Guild Wars 2

For a “tank” pet I will always use a Drake over a bear, combo finisher blast is just too nice, and w/healing spring cond removal of brown bear (for me) has never been needed in a pve situation.

One healing spring Drake combo finisher blast, swap pet 2nd Drake for a follow up blast all within one healing spring cd.

F2 & CFB is extra dmg, and the drake has better stats than a bear, greater in power, equal in toughness, just less in vitality.

I sure wish they would expand on the crew running the gemstore, feels like some half empty overpriced bodega. Even the layout is unapealing unorganized.

Not sure who to blame? Anet? NCsoft? Is it a lack of artists and resources for this particular portion of the game? Where is the planning, and community work?

Is it because they don’t need to add items due to the gem=gold exchange? Just confused.

Truly my only major complaint for GW2 is how the gem store is handled, is that good or bad in a b2p game?

The direction of the game since launch has vastly got better as it grows, as the gem store gets worse & worse imo.

whyme.3281:

copied out of the other thread:

the class mechanic need to be fixed before it can be balanced.

• Pets need to hit their targets -> increase attack range or attack while moving
• Pets have to scale with rangers stats -> no condition bunker build with high burst damage anymore
• Pets need damage reduction -> active dodge or passive block/evade every X seconds
• Pets have to go out or AoE damage by them selved or get an aoe damage reduction

These 4 basic things need to be fixed, before the rangers skills/traita get balanced.

Everything Whyme wrote, and I would like to add Ranger pets shouldn’t need a signet/trait to run faster.

Charak.9761:

Rangers have the lowest dps of the 8 profession.

why are you even there on a ranger when its zerker content.

Wrong, please show up w/facts.

I have done this plenty of times on my ranger, not once going down (not sure how players get downed in the first place during this phase), and not once failing a platform either. What’s so hard about “passive” pet anyhow? Soon as the Warden floats into a bomb send the pet in, recall prior to end of burn, kite again into bombs.

Love seeing those Wars 100blade the air w/leet dps from my already finished platform w/a minute to go.

Not exactly hardmode content.

Do the events, play the game for the content and community. Trust me after around 50 Tequatl kills and no ascended taco box this is the mentality you should have (plenty of more players out there w/far more kills and no taco weapon), the game is so much better.

Now the gold issue, for me I drop 10-20$/month treating this game as a sub by supporting Anet. Don’t play the gemstore RNG unless you expect nothing, buy if you like, and not because it saves you gold (ex. gathering tools, salvage-o-matic).

Nothing in the store you like, swap it in for currency, this is the option for players w/less available ingame time.

Out of the many things you can do w/MF I tend to just use it for few things,

I hold onto rare weapons, boss farming, drops, etc…when I get four of the same weapon I drop them into the mf.

Mystic Clover recipe x10 – great way I found to put your mystic coins, unspent skill points, and karma to use. At this point, the opposite of anyone trying to craft a legendary, I do this not for clovers.

Rare sigil/runes

Not sure where this misinformation flying around about celestial being garbage.

If you use it in the context of finishing an -insert dungeon- 10 minutes after some leet zerk group farming the same dungeon for over a year, sure.

Now lets look at the rest of the game,

World boss Tequatl defense it’s great.
LS works great.
WvW solo roam on a few setups/professions works very well. Nothing pleases me more than that -insert profession- running away from my Ranger once they realize I’m not running standard LB & can’t be 2shotted, only if they knew I had the “terribad” celest setup.
Having one ascended armor set to use w/multiple trait setups, weapons, rings etc it’s great.

Anet adjusted after MF was removed, and if they see evidence requiring to do so again they will.

LLaG.9218:

So power build will be not possible without being a Norn?

Race does not matter, playing different content you should be swapping around your elites.

Nature’s Renewal- I have used in some pretty bad spots and has helped.
RAO-Stability
Vines- handy in pvp some boss fights like turret defense during Tequatl etc.
Norn- Pow/signet/bearform hit pretty hard (that’s what he meant if you wanted to use bearform spec).
Norn- Snow leopard allows you to use stealthx3 and 1500yrd gap closer (or get away)x2 within one cd.

Shortest Norn body slider is the same as the tallest human. But play the race you like best, racials can’t be used in spvp either, so choose what you like.

bigsal.7061:

No to staff all together. Would much rather have dual wield swords or even a crossbow or a whip.
Going in the direction of a Druid type thing with the class would be a giant fail.

p.s. pets are broken/garbage

It has been mention before that they plan to use weapons already ingame, so atm crossbow & whip are out of the question. I want to say it was in the same article that Engineers were associated w/getting the hammer. I don’t have this bookmarked, but I’m sure w/google you could find it.

Holland.9351:

If your pet is dead, this grandmaster trait will no longer remove conditions.

Kinda the way the trait should work I thought?

Staff fits very well w/Ranger archetype, and our nature magic Warden of the profession.

“At one point in development, according to The Making of Guild Wars 2 book, the ranger profession of the original Guild Wars was split into many different professions, notably the warden and the marksman. Eventually, with only marksman remaining, who only possessed only the aspect of ranged weaponry, was combined with already scrapped elements of warden and beastmaster, and renamed the result as ranger for the sake of the original series.”

I would really like to play the Warden Ranger, also to mention this assumed new legendary staff fits the archetype very well w/Anet idea of giving the professions new weapons this year (ex. Engineer & hammer).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nd-5b1tsz0

edit: My two cents would like to see a staff#5 mobile AE or Ranger/pet stealth fitting to nature magic & Warden of the woods. Condition removal would be nice too, and what DeadlySynz wrote, similar to the way a Necro staff works.

I know you mentioned you use a sbow, but what kind of build? Cond/crit I will assume? Personally I wouldn’t waste my karma there. Not quite as easy to come by anymore. I would craft a rare med set stats of your liking, or buy a cheap rare set off tp. Another not so cool thing about Orr karma armor is you can’t salvage it later on.

For exotics I would farm some easy exp dungeon tokens, cofp1, ta f/f or u/u path etc, or use wvw tokens for filler armor.

Really depends your playstyle. PvE, PvX, WvWroam, cond pve could look very different than a cond wvwroam. Or maybe you use sbow in a crit/pow build too?

FOTM is kinda a different beast, it’s the only content atm that requires AR, if you plan to advance up FOTM as a Ranger, spotter/frost and a focused Zerk be the way to do it.
May want a set just for FOTM.

Tequatl can’t crit. But zerk set fine for Defense, adds, finger killers, and dps for tequatl burn phases when you don’t have to worry about being hurt.
I like doing Southboat defense/east battery group as a Ranger.

When exo was the top tier I had a zerk, cond, soldier (tequatl), and WvW set. The way you like to play will greatly matter in anyones answer.

So my gameplay consists of,

WvW Roam/Zerg
LS- Usually knock out the rewards I want then stop.
Dungeons, when I want to make a quick few gold, or farming a gift, so not often.
World boss farm/tequatl, usually once a day one full clear.

Crafted ascended set decided on Celest “WupWup”. For the playstyle I like it, fits well.

Armor Ascended, jewelry etc celest.
Weapons I like to go w/the stats that best fit what the weapon does. Power weapons w/powcrit stats, condition focus weapons w/cond stats, and some I go wupwup because it really dont matter.

It plays well for me, and makes it easy to change specs. Hope it helps.

PlEaSe dueling, sure would make the wait for taco better.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Upcoming_changes_and_features

milo.6942:

Can someone break that statement down and explain what it means and how gw2 compares with non skill-based games

If I were to compare,

WoW for example is a gear based game, two equal skilled/traited opponents are matched up, but different tier gear. The better gear will always win.

Usually the gear based games will have a pretty big difference in stats at end level between gear tiers.

GW2 is called “skill” based, less about the word skill and more of an emphasis of not having such a stat inflation between tiers of level 80 gear.

Sounds faintly familiar to the pve players that don’t want to go to WvW for map completion to craft a legendary.

it’s all part of the game

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Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

An Siorai Tharian.4516:

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Dhuum

the managing to “repeatedly break free” was the entire point of the Underworld Dungeon of Guild Wars 1. That has absolutely no bearing on his status in Guild Wars 2. I stand by my statement that until we hear otherwise from the Dev’s, he can likely be assumed to be considered a “Dead” God right along with Abaddon.

It was put there as a reference for those who are too lazy to look up who Dhuum is/was, but not lazy enough to ask here for someone else to divulge information.

smh.

ya I meant as far as a Anet team interaction w/the community concerning permanent & temp bans, possibly reintroduced through a LS. Could care less about the lore…more about “Dhuum” involvement in day to day play.

Is Dhuum coming to Guild Wars 2? Never got into GW1, but I always thought the Dhuum vids were pretty great.

Maybe a Dhuum Living Story chapter in the future?

Wait for an update to dungeon vendors rewards, and if the new legendaries take your interest hold onto the tokens to see what gifts you could possibly need.

If you plan to blow it in MF go w/shields, lowest tokens needed at the highest precursor buy out.

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

All I can recommend is a Razer Naga.

There are more than enough buttons on it to play most games.

The only downside I have experienced is that it tends to double-click, which is extremely frustrating.

I have had the double click issue twice before on the left clicker of Razer’s. Stopped buying Razer products.

G500 and never turned away, one of the best on the market, and plenty of buttons for GW2.

I don’t care for those “mmo” gaming mouse, far to many buttons, and too small for my hands.

I miss “Guard”, for some reason it was not balanced that my crow could fly from a castle wall.

Arikyali.5804:

I just started playing my ranger, only mid level 20s right now. I plan to keep it mostly to PvE, but if I can get skilled enough, I might try WvW roaming.

I hear everyone saying how terrible rangers are in everything, but that can’t be true. I know there are good rangers out there. Saying the ranger class is bad, must be like saying the thief class is OP. Ridiculous statements.

1. I want to have a fernhound as my main pet. Is this viable? I’ve heard that the fernhound is preferred as a secondary pet.
——If I do go with a fernhound as a primary pet, what build would compliment it?

2. What is the general meta build for rangers? Zerker, Valkyrie, Condi, PTV?

3. I’ve seen other rangers send their pets to their doom to save themselves. But I’m a softie who doesn’t want to condemn my cute and loyal virtual pet to that fate. Would I end up having to rely on this tactic…?

4. LB feels more like a PvP weapon and SB for PvE. Is this the general idea?

5. What is a ranger strong in? Where do they really shine? Dungeons, pvp, WvW, fractals, boss fights….which one?

1. Fern is nice for PvE, boss farming, etc. Secondary? I don’t know. For pve I do like to run a group friendly pet (boon), and a dps pet.

2. Depends what part of the game you want a meta for? PvE (fotm), WvW, spvp? I will only make one ascended set so I chose Celestial setup/build, but I mostly just LS & WvW.

3. Usually if they sent their pet to die they lack control of the pet, don’t care, or for “Beastmasters Bond” in the Marksmanship tree.

4. Depends on the build, LB is a pretty good defensive weapon that slowly w/recent patch is getting better dps must be paired w/quickening Zephyr, hunters tactic, gear, etc to produce best dmg.

Shortbow is a "range’ condition control weapon used in cond or zerk builds.

5. Solo WvW we’re pretty strong in some builds, high lvl fotm don’t expect to pug w/open arms, dungeons don’t matter what class you bring, World bosses don’t matter either, spvp we have some pretty solid builds out there too.

my 2cents, hope it helps.

thefinnster.7105:

p.p.s allso one thing that may make this irelevant i havent yet goten confirmation on is if these transmutation splliters actualy do remove the new infusions or not in my previouse post a player posted he tried it and it didnt work
i asked if he was removeing the new kind of infuision or the old one and got no reply my info on removeing them comes from dulfy and they are not often wrong
i asume the guy tryed to remove the wrong kind of infusion

I believe that was me, I did use a transmutation splitter on a greatsword that had two WvW Precision Infusions, it destroyed the infusions.

I was moving a GS from my Guard to my Ranger because I got a Ascended weapon box w/stats that better suited my Guardian.

Hope that helps clear that up.

Someday I hope they will add a race change in gemstore, Asura brains are hard at work I’m sure.

add a #1 auto of sort to that and got the making of a Ranger “Warden” staff weapon =)

Anet biggest mistake w/the Ranger was naming the profession a Ranger.

“At one point in development, according to The Making of Guild Wars 2 book, the ranger profession of the original Guild Wars was split into many different professions, notably the warden and the marksman. Eventually, with only marksman remaining, who only possessed only the aspect of ranged weaponry, was combined with already scrapped elements of warden and beastmaster, and renamed the result as ranger for the sake of the original series.”

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ranger

I like the idea of a Warden though.

If a Norn go Snow Leopard, 1500yrd gap closer, stealthx2.

I gave it a chance, even traited it’s extremely subpar in comparison to our other options. The on use restricts me from going anywhere due to the slow activation time in this very mobile played profession.

Im going to try it in other content/builds before I completely retire it and see where it gets me.

DarkSpirit.7046:

Wetpaw.3487:

DarkSpirit.7046:

Wetpaw.3487:

This is why we have an option to buy ingame gold & pay your way to 500 crafting plus ascended gear. Comes down to either you have time to play the game or pay the game, choice is yours.

And this is where you go wrong, but it is a common mistake people make when they assume that they can just pay their way into acquiring all needed ascended gear.

Ascended gear crafting recipes are designed in such a way that there 2 major components. 1 major component can be paid through with lots of gold. The other major component are account-bound items like the vision crystals and its account-bound ingredients. These can never be bought, so you have to grind for those, no way out. This is why ANet described ascended gear as being a “time-gated” reward.

You’re right, I assumed he would play some portion of the game to attain those materials. The easiest mats needed to craft too.

Lesser/reg Vision Crystal
Skill points- Just play the way you do.
Laurels- Just play the way you do. Recipe.
Dragonite/Empyreal/Bloodstone- Can all be attained by some of the easiest content ingame. World bosses, WvW, JP
Obsidian-Just play the way you do, w/multiple different ways to buy.

With GW2stuff overlay, you can knock out most world bosses, daily, & LA JP’s within a hour. The rest can be attained through gold. Like many we put aside other activities ingame when Anet first mentioned Ascended, and started farming (above mentioned) for Armor/Weapons as soon as ascended weapons were released.

This is a MMO, not a console rpg. This is not Guild Wars 1, I wonder how many times the devs have to tell players this to get through.

If you want to play a game where everyone is equal MMO’s are not your kind of game, and should start looking elsewhere. MMO’s can be played as a “casual” just don’t expect to be top tier best in slot.

Yes getting all the account-bound materials over a period of time is not hard as long as there are people zerking with you. But it still requires a substantial time investment over repeated content

doesn't it?

And what do we call this? A grind.

I remember having to 25/40m Raids, hope a bis I need drops, roll against 20+ other players, possibly ninja’d, cya next week to do it again. All for best in slot.

or the GW2 way.

for all we know by the end of 2014 start of 2015 Ascended may be far more common, sell in AH or reward/drops in content.

DarkSpirit.7046:

Wetpaw.3487:

This is why we have an option to buy ingame gold & pay your way to 500 crafting plus ascended gear. Comes down to either you have time to play the game or pay the game, choice is yours.

And this is where you go wrong, but it is a common mistake people make when they assume that they can just pay their way into acquiring all needed ascended gear.

Ascended gear crafting recipes are designed in such a way that there 2 major components. 1 major component can be paid through with lots of gold. The other major component are account-bound items like the vision crystals and its account-bound ingredients. These can never be bought, so you have to grind for those, no way out. This is why ANet described ascended gear as being a “time-gated” reward.

You’re right, I assumed he would play some portion of the game to attain those materials. The easiest mats needed to craft too.

Lesser/reg Vision Crystal
Skill points- Just play the way you do.
Laurels- Just play the way you do. Recipe.
Dragonite/Empyreal/Bloodstone- Can all be attained by some of the easiest content ingame. World bosses, WvW, JP
Obsidian-Just play the way you do, w/multiple different ways to buy.

With GW2stuff overlay, you can knock out most world bosses, daily, & LA JP’s within a hour. The rest can be attained through gold. Like many we put aside other activities ingame when Anet first mentioned Ascended, and started farming (above mentioned) for Armor/Weapons as soon as ascended weapons were released.

This is a MMO, not a console rpg. This is not Guild Wars 1, I wonder how many times the devs have to tell players this to get through.

If you want to play a game where everyone is equal MMO’s are not your kind of game, and should start looking elsewhere. MMO’s can be played as a “casual” just don’t expect to be top tier best in slot.

Warning the Infusion will be destroyed doing this, if an infusion is equipped.

QuiroN.9758:

You know.. I have a family and a full time job, and like video games. I decided to get this game cause it was supposed to be balanced. Your win/lose situation on WvWvW (I don’t play dungeons) would depend on player’s ability, not on gear.

Now all this craze about making ascended armors and weapons. I definitive DON"T have the time to farm stuff and laurels and bla bla bla don’t know what other stuff needed to make a set or a weapon. Even the hardcore gamer’s that can have the time to farm are complaining about the difficulty and the TIME to getting the mats.

Soon, lots of people that can afford to play this game all day, will have ascended stuff vs the normal players that the most they can afford is exotic.

This game is just becoming like the rest of online FARMING video games. If I wanted to do hardcore farming, I would play Farmville, for Christ’s sake.

Casual means two things to me in GW2,

1. Not so much a “gamer”, only a few hours a week bouncing around not going for completionist end game type player.

2. You have a career, family, etc and little less time to do as you mention to attain certain items even though you really want them.

This is why we have an option to buy ingame gold & pay your way to 500 crafting plus ascended gear. Comes down to either you have time to play the game or pay the game, choice is yours.

Aberrant.6749:

Just use a personal guild bank/bag alt instead if you don’t want to deal with gems… if it hits the 250, move it over or sell it. Not a big deal imo…

Same, I got my own personal gbank & two bank alts stacked w/bags. Far cheaper.

Great job, and the “Roll people” was great

generalraccoon.3857:

Tiger.9786:

I would love to see:

Thief – Greatsword – Staff (For some kind of thiefy support.((I imagine a skill like mesmer’s veil and some other weirdly interesting things like that for thief)) )
Warrior – Offhand Pistol (Rytlock has one)
Elementalist – Greatsword – Axe in mh or oh (dervish style like draxynnic said)
Guardian – Longbow – Mainhand axe
Necromancer – Greatsword (Reaper fighting with highish life force gain like dagger except with cleaving attacks)
Mesmer – Mainhand pistol sounds good
Engineer – Hammer – Main hand Mace
Ranger – Staff – Rifle – Scepter – Focus (Warden style excluding rifle)

plenty of niceness in the list, but forgive me for being a noob but what is Warden style?

“At one point in development, according to The Making of Guild Wars 2 book, the ranger profession of the original Guild Wars was split into many different professions, notably the warden and the marksman. Eventually, with only marksman remaining, who only possessed only the aspect of ranged weaponry, was combined with already scrapped elements of warden and beastmaster, and renamed the result as ranger for the sake of the original series.”

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ranger

Natures Warrior/Guardian. Uses nature magic, animals, and possibly shapeshift to protect. At least how I see the role. Radagast The Brown comes to mind in the Hobbit.

Ranger Warden, Staff could be very fun.

I personally enjoy Ascended crafting, and do look forward to the release. As for the aesthetics of the armor I like the medium and heavy, don’t care for the light.

I do hope later on we don’t get another tier armor, but I hope they find someway to further modify the looks similar to the method of fotm back, different mats for different looks. Or possibly modifying to legendary armor set.

This point of view is coming from someone who gave up on alts at this point of time and direction of the game.

brick.2708:

Right, so this is something I’ve been going over in my head for a while now.
I’d like to support this game and I’d like to see it do well. As far as I know, the best way to do this is buying stuff from the ingame store. However…

So far I haven’t been a huge fan of the living story (don’t hate it, just didn’t keep my interest). And I fear that my money will simply go towards updates, which are cool, but not really my cup of tea.

Should I buy gems now, so that Anet has the money to invest in new stuff that I might like to see, or should I wait until Anet actually adds that sort of stuff so I can show my support for it?

1. Quit jerking around your supportive base by raising gem store prices on items, pick a set price and stick w/it.

2. Start marketing better, all it takes is a email sent out few days to a sale or some purchase bonus.

3. Get rid of this prospect theory, the gem store looks like some over priced empty bodega.

4. Figure out a PvE locker or add skins to the Rewards panel achievement tab for Gem store weapons/armor & LS helm/back rewards.

Unfortunately OP in a b2p/f2p game our opinion as individual means not so much, not like you can withhold your sub. Every time you don’t spend money in the gem store another player is dropping X amount possibly in the hundreds.

My issue w/the game is how NCsoft runs the gem store. For the game I have a few minor concerns, but overall enjoy it and the direction Anet is going w/it.

Maybe I will be able to elaborate later, but I would like some LS chapters to have focus on individual professions like Lore, balance, quests revolving around the nature of the profession, leaders, etc..

Whoever is is in charge of the gem store has had way too many lectures in Prospect theory, it’s just annoying.

Two, my Guardian & Ranger. Maybe my Necro down the road but I doubt it.

I wonder why the choice to bump up single armor to 500 gems instead of 400 gems like previous? Ingame typo?

+1 for race change

Thank you, never bothered to check there after checking sticky of Support section of the forums, now I know to do so though

Delete or keep for others, thanks again.

Tyreal.5230:

Title says it all. >,>

I like it, two Norn thumbs up

Glad the sales are happening, thank you.

Any chance that the “Black Friday-Cyber Monday” daily sales all make an appearance for the last day it’s running?

If not, any chance in the future Anet could throw an email out a few days prior, I believe that sort of marketing will benefit Anet better.

What happened to the support site? I used to be able to log into it to check a status of a ticket? Now it takes me to the site but all I see is options to create a new support ticket, and no support account login?

LS rewards (back), Gem store Armor, and Gem store Weapons (not rng box ones) all should be added to our Achievements Rewards Panel.