Guild Wars 2

+1

I think they should be more the size of the other “winged” backpieces we have so far; so basically double their size and you should be good.

I imagine it’s incredibly tiny on Asurans.

Try guesting to TC or BG; you should be able to find large groups doing world events pretty much throughout the day there.

I think before you guys even begin to address the issues with progression you need to focus on the disparity of rewards between the different aspects of the game. Time spent in WvW, PvP, or PvE for “equal” effort should be rewarded the same. It’s not fair to people who WvW, and arguably benefit the server as a whole, to be rewarded FAR less than what they would receive for the same time/effort in PvE.

As far as character progression goes: you won’t see me working on it until you go back to your original plans of horizontal progress and you make things alt/build friendly. I’m not here to be locked into one class; if I wanted that type of game I’d go play WoW or something else with the trinity. I like being able to alt/change my build to fit different roles, but the current “progression” system is INCREDIBLY against that(especially wrt fractals).

There isn’t much you guys can do now wrt Ascended gear, aside from making it sell-able on the TP. There never should have been Ascended gear in the first place: it should have been Exotic and Legendary(with selectable stats) only.

Oh well, lesson learned(hopefully).

tl;dr,
OPTIMAL changes I’d like to see:

• change Ascended to selectable stats(I would actually craft then, as it would be build friendly)
• even the rewards across all areas of the game(X hours in Y activity = X hours in Z activity)
• Account-wide AR, this would allow for alts to be easily put right into fractals(without having to spend tons of gold on re-ARing them), plus allow for people to try out different group comps without leaving people behind
• Allow for Ascended gear to be bought/sold, or at the very least, change the ways of obtaining it(ie: decrease the time-gate, add-in some “challenge” to it instead of only crafting/rng drops)

P.S. The current system is going to lead me to spend LESS on gems in actuality, as Ascended forces you to focus on one or two characters max(due to time-gate/money). If they weren’t time-gated or had select-able stats, then I would get them for my other builds/alts as well, thus spending more money on transmute stones, etc. You are losing out on sales by forcing strict and honestly boring systems on the player.

No, neither can be infused atm.

It’s much like Ascended Weapons:

• You get a box of a certain type(stats)
• You get to choose what piece AND armor type you want(ie: light, medium, heavy, AND whatever of the 6 body parts you want)

I’ve had good luck with 49 daily so far, as I’ve gotten 2 and my past two parties have had at least 3 people get them.

sirflamesword.3896:

It can’t be infused sad panda.

Well that sucks (a bit). Hopefully it just doesn’t work correctly in the MF yet.

sirflamesword.3896:

somsom.5201:

I got the recipe(s) from the giant wintersday box; took ~1000 to get both.

Sadly, you can’t sell the Dwayna recipe or backpiece on the TP, but it looks like Grenth is possible.

Mucho money though, but in the end, I’m glad I made Dwayna. Looks amazin!

Does Dwayna come with stats? Or do you have to tstone an existing one?

It comes with no stats, but you double-click and it will let you select from a LOT of stats(I think pretty much every Ascended stat). It’s a one-time deal though.

morrolan.9608:

Great so I won’t get one, fantastic, they make a back piece that I might actually make then they gate the recipe behind event items that will vanish when it finishes.

The only “gated” part is that it’s obtainable from wintersday boxes; but they are purchasable via the TP and quite cheap. I think I spent maybe ~10g on those boxes and actually made back ~9g from selling the sweaters, snowflakes, etc.

For some reason the Grenth recipe/item isn’t accountbound, so you can actually buy that one off the TP. Hopefully the Dwayna recipe/item gets changed to allow for that too.

I got the recipe(s) from the giant wintersday box; took ~1000 to get both.

Sadly, you can’t sell the Dwayna recipe or backpiece on the TP, but it looks like Grenth is possible.

Mucho money though, but in the end, I’m glad I made Dwayna. Looks amazin!

I think the UI needs an overhaul before we start getting into things like Lt/Jr commanders and the like.

Things like tag colors, mouse-over for unit count/supply count(meaning I could quickly mouse-over commanders on the map and see where I want to go/who needs more help or supplies), multi-targeting, etc would all be nice introductions.

Well the current meta doesn’t allow much for Ranger play, let alone Mesmer or Engineer. It sucks, but that’s how it is for the foreseeable future.

We can still roam/1v1 like a boss though.

Since the latest content patch (Fractal update) I have been encountering connection errors of the “your client has lost connection, bla bla bla, firewall issue” variety. However, they ONLY occur when utilizing the LFG tool. By this I mean:

I hit “Y”
Go to LFG tool
Browse to lets say Fractals 10-19
Browse to lets say Fractals 20-39
Repeat switching between the two to find a group
After 10-20 of these “refreshes” a small “loading” circle will appear next to the Fractals label like it’s trying to refresh
The refreshing process gradually gets slower and slower until it “stops”
At this point all online contacts “refresh” and I get a message like “Person X has come online”
Right after this(maybe 2-3 seconds later) the connection error message pops-up
No loss of connection, I can click the OK box and continue
At this point, refreshing Fractals is fast again, but will slow/lag within 10-20 refreshes

It almost seems like the LFG queries are not being removed(like when I switch between Fractal levels, it’s almost like the previous query remains active, even though I’m now searching for a different level) and thus leading to immense lag/overload and then a connection error.

This doesn’t occur anywhere else in the game; no other connection issues except with this. My guess is the game is trying to limit/protect connections and is targeting me for some reason, thus resulting in a “fake” connection error in-order to regulate connection attempts.

lol @ the “refund” too

If ANet just gives your gems back…have fun re-buying your armor/buying splitters to get it all back.

Such a silly response and skin creation in the first place. Next time put some effort into your work and you won’t have to deal with these kinds of issues ANet. Serves you right for going for the money grab.

haha oh man

I LOVE the comment about the meshes being “similar”…

Also the one about not realizing how similar they were. Really? Give me a break. You got caught trying to re-use existing skins(nothing new), but charging for something that most spent in-game gold on for 2x the price.

All this reads as is: “We’re sorry you caught us. We’ll go and make the changes that should have been made in the first place.”

Sorry, but it’s ALL lazy. The T3 set is definitely a slap in the face, but the other two are as well. In future, work on putting out actual artistic content, rather than blatant money grabbing attempts.

Examples of what to do:
Phalanx Male

Examples of what NOT to do:
Phalanx Female, T3 rip-off, any kind of armor re-use that’s easily had in-game already

You can get them from Fractals (supposedly everything from +1 to +11). You can then take those and craft them together via Artificier.

It said a “chance from higher level fractals”.

A chance.

Higher level fractals.

So yea, a chance.

Hey ANet:

If you’re going to implement ALL cultural armors with new “effects” on them, then I want my money refunded for purchasing them without those effects/loss of exclusiveness.

Mad Rasputin.7809:

I read it as follows:

All back pieces will get an additional AR infusion slot (along with rings).

If you had an inherently infused back piece (or ring), the new infusion slot will already have a +5 infusion AR infusion in it.

If you had a back piece (or ring) that was not inherently infused, the new AR infusion slot will be empty.

I don’t think anyone with an inherently infused back piece or ring will be losing anything. They are just moving the +5 inherent AR to the new AR infusion slot.

Though, I really wonder if this will cause issues for people that have “Red Ring of Death” and “Red Ring of Death (Infused)” equipped currently. Will this player now be equipping two of the same unique rings?

The wording specifically says “infused”, so I don’t think that will be an issue, but again, it’s ANet, so who knows.

I’ll just say this: no way am I re-leveling 4 characters to 48 again.

#ggnothxkbyenomoregemsfromme

I read that as giving 2x slots, but knowing ANet it likely is just 1x slot. If that’s the case, then they definitely need to refund us in some form for those ectos. I’ll be waiting for my 4 backpieces(aka 1000 ectos plz).

shrug

Might as well just give out Fractal weapons, levels, and rewards on the Gemstore at this rate.

Another hyperbolic thread.

People will still buy them, either with gold or with RM.

GWT says it would currently cost ~15g to get 200gems atm, something most gamers who play daily could do in a few hours(a couple dungeon paths, some TP play, and maybe a couple world events, etc.). Even in the future if they go up to ~25-40g, so what? you have to wait a day or two to get your transmute stones. BFD bro, BFD.

On the other hand we have RM → gems: assuming you are working a job in America you are easily making MUCH more than anything you could be in-game(eg: 1hr of IRL work is going to net you WAY more gold than 1hr of in-game farming will). This route will grow in popularity more and more as time progresses(heck, it’s already the best route to take atm and has been for quite some time).

The only people who might “lose” out on the rising gem conversion costs are those who don’t spend much time in-game/are averse to spending RM. Not much to say to them other than too bad; either put in the time, put in your own time(RL money), or GTFO and stop making threads about wanting 3c bubble gum and 30c gasoline.

Ansau.7326:

@GOSU That clearly shows how much wvw videos you have seen. My opinion is based on what I’ve seen after facing servers from VS to AG (13 servers) for a year, and a bunch of videos from servers like Blackgate to Dragonband (pugs, guilds roaming…).
First, there are tons of ZvZ EU videos. My guild uploads 1 every week, and I’m in a server based on guilds.
Second, one thing is playing with blobs, an another totally different is basing your playstyle in blobs as a server. There are some eu servers which, in certain periods of the day, they only run a 80 man blob jumping the maps, mine included.
NA servers seems to have less packed pug zergs. In EU, we play with ball zergs, 50 people in the same point following the orders of a commander.
In EU, the commander is a leader. It is common he decides when to attack, which, how much, when and where siege to put, when to put water and fire fields… I’ve seen NA videos where the commanders are eles or necro full dps. That’s nearly impossible to see in first half part of EU servers. Commander are so important to simply go full dps and be the first to die.
I’ve seen in a lot of videos there are like 4, 5 or more orange swords on minimap. That is very difficult to see on Eu servers.

All this is about pug commanders, like KT ones, on eu servers with quite coverage. Of course in dedicated guilds this doesn’t happen, and in lower eu servers the playstyle is different.
At first, I founded a lot of builds from NA players useless, while seeing people amazed with them. It wasn’t after seeing a lot of videos that I understood wvw is not played in the same way in both server groups.

@SrebX DE is a personal preference and I only use it to roll twice and use Distortion. Phantasmal Fury is a great alternative, and you can also use 30/20/0/20 and take focus trait or Restorative Mantras.
I first started 30/20/0/20, but with new changes, Protected mantras will grant +600 toughness and I find it more useful.
Also, illusions die instantly only when the zerg is not compacted. For what I’ve seen, this tent to happen a lot in NA servers. The photos are an example of the power of iZerker.

Not to derail this thread, but NA(specifically higher tiers like T1) most definitely DOES have large ZvZ fights. No clue where you got the impression that all of NA runs havoc(usually we think that of EU); anyways, proof if needed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhpJtN6Lu7I

Honestly you seem VERY misinformed. Perhaps you’re watching very low ranked NA videos or GvG? dunno

In the past 48hrs I’ve gotten probably ~20 whispers from goldsellers; I’ve blocked/reported each, but it seems like they are moving to whispers now and skipping the blanket map chat spam.

It’s likely, as others will point out, a TP text program. That said, it could very well be a bot, as I’ve encountered similar experiences with high-end low-availability items(pres/legendaries): basically near-instant re-bids/up-bids.

There’s been a TON of topics/complaints about this and not much(that I’ve seen at least) response from ANet about it.

I’m totally with you though that the disparity(not even going to mention the “sexified” nature of it) between the skins is silly. The male variant shares a common theme; the female variant feels like the set is made up of entirely different pieces.

shrug

Only option at the moment is to sex change or not purchase it.

Adacian.9752:

The issues with pets are frustrating. The core of the ranger has been made to revolve around a pet, which is broken. There is little incentive to continue with the ranger class. All the changes I see are focused on issues that are not as critical as the pet problems. Why is that?

It isn’t something fixable apparently(or at least not for a long LONG time), so they’re focusing on other things(which aren’t the CORE mechanic of the class).

tl;dr: Pick another class and move on

So…after reading that little blurb about pets, is it possible to give us some kind of damage boost when running without a pet?

What I took away from that is that pets aren’t functioning optimally as they should be(or they are flat-out broken in some cases), yet they won’t be fixed(or even looked at being fixed) for quite some time. According to your goal for the class as a whole, pets are in-fact a HUGE part of the class. Seeing as how they aren’t fully up to par with the rest of classes in the game, perhaps you guys should return to the drawing table and re-think things? I don’t see why a choice ala GW1 of no pet would hurt; if anything it would improve build variety.

I mean, I knew pet AI was pretty borked to begin with, but after reading that…ehh it’s kind of a slap in the face to admit it AND say it’s not going to be fixed anytime soon. So I guess the answer is just to play another class that is actually being given attention/proper effort towards the class goal.

Yea, please do NOT remove the evade from GS #1. Adding it to Swoop is just a flat-out bad idea for a number of reasons:
A) Swoop can be used offensively as a gap closer(which will basically waste the evade)
B) Swoop can be used defensively as a gap extender(escape, again another waste of the evade); I’d wager MOST Rangers use it for this
C) Swoop is already a fairly “unique” ability and doesn’t need yet another mechanic added to it

GS has become the defacto defensive weapon with it’s block, evade, and Swoop. Removing the evade from GS #1 will DRAMATICALLY change the weapon into a niche area, as the evade will go from being used often to being used only for escapes(honestly it will be wasted because we’re already using Swoop to gain distance in that situation).

I’ll be honest: removing the evade will force me to drop the weapon from my build(and likely kill my desire to play the class as a whole).

KazNaka.4718:

Faux Sheaux.6179:

KazNaka.4718:

Chopps.5047:

Lol the frequency of this topic. Every new ranger whines about the sword

Because there is a real problem with it. It isn’t just about new rangers. When comparing with all the other classes, none of them have this problem.

Actually, any attack that roots has this exact same problem. Just look at heartseeker.

it’s not an auto-attack chain though. That is what I’m trying to get at. You need to carefully time heartseeker while doing your auto-attack.

Just like you need to learn to carefully time your non-auto-attack with #1. It isn’t that hard and it gives you MUCH more control over the action.

Sorry, but it’s a total l2p issue(I know you don’t agree).

You can get pretty close with what we have currently(or soon):

Shoulders = Ascended
Chest = Human T3
Gloves = Priory
Legs = HoTW
Boots = Viper

The scarf would only be possible with Norn T3 shoulders, but then none of the chests work. shrug

If you factor in SP → gold conversion then you’re really getting closer to 10.5g/hr which is still pretty kitten good.

LetoII.3782:

FractalChaos.6539:

It’s one thing to stay on the server I joined back at launch in order to encourage community building, another entirely to hang on to the past, and so I am going to be moving on…where I don’t know yet.

SoR has lost its backbone. Many of the WvW guilds seem to be more concerned with their own prestige and maintaining (or growing) their spot in the “pecking order” than actually winning the matchup.

-No evolution of tactics. It’s always their blob versus our blob. Always. I play WvW about 6-8 hours a day, 7 days a week (sabbaticals have their perks!) and it’s the exact same game plan every day, on every map; the blob is either capturing something, or rushing to defend something at the last second. No exceptions.

-No room for dialogue. Constructive criticism is ignored or (more likely) ridiculed in map chat, and the critic is labeled a troll and placed on ignore at the Commanders’ insistence.

-We’re not winning? Participation drops.

It may not yet be reflected in the score, but Sanctum of Rall, how far have you fallen…

Everybody loves backseat drivers.
You complained about two mutually exclusive things there, map blobs and guilds ducking the blob…
Hint: Guilds run tagless in an attempt to split up blobs.

Everyone loves ‘“we play for fights, not ppt”, but log-off when things don’t follow our rules’ too.

WvW on SoR has been in a massive decline since most of the “backbone” guilds started running tagless and talking (more than usual) kitten about the "Rally"ians.

Mayoken.9851:

So…. i came home to start reading the last 10 pages on this thread…
Guess what? It’s all the same kitten xD
Stop crying and do something about it. Bad coverage? Have a server meeting.
Guilds getting demoralized? Amp up and kittening fight.

BG was doing good and kicking kitten before ZD joined, so, come up w/ another excuse.

Better yet, hop servers and start a new guild like Mayo…

I’d be all for this. I’ve always thought that Ascended just didn’t make all that much sense(why spend all that time/money on a small improvement to stats with NO way of changing builds?).

With your approach it would actually make sense for people to put effort into it, because as it currently stands…it’s just a small stat increase and I’m not going to do that for ALL my alts(not to mention ALL my builds). Allowing for stat choice(ala Legendaries) would make the grind worthwhile(for me at least).

mrstealth.6701:

somsom.5201:

Did you honestly expect free styles for new characters?

Considering that a new character already costs me $10 (or over 40g), yeah, I do.

You don’t need to purchase a new character. You choose to do it. Want those NEW hairstyles? then you need to CHOOSE to purchase them.

New is new. You pay for new things. Not a hard concept.

Either pony up the RL money or spend gold in-game, either way it’s not a hard decision to make.

+1 The new hairstyles work WONDERS for the player models and hide a lot of the smaller issues with the facial models. Seriously, the female #1 hairstyle looks AMAZING!!!

Nice work and I hope to see more quality modeling like this in the future.

People are seriously complaining about not getting free hairstyles?

How hard is it to convert gold to gems? You push “O”, select conversion, convert ~13g to 250 gems, get the hairstyle kit, voila.

Serious business apparently.

Did you honestly expect free styles for new characters? What’s next, free backpacks for new characters?

Not to name names, but in my previous guild there was a co-leader who was an ex-ANet dev; he regularly gave us info/hints on upcoming changes and he wasn’t even really in the know-how much anymore.

It’s sad, but until ANet gives EVERYONE the PTR…it’s going to keep happening and a select few will be able to reap the rewards of foreknowledge.

At first I was all :|

Then I realized…DOUBLE MONTHLY

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I made a similar post yesterday, so it looks like quite a few people are experiencing this

Just wanted to notify the modelers that the Whisper’s Heavy Chest and the Aetherblade Heavy Leggings are clipping near the belt/waist area(the Whisper’s Chest seems to be covering up the belt area of the Leggings).

see screenshot for example

There should be a fourth option:
-All players have team colors
-All players except for you have team colors (new one)
-Only enemy players have team colors
-No team colors

I have a couple items in my bank that are both accountbound and soulbound. These items are not showing up correctly when equipped or previewed.

ex: I had a Fused Shortbow on my thief; I transmuted it(the skin) to a white so I could use it on my Ranger. Prior to the patch the weapon worked fine and displayed correctly and my Ranger could see it. Now, after the patch, it looks like the base weapon stats I used(Pearl Berserker)…the skin is…gone.

This also happened with ALL my other pre-equipped weapons, not just accountbound ones. The weapons I was banking on my Ranger are now showing the default stat skin(Pearl) instead of the actual skins.

Pics of the issue below:
Items in bank
http://i.imgur.com/jpDcYbk.png
My Fused Shortbow previewed
http://i.imgur.com/QA9ccZY.png

I really REALLY hope this is a bug, otherwise I’m out MEGA gold(Fused, Corrupted, a Precursor, etc)…

Not sure where else to post this, so I’ll put it in General in the hopes that it gets attention/gets moved to the proper area.

I’ve suspected TP bots for awhile now(I know they exist, a simple Google search will show you), but haven’t had real “evidence”. That said, I’ve spent the last couple days monitoring a market that doesn’t have a whole lot of fluidity/players: legendaries. I choose this market because it has very few people putting in buy-orders and as such would be much easier to spot the bots.

Case in point: Flameseeker Prophecies

I started placing buy-orders on this ~5 days ago, after seeing one @ 1050.01g . I began simply by upper-cutting by 1c and noticed that the other player was fairly quick to respond with another 1c upper-cut. Now, this itself isn’t indicative of botting, however the following behavior is: a CLEAR cut-off point, specific re-list/de-list times(10-30 seconds), behavior occurs at ALL hours(meaning unless this player sat 24/7 in front of their computer, they were a bot), etc.

The cut-off point for the bot seems to be around 1070g; anything more and the bot will permanently de-list their bid(meaning, they will retract it until the bid above their cut-off point is removed). You can test this by watching for the bot to post around 1050.01g, then putting in your own bid of say 1100g, and then remove it. The bot will quickly de-list, wait until you remove, and then re-list @ 1050.01g .

So obviously this is happening in this market…but what about the other less obvious markets? There is no doubt in my mind that it’s occurring there as well and with no real means of reporting this activity(we can’t see who posted an item/bid), it leaves us with no other option but to submit a generic ticket.

ANet what is your response to this? Obviously you banned a ton of in-world botters, those who were gathering/farming/etc. but have you done anything to those utilizing TP botting/automation?

John Smith.4610:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

But make no mistake. If you didn’t make your Gold from the Queen’s Gauntlet, or Champion farming, you’ll be left behind in terms of wealth. That’s why it’ll be interesting to see how Anet responds to this.

This is incredibly hyperbolous. In the last week, the median player earned less than 3 gold in the new content (that’s discounting all players who earned less than 1 gold).

The ENTIRE week? You have to be kidding.

There is NO way the median player earned ONLY 3g from the new content in an ENTIRE week.

3g is like 20 minutes of play in DR or CS. You can’t tell me that the median player played less than 20 minutes in either of those places over a week.

I would say it definitely is beatable by every class…just not every build.

I did everything up until the final boss using my WvW specc’d Guardian(heavy toughness, healing, etc with GS+SW/F) and found it VERY easy. I switched to my Necro at the end because I got bored and 1shotted it first time.

Try it with different builds, but otherwise it’s an issue of knowing the fights NOT trying different classes.

Only one rule: don’t even bother. It’s bad enough now, just imagine what it’ll be like with all the promotion about it with the upcomming patch…

There seriously needs to be a skill/knowledge check before you can even venture outside of sPvP and into soloq. Want to do soloq? then you need to show that you understand how to communicate, play a good build, when to rotate/support, what not to do, etc.

Straight-up joining soloq and expecting it to just be sPvP but with less players is a recipe for disaster. Not only will you likely not win(unless you get carried hard), but you will end up getting raged at by players there to win/have a good fight.

Romek.4201:

how much threads you wanna start with this? we all played some soloQ before, its not the end of the world lol. Relax a bit ^^

Have you played yoloq lately? It’s a COMPLETE mess filled with lvl 5s vs lvl 50-60s. Not only that, no one uses comms at all, people off-point, 4zerg v 1, etc.

AKA: my hopes for the new SoloQ are non-existent.

ArcTheFallen.7682:

One last thing to all of the ranger lovers crying L2P. Why keep on defending an unbalanced build? I want Rangers to have like millions of builds just not dependent on AIs and passive play. I want to say “Wow, that was really hard to land.” Or “Wow, that was a really good combo. GG” Not “Wow, he can just press buttons.” Rangers need more ‘timed’ mechanics, not uptime mechanics.

What you’re asking for is something ANet has previously said is NOT their goal for the Ranger class. Take it up with ANet; stop blaming the player for using the builds available to them and the AI that goes along with it. ANet want/s/ed Ranger to be VERY dependent on AI support and to NOT be a “solo” class. I don’t particularly like it either(I’d rather have NO pets if possible and receive some kind of buff in return) but that’s how it is.

As for the OP: play it for awhile and you’ll see the downsides/weaknesses.

Numero Uno: to be truly effective with it you need to spec FULLY into spirits; this ends up missing out on some “good” traits(Prot, Vigor, Shouts, etc).

Numero Duos: the build is fairly “easy” to counter: kill spirits(direct dmg or aoe), CC ranger, etc. A good warrior/thief can lockdown someone with this build in about .00001s and gg the fight. If you instead choose to fight on the same grounds as the ranger…then I dunno what to say other than l2p and understand the build/class better.

Barrage? really?

Everytime I see a fellow Ranger use that in tPvP…I just chuckle and stomp them. I don’t think I’ve EVER seen it successfully used one time. Most Rangers drop it right on top of themselves when they have hardly any HP left..gg that really hurts.

Other than that, yes the condi removal is a big no-no and I would also drop TU for HS.

It’s an interesting build, but I think you’re going to end up getting stomped with it(a lot).