Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

i would like to see changes for the Ranger Shouts. It would be great if we could get some support on them for the whole party. Maybe two stacks of 12sec might on “Sic´Em”, 3sec stability on “Protect Me” (also a cooldown reduction on that one would be great, like 40 seconds untraited). “Search and Rescue” could give 5 sec of regeneration and finally “Guard” could give 5sec swiftness for the party.

With this change, Soldier runes could be used for the 6 piece setbonus.

Also, “Sic´Em” should not get removed if i use another ability which effects the pet and it would be nice if it wasn´t bound on the target.

Thank you

edit: got rid of the kitten in the text

I thought about the shouts a bit more.

The grandmaster trait Nature´s Voice could be reworked. Maybe drop the Swiftness and instead reduce the cooldowns of the shouts by 20%. The regeneration could stay on it.

The adept trait Shout Mastery could be reworked also. Two 20% cooldown reductions make no sense. Instead the trait could give 3 stacks of might (10 seconds) to your pet and give 5 seconds of swiftness to your party.

This way the grandmaster trait is the defining trait for a dedicated shout user but the adept trait could also be nice for a beastmaster build.

Also a new shout could be introduced to give the ranger more active gameplay against conditions.

Name: “Endure” (maybe a better one )
The condition duration on you and your pet is reduced by 100% for 1 second
Cooldown 40 seconds or maybe 60.

This should work on conditions that are already on the ranger as well as on new ones applied in the one second.

Your suggestion won’t help the main problem with shouts. The same as signets, they just suck without traits and only become usable with them. Shouts are supposed to group buffs and support. As with many of things the Ranger has, shouts are a very selfish utility. It doesn’t even help the Ranger directly but by buffing the Pet. And we all know how useful Pets are…