Guild Wars 2

First off, this’s all hypothetical…

But IF they are planning a major revamp of the pet mechanic, that won’t just mean changing a skill here or there, but redoing pretty much our entire class.

That’s going to take time.

On top of that, if this is still the major class being ran into the ground by the botting a-wads, and from I see it sure still is, then ANet may not want to tip their hand.

Spring this massive update on the botters with no real forewarning, and totally ruin their revenue machine, you know?

Since the botters are running programs to even be a bot, ANet may be working systems into Ranger to screw with the bot code.

Again, all of this is going to take time.

Coming from City of Heroes where we couldn’t even run our Tankers’ shields at the same time until about six months into the game, my advice would be to start an alt for now if it truly frustrates you. Stinks, but there ya go.

PvE Rangers are still viable right now, so I’m going to just spend my Ranger time doing map completion, mat grinding, et cetera.

I’ve got a hunch something big’s in the pipe, both to kill a lot of bots, and to address many of our raised issues.

But again, forewarned is forearmed, and that’s ammunition the bot jerks don’t need.

Bots should be in no way taken into consideration when balancing a class. I am not saying they are taking them into consideration, but I have read a lot of posts about people assuming they don’t want to buff the “bots”.

PvP/PvE skills can/are balanced separately….and well ranger botters aren’t much of a problem in PvP so…..

This is my hope as well. I play necro & ranger, the 2 most ignored-by-devs classes out there and I’m hoping for a big overhaul that’s in the works. My forum posts probably make me seem bipolar, spouting my faith in Anet for never having let me down in the past in one breath and then complaining how my necro and ranger are being ignored when the whole community is begging for answers. All I can say is that I’m really enjoying this game. Despite its numerous profession bugs, Anet is constantly patching and working and I’m just trying to keep the faith that they’ll release a big patch that fixes all the bugs (for all the professions) that everyone (even me) has been complaining about. Until then, I’ll keep rolling thru Tyria.

Kirby.4951:

Bots should be in no way taken into consideration when balancing a class. I am not saying they are taking them into consideration, but I have read a lot of posts about people assuming they don’t want to buff the “bots”.

I really don’t want to believe this at first, but after these past few weeks I am starting to believe it. I feel it IS due to the bots and AN is afraid to do any kind of “buffing” to the Ranger because of bots.

Thats why they want to change the other skills instead of Crossfire, they just don’t know how to do so! And that’s why are are not getting any kind of information from them.

I appreciate your opptomism, I hope you are right. Still, I can’t help but feel let down that my favorite class is held hostage by what botters might do. It’s a bad way to manage the botter problem.