Guild Wars 2

ocfallwind.4821:

But what’s the point of giving constructive feedback? Couldn’t you see on this forum that there are already tons of thoughtful and constructive ideas on how the rangers can be fixed, yet we received 16 bullet points of almost nothing?
Fundamental bugs [e.g. 1H Sword root] didn’t get fixed. All we got is the harpoon gun buff?!

What’s the point of giving constructive feedback?

What’s the point in being so negative? What’s the alternative: whine and threaten designers? No thank you. As I stated, I have a vested interest in seeing the Ranger class improve. While changes didn’t happen this patch, this does not mean changes won’t happen in the future. I believe if we discuss point in a constructive, positive way, we as players can help give developers a new perspective and ideas that they can hopefully play with.

Anyways. I think that buffing pet survivability is a tricky thing. The problem with pets is that they get one-shotted really easily on high-level content. But the thing is, so do most players. If you buff pet hp to a point where they can survive, then that means you’re making them INCREDIBLY hard to kill, even during normal circumstances.

However, the reason why players are able to get through high-level content is due to smarter positioning and ability to dodge. So there’s two potential solutions to tackle this problem

1. Better pet AI. Pets will avoid AOEs when they detect red circles, or try to escape red circles if they are already on it. Implementing this can be problematic, since it takes away control from players. So if a player wants to activate a skill while a pet is moving out of a way, what happens? Does the pet ignore the player? Or remain in the aoe and attempt to use the skill?

2. Pets gain invulnerability when you roll. Players dodge many many many life-threatening damage sources by rolling. So why not give pets invulnerability frames when the player rolls? That way, especially in dungeons, when players are dodging a boss attack, the pet will survive also on virtue on the player’s skills.

So I’m going to get this thread started…

Reliance on Pets. I think this is a big one. I run lots of Dungeons, and pet taking aggro/dying too much is a huge problem. Many rangers would like to run builds without pets and such too.

Potential Solution: Let pets be stowed away even during combat. This allows for people who don’t wish to use pets in their builds to stow them permanently, and when people are encountered with situations in which pets are simply a nuisance, they can simply keep them stowed to avoid aggro.

Shortbow I believe I read somewhere from Anet once that they don’t “want to promote 1-spamming gameplay.” Which is a legitimate concern, but the problem with shortbow is 1 is the only way to do damage, because skills 2-5 are not built for damage.

Potential Solution: half the damage on shortbow 1, but increase damage on 2-5 Hear me out here. 1 should be changed so it does less damage, but its main function should be to stack bleeds on an enemy. Skills 2-5 damage should be increased to compensate, and I think skill 4 damage should perhaps scale with the number of bleed stacks. This way, Rangers can still do viable amounts of burst damage even in big teamfights when the boss already has 25 bleed stacks. This discourage 1-spamming, but still makes shortbows do a good amount of damage through buffs to damages of skills 2-5.

Obviously this is just a start, and there’s many many topics to be discussed like spirits, other weapons, etc. But I’m no genius, and I obviously don’t know every aspect of a Ranger. So hopefully more people will contribute and we can get a lively, constructive discussion going!

So I understand there’s lots of rage and angry in this subforums currently, for a very good reason. There’s lots of people talking about creating a new class, or moving onto another game, or anger at broken promises, jokes about underwater domination etc. etc. These threads I can completely understand why people would post them, but lets be honest here. They aren’t CONSTRUCTIVE at all.

I still love my ranger. I plan on playing her for a very long time, and I have a vested interested in seeing this profession improve. And I think that cussing out developers and such, no matter how much they deserve it, doesn’t help me advance this cause at all and may hinder it. My worst fear is that developers, seeing all this negative threads on the forums, start taking information on this forums as a grain of salt and writing it off as “players are just being angry.” Because lets be honest here, if you were arguing with someone, and your opponent started wishing your company would fire you, you’d be less likely to listen to his arguments rationally.

So I just wanted to make this thread so that people can post constructive and detailed posts and why a Ranger is so underpowered and what, specifically, can be changed to improve on the core Ranger gameplay. Hopefully we can get a good, constructive discussion going here, because I think that is the best way to convince Anet what changes are needed (as opposed to ranting and threatening).

Lopez.7369:

Cut them some slack. They have two people working on class changes.

I believe they have two designers. Designers don’t deal with bugs I don’t think. The actual programmers do.

What the…

This time they even stated that they will be rare.

“Weapon skins are rare, and mini pets are even rarer…” According to patch notes.

People this time around can’t make that BS statement “I was led to believe the actual chances were higher than what it actually is.”

wintermute.4096:

Hah. “5 pages” my kitten . Not going to happen anytime soon I’d wager.

Humposaurus.5764:

5 pages with font size 72 probally xD

I’m not sure what patch notes you guys are looking at, but copy/pasting the entire patch notes onto a word document at a 13.5 Courier New font is 16 pages.

WeLoveKanjimari.6725:

There’s no way to read that other than “The patch is set for noon PST, as confirmed by somebody who should know what they’re talking about”. If he meant it in a different way he should’ve said so. He did not. There’s really no excuse for it.

I’m pretty much in agreement that this is all very very confusing, so I’m going to reply to this portion of your post but…

There is an other way to read it. Because obviously, I understood it in a different way than you did. Going strictly by the wording of the post, I didn’t see any confirmation. But if people try to read between the lines, by all means. I, personally, am still going to remain skeptical about this whole “patch was promised at the 15th” business.

EDIT: HOOOH I just saw your new post. Guess it is today then!

WeLoveKanjimari.6725:

Ursan.7846:

The moderator never confirmed anything. “Thank you for answering the questions” is not the same as “yes, that is the correct answer”

You know very well that is absolutely ridiculous.

The moderator said “Thanks for answering for me” and then closed the thread. He wouldn’t have done that if he wasn’t saying the answer was correct. Otherwise every question ever asked would be closed after one post!

Maybe the mod didn’t read the question/answer too carefully.

Maybe the mod closed it in a “thanks for answering, but we really don’t encourage discussion of patch time” way.

You don’t know. I’m just going strictly by what the mod said. I’m not saying for sure it’s the 15th or the 16th. I don’t know, but many people are leaping to the “It has to be the 15th” on an assumption of the mod’s intentions.

The moderator never confirmed anything. “Thank you for answering the questions” is not the same as “yes, that is the correct answer”

Zidane.6078:

Ursan.7846:

Still don’t see it. All is see is a forum poster answering, and a mod closing the thread without really confirming it.

I see a Question, being replied to with an answer that answer being 12pm Pacific, and a CC Thanking the person for letting the OP know the correct answer and then closing the thread.

To me that means the answer is 12pm Pacific, and comfirmed by CC Ivonne.

You’re really stretching it here.

“Thank you for replying to the OP” is all the mod said. She did not confirm that the answer was correct in any way.

No, they didn’t say it would be today. All that thread is is a forum poster saying something, and a mod closing the thread without confirming anything. We don’t even know if the mod read the thread carefully.

Still don’t see it. All is see is a forum poster answering, and a mod closing the thread without really confirming it.

When did they say the patch was at noon? All they said, from what I remember, is that the friend’s free trial thing starts.

Where does it say patch day is on the 15th? All I know is the free trials start today, but I don’t remember seeing anything saying that, yes, it’s also the day where the patch comes out.

Combo worked just fine for me last night. Are you talking about testing today?

So….Mind posting a link to that tweet?

Tommyknocker.6089:

I just won’t concede the point of having an 85 percentile being considered a fail and although it isn’t 90% it would still be a passing grade anywhere.

Either you completely missed my point in the analogy,

or…

You think not getting an A grade is a failure (which it isn’t). And not getting a legendary is considered a failure (which it also isn’t).

The point is, if you don’t reach that threshold for an A, you don’t get that A. If you can’t complete the requirements for a legendary, you won’t get that legendary.

Unless you do manage to get the Vistas with the many helpful tips in this thread. If you do it, then yes, hopefully you will get that legendary someday in the future.

But please, none of that stuff about being “unfair” or this being a “roadblock.” Is it hard? Perhaps for you. Is it impossible? No, not if you put in the effort.

I really, really wish posters on this forums would stop posting threads that include something along with the lines of “most people hold the same viewpoint as me…”

Tommyknocker.6089:

Thanks for your reply Ursan; my only hope is that you never grow old enough to know what bad nerves are like. As for dungeons and other combat situations, I do well enough as pressing one key at a time is a far cry from having to judge/time out a distance over and over again. Btw dexterity according to Webster’s is the readiness and grace in physical activity; especially : skill and ease in using the hands <manual dexterity>.

edit: Nayru – other options and I have found one with the Mesmer suggestion. thanks.

So your problem is judging distances? That’s not the same thing as dexterity then.

Watch videos for each vista. Look at each jump, look at where the person is making the jump from. Orient your character. Then space + w.

Most vistas don’t punish you for missing jumps. For those, you can just iterate. Jump from one spot, and if you don’t make the jump, try from a different spot.

The vistas that do punish you are usually those where you have to jump from one platform to another, non-connected platform. Same thing. Look at videos, see where they are jumping from. Try to get to the edge of the platform if you can. if you fall, just learn where you fell from and try with a more conservative estimate of where the edge is.

Forgive me if I sound annoyed, but I have a hard time imagining you’ve put in any effort into these jumping puzzles. There’s a few hard ones, yes, but most of them can be done if you iterate enough times: they are not that hard at all, especially when you have videos to rely on to know what the correct path is.

If you simply still cannot do it, I guess getting a legendary is out of the question for you then. If you get a 85% grade in a class where 90% is the threshold is an A, do you cry out it’s unfair? No, you just didn’t have what it takes to achieve that 90% grade.

What the…“I can’t achieve something, can you please lower the bar so I can attain it.”

Try your best at it. Watch videos. Take it slowly. Focus on making one jump at a time.

I have no idea what you mean by “not dextrous enough.” Perhaps you use a custom keyboard input configuration that is plain inefficient? All you need for jumping puzzles are wasd, space, and your mouse. Left hand, middle 3 fingers stay on wad, and thumb on space, while right hand controls mouse. There isn’t some crazy dexterity involved.

You don’t even need to do all this at once too. Take your time, move your mouse to a camera angle most optimal, then do the jump even, if you are unable to control the mouse/jump at the same time.

If you can’t even do this, I question your ability to do other things required to get a legendary. IE do dungeons, many of them which requires lots of dodging and such.

Why’s there such a rush to get the achievement within 2 weeks?

I never server hopped, and took my time. I kept an eye on how my server was doing in WvW, and when they captured any walled structure I didn’t have, I’ll hop in and grab it.

As for non-walled structures, it’s simple enough to sneak around and nab it. It took me about 3 months to complete on 2 chars, but it can be done. Just takes time.

Seriously guys…

We don’t even know what this new “more powerful” gear means. Lets wait for the details of the actual change before we disagree/agree with it.

For those of you who played GW1, you would know you had to “Infuse” your armor so that you became resistant against one particular type of enemies (Mursaat). Your gear did not become more powerful, you just became more resistant to one type of enemy. It could very well be that this is all the change is.

But again, the point of this thread is that I have no idea. None of you have any idea. So can we uh, be a little patient, wait till we see what the change is exactly, and then complain/agree wholeheartedly about it?

Yes! It happened in the foefire map too. But it makes me really suspicious because I was the only one on my team to be able to get in, but their entire team managed to get back in. I guess we were just unlucky?

I was playing a tPvP game, and suddenly all 5 of my team mates gets disconnected.

We were winning the game too, but everyone suddenly became disconnected from the game. I was the only one able to re-connect, but the game had restarted completely 0-0. My other teammates could not join the game again, despite relogging multiple times. But the entire other team was able to get back into the game, and I lost the subsequent 5v1.

Anything similar happen to anyone here? It’s ridiculous, and it feels like I’ve been drop hacked.

But the sword doesn’t? That’s strange.

Nope. This screenshot was taken at Gendarran fields which was night when I stepped out from LA.

Has anyone had a similar problem?

I recently got the AC shortbow as a reward, but id doesn’t seem to be glowing at night!

To the left is my buddy with an AC sword, which is glowing (He also has an axe and a rifle, both which glow) but my shortbow is just blue, no glow-y effects at all.

Why is this =(.

Asagi.1405:

Oh for god’s sake.
A Guardian not traiting those will not directly cause enemies to be MORE lethal than they already are. That’s my point.

Boss more lethal = group being more inefficient.
Boss less lethal = group being more efficient.

I think these people get your point. Or are you saying the boss’s lethality doesn’t affect the party’s efficiency in any way?

I recently obtained the AC shortbow, but I noticed that it’s only blue, and doesn’t have the glowing affect.

Attached is a screenshot. To the left is my friend, who is holding the AC sword and it is obviously glowing. To the right is me, holding my non-glowing shortbow.

Is the lack of a glow a bug? Because it seems every other AC weapon (rifle, axe…things I’ve seen) glow. But the shortbow is the only one that doesn’t?

theMrCravens.7683:

Asbrandr.6324:

This. The value of gold is dictated by how hard it is to obtain within the game. If you make gold easier to obtain, prices will go up to compensate and adjust for inflation; this is basic economic theory.

The way I see it:

1 hr farming in Orr nets around 1g.

Dailies take about an hour for your average gamer.
Can be done ONCE per day.

Seems like equal value to me.

No, you still don’t seem to understand. The supply of gold in the world will dramatically increase due to dailies giving 1 gold. That devalues the actual value of gold and causes inflation.

theMrCravens.7683:

Most replies so far seems to be about inflation and TP prices.

Well, if Anet put a fixed price on pre-cursor, like 250g from a merchant, then this wouldn’t be a problem.

And fix the price of everything else on the TP? Because legendary precursers aren’t the only things being sold on the TP, you know.

This thread sounds like a “I want a certain, specific thing. Please help me get it, Anet.” And the answer is always going to be no, because your proposed solution will cause huge changes to the economy (huge inflation) just because you want the game catered to you somehow.

Than there will be a huge inflation. As in, gold will become more worthless, and stuff in the TP will cost a ton more.

First off, did he manage to kill any of you off? Sounds like he built a very tanky/annoying build. Those exist, but they don’t kill very quick either. So while he may have been annoying I highly doubt he was a threat.

Also, do any of you have cc? Daze/immobilize/stuns? IF he’s immobilized, he can die pretty quickly to 5 people hitting him.

Thirdly, did you spam aoe blindly near the group? Aoe hits thieves while they’re still stealthed. If your group consistantly lays down AOE on top of themselves while they travel, no way that thief can hit any of you.

Or you could be a botter who’s trying to pretend to be innocent, posting on the forums and hoping to garner enough attention so that they will somehow overturn your ban?

You never know!

Simple question. Now that Halloween’s done, can we trash it? I just wanted to make sure before I permanently delete this thing.

Anet stated already that this one-time event won’t have anything to do with achievements.

I run GW2 at the highest settings. It runs very smoothly, but whenever I open up my friends panel, I notice a significant decrease in FPS. This isn’t the case with any other panels (hero, guild, PvP…)

My computer contains an Intel i7, NVIDIA GeForce 680, and 8 GB of RAM.

Does anyone else also see this problem?

As can be seen from the screenshot, I have Mad Memories equipped and has it checked to display it. It can be seen on my character, but it cannot be seen in the Hero panel for some reason.

Or you can just find high-level friends/guidies/strangers to do it with? It’s not a requirement that you do it alone, you know.

Grab a higher level friend. If you don’t find any find kind high level people to escort you. I’m sure there’s at least a few in LA willing to do it.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Mad_King

There you go.

Sentinel VX.1392:

Lexy.3912:

Sentinel VX.1392:

… I always want at least a unique skin as a “souvenir” that I can earn with or without spending real money(gems in this case). This skin should not be hard to get but at least require a descent amount of effort during the event unlike getting a legendary or something like that.

And with 3 Acts worth of unknown content still to come, how can you possibly know that you won’t get this?

I can’t tell but so far I only got a lame book that has a low stats.

Lets just see how it goes. If they really give use skins or whatever it is, then it should at least fix the issue.

…To quote the original reddit thread.

“they want some dinky plastic Halloween spider ring they can pull out in a few months when they’re bored in a dungeon that says “I was there.”"

I think the book and the devil’s horns fit that description pretty well.

But Instant Bank Access is more for when you’re in the field dungeoning or whatever and you need to quickly sell items while you’re doing something.

You do have free things you can get. You can get the devil horns for free, and so far there’s that book that you can equip (though I feel there’s more to that book in the next acts).

Very cheap dinky things…But still, a souvenir. I plan on keeping it!

Not sure if this goes into this forum or the suggestion forum, so I apologize in advance if I erred.

But players should be able to access their banks through the PvP locker. I have several chars I use purely for PvP purposes, and I use my bank to transfer stuff like tournament tokens and glory boosters. So it’s a huge hassle for me to go to LA, open the bank, etc…

Of course, unless I’m being completely silly and you can access the bank somewhere. But all I see is the PvP locker, and it should have access to your personal bank!

D/D & Shortbow, IMO.

D/D for when you pick off people, shortbow for zerging fights.

Though IMO, what’s important in WvW isn’t the weapon choice, but your tactics. Don’t go running into a big fight expecting to 1v1 someone. Be patient, stalk the fringes of battle or avoid big battles altogether, and you’ll be able to find more solo-able targets running blissfully unaware of the danger you pose them.

Have you played the Whispers storyline yet? Tybalt is also quite awesome.

If you look at the item in the vendor, it states that it only lasts 4 hours and exists solely so people can preview it.

Forget what it said exactly, but it did state its temporary-ness in someway. Sorry to hear about it though.

It takes like 30 minutes to an hour to do them all, especially if you look up where they are on the wiki.

Also in a reply to the previous poster, when you complete it, you get a book and a mail that mentions something about an incomplete second tome of the book. So I’m going to assume that they have other things planned for act 2/3.

There’s a craftable spider shortbow skin.