Guild Wars 2

Lightsbane.9012:

Warlord.9074:

The Adrenaline changes killed this profession. Was fighting a thief he blinked away. Lost all adrenaline, then got rekt.

ANET you just killed your own game. Whoever Okayed these changes should be fired. And your whole balance testing team should be as well.

and the rest of us are laughing.
warrior is still the easiest profession to play period.

You misspelled Power Ranger.

SaintSnow.6593:

Just bc ranks arnt visible in spectate mode anymore doesn’t mean ppl will magically stop stacking. Anyone can easily see which players are better than others and will continue to gravitate towards them.

That is absolutely correct.

Which makes no sense to remove ranks in the first place.

Roe.3679:

The QQ about this has been hilarious. Literally you have 1 thing to watch for from a power ranger at range. Dodge it.

You also have to watch out for PBS; otherwise, he’ll use it to get rapid fire attacks on you.

I see plenty of PBS + Rapid fire.

Hunter shot is also something to worry about if you want the ranger to die. Otherwise, he’ll disappear and then reappear to use rapid fire from the otherside of the room at 1500 range.

10 man raid will end up like dungeons.

Basically, 10 men stacking in one spot.

It is still there.

Most of my hotjoin games have auotbalancer everywhere.

What if the paid expansion is garbage?

Brigg.6189:

hambow

I tried, but it isn’t good anymore.

dancingmonkey.4902:

Killed? Hardly. You are simply a mere mortal free kill now, like the rest of us before the patch that made Warriors viable.

ANET you just did a great justice with the game. Whoever Okayed these changes should be given a bonus. And your whole balance testing team should as well.

Fixed.

See title^

fifteen letters

I rather ANet say, “Its a bug. We’ll fix it.”

Bhawb.7408:

Dagger is basically fine as is, just give 2 a cast time reduction.

Not really.

It doesn’t feel like a Necro dagger to me.

The major buff to Power Ranger to me is Entangle.

Even though the duration is reduce from 20 seconds to 5 seconds, no person with a single brain cell is going to stay for 20 seconds.

However, the cooldown reduction made Entangle way more spammable than before.

dancingmonkey.4902:

runeblade.7514:

dancingmonkey.4902:

It was a simple curiosity question for context. No need to be snide. Not to mention, your avoidance of the question, answers it in itself.

I also find it odd that your argument is change your build, instead of an actual solution. That is not very helpful.

It is a simple unsnide answer matching to your unsnide question.

Did I say change your build? Stop putting words into my mouth.

Yeah, you did, when you stated that FT builds should change weapons. There are some solid builds with FT/HgH elixir builds for example. It is reasonable to discuss the idea of not being punished for the main attack on the main utility the build is designed around.

No one put words in your mouth.

Yes you did put words in my mouth.

I said change weapons. You said change builds.

Which means, you switch weapons to rifle or any other weapon kit when retaliation is up. If you can’t understand that, then you are a lost cause. You rather have ANet make Engi more skill-less than improving yourself.

“My enemies are kiting me! Pls buff my melee skills so that I can range them!11”

Don’t forget Rune of Cleansing.

Ranger in the skirmishing line benefits from weapon switching.

Bellamy.9860:

^Then they also have to nerf blood fiend.

No one even use Blood fiends. Not even MM build uses it.

Its been Bloodbooned.

ANet wants to make it easy for newbies to get into the game. They would be overwhelmed by the amount of healing skill choice.

So, Why couldn’t sPvP be their test server then?

Players can freely build anything they want in an instant. Much more better than grinding and finding out that it sucks.

I can’t use PvE rune in PvP

Ranger Trap builds desperately need this.

Why did you restrict this glorious rune away from us?

dancingmonkey.4902:

It was a simple curiosity question for context. No need to be snide. Not to mention, your avoidance of the question, answers it in itself.

I also find it odd that your argument is change your build, instead of an actual solution. That is not very helpful.

It is a simple unsnide answer matching to your unsnide question.

Did I say change your build? Stop putting words into my mouth.

dancingmonkey.4902:

runeblade.7514:

No it doesn’t need fix.

Working as intended.

So? The point here is to change what is intended.

Obtena.7952:

The ‘solution’ here is to swap to a weapon where retaliation is less effective.

Believe it or not, there is more then one solution to many problems. Personally I would like to see the hits per channel cut in half and simply double the damage per hit.

How many hours do either of you have on the FT by the way?

Enough to know that Flamethrower isn’t the only weapon that engineer has.

Explosia.9164:

I am gonna bump this because it must be fixed. There should be no weapon or kit punishing its user and making it absolutely unuseable. I just want devs to see this and go test it just for 1 hour in wvw in a zerg. Im sure they will notice the problem and maybe fix it. Another way to fix this is giving juggernaut immunity for retaliation and removing its toughness bonus for balance.

No it doesn’t need fix.

Working as intended.

ErazorZ.5209:

How is this unfair?

Do stuff get stuff.

Do more stuff get better stuff.

would you want mawdrey to become as rare as bloodstone dust or would you wrather have something in a sense prestigeous with some value?

I will always pick the latter because i simply dont want all the rare cool loot be instantly obtainable for everyone i want them to write a story on how they got itt just like i will eventually do…

Also i see no rush to obtain mawdrey, simply because i unlocked everything for it and the piles arent going anywhere either.

If your mad about that rare a day, welp… there are better ways to get cash..

I seriously dont see the problem here at all..

I rather have Mawdrey be as common as Bloodstone dust.

Prestige is overrated.

Front line- Bombs/Flamethrower
Mid/Back- Grenades/Elixir gun

S/D bunker Thief.

pro

• Huge DPS. It makes class go from 100 to 0 within seconds.
• Huge survivability- no class can touch you.
• Great support- Drop a shadow refuge and revive an ally.

No.

Instead, keep their immobility there.

Give it a Draw Spirit. or a “Call Turret.”

In PvP, Engineers can place turrets around in all different spots. Two in mid point, one in home point. Then if the engineer gets ganked, he calls turrets to his position and then they face turret hell.

In PvE and WvW, engineers use it to haul around the turrets.

All game mode benefit greatly from this without turrets being another minion clone.

Yamsandjams.3267:

I’ve never understood why the water spirit never generated a water field. I mean “water” spirit, “water” field.

That thing needs all the help it can get too, definitely a buff worth considering.

Healing spring.

The Gates Assassin.9827:

1. Turret Placement Increase the placement time of turrets to 1s.

While this wouldn’t make a dent to Passive turret play, it will greatly destroy my mobile turret build which require way more active play.

It revolves around creating and destroying turrets for defensive effects.

I reject this idea completely because this idea is terrible. It doesn’t address passive play but only hurts other builds a lot more.

My suggestion:

• Remove Dagger auto attack and replace it with Life siphon. Dagger #2 is replaced with a Necro version of Backstab that does a big lifesteal + cause weakness.
• To give Necro back their cleave, Axe auto attack will be melee only + gain a chain auto-attack. Chop -> chop -> chop
• Stats, damage coefficient will be balanced normally.

Why? I really felt that Life siphon should have been auto attack rather than the dagger auto attack. It makes more sense to me.

Why should Axe, a bigger and more deadlier weapon, should be range, while a dagger, a smaller weapon, should be melee? It makes no sense to me.

Plus, This change will make dagger necro feel more like Blood Mage, life stealer, etc. While Axe Necro feels more like a battle necro or whatever.

Liewec.2896:

they count as objects so they’re immune to crits and conditions.

let them be crit and effected by conditions, fixed!

Only if Turrets can crit.

Spira.4578:

SnubdubLuskon.1795:

Player: “Anet, I’m done. Give me something to do.”

This is something that happens in every single mmorpg. Regardless how it’s oriented.
At the end of the day it all comes to 1 simple conclusion, if ANET doesn’t want to lose a huge portion of their playersbase, they will have to do something about it. They will HAVE to keep us entertained same as in every single other mmo.
It doesn’t matter what YOU think think about it and how you perceive the people that aren’t happy with the game, since you’re still playing it. What matters is why those people aren’t happy with the game. If anet wants to stop this player sink as well as bring old players back (in other words, increase the amount of potential customers) they WILL HAVE TO do something about it.
That’s how business work.

In other words, you want ANet to do the impossible.

Both are very weak by its own traits.

The error came back.

Explosia.9164:

@runeblade.7514 It doesn’t matter if we don’t have cooldown on weapon switching. Even if we take 3 kits we will still need to use auto attack there is no other option.

Then you use other weapon auto attack because retaliation won’t hurt as much.

Explosia.9164:

Air blast and Napalm are useless in this kind of situations. And after patch napalm will trigger retaliation aswell so there is another nail in our coffin.

Air blast is quite useful in neutralizing the enemy so they can’t take the advantage when retaliation is up.

Napalm is useful for the fire field, great for might stacking. Plus, it won’t hurt as much.

For Spirit weapon to be viable, it needs only one change.

• Make it like the old Nature spirit where they start cooldown when the spirit weapon is summoned. Or…
• Reduce cooldown to 25 seconds for all the spirit weapons.

It will be more balanced since spirit weapons are in the power trait line, making SW guards more killable than any other AI profession.

Manuhell.2759:

But that is just a workaround. As you’re basically saying to avoid using flamethrower, due to how common retaliation is.
Again, what’s the point of having an autoattack with such drawbacks? Low damage multi-hit skills are completely useless due to retaliation, they harm the user more than the enemies. And an autoattack can’t have anything other than a relatively low damage.

Blind and Aegis completely block my Eviscerate. Anet should buff Eviscerate so that it can hit two times to make my skill useful.

Manuhell.2759:

runeblade.7514:

Manuhell.2759:

runeblade.7514:

I would agree, but Engineer has a 1 second cooldown for switching weapons. When retal goes down, you can easily switch back.

And why should it make sense for a single skillweapon to be fully neutralized by a single (and quite common, i would add) boon?
And it will be even worse with the feature patch – as napalm will direct damage enemies as well, obviously for extremely low amounts of damage, but still getting fully retaliated in return. And you can’t even cancel that as you would do with the autoattack…

Fixed.

You said yourself to switch out the kit if you see someone with retaliation. How is that not “neutralize the whole kit”?
Especially since out of the whole weapon, only 3 skills damage enemies. And with the napalm change, only flame blast won’t massively process retaliation.
And i still haven’t seen a convincing reply about why an autoattack should come such a risk and no reward.
What’s the point of a trait like Juggernaut if you can’t even stay on the kit?

Flame Blast/Air Blast/Napalm/Smoke Vent are skills in the Flamethrower kit that are not neutralized. Flame Jet is Not the entire kit.

So, no. Retal doesn’t neutralize the entire kit.

And i still haven’t seen a convincing reply about why an autoattack should come such a risk and no reward.

Engineers can switch weapons at will with a one second cooldown. They can adapt to every situations very easily than any other profession. If the weapon swap was 5-10 seconds, I would agree since it means the engineer must stand still and do nothing if the engineer has a cooldown on weapon swap. But, because it is a one second swap, Engineers can just swap weapon, wait for retal to disappear and change back to Flamethrower.

However, I do not see a convincing reply why Flame Jet should be changed. Other than, “I want it.”

Character based

Ropechef.6192:

As you sit down at the laquered wood counter. The Gentleman across from you smiles and nods knowingly.

Placed before you is a rosey hued slice of Hamachi, lightly brushed with Ponzu, Atop a perfectly formed Ball of Rice.

but lets be real. He just took a knife to a chunk of dead sea creature and slathered some lemon juice on it and rolled it around a bit in his hand.

Imagine walking up the front walk way to my Mothers house, lap top in hand. opening the door I peer in and see her sitting at the computer I bought for her giggling away. “There you are! come here help me get this vista.” Laughing myself, I drop my bag and come see her screen. noticing her newly purchased top hat from the gem store daintly perched atop her Asura Thief’s head. "HAH! thats cute mom. " " I know right, will you run with me through Twighlight Arbor I would like the Dress for my Ele"

" Sure Mom, poke the guild while i set up and lets get a group going. "

But lets be real, I am a single Chef in his thirties that comes over to his moms house on the weekend to play Video games with her and my Younger Brother.

I step up to a red tape line on the Concrete. Drawing back and taking a deep breath. slowly exhaling making the slightest adjustments needed. A light tap of the finger while remembering to pull back evenly snaps the string forward and pins the Arrow inside of a dime sized mark in the target 20 yards away.

But lets be real. I am flinging aluminum sticks via a modernized version of a bunch of other sticks at paper 60 feet away.

But lets Be real.

as Sit here typing this out wondering why I am lining myself up for an infraction farm. I don’t get angry, not really. So why does this rub me the wrong way? I don’t know. But regardless. here I am and I am going to Sit here, typing into the magic box I call a computer, After a long day at work. And if I am lucky I might be able to find a group for a Dungeon or two. Because you know, I actually like them. But lets be real. I am staring at a screen pressing a sequence of keys in a determined order to achieve a desired result.

I Have not soloed Lupi, I dont even have fractal Level 50. I have a 300 person guild and each and every one of them looks to me for answers to the challenges they face each day in the world of Tyria. Tyria is old. some of us have been around it more than once. and we know it all. but you know.

some of us still find it fun.

So, Lets be real. Syph, you and any other trollish monkeys. Who feel the strange need to come here and Bash either our play styles, Our game, MY game, or my friends. Citing any number of reasons, excuses, or rubbish. As you sit on the comfort of your cushy chair staring at a monitor using a box that more than likely costed more than I make in a month.

Shove it.

You want to make a point. I will personally offer a Sizable Gem purchase to the tune of around 50 dollars or so if you put your big girl panties on and put together a team and “hack and slash” your way to the finals of the DnT speed clear open.

Lets be real. It will be easy.

kitten off.

tl;dr: i liek dis ez playstyle. Go awayzz.

AcidLex.4879:

Hi Runeblade,

Good for you.
Maybe you can tell me how it was resolved for you, as the response I got was to open the game in window-mode. But that did nothing, I still cannot get any gems.

Support team personally looked into the problem and solved it for me.

kiwituatara.6053:

I’d probably still not invest 6pts just to get reflect on my dodges though :/ Unless maybe if it applies to weapon evades as well.

It would.

But, Spammable reflects in dodges alone would make it GM worthy.

DanSH.6143:

Honeatly that’s a cool idea but I don’t think it’s GM worthy. We don’t realy care about projectiles with oir 1500 range and point blank shot we can handle other projectiles users just fine. Our top concern is melee.
We can’t realy do anything against a thief or a guardian teleporting in our face, and strider’s defense should adress that issue.
Something like “gain protection and retaliation as long as you attack in melee” or “gain aegis after you dodge” or maybe even both.

Reflecting Pin down is GM worthy.

Manuhell.2759:

runeblade.7514:

I would agree, but Engineer has a 1 second cooldown for switching weapons. When retal goes down, you can easily switch back.

And why should it make sense for a single skillweapon to be fully neutralized by a single (and quite common, i would add) boon?
And it will be even worse with the feature patch – as napalm will direct damage enemies as well, obviously for extremely low amounts of damage, but still getting fully retaliated in return. And you can’t even cancel that as you would do with the autoattack…

Fixed.

Manuhell.2759:

That isn’t a solution at all.
It is a weapon that is supposed to be used versus multiple opponents. And yet ends up backfiring in the same exact situation it is supposed to be used for.
And we’re talking about an autoattack, anyway. Since when one should risk so much to deal an autoattack?

I would agree, but Engineer has a 1 second cooldown for switching weapons. When retal goes down, you can easily switch back.

The best solution is to use switch weapons. You don’t need to stay in Flamethrower.

As if everyone has retail stores that has GW2 gem cards nearby.

Hambow has been nerfed.

The adrenaline rework makes it so that they lose all adrenaline when they either hit or miss the burst attack.

Issue is resolved.

Thanks ANet support.
Thanks Gaile!

I will be poor tonight

I want to buy everything in the gemstore. I want to support the game. But there is a problem. Your billing does not work so I cannot buy gems.

I posted in the Account issue forum, I had sent a ticket, and I know your support team is working on it but there is only 2 more days till sales end. After that, any fixes are meaningless.

Please extend the gemstore sales, I want to support the game. It is a win/win for everyone.

2 more days till sales end and I am still not seeing any fixes at sight.