Guild Wars 2

I would!!
But then, let Ebonhawke be like in the loading concept picture!
Big & Useable. Road to Vabbi!

+1. I love crowns, and I definitely deserve one! ^^
But multiple variations. And reskins of HoM Ice Crown too?

WildStar developers been asked to help AN make these things & proper customization.
LOL.
+1
Waiting…

I’m playing Ranger in 95% of my time.
LB has invaild “Obstructed”, “Out of Range”, “Miss” errors a lot of times. Due to connection pack limitations? I don’t know, but its range is always unlogical.
Some way I can shoot ~rg1500 , but clear hits down form forts can be anything mentioned above. And the edge of the fort always obstructs, lol…
& Can’t aim some fort archer…. It hits just below.

But it is quite fun when my rapid fire goes out of range when hitting a target just a few steps away…

Oh yeah, we want more animals. But also to configure them, so they can benefit us while we use the ones we really like to see as minor companions. To choose their speciality.
Basilisk venom is nice, would punish those thieves who stone me in WvW with their OP backstabs, no chance to survive at all (just luck if someone saves me accidently)
+ Lion from me

YES, we definitely need LONGER Stealth!
But not on Hunter’s Shot, and with some kind of rule to stick on.
~ will end after 5 seconds if moving, or when taking dmg.

Designated marksman Hunters have no real stealth, bad chasings/damages, can’t use firearms, hows that?

SpellOfIniquity.1780:

If you can’t survive with a Ranger you’re doing it wrong.
If you think they have the same range as other professions you’re wrong.
If you think they can’t tick 16k with Rapid Fire you’re also wrong.

L2P.

I can survive with my Ranger, because I have logic & gamer skills that can save me. Nothing else. In WvW with my TP-Mule warrior I can share half hands to drink coffee in middle of a zerg fight. Then pick up the loots.
I have 1200 range on LB & 900 on SB. I’m not traited for LB rg1500. Warriors have rg1000 rg1200 when traited, but outdamaging oponents before hitting that rg200. Thieves have same rg900 @ SB.
This is why I’m suggesting it to be 1500 as base (with fixed aiming & ROF based on distance, logical).
16k… +1 on posts above me

Just make stealth to end when taking damage, okay, maybe 5% of base health dmg tolerance. But this is just pathetic. Permastealth finishing one by one…
I have Hunter’s Shot! 3 sec Stealth! I’m just tracked down because of my pet….

Chinese GW2 version has many backpack and awesome new items…
Its a CRIME if AN won’t share it with the loyal EU/US playerbase…
GemStore, okay… but its way past the time where we should just learn to craft them.
or Unlocking the purchases as Zenith skins…

Sorry to late my video I’ve promised, not my fault. The “narrator” has problems with the soundcard.

Anyway, some update;

• Thanks for the Azureflame fix, been 515 days but finally!
• WIP: LA Overhaul, WvW Fixes, Class Style Fixes.
• Planned: Full Tyria Overhaul Details (Fixes!), New Items, New Minigames, Fixed Ranger re-design, & many more.

Thank you for everyone who supported me in the past 1.5 years, it means a lot!

These NPC conversations are
very
Very
VERY
Annoying now.
Time to replace them…

I’m waiting for half-shoulder capes in renaissance style… Dye-able.

I’m still waiting for medium armor skins with realistic metal reinforcement:)

It is easy to be a big boy when being OP
Will laugh mad and long when Stealth gets a nerf,

Uh… here you go. Strenghts:

• Can shoot with same ranges as any other class
• Pets with funny names

Weaknesses:

• You’ll be targeted and killed first, even when in back
• You have no survivality at all
• Your damage is very small but won’t even applied due bugs
• Low stats
• Bad Traits

/ Piken Square – Ranger Commander w/ Balanced full Ascended Gear

In the current state, I would make a Warrior that uses both bow & gs.

• Its OP & always will be OP.
• A lot of heavy armors looks as real medium armors, I would be more realistic/cooler.
• I do not have to share my stats with a not working pet.

Yesterday evening I’ve played 6 hours straight in Blue Borderlands. Here is the story;
Apart from our own forts’s edges BLOCKING (Obstructed) the arrows, it is still clearly hitting enemies without any damage dealt. Then I’ve tried to get in a better spot, but our enemies was able to pull me from a long distance, nearly falled down…
Somehow close targets are Out of Range, or just 0 dmg criticals on them for ~10 seconds, or just continously Evading when running normaly…

When some random enemy gets in my way, they just move out of my ranger’s aiming, leading skills unuseable. Hunter’s Shot gives me 3 sec of stealth, which is enough for nothing here. My dead pet just following me, so they track me down with AOEs.

And my DMG has decreased by ~40% in WvW, I don’t know why.
(Traits, buffs, etc – then how can they still be a glasscannon with 8-12k damages?!)
Not to mention a Guardian can make the same dmg with full buff protection,
and even warriors has more dmg with a bow. Hell, my Toughness/Vitality warrior does same damages… Rampage of One has the same effectiveness like Signet of Rage, which has Passive effect too with HALF RECHARGE TIME. OMG

What happens when a ranger gets downed? We have 1 interrupt that worth nothing, stability makes it ignored, other traits just passing it, the best you can do is to buy you ~3 seconds. Not worth anything.
Only thing I can do is to swap to Wolf & use Fear on them.

• Pet dies within 2 seconds in the effect mess, unuseable.
• Pet just won’t use the skill on swap, takes ~4 seconds to cast its fear.
  Anyway, what should I do with those OP thieves who finishing in Stealth?
  If I were Colin, I’ve already ordered Stealth to end when took dmg after 1-2 sec from casting it…

I can evade by every 3rd GS sword hit which just won’t really happen in WvW, 2 dodges in cost of 10% of my dmg loss, 1 lightning reflexes what should give stealth, 1 GS skill#3 swoop if its not autotargeting backwards to the enemy zerg…
(without this broken Autoaim, its even worse to keep targets)

Skirmishing Rangers should be very dinamical, evading a lot while shooting targets fast, being able to catch fleeing ones. ~ some kind of Ranged Thieves | in this current.

I did not meant this be a wall of crytext, these are just my average experiences playing ranger (commander…) in WvW. I know what other classes can do, and thats way mutch more than we can.

In WvW, Rangers show off their real weakpoints. I do not wonder if everyone targets us first for an easy loot…

• The first arrow shot needs to be a lot faster (Opening Fire’s buff?), then a little more on continous shooting
• The arrows needs to be faster, people can dodge/evade it way easy
• The 1200 range is just low, can’t even hit anyone down from a fort wall. Totaly unrealistic, even pathetic. 1500 base range should be the minimal on Skill#1.
• Hits are always Out of Range/Obstructed, meanwhile standing clear at target 5 steps away. Can’t even hit the NPC Archers up on forts, its automaticly aims the top edge, but on range it should be a clear headshot!
• We’re hunters, but can’t catch anyone…
• Meanwhile Elementalists can heal fully up and hit serious criticals on us + being invulnerable for a LONG time, and Thieves just backstab us with 8k damages then disappearing whenever they want for long & heal fully up, we can do Nothing.
  Yes, we have 3 sec stealth if it hits (mostly just fails because of bad targeting and sent to recharge, we die…) AND STEALTH FINISHING THAT YOU CAN NOT DEFEND.
  (Shouldn’t be the Stealth brake when taking damage????)
• Pets do not work at all, die before can hit, can’t track target, every skill/trait on them is a waste.
• Survivality is close to zero, meanwhile we should be the number 1 survivors.

This is why I & many others say Rangers needs a stronger rework,
This is why people opening cry-topics,
This is why some joking with the class being deleted soon,
This is why we’re not welcome in parties,
This is how the hunters became easy prey…

Our strenght should be to burst damage our targets meanwhile we can evade a lot.
Recharge is way oldschool, an Initiative/Adrenalin like “recharging mana” would fit on this class mutch mutch better.
We need to be feared enemy.

P.s.: I would not mind using a gun, its fun and why not allowing archers to use any kind of projectile-type weapon?

There are my WvW questions;

• What tools are planned to add for Commanders? Placeable map signs, closeby buffs?
• Any discussion about who has the rights to become a Commander, or Leveling it?
• Why making a very nice looking child-care room for queue instead of overhauling the existing WvW maps to be more exciting & the borderlands to be different in style?
  (Green: Forest, Jungle | Red: Desert, Rocks with vulcanic | Blue: Snowy Forests & Ice, EB: Mixed)
• Most important: Will the forts to be less easy capture? How is it planned otherwise to prevent pathetic speedfarming & mindless zergs?

Asked straight on style of spike, but these questions are very important.
TESO will spin up the large-scale battles anyway, AN must make a professional response update on that.

I’m glad for your post Pvt Frosty! Thank you!

I know I am drastic. How would a revolution look like without being drastic?
90% of my playtime is at my Ranger. I’ve been in every adventure, and I have my own vision for this class. Since in my opinion, the fight mechanism needs to be more dinamic (as mentioned in my other topics and posts), I’ve adjusted this overhaul for the big picture.

I believe I always kept logical at my suggestions, and only aiming towards the next evolution step with no new flaws and disadvantages.

When people are tired of posting suggestions that will not happen, and not even care to read anything that “not gonna happen”, the only thing they may do is to shoot our a crypost.

As you Can see, I’m discussing with people even in the topics, meanwhile on TS & map chats.

Nearly everyone wants some positive update towards playability of Rangers,
so my design here has vaild points, even if some can’t imagine the big picture

What about this one?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/iR-RANGER-Redesign

I do agree with the OP in a way.
I’m still fighting for mutch better detailed Character Customization, which includes scale-sliders. The pre-made bodies aren’t bad, there are even non-topmodell kinds which are good. Sadly, not many using it…
Back in SW:Galaxies there were 50% “ugly” looking players who fit the lore perfectly.
In my opinion, AN must learn more about this topic, and give us more options soon.

I agree with the dislike on plastic looks, and the lack of body-part scalings.
For example, the Human Male legs seems broken or handicapped for me…
but its not as annoying as the game’s skirts/coats go extremely wide & not material-like at all. I know its a simple methood to prevent running animation clipping issues, but would like to see it improoved in the future!

For first, a reworked shader would help a lot.
My Abyss died leather armors have strong white reflections, which is very unrealistic and plastic like. Same on the character’s skin, they should be more matte & detailed, as all the “original release” items. They’re mutch less detailed than the new items.
Just look how Dragon Festival’s Shield looks like. Very detailed, very nice color choose.
That one is an extremely AAA+++ grade job! A single employee should improove the old items in my opinion.

I think it IS still working like “Trinity” because people still think this way.
Okay, there is no more “LFG Monk…”
There are “Guardians please!”, then if you join with elementalist, they ask you to use water heals. Sooo….
Until most of users can’t care for themselves enough (even if the balance “forces” them to become glasscannon), there will be healers, dps guys & tanks (that only works at bad AI)

Woaw that resolution is such a “hack”
GJ btw.

This is a thing what should been choosed at Character Generation (at least the playing shounds, LORE narration would be huge & costs mutch more $)
We may see this option mutch later. I hope so.

AN Should shout out for a trial when prices are mutch less, but people may will buy the same or even more. I believe in this.

Here are my fun pet names:

• Black Bear = Coffee Bean
• Medusa = Waterpipe
• A. Fish = Flat Frog Tank
• W. Wolf = Winter Comming
• Birds = Krytan Fried Chicken
• Drake = Shiskebab

PvP FuN:

• Spider = These In Your Room
• Random = When Its Ready

Would AN give a 1 week trial peroid on our Ranger Redesigns?

Hmm. I’m out of this topic but I’ll leave my points here:

• I am playing with Critical DMG because I have no time to killing them for ages, meanwhile I’m running out of HP…
• I am a Ranger and all I can rely on is to kill foes faster than they do.
• My taste is good ol’ Diablo style, when we slay dozens of minions instead of duelling every NPC 1 by 1.
• Since my class is still in beta stage & the armors of the game is way out of my realistic but bit Hell-ish taste, my only joy left is to slay with very dinamical movement.

Soon they may came up with a patch where skill lag gets reduced greatly.
Anyhow, there are another problems with the FPS drops & visibility of battles.
A lot of caster spell keeps the screens flashing and hides a lot of enemies from being visible, so its very unlikely to react to their animations that we should react on.
+ the discoball shaders of hit signs…

Since my post there are a few user posted with High amount of gametime and zero drops + there is a new one who has very basic gametime and already has 7 drops.
Looks like this conspiracy theory goes prooved by the time…

But what is AN’s statement on this? “Random” can’t really explain this when there clear & straight evidences. I’ve sent a ticket about it long ago, they reply explained it is not a mechanic that can be broken. After all, most of us “know” it IS broken.

Can we aim for some kind of compensation? It seems like clearly AN’s fault – the lack of fairplay @ drops.

I’ve been researching for the drop rate of Precursors.
By the list here and those who I’ve asked;
The earlier you’ve started, the more you play, the better you play, the most you spend at Mystic Forge- the less chance you’ll get the precursor
Its around ~250 people asked.

Sidenotes:

• “It is called “Mystic Toilet” for a reason"
• RNG is guess what? RANDOM
• If you ask AN via ticket for your broken drops, it will be increased for a ~month. How can this happen?
• There are confirmed users constantly getting precursors, expensive items & Ascended chests. For this happening, it has a multiper less chance than winning RL lottery.
• My consequences: RNG is broken, and Accounts somehow go “lucky” or “unlucky” on creation. I’m investigating the connections…

Oh, can’t wait to experience a large zerg fight without dropping below 30 FPS on an expensive PC, which can touch 13 FPS in WvW & @ Maw, meanwhile the average is ~22 FPS in these events.

The worst part is when you can’t even use any of your skills, just moving. Quite unfair in EB…

Anyway, for reducing load times & lagg in LA, our beloved developers need to stop making effect-spammed armors that just got overdesigned & need to remap the city to spread people, not to concentrate them to one core place where they spamm anything they can…

I don’t get it too. Okay, let them land when you stand still for a good while, but otherwise, these birds should flying around you.

There is a main design flaw about AI that I’ve mentioned lot of times.
NPCs are dumb and their stupidity compensated with million HP & one shot killer spells.
To prevent all of this & make Zerker guys (like me) need to be skilled for a real risk of sacrificing defenses, AI needs to be mutch more dinamic, mutch continously (no moar standing still!) animated and simply Faster.

Imagine when you fight a huge risen abomonation and its just Smashing Smashing Smashing the ground with knockdowns & knockbacks, there you really need to dodge & concentrate on fight.
In other example, why should dragons stand still and watch over instead of chasing you down meanwhile you can use their giant size to collapse terrain, damaging them greatly?
I believe its a mutch more fantasy-friendly methood than shooting everything with a big laser beam…

My conclusions are;

• Don’t bother with DMG nerfs, useless & ragewell
• Improve AI’s velocity of skill using and animations
• Get people more than 2 dodge (~4 with bit faster regen)
• Change combat mechanism to Initiative & Adrenalin use fusion, recharges aren’t as dinamic and logical.
• Above all of it, focus on make contents entertaining Longer with bigger rewards, prevent speedclearing for 2blues1green. Customers will complain less about unrewarding and contentless updates then.

JonPeters.5630:

We are trying to take steps to address some of the dominance of Berserker/DPS players. More info next week, I think.

Jon

Make the Supports more rewarding. Biggest mistake was to split builds to “permanent” DPS or Support – instead of letting use the needed kind in time.

If you manage to make my Ranger even more unplayable….
Keep in mind the promo videos showed 1-2 shot kills. We need 3+. Destroy the DPS and we’ll end up hitting a dirty rat for half minute…

Yes, yes, the cash shop greed. Reasons of most space.
Above that, its still not leading anywhere…
Think through what would be the effects of making Dyes Account-Bound;

• People will buy up some dyes from the TP
• Then the prices will forced up in first wave, because logically it will worth more
• Then the prices will drop since people will not buy the same dyes for each character
• And finally, we end up having most of the liked colors, being happy and bit more customized

Apart from the fact we hate RNG, the current system works well and a dozen of dyes are “Elite”, but not really noticeable tho.
This is where AN should offer Texture Dyes for fix prices on GemStore.
Would make a nice new fashion

Just please, for god’s shake, do not release RNG boxes…
Do not even let locked BL chests drop… Open or Nothing -.-’
There is no even a way to craft a key for that with the unuseable stacked Ascended Materials…

What about collecting them and dropping to Mystic Forge has a chance to step-up on the slot ladder? You would make a 20 slot bag of random type by a month of grindfarming Queensdale.
I don’t know how mutch would it move the TP balance,
but also would bet on doesn’t countable after insider tradings.

So let it MForge.

I’m supporting the design of multiple weapons visible.
( As there is a GS on my back while shooting with LB and vica-versa. )
It annoys me to PoofCast them… Since its not working like in DMC.

And what about if I use MadCatz R.A.T. 7 Mouse’s offical driver programming for auto 10-click at opening bags? (This even makes COD Semi-auto weapons fire as Auto, lol)

Great Topic!
Here is mine:

I’m supporting you with this.

Yes, we’re quite unhappy with character customizaiton.
That is why we cover our faces with paperbags and
Facepalm.

My only concern about shoulder pieces is that they’re overscaled
seriously!

Have you seen the toxic gemstore pieces on woodstick sylvaries?
The armor piece is 5 times wider than the character wielding it.
pathetic

Jusssst want to see them fixed & smaller.

Meanwhile I would eSh1t in my ePants on stepping at a Nomad mobile-village in Crystal Desert, or looking around in the Canthan Ghetto, I would even like to have some new kind of selfbuff skirmisher Elite at my Ranger and even to design my own pets.
Dungeon Revamps are comming tho… TA wasn’t a bad start as a prototype.

Hehe. Yes. And she needs a nice sports-diorama kiosk at a better place!

Uh we miss these NPC-only stuffs by a long shot!
I would buy that male longcoat!

+1 from here too!
It would been mutch better and heart-warming to play Choir Bell in my town clothes,
plus in the Toypocalypse, would been nice – that has preset weapons & skills anyway.
The Sanctum Sprint is kind of a race, so there its better to see my pvp esport gear.

I would agree in this if my eyes wouldn’t be a predator’s one – tracking the movements precisely, instead of seeing difference between colors.
This is where my “Different Style UI GemStore Unlocks” cames in. Woot!