Guild Wars 2

Ranger changes, prime example of how NOT to.

1. Two best condi cleansing traits again in same line on same tier. So which traitline cannot be ommited again? that’s right, Wildreness Survival. So hard to put Emphatic Bond as Beastmastery GM, cause you know…it’s pet based?

2. cripple on traps…woooooow. just wow. That is sooo gonna help with keeping ppl inside a trap. Except you know…dodge. Ingores movement speed decrease. And now so do the leaps. Not to mention spike and frost traps do the job better baseline. If you made it 1s immobilize or stun (doesn’t stack unlike immobi) you’d have something there.

5% extra condi and direct damage for dodge as shortbow grandmaster trait – You expect me to roll around in the dirt, wasting my precious dodge for something as lame as this? Shortbow is about flanking opponent and in 1v1 scenario that means lotsa immobilizes and cc not rolling around. Previous version (you move = 10% condi duration and extra damage) made much more sense. Making it apply if you flank opponent would be perfect.

Moreso, if you dodge, you lose a 10% damage modifier.
Traps wont be throwable, so you spend your whole time chasing your enemy hoping that he steps into one of your traps one time.

Many traits that give regeneration and one trait that gives 5% less damage while under the effect of regen. So we have perma regen? But we lost 3 damage modifiers if I’ve counted correctly. All in all I have to say that everything got better, but just to a very minor degree compared to the other classes (exept for the traps. If they are not throwable they’re borderline useless).

This whole thing stinks and I’m completely disgusted!

The ranger dream is over. Warrior freedom is that way.

Loyo.8526:

The ranger dream is over. Warrior freedom is that way.

Thief freedom is that way imo… We’ll see loooooooots of thieves in the near future…..

Trap damage was actually buffed. Cripple forces people to stay in the fields. We got a spammable knockdown. Traps look great, sorry you cant see it.

Light On Your Feet was a total flop. JP said it would be moved down from GM, which it wasn’t. in addition, its damage bonus was nerfed. SB may not be viable (depends on how well Poison Volley does) and LOYF wont be seeing much play over Quickdraw

EB will be used by those who cant pick up WK and slot survival skills in their build. I believe this will mostly be used by power builds using shouts and signets. 2 shouts + 3 signets, or 3 shouts and 2 signets. you’ll be able to go double invuln or double stability. these will likely be useful for frontline melee builds.

The other flops were Invigorating Bond, which saw no play at all and this will continue to be the case, and I think spirits (reserving judgement until I see what boons they generate).

overall, excellent changes. I was hoping for a little more.

Invigorating bond still garbage, WS mastery and EB in the same place, LOYF.

Lets see how spirits work shall we?

i explained why EB is there and how it’s useful, plz read.

The changes don’t open up for many changes, but the few good options have potential to be really strong (from pvp perspective).

mistsim.2748:

i explained why EB is there and how it’s useful, plz read.

The point is that even now we can have both at once. I disagree with their placement, but still, you can have both. and that’s a great thing. Because EB is uncontrollable, and Survival of the fittest doesn’t offer enough cleansing in a condi heavy fight.

But now they close that option off and force us to go Wildreness survival if we want a decent trait for cleansing. Neither being good or a choice.

EB should be beastmastery grandmaster – makes total sense and adds more diveristy and a boost for least loved traitline.

I think people are blowing this all way too out of proportion. Yes a few things got rekt (looking at you LoYF) but overall we got some really nice buffs. There needs to be tweaking of spirit ranges to compensate for forced removal of movement, but they might be better now (aside from killing the elite on active). The trap changes aren’t bad at all, but I agree that using cripple as a patch fix to keep people in them isn’t the answer. Cripple is too easily ignored. As for condi cleansing that will ALWAYS be the bane of rangers. It’s clear now that’s the way they want it to be and it won’t change. So if you can’t live with that, might wanna go roll engi and play godmode for a while or just go pure condi immune with warrior and cheese it. Moving EB to beastmastery would make a lot more sense I would agree but don’t look for it to happen.