Guild Wars 2

Just bringing it to everyones attention that you can go back about 35 pages into the Ranger forum without seeing a single post from a Developer. The latest one being 5 months ago… Now I’m truly hopeful that a Dev might stumble across these forums and see all the suggestions and possible things everyone has been saying that would benefit the class but I fear my hopes have been a bit dashed.

After returning to the heart of the mists from a Hotjoin Game I notice one of the ArenaNet Staff standing in the lobby, a Character by the name of ‘Nightmare’. a warrior none the less and running of course the cookie cutter Hambow build and in my sassyness I exclaimed “Hambow warrior.. No wonder other classes don’t get anything in balance patches.” to which I received them starting to /dance and saying “/cry” in local chat.

Im Honestly getting to the point of giving up on this whole ordeal… I don’t think Ranger or any other Underpowered or unbalanced class is going to be looked at in terms of fixing if Devs have the attitude of just ‘Who cares’….

I’d Love to see what everyone thinks, you might have had a similar experience or something. Just Leave a response and hopefully we get some Dev activity on the forum.

They removed the ranger PvP combat testing NPC months ago and never bothered to fix it. It’s a very clear message to the ranger community, the message isn’t one of forgetfulness- it’s one of intentional and deliberate negligence.

If I had to take a stab in the dark I would say someone who loved the ranger class kittened off a dev sometime a few months after the public release. Would explain the deliberate and heavy nerfs we get everytime the ranger gets a new skill or anything nice. Would also explain the shortbow 40% dps nerf we got a year or so ago, they lied and called it an “animation bug fix”.

The devs haven’t replied on any forum thread other than the PvE ones. WvW has been neglected, all the professions are ignored, and Spvp (aside from the stupid tournament) doesn’t have any devs addressing any issues there either. Anet is too focused on pushing out more and more PvE content, that they just shove everything else into the corner.

I firmly believe Ranger is not as underpowered as people like to think it is. Although yes, we could certainly use some buffs, if the player behind the character knows what they’re doing we can be a very formidable opponent. This is speaking strictly from a WvW/PvP perspective however, but when played right I would seriously say Rangers are anything but underpowered. We have to work extra hard to achieve the same results as other professions, but working extra hard doesn’t mean we’re not still achieving it. We’re just not an easy mode profession and need to be looked at more deeply than; pet is meat shield while I max range DPS.

In PvE, we have some really great utility but we are somewhat lacking once again. I without a doubt would say that we need buffs in all areas of the game, but once again its surprising what you can achieve if you know how to use the profession. Although you won’t be putting out massive DPS like a berserker Warrior in just a few hits, you’ll still be putting out some steady crits which will add up pretty quickly.

So in conclusion, I think we do need a bit of love. Some attention from the dev’s would be nice but I also wouldn’t shelve my Ranger just because we’re a little on the weak side. In PvP and WvW, where I spend most of my time, it’s very rare I feel like I’m at a disadvantage. People will try to focus me down because “Ranger” but even then I’ll usually manage to survive. Neglected or not, I don’t mind having to work extra hard to be a threat, just because I can’t press 2 buttons all day and faceroll everyone doesn’t mean my profession of choice is bad.

We work extra hard to achieve subpar results. Tats the definition of underpowered

Chokolata.1870:

We work extra hard to achieve subpar results. Tats the definition of underpowered

/thread.

It says enough

They have been busy and are still busy with China because they believe that’s where their future lies. How do I say that? Well, that’s where all the attention is.

LS season 2 just feels… extremely lacking in engaging content and uninteresting plot. Oh, and loot is terribly bad. Then again, drops were never very good or plentiful… Except for the Scarlet Invasion (pre champ nerf).