Guild Wars 2

The new ranger changes are a bad joke. Please sell machine gun skins for longbow so rapid fire feels appropriate. No ranger is stupid enough to channel the whole skins once reflects are up – that argument is just ridiculous.

I’m not saying ranger didn’t need a bit of love but that is just over the top and -at least in WvW- completely overpowered. Combined with GS this class has far too much survivability and mobility for the damage they put out.
Wasn’t there some interview where Anet Devs claimed the highest damage will always be from melee since this game is supposed to be risk/reward focused?
Where is the risk in pewpew’ing for the damage of a full HB in half the time from 1500 range?

Steam vented. Thanks for reading.

Those skins are only available to the commando profession.

Crovax.7854:

Combined with GS this class has far too much survivability and mobility for the damage they put out.

Combined with GS, Warrior has far too much survivability and FAR too much mobility for the damage they put out. Except that their damage is mostly melee.

I don’t know how that compares to ranger longbow now, since I haven’t played my ranger yet. But, that was a huge reduction in RF activation time, so I wouldn’t be surprised if glass cannon ranger is OP with longbow traits.

narwhalsbend.7059:

Those skins are only available to the commando profession.

I’d rather have commando profession than NPE

Rangers are crap for two years, let them have their time in the spotlight.

Hannelore.8153:

Rangers are crap for two years, let them have their time in the spotlight.

Actually, it wasn’t so much rangers, but Asura (of any profession) that were OP when the patch went live.

Sokia.3710:

Crovax.7854:

Combined with GS this class has far too much survivability and mobility for the damage they put out.

Combined with GS, Warrior has far too much survivability and FAR too much mobility for the damage they put out. Except that their damage is mostly melee.

I don’t know how that compares to ranger longbow now, since I haven’t played my ranger yet. But, that was a huge reduction in RF activation time, so I wouldn’t be surprised if glass cannon ranger is OP with longbow traits.

Ho there traveler,
just to clarify some things; Based on what you’ve wrote i guess you haven’t played warrior(?). Warrior received a huge nerf through adrenaline changes which means they will enter a fight always with empty adrenaline. The warrior GS is unfortunately only good to run away; the 5 skill has a long cd and hits unreliably to say the least. HB is a joke in PvP and WvW. The main difference is that rangers can use their burst from range, in less time and can move while channeling.

In a warrior-ranger matchup I can’t even see the warrior getting close to the ranger
-> knockbackGS, knockbackLB (,dazeGS?), vines, wolf pounce, cripple. After the aforementioned adrenaline changes the warrior can’t do much because he can’t build adrenaline since he’s being kited around constantly.
Dodging the skill is not a problem but no ranger with a working brain will just use their burst without setup. As soon as you don’t have stability up you’re prone to being knocked back, knocked down or feared, followed by this insane burst.

Hannelore.8153:

Rangers are crap for two years, let them have their time in the spotlight.

Hey, I even admitted rangers needed some love but shifting from one extreme to another shouldn’t be the way to go.

Crovax.7854:

Hey, I even admitted rangers needed some love but shifting from one extreme to another shouldn’t be the way to go.

Shifting from one extreme to another is how Anet does things. That was true even in the first Guild Wars. If you expected class balance in a PvP setting, you bought the wrong game.

We can still complain about it, though.

Nope. Hambow has existed far too long for Warriors to be crying now. Sorry.

Crovax.7854:

The new ranger changes are a bad joke. Please sell machine gun skins for longbow so rapid fire feels appropriate.

I really want one of those.

Crovax.7854:

No ranger is stupid enough to channel the whole skins once reflects are up – that argument is just ridiculous.

It wouldn’t kill a competent ranger of course, but plenty of rangers are not competent. And the RF may get cancelled, but that reflect bought you time to close and kill, most rangers that are hitting really hard with RF are pure glass.