Guild Wars 2

Tragic Positive.9356:

P.S. @katz if you were the ranger – I’m glad I was wrong. That’s why I didn’t bet all 10 of my fingers.

yep. i was the shortbow using ranger in question. you have one finger left, use it wisely XD

it’s less about what you say, and more about how you say it. say “i’d bet my left kitten that the ranger sucked because all rangers seem to suck” makes all rangers, good and bad, kittened off. saying “i’m pleasantly surprised when i see a ranger that can beat me in PvP/WvW” seems nicer (heck if i know, but i haven’t kittened anyone off yet that i know of. lol) because it’s relative. a bad player can say “well how good are they?… maybe i can beat them…” and they don’t feel bad, and the few really good ranger players all nod knowingly and say “mmm, yup.”

o well. i’ma keep doing my thing. in fact, soon i’m gonna be even more obnoxious about it… i’m workin on the unicorn bow! lololol.

what chest IS that?i kinda like the feathers...

Tragic Positive.9356:

But on the other hand, regardless of how much people want to defend the ranger, I’d bet 9 out of my 10 fingers that the Ranger holding onto shortbow had literally no idea how a Ranger is played ...

while i know where you’re coming from.. (i’ve killed my fair share of rangers with absolutely no clue what they were doing... even ones running the latest "meta" in WvW and PvP) i’ve mained ranger since about a week after i started the game. i have 4 different rangers, each with a totally different build. i know the ins and outs and strengths and weaknesses of every ranger weapon, and for my main i have deliberately chosen that weapon set. this wasn’t one of those L2play times... it was just someone being an elitist kitten.

and no, it wasn’t a speedrun

i’m the ranger in question. i don’t run a meta build by any stretch of the imagination.
i primarily roam in WvW, so i was running a hybrid druid that i joke that i abuse the kitten out of ancient seeds. lots of stuns and knockbacks for lots of immobilzations and bleeds, GS swap for mobility, a block, damage, and another stun. we were in Thaumanova reactor, and we hadn’t even gotten to the boss. i stepped out of the first room that you zone into, fired a poison volley to get some poison going followed up by a concussion shot to root and bleed, then swapped and swooped. by the time the first group of mobs was dead, the guy was like "Why is our ranger using shortbow?" everyone else in the group was like "uhhhh..... so?" and i said "i’m hybrid. i have every weapon... i can swap to something else if it’s really that big a deal." someone else said "if you don’t like it, quit", so he quit. when we got to boss i swapped GS for LB. as STIHL said... we completed just fine.

awesome! this is what i got now...

this is how i’m using it right now...

is there an option (or can one be added) to have it auto-swap WvW maps without needing to have the "follow game character" checked?

i dunno about anyone else, but i’m downloading this the second i get home, and i’ve already posted it on my guild forum, and my server forum to spread the word.

randomguy.1283:

And why can’t we have both? You’re talking as if raids take away from these other parts of the game, and they do not.

please point out the exact post or phrase used to indicate proof of your point of view that STIHL is saying anything about raids taking away from other aspects of the game.

throwing my 2 cents in the pot here. raids should feel epic. amirite? old time EQ player here and it was an everyday occurrence to wrangle 50-100 people (in groups of 6… no fancy raid UI, and no voice coms at first) for a planes raid. that’s epic… on a grand scale. much more recently i played DDO… and while the group size for a raid was much smaller (max group size 12)… for the most part the raids themselves still had an epic feel to them… trouping through a multi-part maze where 2 of the first 4 phases could kill you if you didn’t complete them quickly enough… one of which was a guaranteed fail if you didn’t complete in time… followed by 2 rounds of fighting a balor? that’s still epic even with reduced group size. exploring a gigantic dwarven-made extraplaner bank vault that had an ongoing story woven into it replete with love, betrayals, doublecrosses, and forced teamwork to solve all the puzzles… followed by a fight with an ancient red dragon who liked her adventurers roasty toasty and covered in ketchup. that was epic.

now in GW2… the first time i ran TTT… taxiing in people until the map was full to bursting… sorting people by what job to do.. each head with a different mechanic, and needing teamwork and coordination to kill them all at nearly the same time… THAT was epic… my first time facing a dragon (i think it was Jormag)…so many people on my screen they literally bought my computer to a halt… dealing with all the mechanics… being told to “stand here” and getting the crash landing achievement… when i wasn’t expecting it and had no idea what was going to happen (i have some friends who are practical jokers… they raised me at least XD)…. that… was epic.

my first time running the raid didn’t feel as epic. its like 2 trial runs… like… if you can’t kill these two, don’t even bother to pass GO do not collect 200 dollars, please step your way out of the raid now. then the “boss”… no epic trek to find the boss… no puzzles… no minions to mow through first….its just “oh look… there’s a platform… with the boss… lets do this…” followed by “dodge… green…. dodge…. bounce….green…. dodge… green… bounce… dodge… green…” etc rinse repeat for 5 phases. i’m sorry, but no. no offense to the designers, but that’s not epic

was it a good idea to make a raid? apparently, because for some reason everyone wanted them even tho we already had some pretty epic encounters in game, they just weren’t labeled “raids”…was this a good implementation? IMHO not really. does having a raid that isn’t epic and is really nothing more than a skill-gate take anything away from the mechanics and enjoyment of other encounters of various types and difficulties in game? nope.

Pointless Timewaste (it’s a joke from the name of a character i had in another game) looking like she’s ready to fly away.

for the last couple weeks i’ve been experiencing frequent (several times per play session) "GW2 has experienced a fatal error" crashes. usually happens after hitting the loading screen several times, be it zoning from map to map a lot, or swapping characters a few times, or both... and the crashes frequently occur while on a loading screen. occasionally they will just hit randomly while i’m playing.

in addition... possibly related, possibly not... i have been experiencing screen freezes occasionally. this happens almost exclusively when i am in a high-load situation (WvW night massive fight or daily world boss kinda thing). i can’t remember my screen freezing when i was in a solo roaming type situation, but i’m sure it’s happened at least once or twice... only the screen freezes, my sound continues... and i noticed by trial and error that if i alt+ctrl+del and open task manager my screen will unfreeze once the task manager finishes loading (i thought i was going to have to cancel the task the first time it happened, but my screen unfroze before i could close down the gw2 client). the reason i say they >might< be related is because once the freezes start happening, i know the inevitable crash will be coming soon.

i did a client repair not that long ago... didn’t stop the issue. can anyone give me an idea where to start looking to hopefully fix this?

* 32 bit windows 10 (upgraded from Windows 7 recently, but this problem did not start happening immediately after the upgrade... it started a few months later)
* 5 year old AMD Phenom 2.4G quad core
* 4 Gigs RAM (mobo could hold more, but 32 bit client wouldn’t be able to see it, so no point)
* 1.5 year old Radeon R7 260 with 2 Gigs of it’s own onboard RAM

The Lethe.2953:

3. Make towers/structures relevant. The north towers are so far away from the keep there is almost no reason to bother with them. Perhaps make owning them open up a new route to attack the keep. No the barricades are not making it relevant.

oooh.. good point. i miss when the northern towers could treb garrison. actually gave me a good reason to go defend them or try to retake them..(or take them on an enemy border). now it’s just another dot on the map

another vote for Friday here.

i know it’s soulbound for a reason. that doesn’t mean that it’s not annoying and tedious and shouldn’t be changed.

on an unrelated note... i’m srsly LOLing here... don’t you guys realize they probably subcontracted these forums out and didn’t do the programming themselves?

and i’ve seen worse. DragonRealms official forum. fun old mud. horrible forum

back on topic... i do think that they should at least post links here if they have a significant posting on Reddit, like the recent AMA, so that people know it happened and where to find it.

* fix the BLs. WPs should be usable by whoever owns the keep. i can’t tell you how infuriating and pointless it is to have a WP i can’t use. desert BLs are far too large for how complex they are to transverse... compounded by the WP problem. Air keep in particular is a nightmare to navigate. fix the oasis event. i don’t mind a *little* PvE in my WvW, but the oasis event apparently lags the kitten out of some people (not me, but if it’s a problem, then it needs fixing)

* reward all styles of gameplay. adding in the PPK was a nice move. it lets people who primarily search for fights to add to the score. but PPT/PPK alone is NOT enough incentive to get and keep people to play WvW. scouts and defenders need some love... otherwise everyone only wants the k-train. i like the ideas others have mentioned about PvP style reward tracks, HoT map bonus style rewards, and WvW-unique skins and other items (and for the love of Dwayna, don’t make ugly skins)

* make proof of heroics account bound again.. or better yet, make them a currency and put them in the wallet. give me more things i can buy with them.

* auto loot

* i LOVE lioka qiao’s idea for off peak PPT balancing. see here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Your-top-5-priorities-for-WvW-Overhaul/5981537 an objective that hasn’t been touched in 6 hours because no one is awake really shouldn’t still be adding to the score anymore. really.

i also would like this to happen. i have been slowly painstakingly, painfully, working through each of my characters (so far gained druid twice, scrapper, tempest, and herald. working on reaper now) earning their elite specs with proofs of heroics... and in my case as i play on a T8 server, i don’t even have the luxury of running with a zerg most times. most of my playtime is solo camp flipping.

the one tiny positive is that i learn more how to play each class, but the interim where i have the elite half done... is painful and boring, and compared to playing my main, even as good as i get on each class, they aren’t my main, they don’t have gear as good as my main, they don’t have the hours put in that i have on my main... so i feel weak and inadequate.

oooo. good point. tying marked to stealth disruption would be a good combo

zhonnika.1784:

Your scouts shouldn’t be typing anything. They should be in TS/discord/whatever, giving verbal scouting reports. It’s much quicker, and a lot more accurate. The traps would be easily avoided, anyway. Commanders would have 1-2 people to get marked, the same way they do now with sentries.

not everyone uses voice coms. not everyone CAN use voice coms. do you not want a scout report from someone like my husband typed out if he sees the enemy simply because he is deaf and can’t use TS? or the young player who’s parents haven’t bought them a headset? or the guy who usually has a headset, but it broke and he hasn’t replaced it yet? or the person with a heavy accent or speech impediment? or… or… or… you get the idea.

voice is a valuable tool, but to use it ONLY excludes those who aren’t using it, for whatever reason.

that being said… this trick marker is an interesting idea.. it has potential to be useful.

ahh. i havn’t been keeping up. i wasn’t aware there was a technical restriction against reinstating the alpine BLs at this time. i think if some way to get around the BL faster was implemented that would help a lot. heck... it may have been unintended, but i thought the bugged WP locations inside the bottom 2 towers when the new maps first went live was pretty funny and a great way to get to the bottom of the map fast. lol

i don’t know if this will even be read by a dev, but here’s hoping…

regarding the new maps… i don’t mind new. the new maps are visually interesting and beautiful, and have some cool mechanics… the biggest problem with them in my mind is… they’re BIG. they’re far too large for how complex and difficult to get around they are. it is, for all intents and purposes, impossible to respond to a southern tower or camp being attacked unless you happen to already be in the area. this leads to a huge “why the kitten bother?” feeling about WvW. why bother responding to those swords, we’ll never get there in time anyway. air keep in particular is a nightmare. i could have run from the north camp to the south camp on the old alpine BLs in the time it takes to run up and down all the stairs and back and forth and across all the bridges trying to get to the gates to attack air keep. it’s beautiful, but unless i’m running with a coordinated group i avoid that whole side of the map like the plague.

waypoints. WHY can’t we use all 3 if we own the keeps like on the alpine BLs??? this decision baffles me…it doesn’t make sense. if i own the keep, i should own the waypoint… AND it exacerbates the previously mentioned problem of lack of being able to get around the map with some modicum of urgency. it’s kind of cool that the waypoints are available immediately, but if given a choice between waiting for them to construct and getting all 3, or getting them instantly and only getting “mine” (earth on home BL, air when we enter the right side of the enemy BL, and fire when we enter the left)…. i would take the former. in a heartbeat.

the oasis event. i see a lot of people complain about the lag this generates… unfortunately, i have no idea. it works fine for me, so i can’t speak to that problem… but if it is generating lag for many people (and not just 1 or 2 where it might be a problem on their end) then something is indeed wrong somewhere and this event needs to be looked into. that aside… i kind of like this event and the potential behind it… it allows a solo or small group to either more easily attack an enemy BL, or retake their own… and if the populations were more even and the event wasn’t lagging some people, there would be an opportunity for enemy combatants to meet in the oasis and fight over the power cores… trying to either preserve their hold on the BL, or control the skysplitter and race to take the towers. it has potential to add fun… if it were easier to get to those fights in the first place. this goes back to points 1 and 2.

personally, i think the best option is a bit of a compromise. return the alpine BLs at least for now… while you rework the desert BLs to be smaller or easier to get around… (or both). preserve the currently existing upgrade mechanics. if the oasis event can be made to work properly without lagging people, add it to the center of the alpine BL while the rework is being done (otherwise just plug in something that used to be there… either the 5 rings for the buff, or the quaggans. not really important which one). change waypoints (on all FOUR battlegrounds) to constructed after a certain number of dolyak shipments , but accessible to whoever owns the keep once done (the way SMC is now).

i think that would reduce the hemorrhage of WvW players departing the game and give time to implement whatever WvW rework is being planned.

add my name to the list of people who think this change was a stupid one.

lolwut? if you’re QQing because you have an incinerator and now you’re upset that people can get a blade that looks like it for a fraction of the cost... put your big boy britches and your glasses on... they look nothing alike, so quit cryin’.

it’s like buying a lotto ticket. sometimes you get diddly... sometimes you get the jackpot.

there’s plenty of people who say "i’ll never buy a lotto ticket... it’s not worth it, i never win..." and yet the powerball doesn’t get to 254 million all by itself...

and an hour later still no pearls... i’m getting plenty of T5 and T6 mats, tho... go me.

pirates specificially? i’ve killed a few... but not exclusively. i’ve been killing a little of everything... even the risen chicken at one point XD

i was hunting for all the love-themed stuff for the Dreamer collection… and one of them is a black pearl dropped from a risen in orr… i killed a whole lot of risen today, and didn’t see a single pearl. is there a specific place these drop? (i tried cursed shore and malchor’s leap) or is this bugged or something? or am i just unlucky?

Chaba.5410:

A Portrait of the Player as a WvW Regular

- Two accounts (actually I have three but only purchased HoT for these two).
- Twelve level 80s
- Two above 60 hero points
- Only one with 100% map completion
- 75% of toons under 20% map completion
- 5904 combined total gaming hours
- No Legendary
- No full sets of ascended gear
- Purchaser of gems with real cash
- 1892 combined WXP rank (677 and 1215 respectively)

How can you help me? Can I hire you to get the hero points for my toons?

not including my alt account because i didn’t purchase HoT for it:
-10 characters, all of them level 80.
-2770 hours played across all characters, most of that time spent in WvW
-my “main” character has 100% map, 1 legendary, and 4 pieces of ascended armor, all 4 of which came as loot, 3 of which came from level up chests in WvW. she has 207 Hero points.
-my secondary character has 48 Hero points and 19% map.
-the rest of my characters range from 15 completion all the way down to 1.
-ALL of my characters with the exception of my main were leveled with a combination of WvW, crafting, and later on tomes and +20 level scrolls.
-WvW rank 665 (i took almost a year break, so my rank is way lower than it would be if i had played straight through)
-i have bought hundreds of dollars worth of gems over the last 3 years, and bought the $100 xpack flavor.

hmmmm :-/

what the actual kitten?????

that’s freaking ridiculous. i was excited... and getting moreso every day... now... honestly my first knee jerk reaction was "well crap. wtf is this bs? Anet i want my 100 bucks back"

so... i rolled up a druid and went right into WvW on reset night... what the kitten was i thinking... haha. anyway

my first thought was to play staff/axe+torch. seemed meh. tried staff/sword+torch.... way too risky in a zerg environment. went to my go-to zerg ranger weapon... longbow... found out something amazing... the knockback from 3 skill counts as a launch... so it works with ancient seeds... this turned out to be an awesome and unexpected combo when i was picking off stragglers, and later in a havoc group situation. this leaves me with a dilemma.. i had planned to run my druid in full apothecary (and had already aquired said armor) but now i’m thinking that a balance between power and condi would be better... perhaps sinister or cele... for the playstyle i enjoy at least.

i had hoped that glyph of equality + ancient seeds would have been a good combo, but as others have said, the radius is small... it’s barely useful except at practically point blank range, which is not where i want to be when trying to CC a mass amount of people in wvw or creatures in pve... altho the stun on swap to staff trait is nice.

it was hard for me to notice green numbers in an extremely chaotic zerg (we were pretty badly outnumbered for many of our fights last night) so i can’t really speak about the healing ability... i’ll keep a closer eye on it tonight when i try it again... staff damage skills are... while underwhelming, not HORRIBLE... they could definitely be better. i agree staff 3 needs an evade, or an invuln while in transit (like mist form). i was enjoying using it as a travel skill, but the root if you don’t target an area at max range is annoying and potentially dangerous.

all in all... i like it... i don’t LOVE it... but i like it... could definitely use a bit more polish.

it doesn’t work for me. i hit alt and i get nothing

i wanted to see my name

i want this. i like this... anet make it so!

Narrrz.7532:

paintpixie.7398:

I think it’s because it’s the most “human looking” face option.
My personal favorite is the second one in the following image:
I like the big eyes.

same! my necro rocks this look, but with the headpiece that gives cat-eyes. She looks very alien, it’s lovely.

what headpiece gives cat-eyes? O.o

also… i chose the cactus spine face for my thief. i specifically wanted her to look badarse and mean. i went with a human-ish face on my druid-to-be (i don’t think it’s the popular face in question… might be, but i don’t think so…) … but then i gave her sexah shades… cuz.. yeah. /shades YEEEAAAAHHHHHHH!

i roam every day on my hybrid melee ranger. meh. *shrug*

*We Heal As One: Tuned the copied boons to use flat duration values per boon and apply boons to the ranger pet before copying boons back to the player. This skill will now only grant three stacks of might if that boon is copied.

well. that was short lived.... back to troll unguent for 3 of my 4 rangers i guess >.>

i’m not upset... i’ve played enough MMOs to realize crap happens. i am, however, weighing in to say i am one more person experiencing this issue. my husband on the same internet is DLing the patch next to me no problem. i, however, am getting 1kb for a second, then 0/0 and ’connection error detected, retrying’ but it doesn’t appear to actually retry anything... i have tried manually closing and reopening the client multiple times (even once killing it at the task manager), and no change as of yet.

how do i feel?

ummm.... >.> <.< >.>

i made a 4th ranger.

Katzklaw. my main. 2nd character ever. first to 80. first with an ascended item, only character with world completion and only with a legendary. usually run GS/sword+torch. Sinister armor. pets drakehound Marmaduke and wolf F E A R M E

Sniperoth. punny name with a look to match. full zerk pew pew. longbow/GS. pets jaguar Im With Stupid and wolf Im The Pretty One

Katz The Wanderer. character on alt account. full knight’s usually run GS/sword+horn. pets pink moa Lawn Ornament and wolf White Fang.

and most recent addition Sälvïä. Salvia (sage) is a well known medicinal plant. will be my druid when HoT comes out. full apothecary. still trying to nail down weapon set but currently using sword+torch/axe+dagger. will of course change when i can throw staff in there. current pets brown bear Yogi and wolf Cujo (will likely also change with HoT)

well... "clunky" seems to be the word of the day.

i’ll add my 2 cents for what it’s worth. staff feels slow and awkward for the most part... when staff for thief was announced, i envisioned an acrobatic staff using combatant whipping a staff around rapidly... like a bo staff (watch a good martial arts demo vid to see what i mean)... instead i got a character that looks like they’ve never held a staff in their lives swinging it like a hammer and spinning like a propeller it at random times.. it looks like someone tried to combine hammer with quarterstaff (fighting technique with bo staff and quarterstaff are completely different) and tossed in the bo staff spin for a dash of flavor.

the attacks are slow. they’re hard to aim... i felt like a LOT of my attacks were missing the mark. my damage was low... in short it was underwhelming. the spinning staff... i didn’t notice the fact that i wasn’t holding the staff, so that aspect didn’t bother me... i play a little more zoomed out so i can see everything around me, BUT... in my opinion, the staff spin shouldn’t be part of an auto attack chain... it’s distracting and, as i said before, hard to aim... i think it would work really well as a triggered attack.. maybe use the staff spin animation for the attack 4 instead of what is currently there.

staff is a very non-stealth fighting style... thieves are very squishy... staff needs more built in evade/blocks (think ranger GS with the built in evades/blocks)... even in the auto attack chain... i was taking a lot of damage trying to fight with staff... coupled with the low damage i wasn’t killing things fast enough to finish them off before they downed me in return.

the dodges.... my opinion on these is one big huge "meh". they sound AWESOME in theory, but currently... they are WAY too slow. i’m losing my (instant) dodge for something that has an activation delay... sometimes it felt like i waited a full second before the skill would go off... i WvW... a lot... this is a dealbreaker for me. any dodge replacement MUST be just as instant as the dodge it replaces... and just as aimable. if i’m strafeing left, and i hit my dodge button, i should instantly dash left, or do the spinning dagger lotus thingie... to the left...(i didn’t try the 3rd one yet). aim, especially on dash, was... less than predictable.

daredevil/staff thief has a lot of potential... but if it goes live as it is right now... i will not be using staff on my thief.

yes plz. i want my runes and sigils back

ooh yay! i have so many characters, hard to decide... my main first. i can always hope you’ll keep doing this and pay for another one.

my main has 2 looks.. if and when you get to me you can surprise me which one

Adean.3702:

…i have 2.7k power without any might stacks and with full might stacks i hit around 3.7k Power and i also have 2.2k armor

build plox

Shifty.4985:

Condi rangers > all other builds

just saying

indeed

in addition to my condi/regen ranger, i have a 2nd ranger... an all glass all zerker all damage pew pew power ranger. when i remember to eat my food and blow all my cooldowns i HAVE seen 12-14K damage on a rapid fire on a heavily armored opponent... and not an uplevel... i know the difference. no offense, but if yer only gettin 5K, yer doin it wrong.

my guild is going to run in WvW as a group tonight. maybe i’ll run that guy instead of the mesmer or ele i normally run and see if i can get any vids of my damage.

i eat power rangers for breakfast on my good old fashioned condi/regen ranger. just sayin’

srsly... i see another ranger on the field...my first thought is "FREE BAG!" and 9 times outta 10 i’m right. the 10th time, win loss or draw, i send em a tell saying it was a pleasure to fight a skilled ranger!

ahaha i know who this one is! that’s my guildie, Narwhal! such a good job!

i am totally interested in a slot if/when they re-open

i play with a controller through Pinnacle Game Profiler. it’s easier on my wrists. otherwise i’m prone to developing pain in my wrists and forearms which i don’t want to develop into carpal tunnel.
i have one of every character (and 3 rangers), all but the necro are 80. my keyboard and mouse still sit on the table right in front of me within easy reach... i handle ground targeting by taking one hand off my controller, putting it on my mouse, and dropping the target ring where i want it... i can move, spin, about face and fight just fine... WvW, sPvP, and and PvE no problems. and when i need to type... i put DOWN my controller,... and type... just like if you were using your mouse and keyboard, you would have to stop what you were doing (or have on autorun... the Pugmander’s curse!) take your hand off your mouse, and type... why is it so hard to believe i can set my controller down to do the same thing.

nope
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GS swoop, swap to sword, spin to face opponent and monarch’s leap, lightning reflexes, spin around again and monarch’s leap again before it times out, swap back to GS and a few seconds later swoop again.

covers an amazing amount of ground and few can catch up with that, but takes a little timing practice to pull it off correctly

i have 3 rangers, so my pet name list is long and sometimes hilarious. i always have a wolf. the fear is too dang useful. one wolf is named Fenrisulf, one is White Fang, and one is named Im The Pretty One.

my power/condi/toughness melee ranger (GS / sword+dagger) has a spider named Juvenile Delinquent (paired with Fenris), my all glass zerker pew pew power ranger (GS / LB) has a panther named Im With Stupid (paired with the pretty one XD), and my all knights gear melee ranger (GS / sword+horn) has a pink moa named Lawn Ornament (because i think it looks like a flamingo. lol)

i have in the past used Hedwig for a snowy owl, Lord Nagafen for a reef drake (cookie to anyone who gets the reference on THAT one), Murica for an eagle, Poe for a raven, Marmaduke on the krytan drakehound, Bruce or Jaws for a shark, Squishy for a jellyfish, Gojira for one of the ugly green drakes (forget which one.. marsh maybe?), and Fugly Lil Beast for the Charr starter devourer.