MileZero

Galatea, on 07 November 2012 - 03:59 AM, said:

Actually no, that's not me being a condescending douche bag, that's me explaining you've made a stupid thread, because you're just too damn lazy to click on existing threads for information that answers your questions/thoughts.

Now, here's me being a condescending douche bag:

Galatea, on 06 November 2012 - 09:11 PM, said:

• Here you said "...but for some reason Guardian has the lowest health in the game..."
  Then I gave you obvious reason for this: "...This is to stop you having 18khp and then just going clerics amulet/jewel and sitting back drinking a nice cold beverage while you're un-killable with your 2.5k hp dodge roll heals...."
  
• "I realize Guardian has "defensive spells" but if you notice our bubbles only block ranged attacks and the Warriors can heal aswell as Guardians and also have their own survival methods."
  Paraphrased basically to say: 'Warriors heal while blocking and are thus superior to Guardian blocks except Guardians have other means of defence.'

Now you can see why I dismissed this outright, you just said some vague summary of a small minority of defensive skills for each class. But if you were actually wondering why Guardian skills can seem weaker in theory, it's because you're not taking boons and increased boon duration, or controls into consideration.

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• "The warrior has straight up more damage output than the Guardian, they have a lot of skills to increase damage aswell as conditions. Guardians only have Burning witch only increases in duration."
  Yes but that's only if you can stay alive that long, so yes running a DPS Guardian with 2 bunkers may not be as effective as a burst Warrior, but you can't deal damage when you're dead. So a Burst Guardian without a bunker will have more survivability and therefore deal more damage than a Warrior without a bunker
  
• "The warrior can use Rifles and Bows, this gives them incredible long range damage not only that but Kiting potential aswell. So not only do they do more damage and have higher health, but by kiting they can kill a Guardian without recieving any or little damage in return."
  Phew, thank god long ranged doesn't increase your effectiveness in PvP, 1200 is as long as you'll ever need. It's not like you can control enemy movement with the scepter to make your melee more powerful or anything, nor is it like the scepter does 1k+ dps without smite.
  
• "In PVP everyone mantains a heavy group formation so getting close is not often a good idea. Kitting becomes an even bigger problem when other classes not only have defence/health and range but survival methods aswell. ex. (rocket jump, slippery oil, knockbacks, knockdowns, slows etc etc.)"
  If you're a Guardian and you can't get close, you're running a bad build. All classes have control abilities, Guardian also has one of the best access to anti-control skills.

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False, everything can specialize in this game, and is supposed to be able to specialize better than other classes in particular areas.
If it's your opinion try not to post this sort of thing "The scepter is not only slow but easily avoidable and does very little damage." when you honestly have no clue.
Well done, you've officially wasted my time, thank you very much. Hope this enlightens you so that you can make more educating and insightful posts in the future.

PS. I don't consider WvW PvP, so when I refer to PvP clearly I don't mean that.

Korra, on 01 November 2012 - 06:30 AM, said:

WvW forums are that way ---------------->

From an sPvP perspective the problem with shortbow is that every single ability is very good. I can't think of any other weapon set with as much utility and effectiveness. The auto attack does fairly good damage with a bounce. The 2 is amazing for team fights because it's a 3-5k AoE blast finisher that's spammable. The 3 is a low cost backward evade and a cripple. The 4 is a poison field, which is again very very good for team fights because res denial wins games. The 5 is some of the best mobility in the game, especially on Kyhlo.

You can't balance classes based on WvW where it's simply a giant zerg. Certain things like AoE healing and portal bombing might be fixed for WvW but general PvP class balance should and will be based on sPvP.

The reason I personally find Rifle and Longbow underwhelming is their low auto attack damages and easily avoidable abilities. Killshot is very inefficient in tPvP because the time it takes to channel could have resulted in more damage by simply auto attacking with another weapon. It also has an obvious animation which makes blinding the shot or simply dodge rolling easy. The longbow overall seems to not do enough to warrant it's use in tPvP. It's just the numbers on the two weapons seem underwhelming in some areas and they don't have any amazing utility to warrant their use either. Whenever I think "I'll need a ranged option for this matchup" I immediately just swap to another class(typically thief with Shortbow + D/D). This is because a thief with a shortbow is a lot more useful to a team than a Warrior with a rifle or longbow. There's a reason no half decent Theif in sPvP goes without it.

We just need actual features to support a competitive scene, namely private games, spectator feature, and ladders.

Reposted from the R and D thread on Black Lion Chests since it wasn't 100% on topic so I brought it here.

This thread is to discuss the way that ANet has handled this installment of Halloween, most notably what they have done with Black Lion Chests. These are my thoughts.

So I had a bit of a flame battle in /map last night in LA over Halloween skins costing ridiculous amounts. Essentially the argument that: "If you don't want it, don't grind for it." is being used rampantly.

This is fundamentally wrong. Legendaries are a legitimate grind. This is HALLOWEEN. It is supposed to be a fun community oriented event. No one, save those people who do nothing but PvE and farm 8 hours a day can reliably afford these skins.

In case you missed it, what ANet did was inflate the economy so that gems trade for more gold. This combats gold sellers with a more competitive price from Dollars --> Gold but it makes the exchange for Gold --> Gems completely absurd. The problem with this is that it blew the economy up overnight. Any player who is not spending money on the game post-purchase is negatively impacted by this event because you can no longer buy gems with gold for any semblance of a reasonable amount.

If they really wanted these skins to be difficult to obtain, in a community event, mind you, they should have made it so you had to complete a certain amount of events or get "Halloween Tokens" which are awarded based on your participation in the actual event.

The real problem with them being in Black Lion Chests is that in 330 hours on my character, I have gotten 3 keys, ever. This is including the personal story. I've gotten one from a drop maybe one time. The amount of keys that you get in this game is probably a ratio of 1 key to 100 chests. The idea that not only are keys almost impossible to get in a drop, but because they are in the trading post, gem prices exploded because they make an insanely rare item put in a chest that is insanely hard to open. It's exponential, if you didn't realize.

These skins aren't account bound like EVERYTHING else you get from a chest. So people who are lucky enough to make it out of the flawed system, turn around and make the economy explode even more charging 40g for a skin driving 99% of the population who can't afford the skins to try and buy just enough gems to open a couple chests and pray that the astronomical odds work in their favor.

If anyone is going to argue that you can "Just roll a new character and get the key from the story quest." There is a serious problem. There should not be people having to grind outside of the Halloween event to get anything involved within the Halloween event. The ANet marketing team and their e-conomists seriously dropped the ball on this.

We, as a community, cannot let them think that this is ok. If the only argument that can be brought up is that if you want it, grind for it just like a legendary, or to take advantage of story quests by re-rolling characters in order to get keys that -never- drop otherwise, this is fundamentally wrong.

This is a community every reward/item should be available within the parameters of the event just like the legacy left by GW1's holiday events has established. I am incredibly disappointed by the way this marketing ploy was designed.

*This is a marketing issue, not a content issue, to be clear. I have thoroughly enjoyed the other content in this event. I have not tried to open chests and I do not plan on it. I also have not bought gems or bought a skin with in-game gold. This is outrage based on principle and what has happened to others. I have not been cheated in any way, but ANet needs to know that this is wrong.

EDIT: I have received a lot of hateful comments on account of my opinion. I have even received private messages from individuals (who obviously made fake accounts just to cuss me out [wow]) insulting me in any number of ways. I made this post to take a public stand against something ANet has done. I played the original Guild Wars and the debacle with the chests is just horrendous compared to the legacy GW1 has left.

Let everyone remember that this is a forum for shared ideas, not insults. If you are toxic to the conversation, you will be reported. Do not think that you are so pretentious that you are allowed to insult other posters. If you feel that you need to insult others, go play Xbox Live or League. I have a lot of respect for members of this community, but if individuals continue to insult, berate, and degrade, I will begin to feel sorry that I ever stood up for this community to begin with.

EDIT #2: ANet has provided a solution to the issue.

#275 is my response to the semantics behind the word chance and SEVERAL possible solutions that ANet could use in the future or could have used now. (substitute "Wintersday" where appropriate)

Less Mesmers, please. They're way too overpowered. I don't think we need an article to make mesmers even more annoying.

Sure would like it if they would fix Opening Strikes.  That trait line is dead to me until they do.

Guardian gets nerfed again lol Thief and mesmer get a buff with multiple target hits.....

I have found some skillpoints still bugged aswell.

Im starting to think Arena Net have no clue on balance changes....

You should earn it, not buy it.

I think there should be requirements before you buy it. Some achievements in WvW that would need to be finished before it is able to be purchased.

I really hope this is a troll post because this comparison is just awful.

Pets go to target, pause to attack, target moves outta range, pets run to target, pause to attack, target moves outta range.  It's not about micromanagement, it's about the pets being wonky.  Go to Mist and send ur pet on the running robot, see how long it takes to kill it.

The purpose of this isn't just complaining. It is to try and highlight something that needs change. Traits don't need revision just for the Ranger class, but for every class.

Going down each trait line, I'm going to state the trait, minors then majors, and then a brief explanation as to why it's useless. Note that this is in direct regards to pvp, so pve arguments are irrelevant. If I have overlooked or undervalued a trait and you can give a legitimate reasoning, I will take that into account and alter the list accordingly. Note that this is opinion. Without further ado, here it is:

Marksmanship

Opening Strike: Causes Vulnerability with your first strike when entering combat.

This trait is useless, especially in the Marksman line. We have pets that have vulnerability on auto attack and a longbow 3 for 10s of vulnerability. It would be more useful if it proc'd on crit or some other type effect. But as it stands, this does nothing noteworthy or substantial.

Apha Training: Pets have Opening Strike.

See above reasoning and factor in Pet AI when it comes to applying this to a moving opponent, and it's worse than regular opening strike.

Precise Strike: Opening Strike always critcals.

This would almost be useful... if it didn't depend on Opening Strike and 25 points into Marksmanship. This entire chain of opening strike minor traits would be infinitely more useful if it was something as simple as "your crits have x chance to cause vulnerability", "your pets crits have x chance to cause vulnerability", "critical damage increased +x% on foes with vulnerability"

Malicious Training: Increased duration for conditions applied by your pet.

This would be useful on a build with your pet being your main source of damage. That being said, builds like that aren't viable due to pet AI, and the fact that your pet will never be as good as you want it to be because you can't control or direct its actions; you aren't your pet. However, as it has been pointed out to me below:

FBRin, on 19 September 2012 - 01:41 AM, said:

Warranting this trait some viability, especially when compared to other selections for the slot this trait is in.

Spotter: Increase precision of nearby allies by up to 70 points.

70 precision is really not that much, and the proximity of where you have to be for this to be effective is limited. It's a negligible trait.

Beastmasters Might: Activating a signet grants might.

This grants 1 stack of might for 5s, and our lowest possible signet recharge is 24s, which works out to 45 extra power and condition damage for 5s, every 24s. This is too much of a sacrifice for too little of an effect.

Remorseless: Regain opening strike when you kill a foe.

This is just a waste of a grandmasters slot. I don't have any suggestions for what to replace it with, but, refer back to Opening Strike comments as to why this isn't good, and then insert what could be better without being game breaking overpowered.

Skirmishing

Trappers Defense: Create a spike trap while reviving an ally.

Every class for the most part has a trait like this, and there are always better options than this. This type of trait is to encourage reviving by promoting defensive tactics, but it's overally effect versus what you can choose instead of it isn't worth it, and every trait like this in the game could be reworked to be better or removed for something else.

Companions Might: Critical hits grant might to your pet.

So this basically takes a basic part of the elite skill, Rampage as One, turns it into a crit proc, and gives might to only your pet. Refer back to where I've mentioned pets in pvp earlier to note that pet builds, as it stands, aren't viable, as pet damage isn't reliable on other players.

Agility Training: Pets move 30% faster.

Pets still come to a dead halt when they attack. Lower then movement speed, and apply the effect to the player as well, whether it's through this trait or some other trait that has synergy with this one (example trait: Beastmastery 30 grandmaster trait: any traits that apply to your pet also apply to you, as long as your pet is alive)

Honed Axes: You do 10% more critical damage when wielding an axe in your main hand.

This trait provided 33% more damage in the beta, which was admittedly too much. However, this isn't a happy middle ground, as the damage on an axe done by direct damage isn't really the highest damage, especially taking into account attacking speed. I'm not saying this is terrible, but it could be just a build in overall 5% damage increase all the time like other traits.

Moment of Clarity: Gain and attack of opportunity for you and your pet on interrupt. This effect can only trigger once every 5s.

Basically, your next attack does 150% damage. Rangers don't have interrupts on low cooldowns to take advantage of something like this, and overall, this could be an entirely different trait (personally, I'd like to see remove a condition on critical, but that's asking for too much I'm sure)

Wilderness Survival

Soften the Fall: Create muddy terrain when you take fall damage. Take 50% less damage from falling.

Almost every class has a trait like this too, and they are all useless for spvp. However, as contributed by Xsorus, a common and effective tactic in WvW is to abuse the 50% fall damage while being chased to lead many unsuspecting attackers to follow off cliffs and jump to their deaths, and is one of the better traits you can use in this slot in WvW.


Healers Celerity: Grants swiftness to you and your ally when you revive someone.

There is really no benefit to this trait whatsoever. I'd personally rather have a quickness gain on a cooldown while reviving, so I could revive people faster from time to time, and that would be much more useful than whatever this trait is trying to accomplish.

Expertise Training: Pets deal extra condition damage.

See reasoning behind Malicious Training.

Oakheart Salve: Gain regeneration for 5s when you suffer from bleeding, poison or burning. This can only trigger once every 20 seconds.

Regeneration does not counteract damage taken from these conditions, and this doesn't proc often enough to increase survival or even help against these conditions, even if the person isn't running high condition damage. Conditions are easily applied and stacked in this game, and this trait is overwhelmed by them.

Empathic Bond: Pets periodically take conditions from you.

Signet of Renewal is signet whose passive does the same thing, and the effect is subpar regardless. Yes, it is nice to have condition removal. But compared to what other classes receive in regards to being able to remove conditions, this trait is underwhelming. Removes a condition every 10s if your pet is in range. This could just do so much more. 10s and you don't even know when it's occuring, you basically never see this trait in effect when you need it.

Nature Magic

Due to the nerf to spirits since the beta, making them barely effective and not able to survive anything, spirit builds just aren't viable. So, instead of examining each individual trait, and saying that it would or would not be useful if spirits were useful, I am going to list all of the spirit related traits that are no longer useful:
Vigorous Spirits
Natures Vengeance
Spiritual Knowledge
Spirits Unbound

Continuing now with the rest of the traits in this line:

Rejuvenation: Gain regeneration at 75% health.

The regen gained is barely effective at all, and doesn't last long enough. Engineers have much better minor traits for survival, and should be used more as a model to alter traits like this one for rangers.

Fortifying Bond: Any boon you get is shared with you pet.

See previous reasoning as to viability and pets in pvp.

Circle of Life: Create a healing spring on death.

This trait is a conundrum that equals bad regardless. Basically, die, to help your team heal, but not yourself, which in turn, by being dead, you aren't helping your team. I'm not sure why this trait even exists. Healing Spring on being downed on a 90s cooldown would be better than this, and that's just sad.

Enlargement: Pets get enlarged when you reach 25% health.

See previous reasoning as to why pets and pvp aren't viable.

Evasive Purity: Dodging removes blind and poison from you.

I'm not sure what they were thinking with this. Pour 30 points into an almost useless skill tree to remove conditions that have fairly short lasting effects anyhow that on top of that are not easy for most classes to apply. To be useful, this needs to remove more conditions.

Beastmastery

For the sake of time, and for not wanting to type out the "refer to where I already said pets aren't viable" sentence, I am going to list all of the traits here that apply to pet's that aren't viable because of that explanation, and then examine the remaining ones that need examination. So here's the list:
Masters Bond
Rending Attacks
Stability Training
Intimidation Training
Vigorous Training
Instinctual Bond
Natural Healing

Continuing:

Compassion Training: Pets heal for more.

This is almost, if not, exclusive to moas, and you can't control when they are to use their heals anyhow, so it's basically gambling, and you have to be in range.


So that's the end of the list. Some traits, even if they aren't on here, would be better if they were under a different trait tree, but as it stands, I would only be forming that opinion based on where larger concentrations of useless traits are in skill trees, so I'm not going to because I already stated the most basic problem.

I'm here in hopes that we can rally as a community and use this thread as a way to show/voice our irritation with Anet's silence in regards to Reimbursement for the following issues for dedicated spvp/tpvp players.

1. The first few days of headstart/release where players received little to no chests for tournament wins.

2. The current bug of salvaging Spvp/Tpvp gear and getting Mithril Ore or other PvE materials instead of PvP materials.


Personally, I've missed out on around 20 plus gold chests and a few silvers between headstart and the first week of release. I also cut down my time spent in tournaments because of not receiving any rewards (practice time lost).
(This was also a lot of glory that was missed out on from opening said chests)

Also recently I've had over 5 items give me mithril ores instead of other pvp materials. To me that could of been a sliver or some other key material.

1-3 Days is acceptable to not expect reimbursement but it's now two weeks into release and for one whole week many didn't receive any chests.

This is an easy fix as Anet has access to see how many Tournaments were won/played per profession.
Also giving/introducing these chests wouldn't affect Spvp/any economy as this is simply on a individual basis, so there is no real draw back other than work put in by Anet's appointed staff.

Please sign here or leave in the comments your irritation and want for reimbursement so that I and others can use this thread to voice our concerns/desires.

You can also help by posting on these GW2 Forum Threads:
https://forum-en.gui...nament-Rewards/
https://forum-en.gui...lvaging-Bugged/

This guy trolls every forum.

I have to ask a question.

It's just me or the Greatsword for rangers has been nerfed to oblivion?

The autoattack deal the same identical damage of the 1h sword, having half the attack speed and no utility (cripple, might, jump, dodge, poision).

Maul: It's a good skill, problem is half the damage is from bleeding, useless in a power build.

Swoop: This is really good, sometimes it bugs, but hey it deal a good amount of damage.

Counterattack/Crippling Throw: The 20 second recharge is a bit too much in my opinion. Decent skill overall.

Hilt Bash: Horrible skill in my opinion. The damage is null, and 1 second daze/stun on 30 second cooldown it's horrible. And the passive that makes your bet hit harder sucks since you can't actually decide what skill he's gonna do.


Overall, i can't find any reason to go for GS instead of 1h sword.

(This is purely based for a melee power ranger, i know Shortbow/Longbow builds work, but hey i miss my 2h)


Opinions?