Guild Wars 2

Durzlla.6295:

I still think sig traits should swap places with the trap traits and then the martial mastery trait be moved into skirmishing

I reckon sigs should go in BM and replace some of those useless traits.

I think the class is fine, and this forum complains way too much. But like the warrior its a class that is going to attract a lot of noobs.

However I also think the ranger traits need work. Traps in the precision line, swords in the vitality/boon line, etc.

We dont have viable power buils imo.

I’m a specist. Don’t like other species…

+1

Preferred the optional pets of gw1

You can run emphatic bond, SoR, healing spring, and evasive purity all at the same time. Giving you 3 on demand cures and 2 passive. I recently changed my wvw build to focus on all these and I survive much longer.

Loot is given equal to your level. You can get level 70-80 gear drops anywhere. I think they need more area specific mats like Karka shells. Make every zone have at least one t6 mat or sonething that people want to farm. That system worked well in gw1. But of course they kind of screwed that by having material tiers…

Ahratan.1098:

There’s a thread here expressing dislike for time-gated content: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Please-stop-once-per-day-content/first

I would be in favour of gated content if it was treated like a counter rather than a you-must-log-in-every-day type of thing. In other words, if you only log in once a week, it should count up the 7 days worth of creations you are entitled to make and let you create all 7. So if you miss a day, you don’t actually fall behind.

+1

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Aeros.2046:

It would be interesting if the “Mercenaries” were actually useful and send out a few Champions as opposed to vets or other useless stuff to go monkey stomp the camps. And then be much harder to retake. As in, defensible, with a champion claimer. Not to keep levels of cap difficulty, obviously, but it would be nice if there was an incentive to take and hang on to your mercenary army.

I reckon that could work. NPC armies led by champs that will take and hold towers/keeps. You could make them neutral too so that the team previously holding them stops getting the points. Gives people a reason to monitor/defend a keep when they are the only ones on the map.

Its the same feeling when its 10 vs 2…that’s what wvw is. Unbalanced open world combat.

Those areas are useless but would 2 more towers make any difference? Anet probably put the tamini and skirt there because they couldn’t think of anything else.

But yeh less pve gets my vote.

I doubt it but any introduction of gw1 story elements would be a huge improvement to the existing story.

On the bright side at least they haven’t used much of the gw1 story yet. If they ever do introduce underworld or fow maybe they will do better with the story then.

Some of the events are done OK as well. I think the dwayna event has some good story elements. Way more interesting thank the personal story anyway.

+1

/15 chars

I play wvw because I enjoy the fights.

but I also pve for loot…

If there was a 1v1 arena that would probably be all I do, fighting for the glory.

Nabrok.9023:

They should change them to blue rarity and let us forge them.

Also obsidian shards … need something to do with them. I have over 500. Thought about hoping for “fails” on the clover recipe for T6 mats, but I’m actually short on ectos right now.

+1

Sami.7923:

Hey so heres what I did. I took moment of clarity and isntead of GS s/d im now running gs sb. This has helped me fix some gaps as I can now drop movemoent speed and kite when I need to. I no longer have to run in and take AOE in the face as full melee. the SB #5 also helps me proc moment of clarity and if Im close enough I just wep switch and maul, continue fighting and wait for maul to come off cd before I go for hilt bash into maul for another moment of clarity proc. Overall I am a little happier but till still SB doing the brunt of the work. I think maybe all this might need is some increased dmg the the auto chain and change maul back to what it was with bleeds or provide something cool like blast finisher. Still have not figured anyway to counter healing signet warriors. I can stand behind them with SB in full zerker for a full 30 seconds only to take them to 75% hp.

Sounds like you are learning to play.

I’m dying of curiosity now! Any idea what he was wearing chopps?

Back on topic I agree with op and think those are some great ideas. Both 24 hour matches and tourneys.

I don’t care about gold, karma, xp, or any sort of bonuses. I think it needs to be a cosmetic reward for winners. Like armor exclusive to the winning server or something like that, so at least people can see that you were part of the winning team. Only problem then is server transfers…

Totally support this.

Unleashed.6195:

One massive server with world representation (similar to guild representation) would be an excellent shift that wouldn’t break WvW. Charge gems to switch world representation just as you would transfers. Stop naming overflow overflow and just have it #’d instances as with GW1.

I like this idea. And the underflow suggestion.

I had no idea this election had anything to do with new fractals…and if I did I would have voted for the abbadon content.

I don’t really know what is going on since I don’t get to play much of the temporary content…but it sounds like the result of this election determines that a new fractal will be introduced, and that new fractal is about the asura rather than abbadon. If that is the case then I am really disappointed.

Fomby.4295:

Boomstin.3460:

Pure Heart.1456:

Here’s a great Ranger burst;
Pop Might (with Cat Pet Skill or Rampage as One Elite Skill)
Pop Zephyr
Pop Skill 2 on Long Bow

That’s all fine and dandy but sitting beside a kitty while it does it’s 3 second animation to get it’s mouth open and roar isn’t exactly practical on many situations.
Haha, that’s actually really depressing Wonder who was the mastermind behind the pet design?

An idiot. My pet STILL bugs and doesn’t activate its skill all the time when I press the button.

F2 lags because pets have to finish casting their own skill first. The trick is to hit f3 first which will disengage them immediately, and then hit f2 which they will also do immediately. Annoying but it works.

Maybe change servers. Ive never heard the Commanders on fort aspenwood complain about rangers (not during oceanic time anyway). Rather they are asking us to drop water fields, fire fields, and get defenders/siege off the tower walls.

I run power for pve and rabid for wvw. Its annoying having to switch but works out a lot better.

Levetty.1279:

Prysin.8542:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNAsXTnAVEZZWQ+VwaZAZpYP6DmCDhRePmF2TEzYpbkJB-jEzAYLioRiSQILYEIQiEUyrIasF1ioxqYwUlAKzFV7NCm7YR1CBMaBA-w

it should do the trick for you. High vitality, some healing, a pet that will hit like a truck, and a bow that will hit equally hard

Isn’t speed increase important for a roaming build?

I would consider it mandatory for a roaming build. You’re trying to gank dolys and hit camps in quick succession, before the enemy roamers have time to catch you.

Zerker cavalier will be ok. Just try that with 0/20/20/30 for spirits.

Well lb was a burst weapon before the qz nerf. It kind of still is too with rapid fire but harder to get it off. I define would not call it sustained damage though. It fires way too slow. The sb is a sustained damage weapon. It fires twice every 1.1 seconds and adds bleeds. And despite the range reduction I have no problem with it. All fights are within 900

I find warrior way more boring than ranger.

Its a panic button, only really meant to be used once when the kitten hits the fan. And survivability will always be reduced by going into the power and precision lines.

Urrid.4593:

Give large groups of players a speed de-buff. Zergs as they are right now are one of the fastest groups in the game. They should be exactly the opposite!

Want to run in a huge herd? You’re going to be slowed down. The AOE that checks for a “zerg” for each team of players could be done every 15 seconds and apply a flat 30% speed de-buff that you cannot clear for 15s. Then the check happens again, still near the large group of friendly players? Speed de-buff. Call it “rough terrain” or something.

This would allow small parties of hostile players to out run a large zerg and harass effectively in open field. Also the ideal way to cross a map wouldn’t be in a huge herd. Even if the group was spamming speed buffs to counter the 30% debuff they would only be as fast as your average Mesmer.

Do this and give people better commander tag options = poof zerg problem solved.

This.

/15 characters

Can give a nod to Knights Gear + Cavalier Trinkets.

I am running that with a spirit build in high level fracs.

I’ve just started running 20/20/0/30 for level 26 and its working well.

Gear is knights/zerker.

Combine with sharpened edges trait and sigil of earth
Now adds 8-10 bleeds
Profit

There is a discussion going on about this here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Trap-Rangers-Horn-is-now-amazing-for-offhand/first#post2482986

Well it does boost damage, provided you hit more than one target.

If you are doing areas that have large numbers of bunched up enemies (think dredge fractal) then piercing arrows is extremely valuable.

A 1k crit with shortbow can hit 5 enemies, making it a 5k hit in total.

Nuka Cola.8520:

Hunter’s Call is still garbage for the CD, casting time and range it has. This thing needs to apply bleeding or blind per hit. and why is that if target gets out of LoS while being attacked by birds it makes them miss? Makes no sense whatsoever

If it applied bleeds per hit then it would apply 16 bleeds, plus whatever sharpened edges adds. That would be more than Entangle does.

If you watch the video you will notice that it adds up to 10 stacks. That is nothing to sneeze at.

Conncept.7638:

Siphaed.9235:

Not sure if anyone’s added it yet, but I found a Canthan related book in Divinity’s Reach called “The Winds of Change.”

“Contact with Cantha was finally lost when the flood from Orr’s rising disrupted trade.”

“They’ve closed their shores to us and left us to fight the Dragons alone. To the Mists with them.”

What that means is that even if Cantha were to ever “return”, it would come back to the tune of disdain from the current Tyrian territories due to the abandonment in hard times.

Well that could make for a pretty good story arch.

Maybe all this dragon stuff is just a smoke screen until they unveil an expansion focusing on the inevitable war between Tyria and Cantha

Also dislike the temp content. I only get to play a few hours a week and that being the case I am going to spend it all in WvW.

But I’d love to think that I could do this content when I do have time again.

It is also anoying to see references to this new content but not having time to find out what it is.

What the hell is an aetherblade? I don’t know but I’ve only got 30 min to play, so WvW it is.

Can anyone confirm the changes to Entangle – was the tooltip just incorrect before or did it get a nerf? Because mine used to list 29k damage and now only 14k.

Gave this a go last night and I am loving it already. My targets were dying before I could even switch weapons.

And the blast finisher seemed to make a real difference in keeping the group alive.

What sigil would you recommend with the second weapon? Would you pretty much always use corruption?

I am running full rabid.

Good video. Important for the community to see.

I just want to give props to ANet as well for not caving into the stupidity of this community, which complains about every single change to everything.

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

Anthony posted that information to set your expectations accordingly.

It’s great that you all want Canthan content and it’s cool that you’re all passionate about the content you enjoy, but wishing for things to happen and expecting certain things to happen will not necessarily translate into those things actually happening.

Rather than have you working yourselves up into a speculative frenzy at the sight of the change in the Great Collapse and you being disappointed and angry later because you formed undue expectations based upon theories and speculation, Anthony wanted to make sure your expectations are grounded now.

I think you are just teasing Regina. And I fully expect that under that tent is an Asuran portal that will send us straight into the heart of Kaineng city!

The medium one is hideous

Thanks for this. I’ve been running sb/gs on my trap ranger just because I love swoop so much for getting around. But this may convince me to finally drop it!

+1 for Orr, Saul D’Alessio, Asura, Dwarves.

Maybe some GW beyond content too? See what happened to Gwen and Thackery.

Bascially anything from GW1 would be good. Since GW1 had a good story…

Yeh we could really use a few more medium coats too.

Not enough medium coats to choose from atm.

mtl.5921:

I’m starting to suspect there is a hardcore-casual difference here, am I right?

That’s pretty much what it boils down to. Rangers and warriors are probably the two classes that attract the most casual players. Players that probably won’t be able to, or don’t care about trying to find a build that works.

Same goes for the weapons. Many people have found builds that work with bows.

Don’t believe anyone who says ranger = bad, broken, low dps, whatever…

Figure it out for yourself and you’ll be happy.

Pretty much just a full knights build.

You might as well move the 5 points from WS to Skirmishing for moment of clarity. You’ll get way more mileage out of hilt bash/maul than 10%^90

As a person of white european descent I find the inaccurate historical references to my culture throughout the region of Kryta offensive…

Wait no I dont.