Guild Wars 2

Terok.7315:

Engineers, Guardians, Thieves and Elementalists (i think) don’t get a pet UI either. If the AI was working, it wouldn’t be an issue. As long as pets keep up with target switching, we don’t really need a UI.

first of all… engineers,guardians,thieves and eles pets should have controls…but either way… that kind of pets are not even perma pets like ranger or Necros… so for those i could accept to not have controls (although they should too) If the AI could be better!.

Josher.9612:

Jackal.7432:

I agree with Josher. A UI isn’t necessary if the pets just behave intelligently. I only ever use them underwater anymore, but they seem better about attacking my target lately. Sometimes i’ll even stand back with a spear and send them to attack by swinging at out of range targets.

I think from a design standpoint, they don’t want to clutter our UI with tools and bars and boxes for every little thing. One of the (many) reasons WoW is so ugly is the skill bars

Thanks. By the way, the WOW UI is only as ugly and cluttered as you want it to be. GW2’s UI is pretty but has NOTHING on the functionality of WOW’s, due to mods. Not even close.

Actually WoW can be as pretty or as ugly as u want UI wise.. and in my opinion thats WoW True Power.. Let Community evolve with the game and people can make some awesome things! And that make blizzard work less and have actually everything anyone needs! And if something is very needed they put it officially. i dunno greatest power than this., Actually myself i was playing WoW mostly cause i could have everything as i wanted them.. something i couldnt never have from another game.. Fuctionality wise GW2 is mediocre. it misses many fuctions and also u cannot move anything and that makes things not so comfy…

EDIT: And dont get me wrong. Im not asking for an actual UI for the pets with bars and infos etc as it is for Ranger pets.. Just the basic Controls that near evey AAA game gives for the class that use pets of any kind… even pets for 10 secs should have that basic attack/retret aggresive/defencive/passive !!

btw if i remember right… Rift Had some ingame video capture that could work with youtube > uploading and everything…. think that GW2 team could pull that of at some point?

@samfisher I am a big slacker when it comes to video…i want something simple and fast… so capture then take it to another program and then find it and upload it with youtube is very no no for me :P with Xfire i just press a button in game i record a bunch of vids and then with another button it compress and upload..so simple.. I already got Fraps and also xilisoft video converter and both are great…but its more than i want or willing to do when im playing :p

@TimeBomb ill check the ones u suggest…never heard of them before….

Btw i di tried , Fraps,Dxtory,Ezvid etc. The most simple is the Ezvid so far but what bugs me with it is that i cannot find any way to limit the upload tranfer speed and that is bad cause it caps my connection and lag the game…. if i could find a way to fix that then propably i could live with it instead of xfire..

gamefreak.5673:

I just want attack my target, passive and if possible defend. Now when i say attack my target i mean I select a foe, hit the key or press whatever button they give me and they all run off and do there best to kill it. After they are dead or target is dead they run back to me or when i give them another target they attack that.

Id like the horrors to stop having a health degen and ranged attack so they could at least attack targets and not leave my side like on the last boss on arah which makes the fight many times harder since they run up and try to attack him. The horrors I would love to go down the toughness line but they make that fight and others annoying because i turn them off or only summon ranged minions. Also it would be nice if the bone minions did have a slightly bigger aoe since it annoys me when i press them to explode and nothing happens to my target and they are only a few feet away from what i can see.

+1 on everything!

i found ezvid .. can capture/compress and upload directly to my youtube channel…im testing it out now.. i hope the quality is good at 720p.

ok thanks ill check it out

the title tells everything!… i need a similar program as xfire that can actually capture game videos and automaticaly compress and also after compresion upload to youtube. thats what xfire could do but does not working with FXAA injector mod and i really need and alternative that can work and co-exist… any suggestions?

I disabled Video and Broadcasting but i still getting GW2 Crash… This time though Worked when i did Disabled ‘In Game X fire’.. and ofc that makes xfire useless for me… so i guess ill have to uninstall.. thanks all for the try and help

edit : So can anyone suggest a similar program like xfire that is able to capture>compress and also upload my videos on youtube or somewhere? :P and ofc that can be compatible with this awesome injector! xD

Oki… ill try to disable broadcasting cause the video is the only thing i rly want from xfire.. if that cant work ill rather disable xfire and keep that injector beauty and at some point ill find a similar program. thanks for the fast response!

CelticWish.2314:

Vangy.7403:

have anyone found a way to use that along with Xfire?? i really want xfire to record vids and automaticaly compress them and upload them at youtube… i always getting a crash of gw2 if i dont close xfire first.. any solution?

Mine works with XFire, fwiw.

LOL, messing with my dads and his does crash with XFire, I’ll check to see what the dif is, we have almost identical systems.

You have also x-fire in game option enabled and works fine?
I few days ago i disabled the xfire in game option and worked fine… but still xfire was kinda useless for me since i use it only for video capture/auto upload feature…
today though i get gw2 crashes even with that xfire in game option disabled… i didnt change anything at the FXAA mod settings.. so i wonder whats the problem is… did you figured out whats the prob with ur dad pc?

EDIT : Can you please tell me what settings you have enabled on injector mod and also have you checked if you are running the game at full screen or windowed fullscreen? im currently running at windowed full screen

Daedrik.3087:

I for one do not want a flashy all inclusive pet UI like the ranger has or something, but some basic functionality would be great. I would say its a good almost 30% of the time (maybe higher) that my pets do nothing, absolutly nothing.
One time I was fighting a turret and my pets just stood there while I blasted away with auto attacks (since I use staff and marks are useless on objects, another issue altogether) and the turret was shooting me and my pets did absolutly nothing at all. After about 10 seconds my FG ran up to the turret, acted like it was going to attack then just turned and walked away. A few seconds later it ran off to attack some wolf that was out of my weapon range while I was still attacking the turret.
To me the AI for minions right now is just flat broken, and has been since launch, even if a very simplistic UI consisted of all minions attack and all minions back off that would be better than the broken AI they have at the moment. If the AI is fixed and is actually somewhat reliable I dont feel I would even need that, a simple “attack what I auto attack” and “defend me” AI scripting would work fine as long as I could count on it. I really hope the devs read this and all posts about this “class breaking” issue, not all necros want to work with minions, fine, but theres a lot that do. Some small response from the devs that they are aware and at least looking into fixing this would go a long way to keeping me playing this game. Sorry about the rambling rant.

I agree on that. We dont need a sophisticated pet ui as ranger (although it would be awesome) but at least the very basic as attack/come back , passive/defensive/agressive .. is this too much to ask? And also they can put some kind of system like auto pet control (as it is noe) and manual control for those peipke that want some more control and thhey are no slackers on that

striker.3704:

gamefreak.5673:

Pets do not die like in GW1. Yes one good aoe will kill them but they stay up forever to it is killed or we swap it out and its not like we have a quick way to swap them so we can resummon them to be at full health besides swapping to another skill, waiting on cool down then swapping it back. It is clunky with how we unsummon the minions. Just a simple all minions passive, attack, and defend would do wonders for them. So many times in instances, wvwvw, etc that it would have made minion master builds many times better. Also remove the horror bleed for the love of anything holy or unholy.

I didn’t mean the degen, I meant they actually die. (as compared to the ranger’s pet who only goes into a downed state).

and what have to do the fact that our minions die instead of downed with the PET UI ..? fact is that we need more control for the sake of gameplay… otherwise is clanky and not good for any kind of strategy.. actually u cannot even bring minions at dungeons cause they might pull wrong mobs…or u might wrongly target some mob and u cannot bring the minions back..and that sucks apart from the fact that minions die almost instantly…but thats another story..

have anyone found a way to use that along with Xfire?? i really want xfire to record vids and automaticaly compress them and upload them at youtube… i always getting a crash of gw2 if i dont close xfire first.. any solution?

true story… necros are about undead minions and still they havent made it viable duo to the many bugs on them.. but even without the bugs still minion masters need alot of love!!

bamp cause this is serious!!!

yes i would like to see your settings also!

ok i found what cause the game on crashing after the FXAAA injector… it was Xfire.. i guess its 64bit and cause some complications.. i disabled it and the injector worked just fine… although i cant get the quality of the OP pics..

without pet ui necros are in big disadvantage…. we can go in big trouble just because we cannot command our pets to fall back. we already punished to use utility skills to have our pets while ranger not. and as for personal preference some people like pets but also magic instead of arrows and guns thats why i believe its ok to have 2 pet classes.. one for the physical damage lovers and one for the magic lovers (like me and many others).. if someone decides that he want to retreat from a fight he can… our pets though fight without brains.. still dead things that i have raised should obey me to attack and fall back. i dont wish them to roll,dodge and dance…or whatever other tricks… simple things..like attack and dont attack…. and my character is really upset when i pet dies..although i can make another one!

i did all u said but gw2 brings the crash report window and the close…. any ideas? i would like to try that

and why u want your pets Dispari to be chaotic? u know ofc that necromancers specialized on summoning right? “Necromancy (/?n?kr??mænsi/) is a claimed form of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge. it comes from the Greeks and its Necro = Dead body and mantis =prophecy or divination” source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromancy

so even some necros does not use pets the pet ui should be there. cause necromancer controls the DEAD to his own WILL!…. instead Rangers pet should be more savage and Chaotic instead! cause beasts has their own will.. abominations obay to their masters! capice? anyway both rangers and necros can have control over their pets… Ranger still can be special cause he can have almost any beast in the game…necros has only few.. still we should be able to control them.

I wish more Necro players share the same feeling so aneta might listen to us!!

necro underwater skills are bad alltogether….. also DS form true story…..

i also like how the flesh golem on gw1 growing bigger as lvl goes higher!! also as always i want to mention that minions in guild wars 2 needs a pet ui so we can have the full control of them as a whole linked horde of minions.. imagine the posibilities of strategies in pvp and pve with controlable minions…

*bold*I want to know why there is no PET UI for Necromancers.
I know there were no minion PET UI on GW1 but that was alot different system alltogether… Now the pets are permanent no temporal and a game with so much strategic combat system seems to fell short on that point specialy at the time when almost (if not all)all mmorpg games every necro class at this point have pet ui.. even temporary pets on classes like mage in WoW,AoC,WAR and similar games get a simple generic pet ui and a innovative new gen game as guild wars 2 cannot give that..? and instead gives the more unresponsive bugged minions of any game i have ever played…?
CAN We Please have an official Statement on the matter? And if Anet is ever planing to give necros a way to control our pets? Cause frankly the thought of might they give us pet ui is the only thing that make me still staying here and i want to clear that up so i can move to another game or give another try to some other class (allthough i doubt i can fit in any other class since i play that kind of minion casters in any game..).

its true and happens with every trasformation spell like our own… plague,lich form etc.. this has to be fixed!

add to all the above a nice PET UI so you can actually control your pets.. and ofc The AI so they can do that rather than just stay and watch the fight… ;-)

Forice we said it before… we cannot have Zombies and skeletons cause every undead are in control of Zhaitan……. thats why we necros have made minions of dead parts that never being alive so not actually dead either! :p oh and life steal is the best…we actually could use some more skills with life steal tbh

First of all gw1 and gw2 is nothing alike.. in gw1 pets degen Hp even in combat but you could actually heal them alot with many ways and still pets were viable and more clever as it is now… plus back in the day you could have countless minions if you had lots of corpses in the field…
things are a bit different now… minions are permanent pets so yes necromancers are PET class thats why pets should be regain after combat.. flesh golem already does that.
To add on that Minions need some more ways to be able to heal them… like it is now some skills that are meant to heal allies ignore pets… (focus off hand skill anyone? )…
And finally Pets need a PET UI so u can control them!! i dont mind the jagged horror to be like headless chickens but my perma pets should have a pet ui so i can order them to attack a mob or to NOT attack anything if i like so…. if a necromancer summon a undead minion will have complete control over it… in the other hand a ranger could tame completely a savage beast..? i dont think so.. the way to goes is to give necros complete control over their minions so they can have more ways and strategies on their arsenal as they are the “slow dmg” class…

+1 !!!! i believe that the game lacks of skills/spells alot…. we deffinitely need more.. now i dont care/mind if thats gonna purchased with karma.. or any other way.. (just no with gold) and also we gonna need more weapons or another way of the lack of skills…

i still cannot log in..

Still they do fixes for minor bugs (for other classes) while we suffer from some deal breaker major bugs…

sometimes minions and specially bone minions walking sound is terribly loud and can only be fixed with relog. also jagged horrors wont count as minions thus not giving +toughness from “ptotection of the Horde” Death magic trait.

Also Pets sometimes seems to do whatever they like hiting diferent mobs etc.. thats why
Necro Need to be able to control its minion so a Pet UI similar with Ranger with Linked commands for all summoned pets should be there. (agressive/defensive/passive — Attack,follow,stay and even “go there” with a target ground )

EDIT: Also Hounds of Balthazar does not giving the 2 minion extra toughness gain from “ptotection of the Horde” Death magic trait

i said before and ill say it again… give us bug fixes better pet ai and an PET UI so we can real control them… as it is now its just headless chickens runing all around and hit when they like or hit what they like… thats not acceptable for a pet class…

fix pet AI gimme pet UI for my pets and ill be minionmaster anyday..! and u know what?? a necromancer should have pet ui instead of ranger! what pet is more submisive to its master? a real savage animal or a demon/abomination??? ha?!

gimme pet UI for my pets and ill be minionmaster anyday..! and u know what?? a necromancer should have pet ui instead of ranger! what pet is more submisive to its master? a real savage animal or a demon/abomination??? ha?!

same problem at Underworld… bugged for 2 days now… weird thing is i had done that sp a week ago with my elementalist….

oh and we need a skill that make new temporal minions through dead bodies on the ground… like in gw1.. with the universal cap of 10..

1. Give Real Pet Control on the minions. Link them all on commands such attack/follow/agressive/passive etc. necro is a Pet class now that its pet are always on and not temp like in GW1.
2. We need a way to heal the pet and/or leech hp from pets some new skill would be good
3.Pet need to get more armor..i dunno if they are linked with their master about toughness but they should.
4.make all the pets regain HP after fight as it is with Flesh Golem
5. give us the siphon life as an utility or put it on a weapon that its not melee range… or even better make the daggers autoattack to have at least 600m range as it has the siphon life skill… for me siphon life was the favorite skill now i cant use it due to melee auto attack of dagger…
6.those little minions that get spawned now and then are very fragile and their bleeding is WAAAAY too fast!! give as the ability to sacrifice some of our HP to heal them… or something like it..

Gold we earn at higher levels is very very near the amount we earn at early levels at 20-30 lvl u earn like 1.20 and at 80 u earn like 2.80-3.20 for a quest/event which is fairly LOW… at lvl 20 i could travel from one point of the map to the other at 50-60 copper max and now at 80 i need like 2,80 silver to go to the nearest other area… that is very stupid… allowing low level players to travel so cheap while they should travel by foot to be familiar with the world and make high lvls to have to travel by foot for 1000th time is just lame… there should be a solid-default travel fee for all levels depending on the length of travel.. at the start that might feels a bit expencive for low levels but later on will be ok.. and ofc that price should be less that it is now by about 80%…

Dwarfs ofc! and maybe i would like to play as those polar bear dudes!

my favorite spell “siphon life” is at dagger which its auto attack is in melee range.. that took all the fun out of necro…ofc the fragile minnions that i can’t command them where and when to attack or when i want them to stop attacking…

What really annoys me with necro is that i have no control to my pets.. there should be an attack,stay,passive/agressive pet control even if it was global linked for all the necro pets.