Guild Wars 2

So a while ago, Blinding Ashes was nerfed because it was extremely spammable and kinda annoying to deal with in PvP. Flip a few months forward and now we have Lingering light.
Lingering light is a ranger GM trait that spams blind when you heal a target. Pretty much every bloody second, if you’re playing a Support Druid (don’t know if there’s any other type of druid really)

Lingering Light is a bit different in how to execute the blind compared to Blinding Ashes but that doesn’t make it any less spammable. Fought too many a Ranger only to be blinded repeatedly whilst getting railed on by a pet that deals obscene amounts of damage giving me flashbacks of the old Beastmaster meta.

I’d suggest giving Lingering Light the Blinding Ashes treatment, 8-10s cooldown.

As an aside, new pet damage…. needs looking at.

The new pet damage is a problem (specifically the Smokescale).

And in regards to the blinds, how about we wait for a viable Ranger build in top tier to surface and see regular play before we ask for nerfs maybe? Especially since we haven’t witnessed a team with a Ranger on it win a single important tournament for over a year and a half now, unlike Ele which was being stacked to no end for the past year and a half.

Celestial form gets nerfed into the ground on release but somehow lingering light makes it through… okay then.

As for pets… They aren’t actually that strong. you have always been able to get huge hits with proper stacking and a lot of luck with the old pets, including wolves and drakes. The smokescale will probably be nerfed though.

Druid is the worst elite spec… and will be even worse after the next round of nerfs. What a surprise.

How are people complaining about the smokescale damage when revenant has the exact same skill? Pets are finally a contributing part of the ranger DPS, and if you can’t dodge 1 skill every 30 seconds then how the hell do you fight revenants that can do it every 15s? Not to mention that the pet is worthless outside of that skill while the revenant is still very potent. If you’re complaining about ranger pets, then this is a L2P issue. Be more attentive, you can’t just simply ignore pets now.