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I am not promoting that you should kick people or make their life difficult if they do the above. In fact, you should help them through, especially if it is their first few times.

But seriously, you do not get abit annoyed by the small things some people do, either purposely or in ignorance? And then try your best to help them not do it again?

Also I am saying, that you know you are Jaded, when…. I am not saying, if you see people do this, you must go leet on them. These are signs you have done too many dungeons runs, to often. Warning signs if you will, that not everyone are like you and people must start somewhere.

Just heads up, do not spend alot of money in BLTC. You level up quite fast.

But that also means non-lvl 80 exotic weapons tend to be cheaper and better stats then vendors. Just don’t overspend

Also do crafting, that gives you weapons (huntsman) and armor (leatherworking). At the same time you are leveling your crafting skills. A lvl 400 crafting skill allows you to get specific type of exotics you are looking for cheaper then other options (just ignore the look till you can get better looking exotics).

In PvE, especially at lower levels any weapon is possible. Just try them all and see what you like. You can also purchase weapons from vendors or better yet the Black Lion Trading Company (BLTC). Just press O and go to the buy tab. Use the filter to look for a specific level and weapon type.

Rangers survive by running at the first sign of trouble. No joke.

The other day, I was playing AC with a PUG, as my guild left me behind as I got home from work late.

Everything was great at first, till we came to the first boss of AC. And most of the group kept on being downed. While the more experience people were trying to tell them to dodge pls OMG dodge.

It got me thinking. For those of us that does dungeons till our eyes bleed. What causes you to go WT (what the …), when partying with others.

Please keep it civil and not pick on specific people. Lets keep it fun.

Here are the little things that make me go or that I have read people QQ about in the forums, OMG I being doing this too long:

1. telling people when they see a red circle to dodge please for the love of … dodge

2. when party member fully die, going Why are you not respawning yet? ReSpawn!

3. running pass mobs, err can you not die?

4. where is your condition removal skill? Did you dying due to conditions again?

5. Err you do not know what to do? Err must I explain, there is a wiki on this you know … hint hint

6. talk about their rare gear (err rare only??? …. err not full exotic? why me :P )

7. to thief: Go pull now. What? How? Use Scorpion Wire, stand here. Pull this. Do it properly. Or to necro: Spectral Grasp! Spectral Grasp!

8. to rangers: Where is the healing spring? What you use troll urgent? Err ok? Seriously WHY?

9. to memsers: I want me portal. Go run and portal me across. What you mean how?

10. to ranger: why is your pet running with you??? You heard of stow pet? Why is your pet moving towards enemy group, is it on aggressive?? OMG it is, RUN! faster for your lives

NOTE: I am not raging. They are just points that I observe. Points 1 & 10 especially. The points are also purposely presented in an inflated manner, to make them more interesting. I especially like point 10, because I am a ranger, that first time I did a dungeon run, my pet aggroed half the room, which caused much rage, me saying sorry like crazy, and a PUG member quitting in rage.

@Yasha
Casual PvE!!!! THE HORROR!!!! Seriously, you know you are getting too jaded when doing dungeons you start to get pissed off with other players when they do not performing at optimal levels.

Anet should create another title maybe called “Sandy comes to Halloween” which is granted to all players. Allowing players that are affected by Sandy to get the overall main 5/5 halloween title(s) achievement.

If there are any special in-game items, mail it to all (soul bound or account bound). Those that got it ingame will most likely trash it, because frankly having 2 of the same item takes up space, but for others, it will give them the item without to much fuss.

As for the event, there is always youtube. In fact, Anet can youtube it themselves, as a “hang in there” for Sandy affected people.

I do not think the above is hard to do and will not affect the game as much as extending the game.

Hi, I have 1 skill point left to 100% world completion.

I need the skill point from CoE. I explored the whole map before, but did not complete the skill point at CoE because it was bugged and the npc did not spawn.

I thought it was fix, but now it seems that I I cannot enter the CoE area, as the meta quest does not want to spawn. I waited at the spawn location for an hour, and no quest to open CoE ever spawned.

Is this is a bug? Can the door to CoE be opened. Please just set the CoE waypoint and dungeon to contested and leave the doors open. I really want to finish my 100% world completion pls.

Thanks and Regards.

Only starts on 1st Nov right? So you got a day more :P

Grumwulf.9602:

That guy in LA that sells stones to get to the hall of monuments, he should sell all that stuff that due to temporary bugs you can’t get right now. Just say he’s smuggled some in, get them now while stocks last. When Arenanet fix the bugs, well he can’t get those anymore, his supplier got eaten by a dragon.

This is a great suggestion +1 support

I got a box full of infractions too. In fact, when I talk about my box of infractions, I get another infraction with cherries on top, to increase my box :P

@ Levetty

You will learn. Why would they buff or fix the ranger when they can just infract you. I have a mailbox full of infractions just on talking about the ranger class bad points, on how Anet is extremely slow with any updated to rangers and requesting for feedback on why nothing is being done or for a specific date for patch release.

I bet, this post will also be infracted, for some reason that is beyond me.

Rangers are not bad per say. It is just that every other class does it better. The other really bad class, Elementalist are harder to handle yes. But in the hands of a really good pro, they can be quite good.

Rangers are great for leveling, easily the easiest class to level. Their PvE problem start from Orr, WvW and Dungeons. (I will not talk about PvP as I do not play it alot. Suffice to say, it is also bad there.)

In these places, your pet does not really hold agrro well. And if they do hold agrro, they die fast. Most of the time they just die from AOE. It is a definate must to put your pet on passive, but more often then not, even if you ask them to return to you to avoid AOE, just stall there for precious seconds and die.

Thus you go for range pets. But even then, they got issues. If the enemy move, their attack more often then not misses. They again have problems with AOE. They are now squishy and die from a few hits or a burst.

And the biggest problem of pets, is that they constantly miss if the enemy moves. A smart WvW player will not stand still, thus avoiding most of your pet damage. In Dungeons, most enemies move alot because you move alot to avoid damage. Thus pets again miss alot.

Then there is the miss, obstructed, invulnerable issue with ranger weapons. Rangers have it the worst, because our range weapons are not heat seeking and have long flight times. In WvW, any one that strives or move erratically (aka normal play) can avoid a third to half our arrows, even at super close range. Thus our dps drops like mad. In dungeons, any small changes in terrain, can suddenly throw up bugs that make our shots bug out (but is not so bad as npcs do not strive like real players more a super bug terrain, arrow shot trajectory issue), which is still very annoying.

Our utilities are good but not as good too. Our signets are all done better in other professions. Our spirits die from AOE in 1 hit or 2. Our burst skill is bugged after the nerf. Longbow has a range requirement that does not work, as anyone even npc enemies will always come towards you. Our axes does little dps, but can bounce around. Our sword roots use on the spot. Our Greatsword dps is just way beyond bad. SB is now just ok.

So everything combined. I would say, while rangers are not horrible, they are just worst off then the other classes. Currently I have a ranger and engineer. I realy love my ranger, am ok with the engineer. But in dungeons I near always play engineer, as the damage is better and the group tend to have a easier time. Also at the same time, while doing more dps, my eng also has much better utilities and support skills.

If you plan to swap weapons often, to get the swap buff, as part of your playstyle.

Get those Sigils that grant a boon On Weapon Swap. Here is the list of Sigils. http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil

I like Sigil of Battle, which grants 2~3 might on swap.

Else use Sigils that suit your build. On critical hit or Condition Duration Sigils, to me, work well with Rangers.

Should be out at 31st October Midnight. At least I think, might be totally wrong.

Hi Anet,
Would like to ask, if we will be getting any patches this week.

I have been waiting a month plus for a ranger patch/fix and changes. Also it has been 3 weeks since nerf to our already hurting class.

So to say I am eagerly awaiting this weeks patches, after Jon Peter said last week that ranger will be updated on next patch, is an understatement.

So will there be a patch this week? Please say yes. If not, when is the next patch? The Ranger class is really sub par right now, and I would like some updates. Also I know that Necro and Ele players are also eagerly awaiting fixes to their classes.

So any updates?
Thanks and Regards.

I think this is a wonderful concept. But one that means that people need to be flexible.
Current I think Anet Dungeons, already promote flexibility, and the amount of crash and burn I see is sad.

I find it funny, that most people do not even dodge when the red circle appears around them. That makes for alot of wipes. You can dodge all, but the really painful ones give you a few seconds to do so.

So hehehe a huge education is needed to advance the idea of fluid changing of roles, based on battle conditions.

garethh.3518:

Tracker.6483:

The bleeds are easy to land due the the very forgiving attack angle that is considered flanking.

Plus, having to work a LITTLE bit on positioning is what keeps the shortbow auto-attack from becoming too monotonous for me.

The weapon is its spammable (everything else is just occasional situational stuff) so yeah the spammable being anything but blindly spammable is nice, at least imo.

gadenp.7586:

They should instead increase the bleed duration.

Its 3s on a short cast.
That is good.
lol

I did not mind the 3s still I saw the warrior rifle bleed time. Between their non-positional 6sec bleed bleeding shot and kill shot. It makes me feel look at my SB in a whole new dimmer light.

Not saying SB is not good, just what the heck is with the warrior rifle.

Problem is most players just spec for dps. In dungeons, some even do not bring condition removal.

garethh.3518:

gadenp.7586:

Warhorn grants fury, might, and swiftness to yourself and nearby allies.

Torch is a close range AOE weapon that set a fire around you, burning foes.

That’s like saying the warhorn just summons a flock of birds to peck at people.
You are clearly and pointedly forgetting the best part of the weapon.
The torch toss that burns for 6~ seconds at a 900 range.

This is no political debate, there is no winning or losing so no need to twist facts.

Sorry garethh how is this political? I just listed down both weapons 2nd skills. I did not promote any one over the other.

They should instead increase the bleed duration.

Warhorn grants fury, might, and swiftness to yourself and nearby allies.

Torch is a close range AOE weapon that set a fire around you, burning foes.

ShinraGuardian.8053:

gadenp.7586:

Rampager:
Precision , Condition, Toughness

Rampager’s is power precision condition.

Also, I’d say Axe/Torch is better. Warhorn for running around, torch for burning and fire field.

Your right. Darn it mixed them up

Put the Quiver at the side, where normally our axe/sword will go.

That would look way cool.

Orr is crap for any class. For rangers, you seriously need to be careful. Risen avoid pets like the plague, preferring to kill you instead. They also run super fast and aggro easily and tend to come in big mobs.

Carrion:
Power, Condition, Vit

Rampager:
Precision , Condition, Power (fixed :P)
The allocation is up to you.

More HP = survive longer but, precision is important to Condition builds, so lean more towards more Precision.

Because everyone is to busy farming in SoD.

Seriously. No joke, even if I wanted too.

Last I did it, the bug was solved. But we just lacked people. The Risen Balt Boss is extremely “powerful”, has alot of hp and on a short timer. You thus need a big group of people that know how to play and will just respawn when they die instead of staying there expecting people to res them.

Also once again, I am hoping really hard that Jon Peter was not trolling us and that we will get a patch for ranger the next patch.

Which I am hoping extremely hard, that is today by 2 hours time, as per their normal patch schedule.

OMGoodness Pikafan, your 20/30/15/0/5 is the same allocation I use.

But my line up is as follows (I mainly main dungeons):
6 Superior Rune of Grenth, which increase freeze duration and freeze chance and condition damage.

I use Spike Trap, Frozen Trap, Muddy Terrain and Entangle. As you can see control is very important to me in dungeons. In PvE, I replace Spike Trap with Flame Trap, and Muddy Terrain for QZ, Entangle wirh Rampage As One.

Like Pikafan, I use half Rampagers and half Carrion, to get best dps and health increase balance.

My Weapons are SB (main), Axe/Horn or LB (as alt).

Pets are: Brown Bear & Black Widow.

For build to work, always switch your pet, as soon as swap recharge is up. Also do not let pet die, so put on passive and know when to let pet attack and when to let pet retreat.

Also swap weapons often, main-ing more on SB, to get the swap buffs.

Sometimes I use 20/30/5/0/15, for more quickness due to the reduced pet swapping timing. But I like the ability to regen endurance (aka dodge) way to much. Since in dungeons the ability to dodge properly saves your live alot of times. And the 2sec dodge shield for pets and you, is a life saver.

As it is only a cut scene, yea it is no big deal.

If it is a once a lifetime or year limited rare item that looks cool. Now that would be worth a Rage.

Anyways, Peak periods in USA and Europe will always come first for MMOs and thus in that sense Oceanic players (like me) will always follow their timing.

I agree that halloween in GW2 has been great so far. But still waiting my ranger fix

Anyways, yea Anet put alot of effort into this halloween update. Next is Christmas

Looking forward to that…

Jubei.5923:

Fingers crossed, here’s hoping the update will blow my mind and restore my faith!

That is a extremely high order. I will settle for “Make ranger suck less. Fix my Pet”.

Last night WvW. Someone teleported into our base took the orb of power and teleported out.

Best! I say…

Well, if they actually extended the event because of Ms Sandy for the Americans.

They will be setting a precedence. In which they will have to extend or change events for any or all “problems/events/ disasters” that crop up across the whole world. Unless they want to say that Americans are special.

For example, Mad King cutscene was on my Monday morning 3am. They should have changed it because I had to work at 8am. Country election, change event time. Civil War is another location, extend again. Taiwan earthquake extend…

So yea, they should not do anything as this is an act of nature and is not under their control. And in doing so, they will need to start to do for all other reasons, which in the long run is very unhealthy.

I feel for those affected by Sandy, but this is a game and extending the time sets a precedence that most companies will try not to do.

1 Day more to fix. Especially more important now that I went and bought from TP the Arachnophobia Bow for 65G, based on the ranger still becoming more viable and thus more playable.

Prices have since dropped alot, with to me is CRAP!!! for me :P

Maybe that is the point. They want to push the pricing for exotics down. Increase Gold value.

It will be great, if we can get a unique set of mad king armor that looks like the BLTC Mad King town cloths.

Will be even better, if we can also buy the parts from BLTC. That way the grinders can get the armor free. But those richer and not so free people can buy the pieces they are missing from the BLTC.

I bought the Arachnophobia bow at 65+G (my whole life savings, so yes this is a bug. So patch NOW!!!!!! Joke joke (don’t kill me)

Thankfully, I have not soulbound it yet. I plan to farm and try to get a 2nd bow, then wait till halloween is over and sell at 65+G to try to get some gold back

But yea, good that we can now farm exotics, at least for Halloween.

I still think and encourage Anet to allow the ability to buy skins via Gems directly from Anet at about $5~$15 a weapon skin or $10~20 for a full costume set.

I think it will keep 1. bring about alot of happy people and 2. get Anet alot of money 3. provide an easier alternative for people that do not want to gamble and do not have the time and effort to farm super rares.

1. Will you or will you not be buying black lion trading company or random number generation materials again?

No

2. Did you buy them in the past?

Yes

3. If you would not buy trading post material/gamble, would you support direct to buy weapon skins and what general price do you find acceptable from a business standpoint both as a customer and realizing that they must make money as a business?

Yes, at about $10-15 for a full costume/armor set. $5-10 for a weapon.

4. Do you believe that future events will also be handled with random number generation to make profit based on limited time item acquisition?

Yes. I think Anet will do it again. Seems to have alot of people that NEED to spend the tons of money to get desperately get the skins they want.

5. If you believe that the future events will be handled in the same manner, does this realization negatively effect your trust of Arena Net in regard to handling micro transactions for permanent content?

Yes. It is quite shady to do a gambling method. Does not inspire confidence and transparency in user base. Also games that always base all their skins on gambling tend to lose alot of user base fast after the initial charm wears off. Hope that does not happen to GW2, but Anet should help to do it’s part.

I have named my Bear “Not a China Bot” :P. Wonder if that will get me reported,
My Black Widow is named “Fix Ranger Pls” hahahahaha

Anyways, yea those darn bots are giving us a bad name. For some reason, I find that many of them now are using Pirate Gear, and sigil power build. Which is just spoiling it for the rest of us. Also alot of them have chinese names starting with X….

Hi Anet,
I would like to request for a set of weapon skin that is easier to obtain then the current Black Chest or Craftable Weapons/Skins.

If it would be possible to just sell a weapon skin out right in Gem story or have a lower crafting requirements weapons (that maybe look different then the higher end craftable) that would be great. They can be considered the lower set of rares from the event.

This would allow the majority of players to also come away with something from the event, even if we do not have the super rare version. Maybe make the current versions legendary and then insert a “normal” exotic version, that is hard to get but doable within this halloween event. Maybe this exotic version would need an ingredient from the BLTC that could cost a few bucks.

Please consider this. It gives the normal player a goal that we can work towards for this event, that is not so out of most player’s stratosphere.

Thanks and Regards.
PS: This is not a demand. This is a request that could benefit all involved. The hardcore grinder collectors get their super rare skin. The rest get our exotic skins. And Anet wins all round, via the Gems>gold exchange and BLTC.

I know that I will come across and cynical. But lets take a wait a see approach. It is great that Anet has replied concerning our concerns and for that we are grateful.

Lets, in all confidence in Anet, wait and see. Once the next weekly or earlier patch comes. Lets tailor our expectations from there. Aka take it one step at a time, till the proof pudding arrives.

Drakken.3427:

A useless post for damage control, typical.

Well least give them a week grace period. If what it said above does not materialize on the next patch then well then we know, really know where we stand.

It is not the best solution and I for one, and not going to call Jon Peter “a God” (read a post above this), but lets wait and see.

I guess the reddit post is not needed anymore

Thank you all in this post and across the forum for voicing out our concerns. I hope the post from Jon Peter is a sign of better things to come for our class.

Hi Jon, thanks for your update. I am really looking forward to the next patch which I presume and pray is next Tuesday/Monday???.

If it could be faster, that is always a great boon to us.

Hi all, I have made a posting on reddit as some has requested.

The link is http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/11y6bu/ranger_class_we_would_like_to_get_an_update/

As per usual any support is greatly appreciated and hopefully we will get through to someone in Anet that is willing to help us.

Hi all, I have made a posting on reddit as some has requested.

The link is http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/11y6bu/ranger_class_we_would_like_to_get_an_update/

As per usual any support is greatly appreciated and hopefully we will get through to someone in Anet that is willing to help us.

nic.5720:

I think that we were left out because Anet is embarassed by us!

We called them out over their deceptive update notes of 7th Oct. and refused to just take what we were given and comply like good little players. We have dared to question their integrity and have been too vocal in expressing our opinions.

Nobody likes to be caught out in public. Anet are no different.

Is that is the case, then if they are found out. Their reputation will take a big hit.

I hope it is not true.

@Alcyon

Yea maybe we SHOULD do that. Alcyon, would you like to start a new thread and launch this campaign.

Maybe iron out some details and/or time our posting to interest awareness.

If some editorial / eloquent people could draft a standardised appeal letter we can use, tweet and follow, that would help alot.

I seriously think, just posting in this sub-forum is not working. We need to seek alternate avenues.