Guild Wars 2

Personally i prefer Knights Armor (power, toughness, precision) pvp and WvW with superior runes of the Ogre and utilities: Quickening Zephyr, Sick Em , Signet of the Hunt and Rampage as One elite skill.

Toughness is king in WvsW sPvP, and precision helps proccing the lifesteal from consumables more often

Zoja.2631:

There was a new waypoint added recently. If you had already completed map previous to that point being added you would not get a second reward. I had the same thing pop up.

Ah ok, this must explain it. I wasn’t sure if i had finished the map before and i saw it at 98% with a waypoint missing so i assumed it was still incomplete.

Thanks for the answer.

So i just completed Cursed Shore Map on my ranger. 100% completion and i didn’t get a reward at the end like every map.

Is this intended or bugged on me?

Note i had finished Malchor’s Leap map and got a reward and i was missing only waypoint in Curse Shore to make it 100%. Don’t know if this affect anything.

ProxyDamage.9826:

angan.6572:

“Everyone can tank”

Just a note: I’m pretty sure that when they said “everyone can tank” they meant “every class”. You still gotta make a tanky build if you wanna tank, that just stands to reason… you gotta play to your class’s mechanics…

I don’t remember any boss in Caudecus Manor, story or explorable, that will 2 shot a bunker ranger. Of course, most rangers don’t build into bunker. What’s your actual build? Having defensive gear and fully offensive traits doesn’t make you a tank in any way…

Gear with toughness , vitality , precision, 0/20/30/0/20 traits.

If i’m not a bunker like that then i give up the game….

And still when some mobs focus me i still die in 2 seconds. It’s ridiculous to have mobs hitting you for 700+ damage per hit. And have to deal with 20+ of them in a corridor…

My problem is not about that i don’t like a challenging dungeon. My problem is, that in a game with no designated healing and tank class, in a game where Anet so proudly claims “Everyone can tank” the reality is that not everyone can in such level of difficulty dungeons.

Unless you have guardians / mesmer etc to provide a bit amount of shields, protection and projectile reflection the dungeon is really frustrating. Why should i be restrained by team setups ?? Wasn’t your motto Anet that any team setup could do any dungeon with no problems ? Yes some setups maybe are better than others but i didn’t expect it to be at the point of unless you have this and this hero in your team you are most likely to fail.

My first 2 runs i did it with some friends. 2 rangers , 1 necromancer, 1 elementalist and 1 mesmer in group. It was nearly impossible to survive 5 minutes without at least 3 people dying…

I play a ranger and i run with full exotic gear with toughness, vitality, precision (obtained specifically for dungeons like that) and i still get 2 shotted by every boss in there, i still have hard time surviving in there and i have people bashing at me when i pug “omg noob ranger you are a glass cannon, rangers useless anywhere”.

That’s my problem!. I enjoy a challenging dungeon. But a dungeon that offers real challenge, not mindlessly trying to dodge roll through 20+ mobs and find the best spot to use an Ash legion spy kit in order to hope to survive the hordes chasing you just because you have no chance to kill them in fight.

Let me start by saying a group with only lvl 45 characters is nearly impossible to extremely frustrating to complete any path and if the succeed they end up paying at least a minimum of ~11 silver on gear repairs.

Paths with like 20+ mobs that spam AOE bombs every second, Riflemen that shot you per 1k per shot from 1200+ range , bosses that keep you on permanent knockdown , permanent slow with skills that do 400+ damage per second and 1 million ridiculous dots.

Why does this happen ?? And why label it as a lvl 45 dungeon while you need at least lvl 70+ to make your experience less frustrating ?

Ath.2531:

angan.6572:

I don’t get why people get hyped about legendaries.. Apart from the visual effect why would anyone spend so much money and time for a weapon with same stats as an exotic ?

They will have top stats forever, starting with the release of ascended weapons

Sorry but what top stats ?

I look now at the trading post and i compare my ranger’s Molten shortbow with “The Dreamer”
> strength: 905 – 1000 on both
> +179 power on both

The difference is that the dreamer offers vitality + toughness where my molten gives precision + critical damage. But if i was to compare it with an exotic that gives vitality and toughness as well, the values would be the same.

To me it looks the same appart from the visual effects on “The Dreamer”.

What am i missing here ?

I don’t get why people get hyped about legendaries.. Apart from the visual effect why would anyone spend so much money and time for a weapon with same stats as an exotic ?

So far i’m very satisfied with my build.

I run a 15/25/30 traits.

Armor : 2 sets
1) Shaman Reward with power/precision/critical (from COF) with Superior Runes of the Traveler to be used as magic find set for solo farming / easy dungeons
2) Furnace Reward with power/precision/toughness (from Sorrow Embrace) with Superior Rune of the Ogre for pvp/hard dungeons

Weapons:
1) Molten Shortbow with superior bloodlust sigil
2) Molten Greatsword with superior energy sigil
——- for solo farming / pvp
3) Rampagers Axe with superior sigil of stamina
Berserkers Warhorn with superior sigil of energy
——- for dungeons

Utility skills:
> Quickening Zephyr
> Signet of Renewal
> Signet of the Hunt (swapped with either Stone spirit or Signet of the Wild for some dungeons)
> Rampage as One

Haven’t done much pvp yet but pvE wise i never encountered any major problem so far.

Thinking to switch traits to 0/25/30/0/15, but not sure how that will work out.

My Longbow 2 cents : Is bad

The only thing that can justify longbow existing and being acceptable as a viable ranger weapon is barrier.

Shortbow is still king. More overal dps, better utility and mobility with it.

Vasham.2408:

angan.6572:

In a game with no group forming system, i don’t see why there shouldn’t be a solo option.

Because if you can’t handle a story mode dungeon then you have no right to step into an explorable dungeon. Fact.

how is that an argument to why there is no group forming system in game like ANY OTHER MMO in existance ?

I don’t understand why people kick other people before looting. Is not like you can steal the loot from other people… everyone gets his own loot.

But why should that happen? As long as one person has story mode unlocked and he enters the dungeon then all the remaining party members get to enter too.

It should not be binded to one person, this can easily be abused by people.

Dungeon owner? . Why would there be a dungeon owner? You get in, when you are done you get out.

So assuming i’m in a pug and the “dungeon owner” gets kitten and leaves in the middle of the run the whole group will get kicked out just because of that?

This sounds idiotic to me

So we were doing Citatel of Flame today path 1, and after killing the last boss as soon the chest spawned, a guy immediately left group resulting the other 4 people to get kicked out.

None of the remaining 4 had looted the chest. We tried to enter again to go loot but the dungeon was reseted.

Why is that ?

In a game with no group forming system, i don’t see why there shouldn’t be a solo option.

I agree there should be a timer to respawn. I had to sit 35-40 minutes dead in lava in Sorrows Embrace path 2 because the group wanted to do a speed run and didn’t leave combat until they reached the final golems.

Make it a 3-5 minutes timer respawn. It prevents zergrushing and doesn’t keep players dead forever.

I was ready to make a similar post too. The hide/unhide box is missing and the hat doesn’t show when you have it equiped.

And i wanted to stroll around with my Wizard hat riding the broom

Kareth.6572:

Blah, blah blah, I cant farm tokens, karma and so, blah, blah, blah – isnt it supposed to be a challenge?

I don’t see any challenge at all in it. What’s the point anymore of doing a dungeon that will require you an hour to get ~40 silver and spent 11+ on armor repairs ?

Really challenging and fun…. not !

This is THE MOST IDIOTIC thing ArenaNet has done in the game. Are they serious about that? Why i can’t respawn when team is in combat?

How do you expect people to run dungeons now ? Pug groups have hard time enough finishing dungeons with the level of difficulty they are in now ?

Tried Sorrows Embrace path 2 and Citadel of flame after this patch. Is nearly impossible to complete them with random groups. If you don’t go with full dps group how do you expect to kill the adds to protect the NPC until it charges the bomb at 100% ??

Either decrease the level of difficulty of the dungeons, or revert this idiotic decision.

if you don’t want the broom, don’t buy it. Simple as that

Dante.3754:

If you complain about not hiding pets because of cooldowns its your own fault. Just tell your party to wait for like 45 seconds if your pet died so you can hide it. If they are skipping areas then they shouldn’t mind.

Right cause in a party that wants to finish fast i must tell them to wait a minute every time the pet dies which is 99% of the times. Like wise we should wait for every characters cooldowns to come up so after every mob we kill we take a 5 minute break for all to be ready.

The “petmaster” that can’t control his own pets is flawed by design.

KokoroPixie.3786:

Need to learn a bit more control of the pet. In dungeons, esp ones where you know you have to run past mops, put pet on passive, and stow. If you know you are going to take some hits and pet will come out, put Guard skill on bar, and send pet in first with a a guard. That way, the pet isn’t pulling items to you, distracts the mops, and will also end up dead and not being a mop magnet.

On boss fights, switch to a ranged pet, or put on passive, and send in with the Attack my target command as needed, and pull back with the Return to me before the AOE attacks.

That’s good in theory but not really how it goes down in reality. Most dungeon runs are in fast paces and most of the times you (at least i) have a dead pet or cooldowns on swapping pet. None will ever wait for you when you say “hey guys wait one minute for my pet cooldowns to refresh so i can try to control it”. Tried it once and the response “Lol no, we have cooldowns too you don’t see us taking a break every second. We don’t want to spend all day in the dungeon”.

Plus, on boss fights while range pets do survive a bit longer in 80% of the cases they end up dead too due to the boss doing AOE skills in 1200+ range and pressing F3 to call the pet back to you to avoid it is useless as the pet still just remains standing in the AOE circle. (well, at least in the dungeon’s i’ve been so far).

On WvW this doesn’t work at all, even by having the pet next to you you rarely ever get the buff since you are on the move all time and your pet rarely ever damages the opponent unless he is afk.

Being a “petMASTER” is really frustrating when your pet simply doesn’t do what you ask out of it.

When i was watching trailers of this game and then started it and picked ranger it was my understanding that the pet would be a backup and not a mandatory source of damage. A pet you could combo skills with. Not half of your DPS going on a pet that dies in 2 hits and has pretty non responsive F2 skills and in general being a burden instead of a help.

My suggestion to ArenaNet is to put a new skill to completely hide the pet for those who don’t want it. Example :

> F5 – Disable Pet – Permanently hides pet until is recalled again. While Pet is disabled ranger’s damage with weapons is increased by 20%.

^just a suggestion. It solves 90% of the pet problems and the damage output of the ranger. This is something that takes like 2 days to implement instead of having to revamp and rework the whole class due to being so ridiculously flawed around their pets.

in addition you could change the F2 skills as forward:
> AOE skills like the Carrion Devourer’s poison cloud, Murellow’s Poison Cloud add a stack of poison on autoattacks to the enemy when you shoot arrows through them

> Bird skills: skill like bleeding , cripple etc etc no longer get casted by the pet. Instead they apply a buff on your next autoattack which cripples / bleeds etc etc your enemy. And the buff is applied instantly, no longer laggy unresponsive bird animations

> Drake Pet Skills: No longer gets casted by the pet. Instead it applies a buff to your next autoattack which burns/chills etc etc your enemy. The effect bounces up to 3 nearby enemies (similar effect as the elementalist lighting attacks). The buff is applied instantly, no longer laggy unresponsive drake animations and people simply walking away from their skills by the time they finish casting

> Hound/Bear Pet Skills: as it is, cause lets face it is cool to see a wolf / dog howl and a Bear Growl.

This would finally fix the pet problems and give rangers new ways to play their characters. Just my 2 cents ArenaNet

Why i can’t fully control the pet ???

So, today i got kicked out of dungeons 3 times due to the idiotic pet :

1) Citadel of Flame:
We do the path where we need to rush through some mobs to get pass a bridge to kill some acolytes. We run all good and smooth until my useless pet brings a train of 7-8 mobs to me while trying to catch up. (i couldn’t switch/hide pet due to cooldowns). Whole party wipes.

Happens x2 , got kicked

2) Sorrow Embrace:
We need to jump on a ledge to let a patrol pass. I jump on ledge all good, but useless pet decides to stick in the middle of the road. Pressing F3 to come back feels uselses as the pets decides that coming back to you is sticking 500 metres away and looking pretty. Couldn’t switch/hide pet due to cooldown and it aggroes 2 patrolls training 6 mobs on us wiping the whole party.

Whole group starts “OMG noob ranger wtf are you doing learn to control your stupid pet”. Apparently saying “i’m sorry there is nothing i can do” doesn’t cut it.

Happens x2 times in a row and i get kicked.

3) Dungeon DPS:
Boss/mobs do one Aoe and pet dies in 1 shot thus losing 50% of your dps. Range pets die as fast since most of the bosses do skills in big range and pets get caught in.

4) Jumping puzzles
Half times i don’t even want to try them because i have my idiotic pet popping out every time i take some fall damage, blocking my view path and kitten me off

So my question is ArenaNet, why am i NOT the master of the pet ???

> When i tell it to hide that means i really want it to GTFO of my sight and not popout every time a mosquito autoattacks me

> When i press F3 for it to come to me, i expect it to come TO ME and wait my instructions in the position of attention. Not stay 500m away taking strolls and aggroing every thing that comes in it’s path.

Now i finally understand why people recruit DPS groups and laugh at me when i want to join with ranger.

Not sure if bad troll or actually serious.

“Hey guys ever since the patch i’ve been stomping nonstop with my sercret super dupper build that i’m not going so share. Rangers is OP LOL ! Nerf plx plox ! "

Funny that you classify a class as “perfect”, especially a class like ranger that you do 10 times the damage with anything else but bows.

> clunky / unresponsive pets
> low damage output
> troll elite skills (especially those Asura golem skills always crack me up)
> useless spirits
and the list goes on.

Yes, the patch was a welcome change / addition to the ranger class, but it’s far from being perfect. If you want a nearly “perfect” class, hop over to warrior / thief forums

Can you get the first reward if you run it on different characters ?

why do people care so much about minis? They are just cosmetic nothing more :S

I run a 20/20/30 build and use Shorbow/Greatsword.

> Solo pve:
Fernhound (for the regen) and Devourer for the range. I’ve soloed many “Group” tagged event “bosses” with a combination of Brown Bear and Devourer. (it’s better if the bosses are mellee cause you can kite them around with shortbow. Ranged bosses hit pretty hard).

If you can time the healing with Troll Unguent and pet swapping you won’t have a problem at pve.

> Dungeons:
Devourer or Spider is a must due to their range so the don’t get 1 shotted from bosses.
and
Brown Bear is excellent choice due to high vitality and removal condition (F2)

>Underwater:
Armored Fish : tank “n” spank
and
Shark: come on he looks bad kitten /p>

> WvWvW , PvP:
Krytan Drakehound: Imobilize + Knockdowns are awesome
and
Jaguar / Eagle / Owl / Hawk: high dps pets

Luriyu.6873:

btw…OP… why aren’t you also carrying an axe, warhorn, and sword in your inventory? if one style of play doesn’t work out, you could at least provide everyone fury. burrows aren’t bad

burrows is much easier to fight if your using a melee or axe. your AoE is key here. keep a bow as a main weapon and switch out for utility/versatility. hell even using a GS is better.

oh i do. I usually run with Shortbow / Greatsword. Axes i don’t like them so much but i do have a sword / warhorn in invtentory for some occasions

Thanks for the positive feedback, i play with shortbow / greatsword too but getting obstructed 90% of the times is really frustrating. And since pets are a huge factor in ranger damage i don’t understand why they are so fragile :S

Drago.1634:

Yes there are patch notes for Ranger, its the November patch notes. caused an outrage in the ranger community.

i mean for future “fixes” or changes

And by fix you mean ? Are there any official patch notes ?

^ seriously ? …… lol

I play the game for 3 weeks and i’m currently level 62. Today i had the chance to try for the first time the Ascalonian Catacombs dungeon. Never before have i ever hated the ranger class or ever felt useless until today.

> Pets can’t tank for kitten. 1 hit and they disappear like paper… therefore 50% of your damage gone in a second. (using brown bear and fernhound)

> We were in a room were we had to kill some gravelling burrows….. Shortbow / Longbow ??? Totally useless. Even if i was standing at litterally 0 distance from the burrow i was getting " Obstructed obstructed" message all time., therefore zero damage output from bows. i had to run around like an idiot until i found the magic angle for my hits to land.

> Bosses. Same problem as above. half the time “obstructed” therefore damage loss from bow, pet down in 1 hit therefore pathetic damage output from the hits not getting obstructed, switching to melee weapon would just caused me to get 2 shoted from bosses, and in generally feeling a burden and zero damage contribution to the team.

My build is 10 marksmanship, 25 precision , 17 Wilderness Survival and 5 Beastmastery and skills quickening zephyr – signet of stone – signet of wild and rampage as one. I play with shortbow / greatsword but i have longbow and Sword / dagger as well in inventory. I don’t think i have “bad” gear for my level since appart from the rings the rest of my gear is of rare value.

Is it really like that for endgame rangers too or i’m just doing something wrong ? I’m literally thinking to just ditch the ranger and roll a warrior instead…

sorry for the rant -,-

Why do my pet names keep resetting ??? I have to rename them every time i log in because the name is reset to Juvenile <insert pet type> -,-

i keep naming my eagle “Murica” and my brown bear “Honey Boo Boo” but they keep resetting -,-

I’ve been playing this game for around 2 weeks. I hit level 40 yesterday and i got an ingame mail saying i could enter Caudecus Manor Dungeon in Queensdale. At first i thought it was something for solo players as i’ve pretty much done every pve content alone so far, until i entered and got destroyed by the Golem inside, so thought to my self "oh fun, time for something challenging in group ". So i start asking in /m for anyone interested. Guess what ! Nothing ! 2 days now i ask for people for over 2-3 hours and none seems to care.

I play a ranger and so far everything PvE concerned in this game was almost a joke. To easy to level up and kill things. I play solo most of my time and i thought this was a good chance to do something group challenging, but no…

In other MMos i’ve played there is a tab where people placed Looking for group requests for specific tasks and you could apply if interested. Does this exist in this game too cause i haven’t come acrossed it yet, or is this what this game is about ? Just running around soloing the game ? (as far as PvE content is concerned)

off topic question, can you get the black lion keys anywhere else apart from gem store ?

I’d be happy if the just changed the passive from skirmishing to grant swiftness when changing weapons out of combat

I’m a new player too and today is the first day i checked out this forum and is really overwhelming. Constant hate posts that game + Anet sucks. I remember all the hype from promoting the video and friends that played on launch were like “omg best game ever” and now this.

I play it for 1 week but so far i’m satisfied with it. Does this game have future ?

@OP, although it may seems misleading to you, you are not actually using common sense.

Let me break down some math for you :

> 1 × 125 = 125 gems per key
> 25 × 1560 = 1560/25 = 62.4 gems per key

[1-(62.4/125)*100] = 50.008% off

The 5 pieces for 450 gems is a different promotion packet with different discount. (NOT 50%).

> 1 × 125 gems = 125 gems per key
> 5 × 450 gems = 450/5 = 90 gems per key

[1- (90/125)] * 100 = 28% off

It’s simple marketing people.
You receive the half price discount on the original price of the product, not half price on an already discounted product.