Guild Wars 2

florence.1674:

The point I was making is that with everyone making noise that their own class is underpowered, how does some really know that the genuinely underpowered class is genuinely underpowered?

There’s so much noise out there.

Raw percent of representation in pvp is a good estimate. Also, you don’t need a degree from MIT to crunch damage numbers.

Trying to act like it’s some metaphysical thing that we “can never truly know” is just silly.

Zera.8907:

Guys, Rangers are fine! Watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ru_rXq2LYg0#!

Again, Rangers are fine…..oh wait :-(

And people wonder why we think they are full kitten when they claim to be fixing the ranger. They will never nerf the warrior and they will never buff us to that kind of ability which means we will always be the lol ranged damage dealers.

And if anyone mentions pets they will immediately be branded someone who has never actually used a ranger in WvW, ever…

If you had clicked further into the conversation you’d see that it was because he instructor found she had more talent with knives than magic and she is bummed because she doesn’t want to change.

That made me laugh almost as much as the thread with the Sylvari crazy eyes. lol

Edge.4180:

BrunoBRS.5178:

if you want to see an example of what the outcome of bad scaling does, open you map, and look at straits of devastation. half the waypoints are contested (literally half), because of event chains that are impossible by yourself and have no relevant rewards, so people just run straight through them.

No relevant rewards besides retaining access to the waypoints, you mean?

I disagree that events intended for groups need to be scaled for solo players. At that point they are no longer group events. There are plenty of events (most of them, actually) that do not require a group and can be completed by a solo player. If you run across any that can’t (despite not being flagged as a group event), reporting them on the forums in the appropriate board will usually result in a designer taking a look at the balance there and making adjustments if needed.

That said, sometimes it’s the player that needs to make adjustments on their end. Some would insist that no event can be soloed and that is simply not true. It may be true for their methods combined with their build, but that’s a problem with not adapting to the challenge.

Just last week there was a player on my server complaining in map chat that they couldn’t beat an encounter using the weapons that they wanted to use. When it was suggested they try different weapons, they complained the game was broken if it didn’t allow them to play with the weapons they wanted to play with. There will never be a fix from the developers to counter being stubborn or laziness.

Lol, if people cared about the WP’s they wouldn’t be in a constant state of contested limbo. The only Orr WP’s that get cleared are cursed shore because they give the best rewards.

And frankly, can the “learn2play” nonsense. There is a huge difference in complaining that your silly fun build can’t cut it and not being able to do an event because the entire zone is a ghost town and you can’t possibly kill the target solo just the same as it’s an entirely different issue to point out that “kill the brickhouse champion” style events give ridiculous rewards for how much time and manpower it takes to complete them which leads to most if not all people simply walking past since it isn’t worth the effort.

Caedmon.6798:

Dabu.1258:

we have a Steampunk armor, but is not 100% done (Leather armor)

I want something like This or This other

Lol at this other !

I’m sure that the goggles attached to his top hat are very practical and serve a definite function. I also hear that bronze is the ideal metal to build all structures and firearms out of.

Also, is it some sacred rule that all steampunkers have to use that same kitten Nerf gun in their costumes? I feel like this point Nerf would make a killing if they just sold it with a distressed bronze finish instead of the orange plastic.

Lyonell.1753:

Go Wvw or starting areas? You can get into them for free. Press B > Go WVW any of them > Portal to lions arch > portal to a city > Profit.

You can do the whole daily in the Eternal Battlegrounds without much effort all assuming you have control of most of your 1/3 of the map atleast.

You needed 5 silver and 4500 karma so bad you spent 30 silver just in the WP costs?

One of these days I’d really love it for the fanbois to put up or shut up when they regurgitates the same old lame “learn2play” response. You have the magical play style that lets you utilize your pet in dungeons and pvp effectively? Put up a video describing the method. I’m sure we’d all love to know how it’s done since you are so adamant that it’s possible. Unless, of course, your full of it and your secret to success is standing around paying more attention to yo-yo’ing your pet with F3 in and out of AoE clusterkittens than actually contributing to the group in any meaningful way.

7-8/10

It started amazing but then it really fizzled in the end. I logged on when I got home on Halloween expecting the Mad king to show up and it to be a crazy party and it felt lack luster at best.

I don’t know if it was the lack of any special loot for playing mad king says or the fact that the event felt empty because the kitten engine only rendered the 10 closest people to me. It just didn’t have the power of the GW1 Halloween finally.

While I don’t doubt this, there is a real possibility that the other person was a ranger and they didn’t want 2. Because, lets face it, one person having their dps kittened because they couldn’t F3 their pet out of redonk aoe damage in time is enough.

Khunvyel.3972:

JonPeters

Many signets, a shout or two, and spirits are all a bit lackluster. That is the first place to expect improvements. Second is trying to improve the feel/ pacing on some weapons.

I like the first part. I don’t like the second part. I have the fear that Arenanet is going to water down the uniqueness and originality of some ranger weapons because they listen to the unable and lazy crowd. People see a weapon, think of a paradigm that they apply to this weapon, and then get angry because their world crumbles. I enjoyed the fact that I tailor builds around weapons. Giving this point of view, you can get out wonderful builds and amazing strategies with the Ranger.

This is the reason why the 1hand sword and twohanded sword really shines in the hands of skillful players. And people so often forget about their pet… the number 1 core mechanic and a big portion of the actual damage we are doing. I really hope that Arenanet takes this into consideration and is not going to water down the experience of the class just because of some whiners who can’t actually play it and want to enforce their playstyle on the profession instead of adapting to it properly.

And I really hope we get a ton of trait bugfixes too… because some traits do not work as intended, and few do not work at all and then there are those that are completely useless, even when they are being part of a complementing build.

I feel that the weapon issue will be mostly focused on bows for the most part. Longbow is pretty boring and the only way to deal damage with the shortbow is to spam “1” like a bot which they have already come out and said was not “fun”.

Hopefully they will spice up the dagger as well because using it with a sword feels incredibly redundant.

Tie between black widow and white raven. Will we see them finally fixed on the 15th? Stay tuned…

I like fighting the nightmare court. They have a neat design and they are rare enough that I never get tired of them like I do with most mobs that cover a large portion of a zone. They also have a pretty solid amount of variation to them also.

You guys are really going far with a thread that was nothing but “Ew, they put gay people in my game and I was forced to be aware of their gayness!”

Try mashing the jump button on the water. It’s a pain, but if you can get yourself skipping like a stone, they have a real hard time hitting you with any attacks.

I like them. They remind me of redonk anime swords.

I’d suggest the Warden great sword if you like the sylvari. It’s not overly huge and it’s pretty well designed in my opinion.

It’s not that they have too much health, it’s that they can 2 shot you if you get near them. This effectively makes melee a moot point and waters down combat even further. Instead of battles that requires thinking and skill management, we get people running in circles, auto attacking with ranged hoping to god that the thing doesn’t touch them.

Never mind the fact that the rewards are so pathetic for how long it takes to kill these guys that it’s never really worth the bother.

I see no point to Orr at all aside from the Ori and sapling nodes. I get more karma and gold doing WvW objectives than farming Orr DE’s and getting hit with a zerg that’s invisible until its 3 inches from your nose is faaaaaarrrrrr less annoying than that stupid pull move the sea zombies use.

Obviously he didn’t want you touching his stuff. I’d be pretty miffed too if some dude was wrecking up my pad with a pickaxe.

GregT.4702:

But if it’s a lonely dude who’s bought five copies of the game just so he can awkwardly attempt dungeons without making friends then there’s no real problem; it’s no different from him having four friends who’ve promised to give him all their loot.

I don’t see how any human being is going to single handily control 5 different characters in a dungeon successfully without the help of a program of some kind.

I would be highly shocked if that is not where they place a huge Wintersday tree in December. So, if they are planning to make the whole Mad King hooha cannon then we probably wont see anything until after the next event.

Any time I have a spider or devourer out they are “Facehugger” and my murellow is always “Juvenile Yao Guai”. I have fooled more than a few newbies with that one. Any pigs are “The Great Hambino”.

I would love it, but, I would rather they fix pet abilities and their responsiveness first before any kind of fluff is added.

While it will never happen because it would be done too well and then get over nerfed to compensate, I would love to see the signets replaced with powerful passives that get weakened if our pet is dead. The kitten thing dies so easily in PvP and dungeons that it would balance out the big buffs where it actually matters.

Edewen.8304:

EVERY PLAYER regardless of race, religion, gender, or timezone is given the exact, and I mean EXACT, same amount of time to complete the monthly.

lol hardly.

Despite what “gamers” might think, most people don’t have time to sit and play video games 6 hours a day. A lot of us have economical and social responsibilities in the real world that take priority. It’s pretty annoying to get home at 6pm thinking one had some time to polish off the last few salvages only to find that that no longer matters.

Smells like a bunch of people who are butthurt at even the mention of the idea of something that could keep them from server hopping to abuse Ori nodes. I have a hard time believing that anyone jumps around as much as these guys say they do to “play with friends”.

How would a plant feel pain? Pumpkins are like any other fruit. Their purpose is to die and be eaten so as to spread the plant’s seeds as much as possible. Beings that are half plant or whatever would understand this pretty well.

You updated to a whole new OS that just came out. There’s a very good chance that it’s the Windows Omggraphicalextravaganza.

The obstructed BS is something that may or may not ever get fixed.

As far as not being in range and blowing a skill, as others said, use your 1 as a range finder. Honestly, the only time I can see this being a real issue is if there were a bar that had ranges skills with ranges that were all over the place, one 1200, 300, 500 ect.

You expect them to give us a feature that they had in the first game?!

Madness….

The pvp equipment lockers have most if not all of the base game equipment that you can preview.

As far as whether this is true or not, it is a very plausible explanation for why they published screens of a Canthan district of the human home town only to end up not having one at all in exchange for a non-nonsensical chasm in the middle of the city.

It won’t be fixed.

The problem is just as bad on Charr. Most of them look like they beat up a human, took their clothes and then tried to stretch it over their much too large body.

The design team got lazy, they made every non-racial outfit for humans and then tried to morph it to match the other races and they did a pretty bad job of it on all except for maybe female norn.

Astralporing.1957:

First they create mechanics to discourage easy long-range travel, and then they get surprised that people don’t travel around, but prefer to stay in few top level zones. Little consistency here would be nice.

That has far more to do with the fact that DE’ go off constantly in Orr and only the high level areas have Ori/Sapling nodes. The lower areas wouldn’t see anymore traffic even if it were free to go there.

All I can say is that whatever the situation, I hope they do bring Cantha back. I miss the Echovald and, at this point, I’ll take a tidal wave of Asian whatever over all the pirates and undead covered in barnacles/genericseacrap we have now.

Exactly what are you and all your pals up to that has caused you all to be “hacked” and lose characters?

Durzlla.6295:

Substance E.4852:

Finding skulls and plasma is one of the best things about the pigs. I just wish they had some variation and that the boar actually looked like the boar you charm and not like a warthog.

You do realize there are both Boar and Warthog pets yes? Cause I know my boar looks exactly like the boar I charmed…

I am aware of that. I tamed my boar at the Speldan camp in WvW. The animal was the forest boar that looks like the pet icon that doesn’t resemble the actual animal at all.

A giant badger, the Factions crab and maybe a raptor not that will ever happen.

“Dinosaur Ranger pets? Nah, we can’t make them too happy now can we?”

Finding skulls and plasma is one of the best things about the pigs. I just wish they had some variation and that the boar actually looked like the boar you charm and not like a warthog.

Sexual orientation means jack for a race that can’t reproduce. Biologically speaking, it wouldn’t be any more or less productive for them to hump boulders.

And frankly, there has never, ever, been an instance in any society where homosexuality was more visible or “forced” than heterosexuality so please don’t claim it’s “too much”.

Sorry you had a hard time hiding from the scary gays in your fantasy world.

Buy whichever you like the most. Yes there are a few that you can buy on the TP for less time invested than if you got the karma version, but that isn’t always the case. For example, I wanted the warden bow. As far as I could see, there wasn’t any bow on the TP that had that skin. In fact, the only time I ever saw those drop was at launch when the giant jungle wurm was glitched and was awarding lvl 80 gear to people.

And replace them with, what, Sudoku puzzles?
Then we’ll have to deal with people complaining about having to do math instead.

Obvious strawmen aside, they are simple 3d platformer puzzles. There’s nothing especially sinister about them nor are you required to do them. The puzzle element is judging spacial distance and identifying what is and isn’t a way up/over. If they are too hard for you that’s not really Anet’s fault nor should it mean that the rest of us be subjected to whatever you deem is a “proper puzzle”.

Try some of the old Mario 64 levels and maybe you’ll get some perspective on what makes a jumping puzzle annoying.

I wouldn’t get your hopes up too much. While it sounds like they have finally noticed some major areas like the crappy or useless utilities, he didn’t really make it sound like they are doing a major overhaul.

More like finally changing the now chunky old oil rather than swapping in a turbo charged V8 and an all leather interior.

If they didn’t rule Perma-shadowform Sins an exploit in GW1, they aren’t going to nail you to the wall for something that is pretty obvious. Hell, if anything, this might make BLC’s more appealing.

While I would adore mounts (sorry WoW bashing sheeple, fluff for fluff’s sake is never bad) I don’t think they need to water down TP costs. The game only has one other real means of gold sinkage and you have to screw up a whole lot for that to have any real effect.

Memories…

Anet takes a very slacktivist approach to botting. They talk a big game, but rarely will they take any major action unless you prod them enough.

I try to give them the benefit of the doubt though since its very likely that most of the bots we see are jacked accounts from people who tried to RMT gold and either got brute forced or fell victim to bogus emails and they might try to hold off the big guns until they can give back the accounts. But, to be honest, I feel you get what you deserve in that situation.

Funny, I thought this was just going to be a joke about moving more than 20 feet from your target during a WvW zerg clash.

Things like this are the reason people are found dead in front of their computer with their game still logged in.

Honestly, I just want them to fix it so when I mash my dodge hotkey it cancels the attack animation and lets me get away. The same if I am simply trying to strafe or break off the attack.

The leap mechanic is what makes it good. I have gotten so many kills and helped with kills in WvW simply because once you get the first packet of cripple on a person they simply can’t get away from you unless they hit you with some serious stun or a large knockback.