Guild Wars 2

What I would like is for our pets to actually work first…or for the Jaguar stealth to ALSO affect the player.

WoooTzZ.3807:

Josh can’t talk – if you read his blog he’s been talking in a way that his superiors think will reflect ANet badly so he’s not allowed to post without people reviewing what he’s going to write.

Very stupid of ANet… But I’ve just told you this so you know there most likely won’t be a response from Josh.

Beyond stupid. It shows just how little a grip on reality they have. The lack of response usually CAUSES people to leave due to them not feeling like they’re being listened to. Hell, even if it’s only just 10 posts a day from each admin, it makes us feel like you’re listening to us.

Absconditus.6804:

I haven’t had the will to even try. The absolute lack of any feedback from ArenaNet on this has made me not even want to try before I read in the patch notes that they fixed a mistake on their end, or that someone says they’ve managed to get the achievement.

Once again, the higher-ups know not of which they speak when they say that speaking to the community often jeopardizes the company. Not speaking to us causes a trust issue…a pretty big one.

Kasama.8941:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Except Search and Rescue was nerfed to uselessness by the devs, and Guard is very situational. It wouldn’t change a kitten thing right now.

“Search and Rescue” is only bad because you can justify it taking up a utility slot. Both of these skills are situational, which is exactly why they would fit as permanent pet skills. It would also make room for two new shout skills. Skills that could be supportive, and give way for new kinds of support or bunker builds.

No, I can’t justify it taking up a utility slot. I CAN’T EVEN JUSTIFY ITS EXISTENCE AT THIS POINT. It got “booned” by Anet pretty badly.

I remember back when I could do a dungeon, have my trap ranger setup, and actually have some use for my pet. Ally downed or died? I’d send the pet their way while trying to keep the aggro away from it before the ally was revived. If the ally was revived, awesome, my pet did a good job. If it died, oh well, it was brought up enough to where I could possibly rez them the rest of the way myself. But now…no, it can’t bring up dead players. Meaning now it’s worthless for my build completely in group play.

Considering it’s a broken Achievement, and it’s possibly going to be unavailable next week, I think this IS a highly visible issue.

Chan.5489:

WyldKat.4712:

Did anyone try blind whipping through that gatekeeper and walls just hoping they’d snag a bauble that may or may not be in range or existance on the other side?

Yh i tried all i could think of to get it open. Using the glove and jumping at the same time, looking away from the gate and using the glove, played all the whistle songs, threw bombs and used the slingshot, tried to use a key on it and tried to use the whip blindly. None lead to any results

Have…you tried the torch, or the elite thing? Just wondering if it’s something weird/insane like that.

Jeopardizing the company?

…guys in charge of Anet, I want to slap you right now, because you need to GET A CLUE! We LIKE interaction like this, and as far as I could tell it wasn’t jeopardizing jack kitten. I thought you guys in charge were clueless before, but now I KNOW you’re clueless! If the community gets response, it lets us know that YOU CARE. If we don’t, we get annoyed and leave because it makes it look like you’re money-grubbing people who don’t care about customers!

Bezayne.6459:

Tachenon.5270:

Also, why the heck would you wear clothes if you have FUR? That’s built-in natural clothing!

This. They have beautiful fur patterns, then you are left with the choice of putting badly fitting / clipping armor over it. Gotta add that I am generally not keen on furry races, though I did play a charr up to the 30s. Just not for me in their current incarnation.

RyuDragnier.9476:

Plus for those clothes, they probably, like most intelligent biped creatures, developed a sense of modesty. Not to mention they’re a war race, so anything that keeps their soldiers fighting longer is good in their opinion.

Except Search and Rescue was nerfed to uselessness by the devs, and Guard is very situational. It wouldn’t change a kitten thing right now.

Nightarch.2943:

I love how they implemented this change right after the barely noticeable waypoint “reduction costs” was put into place after Kiel was voted into the council, where’s your gods now? Y’all voted for the wrong candidate. #Team Gnashblade.

How do we know this wasn’t done by Evon so we have to buy more stuff from the TP or Gem Store to compensate?

I have a feeling they’re pushing back water combat revamping until we start heading towards the water dragon. By that time, I sincerely hope that all abilities can work underwater, and they make it so we can use more weapons (like daggers) underwater.

ITT: “Hardcore” players QQing because they can’t get their ascended weapons fast enough so they can get bored and QQ because they have nothing to work for.

Really though, that’s how I see it. I remember seeing quite a few hardcore players complaining because they had nothing to work for that takes time. And now that you do, you’re QQing? Dear god you people are unsatisfiable.

We need the masters of SAB to respond, the admin. We REALLY need to know if this is bugged. If so, just tell us already so we can wait for the patch. If not…please kindly direct us either directly to the missing baubles, or a hint that leads to them.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

A piece of the novel Edge of Destiny:
“Is that how you fight?” Logan growled at the legionaire. “Four on three? Five on four?”
Rytlock shrugged. “We fight to win. Forgeign concept to you humans, I know.”

Oh really rytlock? Well then stop complaining about the foefire, fight to win remember?

Except the foefire didn’t win humanity anything. It was a desperate attempt by a desperate man who was stuck in a desperate situation to avoid the slaughtering of his people by charr…by slaughtering them himself with a single spell. Regardless of how you look at it, the Foefire was a very stupid event by a very stupid king who really should have fought to the last man, and it won humanity ABSOLUTELY NOTHING (meaning the complaining is justified by Rytlock). I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t curse the people I care about to fight for all eternity and relive their deaths over and over. -_-

I have a feeling the charr don’t heat up that badly because their fur is probably used to that sort of heat. I mean look at the area, pre and post Searing, the entire area seems like part of Africa. Meaning it has to be probably dry and hot most of the year.

Plus for those clothes, they probably, like most intelligent biped creatures, developed a sense of modesty. Not to mention they’re a war race, so anything that keeps their soldiers fighting longer is good in their opinion.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

fellyn.5083:

You’re aware that the humans took the land from the charr in the first place right?

Centuries ago yes, you can’t blame the current generation (or the gw1 generation) for what happened such a long time ago. Most lands/nations in the real world once belonged to someone else, that doesn’t mean we can just throw the current inhabitants out.

But yet people are blaming the current Charr for something their ANCESTORS did. Hypocrites, don’t you think?

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

AntiGw.9367:

If they are half as obnoxious as Evon, I’m not gonna play them :/

chuckle As much or more so. Just wandering around the charr area and listening to the NPCs…..just wow.

Black Citadel? The NPCs in there seem rather…meh, unless you’re near the north exit or the crafting section. One NPC conversation deals with two humans and a Charr, which I rather like since it basically amounts to that Charr protecting the humans because “Everybody will be protected under the law here,” or something to that degree. Might be because of the recent attempts at that peace treaty/cease-fire.

Though if you really want to hear some good charr dialogue, get near the children at the northwest side of the Plains of Ashford and listen to them ask the soldier questions, it gets pretty kitten funny.

As far as I can tell, they’re doing this with the bosses everybody steamrolls. Namely Teq, Fire Elemental, Golem Mk II, and I’ve heard whispers that Jungle Wurm and Shadow Behemoth will be revamped/updated by this too.

On the opposite side of the fence, I made a Charr for the following reasons.

- I prefer beast races
- Their backstory was interesting
- Their current civilization is steampunk
- They have a very unique culture
- DEM VOICES

I think at this point, we can chalk this one up to being bugged…unless a certain developer could check to see if the guide did in fact cover everything. If so, he can outright tell us it’s bug, and if not, a hint to find the ones we’re missing.

Thedenofsin.7340:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Congratulations, you’re now learning what was mandatory in older videogames!

Congratulations, you’re wrong.

That kind of stuff was not mandatory in older games. If I needed an item to progress, I had to go get it. That usually meant running a dungeon or completing puzzles or what-not. I didn’t have to go grind out money over and over.

Actually, certain things you DID have to pay for in the older games…I’m looking at a certain Castlevania game as an example. <_<

Congratulations, you’re now learning what was mandatory in older videogames!

Mystic.5934:

when I first started, karma was worthless until well after getting to level 80. the reason is that anything that was at my level cost 4x as much karma as I had. There needed to be a karma nerf, this may of been too far, but they should also decrease the cost of karma items below level 80 to like 1/10 what they are.

They also need to do that with the exotic armor. However, any necessary items for crafting legendaries, keep their price or just lower their price by 25-50%.

Dark Catalyst.1028:

I feel like the aspects of other MMOs that made me unhappy and lead me to quit those MMOs, are slowing being introduced into this game.

Glad to know I’m not the only one feeling this. They’re introducing a condition damage nerf October 1st, and it’s supposed to hit sPvP. I have a feeling that it may hit PvE also (due to constant incompetence I have seen as of late from Anet), and if so, I’ll be quitting this game. The karma nerf is already sending me towards my limit, along with how they treat Rangers (meaning second-class citizens). A player can only take so much…

HiddenNick.7206:

RyuDragnier.9476:

JDGumby.7685:

HiddenNick.7206:

You’re approach is incorrect. They didn’t cut all karma income numbers. They just balanced it. Daily and monthly rewards was so ridiculously large that all other karma rewards stopped to be appealing (d+m = 5000*30 + 50000 = 250000 = 661 event rewards).

Instead of balancing it properly (reducing Achievement Karma and raising Event Karma to compensate), however, they went the route of drastic cuts, both by cutting achievement karma and by giving no karma for failed events.

If getting people to do more events for their karma was the goal, removing karma from failed events was probably the worst thing they could have done as it will, once enough people start noticing it, drive people away from events that normally fail. Hard enough to get enough people to succeed at many bigger events as it is due to the transit and repair gold sinks. It might even have the effect of encouraging even more zerging, which is already a huge problem, because there are a crapton of events that regularly fail if only one or two people are there for them.

This right here.

So the only issue is no karma for the failed event… Revert that and you will be all happy? This is what you mean?

No, I mean the fact that they drastically cut the achievement karma to this level AND removed the failed event karma. The achievement karma nerf is pretty kitten huge.

We used to get 6750 karma through a jug, but now we only get a measly 600 through a drop of karma. That’s an 88.75% nerf on it. If they really wanted to nerf the karma drop rate from achievements, they should have given us a Swig or Gulp of Karma. Those are 3K and 3.5K respectively, and would half the karma gain you’d normally have, which is still acceptable.

But lowering it by 88.75%? That’s too kitten much and makes it impossible for new players to get ahold of karma. Not to mention this makes this game a kitten ed grindfest just to get karma, which I thought Anet was against us having…but apparently they reneged on that.

Dardamaniac.1295:

Shouts give room for improvement..Need to take a more supportive road..Support mustnt monopilizing in spirits..Must be split in Shouts and Spirits,take some of the effects of both and combined em.
Ideas:
Protect me instead of absorbing all dmg,will absord 50% of the dmg taken.with apropriate cd and duration
Sick em will make the pet leap to the target and knock down the surrounding enemies exept the target one..No dmg or movement increase
Guard will is gonna be Guard…The pet gives aoe protection and stealthing allies for 3 sec.
Search and Rescue:if the Ranger is reviving someone pet will reflects projectiles and dmg nearby foes..Something like Whirling Defense.If the Ranger isnt reviving someone will just heal allies in a small aoe

I know thats hard to be done..Just some ideas

Switch Search and Rescue and Guard around. That will work better.

JDGumby.7685:

HiddenNick.7206:

You’re approach is incorrect. They didn’t cut all karma income numbers. They just balanced it. Daily and monthly rewards was so ridiculously large that all other karma rewards stopped to be appealing (d+m = 5000*30 + 50000 = 250000 = 661 event rewards).

Instead of balancing it properly (reducing Achievement Karma and raising Event Karma to compensate), however, they went the route of drastic cuts, both by cutting achievement karma and by giving no karma for failed events.

If getting people to do more events for their karma was the goal, removing karma from failed events was probably the worst thing they could have done as it will, once enough people start noticing it, drive people away from events that normally fail. Hard enough to get enough people to succeed at many bigger events as it is due to the transit and repair gold sinks. It might even have the effect of encouraging even more zerging, which is already a huge problem, because there are a crapton of events that regularly fail if only one or two people are there for them.

This right here.

Kasama.8941:

Move “Search and Rescue” and “Guard” (without stealth) on the pet skill bar, as permanent pet skills. This will make the pet useful when it’s on passive, and give more pet control to the Ranger. Any new player doesn’t need to use these skills, but they can make a difference at a higher skill level.

No, what they need to do is either give us access to a second pet skill to use on command, or redo how the entire pet is done.

Have you found all the baubles yet dulfy, or is that still in the works?

The potions upgrade.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Anthrage.2519:

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You don’t give any evidence to support your claim to speak for “every ranger”. So a little bit of the pot calling the kettle black here.

1, The devs will have 100 times the data on what players prefer than your meaningless, unscientific and individual experiences.

2, They must know that some people hate keyboard and button management, I know I HATE it and that is why I would never touch ranger again if they added these skills.

3, You say the game is balanced on this presumption, but in fact the game is just balanced according to how the game plays. Theory is irrelevant, all that matters is practice and testing.

4, It is their design philopshy to not make this game a cooldown watching, key bind orientated game. So get over it.

5, You say that 2 key binds isn’t a big deal. But it is FACTUALLY 2 more key binds than would otherwise be on the ranger. So it is more key binds.

State what you think. That is fine and valid and what the forums are for. When you pretend to represent everyone, or even a majority, then you fail big time. Your whole post is pointless as far as I am concerned because you lost all credibility when you tried to do this.

Here’s the problem, IT IS NEAR IMPOSSIBLE TO ACCURATELY BALANCE A CLASS THAT IS COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON AI THAT HAS TO BE USED ALL THE TIME! Any complaints about the pets spamming certain things by another player are completely based on how the AI reacts, which for the ranger is sheer dumb luck.

I know, I’m just a crazy person. What’s next, I’m going to say that it takes 750 baubles to buy the wallet that holds 500 of them? XD

Considering you guys are complaining about a 5 bauble difference for a potion that does the work of 2 one-heart potions (total price being 20 baubles), inside a game where you can get mass amounts of baubles easily, I think I’m allowed to worry about you all.

EDIT: Whoops, I mistook the price of the extra lives for the price of the lower level potions. Disregard all that I’ve said, as in this case I agree, 15 would be a better price.

I don’t use the potions, actually Sli. I never have, so the better question is how bad are you at the game to where you need to use them at all?

To add to my earlier statement, BUY THE 9 HEALTH POTIONS BEFORE YOU UPGRADE. The second you upgrade, they all turn from 9 one-heart potions into 9 two-heart potions. And again, not being able to pay 25 baubles for a single one…I worry about you newer generation of gamers, always wanting things handed to you…

Shpongle.6025:

SAB = Pure. Pay. To. Win.

No Infinite Coin = no achievements

Pay to win means somebody buys something that gives them a clear advantage over other players constantly. ICC will only be useable UNTIL SAB GOES AWAY. Meaning this is not P2W. By the way, your second statement here I laugh at, considering I got my achievement for completing World 2 BEFORE I got the coin. Speaking of which, you’re telling me you can’t afford exchanging like 30 gold for 600 gems?

So having 9 one-heart potions is better than having 9 two-heart potions? What the hell is this, bizarro world? What weed have you guys been smoking to where you can’t get 25 baubles easily? For Snaff’s sake, it’s only 5 more baubles than it would be to buy 2 one-heart potions!

Ugh, no wonder I’ve been seeing less Karma come in. If you want to stop karma being changed to gold, nerf the drop rate for whatever is coming out of the boxes that is giving them the gold. Don’t nerf the Karma, especially when new players need it more than the rest of us. :/

What’re you talking about? There’s only the one in section 2 (the one with the first chest), and the one in section 5 (the section with the boss). Unless they added one.

Ayrilana.1396:

Well then it’s not zone 3. Did you get the second shop in zone 2? It’s the one that you hit the checkpoint past the shortcut then turn around and look down.

I double checked both shops in Z1, and all 3 shops in Z2. None of them gave me the achievement pop. And considering this reminds me of the last time the “free candle” shop wouldn’t work for the secret rooms achievement…yeah, I’m fairly certain it’s that shop.

Again, it better just be sPvP. If not…well, I hope Jon is ready to receive a LOT of hate from the Ranger forum.

25 is just fine, I mean how many baubles do they throw your way again in World 2? Over 1K?

Ayrilana.1396:

You likely already got swamp which is why. Did you do the hidden one at the shop behind the waterfall in zone 3?

Yeah, I did that one tonight. I saw the achievement thing come up for each one of the places in Zone 3. The shop behind the waterfall gave me a ding, the one below that gave me a ding, the shop near the cloud checkpoint gave me a ding, the shop around that one stump gave me a ding, Moto’s Breath shop gave me a ding, and the shop at the end of the level gave me a ding.

I really hope this just effects sPvP. If it spills into PvE, there’ll be hell to pay, as it would make all condition users completely worthless in that field.

I’m having this same problem now. Revisited every shop, but it seems like the swamp one is NOT getting counted for some reason.

No offense, but Jon needs to actually PLAY as a Ranger in sPvP for a few weeks, level it up from 1 to 80 for PvE, run every dungeon and instance, and play for a month or two in WvW as one before he can make such commentary. He doesn’t know jack kitten about the Ranger until he does that, at which point THEN he’ll know what we do and do not need. Until then, he’s ignorant and will only come across as foolish whenever he states what the Ranger class needs.

ITT: Elitists QQing because a miniscule percentage of other players have a higher chance of being Elite.

That’s a reminder of how I wish the pet system was…just us summoning 1 of 4 animals as a spirit pet with F1-F4. Then it would switch F1-F4 to 4 different things for the spirit pet. F1 would tell it to attack or back off, F2 would cause an offensive skill attack, F3 would cause a support skill to buff the party, and F4 would be a ‘burst’ command where you and the pet do a move dependent on weapon and pet, which ultimately does massive burst damage, but gets rid of the pet in the meantime. The pet would then be put on a 60 second cooldown, with you being able to summon another pet out in about 3-5 seconds. Aquatic pets would be different than the land pets, and all support and offensive skills would change depending on the pet out.

Darnis.4056:

Xsorus.2507:

Lordrosicky.5813:

Deniara Devious.3948:

Three most common professions in WvWvW guild group: hammer + sword/warhorn shout warrior, support guardian and staff elementalist. This has been the overpowered WvWvW meta since Autumn 2012. The only thing which has changed has been the rise of necromancers.

Arenanet: Make a proper WvWvW, pve and spvp/tpvp skill split. Stop buffing those things, which do not need any buffs in pve or WvWvW.

Warrior has been king of pve since launch and even more buffs to warrior…

It IS way more work to manage skills which are different across many aspects of the game. It is borderline not viable as Jon Sharp says. It is similar to a database where you repeat data and then you can get clerical errors and inefficiencies when the data has to change.

If they do it your way and split everything then whenever they make a change to ANY skill then they have to test how this changes things in many different ways because the classes will have diverged so much based on skill splits.

They have to separate the game modes, Sorry, but what is overpowered in SPvP is not overpowered in World vs World because the same mechanic of standing on a small kitten point doesn’t exist in World vs World to win a match.

Yes but balancing based on pve is silly.

PvE balancing is always based on dungeons and fractals, which require way more skill than simple Open-World PvE. Which is also why there needs to be a divide between balancing and the 3 modes of play. What is good in dungeons doesn’t necessarily work in PvP and WvW, and what works in PvP doesn’t necessarily work in WvW and PvE.

For example, the nerf to pets hit Rangers hard in PvE due to our pets being now borderline useless in dungeons on the damage front.

matthewr.3980:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Shortcut Worm says “hi”.

Thing is, you don’t need the Shortcut Worm. It doesn’t save you any real time.

Supposedly Shortcut Eagle saves you a good 30 minutes or something.

I know, which is why I made my post to debunk your “If a zone needs a shortcut, it’s too long” statement.

matthewr.3980:

The Shortcut eagle is a freakin’ crock.

“Let’s reward the players that go online and read guides, while laughing at the other players that will never know about the shortcut.”

If a zone needed a shortcut, it was designed purposefully to be too long.

Shortcut Worm says “hi”.