Guild Wars 2

Yes, I hated ranger. With passion! I dont know, it never brought anything exciting to the table. Either you sat still and put down traps. Or you pewpewed. Pvp anyway. Feel rangers are more versitile in WVW, specially since they are 1v1 gods!

Not only did I hate playing ranger, but I sort of automatically hated people who played ranger. They had to knockback in pve, they had to pewpew kite you. Anyway.

Ive tried all professions this BWE. Again. I tried Scrapper (main engie) and rev (possible main?) but the thing I enjoyed the most was druid.

I was able to keep myself up through incredible tanking. I healed my allies in small doses. I was a pain in the pooper. I dealt substain damage, so much that I chased some professions away. When the new pets are viable in pvp too! HOLY MOLY!

Just gotta say I’m 100% happy ^^

While I can’t agree with hating Rangers before. . . It wasn’t my favorite. Something about not being able to take care of my pet properly annoyed me. I would give my healing skill to my pet before myself. I tried to master “return to me” when in aoe rings. Still. . . I could never keep them alive even if I traited fully for them.

When I got on Druid I was a bit overjoyed. Say what you will but the autoattack alone being able to help my pet sustain so I could use my heal skill for myself (sometimes xD) was such a large improvement for me. We took on dungeons, fractals, spvp, and wvw and I can say finally my pet is seeing it’s day in the sun. It makes me love Druid.

Not only this but my way of playing is to support others and I didn’t have options on Ranger. Spirits always seems to die quickly. Not this time. I placed my spirits in the perfect spots, kept them healed as much as i kept my pet healed. It was really fun to me.

Pets aside, being able to give my fellow teammates and friends sustain is a huge deal to me. The fun I’ve had helping small zergs push into large zergs and we end up winning. Helping my friends survive from being downed.

I really am sad to see Beta end. It’ll be 3 whole weeks until I can play that way again.

Yes! You pretty much experienced the same as me, tho I was saddened I couldnt play much WvW. Still, I got some time to level up a ranger now and prepare it. I already made ascended gear, tho for my “[s]crapper”, but think druid will get my love. Anyway, gearwise did you feel like something was better then other? Valkyrie, celestial? Cleric?
So exciting to finally settle on something.

oh cool so what was changed from rangers to druids?? oh ya HEALS and that is all you need to love the class? as if we didnt have that before if you guys still remember heal as one.

Dont worry Druid going to get nerfed hard. Rangers want Druid to be DPSzzzz so Anet will likely nerf the healing to compensate and it will be back to a basic guardian support level.

Inflames.8026:

Yes! You pretty much experienced the same as me, tho I was saddened I couldnt play much WvW. Still, I got some time to level up a ranger now and prepare it. I already made ascended gear, tho for my “[s]crapper”, but think druid will get my love. Anyway, gearwise did you feel like something was better then other? Valkyrie, celestial? Cleric?
So exciting to finally settle on something.

I tried Cleric first and stuck with it. I should of tried Zealot’s Gear but I didn’t prepare my bank very well. Cleric was a lot of fun just because of how sturdy I felt but my dps wasn’t very good. Luckily I ran with friends and we did well as a unit.

And I’d totally ignore the negative nancy’s above this post. Trend of the internet. Add nothing of constructive to a conversation. Just a whine-and-dash I guess.

The one issue I noticed though is how poorly healing power scales. Toughness seems to be in the same boat. I feel like these are the 2 things I liked stacking as much as possible with Druid because sustain was just so much fun but the result of stacking it in full didn’t seem to have the impact it should. At least imo.

And anyone who thinks “we heal as one” is sufficient enough to keep a pet alive through AOEs is sadly mistaken and probably one of those types that spams “REMOVE PETS FROM RANGER. PERMA-STOW PLEASE” forgetting of course that most of your traits have to deal with your pet. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if they never slotted a single trait to enable the pet to perform better. Sighhh.

Inflames.8026:

Yes, I hated ranger. With passion! I dont know, it never brought anything exciting to the table. Either you sat still and put down traps. Or you pewpewed. Pvp anyway. Feel rangers are more versitile in WVW, specially since they are 1v1 gods!

Not only did I hate playing ranger, but I sort of automatically hated people who played ranger. They had to knockback in pve, they had to pewpew kite you. Anyway.

Ive tried all professions this BWE. Again. I tried Scrapper (main engie) and rev (possible main?) but the thing I enjoyed the most was druid.

I was able to keep myself up through incredible tanking. I healed my allies in small doses. I was a pain in the pooper. I dealt substain damage, so much that I chased some professions away. When the new pets are viable in pvp too! HOLY MOLY!

Just gotta say I’m 100% happy ^^

So basically a non-ranger player is happy because ranger is no longer ranger while people who liked ranger …

Maikky.8526:

Inflames.8026:

Yes, I hated ranger. With passion! I dont know, it never brought anything exciting to the table. Either you sat still and put down traps. Or you pewpewed. Pvp anyway. Feel rangers are more versitile in WVW, specially since they are 1v1 gods!

Not only did I hate playing ranger, but I sort of automatically hated people who played ranger. They had to knockback in pve, they had to pewpew kite you. Anyway.

Ive tried all professions this BWE. Again. I tried Scrapper (main engie) and rev (possible main?) but the thing I enjoyed the most was druid.

I was able to keep myself up through incredible tanking. I healed my allies in small doses. I was a pain in the pooper. I dealt substain damage, so much that I chased some professions away. When the new pets are viable in pvp too! HOLY MOLY!

Just gotta say I’m 100% happy ^^

So basically a non-ranger player is happy because ranger is no longer ranger while people who liked ranger …

can still play ranger.

CandyHearts.6025:

Maikky.8526:

Inflames.8026:

Yes, I hated ranger. With passion! I dont know, it never brought anything exciting to the table. Either you sat still and put down traps. Or you pewpewed. Pvp anyway. Feel rangers are more versitile in WVW, specially since they are 1v1 gods!

Not only did I hate playing ranger, but I sort of automatically hated people who played ranger. They had to knockback in pve, they had to pewpew kite you. Anyway.

Ive tried all professions this BWE. Again. I tried Scrapper (main engie) and rev (possible main?) but the thing I enjoyed the most was druid.

I was able to keep myself up through incredible tanking. I healed my allies in small doses. I was a pain in the pooper. I dealt substain damage, so much that I chased some professions away. When the new pets are viable in pvp too! HOLY MOLY!

Just gotta say I’m 100% happy ^^

So basically a non-ranger player is happy because ranger is no longer ranger while people who liked ranger …

can still play ranger.

I meant main, people who mained ranger are feeling screwed while Anet tries to please the masses with making ranger TOO different from the base spec . Every other classes mains at least get something to supplement their base spec, Druid is basically throwing another spec that clashes .

Maikky.8526:

CandyHearts.6025:

Maikky.8526:

Inflames.8026:

Yes, I hated ranger. With passion! I dont know, it never brought anything exciting to the table. Either you sat still and put down traps. Or you pewpewed. Pvp anyway. Feel rangers are more versitile in WVW, specially since they are 1v1 gods!

Not only did I hate playing ranger, but I sort of automatically hated people who played ranger. They had to knockback in pve, they had to pewpew kite you. Anyway.

Ive tried all professions this BWE. Again. I tried Scrapper (main engie) and rev (possible main?) but the thing I enjoyed the most was druid.

I was able to keep myself up through incredible tanking. I healed my allies in small doses. I was a pain in the pooper. I dealt substain damage, so much that I chased some professions away. When the new pets are viable in pvp too! HOLY MOLY!

Just gotta say I’m 100% happy ^^

So basically a non-ranger player is happy because ranger is no longer ranger while people who liked ranger …

can still play ranger.

I meant main, people who mained ranger are feeling screwed while Anet tries to please the masses with making ranger TOO different from the base spec . Every other classes mains at least get something to supplement their base spec, Druid is basically throwing another spec that clashes .

While I can understand somewhat disappointment because people rather get more DPS based classes this still improves something Ranger wasn’t good at. Group play. So being “screwed” and being “disappointed” should be 2 entirely different things right now. I imagine this to have a big impact on spvp and making for interesting fights. No other elite spec has added this much game changing effect.

I think Druid is attracting a lot of the non-ranger community, more than it is the ranger community

Knighthonor.4061:

Dont worry Druid going to get nerfed hard. Rangers want Druid to be DPSzzzz so Anet will likely nerf the healing to compensate and it will be back to a basic guardian support level.

for real? YEY that is what Majority of main Rangers wants. make a skill set for Celestial avatar Longbow and other weapons that 20% of damage you deal heals players around you in 450 ranger. ok back to reality. Healer druids are a very dull way to play and only unskilled player would want to heal because they don’t like crowded game where you have to always be aware and properly decide which skills to use.

lxghostxl.5097:

oh cool so what was changed from rangers to druids?? oh ya HEALS and that is all you need to love the class? as if we didnt have that before if you guys still remember heal as one.

Do people feel screwed just because it is hip to say it, I wonder. Ranger is 100% dps. Nothing else. You could go trap condi, condi, double melee, gs/lb. And how did that play out for you guys? Unwanted in the pve scene, non existing in the pro scene, low on the scoring board. What else do you guys want really? Druid actually makes ranger more interesting. Think of all the new builds you can run. You don’t have to use staff you know. People have grown to be unhappy no matter what. Pc gamers are a hard crowd to please and gaming companies are in a constant tug-o-war because the feedback they get is so biased and skewed from reality.

lxghostxl.5097:

Knighthonor.4061:

Dont worry Druid going to get nerfed hard. Rangers want Druid to be DPSzzzz so Anet will likely nerf the healing to compensate and it will be back to a basic guardian support level.

for real? YEY that is what Majority of main Rangers wants. make a skill set for Celestial avatar Longbow and other weapons that 20% of damage you deal heals players around you in 450 ranger. ok back to reality. Healer druids are a very dull way to play and only unskilled player would want to heal because they don’t like crowded game where you have to always be aware and properly decide which skills to use.

And that is to be one of the most ignorant statements written on this forum in a long time. Way to pull something random out of the bunnyhat and present it as fact.
The fact that you sacrifce your own egosentric pewpew build to save your teammates by positioning yourself, healing yourself and your friends is actually quite the opposite. I can’t think of anything less skilled then shooting people with rapidfire from 1200 range in conquest while they fight something else.