Guild Wars 2

Stability is one of the best buffs in the game – decides teamfights, secures stomps, can claim a point at the last second because of it, etc, but as of now it has no visual queue at all – compared to something borderline redundant like might should be read off the bar anyway having a visual queue on the model. I am of the opinion that when walking into a teamfight you should be able to immediately identify who has stability up and who doesn’t for the purpose of target identification.

I mean, check out Dota’s equivalent of stability – Black King Bar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDaJes0T1Ig

Even in the mess of effects half way through it’s still very obvious that the Enigma is immune to magic due to the size increase and giant yellow ring flashing around him, and that spells need to be focused on other players. In GW2 we have to individually click on every single player to determine if they have stability up – really intuitive.

I’m not an advocate of visual clutter and I’d like to retain clarity but this is something that is a priority over that imo.

EDIT: Oh kitten, it’s visual “que” not “queue” isn’t it. asdasdfasdf

Agreed, but of course not now, we’re too far gone. Future MMO’s should drop this archaic concept though.

Complaining about thieves is pointless, it’s time that could be spent getting good at the game instead – 90% of them are horrible and just need a few brain cells to beat. It’s the good ones that you have to be scared of.

Get good.

15 characters.

Overpowered as kitten. I hope anet know what they’ve just gotten themselves into.

Nah, leave it. Change offhand axe 4 to a gap closer. That way you can run dual axes and not look like a kittening moron while being kited to pieces by an engineer.

CptWheezy.6439:

-loads of text-

I’ve seldom lost an even steven 1v1 against either server. I say this as a friendly gesture because I’m legitimately looking for a good fight and not le epic cross serve trashtalk: anyone down for some duels?

Eh, let them have their fun, rank is borderline meaningless besides prestige and they’ll be high ranked players with inappropriate skill for their level anyway, their funeral.

The game is incredibly alienating to new players. Let me describe new players first experience: Hotjoins. Every high ranked player stacks up on the team that the primary pubstar hotjoin hero joins first, then they disregard gameplay and literally farm the lower ranks for points. It’s not even in-depth pvp, it’s just rolling newbies for points. Would you want to play more matches if Xx Demonslayer Phoenixrank Xx just bullscharge>frenzy>100 blades’d you for the 10th time? Probably not. And I’m almost certain the hotjoin crowd – or the potential hotjoin crowd – is bigger than the tPvP crowd.

Anet said solo queue was kind of a soft introduction to real tPvP, but I believe we have to go further. Abolish hotjoins completely (keep custom servers for specialist intrests like dueling and massive clusterkitten 10v10s) and have a “soft unranked queue” – points hidden, 5v5 or 6v6 or so, few other gametypes like tdm and payload from TF2 – stuff you can really just jump in. And leavers should be replaced by people queuing. That way you can actually match people to skill and they can learn with people their own skill level instead of being mercilessly stomped by the full burst d/p thief over and over.

Accesability changes like that need to happen ALONGSIDE balance though, I certainly ain’t going to play the next patch if playing a reactive spec like zerker roaming warrior nets me far fewer wins than my current 90% winrate by rolling my face across the keyboard as a spirit ranger. Game has to be not trashcan before doing major tournaments like PAX again please.

The signet isn’t really horrendously overpowered in itself (A little poison and a warrior is shut down like Madagascar in Pandemic, use sigil of doom – trust me on this) but those healy bunker builds are just boring and passive as kitten like nothing I’ve ever seen. I tried doing the fotm heal/stun warrior and got bored after two matches, just as boring in WvW because no damage, you’re not doing any reactive play or anything of the likes. Switched back to zerker gs/longbow warrior as fast as anything, it hurts my winrate but at least I’m not contributing to the passive gameplay trend over the last patch. Please god just nerf it so I never have to fight some unkillable boring kitten standing there self healing and stunning every time it’s off cooldown ever again. At least guardian bunking is pretty reactive with it’s immunities and blocks instead of just “LEL I HEAL :DDDD” with 1 keyboard stroke per minute.

And Xsorus stop acting like you’re some kind of god of ranger who invented every build ever. You’re talented at the game and inventive with the tools given but BM bunker builds have been around for-kittening-ever (It’s pretty obvious – soup up the pet for sick damage, build defensively with regen), nor is this claim that “pvp players don’t experiment to protect your ranking” true. Just a few days ago I saw Kaypud doing solo queues with a kittening killshot warrior build – whereas in WvW to change your build you have to farm PvE for a while in order to get the money to do anything.

Pretty depressing, really.

holy kitten. This is potentially the most annoying thing about the class, and it’s part of the reason I switched to engi. When I press “F2” i want F2 to happen. It still seems like random chance, even if you do the F3>F1>F2 trick.

Wolf howl is the most susceptible to this.

There was one point where they were looking at two spirit rangers fighting each other and they just didn’t say anything – I don’t think they could pick out anything that was going on to commentate.

Anyway, don’t leave countless, we’ll miss you akitteng on that rock-ledge thing near the target golems, and we just can’t replace a ledge afker of your standard so easily.

I hope someone that was there from FA reads this.

Today a warrior using hammer 4 knocked my two brokus into a rock on FABL. Much glitch. Toppest of lels.

Just sharing.

I don’t know, I really don’t like the weapon much. It’s fairly useless unless you get hefty amounts of crit damage, the autoattack (IE downtime if the enemy counters your primary forms of damage) is beyond horrible and if the enemy decides they want to push on you you’re 100% kittened besides a bad #5 skill knockback saving you time until you can swap.

It might work as an alternate set (I wouldn’t build around it unless you’re going 420 Xx call of duty killshot build Xx for hotjoin rofls) but I just love longbow too much to use something that’s not longbow, but if I were, I’d probably put it with a zerkers build with gs on the other set (Another weapon that takes good advantage of high direct damage).

Mithir.7460:

mace is pretty broken
healing signet is bugged and broken
beserker stance is broken

Harrywinky.8632:

i made a topic few days ago claiming this and anet moved it … ¬¬

tons of players top 100 run a warrior, it just crashes rangers engineers necros guardians stun lock features must be revised.
also longbow is not really balanced

I can’t tell if you kittens actually read the OP or you just saw “OMMGGG WARRIRO COMPLAINT THREAD” and decided to jump in and gift us with your intelligence. It’s a joke. This is a joke thread. He is joking. Either you have zero reading comprehension skills or you just skipped over the OP entirely – something I really hope you don’t do.

If you have so many kittening opinions write a book instead of posting it here

Very true. All of it: true. Compulsary viewing.

Shame they won’t do anything about it.

Because you kittening make half of them.

Reikou.7068:

From what I understand, SotG in its previous incarnation is not going to be coming back as Grouch, the host, sold us out and is now working for the enemy.

In order to fill this void, GuildWars2 PvP TV will be hosting a similar “State of the Game”-like program in the very near future called “State of the Mists.”

Please tune into Guild Wars2 PvP TV at
http://www.twitch.tv/guildwars2pvptv

Thank you based reikou.

Can you give us any idea what the “very near future” entails? SotG was always something very interesting to watch because of the insight into the developers ideas for the game. Are you going to have dev input to the show?

Is it possible that a good, not over the top balanced suggestion came out of Daecollo? It is!

KStudios.2850:

Osred.3864:

KStudios.2850:

Durian.5419:

Not everyone needs to be able to succeed at everything.

Not everything needs to be fair and balanced.

Oh no, by all means. Lets let a huge portion of the player-base feel like utter failures after losing almost everything they own trying their very best. Really draws ’em in, lemme tell ya.

Respect your opinion and all, but disagree. It would be totally different if you could still get the mini over a period of time, (cause I have zero qualms about grinding to get something I want or I’d not still be farming bones for Endless Quiver) but since the event is limited that’s not the case.

Get good and then maybe you’ll be able to win it. Stop being an entitled brat that expects everything handed to them on a plate. I can’t believe you put ‘skill’ on the same level as ‘grinding’.

And then there’s these people. ^

Yes, by all means, my being an utter failure explains everything doesn’t it? It explains away the five days of trying, coming out with only a single gold remaining. Nothing else to show for the missing time. No dailies, no nothing. I defer and bow to your superior skill, oh great beater of scary exploding clone ladies.

I will say at least my bank is much cleaner. I hawked most of its contents to pay for more tickets.

Maybe you should have stopped.

I’ve got one thing to say to you all: shush.

Here’s a crazy idea: If you’re not good enough at the game to do something, don’t do it? Don’t kitten up the forums blaming it on lag, on your class (b-b-b-but warriors are overpowred xD! I did it on an engi far, far easier than a warrior), on bugs, on “unfair mechanics”, on anything like that, instead of your own kittening inability to do something. It is OKAY to be not good enough to do something that doesn’t give you vital rewards. I would understand if it locked you away from ascended or a legendary or something palpable, but it’s a kittening mini. You do not HAVE to be the best players ever, it’s deliberately designed to be CHALLENGING content and therefore almost by definition not completable by people who are not capable of doing it.

Entitlement here is through the roof. I’ve never seen anything like this, it’s disgusting.

Yes please, annoying as balls. I can attribute losing a tpvp match to this as I was not able to switch to bow in order to interrupt someone channeling bottom buff on temple due to weapon swap cooldown from coming out of the water.

Blinds. Blinds are infinitely frustrating for any warrior build and especially one which revolves around landing that one attack. I would focus on saving init for black powder rather than focusing on getting out damage or whatever your usual rotation is.

Yeah, looks like a case of full glass catching semi-glass off-guard, that is a lot of damage but it’s achievable if the warrior has specced 100% into damage and possibly built around eviscerate. The only advice I can give you is to be a bit more attentive and look around, warriors are generally fairly slow and don’t have a way to sneak up on someone like a thief might, with eviscerate being a very short range and clunky skill.

Maybe if you didn’t give your guild the name “X Phantom Lord X”.

I’ve done some studies and it looks to be a signet warrior.

Do not be alarmed. I have called emergency services and they are on their way now to remove it from the premises. Stay safe.

I don’t care. It would be fun. Hell, it is fun. The only thing I do in hotjoins anymore is dueling servers.

I think making it “official” or giving rewards out or giving it a queue would suck all the fun out, people would get competitive and run phant mes and only phant mes. Just give custom arenas a chance to be a “proper” dueling server (no harming another player unless you /bow at them first) and leave it at that.

3000 rank points in the mists should equal a quarter of an Exp bar for your PvE character. In the time it takes to get, say, Champion title for a class I could have raised enough gold to craft 3 alts to 80. But instead I have to grind through the very slow and boring levelling process. The only possible reason I can see for there being a requirement to level to 80 at ALL is so that you’re forced to learn your class, and I can’t see any way to better learn your class than PvP. I guess there has to be a gold sink somewhere and PvP is the mode to take that hit. Don’t know why we can’t have fun and earn stuff at the same time, but anet seem to think they’re mutually exclusive seeing as you can’t earn a single dime outside of maybe a few g if you’re lucky from dyes, wheras cof 1, potentially the most challengeless and boring thing ever, generates money in buckets.

Just SOME way to earn exp for your character in pvp so I can play it in wub would be nice.

3 light classes
3 medium classes
2 heavy classes.

The logical thing that they seem like they’re going to do is add another heavy class, so the safest thing to do (Provided they’re not soulbound, I’m not sure?) is to buy a pick and bank it for a while.

Yo can you do me a favour? Pop a superior sharpening stone and record the power increase.

Atherakhia.4086:

Not sure how you came to the conclusion that the class is the golden child of GW2 given its current status in the game.

Leveling: One of the more difficult classes.
PvE: Offers nothing.
Dungeons: Offers nothing.
WvW: Offers nothing in the current meta and is only good at roaming and ganking scrubs.
PvP: In a fight to the death with Warriors for the most dysfunctional class award.

Really, unless you’re running around in full berserkers gear and/or playing a thief, you shouldn’t be having issues against Thieves.

It’s good to see some rationality in this thread for once. Quoted for emphasis.

Manekk.6981:

Writetyper.1985:

Yeah I did. You said it’s in the name. It’s not. Where’s the issue?

You didn’t get my sentiment, I was saying people simply mistake ranger for meaning ranged combatant and they repeatedly reveal that is exactly what they think the word means so it is in fact in the name, I thought I was clear I’m not one of them but apparently not.

Ok. I’m extremely stupid and it’s ironic because that’s what I was making fun of in the first place. That whole ranged combatant thing just irritated me so much.

Yeah I did. You said it’s in the name. It’s not. Where’s the issue?

jcbroe.4329:

If I see one more Aragorn reference I swear I’m going to burn those books.

That ONE reference does not equate to a strong argument. I mean, you could reference the military, even ranger Smith from Yogi Bear. But always always ALWAYS people want to use the defense of Aragorn for this game.

That is only the basis step in an inductive argument. It does not account for every other MMO ever that ensured that rangers were top performers at ranged weaponry.

Fact: If ANet calls a class rangers and markets them with the description that has already been quoted in this thread, then that class should not have a lackluster feel to any aspect of its ranged gameplay when compared to any other class. Due to the design of the game, yes, it’s melee should outdamage it’s ranged.

Stop with the Aragorn though. If Aragorn is the ONLY “ranger” people continue to use as an argument, then maybe, amongst the sea of other ranger examples, Aragorn was doing it wrong. Variety (large sample size) is the key to a sound argument.

It doesn’t matter whether you hate the aragorn or not, ranged combatant is not what “Ranger” means. I mean let’s go to the most base level here, a kittening dictionary.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ranger

1, 4, 5 and maybe even 3 by a stretch of the imagination support that defenition of ranger. Not a single defenition anywhere supports “Ranged combatant”, because that’s not what a kittening Ranger is. The Aragorn thing is just an analogy to explain it.

Manekk.6981:

I think it’s way simpler than that, it’s in the name people don’t understand what it means and they repeatedly show it.

epic xddddd i cant into english either xd

Something you people seem to be ignoring is that the game is balanced around tPvP, whether you like it or not. They don’t care about PvE balance otherwise they would have had a skill split and fixed it several months ago.

If thieves were the supposed golden class then perhaps they wouldn’t be so lacklustre in tpvp. If warriors were the supposed golden class then perhaps they’d be more than a big frowny face in anything other than the hands of an extremely talented player. If guardians were the supposed class then maybe they’d have more viable builds than “stack health and stand on a point”.

The reason thief gets all these buffs that you outline in your obnoxious EPIC BOLDING XD post is because they need them.

stale.9785:

Writetyper.1985:

Can’t live without it bro. Best weapon the ranger has.

Mentalhead.5721:

I know that ranger is designed to use ranged weapons

I want to figure out where this mentality is coming from and quash it.

It comes from Anet themselves. They touted the ranger as the master of ranged combat. This isn’t something that the community dreamed up themselves, it’s something Anet claimed, then changed.

I didn’t know that, but I wouldn’t mind squashing it either because anet say some silly kitten sometimes. Anyway, that just says they’re the master of ranged combat, not that they are exclusive to ranged combat.

Blaine Tog.8304:

The profession’s name might have something to do with it…

Common misconception. The profession’s name has NOTHING to do with it. Just because it has “Range” in it doesn’t mean they are exclusively archers. “Rangers” means someone who ranges the land, a scout, a survivor, with the wilderness.

Aragorn is a ranger. His title is “Ranger of Numenor”. Yet I wouldn’t call him ranged specialist at all, really? Even when he was more ranger and less king he used bows where needed, and melee weapons more often than not.

On the contrary, Legolas may or may not be classed as a Ranger, but NOT because he is proficient with archery.

Can’t live without it bro. Best weapon the ranger has.

Mentalhead.5721:

I know that ranger is designed to use ranged weapons

I want to figure out where this mentality is coming from and quash it.

War Machine is playing WvW on Blackgate. I think. Not sure if it’s the same War Machine. They’re korean at the root though.

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Puandro.3245:

Faux Sheaux.6179:

Also, I like how all the ranger videos are using Sail by AWOLNATION.

They are? I just felt it fit the clip I used it on.

Yeah, there’s like four or five out over the past week that have used it lol. Very good playing btw. Subscribed to your channel and am looking forward to moar

Feeling like making one and using the song now just to continue the trend :P

zerkers, warriors have more than enough base HP.

GS or Axe, 20/20/0/10/20 or similar, maybe with healing shouts for a bit of support thrown in but really the best thing to do is to kill things before things kill you. Warriors are more than capable of that.

You may die a little at first as you get used to relying on skills to stay alive rather than doing tickle damage and then dying anyway because you have no sustain (with soldier’s), but trust me, you’ll regret anything other than dps-focused builds for PVE.

Everflame.1305:

Although I read you while post, you lost me at the title. The words “ranger” and “nerf” do not belong in the same sentence. Check your facts and try playing the game.

“Trap Ranger” and “Nerf” do.

This OP is on drugs though, possibly baiting. He hasn’t even experienced the skill, he’s just done some (incorrect) maths in an extremely unlikely hypothetical and deemed it OP, which is so silly it’s almost funny to me.

Everything here is an excellent point. I can’t find a fault in any of them, besides perhaps that #1 takes a lot of manpower, effort and balancing. I think that shows how well they stand as ideas.

Kurow.6973:

Writetyper.1985:

HOW ABOUT:

-0.2 seconds on weapon swap time
Fast Hands changed to “First three attacks after swapping weapons always crit”.

You’d be able to max out at 3 second weapon swap time (with rune of the soldier) for maximum versatility. I’d even say it would be OP.

Only problem I see is that it might be a slight nerf to warriors only taking around 15-20 points in Discipline because Fast Hands is a flat -5.

Do you know what it means to have guaranteed crits…especially on a class like warrior…let alone on weapon swaps?

Yes. It’s pretty kittening good. You can run durable and do far more damage than you deserve to do. And it’s pretty clear that warrior is pretty kittening bad. Everyone else is saying “warrior needs more sustain!” or something like that, but that’s taking away the classe’s niche of hitting hard consistently, it just makes them into a psuedo guardian.

Of course, if it’s really that bad only next hit critting is also okay.

HOW ABOUT:

-0.2 seconds on weapon swap time
Fast Hands changed to “First three attacks after swapping weapons always crit”.

You’d be able to max out at 3 second weapon swap time (with rune of the soldier) for maximum versatility. I’d even say it would be OP.

Only problem I see is that it might be a slight nerf to warriors only taking around 15-20 points in Discipline because Fast Hands is a flat -5.

Shhh, I’m having fun throwing 8 second bolas.

Cool. But why did you have to name it after an epic maymay?

If only my internet was good enough to stream in something higher than 360p…

Anyway, you did good Blu. Everyone gets shaky sometimes and someone who judges you on force of habit language is in the minority.

Hanzo.9624:

AlBundy.7851:

If I’m not mistaken wow was the 1st mmo?

Not a chance. There were several prior MMO’s.

If wow wasn’t the first mmo then why is it the most popular?

do you game?

kitten am I reading