Guild Wars 2

Eladriel.7295:

I don’t care what any of you say, I would like the waypoint fee gone as well.. There is enough gold sinks in this game to make up for it.

Waypoint costs have seriously affected the social aspects of the (so say) social game.

An aspect you all don’t seem to be getting, GW2 is not a social game (something I’m sure ArenaNet would avoid at all costs) , it may as well be a single player game, for those of us that maybe don’t do dungeons.

And many of the dungeons seem to be deserted now.

They will walk straight through your “so called” pet, and go straight for you.

Great stuff innit !

No I don’t feel like a level 80, all the effort to get to 80, the weapons the gear, and for what.

I am still as likely to die in a lower level area, I am still likely to die because I pull too many mobs (thats 2 or more), I don’t get any level 80 rewards, and the rewards in lower level area’s are terrible.

And who want’s to struggle to stay alive in a lower level area, it’s just rubbish.

Oh wait, I’m a Ranger………………..

Well I think they should be scrapped altogether, waypoint fees that is.

This is the most unsocial, game I have ever played and come across.

Not something ArenaNet was aiming for I’m sure as GW1, at least in the early years untill hero’s, was a very sociable game.

ArenaNet killed it, for the sake of a gold sink.

Stark.1350:

How is this game, in any way, shape or form a “grind”?

It’s a grind, trust me.

When they said it wouldn’t be, shedloads will leave when new games are released, and there’s some real competition coming out just after Christmas.

Stark.1350:
“Once they improve drops in chests and off champions”

Dream on.

Nox Aeterna.2965:

Half the reason the current game is a total mess is the forums actually.

You really gonna have to explain that one, the games a mess because of the forum, right.

Batlav.6318:

it cost like 3-4s to go from one to the oposite side of the map so i don’t see what so expensive about WPs when for just one event you get 1s+
blue items sell for 40~99 copper, green 1s+

Any profit there, am I missing something.

3-4 s to go there, 3-4s to get back, reward 1s a couple of blues, 2s if your lucky, a green if your lucky.

Where’s the profit, looks like you lost money to me.

Rewards are rubbish, travel costs are high>

I don’t have a black border.

You in full screen mode ?

The rewards for champs and DE’s are totally abysmal, it’s hardly worth doing them.

Waypoint to a DE or Champion, 1.5s (or more), reward 1.4s, waypoint back 1.5s (or more).

1.6s minimum out of pocket.

No wonder nobody does anything, never going to have anything in this game, too many gold sinks, rotten rewards.

The game need more real content to spread people (all levels) all over the map, gear grinding in one spot is not content.

Apart from the gear grinders the rest of the PVE area’s are dead as a doorstop.

Legacy.8593:

so I think they will do a rollback…

That’s a joke right ?

Ok been level 80 for some time, and have 267 skill points, now everytime I get to the end of my leveling bar I get the animation for end of level, but no bar reset to start, and no skill point.

Just quit and relogged, bar now at 50% and no skill point.

Bleh !

Bots are still here, it’s just that your not seeing them, I’ve seen them under bridges in caves, they just got cleverer and hide out of sight.

Yeah 3 mobs want to rip your face off, and your next target
is something non-threatening way off, now you have 4 angry mobs.

Great stuff innit !

The Ranger is sooo slow, it’s pathetic.

And everytime something is even remotely near it’s down to a crawl.

The people, it’s just a lonely game.

The lights are on but nobodies about.

Ayrilana.1396:

Weebitt.3157:

I thought that the waypoint prices were based on how distant the waypoints were, and was very dismayed to find that the prices went up with your levels. If waypoints were based strickly on distance, it wouldn’t be so bad. I also think that teleporting back to your home city should be free.

Prices do go by how far you are. It’s just that the price level scales based on your level.

Felkes.2759:

Dhar.6392:

ehoreth.2459:

I understand there should be a cost for waypoints to teleport but it seems an awful lot for how much I earn. Also, if you die not only must you pay repairs but pay to rez also? I think they should make it free to rez at nearest waypoint and reduce the cost of teleporting a little bit

I like the idea. Bill us for any other point, but the waypoint that’s closest should be free.

I’m with Dhar and Ehoreth. This is a good idea.
I think waypoint costs are too expensive at high levels, especially when you don’t really earn much unless you play the trading post. Making the closest waypoint free would be a nice compromise to not totally eliminate waypoint costs, but lighten the ridiculously high prices of teleporting.

If you do events and kill things then you’ll make enough to cover the costs. Waypoints are still pretty cheap.

No actually very often the rewards are so rubbishy that you don’t make back waypoint costs, so there’s no point in waypointing anywhere.

Waypoint cost, that’s why I generally play alone.

Personally I think waypoint cost are seriously affecting the “social” aspect of the game, if you go to help people, it costs to get there, it costs to get back, no wonder the lower area’s are deserted.

To be honest, most of the time the game feels like a single player game.

I would love to be able to zoom all over the place to help people, get to champs and De’s quickly, but hey, when I see “need some help” or “champ here need help with”, I think, well that’s about 3 or 4 silver, nah I won’t bother.

I don’t mind repair costs, waypoint costs, a game killer.

I use a short bow all the time, it isn’t fine, the damage is low, and I get invulnerable, obstructed (By what ?) and evaded, so what little damage it does do is reduced by about 50% anyway.

Xylith.4873:

Luckily my main is a Warrior, I was using him as a melee dominant guy (GS & Axe / Shield)

I rolled a ranger because I fancied some nice Ranged damage… Hahaha that was a bit of a laugh. I stopped playing him because quite frankly I got tired of all the bugs and the low damage. Now I rock my warrior with Axe / Shield and Rifle.

This happened to be yesterday. I’m defending my guild’s keep, ranger starts firing at me while I’m on the wall. I laugh, switch to rifle with full adrenaline, Kill shot, followed by my 3 (bad that I don’t remember it’s name, I just know it as the “Repeatedly shoot for nice damage”) He was down so fast while I had the majority of my health. I thought "Ranger? HA. Just out ranged your, “Ranger” " True story.

Yeah just played a warrior up to level 6, I was suprised at the amount of damage and attack speed.

Kinda makes my Ranger look very, very feeble.

I can’t ever see ArenaNet fixing this, we will never be anywhere near some of the other classes.

There’s so many things I hate about my Ranger, but I can’t face playing another class.

Guess I’ll be off if it doesn’t get fixed.

We need something, anything, something to put the excitment back in PVE.

It’s all got pretty boring pretty fast, if they want to keep players playing then give us something to make the adrenilin flow.

Even the Lost Shores thing was a “press 1 sidestep” event, more like a ballroom dance,

We need more content, something to do, something to regenerate the lower areas because they are all dead.

I was going to go with warrior as a psuedo Ranger, but no short bow only long bow, and the long bow is so SLOW.

Why wouldn’t a warrior be able to use a short bow if he manages to use a long bow.

Yeah amazing how they get carrots and onions to grow on the same plant.

ButterOfDeath.2873:

However,now we’d like to play together! But he can’t afford the game at all!

The question is: Is there a way to play with a friend that didn’t buy the game?

What sort of question is this ?
If he doesn’t buy the game he won’t be able to play innit !

So are you playing your warrior as a ranged class.

I thought about that as it may be the only way to actually get a “ranger” that does some damage.

Just don’t know if I can face leveling again, it’s boring.

Yes increase the speed, just make Rangers MOVE faster, it’s so pathetically SLOW.

And fix the short bow !

I’m a “D”

15 chars.

Wouldn’t it have been better to fix the “old” dungeons first ?

Nobody want’s to do them now anyway.

Nefar.8135:

Dware.4259:

I dont even care anymore.

ANET had their chance, they lied and dragged their feet so i moved to Planetside 2.

Anet obviously didnt want my money,.

They already got your money.

Yeah they got mine as well, but they won’t be getting anymore.

I would of thought they would have treated us with a bit of respect, at least let us know what going on, but no, nothing, dead quiet.

Perhaps they hope we’ll give up and go away.

Atheismo.5164:

Crap…That’s disappointing.

Is for me as well.

They have not said one word on this subject anywhere, so don’t expect an official reply here.

I would like something, anything from the ArenaNet team, but we ain’t going to get it.

I don’t think the Ranger will ever be viable, or dealing any damage like the other classes.

“How relevant are pets to the class? If I wanted to complete forgo using a pet would I even be able to do so? Would I still be viable?”

You can’t get rid of your pet, you are stuck with the thing.

AlexRD.7914:

I don’t see how pets are bugged aside from the fact that they are slow in their attacks animation. If you manage them well, they are reliable. But if you spend all of your traits in getting the most damage to you, then well, yeah, the pet sucks.

I don’t want to “Manage” my pet, I just want it to go off and do it’s thing.

If it can’t manage to that properly on it’s own then I want it to go away.

And we should have the option to stow our pets and do proper damage like the other classes.
I love my Ranger, I always play a Ranger, I don’t like my pet.

There are loads of places the pet is useless anyway, which puts Rangers at a big disadvantage over other classes because of our LOW damage output.

DON’T tell me to roll a Warrior. (Or whatever).

Dastor.3546:

It’s not even limited to just events, although they often spawn in the most inconvenient locations.
A few examples of gameplay that I do not understand:
1: in the area below Lion’s Arch (don’t know what the area is called), as a level 60, I should’ve been more powerful than any creature I could run into there, except for Champions. I can easily solo any veteran I have yet come across, but here there was an event to kill an Alpha Drake. The creature was not marked as veteran or champion, yet I could only bring it down to 10%, while having to heal myself 3 times, and I still ended up dying, because of respawns and just the immense attack power of the Alpha Drake. Why isn’t this creature marked as Champion? The same thing happened a little further, battling a ghost pirate. Although it wasn’t respawns, just his attack power. I kept crippling it and running while waiting for my heal to come of cooldown. I dodged most his attacks, yet 1 simple swipe of his sword was enough to bring me down to near death, again and again.
2: Decided I’d go explore an even lower level area, I ran into a cave, looking for a skillpoint. I battled my way through some cave trolls (pulling one, line of sight to make sure it’d come to me so I don’t accidentally pull more I can handle) I still got 4 of them following. I killed them, battle through some more mobs, killed the veteran harpy with ease, ran down, try the same thing with the respawns (seriously, took me 15 seconds and they’ve already respawned?) I pull one again with my thrown… 6 follow this time, of which 2 are ranged shamans, and even dodging half of their attacks, I end up getting downed twice, rallied once, died the second time.
3: I’m repairing my armor in a village, all of a sudden an event hits me, and 6 skritt kill me before I can even exit the repair window.
4: An event marked as solo, kill a shaman to interrupt the ritual. I thought I’d give it a try. First I took care of some of the mobs around it, so I’d have plenty of space to run and heal, just in case. I then take out the 2 accompanying mobs, but they instantly – yes, instantly – respawn. No way that event is supposed to be a solo event… Every time I kill the adds, they instantly respawn, forcing me to battling the shaman and ‘semi-ignore’ the adds, but that’s not possible either.

Mobs seem to be spaced too close, respawn too fast and as a solo player, there’s nothing you can do about it, except play really carefully.

Now, I’ve actually just logged off, because I was getting really upset with all of this.
I like a challenge, but so far it’s more annoying than challenging. Things don’t seem balanced (I play a warrior, dual axe + sword/shield, looked up some different builds for inspiration, currently running with a mainly DPS build, with a few survival traits).
Veterans I understood were meant to be a challenge, but are way too easy. Normal mobs die quickly, and I can easily manage 3 or 4 at the same time, but with the respawn rates and the density in most areas, you often get more than you can handle.
I can easily manage myself against higher level mobs (even 2 or 3 at the same time) and veterans, so I’m pretty sure it’s not me being a terrible player. I might not be an amazing player, but this is just plain ridiculous… When I’m questing with 1 or 2 friends, everything is too easy. When questing solo, even in low level areas, it’s frustratingly impossible…
There doesn’t seem to be any kind of balance…

This just about covers how I feel about mobs, there’s nothing worse than having the same mobs respawn behind you, even more so with a Ranger and ranged attacks, and killing you.

I never like the idea of mobs just popping out from nowhwere anyway. it’s just Korean grind stuff. Oh wait…………………….. erm !!

Sniku.6837:

remove down state

Yup this, it’s a lot of button mashing for generally nothing.

If I’m dead, let me die.

I don’t like downed state.

It is frustrating, when your attacking an enemy, the mob dies and the next target selected isn’t the next closest enemy, but a non-threatening target some way off, maybe not even on your screen.

Great stuff.

Actually it USED to be like that, you could turn any wp/poi/heart quest on or off, now it’s all features on or off.

So don’t expect any changes here anytime soon.

They buffed my speargun (Ranger) erm ! Right.

What was all this about pressing 1 all the time.

I still press one all the time, I might press 2/3/4 sometimes even, how exciting is that.

I don’t actually have to keep pressing 1, it’s on auto.

What a feeble excuse.

Nope, not the best MMO ever made, lots of basic things wrong with it that should have been done before it was released.

And as far as the best MMO ever made, it depends on what floats your boat, look at Ultima Online, I looked at some screenshots earlier, it ain’t pretty, but loads of people still play it, and it’s all about the content, and the people, two things that GW2 is sadly lacking in.

GW2 is actually a mish-mash of lots of MMO’s, a bit from this and that, all rolled up into one, and made to look “pretty” and a bit different, there’s nothing here that we haven’t seen before.

And it’s turning into a gear grind, nothing more, when most people want more content and substance, better quests and things to achieve, not just grind dungeons over and over for better gear.

Fix the invulnerable/obstructed/evaded stuff, whatever small amount of damage I do is probably reduced to half the actual damage.

Bottom left hand corner of the map, looks like an eye, show or hide things.

Welcome to the “Got Nothing” club.

Lewis Burnell.2493:

• All ranger pets have been removed. To compensate, ranger damage across all skills has been increased by 40%.

Good one, I’d at least like the option for that.

Sick of my “pet”, I want it to go away.

Guess I’d better add my name here……….

Victoria Rayne
Ranger
Level 80
Gandara
No guild
On from about 19:30 untill whenever (GMT)
Scratching around doing not a lot right now.

Samanar.3265:

Hold your horses guys. Just because some of you don’t feel like playing burst damage ranged class, or don’t want to burst people down – alright, no prob for me. Just because lots of people enjoy playing evading-trapping-melee-whatever-weirdo-type-of-ranger doesn’t mean I have to. I don’t – to be honest I want to be Robin Hood, pew pew ranger burst spec. Just can’t find it in traits or in weapon skills.
Please for the love of whoever keeps the balance in this game – LET RANGER HAVE RANGED BURST SPEC too, just like pretty much every other class in the game. I for one would be perfectly happy to have a typical glass cannon build on my ranger, I want it, and I hope Arena Net will deliver it.

tl;dr I don’t want to be forced into melee/tanky/whatever build I WANT VIABLE RANGED BURST ON MY RANGER. please…

Just this, that’s all I want, just a good long bow (It’s SO slow) and short bow, just the short bow really, chuck all the other stuff out the window, I’m a Ranger I want a GOOD bow !

Neverwinter is one I’m watching (Might be a dungeon crawl, but the content looks unlimited).

Elder Scrolls Online, another one I’ll be giving a go.

Yeah I just got rubbish, if anything, quite often it was nothing.

Just let us do a bit more damage, that’s all I’m asking for, and maybe a bit less time on CD’s.