Guild Wars 2

I’ve completed the map 4 times until now, I know players who done this already 8 times.
It’s good how it is now. WvW mapcompletion may depend on the server you’re playing on, but still, I think it’s good the way it is.

gawker.8340:

Marksmanship:
6. Signet of the beastmaster – signet’s active effect should be granted to the player by default.

“Signet of Stone
Passive: Improves toughness for you and your pet.
Active: Your pet takes no damage from attacks. "

Perma active effect for ranger, seems legit…

kntz.1420:

I agree, too

Beside housing would be great, why in WvW?

Sundar.1735:

This is a great idea. It is hard to even tell that there is a day and night cycle unless we look closely. I would like there to be a clearer distinction between day and night and perhaps even weather affects like rainfall and dust storms to be added in the future. They could maybe even change the way the world becomes according to the day/night cycle. For example have nocturnal creatures spawn at nights and have NPC’s become less active.

This thread is about visualize the night better. If you want the weather to have an affect on the gameplay, I would recommend using this thread instead:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Daytime-and-Weather-should-affect-gameplay/

Caedmon.6798:

SweetFX can make your nights pretty dark without messing with the daytime look of it,since you can make shadows darker and light stronger or less stronger seperately.

That would be like toasting a toast with a heat lamp.

Another idea was the 1hand spear as non-aquatic weapon.
The suggestion (thread very was small) can be found here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Spear-as-a-non-aqua-1H-weapon/

I don’t use these faces.
However I’m a huge fan of the option to differentiate our sylvari from human or norn.

Ltomato.8649:

I disagree that ranger longbow’s 3 skill, “Hunter Shot”s stealth is useless. It’s fantastic for transferring aggro onto a pet or allies in pve, as well as a short stealth for running past mobs.

Thats not how stealth works, you will gain tha aggro back as soon as you’re visible again.
I’ve tried this myself a couple of times.

Behellagh.1468:

All that real darkness will do is to make players crank up the gamma to play at night. Then when they log in the next day and it’s daytime, all the colors are washed out.

Other than darkening objects the further from you they are and dampen the color pallet ala Nights in White Satin;

“Cold hearted orb
That rules the night
Removes the colors
From our sight
Red is gray and
Yellow white”

You will never have true darkness because players will want to see what’s ahead.

Even for you, this thread is about a slider whereby you can adjust your own night brightness. This is not supposed to affect the gameplay. If you don’t want dark nights, simply leave the slider at 100%.
However if you looking for a thread where daytime and weather will affect the gameplay, to express your objections, I would recommend this thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Daytime-and-Weather-should-affect-gameplay/

Torch

Noone has aver talked about the torch. Why? Because noone uses it.
This doesn’t have to mean the torch is bad, it just means that there are much more vialbe offhand weapons. This wont change. Therefore my suggestion is:

Make the torch to a mainhand weapon.
Torch #1:
Simply like every other autoattackchain.
It could inflict burning, though.
Torch #2:
I’ve got two ideas so far:
Either you hit one enemy which will cause him to stack burning like warrior sword #4 stacks tornment and leave a firetrail
or this attack will be an explofinisher.
Torch #3:
This one will be a firefield wich either stacks burning or deals a flat amount of damage to enemies within the radius.

Longbow
The Longbow has one of the longest ranges ingame but due to the damageloss of the pet and the range combined with the fact that most classes in PvP or WvW can simply blink to you, the weapon is nearly useless.
My suggestions are focussed around durability, so you can atleast hold your distance to your target.

Longbow #1:
This should be an attackchain like any other melee weapon autoattack.
The 3. attack should cripple your enemy, so you can maintain your distance.
Longbow #2:
Simply too weak. Needs more power.
Longbow #3:
This needs a massive damage increase. Since stealth is pretty useless in PvE and the damage is below the weakest autoattack, there is no point where you want to press 3.
Longbow #4:
I’m debating wether it should be a root or a knockback.
The knockback is a nice way to get rid of defiant stacks. However the root would synergise more with other weapons.
Longbow #5:
This attack is ok but it would be nice if you could cast it while running.
Another nice idea is that you can cast barrage without groundtargeting, so you can shoot it over walls in WvW.

Axe

The axe is a short range ranged weapon which can do lots of things but outshines no other weapon. It got a pull, a reflect, a slow, pseudo AoE and lots of finishers.
However the damage is rather pitiful.
So here are my suggestions:

Axe #1:
Change the autoattack to melee with higher damage output
Axe #2:
Combine old Axe #2 and #4, so you got an AoE pull which pulls all enemies hit.
Axe #3:
I’m kinda ok with this attack.
Axe #4:
This will be the old axe #1. So you can choose between melee and ranged attacks.
Axe #5:
It’s ok, but it could be stronger. The reflected damage could be doubled, the cooldown lowered or the range increased.

If you don’t like the suggstion of the mainhand melee axe, you could switch axe #1 and axe #4.

Sword

The sword is a very mobile weapon with 4 leaps and 1 evade on 3 attacks.
However the gameplay feels very clunky due to the long cast-/aftercast times and the uninterruptible leaps on the autoattack chain.
I want to keep the mobility of this weapon but also make all of its spells on demand.
So here are my suggestions:

Sword #1:
Remove the leaps on the 2. and 3. autoattack and replace it with some thing else.
I don’t want to have a simple 3hit combo, but I don’t know what would fit to the kit – room for suggestions!
Sword #2:
Hornet Sting is neither instant nor predictable where you will land in the heat of battle.
I would rework this to a double leap, same as the 2. and 3. autoattack now is, which cripples your enemy if you hit him and turns into a tripple leap if you hit an enemy once. This skill would get a long uptime of 10 seconds, so you don’t have to leap immediately after your first leap to use all your charges, and a mediocre long cooldown of 20 seconds, starting after the first leap.
Sword #3:
Serpent’s Strike got an evade and is an instant ability, which is both nice. However the animation is too long. So either the evade time has to increase to match the animation time or the animation time has to be cut to match the evade time.

This is meant to affect the PvE ranger weapons, but since PvE and PvP didn’t got separated jet, it will also affect the PvP ranger.
However I’m posting this suggestions out of a PvE perspective.
If you want to discuss my ideas, feel free to leave post on this thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/The-Weapon-Suggestion-Thread/

Well, we have to start somewhere.
It’s not a big secret the ranger class is unbalanced,
so we have to give suggestions how you could fix the issues.
We can’t give a brief summary about what we’ve discussed since arena.net has to decide what’s possible and what not.

The thread could get merged with this thread:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Please-stop-nerfing-PvE-for-the-sake-of-PvP/

And yeah, PvE and PvP should get seperated.

flood the balance forum with your ideas!
Either here, if it’s related to weapons:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/The-Weapon-Suggestion-Thread

Or here, for every other suggestion (I would edit the topic then):

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Ranger-weapons-unbalanced-Your-suggestions/

Someone should also start a thread for ranger skillbalance, traitbalance and petbalance to complete our initiative to get the class fixed already.
He (or she) could post the link to those threads here and I will edit the topic.

The ranger is unbalanced at his current state.
Therefore I started this thread to gather all suggestions you guys have to fix the ranger class.

I will start off with the Ranger weapons, which are also unbalanced now.
Most ones are too weak, few too clunky.
If you have some suggestions to fix those issues, post them here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/The-Weapon-Suggestion-Thread

So the devs get some ideas how to fix the weapons!

Balancing

Ranger
There are a lot of player who think that the ranger class need some buffs.
In order to work on this issue, we’re try to gather suggestions to rework some weapons of the ranger.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/The-Weapon-Suggestion-Thread/

However many players think, since there where hundreds of those threats before, which had minimal impact on the development, that the devs wont listen to their suggestions.

My questions are now:
Is the ranger incomplete in his effectiveness or would you say, that the ranger with all his weapons and skills is at a good spot right now.
If the ranger still need some buffs, would it help if we gather suggestions, to improve the gameplay of the ranger?

Castaliea.3156:

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

I think there have been enough threats stating that the ranger is underpowered in most cases (even if few ones still don’t want to accept that the ranger is underpowered).

If we want ANet to fix the rangers, we don’t just have to optain their alterness, we also have to come up with some good ideas.
Concerning to that, if someone has ideas regarding to the weapons of the ranger, please feel free to share your suggestions here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/The-Weapon-Suggestion-Thread/

We’ve made hundreds of threads giving constructive, logical, and supported feedback that has literally all been ignored since launch. Why should I, or anyone else, take the time (again, again, again, and again) to continuously take part in a yet another suggestion/feedback thread?

Since we have a CDI thread where I can spam the suggstion we gather in the thread I’ve posted, I hope we can make a difference. It is still a better idea than just cry about how bad we are. But if you got some older posts related to weapons, you can post a link on the thread, so we got all ideas clumbed together.

Ok, I’m gonna say this once more:
This a thread about a slider affecting the brightness of the enviromental light (the blue one which lights up the whole game) at night. Nothing gamechanging, just a QoL uptade, a requested one if I may say so myself.

But since I’m a kind person, I’ve created a thread for you VOLKON:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Daytime-and-Weather-should-affect-gameplay/

VOLKON.1290:

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

VOLKON.1290:

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

Everything thats making this game look nicer isn’t wasted.
Also, like I said, it wouldn’t be too hard to implement and, like you can see at this threat, there is a huge demand.

Your suggestion is gamechanging, therefore it has to be balanced and tested.

I… I didn’t realize you were threatening me.

Kidding, of course. It would be wasted (imo) because it wouldn’t be used except by maybe a handful of people, and it’s questionable if they’d keep it full time.

Yes, my concept would have to be balanced and tested (as would any changes to be honest). However you have to admit… it does open the door for more types of content to be added to the game. Why only change the darkness when you can also do so in a way that livens the game up with potentially new mobs, new events that kick off in the night, new strategies in WvW, etc?

If there’s a change to be made, why limit it in a way that doesn’t allow for potential growth, as sliders would? If you’re going to go for it, go for it with gusto and make it matter!

Thats your OWN opinion, thats fine, but don’t generalize.
To me and and many others, its not wasted.
You can think whatever you want but don’t blunder with stating it would be wasted.

Nice way to dodge the other points, but regardless, of course it would be wasted. The vast majority of players (and no one in WvW) would deliberately disadvantage themselves. A slider fails the cost/benefit sniff test most stinkily.

Seriously, who other than you have said, this idea would be wasted?
And how many have already said on this threat that they would appreciate such a slider?
You still think, just because you said it would be wasted, and just because it would not affect the gameplay, you would be right.

Hint, you’re not.

I think there have been enough threats stating that the ranger is underpowered in most cases (even if few ones still don’t want to accept that the ranger is underpowered).

If we want ANet to fix the rangers, we don’t just have to optain their alterness, we also have to come up with some good ideas.
Concerning to that, if someone has ideas regarding to the weapons of the ranger, please feel free to share your suggestions here:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/The-Weapon-Suggestion-Thread/

VOLKON.1290:

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

Everything thats making this game look nicer isn’t wasted.
Also, like I said, it wouldn’t be too hard to implement and, like you can see at this threat, there is a huge demand.

Your suggestion is gamechanging, therefore it has to be balanced and tested.

I… I didn’t realize you were threatening me.

Kidding, of course. It would be wasted (imo) because it wouldn’t be used except by maybe a handful of people, and it’s questionable if they’d keep it full time.

Yes, my concept would have to be balanced and tested (as would any changes to be honest). However you have to admit… it does open the door for more types of content to be added to the game. Why only change the darkness when you can also do so in a way that livens the game up with potentially new mobs, new events that kick off in the night, new strategies in WvW, etc?

If there’s a change to be made, why limit it in a way that doesn’t allow for potential growth, as sliders would? If you’re going to go for it, go for it with gusto and make it matter!

Thats your OWN opinion, thats fine, but don’t generalize.
To me and and many others, its not wasted.
You can think whatever you want but don’t blunder with stating it would be wasted.

VOLKON.1290:

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

VOLKON.1290:

You left out that sliders would be a waste of time because people will, by nature, set things to be the most advantageous. Even those that try the slider initially will soon set it back once the disadvantage bites them in the butt. So disregard the slider, it’s a silly idea.

Greater darkness at night should be simply universal. No gimmicks, no sliders. What could be interesting is if in WvW you coupled the added darkness with a reduced distance in which you can see the enemy nameplates. Suddenly the night would actually mean more in WvW. (This wouldn’t work with sliders, btw… you can see the enemies at a great distance even before you see nameplates.)

What would ultimately be needed to be decided is how much darker should it be? Pitch black? No, too much for this game. Dark enough to reduce vision to the limits of the minimap perhaps? That’s interesting there… maybe half the minimap? Twice?

No sliders, universal darkness level, reduce nameplate visibility in proportion to darkness level… this could prove to be rather interesting.

Me myself, as dedicated PvE player would use this all the time.
A slider, where you can adjust the percentage brightness may be over the top, but it wouldn’t be gamebreaking or hard to implement.

You talk about a gamechanging update, I just talk about a QoL uptdate

Something like this, in order to not be effectively a waste of time, should have some actual impact in the game if implemented. Just allowing a slider and the option to make it darker means that it would be rarely used, and not at all in WvW, so there’s no actual benefit to the vast majority. However implementing it universally in a balanced way can have much greater benefits as mentioned in the possible WvW scenario above. Right now we agree that night really doesn’t mean anything in the game. Most of the time I don’t even realize it’s night.

But you know what would mean something? Phasing the moon and adjusting darkness to the phase of the moon. Full moon would be as bright as it is now, new moon would be considerably darker (but not so dark as to hamper play significantly). Then you could even do more than have crickets chirp at night… you could have mobs spawn that only spawn during a certain level of darkness. Extra nasty creatures of the darkness with unique drops would be a wonderful addition to the concept. A little greater risk, a little greater reward. On the WvW side you could see groups waiting to try a golum rush under cover of darkness. Small yet sneaky groups of players would be able really strut their stuff then.

Make it universal, then build off it.

Everything thats making this game look nicer isn’t wasted.
Also, like I said, it wouldn’t be too hard to implement and, like you can see at this threat, there is a huge demand.

Your suggestion is gamechanging, therefore it has to be balanced and tested.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Combat-Music-in-Town/

A threat, I was starting in the bugs subforum, however, since a threat was opened here, I will post my issues here aswell:

I got random music changes, after taking falldamage, changing the map or simply without any reason.
The last time this bug occures was when I stood in the grove. Suddenly combat music started to play and didn’t stop until I logged off.

VOLKON.1290:

You left out that sliders would be a waste of time because people will, by nature, set things to be the most advantageous. Even those that try the slider initially will soon set it back once the disadvantage bites them in the butt. So disregard the slider, it’s a silly idea.

Greater darkness at night should be simply universal. No gimmicks, no sliders. What could be interesting is if in WvW you coupled the added darkness with a reduced distance in which you can see the enemy nameplates. Suddenly the night would actually mean more in WvW. (This wouldn’t work with sliders, btw… you can see the enemies at a great distance even before you see nameplates.)

What would ultimately be needed to be decided is how much darker should it be? Pitch black? No, too much for this game. Dark enough to reduce vision to the limits of the minimap perhaps? That’s interesting there… maybe half the minimap? Twice?

No sliders, universal darkness level, reduce nameplate visibility in proportion to darkness level… this could prove to be rather interesting.

Me myself, as dedicated PvE player would use this all the time.
A slider, where you can adjust the percentage brightness may be over the top, but it wouldn’t be gamebreaking or hard to implement.

You talk about a gamechanging update, I just talk about a QoL uptdate

I’ve edited my initial post to sum up the discussion going on until now.
If I’ve forgotten any major things, please feel free to correct me.

Wasbunny.6531:

It should be kept in mind that environmental game lighting consists of numerous light ‘objects’ as well as larger ambient light areas, all with individual settings of hue/saturation/brightness/radius etc. and scripted behavior. A second optional lighting setup would require a duplicate of all environmental lights to exist in game. While a good idea it might not be feasible from a technical standpoint.

I’d be more than happy if they just simply made the nights globally darker and more dramatic for everyone.

There are 2 huge enviromental lights.
The first one is a white light which lights up the day enviroment.
The second one is a blue light which lights up the enviroment at night times.
Just simply give us the control over the brightness of this blue light and it’s done.

Devata.6589:

Because I don’t see how you could ever manage to get catch up. But thats maybe because I’m a slow reader myself.

The difference between you and him is that he actually gets paid to read all this stuff.

Paul.4081:

I totally agree on the night being a little darker but if it was realistic darker. I’ve played on some games. Thief series (about to be ruined by Thief 4 – The Moron Age). Going full dark would be making a massive element of the game prone to to thieving and Anet would have to overhaul a lot, lets face it. If they made the nights darker without allowing thiefs to be thiefs. It would make thiefs laughable as agents of the night.

If they had thought of or could be bothered doing things like this from the start……

But we have SAB to compensate so fear not.

Either that or ANet would admit to the profession being wrongly named and should hae been named “Mugger!”

I’m gonna say it once again. This should be optional. So ANet don’t have to care about how much you can see, you can turn your screen black and they still don’t have to care since it was your own choice to turn the night for you that dark.

TriggerSad.2597:

If we see dueling, we better not see it in the more populated areas of Major Cities. I already had to deal with the people that spammed their horns as if they were honking a vuvuzela at the 2010 World Cup… I don’t want to have to deal with people blasting all their skills on cooldown because they want to show off how “pro” they are.

I’m all for dueling, and I will admit that I’d love to see the stadium in the Black Citadel be converted into a 1v1 battle arena similar to how the Queen’s Gauntlet worked with bosses. Now that would be awesome.

Oh, I would like to see 1v1 in towns. With the lvl100 townguard joining the fight, stombing both duelists.

You can skip Arah all the way to the last boss with the skills the game gives you. Still it’s considered as exploiting.

Chris Whiteside.6102:

Hi All,

I got back into the office this week and have been SUPER busy. So i sincerely apologies for not contributing over the past few days. I need to catch up from page 44 )-:

Chris! Even you can help fixing rangers! Starting off with the weapons.
Here is a thread I’ve started to gather all suggestions.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/The-Weapon-Suggestion-Thread/

Anyways, if you don’t disagree with the opinion that rangers could need some love, a sticky would help to focus all suggestions into one thread.

Also, sorry for my sensational introduction.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

Srsly, the past 10 pages (or so) have been conversations between 3 guys, can someone sum this up? I don’t want to read 10 pages.

I am a moron and have zero idea what I am talking about, so you can safely skip any and all posts with my name in them.

There.

:)

Oh thanks, good to know

Srsly, the past 10 pages (or so) have been conversations between 3 guys, can someone sum this up? I don’t want to read 10 pages.

Regarding housing, there was a big thread with a lotof suggestions about it in the german forums, so if someone wants to sum this up, go ahead:
https://forum-de.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Vorschlag-Housing-merged/

There where ALOT of threads like this one before.
this one was probably the biggest:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Open-world-Duels-Merged/

have fun reading, maybe someone can sum this thread up.

Baels.3469:

Kain Francois.4328:

I wouldn’t mind darker areas of the game, where it matters to use a torch.

Seriously though. Drop full screen gamma to about 0.65 and everything is darker, whilst torches/fire appear brighter.

This would be the worst of all solutions. You don’t just tone down enviromental light, you tone down all light which looks just awful.
Beside, I don’t run GW2 in fullscreenmode.

Imbune.5497:

xXxOrcaxXx.9328:

Imbune.5497:

And if you sacrifice everything in favour of player OPTION you’ll end up with a half-hearted mess that is prone to any number of exploits (hmm…kind of like the state of gw2 now imo,the irony).

How do you want to exploit a light engine???
Also, like I and many others said, the current light system wont be gone.
You just get the option to choose how dark you want the night to be. Its only for the esthetic.

Love how you take one part of what I said out of context-how about you read everything or don’t bother reading at all? I’m sorry but it makes no sense for me to reply further to this post because I’ll just end up repeating the rest of what I said in the post you conveniently snipped that bit from and took out of context.

You just have a serious problem. This is meant to be a QoL update. Nothing gamechanging, nothing content related. How does the ability to craft with materials lying in your bank affect PvP players? Not at all. Still its requested, as you can notice, if you read the other posts. If you don’t want to use it, fine. Otherwise stop talking trash about sense and nonsense of this suggestion and and bring up some real reservations, if you have some, so I can crush them.
Also, let me get this clear. This suggestion is pretty much for PvE only. For those guys who want to explore Tyria at night. At dark night. This is not meant to affect PvP or WvW in any way!

It’s an exploit, you better don’t use it.

Oatz.5487:

Tachii.3506:

Nothing in life is fun if you keep doing the samethings repeatedly without new experiences.

How does League of Legends succeed. It’s even worse when it comes to lack of new content etc. Apart from an occasional champion release.

You play with different champcombs vs. other players.
It’s challenging and a teamgame.

Imbune.5497:

And if you sacrifice everything in favour of player OPTION you’ll end up with a half-hearted mess that is prone to any number of exploits (hmm…kind of like the state of gw2 now imo,the irony).

How do you want to exploit a light engine???
Also, like I and many others said, the current light system wont be gone.
You just get the option to choose how dark you want the night to be. Its only for the esthetic.

It’s night in the Applied Development Lab, we got a wonderful sky full of stars…
… and an awful bright forecourt.

Just to visualize the problem.

tomlin.8204:

>log in
>hmm, which dailies are the least tedious
>think i can find 5 things that aren’t too painful
>recycler’s always a good one
>“golem’s up”
>may as well go, nothing else to do
>golem’s dead – yay a rare
>port around gathering these silly nodes
>not sure why i even do this, i have exotics, ascended stuff is stupid
>“lyssa’s up”
>what a massive waste of time that was
>“fire ele’s up”
>kitten i hate the fire ele pre’s
>what a massive waste of time that was
>“maw”
>may as well go there for the 1000th time
>heard someone got a precursor here once
>what a massive waste of time that was
>see generic guild spam in map chat “we have mumble and a website no one ever uses!”

I do love frost bow and fiery greatsword though.

I could say yes to (almost) all. I’m just jumping from worldboss to worldboss, from dungeon to dungeon.
Actually, the only time in which I’m just running around is while I complete my daylies.

Lord Kuru.3685:

If you enjoy grind, it’s actually really really fun.

I don’t enjoy the grind, I enjoy the things I can buy from grinding…

If you have any suggestion how the sword gameplay (or any other waepon) could be smoothened I would appreciate it if you could post your suggestion in my thread I’ve opened, so we can keep all suggestions at one place.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/The-Weapon-Suggestion-Thread/

kyubi is right tho

Rangers – The kings of kiting… noone wants to kite.

Durzlla.6295:

Black Scoutsman.5830:

I would kill for axe to have a melee option. The first time I read ranger was going to get mainhand axe I was so excited to setup an axe/dagger melee ranger. Instead I was only allowed to throw my axes away

So much this…… I wish we could throw them at range and then chop them in melee

That was kinda the idea behind the double melee/ranged autoattack.