Guild Wars 2

LieutenantGoogle.7326:

mulch.2586:

LieutenantGoogle.7326:

nachtnebel.9168:

Well, the tooltip clearly states that it’s a unique item so you knew if before you bought the second one.

There is nothing in the game that says anything about the features of unique items.

Actually:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Unique

That page was only made 2 days ago the time period for such information to spread is unbelievably small, and its not even something that is even made widely knowledgable unless people actively search for the term.

If the game itself said “ONLY 1 PER CHARACTER” then that would’ve worked a billion times better.

I don’t understand why Anet would put such a silly trait like “Unique” for such an important property.

I knew exactly what it meant when I first saw it. Seems pretty straight forward to me.

Maybe there isn’t if you’re running at a lower resolution. Most likely the character select area is a set fixed width for this reason.

There are MUCH MUCH bigger problems this this one… sorry.

Prinny.4653:

I’ve noticed that the amount of players on higher maps have decreased to the point that anywhere from 50%-90% of points on the maps are constantly contested making it impossible in many cases for a solo player to complete maps.

Welcome to player driven content at it’s prime! If you weren’t with the opening rush crowd, you’re literally left behind.

When I was level 60 on my Ranger I felt like I was level 80. Now that I’m level 80 with max gear I feel like I’m level 60. :/

redhare.9210:

I have just recently hit 80. I find your post great. There is still plenty to do. i have only 175 or so hearts completed. Between that and all the other dungeons and exp modes i still have months of content. The best part is I am not paying so if i get bored i just need a break and come back in a couple of days.

But once you have all that completed then what? There is nothing. For the most part you “beat the game” when you have 100% world completed. Only other option is to start another character and do it all over again but with different skills.

Sorry but this isn’t a game that will continue on for years like other MMOs. There has to be some sort of end game content else it’s just like your normal $60 console game that you can beat and will never play again.

Sol.4310:

I took good look at Xsorus.2507, video over and over again the projectile missed its target and then says Obstructed, makes me think maybe Anet has designed ranged to say Obstructed over Miss.

No, It’s a known problem…

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Creatures-and-Objects-Become-Obstructed-During-Combat/first#post503855

dybryd.1358:

Guys, this is “player actions having an effect on the world” just like in the manifesto. This is them keeping their promise.

Not bug. Feature.

Yes but if you ever played other MMOs such as WoW, as time goes on areas become deserted. It WILL happen here and soon (already started) so few people will be going to these zones that “player actions having an effect on the world” will turn into a negative thing for the game.

Scubahsteve.7493:

DigitalKirin.9714:

This is by design, though. If there aren’t players willing to fight to hold the land from the undead, the undead will reclaim it. It’s the dynamic in Dynamic Events.

You can always go and fight to uncontest the waypoint. You could even ask in /map for people to help out too. I’m sure there are people that want those waypoints to get uncontested too… maybe they just need a point person to rally around.

^^This right here. It was explained about Orr before the game launched.

And what about the events that you can’t solo? Champions will one shot most classes.

Please fix the current mountain of bugs before adding more to the game…

- Thanks.

It’s not a Range problem but a weapon problem. Mainly any bow.

Psychrome.9281:

i had read somewhere where terrain affects it negatively but i have also seen that it fails while sitting on a point in Spvp when i wasnt taking damage…so meh its broken and anyone who claims its not is either lucky as hell or not very observant

Terrain seems to be the go-to excuse for anything that can’t be explained anymore in this game.

I won’t go without this if I’m doing PvE with my crit build. It’s very nice however can get you in trouble in places like the Cursed Shore. I’ve had arrows go though my target and hit a random mob behind that was minding it’s own business and pissed it off. I’ve pulled a lot of extra trash that wasn’t needed.

Keep in mind that it’s limited to 3 targets max/arrow.

It does in fact revive your pet and makes it run to you and it will slowly heal you. The heal is so small that if you take any damage it’s not even noticed. This leads people to believe it’s broken. It puts your own heal on cooldown which is BS. I think it’s meant for you to use your attack ability while the pet heals you. Yes it’s a POOR system and is for the most part useless.

Also if you have some bear, lizard or dog licking your wounds, wouldn’t that kill you faster from the infection it would bring? LOL

PearlGore.7419:

I said I could handle it, am I going to eat my words? I have reached 60 and I feel so useless in WvWvW. I Can’t even hit a guard standing on a wall from almost any angle or spot! Everything gets obscructed or the target is invicible

Invicible – This is because the NPC is unable to find a path to you and attack you. This is working normal. Even WoW gets this.

Obscructed on the other hand. If the target is in clear line of sight and you’re getting this then it’s the bug. ANet has already acknowledged this as a bug yet has done nothing to fix it even though it has been occurring since day one of release. I’ve heard that all ranged classes/skills experience this but I’m not 100% sure. I personally believe if it was all classes then it would have been fixed so that the Warrior’s range attacks work correctly.

Last, even though your level and gear is bumped up to level 80, you’re still at a slight disadvantage because you don’t have all your trait points and skills unlocked.

gadenp.7586:

1. Who here, still come to forums but play the game much less?

I visit the forums daily, mainly after I finish my round of news websites in the morning after getting to work. I like to see what’s currently going on in the game.

gadenp.7586:

2. When did you start playing less?

• When the Ranger’s Short Bow skill Crossfire was nerfed and covered up with the excuse of “animation fix” while other REAL animation problems remain, primarily the 1-handed sword #1 skill for Rangers.

gadenp.7586:

3. Why / What caused the decline in time spent?

• See #2.
• The very slow response to bug fixes. Mainly with dungeons.
• The poorly designed way of getting into dungeons with a party.
• No way to ever queue up for WvW as a party. So SOO hard to PvP with friends.
• Last but not least, HORRIBLE PUBLIC RELATIONS! Mainly on the forums. I don’t always need to hear directly from the Devs but at least have some middle person that holds a meeting with the devs 1-2 times a week to relay our concerns back and forth. Devs can focus more on fixing problem while the mediator will reply back to us. But NOOO we’re left in the dark 95% of the time.

douceline.2741:

krojack.4920:

stof.9341:

Try that : http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stun_break

That list makes me laugh. 2 abilities for a Ranger vs. 4+ for every other class. LOL @ 6 for a Thief.

I assume that’s because Thieves are meant to be up close and dirty with daggers/swords, whereas Rangers are meant to be primarily ranged and out of the way of most CC stuff. Of course, moot point when you’re a solo ranger!

Also when a Rangers best DPS weapon is a 1-handed sword that locks you in place with it’s animation preventing quick dodging or just moving around a little. Also range attacks from a bow will miss a target that simply steps left and right. The further away the easier for the arrows to miss you. You don’t even have to dodge, just strafe left and right. Arrows won’t stay locked on the target and follow it.

stof.9341:

Try that : http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stun_break

That list makes me laugh. 2 abilities for a Ranger vs. 4+ for every other class. LOL @ 6 for a Thief.

VOLKON.1290:

Knockdowns can be a pita, that’s for sure. However we also have a dodge mechanic now that should be used to help avoid those. Most PvE creatures have a pretty obvious tell before the big attacks… watch for those and you should be fine.

Unless that creature/boss is nothing but a pure ball of light due to the amount of people attacking it.

Jatari Thundercloud.3794:

travathian.3829:

plan if a server just totally went MIA and didn’t even bother with any of the events. Would something special have occurred? If there really is only one outcome, then you aren’t ‘allowing’ me to impact the world, I am just along for the ride.

I agree and yes a great analogy and a great question.. Do we really impact the world ??

I miss the Aslan status in Lions Arch. I wonder it it will be rebuilt. =)

Columba.9730:

critickitten.1498:

….exaggerating much? The Amazon rating is still pretty good despite the pathetic attempts to review-bomb it.

And frankly, basing your purchases on user reviews these days is a questionable decision, since most people are very bad at giving even remotely objective reviews of anything.

who cares? enough people will read it and be affected. that’s all we need to do. YOu can no longer get away with treating customers like this, shoving things down their throat. Social media makes these stories spread like wild fire. Viva la revolution!

^^^

When I look at Amazon.com reviews, I will almost NEVER even consider anything that has less than 4 full stars. Also the first thing I go for are the bad reviews. I rarely read the good ones. I know how most items I’m going to buy should work. I want to see what failed.

Aeri.5738:

I think ANet should show some respect towards the players!

Amen!

I was cool and level headed up to the point they blind sided us with the Crossfire nerf aka BUG FIX. After that I lose all respect for what they do. They can regain it back if their so called Ranger fixes are worth it. I’m not holding my breath though.

Durzlla.6295:

Nhalx.9735:

I faceroll everytime i get 25 bleed stacks / fire / poison on PvE content.
Not to mention your pet does like damage aswell =X
I cant even remotely think of a class that can get to 25 stacks so very often as a ranger.

Isn’t the 25 stacks pretty much in like 5 seconds too? I know condition rangers are just horrifying if they go with the build I’m thinking of….

Condition builds are nice for solo but if you want to use that as a PvE dungeon/boss killer then it can be useless due to the 25 stack limit. If you have other classes that also stacks lots of bleeds then either you’re getting cheated or they are. It varies on group make up though. This is why I prefer the crit builds myself.

Dware.4259:

I think its hilarious i got “infracted” for making this thread but its still up, lol

People get infracted for stupid reasons, mainly those that point out flaws in the game. ANet (or the mods) can’t take criticism, constructive or not. If you praise some part of the game you will get a dev posting a big fat THANK YOU though.

Gunmetal.3824:

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Basically I feel Anet took a step backwards with pets in GW2. The original pet mechanics hit the sweet spot.

So does a lot of the community. Many don’t even feel GW2 was ready for release yet. I think another 6-8 months of testing and debugging would have been best. Seems the new trend now days. Always releasing games just a few months to soon.

Hateborne.7942:

It’s not as fast as WoW, but put in some effort. :-P

-Hate

I found it to be faster. I was able to be max geared (except for the lame legendary bows) MUCH faster then in WoW. Take WoW and convert all raids into 5-man dungeons and you have this games gearing method.

On top of that, you don’t even have to do dungeons. You can get almost the exact same gear by crafting it. Crafted gear has 2 less status bonus. I crafted my exotic weapons and armor within a few days of maxing out Huntsman and Leatherworking. Now I’m super bored and don’t know what to do with myself.

Edit: typos…

Waffler.1257:

I use them to vomit on people I kill in WvW.

I’m gonna be laughing all day now.. Thanks for this.

It’s useless now…

My two cents.

1. Agree, don’t do it during a one time event. I even felt a little embarrassed about giving out some of my keys. The buggy events were bad.

2. Make it a little longer then three days, more like a week OR the 3 days starts from the time they create their first character. One of my friends had trouble getting the download to work. I ended up sending them my Gw2.exe and that worked but by the time they got the download done the trial was over. GREAT, lots of wasted time there. The other friend just didn’t have a lot of weekend time but has more time during the week. Another wasted one sadly.

Phasing is nice in it’s place but I wouldn’t like this. What if you completed the event then went back with a friend who didn’t complete it? That was the problem with WoW.

Also I wouldn’t put that level of programming on the shoulders of devs that are still struggling with dynamic event bugs or “obstruction” bugs. =)

I myself don’t have a FPS problem however in big battles there are so many magic effects that I can’t even see what’s going on. I often lose my mouse pointer in the mess. That’s my problem.

So because you’re unable to also do what they do or chose not to, you want it to be locked down because you feel cheated in some way?

This is how you play the market. It’s one of the best ways in this game to make money.

Surbrus.6942:

What they should have done was instance the event. Make hundreds of instances, max of like 20-30 people or so

That’s sorta what the Overflow is. After so many players are in one it create another overflow and starts adding people to that.

Lopez.7369:

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Third phase was plagued with lag and culling issues, and reinforcement portions go on for way, way too long.

I was about to just quit at the reinforcements part. I thought it was bugged for a while. It just dragged on FAR to long, it wasn’t even fun anymore.

Phy.2913:

What went wrong is that 40+ people run up a ramp, die, THEN see the champ and 9 vets standing ontop of them.

This.

The servers can’t handle these events. We have experienced this since day one with Claw of Jormag yet haven’t seen it addressed.

During this last event I was lagging so bad at one point I couldn’t even use most of my abilities. I would die because my heal would sit there TRYING to go off then just give up and fail. I would have to try 5+ times and prey I didn’t die before the heal went off.

Nar.8327:

Columba.9730:

Nar.8327:

Columba.9730:

are these things tradable – the essences?

Nope. Pure design genius, right there.

Swell. So to get the superior back items (much much better than current exotics), I must grind dungeons. man, this sucks.

Not only grind, you must grind AND get lucky with the RNG.

It’s Vasharti all over again. Except this time, there’s no way to get around it with loot rights.

What about when the dungeon DR kicks in? Or did they finally admit that was a stupid idea and dump it.

I logged in last night to do some of these only to see the event popup on my mini map but nothing going on. Lots of players just standing around and talk in /map about it being bugged out. I was pretty disappointed. One of a kind events that you can’t even do because they are broken. I waited around for a while then gave up and logged out.

I’m starting to feel a little embarrassed about giving my three free trials to some friends now.

I’ve personally never had this happen nor heard of it happening before so either it’s new in the the last patch or something with that armor he’s using.

Avatar.1923:

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go PvP or WvW after you have 100% map.
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And even after two weeks of that it becomes very boring. I LOVED WvW for a while but now it’s nothing but the same thing over and over.

It’s a key part of the class. Why would you level a Ranger and not use the pet? It just doesn’t add up.

Also begging to fix a problem by hiding it isn’t the answer. It needs to be fixed the correct way.

Same. I logged in, went to cursed shore for like 10 minutes. Got frustrated and bored. Logged out and went to another game.

Yes they should be tied. This is why fixing the pets should be one of, if not THE top priority for anet to fix. I’m personally against the idea of stowing your pet and having your over all damage increased. If this is what you want then change to an engineer or something.

JonPeters.5630:

Hi Anders, I’m totally not here so skip this post and read on…

We made the improvements we had time to test.

Has there ever been any talk about opening up a public test server that will also let the player base help test? Seems this would be by far the best way to test changes before they go live.

JonPeters.5630:

There are >500 skills in this game, 480 traits, and 2 designers working on this.

Jon

I’m a quick learner. I’ll take a crash course in game design and you can hire me at the current hourly rate I make at my current job.

TravisTrout.6803:

It has to be a bug because if I slot the “Trap Potency” trait, the tooltip reflects the 20% reduction but the actual cooldown is unaffected. Try it, you’ll see.

Has to be a bug. Please be a bug.

The tool-tips will be updated in 3 weeks. They didn’t have enough time to test the tool-tip changes with this patch.

Da Poolp.6809:

I hope this is just the first step for ranger fixes.

The two steps back, one step forward way of fixing them?

nldixon.8514:

Joey.3928:

Azel.4786:

Joey.3928:

nldixon.8514:

So… The change to traps, intentional or not, is a little surprising. That’s a pretty big kick in the baby maker for trap builds.

What happened to traps?

Cooldown nerfed to 30 secs across the board it seems.

Ooooh really? Fire trap was like 15 or something right? Interesting.

Yes. The cool down was doubled. I feel like this has to be a mistake. Not just the, “Oh, man. I really hope this is a mistake. This has to be a mistake!” way, but an actual accidental change in code somewhere.

But but.. they made the torch travel faster to compensate for the track cooldown increase! Also they want you to use the torch more and traps less!

Joey.3928:

You guys are all a bunch of whiners. I play ranger as my main and yes I was hoping for the changes we all were hoping for too. But you all are acting like a bunch of babies.

They probably didn’t have enough time to properly test the changes so they were left out of the build. It isn’t lack of listening on their part.

I mean, pre-launch Rangers were pretty nice then like a week before they broke them. They have had 2 1/2 months.

Maybe they should consider what other companies do. Open up a public test server and also allow the player base to test out changes. That’s the one and only way to get real test out of changes.

Bearzu Smash.5962:

I’d feel bad saying “I told you so”, but…

Sarlack.4096:

Seems like its only sPvP map/updates unless there’s more to it than the notes indicate…..still haven’t given up hope though =)

Yeah this is what I’m expecting. I really don’t expect any class fixes with this patch. Most of those are at the start of the week during normal patching time. It will more or less be a patch to activate the new content The Lost Shore. If it does have class fixes I’ll be surprised. Here’s to hoping I’m wrong though.

Edit: typos!

It would have been easier to list what’s not wrong with the pets if you ask me.

Jay.3284:

I plan not to approach this very optimistically. I feel like it’s going to be lackluster.

I’m with you here.. I’ve been burned in the past from several other game updates that I was excited about only to be a big let down. I would rather by shocked with awesome changes then be bummed.

This update will be the the make or break deal for my GW2 membership or whatever you want to call it seeing as it’s free to play.

TwwiX.4701:

Jay.3284:

krojack.4920:

This game really doesn’t have an aggro table. Mobs will be on one target and then randomly switch.

Actually it does have an aggro table, but like the rest of the game; it’s inconsistent

I guess, bugs are considered a feature in this game.

I laughed.

Yeah I have reached the point I just consider most of what I see and what happens are part of the game no matter how silly or broken it seems.