Guild Wars 2

Even a good player can’t work miracles. Problem with rangers is their subpar dps via pets who have tons of issues I won’t even go into, the fact that pretty much any other class can do higher ranged dps, any melee class can do higher melee dps, and pretty much a lack of worthwhile utility except healing spring. I mean sure you can do pretty much any dungeon with a ranger but you sure in hell will know it will take longer to do and if you add 2 or more rangers, might as well block out a big chunk of time to finish a dungeon.

On that note, I wouldn’t kick one for being a ranger but I would for being a bad player. I just don’t get excited when I group with one and I actually sigh alittle if I get 2 in a group.

I say the same. Make the bridge event unskippable and triple or quadruple all the boss HPs in P1 like the end boss in HOTW P1. That will slow the run down a ton.

Don’t waste Sunrise and Twilight to make Eternity. It’s a botched weapon atm anyways and who knows if it will ever get fixed. Better off just switching between Twilight and Sunrise depending how you feel or give 1 each to an alt. I personally just went down the line. Ended up making Sunrise for my guard and Kudzu for my ranger. Debating atm of making Bifrost for my necro or making it or Twilight for my guard as well since I play him the majority anyways.

Depends if you want to range or melee. I think pretty much any class can get repetitious after playing it awhile. Prolly the most varied would be elementalist imo since they got 4 attunements but again, after playing that for months I could see it getting old too.

Personally, if you’re bored or unmotivated, i’d go find something else to play. Not like this game has a monthly fee so don’t need to feel “obligated” to play it. Go play something else for a couple months and then come back and see if anything new grabs you, If not, well go back to playing what you switched to or by then, i’m sure a different game will be out.

Positive side to ranger is they can harvest nodes easily with speed buff and pet. The downside is having to have to run a dungeon with a ranger cause you know it’s gonna take longer than it should….oh wait that downside is for whoever gets stuck with a ranger in the group

I honestly don’t think ANet will ever fix rangers. It’s been what 7 months almost and all I keep seeing is more and more nails being driven into the ranger coffin.

Go with your gut feeling. I have a ranger too with legendary and 4 sets of exotic armor etc etc and I completely regret sticking with it. I kept telling myself ANet would fix em…yeah. Luckily I have an 80 guard with legendary and exotics and everything as well.

Wait, bunker rangers can actually get kills in WvW other than following a zerg and hiding in the back shooting arrows??

And yes in pve it is that bad. Why the hell bring a ranger when you can bring pretty much any other class who can do anything the ranger can do but even better now? Healing spring is nice but that doesn’t cut it. Pets in dungeons? Half the time theyre dead or they are sitting next to the ranger doing nothing. Granted there are some good rangers out there but the problem is a good ranger=an average player of any other class while an average ranger=a bad player of any other class.

I’m that poor sucker with a legendary bow and like 4 sets of exotics on a ranger. ANet, give me my kitten back so I can put it on a toon you didn’t completely butcher and fail on.

At least you didn’t waste as much as me and make a legendary bow for your ranger At least I was able to make Sunrise for my guard who is my main anyways. Wish I would have known ANet had no intentions of fixing rangers and instead just keep screwing em…..

I’m surprised Anet didn’t make the bridge event in CoF P1 unskippable since they deemed all this other stuff as dungeon breaking.

Oglaf.1074:

You can no longer salvage rare dungeon armour pieces for Ectos.

Wish people would stop posting BS. This is completely wrong, you can still salvage rare dungeon armor bought with tokens.

Lucas Ashrock.8675:

Sauzo.6821:

Personally I think you’re overselling TESO. I’ve heard the claim “X mmo is gonna kill everything when it comes out” and usually it holds true for about a month, then it becomes the same ole same ole and people go back to their old mmo…..

Well that’s not true. This game would have been a king now and for long with a superb success, if the company didn’t ruin everything with bugged patches, karka’s event, various scams during festivities, etc etc etc.
TESO has superb graphic, a promise of huge battles, a great lore , a huge fanbase.
What is needed? A company listening the playerbase , an active forum where the community is truly able to communicate with the dev team, release cleaned patches (and if new bugs will pop, fix them quickly, 24 hours later), an active support team (ingame too if possible), don’t release near the final launch fake videos of something will not work at all ingame (like the huge battles we are talking about), don’t make an other casino (like the mystic toilet the best way to get a precursor, no special tricks or combinations as we explained, enjoy , OP) and many more.
Basically the exact opposite of everything is gw2 about management will be a guaranteed success lol
Am i exagerating?

And this game had a lot of promises too don’t you agree? Look at how those panned out. Thus i’m standing by my comment of you are putting too much into TESO. I’ll believe it when the game comes out and has all the promises made actually implemented into the game. I’ve played enough MMOs in the past to know that what is said on paper rarely actually translates into the game.

Nice, so now my ranger will do even less dps in dungeons with the nerf to QZ and weapon swap. Time to switch him to the ori node farming toon since that’s about all rangers are good for now.

Personally I think you’re overselling TESO. I’ve heard the claim “X mmo is gonna kill everything when it comes out” and usually it holds true for about a month, then it becomes the same ole same ole and people go back to their old mmo…..

After making my 2nd one, yes i don’t play as much as i did. Mostly cause i spent a lot of time grinding for gold for mats and now that i don’t need gold really, i just don’t play as much.

Name: Veomar
Profession: Guard
Traited: Shout/AH
Gear: Exotic Zerker, Knight, Soldier sets + Ascended rings and back
Experience: Path 2 and 3 multiple times.
Times: Pretty much anytime.
Other: Need paths 1 and 4 to finish dungeon master title but don’t mind running other stuff as well.

Having played a ranger and guard both to 80 and gearing em completely out, i’d say a ranger is “easier” to learn on. You have a pet that tanks or dps and you can hang at range for fights til you learn em. Guards are great but if you are not on top of dodging/blocking, you can get killed pretty fast being in up and close to a boss. Of course you can use a scepter at range too but meh. Only played a warrior to level 6 so can’t really comment on them.

As for what class is most useful or “wanted”, i’d say guard or warrior. Rangers kinda get the shaft as our pets die too easy in dungeons. Guards can make pretty much any run easy assuming they know what skills to slot for each fight.

Soloing, i’d say any of em can do it pretty easy. Rangers might have abit of an advantage there tho since they got pets and a BM specced ranger running 2 bears can pretty much take on anything in open world.

Depends which toon you plan to play the most and like the most. Me personally I put Sunrise on my guard because like Psynch said, my guard is my main also so obviously he’s gonna get the gear first.

If you are doing this for badges for a legendary, my advice is skip EB JP. Do your own BL JP and follow a zerg around. Me personally I did my own BL JPs to make my 2 legendaries and it was easy. The past couple days tho I got bored and hoped into WvW and followed a zerg and my god, did they change the drop rate on badges? Cause I got like 29 of em in about an hour of zerging. Better than doing the JPs haha.

Sure, why not. If you’re the type of person that plays primarily 1 toon, then i’d say for sure. You will never need to worry about another “main” weapon again as long as the game is out. Or you could invest in more char slots, level a whole army to level 80 and farm your kitten off with said army of alts and get more gold.

I say yes. The effort it takes to put into making a legendary is worth it since if you look at it, it will be best in slot for as long as this game is alive. So once you get it done, you are set. Never need to worry about a main weapon again and you can focus on ascended gear as they come out. The flip side to em is they are a lot of work.

Well if you play 1 hour a day 3-4 days a week, then you have no right to cry about not having a legendary or a precursor anytime before 1 year. Cause if they handed em out to people that only play that amount of time, imagine how many precursors and/or legendaries a guy who plays twice that amount or more would have.

Dedicating 2 hours a day really isn’t that much for endgame gear. Anyone who has played other MMOs knows that it takes months of work by a whole guild of people to achieve endgame gear. Seems some people just want something for nothing….

Personally i’d just say to solve the problem would be put in a vendor that sells precursors for 500g each and leave the rest of the methods of getting one the way they are. That way people who get lucky at MF or get one as a drop can still sell it for under the vendor and it will keep the cap at 500g for em. Problem solved.

SadieDeAtreia.8912:

Sauzo.6821:

Shadow.4871:

Haha you people act like they most people farm, news update they don’t.

One word: Gems

Actually if you buy gems and convert to gold to buy a precursor, you’re crazy. That’s like $400+ real cash to buy just the precursor. You can easily grind 10g a day just playing casual. In 1 month you could 300g and that’s assuming you don’t get any lucky drops. So really in 2 months you can buy a precursor. I don’t see the problem with 2 months work for a precursor. Only problem I see is how they “randomly” jump up in price but if you save up 500g and put in a buy offer, I bet you would get one.

Shortly after launch, I may have agreed with this. But after all the nerfs to Orr etc… I’d really like to know how playing casual will nett you 10g a day.

Well, doing Ori runs with 3 toons will make you 4g+ and that takes about 40 mins or so. Run a couple CoF P1s, HoTW P1, SE P1/3 and assuming you get no rares from any of that, that’s still around 3g or so. So that’s like 7g for about 2 hours. Add in the tokens from COF and HoTW being traded for rare armor to salvage to ecto to sell and bam, you got 8gish. Couple that with some DEs or more CoF P1 and you can pull 10g.

Shadow.4871:

Haha you people act like they most people farm, news update they don’t.

One word: Gems

Actually if you buy gems and convert to gold to buy a precursor, you’re crazy. That’s like $400+ real cash to buy just the precursor. You can easily grind 10g a day just playing casual. In 1 month you could 300g and that’s assuming you don’t get any lucky drops. So really in 2 months you can buy a precursor. I don’t see the problem with 2 months work for a precursor. Only problem I see is how they “randomly” jump up in price but if you save up 500g and put in a buy offer, I bet you would get one.

Sunrise which is the one i made. Also not into the whole emo-goth cliché black blade thing.

Playing devils advocate here but what exactly is the difference between say having to farm gold to buy mats to craft a precursor assuming they put in a recipe vs farming gold to just buy a precursor since atm it seems like precursors have kinda stabilized in price. Like someone said a few posts up, make Volcanus a precursor for a new legendary but then you would just need to farm gold to buy all the mats to make that since we all know the drop rates for T6 mats is pretty abysmal.

I personally see no problem with precursors being around 400-500g since afterall, they are supposed to take time and dedication and not be an instant gratification item.

If you’re making a legendary to be “cool” in a video game, then you need to get outside more. I made Kudzu and Sunrise cause I like em and they will be bis with each xpac so I don’t have to worry about upgrading em. Just need to not focus on what Joe has and just worry about what your toon has. Otherwise you might as well quit the game now since there is nothing in this game that 100s of other players don’t already have.

All you people whining about overflows do realize YOU can hop to another server as well like a low pop server or whatever. I always tried avoiding the big ones cause guess what….there would be overflow!! OMG!!

This change to chests is just another nail in the coffin for GW2. So now dungeons are nerfed, DEs are nerfed, farming is just god awful with the drop rates, and now this nerf to world chests. Does Anet just want us to log in, play for an hour and log off and go play something else? I mean really, what is there to do at 80 other than farm stuff which now is nerfed……

Arah really isn’t that hard. First off bring a guard to hold agro and kite him around. It will make life much easier(I’ve done Arah with an all squishy group quite a few times and it’s doable but kind of a pain). 2nd range is your friend, if you are low on hp just back out of his range and you will drop combat and can fast regen as long as you aren’t the guy kiting him. You don’t need to dodge all his atks since really if you stay at range, the only one that can get you fast is his single target shot he does which you need to dodge. His aoe can easily be avoided by walking inbetween the red circles(the atk does hit alittle outside the circles so make sure there is room).

To add insult to injury, charged lodestones are back on the rise since now they are needed for Wings of dwyana bow…..figure ANet would learn to make a recipe use something OTHER than charged lodestones…..luckily i only need 19 more and im done with em for Sunrise

Well what im talking about is if say you sent your buddy 1000g in the mail, i’m sure that would throw a red flag to ANet and they would check both accts or at least the senders acct. Now if you sold an item on the TP for 1000g, that prolly wouldn’t throw up a red flag as that is looked at as a transaction on a broker which sees hundreds or thousands of trasactions. I might be wrong but that’s how i imagine it.

But regardless, as to the OP, not sure why someone would tie up 1000g on the TP when we all know that the guy selling it is not gonna sell it for 1000g.

Personally i like the look of Sunrise better than Twilight. Has alittle more “flare” than just a cliche black blade :P

Of course it’s not gonna happen. That item plus bid is prolly a way for people to transfer gold without throwing up a flag to ANet.

Also remember, holding too long could hurt you too. If they put in a way to obtain them reliably, i bet the market will crash for precursors. Of course you will prolly have time still to list it but the minute ANet posts a guaranteed way, it will be too late. Just food for thought.

And personally i think 500ish for one of the big 3(dawn,dusk,legend) is a fair price. I picked up dawn on a buy offer of 473g.

Cheap only applies to the precursor itself. The Gift of Fortune is gonna be the same price regardless so again, make the one you want cause the price from the most expensive to the cheapest is only like 300g or so.

You sir got extremely lucky. Your story is far from the norm. Basically like others have said, if you cab’t stomach the chance of losing hundreds of gold and getting nothing, then don’t chance it. Just do a search of all the MF posts and you will see the chances are from 1 try to 1000 tries for a precursor. Do you feel lucky?

What do you use the most? Shield? Mace? Greatsword? Staff? There are so many useful weapons for a guard. I personally am making Sunrise atm for my guard but i’d make what you use and like the most.

First question is are you making this to keep or try and sell a finished legendary on the TP? If it’s to keep, i would make the one you really want regardless of how much mats it takes. Just take your time and enjoy the ride. If it’s to sell, i definately wouldn’t be making a water one or an obscure/less popular one unless you want to gamble the TP fees trying to sell it.

Me personally, i’d say don’t do it. Save up and just throw a bid offer. i did that like a week ago or so and got dawn for 473g. You will someone who will think your offer is fair assuming its close to the going price(altho i think the going prices are too high but that’s another story). I did notice that since last week, all The Colossus got sold out except the one for like 670g and dawn jumped up to 540g+ and dusk jumped up to around 670g+. Not sure why all this action on em but that’s kind of a derail on the thread :P

Did they change mithril nodes? Cause they used to be once a day and reset with the daily reset while the rich ones were 24 hours from the time you harvested. I have 3 80s and i can only farm Orr once a day cause all the nodes don’t respawn until daily reset the next day. I know the low end nodes respawn every couple hours(or used to) but that’s not mithril.

And without being rude, if you can make 250g-350g a day, you were dumb to even play the odds of the MF. You could have had Dusk in 2 days….

Paradoxine.8192:

It’s actually shocking that these lodestones are still 3g ea. Just take a look at the molten lodestones going for a far more reasonable 60s each.

250 Charged lodestones: 3 * 250 = 750g – About 1.5x cost of legendary precursor
250 Molten lodestones: 0.6 * 250 = 150g.

One is feasible for a determined but non-hardcore player and one isn’t.

Let’s take a hypothetical solo farming spot where a casual with decent traits / build / etc can earn a modest 2g / hr (I mean a SOLID hour of farming here, we are discounting more profitable locations and dungeon paths cough COF cough).

Time to craft infinite light(approx): 750 / 2 = 375 hours.

Is this acceptable?

I’m not asking ANET to hand out unique weapons, but for casuals who have a long term goal of getting non-legendary weapons like these, 100 hours should be the absolute maximum amount of time required.

ANET need to at least acknowledge there is a problem here. It’s a trivial problem to fix, all they have to do it go to their loot tables and change some numbers, so there is no excuse really.

Well, molten lodestones are alot cheaper cause everyone and their mother does COF and it’s stupidly easy. Charged lodestones, COE is not a farmed dungeon like COF so you will see less. Plus alot more stuff uses charged lodestones over molten lodestones. Altho i do wish they would drop since i need 80 more to finish my Sunrise :P

473g and i was guaranteed a Dawn. I just avoided the MF like the plague and saved up. Much better return on that than trying to craft one.

What Sinergy said. I got mine too and even tho it doesn’t seem like much, it adds up

Lol i was just about to ask that too. I mean after the 3rd run or so, you drop down to like 6 tokens per run…a 1000 tokens…thats like 800 runs a day!

My pearl of wisdom, don’t use the MF. I just sold everything and saved all my cash and bought Dawn instead of hoping i got lucky with the MF and end up with nothing. Imo it’s much worse if you throw 400-500g into the MF and get nothing than it is to just spend a month mindlessly grinding and just buying it.

Also will in effect allow more people to make exotics to try and make precursors to use AND sell which will put more on the market and lower the prices to something more affordable to the masses. I see it as a win/win for all!!

Regardless, COF P1 was the spot to go and unless you were a zerker warrior or mesmer, you generally weren’t asked for. If they removed these meta events, then what? Everyone gravitates back to COF P1. I really don’t see how this will make people not want to do dungeons. If you need gear or want dungeon gear looks, you will still need to do em. If you want ascended, you still will need to do em. If you want a legendary, you still will need to do em. And come on, you don’t think people will get bored of farming meta events all day everyday after like a week or 2?

Reaver.9256:

If they made all these chests and rewards once per day per account then they might as well just erase 7 of my characters and give me 7 more bank slots since that’s all they’d be good for. I shouldn’t be punished for having worked hard at making alts.

^^Agree. If you worked and leveling alts, then you should be able to reap the benefits, not be punished for it.