Guild Wars 2

I know for a fact that ANet and most of you don’t care about my opinions but I just feel that the current long bow game play of the rangers is a little too one dimensional. I have made my own modifications of what would make the class a lot more interesting. Do let me know what you think!

attack 1 – same, with dmg increasing with longer distance.
attack 2 – fire multiple arrows at a target.
attack 3 – shoot a highly explosive arrow at a target area. the arrow blows up knocking the enemies back away from it when stepped on. triggering the ability again blows up the arrow.

attack 4 – ranger pulls back the bow to charge for an attack that goes in a linear line (skill shot). The range, damage, and the knock back distance depends on how long the ranger charges the attack for. ranger must stay still while the attack is being charged. The range, dmg, and distance have a cap.

attack 5 – hail of arrows. with a short cast time, shower the target area in a hail of arrows (non channel) that slow the enemies within the area. For every second the ranger remains in the area, the cooldown of attack 2 and 4 decrease.

I agree with you. Only differently:

Attack 4 – Point Blank Shot

Attack 5 – Bombardment of the selected area, fire arrows, burning enemies (not limp)

The skills are fine , but for wv3 the weapons could do with a trait buff to put them on a par with other classes.
sPvP and Pve are fine,but a +6%-10% damage trait vs Wv3 PCs would IMO even out the field, and help them fulfill the Scout role better.

I like my longbow the way it is. I would rather no one messed with it.

Meryt.9823:

The skills are fine , but for wv3 the weapons could do with a trait buff to put them on a par with other classes.
sPvP and Pve are fine,but a +6%-10% damage trait vs Wv3 PCs would IMO even out the field, and help them fulfill the Scout role better.

You are wrong, read, writes ArenaNET, Ranger – it’s not a scout, he is a warrior with light armor class!

Lara Kroft Rus.3954:

Meryt.9823:

The skills are fine , but for wv3 the weapons could do with a trait buff to put them on a par with other classes.
sPvP and Pve are fine,but a +6%-10% damage trait vs Wv3 PCs would IMO even out the field, and help them fulfill the Scout role better.

You are wrong, read, writes ArenaNET, Ranger – it’s not a scout, he is a warrior with light armor class!

Ranger is an adventurer, and wears medium. Ranger’s are scouts, and anyone that says differently, regardless of who they are, is silly and doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Interesting fact. Scouts are usually soldiers with lighter armor, which is what I think you actually meant.

Kal Spiro.9745:

Lara Kroft Rus.3954:

Meryt.9823:

The skills are fine , but for wv3 the weapons could do with a trait buff to put them on a par with other classes.
sPvP and Pve are fine,but a +6%-10% damage trait vs Wv3 PCs would IMO even out the field, and help them fulfill the Scout role better.

You are wrong, read, writes ArenaNET, Ranger – it’s not a scout, he is a warrior with light armor class!

Ranger is an adventurer, and wears medium. Ranger’s are scouts, and anyone that says differently, regardless of who they are, is silly and doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Interesting fact. Scouts are usually soldiers with lighter armor, which is what I think you actually meant.

You idiots ArenyNET employees called?!

In the game there are no doctors and tanks – ArenaNET make everyone equal! If you do not watch out, the blog ArenyNET – that’s your problem.

And the armies of the world, the Rangers called U.S. Marines or Russian airborne troops. And not spies!

Lara Kroft Rus.3954:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Lara Kroft Rus.3954:

Meryt.9823:

The skills are fine , but for wv3 the weapons could do with a trait buff to put them on a par with other classes.
sPvP and Pve are fine,but a +6%-10% damage trait vs Wv3 PCs would IMO even out the field, and help them fulfill the Scout role better.

You are wrong, read, writes ArenaNET, Ranger – it’s not a scout, he is a warrior with light armor class!

Ranger is an adventurer, and wears medium. Ranger’s are scouts, and anyone that says differently, regardless of who they are, is silly and doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Interesting fact. Scouts are usually soldiers with lighter armor, which is what I think you actually meant.

You idiots ArenyNET employees called?!

In the game there are no doctors and tanks – ArenaNET make everyone equal! If you do not watch out, the blog ArenyNEt – that’s your problem.

I’m not sure what any of that meant, but no. I did not say idiot, I said silly and didn’t know what they were talking about. I played a Ranger in GW1 and I play a Ranger in GW2. Rangers are scouts and if someone, even from ANet, claimed they were warriors in light armor, they were silly and didn’t know what they were talking about. Even if they were the lead developer in charge of designing the class. I play the class, they’re not warriors in light armor or otherwise. They’re scouts.

Not sure what any of this has to do with longbows, of course, just trying to help set you straight.

am i the only one who loves hunters shot? i would be crazy mad if it were removed

Linguistically Inept.6583:

am i the only one who loves hunters shot? i would be crazy mad if it were removed

You, sir, are not. I’m right there with you.

i feel like this thread is kind of spiraling out of control haha…

I have two Rangers leveled to 80. Both of them started out centered around the longbow. Both of them ended up centered around the shortbow.

The longbow base damage is too ineffectual for the trade off of the short range gimping and the slow attack speed, giving the shortbow far more utility and usefulness at every range, most importantly at point blank, where many fights end up. Double the base damage of the bow and that trade off would be worthwhile. As it stands now, it’s uses are too situational to make it a decent main weapon.

Lara Kroft Rus.3954:

Kal Spiro.9745:

Lara Kroft Rus.3954:

Meryt.9823:

The skills are fine , but for wv3 the weapons could do with a trait buff to put them on a par with other classes.
sPvP and Pve are fine,but a +6%-10% damage trait vs Wv3 PCs would IMO even out the field, and help them fulfill the Scout role better.

You are wrong, read, writes ArenaNET, Ranger – it’s not a scout, he is a warrior with light armor class!

Ranger is an adventurer, and wears medium. Ranger’s are scouts, and anyone that says differently, regardless of who they are, is silly and doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Interesting fact. Scouts are usually soldiers with lighter armor, which is what I think you actually meant.

You idiots ArenyNET employees called?!

In the game there are no doctors and tanks – ArenaNET make everyone equal! If you do not watch out, the blog ArenyNET – that’s your problem.

And the armies of the world, the Rangers called U.S. Marines or Russian airborne troops. And not spies!

A ranger is a person that generally knows the terrain and wildlife As per fantasy based lore ( IE: DnD and many follow companies)

You are obviously not from america by the way you type in bad English and grammar.

And the armies of the world, the Rangers called U.S. Marines or Russian airborne troops. And not spies!

This statement is so wrong I couldn’t stop laughing

US Marine Corp the worlds Rangers this is laughable, by historical sense ( rangers were scouts ) therefore a FO ( or Forward Observer ) or Pathfinder ( army ) would be the Rangers of modern times. Also being part of the 82nd Airborne 1/504 Devil in Baggy Pants, and doing the royal Dragon Jump ( which in tells the worlds best paratrooper teams from around the world ) And Russia never being a part of that tells me that Russia is far from elite when it comes to paratroopers. Not to Mention the only Military group that has the Tag Rangers on it is the United States ARMY Rangers.

To the OP

Arena Net listens to it’s player more so than any other company out there, just because they may not implement your idea or suggestion doesn’t mean they don’t listen

Kal Spiro.9745:

I’m not sure what any of that meant, but no. I did not say idiot, I said silly and didn’t know what they were talking about. I played a Ranger in GW1 and I play a Ranger in GW2. Rangers are scouts and if someone, even from ANet, claimed they were warriors in light armor, they were silly and didn’t know what they were talking about. Even if they were the lead developer in charge of designing the class. I play the class, they’re not warriors in light armor or otherwise. They’re scouts.

Not sure what any of this has to do with longbows, of course, just trying to help set you straight.

Earlier, may have been spies. The new all made ??equal. Now, any class can attack and not to act as bait. The latter, in GW-1 I just hated!

And if you take the story is not the game, and real life. That the Rangers, this unit is not intelligence. Rangers – is landing. Rangers are fighting until the main forces on the way. Trick arrows, it is contrary to Rangers from a real army.

Kaimick.5109:

You are wrong, read, writes ArenaNET, Ranger – it’s not a scout, he is a warrior with light armor class!

Ranger is an adventurer, and wears medium. Ranger’s are scouts, and anyone that says differently, regardless of who they are, is silly and doesn’t know what they’re talking about.

Interesting fact. Scouts are usually soldiers with lighter armor, which is what I think you actually meant.[/quote]

You idiots ArenyNET employees called?!

In the game there are no doctors and tanks – ArenaNET make everyone equal! If you do not watch out, the blog ArenyNET – that’s your problem.

And the armies of the world, the Rangers called U.S. Marines or Russian airborne troops. And not spies!
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A ranger is a person that generally knows the terrain and wildlife As per fantasy based lore ( IE: DnD and many follow companies)

You are obviously not from america by the way you type in bad English and grammar.

And the armies of the world, the Rangers called U.S. Marines or Russian airborne troops. And not spies!

This statement is so wrong I couldn’t stop laughing

US Marine Corp the worlds Rangers this is laughable, by historical sense ( rangers were scouts ) therefore a FO ( or Forward Observer ) or Pathfinder ( army ) would be the Rangers of modern times. Also being part of the 82nd Airborne 1/504 Devil in Baggy Pants, and doing the royal Dragon Jump ( which in tells the worlds best paratrooper teams from around the world ) And Russia never being a part of that tells me that Russia is far from elite when it comes to paratroopers. Not to Mention the only Military group that has the Tag Rangers on it is the United States ARMY Rangers.

To the OP

Arena Net listens to it’s player more so than any other company out there, just because they may not implement your idea or suggestion doesn’t mean they don’t listen [/quote]
Friend, go to the library and read a book on the subject. Rangers.

First, they appeared in England. their task is not intelligence, and the first to arrive at the scene and fight with the enemy.

I did not want to hurt your Marines, but if they are fighting the last, sorry, I did not know it. In the Russian Army, paratroopers goes before and no one in front of them will not start. As was the custom, the British Ranger (read above), when they were created.

Of airborne troops of Russia, it is in vain you say!!!!

I guess the idea that Rangers are spies comes from here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOlVFbT1Xos