Guild Wars 2

@Rabbiddog, Exactly, as it’s mainly the game engine problem, we with decent/high-end rigs just really feel unsatisfied with performance in GW2 /:

Yup, SM has always been a lag fest. Just zoning in to an empty SM drops my fps to 30fps from 60fps outside.. Don’t even mention the lag when casting skills during a big fight in the lords room.

aeroh.8930:

I don’t know. Two of the best pet traits are in that tree, too – 30% movement increase and increased critical damage. Ranger traits aren’t exactly optimized.

More like they took a bunch of traits and threw them in the air and put together trait trees depending on what landed where on their board.

90% of medium armor are trenchcoats and 90% of medium head gear are pirate hats.

Right click on GW2 shortcut, Run as Administrator, profit. Scroll Lock key turns the effects on/off.

166 per map per side.

Welcome to people camping the jumping puzzle…

Reiko.1560:

Any build can work in WvW / 8v8 because nothing there is skill-oriented.

Unless you’re roaming in a small group

@Qizilver and Kyias

I tested it and my damage did go higher. I average 1.2k crits on my Axe, with the Signet I can do up to 1.5k crits

Ageia.5843:

I like range, so I go with a Longbow/Short bow combo. Sounds odd, I’m sure, but it works for me.

I beg you to ditch the LB and have a go with Axe + Warhorn / SB ^^

CharliePrince.2071:

The problem with Blackgate is that it has become the most stacked server in this game’s existence.

Until any server can say they consistently get 3-5 hour ques around the clock like HoD did, they can’t lay claim to that xD HoD saw a frankly ridiculous amount of people transfer in ):

Leviatana.8107:

@Samfisher.7942 The second “but” was meant to be “put”. Thanks for clearing it up though didn’t realize i made a typo xD

The skill is useful for control but I find it a hard trade-off in PvP I like the use Rampage as One as well due to the 20 second stability it adds. Not being on my butt for 20 seconds can be just as devastating in a battle as a well placed Entangle.

Entangle to me is more useful in a group fight rather then solo battles while the Rampage as One comes into play when I solo a bit more.

I use Signet of the Wild with the passive trait for stability. Signet of Stone + Signet of the Wild + Entangle = pwnage

wombat.6123:

Dixa.6017:

why is there absolutely NOTHING in this thread about free transfers?

Um, an Anet game director posted feedback about free transfers on the second page of this thread.

Well the way he put it, it was like transfers are a bug. “Fix”, “challenging”? Just disable it, nothing challenging about that.

@Fozzik, Unfortunately targettable traps have a reallllly crap range, 600 range /:

Leviatana, Uh no, you can move while you cast it.. /: It’s a five-target AoE root and roots anything and everything within that limit.

BlackRabbit.1259:

Or maybe Anet are trying to tell you something?

like signet activation on self is a useful/key skill for marsksmen / power build?

how would you re-organise all traits then? if you have the solution, maybe you can share it with The community and we can critique it for you.

I might just do something like that :P

SB / Axe + Warhorn for WvW skirmishing, swap out SB for LB during keep sieges (only cos switching out Axe + Warhorn for LB puts them in a different inventory slot which is annoying >.< )

It needs to be 1 month cos people can predict 1 matches in advance, but not 4 weeks in advance therefore they cannot transfer ahead of time in hopes of sabotaging their opponents.

Welcome to the world of broken and random Ranger traits But it’s option A, 6 seconds of no incoming damage.

I gave up on my LB and i’m now rocking SB / Axe + Warhorn. The results have been very impressive in skirmishes! 18.8k HP with my Axe + Warhorn out, dealing 1.2k crits and tonnes of bleeds

I’m now going SB/ Axe + Warhorn for WvW. Really really effective and refreshing to play more of a skirmisher

morrolan.9608:

rook.4625:

Has there been an official response to this?

Yes the small update thread, 2nd page.

He mentioned absolutely nothing about transfers, only of ways to help servers that are getting shut out in WvW.

I got login server errors on Saturday evening → night /: GMT+8 that is.

It doesn’t scale with Cond Damage, and not all classes have a reliable way to get out of it, especially when ranged attacks can be bugged out and make it unable to damage the vines. Also, in WvW in a medium zerg of 20-30, people tab target a lot, and many times they tab target the roots and start spamming all their skills, leaving the defenders with more than enough time to finish them off.

Say hi to the group of 30 IoJ invaders against 7-8 from SBI that were counter-trebbing Overlook from the Anzalias hill :P

Arctic Foenix.6248:

What do you mean by Guesting exactly? , they also have some update about WvWvW but only that if we don’t seem like we aren’t doing much its because we are busy working on it.

Well then I guess people would pick the server that won the week before and stick with them until they lose, then week after that pick another winning team.

Guesting was supposed to be a system where you could be a “Guest” on a different server so that you could PvE with your friends but maintain your own WvW server. In theory it’s practical, in practice nobody transfers for PvE as evidenced by first HoD and now JQ.

Kirito.3591:

Ravnodaus.5130:

It is sad to me that Ranger players think a 4-5k crit is “a lot of damage”.

It is a decent chunk, sure. But a lot? No… no no no.

You fully spec into somethhing, to get the most dps out of a pet, and really think 4-5k should be the damage it does? And, that that is a “lot”…

That says more about the state of rangers than any amount of complaint could.

What I find funny is that I spec glass cannon (me, not pet) and my pet is out critting me. Atm i’m not in full exxo, which could explain it but still. getting outcrit by about 60% (atm i’m in a lv 65 area and I’m critting about 600-800 on mobs while my pet is hitting 1200-1500).

Don’t worry. At 80 with full exotics, the only way you can outcrit a feline pet is to use the LB and stand at max range and HOPE you get a good crit. My cat can crit for 2.4-2.7k damage IF it’s alive (doubtful) or if the enemy is stationary. I don’t even use my cat for WvW /:

Better than the GW1 Elite which was…wait for it… BARRAGE! That skill was pretty OP at the time xD

Since I only WvW, Entangle is a must have. Countless times I’ve ran into a huge mob, popped Signet of Stone (traited) and rooted a bunch of them and as usual people start tab-targetting, and all the people at the back tab target the roots and roots are kinda bugged to ranged attacks so many tend to just spam their attacks at roots that cannot die :P 7 vs 20? Sure thing :P

I just got so bored with my old spec I decided to try something new. Then I come to the forums and find that it’s exactly the same as your first WvW build! I’m really really loving this spec, the mid-range ranger. I use Pow/Vit/Cond Damage Axes and Warhorn though, cos that extra HP really really helps. Up to about 18.8k HP unbuffed

Really recommend the first spec if you know what you’re doing and you’re familiar with the ranger profession.

Also people repairing walls while people are running through can actually trap the people in its path.

You do know WvW is almost never just 1v1?

It resets at 7-8am Saturday morning GMT+8. Which is about 36 hours from now. Every week.

Get the lvl 78 Exotics, theyre good enough to last you awhile while you work your way up to lvl 80 exotics. At most they’re 2-3 stat points difference only.

And it would also mean our arrows are less easily bugged by rapidly moving left right left right left right and being able to dodge every single arrow that way.

I just want arrows to travel faster.

There was 600 files? I just launched the game after not touching it for 2 days and all I got was a 5 second launcher update.. And by that only the launcher was updated not the client..

There’s a player ranking system now in WvW? o.O

166 or so per map per server.

Just note that many of this is only true in sPvP. Like Sigil of Bloodlust which stacks 5 per kill, but only 1 in PvE and WvW. Same for every sigil that stacks a stat (Precision, Cond Damage etc etc)

Medium armor is horrible. Light and Heavy are much better looking.

Of course it takes into account power. Crit adds an extra 50% of whatever damage you’re doing + whatever crit damage % you have on gear/traits.

TheFug.5278:

What a terrible post.

But he does have a point, cos that s whats happening now on NA servers.

@Marnick I don’t think you’ve played any Blizzard game in the past 2-3 years have you? WoW and D3 have fantastic developer feedback. WoW since before Cataclysm, D3 since 1.0.3

They’ve got in-depth patch previews, State of the Profession/Class, upcoming changes, developer Q&A etc etc.

Halo.1064:

I don’t know where you get this AAA/“world class” stuff. That’s meaningless marketing-speek. Most of us only know what we see and experience for ourselves.

ANet IS an AAA development studio. I hugely enjoyed all their well made games from GW1 including all the expansions. To me, AAA = studio that can consistently create fun games to a higher than usual polish. ANet is that studio. Would you consider Blizz to not be an AAA studio cos of the mess D3 was?

All I’m asking is for more insight into the development process, what’s going on with the game we all love etc etc

Chocobo.3950:

Its all because we have stupid pets

there should be an option to stow pet permanently and have an increase of 15-20% dmg or something.

Doesn’t matter if damage is increased if they die when a feather touches them..

Halo.1064:

@Fozee Yeah, I like how they managed us at launch. Keep the forums closed and force us to tweet them or use some other forum. It’s world-class!

No need for such sarcasm. This thread was made to convey my feelings, as well as many others that I know of and what they have come to expect from a AAA company

3 days would be bad for those who can only play on weekends. And then people will start saying that their “main force” is on only during weekends/weekdays etc etc, unnecessary drama.. ):

How did you decide that the voice acting was good? o.O The voice acting is terrible >.<

I want something that makes my arrows travel faster, like that Spirit in GW2. No use attacking twice as fast if it’s all gonna miss/obstructed.

2 weeks are better. 1 week cooldown, you roughly know who is going up and who is going down, 2 weeks leave it an unknown and people can’t sabotage their opponents.