R.I.P. Ranger Class
6 rangers and 1 thief vs 8 “good classes”.
And yes thats after the patch!
I think i’ll take 80 with my ranger and if nothing changes leave the game. The reason i don’t play alts is that i give too much love to my main who turned out to be a ranger. The map is opened, craft is lvled, screenshots of first visited beautiful places made, first impressions of the game receieved… i could continue and this is all about my ranger.
I prefer to play a game with a class i like hoping that the devs support this class with balance and fun. In GW2 i like rangers but i don’t like the devs’ part about balance and fun – none of it.
Laef: Doesn’t mean much if the ‘’good classes’’ were noobcakes… This is when you say they were super awesome and where I reply then why didn’t they win and it goes on and on… Your screenshot proves nothing really. You won 1. Good for ya.
Can we please stop these topics? Seriously? You guys are so dramatic, as if these nerfs are unfixable and even then, make the class completely worthless.
I played it in GW1, I play it in GW2, and I’m not changing. I don’t understand the mentality on this board, it honestly makes me kind of sad. Yes, rangers are underpowered. We don’t need 40 topics about it and “What to reroll”.
@Laef
Not to detract from the awesome victory too much, but I have to say that the other team was probably trash…….I’ve got the feeling that the ranger class is good before too. Win a few games, score good points, I even carried my team to victory and became the MVP a couple times.
Then they’re those other games. The games where you’re spiked to death, or ganked, or spawn-camped.
The sad thing is that it’s more of the latter than the former, especially after the patch. Pre-patch, at least we could burst someone down every 15-60s depending on your traits. Now, I think the only thing rangers can do well is tank and conditions. And let’s be honest, they’re are better class/profession out there for those roles.
(edited by ChillyChinaman.6057)
@ChillyChinaman
Yup i know, hehe, but it was a fun game nonetheless. Just wanted to post something positive on the ranger boards, way to much negativity here!
I’ve yet to experience a game where we have been spawn-camped and I hope i never will =)
@Vorkk
Why would I say that?
I didn’t set out to prove anything with that screenshot, Chilly said he just experienced “the defeat of the century” so i just wanted to post something positive to cheer up him and the rest of the sad rangers a little bit.
@Ryoki Hokishami
First off, I did say that I only made this because I was bored…..
Shielded by the anonymity of the internet I felt like doing someting, “trolly”
Shoot me for it.
Secondly, it’s not so much that these problems are unfixable, on the contrary, I personally believe that with enough time, effort, and willpower, anything can be accomplished. However, from what we have seen the past week with how the dev team handled the public backlash, they aren’t going to make any changes. To rehash the old sentiments, they unintentionally reduced the effectiveness of our main weapon, and then retroactively claim it was an intended nerf to correct an “error” in play style that was more of a problem with the skill design.
And finally, why do you care if people are complaining in these threads? If they bother you so much, don’t read them. Better yet, don’t dignify their existence by posting in them. People want to feel like their voice has meaning and power, especially when the class they want to enjoy lacks such meaning and power, and one way to do that is by voicing their opinion to the world.
Now I don’t believe Anet really pays attention to these forums, but I helps my ego and dang it I don’t really care what other people think.
Good night, to you all and I hope you all enjoy the game, whatever class you may play. FYI I just rolled rolled an Ash Legion Thief and an Asuran Mesmer. Trying to figure out which one to play. Leaning mesmer at the moment.
Sorry to double post, but I forgot to add this:
Here is the number of bugs(by number of posts in their bug thread) of each profession:
Warrior: 30
Engineer: 146
Elementalist: 166
Thief: 190
Ranger: 202
Mesmer: 220
Guardian: 258
Necromancer: 570
A few things stand out here:
-Necromancers have almost three times the average of the other classes number of bugs.
-Warriors have 1/5 the bugs as the next least bugged class.
What this says:
-Assuming that Anet does plan on fixing these bugs, forget class balance, it seems that they have been unfairly prioritizing Warriors. This results in power skewing toward that profession since it is working closer to 100% as intended.
-Necromancers have the biggest reason to complain. However, only 6/26 first page threads are about Necro specific complaints. This is in contrast to Rangers who have 20/26 being complaints.
For the other professsions:
Elementalist: 7/26
Engineer: 7/26
Guardian: 1/26
Mesmer: 4/26
Thief: 6/26
Warrior: 3/26
I honestly dont think there are 200 bugs for any class, most of them are probably the same bug but worded differently. But yes if they fix some bugs, that might fix the problem. I would love my beta longbow back but Ill take anything atm.
Laef- LOL kitten 6 rangers 1 thief? Woulda been a funny match to watch, good win tho. Im guessing other team wanted to fight or zerg and you guys didnt fall for it.
Okay, I actually went into each thread and counted the number of bugs, and the results are as follows:
Mesmer: 30
Guardian: 45
Engineer: 64
Ranger: 67
Warrior: 70
Necromancer: 81
Elementalist: 95
Thief: Not organized into a single updated post, will come back with data.
So as it turns out, warriors are actually one of the more bugged classes upon further inspection.
6 rangers and 1 thief vs 8 “good classes”.
And yes thats after the patch!
so that thief won this alone ;p
@Chilly – Did you seriously post the number of replies to bug threads as your argument to the balance of a class and the attention it gets from ANet? Cmon… this kind of irrelevant crap is exactly what’s wrong with the majority of the posting going on across all forums. It’s insubstantial and does absolutely nothing to credit your argument.
@Fynos: Actually, I really like what Chilly has done-taken the time to get some objective data. I don’t think it points to what class gets the most attention from the devs, but it does show the general feeling about a class at a given time within the community. I also like the insight into the reported bugs by class, thanks for using your free/bored time constructively OP!
Lol rangers actually make good teams. if you have power built rangers, condition built rangers, AND pet based rangers… that’s insane. I’ve seen successful rangers of those builds. individually. less power built though… but together, their weaknesses will be compensated, making nicer more flawless rangers. maybe close to what is intended with the class Also, rangers with pets doubles your numbers LOL you could just outnumber the other team lol
6 rangers and 1 thief vs 8 “good classes”.
And yes thats after the patch!
Time for a Thief nerf looks like.
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You know its bad when the highest-viewed thread in this forum just got locked. I guess they just want to silence us forcibly now. As such, R.I.P. Ranger feels very appropriate today.
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