Guild Wars 2

florence.1674:

I’ve been trying a few different tactics to try and prevent the retaliation blob from killing me, but every method seems to be more about cutting down your efficiency.

However, how do other professions seem to not really bother about retaliation? I tried a guardian with a 1-to-the-death staff and I never even seem bothered by retaliation.

Try a grenade engi, you almost get instagibbed when so much retal is up.

Anchoku.8142:

I could like Spectral Armor more if it included a short bit of reflect. Traiting spectral skills has significant opportunity cost and SA has a longish cool down.

A reflect on AoE like Wall with its shorter CD is a bit much to ask.

Mesmer focus has it, on a much shorter cooldown.
But even if it was SA i would be fine with it. We cannot block nor reflect right now :/

I only have about 30 of them now, but i dont go out and activly farm them or anything.

Or would that make it to powerful? I dont see that it would be to OP, and I do think Necros need some kind of projectile defense dont you agree?

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Draknar.5748:

I use shield on guardian during certain fractal encounters. FoTM40+ harpy for example. Get my reflect wall, SoA, stand your ground, and shield #5 (just in case). If that isn’t enough to protect us from knockbacks, then I dunno what is. Shield #5 is also useful against the boss on that fractal as well.

But that would be what the OP said as niches builds, just for that fractal?

RapidSausage.4620:

My experiences come mostly from wvw zerging and havoc groups, as well as some open world pve.

These are the weapons that i least encountered over my gw2 career:
Warrior: mace mh and oh, rifle, shield, axe mh and oh.
Mesmer: scepter, torch, and sword oh.
Engineer: shield, elixir gun, tool kit.
Elementalist: scepter.
Necromancer: axe.
Guardian: shield, mace.

I would like to see more uses for these weapons outside niche builds without gimping oneself.

From all your examples I also do not use guardian shield and mace(useless) and no elixir gun on Engi.
The rest are all very good weapons on that char imo.

Eidolonemesis.5640:

aspirine.6852:

wtf did I just read, why dont you ask to put all bosses in one map next time? Or all dungeon entries right next to another…
Some of these lazy kitten people…….

If it were up to you guys who push away suggestions meant to improve gameplay experience for all players (in this case convenience in towns, which only makes sense), and game developers were to agree with and go with your way of thinking vs. the thinking in people like me, Guild Wars 2 and other games would not have maps for you to rely on to get around, among other features that make our online gameplay experiences much easier.

So since you want to be sarcastic, I can play that game, too. How about we start a petition to get rid of the mapping system in the game, make Anet revert the Black Lion Trading Company back the way it used to be AND the Crafting System back the way it used to be, and let’s also suggest to Anet to undo countless other improvements implemented to make everyone’s gaming much smoother.

You talk about laziness, yet what little do you guys know, everybody is utilizing various systems and things not available in much older games, so sit down, and hush. We are all lazy. How about that? We’re even using computers to send messages back and forth to one another. Oh man! How about we just exchange addresses and mail each other our responses from hereon instead with pen and paper like the old days… Just to prove how not lazy you are? Pfft.

Are you kittened? Is that it? Is that you corky…

Yeah lets compare it to an Ele, wich is by far the most usefull profession in any part of the game. Why not compare it to an engi instead of that. Or a thief.

wtf did I just read, why dont you ask to put all bosses in one map next time? Or all dungeon entries right next to another…
Some of these lazy kitten people…….

Pretty sure that if they cap it at 20 per map the lag will be solved but come on Anet, this is suppose to be massive fighting.

Not to be an kitten or something, but condi is still very good for zerging. I’ll give you that you have to be carefull on how to pick your target. But not all zerg, in fact none of them have perfect stacking or grouping. There are always the squishies that fail to get the cleans and heals when they are too far away. And carefully picking them apart is pretty fun. I did it on my condi necro, condi ranger and condi engi.

Just to be sure, why dont we try to reroll the stability changes and see if the lag is gone

I was chasing a thief who used his shadowstep skills, perhaps the server is in doubt if the shadowstep was allowed or not :P

blim.6320:

Why on earth don’t they have a god mode for the moderators already when the game has been out how long? says alot about the situation!

And why a director who doesn’t even make money from the business they are meant to direct. Hence the name, so why does he even have control over the servers!

Something smell fishy here!?!

I’m feeling a bit misled.

They can make themselves friendly, like an npc so no-one can attack them. But he probably wanted to experience the skill lag so he decided to fight perhaps? Just a guess.

sander.5830:

aspirine.6852:

sander.5830:

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

That went really well. Tiny bit of spell lag. Now I’m dead and people are dancing on my anet corpse.

Does this seem familiar?

So there is a dev in the game finally and you bunch of nitwits decided to kill him and dance on his body? Genius….

Yeah and it was even more fun when 7/8 ish ppl showed up to safe him after the screen shot and they ended up dead as well.

Please tell me you are on vizunah and not on GH…. pretty please..

sander.5830:

Stephen ClarkeWillson.1802:

That went really well. Tiny bit of spell lag. Now I’m dead and people are dancing on my anet corpse.

Does this seem familiar?

So there is a dev in the game finally and you bunch of nitwits decided to kill him and dance on his body? Genius….

darksyze, could it be that you are just a terrible player? You seem to lose a lot of your fights and spend most of the time complaining about them on the forums. But your time in the game and perhaps you can beat them?

we noticed an Anet dev logo on Abaddons mouth server yesterday in EB, was that you Stephen?

Ultimate sadness.

and so on.

AlCojester.4316:

Svarty.8019:

Because there is no counterplay to stealth.

Yes. 100% agree with you. Putting down AoE is too kitten hard.

Dont be an idiot please.

I’ve tried liking staff, but it does not make sense to me. Almost no damage for what, a very clunky phase retreat teleport?

Stupid onions growing here…. pfffff

vespers.1759:

2/0/6/6/0 -> shed condis like crazy and have great condi dmg.
Dire Gear
Krait Runes
Sword/Torch & Axe/Dagger
Lynx Pet

Pop lynx F2, pop sharpening stone and splitblade, pop dagger 5, pop entangle. 25 stacks of bleeding and then swap to torch and drop a bonfire. the end.

Also I have yet to meet a single power ranger that has lasted long vs my condi ranger let alone been close to killing me. Most of them run with literally 0 condi removal and don’t hit hard enough to do much dmg before i can close and roflstomp them.

Its very very likely that he fought someone with your build. It does all what he described and the bleed ticks are insane when you cant remove them.

Turk.5460:

aspirine.6852:

Well it might not be op, but it sure is not very well created. They call it stealth but it’s really not, if it were stealth it might be more enjoyable to fight a thief.

I go invisible at times and people can’t find me for a few seconds. Looks a lot like stealth to me. What’s your definition of video game stealth?

Stealth is more very hard to see. Invisibility is not that.

I dunno is the rune of the ranger ‘fixed’ or are they just idiots?

Well it might not be op, but it sure is not very well created. They call it stealth but it’s really not, if it were stealth it might be more enjoyable to fight a thief.

Was it on blackgate server?

Holl.3109:

aspirine.6852:

Holl.3109:

Phobos.2879:

Really appreciate the thoughtful responses. Going to mull this over with the group.

I’ve always wanted to try EU but that might have to wait for another 75% off sale. And sPVP is a no go; capture the point is crazy boring (imo of course).

Thanks!

Haha, I find it funny that you say this since I think (I play 75% PvP and 25% WvW Roaming) that endlessly running round and getting ganked/zerged is less fun. IMO there are just more frequent fight in PvP, but yes, the points also play a role.

On the other hand if you look at how pvp-ers play(you are more of a solo guy I think)they group up and zerg other players in pvp too. Atleast the streams I watched were almost more zergy than WvW, 4-1 all the time. Sometimes 4-2 but that was rare

Idk what streams you are watching, but pvp is currently about matching numbers and letting your cele monkeys make the fight boring xD

I was watching this self proclamed best EU mesmer’s stream. All they did was gang up to single players :/

ledernierrempart.6871:

so you say that you have no problems to fight with your condi champ againt someone that have the -40%condi duration food?

If i have problems with that particular type of food I am doing something wrong and the other guys is doing right.

Whats wrong with foods now? They compliment your build and can help with some of the minor things missing from it. Food is great in wvw.

Metaliki.3269:

Fix it pls, its huge problem for rangers using 3 traps

It should be fixed now, a Dev posted in the General forum about skill timings bug.

Britto.6374:

They fix it.

Ty Anet:)

It’s fixed? Great, Now I can enjoy trapper again. TY vm.

Well that was annoying, logout right away.

Here is hoping that it’s a bug and fixed fast

I thought so too, and then I watched some of FrouFrou’s vids. And then I knew it’s not ranger, it’s me
And I still like to see Gladomer play his ranger and wreck people. Knowing I will never be as good as them, but that does not make the class bad

In WvW I agree, in PvE it is fine the way it works right now.

If this was done a week after 9-11 the outrage would have been enormous. I am not offended by the joke, but it seems that the German people are not that amused by this.

Holl.3109:

Phobos.2879:

Really appreciate the thoughtful responses. Going to mull this over with the group.

I’ve always wanted to try EU but that might have to wait for another 75% off sale. And sPVP is a no go; capture the point is crazy boring (imo of course).

Thanks!

Haha, I find it funny that you say this since I think (I play 75% PvP and 25% WvW Roaming) that endlessly running round and getting ganked/zerged is less fun. IMO there are just more frequent fight in PvP, but yes, the points also play a role.

On the other hand if you look at how pvp-ers play(you are more of a solo guy I think)they group up and zerg other players in pvp too. Atleast the streams I watched were almost more zergy than WvW, 4-1 all the time. Sometimes 4-2 but that was rare

It’s your game, do what you want. Mass reporting this will only result in the guild being punished for creating fake reports.

But on the other hand, dont run with guilds if you are uplevel. They do not need a rallybot next to them to influence fights. Stick to the pug commander, and there should be no problems.

rollnb.8346:

Elspeth Tiriel.9243:

You realize they literally just stealth nerfed trap cast time with the patch? How’s this build now…. Haven’t played traps since the patch before that they broke pet management… How is this bug not being addressed?

First of all i am sure it is a bug, probably they affected trap system while fixing other stuff.
You can still use your build with switched off Master trait : Trapper’s Expertise. Cast time in this case will be same 1/2 sec as always. As i know many people submitted tickets with this issue, so i hope it will be fixed with next patch.

I sure hope its a bug. I just created a trapper ranger

If its nuking all gates, will all be contested btw?

It is completly insane tonight. Large fights, which I love normally, are just undoable. I cant even get my heal skill to work. Or my other utils, not very nice as a trap ranger….

Chronos.1046:

GROMIT.7829:

Still no update on this lag……………

Shame that Anet does not communicate with thier community on matters that matter to us and not them.

It really does annoy how nearly every developer with the exception of Anet communicateswith thier community on features, updates and fixes on a daily basis. Why does Anet not adoptthis policy ?.

Refer yourself to this thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Can-we-get-a-response-about-the-Lag

Latest post 17 hours ago, acknowledged.

Only thing they can do to figure out the issue is have you put in a support ticket along with everyone else to narrow down the issue, as a response they will ask you to use the game advisor and reply to their e-mail with the file it gives you, this file will have details on your packet loss, RTT etc. Once they see that there’s an issue with packet loss they will ask you to use pingplotter for a duration of 30 minutes whilst you play World vs World (specifically during times of high latency/lag etc) to determine which servers are giving the most problems across all players who have reported it.

Might seem like a redundant or unnecessary step to fixing it to you, but to them this is the only way to narrow it down to a specific hop’d server.

And I have to invite the 2 opposing servers to try and get our keep or garri. Check.

Olvendred.3027:

Khal Drogo.9631:

Tigaseye.2047:

It’s offensive when it’s used in its latest meaning, which is basically “lame”.

As in: “Rangers are so gay.”, or whatever (not meaning that they are actually gay, but that they are a bad class).

I see. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most vile racist homophobic sexist epithet ever uttered by a cis-gendered hetrosexual Caucasian man, what would be its rating?

There are no degrees in this question. Simply offensive or not. This is the former.

Khal Drogo.9631:

Oh dear is the word gay going to be banned in USA made games?

No. Did you actually read anything anyone wrote, or are you just making glib responses regardless?

Gay is not an offensive word. Using it to mean ‘bad, lame’ is offensive.

See there you go. It’s not offensive at all.

If the server needs to have siege there they are getting blobbed. Why is this a problem then?

OP, you do know the way Anet handles droprate of things right?

Griz.4102:

I’ve seldom encountered any truly offensive speech in chat on this game.

That said, I don’t believe for one second that ANet actually takes such speech seriously. I have encountered a few players in WvW and PvP who spewed extremely racist, homophobic, and/or threatening speech, unprovoked, day after day. I reported them repeatedly over a period of weeks. Nothing ever came of it. I rarely bother reporting such things at this point.

Well they did ban people on our server for being racist idiots. So they do care and they do ban them.

Even with a simple skill as ranger axe 1 I get this. And there does not seem to be anything in the way.

Puck.9612:

aspirine.6852:

Puck.9612:

If you decide to repeatedly interrupt players that are dueling after it has been made clear they are dueling, you should expect those players to follow you around and ruin your fun as well. Get used to having gates tapped early, areas being siege locked by balista sites, etc.

Not really, because in the end these duelers are egotistical people. They dont care about other people playing the wvw game.

My group and I stayed up late one night and ended up flipping about half a bl, while holding all of that we started running duels with the 2 opposing servers night crews. Everyone was hanging out having a good time, we were still holding the highest PPT without having to chase the defenders around the map back capping each other.

Another random guild from our server decided it would be funny to troll our duels. We told them we were dueling and asked them to stop but they gave us the same crappy attitude a lot of the people in this thread have, “WvW isn’t about fighting, blah blah blah.”

We told the players from the other server to go ahead and kill them and we all had a good laugh. Instead of trying to cap stuff on their own they spent about 45 minutes trying to troll us and repeatedly dying before giving up. Of course at that point we were pretty kittened so we started following them around while still in a party with players from the other servers and dropping bali sites over their ram sites. Any time they tried taking anything they ended up getting wiped and everyone would laugh spam them.

If you are worried about PPT then spend your time getting a higher PPT. You can’t always tell when someone is dueling and accidents will happen, but when you know players are dueling and decide to waste time trolling them all you are doing is being a kitten and creating bad blood between groups for your own server.

But what you are saying now is completly different. With full map ques and still doing duels is kinda weird in my opinion. If you guys get bored and decided to start duels in the late evening when almost none is around who could be against that type dueling?

Gaile Gray.6029:

End of the day, why don’t we let the professionals decide? Why don’t each of you who see offensive chat report it and let the moderation team make a decision about the overall offensiveness of a word or phrase in the context of the game. The team is not draconian, they understand the difference between a word spoken in the heat of the moment and a pattern of abusive language. Report and forget and trust that things will be taken care of in the best and more fair manner possible.

I dont think that is a good idea, there are hackers and botters in the game. I have some problems with people reporting all kinds of chats to the team and overflow it?
There are so many people from a lot of countries(with lots of languages) playing, they cannot be held responsible(to a certain extent) what people take offense at.
I am always so surprised how simple words can be so offensive for people.