Guild Wars 2

As a skirmisher the ranger should be able to swap between ranged and melee on the fly. The ranger has some great escape abilities to jump away, but the weapon swap CD prevents the ranger from swapping to a bow when using a skill that creates distance between him and his enemy.

I propose that successful hits with hornet’s sting and lightning reflexes recharge the weapon swap cd for rangers.

This creates a new dynamic where rangers can swap to a sword to escape with a backroll and come out with a bow equipped.

I think this new option will really improve ranger skirmishing.

This has been a large complaint of mine for awhile now. I play lb+gs, but run into the same problem because once you’ve used swoop+hilt+maul you’re stuck in a pretty terrible weapon overall until the swap or maul cooldowns come back up.

I don’t necessarily think I like your solution to it. If they added swoop to your list on skills that reset the swap timer, that would be fine with me. But I think overall just giving us a trait to cut the swap timer by 50% similar to how warriors work would be better.

I support this tenfold! It would completely change some of the ranger dynamic and make more builds viable. My only concern is that with the fury and swiftness on weapon swap this might be a bit overpowered.

losmuertes.7285:

I support this tenfold! It would completely change some of the ranger dynamic and make more builds viable. My only concern is that with the fury and swiftness on weapon swap this might be a bit overpowered.

Add an internal cd to the fury and swiftness proc, problem solved.

lordhelmos.7623:

losmuertes.7285:

I support this tenfold! It would completely change some of the ranger dynamic and make more builds viable. My only concern is that with the fury and swiftness on weapon swap this might be a bit overpowered.

Add an internal cd to the fury and swiftness proc, problem solved.

It already has an internal CD, was added some patches ago.

Ahh thanks for the correction!