Guild Wars 2

“not after HoT”, “HoT fiasco” .. i dunno what you have guys, but i really like HoT.

the price was also okay, ive played dozens of hours in HoT areas and still enjoy it. loved making the map completion in HoT as it is very challenging (and i mean making map completion by yourself, not following dulfys guide) and the adventures which have a high replayability. havent even played the raid yet.. then we also got masteries and and and..
this all for what, 44 bucks or something like that? i have bought AAA games for 60-80 bucks and after 5-6-8h ive seen the whole game. or look at expansions in other games, battelfield/battlefront for example. you get expansions that cost more than 44 bucks and instead of giving you new content they just complete the game, add stuff youd expect to be in there from release.
so i totally cant see why this is fail or fiasco, the only fail from anet is that you kinda had to buy the whole gw2 again and cant even use it as second copy.
i also disliked that you have the option to upgrade from basic to deluxe but not to the next tier (the 99.- one).

so yes, i would absolutely pay that amount again for such an expansion, id even love to!

i just did the teq gloom for crafting dusk 2 weeks ago and it took me 2 tries. i always make teq directly after reset and always with the same people in a full map and we are also pretty quick with killing teq. its true that full maps which kill teq quickly can cause them to not spawn but its not impossible. the way i found it to work best is when you stand near to his right front paw, i see the whirls there frequently. you prolly just had bad luck so far.

Rayden.3695:

Nothing wrong with Kudzu, but with Dreamer yes.

well you say it like its a fact but its just personal preference. i myself have a dreamer, back then after release i was even the first to craft it on my server, totally knew what i was getting (at that time the dreamer effects have been way less, no footprints, no rainbowtail and the arrows have only been unicorn heads not full unicorns) and i actually really wanted that. till now i dont regret getting it, not a single moment.

and im no girl, nor am i 3 years old, im now actually a 37yr old guy but i guess i just got a good portion of humour ;)

so yeah, i like it and its great its a legendary. not like i want all weapons to be like that but it wudnt hurt to have one or two more. and dont even get the idea to “nerf”/change my beloved rainbowpony-shooter ;)

indeed, absolutely agree, we should be able to mf the dreamer and kudzu, like twilight and sunrise. this would give you a medium bow (just like select stats u could set it as short or longbow, whatever you need) called eros, a white feathery bow that shoots pink hearts and everytime you shoot it makes some kissing noise. footprints could be 2 loving birds that fly away together.

ive never used compact bags from the very first day of the game and i doubt i ever will. but what annoys me is the compact bags function placement. happens from time to time that i missclick on it and it messes everything up.

i dont see the justification “use invis bags” as valid (and it also wudnt work for everyone including me), its actually a game design error to put those 2 elements right after eachother in the dropdown.

if its really such a big deal for those that use compact bags, if they move it down in the menu, then there are also other solutions. like instead of moving it give us the option to get a confirmation dialogue on click. means if u activate “ask me for confirmation on compact bags” in the options you would get a dialogue on pressing compact bags asking “do you really wanna compact bags yes/no”.

this way nothing wud change for the compacting users and those that dont use it have a missclick protection.
more drastic and prolly suboptimal solution could also be to just let us disable the function in the options so it wud not even show up if wanted.

but denying a helpful fix for some players only coz others have to adjust their clicking habits/routine is not the right way to solve such issues imo.

papry.8096:

DoctorDing.5890:

Does the owner of the weapon hear the sounds too?

Yes they do.
Funny thing : once I asked a dreamer owner if he didn’t find the sound irritating.
His answer : “I turned the game sound down, can’t hear it.”

jup thats how it is, im playing without sound too most the times, or its so low that i cant hear my dreamer enough to get annoyed of it ;)

xiiliea.9356:

zeus.9634:

ah let him show of his bags, why else should he have done all this wintersday jp botting when he cant show off all the stuff and achievements he made afterwards :)
if its true, sad kid but hey, each to his own.

Yep I needed to show off my 28 days of lifeless farming. 300 completions a day during your year-end holidays isn’t impossible :P

hah okok i believe ya, i myself farmed the jp like an idiot to the last minute and ive encountered so many botters during this time which made me really sad.. one of the best ways to see if someone was cheating is calling him a cheater and see how he reacts. ur reaction seems legit ;)

i was also calcing with 15runs/30mins which resulted in something like 6.5h farming a day to reach that amount.. i only started playing gw2 again after xmas and did the powerfarming for like 10days and got to around ~1200 runs.
yday when wintersday ended i was actually happy coz i got sick of the jp and cudnt see it anymore but i just cudnt waste this opportunity of making money.. so gratz and respect for ur nearly 8000 runs, i wud have vomited long before reaching that :>

ah let him show of his bags, why else should he have done all this wintersday jp botting when he cant show off all the stuff and achievements he made afterwards
if its true, sad kid but hey, each to his own.

whoot, thats the best thing of the dreamer. i love to annoy other peoples with rainbowponies and that awesome pew pew pew sound. everyone hates it when im showing up and directly starts moaning, its great :D

a bunker ranger works very well in 1vx but you have to spec into beastmastery and let your pet do most of the damage. you as ranger just apply conditions and do the other shenanigans.
im using a bunker beastmaster myself and enjoyed it alot. youll be able to kill most of the players.. i usually only have troubles with d/d eles (few good ones kill me the rest just runs away when they notice they lose and u cant catch up) and some mesmers.

the only downside is that some fights can take really long, especially against other ranger or guardian bunkers, but if noone else interferes you can have really cool and fun long lasting duels :)

for escaping im using the great sword which provides a very nice leap, and together with our nice speed buffs (and if needed rampage as one) its mostly pretty easy to even run away from zergs.

didnt read all the posts, mainly the dev ones, but well.. its a bit sad that there will be no perma stow.. not that i want to get rid of my pet, no im even running a full beastmaster build and im a bit useless without pet, but in some situations you just want the pet to stay stowed.

my solution for this would be;
if you stow the pet while it is in defensive mode then it will not unstow on taking damage/going into combat.. but when its on aggressive then it should just act as it already does.

also things id like to see are a key for stowing the pet and all the pets boons and conditions should also be always displayed near/above the pet health/F1-3 controls, its uncomfortable to select the pet to see what boons/cons he got.

sorry if i repeat things which got already said, but better say it twice than not at all ;)

strange things happen in the baruch bay borderlands :p

hmmm so its not just me who got that feeling.
noticed it last night and this morning in PvE, my pet (jaguar/lynx) seems to make less damage and way less crits than usual.
just watched a video ive made few days before patch, and there my jaguar most of the times did crit for 2k+ dmg, but it was WvW..
have to try it out tonight in WvW to see if my pet also does less damage and crits there.

running a 0/0/30/10/30 build btw.

at least you get footsteps, noone notices my dreamer unless i begin shooting ;)

but nice listings of the bugs, good job.

KStudios.2850:

I never specifically said don’t do it, I said do it only if you love the class.

this wasnt adressed at you, but other posters said dont roll a ranger and as you can see people still say dont roll a ranger.. only thing i disagreed with you is that a solo ranger is a dead ranger ;)

Chambered.7135:

A video of a ranger barely killing a couple of bad players, who at any point could have dis-engaged and escaped, is hardly proof of an awesome skirmishing class.

Guardian was my first 80, Ranger my second – mostly just because I was tired of a melee class and wanted something ranged. I have fun WvWing on my Ranger, but there is no illusion about how much less effective the class is vs basically every other class except Engineer. You can build to survive and do almost no damage

its not barely killing, they are dead at the end so its actual killing. and who says that if they disengage they get away? thats the good thing, when they run away then its alot easier for me to apply bleeds with the shortbow.. and its not like a ranger cant keep up, only a bunch of eles and thiefs can escape faster than i can keep up..

and yep, i deal no damage, at least not direct damage with the bow.. but theres also condition damage (omg!) and a pet that deals pretty high damage..

but well, you see what you want to see, dontya?

yeah i agree, “Guard” was something that gave the ranger an unique ability and one of the funniest things you could do with the ranger.. very sad it got nerfed.. and now it indeed is just another utility skill which does not really get used by anyone anymore.

firebreathz.7692:

dead mesmer inside keep.. use guard to get pet on wall.. use search and rescue to revive dead mesmer

as far as i know “search and rescue” only works on downed players, not dead ones.. so this does not apply(?).

Gelltor.3015:

It was obviously not meant to work that way,i’m surprised that people didn’t expect this to happen,especially after they did the same thing to mesmers with their illusions.

its actually not the same. mesmers have been able to summon their illusions trough walls without having a line of sight on the location. but with “search and rescue” you can only send your pet to locations you can actually see.

if the argument is that a pet cannot walk up walls.. then just change the animation and instead of sending the pet make it like a teleport. rangers can do magic and this would just be a magical spell.

can you send me your ectos, lodestones and all t6 mats before ya leave? thx and hf with your next game.. dont forget to close the door behind ya!

the best defensive ranger build imo is a 0/0/30/10/30 fully specced in regeneration. for very nice damage output you take cats as pets and spec yourself into condition damage, because with this build youll only have 1 stat free for damage which is not enough to spec power and prec, but get con dmg on a good level.

i myself am running this build and im constantly having 1v2 and 1v3 battle which i can win without big problems.
sure there are dirty combinations of classes to face and if they are a bit trained in playing together then youll prolly get owned.. but thats no shame, isnt it?

and the statement that a solo ranger is a dead ranger in wvw is just totally wrong. a ranger has great ways to escape, you can outrun zergs easily with the right weaps and skills.

few days ago ive made a video of my ranger, its no biggie and i just recorded the next best duels ive had, but maybe it helps you to imagine what this build can do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brwfBu9r5g0

(working on a new vid with better quali and more duels, will upload it within the next few days if youre interested..)

dont get the wrong picture by all the posts from ranger haters and qq’ers, the ranger is an awesome skirmishing class in wvw and you’ll have alot of fun.

SerRolandStark.2758:

Ruin.9261:

Doesn’t this seed works only out of combat?

This is what I thought.

nope it increases your speed all the time, in and out of combat.. thats what makes it useful for kiting.

Frosty and Frosty Law Firm.4981:

Mesmers laugh at our ability to duel, which is virtually non-existant to the average player that doesn’t have the time to spend three hours a day researching an obscure build that will allow you to survive ten seconds longer if applied correctly.

oh well… shouldnt even reply to tis but whatever.. is your main really a ranger? did you just lvl him to 80 and then ya had to notice that its useless and went to lvl a new char? or did you actually put time into it?
that directly leads to the next point.. yeah it may take some time to figure out a build that fits you and maybe also some training to play it. but is that really bad?
do you expect the ranger to be uber when you just specc it a bit here and there without any knowledge?
you can gimp every class if you have no clue about what ya are doing.

and does a ranger have to be better than every other class in any aspect? why has a ranger to be a better tank than a tank? why has a ranger to output more dps than the dps class thief?

if a ranger could do what you expect of him, do you know what would happen then? everyone cries OP OP QQ and anet nerfs. cool!

this also leads back to the discussion, a ranger is not an archer/scout, its a beastmaster.
guess thats also the reason why so many are disappointed, they have the wrong expections.
maybe its just not the class you are looking for, doesnt mean its useless, you only personally dislike it. but that also means its exactly the class other players are looking for and therefor like it.

so, just dont play a ranger..?

you didnt hurt my feelings, im just annoyed by that much QQ about rangers or calling them useless. and thats just coz i cannot agree, from my experience the ranger can be a useful profession as all the other ones.

yesterday we did a fractal, on the endboss the whole group got killed except me, the useless ranger… thanks to my nonexistent ability to tank and my always dead pet that cannot distract mobs, i was able to revive my mates and prevent a groupwipe.

later on i went to wvw with a guardian guildie. we had alot of small scale battles from 2vs1 up to 2vs7. we didnt die once and defeated everything that came along our way. and when im running in wvw it doesnt matter if small scale or big zerg, im kinda almost the primary target coz im shooting rainbow unicorns (that seems to create hate ;) but still i rarely die.

another very useless fact about our stupid neverliving pet (btw my polar bear got 4400 vitality and 1800 toughness) is its revive abilities while downed. if the finisher isnt quick enough then i can heal myself, revive/call the pet, interrupt the finishing move and get up again. or its especially funny when a thief finally gets you down and thinks he can melee you to death with damage instead of finishing, he wont survive for much longer.

so guess your response would be like “yeah thats good for you, you can solo but do not contribute to the group/squad/zerg/server”.

-we can send our pet on the walls/in keeps to kill players and siege with a nice 3000 range.
-my healing spring pumps out regeneration and cures conditions in pulses, also gives vigor for 15 seconds, very appreciated by many players (especially those that specced into boon duration, if im running with my guardian mate we have infinite regeneration up all the time).
-the warhorn gives fury, might, swiftness to your allies, who doesnt like that?
-because everyone thinks rangers suck and are easy targets, i can tank and distract several players up to full groups without dieing, while my allies take the rest out or the ones that try to kill me.
-when an enemy player tries to escape then the ranger is very good at catching him up and stall him, using gs leap and 25% speed buff to catch up and then for example sb 5 from behind which will stun, followed by a sb4 cripple. that holds the escaping player up long enough so the slower ones can catch up for a quick finishing if the ranger cant kill him before he begins to run again (sure thiefs and eles may get away, but not all of them).

this are just some examples, i could go on with more but i think ive made my point.
dont get me wrong now, im not saying the ranger is an uber superduper perfect profession, nono never. the ranger has its issues and could use improvements here and there.
BUT.. its faaaar away from being useless/<insert swear word here>/garbage/broken whatever you wanna call it. i would for example love to see more cc skills and condition removal for the ranger, thats what we are really lacking.
the ranger may not have that extraordinary “wooooow” ability which saves the world, but does it really need to have it? the ranger can be very good in many aspects if built and played right, no matter if it should be dps output or tanking.
and isnt the ranger the profession with the most possibilities to apply conditions?

TLDR: i like to play my ranger, i want fixes and improvements but calling it useless or unplayable is anything else than correct.

id love to have a tropical bird as pet, the ones you see at the fractals portal or in southsun cove, or they also spawn from the pirate runes. they look like theyve got the head of diablo on their back, thats just awesome ;)

MeGaZlo.9516:

Because they are useless. Why not to take them? Because 80% of the rangers can not produce normal damage, can’t support, their pet dead all the time, and when it alive when, it aggro whole dungeon.

so what about the other 20%? they can produce normal damage, can support, their pet is alive and it doesnt aggro the whole dungeon. but still they are useless? kinda some contradiction in your post. all i read is hate or frustration. you either get owned by rangers all the time or you cant play one on your own..?

im happy that we run always with the guild, in 1650h playtime i never had to pug once so i never had to meet people like you ingame.
in our guild we run dungeon groups no matter what classes, we dont care, we take whoever got time and we always clear any dungeon without any problems in a more or less short time. even with groups that contain 2-3 rangers, works like a charm.

thats the great thing about gw2 but sadly there are still wannabe elitists like you are which mean they have to clear cof p1 in 10mins, 12mins is unacceptable and a waste of time and its only the rangers fault. but well i guess from your view its not possible to clear cof p1 in 12mins with a ranger in the group, probably not even possible at all, is it?

im so sick of this profession racism even when im not affected.. but already reading about it makes me barf.

when i began reading this thread i first wanted to also write my thoughts and experiences with the ranger, telling people who think ranger is broken or crap that they are wrong and whatnot.. but, with every next post i was reading till the end of the thread, i had to notice.. its pointless.
this is one of the most useless and timewasting threads ive read in this forum and best would be if a mod just closes it, heck imo he could even delete it so it wont waste the time of other players anymore.

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yep im also having this issue.. the key no 45 (0×13) is getting recognized as key no. 1 (0×0e), they also both bind as 1 (0×0e) .. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/topic/com.ibm.aix.keyboardtechref/doc/kybdtech/figures/kybdt2.jpg