Guild Wars 2

No, just no. Don’t go making builds more powerful than they already are (I’m looking at you, D/D eles).

Dual.8953:

Leeto.1570:

Strayhand.8216:

Leeto.1570:

Ah good to hear that he can beat bad thief on ranger in 1v1, thief`s must be really fine or our dev just is not completely handicapped. Good news either way.

So if a ranger beat a thief, then the thief must be bad, but if a thief beats bads in videos, he must be OP. The double standards again, welcome to MMO forums.

Ye cause ranger can totally log into wvwvw and kill group of 5 people and then escape any zerg… everybody is annoyed by thief in wvwvw not in sPVP environment. You may say wvwvw doesnt matter or whatever but theres no reason why 7 professions should play wvwvw one way and then thief just walks wherever he wants in god mode.

Eles can do that too pretty much. And for roaming, all you need is a regular speed buff and a good sense of map awareness.

From what I heard D/D eles are going to be heavily nerfed soon while their other weapons are going to get buffed. I hope that’s the case, so I stop seeing D/D eles. They are the ONLY eles I cannot kill as any class.

Depends on the thief you fight. Some thief battles are doable (close range ones will die to any ranger who happens to have traps on usually), but others turn into utter impossible matches, such as fighting long range thieves. Close range you can do something about them, but long range…UGH. Probably also doesn’t help that the difference between 1v1ing somebody in sPvP and WvW is pretty big.

Try the down state for Guardian. #1 just pulses some damage onto the enemy, #2 just pushes enemies back, and #3 puts down a really subpar signet to heal you that can easily be outdamaged.

Too bad their abilities really suck right now jwaz. I don’t see the point in even using them due to how crappy the abilities are.

From what I can tell the game is very kind with the kicked for inactivity. I was in the bathroom for 6 minutes, came out, and came back to the computer without seeing a message warning me or anything. If you’re getting kicked for inactivity, then you’re truly inactive. It’s fine how it is right now.

I’d prefer if upon death the spirit AoE explodes and gives some sort of field for friendly players to use, along with damage/buff/condition to nearby enemies/allies (depending on the spirit)

Sun Spirit - Explosion hits enemies nearby for fire damage and inflicts burn. Burn Field.
Frost Spirit - Explosion hits enemies nearby for frost damage and inflicts chill. Chill Field.
Stone Spirit - Explosion hits enemies nearby for earth damage and inflicts cripple and bleed. Dunno what kind of field we could do for this one if any.
Storm Spirit - Explosion hits enemies nearby for lightning damage and inflicts vulnerability and daze. Lightning Field
Spirit of Nature - Explosion heals allies nearby (dependent on Ranger’s Healing Power) and gives Vigor and Regen to allies. Water Field

That reminds me Serra, I kinda picture Rangers as masters of guerilla warfare…which makes me want us to have a single stealth skill we could use.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Brassnautilus.2941:

RyuDragnier.9476:

How is this nerfing ranger at all?

if they nerf the immob, chances they nerf rangers on ballista too

Out of curiosity, what do rangers have on ballista? Moment of Clarity?

From what I can tell, only our spirits. Oh wow, 10% bonus damage with a 35% shot of that…which rarely comes into effect. Arrow carted numerous players with my spirit out just to see if it works. Out of the volley that occurred from shooting it 30 times into a pile of 20 players, it kicked in only once. It’s not worth it IMO.

Aurust.8961:

DONT nerf this… Its one of the few ways in the game that a much smaller force can take out a larger one.

This game already favors zerging far too much.

Oh they’ll nerf it…and then give us an Arrow Cart Mastery ability line that will give us the ability to immobilize with arrows as the first ability.

Rayya.2591:

RyuDragnier.9476:

I hope they buff traps so they throw anybody in stealth out of it if they activate one. At least then we’d have an anti-stealth device in place for use.

doubt they can make traps antistealth, too short cooldown, too long reveal already… 3 traps … 3 reveals 12 seconds revealed, 1 backstab 16 seconds revealed, traps are already ready to use)

Oh the reveal status wouldn’t have its duration upped at all or stacked. But if you just go back into stealth and hit another one less than a second later, well then… laughs demonically

I hope they buff traps so they throw anybody in stealth out of it if they activate one. At least then we’d have an anti-stealth device in place for use.

How is this nerfing ranger at all?

For those still logged in, DO NOT SWITCH THE REGION YOU’RE IN! DOING SO WILL BOOT YOU OUT OF THE GAME!

It’s not just you. I’m hearing over the Ehmry Bay Teamspeak that it’s hitting everybody.

I’d prefer if it removed more, like burn and frost as well. Since it’s ‘purifying’ abnormalities that seem to be foreign that hit the body, those would be a nice addition. Sure the cooldown would need to be changed to maybe 20-25 seconds, but it would be SOOO worth it then.

Yo everybody. I ended up traveling to Ebay, and dear god the amount of skill it feels like I’ve developed while here. I’m having a lot of fun here, but I still remember all the amazing fights I had on CD. It’s true what they say, you never forget you first.

Personally I’d prefer something where you end up throwing up dirt while dodging and give any enemies nearby blindness.

jkctmc.8754:

What does [CHAR] stand for?

I don’t know, but it offends me so I reported the name to ANet. /satire

I’ll tell you how Dark Aidget, it’s because the admin are laughing so hard right now at [CHAR] that they can’t bear to see it closed just yet.

That’s why you should join me Sil, and be part of no current religion. My god is way cooler than their god…she makes me brownies.

Except by reporting them, you denied them of their free speech. It’s a 2-way street bucko, and because you denied them of it, we can deny you of it. “Do unto others”

To be honest, I think the entirety of AR, EB, and BP are offended by your guild’s name. I hope they delete your guild as well, and add a few bans while they’re at it. Because AR is better off without your guild.

Don’t worry about it Anubbyss. It’ll be taken care of.

I have good news for everybody. While their guild has been forcibly disbanded, all players of Sekz are just fine, and they’re planning on making a new guild for their grand return. They’re currently in another one until then though, so hopefully we can see the grand return of Sekz (who won’t be by that name, but they’ll forever be Sekz to us).

They added a second on reveal. Personally I’d have just kept the 3 seconds, but made it so any action (meaning attack, skill, finishers) in stealth throws you out of it with the reveal debuff on.

I’m guessing similar. I rarely see the numbers I used to see with BP, so we’re probably going to see them drop more, sadly.

Judging from what the scoreboards are saying, they’re ahead of BP by 5 points. Congratulations AR, at reset you will be Blue!

PaLeRiDeR.5908:

jkctmc.8754:

Don’t worry, CHAR trolls its own server. They annoy as many people as possible on AR, while trying to find ways to interrupt our WvW experience. This guild is something else.

I can see that and you have our sympathy.

As they do mine. Let us know if you ever need us to kill them so hard they cry.

Your server is the same Kronos. You’ll have mass numbers come for maybe 1-3 people. Don’t go thinking your guild is all that when everybody gets mass zerged like that.

Your dead bodies from the other night say differently, Kronos.

Anubbyss, I’ve already dealt with it. As in, I’ve reported the guild for their action. I mean come on, that’s a kitten move only real QQers pull on some guild. And even if the admin agreed on the acronym needing to be changed, they could just have Sekz change it, not delete the guild. No need to delete a guild that’s just going to remake itself…and GMs, I give you a wag of my finger for that move instead of having them change the acronym.

It’s in regard to dungeons. Pets die really fast in dungeons, moreso than glass cannon players.

I can find out today in WvW over the TS chat. Odds are one of the commanders know.

I can agree with the love of [GF]. I’ve ran with them multiple times in the EB borderlands and in the EBG and they really know their stuff. I feel myself getting better whenever I run with them, and I don’t know if it’s the confidence boost they bring or their tactical know-how.

That reminds me, we had an amazing battle earlier in BP borderlands. Started off with a few of our guys hitting Hills, then BP came up from behind. Surprisingly they wiped BP’s 12 guys with only 6, and I joined them thereafter (making our numbers with a few others 10). We broke into the Hills and were hitting the north inner gate when we finally got wiped by a group of more than 20 people. Then we ran at Hills again and terrifyingly enough we battled on the bridge for quite a while before getting the upper hand on BP (our numbers slowly gained until it was about 25), and then we got into Hills again. However during the same time AR was hitting Bay, and the second Bay fell we get hit by the full force of BP. I have to say we had some fun there.

Make it so that they have to be voted on by the server itself while in WvW. I know, it can be abused, but still…everybody who plays and knows the good commanders would vote them immediately.

Gismor.8407:

DevonCarver.5370:

We are aware of this little strategy and have our top minds hammering out possible solutions.

Let me ask you something: why take away something that gives defenders a chance to hold a location, just because a few people cried over it? It seems pointless. You might as well remove traits altogether, and have only 1 attack, that way everyone quits crying… :|

-Sir Tryce

P.S. Devon, can you give me a VALID reason to get rid of something like this? I’d appreciate it.

I can give you one. It gives one class an unfair advantage over another using something that shouldn’t be affecting it to begin with. Though I’d like for them to give immobilizing arrows to arrow carts as skill #4…would be nice.

If they’re going to keep this, then you might as well give everybody an OP trait that works with it. Give thieves the ability to give mass amounts of enemies vulnerability with it, mesmers give them confusion, guardians give them burn, rangers give weakness, necros give poison, engineers give them chill, and elementalists give them daze.

Now tell me if that wouldn’t be considered OP, hmm? Just have 1 of every class on 8 arrow carts and watch them completely wipe out a zerg due to them getting hit with every status effect in the book.

Stealth…weak? That may be the funniest thing I’ve read all day. Maybe in PvE it’s weak, but in WvW and PvP it’s pretty kitten powerful.

You weren’t sexy enough for Sekz…though they probably did have a few laughs before deciding to kill you.

Most rangers don’t use it as their Elite Skill simply because of the cooldown time. Most stick with Rampage As One or Entangle as the Elite Skill, so don’t expect that to happen too often alex. Plus as Durz said, the cooldown time is HUGE and the charge time is pretty big as well to avoid it from being abused.

In T5 you see mostly small groups of 5-10 players roaming. If you see 10-15 here, it means somebody’s aiming for a tower. If you see more than 15+ people in a zerg, somebody’s keep is being aimed at. Though sometimes it gets really ugly and you see zergs of 50+ people (not even kidding, that’s when you KNOW kitten’s going down).

Krugan, that’s the main reason why I don’t use a 1H sword on my ranger. It opens you up too much to get countered, interrupted, or hit hard by any enemy. For that reason I consider it pretty useless.

covenn.7165:

There is nothing wrong with staff period. The only argument that can really be made is that the projectiles move quicker (like fireball for example) to target and/or that some abilities do damage on cast instead of the delay (lava for example).

Any other ‘problems’ with staff is due more to the 5 target limit of AoE than anything else. Sure you can’t viably solo with a staff, but staff isn’t meant to be a solo weapon.

This. Leveling up with a Staff for the first 40 levels taught me that these are really the only problems with the weapon.

Cactus.2710:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Cactus.2710:

DevonCarver.5370:

I talked to our server guys and we just don’t have the ability to reset these at different times. .

That may be true on some level, but I’ll bet not a purely technical one.

It’s probably true on the coding level, meaning it may be so deeply engraved in the system that it’s either near impossible to change, or changing it would cause so many problems across the board that it’d be better to not do it. At least that’s my thought on it as a programmer.

You mean you think the resest time might be hard coded into the system software? OK . . . . . . . . . . . . . but truthfully, as a programmer would you ever do such a thing in the first place?

If it’s easier…yes. When you’re on a schedule, you tend to do whatever you can to make the coding go faster. Is this a shoddy job? Yes, but sometimes you have to in order to meet deadlines for projects.

Cactus.2710:

DevonCarver.5370:

I talked to our server guys and we just don’t have the ability to reset these at different times. .

That may be true on some level, but I’ll bet not a purely technical one.

It’s probably true on the coding level, meaning it may be so deeply engraved in the system that it’s either near impossible to change, or changing it would cause so many problems across the board that it’d be better to not do it. At least that’s my thought on it as a programmer.

To the TC, all your ideas are bad and would actually make me never want to play WvW until they are gotten rid of, and would actually hurt small groups more than zergs. The answer is no.

They are the first to fall to us Durzlla. They don’t spec for survival and tend to fall fast. Flame Trap, Spike Trap, Frost Trap, Entangle, plus a Barrage…watch the amount of downs you get.

My only real problem with the longbow is how it does LESS damage at close range. Sometimes you can’t help but have enemies close to you, and the fact that it’s doing less seems to be punishing moments you can’t entirely control (not to mention it makes no sense from both a magic and a science perspective).

Let’s try this from the top guys, and no flaming, trolling, etc. Meaning if you ain’t got nothing nice to say, don’t say it.

Score update for those of us not in WvW atm?