Guild Wars 2

Rangers, you know the tune.

80% skill fact updates. 15% useless new grandmaster traits they didn’t pay attention to feedback on. 5% balance updates to the class.

I guess I can at least save myself the 3 gold and 20 skill points I won’t be spending on the grandmaster trait guide.

They listened to NOTHING of the feedback on the new traits.

They said these weren’t all the balance changes; it was a lie. What you see is the exact copy of the old ready up notes.

4 months of wait for tepid changes, mostly gimmicks and somewhat of a fix to pet AI (while not fixing their survival against one shot mechanics and AoE).

Actually it is 3 gold and 20 points pr trait…

digiowl.9620:

Actually it is 3 gold and 20 points pr trait…

They’re so cute.

:P Ranger’s aren’t the only ones to receive that treatment… So I can sympathize.

Still trying to figure out if ANet is trolling or not by giving a vague direction to a chest in a wreck in the sea of sorrows…

Zenith.7301:

digiowl.9620:

Actually it is 3 gold and 20 points pr trait…

They’re so cute.

- yeah seriously… 3 gold and 20 points… what’s wrong with them… if i dont want to do their totaly pointless fake-GW1-Elite-hunt event stuff, i need to ruin my self.

that’s nice !

- Also, stat window, no more attack stat !? since the begining i’am using that to have an global idea of my damage and now its gone because of their ferocity thing !?

what the hell.

- All + boon duration “nerfed” like hell. All boons builds gones, mean i can throw away somes builds ..

NICE ! less diversity for the loose.

- Ferocity, more likely a 30-40% damage nerf ! yay ! my staff ele is now totaly useless if i dont spend another fortune for a 100% restuff…

The feature pack is to make more ppl leave the game right ?

This is worse than their last collossal kitten-up, free transfersssssss. I sometimes wish I knew what was going on in ArenaNet’s minds, but then I realise that I’d probably lose my sanity if I ever found out. Can we please get balance patches inspired by having actuall played the game in question beforehand? Or can we at least get the Doctor to fly me back to yesterday in his TARDIS? I’m starting to think that the latter is more likely.

E Tan.7385:

- Also, stat window, no more attack stat !? since the begining i’am using that to have an global idea of my damage and now its gone because of their ferocity thing !?

what the hell.

Supposedly it was worthless, as the damage formula is weapon roll multiplied by power, and the sum of that divided by targets defense stat (made up of armor plus toughness).

well at least u got changes. mesmer got a nerf again and then a few bug fixes that some of them actually caused new bugs, completely useless gm traits and 0 improvements for this class, 0 changes, o nothing at all.0! so yeah at least u got some changes anet hasnt spent any time at all on mesmer. not at all. we are still useless and now even more powerless veilbots in wvw.
im tired of waiting! im not gonna wait another 6 months so i can actually have fun again on my mesmer in wvw raids!
ill just reroll warrior, they get attention at least.

80% skill fact updates. 15% useless new grandmaster traits they didn’t pay attention to feedback on. 5% balance updates to the class.

check mesmer one ,mesmer and guard got least balance notes and guard actually got something ,mesmer patch note = bug fix list and after all that they still didnt fix iwarden. others are nerfs to skilled builds .

Engineer isnt any better.

80% skill fact updates
5% useless GM traits no one uses
5% turret bugfixes, but no one uses turrets and still wont
10% balance updates, that are all nerfs based on a stupidly gimmicky gamemode

If i could go back to prepatch i would. This, along with the mess that is runes and sigils isnt worth acountbound WXP or that wardrobe.

actually i struggle hard to hold my rage back…

but i just thank you anet to care so much about the ranger profession and this cdi topic.
also thanks to make the power based build on ranger finaly usefull, amazing job!

so amazing things for ranger. really
my arrows fly faster in a grandmastertrait, if this is not amazing i dont know

Guys, dang near everything in this patch can be found in a CDI from 3 months ago.

The ranger CDI is only 1 month old – we’ll see the results of it in about 2 months.

Terrahero.9358:

Engineer isnt any better.

80% skill fact updates
5% useless GM traits no one uses
5% turret bugfixes, but no one uses turrets and still wont
10% balance updates, that are all nerfs based on a stupidly gimmicky gamemode

If i could go back to prepatch i would. This, along with the mess that is runes and sigils isnt worth acountbound WXP or that wardrobe.

That’s because the game is balanced around conquest mode in PvP. In that scenario, most people considered Engi to be OP.

The issue is that in WvW or in PvE, no one has ever considered engi one of the better classes.

Aquaman patch v2.0

It seems to be a yearly event now.

Thank you for finally fixing the tool-tips I had been trying so hard to read and comprehend. Also a nice job on fixing pets, Guild Wars 2 is almost starting to look like it could go out of beta.

/sarcasm

On a serious note though, the pet changes are very welcome, but they should have been there from the start. The Ranger is almost starting to look like its’ pet should be taken into consideration when balancing weapon scaling. Now that the profession’s bugs are out of the way, can we start balancing it out now please?

I am rather glad that I did not keep my hope up this time or wait around to see it.

Terrahero.9358:

Engineer isnt any better.

80% skill fact updates
5% useless GM traits no one uses
5% turret bugfixes, but no one uses turrets and still wont
10% balance updates, that are all nerfs based on a stupidly gimmicky gamemode

If i could go back to prepatch i would. This, along with the mess that is runes and sigils isnt worth acountbound WXP or that wardrobe.

You forgot the part about nerfing skills that didn’t work properly by claiming the tooltip was wrong (even if it was there since before the launch of the game) like they did with Electrified Net. And with the Net Turret itself too in that regard, seeing as they claimed the tooltip was wrong in october and now they’re bringing it to the fire rate that was stated there…while reducing the immobilization it gave.

Also, the whole celestial nerf is a smack on the face for the class, too.