Guild Wars 2

“Search and Rescue” skill:
Increased cooldown from 85 seconds to 180 seconds in PvP.
No longer revives defeated allies.

That really sucks for you guys

SnR was the 1 BIG thing that made you guys awesome for the team in fractals, esp 40+. Not just for the revive on maw, but for the ability to res a downed ally when they were in a horrible spot or be able to keep the boss busy while getting your team back up. Best scenarios would be on grawl, colossus, dredge, and charr. Kite the boss in circles while getting your team up was, imo, the best part of having a ranger on the team aside from that water field. The obvious answer to beating this nerf is to have teamates who don’t die but lets be realistic here. People make mistakes. Now the entire team loses out of the best safety net in the game.

The CD change is for spvp only.
Is the other one for pve too?

I feel really bad we lost this amazing ability. It is (was) always on my bar when in Fractals, and I loved how it was unique from the other ressing utilities as it could ress defeated players too.

Yes, if this is not a PvP only change I don’t see myself equiping this again.

Unless … it says “allies”, maybe it just means NPCs?

My guess is anet screwed up again and that the skill is now is totally fubar.

That skill was so useful in fractals, especially in the Grawl one. It made up for the fact that we have a constant pet. I am really disappointed they did this to that skill, it was really only useful for players who were defeated.

i can confirm it no longer works on dead npcs in general pve

And robert said this was a step in the right direction…must be nice to be able to drink on the job.

Yup, I loved this in fractals but now there will be very little use for it.

My pet could clearly see this change coming and took every chance to revive Logan Thackeray in CoE story last night.

Sigh..there must have been some discussion like this:

A: “Hey, there is still one useful utility skill left on rangers that other classes actually find cool”
B: “No way, I was convinced we made sure rangers have nothing of that sort!”
A: “Seriously, look at those pets who can res groupmembers. When the other classes are not actually busy staring at their insane damage output or their awesome skills helping out the whole group, they have time to appreciate those pets for a few seconds”
B: “Oh my. We really missed that, come on lets just remove it. We can’t let pets keep doing something nice like that, what if the other classes get too jealous of rangers? That would be a real problem.”
A: “Already done, no more res from next patch on!”
B: “Ok, what next?”
A: “Lets buff warriors a bit?”
B: “Off to work!”

Yep skill mostly useless now.

To be honest, I haven’t even used it since the quickness nerf. Used to be my ranger + pet could pop someone up almost fast as hell, near instant if they were only downed.

They keep this up and pretty soon the Ranger won’t even be the best resurrector anymore.

The skill is called, “Search and Rescue.”
You can’t Rescue a DEAD corpse…
So the change to how to skill works, seems fitting.

Odokuro.5049:

The skill is called, “Search and Rescue.”
You can’t Rescue a DEAD corpse…
So the change to how to skill works, seems fitting.

You’re wrong! Lies and slander! /flail