Guild Wars 2

Zaxares.5419:

Per week:
- Kill 500 enemies.
- Kill 20 different enemy types.
- Kill 50 Veteran enemies.
- Dodge 50 attacks.
- Craft 50 items.
- Gather 100 ingredients.
- Do 50 events.

Each of those tasks above rewards 1 Laurel and the usual rewards. You can either blaze through them all in a single day (getting 7 rewards at one go), or slowly complete them separately or together over the course of the week. At the end of the week, the player still ends up in the same spot, but they have the option of either getting it all done quickly or at a slower pace, whichever suits their gaming schedule better.

Actually I quite like this idea, it would help people who can’t log in every single day.

It would help people that want to zerg through it and get it over and done with for a week, instead of having to mess around with poxy dailies. Then we can get on with what we want to, not be tied to the dailies.

And I reckon, do your weekly for 4 weeks on the trot, should give you your monthly, not add in extra stuff for the mothlies.

Blacklight.2871:

Desmond.5396:

Czinczar.3786:

what they should do is give one free server switch every month, or something close to that.

No. This would ruin WvW. They should however give you the option to change servers if you are new to the game.

Yes. I would think a two week grace period is enough.

Yes I think it’s only fair a player that just bought the game should be able to transfer at least once in maybe the first month.

It’s very easy to pick the wrong server, or an innactive server when you are new here.

A once or twice transfer for a new player won’t affect WvW in the slightest.

This is very shortsighted of ArenaNet not allowing to settle in and pick the best server for a new players play style.

Yes it’s SO annoying.

Just change the talk to npc and pick up loot to different keys, it’s very frustrating in combat when a massive talk to npc dialogue window pops up !

The “F” key does too much.

Solandri
“And so to prevent the class from outnumbering the others, they have to deliberately make it weaker to discourage some of those people. i.e. Achieving numerical balance requires a mechanical imbalance.”

That has to be total drivel !

Yeah lets imagine how it went, ArenaNet staff, bloke “A” The Rangers going to be popular you know" Bloke “B” Yeah l know, tell you what make it weak and feeble, that will put people off choosing a Ranger" <<<< That I would hope just didn’t happen.

What are you smoking, because I’ll have some of that.

I think the problem, or part of the peoblem is the pet mechanics are too complicated, they say this and that, we have been promised stuff, and let down badly several times, it could take years or never before they get it anywhere near right.

Relair.1843:

Solid Gold.9310:

Chopps.5047:

Solid Gold.9310:

Chopps

“Well, let’s see if we can address those issues. Did you send the pet in for a few hits then call it back to safety on about a 10s cycle? Try sending/calling your pet and practice doing that a few times before coming back to the forums. Also, in my opinion, you should have equipped pets like raven (blind) or owl (chill). Birds are great for landing a quick utility on a boss and then flying back. If I can keep duel birds alive during boss fights (I do this every day) then I know you can keep your pets alive.

Also, trait into beastmastery.”

Yeah wonderful, lets see, the pets dead as a doorstop before it gets there, limps back, wait for pet swap cooldown, because even if the pet recovers to 85% health it still ain’t gonna do anything.

No it’s just wrong, we have enough to do without trying to micro manage a dead pet, and we’ve had all the send the pet in call it back rubbish before, it just don’t work, the pet is trash.

I’m going to do a ranger training session next weekend. Keep your eye’s peeled for the post; I’ll teach you the techniques I use to make effective use of my pets. Remember, as another person wrote, you can’t just “fire and forget” the pet. In case you don’t have time to train with me I’ll leave you with this: if you’re not calling/sending your pet on roughly a 5 or 10s loop, then you’re going to lose your pet on a boss battle. If no profession can perpetually tank a boss, then why should you expect your pet to? You have to always be aware of your pets location and health. If you don’t know where your pet is or if your pet died, 9 times out of 10, it’s because you made a mistake.

No thanks, I don’t want you telling me “how” to play.

I have played a Ranger since the 3 day head start, I have played a Ranger in many other games, I played a Ranger for 6 years in GW1, I think it’s a bit late for you to show me HTP.

You can see from my other posts, I don’t like the pet, I don’t want the pet, and I don’t want to have to micro-manage the pet.

I want to play a Ranger how I see the Ranger, not be forced to play how Anet want me to play.

This is not a Ranger it’s a beastmaster.

If you just wanted to be an archer why didnt you pick warrior or thief? Since you’ve played ranger since head start surely you realized the entire class revolves around the pet? Why put yourself through the annoyance of playing something you dont enjoy?

Yeah thought about that, even started a Warrior (Ranger), blah can’t use shortbow, and the longbow is so pedestrian, and got a bit bored after a few levels, really wanted a short bow for PVE. (Warrior can use a longbow but not a shortbow, dur) Although as a Beastmaster cough I do use a longbow for WvW.

Thief, well I’m guessing a thief can’t use a longbow (Correct me if I’m wrong).

So if you want to be a Ranger (Archer) you have to be a Ranger, there are no alternatives.

And I get bored with levelling, I can’t face all those hearts, vista’s and poi’s again.

Having levelled my Ranger, I guess I was hoping they might patch the pet and make it work, but it’s still well borked and likely to take years to get anywhere near right, IF they ever do.

All the Ranger seems to get are nerfs and a buff, to what was it, spear gun, really, speargun !

Chopps.5047:

Solid Gold.9310:

Chopps

“Well, let’s see if we can address those issues. Did you send the pet in for a few hits then call it back to safety on about a 10s cycle? Try sending/calling your pet and practice doing that a few times before coming back to the forums. Also, in my opinion, you should have equipped pets like raven (blind) or owl (chill). Birds are great for landing a quick utility on a boss and then flying back. If I can keep duel birds alive during boss fights (I do this every day) then I know you can keep your pets alive.

Also, trait into beastmastery.”

Yeah wonderful, lets see, the pets dead as a doorstop before it gets there, limps back, wait for pet swap cooldown, because even if the pet recovers to 85% health it still ain’t gonna do anything.

No it’s just wrong, we have enough to do without trying to micro manage a dead pet, and we’ve had all the send the pet in call it back rubbish before, it just don’t work, the pet is trash.

I’m going to do a ranger training session next weekend. Keep your eye’s peeled for the post; I’ll teach you the techniques I use to make effective use of my pets. Remember, as another person wrote, you can’t just “fire and forget” the pet. In case you don’t have time to train with me I’ll leave you with this: if you’re not calling/sending your pet on roughly a 5 or 10s loop, then you’re going to lose your pet on a boss battle. If no profession can perpetually tank a boss, then why should you expect your pet to? You have to always be aware of your pets location and health. If you don’t know where your pet is or if your pet died, 9 times out of 10, it’s because you made a mistake.

No thanks, I don’t want you telling me “how” to play.

I have played a Ranger since the 3 day head start, I have played a Ranger in many other games, I played a Ranger for 6 years in GW1, I think it’s a bit late for you to show me HTP.

You can see from my other posts, I don’t like the pet, I don’t want the pet, and I don’t want to have to micro-manage the pet.

I want to play a Ranger how I see the Ranger, not be forced to play how Anet want me to play.

This is not a Ranger it’s a beastmaster.

VOLKON.1290:

Solid Gold.9310:

Not rocket science, you pay the $20 and they share it out between them, because it only took them a fraction of the time to cut the lawn compared to one kiddie doing it.

So many words about a very simple problem !

Not his point… his point is that in GW2 they all get the $20. He forgets that in GW2 his lawn scales up in size to accommodate the extra kids however.

Well can you imagine the posts here if people got a percentage worthy of the effort (or time) they put into an event.

How about 20 bucks and a clip round the ear as a bonus !

Not rocket science, you pay the $20 and they share it out between them, because it only took them a fraction of the time to cut the lawn compared to one kiddie doing it.

So many words about a very simple problem !

KorbanDallas
“If I want to go out to town, I use my car. I use my car, I need to pay for gas. I don’t have to drive to town, I could walk (which would be free but cost me more time). I have the choice to spend money to get somewhere faster, or to save some cash but arrive slower. You are asking the equivalent of making it free to drive my car – at which point why would I ever walk?”

Yeah and l pay my taxes, bus fares, fuel costs ETC ETC ETC in REAL life.

Doesn’t mean it has to be the same in a game, a virtual world and virtual money.

For me, wp costs make this game very unsocial, when we could be hopping around, helping people, helping lower levels, getting events and champs done.

It’s an uneccessary gold sink, and as we didn’t have them in GW1, I think ArenaNet have been influenced by “other” people, maybe the “money” men.

Remember they have a cash shop that sells gold, you can also by gems with gold, so l think they want to drain your cash so that you don’t buy too many gems with gold and are guided towards buying gold with real life cash.

(And no the server economy won’t explode if they were to remove wp costs).

I am very much in favour of being able to get rid of my “pet”.

It can be a burden and a liability.

It’s been said that it’s 40-60% of our damage (on the odd occasion when it’s alive), so there should be a buff to compesate.

However, I think we’re stuck with the pet, as ArenaNet will force you to play the Ranger how they see a Ranger should be (Beastmaster).

I don’t like WP costs, I don’t see why we need them.

We have a WP cost and an armour repair cost when we die.

We have a “tax” when we buy or sell anything.

The rewards for many events are abysmal.

Seems like ArenaNet will do anything to “steer” us towards buying gold from the TP.

GW1 didn’t need this sort of rubbish, it’s a game, it’s “virtual” money.

We shouldn’t have to be “encouraged” to walk through area’s we have already walked through.

People should be encouraged to travel about, help people, be social, something this game is seriousely lacking in.

Taxes, keep them for the real world, and we all love paying out taxes and VAT don’t we !

Chopps

“Well, let’s see if we can address those issues. Did you send the pet in for a few hits then call it back to safety on about a 10s cycle? Try sending/calling your pet and practice doing that a few times before coming back to the forums. Also, in my opinion, you should have equipped pets like raven (blind) or owl (chill). Birds are great for landing a quick utility on a boss and then flying back. If I can keep duel birds alive during boss fights (I do this every day) then I know you can keep your pets alive.

Also, trait into beastmastery.”

Yeah wonderful, lets see, the pets dead as a doorstop before it gets there, limps back, wait for pet swap cooldown, because even if the pet recovers to 85% health it still ain’t gonna do anything.

No it’s just wrong, we have enough to do without trying to micro manage a dead pet, and we’ve had all the send the pet in call it back rubbish before, it just don’t work, the pet is trash.

Can’t say I’ve noticed that problem.

I do get one when I run my legs don’t work and I just glide where I’m going, quite funny actually.

I think we’re all going to have to wait and see, either or both games could be brilliant or a total bomb out.

I played Neverwinter Nights (1) for a long time, and had great fun with it, I was even a GM on one of the servers. Neverwinter Nights (2) they just ruined.

AND I could dual wield Ranger rapiers !! Brilliant. <<< Take note ArenaNet. Small thing’s are sometimes BIG thing’s to players.

And I’ve done the Morrowing, Elder Scrolls, Skyrim stuff.

I’m sure both games will have some effect on the GW2 player base, we’ll know how much of an effect that will be when they are released.

This DR thing is way too harsh, I can understand why they are doing it, but it needs easing a bit.

Yeah of course people should be discouraged from staying in the same spot farming the same stuff over and over again.

But to hit normal, even fairly hardcore players hard with it is just wrong.

People should be encouraged to play, now people think, why bother I’ll probably get nothing for doing whatever.

Personally, I’m a cheapskate, and save all my Karma.

I just figured if I spent it on low level items I would regret it later.

The only Karma I spent was on Balthazar armour, and I stll have 500,000 left.

Syeria.4812
“You do know that if you don’t like the dailies, you don’t have to complete them, right?”

Yes of course I know that.

But I did enjoy getting my dailies, and the karma for doing them.

Sahfur.5612

“I like to feel power as a reward for all that time I spent… gaining power. Duh.
Don’t like feeling powerful? Go to a hard zone or take on something challenging.
I hate the idea of someone who just killed a dragon having difficulty mowing down a bloody worm. We already have our stats scaled down, it was at a good mid point.”

I don’t like too much downscaling, I played the game to get to level 80, to get my armour and weapons.

I don’t want the game to feel just as difficult in a level 5 area as it does in a level 80 area.

As our friend said, I don’t want to struggle killing a couple of worms.

Sometimes I want to do easy stuff, sometimes I want to do hard stuff, not the same whatever area I’m in.

Nope don’t like it, what are they thinking of.

Play the game the way you want to…. nope.

It just looks like even more grind.

I normally play in a party with a mate, we do stuff together, the old dailies were not a problem, and if I hadn’t finished them by the time he logged of, I went off and made them up.

I won’t be bothering with them now, way to take part of the game away from me ArenaNet.

It shouldn’t be there, it’s highly offensive to many people.

ArenaNet SHOULD know better, we ALL know what the swastika stands for.

So don’t give me any of that religeous rubbish.

I think it all depends which server your on, I was on Fissure of Woe, probably one of the most unpopulated servers, and yes it was dead.

I have just moved to Desolation, which is between Vrey High and Full, and what a difference, plenty of people and lots going on in the PvE world. (And as of last night, leading in WvW).

I would like the option to hide my gloves/bracers, I like my (Female) Ranger with bare arms and hands.

The pet is broken, the pets always been broken.

Fix the pet or take some of the damage away from it and give it to us, because most of the time it’s a dead un !

You know something, I must run pass and see 100’s of players in an evening, I dont take a blind bit of notice about what they are wearing or what weapon they are wielding, in fact I think the bigger weapons (2 handed swords are they ?) look like they’ve been cut out of cardboard for some kiddies school play.

The thing that does strike me, some armour is really ugly, especially the human female, and the terrible colours and colour combinations some of you guys choose, pink, really, on a big brave warrior, come on, have you not got girlfriends/wives.

Just because it’s big and spicky, or your weapon is big and flashy, doesn’t make you any more powerful or stronger really, transmuted starter armour can have the same stats.

Tl;DR……… I take no notice of what your wearing, your colour choices are disgusting.

Yup I get that, now and again.

And have to exit the game to desktop and restart to clear it.

angan.6572:

KokoroPixie.3786:

Need to learn a bit more control of the pet. In dungeons, esp ones where you know you have to run past mops, put pet on passive, and stow. If you know you are going to take some hits and pet will come out, put Guard skill on bar, and send pet in first with a a guard. That way, the pet isn’t pulling items to you, distracts the mops, and will also end up dead and not being a mop magnet.

On boss fights, switch to a ranged pet, or put on passive, and send in with the Attack my target command as needed, and pull back with the Return to me before the AOE attacks.

That’s good in theory but not really how it goes down in reality. Most dungeon runs are in fast paces and most of the times you (at least i) have a dead pet or cooldowns on swapping pet. None will ever wait for you when you say “hey guys wait one minute for my pet cooldowns to refresh so i can try to control it”. Tried it once and the response “Lol no, we have cooldowns too you don’t see us taking a break every second. We don’t want to spend all day in the dungeon”.

Plus, on boss fights while range pets do survive a bit longer in 80% of the cases they end up dead too due to the boss doing AOE skills in 1200+ range and pressing F3 to call the pet back to you to avoid it is useless as the pet still just remains standing in the AOE circle. (well, at least in the dungeon’s i’ve been so far).

On WvW this doesn’t work at all, even by having the pet next to you you rarely ever get the buff since you are on the move all time and your pet rarely ever damages the opponent unless he is afk.

Being a “petMASTER” is really frustrating when your pet simply doesn’t do what you ask out of it.

When i was watching trailers of this game and then started it and picked ranger it was my understanding that the pet would be a backup and not a mandatory source of damage. A pet you could combo skills with. Not half of your DPS going on a pet that dies in 2 hits and has pretty non responsive F2 skills and in general being a burden instead of a help.

My suggestion to ArenaNet is to put a new skill to completely hide the pet for those who don’t want it. Example :

> F5 – Disable Pet – Permanently hides pet until is recalled again. While Pet is disabled ranger’s damage with weapons is increased by 20%.

^just a suggestion. It solves 90% of the pet problems and the damage output of the ranger. This is something that takes like 2 days to implement instead of having to revamp and rework the whole class due to being so ridiculously flawed around their pets.

in addition you could change the F2 skills as forward:
> AOE skills like the Carrion Devourer’s poison cloud, Murellow’s Poison Cloud add a stack of poison on autoattacks to the enemy when you shoot arrows through them

> Bird skills: skill like bleeding , cripple etc etc no longer get casted by the pet. Instead they apply a buff on your next autoattack which cripples / bleeds etc etc your enemy. And the buff is applied instantly, no longer laggy unresponsive bird animations

> Drake Pet Skills: No longer gets casted by the pet. Instead it applies a buff to your next autoattack which burns/chills etc etc your enemy. The effect bounces up to 3 nearby enemies (similar effect as the elementalist lighting attacks). The buff is applied instantly, no longer laggy unresponsive drake animations and people simply walking away from their skills by the time they finish casting

> Hound/Bear Pet Skills: as it is, cause lets face it is cool to see a wolf / dog howl and a Bear Growl.

This would finally fix the pet problems and give rangers new ways to play their characters. Just my 2 cents ArenaNet

This pretty much sums it up for me, it’s going to be very difficult for ArenaNet to get the pet right, if ever, the mechanics of the thing are just too complcated, a dead pet to me is a pet that’s laying on it’s back with it’s legs in the air, not one that’s hobbling back to me and dragging several mobs with it.

Give Rangers the option, some people love their pet’s, as I did in GW1 at time’s, some people hate it.

As I said before, dungeon’s to me are going to be a nightmare, having to try, and fail, to micro-manage a dead burden all the way through, and try to stay alive, with pressure from other players, a chance of being insulted, and getting kicked from dungeons, and all the ltp insults.

Dungeons are already getting “elitist” with certain professions already being excluded from dungeon runs, it’s just something else that splits the community even more.

As a Ranger, I’m dreading dungeons, and I’ve played from the 3 day head start.

TBH I don’t even know if I can face the humiliation that will be rained down on me.

Yup get rid on the pet, give us a proper Ranger, not a beastmaster.

The fanbois will of course shoot us down in flames now.

Your health and stats will change between zones of different levels as your downlevelled to suit that zone.

Yor stats won’t change because your armour is just damaged, they will change when they are so badly damaged that they turn red, then you may find yourself partially naked.

“But What If It changes in that zone?”

Your stats will also change in PvE depending on how well your server is doing at WvW, press “B” to find out what your boosts are.

So even in the same zone, at the same level, with the same gear and setup, your stats will vary slightly, higher if your server is doing well in WvW, lower is it isn’t.

You will also notice when you gather materials, that’s also effected by how well your server is doing in WvW, if your doing well, you will sometimes get 2 gathers at the same tree or plant.

There are no real “Death Penalties” apart from having the waypoint cost if nobody ressurects you, and possible repair costs of damaged armour.

Once you get under the 1 day it starts to show on the transfer button as hours.

So once your a bit closer you’ll be able to tell if you’ll make it before paid transfers start.

I think you need to get to level 80 and the higher end zones and WvW before you make a statement like that.

Then you’ll start to see how rubbish the pet is and how the Ranger is lacking and lacklustre in all aspects.

Pick a server that has a “Very High” or “Full” (Wait untill it drops to “Very High” to transfer.

A server that has most players on will have the most going on, I just transfered to Devestation, and it’s 100% more busy than Fissure of Woe was.

DE on the end is mainly German, FR is mainly French, can’t remember the others, but you get the idea.

This is so “everything” that’s wrong with the Ranger.

I am also a massive Ranger fan, I always play a Ranger, l loved my GW1 Ranger, I actually played one Ranger, my only ever character, from the release of GW1 to a few months before GW2 was released.

And now I find my Ranger lacklustre and nothing like my brilliant GW1 Ranger, my pets rubbish, it’s a liability, I’m dragging it around dead most of the time (Don’t tell me I need to “micro” manage it because it dies so quickly and even when it’s recovered to 80% health it still stands there like a banana). No I don’t want it at all.

But I don’t think we are going to get anywhere here, Anet are going to stick with how they see “their” Ranger, which is really a Beastmaster.

I won’t be making any other characters, and may have to just park my ranger up.

(No you can’t have my stuff).

Your going to have to take your chances and wait and see.

Nothing you can do now but wait.

If you hover your mouse pointer over the transfer server button, it will tell you how long you have to go.

Terrible idea, this would just split the community even more than it is already.

Why do l even need to say that, you guys should realise that anyway.

Sometimes I like to farm, or grind, whatever you want to call it.

Sometimes I just like to do mind numbing things, and I can enjoy it.

Sometimes I like to just stay in an area and kill stuff over and over.

Sometimes I just want to play how I want to play.

And we get this…….
Phantax
“Hang on… didnt Anet say we could play the game anyway we liked ?”

And sometimes I can’t do what I really want to do.

I loved skelegogs in some of the MMO’s I’ve played, really good to smash them in to pieces.

Lets have some, dungeons are just not dungeons without skelegogs !

My friend and me just moved to Desolation from a fairly inactive server.

I’m a Ranger, he’s a Guardian, both level 80, no other characters.

Looking for an active guild, enjoy events in Orr, or any events, champs, not really done any dungeons as yet, or any serious WvW.

Regular players, not too serious, more or less every evening from 19:00 hours (GMT) onwards.

I like this good for you guys.

The only stuff I’ve bought with gems are extra bank and inventory spaces, to be honest there’s nothing else in the gem store that takes my fancy, I don’t care for clothes, looks or gimmicks.

The drop rate for anything half decent is disgusting, I’ve done shedloads of DE’s, events, event chains, champs, chests etc, and never get anything other than blues and whites, an occasional green and a measly little bit of Karma.

Funny how I’ve got 200 Black Lion Chests, but I never get any keys, and sure as hell I ainn’t gonna buy them, just to get more trash items.

I do enjoy a good event or whatever, but I’m beginning to think, whats the point !

I don’t know, I keep meaning to test this one in a few areas.

Sometimes it takes a while before you can get around all the bodies with loot to collect it all.

So I don’t know if the time is a set time, or if you move too far away from a lootable corpse it disappears.

Good question, can anybody shed some light on this ?

(It’s not equal to the re-spawn time).

Try to get on a server thats “Very High”, I just moved to Desolation and it’s 200% better than my old server.

Lots going on, events getting done etc.

A friend of mine had to wait 3 days untill the server dropped to very high so that he could come to Desolation as well.

It’s the gold BUYERS that keep the gold BOTTERS in business.

Both should be banned forever.

Doing hearts and mundane stuff up to 30 and beyond can get boring.

Hearts, what are they there for, just to level.

I wouldn’t mind mounts, but just horses, I wouldn’t want to see people riding around on all sorts of weird stuff.

A particular game I have in mind (Korean grind) uses horse scrolls, you buy a horse scroll from a stable, it summons a horse, but as soon as you dismount the horse is gone, of course you can carry as many horse scrolls as you want.

And actually it works very well, and the horses are way cool.

However, I believe they said there won’t be mounts period, and I think it would be a tremendous amount of programming.

I think your seeing fractals as a job you have to do, and hate, and not a game you should be enjoying.

Dual wield Rapiers for Rangers.

Covington pirates can do it, why can’t we ?

Oh yeah, punish people for losingtheir connection, that sounds like a plan, not.

And

Nibiru
“i’ve wasted 10+ hours today on morons.”

Please add me to your blocked list if that’s what you think of people that lose their connection through no fault of their own.

TottWriter.8591:

I like this idea a lot. At the moment my friends are attempting to transfer, and the windows in which they can are very brief and unpredictable. It’s especially concerning as we are crossing region, so we want to be able to play together after the cut-off of the 28th, at which point guesting won’t be a viable option either.

Yes I have this as well, I’ve transfered and my friend can’t, the servers dropped to “very high” a couple of times, but he’s missed it.

A queue system like WvW would be handy.

Ranger isn’t bad in PVE, could be a bit better to bring them in line with other classes, pet is pretty useless.

PVP, WvW, meh, not very good.

No l don’t feel listened to, and I don’t think anybody else is listened to either.

ArenaNet seem to be steering the game towards what they want and ignoring the player base.

It could all go very wobbly for them if they’re not careful.

We are the people who they should be looking after, and with some of the up and coming games out this year, there could be a mass exodus fron Guild Wars ll.

Homonavn.6348:

DEAD?! If you go to “World selection” you will every server are “highly populated” or “Very high” and alot are full… You should check before making threads like this

Yes that’s right, so where are all the people on these “so say” highly populated servers.

Cos I can’t find them, no events are getting done, nobodies in Orr, DE’s fizzle out, can’t even find anybody to do a dungeon with.

Beats me !