollution is to use the useless bear/tank pets that can take more than 1 hit, but bring NO useful buffs to improve my dps and do little damage. Since you kitten bow DPS and expect the pet to contribute a percentage of Ranger dps to bring this profession in line with other profession’s, then at least take the time to make pets useable.

Bugged 'Explorer' Achievements

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Bottoms Up – This achievement cannot be completed because the Mordrem Champion does not fight back at all. It simply patrols it’s route back and forth. I have killed this champion a number of times now and each time it simply ignored the attackers.

A Waddle To Remember – Found the chest 3 times, spawned the Skritt 3 times, slowly attacked it and allowed it plenty of time to transform me …. nothing happened. Once, I even let the Skritt escape because I waited so long to be transformed.

5/20/1015 Patch Stealth still bugged

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The thing is, EVERY single patch brings new bugs! Without fail. Why are these things not tested before being released?

Surely it’s better to spend a short time testing patches before releasing them, then having to spend days trying to resolve it.

Frustrated with hackers in eotm

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This is now the 5th time I’ve encountered a hacker in eotm! It seems that there’s always one these days!

This time I encoutered 2 Thieves that were completely immune to conditions. Like how is that even possible? I know Theives can condi-clense from stealth if traited correctly, but to be completely IMMUNE to conditions, is simply an exploit!

What is most frustrating, is there is no in-game method to report exploiters other than selecting ‘botting’ which does nothing. Maybe if 20+ players were to submit a report on this person, then it might get looked into, but what can I do as one player against this? :\

If I raise a support ticket, I get told to report it using in-game methods, yet nothing is done in-game when you report the person. They’re still there!!

Unable to join 'unranked' with party

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Why am I no longer able to enter the unranked arena while in a party? Before it even prompts my friends to join, we just get a message saying “you were removed from the queue”.

Stability Broken/Useless in PvE

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I know this was a deliberate change, but you have made a bug out of it now and completely ruined PvE with this rediculous change to stability.

Ascalonian Catacombs: Graveling pounced my Warrior … Warrior uses “balanced stance” to stun break and gain 5, yes 5 stacks of stability, and the Warrior dies from being pinned to the floor from stun spam……grats.

If you had just left a WORKING thing alone, we would not have this bug. Or if you want to nerf melee-trains in WvW, nerf the Guardians that FEED the trains their stability/blocks/retaliation. Melee trains are still OP, because instead of fixing the real issue (the Guardians) you broke stability for the entire game.

When I see blatant oversight’s like this, I wonder why am I not working for A-net and resolving these issues that I can see so clearly?!

In conclusion, you either need to give everyone 100 stacks of stablity on their skills or revert this unwanted change.

Massive Lag spikes 29/04/2015

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Since today’s patch, I have been getting insane 30-90second delays at random intervals in dungeons, on my skills and abilities!

At first, I thought this was my connection as the party chat was fine, I was just unable to see anything happening as I was experiencing a ‘rubber band’ effect.

However, after some investigation and some router reboots, I now know that this is NOT my connection!!!

As usual, I use WinMTR (Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmtr/ ) to run a ping-test/tracert in one.

I had this test running while inside the AC dungeon (IP: 206.127.146.40) and this ping test was active the entire dungeon run! During the dungeon I had at least 3 massive lag spikes, about 30-40seconds each. However, the test results show an average of 28ms ping to the IP, 1500 packets sent, 1500 received 0% loss, perfect connection!

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afkers

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When 9out10 games is lose to unbalanced matchups, then yes, I also cannot be bothered to stand there getting ganked repeatedly.

Every game, I try, if it’s a loss or unbalanced, I give up. I’m not there to be a free kill, I join because I stupidly think PvP is ‘balanced’ and find out the hard way it’s not and end up afk’ing bored because you cannot exit.

Kick Voting Fail

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Please reduce the required votes to kick a person from a group, down to 2!!

This is causing a huge amount of stress and hassle when trying to make groups using the LFG system.

I always play a dungeon with at least 1 friend, often end up just the 2 of us. That means when 3 other idiots join and ruin the group WE have the leave and lose all progress instead of being able to kick the players and remake our group.

If we’ve progressed a dungeon to near-completion, we should not be the ones forced to leave because of a now-broken kick-vote system!

Ranger Pets Bugged [merged]

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What you describe isn’t a bug imo, most F2 are damage abilities, it makes sense that the pet would continue auto attacking and using its other skills after it executes F2. The way you seem to want it would be the pet just executing the F2 regardless if it’s a damage or buffing ability and then returning to you. For most of the damage abilities (and those are the majority) that’s just a waste of pets’ and your time. If it’s already in range to use an F2 on a target it might as well continue attacking it.

If the pet is on “Avoid Combat” then sending it in to attack after using one of it’s skills contradicts the term ‘avoid combat’. If I decide to manually press “F1” (Attack) then yes, I expect the pet to charge in. But the rest of the time when it is on ‘avoid combat’ it should do exactly that, avoid combat.

Because something has been ignored since release, I classify it as a ‘bug’ now as that is the only way to get enough attention to get this resolved!

Anet, thanks for finally fixing this CLASS MECHANIC breakage from a month ago.

And I appreciate it. But you know… something like this that really impacts a core mechanism like a ranger’s pets not being able to be set to avoid combat should not take a month to fix. In all areas of the game – WvW, dungeons, fractals, (open world pve), sPvP, etc.. rangers were playing handicapped for far too long. And although the communication from Anet to the ranger community was there, it was slow and not as continuous as one would have liked to have had it.

Hopefully, in the future, when breakage of this magnitude happens, we’ll get faster and more continuous communication and a quicker fix than a month.

But, again, thanks!
-Sincerely,

Exactly!!

And if it took a month to fix, they had the chance to impliment some other much-needed changes for the pets.

Simple things like being able to dismiss your pet in combat. And not forcing the pet to attack when it’s on “avoid combat” and you use it’s “F2” utility skill!

This is just a reminder that those ‘bugs’ are still overlooked.

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PvP - Unbalanced Matchups

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I’m fed up of grabbing 10 points only to sit out afk because there is NO point at all in even trying to play.

3v5?? Come on!

And don’t give me this bulldust “never give up, I’ve won games with 1 v 5” etc etc. Who does that? Really. We’re not all super-1337 haxxors that can take on an entire team solo and win.

I think we should at the very least have the option to leave the map and requeue for another. Why should we be forced to sit here, afk waiting for the enemy to win by default.

And another question, why the hell am I NEVER on that other team that always has the full 5 players?? Why is it 10 games played, 10 games lost every time I try get some achievemens in PvP?

It’s boring, unbalanced and something should be done about it.

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