Guild Wars 2

UPDATE:
someone just posted a link to leaked patch notes here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Upcoming-Skill-Trait-Changes/
I’d say I’m pretty close if they are real. If not, I’d like to know who created the text, seems I found a soulmate

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Foreword: These are ONLY predictions. I don’t guarantee for anything. I played ranger since the betas and this are only MY thoughts on what could come in the patch.
Some things are maybe a bit wishful thinking, but I’d say for the most part they’re pretty realistic.

BUT, in the end, we rangers most likely won’t get anything changed. Business as usual xD

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For the weapon skills:
- All Shortbow Skills: slightly reduced range
- Long Range Shot, Rapid Fire, Point Blank Shot: Faster projectile speed
- Barrage: Slightly more cripple durations
- Ricochet: Slightly increased damage if it hits only one target
- Faster Splitblade
- Path of Scars can now pull enemies
- Sword autoattack doesn’t root you anymore
- Stalker’s Strike: Slightly increased evasion time
- Call of the Wild: reduced cooldown by 5 seconds (30 instead of 35 now)

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Utilities:
- Lightning reflexes: bit shorter underwater
- Spirit skills get more range (maybe doubled?)
- “Search and Rescue”: Slightly increased range, pets runs faster to target
- Spirit of Nature: reduced cast and activation time (at least in PvE?)

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Pets
- Damage slightly reduced on almost all pets
- Feline Maul: big nerf
- Birds Slash gets a bit more
- Jellyfishes & Shark: Damage increased by 25%
- Spider: Slightly increased damage, a bit less condition duration
- Jaguar Stalking: slightly reduced crit chance
- Bears: slightly more health and toughness, damage not reduced

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Traits
Marksmanship
- Keen Edge: Now activates if targets health gets below 75% / 50%
- Beastmasters Might: more stacks, longer duration. 5 Stacks for 10 seconds maybe
- Spotter: now 200 precision instead of 70

Skrimishing
- Companion’s Might: now 3 seconds of might instead of one
- Agility Training: Swapped for something else. Pets get more walking speed without traits
- Carnivorous Appetite: Slightly increased heal

Nature Magic
- Spiritual Knowledge: now in adept tier
- a new Grandmaster Trait to make this line actually worth something, lol
- Healer’s Celerity: Lets you revive faster now
- Enlargement: Now you and your pet get enlarged

Beastmastery
- Instinctual Bond swapped with Zephyr’s Speed
- Natural Healing: Slightly increased healing

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Now, what do you think about my predictions?

If you indeed posted this before, to me, isn’t it evidence the hoaxer copied your post and changed a few minor things. Did you post this before the leak???

Rangers definitely will see changes, Arenanet has explicitly stated that this is the largest balance patch to date and all professions are receiving tweaks. It isn’t hard to imagine nerfs to BM builds, people have been complaining about BM rangers for a while now.

“We’re introducing our largest balance patch ever in this build, which includes significant updates to traits and skills to introduce more viable build diversity. Every single profession trait line is seeing changes and we’ve also made updates to some less popular skills to improve their effectiveness.”

@Chopps: I don’t know if I posted this before the leak or not since I don’t know when exactly the leak was published. I only found out about the leak after posting this.