I’m confused Quark….. there were numerous times where I fought Liadri w/o any of her visions walking around and I had simply messed up my skill useage and she dominated me in melee range. AS a WARRIOR. And I’m one of those guys who’s always in the melee and knows fights well enough so ranged isn’t necessary. But she hits hard unless your using PVT gear.
Learning an extremely punishing encounter and adapting to even the random elements IS SKILL. So losing several times, and eventually winning, is not luck. But perseverance.
I’m guessing you’ve never done any end game raiding in games such as WoW.
@Drakkon, did the same thing. And hopefully all GW1 vets did. They should know better.
Indeed they should. On a semi-related note, I recently logged on all my GW1 toons and got 2 Bone Dragons for 2 1 year Bday’s. Oh the irony! I wish I needed them still for HoM or GW1 was still regularily played so I could sell 1 of them. ARRRGGGHHH!!!!
In Guild Wars 1 you got 1 pet per character turning +1 and that was it. We didn’t get boosters or any of that kitten. The only thing I think would be reasonable to change about the tradition is to make it a set of possible mini’s instead of guaranteed Queen Jennah.
BUT, if Queen Jennah is only for those who still have a character from Launch and not every character that turns 1 at any time in the year. Then THAT Makes Queen Jennah a VERY Unique Mini. Value or status increases!
I also would like them to be sellable, but if the previous theory is true about only launch players get Queen Jennah, I think she SHOULD be Account Bound. The the regular 1 Year Mini’s should be sellable.
tl; dr all the comments. But you do notice the Mesmer dissipation effect when you kill the Clockwork Knights right? They’re actually extensions of the vast power of Jennah’s abilities. At least the ones we keep killing are. There may indeed be some real deal ones, but IMO we have been killing Illusions displayed by Jennah’s freaky insane Mesmer Powers
Kiel won because 10% waypoint discount mezmerized you. Pathetic.
Kiel won because she’s more likable and a lot of people don’t give a hoot about Abbadon. Next time, use your time farming tokens rather than bashing the opposition and being a little brat.
Not to pry, but your just defended someone who was also being a brat……
You need to get her to walk into the shadow wells/vortexes/whatever they’re called to remove her invulnerability. You yourself need to step into them to gain the dark buff/debuff to survive her one-shot attacks. Depending on how much damage you can survive, it might be best to more or less stay in them the whole time rather than try to predict when she’ll one-shot you.
Not the fight in question. In fact I don’t recall that fight at all.
After 3 days (150+ tickets) of trying to do what up till now really seemed impossible I finally beat her, on my necro. It was aggravating, annoying, enraging, confusing and frustrating beyond words and in the end the single greatest feeling of accomplishment I’ve experienced from anything in GW2. That single fight tests your skills in all facets of the game, some not as obvious as others. For instance it tests your theory crafting, understanding of encounter mechanics, understanding of your class, weapons, skills and overall game mechanics, your ability to find and share information and work together (res each other, join party so you can target, exchange strategies etc.) watch and analyze other player’s attempts and even just basic reaction speeds. It posses a very difficult and complex problem that seems impossible all the way up to the point when you solve it. And then at last you get…The Mini.
I can imagine. I’m waiting for that feeling of accomplishment myself. Haven’t felt it since Raiding in WoW on Heroic 25man Lich King
It was mentioned by a dev they would be fine tuning/scaling down graphics with this patch to allow better performance. So most if not all should see an improvement in FPS
“Look to the skies” was our hint from the developers, fyi…
I hope its something like the books. Where Kralkatorrik shows up at the Ebonhawke and Jenna uses her apparently Godlike Memser abilities to fool it off. My memory is hazy on that part of the book.
I predict that the Aetherblades will attack the party and try to kidnap the Queen.
They’ll show up, their ships appearing in the skies over Divinity’s Reach. The captain of one of the ships will appear before Jenna and demand her surrender. I expect the conversation will go something like this:
Captain: “Congratulations, your Majesty. However, you seem to have forgotten to invite us to your party. So, if you don’t mind, you’ll be joining us instead.”
Jenna: “How DARE you!”
Captain: “Oh now, don’t be like that, your Highness. I’m sure you’ll be returned to your little party soon enough, once the people of this fair city give us what we want.”
Jenna: “Miserable cretins! You’ve knocked over the table with the food, broken the glass roof over my new stadium, and worst of all, you’re thirty minutes late!”
Captain: “Typical. We’re here to kidnap you, and all you care about is… wait…. what? Late?”
Jenna: “Well, yes. I expected you lot to show up half an hour ago, and I’m paying charr cannon crews by the hour.”
Logan makes a signal, and false fronts fall away from several buildings on the walls of Divinity’s Reach, revealing charr with turrets ready to blast the Aetherblade ships out of the sky
Captain: “Ummm… hell.”
At that point, the new mini-game is revealed to be a shooting game to see how many Aetherblades you can gun down with a spare turret.
So, Devs, what happens now if a player has no coin in the wallet or not enough for a waypoint fee? Do they stay dead until someone happens upon and revives them? What if they’re not really in an accessible area and should not expect anyone to happen across them? Or will they then have switch to an alt if they have one, or for those with only one character, will they have to then make an entirely new second character just to kill a few things to get a few coin in their wallet so they can then log back into the dead character since they can now afford a waypoint fee?
The exact same thing that have happened since release if you die without any kind of money.
You get a free WP.
The nearest WP becomes free, if I remember correctly.
There is plenty of amazing content that Anet has delivered in small patches, eg Molten Facility end fight alone was pretty epic.
They have amazing designers who are more than capable of given us mind blowing content. I will continue to put my faith in them and hope for the best.
I hope the majority of the players do the same and vote for Evon Gnashblade.
FOR ABADDON! ahem…. I mean… FOR EVON!
I Agree, Molten Facility had the best fight in the game in my opinion. Multi-stage fight, insta-kill danger, and consequences for killing one guy before the other. Almost felt like raiding in WoW again, was fun
I too, love the wallet! Though I will agree removing the gold bank isn’t the wisest choice. But it’s also not terribly expensive to make a personal guild for that purpose, so really I’m not worried. Just has to change locations for my 5 Legendaries Savings.
98 views, no replies. Incouraging…. I’ll make a Mesmer instead lol.
If you want to be competitive in every aspects of the game, you would be better serve as a mesmer to be honest, it is no sarcasm. They do better pve, pvp and wvw.
no offense but you come here asking alot of different build where the main page of the ranger forum is covered with and have a sticky about them.
No offense taken, I know I put up a lofty request. Just don’t get enough time in my work week to dig through it all during the summer.
I’d like some advice/builds for my ranger I’m buidling.
What I’d like is
A good leveling Build/Skill set
PVE Endgame Build/Skill Set
PVP Build/Skill Set
and possibly even WVW Oriented Build/Skill Set
I’ve heard SB/Axe is beast, but I’ve also heard LB/GS does wonders as well. Just looking for some advice. Thanks!
Might want to add this as the 100% chance to win. Since regen from other sources is being stated as strategies, this one blows the others out of the water ( and may get nerfed )
If you have one of those Boxs of Fun from the Achievement point system rewards. Use it just before you start the Belcher Bluff with him. Make sure its set to only Change Appearance, ( doesn’t matter much but easier ). Then when you start the Belcher with him, just click the box to transform and watch your health instantly be refilled each time. Just make sure you re transform. Laugh as he dies slowly.
Win.
If you have one of those Boxs of Fun from the Achievement point system rewards. Use it just before you start the Belcher Bluff with him. Make sure its set to only Change Appearance, ( doesn’t matter much but easier ). Then when you start the Belcher with him, just click the box to transform and watch your health instantly be refilled each time. Just make sure you re transform. Laugh as he dies slowly.
Some are like that. I’ve honestly not gotten that vibe from anyone here, though. Not sure where you’re getting that.
Every. Single. Content. Update. There are people saying its the worst ever and everything in it is too hard, make it easier. For the most part Anet has done a good job of ignoring the whiners, but some content has definetly been weakened to much.
One main thing that should still be changed IMO to give it real value, is Legendaries can’t be sold only precursors.
Dulfy.net for how to do Belcher’s Bluff achievements. All are easy if directions followed except Adnul is definetly some luck involved. Perseverance ( and Regeneration buffs ) will win the day.
I was really hoping that when they said we’d hear familiar music that it would be the Canthan Login music from Guild Wars 1. So disappointed Bring back Cantha!
Nope, and come to think of it. I’ve been running with this mouse for a month or more now and only just started up recently. So maybe its with the recent patch?
I’m currently experiencing some very laggy reaction time with my brand new wireless mouse from Microsoft when playing Guild Wars 2. This isn’t the case on the desktop or any websites. So I wondering if it has something to do with configuration? At a Loss as for why its so terrible in Guild Wars 2 but nothing else
If they are still sticking with not introducing Cantha as an expansion at LEAST give us the District back in DR. Half of my characters originate from Cantha, making their heritage basically lost and not represented at all in Divinity’s Reach
There are a few of my GW1 friends that have GW2 but only played throught the story once and quit saying they were waiting for the Cantha expansion, as if its only natural.
I just want to say I support the return of Cantha. Back when I played Factions I used to roam around just looking at the Jade Sea and the Echovald Forest and I’d love to see these again one day in GW2 along with the rest of Cantha.
I was kitten at that scene the first time I was there, then on all 9 of my other characters I was just as kitten as before. LOL! You think your all powerful Shiro! I’ll turn you to stone!
