Guild Wars 2

Tried to repaint my bow to look like the Phoenix’s, then I gave up, throw’d in random pics and yay. -.-’
Will try to do it later. With total re-draw?

I.Demand.Trial by Combat…
Let the Dark Soul II bosses come

What a question… you want to see devs spawning dead then leave fractials in a 2 min vid?

Clipping issues aren’t that big problem as some people tries to yell out.
Most of the good mixed armors have some kind of clipping issues, because when someone at AN made the system, didn’t made a standard-scale to continue design armors on. This is why a lot of armor looks bigbutt and bulky, overscaled or just badly shaped.

Still it would not give us a real reason to wear them.
People aren’t even using it that mutch as some gemstore genious expected.
When did you saw a guy in cooking outfit ramming your keep’s gate?

I highly disagree with OP and anyone who joins him here.
What you say – in my view – is just like “Everyone is equal, but you can only be worthy if you have a good pedigree to born in, not with real work performance – and it’s just fine.”
By pedigree/family, you mean RNG here.
RNG, which is discussed and prooved to be broken.

Please note we’re speaking about a the “holy” Equality here…
This is the core philosophy what the whole company built GW2 on.

It is a thing that it doesn’t seems to work out fine atm, and even promised a scavanger-hunt to solve this problem. >> Which means AN is aware of this issue and working on it.
Thus, Legendaries meant to be the Top. Look around in a popular place and count them, just call your family together, so you may have enough fingers at your screen.

Until AN doesn’t makes steps toward adjusting the layers of the economy, it will always be a mess that they even force down the cliff with all the overdesigned thing and lack of prestige.

IMO what GW2 seems missing most of the times is the.. “Soul” of a Game.
It doesn’t feel as real as GW1 overall. Yes, because the things isn’t outworked well enough, and even if GW1 had mutch less, the lack of details drived us to immagine mutch more to it, like reading a book or something.

And in the topic of Festivals, they have no depth, just as the Lore itself.
Its not active enough imo.

Pet name saving is maybe difficult for AN for some reason.
What about making the pets have selectable skills to use, so we;

• Don’t have to change pet setup at somewhere
• Can use the pet we like with the skill we need.

My statement on this is still that we should select 2+2 pets (or 1+1 if it were mutch better designed) and to care about them as well as we care about ourselves.
We’re supposed to be “One” after all.

I would love it AI gets smarter, not more powerful (actualy want them quantity over quality – like in a diablo game, than hack’n’slash).
As a Ranger, we’re good in pve mostly because we can kite the AI, so their performance drops. In case these random trash NPCs getting more buff, rangers will end up unplayable/mutch less playable even in PVE, because we lack stuff to handle their kind of “BANG I’m in your face and stunning you hahahah” kind of skills (Risens).

AI improvement is needed, as well as Ranger buff/mech redesign.
Including other class. We need some kind of good regenerating mana-adrenaline-initiative-stamina for all classes IMO, until that, we’re playing with idiotic CoolDowns like back in ’90s. What a shame…

Most of these Achievements designed to be earned in years of playing, so they will have some kind of value. It is the player’s fault that they want everything NOW, so they grind and farm.

Why could I use a fancy city outfit during combat as a Ranger?
This is why most of people, including me, don’t understand why is this methood better than offering these outfits as normal armor sets to mix, and townclothings aren’t exist in their place instead of the tonics. which are non customizeable at all, not even using our paintset.

Ouh, I like this, just don’t have the feel of spending 700 gem on a roleplay/chill outfit…
Gift me, anyone?

One day the town clothings may will have a good standing… one day

These videos are BS. Duels only, versus who the hell knows what kind of nabs he bothered long minutes to fight with.
STOP WITH THEM, the whole URL is a spam.

Oh this one is nice…
I wish I could buy it…
Gift me, Anyone? ^^

Not allowing this little thing means we can hear less perfectly played/synced instruments around the world, and due to that, a lot of people just won’t buy them.
I think if we would be able to make music-tabs ingame to the instruments, their playability and sales would be increased greatly. I would buy a harp if I could play “Rains of Castemere” with a single button push.

(Another good feature is the pre-recorded tunes like at Drum and SAB Music Box, but when you want else than GW2’s OST, it will be trouble)

1 to X key bindings are always a question. When AN gives you no option to consume a lot of bags/else, should we really forced to click like a maniac? Guess the “consume all” feature is planned, but really, anything that doesn’t give countable advantage in fights/money, shouldn’t be a reason to ban.

Wanderer.3248:

RoyalPredator.9163:

I don’t really think…

Animations don’t help when you can literally run circles around the enemy.

They can. If the skill that they use includes a CC, or a target-lock leap/something, running around them wouldn’t be a problem. All they need to know is when use and what of good stat/animated skills. Like if you run around it, the AI says “yay, didn’t hit the player for like 6 seconds, let’s leap on its face” – or “Arrgh, this one tries to kite me, let’s CHARGE-locked” – or “Hey hey hey he knocked me down and damages me heavy! Retreat strafe back, block, if gets close just kick it awaaaay!”

Kind of

A longbow that works?

120lbs? Well, thats True Professional! I’ve only met a 80lbs hungarian reflex bow yet, and let me say, that was arrrgh for me. yet.
In most of games where Rangers do exist as a standalone class, they’re far more powerful than our “sustained” dmg. And some screen effect should help us feel some power too.

P.s.: Would you gift me a bow of yours? ^^

First I would like to see pets to have selectable skills for the skin+effect combo…

I couldn’t call LS items a prestige.
Prestige would be if I manage to discover spread-pieces of Dhuumseal and craft them together.

Maybe there should be a Champion/Legendary loot weapon pack that can be salvaged onto pieces, and we could reforge them to make an another set. THAT would be the EPIC PRESTIGE, haha!

Let’s fix the weather and ambient sounds this time
Storms/rains are both quiet and visally bad.

The only real thing that can bring real prestige is anything that cames from ingame effort based on skill/endurance, and never mean farming here.

I don’t really think AN should invest in such a serious process like AI programming in the first place. Life-like behavior can be made mutch cheaper and ~same good~ with proper animations, skill designs and emotes.

It’s on lvl 80 area, tested at Orr, WWW and LA/DR.

It is not too late. Never is. One day, don’t allow to upload Legendaries to the TP, let them expire, so last ones can be bought. Meanwhile, make precursors craftable or optainable in a way (10k AP chest?), and then if anyone wants a legendary, have to make it on his own. I can just hope they will reduce the grind we need for it.

Or allow Ascended Armors to sell too, but limit their price.
Until no price limits made, there will be people who keep the price up, and people who will buy gold from third-party just to get these items.

What would be the best? The TOP items, aka Ascended/Legendary are ACCOUNT-locked from the start, and require a normal way to craft them, or even better, to let us upgrade our existing gears during leveling with crafting methoods. + Material prestige.

Just tell me, what kind of additional risk do I take with a tank warrior, compared to a ranger which gets no buffs, out of sight of mates and is a primary target of easyloot?
If you help me understand this, or just have an another angle of view on this, would help me to understand AN’s philosophy on this.

(Btw, just came to my mind; Range+ weapons aka snipers in fps games are 1 hit killers, why, is there no risk? The snipers are always alone and always at same spots. Not to compare GW2 to an FPS but the basic “ways to figh” are the ~same.)

Infinity Watchknight Tonic like SKRITT Tonic
that works in combat… 100 Laurel Special? Or GemS?
Shineys yeeeeah <3

+ More quiver, backpack, back equipment
+ hips quiver
+ Weapon dye inventory
+ Guild Name changer
+ Name changer into Total Makeover Kit (at least in case of gender-swap)
+ Race Change ofc. Wouldn’t brake lore, they don’t really mention your “past” and why an ex.: charr couldn’t live in DR or else?
+ NPC outfits… still waiting (Oh and the town clothes should be outfits too, not just tonics)
+ still REAL medium armors
+ No need to buy a whole set for 1-2 piece

I never saw the point of Legendaries being sellable. If the reason is “You can be a great weaponsmith who lives by making the best of”, then I state that we shouldn’t have this opportunity at all in cost of breaking prestige, lore and market.

Also, the possibility to just buy a legendary – destroys its prestige as well as the requirements you need to craft one.

So you say, when I compare my warrior in the same fields and conditions (soloplay somewhere, or just www), It does not count? It does.
It does even count that my warrior can stack up mights and my ranger can’t.
Even the Signet of Rage is mutch more powerful than Rampage as One.
(With good pets I would be more effective I know, but I don’t want a pet that I don’t like the look of it… It is my problem I know, not like pet’s couldn’t have choseable effects/conditions aka sub-builds, like was in pre-release alpha.)

Range does not really matter most of times, when my warrior almost tooks no damages and kills faster, and the bow ranger may kills an NPC foe before it could reach, but just 1vs1, the rest still gets in cast-range.
In WWW, they stick on you and you’re not really able to mantain distance versus good players. If you do, that opponent is in stealth or healing up anyway, or just blocking and stuff… Or you just stay behind and stay out of care too.

I don’t feel like to make a video proof, I just say what I see, and my warrior is just way superior to my ranger anywhere, anytime. I may sound dramatic, but no one can really question my own experiences when I can roll the warrior half handed in www doing a phone-call, without mutch trouble, but as Ranger I even get invisible damages at ranges.
(My HP just drops and nothing seems to hit me…)

Ridiculous? Balance is, not me. Try out for yourself if you have doupts.

Does any of you arching in real life? I do.
We can’t leave the fact some things aren’t THAT realistic/logical when it has to fit a game, but our longbows are like 40lbs draw-weight Starter bows used by an average weekend-archer.

If we’re the masters of it, it has to be at least 60lbs, mastered to 70lbs, including ROF, Velocity and even bit of range.

All this means; Our Mastered state are IRL’s average…

So it cames funny when the “only” Dev plays the hated Bearbow or just condibunker sometimes. Not a unique one at all.
Can we lose the hope now??

I use Divinity Rune set. It was great (18g/each) at start, then its been nerfed down with -6% crit dmg, (dropped price to 9-12g/each), now it’s nerfed in damage again, but +10 or +15 boosted in everything else. (Price is ~2g/each.)

Maybe I should change it, but it works well overal. What else rune could give me good pow+prec+ferocity+vitality/toughness in same time?

Fluffball.8307:

So your tank warrior does 100% more damage than a berserker ranger when a berserker warrior does 5 or 8% more damage than a berserker ranger. That makes perfect sense.

To say more clearly, my ranger shoots 2500-3200 if it crits.
My warrior chops ~3000 crits with axe ~twice faster.

Hybrid means I’m not fully on power+crits, have survivality too (vitality, toughness) as a minor, but my overal dmg is still high compared to other rangers I see on field.

Xae Isareth.1364:

I’m just thinking. What if they made shields with a zero-CD skill that has a block mechanic that lowers the damage you take but drains endurance….

This is what I’ve suggested before.
In my design, warriros build up Adrenaline like in GW1, harder attacks req to load them, but using shield cover is a drain. So you have to manage your resouces, not your CDs.
(Btw, most of my class designs have this core idea)

Always remember my words when it comes to compare W to R!
My TANK Warrior does TWICE the DPS than my hybrid ZERKER Ranger.
Yes, ranger can attack from range, but it also means you’re out of sight when it comes to help you or heal/buff you…

Is it Balance?

Sorry, but it’s not that. I tought that too in the first time.
I had 19,565 HP at every new WWW cycle. (I know ‘cuz I’m always there)
Now I have 18,000.

Some other people reported the same issue in Labirynth Cliffs.

Not a bad idea, but I think it would be mutch more better and realistic if;
>> Both of our weapon is visible. Unequipped lays, and if you just sheath it, both your weapons are on your back/hips. Worked well in many games, but even skyrim had troubles with it.

(Some may will say oh the FPS killing of this visuality… I say give it a [X] check at graphics options to disable draw’em)

I would like to see backpieces (and possibly even weapon) both at Character Selection
(+ Interactive background pleeeease),
AND at least the backpiece wen you /sit or do any emote.

Looks like everyone has been nerfed between 1-3k HP.
Did we get a single note about this? I did not found any…

There is only one prestige in GW2 that I admit;
YOUR NAME
And It’s the best by far, rules over everything.
Don’t ask why, it’s pretty obvious…

Gear? Grind it. Gem it. (you can still have style tho.-)
Legendary? Eeeh ugly overpriced lorebreakers on my part.
Title? Griiiiiind it, or just keep playing and get it after a while – as intended.
WWW Rank? Griiiind griiind griiiind. or this above ^^

Y’know what I’ve mentioned in my [iR] Redesigns topics?
There is no respect towards materials, and not even a crafting system to manage them. It is the main problem with the gear’s prestige.
Other thing is the stuffs you can simply buy or grind, but not earn by challanges.

Here is my Top Five!
1: AutoAim (Miss Miss Obstructed Miss Out of Range Out of Ranger Miss @ 1500)
2: Some base damage value and mischosen-conditions
3: CDs on weapon skills…………….
4: Very little options for no-coat/no-lightarmorlooking of terrible shapes (bigbutt & fat)
5: People who say we QQ when telling facts

I’m with Lilith Ajit.6173.
It is simply not possible to have bad luck for 7 years in GW1 and nearly 2 in GW2.

1.) What do I consider a good reward? How often should I feel rewarded.
> Something that have use or value. Junk grey drops at 142%, c’mon…
2.) Should time or difficulty dictate how I am rewarded.
> Both. Dungeons shouldn’t be short and not even one hit killers. Overal, gamer’s own performance should give the reward. An AC path should last ~1h+ long but rewarding you a whole item at the end. And what about a really long ~6 hour path of Arah/DOA/UW/FOW, when you get an ascended armor piece in the end? One thing is sure, we shouldn’t overrush and speedgrind for some worthless token.
3.) How much gold per hour should I expect to earn from selling loot and drops?
> Really depends what/where I do and what I do with my loots (salvage)…
4.) Is my perception of my reward influenced by a goal I am aiming for?
> ATM I have nothing to spend my golds on, since game doesn’t really offers D&D items that are not overdesigned, crafts/dyes does not allow me to reforge/paint my weapons with the look of different materials, ascended armor is waaaaaaay overpriced and we don’t even have good roleplaying support, just a rushed & laggy WWW without need of real tactics.
So I’m just gathering and waiting…
5.) Perhaps my magic find is too low.
> 142%, it goes up very slowly now, so it should mean something, right?

I did flip your own call, so if you say I’ve called you “a liar, noob and a total idiot.”, that was what you said to us first, isn’kitten It is. But nvm again

But okay, i’ll write it down for you.
GS Block does not blocking all the dmgs, and whenever the foe gets close, it tries to make a knockback, which is good until you’re not playing against T1-2 WWW foes who just ignore x3 of these effects in a row. Honestly, I don’t know how. I’ts not about stability…

And then you’re there defendles. You may [Hilt Bash], which won’t work and if it does, its terribly short – compared to warrior hammer or static field. Or swap to LB and do a [Point Blank Shot], which may helps you to get your foe just in position for a nice launch attack or else, since there is no stealth on it. And this list can go very long…

We “all” know that our skills are underpowered, the damages are way low and the effects are not the needed ones or just way short in duration.

I don’t know how skilled my ranger mates are, but I do know that I’m good and I’m usualy fighting against dumb people who wouldn’t survive me without being OP or running away 2 times faster than I ever could, like chicken on nitro.
How is that average guardians can run away from me with never dropping below 70% HP but even damaging me on the run? No, they ignore/outheal my stuns and knocks…

Anyway, the fight seems nearly equal;
Being OP and playing bad = being UP but really skilled.
It is challanging but not fair at all. I feel like should use my gamer skills to dominate, not to compete.

solrik.6028:

If you’re new to the ranger and lb then please practice more before saying that it sucks. Thank you.

Guess you are. nvm…
Please avoid writing down scenarios that just won’t work in www/spvp.

Manekk.6981:

This is a great look…

Give that man a cookie!

Kind of yes… if you want companions and hard dmg on distance, use Mesmer GREATSWORD and poop out the clones. At least one of those can hit 8-11k to a dodging foe, far more than our pet could ever achieve.

Yes. Game’s Rangers are the Warriors.
Meta’s Rangers are the Mesmers.
What are Rangers then? Lootbags, slot-stealers and map fillers.

I have the same problem. 9/10, but triplechecked all 10 and all been picked up.
Used Dulfy at the end and I’m very very sure.

Problem could be with the higher waterwheel, where I somehow falled through the bamboo meanwhile interacted with that master crystal…
Will check it now, but it may need a support ticket…

I have 8×20 bags full of these T7 materials, they’re priceless – so can’t sell, can’t craft any useful stuff including consumables, and today I’ve checked the requirements of making ascended armors… surely will not spend my Lannister Golds on +2 stats…
(For me it just ridiculous that there is no way to progress/upgrade our gear up to craft500 with efforts that doesn’t makes you your own slave. Loots are bad too, and when it happens, you have 1 to 8 chance to get the right stat combination one…)

Last years stated we can not expect more answer than “Save it for the future”, so that is exactly what I will do until there is no worthy opportunities to spend them.

All I can say about this is that I truly believe Rangers needs a serious rework…
(With keeping the original ideas, just fix them)