Guild Wars 2

So now that rangers have 3 seconds stealth on a short 12 seconds cooldown, how about you simply give every class access to stealth? Kitten this kitten.

Because clearly that’s what the game needed, MORE STEALTH CLASSES.

nobody uses longbow anyway, and I doubt competitive rangers will use a sub-par weapon just to stealth.

Call me when someone does something crazy with Stealth as a Longbow Ranger.

Stealth is an annoying mechanic to play against due to the lack of counters and the clunky lose of targetting, but otherwise, this was an interesting change.

Perma evade steath spamming BM Rangers new meta!!! <3

google.3709:

Perma evade steath spamming BM Rangers new meta!!! <3

I think you meant thief.

LB on ranger just become a viable weapon because you can now effectively reposition and stack vulnerability?

QUICK, CALL THE THIEF QQ SQUAD

sorrow.2364:

google.3709:

Perma evade steath spamming BM Rangers new meta!!! <3

I think you meant thief.

no lol rangers are getting 3s stealth on a 12s cd(9 if trained)

and yah lol people are gonna use LB for sure!!

• BM, stealth while evades on s/d recharge and pet attacks.
• Spirit Ranger, Stealth and good lucky targeting the ranger in the middle of ip to 4 spirits and a pet lmao

This is gonna be all troll <3

I’d like to see stealth be given to necromancers on spectral walk now that our survivability from shroud has been obliterated. We really need a way to avoid the assist train more than ever now.

Aether McLoud.1975:

So now that rangers have 3 seconds stealth on a short 12 seconds cooldown, how about you simply give every class access to stealth? Kitten this kitten.

Because clearly that’s what the game needed, MORE STEALTH CLASSES.

I hope your trolling there.

More stealth is great news! It’ll slowly be given to other classes and before you know it…bam! Wvw and pbp will be plagued with stealth all the time! Then anet will finally have to make hard counter skills for it

Shar.3402:

nobody uses longbow anyway, and I doubt competitive rangers will use a sub-par weapon just to stealth.

OH ho ho ho…. you don’t even know. You don’t even know….

google.3709:

sorrow.2364:

google.3709:

Perma evade steath spamming BM Rangers new meta!!! <3

I think you meant thief.

no lol rangers are getting 3s stealth on a 12s cd(9 if trained)

and yah lol people are gonna use LB for sure!!

• BM, stealth while evades on s/d recharge and pet attacks.
• Spirit Ranger, Stealth and good lucky targeting the ranger in the middle of ip to 4 spirits and a pet lmao

This is gonna be all troll <3

Rangers are meant to be backpoint holders in most team comps and Stealthing is pretty much giving the cap away for free. Therefore no one in their right mind would actually play LB as a Backpoint holder.

Dirame.8521:

google.3709:

sorrow.2364:

google.3709:

Perma evade steath spamming BM Rangers new meta!!! <3

I think you meant thief.

no lol rangers are getting 3s stealth on a 12s cd(9 if trained)

and yah lol people are gonna use LB for sure!!

• BM, stealth while evades on s/d recharge and pet attacks.
• Spirit Ranger, Stealth and good lucky targeting the ranger in the middle of ip to 4 spirits and a pet lmao

This is gonna be all troll <3

Rangers are meant to be backpoint holders in most team comps and Stealthing is pretty much giving the cap away for free. Therefore no one in their right mind would actually play LB as a Backpoint holder.

they are also amazing at pushing and contesting far point, also, they can use stealth to simply force enemy to lose target and then they are forced to manually click the spirit ranger in the middle of all the spirits.. kinds like Mesmer and illusions, they don’t need to be on stealth for long to troll

Celebratty.1632:

LB on ranger just become a viable weapon because you can now effectively reposition and stack vulnerability?

QUICK, CALL THE THIEF QQ SQUAD

Just waiting for the expert QQ’er from that other thread to chime in, if you know who I mean

RANGERS! BEHOLD THE INCOMING QQs!

I think it’s about kitten time Rangers didn’t just evade spam and pew pew. Now the class actually has a pulse great job Anet!!!

I can respect what Rangers are going to be able to do now. A Ranger roamer is definitely more capable now, which is great for the class.

It’s about time Rangers didn’t just sit on their kitten and depend entirely on spirits or their pets

Well it depends if the rangers choose to use the longbow or just stick with their old evade builds.

jmatb.6307:

I think it’s about kitten time Rangers didn’t just evade spam and pew pew. Now the class actually has a pulse great job Anet!!!

I can respect what Rangers are going to be able to do now. A Ranger roamer is definitely more capable now, which is great for the class.

It’s about time Rangers didn’t just sit on their kitten and depend entirely on spirits or their pets

Oh ho ho… you don’t even know. You don’t even know….

I welcome that though!

I want to fight a Ranger that is a challenge because of how he is using his skills rather than his passive mechanics.

It’s still a long bow though… does anyone even use it? With the class’ severe lack of burst, low overall damage, and lack of real AE (yes I know barrage etc) it’s not going to suddenly make every ranger choose LB.

Until the class gets a real power build option and some burst options (I can’t believe the don’t have an aimed shot skill or onUse signet abilities that do nice damage depending on weapon selected) they’ll just continue to run regen spirit builds with torch.

Longbow should have more vulnerability now, and so does GS for power builds. Maybe a Power Ranger (lol) with those two can arise, especially in team combat where vulnerability makes a bigger difference.

I hear that in the next patch Banish, if it manages to knock someone off a cliff, grants 200 seconds of invisibility.

Jackums.3496:

They finally decided to touch the LB, which has been a pathetic weapon since day 1, and this is a bad thing? The Ranger already had access to stealth (“camouflage”) via traits, so it’s not really that thematically inappropriate. That and even with these buffs, the idea of using a power build in PvP is still a bit laughable.

This won’t make power/LB rangers competitive, but it’s a step in the right direction.

Oh ho ho… you don’t even know. You don’t even know…

This change really was stupid.

Changed 10% extra dmg for extra sustain.
I think ranger need uses stealth, but not with same or near same frequenci that thives. This skils can grants stealth for 33% uptime if traited, and if activate stealth for every hit, will grants perma stealth to rangers.

This skill could have his cd increased to 15 or 20 seconds.

JETWING.2759:

This skill could have his cd increased to 15 or 20 seconds.

The ranger isn’t getting any sort of damage buff off of his stealth. Its entirely for repositioning and target dropping, which is something the longbow could actually greatly use to allow to maintain distance. I don’t know how much of a nerf the skill needs (when traited) when the ranger isn’t just going to sit in stealth for its full duration (25% uptime) unless we wants to accomplish nothing at all.

Can’t cap.
Can’t deal damage.

Jackums.3496:

This won’t make power/LB rangers competitive, but it’s a step in the right direction.

Are you sure? It’s quite the opposite, i think it will.

Vena.8436:

JETWING.2759:

This skill could have his cd increased to 15 or 20 seconds.

The ranger isn’t getting any sort of damage buff off of his stealth. Its entirely for repositioning and target dropping, which is something the longbow could actually greatly use to allow to maintain distance. I don’t know how much of a nerf the skill needs (when traited) when the ranger isn’t just going to sit in stealth for its full duration (25% uptime) unless we wants to accomplish nothing at all.

Can’t cap.
Can’t deal damage.

You forgot that pets deal damage bud.
Though I don’t think this is going to be problematic but we’ll see.

Stealth is an annoying, frustating and uncounterable mechanic, and they keep adding more, instead of toning it down. Whatever.

ranger longbow finally become viable and way less passive play on longbow/gs build than BM or Spirit condition bunker and people QQ about it, facepalm, at the end of day, I guess they should just delete ranger class cuz all ranger’s build will be claimed to be op.

Quite excited for this. I’d love to see some sniper rangers shake things up a bit. Actually get happy when other classes get nice stuff too. We’ll have to wait and see if the cooldown is too short, otherwise I don’t understand why people defend stale gameplay so much these days.

sorrow.2364:

Please, show us on the doll where the bad rangers have touched you.

In the knee, obviously.

But now on a serious note, this game’s balance is getting more kitten every patch.

LB viable now? More arrows raining down from upper graveyard…yay….

LB is actually fairly nasty for Condition Builds if you use the right setup, however you’re very very squishy doing it..

Stealth will help builds like that, not a lot of power builds will run it, you might see some spirit rangers, but our other weapon sets are still probably better.