Guild Wars 2

oh serious now? just shut it. first “it’s too hard, tone it down”, now “it’s too easy” when they answer the demand. There’s something called Raid if people want to try something challenging. DS was tough, virtually impossble, at first, now people learning it and it rarely failed. If DS rarely fails, why TD should be any more challenging. TD was extremely tough and you really have to have organized guild people doing it with a good map to finish it, thus people generally never bother spending time.

I think a zero is mistakenly added.

Pandaman.4758:

Chuo.4238:

Pandaman.4758:

For a brief moment I was so happy to see a thread complaining about the patch speed… until I saw the patch notes.

“Fixed a server crash.”

Guess it won’t be until next week that we see a fix for the various collections.

They fixed the server crash. If you can’t log in, the server can’t crash. Fixed.

That’s pretty zen.

“If a server crashes but nobody is on it, has it truly crashed?”

That’s pretty zen, indeed.
" Granted it truly crashed, but nobody was on it, has it truly ever existed"

Just a flesh wound.3589:

New post

ChrisCleary Reddit post
We are aware of the patching issues with the 64 bit client and are working on it. I’ll update this thread when I get more info, but for now the 32 bit client is your only option.

LOL, investigate? what is there to investigate. 64 bit client has issues of downloading patches before, shouldn’t you guys know or at least aware of potential issues by now?

About 2 hours at 5Kb. Thanks Anet, you guys have been great recently.

quick question, does this complaint about ranger’s dps includes the pet’s own damage and their abilities and taking into account ranged weapon vs.melee weapons and their associated side functionality? Catch my drift?

I got high yield from spared accessories.

Trade it for light armor pieces, then mystic forge, then salve the result for either linens or silk.

Legion.9617:

I thoroughly distaste it. I decidedly crafted the shield for its simple, yet elegant design and not because I wanted some overly pompous, silly, grotesque and absurd testament of ill-guided decadence. I woudl gladly see it being reverted.

The new stuff is nothing opulent. The burst is merely momentarily, the footstep is barely noticeable. After you draw it, the same shield you always has again.

I have the shield and I appreciate any buff. Though don’t you think the footsteps are quite …not noticeable. I like the burst when drawn though.

Zephyron.7081:

Blessed.2198:

TexZero.7910:

Caro.2730:

I think they do not get that most of the player base don’t care about e-sports and just want to have fun with friends. And what is there to watch? All the beautiful animations are dying. There’s nothing to watch.

Take the tinfoil hat off for just 2 seconds…..

It’s not about e-Sports, it’s about creating a more dynamic and easier to read combat. This applies to Raids and future content where the mobs do more than just face tank you.

Carry on.

Then if a player cannot see, it is up to them to correct that and they can turn their own spell effects down. I have never before witnessed devs purposefully making graphics worse in their own game. If I like to play solo a majority of the time, why do I need reduced “visual noise?” (What an obnoxious term.) The answer is that I don’t. If I chose to do raids or anything else that requires a large number of players, I’d turn my settings down like I have done in the past with WoW, CoH, or the original GW. The developers need to recognize that this is hurting the game and will cause people to leave.

Exactly. Well said, Blessed.

yes indeed, individual graphic quality is up to the individual, either buy a new GC or tune it down in UI options. What next? are you gona turn us to this, * See attachment.

The visual change for the sake of so-called “reducing the visual noise” probably generated the most united and biggest backlash since the NPE, rarely did I see any criticism that has virtually no-one standing on the ders’ side, except for their own forum bots. In case you don’t know, alot of skill visuals got nerf to the ground, fireball of elem comes to mind, or their auras. The nerf itself wouldn’t cause such outrage if it were individual’s option, but instead enforced down on all of us. You know, Anet, if i got kittenty graphic and refuse to tune it down on my own, then that would be my OWN problem, NOT YOURS. My mom hasn’t died yet and left you to decide for me what is best. Do the right thing and make these change optional if you are so inclined. And answer to the forum. Hiding underneath the carpet won’t improve anything. Yes, i’m calling you out, stand here in the spotlight plz.

PS: if you are thinking about the sneaky “merge topic” tatics to bury the attention under jargon, be known that i’d make a new one everyday.

Ain’t they, Anet, gems of creativity and common sense? I don’t mean to insult, but if you found insulting, be known that the words form themselves, naturally.

Tomiyou.3790:

After the initial shock of Dragonhunter traps dealing massive damage, I kinda adapted to them. After I got rekt a couple of times, I actually learned how they work and they rarely kill me now. However, the real problem doesn’t lie in noobs placing down all their traps and using all skills immediately, but when you meet a Dragonhunter, that actually thinks. Most of these kite very well with their longbow and keep pressure using True Shot. I mostly play Staff Ele in PvP and even tho my Earth aura helps a ton (I put it on, just as the enemy Dragonhunter would stop casting True Shot, so he eats 5k dmg right back), problem is the 4s True Shot CD. They leads some Dragonhunters staying behind enemy bunkers in PvP and simply AA-ing and casting True Shot, not even using traps. I agree that burst damage from it is necessary to work with Dragonhunters burst rotation, but them being able to cast it every 4s (3x per weaponswap if done right!) for 3-5k damage might be a bit too strong. Then again, DPS of Dragonhunter in PvE will drop, if you increase the CD. Your opinions?

If you survive ranger’s longbow burst to this day, why is this suddenly a problem? If you are good enough to not walk into a trap now, why the long delay in True shot suddenly a problem you could not overcome. Honestly, don’t you think “to overcome a challenge” means to actually overcome it, rather than trying to petition to trim it down so that you can walk casually over it?

Steel Courage.1250:

So i remember when the forums used to be a place for advice or ways to interact with players. Now its just a festival of complaining.

When will all the major problems that are flooding the forums be fixed?

I want to come back to the old forums!

well well, speaking of “complaining”. Look at the mirror once in a while goes a long way.

Ragnarox.9601:

Silhouette.5631:

Yaaaa im gona have to call shinanigans on people saying “l2p”. I kick more kitten with traps than I do meditations. Guys I have 3.5k hours on my guardian. I should not be anywheres near as good with traps as I am with meditations. Traps OP. Initial damage is to much, the fact that they bearly have a cast time basicly makes them a suped up version of smite condition. Also to all that talk about dodging. 4 traps, 2 dodges. ~math~

I remember people saying l2p about Healing signet. D/D ele. Rampage. Mesmers stealth. etc etc. all got nerfed.

When I go into a pvp match and theres nothing but guardians playing traps, needs a nerf.

When I pvp a buddy who’s been playing thief since I last fought and beat him, and he tries out traps and kills me. Needs a nerf.

Maybe you are not good with guardian if buddy of yours beat you with it with no experience. Traps are easy to counter couse it have sound while placing plus you see person placing it on the ground. Ppl are already got used to it and avoiding it easily. DH is perfectly balanced so far, maybe best balance of all elites.

DH now is high risk / high reward: If you are careless you die pretty easily, if your enemy is careless he dies easily.

Mind him not. He’s an infamous troll, I burned him several times both in game and in forum. I literally stood there laid trap, even waved at him and he just blindly charged at me and got killed. He sucks at playing and argument. Just ignore him and he’ll be quiet, don’t bother with your time.

These folks doing raid simply taking up slots that are highly needed for doing t4 in VB. A lot of AFK or people just simply stand there and staring at the post right below being overtaken. T4 night time in VB are now much more difficult to get because of these raiders. If fractals are located in LA, why not raid too.

I keep saying over and over : traps don’t kill, incompetence does. At some point you should look at the mirror and say: maybe I’m not cut out for pvp.

The same reason a thief does not have one. What makes you think reflect is an entitlement?

mrauls.6519:

In PvP, I do feel that traps are too strong right now. They can make fighting on a point very dangerous.

Fighting on a point is always dangerous.

I agree. DH is OP against noobs. Against good players, they either observe me so closely to guess where traps are and ignore my attempt to lure. Naturally, against other DHs, good luck getting me to those trap bombs, I know how they work and used.
There are tons of QQ about DH being OP, but those are from people who tried to win by lobbying to nerf the DH rather than thinking of a strategy to overcome new challenges themselves. It’s like a ninja warrior challenge course while asking for most obstacles to be removed. Traps don’t kill, stupidity does.

my first thought was: someone got caught by hunter wards? well i supposed unless you sneezed at the wrong moment and had to go to the bathroom and wiped it off. But yah, unless you have no reason to move while inside it, stability is your best bet, much like when you are trapped inside static field of elem which they cast it quite often.

Please do keep in mind that Rev is the only class that can use 2 heal skills back to back, though come with a price of having to change strategy because you are presented with a different set of skills in exchange for using a second heal skill. But hey, anything but dying right?

Yah, no matter how they try to patch it up, it’s a big bombshell, quite a sloppy one at that. Loopholes do happen, but we’ll judge based on their courage to admit errors. Btw: to Anet people: we weren’t born yesterday, you know. I don’t have good first impression for the writing to begin with. the non-original GW1 people just make crazy stuff up as they go along that makes you roll your eyes, even with the consideration that the lore is work of novel. the dialog are way too cheezy to digest, especially the strangely passive-aggressive feminism. It is not a surprise at all that lore bombshell like these occurs at all.

This is the part of the meta event where you collect airship parts and give it to this Beigarth dude.

The progress I showed you in the picture attached below is after 10 minutes with 6 people working on it. I kid you not, each part gives like 1% progress bar for the roundtrip you have to jump up the air and flied back. What goes through your mind, Anet , when you designed something painful and boring like this? Must we summon people from the whole map to get this particular part done? Even if we could, the platform only generates like 3/4 parts scattered everywhere. I dont mind abit of grindy work, but this is way over the top.
Also bug: Beigarth sometimes got stuck with the greeting dialog and refuse to take the part.

Straegen.2938:

Ragnarox.9601:

Don’t mind thieves, they complain so much instead of actually training against DH. Whining won’t help them tho.

But my bucket is almost full of thieves tears….

I have both DH and DareDevil. In equally skilled hands a DH comes out on top 99 times out of a 100. DH is very powerful and the thief class may be the worst class in the game right now at least in 1v1 fights.

“equally skilled” ? just because you’re good at DH, doesn’t mean you are good at thief. I have both also, but definitely thief feels much more fluid and more wins. So bam!

Evilek.5690:

I play DH and must say yes this is game breaking. Guardian has with this “bug” 20+ sec block/invulnerability in row without limits.

A mule doesn’t count. Obviously a thief being salty about getting downed after blindly unload all his resource at the shield even he can clearly see that the shield is currently active.

Flumek.9043:

Hello.

Has this bug already been acknowledged? I glimpsed guard and bug forum, so i apologize if repost.

• Dragonhunter F3 virtue , Shield of Courage.
  This skill is blocking EVERYTHING from EVERYWHERE , instead of just projectiles from front.
  Its basically a 5second shelter, twice with elite recharge.

Explains a lot of “DH OPness”

Edit:
Im not salty, it put the cat instead of five seconds.
I also wanted to “get this bug fixed” as its just so broken that ofc DH can be percieved as too strong with something like it.

If its true,
then Anet is just plain stupid again
10s / 72s block uptime , sigh

Works as intended. maybe should at least test it out before going here unloading, mr. salty.
10s? where? you mean unless it’s traited? that also means the DH gave up something for that. If you stop attacking (because the visual cue is soo subtle you know), maybe you can do something in that more than a minute downtime.

They should put bags in the currency tab, lol.

@OP, why would your friends quit the game because other people choose to do certain things? Are these guys easily irritable? Why does it cause these guys frustration? What possible pain and suffering seeing a guy with 100 mastery level could have caused to your friends to consider quitting? Really, when I saw a guy with a legendary sword that they bought off TP (you know, the quick way) I don’t see why it is my business, I don’t see how that would cause me sleeplessness.
Even if the CoF way is frowned upon as boring or brain-dead, well, you do have a choice to do it legitimate way, don’t you? Boring or not, folks does spend their time in it. It is not something you can bot. Exp don’t drop automatically. How is it different from running SW endlessly for gold and exp because SW events are endless, just like CoF mobs? Does it occur to you that, maybe, just maybe, the frustration these guys feel is actually the sheer amount of exp Anet requires you to top out mastery instead ?

the next one will be long bow.

oh good god, people like to be spoon-fed everything these days. There’s a reason legendary weapon being called ‘legendary’: it’s rare, it’s worth alot of effort, else they are no different than the starter weapons if everyone has one.
Ok, first you were yelling “it’s too rare, give a way to make one, I’m ENTITLED to a precursor”. Now you got a sure way to make one, now it’s “NOT FUN, TOO HARD!” , give me a break. If you are not willing to do all the work, then you are not deserved to wield one, simple as that. Do me a favor, recite the word “legendary” 1000 times before bed each night and contemplate what it means and then make a demand for your… entitlement.
Regarding the TP, no one forces you to use it. If other people do it the TP way, it’s their problem. You have the free will of doing it the “right” way. Don’t make the fake argument that you are forced to use the TP to make a legendary. If you don’t make a legendary effort, no legendary for you. Stop being a spoiled kid at everything, be glad that there is a SURE way at all that you can obtain one without touching the TP. If you resort to the quick way with the TP, it’s your own free-will and laziness, don’t blame on the game mechanics.

LOL, nice find. I bet Anet is so embarrassed to say even address this in the forum. This is what you get for letting another writer tinkering with the lore.

Spartacus.3192:

quaniesan.8497:

This inquiry for “advice” is nothing more than a stealth request for nerf. How do I know. Whenever an advice is given, the OP ardently dismissed it into “the trap is a death sentence, there is no way around it (nerf please?”). Luckly we are not mesmers or he will go and ask for visual marker for the real one among the clones.

OMG awesome idea…maybe i should post on mesmer board !!!

“mesmer clones are soooo annoying i use up all my burst on one and realise its a clone. please put an icon over the real mesmer for us noobs so we know who to target”

LOL

Not to derail the QQ here, but you don’t need to post that idea on the mesmer board – the idea is already been made!! It’s call the aclarity flame on the real mesmer.

This inquiry for “advice” is nothing more than a stealth request for nerf. How do I know. Whenever an advice is given, the OP ardently dismissed it into “the trap is a death sentence, there is no way around it (nerf please?”). Luckly we are not mesmers or he will go and ask for visual marker for the real one among the clones.

Conncept.7638:

Nike.2631:

Heimdallr.7021:

Hi all,
i was just wondering, i’ve seen any sort of complaint about the DH in the guardians community (many of which also true).
These last days after the expansion hit I say instead a lot of complain in pvp targetting DH and their supposedely OP traps.
How that happened?

Because DH traps got a GIGANTIC buff after BWE3 that was never tested in a large scale environment.

And because people didn’t know what the kitten they were talking about when they were claiming that it’s hard to hit people with traps. It’s trivial to consistently land trap skills.

Well honestly, pervious to the dragon hunter they were right. It is really annoying hitting people with the existing ranger and thief traps. The guardian on the other hand can just walk up to with 10 seconds of blocking effects, stopping you from doing anything about it, and then lay the traps wherever he wants, forcing you to either get off point or die instantly.

It just shows that minority of players were right about specializations, those who told ANet they needed to add this content at the cost of base class content so they could have a mechanism for balancing between the two. Without any such mechanism, now they have no choice but to nerf the new mechanics of the specialization or the old mechanics of the base class, not because either of them are overpowered, but because they are overpowered in combination.

10 second of block? where do you get that figure? die instantly? which trap that does that? tell me. Forcing you to get off the point ? well, you know, there’s also the staff elem that can force you to get off the point without even bother walking up to you. What do you want, just stand in one spot and win? or perhaps mitigating damage without using any of your dodge or utility? Jeez, people want to be spooned fed in everything these days. I’ll give you a hint : Trap has CD, no kitten right? and DH also reluctant to leave his personal area, you can use that to your advantage and last but not least:Traps don’t kill, laziness in thinking and/or idiocy does.

Don’t you know, according to Mr. Derv’s philosophy, the Guardian is the sole pillar of the game’s universe. Anything that is suspected or even just alleged to be “overperforming” even slightly will be taken away without trials or else the ENTIRE game will be tilted and collapse. Even things that we touch now have been deemed as corrupted and nerfed to the ground, ask the Trap runes.

No sympathy here for blind bats that suicidally rush to their death. Even more so for brain-dead folks knowingly yet mindlessly disregards the traps to get to a DH and wonder why their pants on fire and then come here vent the frustration of their own incompetence by asking for nerfs. Traps don’t kill, stupidity does. Very simple logics, and I know deepdown you know already that and deepdown you hate your own self for the inability to solve problem. People with self-esteem would find ways to rise above the challenges, people without will find ways to eliminate the challenges with tantrums.

Traps cost you dodges? how unjust! Guess what, unactivated traps or dodged trap cost the DH the skill slot and the CD. It goes both ways. What do you people want? automatic win? The weakness of the DH is he is reluctant to leave the fortified area, and that traps don’t do damage unless activated. Unactivated traps are no different than an empty utility bar. If you’re dumb enough to let him lure to traps, might be it’s not the traps that kill, it’s stupidity. What more, traps slot cost DH slots to use for condi cleanse. Even a squirrel could use that to game-changing advantage. Folks like you should use your brain once in a while and stop charging/chasing a DH blindly. You are humans with brain, not a crazy boar that blindly charges. Go sit over there and reflect on youself.

ozzy.8059:

necro has no chance…. and all these guards keep saying “just dont walk into them” i will agree when they delete judges intervention and the instant cast ability of the traps because then people would actually need to walk into them instead of you porting on top of them and dropping them even a moron cant walk into a trap because why would a guard ever need to pre drop one?

I recognized you. The necro that blindly charged at me the other day. I gave you so many hints the traps were around me, i was even dancing and beckoned you over. And you just went “charrrrgeee”. I thought the dumbest thing i ever saw was a bird got crushed on highway.

nicknamenick.2437:

Unblockable or not it cost a dodge (ofc..) or (if blockable)

Maby DH vs other elites issnt that OP, but vs warrior i find it REALLY OP

So you admitted it was just you and your warrior. Trap cost you a dodge? well, trap cost DH a utility slot too, we call it even. And no, against decent warriors, it was no easy feast, 50/50. You know them, decent warriors.

“it’s not that bad” huh? here we go again. Just because you personally don’t feel much a difference, it doesn’t mean it’s a step downward, and when it’s trending down, it will go down from here.

Karma.3064:

Its fine, stop complaining. The nerfs aren’t that bad, people are just over reacting to it. I play DH and don’t actually mind these nerfs. I only really count 2 as actual nerfs and the other 2 as fixing machanics that weren’t working the way they were meant to.

“not that bad” is not the right attitude. Do you remember how hard we fought to get DH to get buffed from kitten to this current level. Just when we got something usable. You need to reflect on your way of thinking, I can tell you that it’s not healthy. You yield to them one step because “it’s not that bad”, they will take another small step and you will also go “it’s not that bad”, and they will take another step and people like you will also go “it’s not that bad”. Before you realize it, they are all over your head. Think once in a while, would you?

Looks like the first batch of nerf balls are here, and we are on the list. The increase in trap cooldown pretty much negates the 20% CDR they added recently. No philosophy note included, so I guess it’s pretty much “shove it”. Bait n’ switch much? and Karl, i’m talking to you.

Nike.2631:

quaniesan.8497:

Phy.2913:

Stop trying to rush them.

It’s not rushing. You DO realize even early in the story they demand us to have rank 5 in certain mastery line, do you even know how long it is to get even 1 level?

Uh huh. You aren’t keeping up with the patch notes, are you?

Obviously, you don’t.

JOKe.3597:

Dragon hunter traps are absurd.

for PVE they do so BIG damage that basically other classes do zero damage. They put the trap on a champion or veteran and his health is gone. At the same times I have to hit it and hit it and nothing

for PVP they hit so hard.. and hit multiple times ? what is this trap that can hit me 2 times 5k each time ? absurd… since they can also be put on points with 24 seconds cd ?

Make the traps hit only ones.
Make the traps stay open for less time.
Make the traps damage 25% less.
Make the traps cd 40-45sec.

Currently several times with 2200 Toughness and 18k health I am insta killed by DH.

You live up to your name. It’s easy enough to see the animation gesture when they lay trap. It’s even easier to notice if they try to lure you to move through a certain area, especially when they stop and wait for you to come to melee range. Couldn’t be more obvious that something right there will explode under your feet. To not to notice those cues, maybe that’s a well-deserved ownage.

Phy.2913:

Stop trying to rush them.

It’s not rushing. You DO realize even early in the story they demand us to have rank 5 in certain mastery line, do you even know how long it is to get even 1 level?

Ranlares.2513:

9/10 Here. I had my elite spec the first day, i don’t see how it is grindy. New maps are gorgeous and fun to explore and a challenge

Go and train your mastery, my friend, you will see. Mom always says: “don’t speak too soon”.

Beautiful map: +10 points.
Over-the-top gating: -10 points.
Paintful exp grinding: -100.

So I give it a F -

@OP, does it occur to you that the one who needs to chill….is you?