i would like to see the Whip weapon added to the game as a mid-range weapon and give the ranger a specialization to dual wield them and give weapon/utility skills that are actually useful…
as of right now, the game has no life for me, besides the daily log-in rewards it’s just the same old crap over and over again. however, the new specialization announcement has peaked my interest a little bit, even though it doesn’t sound like they are releasing a lot of content with this “Expansion.” it sounds like they are mostly releasing menu related content. I love my ranger, but there is no way I’m gonna spec Druid just to have access to a staff [i hate staffs] and some new probably crappy skills… besides it Druid class would probably screw with my DPS and the Ranger has seen enough nerfs since launch 2 1/2 years ago. Nerfs are fine for balancing PvP and WvW, but when you make global nerfs [including PvE] and make the enemies stronger in PvE, it just makes the player base suffer. Yes i understand that you did it to make the player base have to work together but sometimes a person just feels like soloing but this game kinda punishes solo players. i typically don’t like to work with people idk cuz Jerks are a dime a dozen in MMOs. I appreciate that arenanet is attempting to bring more life to their game other than living story [in my opinion, the rewards are not worth doing it] i just hope that heart of thorns is a cheap/free expansion judging on their pax south vid they are not adding much and i already feel ripped off for buying the CE of Guildwars 2. [make future statues out of stone or metal next time, my rytlock’s sword keeps breaking cuz it’s made of cheap plastic]
sorry for the minor rant.. btw thanks arenanet for attempting to make this game interesting, but im not gonna specialize till i know exactly how it effects my character. I like DPS and i dont wanna perma screw myself by switching to a Druid and then not liking it. i personally like using dual-wielding Sword and axe the best as a ranger but i just don’t but medium armor sucks for frontlines and rangers don’t get enough health. but if a specialization was availiable for rangers to make them more tanky and letting them wear heavy armor or granting more armor for dual wielding… i would be super interested… next thing you have to work on is the animations used when using 2 weapons like 2 axes/swords whatever [a focus and a shield are technically accessories not weapons so no animation fixes required for those, same with 2-handed weapons]