Guild Wars 2

Tristam Green.9178:

LadyRhonwyn.2501:

FenrirSlakt.3692:

I believe he’s going to spawn more often during this week.

So, he’ll spawn more often when I’m not online.

No pleasing some people.

You see it differently than some do.

If one is at work and the thing goes off ONLY THEN, one loses because one works?

GAH!

Wiccandove.4702:

Hi All!
I belong to a guild on a different server then the one I am on. I guest on that server to play with my guild mates sometimes but anyway….recently I purchased 2000 guild influence with laurels while guesting on their server, only they don’t see the influence. I do, but I can’t see what they have trained. Is this normal or did I mess something up?
Thanks!

Was this ever addressed by Anet in any way?

We are wondering what happens to players who are on other servers whether their repping counts to us when they are still repping their original homeworld guild?

Here’s hoping for answers.

mrstealth.6701:

All the timers are right now is a “you don’t have enough people” or “you don’t have enough DPS” arbitrary failure.

We can’t control how many show up.
We can’t control if half the players that show up are uplevels in greens/blues.
We can’t control if half of the players have condition damage builds, and have their damage negated by stacking limits.

Bump, bump, bump, bump.

This applies to every single world event that “fails”.

Timers are an issue that the devs have dead wrong.

Kalla.4290:

Lisa.6102:

LOL we had people on Turrets firing in the wrong direction??? whats with that?

Everytime you use #2 ability on the turret it flings the turret in the opposite direction and drops your target of Tequatl. Don’t blame the turret users for that.

Totally agree – the things are broken from the beginning so they have a lot of people who aren’t going to get the silly achievement eventually.

This isn’t a new issue – it is happening in events across the board in many places while Anet consumes all time on future events rather than making sure what goes live works and has no bugs that can impact players.

Otherwise why ever call a program anything more than an Alpha?

Lisa.6102:

LOL we had people on Turrets firing in the wrong direction??? whats with that?

The farthest one left is facing the wrong way period.

The rest of the turrets are facing the water – this one faces the mountain.

I have to wonder if they are using real live beta testers at all now – ever.

IF they are, they need better ones.

Many of us are out of work IT people – we’d love a chance to beta test for free with a view from a technical point of view as well as art (my father was a professional artist) like many, I notice little things that are wrong that don’t “matter” but that do take away from the game experience.

You want a better game at all Anet?

Get better beta testers who know how to document your way after you tell them how.

If you aren’t directing the beta testers a bit you aren’t testing.

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

I don’t get it, am I the only one here who has no lag whatsoever? (And yes, there are a ton of people around me, still no lag). I use medium settings btw.

Or you are on a lower population server?

I am on Fort Aspenwood and the lag on ANY world event is horrible and my computer is not that old, has a good video card and my net connection is 35+mbps.

It’s Anet’s server’s that have the bandwidth problem.

JoluMarti.9165:

Hello, Assassin’s Emblazoned Pants are account bound and can’t be sent to a friend or sell. I hope you get it fixed.

Please post when it is fixed – I am not making any of those until it is.

HUNDREDS of us were dropped summarily to our operating system screens at the moment of the event being done with Scarlet on Ft. Aspenwood server this last round by timestamp.

Anet seems to listen only when it affects them, not when it affects the players who spend so much money and time in this game.

Being dropped into Windows isn’t the same bug – and those in the event weren’t dropped.

The Scarlet event is bugged to death and it needs to be fixed before it takes even more from the players who worked for almost an hour and then didn’t even see the end of the event.

When I was returned to the game in the next login seconds later it took me to the WRONG map for almost two seconds then righted the location and dropped me in Lornar’s Pass finally.

Please fix this Anet.

Josh Davis.6015:

We are working on a fix for this.

Stay tuned.

That isn’t the ONLY issue.

There is more wrong with the program now than before this patch – totally not funny and not “fair” to any player who is being dropped and dropped losing more and more “loot” and achievements.

You are listening when it suits, not when we tell you that many mechanics in the game are broken – so many.

Lisa.6102:

Weaponsmith from 400-500g will cost you another 196g or there abouts

http://gw2crafts.net/weaponcraft_400.html

That’s crazy and not doable for most people.

Unfair is a word that is becoming common in this game.

Dub.1273:

Dungeons can give up to 40g/hour.

Whatever – I am so tired of people who claim the gold earnings without doing a video or giving some proof.

Sorry but I’ve lost so much gold trying to make and find gold it’s insane.

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Most of you have never traded on the stock/options market so you probably don’t understand “the spread”. The spread is the difference between the best buy offer, and the best sell offer.

Gems are more expensive now in game gold terms, and yes desired items on the trading post are more expensive than ever, but you can’t just buy your way into this game now. At least, not as easily as you could at the start of the game.

The price of gems, per game gold has climbed steadily since day 1.

The gems per real world money has stay constant.

But, the difference between “the price of gems for game gold”, and “the gold given for gems for sale” has steadily gotten farther and farther out of whack. This is called “the spread”, and Anet is using the spread as yet another gold sink.

Yeah you can pull out the credit card again to buy something you want, and you’ll get less for your money than you did at the start, but that’s because of “the spread”, and not because of “inflation”. Anet is steadily draining gold from this game.

I fully expect this post to be deleted.

All transactions should be BY PLAYERS not by ANET.

This TP garbage needs to stop.

For a real economy to crop up on a virtual world the PLAYERS must be the merchants and traders to the merchants.

If this were a real economy it would resemble the USSR at its worst with a monopoly that take gold that one “earns” but doesn’t give it to a PLAYER, they give it to the “game” which isn’t ANYONE.

The database doesn’t need the business.

People DO.

I agree and have expanded the reasons to use people instead of an ever increasingly expensive monopoly that doesn’t help a single player.

Yes, ANET you scrambled the economy and not in a good way.

vlad.3467:

hello,

so today I was selling Spark. I placed 630g as selling price and listing fee was 30 g, but when I opened BL trading window to collect the gold, there was only 570 g ? How is that possible ? Listing fee not 30 g but 60 g ?

thank you

I had over twenty gold stolen on the Trading Post because I did NOT understand that the money is taken out BEFORE the item is sold.

This isn’t a trading post as much as it is a theft ring.

Behellagh.1468:

Have you open a ticket about the problem or just posting here? The only player solution I ever seen was one where you delay 15-30sec after entering the info and pressing the “go” button.

Do you know how many times I have been REPRIMANDED IN EMAIL TO POST HERE INSTEAD OF USING THE TICKET SYSTEM?

Every single time I put in a ticket I am spammed the message that I should be putting the issue in the forums.

What the heck!

Lisa.6102:

you could start your own guild and it will cost you about 2-3 gold to start a guild bank with 50 slots, 10 gold if you want 100 slots

That’s not a solution if you are starting without gold.

It’s not a solution at all really, it’s just another way to ‘cheat’ the game.

Blood Red Arachnid.2493:

This is kind of a rant, so…

Well, I figured out how it is they plan to remove a ton of gold from the economy… the hard way. It isn’t just trading.

You probably all know about how basic ascended crafting materials take up a ton of bank space, and yet you need a lot of them in order to make a full loadout of ascended weapons (4 weapons lots, 2000 of each). These litter your bank and take up inventory slots on your character, but since it can take literal days of nonstop grinding to get all that you’ll need to craft ascended weapons, you won’t throw these crafting materials away.

There’s only one way to save space without throwing things away, and that requires refining these materials. First you need enough to get 450 in one of the crafting professions, and then you need the following:

100 ascended basic material
2 obsidian shard
10 Thermocatalytic Reagents

You’re probably wondering where I’m going with all this. Simple:

2 obsidian shards = 4,200 karma, 2 laurels, or 30 fractal relics.
10 thermocatalytic reagents = 14.96 silver.

The obsidian shards themselves are a pain, but the real tax is the reagents. These bloodstone dust and dragonite ore litter your bank and inventory space very quickly. I’ve seen players with 10 stacks+ of individual components on the day of release. If you want to empty out a space in your bank, it is really simple: you refine the material. To refine the material (250 per stack) you’ll need on average 25 reagents, which will, on average, cost 37.4 silver to an NPC store.

I hate this. I spent gold just to level crafting to get bank space, only to find that on a regular basis I am charged 37.4 silver for bank space. Keep in mind, this is a material that

A)You can’t sell to NPCs.
B)You can’t trade to other players
C)You can’t purchase when you want to use it.

Unless you want to completely forgo the ascended weapons, lose out on that juicy 5%+ advantage they give, and spend your time regularly deleting stacks of this material for doing any and everything you did before, you’re stuck with this unnamed tax on bank space.

It seems like this whole ascended crafting thing is a dig against players. Give the players a ton of materials that are worthless to everyone else, overloads your bank quickly, is expensive to gain enough levels to refine, and requires money just to convert to easy storage. I can understand if this material could be sold or bought or traded, because then you could negotiate your needs with other players without personally being inconvenienced. I can understand the costs of reagents being part of overall price of an ascended weapon, should you choose to buy an ascended weapon. I can understand if these materials required a special place to acquire them, so they wouldn’t overload your inventory unless you went looking for them.

But no, I have to pay for bank space. Each ascended weapon will require 6 stacks of these materials, and with up to 6 ascended weapons possible for every build, this eats up 36 spaces in your bank, and requires 12.45 gold after leveling crafting to open up free slots, let alone the fact that you’ll be overloaded with bloodstone dust so much quicker than the other materials that it becomes an excessive task just to deal with.

Maybe I’m just being petty, but I can’t be the only person who feels this way, can I?

From my point of view you aren’t being petty.

The sheer clicking that it takes to get many of these items is insane and will eventually garner a lawsuit on our hands and wrists – the damage that it is doing is cumulative and this game should not BE so click intensive OR DELETE click intensive, I should say.

This isn’t petty, this is important – it not only goes to the core of the game (buying and selling) but it also begs the question about just how much clicking does any one company expect “US” to click – and how many are being permanently damaged because game writers and devs don’t GET that hands and wrists can’t be replaced.

tolunart.2095:

They have already explained it. From 9/3 patch notes:

•Weapons, armor, and trinkets that had a magic find stat combo have been flagged as account bound and Soulbind on Use. These items will now allow double-clicking to permanently change the stat combo. Items that were already Soulbound to a character will continue to be bound to that character. This is a one-time ability, and the options are dependent on where the item was acquired. All trading post listings for these items have been cancelled and the items returned to the poster.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-September-3-2013/first#post2768357

He stated that he had NOT used the items ergo they should have been fully saleable.

How “hot” does an issue need to become BEFORE someone from Anet comes in here and answers questions that are this important?

It takes you far too long Anet to answer ANY burning question and there are now far too many.

skullmount.1758:

Vince Ste Marie.2081:

Obsidian Shards are no longer available from Moto.

If thats the case, then why the kitten did you make the chests/digs once per day??????
I just don’t get Anet logic anymore. Obi shards were the only thing of use outside of SAB that were rewards for doing SAB. Now the only thing in there is skins, which requires grinding, and we can’t even grind it how/when we want to, its stuck behind another kitten time-gate. Getting really tired of these time-gates and farming removal (gold ones I get, but SAB is only for skins, so why the kitten do you remove it?).

To Anet:

I have to agree – the LOGIC isn’t following here.

Don’t you guys have logic CHARTS somewhere?

If this THEN that – but why does it not follow in the game every single time you “add” or “subtract” something?

Moderator.1462:

Hi everyone,

As you can see here – http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Equipment_acquisition_by_stats – Valkirye stats are only attaibale via crafting. THey don’t drop in dungeons or Karma vendors.

Regarding looks, here you can see all armors by race. Just select your race and click on medium armor and all will be displayed. http://www.gw2armorgallery.com/index.html.

Regardless of stats, all armors look the same.

We hope this has been of help.

That wiki is the most confusing document I’ve seen in a while.

No it’s really not clear and it is frustrating to boot.

AydenStar.4216:

This is getting to the point where I want to stop supporting this game with my money if there are no concrete improvements with this profession in the near future. I am sick of being seen by other players in this game as 3 class profession because of the lack of caring I feel the ANet dev’s towards this class. Anet designs a profession around pets but the pets are more useless then helpful. Its been over a year now and there has only been minor to little improvements to the pet mechanic. I feel Anet rather focus on balancing this game around only Guardians, Elementalists, Warrriors and Necromancers and basically have left us to rot in the land of mediocrity and soon will be just a laughing stock of this game because the Ranger’s pet mechanic is just awful.

Read the boards!! Rangers are not happy!!!

Fix our F2 abilities and pet mechanics.
Fix the current bugs to our weapons, pets and utility skills
Where is this trait overhaul this profession desperately needs
Add more tooltips to skills abilities so we don’t get the wrong idea

This lack of communication is getting to the point that if you plan on surprising us with a profession overhaul stay something. Give us some hope that you understand the issues with this profession and that there are measures being take to improve the Ranger. It is going to a point I rather not play this game and I am looking to others when I have been a loyal support of this game since head start.

Thank you

Anyone who thinks that f2 works hasn’t needed it and then not had it pop during THAT fight.

There are far more things wrong with Ranger – everyone else can chronicle all the silliness that has been visited on what should be an honorable and powerful character who has friend’s even in the animal KINGDOM – and if OUR pets can’t talk why in GOSH DARN HECK can the REST OF THE ANIMALS TALK?

It’s not cartoon-land, but we need more attention to Rangers as one of the most connected to the “world” here since THEY can talk to animals but “not really” according to ANET.

AydenStar.4216:

My Ranger will be benched for sure.

Why?

We bring almost nothing to the table in large group combat such as Guardian, Necromancers, Elementalists, Warriors, and Mesmers do. I have cheerleadered this profession in WvW to the point that I realize now the limited potential this profession brings to the table. It is sad that Anet is going to start this hardcore play mode in WvW and doesn’t have a clue of the current zerging meta. I mean WOW! Now I have to level a Warrior as my main toon in WvW because of the APATHY Anet has towards this profession.

This is just not a Ranger issue, this is going to be an issue for the Thieves and Engineers too because these professions don’t synergy well in the current WvW zerging meta. Yes, we might fit in a havoc squads or scouts but all of the reward in WvW is from zerging keeps and killing massive zergs in open field fights. Us players that like playing Rangers, Thieves and Engineers are already 3rd class citizens in the current WvW meta and this WvW season league thing hasn’t even started yet

As a hardcore Ranger and WvWer, I don’t think Anet understands these issues at all.

What I state in this post a few days ago is only the beginning of helping our profession:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Improving-pet-s-F2-a-WvW-Zerg-PoV

Our F2 functions are super broken in massive group combat and it needs an overhaul, Desperately! Most of the Rangers F2 pet skills are AoEs bases but need a single target to position the cast and not having the abilities to ground target these abilities makes them USELESS vs massive organized groups and not worth using.

Please Anet, lets have a discussion about this because this has been an issue I have been warning about for sometime and now you will see the profession full discrimination once the WvW league starts to coming closer.

Thank you

My pet doesn’t do a thing most of the time when I use their skill – nothing.

My own skills – longbow – Point Blank Shot almost NEVER works in a zerg – and it has been very telling when I am in Clockwork Chaos events.

It’s not the only skill that doesn’t “work”, but right now, it’s the one that makes the most difference whether I die or can rez others.

Rangers should be powerful with real animals as their companions – and I use companion very loosely – talk about ignoring a major part of the game…

Rangers are not doing well except in very specific cases and I do NOT like melee nor am I good at it.

The cursor KEEPS GETTING LOST on my screen making it impossible to do a thing when the screen is cluttered with fighting.

It needs to be toggleable to be larger and have a FAR different color than any that can be used on screen – green – lime green for me would show up – give us the CHOICE to give our mouse cursor ANY color we need it to be.

The cursor is far too small, so many times I find myself losing a lot of fights after not being able to FIND my mouse or see where it is after trying to click on the “next” target since my “next target” seems to pick moas instead of REAL dangers.

Which brings up the second part of the mouse/targeting combo WHY does the targeting system target YELLOW or GREEN as “next target”???

ONLY RED CURRENT FIGHT NPCs should be “next target”-able.

Please! This is wrong – if an animal or NPC is yellow or less, please don’t allow it to be “chosen” with the “next target” during a huge fight. A REAL fight in any “world” would not “target” a defenseless and NON-threatening animal or person so please stop doing it to us.

Those of us with vision that goes from macular degeneration, sarcoidosis, migraines, MS and other light shunning diseases beg you, please give us the tools to play this game properly.

Thanks.

Nike.2631:

Maybe as a setting you can check off/on in the options panel.

More options! More options! Every single thing should be toggleable.

Delvoire.8930:

kimeekat.2548:

Yup! Happened to my boyfriend last night in Blazeridge on Devona’s Rest. I’ve got some competition, looks like. -sharpens blades-

Where can I find a good girl to play GW2 with!?!!?!?!

on Topic, this has never happened to me

Come to Ft. Aspenwood – we have SCADS of women playing this game!

I read the notes, it isn’t clear what happens to gear I OWN.

I see that MF has been incorporated – I get that, but what can I do or what REPLACEMENT is ANET going to give for the GOLD SPENT on MF gear, not knowing the stats will “go away”.

Does that mean that my gear will change stats?

If so, it won’t compensate me for the gold I spent no matter what since the Magic Find will not be replaced – 20% isn’t the huge amounts we have with ALL magic find gear equipped.

The 45 CHARACTER limit for “titles” is terrible – and the forums are not searchable – not by me.

BobbyStein.2315:

I can empathize with having a busy life and not always being able to fit my gaming schedule in between work, home life, and social commitments. Your comments are not lost on us.

We’re exploring some ideas for the future, including a system that would allow certain bits of Living World content to be accessed independent of the release. Plans and designs have not been solidified yet, so I want to temper your expectations. But if you have any opinions on the matter feel free to let us know. We’re already looking at ways to leave some LW content behind to evolve Tyria and improve the game. This would be one element of it, should we decide to build such a feature.

These threads don’t get the attention in the larger game world that it needs.

Real life or disability – the two things that this game has not addressed – yes there are many who can play this game 24/7 if they wish, but those of us in the other two aforementioned camps bought the game too – and we would like the devs to know we are waiting…

Leviathan.7459:

Hey I’v heard about Mesmer getting a lot of praise so i was thinking about making one. I just have one small problem. This may seem really silly but, isn’t it kinda… girly? I’m afraid of getting laughed at or something for being a male Mesmer.

Some can put up a build here, but none will help if the builds are overwhelmed by those who can pull down 1500 versus our 600 hits.

PvE, only Ranger is easier.

WvW, get a WvW build and stay with the group.

PvP, you need at the very least an ELE or Ranger for a pal.

Helios.3598:

Perhaps try (30(II,VIII,X)/0/0/30(II,VII,VIII)/10(V)) with GS + Scepter/Focus.

What’s your WvW build at the moment Helios??

Frelli.5318:

I used to play a confusion mesmer in WvW before the flat out 50% nerf and I really miss that playstyle. I still have my rabid gear lying around in my inventory looking pretty.

With the +300 condi damage on scepter buff and the new runes, do you think it would be viable to try a WvW confusion build again for zerging purposes?

Post a full build so I can try it out – I haven’t seen a viable WvW mesmer build in the last month and NOW I am ready to finally try to play this nerfed mess.

Thanks.

Debuti.6017:

1 move move and move, dont be still and keep moving from side to side to avoid backstab
2. keep clones and phantasms up. dont shatter them, rather than finish the fight
3. use staff number 2 and stun breakers
4. be aware of areas when he is invisible , that indicates where the thief is coming through.
5. patience

It´s always though at the beginning, but to be honest, aside p/d conditions thief’s ( i hate them), they are one of the best classes to fight with for mesmers. you shouldn´t lose against them. conditions specc are our weakness, as we lack of condition removals.

I love it when good people post good tips that one CAN use. Thank you.

IndigoSundown.5419:

All achievements are not aimed at all players. Why? Not all players like doing the same things. This includes playing more — or less. You can still get the meta achievement without doing the 13/13 invasion maps one.

No you can’t get the achievement without doing all 13 maps – I was stuck for over a week at 7/13

Getting the last one was the ONLY way to get to the “Playhouse”.

Stop lying and go read the event notes.

Groonz.7825:

I’ve played all the content and up to now, the map invasion achievements are by far the worst decisions made to be implemented for the achievement category.

I’m still stuck on 12/13 and waiting for a specific map.

Up till now all other achievements were doable in your OWN time. You weren’t pushed into playing at a specific time (exclude the hourly achievements like watch fireworks, they repeated every hour or so). But in these new achievements you’ve made it so people have to be playing at a specific time to gain their achievements.

In the future, please do not implement more of these kind of achievements. I prefer to be able to play in my own time and still be able to gain the achievements.

/inb4 future themed content dungeon only open from 6pm-7pm only

Also I somewhat feel that this decision was made to further push players into the “play 24/7” area. Because it looks better for statistics to show that people are always playing then having on and off peaks.

No way to keep track of WHICH maps done was the WORST decision ever made for any event.

I agree, this was a mess.

Ayrilana.1396:

Check the patch notes and sticky on this subforum.

Why did you even bother to type that out?

I feel the question is worth asking in this forum since there are FAR too many bugged events, bugged actions of the whole release and people are getting fed up with the lack of information when there is obviously more wrong than right with this event so far.

They nerfed the heck out of the Pavilion after the first day making it MUCH harder for lower characters to try to do (under 60 – over 30) and now they are not fixing the huge map snafus, the NPC issues and have FURTHER nerfed the rewards YET AGAIN.

Maybe you haven’t had issues, you have this event completed, you are back in the Pavilion and you are laughing at the rest of us for not getting what you have.

That’s not what this game is about from my point of view – I believe the Devs WANT this game to work as intended, want it to be balanced, WANT people to finish events but I ALSO believe that this company might implode if they don’t start getting that the help they need – local help. local programmers, local writers and artists, to get some of these ongoing issues AND BUGS under control once and for all

If this game is outsourced after a time I will no longer play – there are TENS OF THOUSANDS of IT and PROGRAMMERS and ARTISTS out of WORK in the Puget Sound where this company lives, they can AFFORD to hire more people and FIX THE DARNED GAME.

There are bugs that still exist from the FIRST DAY and they, to this day, are the subject of many frustrated posts all over this website.

“Invasions do occur in overflows, but only overflows that exist during the first 10 minutes of an invasion. "
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Has happened no less than THREE times – within ten minutes and NO “overflow”.

GEEZE ! Why do you think people are lying??

Anfalas.7325:

At first I loved this event! It was awesome, chaotic and thrilling. Even the overflows had invasions going on so I didn’t care if I was in an overflow or not. With the last update invasions no longer occur in the overflow.

How the heck am I supposed to complete the title if I am constantly being put into overflow where there are no events?

Shame on you Anet! You need to seriously rethink the overflow if you can’t provide the same experience.

I already said much of what you did and probably much of what you thought too.

This event needs to be fixed – and extended so we can GET the darned achievements.

Delvoire.8930:

kimeekat.2548:

Yup! Happened to my boyfriend last night in Blazeridge on Devona’s Rest. I’ve got some competition, looks like. -sharpens blades-

Where can I find a good girl to play GW2 with!?!!?!?!

on Topic, this has never happened to me

Girls play this game too! Too funny!

ChillyChinaman.6057:

atheria.2837:

Since Ascended Gear is out of the reach of most players, what would be an acceptable set of Armor?

Doesn’t Apothecary armor come in Exotic? For trinkets, you can try settler, those are quite cheap.

I will look again, but I didn’t find any when I did a search – not even for one that isn’t on the TP…

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

A-net on every patch example:
1. Nerf previous farm exploit (cof p1)
2. Add new farm exploit (pavilion + gauntlet)
3. Nerf it too (no champions in pavilion except bosses, less money from gauntlet)
4. Add new again (invasions with ton of champions)
5. And nerf will come soon.

Can’t have the good stuff hitting the markets now or gasp people actually keeping and USING the items – for SHAME!

I agree with you totally – the nerf-fest needs to stop.

inazuma.7021:

Come on Frostgorge Sound! Baby needs a new pair of shoes! Roll them dice!

I’ve had Frostgorge Sound six times that I can remember – and I can’t get one of them and I can’t figure out WHICH one.

Onshidesigns.1069:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• Every map will be invaded at least once per day, probably twice. In some cases, three times.
• Builds do not affect the rotation.
• The rotation is the same across all servers.
• If you play at the same time every day, you will see all 13 maps by the end of the Clockwork Chaos release.

1/13 because of random disconnects. The problem is on YOUR end.

Router firewall is open and windows firewall is turned off. Didn’t start getting disconnected until Dragon Bakitten does not do this on other games.

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! ANET get your HEADS out of your tails and READ THE POSTS.

Do you think we are liars? CHECK YOUR DARNED LOGS FOR GOSH SAKES!!!!!!!

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

• Every map will be invaded at least once per day, probably twice. In some cases, three times.
• Builds do not affect the rotation.
• The rotation is the same across all servers.
• If you play at the same time every day, you will see all 13 maps by the end of the Clockwork Chaos release.

So why are some maps playing twice and three times in less than four hours?

Why can’t we TRACK which maps we go to?

Can you IMAGINE someone with MS doing this?

How about a mom with two kids under 3?

What the HECK do you want us to do?

We’ve been begging you since the SECOND DAY to HELP US and now you give us the Cliff Notes of the RELEASE NOTES?

Man! How ridiculously unfair and shortsighted!!!

COME ON MAN!!!!

Kodiak.3281:

Too many repeats. I’ve been waiting 2 days for Frostgorge to spawn and things like back to back Field of Ruin keep spawning. You’d think the two zones that are required for one of them unlocks would be higher chance.

No map should repeat itself until it’s gone through a full cycle of other zones (even if that cycle is in random order).

This whole event is just frustrating. I’ve not want to do anything in game because that next hour MIGHT be one I need and don’t want to be tied up on the hour for it. Also just makes technical issues like crashing or getting disconnected incredibly frustrating if it’s a map you need.

I have no idea which maps I am missing – that and the Fireheart Rise I can’t get so I have the opposite problem that you do.

Regardless, we all have issues getting all THIRTEEN MAPS and ANET should give us a way to do this without all the STRESS this causes in REAL LIVES.

WE can’t live our lives to do this! YOU do it for a living ANET – WE do NOT!

Kjeldoran.3849:

Chopps.5047:

The Hydralisk Build (ranger zerging with crits / condi / healing)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fgw2skills.net%2Feditor%2F%3FfMAQNAnfVjEVx15VuVs2BkWhMh9wQckH59IWSFRMljUF1eA-jUyAIMBRSAIVBgOAlHLiGbJsIas6ZA1NmCeR1CBoYOA-w

70% crit chance with fury
1000 condition damage
800+ healing power
Traps / bleeds / stomps

man now i haven’t enough time to give a good look to the build… but i have only few obervations:

- why go for 741 healing power if you haven’t many ways to get regenerations (or healing skills which well scale with)? i suggest to go 10 points in nature and get the 75% heal and the +33% regen so you improve your healing skill and get more benefits from your healing power.

- (the following one is really subjective) why didn’t you get “rending attacks” in order to get mode chance to proc bleeding? devourers are really good at ranged and the chance to proc bleeding is 100% so basically with 30 points in beastmastery you get a very nice ammount of bleeding stacks from your pet.

- as weapon set: axe or sword? is really hard to decide… axe seems to be more ranged… but also more power oriented while sword is more conditions-evade oriented, I think.

- i was about to create a really similar build but that elite… really disappointed me… i feel like RaO is good only for power builds because really don’t add anything to a condition build. At this point i suggest to put on entangle… but we all know how many problems this skill has… really disappointing… maybe spirit of nature and improve heals?

anyway nice starting point… i think this can become a good alternative to spirit build.

Since Ascended Gear is out of the reach of most players, what would be an acceptable set of Armor?

Infernia.9847:

I have been patiently waiting for this update in hopes flower prices would drop. I tried to theory build a condi/regen Ranger but needed apothecary gear.

And I was going to ask if it wouldn’t be best to use Axe/Dagger & Sword/Torch to keep the condi going but Faux Sheaux answered it already. So the 2nd question is; is it better to build for more condi damage or more condi duration? Or is it best to balance them? Say your gear is apothecary, weapons are giver and sigils are +10% xxcondi dmg type?

So my main Ranger is retired with its longbow and my alt Sylvari Ranger will have a go with the gear. (I created two rangers at launch because I loved the profession).

Glad to know I am not the only one who wanted two Rangers… I was told I was nuts by a few “friends”…

Jademalo.3724:

After spending two days only needing Mount Maelstrom, the issue with the randomness – spesifically why it’s such a pain – has become obvious to me.

I cannot commit to anything else except for Guild Wars.

For example, I want to go out somewhere. I did that on day one, and missed Mael.
I want to watch a movie – Have to keep checking the clock so I can log in every hour to check.
I want to play Dota – Can’t, matches are too long and I might miss the event.

Even though it only takes a few minutes to check, the fact that the game has taken over my entire day without me actually playing it has really become a burden.

If there was a rotation, it would totally solve this – I’d just go on when i knew it was that event, and could happily spend my day doing things.
So far, Maelstorm has appeared just before I got up twice, and just after I went to sleep once. Considering there are 13 maps, having these on rotation for a week puts all of them in a 2hr slot. It’s impossible to be unlucky and miss out due to only being during the night.

Plus, we’ve had nothing but dupes of the last 10 hours for the last 5, it’s getting dumb.

I have the same issue – can’t possibly get the maps done, they are repeating close together for ones we already have (three times in four hours, come on!) and not knowing which maps are done is part of this mess and problem.

You aren’t the only one saying it and this is about the fourth thread about this same subject.

The whole event was slapped together without much thought as to how people were going to live their lives and get 13 maps too.

Anet isn’t reading the forums at all from what I can see.

jweez.7214:

Back when anet first announced their 2 week initiative a lot of people were angry saying that content was going to suffer and we were going to get fluff for story because of time constraints. I took to anets defense creating several topics outlining why I thought it was a marvelous idea and stating that Anet will not do anything that would allow the content to suffer. Well I was wrong…

I’ve tried to be patient with everything but this last patch quickly dissipated the faith I had in them to create a good story and move it along at a decent pace. Or even create a plot that was so lacking in creativity that a third grader could draw it up. I am sorry but who really didn’t see the queen getting kidnapped and the watchknights turning on us coming? The only thing that was interesting or even worth attention was when the asura tells you that Scarlet is something of a prodigy. Speaking of Scarlet….

I have never been so excited about a character during one patch then two weeks later completely loathe that same character. The whole “I want to watch the world burn” villain is one of my favorite archetypes, but seriously there has to be some depth to a character other than that. Lines like “Die. Die. Die. Die. Die.” and “They work for me because they want to live” seriously plays her out quickly and honestly makes her alot less menacing because you just grow to expect it from her everytime she speaks.

In closing I would like to say people can tell when something is slopped together and they can also tell when time and energy is put into something. For example, the steam creatures that she creates are by all measures fantastic. The sounds they make, their overall design, and their death animations are fantastic. Kudos. However, this story really just feels like your shooting from the hip.

I agree with you and more…

My dreams are far more detailed than most of the dialog in this game and I am sorry to say that I could write better stuff sitting around just joking and goofing with my husband.

There are two kinds of people in any creative endeavor that has to do with computers – story people and concept people – programmers aren’t writing the dialog and if they ARE, THAT is where your priorities are messed up beyond thought.

Writers who are creative and who can constantly pull “Tonight Show” quality monologues and dialog (Johnny Carson-quality) aren’t paid what some of these guys are.

So Washington-state-company-that-wants-more-of-our-money, how about either allowing your USERS, some of whom are AMAZING WRITERS, to do some dialog and reward them for it, or stop the dialog that repeats AD NAUSEUM and just stop pretending…

I don’t just grouse, I SUGGEST a fix for what is obviously a very important part of the game that isn’t being given the “attention” that it needs.

When are you going to start implementing GOOD ideas from GOOD players????

Chopps.5047:

The Hydralisk Build (ranger zerging with crits / condi / healing)

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fgw2skills.net%2Feditor%2F%3FfMAQNAnfVjEVx15VuVs2BkWhMh9wQckH59IWSFRMljUF1eA-jUyAIMBRSAIVBgOAlHLiGbJsIas6ZA1NmCeR1CBoYOA-w

70% crit chance with fury
1000 condition damage
800+ healing power
Traps / bleeds / stomps

Viable in PvE and WvW?

I am looking so hard for a build I can use in WvW – PvE seems easy, but I die in less than a second in WvW.

Thanks for posting!

Kootje.9271:

Depends on who plays the warrior and his build and your own build. I have been gutted by warriors and I’ve gutted quite a few myself…

Although rangers aren’t perfect, we’re still by far the coolest class of all…

Really?

I can’t even run away from most in WvW – THAT is really dumb.

I can’t win and I can’t run away – and the ONE waypoint isn’t close!!!!!

If you are going to comment, please at least post a build that is working for you (or anyone reading this forum post thread).

People want to play Ranger – they WANT to, but the BUILDS don’t do KITTEN to ANYTHING OTHER THAN AN NPC most of the time – so if you have the magic build out there, SPILL! Please!

Arrow.3856:

Hey look at me Im a ranger oh its a melee warior I can kite him around while I kill him. Whaaaat? My pet is so weak now all good Ill use my DPS and skills to Kite and kill him. Oh his running away. Ill chase him…Whaaat? My shortbow doesnt reach? Ill use longbow…Barrage was too slow too activate and he walked past it. Number 4…kitten that pushed him even further. Ill use swiftness to close the gap. Oh kitten it he used swiftness too. Oh no my swiftness ran out and his GS skill+utility lets him run. Ahh well. I give up…

Pew….pew..what? kitten warrior attacking me using rifle…My shortbow wont reach WTF? Im the ranger not you….

Hope I taught you something about the nerf -.- Give rangers their range back. You can take your stupid Longbow buffs.

What?! You cataloged ME in WvW?

You’re not the only one against whom this scenario plays out daily.

Anet, Rangers have RANGE and you’re allowing OTHER characters to OUT RANGE US.

Either we ARE RANGERS OR WE ARE NOTHING.