Guild Wars 2

After a lengthy delay, Arrow to the knee is back and rolling. Arrow to the Knee can be caught live on twitch.tv/soacgaming every Thursday at 2pm PDT.

VOD: September 5th 2013, Arrow to the Knee comes roaring back with this Guild Wars 2 Podcast. Chopps joins the SOAC team and brings Battosai and Druzlla to talk about where the Rangers are, and what really needs to be done to keep the game alive for all Ranger Players!

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One of your voices isn’t that loud, while the other ones are perfect. Just wanted to let you know.

EDIT: Okay, having listened to the entire thing, you’ve made a very good points. The need for us to have more control over our pets. This would not only make it easier to balance the Ranger class easier, this would also fix quite a lot of our problems across all 3 fields, due to our ability to micromanage the pet and at least keep it working effectively.

The first part was hilarious. Not really the part with the commentary about burnfall (?), but the start with “AoE kill the spirits and stun the ranger” was great. All I could keep thinking was if this was the thief forums, it would be the equivalent of Chopps saying l2p. Maybe I have a weird sense of humour.

I’m actually in the minority of opinion(I guess) in how the spirit “nerfs” were handled but it is definitely a nerf for PvE since it’s not 100% up time so the disconnect is obvious. While I heard a little discussion about cast times of spirits on demand, I didn’t hear any followup discussion about shortening the cast time slightly even though it seemed obvious to follow up on. 1.25s instead of 1.5s? 1s? .75s? Can’t go under that. Casting multiple spirits does add up. There were a few other parts that I had questions about. I mean, if a ranger switches to a sword/dagger – shouldn’t the opponent notice this and plan his/her offensive cd’s accordingly? S/he might blow a part of his chain at the start but not all of it even if you switch right when they start. More poking should ensue right? Then again, this gets into the whole spamming thing I guess and sword 1 deepes is pretty gud.

You should trade who comments first after each subject since it felt like Battousai allowed Durz to talk first a lot if you invite them in to talk in a round table type again (or anyone in a round table type discussion.)

about the sword/dagger thing – this is where the mindgames i really liked against skilled players came into play, but i feel that currently this isnt necessary anymore due to the game shifting more towards spam overall, also capping the skill nowhere near the (possible) skill ceiling thus bringing the artificial skill ceiling and the skill floor closer together, making the game feel less rewarding and providing fertile ground for claims that this game is devoid of skill and classes are easy to master.
i could get into more details and special matchups with various outcomes, but it is impossible to cover all the odds and outcomes in this game.
if i can make it again to the podcast, i can go into specifics against certain (meta)builds, might not happen anytime soon though as i am moving and there’s quite some other stuff happening in my real life as well, making it hard to stay up that late to overcome the timezone difference between the U.S. and Europe.
thanks to you guys for listening though, i had a blast as people finally listened to (and hopefully enjoyed) my somewhat shortened, yet quite long monologues about the ranger class in this game.
my teammates didnt have that choice – they are by now, wether they wanted to or not ranger experts.

anyways, feel free to contact me via the forums or in game ( if i can make it ) and i will check as often as my schedule allows.

cheers!

I finally got to listen to the pod cast and once again the host seems has some volume trouble. I really couldn’t hear you chopps Here’s a suggestion: use a 4th skype for recording and all 3 connect to that 4th skype. Assuming it’s skype that’s lowering the volume of the host, it should fix the problem

Also, lol burnfall XD