Guild Wars 2

I`m playing GW2 for a week, it is by far the best mmo that i`ve ever played, everything is so great and so fast paced that even the quest grind is awesome!

I`m not criticizing, I just think that the ranger skill animation is pretty poor near a guardian or a elementalist, well… near every other class =(

Specially bow skills, most of them look like normal shots =(

Are there any plans to improve ranger`s skill animation in the future?

To improve the Ranger’s skill animations they must first make the Ranger use more than auto attack for their bow skills.

The animations for the melee weapons, with the exception of axes, look pretty good though.

Try a sword and dagger for your ranger.

I just submitted a bug report describing how sometimes there isn’t an animation for my ranger pulling the string back on his longbow. It only happens sometimes, and oddly enough only appears depending on the direction you are looking, but it is there none the less.

Yeah, dagger+sword animations are cool, but since it can use a bow, it deserves great animations too xD even my low lvl elementalist have more style with his ice bow than a ranger does =p

If you can, check a video on youtube, Reimi From Star Ocean The Last Hope, and see how awesome she is with her bow xD

I am genuinely anxious when people talk about ranger animations. I never want another ranger animation fixed for as long as I play this game. I don’t care if I turn into rainbow glitch bricks, I really don’t want them to ever fix another ranger animation again.

Ranger bow animations suck. They’re totally basic, nothing interesting about them at all except maybe Shortbow #3. The mainhand axe animations are also relatively lackluster, as are off-hand Dagger and Torch.

However, Ranger sword, greatsword, spear, and harpoon gun all have really nice animations (or at least nice projectile effects, in the later case). Probably some of my favorite animations in the game, actually. The idea of animal “spirit” effects for Ranger is a great concept and looks awesome. Ditto with Warhorn. Whirling Defense is also pretty nice despite not following that theme.

I really would like them to go through and Ranger-ify some of the more lacking animations. Take the animal spirit concept and run with it, go all out. It might be a bit harder to have animal (or even nature) animations on the projectiles, but its certainly possible I think. Harpoon Gun pretty much proves its possible.

Some examples I’ve come up with…

Shortbow #2 – Devourer spirit. The shot itself even looks almost identical to what the Whiptail Devourer’s F2 looks like, so this one is even pretty obvious.

Shortbow #4 – Vine shot. Vines wrap around the target, slowing them down.

Longbow #5 – Leaf Shower. Instead of a bunch of arrows falling down, a shower of leaves would fall (not just slowly fall as leaves normally do, they’d move at the speed of the arrows currently, it’d just be a visual effect on the arrows themselves to look like leaves). Maybe a bit wierd, but would look nice I think. Alternatively, if the leaves thing is too wierd it could be a swarm of birds or insects from the sky.

Longbow #3 – Spitting Cobra spirit. Give the arrow itself an acidic looking projectile so its like the acid is eating away at the target, causing vulnerability.

Axe #3 – Ice Drake spirit. Or Frost Imp spirit, maybe, though its not entirely clear to me if Imps are animals exactly.