Guild Wars 2

If your going to buff a warriors mechanic that is very similar to the ranger……. why neglect the ranger?

Devs if your so focused on build diversity why look over spirits for rangers when buffing banners for warriors? Spirits have been complained about constantly on the ranger forums for many months.They die just as easily as pets do in aoe and are simply not viable in most situations.

I posted this thread here and not the rangers forum because it deals with build diversity.

A buff to warriors banner is cool and all but the Rangers spirits are also in need of a buff.

So whats the deal?

I would hazard a guess and say it has to do with current build diversity – Rangers currently have 2 specs that are considered tournament viable (As far as I know, maybe I’m wrong), and they’ve got good survivability.

That might not seem like much, but compared to alot of classes (IE, warrior), its more specs AND more diversity then they get. I’m going to assume a Spirit buff will come, but atm, the warrior class needs something immediately, while ranger can remain relevant and varied (comparatively to the other classes options in the game) for the time being and get their buff next month.

Not that I think that’s a particularly good excuse, just the reality of the situation.

Spirit buff is eventually coming Karl’s comment on ranger utility defense suggests it.
Banner change could….could…be interesting…because they aren’t like spirits.
Banner boosts are not strippable, or destroyable, you can’t remove em. It’s a moveable totem that guarantees boosts in it’s area, where Spirits are destroyable temporary sources of boosts, that can be cleansed or stripped except for Spirit of frost.

Spirits will come.