Guild Wars 2

Dear Jon,

It’s with great difficulty I write this letter. I know we have been through a lot together, and I still love you, but the moment has come for me to tell you – I’ve found someone else. It’s hard to say…we’ve had some good times, we seemed so perfect for eachother in the beginning…but it’s time to face the truth; we’ve grown apart, and I’m leaving you for someone new.

I know you still care about me, the Ranger player, but I also know you’ve been spending time with all the other professions too, and with how you’ve been treating me lately, I think it’s clear you don’t love me the way you used to. Recently, at best you’ve been distant and irrational, and at worst, downright abusive. I deserve better, so I’m moving on…to a real dream, Ranger 2.0.

I’m sure right now you’re thinking I’ve got this all wrong, that you can change…well maybe you can. I haven’t heard much from you lately so I can’t really say. I’ll end this Dear Jon letter with what I’m looking for in a Ranger…if you think you can change your ways, maybe I’ll reconsider our romance. Otherwise, keep your head down in those trenches and know that I’ll never forget the first moment I saw you. The Ranger. sniff

Yours truly,

A Broken-Hearted Ranger-Lover

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What does Ranger 2.0 look like?

-He has access to stability that does not require an elite or traiting (Ranger 1.0 is the only class that does not, aside from Thief, which has stealth and does not need it. Also, the one that CAN be accessed via traiting CANNOT be used to stomp etc.)

-He has access to more and better stunbreaks (Ranger 1.0 has access to only 3, other classes have 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6 & 6)

-He has direct control over all of the pet’s abilities

-He has fewer wasteful, poorly-conceived or useless traits (Change or replace Trapper’s Defense, Instinctual Bond and Stability Training for example)

-He has pets that more often do what they are told, can hit their targets, and are overall, more effective at what they do

-He has better Condition Removal – again, Rangers are equipped differently than all other professions in this respect. They are the ONLY ones who have trait-related condition removal that is limited – all other professions can remove all conditions, Rangers can remove only 2 of them. 2 of their other methods depend on their range to the pet…extremely out of balance with other classes.

-He is better with a Longbow – he gets appropriate damage and auto-attack at max range, his auto-attack does damage on par with the other longbow-using class, warrior (Warrior base auto-attack is 424 per shot, Ranger is min 176, max 317…) and he has some form of movement-effecting ability (immobilize or cripple) that is not channeled and has no range requirements (PB base is useless outside 600 units, Pin Down works to 1000…)

-He has less schizophrenic Trait Lines, and more useful traits overall

-He has weapon skill sets with more diverse finishers (Warrior LB has projectile and blast for example, Ranger LB has only projectile, and only 3 of those. Suggestion: Make Barrage a Blast Finisher)

-He has access to Stuns and/or Knockdowns that are not position-conditional or pet-based.

-His Path of Scars works regardless of elevation differences, or perhaps more preferably, is a Knockdown, not a Pull

-He has a new, better-functioning Warhorn – where Hunter’s Call works whether he has good line of sight on this target or not, and Call of the Wild does not target a nearby hostile and often result in losing the intended speed boost

-He takes out the garbage without being told to, buys flowers when it’s not a holiday, does the dishes once in a while and does that thing Jon Snow does with his tongue. :P

Okay, so clearly this intended to be novel and clever delivery system for these suggestions was a huge fail…but the suggestions are serious ones!

Jon:
höh, who are you?
karl do you know who is ranger?

Karl:
no, i dont know rangers, i only know signet warrior.
ask our housemaster

housemaster:
oh yes rangers, you have aks me for ideas create this class

jon:
realy?
i was think we have no ranger in this game, was it not called zookeeper?