Guild Wars 2

Hi guys,

I just want to make a point about how I feel right now about my main since 2.5k hours. Since HoT I face many problems as a ranger, I’m talking about a PvP/WvW perspective. In PvP we are pretty much forced into a supportive role. I have no problem with that, but I have a problem with those things. It’s just how I feel right now, not a rant, just my thoughts.

1. Stability: Yes, we have stability. BUT every single one of our stability spells is tied to a cast time. Make SoW/SotP stunbreakers. Enlargement is a joke because it cancels CAF and leaves us with 0 AF. Witout stability we’re pretty much free food to CC in CAF and an interrupt-mesmers wet dream.

2. Too many Projectiles: Even if it sounds hard, but RF is useless now. There are so many low CD blocks and refects in the game now that RF became bad. Just bad. It has always been pretty easy to dodge it but now it’s just hilarious. Yes, we can pair it with CC to let it hit, but the only good way is either wolf or birds with taunt. We all know how kittened pets are and that the amount of stability on other classes is too kitten high. We need ways to get around blocks.

3. Animations too obvious: Pretty much every one of our hard hitting spells is very predictable, obvious and easy to dodge. Maul, splitlade and rapid fire are our hardest hitting attacks but it’s just so easy to dodge or block them now. While other classes can dish out tons of damage while hiding behind shields and walls, we really have to expose ourselves to get a decent hit with maul.

4. Either sustained damaged or burst: Let’s be real – GS auto hits like a wet noodle and the only way to get some burst when using the sword is PoS, which is – again – a projectile and very hard to align.

5. We lack REAL AoE pressure: Yes, yes we have traps but with resistance being thrown around like baseballs it’s very hard to make them work against decent teams. While other classes just charge at you, bringing everything around them to explode we still have to always face the enemy directly to dish out damage.

6. Our damage sucks. Yes, compared to other classes it sucks. Our damage is hard to pull off, if we do mistakes we die and the damage is underwhelming. Even at range we’re getting outdamaged. Face a hammer rev or a LB DH with your LB. You may cry now. Let alone their walls which just block everything their burst is much higher and harder to counter. As i said – projectiles.

Maybe I’m gonna add some things that cross my mind, but who knows.

Cheers guys, would really like to read your opinions.

You are completely right.
Don’t forget: we can’t strip boons, every other single class has a trait or an skill that do. We simply can’t.
We don’t have any source of reveal. Most of the classes do now, we don’t. Sic’em is a preemptive reveal, i’m just asking for a AoE reveal. We are the mesmer’s/thief’s/scrapper’s easy bags.