Guild Wars 2

I think so much of this depends on your mind set. I have been so happy about rangers and completely in shock that everyone isn’t. When I first visited this forum, i was 3 weeks into 80 and loving it both in pve and wvw. Imagine my surprise when not only we’re others not happy, but that we we’re getting an update that would make us better!

I almost feel like if you don’t enjoy ranger in its current incarnation, you won’t like it no matter how they change it, because it must simply be their basic view of the class that you don’t agree with. But that’s fine because there are so many other classes that probably fit you as well as ranger fits me.

Still, I realize the futility of this post. Trying to tell you how great rangers is is like trying to convince a republican to vote for a democrat.

Legendary in this game at least seems to indicate rarity and value, not really statistical supremacy. With that being said, pets really are just an extension of the ranger as much as our bow is. To have rare or legendary pets would be great, and I see a time when it will be neccessary to give pets agony resistance anyways.

Part of the reason I came up with the idea of Pet skins is because I think it would be great to have different types of dogs as an option. I agree it would be awkward to add 5 different dog pets, but to have the base dog pet with its skill but the opportunity to look like any number of domesticated or wild dogs would be great…IE CHIHUAHUA.

They could always just remove the score? Is a winner really neccesary when winning and losing determines nothing? Potential points at any one time could determine bonuses, ie the potential point leader after 10 rounds get plus 2 to salvaging rare materials, or whatever. I bring this up because I think that even in the most insane score differentials there are times when both sides are actually quite equal.

I got an idea, start losing more and let TC have a chance!

Please mail me with who from TC exploited because I’ll report them myself. I don’t care what team you play on if you exploit then I want you banned. I would hope that every single person who has ever honorably enjoyed WvW would hold a zero tolerance policy and I think its the primary responsibility of the server in question to set an example and not get blinded by server animosity.

If you exploit on TC … we don’t want you, and we don’t want to benefit from your lack of morality.

I feel like everything that could’ve happened in this matchup already has and we just don’t feel like talking about it anymore.

Ranger is an awesome class, and I say that as someone who usually plays an archer type character in most games. The pet is fairly easy to control and actually quite strong, plus finding pets is alot of fun. I use dual bows, which seem to have a great symmetry between long and short range, and with the new patch it feels alot smoother switching between the two.

In WvW I have alot of AoE and can hold my own against people assuming they aren’t just ambushing thieves or really good hammer wars. Anyways, I have always found it fun in every aspect of this game and never once regreted the choice.

Piercing arrows is proably the single most important skill you can have as a bow user. Target something in the back and shoot, hits everything in the way. Makes every shot an AoE.

Wouldn’t it be great to buy or find rare pet skins that you can apply to your pet? A rare wolf skin could be applied to a wolf to give it a dark pulsing glow and blood red eyes, or a bear skin could be applied to give it a tiger stripe or mechnical claws.

What do you think?

I have to agree, at some point the Patching Program over there at Anet needs to start sympathizing with the WvW community you are attempting to court. This is a bad move on almost 5 fronts, but aside from it being NA primtime and forcing absolutely everyone online to dl the same patch from your one site, you completely interupt the most important..and fun part of World V World..the first night. Its really hard to get people to give a crap the rest of the week when they were stopped dead in their tracks by a 2 hr pve patch.

thankyou thankyou thankyou!

When all is said and done, and Appledainty and [Team Dolyak] are long forgotten, I think its important to look back on this and gain a bit of understanding. Griefers have been ruining roleplaying events for years and years and I’m pretty sure they will continue. Sure it was a WvW zone, and sure it was expected that someone would try to mess it all up, but what wasn’t expected, was that the roleplayers might actually strike back and get the last word.

TC’s roleplaying population is the number 1 reason TC is the best t3 server, and their attitude and enthusiasm for turning what would normally seem mundane in WvW into something important is to be respected. I was at the event not because I roleplay, but because I wanted to show I support them as much as they help us in WvW, and I’m pretty sure many others in [PINK] felt the same way.

Griefing doesn’t have to happen, and we don’t have to constantly defend it like its just part of the game and they were just asking for it. You want to grief people on my server and I’m going to help make sure there’s a cost.

That being said, I had much fun, both in the event and the aftermath culminating in a huge server cheer when FA’s points finally hit zero. That’s the way I’ll remember the event, the day TC came together to make a point.

I would be remiss to make any post without saying my heart goes out to the families suffering today and I pray for a day when we can all solve our issues in a video game and not have to take it to real life.

“The Dolyak Event”was just the first chapter of an ongoing trilogy. Tomorow: “The Yak strikes back.” will grace the FA Borderlands.

ZERO…………………..

Oh, is this where [BT] was fighting? We are having a RP wedding in your Garrison. You are invited to try to ruin it.

Team Dolyak avenged! Special Thanks to CD for watching

You should come to TC Warm Ember. I think you will be alot more appreciated here

Tsk Tsk FA…now you must pay!

This whole thread makes me lol. It doesn’t even deserve a non ridiculous response.

Let go then. Log out. I think you will be surprised how little changes when you are gone, and how little you care if you come back.

Is this real life?

The Golem Gods are rumbling tonight! Can you hear them?

Wow, TC came out in force tonight! I’m really impressed. Every Map on Q!

Yeah, the more I think of it the more I realize I have no clue how this affects things. I’m just going to keep logging in and see how it all plays out. Cya on the Field!

Raincrow.1840:

Sunspots.9861:

What’s the point of an alliance where you still get last place lol

If you watch the score you’ll see that during the times when FA and CD work together that all three scores are much closer, with FA many times getting the most points per tick. It’s helping you guys have a better chance at 1st and 2nd.

Has it occured to you that while defending our own lands as best we can, TC could simply choose not to attack CD and only destroy FA on their own homeland? I’m pretty sure if we couldn’t get first we’d just guarantee ourselves second until Fort Aspenwood got tired of being third and gave up on helping CD get first. An alliance is really on phase 1 of a changing war and we plan on playing smart, not emotionally.

Moreover, while FA can affect who gets first, it is TC who would get to decide who is last. Think about that.

I went for the quiver for purely fluff reasons. I use dual bows and a quiver just fit perfectly. Plus, the stats are pretty good for any occasion.

TC is too good to sink to t4 and the only thing this alliance would do is guarantee us staying in t3 forever. Cd is clearly stronger than FA, so FA and yak are the only real variables here. An alliance seals FA’s fate as a tier 4 server because the only guarantee in this matchup is a third place for FA.

Me personally though, I don’t mind. The purpose of having 3 sides is to encourage temporary alliances for sure, I just don’t think they planned on both sides commanders attacking one homeland as a single force, but rather both servers pursuing their own self interests independently. Either way, the system will compensate and things will fall back into place…whether that’s cd soaking up fair weathers from all servers or us.

I’m going to have fun either way, and I take pride that we defended as well as we did and protected our garrison. Maybe next time we won’t be as lucky!

What’s the point of an alliance where you still get last place lol

I don’t mind ;P I’m sure I’m not the only one that sits in mumble or vent chatting with other Rangers thinking of ways to change or better the class.

I like pets too, which is why despite the fact so many would like the option to permanently stow the pet, I think A-net might decide they don’t want to go that far. What I’m trying to do is think of ways to compromise and give rangers a utility option to do that without dramatically changing the class.

Maybe this isn’t the right solution, but I don’t see anything wrong with exchanging the pet for a boost in weapon damage in some capacity. As for lore, the pet doesn’t have to die..it can “ascend” or whatever semantic you want but it made sense to invoke the 45 second pet timer after using such a powerful skill.

Summon a new pet and keep fighting? Do you just want a button that kills the person in front of you instantly?

Costs 50 skill points.

Absorbs your pet stats and adds them to your own for 15 seconds every 2 minutes. Pet is killed in process.

How does that sound?

One word…Boomerang.

I certainly do not speak for [PINK], but I do know that anytime we are on a map we make a point to communicate with whomever else is on the map fighting the good fight. If you see us, feel free to give us an idea what your intentions or plans are and we will keep you up to date with our own I should add that some of the charm of our server has always been we are allianceless and value as much the guildless militia member as we do the guilds running their private ops. Maybe thats why we have the best militia in tier 3 and below.

Pretty sure this will be addressed soon do enjoy it while u can baddies.

I think CD is fine with an alliance as long as FA doesn’t get too close to second place lol.

Sometimes I think there should be a seperate EB thread because its like a different world over there. I never know whats going on but it mostly stays green which is nice. I prefer the borderlands.

Why do you guys care about the score anyways. If it was a case of not even being able to leave your spawn because the cruel TCers were camping all spawns and holding everything on the map, then I get the angst, but its not that way at all. We are extremely even during prime time which is all really anyone can hope for in a 24/7 week long scoring cycle anyways.

Just win your homelands, win the map you happen to be on at the time, and enjoy the great fights regardless of what the scoreboard said happened yesterday.

Bad players alt f4. They have alot of excuses we’re supposed to buy into and accept but the truth is they lose alot and it makes them so angry that literally the only way they can sieze a little power in their powerless world is to deprive you of a reward. Pretty pathetic really.

More importantly though, if I remove them not only from combat in front of me, but from the game and back to a q or spawn point then I’m happy. Have fun relogging.

That’s a bit of a misquote above me… It wasn’t me who said that… I just wondered if yaks missed t3 competition.

So is it fun in that matchup Yaks, or do you miss t3?

y u no post scores?

Tier 3 is hotly contested enemy borderlands every week where the goal is always to hold your foothold and press on Garrison whenever your home map is unthreatened. I spend alot of time in all 3 borderlands and zero in EB, though its nice to know that TC’s EB Militia is really good.

I spent the first few hours after reset in TCBL and I was really surprised how fast CD moved compared to the speed of FA and YB that we had seen in weeks past. Luckily though, our defenses bent, but didn’t break. We rallied around Cragtop, our last tower, and decided no matter what we weren’t losing that to anyone.

CD and FA came, staggered and occasionally together, even fighting outside amongst themselves, but the good thing about being backed into a corner is knowing literally everyone you have on the map is working to keep it. Plus, FA and CD we’re forced to fight through each other to get to us, and that gave us the breathing room we needed to win back Sunny, then Garrison and retake our Northern Foothold in our homelands.

For the next two hours we fought hard and steady to regain Hills from FA and I believe we were even able to slip behind CD and steal back our Southwest Tower just as FA picked up the unmanned buff and it was just us vs CD.

With all our forces on our homelands united and all the doubters long gone for assumedly greener pastures like EB, we stole BB just in time to assault Bay from the East while holding off CD’s reinforcements from their own southern gate. Nothing like killing people at their own wall!

All in all it was an amazing night of fighting on both sides and even though we were dangerously close to losing it all, we held on, fought back, and became the first Homeland to regain our entire map that night. I hope those of you from CD and FA had as much fun as I did.

To those of you who showed up to TCBL and complained and doubted in team and map, then left shamefully for easier ground, you really missed out. I can only assume you are a recent transfer and don’t know we do take protecting our homeland very seriously… but when its you vs both sides, with very little siege, supplies and not a single upgrade, you are likely to lose alot before you can gain a little. It takes good leadership and cool heads to not give up before you even started. I’m pretty sure anyone from CD or FA that enjoys defending their own homeland on reset knows exactly what I’m talking about.

I know this match is hardly decided and I can’t wait to jump in for more, cya tonight!

Seeya soon Yak’s I’m pretty sure you will make fast work of T4.

I’m interested in that solution. I tested the vertical fov before fractals came out and I’m not sure I ever removed that line. Going to check this out.

Jayne.9251:

I have a question for Yakkers, and forgive me because I’m new to WvW and probably don’t understand the mechanics. But why on earth are you almost OCD about small areas? I’m thinking specifically about the lumber mill area on the Yak map near the TC WP?

We had wave after wave of Yakkers come in defense of it, and each time they died they’d return to this small little mill … meanwhile on the other side of the map Aspenwood was overtaking major forts and towers, one after the other.

I don’t understand why Yak would focus so completely on one tiny area, and ignore bigger ticket items that are being overrun.

Is it because there’s a mandate against TC? If so, you guys should know there’s an awful lot of chatter about how fond TCers are of Yak bend WvW’ers. Honestly. I’m not kidding. At least once a day there’s some nice comment about Yak WvWers.

Camps are alot more important than you seem to understand. The side that controls the camps typically controls the map. Now I’m not saying that in this case, the Yak’s we’re being ordered to guard this camp with their life…but the fact that they automatically do this is a little bit of what makes their defensive capabilities on their own map so tough.

At this point, with the numbers skewed, the Yak’s borderland doesn’t seem as solid as it used to be, but first week, full Yak’s in there, that was a really really hard map to crack. They never just took a loss then disssapeared to defend something else…they continually pushed forcing all your “ninja” ops to go back on defense. Perhaps FA gets a little better look at the Yak’s defense that we of TC remember.

I didn’t read this entire thread yet, but I would just like to drop a couple suggestions. Maybe they are impossible but it is my wish list as an sbow/lbow ranger.

I would love to have the abillity to completely stow pet and boost bow damage. Obviously the pets are a huge part of our class, but certainly we can agree that as a tool they were primarily given to the archetypical bow class to keep pve mobs at range while he shot from a distance. This isn’t as neccessary in WvW or PvP. The same way switching pets now is a mini game so as well can be choosing when to use the pet, and when to not.

Point Blank (Longbow 4) really needs to be instant. I believe the speed of combat in WvW makes using that shot more for trolling people from the back of the fight, rather than using it to push an agressive attacker away and get some range, which is the reason I believe it was created.

I think Piercing Arrows needs to be automatic and not a trait. In WvW especially the amount of obstructions are so thick that if you don’t have this skill you are significantly kittening yourself. This might be a solution to trying to fix the obstruction issue in the first place.

Pets…I don’t know if its a bug or intended, but can we please save our pet names? Seeing juvenile this and that everywhere hurts the game I think.

Anyways, thanks!

Yes, many many many of us are having this issue and as of yet I have heard no response, possible solution, or even recognition they care. Please just say you are aware?