Guild Wars 2

I understand that the Anti-farming system is to keep gold farmer from doing their thing

LOL. If ONLY it was stopping them. In fact they are just getting worse. In the end it’s only hurting the real live players that are trying to farm crafting mats or something like that.

I’m finding that the mob respawn rates in the higher zones to be a bit to fast. Primarily in the southern zones of Mount Maelstrom and south into Orr (Orr being the worse of them). Just today in Orr I was running around and pulled 2 mobs, killed then only to have then respawn right as they died. This group did this 5 times in a row. I ended up giving up and running somewhere else. It just gets old when it happens this much. I feel it should be toned down a bit in these zones, mainly Orr.

Yes I was solo.
No I didn’t see any other players near by either.

I think the current fees are fine. Once you get some cash you don’t even think twice about the travel fees.

I’m rather frustrated over the lack of responses to the community concerns. A dev response with something along the line of “Working as intended” or “this is something we want to adjusted” or even “yes this is a bug and will get fixed” would be nice. But what are we getting? The cold shoulder and/or being left in the dark.

Llethander.3972:

krojack.4920:

Yvilthi.5413:

what annoys me the most is not the long grind in GW2 (have them all) but that these pets are completely BS…
The stats are not good compaired to the normal juvinile pets

They shouldn’t be any better then the other pets. They should only be pure cosmetic. If they were more powerful then the other pets then it would force people like myself to buy GW1 just to get the best pet for the best dps. I’m a little bummed I can’t get the white raven but I can live with that because it’s no different then the black one other then it’s color.

The problem has nothing to do with the HoM pets not being BETTER than the Juvenile pets. It has everything to do with the fact that the HoM pets are WORSE than the Juvenile pets.

HoM pets have lower stats than Juvenile pets.

I agree they should be equal.

Yvilthi.5413:

what annoys me the most is not the long grind in GW2 (have them all) but that these pets are completely BS…
The stats are not good compaired to the normal juvinile pets

They shouldn’t be any better then the other pets. They should only be pure cosmetic. If they were more powerful then the other pets then it would force people like myself to buy GW1 just to get the best pet for the best dps. I’m a little bummed I can’t get the white raven but I can live with that because it’s no different then the black one other then it’s color.

At least if it’s stowed away while in a city it should stay away even if taking damage or jumping in/out of water.

nerva.7940:

have you people any idea how much dps pets can pump out? it’s crazy.

I know right… My Jaguar often crits for over 2k. It’s pretty high. POP QZ and use the Jaguar’s F2 ability and a mob will melt without you even having to take a shot. I can tell a HUGE difference in mob death speeds between the Jaguar (DPS pet) and a bear (tank pet) when i’m out farming.

1. Shortbow still does far more damage then a Longbow due to it’s speed. Focus of this build is crits and getting Master’s Bond buff up on your pet so it’s crits are big.

2. Honestly I’m not sure. Here is a pretty nice pet guide that might have that info in it. http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/47239-sycthrexs-pet-guide/

I won’t come close to calling myself a pro but I use the following and it seems to work well. I only do PvE so keep that in mind.

• Pets:
  – Jaguar (Any cat due to their high precision)
  – Black bear (some use brown bear)
• Weapons:
  – Shortbow
  – Sword & Horn (if you can stand the sword locking you in place)
• One of the following trait builds:
  – 30/30/0/0/10
  – 20/30/10/0/10
• Stats to focus on:
  – Power → Precision → +Crit

http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#Mcom0Vm0mvgGMmvgGMxx9MazRczVaM
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#Mcom0Vm0mvgGMmvgGMGxa0azRzVaVM

I often swap Signet of Stone for Signet of the Hunt

Key to this layout is to make sure you never let your pet die else you lose the Master’s Bond stacks. Swapping to your secondary pet will also clear the stacks. Use the Jaguar’s F2 ability to stealth it if it gets aggro (in a dungeon) or just call it back to you and use your heal if needed.

Also keeping your pet alive in a dungeon is a real challenge. You spend a big part of your time monitoring your pet then focusing on yourself and putting out the most damage you can. Those that claim that their pets never dies in a dungeon most likely have their pet next to them most of the time.

I use the Jaguar as my primary DPS pet and Black Bear as off pet for tanking. For some reason I can not pull threat off my black bear at all, even when I pop QZ. Plus its F2 ability is nice.

riku.2091:

If I’m remembering correctly, arrows can be far more devastating then bullets, anyways.

Maybe it would be harder to sidestep back and forth to dodge bullets like what can currently be done with arrows. =)

I raged the other night in some WvW when I started getting countless people I was attacking just strafing back the forth and having all my arrows miss. I’m done with PvP for a while thanks to that. sigh

Lothair.8942:

Why don’t people turn off the auto attack on Sword 1?

That’s a temporary fix sure, however disabling a game feature shouldn’t be needed to solve a problem. Also the mashing of my #1 key when I’m not having to dodge/evade would be horrible over time.

Would you also recommend people turn their game sounds off if they keep getting strange sound errors or loops?

1. Pets need some major love.
1a. The “Master’s Bond” buff on the pet needs to remain though zoning and jumping in water. It should ONLY be cleared when the pet dies or you swap pets.
1b. Need a better UI frame for the pet. I want to see the buffs/debuffs on my pet without having to target it.
1c. Pet pathing needs to be tweaked. Also how the pet follows and stays near you.
1d. Quicker response when you press F3 to call your pet back to you. Any current action/animation it’s going though should be canceled. My pet has died because it took to long to react and get out of some ground AoE or away from a boss.
1e. Reduced AoE damage. I love playing a class with a pet however in dungeons your pet dies WAY to easily even if you spec full 30 points in Beastmaster.

2. As others have said, the sword’s (1) attack gets you killed. Sword/War Horn is a powerful melee combo.

3. Shortbow “Quick Shot” #3 ability. Have the jump back go further or the Swiftness last a few seconds longer. As it is now I don’t even notice the swiftness. Could be the arrow is missing because the target is stepping side to side. Who knows.

I have a few others but they are mostly bugs not really changes. Some of what I listed might even be considered bugs as well.

“* Rune of the Ranger” if you’re going with a Piercing Arrow & crit build.

I doubt I would use one but rangers should be able to use all non-magic range weapons. Just my opinion. Personally I don’t think they should be able to use 2-handed weapons (greatsword).

Dajman.2740:

How can it be a 20% damage nerf at lvl 80 and near unnoticeable at lvl 40? Why are some level 80s seeing this and not others? this forum would have blown up by now if everyone was seeing it. fill out a bug report and blame it on the weapon maybe ANet will respond to that and confirm nerfed or not.

I haven’t been watching numbers however I have been farming lower level zones for crafting mats and just last night moved up to level 70-80 zones and it felt like it was taking me a lot longer to kill mobs then when I was still leveling in the same zone. I even looked at my gear a few times to see if anything was broken or I somehow didn’t have someone equipped correctly.

gulmari.2904:

Peno.3720:

So I take it you’ve never played WoW.

LoL this comment made me laugh… please obviously you’ve never played WoW. I have a question for you… maybe do a little research and find me a top 20 5v5 arena team with a hunter in it…. oh thats right there isn’t one, and there’s a reason for it that has nothing to do with player skill.

Hunter no. Mage (frost) yes and I could always keep my distance from them.

A Mage, which is what I played, could roflstomp any melee class. It was always other mages and warlocks that gave me a hard time. So there is your range class that could counter and stay away from all your melee gap closers, snares, slows, stuns.

Oh this sound! I heard this once. It scared the crap out of me too. I thought it was coming from my computer. It has that perfect tone and didn’t sound like it was coming from my speakers even when I put my ear right up near them.. Man was I freaking out.

stikxs.1469:

Very minor issue, but as of the last update I believe I’ve noticed if you have the tp open on the sell screen and then you open your inventory and right click>sell on tp nothing happens. If the tp window is closed or on a screen other than the sell tab it seems to work fine.

I’ve been having this also. I have to close the TP window every time I want to right-click buy more on trade post or each time I want to post something new.

Stormdancer.4972:

But it really strikes me as a bug. They save so much other information about a user, a few k of names seems pretty trivial.

I know right. It’s not like this is the 1970’s or 1980’s where hard drive storage cost a few thousand $ for 512k of space.

Someone posted saying that ArenaNet stated it’s not a bug. ANet said something along the lines that it would use to much database space to store all the names. I never saw the ANet post about this however.

Either way I gave up naming my pets also. It’s pointless because it doesn’t save them. Pet names could easily be saved client side and when you swapped pets it would just read the name and re-submit it to the server.

I personally wouldn’t mind pets have a VERY small aggro radius if not zero. I find all to often pets running off on some random out of this world path to get around the little step you took off an edge. If it’s a cliff I’m jumping down and expect it then I just put my pet away before jumping. It’s the ones where you expect your pet to remain next to you and they don’t that I hate. They end up pulling several mobs that didn’t need to be.

Also yes, I’m finding my pets often lagging way behind me while I’m running long distances and when I stop they go way ahead of me and stop.

I see a lot of people talking about the shortbow “shooting rainbows” Does it really do this or are people just guessing/hoping it does?

Jenosavel.1756:

In your game options you can turn off “autotargetting.” If you turn it off then using an attack skill won’t target an enemy, it’ll just shoot the skill off in whatever direction you happen to be facing and you’ll probably not hit anything.
The more you know…

I’m aware of that yes however this is just another “turn your car radio up louder and you won’t hear the bad noises your car makes” fixes.

Disabling game options or features aren’t a fix for poor auto-targeting systems. Maybe a temporary fix but the real problems should be addresses.

One problem I see with buying gems is the following:

1. Spammer/Hacker gets into someones account.
2. Hacker first takes all that person’s gold THEN also uses a stolen credit card or PayPal account to buy as many gems as possible.
3. Hacker turns those gems into gold.
4. Hacker then starts spamming their website advertisement in /map
5. Some poor soul (biting my tongue) falls for this and buys from Hacker.
6. Hacker makes 100% profit.
7. Hacked account at some point gets reported.
8. Gold transfer gets tracked back to poor soul that bought it and their account gets banned.

And yes hackers do use stolen bank account info like this. I’ve had a stolen credit card used to transfer a character from one server to another in another game several years ago.

A COD system needs to be added to the in-game mail. Without it I will never craft anything for anyone not in my guild. MMO’s in general are notorious for having people run off with mats or money all because they can hide behind a computer screen in someones basement. Sorry but I don’t fully trust the “report scammer” system as I’m sure it doesn’t guarantee that I will get what I lost (money or crafting mats) back at a time when every single copper I have to my name is important.

This in fact is any profession’s pet. It happens from time to time with my ranger’s pets. Seems to happen with most a bear but I have had it with cats. I have to wait till the swap pet is off cooldown and use that to stop the sound. If it’s another players pet, well I have to just leave or deal with it. Gets annoying when fighting a world dragon event. You can’t hear anything but stompy the pet or wosh wosh the flying elemental pet. That fact that the pet owner doesn’t hear it doesn’t mean no one else does.

At first it was, “Haha, that’s cool sound effect” then it turned into “I wish they would stop making that sound”

LanceHavenbay.2067:

As for the auto attack, I recommend you read your skill bar when you hover it over skill 1. Please Control + Right mouse to disable auto attack, turn off ‘Promote skill target’ in your options, which basically turns target lock on whenever you use a skill… If you really want to take a step farther, disable melee assist. It is very important for you to read over the control/combat descriptions. It i not a bug, it is simply an aid for people who have not gotten ahold of the combat and have yet to read/turn off the options.

Please view my screenshot. I turned my auto-attack off.

Still telling people to disable a key game feature to fix something? Do you also turn your auto-attack off for your bows?

Sorry but I’m pretty sure no one wants to mash their 1 key all night long just to get around an animation bug or flaw, which ever you want to call it.

Swiftly.2385:

No, Just move the jump to the first attack in the skill chain, which effectively gives 1H Sword a much needed gap closing initiator

Moving it to the first attack will still keep it in the rotation not fixing the locking in place problem.

This is why in that “other game” they made pets take 90% less damage from AoE. It’s like you’re having to play two characters at the same time at avoiding AoE. Direct hits shouldn’t be reduced, just AoE.

Also the fact that there is a pretty good delay in recalling then sending your pet back in to avoid a boss’s AoE is almost pointless. Might as well just use a lower DPS range pet and forget about melee DPS pets all together. Don’t even bother charming them. Just get the tank ones.

The over all auto-targeting system needs to be adjusted IMO. It’s exactly like the old (and never fixed) problem with hunters in WoW. You’re standing there nothing targeted, accidently hit an attack ability. The game will auto-target the nearest mob and attack. Only GW2 seems to take this to the extreme and target almost anything that loaded within visual range. Even mobs behind you, behind a wall out of LOS or as I saw last night, mobs stuck under the world. That one was funny because my pet went under the world to the mob, I recalled my pet and it brought the mob back up though the ground where I could then kill it.

I wish the auto-targeting or tab-targeting/cycling though mobs using tab would only target mobs within range of your longest ability.

Angeredsoul.9354:

why do the f2 abilities even have a cast animation? if i hit f2, i wanted that kitten to be used like yesterday, instead the bear is standing roaring where the target used to be and said target is now in my face

My guess is for PvP. Having an animation gives a person time to evade, dodge or cast a block/retaliate ability.

Edit: typo

LanceHavenbay.2067:

Disable auto attack. Go to options, uncheck “Promote skill target.” Problem solved. You can also uncheck melee attack assist to help you have more mobility in combat.

It is a common misconception that this is a bug. It is simply people needing to read their options menu more often.

Here is the thing: Let’s say you turn off auto attack, the next time you use a skill on the target, Promote Auto Attack will turn auto attack on again. Please read over the controls portion of the menu, as they may help you with future issues.

I’m sorry but disabling a key feature (auto attack) to fix something is wrong. That’s like the old “my car makes a funny noise. Then turn your radio up louder and you won’t hear it” type of fix.

I want the bow to look like the one from the movie “Immortals”

Wayfinder.8452:

With some healing my Wolf tanks bosses like the last boss in TA Explore mode and minor bosses in every other dungeon without dieing at all. Pets are also immune to almost every scripted AoE effect in dungeons and events (400 damage around Claw of Jormag etc.).

They are immune to most AoE? I didn’t know this. Do you have a source?

I don’t to PvP so everything I do is PvE.

In the world my pets are just fine. I use a cat as DPS and have a bear to swap to if needed. Bear rarely if ever dies, cat rarely dies but only because I can swap to the bear OR stealth (F2 for jaguar) before it dies.

In a dungeon, that’s a whole new story. On boss fights I’m often without a pet. It’s either dead or by my side doing nothing because it will die the instant I send it in. I just feel something needs to be done to help prevent pets from dieing so easily. I like how in that “other” game, pets took almost zero AoE damage.

I don’t spec far into beastmastery at all. My current spec is (20/30/10/0/10) and the other I have toyed with is (30/30/0/0/10). I’m primarily a piercing arrow crit ranger w/Masters Bond in Beastmastery.

OOHH OK, Thanks. =)

Over the past several days I have noticed that while I’m auto-attacking a mob with my Ranger that I will randomly lose my target and just stop attacking. I’m not targeting something else by miss-clicking my mouse because I have done that a few times. I just lose the target and have to re-target the mob or some other mod using the [TAB] key.

On a similar note, I also randomly lose my target I’m attacking if I rotate my camera around and look behind me causing the mob I’m attacking to move off the screen.