Guild Wars 2

i think pets should teleport back when recalled. why? because it’s the sluggish controls that kills them.

i recall pets from red circles all the time but only about 10% of the time do they make it out in time. i don’t think an instant recall would make them overpowered.

Ursan.7846:

vespers.1759:

it’s not a generalization. most 80s don’t do PVE unless it is for the 100% map or dailies and then they are already geared and roll through it with zero fear.

When you said “nobody,” it is a generalization.

1. Not everyone who does open world PvE is an 80
2. Not everyone has an 80.
3. Not all 80s are fully geared
4. Many 80s do PvE for reasons aside from 100% map completion/dailies

Again, please refrain from generalizations. It really does not contribute to good discussion.

it’s called an exaggeration. you know your argument fails when that’s all you can attack.

fact is open world PVE is a tiny portion of endgame.

Sylosi.6503:

They should just add a dueling function, as for “real” PvP, dueling is no more real than tPvP, just more simplistic.

yeah it is “PvP” but i want fights where it’s my skill vs another person. i don’t feel that in WvWvW ever and not often in SPvP.

mostly i just want 1v1s and they are very hard to find without bringing your team down.

Ursan.7846:

vespers.1759:

nobody gives a rat’s kitten about open world PVE either.

Please stop making generalizations like this. It doesn’t contribute to good discussion, and good discussion is what’s required especially when a Dev posts on this forum.

Anyways Robert, I’m assuming there’s just technical limitations with the program when trying to apply AR to your pet? Or do you not want to do that. If so, may I ask why?

it’s not a generalization. most 80s don’t do PVE unless it is for the 100% map or dailies and then they are already geared and roll through it with zero fear.

I’m talking straight PvP 1v1 or 2v2 PvP without zergs or objectives. This game needs arenas so people can PvP for fun! a place without the annoyance of WvW or the tryharding of SPvP.

WvWvW: i hesitate to call WvWvW PvP as nothing gets done without a zerg. sure you can take camps alone or with a small group, but you’re not really helping when they will be rerolled by a zerg in seconds. in a zerg most of WvWvW is spent running around and hitting doors. after a while the round robin gets tiring.

you can roam around and hope you find someone to fight, but usually it’s just time wasted for you because you either don’t find anyone, you find a zerg, or you find a thief. it’s also a slot taken from people who actually want to play objective WvWvW.

SPvP: again, there’s very rarely 1v1s and it’s objective based. i also feel bad for taking a slot when i want to PvP rather than cap points.

i don’t think it would be hard to create a PvP arena (there’s on the black citadel) so people who want real PvP (not ZvZ or TvT) or just want to test builds and fool around can do it without hindering anyone else.

Chopps.5047:

15 points in wilderness survival gives you this ability. What? You want protection without traiting WS?

what game are you playing?

the ranger is the same as any other class in open world PVE. there isn’t a class in the game that isn’t good at open world PVE. nobody gives a hoot about open world PVE either.

this is such a facepalm. so because it "would make rangers OP in open world PVE (which no level 80s do) we must remain terrible at the PVE that 80s actually do.

i don’t see how it is fair that we should be gimped by the crappiness of pets when other classes are just as good (and better) at open world PVE and are also not gimped in dungeons.

i liked the ranger part but how does that build do without pain inverter?

Caedmon.6798:

,the culling issue however ( if that’s what youre refering too,since you wern’t quite clear ) WIll be eliminated in the next big update,March.

i’ll believe that when i see it.

i agree with this

i play full zerk and i’ve been testing out the axe in offhand. it will land a 9.9k once a month. usually the dmg off it is closer to 4-5k. the reflect is okay even though it is stationary. it is also an aoe for stupid mobs and path actually does mediocre dmg now that it has got a 85% dmg buff. i never used the axe before the buff so it must have really sucked hard.

it isn’t a great offhand but imho it beats warhorn. idk why everyone loves warhorn so much. it has its uses in some instances so definitely give it a try if you haven’t.

no thieves just need to be smacked into the ground by the nerf bat.

i love how everyone complains about my server when they have don’t know which server i play on and that i have played on the same server almost my whole time in gw2.

we are not as good at anything as other classes and far far outclassed by thieves, mesmers and eles (in PVP).

if you ever decide to play anoither char, roll one of those three and you’ll never go back to ranger. we have all of zero burst dmg even running a full berserker armor build.

for comparison, my ranger in full berserker hits about 800 on each rapid fire hit. over the full 10 hits that is 8000 dmg. at first that seems good, but then you realize that it takes 10 hits which can be so easily dodged it isn’t even funny. thieves, mesmers and eles can all hit for that amount in only 1 hit. they can hit 1 button and utterly destroy me.

we also have terrible survivability vs those three classes listed for the risks we take running full berserker at all (which is not rewarded with good dmg).

so basically our problem is we have zero dmg. we could take a 40% dmg buff and i still wouldn’t be able to put out the dmg a thief, shatter mes, or ele can in 2 seconds.

Chevayo.8295:

i fail to see the problem here. It’s not like they distract or mislead you somehow.

the problem is mostly that they clog the minimap to the extent that you can’t even see the other icons anymore.

Gwalchgwn.1659:

ykyk.2740:

loseros.5912:

Overflow servers just for fun! Not with the mstchup servers but for everyone! Like you randomly get into a team and start fighting till queue shows up.

Same gameplay, no queues to play!

WvW overflow would be pretty amusing. Throw everyone queuing into one big arena and let them fight it out =/

Then again the server with the biggest queue will also have the biggest zerg in overflow so whatever. Creative way to see queue sizes xD

WvW in overflow becomes “Deathmatch” … Everyone vs Everyone (EvE)

that would be fantastic. there doesn’t even need to be objectives. they just need something to fill the void.

there are two things to do at 80 and that’s dungeons and wvwvw. you can’t really do dungeons while queued so that leaves standing around twiddling your thumbs until you get in.

Rashagal.5867:

Plenty of space in a lower tier. This isn’t an issue that needs to be addressed. You want Tier 1 pop, you get Tier 1 queues. You want Tier 6 queues, You get Tier 6 pop. You don’t get both.

i don’t see why that should be the case when they can copy and paste the maps again. 3/4 are already copied and pasted.

he must be an incredibly bad thief

or you know… pay 1 silver to port. it’s not THAT expensive.

in fact, i bet you’d make the gold to pay faster than you’d get there by running.

Porky.5021:

They made 4 maps.

i guess one could say they made 2 maps and then used 1 3 times, but they should make 2 of each map.

then make two maps.

My biggest problem with WvWvW (after the lack of waypoints) is the terrible wait times. i think it is broken to wait for 30min+ to get into a map (often to find they suck).

something must be done. i have never seen wait times to enter maps in mmos and they shouldn’t exist.

because it feels good to kill people who can’t retaliate.

(just kidding i’m a ranger so we can’t kill anything even if they can’t retaliate)

if you need food to run dungeons, you suck.

also rangers, what a joke.

pretty self explanatory. there’s no reason to have it and it’s annoying.

when did it every have prestige?

shaguar is also not acceptable and that makes me sad.

Rengaru.4730:

Simple:

vespers.1759:

Specia Lacerating Slash: Slash your foes and cause them to bleed.

Hawk.

vespers.1759:

Special Lacerating Slash: Slash your foes and cause them to bleed.

Eagle (notice the l in eagle)

oh daaaayummm you’re good!

watch harvesting get nerfed “to combat bots” and watch it also help anet to have players be poorer.

5 seconds of thinking about this led me to this conclusion:

1. start every guild off at guild mission 0 without bogus prerequisites that screw all but the larger guilds/
2. scale difficulty of missions to number of players involved. (hint this already exists with dynamic events)
3. have a happy player base

that is all.

was the loot buffed or was it just impossible to find it where it dropped before?

oh that;s just the harvesting bots.

I for one am quite glad they changed the hawk/eagle icons. See, i was always getting them confused because they look almost identical and have the same skills! now i can tell these two identical pets apart!

quick quiz: guess which skills belong to which pet! no cheating!

Juvenile X skills

Skill slot Skill Description
Common to the bird family

Slash: Slash your foe.

Swoop: Swoop at your foe, making them vulnerable.

Quickening Screech: Grant swiftness to nearby allies.

Specia Lacerating Slash: Slash your foes and cause them to bleed.

Juvenile X skills:

Skill slot Skills Description Common to the bird family

Slash: Slash your foe.

Swoop: Swoop at your foe, making them vulnerable.

Quickening Screech: Grant swiftness to nearby allies.

Special Lacerating Slash: Slash your foes and cause them to bleed.

the problem for me is that with more and more ascended pieces being added the more important they become.

on it’s just an amulet i’ll skip it. oh it is just rings, i’ll skip them. but now there’s 5 ascended pieces and i’ll bet my account we’ll be getting ascended gear and weapons in a few months (they’ll only take 4 years to get though guys so it’s all good).

Rifter.6591:

Yeah thats just bad programming, but from what i understand a known issue since beta so i would expect Anet to keep ignoring it, they are real good at that.

don’t you know they need to focus on buffing thieves and changing icons for ranger pets?

get your priorities straight man!

they ping them from the vendor. it takes 80 days to get 2 earrings and 30 days to get an amulet. the only thing they can have now is 1 amulet or 1 ring.

roll thief. they will only be buffed because anet is unable to balance pvp.

atilathegun.1950:

I don’t get why people complain… anet literally gives us laurels for free on top of the dailies we already previously do, and people complain. Ridiculous. With fotm, dailies/monthlies, and now guild missions, ascended stuff is really easy to get. What’s more, it’s fun to get, even for a casual player.

If people are going to complain this much about ascended gear, then just don’t get the kitten stuff. If playing the game for 30 minutes a day is too hard, then maybe ascended gear isn’t for you. We have it way, way better than players in other games. This game isn’t nearly as grindy as people seem to say, and what grind there is I find considerably funner than most other mmos out there.

come back and tell us how much you like dailies after 365 of them in a row.

sostronk.8167:

vespers.1759:

Art.9820:

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

Fact: Every person who comments ‘QQ moar’ and ‘L2P’ have Thief mains and don’t want their precious OPness nerfed away from them.

It’s more entertaining when you have to try, y’know.

Fact: Every person who complains about Thief being OP thinks WvW is about 1v1 fights….

i raise you this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7OYniHrGqE

how will you respond?

The zerg ignored him the entire time. They were clearly bad.

no they actively tried to get him but he is only visible for about 2-3 seconds at a time. by the time they see him and target him he’s already gone again.

stop trying to defend thieves (although anet seems to agree which is pathetic).

LOCO.1785:

You’re right, I’m living in fantasy land.

It’s crazy here, I see D/D eles tearing apart groups including thieves.

if you’re a thief and you’re dying to any class you are unspeakably awful at PVP. you can literally just run away from anything.

oh i might be losing? okay bye.

Art.9820:

Scumbag Mawile.6384:

Fact: Every person who comments ‘QQ moar’ and ‘L2P’ have Thief mains and don’t want their precious OPness nerfed away from them.

It’s more entertaining when you have to try, y’know.

Fact: Every person who complains about Thief being OP thinks WvW is about 1v1 fights….

i raise you this video:

how will you respond?

this thread is full of win.

i’m glad the eagle and hawk icons were changed. i always though that was a bigger issue than the fact that they are the same kittening bird with the same kittening skills.

GG.

HannaDeFreitas.4236:

vespers.1759:

so you’re okay with 80 days to get 2 earrings?

remember that if you have more than 1 set of gear that is doubled. 2 sets or gear= 160 days. if you have an alt with 2 sets of gear that’s almost a year to get JUST the earrings assuming you play every single day.

that’s 320 days without missing a single day.

It’s not 80 days and Colin explained that earlier.
With guild missions you get the earrings very easy, that one is the longer route for people who don’t WANT to partecipate guild missions.
You can’t ignore facts and make an arguments out of it.

And even if it was 80 days for everyone then what? As long as everyone is getting items at the same rate it’s not a problem.
No one said all games should be about instant gearing.

i put the word WANT into caps because that only applies to guilds large enough to actually start guild missions.

Heijincks.9267:

A lot of people have all their gear already.

i’m quite sure nobody has all their gear already.

according to thieves your issues are all because you need to L2P.

don’t you know you’re supposed to CC and kill them in the 3 seconds they are visible?

i think it is utterly ridiculous to expect any class to be able to kill another in 3 seconds unless said class is a warrior using root, rush, 100b (and even then it’ll be a miracle if you can even target and land the first hit in 3 seconds).

OrianZeta.1537:

Like rare and exotic trinkets, these laurels price casuals right out of the game. Very few of us will ever have ascended sets on one character, and we can forget about gearing alts like this.

Thanks for showing us some more nice things the majority will never have, now at the cost of being weaker than people who grind.

oh hey did i mention that fine infusions cost 100g+ each? they give 5 AR and 5 stat points.

they offer something to grind for while waiting the year it’ll take to get the items to put them in.

but it’s the fight the bots! (even though they aren’t players so they don’t care).

now that DR is here, they won’t remove it. it is simply too good for Anet to have players making less gold.

HannaDeFreitas.4236:

You guys yet haven’t understood that Anet is purposely releasing new gear piece-by-piece and with time-based limits because they don’t want people to get it all at once?

It’s how GW2 works.
This month you get the new ring, the next you get the new sword, etc.
If you can’t stand that you can’t just grind the hell out of the game to unhealthy levels to get everything asap and then quit, either consider a change of mentality or change game.

so you’re okay with 80 days to get 2 earrings?

remember that if you have more than 1 set of gear that is doubled. 2 sets or gear= 160 days. if you have an alt with 2 sets of gear that’s almost a year to get JUST the earrings assuming you play every single day.

that’s 320 days without missing a single day.

let’s see. there have been threads for months about OP thieves and d/d eles and what happened? thieves got buffed and eles got some buffs and some nerfs. overall they are the same as always.

people have been making threads for months to buff rangers, necros and eles. rangers got nerfed this patch for some reason i can’t figure out without being on acid and the other two seems like they got slight buffs.

i won’t hold my breath for change.