Guild Wars 2

I have the same problem. “Intitializing….” forever.
Removing “d3d9.dll & dxgi.dll” from “Guild Wars 2 \ Bin” directory allows me to load.
So sad the game looks horrible without GemFX… Hope it get’s fixed ASAP!!

I don’t ask for school uniform, but for a proper school / training center instead
Yep, would be WONDERFUL to see Hogwarts within game but something similar?
DR’s Eastern/Western Commons yells for being a Diagon Alley

But I’m loaded with Gems & awaiting for Armor skins… please no overscaled stuff & keep armors to be armors…
Maybe the stuffs that Chinese version has already?!

Why everyone forgets that our “self-res” get’s disabled within seconds after we barely been able to activate it at all?

I just wonder why our pet’s can’t draw us away for a while…
As I experienced, thieves, mesmers can get away much more in combats than us with this “licking wounds” when they teleport away and even stealth/clone. Most of times it’s really a lifesaver when there are man friends around…
But it’s more overpowered than any standards.

Vegeta.2563:

How about some new Armor skins? .. Not these Outfits. We haven’t gotten any new Armor skins since last april, almost a year ago.

~everyone wants new ARMOR skins but AN gives us kitten instead.

I am one of them…

Pet’s most trouble is with their speed and ofc, the terrain.
Our eagles goooo around when we jump off a wall…

Balsa.3951:

downed ranger are very strong i must admit that a lot interrupts and a free rezz
first i get down then use skill 2 to innterrupt
then use my wolf for the howl and fear
then take my dog for the next interrupt by jumping on the stomper
then use 2 again while my dog rezz me
yes its a little op if the stomper is not fast enough or has stability

Then you die nearly as soon as you’re downed, because of invulnerability & stability skills.
I can interrupt up to 5 times and my foes doesn’t even notice it, without having stability. Gamebug?

1000 Gem GW1 Weapon Skins unlock megapack?
Otherwise these items should be nice named unique weapons as respect of the past.

If LB base range were boosted up to 1500, and arrow velocity to current’s ~170%, + some DMG, we were good for arching. Then yet have to do something with melee, survivality & pets.

ATM it’s pretty pathetic.

I “wonder” why no AN member brave enough to answer our prays…
nor why did they let all of this happen…

Gaile Gray.6029:

There are times when I sit, head in hands, wondering what fiendish mind thought of the access route for a particular vista. I look around the lunch room and think “Which of YOU did that to me!”

Honestly, don’t you know your workmates?
Or at least what they doing?
Don’t worry, we don’t know neither…

Bran.7425:

Define improve. Remember the big changes patch?

I do remember. It was nice, but not so “big”. I’m hoping for some real care & fix patch.
Remember my Ranger Overhaul v2?

& What about the Harpie’s helm? That would be a nice one… amongst many others.
Wish to collect them!

& Will anyone at Arenanet take the necessary steps to improve Rangers after all?

I support the idea of Dx12, but also Dx11 which seems to be more acceptable for the audience. I’m not even sure about Dx12 GPU’s price range in the future, my Tahiti LE may will be able to handle it hopefully.

More drawcalls and optimalization can bring us better environment with smoother gameplay, but to be honest, making it good and beliveable is more likely about the design itself, not technical limits. We can’t expect much improvement when they can’t make a proper level design for their so called “Living, breathing world!” apart from good frames per sec.

With an i5 3570K & HD7870BE I have nasty bottlenecks.

Also, GW2’s graphics weren’t the best when it came out, it’s just made with style of art that you like or not – some parallax occlusion would be very welcome from my part.

@ Branden Gee: Just a simple suggestion that you shouldn’t skip at all:
Set the minimum zoom value on mouse-wheel push and stop at it before FPS view, which needs an another push on the wheel to apply so.
I really don’t want to jump on FPS view when I zoom into very close TPS w/ centralised right side.

I’ve checked the healing skills and ours are just sooo bad.
No good cleanishing, barely acceptable values, long recharges and casts, etc.

@ DarkSyze.8627: We can not mantain the 1500 range most of the times, which we need to trait for, not to mention the “broken” distance calculations of the game where we barely hit a gus in a fort wall with 1500 but he can outrange us with 1200.
+ the arrow projectile speeds are ridiculously slooooow.

#GW2RangerLB1500RangeWithoutTraitsPls!

OP, are you kidding? Licking Wounds still need a buff of location change
- aka pets draw us out of danger zone -

Zoef.2761:

Rangers are competitive. Dont know where u have been in the meantime. Keyword is “really” here. What do u mean with that? Press one button and everything is down? If u expect ranger to be a compilation of all the best skills of other classes, u need to wake up.

I don’t feel so. T2 (Piken Square) WvW and I see both our and enemy rangers fail so hard.
My main is also a Ranger; In the past months there been much more players who had seriously OP builds that just can’t be beaten. I believe the long-not-fixed server lag also helps them not getting my damages, but I can tell you that they’we been fighting with much less effort than me (basicly just skillchaining and build does all defense), in our minimal range advantage they just outheal/outrun, and mantaining this range is also impossible after a quick while. Let’s turn to melee, GS, their buffs and conditions creep me out and there is no heal skill for rangers to deal with them in close range fights. With well synced dodges and interrupts, they still draining my HP much better while just standing still, a dumb gameplay. Because their builds are OP to save them.

It’s not THAT terrible, just annoying when rangers fighting with effort and there is no feel of being powerful at all – maybe we just need better healing skills for first… ‘cuz they’re crap.

I’m curious about the datamined medium armor to hit in the GemStore.
(Why the GemStore…. should aquire stuff from the game itself….)
And if AN plans to release a big pack of skins in the future or not…
The available items miss a LOT of player type taste. [Realistic]

1 Magical Question?
“When will Rangers be really competitive?”

This thing goes rampant, I see a lot of cheaters in WvW (mostly Brauch Bay players) and in sPvP it’s totaly common. The last one I’ve met a hour ago was a necro who basicly spike-killed within 2 seconds while I’ve been blocking, not to mention how ignorant he was with the interrupts. Nothing had effect on him, and my 12k Rapid Fire in the back barely damaged 1% of his total HP.

When will AN take this serious? eSport when it’s full of cheaters, lol.,

There you go, a pic….

We’re still same clones as were in GW1. Or at least feels like that.

1. Full overhaul? Possible, but very unlikely for a good while. Sooner or later AN will need to release mutch more customization options, otherwise, it’s a clear sign that this game has no goals at all. Not by long shot.
2. Flood of Variaitons? Exactly what should happen right here & now!
3. Release a little pack every year? When cheap crow-founding games offer more, it’s kind of a shame

It is also shameful that we can’t make old/ugly/fat characters, everyone here is a top-model…. one step back and we end up playing with children… with a “nasty” community.

Same goes to Armors & Weapons… Those needs customizing more tho.

Golem Uprising v2.0 ?
Didn’t we had something when Taimi got trapped at Dry Top?

Will the new armors come today?
It may seems weird but I really want AN to flood the GemStore with nice stuff… at least there should be an item that looks straight enough for a male character.

The “joke” is that AN won’t share us why they force us to use a very stupid AI pet in exchange of a LOT of our self-stat-values…
I wonder if any else professional developer team does this at all…

Any intel about plans to make Rangers a really viable archer class?
’cuz I meet hambow warriors doing more damage with bows sometimes

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

RoyalPredator.9163:

In PvP (and often in WvW) I always have 1-3 second of latency in LB #3 Hunter’s Shot.
But it even happens that it doesn’t stealths me at all, meanwhile I do no damage to get out of it nor having “Revealed” debuff.

That sounds like your internet or computer having issues. There should be no delay at all between the skill hitting and stealthing you.

From Hungary the closest server is “Frankfurt”, aaaand all other things works mostly, except any kind of stealth vs Players… Client repaired but it’s still delayed.

@ sorudo.9054: Another fancy disco ball outfit…. but it looks good.

When will we get over these outfits and get proper armor sets?
Even if sold only as pack. nvm.

In PvP (and often in WvW) I always have 1-3 second of latency in LB #3 Hunter’s Shot.
But it even happens that it doesn’t stealths me at all, meanwhile I do no damage to get out of it nor having “Revealed” debuff.

Waiting for long to use Axe+Dagger, kind of “Connor” style.
Necro’s autoattack would be nice skill #2 or #3 for us btw.
But if they make it one day, keep it a good melee!! please!!

… It would be nice to see a legendary that shoots swords instead of unicorns …

I see the same mixes over and over and oooover again.
We just ran out of possibilities, aren’t we?

What about something like these kind of staff skills?

1. AA: “shoot” fangs/eagle feathers/something at foe, with % chance of bleed/other condition.
2. AA2: Melee with the staff with animal-connected coreography (kind of Asssassin chain skills were used in GW1)
3. Branch Wall: Summoning a wall of spiked branch with HP which blocks projectiles and movement. Only Burning condition affects it, but Chill makes it “armored”.
4. V shape targeting: Knockbacks foes with a summoned wolfpack.
5. (“Well”) Cracks the ground, unmobiles/knockdowns foes and giving heal buff to allies.
   And then some nice ultility skills, such as
6. “Eagle Nest” which gives Swiftness and Quickness to allies passing by
7. something that makes a shield bubble, possibly hedgehog crawlings

Just quickie ideas…

Well… Rangers aren’t elementalists.
We should get these powers from spirits of nature,… something native american way.

I have some bad feeling about normal tops.
If you check carapace top, you’ll notice that you’ll also have your big butt visible, which is really anoying. At least it could be modeled smaller, but I say that these top skins should have a minimalistic “tail”. Like the Stalwart jerkin, that’s a really good one!

(Ofc it wouldn’t be mutch of a problem with Capes… right?)

Well, kind of, but the options are very limited for a more metallic look,
not to mention how better female char armors were designed… :/

@ runeblade.7514: Okay Some “Iron Throne” showoff for us!

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

RoyalPredator.9163:

= Just wanted to leave a sidenote: Pets should follow (& maybe reveal somehow) stealth enemies… they have senses what we don’t (why we can’t get it?!)… =

not to mention stealth should interrupted on taking damage anyway…

We already have thaat. It’s called Sic ’em. On the right power build a ranger has no problem with stealthers anymore. On condi.. well on condi a ranger never had problems vs any class anyways…

@Yelloweyedemon.2860:
Sick’em never works – at least at me. It just supposed to block the stealth but doesn’t reveals. #DontAskMeToUseCondiBuildForAFairFight:)

@Viking Jorun.5413: IMHO it won’t be a problem unless user knows what stealth is for.
But they can make a rule like stealth only falls off when taking x% damage of base health after its applied.
Don’t get me wrong, but this mechanic is the most overly exploited – there are builds where the thieves do serious damage while evading all time and just disappearing.

Y’know, when I apply LB stealth, its terribly delayed, and gives a LOT of time to my enemies to start an autolocking skill/spell on me. But when I encounter these thieves, their stealth falls off a second+ later before game allows me to target them at all.
Something is really wrong with the current stealth mech.

= Just wanted to leave a sidenote: Pets should follow (& maybe reveal somehow) stealth enemies… they have senses what we don’t (why we can’t get it?!)… =

not to mention stealth should interrupted on taking damage anyway…

And this won’t be enough. We need far more than currently available.
Some says “be happy for what you get”, but AN overhyped our expectations by long shot.
I mean, we, the customers began to overgrown their capabilities.

@ yshiny.7902: Ding Ding Ding! CONGRATULATIONS, YOU’RE THE 1,000,000th
who asks for this opportunity

@ runeblade.7514: Would be better if they actualy place interact-able seats/chairs/pillows on society hubs when they finaly redesign them to really look and function like where people used to be. Anyway, you’re right, this would be a good seller for them, yet I hope they’ll do what I just wrote.

When GW2 came out, and dropped my 6 years of “Assassin” past, I picked up Ranger because I like real medium look, Bows and Greatsword. I’ll just skip the part that my recommendations didn’t met with GW2’s offer – yet, so let’s jump on the part of select the race of my main character:

1. Asura: Instant skip. They’re cute and adorable – not like me
2. Sylvari: Gave it a try on beta, since their skin in black looks kind of rock, but their faces are ridiculously dumb and the animations are… “not so straight”.
3. Charr: Always liked them, and since I would love to come up with a stronger “Black Lion” design, these current charrs are de-generated in the evolution, lost the ability to stand and move like a human. I’m still up with making one…
4. Norn: Icy mountains, nice tattoos, and kitten lot of alcohol. Their ability to turn into humans are something I still want so badly…
   Yay, nearly picked this one, but their big size and overly muscular bodies doesn’t allows me to look elegant enough. Not to mention their head options, which yet doesn’t allows me to reproduce my own face as close as possible.
5. Humans: Yep, picket up this. I’m still with the Humans. Overall I have ~everything essential. Good animations, my own face and in incredible luck, my own haircut!
   The feel of being a noble in the Kingdom is yet not as strong as I wish to be, and the lack of bonus customization options like tattoos are bit of heart-brakers, but
   I’m relatively happy with the way I am.

What about some “True Ranger”-ish or “Metal Armored Skirmisher” look?
I’m eager to see Your design.

Meanwhile in hope this specialization will bring us something that is like “even the nature is with us!”, I highly doubt that “Druid” Rangers will be competitive to Guardians & Water Eles when /somewhy/ party asks for a (healer)supporer.

Will a “druid” be able to summon a griffon nest to shield allies, or order nearby animals to fight on his side? I’ts yet up to discover…

Woah, finally!!
Really hope the male variation won’t look just… let’s say, ridiculous.
& that there will be plenty of this kind after 2.5+ years…
Thanks for the share!

Lord Trejgon.2809:

Basicly I don’t believe that forum community makes representative group

You’re right, I’ve should been also wrote to speak with rangers around Tyria.
It gives me a really clear point what’s needed for loooong time.