Guild Wars 2

thefantasticg.3984:

I don’t give a rat’s poop about the failed esport pvp side of the game and what would be OP in it. I’m talking PVE as I always am.

Lovely attitude, you are not famous, so next time specify what you play.

Nice build,!
I run a similar build for zerging :

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMAQNBhYD7koiugLsQwCQLDIrHEy+NItCVi7Bq4Jh4FP90E-jUCB4hCyEEAE1w0HQZRFRjtupIasqHYKVER1uEFRrWGAztA-w

With this build you have more mobility, more healing combos and a bit more survival ability.

I prefer the jungle stalker with his might over the unpredictable moa.

p.s. I think the fern hound heals half of what the tooltip says.

Yeah, maybe mine was a stupid idea, that would destroy WvW forever because of the pve/pvp farmers.

Before the league achivements I didn’t realize how much the devs where right to not give any rewards for capping ruins, I was so blind at that time, now I get it.

It’s just sad for us WvWers to be forced to do something we do not enjoy ( pve ) or trade keeps/sm .

Now that the damage is done ( ascended ) I don’t see an easy way out for devs, I don’t think they will delete Ascended, too many ppl would complain.

Maybe they can find a solution that will make everyone happy

Illogical.6218:

SFR such bad losers

If we had some sort of alliance…
SFR would be at 50k points right now, ticking 100 all the time

They are ticking 100 now

C’mon guys, stop this conspiracy nonsense, Vizu need to beat SFR in order to win, PS has took the opportunity to get an advantage over RS, where is the problem ?

And don’t tell me you didn’t try to buy us.

IF Anet really intend to keep ascended in WvW I hope they will consider to give us WvWer an easy way to get them.

Like :
- At the end of the league every person who has completed the achivements will have the possibility to chose between 1x 2h weapon or 2x 1h weapons, like the skins from achievement chests.

OR

- Make them drop more often, like rare equip ( Account bound )

OR

- With Badges + Golds + Karma ( not laurels pls )

Dawn of the season is still bugged for me.

Verdelet Arconia.6987:

It would be better if SicEm actually forces them out of stealth, EG when the thief cast shadow refuge,using SicEm after he has casted gives the revealed aoe debuff. Awesome way to mitigate shadow refuge res or stealth stacking.

The animation and cast time for SR is too short to use SicEm as it is now since it will only work if you have a target.

You can use wolf for that situation fear them !

romainette.2369:

yes sminkiottone, but you have to wait in the same zone to benefit from his waiting list

Thx ! I’ll try it then tonight

So.. If i log in, and I party with a guild mate who is already in queue for 1h I will go in with him ?

Tooltips :

-Sharpened Edge has 0% of chance

Weapons :

- Sword —> remove bleed doesn’t work.
- Sword --> still roots.

Pets :

-Fern hound heals only half of what the tooltip says.

-Fern hound Regen is 11+ seconds, but I get only 10. ( others pets F2 skills have this problem, and probably not only the F2 skills )

-F2 skills are still bugged.

-Pets still forget theyr names.

Skills :

- Signet of the wild : Doest say how much damage we gain by activating it.

Terkov.4138:

You guys can laugh, but he actually has a points with this post. I so often see people crying about bugs (forums, game, even IRL), and when I ask if they reported it, they always answer either “surely others did”, or “devs don’t care anyway”. For bugs to be fixed, they need to be reported first, and not many ppl do it.

First there should be an internal test.

Secondly you are right, there are bugs like the falling dmg in SM that are difficult to see, or the door glitches, we need to report them.

But a lot of bugs are due to distraction, Who didn’t saw the Sharpened Edge bug in the first 5 minutes of play ?

With the Arcana trait changes is no more viable imo.

Before changes :
With dodges + waterfields + blasts ( 3 blasts + 1 whirl ) + attunement swap + auto attack + condi cleans + regens I could keep my party up anytime.

It was OP, I admit it, with 2000+ healing power, one time I tried to stay alive against 6+ players, and it took them way more than 5 mins to kill me ( at the end they where more like 10 than 6 )

But now… I feel like it has been crippled.

I tried it twice after the patch, but wasn’t good anymore.

thefantasticg.3984:

Would be badarse if it actually removed a bleed or just a condition in general.

That would be OP vs any condi build.

Wow, tricky question, I’m interested too, I can’t even find how much Signet of the Wild actually gives in term of points.

My bet is that they “stack”, like signet of the hunt and signet of the wild.

How can we know if a bug has already been reported ? the search function doesn’t work.

Wouldn’t be better to create an official discussion in this sub forum ?

And can some devs create a Ranger and play it in WvW for 1-2 days ? some bugs are really obvious.

What’s the problem ? It’s a normal thing, it’s like champions league or World Cup, Some teams will have a easy tournament and other not so much, it’s cool this way.

Look at Piken Square and Riverside, 2 servers almost equal ( RS is maybe stronger ), we face Vizu and SFR togheter 2 times, RS will face them 1 by 1, there is no Vizu- SFR- RS programmed.

I’ve yet to see someone in game whining about it or pretending to halt the league just because ( only on paper ) we have a tiny little disadvantage vs RS, get a grip, play you league and have fun !

Holm.7058:

Gz vizunah, piken, you are beating a struggling SFR and being proud about it. Must be a big moment for your servers defeating a server when it’s at the weakest considering how much you felt the need to brag on forums.

Vizunah being in the lead for once against us, more and more vizu forum warriors gets the nerve to talk. So much for the diplomacy.

It’s good to see vizunah’s passion is back, it’s just a shame we can’t get on the borders to fight you.

So good luck and have fun piken and vizunah, I hope you get much pride and honor out of being a server that’s dominated you for a long time and you finally win against it when anet decides to make SFR struggle again. Real vizunians and pikens will know it’s a hollow victory

Oh boy…

It’s theyr own choise ?

I know the feeling, it’s like you got betrayed, but you should remember that this is a game, enjoy yourself and don’t stress out about ppt.

Your server got in the wrong league imo, not enough players to fight in silver, what will happen when you will play against Deso, AM, Gandara or AG ?

gl bro.

I hear SFR will get a bright new finisher for this league : The Rosik finisher !

Seriously guys, every server gets double teamed on his BL, it’s like this from day 1, stop whining.

P.S. Your attitude does not help you.

Ranger is very viable in my experience, both roaming and zerging.

For roaming : any BM condi build works wonders in 1vsX, vs warriors/thiefs you don’t even need stunbreaks, just dodge at the right time without spamming it, and ofc, don’t get bursted…
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For Zerging : I tried this build yesterday

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fMEQNBhOD7koiugrrQwCQLDItCVy7BtELtn7BoMKh4FfcyE-jECBEEAE1QUBwZRFRjtupIas6FY6SER1uEFRrGA-w

Pros :
1. Good stacks of Might ( fire field + pet ) and swiftness
2. Good heals with Healing spring (water field)+ pet + shouts ( almost 100% regen uptime in fight )
3. Amazing ressing ability

Cons :

1. No stunbreaks
2. Low tagging ability ( very low dmg compared to warriors)
3. Pet still dies too quickly

Imo Anet has made the ranger very stong in group fights, it has now lots of viable builds to support the team.

It seems to me that devs are dodging the real problems here, it’s been more than a year now, and still, we don’t know if :

a) You are happy with the system you provided us.
b) You are actually working on to fixing the pet system, but it takes time.
c) You will start to adress the problem sometimes in the future.

Is it too much to ask ? I think we deserve some explanation here.

- The pet system is very important for us rangers, people are starting to know how to avoid our pets, more and more often I see the “run in circle” tactic which avoid almost every attacks our pets does.

- The F2 reliability, still bugged, most F2 can’t be casted while running ( yes sometimes I must stop running and wait for the pet to use his skill ).
If we press 2 times the F2 the skill goes in cd without being casted.
We press F2 and nothing happens.
F2 heals are bugged.

Sometimes the pet loses his way, my fernhound sometimes sniffes trees/flowers while im fighting ( maybe attracted to other pets urine ? who knows..)

- The pet does not anticipate the enemy mouvements, he just follow the target like an old Bug bunny cartoon, the enemy can run around a tree and never gets hit.

- Ascended Equipe will give a boost to everything exept for pets.

- Pets forget theyr name

Very good post lordhelmos.7623, bravo !

I wouls also boost a little bit the short bow

Poison volley —> Poison cloud ! 180 radius from the target, it lasts 3 seconds, Combo field: poison.

Quick shot —> boost it up a little, maybe 5 seconds of swiftness ? or 3 seconds of vigor, and maybe boost the jump just a little bit.

Concussion shot —> daze the target for 2 seconds by interrupting a skill ( not a simple auto attack ).

Divinity.8041:

You guys are not the mesmer or ele, so stop the QQ.

Check this graph out.

http://www.chartgo.com/share.do?id=05adfec8aa

You had the HIGHEST representation at the latest MLG tourney

Done, do not complain anymore. My main class had about 5%, and eles were not harmed in the making of that tourney.

Stop the QQ.

And ? what’s you point ? only mesmer can QQ ? your clones are broken ? not effective ?

The graph you brought up means 0, nothing, open you eyes next time you join WvW and count how many warriors and guardians are there compared to ranger, engi or mesmer, you will find out that charts cannot be taken in consideration here.

And there are developers who playe Mesmer in WvW / sPvP / pve, but rangers ? hell, they don’t even know the rangers traits, I saw only 1 screen of a dev playing it, and it was in pve..

McWolfy.5924:

regen is one of the weakest buffs in game. slow and low heal. most classes have it. we, rangers use it only in spvp because we have 4 sources of regen or regen kitten abilitys. with dodges and evaids we can survive most 1v1 situations and slowly condy pressure the enemy. and this is why its not working in pve and wvw. there u need fast kills and big, insta heals.

Imo you are wrong, yes regen is slow, but it’s steady and if you trait right you can reach almost 100% regen uptime in a fight, with +1500 healing power you can heal +1k HP every second, not weak at all.

Sure you need 3k+ toughness, and some evades for the bursts, but if you play smart you can win almost every fight ( even 1vs2 ).

In a zerg fight ? not that important, but it can outheal almost every condition, never happened to die from bleed or burn ? with regen you wont !

LB Burst ranger has 50/50 chances against any class/build, even the most kitten thief, the first who attacks wins.

Imo its the only build that can have a real chance even against the best played d/p thief.

Me and some other from my guild have experienced lag spikes, its completely random and unexpected, it can last for almost 10 seconds in my case

You guys think 4 secs reveal is nothing ?

It’s enough to kill any thief, yesterday I was experimenting with a barserker build with sigils ( lb/gs) and I faced like 6/7 thiefs 1vs1, every one expet for 1 lucky guy died with this combo :

Auto attack —> signet of the hunt —> auto attack —> rapid fire, only one of them survived and stealthed, but by then I knew where he was ( ty rapid fire ) and with 1 maul I downed him, I estimated that the thief is alive for only 3 seconds of the mach ( after 3 secs they are downed with 50%/75% hp), so 4 seconds is overkill imho

Probelm ? if you take more than 4 secs to kill the thief its not worth to bring sic’em, so any bunker rengen build won’t need it, exept for havoc groups.

Sarrs.4831:

That’s still a nerf. Stun effectiveness across the board will be decreased.

That is called fix, not nerf

Anet please, just stop making mistakes !

Bro I feel your pain

(I just copy pasted my previous post )

/rant on !!
Thank you Anet to ruin WvW to all us !!
I’m in Piken Square, a lovely home untill this kitten league was announced, now we have 1h queue for all borders thank to your brillant idea.
Where is the problem you might ask, now I need to spend 100g+ just to move to silver/bronze league ! but don’t be too exited, I wont buy your precious gems
Please fire who ever had this Fantastic idea and find someone with brain, fire them all, then give us free transfers to lower tier server, stop this RNG machmaking and give us real pvp !!!

/rant on !!

Thank you Anet to ruin WvW to all us !!
I’m in Piken Square, a lovely home untill this kitten league was announced, now we have 1h queue for all borders thank to your brillant idea.
Where is the problem you might ask, now I need to spend 100g+ just to move to silver/bronze league ! but don’t be too exited, I wont buy your precious gems

Please fire who ever had this Fantastic idea and find someone with brain, fire them all, then give us free transfers to lower tier server, stop this RNG machmaking and give us real pvp !!!

Pegaasus.3280:

As we all can see ranger has so many limits compared to other classes..look warriors look necros, look mesmers..look any other class except ranger.
I can count dozens of Rangers I personally Know who simply quitted the game or rerolled another class just becouse ranger is not competitive anymore.
Of course there are still some viable builds like the condition ones..but if you fight against a pro warrior or thief or whatelse..you will die no way.
They nerfed our pets..they nerfed our spirits..They could have simply delete our class
Anyway October15 is really last Train for ranger class.
If Arenanet fails..well count 5 rangers and 5 players less in Gw2
( I have a small guild of rangers )
What do you think guys?^ Tell me your opinions

From what I saw roaming ( imho ) :

Ranger > Elementalist / i can’t remember the last time i died in 1vs1 vs them

Ranger = Mesmer / with confusion it’s very hard to find the right time to attack
without killing yourself at the same time, otherwise is just a 50/50

Ranger > Guardian / very few guardians are roaming these days

Ranger = Engineer / the most fun class to fight, yesterday I had a 1vs1, both in berserker, the mach lasted 5 seconds, we both got downed in less than 1 second, I was winning the fight ( then other ppl came and ruin it all ) just because rangers are OP in downed state ( pet still deals a lot of dmg )

Ranger < Thief / in most cases thief have an advantage over ranger, and they can reset the fight

Ranger < Warrior / like thief they have an advantage over ranger, and they also can reset the fight at will

What’s the problem ? I think the melee classe are too much powerfull compared to ranged one, Anet boosted melee to a point where a ranger is forced to leave the bow at home if he wants to be competitive.

Still, a spike ranger (LB) team will destroy everything in its path, I have tried once 3 spike rangers + 1 guardian healer/buffer, we melted groups of 4/5 ppl in seconds, even a necro doesn’t have that much HP to survive a ranger spike.

I think it has 10 sec,
Effect recharge : 10 sec
duration : 60 sec

ykyk.2740:

Just economics. Home economics is like cooking and stuff.

But yes, you are right. Not that it should surprise anyone.

Ahah thx for the correction, I just look at it on google and I was " wtf i just said ?", never translate literally without checking the outcome…

Study the basics of home economics, you will thank me later.

They made this trick to gain the last and every bit of money they can before the league starts.

Yelloweyedemon.2860:

What’s the point of rank titles if they have nothing to do with actual pvp?

One can just follow 40 man zergs, do pve (hit doors, and ninja keeps) and get super high rank. There’s no skill required, just follow the zerg.

I daily see “bronze legends” and higher, and when caught alone (usually trying to get back to their zerg, like good and loyal raid babies), they melt in seconds. Why is PvE so rewarding in an “open world” pvp area?

WvW ranks show only if you follow the karma train or not, it doesn’t show your skill or time spent in the game.
Usually a bronze legend will be equipped with a zerg build, so basicaly its a free kill for you.

dp thiefs are so annoying, not funny to fight against, I don’t bother with them anymore.

Hopefully anet will fix stealth in time, untill then we need to be patient with those little kids, and be supportive, most of them will probably quit cause of lack of skill after playing 1+ year with a broken mechanic.

I always laugh when a read " stealth is a main mechanic, without stealth thief is nothing" and bla bla bla, poor noobs

Immagine a perma stealth vs perma stealth, or regen ranger vs stunlock warrior, or ele healer vs guardian supporter, or even those shuffled, are you prepared to fight for 24h ?
Gw2 is not balanced, 1vs1 more than anything else.

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

If you’re a true roamer, roaming mastery would be like:

10 Pts, no WvW passive buffs.
20 Pts, do not receive Orb buffs.

And… that’s it.

I like this idea more

Thank you Anet ! this looks amazing, keep up the good work.

SUGGESTION : can you Please ask some organized groups/guilds to test it for you before delivering it to the rest of us ? so they can try it out and point out flaws ( if there will be any :P ), Then you can release it for the rest of us “mere mortals”.

Borderland bloodlust docet(Teaches)

Gathslan.1870:

Daendur.2357:

Gathslan.1870:

what you get for wvw xp should not buff you against other players

why ?
wvw is players vs players.
wvw buff should give more skill, passive bonus and strong buffs, not a stupid +1% dmg vs guards.

Are you serious?
Do you want stats to win you fights or your skill to win you fights?
I know which one it is for me, i want when i kill someone that it is because i played better not because of some stupid buffs you get by running around with zergs (roamer mastery yeah sure when you get it by zerging)

There is already TOO MUCH power creep in WvW with the guard buffs and bloodlust why would you want more?!

The kitten is happening to the players in this game?

The problem is Pve..

Omne.4603:

What you should realize:
-Maxing wxp is unimportant in a place where your expected to engage in teamplay.
-There is no power curve. After 3-400 you get severe diminishing return as you can not use 8 types of siege at once.
-If your guild loses to another guild in wvw and you blame it on anything with Guard in the name, you and your guild are terrible.
-If your group is team oriented you will always have siegemasters to outnumber the siege you have.

what are you talking about ?

-Maxing wxp is not possible for most player, only people who play 10+h a day can aim at that.
-The first 230 ranks are very important to keep it competitive.
-If my guild loses it’s also because of the buffs, even food has its “weight” in a fight.
-lol, its not about siege warfare, it’s about a fair mach, you know.. real pvp.

Try to do some pvp next time

I don’t think it’s going to work,

What happens in a 30vs50 ? will the buff be helpfull to the 30 ppl ?
And what if the other zerg just split up in 2 smaller zergs (50/50, even ) ? let’s say that now you have 5 more ppl than the other zergs, the problem is that you still have the buff.

Imho this will just push ppl to follow only 1 commander at any time.

I think Wxp was a good idea, but they implemented it badly, first of all the guard leech and applied fortitude, it forces people to farm everything they can and more !!!!
I used to think that ppl played in WvW for fun, now I’m not that sure, it’s like most people enjoy the wxp and dragonite ores more than a nice fight.

When they implemented Wxp I saw people capping sentrys for the first time ! pugs never botered with them, but now that they give wxp, they even wait when the sentry is already in our hands, /laugh

I did a 3 days of test with my ranger, I bought the equipe only for blobbing, turned of my brain and followed the commander 100% of my play time, I played as a PUG ( no ress, no support, I cared only for loot and wxp ), what do I realized ? I was not the only one, too many freeloaders.

- People are becomming more and more noob, is it me ? anyone else has experienced it ? it’s like a) good players have already left b) lots of new players or pugs are staking on the first servers.

But why didn’t he made a statement in here too ? and why they are not sharing information with us all ? it’s very strange.

Do you have full berserker armor/weapons/trinkets ?
In my personal experience is a cool set up and very hard to master,
I usually use :

- Traits : 30/30/0/10/0 ( 1/10/11 – 4/10 – 5 )
- Utility skills : Signet of the stone- Signet of the wild- Signet of the hunt- Rampage as one
- Weapons : LB + GS
- Pet : Jungle stalker + wolf
- Food : + dmg + prec.
- Stack power

I use this set up only for ambushes, when I start the run I active the signet of the hunt ( +150% dmg for 17 mins ) and start roaming around.

When fighting : pet F2 ( might ) —> rampage as one —> Signet of the wild —> auto attack —> signet of the hunt —> rapid fire, at this point if the target has a low armor/vit hes probably downed, if not, you should hurry up, otherwise you dead, you can use wolf F2( fear) signet of the stone and heal as one, LB 3 + 4, GS 3 +4, but they will not keep you alive for long.

Usually the fight ends after 10/15 seconds.

I think the OP is right, I’ve noticed less Heavy loot bags and boh in the last 1 month, but I think it’s supposed to be like that, now I salvage everything, and with 60%+ of MF i noticed more nice drops, don’t know the cap of it, but with more MF i noticed a costant increase of rare loot.

Liete.5263:

Are your characters bringing in XP for your lvl35? no, so stop it. It’s character progression above level 80 and nothing else

Yes, my main did bring an alt to lvl 20 with no efforts, try to figure that out ( hint* it’s contracditory )

Does accound bound wxp damage your feelings ? if yes, why ?

ColinJohanson.2394:

Hey folks,

The addition of the bonus WXP for laurels/badges is simply intended to give WvW players an additional option they can spend their laurels/badges on, it is not intended to fix any issues with alts and WxP.

We’re aware of, and actively discussing the amount of progression we’ve added through WxP and the difficulty for playing multiple characters as a result. When we make changes to help address alts/WxP rank, we’ll make sure to specifically call out the change is to help address that issue.

Are you planning to do it ?

Seriously, what where you thinking Devon ? Only people who play Pve or have only 1 character have extra laurels.

I’m very disappointed here, I was waiting for this, by the way you spoked I though you were serious about it, like you really want to improve alts experience in wvw, I really didn’t expected to be fooled like this, gj you got me.