Guild Wars 2

Currently … I don’t remember seeing any ranger with this trait inside of combat.

It’s almost all the time picked for outside of combat roaming and than swapping for different utility skill before fighting.
But the Signet has a Great Potential of being a choice for players who want to hunt.

Here’s the Thing:

• Increases your and your pet’s movement speed by 25%
• ~When activated, increases allies’ damage by 10% for 5 seconds. (current glyph which is both weak and boring)
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• ~When activated, your next attack applies Hunter’s Call. (to have synergy with Ranger’s DPS pattern as such)

Okay now. I know what you are thinking but this might actually become a good Signet if Glyph of Empowerment is changed into something interesting (because currently it isn’t…)

~It just doesn’t have synergy with Ranger as such. All the damage comes from auto attacks and 2 out of 3 hard-hitting abilities are multi-hit (PoS is devided into 2, Rapid Fire into 10 – making both of them have close to no profit out of it).

~The only ability that has synergy with it is Maul. And that means you are trying to play burst GS build and you are playing PvP. And for PvP you simply don’t have free utility slots to kill them with Signet of the Hunt that is useless anywhere except roaming.

Meh. Signets are themed selfish for just the Ranger and pet. I see no point of suggesting it to be Glyph of Empowerment 2.0.

Would rather it apply an attack of opportunity and stealth to both the ranger and the pet, then have the pet shadow step to a target if selected.

Nice suggestions. Just hope some of the stuff we’ve come out with recently for the core Ranger will actually be implemented :S

I like the suggestion, /supported. currently, SoH is so boring and not slot-able. might have been ok if it had stun break.

SoH should basically take the place of empowerment glyph, and the glyph should be reworked.

Wondrouswall.7169:

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Would rather it apply an attack of opportunity and stealth to both the ranger and the pet, then have the pet shadow step to a target if selected.

That’s a great suggestion. The shadow stepping works only with melee pets though. Anyway, 3 seconds of stealth and an attack of opportunity on signet activation for you and your pet sounds great and actually offers real utility.

This would also combine nicely with the trait Brutish Seals.

Girion.5483:

Wondrouswall.7169:

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Would rather it apply an attack of opportunity and stealth to both the ranger and the pet, then have the pet shadow step to a target if selected.

That’s a great suggestion. The shadow stepping works only with melee pets though. Anyway, 3 seconds of stealth and an attack of opportunity on signet activation for you and your pet sounds great and actually offers real utility.

This would also combine nicely with the trait Brutish Seals.

Then again… The problem is again the attack of opportunity. It does not have any synergy with anything except Maul on ranger.
The idea is nice but the design on attack of opportunity is a fail. Thief’s Assassin’s Signet (+15% on next 5 attacks) is exactly what Ranger would profit of and vice versa. In return Rangers are stuck with a Burst booster while having only 1 burst ability in the whole store of our class.

And that’s wrong.

If the Signet gave both of you 3 second stealth, pet would blink to the target and both would get 300 power for 4 seconds (or something), that would be much better by me.
Attack of Opportunity is just a class design fail.

I was just thinking that Rangers could use some more damage modifiers.

I’ve made the suggestion before that the passive remains the same, but the active is a ground targeted teleport and a stun break. It would make the signet way more useful, it’s something we desperately need for PvP, but it wouldn’t be spammable because using it makes you sacrifice your movement speed.