Guild Wars 2

Does anyone have an idea why there aren`t any ranger skillvideos on the official page?

They forgot to add them. They care about the class, it’s obvious. Or maybe they made those videos back when the ranger class was not forced into this pathetic pet mechanic. Then one smart dev came up with this stupid pema pet idea (whoever you are, smart dev, you ruined this class, thanks), so they had to remove the videos. We will never know.

When i remember correctly there were Videos once .
i think there were
1. Serpent strike
2. Barrage
3. whirling defense
4. Hunters call
all skills that made it to game like they were in the vids

It’s a sign of new things to come! o.o

But really, it’s probably just a webpage error of some sort.

Hope dies last… it will die… but it’ll live one more day

Hepatolith.6389:

When i remember correctly there were Videos once .
i think there were
1. Serpent strike
2. Barrage
3. whirling defense
4. Hunters call
all skills that made it to game like they were in the vids

There was also one where the ranger shot multiple arrows and it seemed to be the auto-attack.

It’s just an oversight. Don’t read too much into it. They’d have found out and fixed it by now if they bothered to read profession forums at all as there’s been a couple of these posts I can remember.

The reason for it was because they were significantly different than the ranger now, with the exception of serpents strike.

Barrage showed a Moa and a Bear who were using offensive skills (bear used Maul, no longer in game, and Moa used the vuln stacking thing back when it was offensive), not to mention barrage didn’t cripple then, just did raw damage.

Volley didn’t used to apply poison but every projectile it shot was a 100% finisher, and bonfire was a MUCH larger AoE.

Hunters call showed off the original sword combo where Kick (second skill) was a Knock Back instead of a cripple.

Whirling Defense (granted it wasn’t shown) blocked everything, reflected projectiles, and only dealt damage when it successfully reflected something (IE it worked similar to Gw1 where Melee only got hurt when a spell was reflected).

I suppose Serpent Strikes vid showed Hornet Sting back when it was a cripple + LR evade backwards but didn’t have Monarchs Leap, but no one woulda caught that since the changes were minor and you don’t see the skill bar.

solrik.6028:

Hepatolith.6389:

When i remember correctly there were Videos once .
i think there were
1. Serpent strike
2. Barrage
3. whirling defense
4. Hunters call
all skills that made it to game like they were in the vids

There was also one where the ranger shot multiple arrows and it seemed to be the auto-attack.

Not auto attack, this was back when GW2 was made where Auto = damage, other skills = utility, Volley, much like Gw1, has a TINY CD, it was like, what? 2-4s in alpha? Was also a 100% projectile finisher.

Durzlla, seriously, how did you remember that? That’s incredible if you just rattled that off the top of your head.

Chopps.5047:

Durzlla, seriously, how did you remember that? That’s incredible if you just rattled that off the top of your head.

The barrage one had the 3 rangers killing skrit then the pets ran up and finished them off.

The Serpents Strike video also showed off throwing the dagger.

The hawks was pretty straightforward against the Ogre.

Whirling Defense was showcasing the reflect on it against the grawl.

Watched those wayyyyy too many times during development. Man I used to be so excited to play this class…..

Castaliea.3156:

Chopps.5047:

Durzlla, seriously, how did you remember that? That’s incredible if you just rattled that off the top of your head.

The barrage one had the 3 rangers killing skrit then the pets ran up and finished them off.

The Serpents Strike video also showed off throwing the dagger.

The hawks was pretty straightforward against the Ogre.

Whirling Defense was showcasing the reflect on it against the grawl.

Watched those wayyyyy too many times during development. Man I used to be so excited to play this class…..

This right here is exactly why i remember those lol. It’s the same reason that Engineers don’t have the skill video for their old shield skill “Absorption” where it absorbed the next projectile thrown at them and they could throw it back i believe it was like 2 or 3 times.

here they are: