Guild Wars 2

Art.9820:

I don’t get it, how is this useful haha?

They can keep themselves inside a tower or castle even after you think you’ve cleared it, then they can take over the tower or start bringing in people along with a Mesmer the second the people inside leave it. Not that hard to understand…especially since certain castles have pretty good hiding spots to abuse.

nekos.2584:

My opinion, people think rangers are bad because rangers are not rangers. They are a melee class with a broken pet. LB and SB are, again my opinion, the 2 worst options / weapons for a ranger.

If you want a ranger or archer make a warrior with a bow. I highly suggest everyone does this anyway to check it out. Just spend 5 minutes in sPvP with a warrior and a bow. It will make you cry if you wanted to play an archer type character and mistakenly picked the ranger.

Ironically, I feel that the SB and LB are two of the better weapons of the class. Axes and daggers are meh, GS I feel leaves you too vulnerable, and the Warhorn isn’t that useful outside of the buff. Only weapons I feel outplay the SB and LB are the Sword and Torch (which are just amazing together).

To be honest, I wish all oceanic players could be on during the NA primetime hours, and that SBI had more people. I’d love to see the scores so even that it could be anybodys game…but alas, I don’t have a genie to grant me that wish.

At this rate, I’d say base the tiers on population differences in WvW, and when they’re on. They have the numbers for each playerbase for the week, and what times, so just find the ones with similar times and numbers and pit them up next to each other, if possible. We might see more closer matches then.

Only time I have problems here is when all the mobs focus on me…and as a ranger, for some reason I have the problem of absorbing aggro like a sponge.

It’s the censor, good sir. So remember, whenever you tell somebody to kitten off, get the kitten out, or to just kitten themselves since they’re being such a kitten, that you mean it in the worst way possible…unless you really like that word, at which point you should feed that kitten. XD

Having played CM, AC, CoF, TA, and HotW, I can list the difficulty as so, from easiest to hardest, IMO.

CoF, TA, AC, HotW, CM

It’s quite ironic that higher level dungeons are EASIER than CM.

And people say thieves can’t go perma stealth…the perfect build just to mess with people. My hat’s off to you TC, because now I know how they do it.

I use a SB/LB weapon combo for the majority of my gaming time, and I can tell you this. Longbow doesn’t do well against opponents if they’re constantly moving. If they’re close up or fixated on another enemy, the LB can do some serious damage, and get enough LB users together and they can take down a bunker quite easily…if they’re not moving or noticing the group. But for those times when you’re dealing with constantly moving targets, the LB does not do well at all…at which point I suggest sticking with the SB.

May I request a score update and map update for those who are currently not able to log in?

Ishiga.6053:

Angelus.1042:

Rytlok cause his a great big kitteh!

If our inner furries are showing themselves then I vote Tybalt. He’s more handsome than every other Charr in the game. Though that’s not hard to do really. |D

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I miss him…

I’m still waiting for somebody to make a plush of him. We deserve it, and it will sell like hotcakes.

tigirius, you are silly if you think any other company will treat you any differently, or will get things fixed any faster. Some MMOs that have lasted for YEARS still have problems abundant, some of which have been there since Day flipping 1.

It’s more like it seemed like there were more…must have been the Mesmer clones messing with my mind again…and it probably doesn’t help that I have a bad short term memory. If I recall right though, trying to recall the memories in my head, there was 1 mesmer, 2-3 rangers, a warrior, a guardian (I believe), and I think 1 thief…oh, and an elementalist. Kept doing that lightning charge thing at us with her D/D setup. And at some point or another, either you had 2 more working the arrow cart and the catapult, or 2 of your guys did it while I was preoccupied with somebody and I didn’t notice. Rush of the battlefield, I tell you.

No Queue on CD tonight. Most of our players seem to take the weekend off, only to come back during the week.

I’d prefer if they just made the outmanned buff better…and possibly add a “desperate” buff to the mix. The desperate buff would only work if the highest server’s points are triple that of the lowest or double that of the server in second place, with the highest server having more resources than the other servers combined. The server in 3rd place would gain the desperate buff, which doubles the speed of upgrades, dolyaks, and increases the stats of that server’s players by 100. The server in second place would gain a 1.5 speed boost on the upgrades, dolyaks, and would increase the stats of that server by 50.

Add a “relaxed” debuff to the winning server that lowers their stats by 50, and halves the speed of all their upgrades and dolyaks, and we’d possibly have a way to ‘even’ fights out.

The thought came to me earlier, and because its requirements are…well, when one server is curbstomping the others, I doubt it would come into play much. Plus well, I doubt it would be implemented to begin with because I’m pretty sure there are some major problems with what I just suggested (there usually is).

Oh they did do 1 siege for the spawn, which was hilarious because we destroyed it while on the invulnerable steps. What got me was that they doubled our numbers while we were making our way to Lowlands, yet they had to siege us from there. Made me wonder if they felt just a tiny bit threatened…or if they were that bored.

No, that’s fine Karolis. More like if the area or body that is currently ‘dead’ is hit with attacks, it lowers the amount they’ve been healed, like what happens with trying to res somebody in Lava. If somebody should be able to get to you, they’d still be unable to heal you due to the lava. Make it so every attack on your dead body works like that, and we have the solution.

santi.7516:

I need 500 Medals, so… why should i farm them with my 1H sword if i can use a cannon?

Simple…it’s easier to dodge a cannon than a sword.

Wow YB, this is hilarious. We’re attacking the outside of Lowlands Keep with only 10 of us versus your guys who can infinitely come from the Keep thanks to the Waypoint, and you have to siege us. I find that absolutely hilarious. XD

Your point being?

You don’t AoE a downed player to kill them…you AoE them to down the people trying to heal them.

Haha that reminds me Dawdler, I saw a few groups of those classes last night being used by YB. Made for an interesting match, but we managed to push them back after 15 minutes (it was pretty much a 12v30 battle).

Malediktus.9250:

If anything dungeons need to be harder. Difficulty is a joke currently.

Correction, SOME dungeons need to be harder. Others are quite fine…and the rest actually need to be easier, like Arah. <_<

Or he could go for a trap build. Nothing like luring enemies into your traps and watching the Condition Damage tear through their HP like they were paper. For that build, the pet is extra damage for you. You don’t rely on it to kill the enemy, but you DO rely on it to take the aggro, so I suggest a devourer to help with that. They aggro more than I do on bosses!

Okaishi.8320:

People like you are probably the reason the AoE cap is there in the first place. They want to make it too easy for the people who can’t give a kitten to dodge stuff. A zerg foolish enough to stand in the middle of AoE being cast by 5 people should deserve to die. But instead you guys want to promote this mindless zergball mentality, and I can’t even begin to understand why.

I dodge when possible. However, when it starts to lag that bad, I get the ‘input lag’ we see so much dealing with skills and other things, and unfortunately dodge is a part of that. I spam the hell outta V to dodge for 7 seconds, and only after that 7th second will it let me dodge. In that time, I’ve been taken out by whatever zerg is attacking me. You have to remember that there ARE other things that deal with it other than a player’s skill at times…and you don’t have to tell me about dodging, I abuse it whenever possible in WvW, especially when I start seeing a massive attack or AoE on me whenever I’m not lagging. When I am lagging, and that ‘input lag’ isn’t in effect, I start dodging the second I see the numbers come up on me.

I notice people don’t understand why no AoE cap is bad. It’s bad because it makes mage classes far more powerful than any other class in the game. You could put a glass cannon build on an elementalist, throw several of them up on a wall, and have them cast whatever AoE they want on a zerg, almost completely wiping out a single zerg, who are probably experiencing lag and can’t tell you’re casting it. That’s far too overpowered.

Hell, how would you feel if you were attacking a tower and your entire attacking force got wiped out BY 5 PEOPLE ALONE? That’s what you’re asking to be possible. I say nay, I already encountered that in another MMO I played a while back, and you want to know what all of the people on their force played because of that? MAGES. There were almost no other classes on their side, just mages, and we lost every war for 5 months because of it. That punishes anybody who isn’t a mage. So NO, DON’T EVER DO THIS ANET! DON’T EVER REMOVE THE CAP!

I’d love to be able to do a dungeon without having to get human players, or for a NPC to fit the role (and be a GOOD AI). I can imagine doing AC with my warband characters from the Personal Story. Oh man I’d love that more than you can imagine…

YB, nice try in EB. You almost got all of our side of the field, but thanks to SBI pushing you at the same time we were, we managed to keep hold of them. Was a fun fight regardless, and I’ll see all of you tomorrow for more amazing fights.

As are the constant battles for Golanta (what we’re starting to call Goltana). The battles are going on for like 15 minutes each time.

SBI, you guys hit hard whenever we fight. I only dislike how right now YB has your entire part of EB, as that pretty much limits our fights with you in EB down to nothing.

Nice battles so far.

Oh, YB, about your taking Golanta…everytime you do I’m usually with the Dolyak on my way to our Castle, so you end up wasting a takeover because we usually flip it back before you’re done. Just thought you should know that keeps happening, because I kinda find it hilarious that it happens THAT often.

Grats on a great game everybody! YB, you guys just don’t let up, we barely held our main castle in EB.

More like a standing monument to how much the Ranger community would like some fixes to our pets.

Yep, just as I thought. ANet announces something good, and all the complaints start marching in. I’ll leave this here, I think this is what this forum is showing a textbook case of.

Rising Dusk.2408:

I like this thread; it’s a lot more civil than I’m used to dealing with, haha.

The fights this week have felt a lot more enjoyable and balanced than we (SBI) have been experiencing in previous weeks after we lost so many servers. We’re looking to rebuild, and while we probably won’t fight you two servers again for awhile after this reset business, the battles have been fun and I look forward to running into you all again.

From what I fought of you guys when I had the chance, you guys fight well and work well together. You’re fun people to fight against, and I hope we fight against you guys next week!

This pleases me. It’s a shame I’ve been unable to do WvW due to having to go to bed earlier than usual. Here’s hoping I’m able to do some of this tonight.

Never been kicked from a party for being a ranger. Though a friend of mine did, and then laughed at them outside of the dungeon because he was the one who started it, and they were right at the end. They kicked him right before the boss of the dungeon, and he laughed at them outside because they screwed themselves out of it. From what I heard the crowd outside didn’t hesitate to call the lot of them idiots.

People have problems with him? Even WITH agony I didn’t have any major problems with the Shaman. Then again, the party usually ignores the elementals until after his shield is down.

CoF2 I find pretty easy now. 0 deaths the entire run, with maybe 1 down state during that run-in with the mobs. If you call target on the assassins the second they pop up, you’ll be fine with kiting and the like, but beware that the last two assassins that pop up do so at the same time.

Score update please.

Well think about it, what was in the very first post? A video. Odds are they set up an auto-filter bot that looks through the first post and then redirects it, depending on if certain key things are in it.

I have a feeling it was done by one of their sweeper bots. You know, the automatic process.

I was hoping we’d be red this week. I was surprised when we got blue, especially since we did bad enough last week.

You thought they were nerfed? I got 2 rare weapons from a single chest in fractals 2 days ago. In fact, in EVERY chest that run I got at least 1 rare or exotic.

Lorelei.3918:

sorry, you’ve already sent most of our troops packing. Have fun fighting SoS and FA next week.

I thought that was because that was oceanic time? You know CD hasn’t had a good oceanic presence since a bunch of the guilds left last week.

Trute.6315:

Anyways it was obvious Daecollo and Jazenn shouldn’t be taken seriously when one says Rangers deal respectable damage in dungeons even without their pets. LOLDOUEVENRANGER? While the other one says Warrior only beat Rangers in terms of damage and acts as if Rangers has something other than damage to offer…

You’re forgetting traps. They do wonders in dungeons, and they recharge pretty fast. 15 seconds for Flame Trap alone, 20 for Viper’s Nest, 25 for Spike Trap, 30 for Frost Trap when you don’t spec full Skirmishing for the final trait ability. When you DO spec, it turns into 12 seconds for Flame, 16 for Viper’s Nest, 20 for Spike Trap, and 24 for Frost Trap.

Having said that, I do have a question for those who have played some of the better condition throwing classes…how fast do your slot skills recharge that do the conditions?

Jay.3284:

They do everything at a subpar level. No point in bringing them in a dungeon run at all.

Except you missed the point of what he meant.

People realized how easy we are to level up with.

lekyii.9856:

you see zerg much faster because they reduced the number of ppl in the WvW AGAIN!.

Actually you don’t. I was getting hit by a zerg and could only see 5 people. It was only after I died when I could see there were 15+ people there.

VakarisJ.5619:

Why don’t they just remove the bloody thing altogether? Fear of wallhacks?

I’ve been getting hit by culling issues while doing map completion, not even in WvW. I just ran through a small camp, no players or anything in sight and the NPCs that I saw a second ago all disappear and reappear 5 seconds later.

Glad to know I’m not the only one seeing this. I started having this problem around the 8th of January, and it still hasn’t gone away. I’ve actually ran INTO trees in several locations because they wouldn’t render until right when I was near them or hit them. And considering I never had any of these problems with rendering before January 8th, I’m fairly certain some update caused it.