Guild Wars 2

Shadowbane.7109:

RoyalPredator.9163:

Anyway, hows that if someone jumps down or up even a “flying” pet can’t keep track?
I would make them ignoring the terrain axys

As far as I am aware they use NPC pathing thus they cant jump nor fly.

Yes I know it well, but still up with the suggestion of making them ignore levels of Z axys.
It would be very hard to make them life-like… that needs complete rework of their kind.
Problem is with the big fallings from cliffs. IRL they fly up high and they would go forward down and turn back, then Hit, and repeat. In game, they may just continue the tracking, and they would have a freefall animation.

When a new AI has been made for the game, they might correct these.
Also; AI can be synced to seem mutch smarter.

Just a quick tough: AN doesn’t even have to FIX the AI right now if its that consuming as some says so. They can trick it with an illusion;
If Pet attack skills are applied from the ranger when we say so, and not from the pet itself, then it laggs not. We may see the pet away from the target but the damage is still applied. It would be still annoying, but at least, now its about a visual problem, not a meaningful meta problem.

Anyway, hows that if someone jumps down or up even a “flying” pet can’t keep track?
I would make them ignoring the terrain axys

@ Snipers: When Crossbow cames in, okay. Otherwise, somehow I wish this to be Engineer thing with rifle.

Point Blank Shot is very fun with that knockback!
Please don’t suggest it to change entire effect, try out knocking people off the cliffs as forever-stunner hammer warriors do inthe Edge/WvW. Its kitten amazing and very useable!!
Only wish it to have Stealth for an excellent tactic opportunity we would have on this. ^^

Did any of you tought how cool it would be if like GOT’s "Warg"s / Necro Death Shroud, we could transfer ourselves onto our pet for more precise control, meanwhile the basics given normaly?

Game Mode: WvW/PvE

Proposal Overview: I’ve made the updated version of my
[iR] Ranger Redesign v2 | NEW Mechanism

I don’t think we should keep up with this current mech we have,
this new Endurance/Stamina based may suits mutch better.
(Crysis 3 just good base to start imaginations, lol!)

Goal of Proposal: Fixing the lack of hunting abilities and spinning up the combat to be more dynamic.
Proposal Functionality: Nearly same as Thieves, but still different enough.
Associated Risks: None I know of. People still can use the class as now if they want to. Some may find it Overpowered, but its not. Good in 1v1, have its own weakness that just cames from bad playing.

P.s.: No aggro pet would only work if their mechs allow us to control them well enough to catch’them before reaching us. + then we need mutch more HP and survivality than right now when a whole mob can stuck at the pet.
I would agree with a rule of 100% dmg when pet isn’t in combat, and ~5% dmg transfered when it hits the target. So its like sacrificing a bit of dmg for more precise manouvers like immobilise, torment, knockdown, etc.

I’ve saw a lot of nice suggestions here, and I really hope AN takes the efforts this time…

But Nuzt… We have great suggestions uploaded here…
Including mine, which seems to be a really enjoyable and balancable way.

Just for the records: Y’know, if someone has a gift of “Eagle Eye”, that would give precision, not longer range. Longer range depends on “inner-calculations” from the part of user.

I imagine SB as a ninja-skirmisher kind of weapon for close-mid range, its best if used “dancing around” your foe who can’t touch you, but will bleed out shortly.
But I will not use SB in PVE after I’ve crafted an Ascended Azureflame…
And if I “can’t” even hit the fort targets (means headshot with error), how would an SB range help… But basicly, there is no real bow designed to shoot under ~65 meters.

Devs have “DevTools” that is sure, but its unknown if they have it only at inner server or not. That thing makes you 1click anything. 9999999g? Done.

I would suspend those ~15 goldseller accounts who whispering me /day…
But being GM now is a hard call. Last time I saw one in video, have been RAMmed down from the cliff of the Edge… LOL

Fly isn’t a problem. Its more like gliding. Not real flying as in AION, where the map structures aren’t blocky.

This is what I’m fighting for since pre-release…
AN has a statement on “FREE market” which isn’t really free now, just abused/exploited/mainipulated.
However, since Anet not selling things straight and not using GemStore as well as should, the grey market rising & it becames more and more sweet candy to the people who really wanted to just have fun instead of suffering for things. But we’ll se…

The tendency of upgrades aren’t on the side of grindless playing anyway……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..!!!!!

On Gold to Gem transfer, the OP is Right.
We want a specified number of gems to get, not to reduce our offer with -1c just to not let it sink as mutch as it wants to….
Rate won’t or shouldn’t just change by seconds. Every X minute is reasonable…

So I’m +1 on this.

Its Monday here. No CDI yet?!

Anyway, some inspiration towards updating the Ranger/Entire game maybe check this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJpXD1yGTvA

I’m playing WvW every night and skills like Hunter’s Shot and Point Blank Shot not doing their effect… Something tweaked in the last hotfixes? Waiting for the 4th then O.o

I have a bad feeling about having a golem-dog before any chance of taming a Lion again…
Also likes the Wargs, lol But y’know… We have puppies… juveniles… and those textures are waaaay bad.

Since we’re Hunters, would be nice to see more Torments that can be applied on anyone who tries to escape.

You’re not breaking any rules here…
You’r build is just safer to use, but less effective against most of people.
Overconditioning blobs are not solo roam, but you support it well, meanwhile you may able to kill foes 1v1 if you move well.

I just hate them. Hows that every Xth player in front of me is a god-like something?
It would be ok as exclusive 2000Gem skinpack, but its way awkward for me and many now…
Hope it will run out as fast it can…

Prev. I’ve complained about the lack of epicness. Well now its Epic, but here is a common problem of GW2:

OVERDESIGN
When players already looks like 120W lightbulbs with 10 different effect item, how would it make sense in the lore? Whenever something new cames out, its an overdesign. More shiney, more effected, more freaking dishousting, or just has a visual that doesn’t even fit in the unique GW2 design, which is already a hard candy.
AION & TERA is still more serious, but thats not a reason to follow’em…

So some plays Ranger there…
What about me being your tester/ranger subdesigner?

Easy to fix this sorry misdesign:
Make the horn Longer. If you’re wearing a helm, it will look just good, no real clipping issues. If have no helm/hat on, then it won’t float at least. We have “Devil Horn” town clothes anyway ^^

Lucyfer.9517:

RNG is broken, people can say random is random all they want but in this game random is not random. There are people with acounts which have permanent good luck, guaranteed to always get good drops. My friend passed 20k gold, so far he got total of 59(sic!) precursors. I play more than him and got 0 lol. Whenever we go to dungeons or do events together it is guaranteed he’ll get better rewards than me. You can talk about lotery all you want but if same people keep wining the lotery over and over and over and over and……. I can’t helpbut doubt RNG.

+ A LOT
I wonder when and how will they make an admission on broken RNG…
I know same kind of guys. Always an exotic drop in the end of a dungeon or world event, or in the first level of fractial…
And hows that I’m getting minimum of an Undefinied Dye EVERY DAY in the first some kills? Or that whenever I write a complain ticket about RNG, my loots getting boosted for a week? Or the guy who posted in this forum somewhere, and had 7th precursor drop, playing 1-2 hours when he has time, under 5k AP / ~600 hours played?

P.s.: Whoever knows the universe deep also knows “random” not existing at all.
Its just an illusion of ours, and being have rules to have rules preventing randomism.

Somehow nearly all the games with specified Bow-user class (aka "unparelled archers) have strong burst, and none of them complained about the range advantage, which almost not exists when the AI isn’t that easy to exploit (even if the player’s are so chained not to do so…)

Most of the games allow us to fire mutch mutch faster, and the projectiles are nearly instant. So its not trouble for them…

Interesting, but not surprising.
With ~4300g spent, at least we should get a single permanent contract that we can sell for ~2500g, which seems to be a more fair trade to do so.

One is sure; I will not buy the CHANCE to get something.
And I would suggest it to anyone else…

Taushullu.6180:

I’ve been working on some ranger trait suggestions for a while now and the leaked patchnotes (let them be real or not) wasn’t quite what I hoped for. I was planning on waiting and linking these suggestions to the ranger CDI thread, but as it got delayed (and delayed again), I’ll just link them here first. Check them out if you are interested!

Link to trait suggestions Warning: wall-of-text

Here’s a list of things I’ve tried to focus on with these suggestions:

• Compression of pet related traits.
• Reduction of “passive” traits & promotion of “active” traits.
• More impactful & supportive grandmaster traits.
• Changes to Opening Strike.
• Changes to condition removal.
• Synergy between traits.
• More fun!

One thing seems clear; Until they just adjusting values, we’ll sck.
This is exactly why I’m suggesting a new base system to design Rangers on…

[UPDATE]
Since the alt-topics have been archived, I’ll post them here

Sub-fee:
One time purchase for the game account became the only good way for keeping playerbase in game.
For those who would like to support, 2 things needs to be upgraded;

1. Weekly updates in GemStore, where more people can spend their money on things they want.- this means more skins & handy things. Until the GemStore not offers enough item for ~all kind of taste, it just won’t be as effective as could be.
2. Wouldn’t mind to pay sub-fees IF it gives special kind of rewards.
   I mean special access to things, and a Brand-new Sub-Fee Chest progress, where loyal players can unlock things by every purchase. For example, after 12 months, these users should have access to buy merchant-items from the TP, or ~10 use of MForge anywhere and every day, “free gems”, free items, etc. Its a thing that would benefit those who support, but wouldn’t make the game p2w-like.

Assault of LA
Looks like it was a 2 days fun again. I think it would be better with an instanced story-line to start with, then the lore allows us to breach-in in waves every hour to search for things left behind at escape. I can’t agree with the rewards also, they’re clearly “FarmIt!” like. And we didn’t yet spoke about the bugged achievements that just won’t trigger or triggers without doing them…
The refugee camps are also feel rushed. I can’t really understand why it seems like a so happy place when things meant to be real serious this time…

Tyria
I would highly recommend to re-map. It lacks the basic territorry designs of Castles/Forts, where adventurers can rest & prepare between the wilds. Everyone knows Game of Thrones, right? It shows off very well how the things should be like. There is one High King/Queen, and there are sub-kings/queens below (s)he to keep provinces running.
+ The WWW-PVE Cross Support System would also support this kind of design.
Some may say GW2 meant to be unique, but I highly doubt it meaning throwing away core logic things.

AI Dinamics
Tweaks needed here. Animations and unique skills needs to be adjusted to continous hitting with little damages, excluding charge attacks where foes have a reason to stay in place.
Otherwise, for the illusion of smart AI;

1. Non-stopping animation “choreography”
2. Skills designed to use on player’s behavior – melee or ranged
   I know its easy to just say it, but I also know its not that mutch of effort to make the game less exploitable but to have more enjoyable combat.

~Keep the Hope~

What about forging them to something useable, maybe MForge Stone?

Don’t get me wrong, I would fill any survey FREE for them.
BUT if some gets “paid” and most of us don’t, thats not working

Thats you. I make myself logical rules. Until I don’t get the survey, I WON’T spare any real money for the game. Simple as is…

We have no “farm builds” here because game designed to be solo-able, not like back in GW1. This is the only difference, people still doing the same.

Without Barrage, LB would hardly used in these zergfights when NPCs die faster than spawning… This is our only way with the bow to get the loot, even if its just Junk.
(Why can’t they accept RNG is Broken?…nvm)

Crossbow is more like for AOE than Longbows…
Longbows always were higher damage & range, crossbows are kinda ninja-boom stuff in nearly every fantasy game that I know of. Since you can put a “magazine” on it that fires multiple arrows. It would be good to have AOE crossbow with nice CC & techstuff.

+1 @ jcbroe.4329: You’re right, This here is a nice topic and even a Strong one.
We don’t need to waste more time to copy-paste things to the new CDI topic that has been already delayed… and delayed again?

Also, we would like to see the reaction of the Ranger’s Team leader.
Not on the minor things, but on the real works/designs & totaly new suggestions.

I’m waiting…

Meryn.6875:

RoyalPredator.9163:

But you ALL really should stop farming. This only leads AN to make more expensive sinks that normal players can not reach within logical timeframe.

Please tell me how to farm my t6-mats for my legendary
Anet making more expensive sinks is not my fault (or problem) but anets fault for not making an “normal-friendly environment”.

Play in lvl80 maps for the Heavy bags and open them. I get some from WvW.
However, not stacks of it… Meanwhile Legendary stuff needs way high costs.
I don’t have any, because I don’t like them. There are no lore behind them, so they’re hard to call legendary. +I don’t need the stat-swap on them, somehow an LB with more toughness gives the same damages as 9%crit one… and full upgraded asc weapons of mine seems to do slightly less damage compared to exotic…

Keep in mind, Legendaries are designed to work on for a ~year, not to grindfarm it within one or two. It is the Player’s “stupidity” to try getting everything NOW and then complain about the lack of content or the Grind Wars 2.

Why I’m not getting this survey email? … =(
I would make it precise and I need that reward…
At least this if the game don’t wants to give me anything good.

I have an Ascended transmuted LB and GS now.
Not giving noticeable dmg upgrade at all.
Don’t care to make an Ascended gear, people getting to realise its just for the elitists who want to spend their grinded or exploited money on.

We also need some thing to spend our stacks of bloodstones/dragonites on…

If you’re farming by keeping an event not ending due design flaw, thats an EXPLOIT.
One of us have been banned because she tried to make focus slayer achievement on swamp frogs… (some tought shes a bot)

But you ALL really should stop farming. This only leads AN to make more expensive sinks that normal players can not reach within logical timeframe.

Proposal Overview: I’ve made the updated version of my
[iR] Ranger Redesign v2 | NEW Mechanism

I don’t think we should keep up with this current mech we have,
this new Endurance/Stamina based may suits mutch better.
(Crysis 3 just good base to start imaginations, lol!)

Goal of Proposal: Fixing the lack of hunting abilities and spinning up the combat to be more dynamic.
Proposal Functionality: Nearly same as Thieves, but still different enough.
Associated Risks: None I know of. People still can use the class as now if they want to. Some may find it Overpowered, but its not. Good in 1v1, have its own weakness that just cames from bad playing.

I’ve saw a lot of nice suggestions here, and I really hope AN makes justice this time…

They should make the HOM portal stones as self-Hub.

This whole thing is a mess again… No even a karma paper to unlock heirlooms?
Or proper ingame informations before we need to check a Webpage again?
Since even the gemstore items must-be-checked in wiki, I do not wonder.

Oh, I know where you farm it! Its even a bit of exploit at a spot…
You’re welcome to give me a fused shortbow or otherwise I’ll list your farm spots muhahahahahahah >:D

Yeh, the new Clelestial armors are…. +18 shops offer the same designs…
But its not that bad for some, meanwhile We still in the need and if you’re even a ranger, you’re kinda doomed for a while…

For me:

1. Basic: Good loot if any drops, bags.
2. Veteran: Junk
3. Elite: Not likely to drop, but junk.
4. Champion: Bag of some, nothing interesting.
5. Legendary: Sometimes a rare that drops no ectos since last patch…
6. World Boss: 1 Rare to acc, 1-3 in chest, corpse drops a blue or green.
   Nothing, Never drops anything valuable…

105% MF

Sina, you’re right, its not 0, but not even good for many of us.
Falconer is nice, just not my style to shine. Skirt shape isn’t as stylish as female.
Sorrow’s: Steampunk, yeah. Way too bulky for my taste.
Scout: Its LIGHT armor lol. You don’t want me to fight in pijama, do you?!
Viper: No thanks, I’m straight at sexuality……..

I don’t know where you guys getting money from. Hard farmgrinding?
I’m only looting JUNK
So I play the TP a little to get money withoug grind. I’m in good standing, but I don’t even have much to spend on. Would get Fused Shortbow, but it has insane price, since its based on serious RNG, aaaand feels like its still cheap compared to the drop rate of BL tickets. But I don’t use shortbow due to its skills and range (lack of real skirmishing), so just for shooting fast I keep at suggesting LB buff…

But really, Luxury items like MFC or permanent use things are okay, they will hardly worth their price anyway, maybe in 5 years if you have good reasons to use it.
Other luxury items like skins are different…

I don’t want to disappoint you, but those decorations are a KIT.
NPCs, Scripts, Event instas, + an effected model pack. It is easy to reuse anywhere, any time.

At least I’m happy for the new opportunities, and I’m interested to have a deeper look on that Vigil HQ. That is the only true castle in the game (apart from the floating one), when there should be some more.

@ my redesign topics I’ve highlighted some point about the redesign.
Even if the main ways are missing/changed, its very useable.
I doubt AN will rebuild it without serious changed, or even better, totaly new mix, otherwise it will be a huge facepalm. And LA will be the same boring & laging HUB place.

Immobilise in WvW is quite ridiculous. Once you stuck, your HP disappears faster than downed skills should load in… At least Stability should protect, or Stun Breaks should remove.

Iason Evan.3806:

LA from a technical standpoint is a mess. I think they are tearing it down to build it up in a better way so that it has less lag and can support huge future battles. Part of me hopes they don’t though because it would mean a new hub zone which means new permanent content. I would rather have that than have a rebuilt LA.

Exactly. From both Developer and User perspective, there needs to be an excellent designed HUB. The economy will choose one anyway, why not to think ahead and pre-make one comfortable? (As suggested [iR])

Thats why I say the items should have unlimited stock built-in by AN with a max price.
What I see & know (told by a goldseller who explained the network of their buisness… its quite deep and dangerous!) is that some rich guy becames seriously rich, then the casuals became more poor, so they end up buying gold. But not from AN, because they have much worse inflation and RNGs.

Whoever’s job is to keep the tradings running, I hope he/she makes reasonable limits to prevent a huge chump of grindfest.

Nice wall of teyt Chrispy!
Would you try to tweak it for mine Endurance/Stamina based Mechs?
I’m a little lost at balancing Traits.

Please link in the CDI topic, can’t find it yet.