Guild Wars 2

Why don’t you give us more info, like your build, skills you saw on the thief, and a larger view of the damage log. Just showing us two numbera isn’t particularly helpful unless you made this thread to complain rather than to get an answer.

A rainbow Phoenix would be sweet.

If you die to spirits that don’t attack and only have 1 skill then good luck against a player.

2 mesmers however the team with the mesmer won the tourney. Representation <> viability.

Of course we would need a supression mechanic to encourage realistic play.

People would tank their elo and then match trade in solo or team queue. It happens in sc2.

Well if the sic’em change is true I won’t have to worry about changing any skills.

Usually people only bring traited Frost because it equates to a 7% party wide dps boost.

Except I prefer spvp because I prefer balanced matches.

I never lose to thieves in wvw. Traps and spirits just massacre them when you add a little s/d evasion.

But say you fight a warrior. Even their glass cannon build gives them 9s invuln through shield stance and endure pain. That is longer than a sos and a protect me (not combined).

A theif can stealth through the 6s. Mesmer can decoy or mass invis.

There are soo many options to wait out the invuln duration, and once over, you are left with a pure glass vs pure glass fight which usually is not in the rangers favor.

If you will be running a glass cannon, you will have little, if any survivability. Mesmers have the advantage in glass cannon builds because they have the utility skills that give them the capability to avoid enough damage to kill enemies, which rangers lack. You could run things like protect me, and sos, but after those durations are up you are an easy kill. Mesmers on the other hand have options like blink, decoy, and mass invis, which server the same survival function, but are much better suited for escape, which would be often necessary in wvw.

Yeah but a guild is a good way to make friends. But I’ll give it to you that I’ve never been in a guild with my two best in game friends.

Ranger is far more close range than you might think
If you really want a ranged class, go for a necro or engie.

And enough with the ranger hate. Go play ranger yourself if it is so easy. But you won’t, probably because you cant and you really just post this crap because you are mentally blocking yorself from getting any better.

You should check out blizzards real id to see how well that worked.

Especially the part about the angry fans finding the name/address/children/wife/phone numbers/schools and more of the bliz dev who posted his real name on forums.

I don’t think the tiny market would justify the cost of development for these skins.

Since you are a mesmer run greatsword. According to wiki mirror blade is unblockable.

jcbroe.4329:

This is why in guild wars 1, build templates were lifesavers. Make a group, tell joiners we “need this from you”, ask them to ping their build, and if they didn’t cooperate or weren’t running the requested build/utilities, kick them and find somebody else.

ESPECIALLY for instanced content.

Often the meta builds were less effective than other builds, which really got on my nerves to the point where I just ran 7 heroes with 40/40s and full rune sets to complete everything because they were less painful than pug groups.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/api/Guide-to-the-Black-Lion-Trading-Co-API/first#post2962070

You may try to look at this section of the guide.

?text=&levelmin=0&levelmax=80
This combination will return a list of all the items along with their buy and sell listings and prices. By default this only returns 10 items at a time, but this is adjustable by the count= parameter. If count=0 it will return all of the items in the list. The offset= parameter starts the listing based on that number in the list (1 is the first item) The text= can be filled in to filter by the item name, but leaving it blank is still valid. levelmin and levelmax require valid numbers to be entered. Other filters that are optional are removeunavailable=true, rarity=, type=, and subtype= (these last 3 require their numeric representation, not characters). WARNING: This can pull in ALL ITEMS and can take a long time to run and take a great deal of memory to process

I haven’t used it myself, but if it is true you could just pull all data and deal with the filtering on your end rather than filtering before pulling data.

Clark Skinner.4902:

I was saying that spidy’s slow updates prevent a real person from competing with bots.

I know for sure they are botting, but won’t say how I know since it can only give people ideas.

How can you know about bidding flood control unless you’re doing it?

I can guarantee you that people have created bots that monitor and auto update buy orders in game. I don’t do that myself. I give my program a list of items, and it buys them. All I avoid is having to type the individual names into the TP window.

The TP only lets you conduct an action every 1.5s or so from what I see with my own program. I could try to have multiple URL requests sent simultaneously, but I don’t have the need for that speed.

I could also create a program to monitor the time it takes for me to be over cut to prove that extreme botting exists, but the time spent confirming something I am 99% sure of is better used elsewhere.

While the bots do run on the TP, it is quite possible to combat them. Whenever a bot cancels an order to place a new one, the money isn’t available for investment until it is “picked up.” If you can drain a bot’s cash supply through rapid buy orders and cancels, you can then shut it off until the operator pulls the money from the TP. (assuming the client itself isn’t hacked, in which case anet is much more likely to ban)

While I could easily create a program to auto update my buy/sell orders I don’t consider that fair at all. I DO consider it fair to use a program to speed up actions while I am at the game. I think it is perfectly fine to give my program a list of items from gw2spidy such as

ID Name Count Price
24272 Pile of Glittering Dust x x
24273 Pile of Shimmering Dust
24274 Pile of Radiant Dust
24275 Pile of Luminous Dust
24276 Pile of Incandescent Dust
24277 Pile of Crystalline Dust
24278 Tiny Venom Sac

and to have the program buy them for me while I am logged on in game, and using the TP. I’m quite aware that this is a VERY grey area of the TP and is hovering tight on the border between allowed/disallowed usage of the API. That is the reason I’ve made this thread, because I really would like to know what the usage limits of the API are.

The functions that I’m making use of are the exact same ones that allow gw2spidy to exist. The issue is at what point does the good usage change into bad and bad into ban. If this is allowed then the market will adjust for everyone to make use of it. If not, then it will become clear to people like myself who are confused over where to draw the line.

I would imagine it being ok only when the player triggers the buying. It should be fine for a player to buy a list of items off the tp, but not fine for the list to auto update without player intervention.

I merely consider the tp api a time saving tool in that I can post a large number of orders, or check my sell orders without having to spend hours typing into the tp. I would never have a program auto bid for me without making me pull the trigger for every purchase.

If it turns out that this kind of usage of the API is not allowed than I’ll immediately stop. Otherwise, I’ll continue using the API as I described to reduce the time I spend posting buy orders and checking my sell orders.

PeepMeDown.5017:

Ryan.9387:

Please try to run the build you complain about before you pass judgement on it.

Also if you think the build is easy even after that, I’m open to having some duels with you to help “confirm” your skill at spirit ranger.

The spirit ranger build is by far the easiest build to play at an effective level in top ranked matches. Please enlighten me on how it is skillful in anyway. Are you actively reacting to all the passive things going on?

I hate playing versus spirit rangers, every team fight we spend way too much energy on dealing with it. It has decided so many games where we down half of the other team only for the ranger to use his 1 sec cast time res. 1 sec!!!

Everyone in this thread is just scared that their only effective tpvp build is gonna get nerfed and rangers will be out of the meta. I for one wish they’d totally remake the ranger so that their passive builds weren’t the strongest and give the class a higher skill ceiling. Right now you just need to turn up.

Ok. Duel me then running spirit ranger. Coming from whatever class you play to spirits, you should be godlike.

Chances are you won’t duel any other ranger though. It would hurt your ego too hard to lose to the “easiest” build.

Please try to run the build you complain about before you pass judgement on it.

Also if you think the build is easy even after that, I’m open to having some duels with you to help “confirm” your skill at spirit ranger.

Nary Why Irk.8150:

Oblivion.8307:

It doesn’t matter who I am when you don’t understand what people generally do in hotjoins (farm glory, not give a kitten about winning/losing.). I’m just pointing out the obvious, you (a rank 45) seem to be one of those skyhammer farmers you berate so much if you don’t know why people enter hotjoins. I’m only rank 49 and i’ve got over 3000 tournament games. For you to not understand why the scores are as they are with the current ranks you must have only ever done hotjoin I assume?

Basically, in hot join nobody cares about winning (high rank players specifically). People test/have fun with new/troll builds(eg. rabid amulet guardian). You’re making baseless assumptions on the high ranked individuals on your team because they didn’t give a kitten about what the score was, only their glory farmed. For your sake I’m happy you blacked out the names as to not embarrass yourself even more.

The only one who´s embarrassing himself is you.
In all this time you have learned nothing about players interests in spvp.
I am actually playing hot joins to win the matches and raise my achievement points for my engineer/guardian/warrior/ele. There are lot of interests on why players do spvp, aside from only troll as you mention.

There is people who cares about winning in hot-join, and I´ve seen many top rated guys play to win in hot join, I am one of them, actually.

You have played a lot, yet you have learned nothing about how spvp works for different players. Deal with it.

I´ve been some weeks top 50 on solo q leaderboards, got more than 3k matches as ranger (even more than battosai, who has only 2k) and r61. For me, you are just a random scrub who wants to raise some e-kitten

You should really get to know the people you talk to before you pass judgement on them.

Xcom.1926:

CachoDm.4639:

Who kittening cares id rather kittening wait 10 hours than lose because kittenking stuppid bittches kittenking not knowing how to play

If people had to wait 10 hours or even 10 minutes they would complain. As I said in another thread, ANet needs to bring in more players in sPvP. If they do a lot of the problems would fix itself.

I get 10 min queues very often.

Matchmaking is done based on mmr. If you take everyone’s percentage rank, counting level 1 as 50%. The two teams will be relatively close.

I got the session code and charid from fiddler. What my python file does is take the session code and char id from a text file. (I’ll just update the text file whenever I use the python code).

I’ve tested it and have managed to buy two mithril ore, but I don’t want go much further without assurance that this is not a bannable action.

I’m kind of frustrated because of a recent match I had where I was matched with two level 1 players who had never done solo queue before. I did a bit of research on the leaderboards and found the ranks of all my allies.

Assume that matchmaking matches players based upon having the closest solo queue rank average.

Team 1
(.99 + .04 + .29 + x + x)
Team 2
(.47 + .35 + .52 + .55 + .48) / 5 = Avg of .474

In order for my team to have an equal Avg leaderboard rank, then my two level one allies would have to have a solo queue rank of 52.5%.

My guess is anet gives them a solo rank of 50% when they first play solo queue. This seems kind of ridiculous because it results in highly one-sided matchups because the new players don’t have ANY experience in solo queue, yet anet assumes they are better than 50% of the solo queue population the first time they queue.

I understand that one team has to have someone if they are level 1, but I don’t understand the reasoning behind placing BOTH level 1 players on the same team. The matchup would have been far better had both teams contained one of the level 1 players.

I didn’t have any trouble understanding his post.

Would it be allowed to use the TP’s API to place buy orders for certain items in order to reduce the time spent through the TP’s native interface.

My idea would be to have a file of item codes and quantities, which I would run a script on that would place an order for all of the items. This would be automated only in the sense that I would be working outside of the gw2 client, as the script would only run on command, to buy items I specifically choose.

ArcTheFallen.7682:

ELEorAFK.7935:

not the game did dmg for him, the stupid ele crushing 3 spirits while standing in all of them did dmg for him, do u finally realize it?

If the game wasn’t conquest, waiting for the spirits to die off would be more viable. As long as it is conquest, waiting for the spirits to die is just a waste of time—similar to fighting against a necro going into plague form. The point is that no class should be able to do so much while being disabled so to speak.

But this moment he was standing in all three spirits off point while perfectly able to move out of their areas. There was no reason that he couldn’t have moved out of their activation radius.
Even if he was on point, he can simply evade. The animations for all the spirits are extremely obvious and predictable.

How is the ai so difficult for you all? The “passives” are swiftness, burning, and 3/10s protection. The ai never attacks and never uses its one skill without being commanded to. The annimations are simple and long, while the single use active is a single blind, cripple, or dmg.

This is a learn to play issue. I know people on “underpowered” classes who will eat up Rangers. The fact that you can’t do the same is simply a sign of needing to learn your class better.

Any of the servers that are very high in population have a lot of active players. BG for instance hit overflow in Lion’s Arch last night without any special reason.

By the way, rangers were represented as 23% of the players in MLG, higher than any other class. Certainly this isn’t the result of a poorly balanced weak class. I think your frustration is coming from you not wanting to improve and find things that work, rather than you making an effort to adapting to the gw2 ranger.

You just face tanked two storm spirit hits, perma burning, and lynx pet with a 12k hp glass cannon ele. No wonder you died so quickly.

Make an effort to dodge the spirits and kite the pet and you just reduced about 9k of the damage you took overall.

I’m not part of NSP, but I do really like the forums. Compared to others I’ve seen, yours is one of the cleanest and simplest, which is the best way for a forum to look.

You are a human in real life. Rep your race!

(Our Armor is nicer too)

I would gladly pay 60 usd for cantha.

I’m more worried about banner bunker Warriors.

Here are the screenshots of my character. I’ve sent the 10g through in game mail. Thanks for doing commissions!

Anet probably won’t ban for this because the amount of players that have participated. I’ve also seen really high ranked people farming too (leaderboard).

I use it for solo trapping in wvw. It allows me to have good mobility while using 3 traps, sword/dagger, and axe/torch.

Dual.8953:

ensoriki.5789:

Daecollo.9578:

It would add new traits which allows rolling to shrug off condition damage or lower it.

Traits on the same principle already exist.
Your idea is “Break the game and then see what happens”
1. It wont happen because of PvE.
2. It’s a longshot that would end up making every profession have to go through a series of revisions when damage they’re taking goes up heavily.

1) It might be good for PvE when you think about it, it’d put a lot of pressure on Zerker players which would make tankier sets more useful.
2) Yes it would need a lot of revisions, that said, often times good things aren’t quick fixes.

Because mechanics that deal 130k dmg when not evaded will really ecncourage the use of non berserker armor. This idea is not feasible and wouldn’t raise skill caps. In fact, I apply weakness and have 50% perma evade. No need to evade then.

Tarkus.4109:

Seigfried.5938:

Baronvonhippo.3157:

Bandwagon guild acting like a bandwagon guild, nothing to see here. I sincerely hope the MERC remaining on BG see what their “leaders” are made of and get a new tag that has some class.

We know exactly what MERC was made of. Ralikh and Tarkus would stay up passed 4 am running the float everyday. For that, we are nothing but thankful for the months of leading us.
@MERC, Hope you guys have fun on JQ, we will definitely miss you. Last night farming JQ at those 2 bays was the best way you could have ended your journey on BG.

That was the intention as I wanted to leave on a high note, yeah I did transfer last night. Its kinda disgusting though that the second that we leave that a lot of the leadership of blackgate turned feral, you wouldn’t have been in T1 if it wasn’t for our help and the way ICoa (Kin), KnT (Rid) and TMD (Choc) has reacted has effectively burnt all bridges. Nice to know all of the hours we put in got turned around so quickly.

From the reaction given to us not 6 hours in I know what server I’ll be focusing in Oceanic and late PST. No sympathy, I would’ve told you in channel but Choc banned me for a false rumor that was spread around in LA and has been continued to have been spread to make the war council feel satisfied with themselves.

People aren’t angry because you left Blackgate. They are shocked that you would leave to a direct rival server without a legitimate reason. Nobody had harsh words when any other guilds left, because they left for honest and understandable reasons. If you all had decided to move to a server like TC, then surely the reaction from everyone would be far different.

Best of luck though, I hope you have a great time in JQ!

This is very simple. Humans will take orr. Manifest destiny!!!

You can just react to your opponent. Try bursting him when he swaps away from the evasion set.

Also consider how reliant these classes are on their dodges to be effective. Without then the game will suffer from serious balance issues.

Darnis.4056:

My team quit :/

I’m still here.

If spirits are this hard you must have a real tough time against those engie turrets. Last time I checked, those things could even attack!

You should be fine in pvp as long as you are willing to give up your honor to run meta builds. For wvw, you are paying one of the worst classes for the format. Since Rangers rely on their pets for damage then you will underperform compared to non pet classes. You can be decent at roaming though, but there is terrible balance with runes of perplexity killing everything.

I really do like the combat mechanics in this game. Evade is really brilliant for high skill play. There could be energy, but when watching a friend play smite, I felt the combat to be very simple and stagnant, not fluid.