Guild Wars 2

This material is used in way too many recipes. Some of the game transmuting mechanic is completely useless due to the high price / low drop rate of this material.

At least heavy moldy bags / heavy loot bags should drop only T5 and T6 materials because those leather and silk crap that comes out of them is the most annoying thing ever.
For example 1 week ago i crafted 100 charged lodestones for my gift of lightning with my dust what i collected from drops because it was worth it. Now i have to buy that 100 dust for the other gift and i will end up a huge loss if it continues like this.

Hopefully the stupid southsun cove event will stop and ppl will start to farm CS a bit more.

I bet you want the T6 more than the clovers Vol.

100 runestones and 500 T6 missing – still have a way to go but getting closer and closer.
T6 donations are very welcome.

People never read forums / watch videos before they start crafting clovers but forums are the first place where they blame RNG. There was like 50 thread about clovers already and all had the conclusion that 10 clover recipe has way lower success rate than the 1 clover recipe. You may have luck and finish the whole thing in 10-15 tries but can have bad luck and finikitten in 40 tries.

I made my 77 clover in 201 tries with dropping in 1 at a time. I am only using the 10 clover recipe to get T6 materials and still get sometimes those kitten clovers.

Hi Mate, nice video, gj. I liked that a lot.

It seems you have very good dmg comparing to the WvW PVT build i am using.
Can you please give me a closer look into this build.

What you sacrifice? Whats your biggest encounter?

And again. Great job!

Well if it would become a “required skill” for rangers at least there would be 1 thing in WvW that requires ranger presence. Mesmers have to run veils, portals for the teamwork, why cant ranger have something like this. Also It could be a utility trap like every other ranger trap but with reasonable cool down and less reveal time. For instance 10 sec reveal instead of 30 and effect only 5 ppl instead of the 20.

Also your idea with the “F” skill is viable as well. But we know this is not going to happen.

The biggest fail in this story that they could have added the reveal trap to the ranger class and bring the class somewhat back to WvW life…

Personally i run WvW almost everyday for hours. I never get ripped off by a supply trap neither our guild thiefs moaned they got revealed by a trap.

The traps are too expensive, and almost useless without it being profession bound.

2 days ago we (NP) had some nice, even fight in the RS borderland. Thank you for that!

I almost thought i am on the wrong server when we saw RS random blob of 60+ build a superior ballista open field against our 20 before engaging.

I am pretty sure ascended gear for badges will be in the same patch that will make the Ranger to the King Of WvW.

Myrmidone.4362:

Gabe i got your point, but do you really think, Gandara or AG would act differently?
I think this is a very one-sided view of the whole Thing.
See ya on Battlefield and yes there are still people who live in germany(cause i am no german;-) and work right now^^.

Greet Myrmi

We are starting to have a conversation with much understanding. You are right. Every language based server (german, spanish, frenchie) would do this of course.

In case of english servers we are not so lucky. English servers are a bit different i guess. They are more like international servers in my point of view. They are melting people who doesn’t have an own server. In our guild we have players from US, UK, Scandinavian countries, and Middle – East Europe as well. Myself from Hungary.

I feel for you have to work on bank holidays. I am working for a swedish multi and it happens sometimes with me as well.

See you on the battlefield!
Cheers, Gabe

So awesome that 2 day public holiday in Germany can crash an entire weeks work in half a day. Go enjoy it guys. We be back from work to put you into your place.

And they had the chance to make Ranger class somewhat useful in WvW with new utility traps…

… and they failed it once again.

Hi, after countless hours of farming T6 mats i decided to try my luck with the 10 clover recipe. 1 try cost around 2,5 gold (10 ecto + 10 mystic coin) + 1 skill point + 10 obsi shard (i had too much from orrion boxes and ectos lol).

Sure this is very risky, as you you can get back not useful stuff too, but i can tell yesterday from 10 tries i got like 6 times T6 materials (20-40), 3×10 clovers, and 30 gossamer bolt. I got T6 mats for a worth of 28 gold (no blood dropped) and invested around 25 gold. People can get extra lucky and got lots of dust and blood (not to talk about lodestones) also get unlucky and receive too much clovers. xD

I need a few hundred more T6 for my legendary gift so i decided to give the 10 clover recipe a go. So i was hoping to get T6 and not the clovers.

I dropped in 11 tries and received 40 clovers at the end. first 3 tries was 30 clover and got 10 more on 11th try. Finished up around -4 gold based on the loss on my ectos and the mystic coins though i was unlucky not getting for example 40 bloods.

RNG is RNG. Still i feel less danger in the 1 clover recipe.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

TiF.6589:

Based on your logic, can I requested that they nerf the drop rate of Sparks since I already have my Incinerators and if more people have them it would make me feel less awesome?

Well, not nerf the Precursor drop rates. But perhaps make them all Account Bound, so they can never be sold on the TP?

Ellisande.5218:

If I can paraphrase the opener’s post:

“I got my legendary and now I want to make sure noone else can get their legendary so that I can feel like an extra special snowflake.”

Exactly! If I see too many around, the Legendary will no longer be rare. I farmed my rear off to craft it. But if it becomes easier to get/make, then it loses it’s “awe” value.

I do think he was sarcastic lolz. Also if you wish to reduce drop rate just to be a unique snowflake with your legendary already i then pocket is a bit selfish.

Why didn’t you claimed this BEFORE you got your weapon in the current system. Now that you have one, everyone can kitten off?

If you are not 12, you have some serious issues mate.

Actually Aion’s Ranger was a really fun classto play. It was powerful and had the tools to bring down any other classes if you played it well. If players saw a ranger on the battlefield they handled him with respect, knowing it had the abilities to faceroll anyone.

And if they would solve the problem that a well geared player could stunlock and roflstomp you in 1 sec i would say Aions PvP would be far over to GW2. It required far more brain to play that game in group than GW2.

Not to talk about that almost every class was could be a deadly weapon in good hands there.

Everyone has different opinion about the recipes. In my opinion the 10 clover recipes are for the ppl who like to take the risk for the bigger reward. Also i would not start the 10 recipe forging unless i have all the materials for the 24 tries.

Personally i did the 1 clover recipe and managed to get my 77 clover on 209 tries what is around 37% success rate. Also (and that’s why i think the 1 clover recipe is safer) i had several times when i didn’t get clover for 20! forging (what is all your shot in the 10 clover recipe) and after that i got 6-8 clover in row.

If i were you, i would gamble all the materials, coins, crystals together for all the tries you need and do the 1clover recipe. In worst case you can sell the ectos and coins you haven’t used.

I would love to see some TP feature from the work, but also i am pretty sure that few person would find a way to crash the market (just for fun) and that would result a lot of headache for the ANET guys.

Troll please a bit more. I am going for Bolt, i have worked my kitten off since the release day to get the money and materials for it as i am not playing with the TP and spending most of my time in WvW. Now more or less i only need the charged lodes. That alone will force me to grind an another 265-270 gold to get my sword… Someone has too much free time in his hand.

Probably i play to much WvW but so far i have only seen 1 Bolt and 0 Wing of Dwayna. Not to talk about the Mjolnir that takes 350 charged Lode to craft what is like 1200 gold if you craft the lodes from cores.

Also its a joke that say “truly legendary” lol. An achievement that requires you to grind the same kitten boring mobs for lucky drops is not even close to be a legendary. These weapons are not legendary, they are just rare stuff with good skins. If you are clever with the TP you can have 1 in every week. First of all legendary weapons should have never been connected to gold. Rather great achievements. Mixed between all gaming experience in the game.

+ Why i have the feeling that you already have your legendary weapon in the pocket and want to feel like a unique snowflake for a longer period of time?

Hi, my progress – getting closer

1. Which legendary are you going for?
Bolt
2. Do you have any gifts? If so, which one?
Gift Of Mastery – done
Precursor – ZAP – done
3. Which gift are you working on? And how far have you come on it?
Gift of fortune
-250 ecto – done
- 77 clovers – done
- T6 mats – farming them madly. 2000/1200 pcs atm

Gift of Bolt – missing it almost completely – 100 charged lodes will be a hard part :/
If i count good it will cost around 380g. 380/102 gold atm.

Getting there slowly.

350 NPC is nothing in CS. Probably you could do it in 30 min if you farm events or the worms on the coast. I am farming madly Heavy Bags because i need T6 for legendary. I have killed thousands of Risen and worms in the past 1 week and my experience is that they do drop T6 alone, including bones. Or you can just sell the white,blue,greens / heavy bags and buy T6 from them, or open heavy bags.

Thank you for the answers.
I have now the precursor, clovers and bloodstone shard as well. The only thing i miss is few hundred T6 and the weapon gift.

In my point of view the main problem is not the drop rate, but the number of mobs where you can farm this lodes. Other lodestones (like corrupted) are much easier to obtain becasue much more mobs are there to slain.

Also so much cool looking weapon needs charged that it drives the prices up to over 3g. Its a bit too much really. I am the clever one who has chosen Bolt as a legendary. Weapon gift to go. Will take a long time.

While i was waiting for Jormag i was farming those golems and mobs as well, on a different place though. The drop rate is very very hectic. Sometimes i get 0 in the 60-75 min farming, also there was several times i got 2 or 3 within 20 min then nothing for 2 hours.

Drop rate should be increased a bit but i do think the 1.3 gold price is close to be reasonable. The main problem is with the charged lodes in my point of view. Too many good looking weapon needs it and the farming places are much smaller then the other lodes.

Hi every1,

I will need 100 charged lodestones for my Bolt.
Is if it worth to craft them trough Mystic Forge with recipe:

2x Core + 1x Crystal + 1x Bottle of Elonian wine + 1x Pile of Crystalline=
According to spidy if i place buy orders it would cost around:

2 * 1,08g + 1SP + 0,25g + 0,23g = 2,64g while Lodestones Buy Order is around 2.9g atm.
So theoretically it should work. For 100 pc it should result a 26 gold spare.

My question: Is it working in practice? Worth doing it this way?

Thank you for your answers.

BR Gabe

Zanshin.5379:

Zumy.6318:

7 weeks for Twilight. 5 weeks for Bolt. No farming and no real money involved.
And for sure no CoF.

So… basically, you only played the market.

Nah mate. As far as i remember Zumy gets a precursor dropped every time he steps out Lions Arch.

Not every get 3-4 precursors dropped like you Zumy. Basically i have killed dozens of thousands of risens, crubs, and other stuff on cursed shore in the past 1 week and didn’t get a single exotic drop in full mf + 50% mf booster + 40% food. Also for 2 weeks everyday i made every boss event for chest, finished up without a single exotic.

1. You got to be lucky, 2. you have to understand how the TP works, or 3. you have to work your kitten off for a legendary weapon. I am in the 3rd category as i am not lucky, and CBA to play with the TP. I’am buying Zap off from my friend today , i finished mastery gift, and the clovers, ectos + 50% of the Tier 6 mats. But Weapon gift postponed me for at leats an another month from my legendary. kitten charged Lodes.

The Dreamer already got more love than the other legendaries to be honest. It is now shooting kitten big horses making it one of the most noticeable legendary of the game.

There is a lot more weapon that need was more love than the Dreamer. Saying it as someone who is planning to get one.

Yeah use that link what Syberius gave. Awesome fast guides in it. I suggest you to check normal/traditional guides too because in some crafting profession you can spare 2-3g if you do normal/traditional instead of fast guide. Of course they force you to put more effort into crafting while fast guide shows you the fastest and most effective way.

If you want to be fast don’t forget to add a lot bag slots to you character and empty you inventory. So you don’t have to make the runs between the vendor/bank and the crafting place. Once your bought all the material you can just store it into the bank.

I have to say I’m not surprised they have skipped rangers again. I don’t expect too much love from the March updates either beside they might give us the AR share with pets, what should have been implemented in fractals from day one. Basically this is the first thought should have come into mind from anyone who gives kitten about the ranger class.

I just put my ranger on hold after the February patch (beside gathering ores, attending dragon events) until they get fixed somehow and now i am going with my shiny Warrior into WvW battles. Best decision I’ve made so far in GW2. Useful in WvW. Welcomed in dungeons.

I still love ranger better than my Warrior as Ranger was always my only class through my MMO history but if they don’t give a kitten… i move on.

The numbers are not important. The game mode is.

WvW for example turning into a “run as much together as you have”. Each time we run around with a 15 man guild group we meet with 40+ blob run out of culling. FUN! wait… NOT.

GvG would finally create a place where rival or friendly guilds can decide which one is better/ more organized without pugs, incoming extra zerg/reinforcement or culling.

This game is called GUILD Wars for a reason.

Cluster.4159:

Aloha,
at first i want to thank all of the big wvw guilds from Baruch and Aurora, always fun to fight with you
I am the last one who is arguing about conspiracy theories or arrangements.
Even in the last weeks if there were a lot of situations other people spoke from arrangements. I would say there is definitely a chance that guilds have the same time for their raids and that they appear on the same time on hills and bay.

But the last night… this is no chance. Never.

After we were busy in the Borderlands of Baruch an Aurora, some Auroras tried to invite me in a group for a lot of times. I denied, cause i was too tired and just wanted to go off to bed. So i couldnt say what they wanted to tell me. (so it really could be that this has nothing to do with the later happenings… but… i dont know what i should believe or not about the last night ._.)

So at nearly 3am we went back to our borderland. It was all red. No attacks everywhere. And at point 3:20 no minute more or less. There are 20 Baruchs on bay, 10 with Golems at the hills, and aurora at the watergate on the middle.

With the few people we were there was no chance to defend something. But you couldnt tell me that there was no arrangement. There is no chance that this happens by accident at exactly 3:20.

I know there are a lot of things that look like an arrangement between two servers and i’m always one who is telling the others that it is hilarious to talk about. Cause everything could happen in W3. There are 3 servers and it really could be that two of them are attacking the third at nearly the same time on the same or other objects.

But the last night… i dont know what to say. I just couldnt believe it as it happens. o.O

Ps: I’ve thought a lot about this to write the story into the forum. Cause everytime you tell such a story there are people who start flaming. So please don’t flame. I am not flaming anyone. I just wanted to tell you this, cause it looked strange this night.

Hi mate,

Sometimes WvW creates suspicious actions but we have to accept that it is a huge playground with night shifts, tons of guilds and awesome number of random players. I can totally imagine that 2 night shift guilds started on your BL at the same time. I don’t think you should stress on this.

BTW i am pretty sure that AG and BB not making any agreement behind the screen.

Regards,
Beer Time Gabe [NP]

Dina Van Heyr.3018:

well before you decide to help BB you should know they are using same poor cowardly tactics as RS, so there is no difference betwen them and even outnumbered 3-1 we drove them out

Guys, if i see this screenshot good this is the bottom left part of the map. May i ask why don’t you break left in the tunnel towards the supply camp, leaving it uncontested and surprise them on the ballistas and arrow carts from behind?

Finally they have implemented what worked awesomely in Aion by 200 vs 200 battles. Showing name tags only.

Good Job Anet! (Now a little bit attention to my poor ranger please! xD)

neverborne.4736:

Robert Hrouda.1327:

I’ll admit I don’t WvW as much as I likely should. When I do though, I tend to avoid the larger battles due to culling and those pesky stealth thieves who seem to pick my Anet tag out of the crowd and proceed to stick daggers in my spine.
When I WvW, I tend to run off into areas where I can get the drop on someone who is running to an objective that is contested. Rangers are really powerful in 1v1, especially when you can get the jump on someone and have good daze\evasion. When I am caught up ikittenerg trying to push back another zerg, I tend to keep my pet in pacifist mode so it doesn’t go running off to its death.
In a 1v1-3 situation though, double hyenas and a trusty spider can be a real game changer and difference maker.

Rob, again, I understand you’re not a WvW dev, but I am going to hopefully keep this in your mind, especially if you’re going to advocate for our changes.

By your own admission you leave your pet on passive in large scale WvW (which is really 90% of WvW). Don’t you think that points to a problem that needs to be addressed? Yeah, rangers can 1v1 decently, especially if they spec traps. But no ranger who wants to be part of a WvW guild can build like that and consider themselves useful. If our pets are being essentially taken our of the equation in WvW (which for some of us is the WHOLE game) we really would like somebody to offer us some sort of solution.

Totally True. Putting a pet on passive is just a bad solution of this problem. Basically its not even a solution it is simple what we are forced to do. A warrior can enter in full power in a large scale fight. We – with the pet on passive – enter shorthanded into the fight. I play mostly in WvW. Pets are usually dead ikittenergfight before they can trigger their (usually) broken f2 skill.

While every other class can use their full power/DPS on a boss/enemy/invader i have to swap (new pet run into fight – 2 sec) or call back my pet from action ( if swap is on CD) loosing again a quite big part of my DPS until i can swap again or until my pet regenerates up. This could last in an unfortunate situation a 12-60 sec serious DMG loss comparing to other classes.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

We tried giving them reduced damage from AOE/attacks, and it opened up other problems – mainly that a team of 2 rangers could take on almost any boss in a dungeon by smart swapping of pets and letting the pet take aggro. ……

……As much as they seem vestigial, the “attack” and “return” keybinds are really the only thing that can give the player any control, and they can be a bit unwieldy. I would recommend though that if you have never tried using those keybinds, try them out the next time you’re in a dungeon, your pet will thank you for it.

Hi Robert,

Thank you for taking time to answer this problem to us.
Let me ask you few question and share my opinion for a bit.

On the first part of the quote:
Why is it a problem if a ranger can actually 2 man a boss in a dungeon. With only the pet holding the aggro for 2 player would take ages to finish off a boss and still what is the reward for it? Nothing. They still only get the same reward for finishing a dungeon like they would get with 5 player.
In the other hand. I spend most of the time in WvW. Pets melt there from AOE in 1 second even in “not aggressive” mode. There is no chance to manage them if you fight trough a 40 man zerg. And this way you not just loosing the 40% of your dmg but their F2 ability aswell.

On the second part of the quote.
It is great. We are managing the pet. We learn it. I can call it back anytime, i have it locked on my mouse. BUT the main problem again: While every other class can use their full power/DPS on a boss i have to swap (new pet run into fight – 2 sec) or call back my pet from action ( if swap is on CD) loosing again a quite big part of my DPS until i can swap again or until my pet regenerates up. This could last in an unfortunate situation a 12-60 sec serious DMG loss comparing to other classes. I am not a whiner but how is this fair?

BR Gabe

They have added a new way to get precursor, but they have made world event chests to be lootable only once/day. I don’t expect any serious supply increase / price drop unless the guild mission chests has a significantly raised drop rate.

Rezzet.3614:

rangers have the best downstate in the game just pick your dieing spots correctly as your pet can even heal you while it is dead .(i assume that will be fixed tho)

If they “fix” that pet can can heal you while they are killed that would result a totally broken Nr.2 skill as pets are dieing from a bigger fart.

Though this conception would greatly support developers work in the past few months. They surely have and own forum thread called " How to destroy the Ranger class."

Personally i gave up on devs andi am power leveling my Warrior just now via crafting its already 52 and enough token waits in the bank to buy cof and ac armor set for it.

At least moderators read the BUG Forum, they have deleted there a buglist of ranger.

Moderator: "

Hi everyone,

While we understand your frustration and how the class you are playing not working properly affects your gameplay, there is no need to create another thread in this subforum.

We will remind the team about the state of the Ranger class, but you can be sure they are working on it.
We are going to close this thread. Again, thanks for the reminder and sorry for all the problems.

Thanks for your understanding."

- Pet is not sharing your Agony Resistance, making them useless in Fractals and causing you loose 40% of your DPS in the bossfights.

At the moment i would say its not worth it. Once again 1 of our best support ability is taken.

I dropped 900k karma in.
Result:
Some gold from vendor trash.
35 obsi shard,
1 mini pet.
1 destroyer lodestones.
The rest is karma item. I guess i am just unlucky. XD

Omnio: you don’t really get it. Ranger community don’t want to fart butterflies to kill all nearby enemies. We don’t want the devs buff us to the sky.

100 ranger don’t want 100 different things. If you ask 10 ranger. 9 will surely tell you the bugs/issues/problems we have reported from day 1. These are not buffs. These are bugs. Things not working as intended.

Just 1 example: If they would just fix “Licking Wounds” so the skill actually would work more than 50% of the times people would say. Hmm they might take attention. But they don’t do anything. Its been 4 months now. And this is just a minor issue with the pet. The pet has like 3 or 4 more important problem that never got fixed.

You might have a lvl 59 ranger but you have absolute no idea about how rangers are absolutely useless comparing to other professions either in dungeons or in WvW. They are fun to play i give you the credit. But not useful for the team and hell i want my group to be happy to see a ranger in the group not just carry it like a dead weight.

If it is currently working it will be considered as a bug for sure and as they are actually listen the thief community this will be nerfed in the following ways ANET style!

1. Thief can 1 hit ranger pets with auto attack without breaking stealth.
2. Whenever thief is using stealth it is fearing our pet for 40 second.
3. Whenever thief is using stealth nearby pets get a 80% speed reduction.
4. Whenever thief is using stealth its instant death for the pet and the master and everyone (especially rangers, necros and engis) who is not playing Warrior, Guardian and Thief.

They are simple not coming here because they don’t have anything to say. They are aware of all the problems rangers suffer for a long time. They haven’t done anything, or can’t solve the problems. The result is the same. Dead silence.

They just cant say anything. What could they say?

1. “We are hardly working on solving the long lasted issues …bla bla bla”. – Who would believe to them once again.
2. Or they tell us the truth: They don’t give a kitten about the class and busy polishing warrior, thief, guardian – holy triangle.

Don’t forget out the incredible Icon change for the birds. I got so excited when i heard about it.

And Jon is not going to come as he has nothing to say about the at least 10 serious issues that shout for fixes and still nothing happened.

One thing needs to be understand. We don’t cry for buffs though it needs it quite much. We would be happy with them fixing the kitten bugs.

Yop, the ranger balance team is busy playing warriors.

They are not doing their job. Personally i would fire them, make them homeless, take back their degree and make them cleaning the streets for what they have done with my beloved ranger.

Zerragon.2608:

JonPeters.5630:

Poof! Someone called and I am here. We made some ranger changes this patch, but had to go back on them because of risk factor. There are some bugs being fixed and quality of life improvements coming in the next patch, as well as some other significant ranger improvements. I would Literally tell you but I think it would be considered a bit of a spoiler so you will have to be patient.

While we work hard to keep updates going on all professions, not very build us going to contain fixes for everyone due to the nature of software development. One problem with rangers is the lack of build diversity created by a number of sub par utility skills. Many signets, a shout or two, and spirits are all a bit lackluster. That is the first place to expect improvements. Second is trying to improve the feel/ pacing on some weapons.

Ok I can’t type more with tiny phone finger keypad. See you in game!

Jon

Lies….

Not just a lie. Biggest lie ever… they just don’t give a kitten.