Guild Wars 2

Laar.5476:

So today I learned that when doing SE P3 on my guardian I shouldn’t clear all of General Volkov’s bleeds and other miscellaneous conditions. Also if the pugs want to stack, it’s way better to have one person ranging/fearing all the dredge around and generally faffing about and dying.

Maybe he does more DPS with 18 stacks of bleeds because he traited for downed state damage?

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Found this wonderful video just now. It will teach you how to deal with those guys next time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXc_lt2YsNs

I want this one:

I just heared that 1 ranger is better than 2 warriors. Ranger must be soooo OP right now.

I would like to have some real character- or obstacle collision. But… ok…

Prysin.8542:

yes, because bringing 2 warriors is the worst idea ever. Even if they team up, they are nowhere near as strong as a single ele, or a well played condi ranger. They will just burn. It is a simple fact, warriors are only good when guardians got their rear end covered. This is why GWEN is even remotely working. Remove guardian, and the warrior is naught.

So for 2x warrior you’d need 2x guard to cover them, and then you got ONE slot of ONE class.

Tell you this dude, 2x thief/mesmer/ranger/engi > 2x warrior any day

So rangers are the new warriors and warriors the new rangers?
WTF is wrong with you?

Karathress.3827:

Just noticed one extra info, not sure if its possible that im wrong but i left already a ticket with it and will share it here in case it is happening also with you guys, im in the server SFR, have been all tournament and havent changed, on EotM im normally on the green team which either has the name of my server or Overgrowth, just now i logged on there to level an alt and it put me on Frostreach and sayed that is my homeserver as shown on the ss bellow.
You guys have this problem?
http://i.imgur.com/qUPb8ef.jpg

1. Wrong thread.
2. No bug. Your homeworld is blue, so you’re blue in EotM.

Torvic.8256:

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But running a dungeon for the 1000th time isn’t fun

And yet you’ve run it a thousand times, so it couldn’t have been completely unfun.

It’s the money $.$
The only thing I can do currently is grinding through PvE to get nice things to kill someone with it in PvP or WvW.

Loudog.9721:

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If you want to spend some time in a game, go ahead, GW2 will give you a good experience.
If you want to stay for years to see how this MMO evolves, better look for another MMO.

More information please, on your thought process going into this conversation. Is it they will never add Elona? Or Cantha? Please tell me why this game offers only an “at first” fun factor? How do you really know what is to come or how the devs will work with the player base to make this game even greater than it is now in the near future? How can you state years, when the game has only been out for a year n a half and you yourself do not have “years” experience with this group of game developers and community? Respond if you could please! BTW I played GW1 from day one as well!

I play this game since release and I can assure you that nothing has changed significantly.
If you haven’t done what you can do yet, go ahead and do it. But running a dungeon for the 1000th time isn’t fun. Zerging the worldboss chain or the champtrain isn’t fun either. WvW and PvP getting stale. And yes, they wont add Cantha or Elona as long as they hold on to their beloved living story. They haven’t even started S2 and I’m already sick of it.
The game hasn’t changed a bit. No evolution. Besides fractals. That was a good one.

I want to express my support for this.

Xuro.5861:

2) You donate 20 silver per round, you earn about 1 ~ 2 gold per round so don’t be cheap.

10 bags in a gold chest. Each bag gives between 1 – 2 silver. Where do I get the rest exactly?

Mad Queen Malafide.7512:

The fights really drag on for to long. The amount of players there should not have such a massive effect on the health pool of the boss. It doesn’t even make sense that for some reason we the players need to manage our numbers, in order for the boss to not have too much health. That’s such a meta concept, I can’t even wrap my head around it how that became an accepted part of the game’s mechanics.

The boss scaling to adapt to larger numbers of players, that I get. That’s the dynamic event system that was advertized. But having to reduce our numbers to combat the dynamic scaling? That is getting a little bit silly.

ANet implemented Anti-zerg mechanics? call me in!
Seriously, if there are 30+ players zerging around trying to kill one boss, despite they know better, they’ve deserved to take that long. Just go on a gold pavilion and lern how to so it the right and intended way.

Valandil Dragonhart.2371:

Anet goes it own direction with ideas and suggestions, CDI included.

Feels like they’re running through a maze.

I really like the idea they had when making these changes. But once again, they came out over the top. There are lvl30 traits which have as requirement to explore lvl80 zones. WTF?

If you want to spend some time in a game, go ahead, GW2 will give you a good experience.
If you want to stay for years to see how this MMO evolves, better look for another MMO.

Regnum.7102:

Hai guys.

I keep seeing and seeing comments saying that rangers suck at WvW, we have no AoE, we suck, bla bla bla, and I wanted to give my opinion.

We might not have the best AoE out there, but we definately have some great power with Piercing Arrows and a LB.

I’ve read so far and I got disappointed. No new insights, just one more who claims he found key to all our problems.

This isn’t new at all but the most people came to the conclusion that you have to hit something first (EE + RTW) before you can pierce it.

infantrydivEU.9670:

Ranger:

Worst class in PvE? Yep
Worst class in WvW? Undoubtedly.
Worst class in PvP? At top tier, yep.

Nope. Necros are worse in PvE. We atleast have spirits and spotter. Necro brings just comparable damage with no utility outside of blinds and weaknesses.

Dub.1273:

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Lilith Ajit.6173:

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Lilith Ajit.6173:

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Honestly, what Lilith is doing here is what I want the ArenaNet guys to do: Playing with the community, setting up small events, show actual presence.

So @Lilith: DON’T STAHP!
@ ArenaNet: Do what Lilith is doing all over the forums.

does it all over the forums.

Yeah anet ya shoulda hired me that one time brah!

Thinking about something like that:
ArenaNet guy: You say rangers suck? Give me the best build damagewise you can come up with, and we’ll see. The best 3 builds get an ascended piece.

Yeah but would they use spreadsheets or would they take it into the field? #TeamGuanglai #TeamDub u make da call.

Dunno, they should do both. Theorycraft and videos as proof.

But all devs are about are fluffy pink stuff in the gem store and €sports.
Their balance is quite impressive, though. By balancing with an aim to pvp, they don’t even only kitten up pve, but pvp too. Thinking about what builds evolve around nowadays, I must say the so called “meta” back then was a lot more entertaining.

But… Yeah… you’re right. Beta-balance ftw!

My loadingtimes aren’t legit anymore. Could be 1 min or so for LA. The funny thing is however, if I switch my graphics to low, I load in between 5-10 seconds. Switching the graphics back to high does take another 5 seconds. I really don’t know why I’m spending 1 minute with loadingscreens.

Seen it already
You have used Burning Speed?

Lilith Ajit.6173:

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Lilith Ajit.6173:

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Honestly, what Lilith is doing here is what I want the ArenaNet guys to do: Playing with the community, setting up small events, show actual presence.

So @Lilith: DON’T STAHP!
@ ArenaNet: Do what Lilith is doing all over the forums.

does it all over the forums.

Yeah anet ya shoulda hired me that one time brah!

Thinking about something like that:
ArenaNet guy: You say rangers suck? Give me the best build damagewise you can come up with, and we’ll see. The best 3 builds get an ascended piece.

Yeah but would they use spreadsheets or would they take it into the field? #TeamGuanglai #TeamDub u make da call.

Dunno, they should do both. Theorycraft and videos as proof.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

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Honestly, what Lilith is doing here is what I want the ArenaNet guys to do: Playing with the community, setting up small events, show actual presence.

So @Lilith: DON’T STAHP!
@ ArenaNet: Do what Lilith is doing all over the forums.

does it all over the forums.

Yeah anet ya shoulda hired me that one time brah!

Thinking about something like that:
ArenaNet guy: You say rangers suck? Give me the best build damagewise you can come up with, and we’ll see. The best 3 builds get an ascended piece.

Honestly, what Lilith is doing here is what I want the ArenaNet guys to do: Playing with the community, setting up small events, show actual presence.

So @Lilith: DON’T STAHP!
@ ArenaNet: Do what Lilith is doing all over the forums.

EU here too. I’m one fabulous ranger.

Same here, wrote a ticket, so I’m just waiting now.

Reganov.3569:

“Ranger state…we still suck?”

Should be

“Ranger state… Am I playing one properly?”

Sometimes, that is the real question to ask.

We have just one viable DPS weapon for PvE and that’s the sword. At the same time, the sword is the most difficult weapon to use. Not to mention that the pet can kitten things up badly. So yeah, there is still a lot of room for improvements.

Reikou.7068:

The game itself is fine.

The disappointment comes from the fact that there was just so much potential for the game to be so much more than it is, and that potential is just squandered.

This exactly. I can’t speak for someone who didn’t like the game from the beginning, but for me it’s just the lack of improvements and extensions which the game greatly suffers of.

It doesn’t work all the time.

Littlefeather.8623:

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The warrior will most likely use stability while gapclosing, so you’re not able to kick him back. The 3 seconds stealth are only good if you want to run away. You wont be able to reposition yourself. All of the GS skills are highly telegraphed, so an experienced player will simply dodge or run out of your range. As for the damage: Warrior sword/axe/greatsword > ranger greatsword. So I honestly can’t see why a warrior should lose to a power ranger.

Have you used a GS against a melee? You do know the auto attack evades melee direct hits right?

The enemy knows that too lol.

The warrior will most likely use stability while gapclosing, so you’re not able to kick him back. The 3 seconds stealth are only good if you want to run away. You wont be able to reposition yourself. All of the GS skills are highly telegraphed, so an experienced player will simply dodge or run out of your range. As for the damage: Warrior sword/axe/greatsword > ranger greatsword. So I honestly can’t see why a warrior should lose to a power ranger.

Littlefeather.8623:

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Ision.3207:

Gercoa.7490:

Well, since I have the Kudzu, then it’s still pointless to play. Thanks for the info…

I’ll check back in another 6 months or so.

ahahahahahahaha ……

That was just too perfect.

“Playing a ranger to its strenght”

Which strengths exactly? Which ones which let us stand out from everyone else? I’m curious.

@OP
And don’t listen to Prysin. He can be sooo overly dramatic.

Glass teefs fall down infront of me at 900 range…
LB#4 or Auto Attack, right before they heal/stealth Sic’Em, volley, by this time they’re about 15%-5% HP or down if full glass, if they shadow refuge than barrage. During this you have to keep your pet on him.

Yeah thieves do… But warriors won’t. Well played guardians won’t. Most of the mesmers won’t. Engies most likely won’t. Non-zerker ele won’t. Necros take a kittenin long time to kill. Just because you can beat one single build doesn’t mean it’s good.

Prysin.8542:

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Prysin.8542:

Right, so you say that the crybaby OP should not listen to me, but rather you tell him ranger sucks, is flawed, elite sucks, cannot do condition builds either….

I…. am confused now….

Telling someone to reroll just because he has a different (and reasonable) opinion is not a convincing method to deal with people. So no, if your only statement is to reroll already, he shouldn’t listen to you.

right so, someone who are convinced that the class he plays sucks and is so insecure about his own choice that he has to ask the most skeptical and cynical part of the public if he did the right thing, well, REROLL NOW!!!

If you are too insecure to even stick by your own choice, you should just quit.

If half the weapons the ranger has are useless (or atleast not on par with counterparts from other classes), than yes, it’s his good right to be disappointed. Just becuase you enjoy all that inflexible niche builds, than go ahead, have a nice day. But if someone claims that the archer role of the ranger should be on par (and the ranger is the archer of GW2) with the rest of the game, than don’t be a kitten and call him bad.

I saddens me that all those former champs are now very easy to kill. Solo obviously.
I think they should be somewhat challenging, especially for new players. Therefore I kindly ask to change all former champs, now veterans, to elites, so they stay challenging.

Prysin.8542:

Right, so you say that the crybaby OP should not listen to me, but rather you tell him ranger sucks, is flawed, elite sucks, cannot do condition builds either….

I…. am confused now….

Telling someone to reroll just because he has a different (and reasonable) opinion is not a convincing method to deal with people. So no, if your only statement is to reroll already, he shouldn’t listen to you.

So my fashionable mesmer invited himself to Minister Caudecus’s garden party.
He even gave the Queen a hug.

akallou.9704:

Ranger is the only class ingame with 15sec invul uptime..

If your pet doesn’t die. And only if you’ve traited for the signets.
I highly doubt that the raflect we have is as big as the ele ones (Ele 400 units radius, ranger (traited) 150 units radius). Furthermore, the ele’s reflect lasts 6 seconds, it doesn’t require the ele to stand still and it hasn’t be traited to be somewhat effective.

Roots are neglectable in PvE. In PvP, they’ll mostlikely be cleansed immediately. Furthermore, using spiders locks you in using bunkertype builds. You can’t go straight out damage. That is one of many flaws. We can’t make straight damage setups and be as effective as other classes. Another flaw is that we have to trait for every aspect of our build to be effective. Try to protect your team in a dungeon with untraited axe 5. You not gonna succeed until you’ve told them to stack behind you.

Lilith Ajit.6173:

By the way, nice jobs so far! Jaya says hi and good luck to all!

Why do you have that dress already? I want too…

EDIT: Oh, gemstore… could’ve guessed that. If I win, I want that outfit.

akallou.9704:

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Ision.3207:

Gercoa.7490:

Well, since I have the Kudzu, then it’s still pointless to play. Thanks for the info…

I’ll check back in another 6 months or so.

ahahahahahahaha ……

That was just too perfect.

“Playing a ranger to its strenght”

Which strengths exactly? Which ones which let us stand out from everyone else? I’m curious.

@OP
And don’t listen to Prysin. He can be sooo overly dramatic.

Ranger can be a tough stun locker, we can reflect projectiles, drop alot of immobilize, regen like a mofo.. although the lack of programing is real there is still plenty of thing to do

Immobilize? Where? Our Elite? Our Pets? There many classes who can do that way batter than we can do. Regarding reflections, guardian and mesmer say hi.
the only thing we can do better than others is providing unique buffs (because noone else has them). And some niche bunker builds for PvP. But any class is hard to deal with if played as bunker.

Ision.3207:

Gercoa.7490:

Well, since I have the Kudzu, then it’s still pointless to play. Thanks for the info…

I’ll check back in another 6 months or so.

ahahahahahahaha ……

That was just too perfect.

“Playing a ranger to its strenght”

Which strengths exactly? Which ones which let us stand out from everyone else? I’m curious.

@OP
And don’t listen to Prysin. He can be sooo overly dramatic.

Flipping the traidingpost? That’s so 2013.
I’m going to be a moa trainer now…

So my mesmer invited himself to Minister Caudecus’s garden party.
He even got to give a hug to the Queen.
Logan didn’t noticed a thing.

Someone has to guard Caudecus’s Manor while the Queen is inside.
And who would be better than this frosty lady?

Head: Aviator Sunglasses
Shoulders: Protector’s Shoulderplates
Chest: Dark Templar Breastplate
Gloves: Avenger’s Gaunlets
Leggins: Draconic Legs
Boots: Vigil’s Honor Greaves
Backpiece: Fractal Capacitor
Sword: Jormag’s Breath
Shield: Corrupted Bulwark

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/How2-solve-Stacking-and-Zerging-without-nerfs/first#post3823415

HHR LostProphet.4801:

Suggestion:
Simply add Charackter- and Obstacle-collision.

Impact:
If you Fiery Rush against a wall, your character would stop, because he collides with the wall. This would solve all problems with stacking and zerging simply because it wouldn’t be possible anymore.

Precautions:
Ofcourse, some things have to be tweaked, you oughtn’t be able to block paths for other players, as example. Also the bank in each city has to be tweaked, so all players can get to their own safe and events, which meant to be completed by zergs, have to be readjusted.

Problems that would be solved:

Stacking in dungeons
People complained about the no-skill tactic of stacking in dungeons. That wouldn’t be possible anymore.

Zerging in PvE
People complained about championfarming and zerging as new Metaevent-meta.
This change would solve the problem.

Zerging in WvW
Some people have complained about not being able to hold a fort against an enemy zerg of 100+ men. Well, those zergs would be really hard to coordinate with this change.

Expiatus.4210:

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Prysin.8542:

The meta is not an answer, it is what the masses claim to be the truth regardless of the facts at hand.

Do we live in a dictatorship? Last time i checked, we had a democracy. Democracy means, simply put, power to the masses. So if the masses decide that the ranger is too weak, they may be not that far off track as you may think.

If you’re in the USA you live in a Constitutional Republic, not a pure democracy.
Big difference.

I’m from Germany, I do live in a democracy. Or so they say…
And the “masses” have indeed a point. They play the ranger has he was meant to be played. If you think about warriors, you think about axes, swords and greatswords.
If you think about guardians, you think about shields, foci and greatswords.
Thiefs are linked with daggers and pistols. So what is the ranger linked with? If you would ask the “masses”, they would answer “with bows”. And the bows are weak. So if you’re able to get a tank/regen spec with axe/sword to work, that’s not how the majority wants to play the class.

Prysin.8542:

The meta is not an answer, it is what the masses claim to be the truth regardless of the facts at hand.

Do we live in a dictatorship? Last time i checked, we had a democracy. Democracy means, simply put, power to the masses. So if the masses decide that the ranger is too weak, they may be not that far off track as you may think.

Fluffball.8307:

You can’t just dismiss everything a solid build brings because you think the meta might be changing. Regen doesn’t work in a power meta? If you fail to kill someone (and that is target’s responsibility, let’s assume they aren’t completely defenseless), Durz’s build will get them back to full health in a matter of seconds, without them even needing their heal skill off cool down. That’s important.

You found another gimmicky, situational build. Well done. I’ll wait for some big changes, so we don’t have to theorycraft through every possible option to push one certain aspect of our build to have some means in PvP. Ok, ranger can do some things for your team but all classes have atleast one build which is stronger than any of ours are. We are still an independent class with unique mechanics, so we aren’t completely worthless. Yet we can’t build up on that. We have to compensate far too many flaws first before we can invest in something meaningfull. As long as this situation persists, I wont acknowledge the ranger as true competitor for anything.

I think he has a point. While a 100% increase is definitely too much, we should still be the fastest class out there. We are considered as skirmishers afterall. Yet we can’t kite anyone but necros thanks to blinks, leaps, stealth and stability.

Wow. So much ignorance. I want you to look up the word trap in your dictionary. Does it say that a trap is visible to its victims before they stepped into it?
There is nothing wrong with the traps. The ranger is giving up utility slots to use them. Most of the rangers would even consider traps as underpowered.

The only thing I could enjoy so far were my 1148 dyes and the 5k gems I got.

Leamas.5803:

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Leamas.5803:

Simple solution…block the guys who are griefing chat…or report them.

This thread was supposed to show how broken the megaservers are since no event ever fails. So you can’t do the events like freeing a temple to get the chest at the end.

How is it that no event ever fails? We were doing the krait witch the night the megaserver went live and there were more people in Timberline than I’ve ever seen, people were doing events and map chat was active, it was nice for a change…more to the point though, it took us 3 tries to put to the witch down. I don’t see how you can say events never fail. What blocks a group from clearing a temple? People griefing? I say not. If I anger a few farmers by getting in their way in the course of doing an ACTUAL EVENT, then so be it, they can’t stop me or anyone else, other than getting nasty on map chat, which I’ve seen plenty of at the Cathedral of Eternal Radiance from people farming sparks. It’s a game, I simply block them like I block gold sellers, and ignore them. If there are truly things that block event progression, ANet will fix it. They have a habit of forcing people away from bad habits, mostly by making the activity not worthwhile.

…and if it’s changed so that no event ever fails, then there’s no point and no challenge, then it’ll be time to fine a new game methinks.

There are issues with the megaserver, agreed, but I think given a bit of time to work out the kinks, this with be an incredible improvement for the game. People actually playing maps for a change. It’s almost like when I started playing and there were tons of people around. These days many, or even most, maps are essentially deserted.

There is nothing wrong with no event failing. The rewards are messed. You only get a chest or one of the new traits if you capture a temple. But if no defensive event fails, the temples can’t be recaptured.

Leamas.5803:

Simple solution…block the guys who are griefing chat…or report them.

This thread was supposed to show how broken the megaservers are since no event ever fails. So you can’t do the events like freeing a temple to get the chest at the end.