Recent changes to projectiles, (Malrona etc), have appeared to have changed the nature of the Ancient Jungle Wurm Egg projectiles such that they are no longer blockable by Reflect skills (Feedback, Temporal Curtail, Wall of Reflection) or Absorption skills (Smoke Screen, Swirling Winds). This is causing tremendous difficulty on the wurm.
I get this bug as well. Confirming. Take portal from royal terrace, click LA, instead of vigil keep (like during march 17) it takes me to the ruins of the mystic plaza
Ye it’s not sometimes for me. It’s ALWAYS. Mini kudzus. and I dislike that the projectile starts about 8 feet away from the bow. Looks bad. Hopefully this gets some attention
Additional potential issues is similar to the footsteps thing. Where every time a shot is made, a duplicate bow appears between the projectile effect and the bow, again for a brief sixteenth of a second or something, but clearly visible.
In additon, it appears that large numbers of players results in the culling of my projectile effects. I honestly would prefer to cull some other player’s unicorns or fireballs than my own golden projectile. (Really love that effect).
Again. Just wanted to note some observations in case a dev is looking through this post. Just some graphical bugs. Thanks for reading, thanks.
1. The spear that the dryad holds bends and unbends when firing. Is this intended? Cause it sure doesn’t look good
2. Every time a footprint is generated a miniature kudzu appears under my feet for a split second. If this is how the game generates the flower bursting effect, then might it be done without having to spawn a kudzu???
If anet staff could please take a look at this, it would be appreciated. Working 4 months on this weapon, leaves a slight bad taste in my mouth at these bugs popping up on a “legendary effect update” , as it leads to the impression that the update was rushed, or corners were cut.
Well, after some testing knights does not constitute a significant dps drop for me(Not true in every frame of reference). As for aggro, it’s nothing significant. Not compared to the week that I tried the aggroriffic 25/25/20/0/0. Also, it seems like once it starts attacking, the pet usually ends up with more aggro.
Anyways Sigil of Strength is a bit pricey but invaluable. I’m using it to compensate for not taking piercing arrows. This build works beautifully when modified for personal preference and play style, so in the end I went with 25/25/5/15/0.
Thank you, Chopps, for not bowing down to the massive amount of mindless ranger hate on the web. It surprises me how much ranger “discussion” dissolves into slamming pets and DPS off of conjecture (with a few hyperboles thrown in). I was running 25/25/0/20/0 before, but with this in mind I might redistribute 5 points from nature into wilderness for the endurance regen. Quick question. Do you think using knights instead of zerkers hurts crit damage too severely?
Lol. The guys who “supposedly” almost took down an elder dragon………really? The guys who die so easily to a pair of veterans? Something makes me doubt their story.
This thread has sort of derailed on a tangent of semantics. What the OP is trying to point out is there may be an issue with elitism in CoF and the designers need to be made aware of this. Now argue this next point however you like, but I maintain that the demand for certain classes over others IS elitism. Look it up in a dictionary if you want.
Groups looking only for specific classes IS elitism. In a perfect world where all of these people interact with themselves and all other “casual players” interact with themselves, this does not change the fact that it STILL IS elitism.
By itself, this would not be a problem. But I (and if I understand correctly, the OP) see a trend that this elitism is escalating. People should not feel sidelined into a certain class. And it is an issue when I personally look for a PuG, while my guild is off doing other things, (just to get a dungeon run in for some extra gold), and all I see is “Warrior and Mesmers only NO NOOBS”.
From what I’ve been able to tell, Guild Wars has been doing its best to promote community and open mindedness. At least for me, this is a wonderful stance to take in light of those infamous parts of the internet. Take comfort in the fact that there are people who enjoy talking to others in chat, showing them a trick or two, helping out people in completing story mode, or taking dungeon paths for the first time.
And yes I agree that some people need to learn that anonymity is no license for losing one’s ability to be a tolerable human being.
Well, my major gripe is the fact that with full exotic knights gear, my pet is absolutely unable to take any aggro whatsoever. If I send it to attack anything, standing very far away, the enemy dashes straight past the pet and attacks me, even if I haven’t fired my bow once.
