Guild Wars 2

“Rangers can’t have nice things” is something that has become more and more true recently. I think it’s about time you stop randomly nerfing/changing stuff about the Ranger/Druid. Examples: The complete guttering of Celestial Avatar Form (which were multiple stealth changes I must add), tearing apart the WHaO heal without letting even a full day pass (cutting the quickness uptime would have held) and now, the swapping of the Smokecloud and Shadow Assault skills on the Smokescale. Balance is one thing, but what were you thinking with that Smokescale change? (The damage nerf was completely reasonable on the other hand)

The effort used to nerfing our class should be directed towards fixing our gamechanging bugs (GS #3 root bug for example). And when you revert the skill changes on the Smokescale, could you also make the cd reduction trait work for the pet? I bet it includes the other new pets as well, though I’m not sure since 80% of our pets are suboptimal, or plain terrible, maybe that could get some attention as well.

The game is amazing, the Ranger class is fun, but this “treatment” is getting on our nerves, I hope you guys are aware of it, and I hope you understand our frustration.

They don’t.

And they don’t care.

The Smokescale changes are just adding insult to injury on top of what they already did to Druid.

The hits just keep on coming.

What happened to WHAO? I was so excited when they announced that might stack more than 3. Did they nerf that already? Why does it seem ranger gets nerfed every 2 hrs since launch?.. this is ridiculous…

I’m really trying hard not to type out certain words describing Anet in regards to Ranger but all that would accomplish is me getting suspended or banned from the forums. They simply dont give a flying kitten about the Ranger and should just come out and back up their actions with words because we all know it. I have never seen a developer outright hate a class as much as Anet seems to hate Rangers and it’s making me want to quit the game.

The way they balanced druid is a joke…

- “Irenio, how should we balance Celestial Avatar?”
- “Well, we could add a cooldown to it, OR tune the resource generation, OR disable ooc generation, OR maybe reduce its duration?”
- “Hmm, yup, right, whatever… Let’s add everything you mentioned, I have more useful stuff to do. Guys, let’s talk about improving revenant now”.

I lost the hope on ranger department, it’s kind of sad that we cannot have enjoyable mechanics. Look at killshot warrior, 1 shots enemy with light medium armor like a cake, no one complains can double killshot now if you happen to dodge it once. Ranger gets smokescale, that is blockable or you simply dodge to avoid all the burst, 24hour nerf cuz kitten LOGIC IT’S RANGER.

I just don’t want to start with clunky sword, and totally out of place short bow, 50% of underpowered pets, pet AI uselessness and they promised that AI will be better in HoT, after 3 years still no pet synergy, 50% of useless weapons that cannot be used properly due to no proper connection/synergy between weapon-trait-cooldown wise.

I’m done with it, ranger department just destroyed for years every thing that was some what decent. I wonder can’t you just remove the ranger from the game if you hate it so much ??