Guild Wars 2

Warrior from day 1!
After the sneaky nerfs to rangers among other classes and hte lack of fixing any other class, it makes me think warrior should of been my first choice!
They have superior ranged ability’s compared to a ranger which is supposed to be the ranged class and then if you say ranger can do melee well no where near as good as the superior warrior again!
So tell me why roll anything else when warrior can do all the above and so much better at it?

Warriors are not superior to rangers with ranged combat… max range on longbow I believe is 1200 for warr, and 1500+ (with arc) for ranger.

Ranger melee is more tuned to dueling than warrior imho.

warriors are the op proffs in pvp and pve period.

So many skills to use to do just about anything verse all proffs.

Its just now more people are starting to see it.

LoreChief.8391:

Warriors are not superior to rangers with ranged combat… max range on longbow I believe is 1200 for warr, and 1500+ (with arc) for ranger.

Ranger melee is more tuned to dueling than warrior imho.

warrior has a trait skill to improve range for longbow.

Warriors are the jack of all trades, but master of none. A ranger can still beat them at range and a thief can still beat them in melee.

Imho the war is by far the best melee. It deals a ton of damage and has a good survivability.

LoreChief.8391:

Warriors are not superior to rangers with ranged combat… max range on longbow I believe is 1200 for warr, and 1500+ (with arc) for ranger.

Ranger melee is more tuned to dueling than warrior imho.

Warrior does 25% more damage at any range with the longbow then the ranger does at max range with his. It’s pretty simple getting into the range where the ranger throws sticks at you for all the damage his longbow does, making the warrior’s longbow even more attractive.

While pets make up for the low damage, they die very easily and have either a short-range ranged attack or are entirely melee, which means that if it isn’t a bear – it dies in a few stray hits, cutting your DPS in half, if not by two thirds.

There isn’t any reason a unit should be split into two entities, instead of combined into one. All it does is give you DPS falloff as your split-entities die off and makes you more vulnerable to AoE. Because of that – the warrior is superior to the ranger in every way except 300 extra range that doesn’t mean that much.

I did pick warrior first and to be honest was bored silly with it by lvl40, even with the nerfs I prefer my guardian,ranger and many of the other classes I’ve tried, like someone said warrior is just a jack of all trades and abit boring really.

VakarisJ.5619:

LoreChief.8391:

Warriors are not superior to rangers with ranged combat… max range on longbow I believe is 1200 for warr, and 1500+ (with arc) for ranger.

Ranger melee is more tuned to dueling than warrior imho.

Warrior does 25% more damage at any range with the longbow then the ranger does at max range with his.

I don’t know about this, but why do you compare Ranger Longbow to Warrior Bow? The Warrior ranged weapon that goes foe 1200 is the rifle. For the warrior, bow is 900, IIRC. This also means that if you trait your bow for more range, it’ll still not get anywhere near the range of a traited ranger’s bow.

Apples <→ Oranges.

Rangers eat warriors 1v1. Snare, interrupt, stack conditions, snare again, win.

I eat both rangers and warriors (on both ele and engi). Does that mean everybody should roll ele’s or engi’s now?

Don’t search for the most imba profession, play what you like to play.

Funny thing, yesterday I looked at the Warrior forum. Lot of happiness and lack of discontent there. It’s like they got a different game, sigh. /jealous

until the warrior gets nerfed

Considering how Arena Net have said they’re happy with where the warrior profession is at the moment, I wouldn’t hold my breath. I’d agree that people should play what they want to play, but at the end of the day I can’t blame anyone for re-rolling to the FOTM profession when stealthy nerfs and erratic bug fixes leave many professions under-performing.

If I had to guess, I’d say that ArenaNet are balancing around PvP and letting PvE players simply adapt.

Warriors aren’t overpowered in PvP. Sure, if you’re caught off-guard by a glass cannon Hundred Blades Warrior it’ll probably hurt, but good players can counter that very, very easily. That means that ArenaNet sees no reason to nerf Warriors: that would just make them underpowered in competitive play.

I’m not saying that’s a strategy I support, but it seems to be what’s currently going on.

Hi,

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