Guild Wars 2

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I mentioned support pets (in my case passive, but killable) several times, but noone cared to comment my posts :/

Other idea could be some wisp or other “spirit of nature” that’d stick to you, buffing/healing player/allies.

I wasn’t using WH for some time, but from what I remember it happend only when you had something targetted and/or when you had out targetting on.

Tribio.8531:

On a sidenote: I see so many people complain about their pets.. Didn’t they know the pet is something native to a ranger when creating their character? Mine has never bothered me at all, on the contrary.. Would be quite worthless without it.. Something to take the aggro for me while I hail down my arrows, I love it..

Some ppl thought it will be like in the first GW.

Speaking about running from zerg… I actually love to sacrafice my wolf to slow them down

Anyway, I wouldn’t mind perma stow. Devs already said (afaik) there will be no pet-less ranger, but what about perma stow with no bonuses? Just for JP or any other situation when we don’t want pet in combat (reason doesn’t matter).

Avathor.1849:

2. The pet should ALWAYS aim to get behind the target attacking his back, or at the side. But at least it attacks from the opposite direction from the ranger.
Now, this gives at least two benefits: It dodges aoe directed at players.. (because it isnt infront). And second it might attract the attention of the target (if doing enough aggro) so that the Short Bow can make them bleed.. That way the SB will be more useful also.
THAT would be a blessing.

THAT’d be curse. I’m using pet as shield sometimes and I never run with SB. Also, what if mobs it’s attacking also tried to stay behind it?

Robert Hrouda.1327:

One of the reasons why the Ranger and pet are built the way that they are, is because if we gave the ranger all the power, then the pet would have to be useless and vestigial, or everyone would claim rangers are OP. That’s one of the core reasons we can’t just increase pet attribute numbers. Without a method for avoiding damage, it also means your pet takes 4 hits in dungeons instead of only 2 or 3, so it doesn’t really solve the problem.
We have WvW reps in the balance meeting as well, so I’ll be sure to poke and prod them about ranger pets in zerg battles to get their opinions. Personally I tend to do well keeping a pet non-hostile until the zergs actually clash – then switching him to hostile and managing his target. Otherwise when I try to shoot some arrows at somebody, Cuddles the Black Widow decides it is time to charge into battle. I really don’t feel like this is a bad solution. While most people may resist it, if you want your pet to charge the front line and lead the attack, consider grabbing up the signet that makes your pet invulnerable for a few seconds.

@Swagg – that’s a lovely chart

Speaking about WvW… what about siege? I love my LB there, but seeing my pet just standing near me, wasting all those precious numbers (even when not specced into BM) is painful. As perma stow is not an option, have you considered some kind of “support pets”? You know, things that, instead of making damage, would pop some buffs for party (red moa on passive for it’s F2 is what I mean, but still too big loss in dmg). I believe there are other uses for such pets, maybe even as alternative to “normal ones” for ppl who, like me, plasy ranger mostly for his weapon skills.
And btw. it’s nice to see someone speaking to us If I were dev I’d be afraid to post on professions forums xD

Oh wow. Rapid fire every 10 sec? Gz for not taking reduced CD. What about constant 10 vuln (up to 20 for 1-2 sec) on target? What about great aoe? What about KD helping to take mobs from downed ally?

It’s so easy to generalize…

Buffing dmg? ok! But don’t change fire rate of LB. I like the animation when I move hand to my quiver – with SB firing speed it looks idiotic.

I lol when I see ppl saying warrior is easier to survive… if you compare them as ranged, then ranger has a lot more survi – 2 KDs on wolves, faster endurance regen, if we add utilites: ranger has LR and 25% run speed vs warrs signet for faster endu regen and what? Endure pain? I tried warrior with rifle, and dmg was nice, but any thief could kill me, as I couldn’t defend against them (WvW). As LB/GS ranger I have LB 4., GS 4. when he tries to backstab and 3. to make huge gap.

I have Kudzu and imho it’s one of the best legendaries. It has nice effects but doesn’t look like toy (twilight/sunrise). The only thing that annoys me is string.

Imo it’d be nice if one of them answered here. Not about “why” or “when”, but just make a post to show they are reading this – maybe not listening, but at least reading.

StoneWolf.7930:

and we get 85% more damage on a useless weapon to begin with in the off hand. great.

I thought “buffing useless weapons” is exactly what we want, if you know what I mean

But tbh idk what to think about it. I didn’t expect any buffs, honestly. Everything I wanted from balance changes was nerf to some proffs/build that are OP. Seeing how they got buffed… no idea what to say.

I’m going to still play my ranger and it will still be my main. The day I leave ranger, will be day I leave game. I hope it will be because of other reasons than “balance issues”.

I haven’t checked time, but for me it disappeared when CD on F2 was 3/4 – that means I had it in hands 30 sec. Just saying

After 2 days of testing idk. Charge misses too often and wolf F2 fear was also pretty useful. Pigs F2 skills are great in siege, where wolves were totally useless. I still need to try it in FotM, but not going there anytime soon.

No, it’s good skill. It never bugged for me and I like to use it when running from zerg as addional dodge (also, if you are good at turning, it’s good gap maker). The only thing I’d change is delete dmg from it and add immobilize breaker :>

True, or at least in hands only. Or in place of F2 skill – like thieves F1! Can you hear us dev?

Yeah, KD seems to miss sometimes :/ but on the other hand, F2 is great when I’m sitting on a wall.
They have low power and prec, but tbh it doesn’t matter for me. Pet dmg in WvW isn’t that important, unless you use “Guard” or are BM specced.

And yeah, I’m using F4 for quickness, so I justclick F2 after every F4, when pet is near me.

Hi.

I remember there was a nic topic about pigs here, explaining F2 skill etc. I wonder, do you guys use pigs? Why/why not?

I’m playing LB ranger, mostly WvW, sometimes dung or two. Atm I’m running with 2 wolves, mostly for KD. Now, I decided to try pigs (the one with stealth skills on F2, and one with healing) – they have same KD (maybe even better coz of 3 sec KD) as wolves, bleeding I could use on npcs with buff (nothing big, but better than nothing if I don’t have time to swap bet before) and F2 is usefull in siege (stealth could be nice in field, but picking up while running is buggy).
What do you think?

It is was like this always. I’m using GS to destroy them, or summoned by ele ice bow. There are specific spots from where you can dmg burrows, but it’s not worth it to search for them.

Huxow.7259:

You should have 30/25/0/10/5

From (10) get dmg above 10% of ur max health gain prot for 5sec enjoy

I’m using 30/25/10/0/5 – 10 in toughness tree gives me faster endurance regen and redirects one CC to my pet once every 90 sec.

+1 to Solid Gold

On topic:
I’d like more ranged pets. Devouers are nice, but 2 of 4 skills they have are wasted most of time (evade and KD) and I simply hate spiders :P Maybe monkey throwing stones with “bigger” one on F2 as a stun?
Also, pets that have very low dmg and 3 of 4 skills are boons/auras, so we could use them as support ones, not dps (cmon, red moa isn’t enough).

Hah, finally someone said it I’m running with similiar config – just a bit more dmg oriented.

My advice: don’t waste time for ppl. You know it works, I know it works. No reason to explain others your build works and class isn’t broken (waiting for ppl quiting this sentence and saying how they got owned by class X in thing Y…).
Noone seems to care about 1500 range, that can go 2000+ when shooting from tower. Noone cares about 4 interrupts (2 wolves, LB4 and GS5). Noone cares about 3k+ crits on glass cannons (lvl 80 exotic) with auto attack.
It’s fun to see all this rage about how easy it is to dodge attacks or evade them by moving quickly – ppl seem to forget it’s W3, not sPvP, in all the chaos I can kill enemies with autoattack alone, staying out of range.

But as I said: don’t bother, ever if someone tried it and changed his opinion (yeah, it’s opinion, not fact), he wouldn’t have balls to come here and admit it.

Before I had PC that allowed me to play WvW. Sadly I lost all screenies from the old machine, so I can only give link to the one I posted in “show your ranger” topic.

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/4588/gw009.jpg

They warned players there will be no free transfers and gave them time to move. You want merge, but what about players who actually like to play on empty servers (it’s not topic about it being stupid on their side or not)?
Personally I don’t want merges, as my server (GH) is medium populated one so I guess they’d “add” some players to it, and we are still getting used to newcommers after last week of free transfers.
In other words: I don’t want random players to be forced on my server, especially if they liked to be on empty one.

Ofc if there wasserver with population being like 5% of the “normal” server I guess ANet will consider merging it, or giving free transfers and closing it, just because of costs – why waste money to keep empty server runing? :P

@edit
Also, 1,8k gems is cost of transfer to the most populated one. If they merged you’d be moved to medium ones (~700 gems).

Sam here. I always played hunter/archer/ranger guys. I was used to GW1, where focusing on bow was fully viable and hearing I HAVE to spec into BM to do NORMAL dmg is just annoying.
Don’t tell me to go warr or theif coz I like rangers weapon skills, utilities, traits. I even like pets and I don’t have anything against micromanaging them. What I don’t like, is being forced into going deeper that I want – I have 5 points in BM and I don’t want more. I want pet to be class mechanic that helps me when I need help, not that requires more attention than bow – thing I’m specced into.

Gelltor.3015:

I use longbow all the time,except for Spvp where i go shortbow.
I don’t know,just i normally find the longbow skills better for WvW and Pve,the knockback and 10stacks of vun are just too handy

Same here. Playing ranger since beginning, over 900h now and using LB all the time. I tried SB coz ppl say it’s better, but simply can’t use it – too boring and my dmg doesn’t seem to go up. I had to think about it much before finishing my legendary, but tbh it’s just matter of preferences.

If you need reason to use LB:
- in WvW there are places where you can use effect of arrow “falling” to hit eniemies (or mostly siege coz they think it’s safe there) in over 2000 range.
- LBs (not only legendary) looks imo a lot better :P
- 1500 range is extremally usefull in zerg vs zerg, even in small zergs
- idk about SB, but with LB I can easily solo camps in WvW
- LB is better to “tag” enemy, be it player or mob, to get drop
- 4. for knocking enemies from walls, cliffs, sieges, to interrupt heals and finishes on our teammates, to make a gap from melee. And it deals not that bad dmg
- with 3. you can keep 10 stacks of vuln all the time (with 8 sec CD you can even have 20 for 2 sec)
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- longer = better (ask your GF!)’

Also, you can use 3. and 4. between 1. shoots to maximize your dmg output.

But yeah, it’s shame we have to even think about it. Weapons sholuld be balanced in a way, where you can use anything and don’t be woried you will be less effective.

Hi. I’m mostly WvW player and I’m totally bored of my devouers dying all the time and not really doing any dmg. I think it could be better idea to have a pet with some buff on F2 (red moa?) to just stay near me on passive – pop buff every CD, always in range for signet of reneval and if it doesn’t have 100% hp and I click F1 on enemy it uses heal ^^
I’m 30/25/10/0/5 and with moa I’d move 5 from BM to 3rd tree for protection on roll.

What do you think?

Demannu.2805:

Give me more of those tears and drama

Meanwhile Vabbi need active WvW players for higher Tiers battles !

Welcome new guilds in our Alliance ! Nice to have you guys here !

Cheers

Champion Of Khorne

Drama? No, you just destroyed weeks (months?) of work of ppl trying to restore balance and dare to call it “glory”. I honestly hope you fail

There was “nice” discussion in topic about using Healing Sprinf in FotM but it died.
I’d like to hear what healing skills are you using and why?

I’m playing mostly PvE and WvW and atm I’m running with healing spring, but tbh it really heals too low in some situations. I like it for condition removal and combo field, but regen pretty much sux.

Gratz. I share the feelings, I made my Kudzu in ~800h of normal play, just for fun – no grind/farm. It’s annoying to see all those – I don’t even know how to call them – who think you need to cheat or sth for it.

Nayru.4537:

Hmm 1350 hours in 4 months, that’s over 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day.

That’s what I’ll think now every time I see somebody with a legendary.

Notice when you are afking it’s still counting your time.

Games where you have milions of gold – ppl cry
Games where gold is really wort sth – ppl cry

I played GW1 only 4 years, but like GW2 a lot more. Ofc there is still a lot of things I’d like to see added, but seeing how most of MMOs develop with time I can wait.

~50 guildies online at peak times compared to ~30 when FotM was added. Doing daily AC and CoE runs + weekly baltha liberating runs.
Playing on Gunnars Hold (rather low population).

I think I heard they are going to give us sth to do with them, but idk where and if it’s true :/

Stop with this bullkitten about grinding all day. I made my legendary 2 days ago: it took me 1 day of real grind (lost patience at the end) and 4 months of normal playing.
~800h played for FUN, just didn’t waste gold.

Hi. I’m playing balanced build longbow ranger (30/25/10/0/5, max power, ~33% crit chance, 69 crit dmg, rest tough/vit) and I can’t decide what sigil should I use :/
Playing mostly WvW and fractals (lvls 20+), sometimes other dungs.

5% dmg – it’s nice it’s always on, but 5% isn’t that much.

Sigil of fire – I used rare one before making Kudzu to save money and it was really nice, but it didn’t proc as much as it could coz of my “low” crit chance. Now I’d buy supeior one ofc.

+10 might/kill – pretty nice, but 250 power is ~10% increase for me, considering I need to stack it up, and can lose it pretty easy, it doesn’t sound that nice anymore :P

What do you think? Is it worth using crit-proccing one with my crit chance? Maybe some other ones?

Swiftness doesn’t stack with other speed buffs, so this “useless” 25% sets us closer to perma swiftness classes. Also, it’s not like every class gets speed buff (only half of them) AND we don’t know what they get exactly – maybe not as big buff as ppl imagine.

Thh I don’t even why do I try… it’s like no matter what happens ppl will always cry here…

My set. I wouldn’t say it’s ugly

Actually, I’m getting more ectos since patch :P Using mystic kit.

You just need to search better. For not bandit mask helmets: thiefs starting ones (I have hood on my ranger), duelist set helmet, whispers set helmet. Those are ones I remember right now, I’m sure there are more.
I play male, so I like HoM set and duelist set (from not-coat ones), for female human T3 is also great. Ofc mixing set parts helps a lot.

Most ppl who dosn’t like it are on forums, most of ppl who likes it just play game. Do you think all those who rage on forums are majority of -all- players?

What do you mean by “fix”? From what I know, legendaries are working… and if by “fix” you mean “change skins to what you’d like to see”, I’m afraid this isn’t gonna happen :P
Actual skins aren’t bad, they are just very specific and doesn’t fit most players (we like burning sth of dooooooom shooting lightnings and flames, not flowers and rainbows xD )

My question from first post is still actual: has anyone seen any official post about adding more legendary weapons?

Hi.
As we all know, many ppl (me included) isn’t happy with available legendary weapons. It seems pretty obvious ANet will add more of them with some expansion… But if not?

What I mean: I’m pretty close to Kudzu, but I totally hate the skin. I’d get it just for “other” projectile and to simply know I can’t get “better” weapon. I could just stop now and wait for more legendaries, if I only knew there will be more – I need confirmation. Has anyone seen, and can link, ANet saying there will be more legendaries?

Hi. Is it only me, or has it been improved? Everytime I changed my devouers for 2s quickness I had to wait 1 or 2 secs vefore clicking F2, or my pet wasted his attack by shooting it under itself or in air. Now, since friday’s patch I can click F2 instantyl after F4 and my pet will hit enemy

Patch notes are what they are, but if it was repaired in this patch (and it seems it was), then it isn’t that bad – my pet finally doesn’t waste his part of quickness

drwookie.6391:

“We don’t make grindy games”

Actually, GW1 was called “Grind Wars” for a reason

Do you believe devs really consider what ppl say on forums?

Anyway. You aren’t any better. I like FOM, so I’m a fanboy? If so, then you are hater. Is it hard, to understand your opinions isn’t the only valid one?

I like GW2 much more than GW1. It’s my opinion and I have right to it.

Hi. As we all know, rangers lack immobilize removal. I was running with healing spring, as it heals condition, but why not prayer to kormir? (I’m human) With it I could use heal as one, and be pretty sure it’ll heal immobilize, coz it heals 3 conditions. I play mostly WvW and PvE, so it’s not problem I can’t use this skill in sPvP :P

What do you think? Is it worth with 40 sec CD?

Now I just log in and play my ranger like if nothing happened :P I don’t feel like broken class, just a bit underpowered and with some annoying bugs. Ofc I’m disappionted with no buff for my LB, but it’s not like I lost something: I just didn’t gain anything.

Need moar info!

From: http://kotaku.com/5960951/the-lead-designer-of-guild-wars-2-is-answering-your-questions-right-now

Dirin 9 hours ago
Do you plan on working toward having more back gear such as pauldrons/capes/etc?

IsaiahCartwright @Dirin 9 hours ago
We do have some more back items this update. You will be able to find a quiver, we know we only shipped with a few back items and we do plan to add more.

Razamis.1062:

I can’t believe anyone would drop money in this game for gems. You get everything you need just from playing the game, there is absolutely no reason to buy gems.

If you are dropping $50/month into this game when it isn’t needed, perhaps you should give some of that wasted money to charity.

I find it sick how some players can proudly boast how much they spend in the gem store. Like most players, I haven’t spent a dime in the gem store and never intend to.

You should be happy ppl buy gems. They pay so you can play.

I’m playing on Gunnars Hold, and I can’t say it’s empty here. Ofc, when one week ago I was on Desolation for a moment (or rather 7 days -.-), there were a lot more players.

I play only 1 toon, don’t like alts. Sometimes I run on lower level zones (for achievs or crafting mats) and I meet other players. Not as much as in first days, but still enough to never solo any event.

Is this game boring? For me not. I like it more than GW1 (played 4 years) and WoW (played 3 years). I guess I’ll get bored after some time, but please, don’t tell me I have nothing to do. If you don’t know what to do, then it’s only your problem.

Is there farming? Yes, there is. Was it in GW1? Yep, there was, a lot of it! (I guess you heard of term “grind wars”). Do you have to farm? No, you don’t. We don’t know about gear progression yet, so for now it’s safe to say, there is no need to farm. Money for WvW? Don’t make me laugh, I buy sieges and upgrades, and I still earn more in WvW than I spend.

Still, I have to agree it can be issue on lower populated servers or in less active hours. Soloing temple events in Orr surely is a pain lol

To haters who will call me fanboy now: that, you think something, doesn’t mean it’s true, and everyone who things other is lying.

Tamaskil.9841:

Please lets try to avoid flame war in this topic and try to discuss about proper solution.
—-> Same level gear for all PvP.
Imagine just go to Mists, fit your toon, enter portal and go to WvW and have fun. Or go to spvp with same toon. This would be dream for me.
I could join structured or world scale pvp with same toon, with equal gear.
Also testing different builds in WvW would be more easy this way.

Just as I wrote above: some ppl like to use gear they earned, to fight other players. In name of “balance” (there never will be real balance is WvW, as you never fight against only lvl 80s and against same number of enemies) you want to take it away from them.