Guild Wars 2

Hear me out, and those are just ideas, but maybe they deserve some consideration…

• To solve the pewpew problem in game (rifle warrior, LB ranger) all ranged weapons with some exceptions should have a chance to miss based in the difference between the attacker precision and defender toughness. Some weapons could be more reliable than others depending on the amount of DPS they might capable to output.

• To solve the condi spam the stat healing power could be used to mitigate the condition damage, so there is an option to fight passively the condi spam by build choices together with the active cleanses.

pew pew problem? ROFL lb ranger and rifle warrior arent even like half meta, yea theyre okay in 1v1s but idk man I hate to say this but get gud I guess, seriously projectiles drop off in usefulness past a 4v4, even that’s pushing it, hell 1 ele will make that useless. ( due to the reflects, blocks, and damage reduction)

alright jokes aside what are you running that your having such a hard time maybe i give some ideas for easy counters

OP must have run into a guild doing an all ranged raid.

Anybody still do stuff like that?

Eleazar.9478:

pew pew problem? ROFL lb ranger and rifle warrior arent even like half meta, yea theyre okay in 1v1s but idk man I hate to say this but get gud I guess, seriously projectiles drop off in usefulness past a 4v4, even that’s pushing it, hell 1 ele will make that useless. ( due to the reflects, blocks, and damage reduction)

alright jokes aside what are you running that your having such a hard time maybe i give some ideas for easy counters

Dude i’m a veteran and main ranger, i don’t have any problems with pewpew, not even with rifle warriors which i enjoy killing slowly (because all those immunes and blocks of about almost 20 seconds ) with the legendary bow the Dreamer. Yes, the most annoying and at the same time the most amazing and joyful weapon in game.

Pewpew in general has a serious balancing problem that Anet tried to solve with slower projectile speed, it does damage with no real risk on the player side.

That as it has been proven is a very bad idea, when you can’t hit anything that is merely strafing (pets anybody?) is very frustrating.

So projectiles are fast, a sure hit, but we still have the problem that anybody from 1200 units is not a noticeable menace and such is the attack is instant (because of the projectile speed) and you can’t keep up with 300 players in the screen at the same time (only main mesmer can do that i think, as they are used to clone wars) it does not matter the tale or the cast time, it always a cheesy and overpowered way to get free bags.

Projectiles may get this treatment so we stop balancing between melee train with 20 seconds blocks and immunes or pirate ship with all ranged.

Next time please look in the posting history, i’m not anymore into pewpew but i used to be. I know RF with the actual druid full bunker build is not something to even care but there are other classes that can get the ranged balanced. Even the ranger if in some point get a fair treatment and fix the class could be a unfair QQing source if someone can one RF hit you from 1800 units with no risk.

This way if you go ranged you know there are risks. It could be toughness or precision or even whatever stat Anet may choose, but still have the choice to be able to outcome ranged to get to melee. I’m pretty sure all the reapers will understand, for example.

I will agree with the condition damage issue that is currently going on. Healing power does need a major buff to combat the amount of condition damage currently being used in WvW. For example having a full heal DH running full minstrels setup should in theory be in a no win situation with a full condi theif. But its not, no where near it.. sure people are going to say… “cleanse the conditions!” uh huh then what> spammable conditions are straight back on where they were 1/2 second earlier.

Pew pew problem? every class has the ability to reflect pew pew, problem solved

Pewpew already been nerfed with the increased chance of obstructed messages around alpine bdl.

Edit: Not to mention the increase of blocks/reflects with HoT.

Toughness already reduces ranged damage – and any other form of direct damage – and there are plenty of reflect/absorb skills available.

Healing power can already offset condi damage via regeneration. What is needed is an equivalent version of Armor to reduce condi damage each tick, or an improvement in condi cleanse (or reduce the speed at which condi stacks can be spammed).