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Invite sent, and I messaged you in-game on how to represent. Welcome!
Welcome! The guild doesn't have enough Ranger mains in my unbiased opinion.
My low-level advice is just to try out all the weapons. Don't stick to bows exclusively.
A longbow. And a bear.
So many new folks, warms my ol' heart. I hope some of you can make it to our guild missions on Saturday night, 9:00PM EST! You won't necessarily be able to take part in all of them (when we activate a mission, it's random which one we get to do that week) but about half are accessible if you're ~level 20.
True story, I didn't see SB for the first time until I was level 60-something.
Lots of new people! Yay!
Spoilery pic for the new peeps. Don't click until you've seen Behemoth in game!
I'm so sad those high resolution screens had the water bug (as you can see in the pic it made water "repeat" in tiles) and other problems. I liked them.
Cresc and I met it in the first BWE. We duoed it and it took quite some time
Spoilery pic for the new peeps. Don't click until you've seen Behemoth in game!
I'm so sad those high resolution screens had the water bug (as you can see in the pic it made water "repeat" in tiles) and other problems. I liked them.
shysaursoft
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If I had to pick a secondary, it'd be Ranger. Mine runs Greatsword and Sword / Horn, not a bow in sight.
Thanks! Accepted and am representing! Had to jump off right after I did though due to work and daughter waking up. Planning to jump on tonight and hopefully say hi to everyone in game.
I was surprised at how populated the beginner zones are and how cool SB looked. And Saturdays are usually bad for me unfortunately, usually running a board game night unless people have other plans.
Thanks! Accepted and am representing! Had to jump off right after I did though due to work and daughter waking up. Planning to jump on tonight and hopefully say hi to everyone in game.
I was surprised at how populated the beginner zones are and how cool SB looked. And Saturdays are usually bad for me unfortunately, usually running a board game night unless people have other plans.
Yeah with the introduction of Megaservers it solved the problem of having people running through empty starty zones and zone's in general .
As for Missions , there are also Makeup missions on Sunday at 3 PM EST.
Since we're sharing Shadow Behemoth stories, when I was showing the game to my brother during BWE1, we lucked out and were in Queensdale when he appeared, but our characters were only level 10. We still managed to make it down there and fight him. I'm pretty sure that encounter sealed the deal and he ended up pre-ordering right after that.
We're averaging 3 a day since the sale started, which doesn't sound impressive until you realize it's only GAFers and most of the big MMO fans on the forums already own the game.
I've never been able to get used to the auto-attack animation for Ranger sword. Maybe it's just that he's a Norn, but he totally spazes out. Feels like they tried to put too many skills on one weapon. I've always felt like Kick should have been the #2 skill with pounce as a secondary effect, then Hornet Sting as #3. Serpent Strike feels too similar to the dagger's Stalker Strike (both poison, both evade, similar range, names, CD)... seems redundant.
I was surprised at how populated the beginner zones are and how cool SB looked. And Saturdays are usually bad for me unfortunately, usually running a board game night unless people have other plans.
That'd be the Megaservers doing their job. Instead of every server being completely isolated (as they are in most MMOs), ArenaNet has a system where it puts as many people as possible into a single instance of the zone regardless of world (though it factors in things like guild membership, friends list, and language on the EU servers). End result: Zones are jumpin' 24/7.
No problem on missing Saturday missions, we have Makeup Missions at 3pm on Sundays. A lot of folks can't make the regular missions (especially in Europe) so we try to accommodate as many schedules as possible.
Kos Luftar
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Culling of Ashodin coming soon.
I feel this is a bit of an unfair characterization of Staff. D/D is fun due to its mobility, but has little utility other than might buffing. Both D/D and S/D are offensive-oriented and I find lacking in support and control.
Staff on the other hand has support and control in spades. Every non-fire attunement has potent AoE control skills: a giant stun field, a giant chill field, a line of warding. There's also the best ele healing kit (AoE cleanse and AoE heal), secondary control spells (a push and an immobilize), and other amazing goodies (a long evade, a blind, AoE swiftness, a reflect...).
Levyne may be our pre-eminent ranger, but I'm the defender of the mainhand sword #1 skill chain. Each skill is purposely and carefully balanced as a tool to stick on the target, while crippling them and boosting might to your pet. Really its only flaw is that the game has passed it by- pvp ranger beastmaster builds have been nerfed into paste, and other weapons have since been buffed to greater relative effectiveness.
I agree indirectly that the #2 skill should be something else- though even that would be fixed by reducing the windup time on the evade. And the #3 skill is certainly redundant with dagger #4- but I wouldn't rectify that by shaking up sword; on its own that evade is quite useful. In fact I find ranger dagger to be the most redundant weapon; I wouldn't bring it with sword or axe.
spare me.
Messing with your positioning is the point.
Pro-tip: the evade is in a direction relative to your target. So if engaged with a foe in melee, swap targets and hit 2 to evade in an unexpected direction. Swap targets again or drop target before you activate the second part of the chain, the leap, to really mix-up your positioning. Leap finishers are also underrated; ranger has easy access to water (personal heal of same magnitude as blast), fire (might boosting), and/or ice (damage reduction).
shysaursoft
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I actually like the Ranger sword autoattack and how it keeps moving me towards my target - it's great when you're fighting something that moves around a lot. Most melee classes have some kind of 'chaser', but their cooldowns keep them limited. The Ranger sword is kind of unique in that way, only the Thief has something that comes kinda close. The drawback being, of course, that you're committed to some of the sword chasers as the skill cycles through them, making it hard to interrupt at just the right time. A kind of risk-reward, is how I always saw it.
Now I feel like playing my ranger.
Now I feel like playing my ranger.
It's totally personal preference. The support and control elements (while very good, and I always use staff in dungeons for just that reason) just aren't on the same excitement level for me as being in melee range with D/D skills and all that mobility. I'm not saying staff is bad by any stretch, only that it tends to fit with what most players expect from MMO magic user classes.
Yep, we've talked about this. I still feel like I lose control of my character because he's moving around without my direct input. Yes, I know to turn auto-attack off, but that seems like a workaround for the issue rather than a solution to it. It also doesn't eliminate the potential issue that new players who try Ranger may find it really weird and potentially off-putting (and for a profession like ranger where the draw to use a bow is especially strong, getting the "Rangers can melee too!" point across seems more important than usual).
I think the problem is that Hornet Sting serves the exact same purpose as the Kick / Pounce attack sequence; both put distance between you and the enemy and then allows you to close that distance rapidly. Hell, they both even cripple, though at different phases of the attack.
Move the cripple to Hornet Sting's initial stab and let Monarch's Leap grant might to your pet and they're practically the same skill. The interrupt you get from Kick isn't exactly on demand either since it's buried in an attack chain, potentially 1.25 seconds away (maybe more depending on Pounce's travel time). Not being able to dodge at certain points during Kick is problematic too.
Dagger doesn't work well because the only two options to pair it with are ranged (axe) or make the dagger redundant (sword). Dagger needs another melee option to pair with, basically (maybe mace, main-hand dagger seems too close to Thief territory).
Or, you know, I'll just stick to Axe / Axe and a bow.
The Kick/Pounce sequence does not put distance; it only closes.
There's no interrupt with the Kick. Perhaps you're thinking of the greatsword counterattack.
Yeah, this is what I was referencing as other weapons being buffed. I run axe/axe + greatsword now. Greatsword is a more complete melee kit than sword+anything.
Yep, I just checked the wiki, my bad. Disregard the scrub Ranger.
Also true, I like the Axe / Axe because the bouncing projectile and spread helps with multi-enemy encounters without giving up the range (both long and shortbow are kind of meager with AOEs, barrage's CD is too long, SB only has Poison Volley).
Greatsword being so solid only makes sword stand out to me more to me. I just can't get it to mesh with the way I approach this game (same for Necromancer, it just doesn't 'click' with me). Doesn't mean it's bad, just that it's not my cup of tea. Luckily there are plenty of other options in both cases.
Season 2 Guild Event: GAF Pac-Man - 8:00PM EST, 11/29/2014
Hitting the Silverwastes again tomorrow night before missions! I'll be in for at least one full assault-breach-pacman cycle. The remainder of this post is just a repost of the event description. Hope to see you guys there and then missions then makeups then monday then patch!
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Added with the "Tangled Paths" release was a new area to the Silverwastes: the Tangled Labyrinth.
While you enter this area during the Story missions and face some Mordrem boss fights, out in the open world it's still accessible during what used to be the "Time Out" phase of the Silverwastes assault Meta event.
Inside is a maze. Throughout are Luminescent Lurchers that will down you in one hit and kill you in another. However, if you collect floating orbs that are distributed throughout, you'll find that you are temporarily invulnerable to these enemies and even able to temporarily incapacitate them.
In other words: it's Pac-Man.
The name of the game is staying alive and collecting loot from Lesser Nightmare Pods- doing so actually contributes to a group progression of the event through multiple rounds.
Here are the locations of the pods:
In the dead center of that map, approachable from the east, is a Greater Nightmare Pod which requires a Key of Greater Nightmare to open- this chest has some damn good loot in it, and can be opened as many times as you have keys on you during the event.
Notes:
Join us at 8 and we'll hit the Silverwastes for our chance to do this as a guild. If the map is on the defense phase, awesome- we'll take it over and hopefully lead a successful Breach! If it's on the Breach or Labyrinth phase already, we can participate in them, and I'll also be leading a full cycle through to the Labyrinth again.
Hitting the Silverwastes again tomorrow night before missions! I'll be in for at least one full assault-breach-pacman cycle. The remainder of this post is just a repost of the event description. Hope to see you guys there and then missions then makeups then monday then patch!
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Added with the "Tangled Paths" release was a new area to the Silverwastes: the Tangled Labyrinth.
While you enter this area during the Story missions and face some Mordrem boss fights, out in the open world it's still accessible during what used to be the "Time Out" phase of the Silverwastes assault Meta event.
Inside is a maze. Throughout are Luminescent Lurchers that will down you in one hit and kill you in another. However, if you collect floating orbs that are distributed throughout, you'll find that you are temporarily invulnerable to these enemies and even able to temporarily incapacitate them.
In other words: it's Pac-Man.
The name of the game is staying alive and collecting loot from Lesser Nightmare Pods- doing so actually contributes to a group progression of the event through multiple rounds.
Here are the locations of the pods:
In the dead center of that map, approachable from the east, is a Greater Nightmare Pod which requires a Key of Greater Nightmare to open- this chest has some damn good loot in it, and can be opened as many times as you have keys on you during the event.
Notes:
- The Labyrinth event takes place after The Breach. Our objective will be to lead a Silverwastes map through the defense, kill the bosses in the breach, then lead the charge into the Labyrinth.
- If all 5/5 bosses are defeated during the Breach, everyone gets a Key of Greater Nightmares automatically to take into the Labyrinth.
- A Key of Greater Nightmare can also be formed by combining 25 Nightmare Essences (right click on them when you have a stack of 25) with a Bandit Skeleton Key- so buying one of those from the Bandit Crest Vendor before heading into the Labyrinth isn't a bad idea.
- The Lesser Nightmare Pods can drop Keys of Greater Nightmare outright, so they're worth running around to tag even if you've already opened the chest.
- Lesser Nightmare Pods also drop loot in addition to Nightmare Essences- keep an open inventory and get as many as you can!
Join us at 8 and we'll hit the Silverwastes for our chance to do this as a guild. If the map is on the defense phase, awesome- we'll take it over and hopefully lead a successful Breach! If it's on the Breach or Labyrinth phase already, we can participate in them, and I'll also be leading a full cycle through to the Labyrinth again.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Well I'm bummed. Fused Weapons are gone, just right about I could get 7 tickets
UltimateIke
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Since I am bored of fighting Trillia week after week, tonight I propose the formation an elite task force with which to seek out whichever bounty the rest of the guild decides to skip. Since it would be a small group, it would preferably be people with world completion/lots of waypoints so we can get into the correct map quickly, find the target, and strike hard.
GAFractal peeps (Zeroth, Taffer, Moondrop, Levyne, Miktar, Jayemji, Rowland) would certainly be highly-qualified candidates (hint, hint). There are five bounties I've never fought before, so I'm hoping to see one of them pop up. At the very least I'd like to fight a bounty we haven't done lately.
GAFractal peeps (Zeroth, Taffer, Moondrop, Levyne, Miktar, Jayemji, Rowland) would certainly be highly-qualified candidates (hint, hint). There are five bounties I've never fought before, so I'm hoping to see one of them pop up. At the very least I'd like to fight a bounty we haven't done lately.
Noisy Ninj4
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Sadly, I am busy most saturdays. It's not often I can do GAF missions anymore.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Woot finally cleared Triple Trouble!
If you give me the waypoints in advance I can go grab em on my thief
shysaursoft
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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=109697938&postcount=18825
If you have all the waypoints under Bounty, you're pretty good to go really.
Alright, I guess since Thanksgiving is over we're officially into the Christmas season, so it's time to drag out the ol' Santa Hat.
God damn it, another useful post that belongs in the OT. Nice.
God damn it, another useful post that belongs in the OT. Nice.
Oh wow! Thanks so much!
If there are any people watching this , have a character level 60 at minimum and have never done Tequatl the sunless world event yet or any veterans who wants to join sice it has been a long time , i invite you all to come to the SBI Teq run at 8 PM est .
Meeting place in Southsun cove to later ferry over to splintered coast waypoint .
be their at the latest before 7:30 .
Meeting place in Southsun cove to later ferry over to splintered coast waypoint .
be their at the latest before 7:30 .
Right you are Retro! Santa hats for everyone!! =)
shysaursoft
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Wolfineer just updated his site and put up the Engineer Handbook. It's pretty much the most complete guide to the Engineer I've ever seen, a great resource if you're interested in the profession.
Hurray!
I really wish I could get into the engineer class more. Maybe someday it'll click, but not yet.
I'm glad the midi website era has passed, or this thread would suddenly have carols playing when I opened it.
Sure Ike, I'm down.
So long as there's enough people at the official bounty that we can be spared I don't see why not, the actual hunting of the bounty has always been my favourite part. Training bounties are cheap enough that can spring for some extra shots at new targets later if we want (60 silver and 72 hours build time each).
Kos Luftar
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Invite sent. Don't forget to press the Represent button for GAF in the [G]uild window.
About 2 hours, one hour before missions.
Nemesis121
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Fun missions until Karka, F that rush to hell and back..
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