Guild Wars 2

Make it increase your damage for the next ______ seconds

Or next 5 or so hits

Maybe we can actually start hurting people without being the glassiest thing on the earth with no actual burst or having to rely on broken kitten terribly designed specs.

Inb4 you’re just bad I’m a really good ranger you just need to l2p blablablabla (unique butterfly syndrome guy)

Inb4 that would be op, no it wouldn’t

Inb4 play traps, kitten you I don’t want to play traps, our only “offensive” utilities (traps) are even kittening passively used.

I always wanted to MoC to give its benefit after dodge. Might make for some interesting burst possibilities if stacked with vigor.

Cause a 7k maul from a trait isn’t a burst?

Eurantien.4632:

Cause a 7k maul from a trait isn’t a burst?

Not when you have mesmers dropping 10k crits every 15 seconds. Or elementalists dropping 15k fire grabs. Or, well any class really. The only class I can think of that can’t out burst a ranger is the engineer, and perhaps the necromancer.

Eurantien.4632:

Cause a 7k maul from a trait isn’t a burst?

True but what about a 5k burst every 4s. I guess it isn’t really true burst but more of a Pseudo Pressure/Burst hybrid, which fits Rangers.

Quarktastic.1027:

Eurantien.4632:

Cause a 7k maul from a trait isn’t a burst?

Not when you have mesmers dropping 10k crits every 15 seconds. Or elementalists dropping 15k fire grabs. Or, well any class really. The only class I can think of that can’t out burst a ranger is the engineer, and perhaps the necromancer.

Engineer has one of the highest burst in the game actually. 10k+ from stealth on over 3k armor. This is in PvP so I couldn’t even imagine the damage in WvW.

Definitely do not dilute the damage of the single hit over a certain number of seconds. That absolutely destroys the utility it currently has with maul. The problem isn’t moment of clarity, the problem is ranger’s lack of single-hit burst abilities. Maul is the only skill ranger has that puts out big numbers. Longbow in particular could really, really benefit from having a high damage, single-hit burst ability to promote synergy with moment of clarity. As-is, longbow is more or less a longer range shortbow but with a different and highly situational cripple skill.

Increase the separation between longbow and shortbow to fix this problem instead of modifying moment of clarity. Longbow should be a “sniping” weapon rather than having both weapons be based on many small fast hits.