Guild Wars 2

General feeling there is a rock/paper/scissor in many builds and professions (and the equilibrium can change a lot in some matchup simply changing 1 of 2 traits) but there is something wrong in scrapper ratio damage/sustain and these 2 ranger pets.

I know Anet is monitoring scrapper but these ranger pets too need attention.

Well scrapper gains a lot of its sustain through traits and the combo fields it can generate. But anet nerfed sneak gyro which does help, just doesn’t against all scrappers. Also one bug on bristleback which shoulda been fixed is the amount of hits it’s F2 skill actually hits for. The text says 15 strikes. But it hits for 20-21 maybe more. Didn’t really test but 2 times after update to see if was fixed but wasn’t. Anywho hope the bug gets fixed. Would help. Smokescale idk about though.

Those pets have been nerfed how many times now… want more?

I never said nerf the pets lol. I said bug fix the bristleback. I myself play ranger so I’m not to kittened up about having the extra attacks on bristleback but when players kitten about it, it gets annoying. So I just want that one fixed. And like I said. Idk about smokescale. I myself only hear about bristleback kittening.

These things are certainly outliers. Bristlebacks and smokescales are VERY tanky and do about as much damage as a comparatively squishy drake. They are so tanky that even trying to focus them down, you will NEVER kill them.

Scrappers were already top-tier before bunker nerfs, and basically weren’t touched by any changes.

BlackBeard.2873:

These things are certainly outliers. Bristlebacks and smokescales are VERY tanky and do about as much damage as a comparatively squishy drake. They are so tanky that even trying to focus them down, you will NEVER kill them.

…maybe if you are running a bunker build with no dps whatsoever.