Guild Wars 2

Robert Hrouda.1327:

JungleNin.8379:

It’s bad when even the staff can’t stick to the topic.

I think its worse when staff doesn’t say anything at all, but I can see where you are coming from. Figured I’d post it here since there have been a few threads and posts about it throughout the dungeon forum.

You know what ? Thank you for nerfing those foods, 99.99% of all players I see run some DPS build and used to abuse those foods.

I’m sorry guys but DPS being the only viable build is just kitten I run a Knight’s Tanky build and also play a melee mesmer, so this effects me too but I think it’s for the better of the game. Sigils and on crit effect in general were a bad idea to begin with. You cannot give that much freedom to DPS builds while neglecting everything else.

On the dungeon side of things I think this patch was the most PUG UNfriendly patch ever. Do I hate it ? I do. Do I think it’s that much of an issue ? No, I did not raid in WoW and I refuse to raid in this game too. They gave pugs buffed event chests and yes pugs play 1-2 hours a day so that’s a direct buff for all my casual guildies and those of us who actually go to work and don’t have the time to camp the Maw all day long (like I did on Sundays).

I’d like to see Cantha or Elona in future expansions because I’m getting tired of the horrible story telling in GW2. Also I do agree that Canthan dieties were much more likeable and interesting than the “silence of the 6 gods”. I like the game, I like it’s gameplay features, but story telling is just well bad. The personal story is in dire need of a reboot. That’s only my 2 cents though so feel free to disagree.

I main a Ranger and I find this thread largely ridiculous. Comparing a permanent “summon” to a temporary summon with different and limited mechanics isn’t very viable.

I guess it’s time we sober up. We’re not really in the right here given that our small guilds can still at least have fun with larger guilds and benefit from their banners. Getting that ~15% increase on my earring slot isn’t as big of a deal I made it sound earlier. Quite frankly, now that I think about it for the sake of a stable community we do need something everyone can strive to achieve and if Guild Missions are that thing so be it. I might have to join a big guild sooner or later even as an alt to my main guild, but so be it if that adds some permanence to guild activity in the game. Lets face it the freedom given to everyone to be in multiple guilds just kills the whole idea of a guild in the first place. It’s much needed as it is. I’ve already seen so many guilds bleed players to death that I’m growing tired of it.

I’m going to see how the game goes in the upcoming months or at least until the end of the F&F patch chain. After all the only reason we are all upset is because we like the game and don’t want to see it go to hell like many other MMOs.

Just please no more currencies, stick to the ones you already implemented. It’s just bad if you want more player to learn the game.

Guilds themselves are not evil. It’s only annoying that rather than playing in a real GvG environment we’ll play a monopoly game when a few guilds hog it all to themselves killing any competition in the process. Do I care about the earrings ? No. It’s just awesome to see guild members leaving.

Don’t defend this patch as if the game is a job and we should do as we are told like little children. Most of the people I play with are 25+ and have jobs and families to look after, so “you can farm ectos” is not a viable option.

Guild missions were my last hope for some fun in the game. Now I don’t even want to talk about them… Here goes… You killed small guilds, all small guilds, you don’t even give us rewards if we partake in another guild’s event. More so you give big guilds even more gold with free rares and shots at precursors. There is no GvG in sight in GW2 and this patch just killed any competition completely. People will just join and represent big guilds in hope for that precious event to pop up so they can get their pink earrings. This issue has been discussed ever since you announced guild missions yet as always you fail to listen your own community. I’ve been on this journey for many years now. As much as I love this game it’s hard to keep calm with the latest patch.

Guardian or Warrior if you want to scale well into “lategame”.

Ranger if you ain’t hardcore.

I’d go with Guardian if I were you even if I hate both W & G. Gs got much more special sauce to their proffesion.

I’m actually fine with the changes. I dislike the champions, but I do feel that those farm spots needed a little push for the rewards you get there. People will most likely shift to doing Temple events and other chest events while Orr in general will be a T6 farming location. Too bad if you wanted to farm for you legendaries, it’s better to camp the TP now. I for one don’t care about legendaries so it doesn’t matter for me, but still.

I totally agree with you. There should be a fine line between story and explore mode. The way I see t story mode should be a joke like the personal story difficulty while explore mode should be well for level 80s.

I do dungeons with low level guildies and it’s not a problem for me, but newer players just feel that the dungeon is more annoying than rewarding and quite frankly Story mode just has those issues.

This one’s for you guys, I suck at this but please bear with me…

Year-o-gear
Gear we hold dear
Now it’s all clear
Grind all year
The next patch we fear
It’s been only a year
But my server is clear

Please, give us GvG so you actually promote guilds of all sizes rather than this…

I’m ok with the pace of Laurels and Fractals. I like how item hunting goes there, but the over-abundance of monthly/weekly/daily tokens is just as someone else said watering down the game.
It’s a really good patch, but with very bitter aftertaste.

Quite frankly… I am happy with the patch.

The Bad :

I main a Ranger (non-dps) so this patch is nada for me.

Overpriced Guild Missions and overpriced earrings.
Seriously, not only does this patch gate to big guilds but it gives them the ability to get extremely easy rewards. I’m fine with 50 silver and 2 in-game dollars, but giving everyone on a big guild multiple shots on precursors is too much. Even 2 rares is too much given the current state of the in-game economy. Sure old grinders might stay, but new players will leave as soon as they hit ~80.
The new ascended gear is a joke, I’m sorry but it is insulting to even consider that I’ll waste so much time and in-game dollars on the most hilarious item in the game. I’m just going to stick with exotics, given that I can customise them with gems to my liking. Those Earrings are a joke only comparable with the +5 stat infusions. Come on Obsidian armor was at least an item with an actual in-game model… NEXT!

CoF and other easy dungeons are still killing any attempt at doing the rest.

Redundant Living Story Content. Much like doing Story mode dungeons and anything with story invloved in this game this new content isn’t personal and doesn’t involve any real story telling. I actually support you guys I really do. I live in Bulgaria the poorest place in Europe, but I buy your kitten cause I liked GW1 and I really like you. I got both GW2 books on my shelf next to Song of Fire and Ice (actually infront), but your in-game story telling is so hirrible even my little nephew and niece think it sucks.

The Good :

Chests and more Chests. I LOVE what you did with those events. Chests should have provided those rewards since launch and should have been once per day per character too. Now the Destroyer and Behe events will not be “16 events out dated” on gw temple. Kitten, even at 6 am this morning when I checked out the patch there was a noticeable change in player activity across the zones. Other might hate this, but I love it. No more “6 Blues Brothers” combos from chests.

Drops and tagging. I hoped you’d nerf AoE… Anytime I tried to farm Orr, I’d get nothing because the ranged AoE dudes were instagibbing all the mobs. Well it’s not as good but now I can at least get some drops. I can also dance behind the Claw of Jormag and hit it 2 times to get the chest, but that’s another story…

Melee Mesmer. You buffed my PvE alt, thank you !

Necro and Engi love. More plox, thank you !

Item preview + Visible effects. Thank You !

PvP. I think PvP in this game is doomed or has long ways to go (at least most of my 20 active guildmates do PvP 50% of the time now), but still… thank you !

You buffed my celestial items, thank you !

You made black lion chests worth it(I don’t care about the bags but getting ~300 gems out of a 100 gems item is a lot), thank you !

Changes to invisibility items and abilities. Not as great as I hoped, but still superb. Thank You !

Nerfing the fast food chains, Thank You !

Daily Achievements. You did really well here, especially with the tooltips, if you add more of these new players might as well play more. Still… please, bring back the 5 events one.

Fixed the Ride-the-Squid-Beam-o-Doom bug. Thanks, now sightseeing in fractals is even easier !

Verdict :

Keep it up, just… no more in-game dollars… We got nuf grind as it is.

Eh, I main ranger since launch and I’m having a blast. Might as well try not to run dumbps builds. Stop it really, this isn’t as big of an issue as you people make it sound.

Kill Tahearne bring back Kormir.

Elona.

Remove all Medium armor, bring back armors from GW1.

Nerf all AoE.

Rebalance dungeons so more builds are viable on any difficulty rather than DPS being the overall good guy.

Rebalance the content so melee builds are more viable.

Rebalance all classes (Re-hire Morello even for a few days)

Better dances.

Mini’s having their own equipment slot or shortkey.

More buttcapes and trenchcoats. Trenchcoat over bikini super mario armor for all.

I use only power builds anyway, so I guess I’m officially cheap.

I got an idea, lets make a Facehook group called “No Condition Builds : Save the rain forest !”

Guys stop it, the game has it’s ways to go but its going to take time. By any means this game is improving on a much steadier basis that other newer games. Given that ANet has always been slow or maybe just very careful with patches that change core mechanics their current pace is kittening fast!

Gunnar’s Hold EU

LA : There are no overflows between 2-7 am CET.

Mid Level zones : Dead, as in every game.

Major events : I see people doing Dragon events, Maw and the like even early in the morning.

Dungeons : Almost everyone is using LFG, so it’s only normal to rarely see people talk about it. /map

Colin talks : I’d rather play a full year sub in WoW then believe anything Colin says on any game related topic. I love ANet, but his PR speech is killing me. I guess the game is starting to recover after the fall-winter decline, given that they are going away from “next item tier” patches.

Verdict : GW2 has hit it’s player core and is slowly getting more players, given that inflation has slowed down a bit.

SWTOR : Bioware thought they were Blizzard, but they forgot even Blizzard could make a game like Diablo 3 and pre-pay servers for millions only to have ~100k online. AKA Sales are nothing if you are banking on microtransactions.

I had the same problem. Did the usual, updated drivers, reinstalled DX.

Then I ran the game with -repair and deleted Local.dat from the game folder. The game works perfect now.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/tech/January-28-patch-hates-D3D/first#post1312224

I highly recommend running the game with -repair added to your shortcut at every big patch. I had my bit of post patch drama today as well.

Download cap… kitten some years back… I had forgotten that kitten existed.

Did everything even before posting. The problem was the Local dat file as usual. Only problem now is that I cannot log in, but hey at least it runs.

Thanks for the suggestions tho.

My blessings go to the overly sane individual who decided that your controls shouldn’t be included in the Local.dat file. That person probably saved thousands of hours across thousands of people who had to purge that nightmarish existence.

Who ever you are I love so much I can become gay for you.

So after today’s patch every time I try to log in my screen turns black and D3D crashes, so I have to run the dxdiag tool and re-enable it to be able to play something else.

Today was the day of the big patch, I know patch days are rough around the edges but this is too much. I don’t understand how you manged to roll out a patch that crashes my drivers. I’ve got a friend who used to run the game at a low spec PC like mine and he has the same issue, the game simply will not run anymore.

I’m using -repair at the moment in hopes that after waking up I can play, but I think this is wishful thinking…

I usually don’t post patch-whine-threads, in fact I never have but this is kitten me off. Even error 37 was better than this even if that game sucked kitten donkeys.

I’ve been a Guild Wars dude for years, often to an annoying degree.

I had a blast when GW2 launched, but I quit 2 months ago when things started to get… well ugly. More grind was introduced, people stopped doing PvE, the only class I played aka the Ranger avoided any much needed tweaks. I got a bit annoyed and quit playing waiting for an unlikely patch to come around. It took you guys some years to fix my Dervish, I should have known better.

But then again… AN and GW winter events were always a blast ! (I never liked the Mad King anyway I always skip it) So here I was expecting the winter patch with some to very little hope…

And you guys provided ! And then as someone else said you “doubled it” !

Thanks for providing AN, truelly thank you ! I know your pace and it’s always been slow, but you always provided in the end.

Cheers to your whole team, and an extra amount best wishes for the lucky Devs who will spend Christmas at the office making sure that our Christmas toys don’t go highwire.

Sorry for not listening to you Spirit of the Past.

An early Merry Christmas, Tyria I’m coming home !

I quit playing GW2 2 months ago, but since this patch fixed most of the stuff that annoyed me and since AN windet events are aways awesome… I’ll me going back home.

I’ve been using a similar build since launch, but with Cleric equipment. It is very fun to play and I’m glad someone else came up with almost the same build. I used to switch some skills for better support in dungeons, but as it has been two months I’ve yet to see how things have changed.

Might I suggest using Rune of lyssa with your build and an Axe as a mainhand in your 2nd weapon set. Rune of Lyssa makes R as One a whole lot better and coupled with F Bond makes for some fun tactical desicions. The Axe provides with some much needed dps, weakness and snare when you have to avoid melee in a certain boss phase in Dungeons.

I posted my build here when I was still playing, it might be outdated but you might wanna check it out : https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Post-Your-Build-Thread/first#post217867
0/5/20/15/30 because I took the off-hand mastery in the 3rd trait line, I find it is much more beneficial than 30% crit damage for your pet. I’ve also put some info on F Bond in the gw2 wiki, but it is a bit outdated as stability now stacks.

I later upgraded my weapons with some Swiftness in weapon swap sigils, cause well… I love swiftness too. blush

Once again cheers for playing this fun build mate, I hope I find more ppl like you during the holidays.

Trahearne is in the game because they wanted the Story to feel even more pointless, souless and boring. Not only aren’t you making any interesting decisions, but you aren’t even the main drive in your story. SPOILERS All NPCs in the personal story are totally useless regardless of their implied prowess.

I’m sorry, I know this isn’t entirely true and that I am kittening, but his dialogs have become so doggy boring to me that I started skipping them.

Jon, you made my day thank you !
Please, keep improving the game and dont sucumb to elitists.

I rolled a human, because it felt like the natural transition after years of Guild Wars 1.

I’m level 80 and I barely ever do story missions anymore, the dialog is underdeveloped and my character so bland and souless I stopped having any attachment to it. On the other hand all my friends who rolled a charr are having a blast. I don’t understand what editing was done in the Human Story when there is even a decent amount of spelling mistakes. I love this game, but after Guild Wars 1 which had at least a decent story line in almost every expansion the Human Story feels like watching the next installment of Power Rangers where every Ranger is defined solely by their color.

When the Exotic Bags thing is fixed I’ll surely roll a Charr too…

Please, give us more of the good or decent stuff in future expansions and if possible please improve the dialog a bit. Please.

I run a 30 beastmastery tanky build and my pet rarely dies in PvE and can tank lower tier bosses in Dungeons.

I posted this elsewhere I’ll paste it here…

Close-combat Ranger

Weapon Set 1 : Sword/Axe
Weapon Set 2 : Axe/Warhorn

Preferred pets : Wolf/Cave Spider

Traits : 0/5/20/15/30
PvE Skills : Troll Unguent, Sic’ Em (optional), Quickening of Zephyr (optional), Signet of Renewal, Rampage as One
Dungeon Skills : Healing Spring, 2x Spirits/Muddy Terrain, Search and Rescue, Spirit of Nature

Armor and Accessories : Cleric’s and 6/6 Superior Runes of Lyssa
Weapons : Knight’s

My build is rather tanky and my dps unbuffed is rather low, but I’ve seen my Wolf crit pretty high with 25 stacks of Might.

This build revolves around supporting and buffing my pet while being somewhat tanky. I rarely take more than 700 damage from level 80 mobs and common group event bosses rarely hit me for more than 1800, which is good enough when I have 17k hp. I deal consistent but average damage.

I’m having mighty fun with Fortifying Bound, as it is AWESOME with might stacking from Rampage as One and Protection one dodge roll. Whirling Defense and Hunter’s Call are awesome for stacking Might, because every hit counts towards Rampage as One, so it takes ~3 seconds for my pet to reach and maintain 25 Might. you want to know how this trait works go to the GW2 wiki I’ve updated this trait page and have even added a table with condition durations.

I take Wolf and Cave Spider along with the Trait that makes their F2 Cripple.

I love the Wolf, it’s F2 is the best disengage ever and is awesome in dungeons. 30 points in Beastmastery make it hit like a truck even if slow. I like the Fear + Cripple rather than only Fear, because it gives you more control and makes chasing mobs less annoying.

The Cave Spider is ranged which is very good for event boss battles. I take Cave spider over any other spider because it has a very short recharge on it’s F2 and inflicts weakness which makes me and my pet more tanky and coupled with Protection on Dodge and Troll Unguent is OK. I’m usually tanking champions in PvE and lesser bosses. Well not exactly tanking, but once me and my pet take aggro its very hard for the mob to kill me with so much toughness and protection. Rune of Lyssa is awesome here, getting random boons on heal is superb when you already have so many boons in your kit. Fortifying Bound makes this even better, as it transfers the buffs to your pet.

I am stacking about 1000 healing power which most people think is a waste but I really like as when your DPS is low, but you are tanky it more than makes up for itself in the long run.
I’m taking Troll Unguent for the same reason, as it has 25% longer cooldown than Heal as One, but heals roughly 33% more and when you are tanky that snowballs really well.

I know my build isn’t really good, but I find it really fun to play.

I am glad they made a normal Ranger class rather than some boring Archer class. You can still use bows, now go use them.

Are you running a condition damage build ? It seems that happends a lot with high dps/ condition damage builds. When I’m using a sword or an axe they keep attacking my pet more consistently, kinda strange…

MeTx.6712:

bri.2359:

We get plenty of possible combo fields from all the traps (fire, frost, poison) and even health.

During events, there is always plenty of AoE going off that we can take advantage of. Sorry, but I just don’t see Rangers needing any more of this.

Poison trap doesn’t actually make a Combo field. However the Murellow, which already is a very powerful pet, can make a poison field.

Spiders have a Poison Field too.

Dies very fast ? Did you try a 30 beastmastery build ? I have to switch pets 1 or 2 times per boss and they rarely if ever die. And yes I am talking abotu Explorer Mode dungeons.

I am running exclusively Twilight Arbor, we did it with a party fo 4 Rangers and 1 Ele last night and had no issues with pets. Maybe you mean that pets there die too fast from traps or knights ? Those two deal insane damage so it’s only normal that they will kill pets in 2-6 hits/seconds depending on your pet and points in Beastmastery.

I am running the Elite Spirit in every single dungeon to counter wipes and it’s awesome. The range on the revive is very large so with good placement you can make it work. It always works for me, I never had any issues or bugs with it, but I TOTALLY AGREE with you that this spirit dies too fast, way too fast for an elite.

Fix Pet AI.

Buff Longbows and Greatsword.

Fix Sword 1 1 1 combo + dodge.

Replace some sounds.

Rebalance Signets, but keep the Master Trait the same. Signet of Stone is already broken as doggy.

Fix Issues with Rampage as One + Stability.

Make Spirits invulnerable and make them cast their actives only on activation while keeping the trait that makes them cast on death.

So this is like the 140th topic about this.

Can you please use the search option from time to time ?

I do agree you shuld be allowed to permanently stow your pet, but you should gain no buffs from doing that, it should be purely cosmetic and more of a handicap. Everyone should be allowed to play the game the way they want even if it isn’t the best choice so why not ? Just no buffs.

I’m running melee ranger so…

1. Wolf – disengage + cc
2. Cave Spider – ranger + weakness + combo field + cc
3.PvP/Dungeon Brown Bear – condition removal
3.PvE Devourer – Rampage as One booster

Rangers boring? Stop playing cookie cutter builds and try something else that isn’t pure dps and kite fest.

Ever tried pure melee ranger ? I’ve been runing this since day 1 and it’s been a blast. You can benefit from all combo fields and being melee boosts your traps usefulness insanely even untraited. You have a lot of different dodges and there is much more timing involved in surviving, especially in Explorer Mode.

Compaired to a Ranger the Guardian feels like a lifeless blob.

That’s just my point of view, so don’t feel offended. You might like a very different playstyle than me. I love being pushed to my limits and my build even if not optimal provides just that.

Have fun !

I play a melee ranger with 1-3 fields available to me at all times. Being able to trigger a Leap and Whirl Combo every so often is a blast and goes hand in hand with the supportive tanky build I’m running.

Ranged combat is already largely overpowered compaired to melee, if they implement more combo possibilities in the Shortbow/Longbow/Main-hand Axe kit that would make them even more overpowered and would create serious balance issues. While that might boost you “flashy” urges it’ll seriously diminish the usefulness of any other build.

If you want engaging combat I dare you to try permamelee Ranger. Melee combat is more engaging and dynamic by design to compensate the advantage you gain from being ranged.

• Natural Healing heals yourself along with your pet, even though it’s stated that it only heals your pet

I’ve tested this time and time again, Natural Healing does not heal me. It heals only my pet even after respec and on other guildies characters too.

We just had 2 people kiting the swords away from the rest.

Most people suggest it works only for skill you cast while being chilled… I don’t know if that is true.

I run dungeons for fun excluding 3-4 CM runs because I was 10-20 silver short for something on TP.

My reasons might not be exactly the same as yours as I find the current perception of difficulty very lacking, but the other things overlap.

I played GW1 for years rarely if at all for the reward, I just wanted to have fun. It’s the same in GW2 and I hope I can spend years playing it as well. Being in a casual guild has it’s perks too…

That’s a very good suggestion and for me the obvious solution.

My Bear called Medpac loves playing with my shark Angry Joe.

Read the GW2 books, Glint is the coolest dragon SPOILERS minion ever.

I can confirm that pet aggro with Spiders and Canines works correctly.

I can also speculate that the slower missle speed on spiders is intentional so they don’t draw aggro as easily, given that they are very fregile.

We get no advantage over other players. These pets only have different skins and even broken stats at the moment.

HoM rewards were announced ~1 year ago, if you wanted to have them so badly you had ~1 year to claim them. Even if you didn’t I don’t see how having a different skin can be such a problem.

CoF story mode has been the best dungeon in Story Mode for me. It is very simple and great fun, especially the last part where SPOILERS some story characters are finally useful.

CoF in Explorer Mode is a very very different subject.

I recommend not starting any dungeon at the moment because of the currect balance issues.

If you insist on doing a dungeon, currently Caudecus’s Manor the level 40 dungeon in Queensdale is still very fun and daoble. I recommend doing Ascalon Catacombs next regardless of the fact that it is a level 30 dungeon, as dungeons don’t follow a difficulty curve connected with dungeon level.

If you want to do Explorable mode, Caudecus’s Manor is still the simplest dungeon at the moment but the other dungeons are a mixed bag of very easy to extremely hard routes.

I hope that helps. Have fun !

6/10

A good idea, totally wrong numbers, needs more polish. +1 for fixing CoF, I knew about it and didn’t run it a single time, that wasn’t the way I wanted to play this game.

darkehawke.1269:

Wayfinder.8452:

This thread is ridiculous, why do you go to such extremes because of only one aspect of the game being changed ? I don’t get it… So much whining, so much hate.

Chill guys…

They did a huge mistake here, 1 mistake and you forget everything that was given to you. Having the attention span of a kid doesn’t make your criticism look constructive at all.

its also the manner as i said before.
today its one thing tomorrow it may yet be another.
no consultation or even a polite heads up.
A reason is given that is completely contradictory to the point of being insulting to players intelligence.
Just makes me lose faith that they can take the game forward instead of backwards.

Also they have not said this was a mistake, if it was the case then fair enough. mistakes happen, but this is not the case… yet

I’m sorry if you really believe that. I’ll pretend this thread among othes doesn’t exist for the time being. Thanks for the wake up call and sorry If I offended anyone.

Have fun.

Explorer Mode need more beef. I totally agree here.

But…

Story Mode, it’s kitten Story Mode ! It’s supposed to be casual ! Just remove the rewards from story mode after the first run, just like Missions in GW1, but still allow casual players to have their casual fun.

This thread is ridiculous, why do you go to such extremes because of only one aspect of the game being changed ? I don’t get it… So much whining, so much hate.

Chill guys…

They did a huge mistake here, 1 mistake and you forget everything that was given to you. Having the attention span of a kid doesn’t make your criticism look constructive at all.

Thanks Robert !