Guild Wars 2

, and then there’s nothing other than repeating stuff which you’ve already done.

And exactly how is this different to end game raiding in other MMO’s? Do you not see the irony in running the same raids over and over to get gear so you can stand around in major cities for months waiting for the next expansion that makes everything you did worthless?

It’s really easy. On the character select screen, lower left, “World Select”, go in, pick a server, and select transfer. 1-2 minutes later, you are playing. Nothing about your character changes, at all. Everything remains the same.

This is all that needs to be said.

For rangers, I am finding with the speed of shortbow autottack that is is actually wise to mouse click your intended target rather than tab target, although that does make for some very entertaining fights.

My name is Caelthras, I am a female Sylvari Ranger. I am 5’2", purple with green eyes. I enjoy long walks on the beach, going to the tavern , and aggroing any and all wildlife within my bows reach while I fight veteran monsters.

Well played, sir. Well played.

There is a lovely yellow and black picture on imgur about the carrot on a stick philosophy. I would love to link it, but it has naughty words. However, it describes my feelings beautifully, and if you really want to know how I and what seems like many people around me feel like when we play this game, go google that image and read it. You will understand the mindset of those who do not find gear progression grinds entertaining and despise the rush to 80 to hurry up and get to the end game mentality.

I was using shortbow/longbow, trying to use Arenajunkies pvp build to pve with. I open with the shortbow and apply all conditions and then swap to longbow to finish it. Though lately, aside from skill 2 and the AoE skill, I’m not that happy with longbow as I tend to kite alot and the slow rate of fire makes things a little more difficult if you are not facing your foe at all times.

There are so many reasons why I like this game, but exploration takes the cake. Whenever I stumble across some of the more tricky points of interest or harder jumping puzzles, this happens.

Pretty much. Any class can fill any role in one way or another. Even as counterintuitive as it seems, even light armor classes can tank via evasion tank and range tank abilities.

You know, I never thought about it. Having played SWTOR, I just assumed the pet managed its own skills for the most part.

IF that’s the case the Heart Questgiver there will transport you inside the den, then you go up into the back there and the skillpoint challenge is inside one of the cages.

Inside the Briarthorn Den?

The only way I would think would be to go back to the plant at the base of Morgan’s Spiral and try to pick up another piece to eat.

I thoguht that skill point was to take a consumable in your bags?

I’m a Sylvari Ranger and I don’t really have this issue or I do and I just don’t notice it. But I often kite and if my bear misses the mob initially eventually he will pick it up.

Probably a no brainer for the Rangers but your third downed skill, Lick Wounds, works if your pet was downed before you were.

I just changed my email address a few minutes ago. I had no issues logging in to the site, the forums or the game. =)

The advantage to joining the Vigil is knowing the answer is always to walk right up to your enemies face and blatantly bash it in.

After the last few expansions of the big MMO, I’m actually not interested in a gear treadmill labeled as end game progression. It is my hope future expansions focus more on explorative content and not the latest gear with larger stats that gets acquired by running the same dungeon over and over, know what I mean?

I’m not in any way pro so take it with a grain of salt, but i tend to think skirmishing is a trait that goes well with shortbow users. Sigil of the Hunt and Sigil of Stone are pretty good for keeping you mobile and adding a little toughness.

The only thing I could really suggest is a shortbow for ranged combat. It’s got a fast auto-attack rate and a quick escape ability that should get you safely out of range if you’re taking too much melee damage and essentially gives you an extra dodge ability.

I think the system is nice, it forces you to chose an optimal skill setup from a pool of available skills. Anyone who has played EvE understands this concept when fitting a ship, there are many ways you can do so, but how you fit it determines how effective you will be in any given situation and in teams gives the opportunity to build a wide array of synergy with others.

So yes, you only get to have 9 skills, but you chose what they are out of combat and you work with what you have once combat starts. I dunno if you can but if you can run away and drop combat then you should be able to swap weapons not already on your swap bar and change out utility skills. In my opinion, this system has merit and I for one embrace it.

PS as a Ranger I always swap my shortbow an longbow repeatedly in combat. I also swap my pets.

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DavidGX.1723:

Freedom of speech doesn’t apply to videogames.

freedom of speech applies to everything.

No it doesn’t. And if you don’t believe me, walk into your bosses office right now and tell him how you really feel…

Yeah, I thought so.