Guild Wars 2

Please Many of us have tons of these materials but won’t craft more ascended.

I’m always open minded towards my look.
Yesterday I’ve changed it.

My biggest problem is; My weapons aren’t dye-able in any way, and liked shapes dismatching in colors. It is still a huge disappointment for the players.

Let’s hope China guys won’t take Ranger’s state as cool as we do…
So far I think Chinese players do like ranger-kind very mutch.
Will that make different here? No clue …

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Engineer ’nades?
And Rangers barely hit more than 3.5k (full berzerk), could go up to 5k if they buff well but you know how long can they keep that up… 5 seconds and everything falls apart.

Game needs multiple roles for every class and playstyle, including Rangers.

If 5 ranger can work out well, imagine 5 of anything else.
Seriously, you can’t name a class that wouldn’t be dead serious in a squad, with the exception of Rangers, which is possible, but requires the skill and preparations, not like at all the others…

Prophet is so kitten right…
Reality would solve most of our problems. Our class shouldn’t handicaped by any “game solution methood” that works well rarely. If anyone knows why things in game are different now from reality, also knows it is because of balance.
Problem is; Now it’s not on our side, meanwhile it’s meant to be…

I more like to think we’re heated because we’re just crap and “stealing a slot from any other class player”;
Basicly it’s not being egoistic. We do what we can, a minimal acceptable.

What role a non-supporter Ranger would take? Neutralize special threads like Thief, or any other guy who means trouble. A guardian, for example. Do we have stats for it?
No… And that little we have just worth nothing against these guys. Spend your Entangle elite skill and it’s over in the moment of cast.

If someone plays a more supporter-like style, that is his own choice, also not really working in WWW, and only on a full-build for Dungeons.

Are any other class forced to “sustain” damage? No.
Are they better because of it? H3ll yeah!!
Even Necros can spike serious damage, why not us?!

I’m not speaking about 250 isn’t enough, it’s mutch, but really, you stack that up and then nothing happens. Thats why I suggested this.

P.s.: Not my best idea I admit, just curious.

New, more Noble look.
How long will I keep it?
I don’t know, I like to look badss
(Prev post of mine here)

Hi! Just a quick suggestion crossed my mind;
Sigils like Bloodlust or Perception \else gives us 25 stacks of +10 to chosen stats.
It is a good self-buff, but when you already stacked that 25 up, it does nothing.
I think it would be fair to give these sigils an additional but minor effect that can keep it interesting even after fully charged, like “Overcharge”, which gives you Might, or Protection, or something – based on the stat type.

Opinions?

These problems exactly why I suggest the Pet being taken out of DMG and only focus on special effect skills that cast INSTANT. I mean… INSTANT.

I use wolf too.
It does matter what target you push for that fear.
And it’s delayed, and not instant-casting meanwhile the wolf doing something else, like pre-leaping.

If you’re lucky, your wolf can interrupt twice before someone finishes you….or your wolf is alive at all…. always have a spare wolf in frequent case you getting downed

@ Jim: Terrible?! Stun-lock warriros so easy to kill? Oh forget me, you’re playing on T3+ for sure…
The REALITY:

• Now you can Stealth up to get some time or better position for a """burst""". PBShot rarely but can interrupt (oh, they negate 2 interrupts by basic…), and there you go…die.
• “Good” Stun warriors get you stunned every 5 sec, so your stunbreakers aren’t really helpful. Entangle as only lockdown on field? +2 second. All is it about how long it takes a warrior to kill you. I can kill those guys sometimes, but just when they’re really don’t play it well. Otherwise, their endure pain and healing signet negates my damage, which is high amongst other rangers.

What would be okay?

• PBShot the guy back and get stealth. He’s interrupted, knocked back and disoriented. There is your opportunity to strike!
• Hunter’s Shot turns into Mercy Shot or something similar useable. Immobilise, for example…
  But it is sure that a not-really working and very short stealth on a whole weapon skill isn’t fair at all.

+X% DMG sigil, Rune, trait, frost spirit and hell lot of MIGHT
Try to stack these up before you get killed 2 times
Works in PVE. Not in any kind of PVP

At least “Rapid Fire” should be really rapid, and Maul should hit real hard with a knockdown/stun.
I don’t even know what Rapid Fire for… a single dodge is -50% of hits, and I always see it obstructed/out of range even when it clearly reaches distance and just shoots terribly behind a normal moving target…

I’m on EU\Piken Square
Rarely see a ranger, and that one runs in fear or just suicide.

True Chewy… T1s has NO RANGERS AT ALL

I’m glassy myself, otherwise I couldn’t even do else than leeching on my zerg…
But I also have survivality and vitality/toughness, because Hybrid builds are always the best IMO. (Yes, meta poves me wrong here ^^)

Soo… Yap…
As mentioned timely; My TANK warrior does nearly twice the damage.
And as everyone can see, the Lore’s archers ARE warriors. Whaaaaaay???

Same at me, Kilger….
AutoAim is even worse, and the players are overrushing everything, the game can’t keep up with fast controls and leet gaming.

Wasting a 3s worthless stealth on a whole weapon skill is just ridiculous.
Stealth with minimum of 5s has to be moved for additional effect on Point Blank Shot.
That is the only logical skill where we could really use Stealth on…

My biggest problems in WWW are with the foes who using auto-locking skills, like Hammer Warriors and most of thieves. We have no chance to keep distance in 1v1.

Oh… we spoke a lot about all of these problems. Yet there is no fix, and not even else than a CDI which seems to led nowhere on April’s “so kitten big” patch.

What I’m curious about is the chinese player’s reaction on Ranger…
As far as I know they like the class mutch (boahw & mylittlePhoney pokemonz), so this could be our last chance… What you guys think? =(

Whatever AN brings us (and they have to!!!) must be close to both mine and yours.
We need a lot of buff… and a lot of reasonable changes on crap skills/traits/stats.

One does not simply…
… record videos of pwning noobs.

Try again when you fight at Tier#1-2 and not low-end pugs who should go EOTM instead

The biggest problem is, our CDI led us nowhere…

Hmm I’m up to Risen style of armors that aren’t overscaled and doesn’t have big ugly parts.
Bunny ears, yay!
+ Grenth’s Hood more dye slots, just… please.

P.s. Still waiting for real medium armors…

These scenarios are the reason why we need real Hunter skills, where we can lock down and interrupt our foes, mostly these stealth user covards.

We’re not THAT bad… in PVE, we’re actualy good.
But in WWW, most of the others skyrocket pwn us again.
Hey what? WWW is the ultimate lvl80 aftercontent?? So it musn’t be important at all.

No, it was one, solo capper. Believe me, I’ve saw strange things. But we’re not supposed to talk about those -.-’

This one was the same asura.

No clue what happens there. Average clone mesmers in WWW are hard to handle.
They are all stealth and targeting between its clones with the bad autoaim is a pain in the… And their clones follow/dmg me in my ridiculous 3s stealth, plus one clone does ~8k DMG to me undodgeable. Is that fair? No, the whole class is as annoying as in GW1 was, but back then they wasn’t so dirty like this…

BTW, yesterday there was a …… mesmer from AM who made 10!!! clones. I don’t think thats “legal”.

Yes, we should have Torment instead of Vulnerability and something else, when we have to lock our targets in prey’s cage. But before that, we should be the predators, not the ones who try to keep distance because if anyone gets close we’re kittened

Waypoints make sense? For me, not.
I’ts a Mass Effect technology by the Asura.
If they say “Hey, here is a shrine of the traveller’s guardian saint, touch it and you’ll found yourself at the shrine.” would be okay. Like home-portaling was a spell in Diablo games.
These makes sense, not the hovering cubes that can be accessed anywhere, anytime.
:)

My Mounts FAQ:

• What Mounts are used for? > To travel with style.
• What Mounts need? > Big Maps…
• What about Waypoints? > Who cares? WP is lame on RolePlay side. We skip a LOT content because of WPs… Not like it would offer that mutch right now…
• Devs made Waypoint for us!! > Yes, and its a very handy feature when we want to save time. Without them, we could walk on the still-not-existing-highroads and encounter many adventure.
• Mounts Spammed! > Restrictions: Speed, Combat, Where can be used…
• So, Mounts could be in GW2? > Absolutely. But here are mutch bigger problems to fix first, including small maps.

Thanks. Thats true. Game needs challange/skill/howmutcheffortyouputin based unlocks for most of things. Until that, the key for everything will be Gold/$.

Guys… “No Holy Trinity” (Req) here means your class isn’t focused on one rule (meanwhile it is), so you “can” swap between the trinity or hold on a balanced state.

Sure, we’re still far away from what we’re on about here but on the right way.
(could be the full trait swap at least with weapon swaping).

When the time comes I have to shoot 10+ arrows to a single trashfoe because of DPS nerf, I will ragequit. And most of people will do so…

PVE is okay from my Ranger’s perspective. You’re maybe an OP class, like my TANK WARRIOR does twice the DPS than my ~Zerker Ranger.

I would add a selectable precursor to 10k AP chest. Another at 20k.
Seems fair to me. Most of people aren’t interested in getting AP anyway.
Zenith skinpack isn’t common for a reason.

More Armors/Weapons BUT!! with D&D Style, not glowy-shiny-bulky things like most of the BL things are…
AN makes skins but very not in style we expect…

@ andy: When I’m not sneaky behind, I’m getting attacked by the whole zerg first.
Maybe because they know and fear me (from a Ranger?!), or they just see the easy loot?
Whatever, my downed interrupt is worthless there and can’t even get out of danger.

My problem in dungeons is that we’re playing a CQB (or even worse, stacking), where LB isn’t that good. We get out of Support when we mantain range. And even out of sight, which means less chance to be cared during a non-zerg fight. (Even there, because people are so greedy. -.-’)

Being a Ranger spotter/scout is an another failure because of lack of Stealth and slow movement against nearly all the other classes. GS#3 Swoop isn’t that Nitro as people think…

1 Month at AN HQ while the team does exactly what I say so and we would have balanced Ranger. No risk here, my design doesn’t reduce anything, not even highly buffing to be OP. Even if that 0.1% chance of fail hits in, simple backroll to prev. state and the only thing “wasted” would be the cost of my fly tickets and my short living there.

This is Next-Generation now, none should copypaste the old mechanics where there are better ways…

That picture isn’t important, and put up just because it looks good.
What important here is, the core system to prevent CDs on weapons and fixing stats/styles/Logic.

You disagree?
GW1 was Human Only, that is right. BUT! There was EOTM armor skinpacks, so your character had the opportunity to wield a differen’t race’s style of items.
+ human sub-race variations of local fashion.
For example, my Assassin had Norn armor. Yes, NORN armor.

You guys really think the same armor can not be applied on other races?
You know that most of the armors are ~same on races, except the scaling differences and some speciality like charr’s faces? Yes yes…
I would say check skyrim, but those are still humanoids, so just imagine the racial armors being on different race in a bit modified version. Would that hurt anyone? No.
+ There is a reason why Braham’s outfit used on all races.

And guess what? ALL the styles of these races comming from REAL human styles.
Bit tweaked but those are real. Even sylvari armors.
Only exception is may the Asura gears, but thats also a known D&D line and the rest is a Mass Effect – Maya hybrid, doesn’t looks as amazing az we expected REAL ALCHEMY.

And on side of Charrs, I feel for you. I’ve planned to play Charr, but they became kitten. GW1 charrs were same humanoid-like, why did they gone backwards in evolution at the last ~250 years, meanwhile they made a lot of engineering forwards?
There a dev would say ~“We wanted to make charrs here as we originally imagined for GW1”. But it would be a lie. Amongst a lot of special race, they could make charrs that way too. What else excuse? They wanted the Charrs look else than Humans? Maybe, but then I would consider taking offical concept arts & even loading screens on humanoid-like charrs… Get sense people!

So my conclusion is: You can try disagree, but I’m right.
The devs should offer a lot more variations of same styles that we can mix as we want to. Including “low level” race armors, just as OP suggested so. +1 on him.
Best would be a Modular Crafting System…

Devs may have rangers for “Bank Slot”
If any of us are a good gamer and pays attention on Ranger, they could know what to fix ASAP. Doesn’t happen, so no, they don’t PLAY ranger.

Game skins lack a lot.

1. Materials are not choseable, not even dye-able… GW1 had w-dyes.
2. General directions of armor designs are not matching between male and female. GW1 was correct.
3. We can’t have a charr style on humans, asuran style on sylvari, or else. GW1 had.
4. Medium armors look light armors / pijamas. GW1 had betters.
5. Most skins are bulky, way small or big. GW1 had betters.
6. Most shoulder pieces are not fitting and way oversized. GW1 had betters.
7. Drop skins are the same. Why they can’t drop special ones, dungeon ones? Guess What 2? GW1 had it…

P.s.: Yes, yes; GW1 was mutch more correct and revolutionary than GW2 is. C’mon!

Only true resons against texture mods are:

1. Possible advantages (like coloring camouflaged enemies to bright colors and removing the hiding folliage/effects in COD, just imagine…)
2. Keep up the possibility to resell retextured items. But they don’t really live with this huge opportunity, no clue why, could bring a lot of happyness for us and income from them…

Once they fix WWW and walls/gates will be not papercraft anymore, and in time we need proper tactics to rule, not just huge zergs floating with the wind of the LagSea,
>> THEN they could make the proper rewards for being there, not because you’ve dealt damage onto something.

Because many case requires to keep out from capping and guarding/repelling in an another end, those essential players get nothing for their huge help…

The biggest trouble I see at Rangers right now isn’t the pets or the skills/stats.
Its the crap AutoAim that prevents hitting fast targets like thieves. For that, we’re forced to use melee, and that doesn’t really help versus a 2 hit killer thief, which still exist strongly.

We have a crap 3s stealth which is unuseable at most of times, + due to pets who don’t get stealthed and will brake ours when they attack – they track us down easy.
Point Blank Shot is a really useable skill, but also fails because bad autoaim. As mentioned, PBS should have the Stealth as an additional buff, its very logical.
But until these skills goes to cooldown because our animations prevent to aim out of angle, we will always lose the opportunities…

@ Aden: We don’t need New weapon. Maybe more to use, like pistol, rifle and staff – but this way is a step toward real revolutionary designs which GW2 should offer.
In case you only equip 1 of one handed, the other slots are balanced to be equal to 2 equips. They doesn’t bring in mutch now anyway.

I still have hope on this kind of Ranger design.
By now I’m very sure that we need a deep rework.

Thats an another failpoint on customising, I mean, when their material mismatches strongly. Thats why I suggested texture/material dyes/options or at least a material based crafting, instead of “you can make this sword with Iron only…” way.

Holy Trinity should be self-balanced within builds, and every character should bear with all 3 “way” all the time. Even if it seems like 1%HEAL+1%TANK+98%DPS, which becomes balanced to a minimal of 20%HEAL+20%TANK+80% DPS orientation due REAL BALANCE that never existed in Arenanet’s dictionary.

The “Holy Trinity” is just a methood that Game Designers used due “Let’s copy what they did, its success!”. But AN made the bigger step toward breaching this wall, and sadly unable to control. I can read and outwork very good suggestions for this, but looks like they don’t like those enough to make them real…

Whenever you see a CGI movie, Mages DO attack very well, and any other “class” the RPG community worked out within the decades. And its actualy Here in GW2.
Only problem is; There are unlogical restrictions that prevent easy but complex handling in the same time.

What do I mean?

• Timer on weapon swaping. It just breaks elite gameplay. No other logic.
• Cooldowns on weapon skills… biggest BS of all the time.
• Staff: Attack or Support? AN tries to make it Both, and its a very good idea! But they only try. It should work if staff and other “magic weapon” skills do DMG and BUFF in same time, so 5 skill becames 10, and that would be aaaawesome without being OP. Otherwise, people could use weapon swap to same weapon but with the other kind of spells. This is what Ele attributes try to do.
• Items have Stats. It’s an old fashion, but I have a hope some day there will be only builds & gamer skills, nothing like “I have better gear, food on, buffs on me, but I’m an OP Warrior/Thief anyway…”

P.s.: There are still 2 hit killer thieves, stunlocker warriors and 10k critter mesmer clones, 8k critter eles who invulnerable a lot, and condi bunkers who outheal an atomic bomb – and now they doesn’t care about armor breaking… So GG at “Ferocity”

Hmmm I want A LOT of change… But let’s name it.

• Changed? Ranger’s mechanism to an “initiative/endurance” based one without Weap. CDs.
• Added? Elona or Cantha. New maps with roleplay things.

Harper.4173:

RoyalPredator.9163:

Warriors still stun-lock you with 10k damages, thieves still backstab u 2 times and you’re dead.

Did this “Update” fix anything about DPS? NO!!

This update was not aimed at sPVP.

I’m speaking about WWW

Warriors still stun-lock you with 10k damages, thieves still backstab u 2 times and you’re dead.

Did this “Update” fix anything about DPS? NO!!