Guild Wars 2

Mia Lunarfang.5826:

Interesting… However, I’m only giving constructive criticism, albeit harsh criticism at that. But in that regard, how am I to highly rate material that is so sporadic and discombobulated, that it would fail to publish a child’s book? If Guild Wars 2 offers us with quality content, they will receive tremendously accommodating feedback. As it is, they should be satisfied that we are so rough with them, as a little rough love stirs improvement.

1. Harsh criticism? Try constructive criticism. It’s better.
2. That is your opinion. I happen to really enjoy what Arenanet brings to the table. I have liked all of their material so far, except maybe that crabtacular achievement.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

That crystal was something used to prevent mental connection, iirc. In other words, it would only be effective against Jormag and his champions.

I suppose, but isn’t that how Kralk’s power works too? He forces his way into your mind and takes control over you? I could have sworn the crystal protected again Kralk as well, otherwise that’s a somewhat large hole one could poke into the story.

Maplestory and Mabinogi had it set up so you could marry another player. You got a wedding ceremony in a church of your choice, and you each got a special wedding ring that you could engrave. Little hearts or other animations would pop up when you got near each other.

Pure Heart.1456:

Anet, that’s just poor!
Who’s managing? Who’s making these poor quality decisions!?
More! Effort! Required!
Suxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-whispers- Nexon

kitanas.3596:

Iehova.9518:

Jaall.3420:

Funnily enough Lehova is proving our point that gear inspect is a bad thing because it’s just making it quite clear the attitude that people have and how much it would effect the casual player.

1. My name begins with an ‘i’.
2. Casual players do not care if they’re being inspected or not. Bads, MF leeches, 5-signet/healing shout warriors, condition damage guardians and the rest of people who do not know their classes and expect being piggybacked do.
3. It’s spelled “affect”.
4. There is nothing inherently wrong with the ability to see what other players are wearing. You do not have to party with elitist jerks, they already have static groups to steamroll all the content.

1. “I” “l” one is lowercase L, one is uppercase i. which is which.
2. I’m causal, and I care
3. no argument, your grammar is gooder.
4. While true, adding gives elitist jerks incentives to roll with pugs, because they can control said Pugs gear. this leads to a worsened environment for puggers (like me)

The “l” has a tiny tail at the bottom which makes it a lowercase L, while the “I” doesn’t, which makes it an uppercase i. I will agree though it’s hard to see.

caiomacos.1694:

Deified.7520:

Here are the leaked stuff. I just like building suspense (justkidding, i actually wasn’t sure if it was against the rules. Hopefully not)

Armor:
Helm: http://i.imgur.com/BKoLWLx.png
Helm #2: http://i.imgur.com/MpkmNSj.png
Full Armor Set : http://i.imgur.com/HobDEvY.png
Full Armor Set #2: http://i.imgur.com/gTFJsQc.png
Hairstyle: http://i.imgur.com/MwtRq6u.png

WvW map: http://i.imgur.com/qoKFvDt.jpg

This WvW map image is old as hell. I remember seeing it a long time ago. I dont know about those armors, though. But they just seem random 3d models. Where did you find it?

Helm 1: Looks like the Twilight Arbor helm.
Helm 2: It’s either the Molten Alliance helm, or it’s the Sorrow’s Embrace helmet.
Armor set #1: Looks like Molten Alliance or Sorrow’s Embrace armor.
Armor Set #2: I do believe that is either Brutus’ Chestguard or the Barbaric coat.
Hairstyle: That is definitely not in the game. This could be incoming material.

Some people are better as a full berserker.
Other people go down every 2 hits because they don’t react fast enough.

Some people are better as a tough/vit tank.
Other people will go down just as fast because they aren’t using their skills at the right time.

Some people are better as…
Well, I could go on for days.

The point is, just as people have different personalities, they also have different play styles. We can’t all be the sneaky-one-hit-kill Assassin’s Creed master. We can’t all be the Kratos-God of War smash-and-laugh master. We can’t all be the sit-quietly-in-the-back-of-the-room-and-buff-the-party guy.

When you try to make everyone play with the same armor stats, there’s going to be those who excel in it, and those who are always taking a dirt nap. Not everyone has lightning fast reflexes, not everyone has the patience to condition an enemy to death, and not everyone has the knowledge needed to know when to pull chains to disable traps in fights.

The fights in GW2 are dynamic. In other games, you can give someone a sword and board, give them a 10 skill rotation, and they can do it. As long as they keep their rotation, and don’t change anything, they can tank/dps/heal through any PvE content.
In GW2, you give someone a sword and board and all they have are 10 skills and a dodge. They need practice and experience to know when to dodge, where to dodge, which skills to use, and which skills not to use.

Common Mistakes:

Enemies put up reflection – most of the berserker bursters go down. Only some have the sense to cease fire and live.

Red circle on the ground – most people don’t dodge, thinking they can tank through it, and as a result die. Only those with experience know they need to dodge out of the deadly circles. Some circles are worse than others.

Multiple red circles on the ground – most people dodge from one red circle right into another red circle. Only those who take a moment to look before they dodge will dodge to safety.

Invulnerability – when a mob becomes invulnerable, most people will wail on it even though they are doing 0 damage. (Maw comes to mind). Sometimes a lever needs to be pulled, or another mob killed first before the original monster will become vulnerable again.

All of these mistakes is what separates the good from the bad. Not their armor. You could have a fully decked out party of exotic berserkers, and wipe 10 times easily in a single dungeon run.

What you should do: Find a group of people you enjoy running with. Whether it be a guild group or random pug group that meshed well together. Take that group and dungeon together. Synergy. Work as a team, keep each other safe, and learn their weaknesses so you can help them. Example: If you have a guy who is a pure toughness tank, then he’s going to be weak against conditions. TA will be a nightmare for him. Make sure you and your friends put on a few condition removers to compensate for him or be ready to rez him when he goes down.

darkace.8925:

I haven’t read Edge of Destiny, but I know the gist of what happened. But I find it very, very difficult to believe anyone would have survived this showdown.

Kralk is described to be the size of a mountain. In the Blazeridge Steppes loading screen, Kralk is large enough to crush The Shatterer in the palm of his hand, and The Shatter in turn is large enough to crush a human/norn/charr/etc with the tip of his finger. How is it Kralk didn’t simply squish the DE members and get on with his day?

And Kralk possesses the power to corrupt life and land for a stretch of miles and miles. Even if we’re to believe Kralk couldn’t just physically smash Destiny’s Edge, we’re also supposed to believe he couldn’t or wouldn’t use his immense power…power enough to rival a god…to wipe them from the face of Tyria?

I understand fiction, particularly fiction of the fantasy genre, often has plot armor. But DE must be strutting around in Plot Armor +5 if they walked away from a showdown with Kralkatorrik with so few casualties.

Apparently a lot of people who read the book forgot about this part:

Early in the story while Snaff, Zojja and Eir were fighting Jormag’s champion, they found a grey crystal that protected them from becoming corrupted. Later in the book when all the members of DE were united, they melted down the crystal and used it to tattoo into their skin so they will always be invulnerable to dragon corruption.

Kichwas.7152:

I like WoW’s solution.

They just put in actual farms where you can grow turnips and carrots to your heart’s content. :P

I would not mind my own homestead where I can Harvest Moon it.

Mirta.5029:

I’ve been to malchor’s leap today to get the farmers away from there. What kind of impression do you think you give a new player when he goes to finish a temple event to buy his first ever pair of exotics and gets chased away by people swearing at him, because they want the event not completed and the temple not open so that they could continue getting sweet lootz?
If you want to farm go and do it in places where it doesn’t affect other players or ruin our world. Like the easy to run dungeon paths or go and kill mobs somewhere in the open world. Do not stop events from progressing and do not try to stop people completing them.

Now there’s close to 20 events in the world that give you a guaranteed rare (see ecto and yellow prices – those are falling because of easy to get rares and rewarding world events) the same events have a high chance to drop a unique exotic or a precursor.

It’s not ectos people are after. have you seen the prices drop on ectos? They went from 30 silver to 19 silver over the course of 2 months. Again, ectos are not the problem.

The problem is tier 6 mats. Powerful bloods, crystalline dust, vicious claws, vicious fangs, elaborate totems, armored scales, powerful venom sacs, and ancient bones are what farmers are after.

Your friend should’ve asked you what server you play on.
You should’ve told him what server to create his character on.
User error. Just wait a week. If he can’t possibly wait a week to transfer to you, or you to him, then why on earth do you think he’d enjoy playing this game? Typically people know within 30 minutes if they’re going to like or hate the game they’re playing.
In the meantime, just guest to his server, or have him guest to your server and PvE while you wait 7 days.

Niyo.5920:

WatchTheShow.7203:

Henge.3907:

Ok the errors i found with the story are listed below.

1: Sylvari glow in the dark, why wouldnt he be visible.
2: Previous pictures of Canach has him using a Sword and Shield, meaning he’s a Warrior or a Guardian. Neither of those two professions know how daggers work.

Sylvari only glow at night. The exception being CoF, where apparently it’s always night time there. This story takes place in the day time. Daylight streams in through the door as he leaves.

Rytlock uses a sword mainhand and a pistol in his offhand, and is supposed to be a warrior. Warriors can’t use pistols. NPCs are allowed to break the rules.

You haven’t read, that Henge said that it was a joke, do you?
Besides that… this is the line: “The door to Blingg’s hovel opened and waning daylight streamed in.” It’s “waning daylight” so it’s evening. Don’t know when sylvari in lore start to glow, but my sylvari starts glowing at evening and the glowing increases when it went night.

True, but don’t forget you can also choose to let your Sylvari not glow at all. There are plenty non-glowing Sylvari characters in the world.

Henge.3907:

Ok the errors i found with the story are listed below.

1: Sylvari glow in the dark, why wouldnt he be visible.
2: Previous pictures of Canach has him using a Sword and Shield, meaning he’s a Warrior or a Guardian. Neither of those two professions know how daggers work.

Sylvari only glow at night. The exception being CoF, where apparently it’s always night time there. This story takes place in the day time. Daylight streams in through the door as he leaves.

Rytlock uses a sword mainhand and a pistol in his offhand, and is supposed to be a warrior. Warriors can’t use pistols. NPCs are allowed to break the rules.

The medium t3 set glows. The only part that doesn’t glow very brightly are the gloves, but everything else glows well. The color of the glow depends a little on your character’s skin color, AND the color you dye the armor. The armor gives off the illusion that it’s growing out of your sylvari’s body, so the stems that connect the armor to your body will glow the color of your skin. The armor itself will glow whatever color you dye it.

I think it might be your keyboard. I strafe left and right all the time, and my heal skill and auto attack work just fine. My Q button changes weapons. I am able to press Q, change weapons while strafing left. Try a different keyboard.

My keyboard has a weird quirk too. I can’t go backwards, right and jump at the same time. So pushing S, D and then spacebar doesn’t work on my keyboard. However, I know this is my keyboard that is messed up, because it does this to me in other games too.

They are still present in Isle of Janthir, in Diessa Plateau, Wayfarer Foothills, and the surrounding areas.

This whole thing started back in January. Here’s what’s going on:

The Dredge and Flame Legion combined forces and made the Molten Alliance. They drove many norn and charr out of their homelands. Whoever remained behind to fight, was captured and turned into a slave. We the players, Braham (young NPC norn guy), and Rox (young NPC charr female) asked the Black Citadel and Hoelbrak for help, but were denied any reinforcements. So together, the 3 of us go inside a dungeon and rescue the prisoners that the Molten Alliance had taken captive, and blew up the facility that was used as the Molten Alliance’s headquarters.

Since the Molten Alliance had destroyed many lands and homes the Charr and Norn once inhabited, they sought refuge in Lion’s Arch. Since Lion’s Arch isn’t exactly suburbia, the Consortium came up with the idea to use the refugees as hired help to make Southsun Cove a suitable place to live. Some of the refugees bought it, became Consortium workers and are now looking to live in Southsun. Some refugees sucked it up and went back north and are trying to rebuild their old villages/homes.

^We’re currently in the second paragraph. We don’t know whether or not we’ll be able to make this a suitable place to live, or if this will flop miserably. Will the refugees end up living here or will this become an exotic resort for only the wealthiest?

I really like the tiki huts and new decorations. Only thing I dislike is the grass texture in front of the large fort – it ends suddenly (large line) where the southsun sand begins. There needs to be some kind of transition.

If you click on her, her portrait is that of a champion level mob, while Lord Faren is only a veteran, so maybe?

Berwick.8142:

Sooo I deleted an old character to make a new ranger to put my fervid censer on and then I realized I deleted the character with the censer on it…I sent a ticket in to see if I could get a replacement. They said no :/ Don’t you think I should be able to get another one? Anyone have any ideas?

Sorry this happened just make sure in the future you always thoroughly check the character you’re deleting and get everything off of it.

Durzlla.6295:

Atreyu.6905:

Darkmorphos.1530:

It’s not a multi-month event, the next part of the southsun living story is already coming in two weeks! ^^

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/living-world-pivot-point/

After the “Calling for Backup” subtitle.

But okay, I get it. Until June there will be even more achevements. I bet they will be obtainable in no more than 6 hours ; ) And I don;t rally know if it’s how suppoused to be, but oh well again…

Everytime i see people complain about the achievements being obtainable in a short amount of time a picture comes to mind (included in post).

I mean seriously, i don’t -have- 6hours to spend a day on GW2 like a lot of people do, probably a third of that on most days, so that’s a 3 day fear for me, that’s quite a bit of time if you ask me.

LOL that is the funniest picture ever!!!

Atreyu.6905:

Pardon me while I lay off here all my frustration, but this event introduction made me realize that this isn’t the right directon for GW2 or maybe just for me…and I totally know that no one will weep for me if I choose to leave GW2 cause there’s millions more to keep playing, but I am really dissapiont Anet…

1. I don’t really know what hour did Southsun event started but I know that I logged into game maybe around 3-4 hours after it started, and I heard that my guild mates are at the end of 25/25 achievements to get exotic backpiecie…not only that. Some of them were nearly done with all achievements implemented 4 hours ago ! WTF ARENA NET ? Seriously I can’t understand logic behind that…why making it multimonth event when I can make it in one day ?

2. That RNG canse… I know it was mentioned millions of millions times but guys… as Fused weapons were at any case obtainable that supplu box kitten is impossible. Of course it’s only my problem, cause I really like the GS weapon and I believe not only me, so why there can’t be any way to obtain this in normal, not gamble way ? Why Anet makes us buy some kittenty shorts, but not weapons skins ? Why couldn’t they made a system like in SAB ? On Southsun you drop bubble-liked tokens, that you exchange for a skin which you cannot sell ? OR like Braham and Rox sets ? It’s really exhausting to cling on a 5% chance to get an item that I really like…if there are two achievements chests, then why not make one of them a token chest, instead 2 back piece items…

This all, after more decent Flame and Frost event, makes me want to really leave GW2, but I’ll just wait ot see what’s in store for us on 28th and then I will decide.
I’m not saying that we should boycott GW2 or that event, but I know I’m right about this, shame that Anet ingore that voices of people.

Oh well, don’t mind me, I;m just gonna go back to recovering some of that lost money after buying that stupid boxes. I’ll never learn, will I ?

1. After the Flame and Frost events were done, there were many threads created from players who were upset because they weren’t able to complete all of the achievements within the 3 months they were given. I am sure we will see many of those same threads after this living story is done.

2. I agree with you. Me and RNG don’t get along very well.

Happened to me too. Got first place, was immediately cussed out and yanked around with a fishing pole for the entirety of the second round. I’m wondering if it’s the same two people who harassed me, that are now harassing you.

kroven.4895:

They should make some NPCs that follow you and spam “Spare some change?”

Like Assassin’s Creed? Oh those beggars were so annoying.

My best score so far.

It gets stored into your inventory. It doesn’t look like a gun in there at all, so look carefully!

Penguin.5197:

Well, I know how he must have felt. Last night there was a guy who kept constantly winning every round and just wouldn’t leave, no one else could win cause he just knew better than the people in that game. I think using the reel on you is a valid tactic since you were probably the most likely to win again that time so all he was doing is playing the game. Whispering insults is just going too far though.

I can see this being a valid strategy. However, the crab landed near the guy’s feet multiple times. He didn’t even attempt to play the game. He never once made an attempt to pick up the crab.

jazzllanna.1278:

Some groups are great.. some you get a person like that. I had one group with a person like that last night because no one would give him the grab at the end of the game for the achiev.. that apparently is not how you get it anyway.

I just leave group and requeue. Most people seem to be having fun with it.

I hope you reported them for the abuse though so they can get a 3 day ban to learn some manners.

Yes, I did report the guy. The achievement pops when everybody except the crab holder dies due to the karka death roll.

I have already submitted a report to Anet (ticket #130515-001414), but I wanted to share.

So this morning I jumped into crab toss for some fun and a chance to get the “crabtacular” achievement. Nothing was said during the first round, there was no exchange of witty banter and/or remarks, and everyone seemed to be having fun. The game was played in complete silence (as it should be). I win the first round, and so the second round starts. When (we’ll call him Fluffy, as I don’t want to mention any names) Fluffy saw that I was still in the round, he immediately called me out saying “kitten off Wingz!” (Wingz is my name). I simply replied with “???”. Then I said (yeah I know, don’t feed the trolls…) “I’m only here to have fun and get the crabtacular achievement.” Then Fluffy started going on about how I was only in the round because I was an achievement wh***, and how nobody was going to win anymore because I had won the previous round. I didn’t say anything back because it was 9am, I hadn’t had any breakfast yet, so my “I don’t give a poo” level was outstandingly high. So I ran around enjoying the mini game while Fluffy continued to pour on the verbal harassment.

Now, here’s where Fluffy got creative. He ran over to the boxes, and found himself a fishing pole. Instead of targeting the person who had the crab, he targeted me and used it to grief me the entire round. I was occasionally able to steal it from him, and instead of griefing him with it, I used it on the person who had the crab (how the tool was intended). Obnoxious, to say the least.

After the second round was over, I came in second (even with Fluffy man-handling me the whole time with the fishing pole) and Fluffy came in last place with an amazing score of 0. Hoping Fluffy would get bored and leave, I waited for the third round to start. He was still there, and so I left. After I left, he started whispering me all kinds of insults, so I blocked him.

All I can say is, wow. This crabtacular achievement has really got me down right now. It is difficult enough, especially with those party poopers in there. The irony in all this, is that during round 2, some random person with the crab got the achievement because Fluffy reeled me into the path of a karka at the last second. Oh well, I guess I’ll try again tonight after work.

I have done the requirements for this achievement, yet it’s not completing. I have the crab, I dodge roll into the Karkas as they roll towards me. The karkas then squish the other players. So here is my question:

Do the karkas have to kill all of the enemy players, or just some of them for this achievement to pop?

MithranArkanere.8957:

They should link the gate in LA to Southsun instead the fractals, then make a third gate in Southsun to the fractals, then move the bank and black lion trader from the boat to next to the gate.

Ding, no(t as many) overflows in LA.

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

There will indeed be a new asura gate linking Lion’s Arch to the new resort on Southsun Cove.

I agree that it seems possible to travel to Southsun from other areas when you’re looking at the map, but we’ve never had support for travel to other zones by swimming across the sea. In the context of the game world, I believe there are some pretty nasty things out in the deep water that would make it difficult to swim that far.

If swimming is not possible, then just use boats.

There’s already two boats in the map.

Simply copy consortium boats on exising docks and on each an NPC to take you to Southsun. Then in the boats in Southsun you choose the destination bytalking to the NPC like you do now chose the waypoint from LA to Southsun.

That way you could link Southsun to places like Garenhoff, Fort Trinity, Rata Sum’s Port…
As long as it has a dock with direct access to the Sea of Sorrows, you can link it to Southsun.

This is a really good idea! Have the map surrounded/linked by water, but when you get near the edge of the map, the “current” will push you back (much like it does now). In order to get to the next map, you have to take a boat.

ShiningSquirrel.3751:

VOLKON.1290:

Kopipoki.3542:

WatchTheShow.7203:

I like Arenanet’s quick patches. Coming from Nexon games myself, Nexon would always put out a notice for a 1-5 hour maintenence and close down their game. Then after 5 hours, the game still wouldn’t start. 10 minutes after the maintenence was supposed to end, Nexon would put up a new announcement saying the maintenence has been extended for 1 hour. Then an hour later, they would extend it for another hour, and another, and another, and another. The longest time they’ve ever stringed us along like that was 48 hours. They had posted some 30 announcements saying “1 more hour.” It was terrible. I’ll take Anet any day over Nexon.

You do realize that Nexon is the largest shareholder of NCsoft right? They even forced Anet to hire Ex-Nexon employees.

An assertion like this demands evidence.

It’s pretty much common knowledge, but if you want “proof”.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-06-08/nexon-buys-685-million-stake-in-ncsoft-becomes-biggest-holder

Wonderful. No good can come from this. I sent Nexon a support ticket July 2009 and 3 months later I got a reply that didn’t help me any. I sent Nexon a support ticket in 2010 and it still hasn’t been answered. What we used to say in Nexon forums was, “If you can’t fix the problem you’re having yourself, you’re screwed.”

Any news on this? o- o

Mana is a money sink and time sink. With mana, you need it to use skills. Mana pots cost money. If you have money, you can buy tons of mana pots and save time while farming and just down pots repeatedly like a potaholic. However, you’ll be wasting lots of gold over time buying pots. If you don’t have money, you will be out of combat for long periods of time while waiting for your mana to refill. Either way it wastes A) your time, or B ) your money.

http://youtu.be/K0Gx8hYi0hQ

I like Arenanet’s quick patches. Coming from Nexon games myself, Nexon would always put out a notice for a 1-5 hour maintenence and close down their game. Then after 5 hours, the game still wouldn’t start. 10 minutes after the maintenence was supposed to end, Nexon would put up a new announcement saying the maintenence has been extended for 1 hour. Then an hour later, they would extend it for another hour, and another, and another, and another. The longest time they’ve ever stringed us along like that was 48 hours. They had posted some 30 announcements saying “1 more hour.” It was terrible. I’ll take Anet any day over Nexon.

Nay of the Ether.8913:

WatchTheShow.7203:

Alkahla.5016:

Maybe I’m taking it too literally, but the comment made by the prisoner talks about a “snake-nosed” person. When I hear that, the first thing that pops into my mind is Sylvari, since one of the faces we can choose is very snake-like. And since it is a she…

Faolain!

Can’t be. We killed Faolin in the story mode of TA. She’s dead.

You might wanna replay that again and look closer ;-) Just sayin….

Aw man I really don’t like her. Was hoping she died.

Alkahla.5016:

Maybe I’m taking it too literally, but the comment made by the prisoner talks about a “snake-nosed” person. When I hear that, the first thing that pops into my mind is Sylvari, since one of the faces we can choose is very snake-like. And since it is a she…

Faolain!

Can’t be. We killed Faolin in the story mode of TA. She’s dead.

You can only get chests from each dragon once a day per account.

Melchior.2135:

JUN YANG.4328:

run the dungeon for what? fun?

Correct. If you don’t enjoy the content for its own merits, feel free not to play it.

JUN YANG.4328:

and also the weapon skin of braham and rox’s selling for 600 gem each. today’s exchange rate almost 3g for 100gem. and the exchange rate keep going up. is it expecting people just go farming cof p1 every single day?

You can also buy Gems for Cash. 800 gems are US $5.00. The Gold to Gems conversion is an option, but it is not the primary option. The game persists because of Cash purchases. If you do not make Cash purchases, you don’t contribute to the longevity of the game, and therefore the Developers don’t particularly care if you have a slightly harder time getting the Gold to convert to Gems. They’re being very generous giving you the option to do so AT ALL, and are under no obligation to make it convenient or easy.

It’s $10.00 USD for 800 gems

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Stealth was already nerfed. This was due to an unbalanced “perma-stealth” Thief troll build. Now with that said, let’s breakdown your complaints one by one:

• Time to analyze your enemy
This is done before a Thief or Mes goes into stealth. If the target is squishy, you attack. If it’s a Guardian, you run away. Simple.

• Cooldown reduction
This was the nerf. No more perma-stealth trolling.

• Movement closing
Part of the purpose of being stealthed. You can run away or move in for a hit. Nothing wrong here.

• First strike advantage
Part of the purpose of being stealthed. You can run away or move in for a hit. Nothing wrong here.

• Untargetability
Part of the purpose of being stealthed. You can run away or move in for a hit. Nothing wrong here.

• Scouting undetected
Part of the purpose of being stealthed. You can run away or move in for a hit. Nothing wrong here.

Summary – Stealth is a part of the game. If you’re unable to come up with effective strategies to counter it, it doesn’t mean it’s unbalanced or broken. It means you need to get better. There are many ways to counter a Thief or Mes, but being that I play both, I won’t discuss them (for fear of people learning how to kill me).

He was not only talking about from a thief’s perspective, but also from another class’ perspective.

1. Analyze your enemy. How can I analyze my enemy when they approach me in stealth? If they’re hiding behind a structure or hill, and stealth around it and up to me, I have no idea what’s about to happen. Are they tanky or will they burst me down in 2 hits? No way for me to know because I can’t size them up before battle.

3. Movement closing. How can I close in on a stealthed thief if he’s invisible? There are 360 degrees he could have gone, and I have to not only pick the correct degree, but the correct distance as well. Is he running, or did he stealth and is still standing back near where he initially stealthed?

4. First strike advantage. The thief will always have this advantage because of #1. They can stealth up to me and get their hit off first every time. I can only swing my sword and shoot arrows into space while the thief laugh and walks up behind me, completely undetected and unhit.

5. Untargetability. My AOEs take a second or two to get off and by the time they finally make contact, the thief is long gone. I can’t hit, see or shoot an untargettable object, yet it can target me. Seems like Predator vs humans with pokey sticks.

6. Scouting undetected. I don’t mind perma stealth for scouting purposes only. This was what OP said as well.

If that’s the jumping puzzle where there are falling rocks you have to run across, then I know what you need to do. There are 2 acheievements for this puzzle. The first acheievement you get for falling and dying when the rocks fall from underneath you. The second acheievement you get for completing the whole puzzle.

Seyyah.6135:

worst example ever…

i assume i (and all the other rangers that are “stupid” because they express their unhappiness) pay to play… A-net has to deliver something… now the result may be to my liking or not…

in the end i keep on paying through online store and/or DLCs… or i dont…

i assume thats pretty much is the description of me (and everyone paying for this game) being “tha hand that… what was it?… that feeds…” but again me and A-net agrees on one thing at least… we know what happens when you assume…

its simple human nature… people want to be heard… and you start the conversation by speaking… trying to communicate… once you are deliberately and repetadly ignored, you start yelling to be heard… that is exactly what is happening in the ranger forums….

I didn’t call anyone “stupid”. This is where reading comprehension becomes important. If you read my sentence again, you will realize I said that I was calling the act of biting off the developers’ heads (they control every aspect of the game) was a stupid thing to do. A person doesn’t have to be stupid to do stupid things. You can be a genius and do something incredibly stupid. Even though he’s a fictional character, a great example of this would be Sherlock Holmes.

Hydd.5172:

WatchTheShow.7203:

The blue jellyfish and rainbow jellyfish ranger pets share the exact same model and texture. Not sure if bug or intentional.

Indeed they are. The Rainbow Jellyfish is a pet skin from a HoM unlocks from Guild Wars 1. They are only graphically different than their counterpart (in this case, a Blue Jellyfish).

Right, they both have the same skin, so why was this never added to the bug list? It doesn’t matter now, they’re fixing it. Thanks anyways.

Linnes.2678:

Except for… we paid for Arena Net’s house, cars, food, children’s schooling, etc. by purchasing this game (mind you this is an overstatement, but the message is clear). We are customers they cannot afford to lose. If they ask us to shell out another $60 for an expansion, and if they’ve failed us already, they’re going to be losing out on a rather large sum of money. If NCsoft sees that they failed GW2, Arena Net will pretty much lose all it’s funding by them, and NCsoft will stick to being primarily a supplier of Asian content.

They aren’t losing any money, as is evident by the fact they are still pushing out patches, updates, and events. When the game becomes Istaria, then we should worry.

bigsal.7061:

Thats right, dont bite the hand that feeds you. Last time I checked we all had to pay for this game to play it so when we get aquaman patches and pet skin fixes the hand starts slappin.
Any of you guys see the nice warrior buffs coming in the patch? Thats right buffs.

Linnes.2678:

This.

I have no problem playing a ranger inWvW, or sPvP, or even PvE. I get my socks rocked occasionally, but for the most part I crush people. I have already bought the gift of mastery (required 500 badges of honor) and now I almost have 1,000 badges again, and I don’t know what to do with them. They’re starting to take over my bank. So when people cry on the forums about how bad we are, I just go:

Some of us have wanted the rainbow jellyfish to have a unique skin since launch. I’ll quote Bambi, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say it at all.” There’s constructive criticism, and then there’s being rude. In case your parents never taught you: cruel jokes and cynical sarcasm are considered rude. Being rude to the company that controls every aspect of the game you play, is incredibly stupid. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you. If you want something changed, be polite, and leave constructive feedback. Fact is, people respond better to friendliness than to threats and insults.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Ranger-Bug-List/page/2

I posted the rainbow jellyfish bug way back when the game was new. I am happy they are finally fixing it. Do I think the ranger pet AI needs improvement? Yes. Do I think rangers in general need some TLC (tender loving care)? Yes, I do. However, this is not the correct thread to discuss that. From what I can see, Jon doesn’t balance skills or classes, he’s an artist and designs or oversees designers who make textures and models. That’s like telling a ship captain to go pilot an airplane. Have fun with that! See what hilarity ensues.

Mute Herald.8541:

That being said, it might be interesting to play with some bioluminescence like others have posted about, but maybe the glow’s color could slowly cycle through a small spectrum to play off the rainbow aspect without having every color visible at the same time.

First off, I want to say THANK YOU for making a new skin for the rainbow jelly!

When the game first came out, I posted on page 2 of the stickied “Ranger Bug List” thread asking if the rainbow jellyfish and blue jellyfish’s identical skins were intentional or a bug. Finally got my answer! I’m so happy right now. I love the pets in this game.

Now, with the poster I quoted, I couldn’t agree more! The new skin looks nice, but it also looks mostly green. Now of course I wish I could see it animated or with the glow so I could form a better opinion on it, but it does look very green to me. If the jellyfish were to be called the “Green Jellyfish”, this skin would be perfect! Except, it’s the Rainbow Jellyfish, so I was really hoping to see at least the primary colors in there somewhere. Is there a way to have the skin slowly cycle through a few colors, rather than have one permanent color? The whole thing doesn’t have to be cycling though, maybe just the tentacles, or the membrane, or even the glowy portion? Just trying to throw ideas out there.

What you just described is the engineer class. He is the progressive ranger. He has no pet, and uses rifles as well as pistols. Try out the engineer and see what you think. You might like it better, or worse, but nonetheless you should to try it.

WyldKat.4712:

Soulmyr.8094:

How often is your character with no clothes anyway?

That’s the 200 gold question, isn’t it? The only time I strip off is for the dolphin swim in the Aquatic Ruins Fractal.

Only when I’m diving off the high dives in goggles. Which I do sometimes because I find it fun. That and in fractals for the dolphin swim, and CoF path 1 when we need to carry the lava rock to the other side (if there’s no mesmer).

On a more serious note, not that often. I just think the green leaves are ugly is all.

Kain Francois.4328:

Could it have to do with glow? Just a theory.

Actually, it doesn’t. I just figured out what happens. When you come out of the dream for the very first time, your underwear is white. When you go talk to the Warden Requistioner to get your clothes, your underwear from then on is green.

Just made a new toon. First 2 pictures are before I equip clothes for the first time. Last 2 pictures are after I equip clothes.

I’m really hoping this is a bug because I greatly prefer the white leaves.