Guild Wars 2

Do they ever fix the bugs when it comes to outfits? I don’t want to spend 700 gems only to have to deal with that hip bug…I really like the outfit but not if it ends up looking like that :/

Even with the variety, they should have made a basic style that it reverts to when you are showing the helm. Losing the hair completely is just silly.

So long as you learn the current bugs and how best to avoid them, you should be fine. I find mesmers to be extremely enjoyable, so long as you know that your damage comes from those phantoms and you have to keep an eye on what is currently out so you aren’t overwritting a phantom with a clone.

I have always enjoyed my asura…but when they gave me the chance to buy the Winter Outfit and I stuck it on one of my female asura, that’s when I knew I couldn’t play another race. That outfit is so stinking cute on them it’s not funny. Though, I will admit, the female charr I saw running around in a dress made me giggle and consider making one but I can’t stand charr voices.

Dual wielding torches would be pretty awesome looking…but I’m secretly hoping that mesmers get access to shortbows for the Dreamer skin. Butterflies and unicorns…imagine it!

It’s purely personal preference…sorry if I didn’t state that. I find that I would rather have a constant blast finisher or to have my auto attack hit twice than the two that the ranger’s bow does. I am not one of those players who play the profession cause it has the word range in there…I find both bows clunky mechanically, with SB being less so. I’d take the mechanics of the other two professions any day to go with my ranger’s kitten nal.

I think it’s mostly the profession description that is given that upsets most people. It no way does it accurately describe it. We are not unparalleled with a bow (in fact, bows are pretty terrible in game period but the warriors and thief bow skills are far more useful than a ranger). So when you go into a profession expecting one thing and it ends up being something you totally didn’t expect/didn’t want to play it can be a bit disheartening. And for some reason the pet classes of games tends to attract the newer players than the others.

So many kittens! You must love posting about kittens and forget that you are complaining about the most OP profession in the game right now.

I’ll keep my hope quiet in the corner about ranger pets…don’t want to end up disappointed.

What I most want to know is when they think it will be implemented.

If the bird’s attacks are harder to read, it is giving a mechanical advantage. It’s not like there is a way to change it.

I am not trying to start an argument…birds have a clear disadvantage in that stupid swiftness buff (though sometimes it is helpful, just not for pure dps rotation) and are made of like wet tissue paper. My cat, while is squishy, doesn’t seem to be as squishy but I could be wrong…it just seems that way. And a cat can be traited to proc bleeds on a crit, unlike a bird.

Odds are, dps wise, they are both about equal. If the bird didn’t have that swiftness buff skill, it would be the clear winner…which is probably why the devs ‘nerfed’ it with that attack.

I just think that in a pvp situation, with another human being, the bird has some advantages in being a small, hard to read target that the attacks will pull away visually from the target, making it harder for a player to keep track of. To each ranger their own pet of course

But it’s not so much the cat’s movement speed as it is the cat’s AI system. It has to be in a certain position to be able to attack properly and when a player dodges out of the way, the AI must realign itself. So your cat is constantly having to move to just the right spot to attack. It’s an uphill battle that is made harder by dealing with a human being on the other side who doesn’t want your cat to hit them.

The bird doesn’t care about being in a certain spot, it keeps swooping away. Granted, the swiftness buffing attack/animation is really irritating and takes up so much time, but against a player…how much difference between the cat’s constant positioning problems and the bird’s use of that swiftness skill does it really matter? That’s what we need answered…but it’s all so subjective and individual with each combat fight. You come across a skilled player and no pet will really be that great and you can come across a newbie who will let your cat just attack them without impunities.

So instead of using golems…can someone try the tests out with a friend who is willing to get mauled by a ranger pet for a few minutes?

Can’t compare gw1 to gw2. I agree, the ability to ‘turn off’ the pet so it cant be attacked but it cannot attack would be nice, but I don’t agree with a perma stow option. I like my pet and it’s part of the reason I like the class, I like wandering around with another being (albeit sometimes a frustrating and stupid one). To have us perma stow and get back everything the pet ‘take’ from us would basically mean ever ranger that ever was out there would never use their profession mechanic again. They might as well just get rid of the pets and make traps our mechanic.

What I really wish is that our f skills were more like how a necro minion utility worked. We could summon a few of them, and have them have an attack skill. If they die, we just wait for a timer to go down and resummon them again. They’d have to be toned down and have the damage lowered of course but at least we could have the option of not having them disrupt the flow of escaping. And we’d get to have a few choices of what we wanted out at what time. This 2 swap mechanic stinks.

Problem with using the golems for these tests is that they don’t dodge or behave like a human being though, correct? Can you run these tests with a friend someplace in a pvp area, where they run and dodge both the cat/bird? I think the point trying to be made with the bird’s stickiness is that unlike the cat, the bird doesn’t reset it’s targeting, it just keeps attacking…so when a player dodges a cat, the cat has to reposition itself to attack. The bird just keeps swooping. Or at least that’s what it looks like with videos on youtube, I haven’t personally pvped much with my ranger as it’s only 60something. Also, the bird is a smaller target so it’s less likely to be attacked but that’s all based on your opponent’s awareness really.

Of course…but sadly, the ranger isn’t a profession that has the ability to do that. Our profession mechanic is so closely tied with the basics of the character that stowing it turns it into a whole other profession. A warrior is still a warrior whether or not it chooses to use it’s f1, a ranger isn’t a ranger without the pet. Just how the profession was designed. I am not defending it’s design, they clearly had no clear idea of what the ranger was going to be…so it ended up being the ‘pet class’. Just wish they had put more thought into it /sigh

Because they have already stated in the past that that rangers profession mechanic is the pet…and stowing it just negates the core profession’s mechanic. Why play a ranger if you don’t want the pet?

The screenshot made me giggle. Someone doesn’t know the profession he is fighting against at all. The video, man you are awesome at using this profession defensively. So many of the skills can be using beyond just hitting others with them…nice to see them used outside the box.

Yes I know the almighty dollar will win out every time and they are taking advantage of a very basic human brain pattern of ‘I can totally beat the system’. Someone gets hooked on the idea of just one more lion box, one more and I’ll get that ticket scrap. Some people have life luck and they get the full ticket with the key they got from a character mission completion but most of us aren’t that lucky.

It’s frustrating to see something so pretty and well crafted placed into the game but not be able to get it…well not without spending on lion boxes or frittering away my gold in game.

A better solution then…if the lion boxes didn’t include a bunch of kitten stuff, I’d be more likely to want to spend my hard earned dollars trying for the ticket scraps. I’ll be kittened if I am spending something of a bit over a dollar to get some useless booster I’ll never use. Cut down on the amount the lion boxes can give, then maybe more of us will buy the stupid things.

I wish Anet would realize how much more money they could get out of us by selling the new skins in the cash shop for the first week, make them account bound so you can’t gain a monopoly on the market and then, a week later add them to the lion weapon vendor. I’d buy those pieces but there is no way in kitten I am gambling my money on those kitten lion boxes. Just let me throw my money at you Anet and let me buy them!

Anet, can you please find a dev who cares about this profession as much as 3/4 of you do about the warrior? All we ask is to have one voice to try to stop the rest of you from destroying this profession; because it’s pretty clear that right now, all we have is silence.

Make up your mind…either sit down and actually LOOK at this profession or take it out back and end it. We know you screwed it up in the start, you had a whole pile of ideas that you squashed into the stereotypical ‘ranger box’…but can’t you try to fix the mess you started?

I am confused as well…because the new skill point trait system, we need a ton of skill points to ‘buy’ our traits now. The quickest way to get the extra was the trains…now what? Sorry Anet, but your implementation of getting the traits was ridiculous and then to charge us way more gold AND skill points, then you take away the simplest way to get the points…I am baffled.

Asura of course! And not just because they have tiny animations…it’s because they are adorable! All of their animations are just so over the top. I leveled up a human ele and an asura one but ended up deleting the human, because the human burning speed couldn’t hold up to the asura. Since I have to stare at this character for hours and hours, I figured I should enjoy it. I am enraptured with the asura and the ele dance of skill usage.

Ele tend to have many ways to clear conditions, and using a utility slot to clear a few is a waste, especially with this profession. Asura give you access to poison and weakness in an area…you get a daze and you get confusion you can add to your general toolbox. Much better options.

I keep going back to asura when I make my alts…they are far cuter and so tiny, its amusing to watch this little creature amble around with a huge kitty or bear by her side.

GM Hermit.8629:

Snippity-doo-da

I am hoping you are trolling too but your post seemed…um…for ‘realz yo’…so I am going to let you in on a little secret:

Most everyone, including the OP, in this thread is using something called ‘sarcasm’. If you don’t know what ‘sarcasm’ is, you should go Google it. Then you come back with that in mind and get a good chuckle over it all.

Also INTERNET YELLING and multiple uses of the exclamation point aka this guy —> !!!!! won’t win you any arguments. Try reasonable sentences and typing without the caps lock key.

We never accidentally step on them…I find it annoying that my pet will move off when all my little Asura wants to do is take a nice screenshot. The pet is supposed to be my character’s best buddy and instead it walks off and shows me it’s back.

A bird landing on my Asura’s head would make me only use birds…that would be adorable!

Not just marks…would be nice to see finishers on other skills so we can bring some utility to group work. It’s a huge downside to playing a necro and it always feels like the class is stuck at the ‘beginning’ of the game…back when all of the classes didn’t have neat toys to play with, so having a blast finisher was more of a big deal.

Stop breaking the minion AI! It goes from working fine to sort of broken to working ‘ok’ to omg why are you just standing there??? Fix the things back to how they used to behave, they are supposed to be aggressive damage dealing/damage soaking monsters…not ADD kittens who’d rather admire at the tropical bird on the ground. I am starting to hate that elite bag of flesh.

Well of Blood…why is this a light field? It’s not like we have a ton of blast finishers to abuse it being a water field.

Some of our cooldowns on skills are too long, most of the wells fall under that category. Again, it’s like the class is stuck in the past.

I think the ultimate problem with combos and fields is that most players have no idea wtf they are doing when they are using their skills. There is NO teaching method in the early levels of ‘This is a field and this is how it is used’ and ‘This is how you synergize with the various finishers’. Instead, they are taught to spam mindlessly and then they get dropped into group work without knowing how to properly work with others. The amount of times where I have tried might stacking on my elementalist, only to have some poison field or water field thrown down, ruining my ability to make things run smoother and quicker…I have lost count.

There needs to be a newbie crash course or something added way early in the game for new players to understand what is going on.

I found that I leveled the engineer the fastest out of my many alts. Bomb kit worked wonders with clearing whole sets of mobs for heart completions. I will admit that I found guardian boring, haven’t managed to level one past 15.

Someone else mentioned it though, you will have a less chance of being kicked from a party if you play a guardian.

I am forcing myself to use the sword more, so I can study the mechanics and get the timing right so I stop randomly darting off into open space or dying cause I wasn’t able to dodge. I have to learn not to button mash the sword 1 or else it defeats the off auto-attack.

Off hand for the sword is usually a warhorn or dagger. Depends on if I am alone or what I am killing. Warhorn offers utility to a party where as dagger offers more evades to interrupt the sword 1 attacks for dodging purposes.

I keep a shortbow in my swap…I know it should probably be a GS but the SB has an escape backwards that has saved me more times than I can remember. Also, I like having a ranged weapon as backup and the longbow doesn’t play well with the sword melee range for swapping purposes.

Good rule of thumb though is to carry around all the weapons you can use so you don’t find yourself without.

Mine’s gone too…can we get a fix for this soon? It’s really irritating to have a major fixture in this game not working like that.

Not sure where this belongs…so if it goes someplace else, please feel free to move it.

But with the new patch, I am noticing that event farming xp goes down so much faster now. Did they decrease the amount of champ farm xp with the patch? I mean, like after 2 or 3 complete champ goes…the xp tanks out and I have to move to a new map and wait a time for it to reset. Did they mean to completely nerf champ xp/karma farming? If so, they did a good job -.-

I am getting this as well with the Fancy Winter Outfit. Pretty cheap trick to have us spend 10 bucks and have it completely destroy the mesmer mechanic if we want our mesmer to look pretty

Please tell us its a bug and you guys are fixing it!

Hopefully this is a bug with the whole new wardrobe addition? Has someone from the dev team acknowledged this yet and said anything on if equipped outfits are supposed make you unique from your clones?

If so…makes dressing up a mesmer with the new system pointless

I liked Wind when it was first started…but I think people ran out of steam or just quit? Not many repping so there is hardly anyone to talk to. It’s frustrating, because it was supposed to be a place where the ranger community could discuss ranger stuff and not get the usual ‘hurr durr ranger sux!!11 go roll warrior noob’ junk that is spewed over these forums. Doesn’t help when people are logged in but repping other guilds, how are we supposed to get advice that way?

I am on Sanctum of Rall…feel free to add me whenever you can to TACR. I’d be happy to join

So it’s not a tiny, little pitiful heal then. Think it’s worth investing the 30 points into BM and not picking up Zephyr’s Speed or Natural Healing? Having another heal every 20sec or so sounds really tempting

My ranger is still in the upper 40’s so I won’t be getting to the GM traits anytime soon…was wondering how that new heal on the pet f2 was working out? Will going 30 down the line be worth it for it…or is it useless?

I’d totally support this…I’d even shell out money just for this skin. I’d much rather have a being of darkness following me around than an undead, reanimated turkey thing for an elite.

Do you hear that ANet? We’d throw money at you for this! Oh wait…this is the Necro forum…silly me /sigh

Ross Biddle.2367:

Aside from the random boon procs on your allies, your passive agressive, selfish defense weapon isnt bringing anything to the game.

Forgive me, but what mesmer weapon isn’t selfish? Sword blocks but only for you of course…scepter blocks but again only for you…GS will give out some might but usually others already have that covered. So what weapon isn’t selfish? I am honestly asking, not trying to be snarky or anything

At least with staff you have an aoe that not only damages but aids your allies as well with a random boon or two. And it lets others blast away to get Chaos Armor along with Null field. Yeah it’s on a long cooldown but it’s an option the other weapons don’t give.

I have a really low level necro sitting on my account, collecting dust and holding onto things. All I see on the forums is how terrible this class is…how no one will take one into dungeons and the only place they seem to have a ‘place’ is in a large WvW setting. So, needless to say, it’s kept me from digging into the class and figuring things out. I don’t want to end up wasting time getting a character to 80 only to find out no one wants to play content with me.

I enjoyed the first few levels I tried it out…the DS saved me from deaths I would have otherwise taken and I got through content (IE skill point challenges and what not) that I constantly died on with other characters. It helped me learn the dodge mechanics and how to time things properly like no other class did because there was that safety oh-kitten button. But it seems that the higher a necro goes, the less ‘useful’ they seem to be.

I know the condition stacking and overwriting is a big issue. From what I understand this was supposed to be one of the condition professions, but over time conditions ended up being given to all the other professions like it was candy on Halloween. But what else puts this class so low on the rung of the profession ladder? Is the damage too low? Not enough party support?

Or am I just listening to the few who complain too much? Is it really that bad?

So the lowest it can go is 10sec? If that’s the case…this is gonna be frustrating to get back into I think.

I get that it’s to restrict from spamming everything or being able to constantly and consistently heal but man it’s annoying to have to lock yourself out of skills for a full 10sec

I have googled this over and over but it never actually finds me my answer so I am asking the expert community here (sorry if it’s been asked before):

What is the lowest possible cooldown you can achieve with the attunment swaps and how do you get there? I know putting points into Arcana is the way to do it but how low can you get that number?

I broke away from leveling my ele for a while and played engi for a bit. Having kits on a 1 sec cooldown made everything so much easier and when I come back to Ele, I find I am missing the quick changes. I know I can never get it down that low…but I was curious to know how low going 30 into Arcana can get it. Tooltips and such in this game don’t help or are confusing :/

Pistol would be good for sure…Quip would be fun to use as a main weapon but I’d give anything to be able to pew-pew with a Brony bow as a Mesmer.

Name: Valara Vaeth
Server: Sanctum of Rall
Playstyle: PvE mostly but looking to get into others when I get leveled out

I am around most days and hope to get helpful advice from the more experienced mesmers out there

Also, not to play devil’s advocate or anything…but you can get them from Black Lion Chests. So you could key farm and get one that way…

I find myself going back to the Asura when I want to make a new alt. I make some other race…but in the end it gets deleted and a new Asura takes it’s place. I can’t help it, the story lines are amusing and the animations are amazing. Yeah they are tiny but I am not finding it to be much of a downfall as others when it comes to gear. If you want to farm out a legendary, I don’t think you should restrict yourself to playing a race you don’t like seeing or listening to.

I hate hearing ‘This rose has thorns and here they are’ and ‘I can outrun a centaur’…I can stand the Asura battle phrases as most are so adorable

I just wish the skill was reversed…have Monarch first and the leap back second. Would make it far more useful, as I find myself missing the GS swoop mechanic for entering combat.

So the dagger skills will interrupt the AA chain and let you evade? Either way, weapon skill or swapping it’s still a cooldown that we have to face that I don’t think other classes have to worry about with their AA.

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For pve one strategy (where max melee range isn’t necessary) it is pretty common to use sword/warhorn + sword/dagger. If you weapon swap during the auto attack chain it will break the chain and allow you to dodge. However, it is often much easier to use a weapon set evade than a dodge. For example I will switch from s/wh to s/d and use #4 for the evade. This is also more efficient in terms of dps since you will usually waste more time dodging.

So I just saw that the dagger skills do interrupt the chain…and realized it was probably because they don’t have a wait time like the #2 and 3 skills on the sword itself to get the evade in. And the #4 skill on the dagger has a fairly low cooldown so it should help with the sword AA rooting problem I have been having. Thanks for the suggestion!

Maybe I should start a fresh ranger and work with the sword from the start. I tried the other races today and the rest of them have the same basic movements so it might be the Asura wacky animations that are throwing me off. This may be a case where the adorable Asura stuff is getting me into trouble. It seemed…I dunno, cleaner when I was on a Charr to see the 3 distinct patterns of the chain? The second and third one on the Asura look similar and I am not always looking at the toolbar to see what step I am on.

Hmm…was just thinking that my ranger is an Asura. Could that be a factor in not being able to read the sword movements? Her sword animations are so tiny and all over the place. Would playing with a bigger race for a while help with the learning curve? Or is it more of a all around ranger thing? I had tried a human for a while and the sword animations seemed a little different…like not as much bonkers-all-over-the-place. So I am not sure if the other races swords look different?

I doubt any suggestions on weapons/pets that I could offer would be better than anything else everyone has said…so I only have one thing:

Could we please make the pets stand closer to the Ranger when they are idle/not attacking? It’s seriously annoying to dodge to get out of an AoE only to have Mr Whiskers re enter the circle of death because the ‘leash’ won’t let him sit right beside me where it’s probably safest.

I will try to figure out the stowing bit…but that gets annoying for obvious reasons. Nothing like having to deal with swapping cooldowns just to stop an auto attack. Thanks for the advice

I have two ele…a human and an Asura. The human is a little, well more generic I suppose but the outfits…oh those light armors can be so pretty!

If I had to choose, I’d go with the Asura again. Their storylines are awesome (the Don The Behind Hat bit makes me laugh everytime) and the phrases they say when switching elements don’t make me crazy listening to them over and over again. Not to mention the animations on their spell castings are seriously amazing to watch…they are just all over the place. I love the female voice acting as I have always made female Asuras. The only thing that’s a tiny bit lacking are the armors…but that’s easy to overlook really.