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Openworld PvP areas & Griefing go hand in hand.
Where have you been the last 15 years???
It leaves our Norn “Elites” in the dust now.
(then again, just about every Elite in the game did that already… but if you were a ranger like me and you didn’t run spirit-way, your only available & viable option was RAO).
So yeah, it’s back on my Bar most of the time again and is helping out quite a bit in quite a few pure-DPS situations where RAO’s Stability wasn’t necessary. +1 Good Change. Really reduces the regret I used to have over getting the Bonus whatever version.
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Rangers should have been Skill-Split. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
Anet looks incredibly AMATEURISH on the heels of this, especially since there was already 2 weeks of fully detailed and very well stated Feedback available to them the instant rumor/leaks got out that this was coming. It doesn’t take them an entire week to do a skill-split here. A single guy with the spreadsheet could do it all in a single afternoon.
Every time I read a thread from the community requesting a certain Dev to return I can’t help but think the OP is the Dev in question.
Why would he WANT to come back to this job? What he’s doing now is a lot easier.
It also makes them more money as long as people keep buying these RNG boxes & limited-time recipes….
Jon Peters reads this forum from time to time.
But he couldn’t give two craps about PvE and he’d probably say that to us in all honesty as well in any room where there wasn’t a camera or an internet connection. …They’re still glomming onto this idea that they can make the game E-sport worthy without even realizing what Real big shift in “e-sport” actually took place lately.
E-sport USED to be about who had awesome skills in a game that had extreme learning curves. IE: your Starcrafts in Korea, your DOTA’s here for the custom map players, your Counterstrikes, Tribes/Quake2/Unreal Tourney & and SSBM Tourney kids. Basically all stuff that needed to be shoutcasted so you had someone do a “Madden” and explain what was happening to a couple of the people in the audience who didn’t understand what made a great play. But things changed when LOL came around… Viewerships jumped from 10,000’s…. to 10 millions….
Why?
B/c it was stuff people understood b/c they already used that same exact playstyle themselves. It’s the same reason Soccer is “the World’s Sport” while the rest of us here in the states only care about Hand-Egg, Hockey, or Nascar where you need super specialized gear and a personal support crew for every player on the field. E-sport is just plain old sport now. Infact the youtube vids that get the most viewership usually aren’t even about a great play, they’re usually about a Meme or something funny that happened instead. … or something trolly that everyone wants to immitate.
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Ranger means Generalist means Viable at multiple ranges
It means ALL RANGE MODE is permanently engaged.
If they can’t figure out a way to keep that balanced in sPvP… well fine, let them nerf them there all they want. All we want is for them to stop nerfing the generalist everywhere else that a generalist is meant to be viable.
This is the most insulting thread in the entire forums.
Here is what you sound like
“So what if if they did massive nerfs to the weakest class in the game and killed all of our builds while only adding tidbits here and there, stop being cry babies and be pro like me and only play PvP/WvWvW with this cookie cutter build that is even more cookie cutter because you no longer have a pet choice’.
Couldn’t have said it any better.
And they did this crap all the time in the first game too… Kill off all the semi-viable RP’ers builds, when trying to kill one Meta build they thought was 2-STRONK. …but <spooiler alert> == really wasn’t. :\ …yeah, it rarely ever worked.
Don’t make excuses for them, plz, just b/c you wanna sound more 1337 than you really are
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Skill splits.
We needed them…
A Dev team of 1-1/2 “balancers” regularly delivered those skill splits on a game with 1000 different skills only a couple years ago. Guess which game that was…
That’s right, it was Guild Wars. I could run Crescents bows, alongside a Hornbow, alongside a Flatbow and it never hurt anyone else in PvE… Did Assassin critbow get really nerfed there? No, Critscythe did b/c it was the real DealBreaker. But it also got BUFFED in the same update and given immunity to Blindness and “missing”. …just for PvE’s sake
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Everyone wants players who have already done it
Wait… wut?? I don’t …. it wasn’t even working a few hours ago so it’s not like there was a long list of ppl who even fit under that category. Is this for real?
Reef drake are OP …. the ones in Southsun I mean. One of them ticked off 10 stacks of whatever the hell “Used Retreat” means for almost 2k ea. on me… instantly killed my Guardian. Wonder if there’s any exploits to make the Pet ones do that to targets? 0_o
LA was my favorite capital in Gw1
Now it’s my least favorite…
+2 for guardian. I mained Ranger in Beta, immediately switched to Guardian on release. Was the best move I ever made in the long run. I would have been extremely screwed over and no where near the point (& gear) I’m at right now if I hadn’t.
/e * wipes a tear away *
riiiiight….condition damage …on your longbow…. and excuse me while I act surprised you main longbow and think things are dying fast now…
I think your conclusion should be that RNG is still at play, even if you buff MF. Your sample size is WAY to small to say anything about DR relation to MF.
Tired of seeing sample size scapegoating all the time. Give it a rest please.
There’s an obvious pattern. There’s ALWAYS been an obvious pattern. And there actually used to be a time when the Devs were honest and forthcoming about those patterns and let out info on how the DR actually worked…
Yeah, and I’m glad. Any food over 1 silver is too expensive, and there are some foods (the ones I wanted to use, but had to resort to lower level versions of just because of prices) running at ridiculous rates like 10 silver each.
That’s just called inflation.
Most things have been experiencing it ever since COF became the meta farm
Methinks someone successfuuly trolled a LOT of ppl, very Quickly…
Or atleast overexaggerated the salvage rate, lol
wait, so he called it disenchanting? And did he really misspell it as well??
And this is why I only run my ranger in a dungeon if it is with friends/guildies. Because I know they are going to be carrying me to some degree and I know they have the skill to do it. Although, when another guildie or friend brings a ranger with a LB and a bear I just facepalm.
Truth.
…even when I’m the one carrying a really mediocre team, there’s this constant thought of “Y’know, an another class, I wouldn’t even need to dodge half this crap to Tank the boss, and I wouldn’t need these people to help DPS it down either”.
The Pet is the worst part… having to do this constant F1F3F1 Yo-Yo just to keep it alive but still doing DPS. Good grief what were they thinking? Ohhh, look at all these awesome micro skills! … meanwhile some nub in Zerkers is doing MORE dps when he’s downed half the time spamming 1111111 11111111 111111 1111111 11111
PVP skill splits. There’s a Reason GW1 had them (it was the dungeons)
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Why do people hate so much on poeple farming cof?
Same reason smart yet conservative people hate the Government just printing endless amounts of money to “pay debt” instead of “budgeting” expenditures carefully. It just makes everything COST MORE for the rest of us. Very little of that money is actually goldsinked. It stays in the system for a long time when it just goes straight into the TPost for junk like legendary components & gem trade
There has been no appreciable inflation since January.
Please post the source & considerations in your CPI’ing, thanks…
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This thread delivers.
like a UPS truck crashing into your porch
going back to COF. No point in doing something hard …
Ohhhh this is good. Good thread. yep heh heh… and what a perfect specimen too
living world teams will be doing work on our permanent dungeons
Alright, just as long as this is the focus. You guys already know most of us Gw1 Vets are patient as long as you give us reasons to remain patient. Take your time if you have to, whatever it takes to get it right …
But please. … Please don’t be making unnecessary changes to content that already works fine. Especially stuff that just pads out or makes a more circuitous exercise of content that was already working fine. COF is an example of something that’s NOT WORKING “right” … You’ve got all these speedclear n00bs telling every other class to GT*O and don’t play with them unless they’re running 1 single abusive build. Go ahead and change that in a hurry. But DON’T, please please don’t change the ones that are working right now… like Honor of Waves, or P1/P3 of SE, or low level Fractals, or Most of the paths in Arah (like you just did in Today’s patch… WHY exactly????).
Any changes to these dungeons with already horrible Reward vs. Time inputs should only be to make the longer paths Shorter. Not make the “shortest” paths as long as the already over-long Jotun Arah path. Please… I’m begging you. All that does is make people NOT want to run those paths, it won’t matter what rewards you put in. Pugs can’t handle more than about 75 minutes of failing Content before they quit for good. This has been well documented throughout the gaming industry. Please please acknowledge it. :\
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Just to name a few of the things left hanging. …
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There are also hints that the Mursaat is behind certain stuff happening in the area around Divinity’s Reach.
Also lots of reference’s to Mursaat up in the Vizier’s tower (though it’s understandable if most people couldn’t get up there… I couldn’t find any "pedestrian’ route to it). …References you wouldn’t have expected from GW1 b/c it’s apparent there was some kind of obsession with them that really makes no sense unless it was some kerfuffle around the Bloodstones themselves that was the catalyst for Orr being dragged into the last Guild War.
It’s really convoluting, especially since there’s no direct lore anywhere between the Margos & the Mursaat (not even in Madness of Prophecy which goes really deep), only this ancient connection to Zhaitan which predates the first Cataclysm & Lord Jadoth (the first human to be given “Magic”) … but it’s also more Fertile lore potential than what we’ve been getting lately.
The only connection I can see here… (and it’s reaching) …is that the first masters of Magic and the only ones to retain it along with numbers great enough to be relevant, are the Forgotten & Mursaat. And at the heart of that connection, is humans themselves. …the only beings in the world who seem capable of ascending to Godhood. If Humans keep defeating the Elder Dragons, then who’s going to be seen by the other races as the bigger threat??
So does this mean we’ll “Have a Dungeon team” once again?
Or does it just mean that all requests for Dungeon changes will have to be cumbersome-ly forwarded through the Mods to the current Living story team and no interaction in between will continue to be the status quo?
…another worth mentioning, is that other AI, mostly Champs Legends, maybe even silver elites… actually seem to do BONUS damage to our Pets. I can regularly get overwhelmed by certain mobs all spamming their Burst openers on my Vit/Tough Ranger while my Wolf seems to be able to withstand them longer. But against Higher Rank mobs… it seems like the opposite situation where even my Polar Bear gets 2-shotted while it takes atleast 3 of their biggest hits to put any hurt on me.
If I could figure out a clean way of testing this, I’d document it with a Video :p
Must be starting a trend here, I have a (Ranger) guild with only one member.
Good luck with that !
…especially after saying: "We do not “waste” our time with other classes. "
A themed guild is one thing… A SPITE guild is another entirely.
If this had just been a Dungeon guild for Rangers, I would have considered joining it and running some events. But this is just asking for failure & jilted TL;DR’ing. You don’t start a guild this way, you start it from grass roots IN SIDE THE THE GAME with good people that other people naturally gravitate towards…
I repeat:
Whenever there’s a hoax or scams, Anet always alerts the public immediatley. They always did on the Wiki & Guru anyway back when that was our primary links with them.
How is that useless info when compared to your pure speculation thread?
You’re not even supposed to be MAKING wild speculation threads here.
Read the gods kitten ed TOS next time plz
Might Stacking is one of those things that could just be false hope…. IE: so many Corruption skill spam mobs & adding even more in the future that strip Boons all the time just like they did in GW1. If you hated how often chilblains was spammed EVERYWHERE YOU WENT, give me a hell NO!….
Because I would rather not sit around for a month with 0 damage out put hoping that Anet finally sees what everybody can see right now.
It’s usually 4-6 months… or even 4-6 years if you ask GW1 Elementalists, lol…
Also, we don’t need pet AI changes… those would take too long. We just need instant “Go-To” functionality for NPC’s in general. (would make MM necs semi-viable too).
And several classes… Ranger, Engineer, Necro, maybe even Ele… all need their tow-line skills or pets(S&R) to be able target & pull Downed & Defeated allies up to 30ft OUT FROM UNDER the stupid Endless-HPbar Champions & Legends. This applies to WvW as well where the downed state is a complete joke in all these 1-shot AOE situations (or Champ Risen Spiders) and even us bubble Guardians with max Healing have trouble bringing people back from it while under siege.
This is some really easy low hanging PvE skill split stuff here that they could do TOMORROW without breaking anything like the AI tweaking usually does.
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Some of you had the composure to not freak out and consider these might actually be fake, it would seem strange for arenanet not to say so though but going through them again I have to say it seems outlandish for it to be real
Why’d you even make this thread???
Your pure speculation is worse than anything in these notes.
Whenever there’s a hoax or scams, Anet always alerts the public immediatley. They always did on the Wiki & Guru anyway back when that was our primary links with them.
I find it funny how the ranger is even being considered a faceroll class when the very build in question thats a result of these pet dmg nerfs is a condition high regen BM build unto which is based around breaking down the person slowly and not facerolling anybody…
Well yeah, that’s what I was saying. …the * implied * changes nerf many of our Micromanagement & Positional “skill”-shots and just make the class even dumber than it already was :p …they’re going in the wrong direction entirely. This won’t end well. …just like anytime they’d nerf the more complex “S”-way’s or bunnways & then a much more degenerate no-skill mashfest would just pop up in its place.
It’s almost like they only play sPvP, & only certain classes at that (which was NEVER melee/beast ranger) and only nerf the things they got mad at b/c they didn’t understand how it kept beating them… (durrr… 3/4s of your GVG team should always be Warriors & Monks… no Kiting, no soloing lord b/c our AI sucks, FINAL DESTINATION)
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lol … the only thing storymodes gate you from is being the guy who starts the Explorable in which case: suck it up buttercup!
In Gw1, we had entire REGIONS blocked behind those endless cutscenes & missions.
If I had to hear KossMoanie’s mushiness one more time, or even SEE gwen talking & doing anything besides being my groups BIP kitten (+12 fastcasted BloodRit… good stuff!) … then I was gonna fall into the depths of madness too…
lol…
& yeah rly… adds are supposed to make a fight EASIER by giving you something to Rally off of :p …lack of adds is one of the reasons most newb PvE’ers fail Lupi so hard
I thought AC was easier now :p
tho can’t find any groups that want to do Ghost Eater either…
…but I hated doing it b/c it was such a BORING fight… (& the Asc ghosts were bugged)
but yeah, it does sound like they’re “moving on”. And I don’t want to be that guy, but let’s look at the current trend: they do too much changes to the other two bosses that were previously atleast somewhat interesting encounters, instead of just fixing the bugs and gimmicks everyone really wanted addressed… Chests still pop GARBAGE and everyone still skips Kohler. Champs in general still don’t drop anything worthwhile, neither do trash mobs. (this applies to open world events too). ….you can claim all you want that they listened to the community, but it doesn’t seem like they actually did. So it’s no mystery why things didn’t improve and why the Trend of them just making dungeons less favorable will continue no matter how many ‘New’ or ‘Permanent’ ones they introduce.
It’s almost like they don’t have anyone left on their team who understood why FOW was fun, or why people still did Sorrow’s & TheDeep long after the skins from it lost relevance
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Threads like these show exactly why none of the other classes feel sorry anytime you guys get nerfs. You guys just don’t understand how DPS is a team function. There’s more to it than just who popped the biggest number on some trash boss.
I think you’re trolling or something. We start off with 5 character slots. Who scraps a main with that much bling just b/c some other flavor of the month class carries your team a bit better?? Playing for ALL the wrong reasons then buddy. Better uninstall completely instead just to be on the safe side!
Best way to dungeon: with goofy friends you’ve had for a while, preferably while drunk so there’s no pressure and everyone just laughs it off if you faceplant. Some of the best PvP games and close knit servers also operated like this (really miss those unreal & teamfortress servers these days…)
Anyone else find the original post in the latest thread mentioning dungeons… a bit odd?
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/lwd/Future-of-living-story-and-Events/first#post2264469
I’m not saying plant…but timing and response time together struck me as just…odd.
Either way, my take away from it is don’t expect any of the fixes we keep asking for.
… just expect more treadmills and experiments into treadmilling (or w/e their raids are)
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Just died to one on those last night. Wasn’t multiple hits, was just:
“Unknown Exploded” … for all of my Hitpoints on the outside of Lyssa’s Temple
Did not have aggro or damage from anything else…. very strange
15000 hitpoints, Heal spec’d Guardian. If they were enough to get me every path in every dungeon in the game while usually being the last man standing, then it should be enough for this stupid Zerg event.
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North Shiv Peaks… just capped @ 6:55 P.S.T. (will close @ 8:25?)
This is old but it will probably still help you. Path 4 is pretty easy after all of the nerfs.
Easy enough that I could change from my “Monk” to my Ranger for the DPS part?
I’ve been meaning to get this out of the way, but I’ve always avoided it b/c it’s just not in my budget or interest to make a secondary set of Exo’s & “Furnace” build for my Guar. (it’s a long term goal, but right now I just don’t have the time/space).
My only other option… is a DPS focused Necro I’m building but that’ll take a week
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with some kitten stat combination, and no tokens?
Depends... are we talking about ++Vitality/+Prec/+Tough? If so then count me in.
I’m so tired of the most common combos ALWAYS being ++Power, or ++Condition.
++Power never should have been an option to begin with b/c it’s lead to this Zerker crud
And ++Condition is a joke in Dungeons that Anet STILL hasn’t fixed even though this ENTIRE BALANCE UPDATE claimed they were focusing on fixing conditions/traits!
It doesn’t take an entire YEAR to fix such an obvious oversight, good lawrd...
They were already… they just weren’t the GOOD kind that ppl actually want for Temples/Dungeons
I just can’t play any other profession….
well… everyone who says something like this is GOING to have problems
And this is why no one should get too comfortable with ‘Meta’ builds either.
A bunch of lifesteal & dagger rangers in GW1 got too comfortable with their cheese and then all of us in PvE payed for it later b/c it just so happened to be just viable enough there as well, that Anet didn’t think they had to give us anything back. Especially since they never really actually toned down splinter barrage.
I didn’t even run Bow for damage in the first game, I ran it for generating Adren and interrupts. Now all we need is access to Hammer, and a few less stacks of Unshakable on the big mobs, and I could see mine going places (I don’t need a shortbow for DPS when I’ve already got Greatsword).
The other thing is: We really need Anet to consider giving us more access to Quickness when our pets are set to passive. Or pets that support us instead of rushing into Melee themselves. … in GW1, our Rit/Nec heroes WERE our support pets and we could do some really crazy crap with them when we micromanaged the heck out of them… We need that skill index back. Not this ‘hurrdurr lets make ranger even more facerolley’ like the leaked notes suggest
No thank you. The difficulty is just fine for me.
There is a simple way to make “easy” content more challenging. Take off your exotics and accessories. Use builds that you haven’t “min/maxed”. Use armor/skills that are appropriate for the level area you are playing in.
or just play Engineer/Ranger in the dungeon, lol.
(assuming you don’t get kicked automatically)
Darkfall Unholy Wars.
surprise surprise
anything with “dark” in the title is always going to be stupid tho.
(unless it was followed by camelot)
That doesn’t let Anet off the hook though.
Even their Lore and Art has been taking a sharp detour off into LaLa land lantely.
They need to get back on track, get ppl playing together instead of merely farming together, get their kitten skills Split up, and quit doing this Living Salesly bs.
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^Well… Medium actually gets off easy there. Trenchcoats aren’t THAT bad.
Play 80 levels of male Heavy and see where that leads…. hope ya like Skirts!
Makes me think of bigO for some reason 0_o