Guild Wars 2

This change to generating Astral Force feels very counter productive to ranged play.
The Druid is a ranged healer, and many of the Ranger Skills are Ranged abilities.

I like to play ranged classes so I can kite in order to avoid damage. But, with this change, this sort of game play, which really is an essential play-style of the Ranger, is not only inhibited but actually punished. The better I kite, the less I build up AF. Maybe this isn’t how the Druid was intended to be played, but man I really was having fun.

I started using the Druid again because I could play with my Longbow and let my pet get up in the mess. But, my little spider likes to kite also!

Pet healing still regenerates AF, which is helpful for when I’m kiting effectively; but, it still feels like the this change really inhibited the synergistic opportunities which were opened between core Ranger and Druid.

Maybe I’m wrong; maybe this change is for the best. But I really think this change is very counter productive and really takes away a lot of ‘fun’ some of us were having. Oh well

It really was an awful change. It promotes letting a lot of damage through just so you can heal it up. The longer I dodge and sit at full health, the longer I put off having my astral form charged and ready when my group needs it. It actually pushes us into Troll Unguent even more, as a burst heal will get you up too fast and block out regen and other small health ticks charging astral form.

It also completely destroys any druid build that doesn’t use a staff. No other elite spec is so insanely held back by not using their new weapon. I was having a lot of fun with my janky shortbow druid build, but this change completely destroys it. I get to enter astral form every blue moon now.

i mean…seariously ! i totally agree and i’m exactly in the same case , was runnin core ranger LB/GS druid for extra survivalheal+mobility , which wasnt OP btw and a frost spotter + druid in pve to help allies but now… what do we have to do , sue anet because i paid an extension and cannot even play the new content ??? ridiculous

Roy Dreadstorm.2093:

i mean…seariously ! i totally agree and i’m exactly in the same case , was runnin core ranger LB/GS druid for extra survivalheal+mobility , which wasnt OP btw and a frost spotter + druid in pve to help allies but now… what do we have to do , sue anet because i paid an extension and cannot even play the new content ??? ridiculous

i am the same, this make everything completely useless. If anet had some kind of return money policy like steam or something i would definitely would want my money back. This make everything just bad, druid is useless now unless u go staff and full healing bot everybody.

You know i think we deserve it, we are like the abused women syndrome or whatever. She get abused by her husband but she dont leave him, she think he will change or that is “love”. Same goes with anet and rangers, from the beginnings it was always nerfs and nerfs and more nerfs and everytime we fall for it thinking things will get better. Same that have been happening for 3 years, never change, one step forward in the good direction then 10 backwards.