Guild Wars 2

Just a reminder: All the questions about “are you going to add x?” are pointless. The answer will always be “we will see” “maybe” “not on our agenda”

My Question:
Why does it seem that the ranger isn’t treated as equally as other professions like warrior or thief.

I was looking through the options menu but I couldn’t find the option to turn off all the GW1 music. Colin said that there will be an option for it after they added the GW1 music to the beta builds. Where is it?

yorick.1305:

I’ve never had a problem with it, I saw it as a ‘duty’ of/in the game to progress with something.

Treasure hunter in gw1 was a monster, but it sure gave the player a sense of achievement when you maxed it. It that respect it has it’s purpose.

It’s the same grind as in GW2 but people either haven’t played GW1 since release or they just want to sugarcoat it. If you look at GW1 since release it had one of the worst grinds I’ve seen in a pay2play (also includes monthly subgames) MMO.

Guild Wars 1 defines grind pretty good, imo.

Obsidian Armor for Ranger

And the non-transparent Eternal Blade

Not really a combination but all parts with abyss.

Valkyriez.6578:

Balance is subjective, and is t that high of a priority IMO because you can never please everyone nor count for skill gaps.

Ladder is coming: http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/guild-wars-2-getting-in-game-leaderboards/

I would expect the initial roll out pretty soon.

Why is stuff like this not posted by a dev in this forum?

It is a very smart move, once they fixed all the issues the game has now they can start building more content on it.

Again, at the end of the month.

First World problems

Someone already gave you the answer.

Rei.2610:

Ye, Abyss is overrated and everyone has it.
Plus it looks terrible on low settings without highlights.

I tend to use the other grays or really bright reds.

It looks on all settings horribe esp. on monocolored armors.

Which one do still work? I need a bundle that I can drop and pick to maintain a certain mobility.

Hey today I did the jormag claw’s event in frostgorge sound and I saw 2 guys standing the whole fight at the camping casting their healspells at cooldown. I tried to wispher them but only one of them was online. 3minutes after the fight the first guy walked to the chest and another 2minutes later the second guy walked there, I send him a provocative message something like “Come on bot, walk” he responded claiming that he was not a bot. He also said that he had to be afk so he turned on this macro that casted his healspell on cooldown. Is this a form of botting? I already reported him but I am still curious to know if it is.

Bloodstealer.5978:

kokiman.2364:

smekras.8203:

bad mechanics can be fixed. i know that i’m having a lot more fun playing my ranger than any of my other 7 chars

Well A.Net didn’t manage to do that in 8 years (GW1)

Well in fairness anyone who enjoys playing MMO’s tend to learn that balance is a never ending issue because as the games evolve so too does the need to rebalance things to accomadate playsyles, difficulty levels, challenge etc etc.. the list can go on and on.

Completely wrong, we are not talking about numbers we are talking about core mechanics. The pet mechanic was until the end not really good and I was predicting the same for GW2 and I was right. I mean I can imagine what kind of horrible work it is to get it right but A.Net still insited on making it THE coremechanic of the ranger.

Aegis.9724:

why would any sane person play an MMO on a console, given the choice? Masochism?

You could say the same about FPS on console.

Tom.6478:

Well if they do do a rebalance, I hope they tweek up the percieved weaker class, rather than tweeking down the percieved stronger class.

I’ve spent alot of time and energy on my 3 main toons. Don’t make me mad by weakening them.

I can live with the so called weaker classes being made better, but don’t dumb me down to them.

Heck, if you make the weaker better, I may make one of them my toon as well, and be happy about it.

I don’t get this logic. If everyone is on the same level everything should be fine, right? It doesn’t matter if that means that bad professions get better or “good” professions get dumbed down. If every profession is on one level it would be the best.

smekras.8203:

bad mechanics can be fixed. i know that i’m having a lot more fun playing my ranger than any of my other 7 chars

Well A.Net didn’t manage to do that in 8 years (GW1)

Angelus.1042:

kokiman.2364:

>86x cpu
>8gb ram
????

You didnt look at the specs or read what I wrote my friend.

X86 is a common term for PC architecture and so on blah blah lol

Its a 64 bit 8 core processor

Scroll down in the link Look at the specs

http://technabob.com/blog/2013/02/20/sony-ps4-specs-games-announced/

Ah okay thanks.

To your question:
Of cause it would be stupid to release GW2 for consoles.

Noone would ever be able to make is as good as on PC, for example placing AoE Skills: you cant be precise and fast at the same time with analogsticks.

>86x cpu
>8gb ram
????

Well sexy norn and human females are there with unique bikinis. Should be enough!

Rynn.1324:

Amos.8760:

Why do I feel like there is more to this story…

Even if the OP did something that justified kicking, doing so at the end of a dungeon is poor taste no matter how you look at it.

Nope it is actually one of the most satisfying things you can do to players who are just disrespectful. Especially when it comes to dungeon tactics if he autoattacks most of the time and yet still gets through the dungeon because the other 4 people compensate his skill he clearly didn’t earn the dungeon end reward. Next time he will try to do better and will earn the reward the right way.

Anwar.2018:

I’m getting too old for these games I guess, just spent hours trying to get the skill point and vista for Breached Wall, finally got the skill point and missed the last jump.

I’m worn out, I feel I wasted $60 Christmas and worse, wasted hours on a Saturday night. MMORPGs have been my favorite type of games for many years. But the stores have ruined them, probably something in there that lets you jump further.

My conclusion is that an overly difficult jumping quest is not fun..not even a little bit….it’s just frustrating …and if the quests are this hard at level 25, there’s no way I’ll be able to play to whatever top level is. (BTW did you guys just do something that cripples you if a mob sneezes on you?)

Well, whatever dev designed that…pat yourself on the back if your purpose was to drive away anyone without that good ol’ hardcore twitch. Guess you showed me. This kind of difficulty is why I don’t play FPS. Well, I’ll go play a RT strategy game…love those, all thinking, no jumping….and try this again if I upgrade my system, it may be my computer is getting old too.

It’s called a skill CHALLENGE.

This is the best you can do basically? Did you test other professions and in particular other profession combinations? Because all I see is the basic 4warrior 1 mesmer-way of doing it.

Firegoth.6427:

OP, is there anything I can do to convince you to stay?

Anything?

Agree, OP is there anything we as a community can do ? I don’t want to lose you, you were always the reason I logged into the game.

What’s the point of this thread? Do you want to let us know that you are going to buy shares from NCSoft or what do you mean with “I’m giving you more monies”? Do you think that you have somehow more “rights” if you wave with your wallet in front of A.Net?

Also: There is a Black Lion Subforum, you should use it.

And mistform finishers!11

I liked the old HoH system in GW1, we will never see similar to this systems anymore ;_;

So basically it is now: Jan small, Feb even smaller, March Massive? Maybe it will be March small, April Massive due to delays.

Deroy.2457:

Defiant and Unshakable are undoubtedly two mechanics that are terrible.
They encourage spamming of your abilities rather than timing them.

Even then there’s no point in interrupting and controlling enemy foes that are unshakable. Because every encounter is simply too easy and relies on the health of the enemy rather than interesting mechanics.

In solo situations yeah but in group situations, no.
If everyone just spams their CC skills you will never manage to time interrupts of boss skills.

Rhotsbin.8579:

Where were all these voices last November? Did you leave the game? Are you encouraging more poor decisions from Anet through buying gems?

I’m recently back from then. Happy to see that Ascended gear is now available through boring PvE checklist grinds, but it’s a baby step and, as has been pointed out here, still a problem.

Awww :’3

How do you want to obtain the gear without making it obsolete like exotics?

maddoctor.2738:

Konrad.9587:

tl;dr: ANet please implement gear inspect feature. Non-elitists, you will still be able to party with people like you, but you will no longer reduce the effectiveness of elitist runs with your casual builds.

Elitists can ask other elitists to join their group, there your problem is solved.

“Looking for 2 more elitists for dungeon run”… we already have posts like this.

We already have that “no noobs pls!!”

Why not just adding a small visual effect on MF gear? Like money dropping out of the pockets.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/players

You might wanna use this subforum for your questions. And you can simply switch between the weapons and look at your attack value in the hero menu.

Sovta.4719:

YES!!! We need this! If you think we don’t then you are noob. If someone took his time to learn to play and wants EFFICIENCY in dungeon he should not suffer by playing with noobs.

If someone wants efficiency in dungeons he won’t play with pugs

I guess because A.Net didn’t change it.

Pennry.9215:

kokiman.2364:

People seem to forget that they will implement more ways of getting ascended gear like for exampe: crafting or WvW(badges, I guess)

Like they added Laurels? Now we have two ways to get rings! Next they’ll add WvW vendor for earrings, amulets, and rings!

Exactly.

Forget about it at this level, care about your gear at level 80.

What should I use out of the following above?

Both, you know that you can switch weapons in the middle of the fight?

F. U. N

There is a song about it.

GS in WvW? Seems not like a good idea.

MrNobody.4357:

no, and i’d even like the numbers to be removed from the combat log and to replaced by onomatopoeic sound effects like “slash”, “kablab” ,“boom” ,“pew pew” and so on.

If some player really like numbers there is mathematics, or wow and its wonderful playerscore.

The combatlog doesn’t display anything usefull at all, only your own damage.

People seem to forget that they will implement more ways of getting ascended gear like for exampe: crafting or WvW(badges, I guess)

Gear No

Traits Yes. It makes it easier to share builds and to give other people advices.

TsukasaHiiragi.9730:

My guild for instance, we used to have 100+ members, now we’re lucky to ever reach 10 – 20 members online each day, only seem to get active when people sign in during special events.

That happens when people only join you to run dungeons instead of joining your guild because they like to socialize with you. That’s why small guilds won’t face any problems.

Chickens can even hurt you after you killed them! Fear the chickens!

Those special items are a perfect example how the enviromental weapons can change your playstyle on the fly. I love them.

>Which will directly finish off many guilds, and all the super guilds will soak up more players – don’t you see this as a problem?

No why should I? If the only thing my guild provides is doing content I’d rather do not want to be in this guild because it would be just a widespread “LFG” Channel.

Ninth Requiem.3250:

wintermute.4096:

Seriously, should we just give up about this or what? 5 months into release and still condition builds are entirely obsolete in dungens/fractals/bosses of any kind/organized group play.

Any condition build worth running is able to get >15 stacks of bleed continously by itself (and this is a very conservative estimation, should actually be for most cases), burning is always up anyway and poison does next to nothing. This invalidates quite a lot of build options, and it’s not like we had great build diversity do begin with…

Also : Conditions are awful against objects, making condition builds a huge liability for certain dungeon paths.

I’m in complete agreement : As things stand, condition-based builds just aren’t up to scratch in party-based PvE.

And by awful you mean completely useless they actually said that they are going to change that, but I am still waiting.

Seperate Bleedingstacks for each player would be everything I want.

Naw, I think it is fine that the monthies are fixed otherwise everyone would just select the easiest-to-achieve options.

No we won’t ………..